BRITAIN SENDS STACKS OF MONEY TO COUNTRIES WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE PERSECUTED! WHY??????

Editorial: should UK aid go to countries where Christians are persecuted?

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The UK government gives hundreds of millions of pounds in aid to countries where Christians are grossly and systematically persecuted. It says that the partner government’s commitment to respecting human rights is “robustly assessed” when the provision or withdrawal of financial aid is being considered. So how do countries such as Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Pakistan and Sudan qualify, and should the British government exert more pressure on those regimes to which it sends money?
In the last financial year (2011-12), the UK sent vast sums to some of the very worst countries in which to be a Christian:

• Afghanistan £146,131,000
• Burma (Myanmar) £36,150,000
• Eritrea £3,686,000
• Iraq £3,087,000
• Nigeria £161,789,000
• Pakistan £211,682,000
• Somalia £101,483,000
• Sudan £32,607,000
• Vietnam £37,413,000

In some cases, such as Northern and central Nigeria, Iraq and Somalia, most Christian suffering is at the hands of Islamist militants, and while the governments of these nations could be accused of weakness in defending their vulnerable citizens, the persecution is not directly state-sponsored.
But the same cannot be said of some other regimes on the list. Eritrea is perhaps the very worst. The latest US State Department International Religious Freedom Report says of Eritrea:

The government demonstrated a trend toward deterioration in respect for and protection of the right to religious freedom. The government continued to harass and detain members of registered and unregistered religious groups, some of whom reportedly died as a result of torture and lack of medical treatment while in detention… Many places of worship had to close because of government intimidation and the mass conscription of religious workers and parishioners.

The wreckage of a demolished church and its medical clinic in Khartoum

Thousands of Christians are believed to be imprisoned in Eritrea’s notoriously cruel detention system; they are held in metal shipping containers with extreme temperature changes and tortured in an effort to make them recant their faith.
The government of Sudan is another extreme persecutor of Christians, and since the secession of South Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir has made it clear that Christians are not welcome in the country. Reinforcing earlier pronouncements, he said in July 2012:

We want to present a constitution that serves as a template to those around us. And our template is clear, a 100 per cent Islamic constitution, without communism or secularism or Western [influences].

A number of churches and other Christian buildings have been destroyed. On Monday (21 January), Barnabas Fund received a report of a church and its medical clinic in Khartoum being flattened (pictured).
Afghanistan is similarly governed on the basis of sharia law, and, in accordance with its tenets, the government threatens to wield the death penalty against those who convert from Islam.
In Pakistan, the notorious “blasphemy laws” continue to cause grave problems for Christians and other non-Muslims. “Defiling the name of Muhammad” carries a mandatory death penalty, and though nobody has yet been executed for this offence, those accused can spend years languishing in prison while their cases grind through the Pakistani justice system at a painfully slow pace. Christians are particularly vulnerable to malicious, false accusation.

The funeral of three Kachin boys killed in a bombing by the Burmese military

Another problem that besets the Christian community in Pakistan is the abduction of Christian women by Muslim men; the women are forcibly converted to Islam and married against their will to their captors. In both cases of this kind and the aforementioned blasphemy accusations, the police and lower courts often do little to protect Christians or grant them justice.
The Burmese military’s violent campaign against the country’s ethnic minorities, the majority of whom are Christians, shows no signs of abating; the groups are targeted for both their ethnicity and their faith. The military launched an offensive in Kachin state in June 2011 and has been brutally attacking the predominantly Christian population ever since. On 15 January, three boys, aged 11, 12 and 13, were killed in a bombing; they were buried alive when the bunker in which they were sheltering collapsed on them.

PEACE FORCE INCLUDES VATICAN, RABBI, AND SAUDI KING!!!

Israeli Rabbi, Vatican Official and Saudi King Join Forces for Peace

by Edward Pentin.

Representatives including U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon pose for a photograph at the inaugural ceremony of the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, Nov. 26, 2012.– KAICIID

