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Watchdog sees huge U.S. bill for banks bailout
Jul 21st, 2009
Daily NewsAP
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Financial bailout's cost to U.S. could total almost $24 trillion

WASHINGTON - The federal government has devoted $4.7 trillion to help the financial sector through its crisis, a watchdog report said Monday.

Under the worst of circumstances, the report said, the government's maximum exposure could total nearly $24 trillion, or $80,000 for every American.

The figures are part of a tough new quarterly report to Congress from special inspector general Neil Barofsky, who accuses the Treasury Department of repeatedly failing to adopt recommendations aimed at making one component of the government financial rescue effort more accountable and transparent.

UN ignoring Hizballah activity in Lebanon
Jul 21st, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Anti-Israel

An Israeli government official told Ha'aretz at the weekend that last Tuesday's accidental explosion at a Hizballah rocket depot in southern Lebanon was not an isolated incident, but that UN forces on the ground there are routinely choosing to ignore Lebanese violations of the resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

The stockpile of Katyusha rockets in the southern Lebanon village of Hirbet Salim only came to public attention when it blew up and killed a handful of Hizballah fighters. But the Israeli source said that UNIFIL, the UN force tasked with preventing another terrorist assault on Israel from Lebanese territory, knew of its location for many months before that.

In fact, UNIFIL knows about a lot of Hizballah locations and activity in southern Lebanon, but is choosing to do nothing about it, in violation of its mandate, the source complained.

In light of the explosion in Hirbet Salim, UNIFIL felt compelled to act in some way, so sent a detachment of soldiers to investigate the area on Saturday. But those soldiers were stopped and violently confronted by local Lebanese who refused to let them look into what Hizballah was doing in their village.

Instead of forcefully fulfilling their mandate, the UN troops retreated.

Israeli officials say it is not uncommon for UNIFIL to abandon monitoring missions when it faces even the most mild resistance. Jerusalem hopes that when UNIFIL's mandate comes up for review in late August, the Security Council will grant it far greater authority to act against those who attempt to hinder its mission.

Meridor: US must honor settlement deal
Jul 21st, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

Intensifying the bitter diplomatic dispute with the Obama administration over the issue of a settlement freeze, Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor (Likud) insisted on Tuesday that Israel and the United States had a clear agreement dating back six years permitting Israel to build within the construction lines of existing settlements.

He said Israel had honored its road map commitment to a settlement freeze within the parameters agreed with the US, and that the Obama administration's refusal to acknowledge and abide by those understandings was deeply problematic.

"It is of great importance to us that what the [previous] US administration agreed to is not overlooked," Meridor said, at a press briefing in Jerusalem organized by The Israel Project organization, adding that the credibility of future agreements and understandings was at stake.

"This is how countries take upon themselves obligations," he said, stressing that what he called the "oral understandings" regarding what construction would and would not be permitted under the terms of the freeze were reached "by America and Israel," and did not lapse because of the change of administration. "The agreement is binding on us and them."

Meridor said Israel was anxious to resume substantive negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and that the status quo was not in Israel's interest. But he said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had yet to take positions that would enable a solution to the Palestinian conflict. He quoted PA negotiator Saeb Erekat, who said recently that the Palestinians had no incentive to compromise, since so long as they remained obdurate Israel offered increasingly generous terms. So long as the Palestinians believed that to be the case, said Meridor, there would unfortunately be no permanent accord.

Noting that former prime minister Olmert had offered exceptionally generous terms to Abbas, and was still rebuffed, he also indicated that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would be less forthcoming. "Does anybody think Netanyahu will give more than Olmert gave? Is that realistic?" Abbas, he said, needed to understand "that there's more that he has to give."

Asked whether he believed this government could reach an accord, and whether it could be done without a Palestinian capital in at least part of east Jerusalem, Meridor said a deal was possible - if the Palestinians accepted the legitimacy of Israel. He said "Jerusalem has never been the capital of a 'Palestine' or an Arab country," and made clear that he hoped it would not become one, although the issue would have to be discussed.

Meridor also expressed, for the first time, the government's specific endorsement of the "road map" formula for Palestinian statehood. He noted that Netanyahu had committed Israel to honoring all previous international agreements, and stressed that the road map was one of those agreements binding on the government.

