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May- 2004

Patterns of Global Terrorism   -2003
Released by the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
April 29, 2004

The Year in Review

 

There were 190 acts of international terrorism in 2003, a slight decrease from the 198 attacks that occurred in 2002, and a drop of 45 percent from the level in 2001 of 346 attacks. The figure in 2003 represents the lowest annual total of international terrorist attacks since 1969.

A total of 307 persons were killed in the attacks of 2003, far fewer than the 725 killed during 2002. A total of 1,593 persons were wounded in the attacks that occurred in 2003, down from 2,013 persons wounded the year before.

In 2003, the highest number of attacks (70) and the highest casualty count (159 persons dead and 951 wounded) occurred in Asia.

There were 82 anti-US attacks in 2003, which is up slightly from the 77 attacks the previous year, and represents a 62-percent decrease from the 219 attacks recorded in 2001.

Thirty-five American citizens died in 15 international terrorist attacks in 2003:

Note

Most of the attacks that have occurred during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom do not meet the longstanding US defi nition of international terrorism because they were directed at combatants, that is, US and Coalition forces on duty. Attacks against noncombatants, that is, civilians and military personnel who at the time of the incident were unarmed and/or not on duty, are judged as terrorist attacks.

How often the liberal press stresses the expression that by hitting the terrorists hard only creates more terrorists? The little published truth is that when terrorism is hit hard the number of incidences decreases. These terrorists do not deserve the dignity of spiritual resolve as the press likes to present them. The great pressure the Bush administration put on Islam in Afghanistan and Iraq has reduced international terrorism, and discouraged new terrorists from jumping on the band wagon. Taking the battle to the terrorists homeland has spared unknown numbers of innocent civilians on the international scene. The price is being paid by our military in the Middle East rather then being paid by innocent civilians in New York City. It is a far better policy to give the terrorists a rallying point in their own homeland with our military then give them relief to pick their own targets. The ranks of terrorism are decreasing dramatically, and their replacements have little hope of glory when they become simply fodder destroyed in their own backyard.

Israel has practiced hitting the terrorists on their own ground, and it works despite what the press may say. The Jews have stood in the midst of an Islamic Arab culture that hates them beyond belief, and the State of Israel has expanded and prospered. The Israeli Defense Forces are second to none as an Army on the international scene. All this has been accomplished while the terrorists were doing their worst. Terrorism has failed to stop the Israelis. All they can do now is forever torture the Jews with pin pricks. The mighty Nation of Israel is too well established now for the Islamic world to ever think they can be intimidated into leaving. It is Islam that must step aside as the God of the Bible prepares the Holy Land for His coming Kingdom.

A terrible judgment is coming to Islam. A most terrible judgment is coming specifically to the Islamic, Arab, Palestinians. The pricking brier is condemned in the Bible already. The blood from their vengefully hate instilled culture flows in the streets of Palestine already. The greater judgment is still coming.

The Bible says God is sanctified through judgment. His holiness must judge sin, or it is meaningless. It is only when sin is judged that the contrasting holiness is exalted. At Calvary, Christ stood in the sinners place. He bore the penalty of sin on His own body. His blood was shed as an acceptable atonement for sin. It is you who refuse to come to Christ for salvation that make judgment necessary. All who reject Christ, and His holiness reserve His eternal wrath as their coming judgment.

EXPLOSIVE DETECTOR

 An Israeli company has developed a device that, by remote laser, scans cars and people from several meters away to detect explosives, drugs or other illegal materials. International Technologies Lasers (ITL), based in Rishon Letzion, is expected to sign a contract with the Public Security Ministry in the near future. Several branches of the United States security forces have also examined the device and are enthusiastic about its performance. CEO Ami Rub said the device will be tested in the field by the end of this year. He said the company's own tests give the device a success rate of close to 100 percent in recognizing and detecting materials.

Technology has opened many doors for the worst of our cultures to do their worst on the innocent. It is good to know that technology also provides the innocent with methods of detecting the bad guys, and stopping them before they can act! It is a Jewish invention that has the potential of stopping the terrorists in their tracks. What a blow this can be by removing concealed bombs from the arsenal of the wild animals that use them.

Imagine a detection system that knows and keeps tract of the thoughts of all mankind. Imagine a rod of iron that acts before a sinful act can be committed. Imagine the next dispensation when Christ will rule His coming Kingdom.  Here again a 100% Jewish solution will protect the innocent for the next 1000 years.

The standard will be absolute righteousness as taught in the Bible. The rules will be only as the King says they be applied. The Bible says He is the Word of God! There will be no religious courts debating the meanings of the statutes and ordinances. Christ alone will be the sole interpreter of how the Bible will be applied to the lives of every individual. He will measure their heart with 100% accuracy. He will look into the inner man, and make His determination on that basis. No manmade device will ever be able to duplicate such accuracy as will be practiced in the next dispensation. A perfect King administering perfect righteousness from a perfect Kingdom that will be located in Israel, at Jerusalem, and from the Temple Mount.

It is this Christ who offers salvation by grace to you this very day. Won't you come to Him for a perfect salvation of purity and perfect holiness. It is only this Christ of the Bible who can wash away your sins by the authority of His shed blood, and make you absolutely perfect. Only then will you be prepared for His Kingdom, and for eternity with Him.

Arabs Murder Jewish Mother and Her 4 Children
15:06 May 02, '04 / 11 Iyar 5764
 

Double terror attack at 12:45 PM today, Gazan Arabs opened fire and murdered a mother and four of her children and injured a civilian and two soldiers on the Kissufim Road leading into Gush Katif, along Israel's southern Mediterranean coast.

The preliminary investigation indicates that two terrorists came from the nearby Arab town Dir el-Balah and waited for an Israeli car to pass by on the main vehicular artery which leads into the Gush Katif region. The first burst of gunfire targeted a civilian vehicle, murdering a mother and her four children. As a second civilian car approached, the terrorists opened fire again, as was the case when the third vehicle arrived, an armored IDF patrol vehicle. The soldiers immediately returned fire and engaged the terrorists in a gun battle. As the soldiers pursued the attackers, an explosive device or a grenade was detonated against them, resulting in injuries. The terrorists were eliminated.

