Showing posts with label Peace Talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peace Talks. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Kerry: Israeli ‘prosperity’ preventing sense of urgency about peace

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President Shimon Peres meets with US Senator John Kerry at the President's Residence in Jerusalem in May 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israelis’ “sense of security” prevents them from feeling sufficient urgency to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Jerusalem Thursday, warning of fast-approaching “challenges” that required a change of approach for the Jewish State.
“I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue,” Kerry told reporters before entering a meeting with President Shimon Peres. “People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there will be peace because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and of prosperity.”

Sunday, February 17, 2013

President Obama’s planned trip to Israel already has secured pledges from Israel and Palestine to restart talks

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President Obama’s planned trip to Israel already has secured pledges from Israel and Palestine to restart talks, according to a WND report this week.

Informed Palestinian and Israeli officials speaking to WND disclosed the Obama administration told both sides the talks would be aimed at creating a Palestinian state in what is known as the 1967 borders, meaning an Israeli retreat from some of the strategic West Bank and possibly some eastern section of Jerusalem.
 
But what if those talks didn’t matter? What if the U.S. opinion on borders didn’t have any weight?
That’s the message behind the video “Israel Divided: The World’s Plan to Divide God’s Land” by an organization called Proclaiming Justice to the Nations.

Its unique ministry is to educate media professionals, Christian leaders and Christians around the world about the biblical responsibilities to act against the “new anti-Semitism.”

The film will be screened at the 2013 International Christian Prayer and Action Event March 3 in Nashville, Tenn., in conjunction with the annual National Religious Broadcasters Convention.
Information about the events is available online.

Joining the event will be WND CEO Joseph Farah, who last year was presented with the “Ed McAteer Tree of Life Award” at the weekend.

PJTN President Laurie Cardoza-Moore made the presentation to Farah.

“I’m deeply honored to receive this award,’ Farah said at the time. “The late Ed McAteer was a great friend – as is Laurie Cardoza-Moore, who has taken up his fight to unite Christians and Jews in the U.S. and around the world.”

Also on hand will be PJTN advisory board member and WND columnist Dennis Prager, CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell and Erwin Lutzer, senior pastor at Moody Bible Church.

Further, the No. 1 faith movie in the country for an unprecedented 40-plus weeks, “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” also will be screened.

The two-hour documentary released last March illustrates the striking parallels between ancient Israel’s fall and the decline of America since 9/11.

Farah, who produced the project, said he is immensely pleased with its performance. The documentary is a treatment of the best-selling book “The Harbinger” by Jonathan Cahn, which has been on the top 10 of the New York Times list every week since it was released in January 2012.

Cahn also will speak at the PJTN event.

“A number of years ago, as I was standing at the edge of Ground Zero in New York City, I came across the first puzzle piece of an ancient biblical mystery and a prophetic message known as ‘The Harbinger’ that concerns the future of America,” explained Cahn, who helped write the two-hour documentary “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” and narrates it.



Cahn said he has found nine harbingers that tie the problems America has experienced since Sept. 11, 2001, with parallels that led to the destruction of ancient Israel.

“Before God judges a nation, He sends warning,” explains Cahn. “He sent warnings to ancient Israel. He even allowed its enemies to breach its borders in a devastating strike that would traumatize the nation. It was a wake-up call, the call to return to God. But the nation responded with defiance. God then gave nine harbingers of judgment, nine prophetic signs, alarms and foreshadows of what was to come. Now America is the nation in rapid departure from God’s will. And God likewise allowed an enemy to breach its borders in a devastating strike – the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was, likewise, a wake-up call. But America, like Israel, has not responded with repentance, but with defiance. And now the nine harbingers of judgment have reappeared and have done so on American soil.”

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In Isaiah 9:10, Israel’s national leaders utter a vow of defiance following an attack by Assyria. The leaders declared that the nation would not repent before God but would defy Him instead. Cahn reveals in “The Harbinger” – and in even more dramatic fashion in the movie– that beginning the day after Sept. 11, 2001, American leaders began repeating that 2,500-year-old vow, word for word.



Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, immediately after 9/11, cited the Bible verse.

“Daschle has no idea what he is doing here,” explained Cahn. “He thinks he’s offering comforting words to a grief-stricken people, but he is actually embracing the spiritually defiant and arrogant words of the children of Israel, proclaiming the ancient and ominous vow of the leaders of that nation. He doesn’t realize it, but he is actually inviting more judgment on the nation.”