Asked by The Jerusalem Post whether the Palestinians had met their commitments under phase one of the road map, including anti-terror obligations, he said there had been a reduction in incitement against Israel and said the Palestinian Authority troops trained under the supervision of US Gen. Keith Dayton had made progress in imposing law and order in the West Bank. But far from collecting illegal weaponry, as required by the road map, he went on, Palestinian weaponry had now fallen into the hands of Hamas, which had taken over the Gaza Strip.

Britain Doubles Teen pregnancies
Jul 21st, 2009
Daily NewsAmerican Family Assoc.
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline

The British government, recognizing that England has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Europe, decided to take a radical approach. Instead of pushing abstinence and encouraging intact families, the government decided to teach teenage girls how to have sex and give them condoms.  However, this approach has backfired on the British government - it has doubled pregnancy rates in that country.

A multi-million pound initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies more than doubled the number of girls conceiving.

The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.

But research funded by the Department of Health shows that young women who attended the programme, at a cost of £2,500 each, were ’significantly’ more likely to become pregnant than those on other youth programmes who were not given contraception and sex advice.

A total of 16 per cent of those on the Young People’s Development Programme conceived compared with just 6 per cent in other programmes.

Interestingly enough, the British approach was modeled on a New York program launched in 2004 which claimed to have significantly reduced teenage pregnancies by preparing girls to have commitment-free sex.  Successive efforts to duplicate this program elsewhere in the U.S. have failed, just as the program in Britain.  These failures have certainly cast "doubt on the [New York] project as a whole."

Editors Note.....When men and women cast off God's Word there is a price to pay.

Amman revoking Palestinians' citizenship
Jul 21st, 2009
Daily NewsJpost - Khaled Abu Toameh
Categories: Today's Headlines

  Jordanian authorities have started revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan to avoid a situation in which they would be "resettled" permanently in the kingdom, Jordanian and Palestinian officials revealed on Monday.

The new measure has increased tensions between Jordanians and Palestinians, who make up around 70 percent of the kingdom's population.

The tensions reached their peak over the weekend when tens of thousands of fans of Jordan's Al-Faisali soccer team chanted slogans condemning Palestinians as traitors and collaborators with Israel. Al-Faisali was playing the rival Wihdat soccer team, made up of Jordanian-Palestinians, in the Jordanian town of Zarqa.

Anti-riot policemen had to interfere to stop the Jordanian fans from lynching the Wihdat team members and their fans, eyewitnesses reported. They said the Jordanian fans of Al-Faisali hurled empty bottles and fireworks at the Palestinian players and their supporters.

Reports in a number of Jordanian newspapers said that the Jordanian fans also chanted anti-Palestinian slogans and cursed Palestine, the PLO, Jerusalem and the Aksa Mosque.

Prince Ali bin Hussein, chairman of Jordan's National Football Association, strongly condemned the racist slurs chanted by the Jordanian fans, saying those responsible would be severely punished.

Baker al-Udwan, director of Al-Faisali team, also condemned the behavior of his team's supporters. He said that a minority of "outcasts" and "corrupt" elements were behind the embarrassing verbal and physical assault on the Palestinian soccer players and their fans.

"We condemn this uncivilized demeanor and welcome any step that would result in the elimination of this tiny group of parasites," he said.

Tarek Khoury, chairman of the Wihdat team, instructed his players to abandon the field as soon as the Jordanian fans started hurling abuse against Palestinians and the Aksa Mosque.

Palestinians said that the confrontation with the Jordanians was yet another indication of increased tensions between the two sides.

"Many Palestinians living in Jordan are convinced that the Jordanian authorities are trying to squeeze them out," said Ismail Jaber, a West Bank lawyer who has been living in the kingdom for nearly 20 years. "There is growing discontent and uncertainty among Palestinians here."

He and other Palestinians said that Jordanians' "hostile" attitude toward them had escalated after the rise to power of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier this year.

Several Jordanian government officials, they said, are convinced that Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are secretly working toward turning Jordan into a Palestinian state.

As a preemptive measure, the Jordanian authorities recently began revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians, leaving many of them in a state of panic and uncertainty regarding the future.