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has invited an Israeli rabbi, a Vatican official and other religious leaders to help run his new inter-faith centre in Vienna – an initiative which could pave the way for freedom of worship in the Arab kingdom.
Rabbi David Rosen, an advisor on interreligious affairs to Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, will be the only Jewish representative on a nine-member board of directors that will help run the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Centre for Inter-religious and Inter-cultural Dialogue. 
The other board members consist of three Christians (Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican), three Muslims (two Shia, one Sunni), a Buddhist and a Hindu. The Catholic representative, Spanish Father Miguel Ayuso, is Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
The centre, which aims to act “as a hub, facilitating interreligious and intercultural dialogue and understanding” and to “enhance cooperation, respect for diversity, justice and peace,” was inaugurated amid much fanfare this week at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. 
Although founded by Saudi Arabia, Austria and Spain, it will operate as an independent organisation “free of political or economic influence.” The Holy See plays a “founding observer role.”
Speaking with Rabbi Rosen yesterday, he told me he believed the initiative will help to combat religious extremism by raising the profile of moderate voices. “Part of the problem for all of us has been that we have not worked hard enough to strengthen the moderate voices,” he said. “With regards to extremism and especially violent extremism, we have to take all the necessary security and intelligence steps to protect our society, [but] the real way to neutralize extremists is to give a higher profile, regard, respect and power to moderate voices,” he said. “I think that’s exactly what we’re doing here.”
He believes King Abdullah’s motives for founding the centre are threefold: to further a vision which brings religions together in cooperation around global issues; to affirm a positive leadership role of Saudi Arabia internationally, and in the Muslim world (as opposed to Iran); and to help bring internal reform to a country where Christians are forbidden to build churches or worship openly.
The Saudis, he said, are keen that the Vatican participate in the centre because they are aware “they cannot change their society in a revolution overnight.” He said the hope is that by working together with mutual respect, reform will filter through to Saudis on the ground and the country will be able to “change the reality” from within.
The Holy See made it very clear at Monday’s inauguration that it sees the centre as helping to further reform in this area. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said it “will be the task of the centre” to ensure Christians and other religious minorities are “not deprived of the light and the resources that religion offers for the happiness of every human being.”
For some years, King Abdullah has been trying to loosen the grip of the Wahhabi extremists, and has made modest progress in reducing the power of Saudi’s notorious religious police. “He understands that if Saudi Arabia doesn’t change, the whole royal household is going to be pushed by the way, and so that internal change is a self-interested one,” said Rabbi Rosen.
Some also speculate the Saudi monarch has chosen this route because he views interfaith dialogue as a “safe track” to achieving his country’s goals, away from political and diplomatic exposure. The initiative has also not been without its critics. Some fear it could be just another talking shop or, worse, a vehicle merely to further Saudi interests, despite its promised autonomy.
Rabbi Rosen, however, doesn’t see it that way and believes the centre has an over-arching and noble aim: to enlist the resources of religions to help bring peace, especially where religion is abused. “They [religions] need to be able to make a positive contribution,” he said, “and of course it’s my dream that we’ll be able to use this centre to make a contribution here in the Holy Land.”
He sees scepticism as necessary and healthy (“it’s important for us to continually test the waters”) but added: “If somebody, especially with a problematic past, extends to you a hand of friendship, claiming they want to do good things, then surely the responsible thing, especially from a person with a religious commitment, is to at least give the person the benefit of the doubt initially and allow that hand to be received and grasped and given the opportunity to prove itself.”
Although an alliance between a Saudi King and an Israeli rabbi is significant, it wasn’t surprising as it had been in the works for over two years. More notable, Rosen said, was that he was first rabbi ever to be invited to meet a Saudi monarch and be received by him. The meeting took place two weeks ago, at the king’s palace in Morocco.
“I was actually surprised [to be invited],” Rosen said. “He was there to thank us for our involvement but we really need to thank him for his courage, because his part in this mission has been criticized by some very arch conservative elements in his own society.”
“It’s not a simple step to include an Israeli rabbi on the board of management,” he added. “That’s quite dramatic, and on that, he deserves credit.”

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ISRAEL USING PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES AGAIN!!!

Israel Strikes Possible Weapons Convoy Along Lebanese-Syrian Border.

By Roi Kais, ynet – “‘Israeli forces have attacked a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight,’ foreign and Arab media sources alleged Wednesday, saying that 12 IAF jets breached Lebanon’s airspace on Tuesday.
The US-based Al-Monitor website quoted Lebanese sources as saying the target was a weapons convoy traveling near Syria’s border with Lebanon. The report has not been corroborated by any Israeli source and the IDF refused to comment on the matter.
Earlier, Beirut’s news agency alleged that the Israeli fighter jets conducted three separate aerial incursions into Lebanon’s airspace overnight.
According to the report, the jets flew over the En Nakura area for several hours, leaving Lebanese airspace at around 2 am. The report, citing military sources, said that the first incursion took place at around 4:30 pm, when two jets flew over the village of Ramish, leaving at 9:05 pm.
As the duo was leaving – according to the Lebanese report – two other IAF jets entered Lebanon’s airspace, towards En Nakura, leaving at 2 am.
A Lebanese Army statement said that ‘Four Israeli planes entered Lebanese air space at 4:30 pm on Tuesday. They were replaced four hours later by another group of planes which overflew southern Lebanon until 2 am and a third mission took over, finally leaving at 7:55 am on Wednesday morning.’
The statement made no mention of planes entering Syrian airspace.
A western diplomat and a security source said Wednesday that ‘Israeli forces have attacked a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight.’
Despite the ambiguity of Lebanon’s reports, the diplomat – who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue – insisted that ‘There was definitely a hit in the border area.’” Read more.
Number of Israelis Updating Gas Masks Nearly Triples – “The defense establishment’s concerns about the potential threat of chemical weapons from Syria and Hezbollah has not gone unnoticed by the Israeli public. The Israel Postal Serivce reported Wednesday that more Israelis are updating their gas masks and ABC kits. In fact, the number of Israelis changing their nonconventional warfare protection kits has nearly tripled over the past month. The public demand can be attributed to recent upheaval in Syria and the alarming possibility that the regime’s arsenal of nonconventional weapons may find its way to Hezbollah, as was implied by IAF Chief Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel Tuesday.” Read more.
Flashback: Israel Warns Of Possible Pre-Emptive Chemical Weapons Strike In Syria; Iran: Any Attack On Syria Is Attack On Us – “Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria’s chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon’s Hezbollah or al Qaeda inspired groups, officials said Sunday… Israel has long expressed concerns that Syrian President Bashar Assad, clinging to power during a 22-month civil war, could lose control over his chemical weapons… [Vice President] Shalom told the Army Radio station that the transfer of weapons to violent groups, particularly the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah, would be a game changer.” Read more.

