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Sarkozy: Iran Working on Nukes Today
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily NewsJpost
Categories: Today's Headlines;War

After Paris warned that new sanctions against Teheran remained an option despite the likelihood of negotiations with Iran, French President Nicolas Sarkozy maintained that the Islamic republic was still working on a nuclear weapons program.

"It is a certainty to all of our secret services. Iran is working today on a nuclear [weapons] program," Sarkozy told lawmakers from his UMP party on Tuesday, according to Press TV.

"We cannot let Iran acquire nuclear" weapons because it would also be a threat to Israel, he added.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero had warned that Iran must make "concrete gestures" at the long-awaited discussions. He said the sanctions option remained on the table in case Teheran makes "an error of choice."

"It is up to Iran to restore international confidence ... and show it is ready to seriously discuss its sensitive activities," Valero said at a press briefing.

Earlier, Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama discussed ways to bring Iran "into compliance" with UN resolutions on its nuclear program, Agence France Presse quoted the White House as saying.

"The two leaders discussed the status of diplomatic efforts to bring Iran into compliance with its international obligations on its nuclear program," according to a released after Obama and Sarkozy spoke over the telephone.

Also Tuesday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said that talks on Iran's nuclear program would likely be held in Turkey, and full US participation may lead to progress in the negotiations.

Casting aside conditions the Bush administration had set for talks, President Barack Obama's White House is pressing for progress after years of little movement on Iran's nuclear program.

"The Americans will be present in a formalized manner. This is new," Solana said, referring to the meeting scheduled for October 1. "I think that has to be evaluated positively by the Iranians."

Solana said the meeting could help resolve the standoff over the Islamic republic's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment and heed other UN Security Council demands.

The talks will be the first since a 2008 session in Geneva foundered over Iran's refusal to discuss enrichment.

The US has announced that Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns - who was at the Geneva talks as an observer - would again represent the US But this time, EU officials said, Burns will be a full participant in the upcoming meeting, which will also include representatives of Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

In Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the American delegate to the talks would insist on discussing Iran's nuclear program.

"I think it is important to underscore that we have made clear to the Iranians that any talks we participate in must address the nuclear issue head on," Clinton told reporters at the US State Department. "It cannot be ignored. Iran says it has a number of issues that it wishes to discuss with us but what we are concerned about is discussing with them the questions surrounding their nuclear program and ambitions."

Ngo: Obama's Israel Policy Violates International Treaties
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Gil Ronen
Categories: Today's Headlines;Commentary;The Nation Of Israel

 
Members of the non-governmental group (NGO) “Justice Now!” claim that U.S. President Barack Obama's policy against Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria violates internationally recognized treaties, and they are threatening to take legal action.

Justice Now! reported it has gathered the evidence necessary to file a case in the United States against the U.S. government's “continued violations of the treaties that recognize Israel's rights to its internationally recognized legal borders, the prohibition against ceding any land belonging to the Jewish National Home, and supporting the right of Jewish settlement within those internationally recognized borders.”

Justice Now! aims to “educate the world” regarding the legal borders of the Jewish national home, which it says comprises all Israel, including all of Judea, Samaria, the Gaza Strip, the entire city of Jerusalem, and more.

These borders were recognized by the United States in a 1924 treaty with Great Britain, the group explains, and they are still guaranteed by that treaty. Furthermore, the U.S. Constitution calls a treaty the "Supreme Law of the Land" and the Courts have the power to force the federal executive branch (President, Secretary of State, etc.) to honor treaties. Justice Now! says it may seek a court ruling to compel the U.S. government to recognize Israel's sovereignty through all of the borders expressed within the Balfour, San Remo, and Mandate documents.

Letter to Obama

Justice Now! says it intends to send a letter to the Obama administration urging it to respect Israel's rights under international law to settle and build within all of the lands of the Jewish homeland.