Prof. Aaron Vishnitzer, deputy director of Beer Sheva's Soroka Medical Center, reported that three terror victims are being treated, with a soldier and a civilian in moderate condition undergoing surgery and a second soldier in light condition.

Hamas, Yasser Arafat's Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the murder in cold blood of a mother and her young children. According to Voice of Israel's Avi Yissakharov, the Hamas is boasting that just as they are successfully driving the Jews from Gaza, so will they drive the Jews from other regions in Israel.

In what has become a common scenario following terror attacks, Arab civilians in several locales under Arafat's control celebrated in the streets the murder of a Jewish mother and her children.
 

The Arab civilian culture dances in the street partying all night over the murder of a Jewish mother and her 4 children. How more depraved can a people become? Yet, these are the people the gentile quartet of the US, EU, UN, and Russia would plant forever in the middle of the Holy Land. This culture would forever torture the Jews of Israel by such acts of premeditated murder. What politician can say "Road Map" without knowing the kind of culture that will surround the Jews of Israel forever should it be implemented? What Christian can deny that the "Road Map" would forever prevent the implementation of the Biblical Kingdom in Israel, at Jerusalem, and from the Temple Mount?

It is for their wickedness that the God of the Bible will soon manifest His wrath. The gentile world will cry out claiming God is unfair. The gentiles think this culture has the right to the Holy Land, and if the Jews stay they must forever endure their torture. This is not God's future plan for Israel, Jerusalem, or the Temple Mount. The gentile "Road Map" is not the Biblical plan! Christians should oppose it as a last expression of their testimony for the Bible before the rapture takes place. I'm convinced the invasions of Afghanistan, and Iraq were the right thing to do. I don't think the job will be compete until Syria also falls, but stepping into the affairs of the Jews and the Holy Land is ground where we do not belong! That is God's business, and He must not be hindered. Dispensational change is coming to this generation, and the gentiles best stand aside as God prepares the Holy Land for His coming Kingdom.

The wickedness of the heathen, Islamic, Arab, Palestinians is legion. Their culture has no redeeming values worth saving. Should they be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be no loss to human history. Arafat and his thugs fall into the same category as Hitler and the Nazis. A black mark that only brings disgust to those historians who read about their short reigns. They are vomited out as poison to the dignity of God's creatures.

All the human race bares the same black mark. Our individual reign on earth  is short. The books kept by God of our lives are records of sin. What we might think are good works fade quickly when exposed to absolute holiness. Christ is the only Savior who came, and died for such a wretched people. Rejection of such love is wickedness beyond comprehension. It will be forever placed under the wrath of the living God. It is a forever judgment with no appeals according to the Bible. My friend, your reign on earth will come to an end. Are you saved, or are you soon to enter hell for all eternity future? It is your decision to make. Chose Christ before it is too late!

 

The "Live Jewish Wall" Of Jerusalem
22:24 May 03, '04 / 12 Iyar 5764
 

Even as work continues on a concrete wall dividing Jerusalem, tireless efforts continue to build a "live Jewish wall" to "secure the city's unity." The reference is to budding Jewish neighborhoods in areas of the capital that are currently populated by Arabs, but are in reality on Jewish-owned land. Organizations such as Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim and Uvneh Yerushalayim have re-created facts on the ground in the following neighborhoods:
* Shimon HaTzaddik (just to the east of Route 1 connecting the Old City with northern Jerusalem);
* Maaleh HaZeitim (just south of the Old City and Mt. of Olives);
* the City of David (beneath and to southeast of the Old City);
* the Yemenite Village adjacent to the City of David (see );
* and now, the latest addition: Kidmat Tziyon, otherwise known as Abu Dis.

Kidmat (from the word meaning 'advance' or 'front') Tziyon is a project of Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim, a community in what is known as the Old City's "Moslem Quarter." Late last night, some 150 members of the yeshivah escorted four families as they moved into two newly-purchased homes in Abu Dis. The new tenants brought generators, furniture and other equipment to begin setting up their new community, which is planned to comprise 320-340 housing units in the future. Located only 100 meters from the building intended to serve as the PA capital in Abu Dis, the new neighborhood can be read about at www.jrpisrael.com.


A Jewish group purchased the land as part of a large 150-acre plot in 1924, but their plans to build a neighborhood never materialized because of Arab pogroms and British refusal to grant permission. In the 1940's and 50's, Arabs began building in the area, though a part of the land remained mostly non-developed. "The Jewish neighborhood that was slated to be built in the 1920's, will now be built by us," says Daniel Luria, spokesman for the Jerusalem Reclamation Project. "We are simply completing the job."

 

Ariel Sharon's plan to unilaterally expel 8000 Independent fundamental Jewish settlers from Gaza was rejected soundly in a referendum of his own Likud Party on Sunday. These tenacious settlers continue occupying and conquering the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and soon the Temple Mount irregardless of the ebb and flow of secular politics. Today, the conservative Likud Party shows support, but tomorrow they may stab the settlers in the back depending on the politics of the day. The world either admires the settlers, or hates them as spoilers of the gentile road map. The lukewarm American Evangelical community holding with their neither hot or cold disposition remains silent. There is no pressure on the secular political system to stand behind these settlers 100%. There is no pressure to force the secular government to abandon the road map. The pompous Christians of America do not want to be replaced as having failed by a Jewish dispensation. The Charismatic false prophets tell the Evangelicals on TV of great Christian revivals while the whole Church is doctrinally naked, and about to be spewed from God's mouth. A Jewish Christ is not wanted by these know it all prophets of the TV circus shows. The real miracles of today are seldom proclaimed in awesome acknowledgement that the Jews are occupying and conquering. The hand of God in this generation is clearly on the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. Only unseen miracles of emotional show time claims are put on the Christian air waves. The poor victims die of the very diseases they are told were just healed.  The throngs of wheelchair victims leaving in the same wheelchairs with severed, or dried up  limbs are never shown. Real miracles are too much for the phony doctrinally incorrect showmen now leading the Evangelicals by the nose.