ISRAELI FORCES ATTACK A TARGET ON THE SYRIAN-LEBANESE BORDER STATES "ISRAEL HAYOM"!!

Israeli forces attacked a target on Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, western diplomat and a security source told Reuters on Wednesday • Israel concerned Syrian chemical weapons could fall to Hezbollah • Israel Post: not enough gas masks for all Israelis.

Shlomo Cesana, Lilach Shoval and Yoni Hersh (from Israel Hayom). 

Israeli F-16s [Illustrative]    |    צילום: AFP

Israeli forces have attacked a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, a western diplomat and a security source told Reuters on Wednesday, at a time of growing concern in the Jewish state over the fate of Syrian chemical and conventional weapons.

The sources, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, had no further information about what might have been hit or where precisely the attack happened.

Earlier, the Lebanese army reported a heavy presence of Israeli jets over its territory throughout the night.

There was definitely a hit in the border area," the source said.

Vice premier Silvan Shalom said on Sunday that any sign that Syria's grip on its chemical weapons was slipping, as President Bashar al-Assad fights rebels trying to overthrow him, could trigger Israeli intervention.

Israeli sources said on Tuesday that Syria's advanced conventional weapons would represent as much of a threat to Israel as its chemical arms should they fall into the hands of Syrian rebel forces or Hezbollah guerrillas based in Lebanon.

In Jerusalem, the Israeli military declined any comment.

"We do not comment on reports of this kind," an Israeli Defence Force spokeswoman said.

Israel Defense Forces intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi is traveling to Washington for consultations with American officials, defense sources told Al-Monitor.

Israeli officials declined to confirm the focus of his visit, but it comes amid signs of heightened Israeli concern about Syria, Al-Monitor reported.

Israel Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel expressed his worries on Tuesday about the fate of the Syrian chemical arsenal. "There have been tectonic movements in Syria shifting it toward collapse." Eshel said at the Israeli Air Force Center in Herziliya. "There is a massive weapons arsenal in Syria, some of which is very advanced and some that is unconventional. All that [weaponry] could find its way to our borders."

"Governments are falling apart and that's bringing a resurgence of terrorist activity on our borders the likes of which we haven't seen for decades. We need to deal with a very wide scope of threats, as of today we are faced with both the conventional and unconventional, from the knife to the nuclear weapon, both near and far," he said.

With Syria's arsenal potentially falling to rebel hands, Eshel warned that Israel could face a much broader threat. "We could be faced with a much wider arsenal, advanced Western weaponry, with weapons from the east and locally produced arms."

Israel fears that should such weapons fall into the hands of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon, this could dent the Jewish state's superiority in any future confrontation.

During a 2006 war with Hezbollah, Israel had complete air dominance during bombing runs over southern Lebanon, though it was surprised when one of its ships off the Lebanese coast was hit by a Hezbollah cruise missile, killing four servicemen.

Eshel said that while "in the past we may have seen these threats as residing on our borders, today it is entirely different," noting that terrorists today could use weapons "that can reach deep into Israel, be it in the form of ground to ground missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned drones and unconventional arms," Eshel said.

In his speech, Eshel did not address mounting speculation that Israel could launch preventive strikes in Syria, though other military brass has said such an option was feasible.

But Eshel said the air force was involved in what he termed "a campaign between wars," working with Israeli intelligence agencies in often covert missions. He did not elaborate other than to blame arch-adversary Iran for the lion's share of weapons supplies to Israel's regional enemies.

Sudan, a conduit for arms to the Palestinian Gaza Strip via Egypt, blamed Israel for an attack last October on a weapons factory in Khartoum. Israel also operates regularly in the skies over Lebanon.

"This campaign is 24/7, 365 days a year," Eshel said. "We are taking action to reduce the immediate threats, to create better conditions in which we will be able to win the wars, when they happen."

Meanwhile, Russia said it will take control of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile if Israel promises not to attack Syria, "until it gets a green light from Moscow and Washington", according to a report by Saudi news outlet Al-Watan.

If the reports are true, it would not be far fetched to connect it to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent dispatch of his National Security Council Chief Yaakov Amidror to Moscow. The report claims its information is based on a "senior Israeli official."

