Month: May 2019

US increasing military presence in Middle East amid claims of Iranian threats

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2019-05-07     .td_uid_6_5cd157726e9d2_rand.td-a-rec-img{text-align:left}.td_uid_6_5cd157726e9d2_rand.td-a-rec-img img{margin:0 auto 0 0} According to The Wall Street Journal, US intelligence has found out that Iran has plans to target US forces in Iraq and possibly in Syria, while it is also going to stage attacks in Ba-el-Mandeb strait near Yemen through its proxies and in the Persian Gulf with its own armed drones. Iran reportedly may seek to attack US forces […]

Israel prepares to remember its fallen soldiers, terror victims

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Israel prepares to remember its fallen soldiers, terror victims Israelis will stand in silence as a one-minute siren wails across the country at 8pm in memory of some 23,741 fallen IDF stroops and 3,150 civilians killed in terror attacks – 4 of whom have died this week alone from rockets fired from Gaza Ynet|Published:  05.07.19 […]

US ‘unable, unwilling’ to wage war on Iran: Cmdr. Dehghan

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MNA – A military aide to the Iranian Leader said that US is both ‘unable’ and ‘unwilling’ to wage a military war against Iran and dragging the Middle East region into crisis. There is still little rationality in the US administration to prevent extremist actions such as waging a war against Iran, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan […]

Pompeo to meet with Lavrov next week, cancels trip to Berlin

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REUTERS May 7, 2019 12:30 Breaking news. (photo credit: JPOST STAFF) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet meet Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Sochi on May 14, according to RIA. The US secretary of state has also cancelled a planned visit to Berlin on Tuesday, a US Embassy spokesman said, citing scheduling […]

“Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” John 5:8

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Like many others, the impotent man had been waiting for a wonder to be wrought, and a sign to be given. Wearily did he watch the pool, but no angel came, or came not for him; yet, thinking it to be his only chance, he waited still, and knew not that there was One near him whose word could heal him in a moment. Many are in the same plight: they are waiting for some singular emotion, remarkable impression, or celestial vision; they wait in vain and watch for nought. Even supposing that, in a few cases, remarkable signs are …

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Our Reason for Hope

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God’s love has no limits: It reaches all people, regardless of their shortcomings or circumstances 1 JOHN 4:7-107 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and …

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‘the Prodigal Son,’

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In Jesus parable, found in Luke 15:11 – 32, concerning the younger son of the Father, who is commonly known as ‘the Prodigal Son,’ is an amazing word picture for all of us. In verse 12, we find the younger son asking his Father to give to him what ‘belonged to him’. This is the crux of the parable, the taking of the things of God and making them our own for what we perceive as personal gain, and going off in life to use them for our own purposes. We would call this, self ownership and government. The Father …

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Iran: U.S. sending carrier, bombers to mideast is ‘psychological warfare’

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REUTERS May 7, 2019 11:24 DUBAI – Iran’s security body said a US announcement of sending a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East to send a message to Tehran amounted to “psychological warfare,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency said on Tuesday. US national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday the United […]

Arabs shoot fireworks at Jewish school children in Jerusalem

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Arab youths shoot fireworks at Jewish children in Maaleh HaZeitim neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. Residents demand ‘full security’. Yehonatan Gottleib, 07/05/19 Arab teenagers shot fireworks at Jewish children in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood Tuesday morning, residents say. Residents of the neighborhood of Maaleh HaZeitim, which along with Maalot David is home to over one hundred […]

US Muslim group backtracks after posting clip of kids vowing Jerusalem martyrdom

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US organization says ‘disturbing’ video of children vowing to ‘sacrifice our souls without hesitation’ and ‘chop off their heads’ to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque was not vetted By JENNIFER MCDERMOTT6 May 2019, 11:16 pm     A screen capture from a video posted by the Muslim American Society’s Philadelphia chapter (screen capture via MEMRI) AP — A […]

Qatar to transfer half a billion dollars to Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

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The oil-rich Gulf state vows to invest some $300 million in health and education in the Palestinian Authority, with an additional $180 million going to various UN humanitarian initiatives Elior Levy|Published:  05.07.19 , 09:10 Qatar will transfer some $480 million to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, said an announcement by the […]

Islamic Jihad admits baby, pregnant woman killed by their own rockets

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The report was published in a Telegram account related to Hamas. Rossella Tercatin May 7, 2019 04:43 Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants participate in a military show in Gaza City. (photo credit: MOHAMMED SALEM/ REUTERS) The Islamic Jihad, one of the terror organizations responsible for the recent wave of attacks against Israel, admitted that the baby […]

Breaking: Jihadist rebels attempt to attack Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase in western Syria

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.td_uid_6_5cd0c35f4267a_rand.td-a-rec-img{text-align:left}.td_uid_6_5cd0c35f4267a_rand.td-a-rec-img img{margin:0 auto 0 0} BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:40 A.M.) – The Russian military activated their air defense sirens at the Hmeimim Airbase this morning after several militant attack drones approached the installation’s northeastern perimeter. According to a report from the coastal governorate of Tartous, the militant drones were successfully intercepted by the Russian air defenses […]

Hamas boasts it ‘overcame’ Iron Dome with concentrated rocket salvos. It didn’t

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Officials say that despite new tactic by Gaza terror groups, relatively few projectiles managed to penetrate Israel’s missile defense system, which had an 86% success rate By JUDAH ARI GROSS and TOI STAFFToday, 12:55 am  0 194shares A picture taken on May 5, 2019 from the Israel-Gaza border shows a barrage of rockets being fired from the Hamas-run Palestinian […]