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The Palestinian Authority wants to give control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the global Islamic community
May 26th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

The Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian Authority(PA) says the PA favors transferring control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the Organization of Islamic Conference made up of the 57 member states of this global Islamic organization.

The PA would accept the management of the Temple Mount by the Saudi based Organization of Islamic Conference whose 57 member states includes Iran and other Islamic members who have called for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth. The Israeli government officially has the sovereign control of the old city of Jerusalem which includes the Temple Mount, but Israel has given custodial responsibilities to the PA of this site, the most sacred site in all of Judaism.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The question of control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem will be the major controversy in the Last Days according to Bible prophecy.

For the PA and the Organization of Islamic Conference to even consider taking control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the al Aqsa Mosque as they refer to this site, is beyond imagination in our world today. The Temple Mount is the most sacred piece of real estate in the world to the Jewish people and for the Global Islamic Community to claim sovereign control of this holy site in the heart of the capital city of Israel is considered by the Jewish state to be outrageous.

The ancient Jewish prophet Zechariah wrote 2,500 years ago that what we see happening today would be the case when Jesus Christ returns to the earth to build His Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:2 says that Jerusalem will be the center of controversy at this time. Zechariah 1:14-16 reveals that the Messiah, Jesus Christ, will be agressively possessive of Jerusalem, He will be angered by the arrogant security of those who think they control the Temple Mount and Jesus will come and build His Temple on this holy site and rule and reign from that Temple forever.

Any claim by the global Islamic community will be set aside. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Plot Renews Fears of Radical Islam in U.S. Prison
May 26th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

The arrest of four Muslim ex-convicts in an alleged homegrown terror plot in the Bronx is renewing fears about the spread of Islamic extremism in the nation's prisons.

At least two of the four men suspected of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military airplanes converted to Islam behind bars. The alleged mastermind is also a convert, and the fourth man identified himself as a Muslim when he entered prison.

Islam has had a strong presence in US prisons for decades, and many chaplains and corrections officials credit the faith, when taught properly, with being a stabilizing force that can help inmates turn their lives around.

But this week's foiled plot is not the first terror scheme implicating Muslim convicts, and it comes despite reports of progress in screening chaplains and materials on Islam in the prison system.

"Basically, the threat is real," said Paul Rogers, past president of the American Correctional Chaplains Association. "Prisons have unstable people and people who are on the edge of a lot of different things. The radical elements of any religion can be emphasized."

Those fears were heightened this week as lawmakers debated the fate of detainees if President Barack Obama shutters the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said terror suspects brought to the US could end up "radicalizing others" or plan attacks on the country. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Obama would do nothing to endanger the public and decried "fear-mongering about this."

The four defendants in the New York terror case had been in and out of prison.

Laguerre Payen said he converted to Islam in prison, but a Muslim prayer leader who counseled him when he got out said he had a poor understanding of the faith. Onta Williams had registered as a Baptist in prison, but his uncle said he converted to Islam inside. David Williams and James Cromitie had registered as Muslim in prison, according to correction officials.

Payen appears to be a Haitian citizen, while the three others are Americans. The Williamses are not related.

Mitch Silber, a top New York Police Department intelligence analyst, said inmates converting to Islam are so common that he and his colleagues call it "Prislam." Though many drop the faith once they are out, for some "the conversion sticks" and can fuel anger toward the United States, said Silber, co-author of the 2007 NYPD report "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat."

Just as young people can be radicalized by "cut-and-paste" readings of the Quran on the Internet, new inmates may get a distorted view of Islam from gang leaders or other influential inmates, according to "Out of the Shadows: Getting Ahead of Prison Radicalization," a 2006 report by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute and the University of Virginia Critical Incident Analysis Group.

Several imams used the term "Jailhouse Islam" to describe a form of Islam in prison that incorporates gang loyalty and violence, the report said.

Many states are doing a better job of screening the reading material that comes into prisons, Rogers said. But other problems arise when there are no qualified chaplains or volunteers.

"Sometimes inmates rely on other inmates, and it's sort of the prison way," Rogers said. "They turn to someone they trust, their 'celly' or someone in their cellblock, and put them on a pedestal as someone who has more knowledge about the religion. He could be spreading knowledge, or could be spreading ignorance."

Israel to Have Largest Ever Defense Drill
May 26th, 2009
Daily NewsAP - STEVE WEIZMAN
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Warning

Israel is planning its biggest ever civil defense drill next week that will include five days of simulated enemy rocket attacks, Israeli officials said Monday.

Government officials said the exercise, which kicks off May 31 under the name Turning Point III, is not meant to threaten Israel's neighbors.

Israel has mainly focused on Iran when it comes to the issue of possible rocket attacks, and has been gravely concerned over the Persian nation's nuclear program, its development of long-range missiles and repeated statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel's destruction.

Israel maintains Iran is building nuclear weapons and rejects Iran's insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful.

Defense officials, meanwhile, said the Turning Point series of exercises was designed to implement lessons learned from Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah, when the Lebanese militia fired nearly 4,000 Katyusha rockets across the border at Israel.

Similar drills were held in 2007 and 2008, but a military statement said the 2009 exercise would be "the largest and most comprehensive yet."

The statement did not give details, but public service announcements broadcast on local TV and radio said air raid sirens will sound across the country, and all Israelis will be told to seek cover in air raid shelters or bombproof rooms in their homes, schools and workplaces.

In last year's drill, the sirens failed to sound in some places, including parts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Israeli officials also sought to allay fears among Arab neighbors, such as Lebanon and Syria, that the exercise could be a cover for a military strike.