According to Al-Watan, as part of the deal, the U.S. won't insist on Assad's removal and NATO as well as the Arab League will refrain from attacking Syria. The report was not confirmed by Israeli sources.

Netanyahu reiterated his concern over Syria recently, adding that the situation does not only effect Israel, but is a matter of concern for the U.S. and the international community as a whole. Last week Russia deployed a sizable fleet off the coast of Syria, a move seen as unusual.

Israel and NATO countries say Syria has stocks of various chemical warfare agents at four sites. Syria is cagey about whether it has such arms but insists that, if it had, it would keep them secure and use them only to fend off foreign attack.

Syria is widely believed to have built up the arsenal to offset Israel's reputed nuclear weapons, among other reasons. Some Israeli experts fear the logic of mutual deterrence would not hold for subnational Islamist militant groups involved in the rebellion in Syria.

The United States and other world powers have also warned of the danger posed by Syria's chemical weapons.

Not enough gas masks

"The past few days have seen a rise in the demand for gas masks, following the reports of Syria's chemical weapons slipping into the hands of terrorist groups," Israel Postal Company Deputy Operations Manager Haim Mizaki told Army Radio on Wednesday. According to Mizaki, "every security related debate adds to the demand for gas masks."

Mizaki said currently there are not enough gas masks to cover the entire population, and that so far only 4,700,000 have been distributed. "We are working in accordance with the Homefront Defense Ministry ... by their protocols, we are only allowed to hand out 50,000 kits each month, 600,000 a year," he said.

The are two ways Israelis can get gas masks, one is at designated distribution centers spread throughout the country. The other is to call the telephone hotline 171 and arrange a delivery to the person's home, at the cost of delivery alone. According to Mizaki, the hotline verifies that each person ordering is eligible to receive a mask. "We check in our listings whether the person had returned their previous gas mask, or if they lost it and need to pay 70 shekels [$19] to be able to receive another."

Those who are tasked with delivering the masks go through a certification program, and upon arrival at the citizen's home, they perform mask fittings and replace faulty kits as required.

EGYPT AND SYRIA FALL APART - ISRAEL'S WORST NIGHTMARE!!!

Israeli Nightmare Unfolds As Both Egypt And Syria Fall Apart

January 30, 2013 by soldierofthecross18

Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel warned Tuesday, Jan. 29, that Syria is falling apart and no one knows what the next day may bring: “War may not break out tomorrow,” he said, “but we stand ready for any eventuality.”
If war is not expected tomorrow, why have Israel’s armed forces, including the air force, been on their highest level of preparedness since Friday, Jan. 25? The Syrian crisis may not technically fit the description of a state of war. However, the violent turbulence in that country may at any time spill over the border into hostilities in some shape or form.

Gen. El-Sissi reacted to the chaos and lawlessness engulfing Egypt. The government headed by President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is no longer a functioning administration. They have been reduced to the single task of fighting to hang onto power.
The “no comment” stance on the Syrian civil war, long held by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak is untenable and pointless, especially after the latter cut short an overseas family trip to be flown home in a hurry Saturday.
No one believes the official explanation that the three Iron Dome anti-missile batteries stationed over the weekend in northern Israel – in the sight of many thousands of local dwellers – are there for a preplanned routine test – least of all after a senior Israeli officer told AFP that large Hizballah forces are parked at Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons stores poised ready to seize them.
If this happens, said the officer, “A decision to attack Syria or Lebanon will need to be implemented immediately.”
This is beginning to sound as though the politicians and the generals are not on speaking terms.
Gen. Eshel’s comment came hard upon the grave warning issued earlier Tuesday by Egypt’s army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is also the defense minister. “The political strife is pushing the state to the brink of collapse,” he said on the sixth day of turbulent protests across the country at the cost of more than 60 lives.
Gen. El-Sissi reacted to the chaos and lawlessness engulfing Egypt. The government headed by President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is no longer a functioning administration. They have been reduced to the single task of fighting to hang onto power.
None of the forces of law and order – the army, internal security, police – are willing to clash head-on with the opposition protesters rampaging on the streets of the main cities including Cairo.  Some towns have descended into chaos and some outlying areas in this country of 90 million are no longer receiving regular food and water supplies.
The Egyptian defense minister’s warning may be taken two ways:
1.  As a last warning to the Muslim Brotherhood and the opposition on the streets that this is the eleventh hour and if they don’t step back from their confrontation, the military will be forced to seize power to save the country.
2.  Alternatively, that the army will not interfere and will stand aside for now, while warning that a civil war in Egypt would be more extensive and calamitous than the vicious conflict bringing Syria to ruin in the last two years. As the two countries teeter on the brink of catastrophe, Gen. Eshel’s dry forecast of doom correctly noted that no one knows what tomorrow will bring.
However, Israel is coming face to face with its worst fear: being hemmed in by a blazing ring of hopeless conflicts just across its borders: Syria and Lebanon in the north; Egypt in the west and south; and Jordan under threat. source – DEBKA

JAN MARKELL ON "EVIL WILL BE CALLED GOOD" IN THE LAST DAYS!!

