Saturday, 30 March 2024
Israel crisis deepens over ultra-Orthodox draft
Israel crisis deepens over ultra-Orthodox draft
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"WHERE DOES EVIL COME FROM" BY TONY PEARCE FROM "LIGHT FOR THE LAST DAYS"
Where does evil come from?By Tony Pearce on Mar 25, 2024 09:02 am | |
 14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers;I established you;You were on the holy mountain of God;You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,Till iniquity was found in you. 16 “By the abundance of your tradingYou became filled with violence within,And you sinned;Therefore I cast you as a profane thingOut […] | |
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‘Christ Still Suffers In His People" with Raymond Ibrahim
Audio: ‘Christ Still Suffers In His People (w/Raymond Ibrahim)’
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VERY QUIET JERUSALEM - While a bitter war rages less than 50 miles away, Christianity's holiest place has few visitors and just a handful of Easter pilgrims
Inside Jerusalem's Old City there is a haunting absence, writes IRAM RAMZAN. While a bitter war rages less than 50 miles away, Christianity's holiest place has few visitors and just a handful of Easter pilgrims
In the Old City of Jerusalem there is a haunting absence in Christianity’s holiest place.
Shopkeepers and stallholders in the winding maze of narrow streets that make up the Via Dolorosa – the ‘Sorrowful Way’, along which Jesus is believed to have walked, bowed down by the weight of his cross – shake their heads and shrug their shoulders despairingly.
No heaving mass of tourists and just a handful of pilgrims are here this Eastertide. Business is bad.
At the most sacred of all sites, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a vast complex which houses both the site of the Crucifixion and the Tomb of the Resurrection, where the faithful have come to weep and worship over 16 centuries, there are few visitors.
‘Last year there would have been 4,000-5,000 people here at the Church every day, it would have been so full,’ Brother Samir, a Coptic monk, tells me.
‘We feel so sad about it. We just want peace for everyone and between all countries. We will be happy again when there are more people here.’ For me, a secular Muslim visiting Jerusalem for the first time – in the solemnity of what is Holy Week for millions of Christians worldwide – is an emotional and thought-provoking experience.
Growing up, I was taught to revere Jesus or ‘Eesa’ as we know him. Koranic verses tell similar stories about him to those in the Bible – the Virgin Birth and his miracles. But Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet rather than the son of God, and that there was no crucifixion. Instead, Jesus was raised to heaven by God.
And of course Jerusalem is as important to Muslims as it is to Christians and Jews. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is but a few hundred metres from the al-Aqsa complex which contains the vast golden Dome of the Rock, the site where, in the seventh century, the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have flown to heaven on a winged horse to speak with God.
It shares that location with Temple Mount, which is sacred to Jews as the place that Abraham demonstrated his devotion to God by taking his son Isaac to be sacrificed. It is also the site of two ancient Jewish temples, with the Western (or Wailing) Wall the only remaining one.
FULL ACCOUNT AT: https://mol.im/a/13252701 via https://dailym.ai/android
NOT SO FAST: Top US General Admits Israel Not Getting All Weapons it Requested
'DECISIVE BLOW': IDF Kills 200 Terrorists in Gaza Hospital Raid
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Friday, 29 March 2024
BIG WARNING HERE - War a real threat and Europe not ready, warns Poland's Tusk
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has delivered a blunt warning that Europe has entered a "pre-war era" and if Ukraine is defeated by Russia, nobody in Europe will be able to feel safe.
"I don't want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past," he told European media. "It's real and it started over two years ago."
His remarks came as a fresh barrage of Russian missiles targeted Ukraine.
Poland said Nato aircraft were scrambled to protect its airspace.
Russia has intensified its bombardment of Ukraine in recent weeks. Ukraine's air force said it had shot down 58 drones and 26 missiles and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said energy infrastructure had been damaged in six regions, in the west, centre and east of the country.
Mr Tusk, a former president of the European Council, said Russian President Vladimir Putin had already blamed Ukraine for the jihadist attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall without any evidence and "evidently feels the need to justify increasingly violent attacks on civil targets in Ukraine".
He pointed out that Russia had attacked Kyiv with hypersonic missiles in daylight for the first time earlier this week.
He used his first foreign interview since returning to office as Polish prime minister at the end of last year to deliver a direct appeal to Europe's leaders to do more to bolster its defences.
Regardless of whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump won November's US presidential election, he argued Europe would become a more attractive partner to the US if it became more self-sufficient militarily.
It was not about Europe achieving military autonomy from the US or creating "parallel structures to Nato", he said. Poland now spent 4% of its economic output on defence and every other European country should spend 2% of GDP, with the European Union as a whole mentally prepared to fight for its security.