Iran Watching U.S. Reaction to N. Koreairan Watching U.S. Reaction to N. Korea
May 26th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent Monday engaged in "intensive diplomacy" concerning North Korea's reported nuclear test, according to the State Department.

She had spoken by phone to her Japanese and South Korean counterparts by press time and was due to consult with Chinese and Russian leaders later in the day.

While it wasn't immediately clear what steps the US would be taking in response to the test, US President Barack Obama paused before his Memorial Day visit to Arlington Cemetery Monday morning to denounce the "blatant violation of international law."

He called the test a threat to the populations in the region and a violation of North Korea's own commitments made under multilateral negotiations - known as the six-party talks - over ending its nuclear program.

"The United States and the international community must take action in response," he declared. "North Korea will not find security and respect through threats and illegal weapons."

Obama added, "We will work with our friends and our allies to stand up to this behavior and we will redouble our efforts toward a more robust international nonproliferation regime that all countries have responsibilities to meet."

While the US was calling for international cooperation, analysts in Washington said that the nuclear test - and the American response to it - had global implications.

"Given the cooperation between North Korea and Iran, there is reason to fear that North Korea and Iran may be sharing data on nuclear matters, as they do on ballistic missiles," John Bolton, the former undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, said on Fox News Monday. "This is a threat not just in northeast Asia, but potentially in the Middle East as well."

And Ilan Berman, vice president for policy of the American Foreign Policy Council, said that Teheran will be watching the American response closely, to apply it to its own circumstances.

"Everyone's taking their cues from this," he said. "The Iranians, based on how America responds or doesn't respond, are going to make assumptions about how far they can go in their nuclear program, how far they can go in their missile program without eliciting a serious response from America."

He pointed to a missile test that North Korea held earlier this spring despite opposition from the White House as paving the way for this week's nuclear test announcement.

Despite America's verbal condemnation ahead of the missile test, Berman said, "the response was pretty dramatic in its nonexistence; it was a pretty telling moment."

"The expectation is that the Obama administration's not going to have a very steely approach to this," he added.

If that turns out to be the case, he said, "The Iranians could be justified in concluding that Washington is going to respond the same way to them."

Bolton described the test as "a real moment of truth for the Obama administration."

The US ambassador to the UN under former president George W. Bush recommended that the US add North Korea back to its state-sponsors of terrorism list, as well as impose tough UN sanctions.

Berman suggested that tying up its financial transactions - an effective strategy the Bush administration used before relaxing its approach to North Korea - as well as sanctions could be employed.

"If you choose to do nothing, you still have made a choice, and everyone understands that you have made a choice," Berman said.

Good Mortgages Now Growing Foreclosure Risk
May 26th, 2009
Daily NewsThe New York Times - Peter S. Goodman and Jack Healy
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Homeowners with good credit, standard loans, hurt by job losses

As job losses rise, growing numbers of American homeowners with once solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclosures.

In the latest phase of the nation’s real estate disaster, the locus of trouble has shifted from subprime loans — those extended to home buyers with troubled credit — to the far more numerous prime loans issued to those with decent financial histories.

With many economists anticipating that the unemployment rate will rise into the double digits from its current 8.9 percent, foreclosures are expected to accelerate. That could exacerbate bank losses, adding pressure to the financial system and the broader economy.

Arab League Chief: No Israel Recognition
May 26th, 2009
Daily NewsUPI.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 24  -- Islamic countries should make clear there will be no normalized relations with Israel until it stops breaking international law

, an Arab League official says.

Speaking Sunday in Damascus, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told reporters ahead of a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that Israeli "atrocities" against Palestinians in the occupied territories should be addressed before OIC countries consider normalized relations with it, KUNA, the Kuwait news agency reported.

"Response to Israeli practices should be made by announcing that there could not be processes of normalization as long as such measures continue in breach of international law," Moussa said.

Foreign ministers from the 56-member OIC were expected to call for establishing a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and to seek an Israeli pullout of all Arab occupied territories in Palestine

, Syria's Golan Heights and South Lebanon, KUNA reported.

'1 in 4 Israelis Would Consider Leaving Country If Iran Gets Nukes'
May 26th, 2009
Daily Newshaaretz.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Warning

Some 23 percent of Israelis would consider leaving the country if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. 

Some 85 percent of respondents said they feared the Islamic Republic would obtain an atomic bomb, 57 percent believed the new U.S. initiative to engage in dialogue with Tehran would fail and 41 percent believed Israel should strike Iran's nuclear installations without waiting to see whether or how the talks develop. 

"The findings are worrying because they reflect an exaggerated and unnecessary fear," Prof. David Menashri, the head of the Center, said. "Iran's leadership is religiously extremist but calculated and it understands an unconventional attack on Israel is an act of madness that will destroy Iran. Sadly, the survey shows the Iranian threat works well even without a bomb and thousands of Israelis [already] live in fear and contemplate leaving the country." 

Women are more fearful than men that Iran will obtain nuclear weapons: 83 percent of female respondents said they fear such a scenario in contrast to 78 percent of men; 39 percent of women said they would consider leaving the country in such an event as opposed to 22 percent of men. 

Age was also a factor for respondents: 89 percent of those aged 42 and above said they were fearful of a nuclear Iran, in comparison to 61 percent of those aged 18 to 41. 

Some 80 percent of left-wing voters and 67 percent of right-wing voters expressed deep concern over a nuclear Iran. Respondents describing themselves as centrists were the most fretful, with 88 percent saying they feared Iran would obtain the bomb.