When Diplomacy Really Is Lunacy 

By Jan Markell
January 29, 2013
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The Bible is clear that in the last days things won't make sense! Evil will be called good and good will be called evil. Dark will be light and sweet will be bitter. Self and money will be the primary gods. The real heart of mankind is going to be revealed in the last days. Look out! Scary. It's going to be ugly, self-centered and just plain evil.   

  

Like the evil of America sending 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt on the taxpayer dollar. That's a one-two insanity punch. First, we send the real bad guys our best planes and then you and I are billed! Egypt's President Morsi is a blatant dictator of the worst kind. He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy, who has received a ton of favors from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton's closest aid, Huma Abedin, has ties to the Brotherhood, and thus, ties to this dealer in all things dark.

The foreign aid deal was signed in 2010 when Morsi's U.S.-friendly predecessor Mubarek was in charge. So, does that make things more kosher? I don't think so. Besides, Egypt already has 200 of the aircraft and Egypt has no enemies presently. Who would attack her? It's a good-old-boys club over there with Egypt the prophesied "King of the South."  

Egypt is about to have more F-16s from America than Israel has. 

Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has proceeded to remake Egypt into an Islamist state at a blistering pace. He's not on America's side and he for sure isn't on Israel's side. He has called the Jews apes, pigs, and bloodsuckers for starters. That doesn't sound like a Middle East broker -- rather, a power player with a chip on his shoulder and evil intent.

He is famous for this touching statement: "Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred."

Yet our White House and State Department are determined to arm him to the hilt! As I said, our times don't make sense. Arming Morsi is about as productive as sending Syria's Bashar Assad some additional chemicals for his chemical arsenal.

 Here's what the Morsi administration guarantees:

1) War with Israel.

2) Further destabilizing the Middle East.

3) Causing blockades of the Suez Canal and using that geographical hot spot as a sort of bargaining chip with friends and enemies.

4) Joining forces with the Islamic Republic of Iran to totally destabilize the region and double the threat against Israel.

5) Furthering the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood that sees a global caliphate with the Islamic flag above every other flag in the world.

6) Continuing to arm Hamas so they can chip away at Israel.

7) Continuing the slaughter of Egypt's own people who now realize Morsi's promises of glory days coming to Egypt were a big lie.  

             

Why on earth do this White House and State Department want to arm this Islamic stronghold that is not even a friend let alone an ally? Morsi's Egypt is an outfit that would not think twice about obliterating Israel. They want the Islamic flag flying over the White House. Yes, some of our nation's leaders love Islam far more than Christianity but that is not a full explanation of this insanity.

  

Author and commentator Bill Salus writes, "It's important to note that within six years after Egypt gained its independence in 1922, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded by Egyptian Hassan al-Banna in March of 1928 as an Islamist religious and political movement. Hassan al-Banna was an acknowledged admirer of Adolph Hitler and frequently corresponded with him. During the 1930s the Muslim Brotherhood became a secretive arm of Nazi Intelligence. The Third Reich intended to develop the Muslim Brotherhood into a Nazi army inside of Egypt.

  

He concludes,"On October 26, 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood was suspected in the assassination attempt of Egyptian president Gamal Abd al-Nasser. This justifiably began a period of repression of the Muslim Brotherhood by the Nasser government. Then on October 6, 1981, Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat was assassinated, and the Muslim Brotherhood was strongly implicated with his death. But now, with Nasser, Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak out of the Egyptian presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood can finally attempt to attain their goals to implement Sharia law in Egypt, and to form a new United Arab States with Jerusalem as its capital city, through Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi."

The stakes are high and America is playing with matches. America could be a key player in lighting the whole region aflame by arming the "King of the South," Egypt. And as Islam expert Andrew McCarthy says, "When you 'partner' with Islamists, you are abetting the global jihad, not opposing it. When you arm Islamists, you become a willing participant in your own undoing."

It's last days' madness and if we didn't know that glorious days are ahead fellowshipping with loved ones at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we could collectively scream over the lunacy of modern-day diplomacy. Unspeakably evil men and women plot and scheme to cause maximum harm all in the name of good diplomatic relations!  Only in the end-times. 

Come, Lord Jesus, and rule! 

IRAN WANTS TO DESTROY ZIONISM!! WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE??

