29/12/2011: DAILY NEWS

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

•  Haniyeh: Our Objective is to Eliminate All of Israel  
•  Israel says it will have to invade Gaza again
• Palestinians offer to renew Israel peace talks without settlement freeze, official says
• US in secret talks with Egypt junta on Israeli peace treaty
• Abbas primes West Bank for "Palestinian Resistance" (Third Intifada)

Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1-3)

• Doubts emerge before mission's end: Will Arab observers turn into false witnesses?
  • Russia, Egypt urge Syria-AL cooperation
  • Homs residents refuse to meet monitors with army present as death toll mounts
  • Syrian troops kill protesters despite monitors 
  • "Nothing frightening" seen in Syria protest hotbed: monitor
   

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

•  Qatar builds up anti-Syria Wahhabi army
•  Visions of War: Israel braces for Egyptian clash
•  Five killed as Yemen army, Qaeda fighters clash in south

Babylon, Iraq (Jeremiah 50:9, 13) (Jeremiah 51:6, 29, 37, 55, 64) (Revelation 18)

•  Allawi says Iraq headed for "sectarian autocracy"

Arab Nations (Ezekiel 38-39)

•  US Warns Iran Not to Close Strait of Hormuz 
•  Report: Israel, US mull Iran strike triggers
•  Iran to US: Stop leveling accusations
•  Iran tests advanced missiles, torpedoes
•  Oil standoff: Iran, West on brink of war?

Decline of United States (Hosea 4-14) 

•  Vietnam-era chemical poisons US farms

Global Pestilence: Drought (Rev 6:6) Floods (Luke 21:25) Earthquakes (Mat 24:7) 

•   Earthquake damages dozens of buildings in Siberia 
•  Why Russian scientists have listed the Siberian earthquake as a 9.5 event
•  Death-toll in killer flood from Tropical Storm Washi in Philippines rises to 1249