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In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:
1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) The prospects for economic collapse in the USA and the world
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran and the growing influence of Islam in countries whose rulers were overthrown in the Arab Spring was a major obstacle in restarting direct peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Israel believes that if the Iranian nuclear threat was eliminated and its regional influence with the Syrian government of Bashar Assad and Hamas in the Gaza Strip was reduced, it would be easier to strike a peace deal with the Palestinians. The US position is that a breakthrough on the Palestinian issue would have a great deal of impact in dealing with Iran as more Arab and Muslim countries would support the United States effort to halt Iran’s nuclear program.
The Republican Party platform of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports a two-state solution in the Middle East. Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas indicates that the Palestinians will ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital this fall. Abbas said that such a request would protect the peace process and preserve the two state solution. It is expected that about 130 countries would support the Palestinian request which is enough to pass the resolution. If such a decision is made by the General Assembly, it would enable the Palestinians to have the status of a non-member state and be able to join the International Criminal Court and seek to indict Israel for alleged war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel rejects the Palestinians efforts for recognition of a PLO state at the United Nations which bypasses direct peace negotiations. Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel should present Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with an ultimatum: If he doesn’t resume negotiations and abandon his unilateral campaign for UN recognition as a state, Israel will cease to see him as a legitimate negotiating partner. Israel, he said, must take whatever measures is necessary to stop Abbas’ UN application. Meanwhile, the United States is opposed to the Palestinians making a request to the United Nations General Assembly for recognition of a PLO state prior to the November US elections. A senior PA official said that the Obama administration threatened to withhold financial aid from the Palestinians if they made the request to the United Nations General Assembly before November 6. As a result, the Palestinian Authority have decided to delay their request to unilaterally declare a state at the United Nations until after the November’s presidential election in the US. A British official said that Britain will not suspend their financial aid to the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians decide to submit their application to the UN General Assembly seeking recognition of Palestine as a non-member state of the UN.
India has stated they they support a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital. An Indian spokesperson said that India in support for UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 wants a negotiated solution resulting in a sovereign, independent, viable and united State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its Capital, living within secure and recognized borders, side by side at peace with Israel as endorsed in the Quartet Roadmap and UNSC Resolutions 1397 and 1515. Finally, in a meeting with Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi, China expressed support for a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital as well.
An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.
The link to these articles are as follows:
1) Netanyahu: Iran, Islamic rise are barriers to negotiations
2) Republicans set to endorse two-state solution at convention next week
3) Abbas: UN bid will protect two state solution
4) Lieberman to Haaretz: Israel must launch concerted campaign to delegitimize Abbas
5) Obama to Palestinians: Delay statehood until election over
6) Palestinians put UN recognition bid on hold
7) Britain will not suspend PA aid over new UN bid
8.) India asks Israel to stop all settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territories
9) Egypt: Nation, China Back Establishing Palestinian State Within 1967 Borders, Al-Quds As Its Capital
Israel media reports that former Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert ordered the 2007 strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor immediately after former US president George W. Bush informed him that the Americans would not attack the facility. The US had decided to handle the Syrian threat via diplomacy. The Israelis were convinced that time was fairly short, and that they had to strike the reactor — built by the Syrians with extensive input from the North Koreans — before it went live. As a result, Israel unilaterally bombed the reactor. Would the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu respond the same way if Israel feels that US President Barack Obama would not be willing to attack Iran within the time frame that Israel feels is necessary to stop Iran’s nuclear program ?
France desires to work with Turkey to create a buffer zone for the Syrian rebels. France has also proposed that the Syrian opposition form a provisional government promising to grant it immediate diplomatic recognition. Russia has suspended the use of its naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus. Russia continues to support the Assad government politically and in a humanitarian way along with providing intelligence and information but is not planning to provide major arms supplies to Syria. A Russian official said, “We cannot, by military means, oppose countries that support the Syrian opposition.” Finally, a significant number of Sunni Islamist militants who are fighting against the Syrian government of Bashar Ashad want a strict form of Sharia Islamic law to be implemented as part of a future Syrian government. As a result of the overthrow of leaders in other Arab countries, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood desires to govern Egypt and Libya by religious Islamic Sharia law also.
A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17) is a tribulation event.