Iran: Islam’s Goal Is To Destroy Zionism, Now Just Waits For Leadership ‘Similar To The Prophet’ To Unite The Muslim World

By ICA 

Although the Muslim world is anticipating the imminent arrival of the “perfect human” to unite and lead them all, the identity of the spiritual force that is already leading them is readily apparent …
 IRNA – “President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that all Muslims should mobilize their resources to uproot Zionism.
He made the remarks in his speech to the 26th international conference on Islamic Unity.
He said that the prime goal of the Muslims should be terminating the issue of Zionism.
‘World Muslims should forge unity in their struggle with bullying powers and by the time that the Zionist usurpers commit crimes through occupation and vandalism. It is not advisable to sit idle and take no action.’
Elsewhere in his speech, he said that it is not possible to attain unity without having a unique leadership.
The only leader who can guide Muslim World is the guidelines of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), he underlined.
‘All differences and discords among Muslims have roots in our misunderstanding of Holy Quran and guidelines of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). Today we need leadership similar to the Prophet to get the Muslim World united.’” Read more.
Flashback: Ahmadinejad: World Forces Must Strive To Annihilate Israel To ‘Solve All The World’s Problems’ – “In a speech published on his website Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the ultimate goal of world forces must be the annihilation of Israel… Ahmadinejad added that ‘liberating Palestine’ would solve all the world’s problems, although he did not elaborate on exactly how that might work… He added: ‘Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the way for world justice and freedom.’” Read more.
Flashback: Pakistani Cleric: World Peace Will Be Established Only When All The Jews Are Wiped From The Earth – “… Pakistani cleric Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai argued that world peace will be established only when all the Jews are wiped out from the earth… ‘And all the troubles that exist around the world are because of the Jews. When the Jews are wiped out, then the world would be purified and the sun of peace would begin to rise on the entire world.’”Read more.
Flashback: Iranian Ayatollah: Kill All Jews Worldwide, Annihilate Israel – “The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people. The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide. Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove ‘this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification’ to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.’” Read more.

"HEART CRY"- THE FILM THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

This sshort 29 minute film is about Israel's and God's "HeartCry" to the nations. The perspective of your future will change forever. This film made by Emanuel Nahum is a wake-up call and a challenge to become aware of the threat that Iran poses not only to Israel but to the whole world. While Ahmadinajad denies the holocaust he prepares another one.

In this film you will see Ahmadinejad's secret plan, one you could never have even imagined. This film is about a man named Jan-Villem van-der-Hoeven, who fights to establish a Christian Agency for Israel, an agency that will change Israel's unknown future. "Remember if you light even one candle it dispels the darkness". PLEASE WATCH TO THE VERY END - You will hear God's Heart Cry andyou will hear Israel's cry out "Aba Father". Discover how you can become involved through the Christian Agency to be a light for Israel in her time of need.

Just click on the link below to watch this fascinating short film.

 

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"ISRAEL TODAY" NEWSPAPER REPORTS THAT IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITY HAS BEEN PARTIALLY DESTROYED!!

Reports: Iran nuclear facility destroyed

Report from Israel Today Sunday Newspaper. 

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Iran

Reports are circulating that an important nuclear facility in Iran has been at least partially destroyed in a massive explosion. The news comes just days after an ex-Iranian diplomat who defected to the West warned that if Iran obtained a nuclear weapon, it would use that weapon against Israel.
The explosion reportedly took place at the Fordo nuclear facility near the city of Qom. Fordo is buried deep under a mountain, making it nearly immune to aerial assault, and therefore a perfect location for a significant portion of Iran's uranium enrichment activities.
According to reports in the American news website WorldNetDaily, which cited a former Iranian defense official who fled to the West, the explosion caused a collapse of the elevators that descend nearly 300 feet into the mountain facility, trapping some 240 personnel inside.
Tehran is said to be blaming the explosion on sabotage. Both Israel and the US are known to have taken various measures against Iran's defiant nuclear program over the past several years. Though Israel did not officially respond to speculation that it was behind the blast, Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter told Yediot Ahronot that "any explosion in Iran that doesn't hurt people but hurts its assets is welcome."
The debate over whether or not to take decisive action against Iran's nuclear program has been intensifying, especially after Iran's former consul in Oslo, Mohammed Reza Hedyari, told Israel's Channel 2 News that Iran is only one year away from fielding a nuclear weapon, which it will turn on Israel.
"If Iran is given more time, it will acquire the knowledge necessary to build a nuclear bomb within a year," Heydari told Israeli television viewers last Friday. "If Iran gets to the point where it has an atomic bomb, it will certainly use it, against Israel or any other enemy state."
The former diplomat suggested that it was a grave mistake for Western leaders to think that the Iranian leadership will be pragmatic with its nuclear weapons, in the way former Soviet leaders were.
Iran's leaders "are busying themselves with ideological preparations for the arrival of the 'hidden Imam' (a kind of Muslim messiah)," he said. "For this purpose, they are willing to spill much blood and destroy many countries."
Heydari defected to Norway in 2010.

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COULD ISRAEL USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS STRIKE UPON SYRIA???