Sharon is a foolish shepherd leading the Jews into abomination. His doctrine is not Biblical, but political. His addendum would thwart the coming Kingdom if that were possible. The Pat Robertson's and Benny Hinn's of this generation are the same thing to the Evangelicals. They stand only for what will give them fame, not the fundamental doctrine of the last generation of the Christian Church. Dispensational change is the only answer to a generation of Christianity that has become so doctrinally naked.

Friend, are you trusting the christ of the TV extravaganzas, or the Christ of the Bible? Many are already revealed in the Bible as following the wrong christ. They are not going to be accepted because they sought the phony rather then the true. Beware of leaving the Bible for popular emotionalism. Do not follow the foolish shepherds of Evangelicalism. Come to the only Christ of the Bible before it is too late, and you be left behind!

 

Ex-US diplomats denounce Bush's Mideast policy

 
Diplomats tell US leader his support for Israel is costing their country its credibility, prestige, friends.

 
WASHINGTON - A group of 58 former US ambassadors and diplomats on Tuesday condemned US policy in the Middle East saying that President George W. Bush had cost the United States "credibility, prestige and friends".

The former diplomats released a letter which they said was inspired by a similar protest made by British diplomats to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Like the British diplomats, the former US foreign service officers said they were "deeply concerned" by Bush's endorsement last month of a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

The plan has now been put in doubt by its rejection in a vote by Sharon's Likud party.

The diplomats, who included former ambassadors to many Middle East countries, said Bush's policy "defies" and "flouts" a series of UN resolutions on the Palestinian conflict and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their land seized by Israel.

"By closing the door to negotiations with Palestinians and the possibility of a Palestinian state, you have proved that the United States is not an even-handed peace partner," said the letter to Bush.

"You have placed US diplomats, civilians and military doing their jobs overseas in an untenable and even dangerous position.

"Your unqualified support of Sharon's extra-judicial assassinations, Israel's Berlin Wall-like barrier, its harsh military measures in occupied territories, and now your endorsement of Sharon's unilateral plan are costing our country its credibility, prestige and friends."

The diplomats called on the president to "reassert American principles of justice and fairness in our relations with all the peoples of the Middle East. Support negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, with the United States serving as a truly honest broker."

They added that "a return to the time-honored American tradition of fairness will reverse the present tide of ill will in Europe and the Middle East - even in Iraq."

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P.A. Radio Praises "Heroic Attack" On "Settler-Terrorists"
18:07 May 04, '04 / 13 Iyar 5764

Several hours after the murderous attack on the Hatuel family of Katif - leaving David Hatuel bereft of his entire family: his pregnant wife and four daughters - PA radio praised the murderous terrorists as "heroic martyrs," and their heinous crime as one of "heroic martyrdom." In its report the next morning, the PA radio referred to the Jewish residents of Gaza as "settlers" and "terrorists" in light of their plans to build a new neighborhood in N'vei Dekalim. The radio mentioned that the victims of the Sunday attack were "settlers," neglecting to note that they were a pregnant woman and four little girls who were shot to death at point-blank range. So reports Dr. Michael Widlanski of Hebrew University.
 

 

Justice and fairness by these diplomats makes a mockery of the terms. Only the God of the Bible can be just and fair, but by His standard the whole world is guilty. These diplomats have a one sided standard that ignores the death of the Hatuel family. Justice and fairness to pregnant women and little girls does not matter to the diplomats because they are Jewish victims. Justice and fairness does not apply to the independent fundamental Jewish settlers by most of the gentile diplomatic community. It is the settlers who clearly receive no justice or fairness in the present political climate, but the gentile standard says the Jews are always at fault for everything bad that happens in the Holy Land.

The Holy Bible sets a standard of righteousness that the gentile world rejects. They would say God is unjust and unfair for choosing the Jews to settle the Holy Land in this generation. They would vote God out because He gives no rights to the heathen, Islamic, Arab, Palestinians in the Holy Land. The culture that glorifies the murderers of pregnant women, and little girls has no rights according to the God of the Bible. The Koran that justifies such actions as being religiously fair is an abomination forever according to the Bible.

All of Islam will soon be crying "unjust," "unfair" as Ezekiel 38 & 39 comes to pass. An entire culture, an entire religion will be put to death! God crushes all Islamic influence over the Middle East in one stroke. The Islamic religion is wiped off the face of the earth by the God of the Bible. It does not solve the Middle East conflict, nor will it be intended to do so. The gentile heart will only harden as God forces His will on the entire planet through His actions in Israel, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. There will only be one standard of justice and fairness when dispensational change comes to planet earth. A Kingdom will establish God's holiness once again on all creation. The revenger of blood will be God Himself on all of Islam first, then the whole world, for the kind of justice and fairness being practiced in the Holy Land today!

The whole world is going to find the revenger of blood coming upon them for what they did with the LORD Jesus Christ. It is His blood only that all will be called to give account. Beware that a false christ not make you guilty of reprisal by the Biblical revenger of blood!

 

LIKUD DEALS DEFEAT FOR SHARON’S GAZA PLAN

PM defiant: “The public did not elect me to sit and do nothing”

With a turnout of little over 50%, grass roots pro-settlement activists in Israel’s governing Likud party roundly defeated Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to unilaterally uproot Jewish communities in Gaza on Sunday, plunging the deeply divided center-right cabinet into crisis.

 Refusing calls from the right and left of the political spectrum for his resignation and fresh national elections, Sharon insisted that he would both respect the referendum result and continue to lead the country according to his conscience.

 “The public did not elect me to sit and do nothing for four years,” Sharon said in a statement as exit polls showed that almost 60% of the 100,000 party members who voted opposed his plan to “disengage” from Gaza and much of the West Bank.

 "I know that much of the Israeli public supports my plan and I know that they are as disappointed as I am," Sharon said, before vowing to “continue to lead the state of Israel according to the best of my knowledge, my conscience, and my obligation to the public.”