Since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine, relations with the West have reached their lowest ebb since the worst days of the Cold War, although President Putin said this week that Moscow had "no aggressive intentions" towards Nato countries.
The idea that his country would attack Poland, the Baltic states and the Czech Republic was "complete nonsense", he said. And yet he also warned that if Ukraine used Western F-16 warplanes from airfields in other countries, they would become "legitimate targets, wherever they might be located".
This is not Mr Tusk's first warning of a pre-war era. He gave centre-right European leaders a similar message earlier this month.
However, he revealed that Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, had asked fellow EU leaders to stop using the word "war" in their summit statements, because people did not want to feel threatened. Mr Tusk said he had replied that in his part of Europe, war was no longer an abstract idea.
Appealing for urgent military aid for Ukraine, he warned that the next two years of the war would decide everything: "We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War."
FULL WARNING AND DANGEROUS REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68692195
Syria accuses Israel after strikes kill more than 40 near Aleppo
At least 42 people have been killed in air strikes in north-west Syria, reports say.
Syria's defence ministry said Israeli planes targeted several sites in the Aleppo countryside at 01:45 on Friday (22:45 GMT Thursday).
A UK-based monitoring group said a weapons store of the Hezbollah militant group was hit. It described those killed as "regime soldiers".
Israel's military told the BBC it would not comment on foreign media reports.
The monitoring group - the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) - said it was the highest number of dead among Syrian forces in a single such "Israeli attack".
Citing two security sources, Reuters news agency said five Hezbollah fighters were among the dead, putting the death toll at 38.
Syria's defence ministry said civilians and Syrian military personnel had been killed. It said the air strikes were carried out "in conjunction with" with drone attacks by "terrorist organisations" against Aleppo city and the surrounding area, though it did not give any further information.
The SOHR, which uses an extensive network of contacts in Syria, said the alleged Israeli strikes also caused multiple injuries, some serious.
It said the strikes hit the weapons warehouse in Jabrin area near Aleppo international airport and targeted Syrian air defence forces facilities in Al-Saferah, about 20km (12.5 miles), south-east of Aleppo city. It also said explosions were heard in the Kafr Joum area of western Aleppo.
In recent years, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes on Syria against Hezbollah or Iranian assets there. It has vowed to prevent Iran - Hezbollah's most important backer - from transferring advanced weaponry to the Lebanese group or from building up its own military presence in Syria.
Both Iran and Hezbollah - Syrian allies - oppose Israel's existence. Alleged Israeli strikes on Syria have increased since Hamas, which is also supported by Iran and Hezbollah, carried out the 7 October attacks on Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza.
Cross-border attacks between Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel have also escalated. On Wednesday, Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon killed 16 people, including Hezbollah fighters and other militants, marking the deadliest attacks of their kind since Hezbollah began launching rockets at Israel in support of Hamas on 8 October.
Hours after the first Israeli strike, a Hezbollah rocket barrage killed a 25-year-old man in northern Israel.
FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68691102
ISIS calls for 'lone wolves' to carry out Ramadan massacre of Christians and Jews across Europe, US and Israel
ISIS calls for 'lone wolves' to carry out Ramadan massacre of Christians and Jews across Europe, US and Israel
- It comes on 10-year anniversary of ISIS declaration of caliphate in Iraq and Syria
A top ISIS spokesman has called on 'lone wolves' worldwide to slaughter Christians and Jews en-masse in a chilling new declaration of terror.
In a 41-minute-long recording to mark the 10-year anniversary of ISIS declaration of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari declared Ramadan as the 'month of jihad' and urged extremists to launch attacks in the United States, Europe and Israel.
He went on to urge Muslims to leave their homes and migrate to join up with jihadists and strengthen their ranks.
The spokesman also heaped praise on affiliates for their operations worldwide, making particular reference to Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) - the group that claimed last week's devastating terror attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow which saw at least 143 civilians killed.
Al-Ansari's deplorable message comes after he launched a campaign in January entitled 'Kill Them Wherever You Find Them', in which he called for renewed focus on terror attacks and reminded Muslims that the Israel-Palestine conflict is a war on Jews, not just Israel.
'It is a religious ideological war that will continue until we kill their antichrist under the banner of the Prophet of Allah… tighten the plans and diversify operations: Blow them up with explosives, burn them with incendiary bombs, shoot them with bullets, slaughter their necks with knives, and run them over with buses,' he said.
In the days after his announcement on January 4, ISIS affiliates claimed a flurry of fresh terror attacks, including the bombing of Kerman in Iran which killed over 100 people.
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