Israel Warns Of Possible Pre-Emptive Chemical Weapons Strike In Syria; Iran: Any Attack On Syria Is Attack On Us

Posted on 28th Jan By ICA 

 CBS News, AP – “Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria’s chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon’s Hezbollah or al Qaeda inspired groups, officials said Sunday.
The warning came as the military moved a rocket defense system to a main northern city, and Israel’s premier warned of dangers from both Syria and Iran.
Israel has long expressed concerns that Syrian President Bashar Assad, clinging to power during a 22-month civil war, could lose control over his chemical weapons.
Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom said Sunday that Israel’s top security officials held a special meeting last week to discuss Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. The fact of the meeting, held the morning after a national election, had not been made public before.
Shalom told the Army Radio station that the transfer of weapons to violent groups, particularly the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah, would be a game changer.
‘It would be crossing a line that would demand a different approach, including even action,’ he said. Asked whether this might mean a pre-emptive attack, he said: ‘We will have to make the decisions.’” Read more.
Iran Official: Any Attack On Syria Is An Attack On Iran – “Issuing Tehran’s strongest warning to date, a top Iranian official said Saturday that any attack on Syria would be deemed an attack on Iran, a sign that it will do all it can to protect embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad. Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made his comments as Syrian troops conducted offensive air raids against rebels and discovered a trio of tunnels they were using to smuggle weapons in their fight to topple Assad.” Read more.
Flashback: Shock Video Shows ‘Syrian Rebels’ Testing Chemical Weapons, ‘This Is Your Fate … I Swear By Allah To Make You Die’ – “A shocking You Tube video shows alleged Syrian rebels testing chemical weapons on lab rabbits before making threats to use them against Syria’s pro-Assad Alawite population. The video is particularly pertinent given reports yesterday that claim President Bashar Al-Assad has ordered the Syrian military to load ‘the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs,’in preparation for fighter jets to drop the bombs on the civilian population.” Read more.
Flashback: ‘Expect Bigger Surprises’: Iran Arms Hezbollah With Chemical Weapons, ‘From Now Onward, We Will Support … Any Groups Fighting Against The Zionist Regime’ – “As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas faction is escalating and rockets are hitting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Iran announced Friday that its missiles were being used against the Jewish state. Rockets hit Tel Aviv Thursday for the first time since the 1991 Persian Gulf War when Iraqi scuds threatened the city. On Friday, Jerusalem also came under rocket fire from Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. According to a source in the Revolutionary Guards intelligence division, Iran has large stockpiles of chemical and microbial weapons and it has armed the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah with them. It also has Quds Forces in Gaza and other Palestinian territories to help Hamas and Islamic Jihad in setting up underground rocket facilities while training and supervising the Palestinians in launching attacks on Israel.” Read more.

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"A TITANIC AWAKENING" BY TIM CAMERON FROM RAPTURE READY.

"A TITANIC AWAKENING" BY TIM CAMERON.

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There is a story of a rich woman who was on the Titanic and had brought a great amount of money and jewelry with her onto the ship. Once the ship struck the iceberg, in haste she ran toward the lifeboats, then suddenly she turned back toward her room. She wanted to get something she knew was of great value: ORANGES! Once the Titanic had struck the iceberg that lady’s perspective had a Titanic “awakening” to the truest sense. This lady went from being on a cruise, living in luxury to in an instant having her whole world be turned upside down and when it did, she made a very wise decision to let go of things that would be of no use in exchange for things that would save her life.

When I watch the movie about this event I’m always struck by the order of events. It shows a man watching for icebergs, sounds an alarm, and the iceberg is struck. The people ask what in the world is going on? And then they proceed to be shocked to hear that the ship really is going to sink! Which in turn propels many to ask what must they do to be saved while there are those who are urgently exhorting the people to get to the safety of lifeboats.

Can you imagine how major that awakening was? I mean just a few minutes earlier, EVERYONE was cruising through life, enjoying the surroundings and comfort of the ship that they were on, eating, drinking and partying not realizing how everything was about to get radically changed.

Ironically this planet is very much like the Titanic. People are living life on “cruise control” eating, drinking and partying along not realizing that the Bible has told us that we have struck an iceberg.

2 Peter 3.10: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?  Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”

Abraham was at one time told news very similar to what we just read and are hearing now. In Genesis 18, the Lord comes calling on him and reveals that due to an outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, He’s about to visit the place with His wrath. Abraham hears the news and instantly begins to pray on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah. WHY? He had family there!

Abraham, by the grace and mercy of God was being forewarned of coming judgment upon a place where he had family. In 2 Peter 3, we have been forewarned of coming judgment upon a place where we have family!

In Abraham’s account we read the story and it seems Abraham is bartering with God, “Lord, if there be 50 righteous will you spare the city?” But I think sometimes in reading biblical accounts we don’t really hear the human side of the account. We see Abraham as the giant man of faith that he was, but miss out on the fact he was flesh and blood just like we are. When he heard that a place where he had family was about to be destroyed, he was moved in desperation to PRAY! It was a Titanic awakening in Abraham’s hearing and he instantly began to “redeem the time.”

I have a brother and sister who live in different towns from where I live and if God came calling and said “Tim, I’m getting ready to destroy the town where your sister lives.” I promise you I would instantly be begging, “GOD, PLEASE DON’T DO IT!”  And that is exactly what Abraham was doing and it led to Abraham’s family being rescued from the time and place of God’s wrath! Here’s the cool thing, God shared what was in His heart with Abraham to achieve what Abraham would want through the grace and mercy of God. 2 Peter 3 shows us that the heart Abraham displayed lined up with God’s desire that “none should perish”

So, I say this to you: God has come calling. He is telling you and me that He has been hearing an outcry and is being moved in anger to visit this place in great wrath. That this visitation will come as a “thief in the night” and that “time is running out.”

