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Zbig Brzezinski: Shoot Down Israeli Planes If They Attack Iran
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Categories: Today's Headlines;Anti-Israel

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for U.S. President Barack Obama, has called on the president to shoot down Israeli planes if they attack Iran. “They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?” said the former national security advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an interview with the Daily Beast. Brzezinski, who served in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981, is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Maryland.

U.S. Ships Arrive in Israel Ahead of Joint Drill
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsJpost - Yaakov Katz
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

US ships arrive in Israel ahead of joint drill | Jerusalem Post

US Navy missile ships started arriving in Israel on Sunday ahead of next month's joint missile defense exercise between the IDF and the American military's European Command.

Called Juniper Cobra, the exercise will include the Arrow missile defense system as well as three American systems - the THAAD, Aegis and PAC3 - that will all be deployed in Israel for the duration of the exercise.

Defense officials said the exercise would not begin for a few weeks, but that the ships were already arriving to begin preparing the infrastructure for the joint drill, the largest since Israel and the US began holding the biennial Juniper Cobra drill in 2001.

The arrival of the ships began a day before Defense Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to fly to Washington for talks with his American counterpart, Robert Gates. Defense officials said that their talks would focus on the Iranian threat, Israeli-US defense cooperation as well as the role Israel will play in the new American missile defense shield announced last week.

Expectations in Israel are that the US will deploy several Aegis ballistic missile ships - that are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles - in the Mediterranean and Red seas. Israel is already home to the advanced X-Band radar that the Bush administration gave as a farewell gift last October.

Officials said it was possible that the US would decide to leave some systems in Israel following the drill to bolster Israeli defenses in face of the Iranian threat. One possibility under discussion is that Aegis ships, that carry SM3 missile interceptors, will be deployed in the Mediterranean and Red seas.

On Sunday, Gates wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he contended that the new European defense plan - which won't include a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as per the US announcement last week - was a reworking of the previous proposal, and provided more protection in light of the current threat assessments.

Gates said that while the previous plan would not have provided any protection before at least 2017 - and likely later - the new program will begin providing some level of protection by 2011, will receive a significant boost in capability by 2015, and will be built over time to create "an increasingly greater zone of protection."

"The new approach to European missile defense actually provides us with greater flexibility to adapt as new threats develop and old ones recede," Gates wrote.

He challenged critics who have slammed the new plan as a concession to Russia, which had vehemently opposed placing a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.

"Russia's attitude and possible reaction played no part in my recommendation to the president on this issue," Gates said. "If Russia's leaders embrace this plan, then that will be an unexpected, and welcome, change of policy on their part. But in any case the facts are clear: American missile defense on the continent will continue, and not just in Central Europe."

"This proposal is, simply put, a better way forward," Gates summed up his position. "It is a very real manifestation of our continued commitment to our NATO allies in Europe."

Obama Sets Up Pointless Meeting Between Netanyahu, Abbas
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;Peace Process

US President Barack Obama has succeeded in setting up a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the start of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, but White House officials acknowledged the gathering is nothing but a photo opportunity and won't lead to renewed peace talks.

Obama has been trying to get Netanyahu and Abbas together in the same room since Netanyahu became prime minister back in March. Netanyahu has repeatedly declared his readiness to restart meaningful talks, but Abbas' insistence on extreme preconditions, such as a halt to all Jewish construction on the eastern side of Jerusalem, has kept the two apart.

Abbas has not loosened his positions, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was clear that the meeting is not expected to mark the beginning of renewed bilateral negotiations, but rather an effort to "lay the groundwork for the relaunch of negotiations."

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday blasted Abbas and the Palestinian Authority for squandering a golden opportunity to move toward a Palestinian state by not taking advantage of Obama's commitment to Middle East peace

Israeli Commandoes Rescue American Woman from Muslim Husband
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines

A team of former Israeli army commandoes secretly entered a Palestinian Arab village in Samaria last week and rescued an American woman who had been held captive there for three years by her abusive Muslim husband.

