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The United States stops to mark the 8th anniversary of the infamous terrorist attack on America
Sep 11th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

Remembrance services held in the United States in New York City, Washington DC, and a field in Pennsylvania marked the 8th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, and the crash of one of the hijacked aircraft in the fields in Pennsylvania as the world also stops to remember the ugly head of terrorism. President Obama joined Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon and he spoke of the day that reminds us of the sacrifices of thousands of Americans not just at the Pentagon but in Pennsylvania and most obviously in New York City.

The president vowed to apprehend all of those who perpetrated these hideous crimes, to see justice for those who were killed, and to defend against all threats against America's national security.


Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

As Americans stop to mark the 8th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States, September 11, 2001, there is a reminder of how the Lord will deal with the ideology behind these hideous crimes - according to Bible prophecy.

Most Americans can remember where they were when they first heard of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. Over the years since that time the United States and other countries in the world have put in place a security system to try to prevent this type of attack from ever happening again. However, I must say as I have often said, if a terrorist wants to attack and slaughter innocent people, he can accomplish his goal no matter how tight the security. 9-11 was the beginning of the end and the terrorists out there will continue their dastardly acts until they are divinely stopped.

Bible prophecy reveals a group of nations that will perpetrate attacks on the world with a focus on the Jewish state of Israel (Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38, and Psalm 83). The ancient Jewish prophet Ezekiel foretold of the destruction of these terrorist states in Ezekiel 39:2-6. This elimination of the terrorists states will take place in the first 6 months of the Tribulation period, a time of judgment yet to come. Until that time these militant elements will continue their efforts to control the world. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Schulte: Syria May Have More Nuke Sites
Sep 11th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Schulte: Syria may have more nuke sites | Jerusalem Post

Syria may be operating more nuclear sites, apart from the reactor at Deir Azour which was bombed by Israel on September 6, 2007 in what came to be known as Operation Orchard, former US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Gregory Schulte told Channel 10 Thursday evening.

"I think there were other activities that gave us concern, that gave the IAEA concern… IAEA inspectors actually asked to go to a number of other sites, and the Syrians wouldn't let them go there; they claimed they were military sites. They claimed the uranium particles that the inspectors found at the destroyed reactor came from Israeli bombs," Schulte said.

In the past, the Syrian accusation was brushed aside both by the IAEA and Israel, as the uranium used to strengthen the metal of shells is of a different type than the uranium used in producing nuclear energy.

Schulte went on to criticize the conduct of Mohammed ElBaradei, the Egyptian-born outgoing IAEA chief who has been accused by Israel many times of being biased.

"I tell you Mohammed ElBaradei was not happy ... he was mad at Israel, he was mad at the United States; he didn't express any discontent about Syria," he said.

Schulte added that ElBaradei issued a statement following Operation Orchard, "where he sort of deplored Israel's unilateral action, he deplored the late provision of intelligence which was a direct slap at the United States."

Moving on to the issue of Iran's nuclear pursuit, Schulte said the Islamic republic was using a tactic of stalling to the West while continuing to work on its program.

"Iran is always trying to buy time," he said. "The question is, can you sort of convince them to stop doing that, convince them that they have to negotiate seriously... so the trick is to convince them that the opportunity to buy time is running out and the need to negotiate seriously." Iran needs to "show a willingness to suspend these activities," he said, referring to enrichment of uranium, a process which can serve to produce electricity but also to build a nuclear weapon, Schulte added.

Earlier Thursday, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Teheran's envoy to the IAEA, suggested that any negotiations with Western powers would not address the Islamic republic's nuclear program, according to a report carried by Iran's state-run al-Alam television station cited by Reuters.

"Teheran is prepared to have fair and substantive talks about various problems, including the guarantee of access by all countries to nuclear energy and preventing the proliferation of nuclear arms," Soltanieh reportedly said.

