13/05/2012

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

Netanyahu Responds to Abbas' Letter

Attorney Yitzchak Molcho, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s special envoy, met on Saturday evening in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the Prime Minister's Office announced.During the meeting, Molcho handed Abbas a letter from the Israeli government, according to the PMO.A joint Israel-PA statement produced after the meeting said that “Israel and the PA are committed to achieving peace and the parties hope that the exchange of letters between Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu will contribute to this.”

Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

 Clashes rage in northern Syria as opposition groups meet in Turkey 

BEIRUT - Rebels fought the army in northern Syria on Saturday, activists said, and Syrian dissidents abroad gathered to try to unify and project themselves as a credible alternative to President Bashar Assad.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fighting in Idlib province, on Syria's northern border with Turkey, a hotspot of the 14-month-old revolt against Assad's rule."Violent clashes are raging between Syrian regime forces and armed military defectors ...

 Syria activists: At least 5 killed in village raid

 BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say regime forces killed at least five people during a raid on a northwestern farming village. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops torched homes in the village of al-Tamana about 55 kilometers (35 miles) northwest of the city of Hama and put the death toll at five. Activist Mousab Alhamadee said Sunday that residents had recovered six bodies after the raid the day before.The attack followed anti-regime protests, and one of the dead was a rebel leader, he said.

 Middle East (Psalm 83:1-4) (Rev 9:16) (Rev 16:12)

 Senior Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, police said, dealing another blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban.
Maulvi Arsala Rahmani was one of the most senior members on Afghanistan's High Peace Council, set up by President Hamid Karzai two years ago to liaise with insurgents."He (Rahmani) was stuck in heavy traffic when another car beside him opened fire," said General Mohammad Zahir, head of the investigations unit for Kabul police.



Magog InvasionIran, Russia (Ezekiel 38-39)

 Ahmadinejad: Israel 'Nothing More Than a Mosquito'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compared Israel to an annoying insect Saturday, maintaining that the Jewish state poses no threat to Tehran’s nuclear program. "Israel is nothing more than a mosquito which cannot see the broad horizon of the Iranian nation," he said in northeastern Iran's Khorassan province, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Ahmadinejad said "regional states" were being duped into buying billions of dollars worth of arms from "arrogant and imperial powers,"...

 Putin Decision To Skip G8 Arouses Speculation On Motivations


Vladimir Putin's decision to skip next week's meeting of the G8 at Camp David has set off speculation on how this decision should be interpreted. The most pessimistic reading is that this is a deliberate snub and represents a continuation of the anti-Western policy that permeated Putin's election campaign. It essentially meant that the Obama administration's reset policy with the Russians

 Exile group: Iran advancing active nuclear arms program

An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Saturday that Iran has some 60 scientists and engineers involved in a concerted and expanding program to develop nuclear weapons under defense ministry auspices.However, diplomats say the National Council of Resistance of Iran has had a spotty record with allegations about Iran's nuclear work since exposing a secret uranium enrichment plant at Natanz in 2002. A top U.S. nuclear expert said the NCRI report, like previous ones, should be treated with great skepticism.
More than 60 nuclear experts at work building Iranian nuclear bomb

 The names and addresses of 60 Iranian experts employed by 11 different Iranian agencies under the control of the Iranian Defense Ministry were revealed Saturday, May 12, by the main Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI). This is the first time an extensive, highly secret, central organizational structure dedicated to building a nuclear weapon has been revealed in detail – specifically the Ministry of Defense under the command of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which also runs the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.

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