Voice of Israel radio reported that the woman met and married the Arab man in the US years ago. She was eventually convinced to return with him to Israel, but after arriving was taken to Palestinian-controlled areas and forced to live as the man's second wife, subservient to him and his first wife.

She later said that her husband threatened to never let her see the son they had together if she tried to escape. He also said that Palestinian Authority security forces would arrest her if she left him.

The woman's family tried in vain for years to get the US Consulate in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority to help locate and rescue her, before finally turning to a friend who was a former Israeli soldier. That friend contacted another friend who was also a former commando, and who quickly put together an extraction team.

Using their own intelligence contacts, the team located the woman and her child, entered the village and brought them back into Israeli-controlled areas before anyone knew what had happened. By Wednesday, the two were on a flight back to the US and to their family.

Israel Destroys Three Weapons Tunnels
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Hillel Fendel
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

 
The IDF bombed three Hamas arms-smuggling tunnels in Gaza overnight and reported precise hits.

The hits followed two Kassam rocket attacks at Israel over the Rosh HaShanah holiday. No one was hurt by the rockets, which landed in open fields near Sderot and caused no damage.

The Israeli planes bombed the tunnels around midnight Sunday night. Three weeks ago, as well, Israel bombed an arms-smuggling tunnel between Gaza and Egypt, in response to Kassam rockets fired at Sdot Negev.

Earlier this month, three Arabs were killed when a smuggling tunnel collapsed. In the past three years, 107 Arabs were killed in similar accidents, and more than 500 people were wounded, according to Mahmad Abdullah, a member of the Palestinian Civil Rights Center.

On Sunday afternoon, an IDF armored force fired at and killed two Palestinian terrorists detected attempting to place a bomb alongside the northern Gaza border fence

Berlusconi Advocates Creation of ‘core Europe' If Ireland Says No Again
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsEUObserver -LEIGH PHILLIPS
Categories: Today's Headlines;Revived Roman Empire

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suggested that if the Irish people vote against the Lisbon Treaty a second time, a group of European Union member states should move to create a "core Europe" in order to implement the treaty.

"If the Lisbon Treaty on EU reform does not pass, we need to completely revisit the current functioning of Europe to create a core of states that operate beyond unanimity," said Mr Berlusconi on Friday (18 September) at a press conference after meeting with Premier Slovenian Borut Pahor, according to Italian state broadcaster RAI News 24.

Mr Pahor was in Italy for a working visit to discuss greater economic co-operation between Rome and Ljubljana, talks on companies from the neighbouring entering foreign markets jointly, and the drafting of budgets in the current economic crisis.

"Europe cannot truly take decisions because decisions must be taken unanimously and that cannot continue," said Mr Berlusconi.

Mr Pahor was in Italy for a working visit to discuss greater economic co-operation between Rome and Ljubljana, talks on companies from the neighbouring entering foreign markets jointly, and the drafting of budgets in the current economic crisis.

"Europe cannot truly take decisions because decisions must be taken unanimously and that cannot continue," said Mr Berlusconi.

The concept of a ‘core Europe' moving ahead toward further integration rears its head regularly when movement forward on a particular policy is blocked by a minority of member states.

Various politicians and academics have advocated the idea that an inner core of EU member states drive forward with deeper integration via the development of a new organisation, often described as a European Federation, alongside the existing European Union.

Some experts believe that even if the Irish approve the treaty, such a move remains inevitable as the union expands beyond 27 member states.

When the shoe was on the other foot however, and Italy appeared to be left outside a core of EU countries, Rome argued strongly against the idea.

In January 2004, when the leaders of France, Germany and the UK met in Berlin to adopt a common approach ahead of a spring EU summit and patch up differences that had emerged over the Iraq war, Italy, then the fourth largest economy in the Union, was left out.

Franco Frattini, the country's foreign minister at the time, later an EU commissioner and now Italy's foreign policy chief once again, said he was opposed to a core group of countries making decisions without respect to the wishes of other states.

"There cannot be a ‘directoire', there cannot be a divisive nucleus which would run the risk of posing a threat to European integration," he said.

The comment was made also in reaction to affirmation of French support for a "pioneer group" of states made by then-president Jacques Chirac after the previous summit.

