Israel Omen - Those who touch Israel will be cursed...
[Zec 12:3] "On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." [Psa 83:1-18]
Events listed here as a result of wrong choices...
Did YHVH's protective "Omen" come back to Israel when the Jews returned to their ancient land in 1948?
The Israel Omen “Dividing the Land” Blog powerfully reports a series of historically destructive events since 1991 to current, connected by a common thread: warnings found in Ancient Hebrew prophetic Scripture that Israel was not to be divided. Are these events the telling signs of an ancient Divine Omen, the same omen ignored by the Egyptians 3,500 years ago as Moses was leading the children of Israel out of Egypt by YHVH's mighty hand?
This Blog presents strong evidences that the "Four Horns" foretold in Zechariah 1:18-21 to be scattering Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem are the four nations of the "Quartet"!
As the nations of the world gather to remove the Jew from YHVH's promised Holy Land, the international group dubbed the Quartet is leading the effort. And, the same prophetic Scripture warns of YHVH's judgment against those nations attempting to divide Israel. Your view of current events might never be the same!
White House seeks Israeli agreement to negotiate on 1967 lines
The White House is pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly adopt President Obama’s view that Israel’s pre-1967 border should be the basis for future peace talks.
The Obama White House appealed to Jewish leaders on Friday that the request of Israel was part of an effort to head off Palestinian plans to declare an independent state at the United Nations in September.
The request of Mr. Netanyahu was made Monday to the prime minister’s top peace negotiator, Yitzhak Molcho at a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the National Security Council, according to an Israeli diplomat based in Jerusalem.
The diplomatic effort shows Mr. Obama is working to restart stalled negotiations on the creation of a Palestinian state, as many close U.S. counterterrorism allies in the region fall to the recent wave of revolutionary unrest called the Arab Spring.
Mr. Simon, who served as the Clinton White House’s top counter-terrorism official, said the United States had about a month to head off the Palestinian plan to declare a state during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting set for September.
“We have a month to see if we can work something out with the Israelis and Palestinians as accepting these principles as a basis for negotiations,” he said. “If that happens we are somewhat confident that the Palestinians will drop what they intend to do in the U.N.” Palestinian leaders have long said the 1967 lines, or the de facto borders of Israel prior to the 1967 Six-Day War, should be the basis of negotiations.
But since Israel’s victory in the war, successive governments have built Jewish suburbs in and around Jerusalem. Both Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed privately in 2008 talks, that most of these suburbs would remain part of Israel after a peace agreement, according to a Palestinian negotiation record first disclosed by Al-Jazeera.
Last month, Mr. Obama endorsed the Palestinian position on the 1967 lines in his speech on the Arab Spring. The New York Times reported that senior Obama administration officials were divided on whether the president should make mention of the 1967 lines in the way that he did.
The last minute inclusion in the speech of language using them was a surprise to Mr. Netanyahu, who was en route to Washington when the president delivered his speech.
The tension over the 1967 lines lessened after Mr. Obama spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee during Mr. Netanyahu’s visit. He clarified that the final borders between Israel and a future state of Palestine should take into account demographic realities and facts on the ground, a clarification that brought Mr. Obama closer to his predecessor President George W. Bush.
Mr. Bush, in 2004, wrote a letter to then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying it was “unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion.”
The Israelis have long considered that letter to be the basis of a set of agreements with the Bush administration that would shield the Jewish state from criticism for building roads, housing and other developments inside the boundaries of the Jerusalem area settlements known as Ma’ale Adumim
Mr. Bush’s letter was written a year before Mr. Sharon became the first Israeli leader since Menachem Begin to dismantle settlements, when he withdrew from Gaza and four other settlements in the West Bank.
In the conference call Friday, Mr. Simon said the United States would oppose a Palestinian unilateral declaration at the United Nations whether Israel adopted the Obama principles or not. He also said that the Palestinian leadership was divided on whether to proceed with the unilateral declaration in September.
