09/04/2012

        Struggle for Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:3; Luke 21:20)

Abbas to Netanyahu: Respond favorably to our peace plan or we return to UN  

The Palestinian Authority will renew its efforts to win UN recognition for a Palestinian state if it does not receive a positive response from Israel to its positions on a prospective peace deal, PA President Mahmoud Abbas told an unofficial Israeli delegation on Sunday.Abbas gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a month to respond

Gaza rockets hit Israel after drone attack

Three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Sunday, without causing casualties or damage, police said. "A rocket fired from Gaza fell into an uninhabited area near the city of Sderot this evening. There were no injuries or damage," police spokeswoman Lea Samri told AFP. She said two other rockets were fired into southern Israel near the city of Netivot early on Sunday

        Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

Syria launches its heaviest air-ground assault yet against the opposition 

Certain he is safe from Western-Arab intervention, Bashar Assad Sunday unleashed an across-the board air and ground offensive against the last surviving rebel locations. debkafile’s military sources report that starting Sunday noon, April 8, 30 towns and villages were hit simultaneously. For the first time since the outbreak of revolt thirteen months ago....

Syria demands guarantees before pullout from cities

 Syria on Sunday demanded guarantees that armed groups cease fire before withdrawing its troops from protest hubs as agreed with special envoy Kofi Annan, even as a UN truce deadline loomed.

The foreign ministry's request came as a weekend escalation in violence claimed almost 180 lives, most of them civilians, ahead of the UN deadline of Tuesday for regime forces to cease fire.

Syria demands guarantees; rebels say peace plan doomed

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria on Sunday demanded written guarantees insurgents will stop fighting before it pulls back troops under the terms of a U.N. peace plan, and a rebel leader said the initiative was doomed."The regime will not implement this plan. This plan will fail," Free Syrian Army (FSA) chief Riad al-Asaad told Reuters.

        Magog Invasion – Iran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

Israel 'satisfied' with Iran's rejection of West's demands

Senior state officials were satisfied Sunday with Iran's rejection of Western proposals for the nuclear crisis. "As far as Israel is concerned, the Iranian response is good," one state official said. It has been estimated that this will force US President Barack Obama to toughen sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Is Iran about to drag us into Armageddon?

Should we be worried that Iran is about to tip the entire world into World War III? Are some folks reading far too much into all of today’s saber-rattling? Are they drawing wild conclusions from popular interpretations of Bible prophecy flying around the Internet?
Or is history’s final battle just around the corner?


Russia expecting attack on Iran by summer

WASHINGTON – The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, informed Russian sources say in a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

 

       The Rise of the East

North Korea readies controversial rocket launch

North Korea announced last month that it would launch a rocket carrying a satellite between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the Communist state. His birthday on April 15, known as the "Day of the Sun," is a key public holiday in the North Korean calendar.