"It would be a motor which would set an example," he said. "It will allow Europe to go faster, better."

His German counterpart, Gerhard Shroeder, warned against failure to ratify the European Constitutional Treaty, the document which later was re-edited to become the Lisbon Treaty in the wake of its rejection by French and Dutch voters in 2005.

Defeat for the constitution would produce a "two-speed Europe," he said.

The UK's foreign secretary in this period, Jack Straw, backed the idea that the UK should be part of this core: "It would be logical to couple Britain with the Franco-German engine, since Europe is going to expand from 15 to 25 member states."

McCreevy, Barroso warn against No vote

Separately this weekend, Irish EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy warned that if Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty again, the country's economy would be hit by international markets.

"[A No vote would turn] a very very serious economic problem for Dublin into a full blown economic crisis," he said during a business lunch in Dublin, the Financial Times reports.

"International investors would take fright" he added, "at a time when our government, our banks, and our businesses need to raise more international capital than ever."

Such a vote would give a "negative signal to international money and bond markets, making it harder and dearer for the government to raise capital, to fund our exchequer deficit and for our banks to fund credit for businesses that create jobs and growth".

Also on the weekend, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was in Ireland campaigning for the treaty where he warned that the No side was lying about what is contained in the treaty.

"I have seen some pamphlets that are completely dishonest intellectually and politically. They are saying sometimes lies – pure lies. They are trying to play with fear. I don't like fear, I like facts," he said, according to the Irish Times.

"It's legitimate to have different opinions – no one is forced to have the same opinion – but please, don't distort the facts. Saying, for instance, that there is a kind of minimum wage in Europe is completely false, absolutely false. It's in no treaty, no regulation. It is completely false."

Support for the Yes side is currently at 53 percent of voters, according to a poll by Millward Brown Lansdowne. The same survey put the No side on 26 percent and the undecided at 21.

The last poll published, by the Sunday Business Post on 13 September, put the Yes side on 63 percent.

Art's Comment.....This could be the forming of the ten nation confederacy of Antichrist.

Aide: Netanyahu will Defend Settlement Growth At Obama Summit
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsHaaretz.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;Peace Process;The Nation Of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will defend the expansion of West Bank settlements when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, the premier's spokesman said Monday.

"You have never heard the prime minister say he would freeze settlement building. The opposite is true," Nir Hefetz told Army Radio when asked about the tripartite summit, which will take place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The meeting was seen in Israel as a success for Netanyahu, who has refused to agree to a demand from the U.S. and the Palestinians for a total halt to West Bank settlement construction. The Palestinians say the meeting will not constitute negotiations, since Abbas has refused to hold peace talks with Netanyahu until Israel freezes settlement construction.

"There are some politicians... who see halting building or ceding national territory or harming the settlements in Judea and Samaria as an asset, something that can help Israel," Hefetz said. "Prime Minister Netanyahu cannot be counted among those people."

Using Israel's term for the West Bank, he added: "He sees the settlements in Judea and Samaria as a Zionist enterprise and the settlers in Judea and Samaria as his - our - brothers."

Barak: Palestinians likely to miss 'huge opportunity' for statehood

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in comments published Monday that the Palestinians were likely to miss a "huge opportunity" for statehood due to their intransigence.

"I fear the Palestinians are going to miss a huge opportunity," The New York Times quoted Barak as saying by telephone, in an article published one day before the meeting in New York.

"There is a president who says determinedly, 'I am going to put my political capital into making sure there is an independent Palestinian state and solve all the core issues in two years.' If we bear in mind Israel's security needs and the demand that a final agreement means an end to the conflict, this is an opportunity that must not be missed," Barak was further quoted as telling the paper.

Sources in the Prime Minister's Bureau as well as the Obama administration have stressed that the summit is unlikely to result in a resumption of peace negotiations between the sides, because of differences over settlement construction and the framework of the peace process.

A group of over fifty heads of state have called for a New World Order
Sep 21st, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

At Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea coast in Egypt, the heads of state from over fifty developing nations in the world have called for a 'new world' order to tackle fallout from the global economic meltdown and to prevent a repeat of such a crisis.