The group's experts are currently giving a series of lectures on the subject (in English) on Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the OU Israel Center, 22 Keren HaYesod Avenue, Jerusalem. The next lectures are: Sept 16: Jerusalem under International Law. Sept 23: Is it really an occupation? A look at the Geneva Conventions and Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria. Sept 30: Israel's rights to build the Security Fence, or Why Build a Fence Through the Middle of Your Own Backyard

Israel's population reaches almost 7 1/2 million in its brief 61 year history
Sep 16th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

According to the annual pre-Rosh Hashana Jewish new year report released by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel's population numbers 7,465,500 with the Jewish population around 5.6 million and the Arab population at 1.5 million. President Shimon Peres, who received the report, said that the data is a product of a very important work - a report that finds Israel's population has been growing at a steady annual rate of 1.8% since 2003.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

With almost half of the world's Jewish population living in Israel the stage is set for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.

In some 61 years the Jewish population living in Israel is almost half of this world's total Jewish population and is continuing to grow. The latest report from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics indicates that Israel's population is getting younger each year and the future of the Jewish state is somewhat of a youthful one. This latest report released annually just before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, reveals that the growth rate among Jews is still lower than the growth rate of the Arab population living in Israel. The growing Arab population has some Israeli officials worried as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to go unresolved.

This report is a clear evidence that Bible prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled. 2500 years ago, the ancient Jewish prophets wrote that there would once again be a Jewish state in the last days (Ezekiel 37:7-11). In fact, Ezekiel wrote a number of statements of how this prophetic scenario would be played out. Ezekiel reported that the Lord would find all the Jews wherever they had been scattered and would bring them into the land of their forefathers where the Jews would be very prosperous (Ezekiel 34, 36). In this same section of prophetic Scripture, the prophet also warned of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and an alignment of nations that would move to destroy the Jewish state (Ezekiel 35, 38).

The newly released annual population report of 5.6 million Jews in Israel is indeed evidence that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Israel Enraged Over UN Report Claiming War Crimes in Gaza
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Anti-Israel

Israel has good reason to have stopped cooperating with international investigations into its military activities, and to even try to prevent such probes from happening at all when possible. These "independent" investigations almost always conclude by accusing Israel of the most heinous wrongdoings in the most hostile language possible.

It is little wonder that these investigations ultimately come to such conclusions, considering that they typically accept Palestinian claims and accusations at face value, despite a gross lack of evidence.

That was again the case on Wednesday when a UN fact-finding mission headed by Richard Goldstone issued a report based on figures and testimonies provided by Gaza's Hamas rulers that accused Israel of "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during its military incursion into Gaza earlier this year.

The 547-page report accused Hamas of the same for deliberately firing rockets into Israeli population centers during the month-long conflagration, but seemed to ignore the decade of Palestinian rocket fire that preceded Israel's reluctant and long-delayed commitment of major ground forces to solving the problem.

The Goldstone Commission demanded that Israel launch its own investigation into the charges contained in the report, and recommended that the International Crimes Court (ICC) in The Hague open war crimes proceedings against the Jewish state if it failed to comply within three months.

The report elicited frustration and anger in Israel over what has become a ritual of drumming up war crimes charges any time the Jewish state dares to militarily defend itself.

Israeli President Shimon Peres said the Goldstone Commission Report "mocks history and fails to distinguish between aggressor and those acting in self-defense."

Peres said Goldstone and his colleagues never would have come to such conclusions "had their children been living in Sderot, under the constant threat of Hamas rockets."

In a written statement, Peres reminded the UN that Israel fully withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and during the following three years tried to respond to mounting Palestinian aggression from the coastal territory with diplomacy, before finally concluding that it must go to war to defend its citizens.

A Foreign Ministry statement expressed "disappointment" that the UN had once again ignored Israel's right to self defense and had drawn erroneous and despicable conclusions about Israel's intentions based on nothing more than unsubstantiated claims.

Israeli legal experts said they don't expect the UN Security Council to adopt the commission's report, or for the ICC to actually open war crimes proceedings against the State of Israel, but warned that the report could form the basis of individual war crimes suits against Israeli military and political leaders.