The link to these articles is as follows:
1) Olmert struck Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 immediately after Bush refused to do so
2) Syrian Rebels Seek Implementation Of Strict Sharia Law…
3) France confirms it is working to establish buffer zone within Syria
4) Russia Will Not Use Military Force to Protect its Facility in Syria
5) Russia is disengaging from Syria: Arms shipments stopped, warships exit Tartus
6) Russian Troops Welcomed Into NORAD, America’s Cold War HQ
Russia reports that the Iranian Busheur atomic power plant is now operating at full capacity. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that Iran has doubled the number of uranium- enrichment centrifuges it has at the Fordow facility to 2,140 from 1,064 in May. Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on the international community to establish a clear “red line” for the Iranian nuclear program so that there would be direct consequences for their actions. He said that that “time has run out” for diplomacy and it is not acceptable to have open-ended diplomacy regarding Iran’s nuclear program. In doing so, Netanyahu got into a diplomatic shouting match with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro over US President Barack Obama’s handling of the issue. However, the Obama administration insisted that “there is time and space” for a diplomatic solution.
Furthermore, the US is said to be working with a top Israeli newspaper to stymie Israel’s efforts to strike Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey said that he did not want to be “complicit” if Israel chose to strike Iran’s nuclear program. Dempsey said an attack would “clearly delay but probably not destroy Iran’s nuclear program,” but added that the “international coalition” pressuring Iran “could be undone if it was attacked prematurely”. Meanwhile, Israel Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon said he feared Iran did not believe it faced a real military threat from the outside world because of mixed messages from foreign powers including the United States. Iran sponsored a conference of non-aligned countries of the United Nations where Iran had harsh words to say about Israel. As a result, Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to address the UN General Assembly regarding the threat that Iran poses to Israel and the entire Middle East. He is scheduled to leave for the UN on September 27, immediately after Yom Kippur, and return to Israel on September 30, just before the onset of Succot. Although there has been talk of a meeting at the UN with US President Barack Obama, no meeting has yet been officially announced.
The link to these articles is as follows:
1) Russia says Iran’s nuclear power plant is fully operational
2) IAEA: Iran has doubled underground nuclear capacity
3) PM: Time for world to set ‘clear red lines’ for Iran
4) ‘PM tells US ‘time has run out’ on Iran diplomacy’
5) Diplomacy With Iran Still Is Viable, U.S. Says
6) Obama ‘Using Israeli Paper to Foil Iran Strike’
7) Dempsey: I don’t want to be complicit in Iran strike
8.) Ya’alon: US is undermining military threat against Iran
9) Morsi to shop for nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing en route for Tehran. Netanyahu, Obama meet Sept. 27
10) PM to ‘speak the truth’ on Iran in UN speech
Germany and France have agreed to form a joint policymaking body to create a more integrated economic and fiscal policy in the eurozone and structure a new banking supervision regime. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s wants European leaders to work on a new treaty aimed at deepening political integration among the European Union’s 27 members at a summit in December. The treaty could include provisions such as giving the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg power to monitor the budgets of member states and punish those who exceed deficit limits. Meanwhiel, legendary investor Jim Rogers warned Americans to prepare for “Financial Armageddon,” saying he fully expects the economy to implode after the U.S. election.
Pastor Lindsey Williams received information that Raytheon gave a warning to the company that US government would shut down soon from a financial crisis. Doug Hagmann reports according to my well-placed source within the Department of Homeland Security apparatus, a final authorization was given to DHS directly from the White House to support a staged event to ensure the reelection of President Obama. “What happens and when it happens depends on the events of the next sixty days. If it appears that Obama does not have a lock on the next four years to finish what he started … then watch for it ‘going hot.’” Liberty man, John Moore, has also received a report than an event will happen in October which will cause the suspension of US elections and cause Obama to remain in power under martial law.
Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.
The link to these articles are as follows:
1) SPIEGEL: Merkel Wants An EU Political Integration Pact
2) Germany and France agree to work together on solution to eurozone crisis
3) Jim Rogers: It’s Going To Get Really “Bad After The Next Election”
4) Pastor Lindsey Williams: Raytheon Warning – US Government to Shut Down Soon
5) Doug Hagmann told from DHS Source: “It’s going hot”
6) Rick Wiles Interview with Doug Hagmann
7) John Moore: No Election this Fall – Financial Collapse
8.) A Prophetic Word for the USA this fall
From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).
We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).
Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,
Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l