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The Palestinian Authority has warned Palestinians that they will face a death penalty for selling land to Jews
Jun 16th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

The Palestinian Authority has issued a warning to Palestinians against selling their homes or their properties to Jewish people saying that those who violate the order would be accused of high treason, a charge that carries the death penalty. The chief Islamic judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheik Rajab Tamimi, said that the existing fatwa, a religious decree, bans Muslims from selling property to Jews which according to Islamic teaching is a grave sin and, if ignored, the death penalty would be applied. The sheik said that the ban was necessary to counter the Jewish efforts to change the Arab and Islamic culture of Jerusalem to make it a Jewish city instead of a religious, political, and spiritual capital of the Palestinian people.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

Even though the Palestinian Authority gives the death penalty to a Palestinian who sells land to Jews, the fulfillment of end time Bible prophecy will not be stopped.

The Palestinian Authority has, for years, implemented the death penalty on Palestinians that have sold land or even been involved in an arrangement to sell land to the Jewish people. One of the Muslim judges involved with the Palestinian Authority has issued another warning and a reminder to the Palestinian people that Islamic law forbids the sale of property to Jews by Muslim people.

This report brings to mind several issues that have a connection to end time Bible prophecy. The Palestinian Authority, the governing body of the Palestinian people, has no authority to issue a death penalty but past experience show they can back up their warning and a number of Palestinians have been executed for selling property to Jews - evidence that the Palestinians, Edomites of history, all descendents of Esau, hate Jews (Genesis 27:40-41).

As it relates to the land that might be bought or sold - the land is God's land (Leviticus 25:23) and He has promised it to the Jewish people and those promises are contained within the Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 15:18), the Land Covenant (Deuteronomy 30:1-9), and the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:17).

In the future, land owned by the Palestinians will not be sold to the Jews but instead given to them by God. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Russia, China seek greater international clout
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily NewsAP
Categories: Today's Headlines;World Government;Warning

Russia pushes for new reserve currencies at international summits, China offers loans

YEKATERINBURG, Russia -- China and Russia sought greater international clout at a summit Tuesday, with China promising $10 billion in loans to Central Asian countries and Russia challenging the U.S. dollar's dominance as a global reserve currency.

Chinese leader Hu Jintao said China will offer the loans to several countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to help them through the global financial crisis.

The move, announced at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, adds muscle to China's role in the group, which Russia and China use to counter Western influence in resource-rich, strategically placed Central Asia.

The leaders of Afghanistan, Iran, India and Pakistan were also at the table, underscoring Russia and China's reach for broader global influence. The Shanghai group members released a summit declaration saying that global "multi-polarity is irreversible," a reference to their opposition to perceived U.S. domination in international affairs.

Russia gave a prominent platform to newly re-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a show of support for a leader facing major protests at home and questions from the West about the legitimacy of the vote count.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sought to further raise his country's leverage in geopolitical issues by separately meeting with Afghan and Pakistani leaders late Monday to discuss the stabilization of Afghanistan.

Medvedev said Russia offered help in carrying out joint transport, energy and other economic projects in the region to help eradicate poverty and remove feeding grounds for terrorism.

Russia signaled its intention to offer stronger assistance to the U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan. Russia will continue to cooperate with the U.S.-led coalition there and provide transit corridors for supplies, but no new initiatives were announced.

At the same time, Medvedev pushed against U.S. domination of financial markets by calling for new global reserve currencies to complement the dollar.

"No currency system can be successful if we have financial instruments denominated in just one currency," Medvedev said. "We must strengthen the international financial system not only by making the dollar strong, but also by creating other reserve currencies."

Obama dismisses Arab criticism of Netanyahu speech
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

US President Barack Obama on Monday brushed aside harsh Arab criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s peace policy speech as “predicable.”

“I think it's important not to immediately assess the situation based on commentary the day after a speech,” Obama told reporters less than two weeks after his aides enthusiastically distributed Arab responses to his own policy speech in Cairo.

Obama claimed that similar negative knee-jerk responses are heard out of Israel every time an Arab leader makes a policy speech that mentions the Jewish state. Of course, the policy speeches that come out of Arab capitals are usually openly hostile toward Israel, whereas Netanyahu was extending a hand of peace, albeit cautiously.

The president went on to say that he sees Netanyahu’s speech as a chance to start serious final status peace talks, and expects the Arabs to join in.

Following Netanyahu’s speech, Obama praised the Israeli leader’s belated acceptance of a Palestinian state, revealing that he had only heard those parts of the address he had wanted to hear.

