Abbas voices support for tripartite ‘confederation’ with Israel and Jordan

In meeting with Israeli peace activists, PA leader appears to dramatically depart from longstanding insistence on a two-state solution By RAPHAEL AHREN 09/02/2018 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president’s assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas’s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. […]

Russia warns the Mediterranean will be DANGEROUS as massive military drills begin TODAY

RUSSIA has declared part of the Mediterranean will be ‘dangerous’ while they hold a massive naval exercise ahead of the final assault on Syria’s rebels, insiders have said. Charlie Moloney10:12, Sat, Sep 1, 2018 “The situation in Syria has a significant potential to become more complicated and the situation around Idlib leaves a lot to […]

US ready to protect PG shipping in defiance of Iran’s warnings: Report

09/02/2018 Press TV – The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has reportedly claimed that it is fully prepared to maintain the flow of commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf despite Iran’s insistence that it will prevent all oil exports through the waterway’s Strait of Hormuz entry point if the US attempts to follow through with its […]

“The bow shall be seen in the cloud.” Genesis 9:14

“The bow shall be seen in the cloud.” Genesis 9:14 The rainbow, the symbol of the covenant with Noah, is typical of our Lord Jesus, who is the Lord’s witness to the people. When may we expect to see the token of the covenant? The rainbow is only to be seen painted upon a cloud. When the sinner’s conscience is dark with clouds, when he remembers his past sin, and mourneth and lamenteth before God, Jesus Christ is revealed to him as the covenant Rainbow, displaying all the glorious hues of the divine character and betokening peace. To the believer, …

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Iran to receive second batch of enriched uranium for Tehran nuclear reactor

08/12/2018 Iran will soon receive a second batch of 20 percent-enriched uranium which has been kept in Russia under the nuclear deal and now will be used at the Tehran nuclear reactor, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization spokesman, said on Saturday. Under the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Tehran agreed to get rid of medium-enriched uranium and drastically decrease its stockpile of low-enriched uranium. In April, Iran warned that, in the event the United States withdrew from the JCPOA, it would be technically prepared to produce higher-enriched uranium, which it was able to do before the deal took effect. “When …

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Iran nuclear chief says uranium stockpile reaches 950 tons

Ali Akbar Salehi says his country has enough nuclear material to reach its longtime goal of 190,000 centrifuges By AP and TOI STAFF/07/18/2018 The chief of Iran’s nuclear agency said on Wednesday that his country’s effort to acquire uranium has resulted in a stockpile of as much as 950 tons. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told state TV  that Iran had imported some 400 tons of uranium since the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Western powers, bringing its stockpile to between 900 and 950 tons — up from 500 tons. Salehi said that would be enough of the material for Iran …

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Amid technical woes, Iran security chief said to stand up Gaza crowd

Wet Gunpowder gathering goes out with a whimper after Egypt reportedly tells Hamas leaders to stay away from the event By ADAM RASGON 07/17/2018 A pro-Iranian event held in Gaza on Monday did not go according to plan, after Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, apparently failed to deliver an expected address to the audience, and Egypt reportedly told high-level Hamas officials to stay away from the event. The shadowy Iranian officer had been expected to speak to the crowd  at the Wet Gunpowder Festival via video conference from Tehran. The event was held simultaneously in Gaza and …

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A third round of escalation, more severe than the previous rounds, with about 200 rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel. The shelling is a continuation of Hamas’ policy of controlled violence creating escalation.

Full document in PDF format Overview On July 13 and 14, 2018 there was another round of escalation near the Gaza Strip. It began after the IDF carried out extensive aerial attacks in response to the wounding of an IDF officer by a hand grenade thrown during the “return march” on Friday, July 13, 2018. During the escalation Israeli Air Force aircraft carried out three waves of aerial attacks on Hamas military targets, beginning on the night of July 14, 2018, and continuing the following day. During the round of escalation massive barrages of rockets and mortar shells were fired in three main waves, …

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Report: Explosions sounded in Iran’s armament storage in Syria

07/03/2018 Explosions sounded Tuesday in an Iranian armament storage near the Daraa province in Syria, according to the Al Jazeera media network.   Daraa, which is located in southwest Syria, has been under the Syrian army’s fierce offensive as part of its attempts to reclaim the last rebel-held strongholds in the war-torn country. Ynet

AS NORTHERN TENSIONS RISE, IDF APPOINTS FIRST IRAN ‘PROJECT DIRECTOR’

The appointment underscores the overwhelming importance that Israel places on the developing military confrontation between the countries. BY BEN CASPIT/MAARIV  JULY 3, 2018 Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot has appointed Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon, who recently left his role as head of the military’s Operations Directorate, as the first director of a special IDF project to coordinate all issues related to Israel’s battle against Iran. Alon accompanied Eisenkot on his recent trip to the United States last weekend and participated in meetings with American military leaders, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford. This is the first time that the …

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When You’re Juggling Faith and Heartache~

When You’re Juggling Faith and Heartache~ It’s become more than apparent, that what faith appears to be to someone watching and what faith feels like to someone walking through it, can seem to be completely different and yet, in reality, be absolutely the same. In the wee morning of December 8th,2015, my heart stopped. Getting my world started again, – no matter how many times the clock ticks, or how many days go by, or how many times I flip the page on the calendar over to a new month, is still an ongoing, don’t-know-how-to-do-it, battle every single moment of …

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‘Our Golan will always remain ours’

MK Yair Lapid addresses Brookings Institute conference in Washington as part of campaign to secure recognition of Golan Heights. Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid participated today (Monday) in a discussion on the Brookings Institute in Washington with Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute’s Middle East Policy Center. Lapid said that his main goal in his visit was to promote the United States’ recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. “I came to the United States to promote international recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. I brought here …

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