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Response to Rockets: Gaza Fishing Zone Halved

Senior defense source: Israel will not allow Hamas to "drizzle" rockets again.

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By Gil Ronen

First Publish: 3/21/2013, 10:47 PM

Moshe Yaalon

Reuters

Israel has responded to the firing of four rockets at Sderot Thursday by cutting the permitted fishing zone for Gaza fishermen in half, from six miles to three miles offshore. This brings the fishing zone back to its size before Operation Pillar of Defense.
"We will not allow Hamas to go back to the previous situation of a 'rocket drizzle,' and the entire defense establishment is in agreement on this matter," a senior defense force in southern command told Arutz Sheva.

Abbas Welcomes Obama's Jerusalem Speech

PA chairman welcomes President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem, as Hamas condemns Obama for “adopting Israel’s position”.

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By Elad Benari

First Publish: 3/22/2013, 2:16 AM

Abbas and Obama in Ramallah

Reuters

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas welcomed President Barack Obama’s speech in Jerusalem on Thursday, while Hamas condemned Obama for “adopting Israel’s position”.
"President Abbas welcomed President Obama's speech in Jerusalem saying that achieving peace and the option of two states on the 1967 borders are the way to bring security for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples," the PA’s peace negotiator Saeb Erekat told AFP.

Khamenei: Iran Will 'Annihilate' Tel Aviv, Haifa

Iran will "annihilate" Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, warned supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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By Rachel Hirshfeld

First Publish: 3/21/2013, 6:04 PM

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

AFP file

Iran will "annihilate" the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, "supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday.

"Every now and then the leaders of the Zionist regime threaten Iran with a military attack," Khamenei said in a live televised speech from the northeastern city of Mashhad, referring to Israel.

"They should know that if they commit such a blunder, the Islamic republic will annihilate Tel Aviv and Haifa," he said, according to the AFP news agency.

Egypt: Judges Recommend Dissolution of Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian judges recommend the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood, say it has no legal status.

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By Elad Benari

First Publish: 3/21/2013, 6:15 AM

Protest against Muslim Brotherhood policies

Reuters

A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, from which President Mohammed Morsi hails, saying it has no legal status.
According to a report on the website of the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, the State Commissioners Board (SCB) recommended on Wednesday that the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) reject a longstanding appeal by the Muslim Brotherhood to revoke the 1954 decision made by former President Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), declaring the group illegal and ordering its dismantling.

Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Financial Pyramid Scheme By The Numbers

By Michael, on March 20th, 2013

Why is the global economy in so much trouble? How can so many people be so absolutely certain that the world financial system is going to crash? Well, the truth is that when you take a look at the cold, hard numbers it is not difficult to see why the global financial pyramid scheme is destined to fail. In the United States today, there is approximately 56 trillion dollars of total debt in our financial system, but there is only about 9 trillion dollars in our bank accounts. So you could take every single penny out of the banks, multiply it by six, and you still would not have enough money to pay off all of our debts. Overall, there is about 190 trillion dollars of total debt on the planet. But global GDP is only about 70 trillion dollars. And the total notional value of all derivatives around the globe is somewhere between 600 trillion and 1500 trillion dollars. So we have a gigantic problem on our hands. The global financial system is a very shaky house of cards that has been constructed on a foundation of debt, leverage and incredibly risky derivatives. We are living in the greatest financial bubble in world history, and it isn't going to take much to topple the entire thing. And when it falls, it is going to be the largest financial disaster in the history of the planet.

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

Netanyahu at Merkaz HaRav: "I Will Never Divide Jerusalem"

The traditional Jerusalem Day celebrations at the flagship religious Zionist yeshiva, Merkaz HaRav Kook, took place on Sunday evening so as not to cause desecration of the Sabbath. This year, in addition to words of Torah about the city, dancing and joyous song led by famed clarinetist Musa Berlin and singer Akiva Margaliot, they included an historical revelation by the head of the yeshiva and an emotional declaration of loyalty to united Jerusalem by the Prime Minister himself, who vowed "I will never forget thee, O Jerusalem"...

IRGC films US aircraft carrier for 50 minutes: Iran commander

A high-ranking Iranian military official says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces have filmed a US aircraft carrier for 50 minutes.Commander of the IRGC's Second Naval Zone Rear Admiral Ali Razmjou said Saturday that the forces could record the film at a distance of 500 meters (0.31 mile) from the US military vessel.He said that the development shows only part of the IRGC’s might and prowess in the Persian Gulf.

Major crack in the south wall of Fukushima reactor 4: is this the end of the world as we know it?

May 20, 2012 – TOKYO – If there isn’t a large crack there is still the issue of the severely damaged Unit Number Four building ‘tilting.’ The 1500 spent fuel rods pond almost suspended in air on the fifth floor and the extreme potential for a slight earthquake or explosion to unleash a catastrophic radioactive chain of events ‘much worse than Chernobyl.’ “The spent fuel in the hobbled unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi not only sits in an elevated pool outside the reactor core’s reinforced containment, in a high-consequence earthquake zone adjacent to the ocean...

6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan

May 20, 2012 – TOKYO - Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.0-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert. The 6.2-magnitude quake struck at 4:20pm (0720 GMT) off Japan’s northeast Pacific coast, the national meteorological agency said, followed by a tremor with a reading of 5.7 at 4:28pm. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the magnitude of the first quake at 6.0. The depth of both quakes was about 10 kilometers, the agency said.

UFO alarm sounds around North Island

There have been an "unprecedented" number of UFO sightings reported in the North Island over the past two months, UFO watchers say. And aliens may even have visited Northland in the past five weeks, with one man reporting seeing a UFO land in the region, Suzanne Hansen, director from Ufocus NZ research network said. She said: "He's a very credible source. He saw an object that had landed and said it was definitely not an aircraft or like anything else he had seen.

Preaching the Gospel (Mat 24:14)

Is Pope Benedict the 2nd to the last pope?

I was watching a TV replay of last Wednesday’s Senate Impeachment trial where the complainants who filed a case in the Office of the Ombudsman like Rep. Lisa Hontiveros, Harvey Keh and Atty. Emmanuel Santos were on the hot seat. In the end, what the Defense proved was that the evidence presented by the complainants could not be authenticated nor verified as true. In short, Filipinos just heard a pack of lies on nationwide television coming from supposedly civic-minded people who turned out to be part and parcel of this zarsuela to convict Chief Justice Renato Corona.