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The Temple Mount Faithful Presents the Cornerstone for the Temple Mounton Jerusalem Day www.templemountfaithful.org
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The Temple Mount Faithful Presents the Cornerstone for the Temple Mounton Jerusalem Day
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The Temple Mount Faithful Presents the Cornerstone for the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day Last week, in celebration of Jerusalem Day and in preparation for the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement successfully brought the 13 ton cornerstone for the Third Temple to the streets of downtown Jerusalem.
As we explained previously, Jerusalem Day is one of the most important public holidays in Israel. It celebrates the Six Day War, in which Israel, with the help of God, liberated all of Judea, Samaria, Gaza, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. It was in the Sinai where God gave the Holy Torah to the children of Israel. It is also the place where God anointed them to be His chosen people, to be a light to the nations, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
This is the day that the God and people of Israel have expected and desired for 1,897 years. The God of Israel appeared in this godly war as Israel was attacked by her Arab enemies from all sides. God commanded His Israeli forces exactly as He did during biblical times. End time prophecy became a reality and was fulfilled in six days. This war was not an accident. The God of Israel made it clear that He expected His Temple to be rebuilt. It is then that He will open a new godly time in the life of Israel and all the world, just as He prophesied through His prophet Isaiah.
Global Weapons Spending Hits Record Levels
www.guardian.co.uk
Worldwide spending on weapons has reached record levels amounting to well over $1tn last year, a leading research organisation reported today.
Global military expenditure has risen by 45% over the past decade to $1.46tn, according to the latest annual Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Though the US accounts for more than half the total increase, China and Russia nearly tripled their military expenditure over the decade, with China now second only to the US in the military expenditure league table.
“China had both the largest absolute and the largest relative increase,” says the Sipri report. The increase “has roughly paralleled its economic growth and is also linked to its major power aspirations,”
North Korea and the Kings of the East
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must be up front and say that I feel somewhat guilty writing on the building North Korean nuclear threat. Compared to other things popping to the news front almost hourly, this tin-horn dictatorship and its doings somewhat fade in the glow of prophetic potentiality on today’s geopolitical horizon.
President Obama’s trip to Egypt to, in effect, call America the guilty party for causing all of the Middle East hatreds and turmoil, and his absolute insult to Israel by refusing to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his nation were fraught enough with prophetic portent. But, Obama’s declaration that there will be peace and security only when Israel’s land is divided and the Palestinians are given a state as part of that divided land, with part of Jerusalem its capital, is nothing short of staggering when considering the stage-setting for the coming time of God’s wrath.
Tel Aviv Gay Pride Being Used to Promote Israel Abroad
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A group of prominent gay opinion-shapers from around the world are to visit Israel to grapple with the country’s sexuality issues on a five-day seminar centering around Tel Aviv’s gay pride parade, scheduled for Friday.
iPride, a project created by international Israel advocacy organization Stand With Us, will begin on Wednesday and focus on showing participants a side to Israel that does not revolve around “conflict” in the traditional military sense.
Instead, the group will hear from speakers discussing the issue of sexuality within Israeli institutions such as government, the IDF and Israeli film, and discover more about Israel’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Obama Is Sort Of God
www.realclearpolitics.com
CHRIS MATTHEWS (HOST):Evan Thomas is editor at large for Newsweek magazine. Evan, you remember 1984. It wasn’t 100 years ago. Reagan and World War II and the sense of us as the good guys in the world, how are we doing?
EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from … Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is – we are above that now. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something, I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above above the world, he’s sort of God.
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Obama Wants Jerusalem’s Holy Sites Under International Jurisdiction www.timesonline.co.uk
PRESIDENT Barack Obama will offer his personal commitment to “change the conversation” with the Muslim world in a long-awaited speech in Cairo this week.
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Obama Wants Jerusalem’s Holy Sites Under International Jurisdiction
www.timesonline.co.uk
PRESIDENT Barack Obama will offer his personal commitment to “change the conversation” with the Muslim world in a long-awaited speech in Cairo this week.
White House advisers vowed that Obama would “take on the tough issues”, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and offer to bridge differences with Muslims based on “mutual interests and mutual respect” – the same words used in his address to the Turkish parliament last month.
Administration officials say privately that Obama has given himself two years for a diplomatic breakthough on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, despite the opposition of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to America’s minimum demand for a freeze on all settlement building in disputed territory…more…
Russian Political Expert Says Nuclear Catastrophe ‘Inevitable’
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A Russian political expert has told RIA Novosti that the international community is not paying enough attention to the threat of an imminent nuclear catastrophe.
“Today we are rightly worried about problems such as the possible development of the economic crisis, a H1N1 pandemic, and ecological safety. However, humanity is not paying attention to the increasing potential for a nuclear catastrophe,” said Vladimir Kulagin, professor of global politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
He also said that the peaceful use of nuclear energy had increased massively following a fall-off after the Chernobyl disaster, and that its further growth would “invariably” lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
“The possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists is being underestimated,” he said, adding that global non-proliferation efforts were failing like never before…more…
Proud Hungarians Must Prepare For War Against the Jews
www.haaretz.com
Given our current situation, anti-Semitism is not just our right, but it is the duty of every Hungarian homeland lover, and we must prepare for armed battle against the Jews.”