The one bright spot of the report for Israelis was its insistence that Hamas release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. But even that section was marred by dubious language by referring to Shalit as a "prisoner of war," a form of captivity legitimate under international law.

Shalit's father, Noam Shalit, corrected Goldstone and his team by noting that "Gilad is not a prisoner of war. Gilad is an abducted person and a hostage."

Meanwhile, Goldstone's daughter, Nicole Goldstone, insisted in an interview with Israel's Army Radio that her father, a South African Jew who previously served as a Constitutional Court judge, "is a Zionist and loves Israel." She was adamant that her father would never try to harm Israel, and only agreed to be part of the commission to help Israel and its neighbors move forward toward peace.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev retorted in a later interview that the Goldstone Commission had done the exact opposite of advance peace. Armed with such a damning report, Israel's "peace partners" are certain to become even more uncompromising and extreme in their demands.

Is Oil the Next Big Discovery in Israel?
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily Newsisraelnationalnews.com
Categories: Commentary;The Nation Of Israel

An oil drilling consortium which includes companies that found billions of dollars in natural gas off the Haifa coast will begin in October to look for black gold in an area along the Dead Sea, according to Delek Group chief executive officer Yitzchak Tshuva.

He said that the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) has consented to the drilling after the consortium agreed to invest half a million dollars to protect the rich nature reserves in the area from damage during the exploration. 

Investors' hopes of finding oil in Israel are based on seismic surveys that estimate that Dead Sea oil reserves are worth nearly half a billion dollars.

Delek heads the consortium that earlier this year discovered rich gas reserves approximately 50 miles west of Haifa, and estimates of the value of the gas have more than doubled since the first reports. Tshuva said last month that he foresees Israel becoming self-sufficient in energy in the near future, with the Jewish State possibly becoming an exporter of gas. 

A discovery of large oil reserves would further an economic revolution in Israel, which has until now been dependent on foreign countries for oil and gas. 

The term Dead Sea is a faulty translation of the Hebrew phrase "Salt Sea" as is written in the Bible. It refers to water that has the densest concentration of salt and other minerals in the world and is found at the lowest point on Earth. Although fish and plant life do not exist in the highly salty waters, its potassium and potash have made the Dead Sea Works one of the world’s largest exporters of the material used for fertilizers.

Dems Focus on Homosexual Agenda
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily NewsOneNewsNow - Jim Brown
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

Democrats are currently undertaking two major efforts in Congress to enact key parts of the political agenda of homosexual activists.

 Today liberal Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) plans to introduce a bill that would repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The bill, which already has 69 co-sponsors, would create federal recognition of same-sex "marriages."
 
However, openly homosexual Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) is warning fellow Democrats that passing the bill in this legislative session is unrealistic, and that a provision in the bill that would let same-sex couples take their partnership benefits across state lines will stoke a strong response from conservatives.

Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, says the DOMA repeal bill is not going anywhere in the short-term -- but its introduction, he argues, illustrates the tactics of the "hard left" of the Democratic Party.
 
"They're saying that the Defense of Marriage Act is vulnerable. I don't believe it is, but it's interesting that more and more Democrats are taking positions against DOMA, which was signed into law by a Democrat, Bill Clinton, in 1996 with widespread Democrat and Republican support," he notes.

LaBarbera believes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which will be receiving a hearing in the House next week, is currently an even bigger legislative threat than a repeal of DOMA. He argues the so-called "fully inclusive" version of ENDA will force Christian entrepreneurs and businesses to subsidize immoral homosexual, bisexual, and transgender relationships.
 
"The good news for us -- given this TEA Party movement, which is just growing by leaps and bounds -- is that ENDA plays into our arguments," he contends. "ENDA is big government liberalism. It's the government being intrusive and telling small businesses and Christians and conservatives how to run their businesses."
 
LaBarbera is advising conservative activists to take advantage of the wave of support for the TEA Party movement by billing ENDA as "big government liberalism."