Are the Palestinians going to unilaterally declare independence and ask the UN to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders this September? That is what many in the Israeli government now fear. At this point the Palestinians have pretty much given up on negotiations with Israel and they have initiated an all-out effort to get the international community behind their effort to achieve statehood in 2011. The Scriptures warn over and over again about dividing the land of Israel, and many believe that those warnings were put into the Bible for the last days. So could we actually see the UN establish a formal Palestinian state without the approval of Israel by the end of 2011? Unfortunately, a whole lot of signs are pointing in that direction.
A recent article in The New York Times noted the intense pressure that Israel is under right now. Basically the global community is telling them to give away the farm to the Palestinians or else the UN is just going to go ahead and do it anyway....
With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
So where is the incentive for the Palestinians to negotiate in all of this? If the Israelis don't give them a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital they will just wait for the UN to hand it to them.
Yes, it could really happen.
The following are 10 alarming signs that momentum is building for the UN to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state in 2011....
#1 The World Bank has publicly endorsed the formation of an independent Palestinian state.
#2 The IMF is formally backing the establishment of a Palestinian state in the near future.
#3 A recent United Nations report made the following statement about the Palestinian Authority: "In six areas where the UN is most engaged, governmental functions are now sufficient for a functioning government of a state."
#4 The Ad-hoc Liaison Committee on Palestine, composed of the EU, the United States, Canada, Norway, Russia, four Arab countries, the UN, the World Bank and the IMF, has endorsed the UN report and says that the Palestinians are ready for an independent state.
#5 U.S. and EU officials are warning that if Israel does not agree to a Palestinian state within the next few months, "the Quartet may be compelled to recognize a Palestinian State in the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital".
#6 It is being reported in the international media that the following 4 points form the core of Obama's strategy for bringing about a Palestinian state: "Israel's acceptance of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders; Palestinian acceptance that there would be no right to return to Israeli land; Jerusalem as the capital of both states; and the protection of Israel's security needs."
#7Earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the following statement about the situation in Israel: "The status quo between Palestinians and Israelis is no more sustainable than the political systems that have crumbled in recent months."
#9 The Palestinian Authority has set September 2011 as the deadline to be ready for statehood.
#10 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sounds convinced that Barack Obama is going to make good on his promise to deliver an independent state into the hands of the Palestinians by the end of the year: "We are counting on the words of U.S. President Barack Obama who said his vision is to see a Palestinian state this coming September according to a deadline set by the Quartet."
Sadly, an independent Palestinian state would probably only make war more likely.
The following is how author Joel C. Rosenberg recently explained it....
If the Palestinians make a unilateral declaration of what they want, what will stop Israel from unilaterally declaring what they want? What if the Palestinians try to forcibly evict the Jews living in the West Bank? Those Jews would certainly fight back. Would the Israeli military move to defend the Jewish settlers? Would Palestinian security forces then fire upon the Israeli forces? Would the U.N. move into to condemn and isolate Israel, and even impose draconian economic sanctions on the Jewish state? Events could spiral out of control. Indeed, the likelihood is that far more violence — not peace — would result by such a Palestinian declaration of statehood outside the context of negotiations with Israel.
Unfortunately, even if the Palestinians get a state, there is going to be a massive war in the Middle East.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah is arming to the teeth and they are absolutely obsessed with driving Israel into the sea.
Syria had been getting ready for war for decades, and it is almost certainly just a matter of time before Israel and Syria go head to head.
Iran continues to develop their nuclear program and it is seemingly inevitable that at some point the Israelis will strike them in order to stop that.
Egypt has just taken a hard turn towards radical Islam and a recent poll found that the majority of the Egyptian people are in favor of ending the peace treaty with Israel.
So, no, the Middle East is not getting closer to peace.
In fact, it is getting much closer to war.
We live in very unstable times. Please pray for peace in the Middle East.