Israelis very happy with Netanyahu’s speech
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Polls conducted in Israel the day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s peace policy speech revealed that he hit a home-run as far as the home crowd was concerned.

Netanyahu’s approval rating stood at a dismal 28 percent a month ago following controversial budget debates in the cabinet. But Sunday’s speech boosted him to a comfortable (by Israeli standards) 44 percent approval rating.

Israelis from across the political spectrum who took part in a survey commissioned by Ha’aretz said they were happy with Netanyahu’s refusal to divide Jerusalem and to allow the Palestinians to flood the Jewish state with millions of so-called Arab “refugees.”

But what they were most pleased with was Netanyahu’s firm demand that a future Palestinian state be demilitarized, and that America seek a solution to the conflict based on that premise.

Those are the same parts of the speech that elicited the most outrage from the Palestinians and prompted them to declare that Netanyahu had effectively killed the peace process.

Is Archaeopteryx a Valid Transitional Fossil?
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily Newswww.clarifyingchristianity.com
Categories: Commentary;Creation - Evolution

Archaeopteryx is the name given to an animal about the size of a crow. It is represented by fossil remains that display teeth, three claws on each wing, a flat sternum (breastbone), belly ribs (gastralia), and a long, bony tail. In other words, it had characteristics like those of many small dinosaurs. What made Archaeopteryx an exciting find was the fact that the fossil also exhibited feathers, a lightly-built body with hollow bones, and a wishbone (furcula "Archaeopteryx" in Dinosaur and Paleontology Dictionary] AsIs Archaeopteryx a Valid Transitional Fossil? a result, many people who believe in evolution presume this fossil represents a transitional species between reptiles and birds. Along with other evidence (which we will examine later) it led to the theory that the dinosaurs did not become extinct, but rather all turned into birds. The purpose of this page is to clarify the facts about Archaeopteryx and other similar transitional fossil species.

One article [Tim Beardsley, "Fossil Bird Shakes Evolutionary Hypotheses," Nature, Vol. 322, 21 August 1986, p. 677] reveals that the fossils of normal birds have been found in older rock strata than Archaeopteryx. Therefore, either Archaeopteryx is not a transitional fossil (since birds already existed at the same time and there was nothing to "transition" into) or rock strata can not be accurately dated. If either of these is correct (and one must be) Archaeopteryx loses its value as a transitional species.

Global warming? Temps on an 8-year decline
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily NewsOneNewsNow - Pete Chagnon
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

The Science & Public Policy Institute has released their monthly CO2 report for the month of May.

The monthly CO2 report is edited by Lord Christopher Monckton, who says the organization takes satellite and scientific data and presents them to the public without any alteration. He says the data collected shows a surprising trend.
 
"Temperatures have now been declining quite rapidly for nearly eight years," he notes. "And none of the U.N.'s models predicted that."
 
The report also shows that despite a decline in the average global temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continue to climb, but not as fast as the U.N. predicted.
 
"And it's certainly only rising at about half of what the U.N. had predicted," Monckton adds. "That alone requires us to divide all of the U.N.'s forecasts for temperature change between now and the year 2100 by two -- you have to halve them."
 
According to Monckton, any warming gained by higher CO2 levels will be drowned out by natural climate variation. He also notes that the sun, which has a great effect on the weather, has entered an 11-year solar minimum, which is causing a cooling effect on the planet.

Carter gets weepy in Gaza, blasts Netanyahu’s speech
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Anti-Israel

Former US President Jimmy Carter continued his tour of the region on Tuesday with a stop in the Gaza Strip, where he said he was forced to “hold back tears” at the sight of the living conditions there.

Naturally, Carter blamed those living conditions almost wholly on Israel, much to the satisfaction of the Palestinians who came out to hear him.

Carter called for an end to the violence in the area, but sought to draw moral equivalency between Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and Israel’s military responses by claiming that a bombed out American-funded school he toured had been deliberately and without reason destroyed by Israeli bombers during the Gaza war in January.

A day earlier, Carter visited the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Israeli Knesset, where he leveled harsh criticism at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the peace policies he laid out a day earlier.

“In my opinion, Netanyahu brought up several obstacles to peace in his speech that others before him have not placed,” said Carter.

In particular, the former peanut farmer was unhappy about Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as “a Jewish state, even though 20 percent of Israel’s citizens are not Jewish.”

He also took issue with Netanyahu’s refusal to halt the natural growth of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Oddly enough, on Sunday Carter visited a major Jewish settlement bloc south of Bethlehem and said he had never imagined it would need to be uprooted to make room for a Palestinian state.