The leaders of nations like Cuba, Pakistan, Iran, the 58 member states of the African Union including the host country, Egypt, and all 118 member states of the non-align movement developing nations in this world say a new monetary and economic world order and the restructuring of the world financial system must be in place to take into consideration the needs of the developing countries.

Libya's Colonel Khaddafi, who heads up the African Union, also called for the restructuring of the UN Security Council which he branded as a form of terrorism monopolized by a few countries that are permanent members.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The call by over fifty world leaders for a new economic and political world order is a precursor to the prophetic scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy for the End Times.

The non-aligned nations of our world meeting on the Red Sea coast in Egypt have made a demand of the rest of the world to set in place an economic structure to deal with the global financial crisis and they have called it a new world order.

Two ancient Jewish prophets, Daniel and John the writer of Revelation, layout this type of prophetic scenario in their writings. Daniel reveals the rise to power of a world leader to head up this new world order. His name, most familiar to you, one of twenty-seven names in Scripture, the Antichrist is identified in Daniel 7:8, 24 and 11:36-39. John, in the book of Revelation, refers to Daniel's prophecies as recorded in Revelation 13 and gives additional information about the global economic structure in Revelation 13:16, 17 and Revelation 18.

The leaders of over fifty developing nations of this world calling for a new world order have set the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.

'messiah' Obama Has Crashed to the Ground
Sep 21st, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Gil Ronen
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

The Jewish year 5769 saw the swearing in of United States President Barack Obama, who rapidly turned out to be the most hostile U.S. president ever towards Israel, according to Prof. Eitan Gilboa, an expert on the U.S. at Bar Ilan University.

The United States under Obama decided to go on the offensive against Israel, Gilboa told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service Sunday. “Israeli-American relations underwent a great upheaval in the Obama era,” he explained. “The new administration decided to conduct an open conflict with the purpose of improving the United States' image in the eyes of the Arab countries and at the expense of the state of Israel"

Obama 'proved his ignorance'
Obama “humiliated Israel,” Gilboa said. “Before [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu delivered his historic speech at Bar Ilan University he called Obama in the White House in order to share with him in advance the content of his speech. Barack Obama spoke with him on the phone with his feet propped up on the desk, and the White House sent these photographs to the news media so that the message would be clear: Obama is belittling Netanyahu.”

Obama “does not begin to understand the Middle East,” Gilboa opined. “This president failed in all aspects of his foreign policy. He does not understand anything at all about our region and his inability to understand that Israel can be a strategic partner only further proves his ignorance. Only now is Obama starting to learn that his strategy was misguided.”

From 'messiah' to mortal
"He wanted to be liked by the Arab world but he sees the reactions in the Arab world and he understands that there may have to be a new strategy. He is also getting a lot of criticism from congressmen who sent him a document in which they attack him and say that his policy towards Israel is unacceptable. Obama had a lot of credit at the start of his presidency but now he is in the same place where most presidents were in the past. Obama has crashed from the status of a messiah to that of an ordinary mortal.”

Prof. Gilboa added that he finds it hard to understand Netanyahu's “complete surrender” to American demands. “Netanyahu could have resisted the pressures more stridently,” he said. “The only explanation I have [for his behavior] is that perhaps he was promised things that justify his decision to freeze the construction [in Judea and Samaria]. But there is a real failure in the entire strategy here: the Americans said that they wanted to see confidence-building measures by the Palestinians, too, but in the meantime only Israel has made concessions and the other side gave nothing.”

Obama 'promised Jewish homes to Arabs'
Obama gave PA officials guarantees that they will eventually take over Jewish homes and buildings throughout most of  Judea and Samaria, a top Palestinian Authority official told WND.

"We heard from the U.S. that no matter what Israel is building in [Judea and Samaria], it will not affect a final status agreement to create a Palestinian state," said the PA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"The Americans told us Netanyahu might construct in [Judea and Samaria] for now but we (Palestinians) can enjoy these houses later. The evacuated homes will not be destroyed like some were when Israel pulled out of Gaza," the official said.

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