Are the Palestinians going to unilaterally declare independence and ask the UN to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders this September? That is what many in the Israeli government now fear. At this point the Palestinians have pretty much given up on negotiations with Israel and they have initiated an all-out effort to get the international community behind their effort to achieve statehood in 2011. The Scriptures warn over and over again about dividing the land of Israel, and many believe that those warnings were put into the Bible for the last days. So could we actually see the UN establish a formal Palestinian state without the approval of Israel by the end of 2011? Unfortunately, a whole lot of signs are pointing in that direction.
A recent article in The New York Times noted the intense pressure that Israel is under right now. Basically the global community is telling them to give away the farm to the Palestinians or else the UN is just going to go ahead and do it anyway....
With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
So where is the incentive for the Palestinians to negotiate in all of this? If the Israelis don't give them a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital they will just wait for the UN to hand it to them.
Yes, it could really happen.
The following are 10 alarming signs that momentum is building for the UN to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state in 2011.... #1 The World Bank has publicly endorsed the formation of an independent Palestinian state. #2 The IMF is formally backing the establishment of a Palestinian state in the near future. #3 A recent United Nations report made the following statement about the Palestinian Authority: "In six areas where the UN is most engaged, governmental functions are now sufficient for a functioning government of a state." #4 The Ad-hoc Liaison Committee on Palestine, composed of the EU, the United States, Canada, Norway, Russia, four Arab countries, the UN, the World Bank and the IMF, has endorsed the UN report and says that the Palestinians are ready for an independent state. #5 U.S. and EU officials are warning that if Israel does not agree to a Palestinian state within the next few months, "the Quartet may be compelled to recognize a Palestinian State in the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital". #6 It is being reported in the international media that the following 4 points form the core of Obama's strategy for bringing about a Palestinian state: "Israel's acceptance of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders; Palestinian acceptance that there would be no right to return to Israeli land; Jerusalem as the capital of both states; and the protection of Israel's security needs." #7Earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the following statement about the situation in Israel: "The status quo between Palestinians and Israelis is no more sustainable than the political systems that have crumbled in recent months." #8 New Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi is now asking the United States to formally recognize a Palestinian state. #9 The Palestinian Authority has set September 2011 as the deadline to be ready for statehood. #10 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sounds convinced that Barack Obama is going to make good on his promise to deliver an independent state into the hands of the Palestinians by the end of the year: "We are counting on the words of U.S. President Barack Obama who said his vision is to see a Palestinian state this coming September according to a deadline set by the Quartet."
Sadly, an independent Palestinian state would probably only make war more likely.
The following is how author Joel C. Rosenberg recently explained it....
If the Palestinians make a unilateral declaration of what they want, what will stop Israel from unilaterally declaring what they want? What if the Palestinians try to forcibly evict the Jews living in the West Bank? Those Jews would certainly fight back. Would the Israeli military move to defend the Jewish settlers? Would Palestinian security forces then fire upon the Israeli forces? Would the U.N. move into to condemn and isolate Israel, and even impose draconian economic sanctions on the Jewish state? Events could spiral out of control. Indeed, the likelihood is that far more violence — not peace — would result by such a Palestinian declaration of statehood outside the context of negotiations with Israel.
Unfortunately, even if the Palestinians get a state, there is going to be a massive war in the Middle East.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah is arming to the teeth and they are absolutely obsessed with driving Israel into the sea.
Syria had been getting ready for war for decades, and it is almost certainly just a matter of time before Israel and Syria go head to head.
Iran continues to develop their nuclear program and it is seemingly inevitable that at some point the Israelis will strike them in order to stop that.
Egypt has just taken a hard turn towards radical Islam and a recent poll found that the majority of the Egyptian people are in favor of ending the peace treaty with Israel.
So, no, the Middle East is not getting closer to peace.
In fact, it is getting much closer to war.
We live in very unstable times. Please pray for peace in the Middle East.
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