This quote appeared in a newsletter published by an organization calling itself “The trade union of Hungarian police officers prepared for action”.
Hungarian law allows police officers to organize in trade unions of their own. The union – by its own definition – aims to protect the professional interests of those unionized, and not to partake in political activity.
However, the law does not prevent the union from distributing a newsletter, the content of which is at the discretion of its editor, and its editor alone…more…
The New Tolerance In Academia
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Josh McDowell has spent thirty years proclaiming Christ on college and university campuses all across America and around the world. He recently commented on the impact of the “New Tolerance” by observing that students now respond to his message in a completely different way.
In the past when he would present the claim that Jesus is the only hope for the world, the response from students was, “Prove it!” Today the response is, “You have no right to say that! You’re a bigot!”
Josh summed up the new campus atmosphere by stating:
“An imbecile’s claim that Ronald MacDonald is the only hope for Mankind becomes equally valid with my claim that there is no hope apart from Jesus. I have no right to judge or condemn his claim, nor do I have the right to point out that he is an idiot.”
I used to teach comparative government and comparative political philosophy at the university level. In both courses, the purpose was to evaluate the competing truth claims. We would consider questions like these: Is democracy more valid than oligarchy? Is Communism more valid than Capitalism? Is Existentialism more valid than Rationalism?
Today such an approach would be considered hardcore bigotry! The purpose of comparative studies today is “to understand, appreciate and accept competing systems.”…more…
US Officials Raise Alarm About New Venezuelan Missiles
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Venezuela’s recent purchase of the most lethal shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in the Russian arsenal is sharpening U.S. concerns that parts of President Hugo Chávez’s massive weapons buildup could wind up in the hands of terrorists or guerrillas in neighboring Colombia.
Washington’s unease is well-founded, U.S. government officials say, because of credible evidence that three top Venezuelan officials offered Colombia’s FARC rebels weapons, money and contacts to buy anti-aircraft missiles in 2007.
Such missiles in the hands of the FARC would mark a steep escalation of the 45-year-old conflict in Colombia, where government forces in recent years have deployed a fleet of slow-moving ground-attack warplanes and U.S.-built helicopters to deal devastating blows to rebel jungle camps.
”We are concerned about Venezuelan arms purchases that exceed its needs and are therefore potentially destabilizing,” State Department spokeswoman Sara Mangiaracina said. “The Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Venezuela have purchased from Russia are sophisticated weapons systems. It is important that these weapons systems be appropriately controlled to avoid the possibility of diversion.”
”We are concerned about Venezuelan arms purchases that exceed its needs and are therefore potentially destabilizing,” State Department spokeswoman Sara Mangiaracina said. “The Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Venezuela have purchased from Russia are sophisticated weapons systems. It is important that these weapons systems be appropriately controlled to avoid the possibility of diversion.”…more…
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A Russian anti-submarine destroyer and two logistical warships are entering waters off Cuba in a nonmilitary visit that’s the first of its kind since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian ships plan [...]]]>
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3 Russian Warships Visit Cold War Ally Cuba
A Russian anti-submarine destroyer and two logistical warships are entering waters off Cuba in a nonmilitary visit that’s the first of its kind since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian ships plan to moor on Friday in Havana in a show of increased cooperation between the two countries, though Cuba’s government is not commenting.
Ben-Elizer: Israel Won’t Accept a ‘Half-Truce’ in the Gaza Strip
The IDF is in its best form ever, and will be ready for attack, Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said on Friday. “There’s a limit to what Israel can absorb, and at the moment it’s like we’re standing with a stopwatch in hand,” he said. “The IDF has never been in a greater state of readiness, and in the case of an attack, it will know how to operate in the best way.”
Meridor ‘Working Very Hard’ to CreateGolan Giveaway Coalition
conversation at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv that he is “working very hard” and “making every effort” to convince Binyamin Netanyahu to “make history” by changing Israel’s posture towards Syria and the idea of ceding the Golan Heights in return for a peace treaty.
Meridor, who chaired one of the sessions in Thursday’s exclusive conference on Security Challenges of the 21st Century said this in a private – but not very quiet – conversation with one of Israel’s top advertisers and strategic advisors, Moshe Teomim, after the session ended.
Massive Arrests Of Christians In China
Over a dozen Christians will spend Christmas behind bars in China after police raided a Christian leaders gathering in Henan province, while in the capital Beijing two officials of the banned Chinese House Church Alliance were detained, an advocacy group and Chinese Christians confirmed Thursday, December 18.
More than 40 Christians were arrested Tuesday, December 16, in an area of Henan’s Nanyang city, where authorities interrupted a meeting of Christian leaders, said the US-based China Aid Association (CAA).
After paying fines of up to $300 in local currency, most were freed, but 16 Christian leaders, including a man hosting the gathering, Yan Linshan, received 10 to 15 days “administrative detention” on charges of involvement in an “illegal religious gathering,” the group added.
President Bush Meets with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority
PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. President, I’m thinking about the first time I met you — I think it was in Jordan. And I can’t help but reflect on how far the process has come to bring peace to the Holy Land.
You have done a lot of important and hard work in helping the region understand the importance of two states living side by side in peace. No question this is a hard challenge, but nevertheless, people must recognize that we have made a good deal of progress. And a lot of it has to do with your leadership, and I thank you.
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