 According to Deputy Prime Minister and Sharon confident Ehud Olmert, Israel has no choice but to push ahead with the plan. "In a sea surrounded by almost two million Arabs, like we are in the Gaza Strip, there is no future,” he said. “There is no chance. This cannot continue. People say that when we leave there will be terror. But all this is happening when we are there, because we are there,” Olmert added, referring to Sunday’s murder of a pregnant mother and her four children near their Gaza settlement home.

 Disappointment at the plan’s defeat was evident in Washington where US President George W. Bush has come under fire from Arab capitals for openly backing Sharon and offering him historic diplomatic guarantees on remaining major West Bank settlements and the return of Palestinian refugees.

 Maintaining that its view of events had not changed, the White House praised the plan as “a courageous and important step toward peace," and pledged to consult with Sharon "about how to move forward."

 In Ramallah, Palestinian Authority cabinet minister Saeb Erekat called on Bush to withdraw the written pledges made to Sharon during his April 14 summit in Washington, arguing that they undermine the Palestinian people’s national rights.

 The PA has consistently opposed any unilateral Israeli action, including the Gaza pullout, on the same basis. On Sunday Erekat went further, denouncing the referendum in similar terms, saying that voters from Israel’s governing Likud have no right to decide on the fate of Palestinians.

 "The rejection of the plan by Likud voters may have critical effects on Israel's situation,” Labor MK Eitan Cabel told Israel Radio on Monday, after presenting a bill to disperse the Knesset. “The Knesset must be dissolved, and the public must be allowed to vote on this issue," he said.

 Within Sharon’s own fragile coalition, Shinui leader Yossef Lapid said on Monday that the plan had only been rejected by a quarter of the members of one party, and should not bind Shinui or the Knesset as a whole.

 "We can't forget that these were not real elections," Lapid said. "The Likud is not the general public. The Likud has lost touch with the public and it cannot be allowed to decide the fate of the country."

 Lapid and fellow Shinui MKs were meeting Monday afternoon to discuss quitting the government if Sharon abandons disengagement and leaves the Cabinet without a viable diplomatic platform.

 Meanwhile Tourism Minister, Benny Elon, leader of the right-wing National Religious Party, told Army Radio that he was prepared to walk out of the government and hopes Sharon is prepared to do the same.

 "I suggest Sharon first fire his cronies, then leave his office," Elon said.

 

The secular politicians think they run the future of Israel. Reality says God is running not only the future of Israel, but the future of all mankind. The worms God puts in positions of authority moan and groan when their selfish visions are dashed to pieces. The worm mass wiggles in agony when circumstances go beyond their perceived control. Far better to submit unto the inevitable, which is God's plan, rather then putting hope and trust in the worms.

The whole gentile world wants to give the heathen, Islamic, Arab, Palestinians a right to the Holy Land. It is the God of the Bible who says they have no rights on this issue. The Land is destine for the Jews from of old to everlasting. It is this generation that is experiencing the Biblically predicted return of the Jews to the Holy Land. Nothing is gong to stop God from finishing the work that He has started. No giving away the Land that God has already put under Jewish control. No placing a heathen nation forever in the Holy Land. No amount of pressure from the gentile world to stop the coming Kingdom of God will ever have a final victory. The God of the Bible does not have to make a worldwide assault on this world of sin. All He need do is force His will on Israel. Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. The world will come to Him. Not in adoration, but in hate. This generation does not want the puritanical holiness that must come with the return of Christ. This world will never tolerate the future God has already dictated in the Bible as the future for the Holy Land. Armageddon is where resistance to the Bible is leading.

The worm masses are wiggling in agony. They will never submit to such authority as is revealed in the Bible.  The freedom to sin is a right the worms feel ought to be theirs. Freedom of religions that reject the Bible, or would put other writings of worms above the authority of the Bible are what the masses demand.

The return of the LORD Jesus Christ to the Holy Land. to Jerusalem, and to the Temple Mount as King of the Jews is a prospect this generation publicly opposes. The lukewarm Evangelical main stream Christian Church has no intention of standing aside for the Biblical future of the Holy Land. They instead stand in the way by supporting the politicians rather then the God of the Bible. It is time to awake oh sluggards who left fundamental Biblical doctrine fall into disrepute during this generation. You who left Charismatic emotionalism hijack "born again"  so the tares now dictate the direction of main stream Christianity. Awake! It is time to step aside in shame for dispensational change. Only the Christ of the Bible can correct what this generation has defiled. I pray you can discern the difference between the Christ of the Bible, and the multiple christs of main stream Christianity? Won't you come to the Biblical Christ of absolute holiness for your salvation! Do it today! Awake, awake, awake!

 

May. 6, 2004 14:35  | Updated May. 6, 2004 17:08
Official Olympics website doesn't list Israel's capital
By GILA FINE

 

Greek Olympic officials have not listed Jerusalem as Israel's capital city on the official website for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games (www.Athens2004.com).

The entry opposite the heading 'capital' is marked with an asterisk figure (*) instead.

A footnote, at the bottom of the webpage, reads: * Please visit the official United Nations website for further information regarding the capital of Israel.

The comment provides a web link to a United Nations fact file on Israel, which also doesn't list the Jewish State as having a Capital, but instead writes: "The position of the United Nations on the question of Jerusalem is contained in General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947."

Some months ago, the website had 'Jerusalem' down as the capital of 'Palestine', while Israel's capital slot was left empty. Following complaints lodged by National Union MK Arye Eldad with the Greek Embassy and Foreign Ministry, Israel's capital was entered as 'Tel Aviv', leaving the Palestinian slot blank.

At this point, the Foreign Ministry approached the organizers of the Olympics, reaching a compromise by which both the Israeli and Palestinian capitals would be omitted from the register.

Foreign Minister Deputy Spokesman David Saranga said that by this step, he views the matter as closed. Pressed, he said that the affair was still under inquiry, and that it was really a matter for the Israeli Olympic Committee.

The committee, for its part, said the issue was strictly a diplomatic one, to be dealt with by the Foreign Ministry.