Cahn said that like the U.S., Israel suffered an invasion and attack. The people, however, responded with their vow to rebuild by themselves and not return to God. Cahn fears the name circumstances developed in the U.S., and continue even today.

“According to the ancient mystery revealed in the Book of Isaiah, if after that first calamity and warning, the nation doesn’t return to God but responds in defiance, it will end up triggering a second calamity,” he said. “It was because of this ancient key, that, seven years after 9/11, the American economy collapsed. In the days after 9/11, the Federal Reserve slashed the base interest rate in an attempt to defy the consequences of the attacks. That action put us on the path leading to the collapse of the American economy seven years later. In 2008, the government made a second fatal mistake, another ill-fated financial decision that would trigger the collapse of the American economy.

Amazingly, it took place on the seventh anniversary of the uttering of the ancient vow on Capitol Hill.”

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

No new peace proposals in Obama visit to Israel – only Iran, Syria

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Talking at UN Headquarters last September
 
President Barack Obama is not coming to Israel to advance new proposals or break the peace talks deadlock with the Palestinians, the White House said Wednesday night, Feb. 6. US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said earlier he was coming in the spring for consultation major issues: preventing a nuclear Iran and the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria – not to make demands. Working relations between Obama and Netanyahu were “excellent,” he said.
The US ambassador was answering a question by a Kol Israel national radio interviewer early Wednesday, Feb. 6. The US ambassador said the president does not expect to issue a joint statement after his talks with the Israeli prime minister, but sought to affirm the deep and strengthened ties between the US and Israel.

Shapiro: Obama’s visit would take place after the new Israeli government was in place.

debkafile: Obama’s forthcoming visit has abruptly strengthened the prime minister’s hand in the negotiations for a post-election government coalition and refocused its agenda from haggling on domestic issues to establishing a broad security-diplomatic front. Party leaders such as Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) are already muting their demands for joining government.

debkafile reported Tuesday, Feb. 5:

The day Israel announced the posting of extra Iron Dome and Patriot anti-missile interceptors in its northern regions, Tuesday, Feb. 5, the White House in Washington disclosed that US President Barack Obama would be visiting Israel in the spring. The visit had been discussed when Obama phoned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Jan. 28 to congratulate him on his success in Israel’s recent election.

The communique went on to say that the US president was coming to discuss issues of common interest such as furthering the peace process but added, the start of Obama's second term offers an opportunity to reaffirm Israel's close relationship with the US and to discuss major issues like Syria and Iran.”
debkafile translates this as referring to the chemical weapons in the hands of Syria and most likely Hizballah as well as Iran’s nuclear program. The date of his visit was not released.

debkafile’s sources have divided the White House bulletin into two parts: security and political.

The reference to Syria and Iran as the “major issues” to be discussed in the framework of the “close relationship” points to Washington and Jerusalem being on the same wavelength on the military actions taken by Israel in Syria last week and those still to come.
It is also a signal from the White House to Tehran, Damascus and Hizballah that in so far as those three allies are planning reprisals for those actions, they will find the United States standing behind Israel.

The IDF command’s announcement expanding the areas of northern Israeli under the anti-missile interceptor shield was released shortly before the White House communiqué and during Israel’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz talks at US military chiefs in Washington.
According to the IDF bulletin, an extra Patriot missile interceptor and a third Iron Dome battery was deployed in Lower Galilee, a region which covers key towns north of Tel Aviv: Afula, Nazareth, Yoqn’am and Hadera. Batteries were posted earlier outside Haifa and areas of Upper Galilee closer to the Syrian and Lebanese borders.
The Israeli military command is therefore taking into account that some two million Israelis are potentially in danger of missile attack.

The Obama administration cannot be sure if the president’s visit, his first since 2008, will take place before or after a possible confrontation between Israel and Iran, Syria and Hizballah.

As for the political message, the White House announced the coming presidential visit on the day that the newly-elected Israeli Knesset held its first sitting in Jerusalem. It belied the propaganda pumped out by Netanyahu’s political foes throughout the election campaign, accusing him of souring ties with the Obama administration.
By announcing the coming visit at this time, President Obama showed the party leaders who are hanging tough in talks for a coalition government that Netanyahu has his confidence and support and the two leaders are in close rapport on major issues.
Last year, debkafile, alone of any other publication, disclosed that Obama and Netanyahu had reached an understanding to embark on regional initiatives in a spirit of partnership straight after the Israeli election.

President Obama’s trip will also include the West Bank and Jordan.