'U.S. told us don't take Netanyahu seriously'
Jun 16th, 2009
Daily NewsWND - Aaron Klein
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has received signs from the U.S. that it should not take seriously Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent major address, according to a top PA official speaking to WND.

Nimer Hamad, senior political adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, also said the PA is not concerned about Netanyahu's policies since Abbas relies on American support for key Palestinian demands.

During Netanyahu's speech Sunday, the Israeli leader called for a demilitarized Palestinian state and said Jerusalem would always be united under Jewish sovereignty.

Hamad countered: "No matter what is the position of the Israeli government and no matter what are the statements of Netanyahu, what counts is what was promised to us by Obama, which is totally the opposite [of Netanyahu's positions]."

"We received encouraging signs from the Americans that we should not take seriously into consideration Netanyahu's speech," Hamad said.

Hamad said the Obama administration holds views that strongly differ from Netanyahu's.

"The U.S. is committed to the evacuation of settlements (in the West Bank)," he said. "We know from what we understand that also Jerusalem will be determined in the final negotiations that will take place on the basis of an international community that doesn't recognize eastern Jerusalem as part of the state of Israel."

The Abbas adviser claimed the Obama administration "understands that the Israeli policy is dangerous not only for the region but also for the U.S."

Hamad said Netanyahu's speech was "destructive for the peace process."

He surmised the Israeli leader's statements were "in the first level directed to his partners in the government and the radicals in Israel."

Separately, a top PA official, speaking to WND from Ramallah on condition his name be withheld, said the Palestinians "never felt strong like we are feeling now."

That PA official claimed the Palestinians "never felt like we had a sympathetic administration like there is now in Washington"

"We know also that Netanyahu will be obliged to carry out the vision of the U.S., which is right now closer to ours than to Israel," he said.

In a speech branded as a response to Obama's Mideast policies, Netanyahu on Sunday called for the "immediate" resumption of "peace talks" with the Palestinians. The Israeli leader said he would support a demilitarized Palestinian state if the Palestinians meet certain conditions, such as first combating terror and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.

Netanyahu's remarks were a departure from recent statements in which he refused to tacitly endorse a Palestinian state.

"To achieve peace, courage and honesty are necessary from both sides," Netanyahu said. "The Palestinians must say, 'Enough with this conflict. We recognize Israel's right to exist and want to live by their side."

He continued, "A public Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish nation-state is a prerequisite for regional peace."

"For peace," Netanyahu said, "we must ensure that Palestinians have no weapons and the opportunity to create pacts with hostile forces. We ask that the U.S. commit that in the end-deal the Palestinian territory will be demilitarized. Without that, sooner or later, we will have another 'Hamastan.' And Israel can't agree to that."

Netanyahu continued, "If we receive a commitment to Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish state and a demilitarized Palestinian state, we can reach a final agreement."

Netanyahu said Jerusalem would remain the united capital of Israel – a nonstarter for the Palestinians. He also ruled out the option of granting so-called Palestinian refugees the right to settle within Israeli borders.

In a section of his speech that likely did not sit well with Hamas' Yousef, Netanyahu said that Israel would not negotiate with terrorists who wish to destroy it and said that Palestinians must choose between path of peace and Hamas.

Addressing the issue of Jewish communities in the strategic, biblical West Bank, Netanyahu stated, "In the interim there is no intention to create new settlements or expand existing towns, while not preventing the natural needs of settlers, who are not enemies."

Netanyahu was alluding to continuing "natural growth," or adding housing units to settlements to accommodate for the existing settlement population. He is openly defying the Obama administration's strong call for an end to all settlement activity, including natural growth.

There were several aspects to Netanayhu's speech that were direct responses to Obama's address to the Muslim world in Cairo two weeks ago.

During his address, Obama pointed to Israeli West Bank settlements as specifically undermining "efforts to achieve peace."

Netanyahu today stated, "Let me use the most simple words – the root of the struggle is the refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. The initial Arab refusal was to a Jewish state in any location, before Israeli presence in the West Bank."

"The closer we get to an agreement with the Palestinians, the further it is rejected," Netanyahu continued. "We tried a withdrawal with an agreement, without one, a partial withdraw and we offered a near-complete withdraw. We uprooted Jewish settlers from their homes, and received a barrage of missiles in return."

Also in his address, Obama indicated Israel's creation was a response to "anti-Semitism in Europe, culminat[ing] in an unprecedented Holocaust."

Netanyahu pointed out the Jewish people have been linked to the land of Israel for over 3,000 years.