Another Foreign Ministry official pointed out that it is not only the Athens Olympic site that doesn't recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but rather the vast majority of the world, including the US. But, he pointed out, it was important to make clear that Tel Aviv is not the nation's capital.

The official said that the Foreign Ministry doesn't intend to pursue the case any further, and that there are more important issues to press with the organizers of Olympics.

One such issue, he said, is a request that there be some kind of commemoration during the games of the 11 Israelis killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics. One idea was for a moment of silence during the Games' opening ceremony, an idea that has so far been refused by the organizers of the Games.

The Greek Ambassador was unavailable for comment.

There is not much difference between the Palestinian acceptance of Israel, and that of the International community. At Oslo Arafat signed a statement in the presents of Bill Clinton saying the Palestinian charter would be changed to recognize the existence of the State of Israel. As of today, that charter has not been changed! It reads exactly as it always did ignoring the Jews, and claiming all of the Holy Land for the Palestinians. The maps of the Middle East given to the Palestinian school children does not include the State of Israel. They just ignore reality!

It is not just the Arabs who hate the Jews so much that they can't even put them on the map, but now let it be clear the gentile international community treats the Jews with the same contempt irregardless of what reality says is true. The God of the Bible has brought the Jews back to their Promised Land during this generation. In 1967 the Jews conquered all of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount. The God of the Bible is forcing His will on the whole planet by one lone piece of land.. Reality causes the entire world to acknowledge this most wondrous of miracles, and the world just ignores reality. The world also does its best to ignore the reality of the LORD Jesus Christ. I suppose the thinking is that when judgment day comes they will just claim ignorance, and call God unfair should He hold them responsible for resisting the free salvation He offered to any who would submit and come. It is just not going to work. Hiding from reality, and claiming ignorance when it is so clearly presumptuous can never work with the God who can see the inner man. Such deceitful sin will be judged harshly according to the Bible.

The great sin of this generation is to be willingly ignorant of what God is doing in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. Ignoring Jerusalem at the Athens 2004 Olympics can only bring condemnation from the God of the Bible. Ignoring the salvation offered by the Christ of the Bible brings the same condemnation. There is no such thing as ignorance. There is either hateful resistance to reality bringing condemnation, or willing submission with all the heart, all the soul, and all the might. Hell is for the unredeemed. It matters not the degree of presumption to ignorance. It is all sin of the darkest hue, and God's holiness demands He judge one time for all eternity those He knows are guilty! Break from the crowd going to hell clinging to willing ignorance as their hope. Come to the Christ of the Bible who will lead you to knowledge of purity, righteousness, and holiness. Only this Christ can receive you to glory!

 

Lag ba´Omer Saturday Night
15:23 May 07, '04 / 16 Iyar 5764
 

This Saturday night starts Lag Ba'Omer, the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer.

 

Tradition, tradition, tradition is fine until it comes into conflict with the written Word! It is then that tradition must be abandoned. The Jews have the longest Biblical history of tradition above all other peoples. Those traditions that square with the Bible are good, but many of those traditions square only with pharisaical men who put legalism above the Bible. This is the problem with the Mishna and Talmud. These commentaries on the Bible by various Jewish Pharisaical sages after the fall of the last Jewish Temple gave Judaism the religious traditions of today. They were written for a people without their Promised Land, and without their Holy Temple. The Mishna and Talmud was quickly exhaled over the Bible because without the Land and the Temple, Biblical Judaism could no longer be practiced. Shame was the only message coming from the Bible, and so a pride filled system imbedded within the Mishna and Talmud replaced the shame filled lesson with traditions of dignity.  Today, the Mishna and Talmud no longer are an excuse for Jews not to return to the Bible and Biblical Judaism! The God of the Bible has brought the Jews back in this our generation to the Promised Land. In 1967 after the 7 Day War, all of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount was suddenly back in Jewish hands. 2000 years of tradition just as suddenly became nullified. 37 years have now passed, and yet there is no independent fundamental Jewish call to abandon tradition for the literal Bible. I suspect this call will not occur until after the rapture of the "born again" Christian Church.

The rapture will separate the wheat from the tares. The great Apostate Whore of today's Christianity will be left behind to defy the God of the Bible, and His chosen People. I'm convinced two Jewish men from Jerusalem wearing sackcloth and ashes will be the first of the true Biblical Jews who will lay the foundation for the next dispensation. I would imagine the first Biblical task before them will be to build Ezekiel's Temple on the Temple Mount in preparation for the return of the Messiah! The Bible says 144,000 virgin Jewish men (12,000 living mostly in Yesha on the lands of the 12 tribes) will hearken to the call. This single act on this single few acres of land will turn the entire world against the God of the Bible.

There will be no middle ground. There will be no apathy regarding man's  responsibility to God! The Messiah will force His will on the entire planet by just claiming this one little place as His own. Mankind will invade with hate filled indignation when Biblical Judaism reappears on planet earth! Are you ready? Are you ready to be raptured in shame for what you didn't do to maintain the accuracy and holiness of the Bible? Are your religious traditions too strong for you to admit the shameful state Christianity has deteriorated into during this generation that seeks magic not miracles? Will you remain behind upholding a system thinking it is rich and in need of nothing that has rotted from the inside out? Only the Biblical Christ can save! Only the Biblical Christ can destroy the heart of stone, and replace it with a heart of flesh. Dispensational change means the Christian Church must step aside for the coming Jewish Biblical Kingdom. Do your traditions cause you to cast away the Word of God, and in so doing cast away the need for the Jewish Biblical Law coming for the next dispensation? Beware your not trusting in the many false christs who will continue functioning in the Great Whore that will be left behind! Leave religious tradition, and go to the literal Bible! Only there can you find the Biblical Christ who has the power to save!

 

Palestinians: State possible by '05 if talks with Israel accelerated

By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Saturday said there was still plenty of time to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.

Qureia was reacting to a statement by U.S. President George Bush according to which the 2005 target date for a Palestinian state may be unrealistic,

"I hope that this is not final," Qureia said, adding that the remarks were "a contradiction to what President Bush declared."