Joel 2.1-2: “Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming;
surely it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people;
there has never been anything like it, nor will there be again after it.”

Romans 13.11: ^“This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.  The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here.”

ICEBERGS!

Scoffing hearts would say, “Ah man, I’ve heard this before, it’s a broken record.”

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of a time when in America alone, people made a decision that it was legal to kill a baby and since that decision over 55 MILLION babies have been killed.

OUTCRY!

God has said He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. We are witnesses to a time when world leaders are not only cursing Israel but unknowingly quoting right out of Psalm 83, “Come let us make Israel no more.”

OUTCRY! 

To those in America who can’t see an ominous storm coming, can I ask you one major wake-up call type of question? Obama’s America is sending 1.5 billion dollars, plus 20 F-16 s, plus almost 400 tanks to the Muslim Brotherhood led, Israel hating, newly established Egyptian government for what reason? There is already at work an evil plan to pressure Israel to “give up land for peace” and Joel 3 says that is causing an outcry.

We have same sex marriage, adult entertainment (a thriving industry), violence, “as it was in the days of Noah” and “as it was in the days of Lot.” An outcry ascends all across this planet and God has PROMISED He will once again be moved to pour out His wrath! On a place you and I have family!

Friends and neighbors and co-workers are living on the Titanic and most don’t realize that it has struck the iceberg and they are in grave danger.

PARADIGM SHIFT

Like that rich lady on the ship, we too need to awake to a major change of perspective and let go of things that are of no lasting value and begin to urgently focus on the job at hand. The apostle Paul said this: “Knowing the terror of the Lord, I beg many.” And I too, sit here typing like a beggar.

Churches all across this nation are asleep to the time at hand. Many are just “going through the motions” of “having church,” having a form of godliness but no power. Can I ask you, would you please stop and think? Are your altars being fruitful, are souls being saved daily? Are broken lives being healed, is their a godly fear growing, is their an urgency, expectancy and passion stirring? If not, then WAKE UP.

On January 21, 2013 I heard a fellow end-time watcher and brother, Sherlock Bally, say this: “Islamic terrorist are living out their faith by strapping bombs to their bodies willing to die for their beliefs and yet you can’t get Christians to show up to a prayer meeting.”

I believe that it’s sincerely time to stop just playing church and get real. This is not a time to be living on “second hand smoke” or falling prey to what’s trendy. There is a passage in Jeremiah that should give us all pause that we need to be hearing from God and what we share needs to be what we have heard from God.

 Jeremiah 23.30: ^“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who steal My words from each other.”

For too long we’ve settled to hear from someone else who has supposedly been hearing from God! A golden calf was once created out of a similar mindset. It’s time to know HIS voice personally and one of the things the Bible makes clear is that it is heavy on God’s heart is for people to PRAY! If you aren’t spending time in prayer I will submit it’s because you are NOT awake! If your church, if your leaders aren’t calling “solemn assemblies” to pray and repent and cry out to God, I submit it’s because Jesus hasn’t been allowed to come calling!

Please stop and think that if at every time in biblical history God has been moved in anger and has He told His people to repent and to pray, to seek His face do you NOT think that is what is at the Lord is saying now?

Yet we settle for a “best seller” at Christian bookstores when instead we can hear directly from God. Hey, I’m a writer and I appreciate that God uses that gift to speak, but if what I write doesn’t propel the reader to HIM, then I’m failing miserably. If I’m failing its because it’s just me writing for God instead of spending time with God having Him put the wisdom from Him into my typing! It is my hunger that whoever is reading this message is experiencing a major wake-up call and in that awakening, it will stir repentance, prayer and intercession all consumed of His presence!

“Behold I stand at the door and knock, to they who open, I will come in and dine with them and they with Me.” Abraham answered that knock. He was driven to intercession and God was moved to rescue Abraham’s family from a place where His wrath would be poured out.

Right now, God is knocking on our hearts. He is desiring to share with us what is heavy on His heart, “that none should perish.” If it doesn’t drive us to seek His mercy on behalf of our friends and family at a very perilous time and say, “DEAR GOD PLEASE. I HAVE FAMILY HERE,” then we are deceiving ourselves!

Jesus says in Revelation 22, “Behold I come quickly.” He tells us the response of the Holy Spirit and His bride is to cry, “Come.”  If we are awakened by the Spirit of Almighty God, there should be an intense longing to be where He is, there should be a work taking place in our lives that is causing us to long for a city whose Builder and Maker is the Lord.  It should be stirring an urgency to warn all who will listen that when Jesus calls His people to Himself, that a time will be unleashed upon this place that unless God shortens the days “no flesh will survive.”

If in being honest you can’t say that you have urgency and longing in your heart or at your church please pray for a Titanic awakening!

In Christ,

Tim Cameron

timcameron@centurytel.net