"But these talks do not include Teheran's nuclear program and legal activities in this connection," he was quoted as saying. His comments came just a day after Iran presented world powers with a proposal for new talks. Teheran is faced with a US threat of harsher new sanctions over its nuclear program if it fails to begin negotiations in earnest by the United Nations General Assembly meeting at the end of September.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ruled out negotiations over uranium enrichment, the UN's central concern regarding his country's nuclear program.

Russia Won't Back Sanctions Against Iran
Sep 11th, 2009
Daily NewsUPI.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Netanyahu: We're Ready for Peace, But Won't be 'suckers'
Sep 11th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that while his government is ready to go to great lengths to make peace with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbors, he and his ministers won't be fooled and won't be "suckers."

Speaking at a pre-Rosh Hashanah event for Likud activists at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, Netanyahu's remarks were in response to concerns that his acquiescence to Western demands for a settlement freeze marks the end of the Zionist vision in the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria, even if the Arabs do not reciprocate.

Netanyahu said he will not allow international pressure to halt the normal flow of life in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and that regardless of what future concessions he may make, he will never allow those areas to become a Hamas stronghold as Gaza did following the Israeli withdrawal there.

Netanyahu's speech came just a day after US State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said Israel should stop building new homes for Jews on the eastern side of Jerusalem, as well as in the rest of Judea and Samaria.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also saw Netanyahu's new willingness to implement a temporary settlement freeze as an opportunity to up the ante, and declared that all Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria are illegal, according to his interpretation of international law.

In fact, it was international law, in the form of the San Remo Resolution passed in 1920 by the League of Nations, precursor to the UN, that legalized "close Jewish settlement" in the region that today encompasses Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Jordan.

First - Ever Find: Temple Menorah Relief By Jewish Eyewitness
Sep 11th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Gil Ronen
Categories: Today's Headlines;Archaeology

The Israel Antiquities Authority has uncovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in an excavation at Migdal, near the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret). Inside the synagogue, a stone relief contains a depiction of the seven branched Menorah which stood in the Temple, and which was most likely seen by the artist who sculpted the stone relief.

Known depictions of the Menorah from Second Temple times include the famous relief of Titus's Arch in Rome, which shows Roman soldiers taking it away after destroying the Temple, and depictions on contemporary coins as well as graffiti etched into stone in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter. However, the new find is said to be the first which includes a relief etched by an artist contemporary with the Temple. 

The Menorah relief. (Israel Antiquities Authority, Moshe Hartal)

The synagogue has been dated to the years 50 BCE – 100 CE. The rectangular stone bearing the Menorah relief stands inside its central chamber. The chamber is about 120 square meters in size and stone benches line its sides.

The decorated stone depicts amphorae (earthenware vessels) on both sides of the Menorah and bears additional decorative motifs on its four sides and its top.

The floor of the synagogue was adorned with a mosaic and its walls were covered with a colorful fresco.

The dig was conducted by Dina Avshalom-Gorni and Arfan Najer of the Antiquities Authority. According to Gorni, the find is “unique and exciting.”

Aerial view of synagogue (picture by SkyView)

"This is the first time that a Menorah decoration is discovered from the days in which the Temple still stood,” she said. “It is the first Menorah that is discovered in a Jewish context, which is dated to Second Temple times – the early Roman period. We can estimate that the inscription that appears on the stone... was made by an artist who saw the seven-branched Menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem. The synagogue joins only six synagogues known in the world from Second Temple times.”

The dig was conducted on land owned by a company which intends to build a hotel on the property.

Ancient Migdal – or Migdala, in Aramaic – was mentioned in Jewish sources and served as one of the central bases for forces under the command of Josephus Flavius (Yosef Ben Matityahu), who commanded the Galilee rebellion but later crossed over to the Roman camp. Resistance at Migdal continued after Tiberias and the rest of the Galilee had surrendered.

Migdal is also mentioned in the Christian “New Testament” as the place where Mary Magdalene, or Mary of Magdala, came from.

In late Second Temple times the town was an administrative center of the western Sea of Galilee area. Until the establishment of Tiberias in the year 19 CE, it was the central town on the coast of the Sea of Galilee.