"I think that we have plenty of time from this moment until the end of 2005...to seriously negotiate...to work towards a comprehensive and permanent agreement," he told reporters in his office in Abu Dis.

"If we are delayed, that means that we are giving in to the desire of the Israeli government to stretch out the negotiations and drag them out, for another 10 or 15 years as I have heard many times in the Israeli press. By then, no one will have the ability to take control of the situation," Qureia said.

Bush in an interview published Friday night backed off of the road map peace plan, saying that keeping the promise of a Palestinian state by 2005 "may be hard."

"Nevertheless, I do think we ought to push hard as fast as possible to get a state in place," Bush said.

Having proposed 2005 as the date two years ago, Bush told the Egyptian editors of the newspaper Al-Ahram: "I readily concede the date has slipped some."

He cited violence as a reason, saying "we hit a bump in the road."

"I think the timetable of 2005 isn't as realistic as it was two years ago," Bush said, according to a White House transcript of the interview.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat responded Saturday by saying that the 2005 timetable was "realistic and more."

Speaking to reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Arafat said: "according to the signed agreements...our state should have been declared by 1998 or 1999."

Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat in response to the U.S. president's remarks, blamed Bush on Saturday for undermining the road map.

Erekat said Bush's remarks make the road map peace plan irrelevant by casting doubt on the timetable for its implementation.

Bush acknowledged that "times are tough for the United States and the Middle East," and also apologized for the conduct of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, saying the word "sorry" six times.

David Satterfield, a senior State Department official said on Friday that a renewed American effort to establish ties with the Palestinian leadership would not include any communication channels with Arafat, Israel Radio reported early Saturday.

Satterfield was speaking at a conference at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a private research group.

Satterfield raised the possibility on Friday that Rice would try to induce the prime minister to devise "a Palestinian plan parallel to what the Israelis are going to do."

"You have an opportunity here to say how you are going to impose law and order," Satterfield added.

Earlier on Friday, a White House official confirmed that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice would meet with Qureia in Germany on May 17. Rice will be the highest ranking U.S. official to hold a meeting with the Palestinian prime minister.
 

 

The gentile road map is in serious trouble because it is a plan that goes contrary to the Bible. The great Christian nation of the United States with a President who claims he is "born again" are all defying what the Bible says God is doing in the Holy Land. I can't imagine a greater road block to God's plan then to place a heathen, Islamic, Arab, Palestinian State forever in the Promised Land of the Jews. It is either blatant ignorance, or a phony Christianity that  produces such blindness? The US should be cleaning out the terrorist regime of Syria rather then treading into God's affairs with His chosen people. Lebanon is where the Christian soldiers should be fighting on God's side as they are presently fighting in Iraq. Instead of helping God, the Christians are proposing plans that would prevent the return of the LORD Jesus Christ, and His coming Kingdom to the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount! It is a plan doomed to failure that will ultimately lead only to Armageddon!

The God of the Bible made promises to the Jews about the Holy Land. He made no such promises to Ishmael. He made no such promises anywhere in the Bible to the Christians. It is only the Jews who have a Biblical connection to the Land! The promises to the Jews are all connected to the Land, and there are no promises that can be applied to the Jews without the Land!

The centerpiece to the Land was always the Temple! Jerusalem has always been the most important city in the Bible because it was the only authorized site for the Temple. This was the only place where man could meet with the God of all creation. It was the only place where worship of the God of the Bible was accepted. It is this system that God is bringing back to planet earth. It is the fulfilling of the promise made to the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! This time the Messiah/King will rule with a rod of iron. This time the Kingdom will be victorious over all opposition. No Yasser Arafat, no Palestinian State, not even the mighty US can stop God from fulfilling the promise He made in the Bible to the Jews about the Land!

Are you part of that promise? Do you trust in the Biblical Messiah/King?  Are your sins washed away by the promise of the Biblical Christ? Has His blood been applied to the inner man of your heart? Can you say without hesitation that you love this Jewish Savior with all your heart, all your soul, and all your might? You can go to the Biblical Christ right now! Won't you go to Him?

 

Sharon to submit replacement plan

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to submit an alternative to his plan of unilateral disengagement from Palestinian areas within three weeks.

Mr Sharon made the announcement at a cabinet meeting following his Likud party's rejection of the plan to pull out of Gaza and parts of the West Bank.

He has cancelled a planned visit to the US to start consultations on the plan.

Meanwhile, Arab League chief Amr Moussa has said that the postponed Arab summit will be held in Tunis on 22-23 May.

 

The annual summit - where Mr Sharon's pullout plan and also Iraq are set to be the key issues - was postponed due to differences between some Arab nations over political reforms.

On Sunday, violence continued in the Gaza Strip, where at least one Palestinian was killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers.

The gunfight near the Kissufim crossing began after Israeli settlers - attending a memorial ceremony for a pregnant mother and her four daughters killed last week - suddenly where shot at by Palestinian gunmen. ...

Roadmap push

The Palestinian leadership has renewed its calls for a return to the international peace plan known as the roadmap.

Palestinians reject Mr Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, saying it is being imposed on them.

Later this month Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is expected to meet US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice - his highest-level meeting with US officials since taking office late last year.

Mr Qurei is likely to insist Washington helps to kick-start the roadmap, which envisages a Palestinian state being set up by the end of next year.

Mr Bush told an Egyptian newspaper is would now be "hard" to achieve a Palestinian state by 2005, as the roadmap proposed when it was first unveiled.

 

The heart hardens as God forces His will upon the Pharaohs of this generation. Ariel Sharon will not take NO from the God of the Bible. He continues to stay the course with a rejected vision that continues to cause worse and worse plagues on the people. The red flags should go up on any plan the heathen, Islamic, Arab, Palestinians would suddenly approve. These hate filled Arabs opposed Sharon's plan until the tide changed in Israel. Always standing against anything Jewish these interlopers have suddenly changed their spots on the issue of unilateral withdrawal of the Gaza by the Jews. First they opposed it because Sharon did not negotiate with them before hand. Now, they oppose it because the conservative Jewish people revealed they were not on board with Sharon when it comes to giving away God's inheritance! Only the Palestinians could get away with such a 180 silent reaction by the gentile press.