The Jordanians have justified the latest measure by arguing that it's aimed at avoiding a situation in which the Palestinians would ever be prevented from returning to their original homes inside Israel.

Since 1988, when the late King Hussein cut off his country's administrative and legal ties with the West Bank, the Jordanian authorities have been working toward "disengaging" from the Palestinians under the pretext of preserving their national identity.

That decision, said Jordan's Interior Minister Nayef al-Kadi, was taken at the request of the PLO and the Arab world to consolidate the status of the PLO as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.

"Our goal is to prevent Israel from emptying the Palestinian territories of their original inhabitants," the minister explained, confirming that the kingdom had begun revoking the citizenship of Palestinians.

"We should be thanked for taking this measure," he said. "We are fulfilling our national duty because Israel wants to expel the Palestinians from their homeland."

Kadi said that, despite the new policy, Palestinians would be permitted to retain their status as residents of the kingdom by holding "yellow ID cards" that are issued to those who have families and homes in the West Bank.

He said that Palestinians working for the Palestinian Authority or the PLO were among those who have had their Jordanian passports taken from them, in addition to anyone who did not serve in the Jordanian army.

The Jordanian minister said that the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank had been notified of the decision to revoke the Jordanian citizenship of Palestinians.

A PA official in Ramallah expressed deep concern over Jordan's latest move and said that it would only worsen the conditions of Palestinians living in the kingdom. The official said that PA President Mahmoud Abbas raised the issue with King Abdullah II on a number of occasions, but the Jordanians have refused to retract.

Asked by the London-based Al-Hayat daily where the Palestinians should go after they lose their Jordanian passports, the minister replied: "We're not expelling anyone, nor are we revoking the citizenship of Jordanian nationals. We are only correcting the mistake that was created after Jordan's disengagement from the West Bank [in 1988]. We want to highlight the true identity and nationality of every person."

Kadi claimed that the kingdom was seeking, through the new measure, to thwart an Israeli "plot" to transfer more Palestinians to Jordan with the hope of replacing it with a Palestinian state.

"We insist that Jordan is not Palestine, just as Palestine is not Jordan," he stressed. "We will continue to help the Palestinians hold on to their Palestinian identity by pursuing the implementation of the 1988 disengagement plan from the West Bank."

A high ranking Islamic cleric tells thousands of Moslem children on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that Jews will never build a temple on that site
Jul 21st, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

Recently, as many as ten thousand Moslem children were on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to demonstrate the next generation of Moslems that will defend and continue the safekeeping of the Temple Mount, the Al Aqsa Mosque, as the Moslem world refers to this piece of real estate sacred to both Jews and Moslems.

The Mufti, Sheik Sabri, told the thousands of children swearing by Allah that the Jews will never return to take the Temple Mount and build their Temple there which is the Jewish dream, and the Mufti said that dream will never be fulfilled.

Jewish worshippers gather at the Western Wall surrounding the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and pray their Temple will be rebuilt and then the Messiah will come to lead them into the kingdom promised three thousand years ago to King David.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

A statement by the Mufti in Jeruslaem to thousands of Moslem children that there will never be a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount is contradictary to Bible prophecy for the End Times.

As the controversy over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem intensifies, the Mufti, a high ranking Moslem cleric, Sheik Sabri, told up to ten thousand Moslem children recently gathered on the Temple Mount that they must defend Al Aqsa and never allow the Jews to rebuild their Temple on this sacred site. For the Mufti to tell thousands of Moslem children that the Jews must not be allowed to build a Temple on the Temple Mount is in total contradiction of what God's Word reveals for the End Times.

Jesus Christ said there would be a Temple on the Temple Mount, Matthew 24:15. Apostles Paul and John said one day a Jewish Temple would be rebuilt in Jerusalem, II Thessalonians 2:4 and Revelation 11:1-2. These passages of Scripture speak of the next Temple to stand in Jerusalem, the Tribulation Temple, and all preparations have been made for that Temple to be errected. The Jews could start construction at any time, but do remember that Zechariah 6:12 tells us that Jesus Himself, will return to the earth and build His Temple which will be there on the Temple Mount forever, Ezekiel 37:26, 28.

The Mufti in Jerusalem is wrong. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.