Crisis Makes Europe Richest Reagion in the World, Study Says
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily NewsEUobserver - VALENTINA POP
Categories: Today's Headlines;Revived Roman Empire

Europe has emerged as the richest region in the world, pushing North America, where wealth has declined by more than 20 percent due to the economic crisis, off the top spot, a study has shown.

The world's richest also feel the recession biting, especially in North America, where the financial crisis first unfolded a year ago, reveals a survey on global wealth carried out by the Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm.

North America's wealth, measured in assets under management, plummeted by 21.8 percent, the steepest decline in the world. A lesser fall was registered in Europe, where assets shrunk by 5.8 percent compared to last year, down to €22.2 trillion – a quarter of the globe's total wealth.

Art's Comment.....The ground work for the Revived Roman Empire continues to be laid.

Clash Over 'islamization' At Dc Muslim Prayer Rally
Sep 16th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

A new organization dedicated to fighting what it sees as an encroaching Islamic takeover of the U.S. is set to launch later this month with a gathering in Washington, D.C.  - on the same day as a massive Muslim prayer rally in the U.S. capital.

The Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) group has declared its mission to be educating Americans "about the threat that Islamic doctrine and those who support it present to our freedoms, and the future of our democracy and country." The organizers call themselves "scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government," as well as in "the defense of... our society of liberty, knowledge, and human decency."

SIOA believes that political Islam is opposed to American values of "freedom, tolerance, or human rights." They seek to raise the issue of what they call "brutal, misogynist" Islamic law and jihad in America, because "tolerance for ideologies that are opposed to our principles of individual freedoms and our Constitution is indefensible," the group declares in its online manifesto. A recently-released film, The Third Jihad, warns that radical Islam is working on a non-violent, cultural takeover of the United States.

"We are now in a new phase of a 1,400-year-old jihad against the kafirs (all non-Muslims everywhere); we are not prepared to meet the threat," SIOA says. "[I]gnorance about Islam, its doctrine and purposes is a moral and ethical failure whose consequences can be nothing short of national extinction."

The official launch of the SIOA is slated for September 25, 2009, at an as-yet unknown venue in the U.S. capital. The timing and location appears to be far from coincidental.

A massive Muslim prayer gathering is planned for for the same day in front of the Capitol building. Spearheaded by the Elizabeth, New Jersey Dar-ul-Islam Mosque, organizers are expecting 50,000 people to attend the first-of-its-kind national event. The gathering will be limited to prayer, according to Hassen Abdullah, president of Dar-ul-Islam.

SIOA sees the event as a "big-budget... soft jihad," fought through "marketing and cultural/ideological warfare." D.L. Adams of SIOA wrote of the planned Muslim prayer gathering, "It is impossible to see this event as anything but what it is, taqiyya (sacred deception), jihad (endless universal war against the unbelievers), and dawa (conversion)."

The SIOA's own event is planned to conclude with a "saunter" around the streets of Washington DC, on the day of the Muslim prayer rally, in order to "engage in conversations with our fellow citizens who might happen to be there on the same day on matters of moment." However, more confrontationally, the SIOA website calls for "every protest of this takiya-jihad-dawa event... [to] include some component of donkey, dog, and women." The reason for this unusual suggestion is made clear on the SIOA site as well: Muslim doctrine, according to the SIOA, says that "Islamic prayer is nullified if a dog, a woman, or a donkey are present."

At the same time, the SIOA promotional literature for the organizational launch emphasizes, "We are an entirely non-violent organization. Our sauntering is planned to be more a polite conversational engagement rather than a demonstration." Organizers "look forward to a pleasant several hours chatting with our fellow Americans in the Capitol on the issue at hand."

Speakers at the SIOA launch are slated to include expatriate Egyptian activist Nonie Darwish, Islam scholar and author Robert Spencer, journalist Pamela Geller, and Christine Brim, Senior Vice President for Policy and Program Management at the Center for Security Policy.