Hardened hearts are the only sure result of God's plan for the future of the Holy Land. The secular Israelis, the Palestinians, the entire gentile world can be expected to resist the God of the Bible. The ultimate goal of God is to bring Biblical righteousness back to planet earth through the coming Kingdom He is establishing in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and from the Temple Mount. The gentile road map has as an ultimate goal to place a heathen State in the middle of the Holy Land so God's Kingdom can never be planted. I doubt the gentiles would give God the moon as an alternative plan were such a change possible. It will be the Holy Land, and no other place. Mankind must submit, or hearts will harden! The end is clear in the Bible. The times of the gentiles will end! Armageddon will have to be the precursor to the establishment of the coming Kingdom!

Hearts do not harden quicker then when pressed with the truth about the LORD Jesus Christ. Whenever the individual is forced into confrontation with what the Bible says about the sinner's responsibility to the blood sacrifice at Calvary, - hate, anger, and hardness of heart sets in. All who will be destroyed at Armageddon will be those who will refuse in mass the salvation offered by Christ. It will be because Biblical righteousness is not an option when coming to the Biblical Christ. Mankind is predicted to die for the right to sin rather then submit to a puritanical Kingdom that will come to the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and from the Temple Mount!

Where are you? Do you resist the Biblical Christ? There is only one Bible. There is only one Biblical Christ. There will be only one government that will dictate only one religion when the Kingdom comes. It will not be a gentile government, but a reign by the perfect Jewish King who is coming again!

 

Funeral Held for Slain Chechen President

Bomb Explodes at Ceremony in Chechen Capital, Killing Region's Leader and As Many As 23 Others

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia May 10, 2004 — Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was buried Monday in his home village, a day after the Moscow-backed leader was killed by a bomb blast that cast Russia's efforts to stabilize and control the war-ravaged region into chaos.

Thousands of people came to Tsentoroi, the settlement in southeastern Chechnya that is home to Kadyrov's clan, Russian media reported. Mourning ceremonies were to go on for three days.

The blast ripped through a stadium grandstand in the Chechen capital Grozny Sunday during a Victory Day parade celebrating the anniversary of the Nazi defeat in World War II.

The Grozny emergency medical center said 24 people in all were killed and 46 wounded. But Chechnya's Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations, Akhmed Dzheirkhanov, said Sunday that the death toll was six and that 57 people were wounded. Dzheirkhanov said rescuers from the center had counted some of the wounded as dead. He did not confirm Russian media reports of a seventh death overnight.

Among the dead were Khusein Isayev, the head of Chechnya's State Council, and Reuters photographer Adlan Khasanov. The wounded included the top Russian military commander in Chechnya, Col.-Gen. Valery Baranov, who officials said was in critical condition and had a leg amputated.

The bombing which thwarted the heavy security in place for official ceremonies nationwide on an important holiday harshly underlined the difficulties Russia faces in controlling the violence in Chechnya despite a massive troop presence. It was expected to set off a new round of killing between Kadyrov's camp and his enemies, who had long pledged to eliminate him.

The top prosecutor in southern Russia, Sergei Fridinsky, suggested whoever was to blame had help from someone with access to the stadium, saying in televised comments that the level of security meant "an outsider could not have come and set off an explosive device." He said investigators would question people involved in security for the event. ...

 

Chechnya is important to the prophecy found in Ezekiel 38 & 39. The events of today tied to Islamic terrorism should cause Bible students to take note. Ezekiel clearly identifies the Gog, or more specifically the "chief prince" of the Gog, as leading the three pronged Islamic invasion of Israel in the latter years. Chechnya is the jump off place for this great invasion. The western prong of this invasion is totally Islamic, and is identified as Old Persia which is none other then Iran. The southern prong is also totally Islamic as the world is oriented presently. It is North Africa with Libya identified specifically as one of the leaders. The "chief prince" of the North remains unidentified, and only speculation can be applied to who these invaders will be?

Geography plays a large roll in understanding Ezekiel 38 & 39. The invaders from the North are all identified with names that only occur in the Bible related to the journeys of the grandsons, and great grandsons of Noah who went North. It is no small thing to notice Mount Ararat sits right in the middle of the Caucasus Mountains that separate the northern invaders from Turkey (another all Moslem country). It is no small thing that Noah's ark keeps reappearing in today's news reports. The scenario from the Bible is the northern invaders are funneled by the Black and Caspian Seas into crossing over the Caucasus in route to Israel. The Moslems of Turkey join the invaders as well as many of the Moslems living around the Black Sea (Gomer). This mighty army meets up with the western and southern prongs on the mountains of Israel. The Jews are left with their backs to the Mediterranean Sea. The extermination of the Jews of Israel becomes a forgone conclusion until God steps in. Apparently a phony gentile peace plan causes the Jews to be resting in supposed safety, and no defense is mustered.

Who is the "chief prince" of the Gog that leads the Islamic world into this latter year invasion?  The word "chief" is transliterated "rosh," and is the word for Russia in modern Hebrew. This prince of the rosh must be a powerful arm of the Russian nation which almost all commentators identify as the Gog (a grandson of Noah). The "chief prince" is more clearly identified as the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Again, most commentators identify these grandsons of Noah with the twin capital cities of Russia (Moscow the greater, and Tubalsk the lesser). It is like identifying the USA by using New York, and Los Angeles as the key cities that represent the entire nation.

I speculate this "chief prince" will be the Islamic arm of the old USSR. I suspect the Chechen, Islamic, terrorists will come to some agreement with the Russian government. An Islamic sneak attack invasion of Israel will be condoned, and supported by the nation identified in the Bible as the Gog!

The invaders die on the mountains and in the fields of Israel. Israel and the heathen of these latter years will all know it was the God of the Bible who made this great sacrificial meal for the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field. There will be no opposition to a Jewish Temple being built on the Temple Mount once Islamic influence is wiped from the Holy Land forever. I suspect all this will happen in conjunction with the rapture of the Christian Church. The gentile dominated Church dispensation ends, and the Jewish Kingdom age begins. The 7 years of tribulation secures the coming Kingdom that ends with Armageddon, and finishes the times of the gentiles.

Are you trusting in the Jewish Christ of the Bible, or some phony gentile religious christ that will be left behind unscathed after the rapture? Examine yourself my friend. The time is short! The "chief prince" is in the news more frequently these days. The invasion route going right past Mount Ararat is being stirred with anticipation by the God of the Bible.

 

Six Soldiers Dead in Gaza Battle
13:31 May 11, '04 / 20 Iyar 5764
 

Six Israeli soldiers are dead after their armed personnel carrier drove over a 100-kilogram explosive planted under the road in Gaza. Hamas terrorists gleefully displayed and played with the body parts in front of cameras.

The Israeli forces remained in the area for longer than planned in a tireless effort to rescue the bodies. The destroyed vehicle, which had a capacity of 12 soldiers but was carrying only six, was carrying large amounts of explosives.

The families of the six have been notified, though their names have not yet been released for publication. The identification process took a long while, as the bodies were in very bad condition, and not all the body parts were found.

Questions have already been raised, such as whether the IDF should continue such ground-forces operations or should rather replace them with air operations that could endanger the civilian Arab population on the ground.

Similar operations to find and destroy weapons-producing factories have proved very successful. This is not the first time, however, that heavy explosives have hit IDF vehicles, causing heavy casualties. Similar attacks claimed three soldiers in Feb. 2002, three more the next month, one in September of that year, and four tank crew members were felled in February 2003.

The attack occurred towards the conclusion of a heavy battle waged in spurts this morning in the Zaitun neighborhood of Gaza City. IDF forces entered the city on a mission to locate and blow up explosives labs, and in fact destroyed at least two of them; several others of the 20 suspected labs have also been located. The forces include combat helicopters, jeeps, bulldozers, and tanks, and additional forces have been brought him.

Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack. IDF soldiers encircled the homes of terrorists during today's battle, and killed at least three - two from Hamas, and a Fatah leader.

 

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Killers: Beheading Avenges Prison Abuse

May 11, 6:32 PM (ET)

By ROBERT H. REID

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A video posted Tuesday on an al-Qaida-linked Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq and said the execution was carried out to avenge abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

In a grisly gesture, the executioners held up the man's head for the camera.

The American identified himself on the video as Nick Berg, a 26-year-old Philadelphia native. His body was found near a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday, the same day he was beheaded, a U.S. official said.

The video bore the title "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi shown slaughtering an American." It was unclear whether al-Zarqawi - an associate of Osama bin Laden believed behind the wave of suicide bombings in Iraq - was shown in the video or simply ordered the execution. Al-Zarqawi also is sought in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan in 2002.

The Bush administration said those who beheaded Berg would be hunted down and brought to justice.

 

 

 

Know for certain that when the God of the Bible judges Islam it will be for their wickedness! Islam takes great satisfaction in the animals they have released on the world. They are a generation taught nothing but hate. Their consciences were seared from babyhood to accept the most vicious behavior normally attributed only to the wild beasts of the fields. Islam has encouraged this generation to become animals for Allah.

A terrible example for the whole gentile world is coming to Islam. The world will turn in horror as the wrath of God is manifested on these heathens. They will become fodder for the beasts they emulate. The symbolism dictated by the God of the Bible will be unmistakable.

Ezekiel 39 will be God's answer to this generation of Islam. God calls it "My sacrifice" made for the fowls of the mountains and the wild beasts of the fields. It all takes place on the mountains and in the fields of Israel. Islam comes for a spoil and a prey. They come to do to the Jewish population what their animals have done these past days to  Nick Berg, and the murdered Israeli soldiers. It will be a righteous act fit for the wickedness of this generation of Islam.

My friend, if you are rejecting the free salvation being offered by the Biblical Christ, and thinking it a little thing? Wake up! The wrath of the God of the Bible is awesome. What He is about to do to Islam is a little thing when compared to what He is going to do for all eternity to those who have rejected His Son! The one time  sacrifice for sin at Calvary is the biggest thing that ever happened on planet earth. The resurrected Christ is coming again. The news from Israel says it is soon. He is coming to the Holy Land, at Jerusalem, and on the Temple Mount. It is submission, or face the wrath of God. It is accept Christ as your personal savior, or abide forever under the wrath of the God of the Bible. What do you chose this day?

 

P.A. Praises Terrorist Murderers
17:31 May 11, '04 / 20 Iyar 5764

The ZOA is urging Condoleeza Rice not to meet with the head of the Palestinian Authority until he publicly refutes praise for a terrorist murderer. Journalist David Bedein says that the American media do not report on PA praise of terrorism.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice to suspend her planned meeting with the head of the Palestinian Authority until he publicly refutes an article in the official PA newspaper praising a terrorist who murdered an Israel father and his two young daughters.

"Those who incite murder by praising murderers do not deserve the honor of meeting with senior U.S. government officials," said ZOA National President Morton A. Klein. "At this crucial moment in the international war against terrorism, the Bush administration must have a policy of zero tolerance for those who incite terrorism and praise terrorists."

As reported by Palestinian Media Watch, a May 6th article in the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida heaped praise on Samir Kuntar, who is serving multiple sentences of life imprisonment in Israel for murdering an Israeli father, Danny Haran, and his two young daughters in Nahariya in 1979. The PA newspaper praised Kuntar as "a name of pride in the history of the prisoners of the national movement" and "a beacon of light for us and for the generations to come and an authentic role model. Every day that passes Samir's pride grows, and our pride in him grows greater and greater."

In this connection, journalist David Bedein ("www.israelbehindthenews.com") reports that official PA radio, known as Voice of Palestine, regularly praises Arab terror attacks. Calling the station the "most influential media tool in the hands of the Palestinian government," Bedein writes tha