Civil Administration officially approves E1 building plan

The public has two months to petition against the proposed construction of some 3,000 housing units east of the capital, which many claim will kill the 2-state solution

 

 

The Civil Administration Planning Council on Wednesday approved plans for the construction of some 3,000 housing units in the E1 area between East Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim. The hurriedly scheduled meeting of the council was a result of government pressure, apparently to demonstrate a determination to go ahead with the construction in an extremely sensitive area despite global condemnation.

 

The public now has two months to file objections to the proposal before it goes to the District Planning Committee for final approval.

 

The E1 housing expansion was announced last Friday, a day after the UN voted to upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s status to nonmember observer state. On Sunday the government announced plans to expand Jerusalem’s Givat Hamatos and Ramat Shlomo neighborhoods, and on Wednesday Army Radio reported that the Jerusalem Region Planning and Construction Committee will meet in two weeks to review plans for additional housing units in Gilo, also in East Jerusalem.

 

The government, which announced some of the plans as a response to the Palestinian Authority’s success at the UN General Assembly last Thursday, maintains that the construction projects are in accordance with Israel’s strategic interests and that the state is within its rights to build there. At the same time, officials have said the E1 project is only at the preliminary stage.

 

Israeli ambassadors in several European countries and in Egypt were summoned by their host countries in recent days to be rebuked for the building plans, and the US has led calls for Israel to reconsider.

 

E1 is particularly controversial because Israeli building there could prevent a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank and cut off the West Bank from East Jerusalem.

 

Gilo, built on land Israel captured during the Six Day War and subsequently annexed, is widely regarded overseas as an illegal settlement. The plan for some 900 new housing units was first announced in October and immediately drew condemnation from the international community.

 

“This is just one plan in a series of projects that the government approved,” said committee member and Jerusalem city councilman Yair Gabai about the proposed construction in Gilo.

 

Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Wednesday that the Palestinians will ask the UN Security Council to demand a halt to construction of both E1 and Givat Hamatos.

 

“If the Israelis build E1 and Givat Hamatos, it means the idea of peace, the idea of a two-state solution, will disappear,” he said.

 

“If the US can stop the Israelis without the Security Council, they should do it,” he said. “They (the Americans) cannot stop us and use the veto against people trying to save the peace process.”

 

Several Israeli opposition figures, meanwhile, have slammed the government over the plans, and branded the flurry of construction announcements as counterproductive and as short-sighted electioneering by a government that wants to attract right-wing voters ahead of the January 22 elections.

 

Peace Now’s Settlement Watch director Hagit Ofran told Army Radio Wednesday that the declarations were a sign of election panic.

 

“The unprecedented announcements of construction in settlement areas is not a punishment for the Palestinians but for Israel,” she said. “We don’t deserve to have the government of Israel turn us into a state that objects to peace and is isolated by the world.”

 

 

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Abbas says settlement plans are a 'red line'

Israel's plan to build new housing units in Jerusalem and the West Bank, especially in the area known as E1, is a red line because it will divide the Palestinian lands, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cautioned Wednesday.

Speaking to Palestinian journalists in his Ramallah office, Abbas said that the PA leadership has been in contact with several international parties to prevent Israel from implementing its plan.

"If that happens, we will resort to all legitimate and legal methods," Abbas said, hinting at the possibility that the PA may lodge a complaint against Israel with the UN's International Criminal Court. "There is what we could do and say to prevent this dangerous decision."

Abbas said that all Israeli measures on the ground must be removed "because international law forbids the occupation from taking any action in the lands of an occupied state."

Today, Abbas added, "We are an occupied state and the 4th Geneva Convention applies to us as a non-member observer state in the UN General Assembly."

Abbas revealed that the PA has set up a special committee to discuss the Palestinians' future steps in wake of their success at the UN.

The committee will discuss all legal aspects and ways of applying for membership in various international organizations and agencies, he said.

Abbas said that the decision to go to the UN was not aimed at delegitimizing or isolating Israel. "Rather, we want to live in security and stability with Israel," he stressed. "Israel used to say that this is a disputed land. We went to the UN to affirm that this is a state under occupation and it is forbidden  to change its demographic character."

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WOW, if you talk to me about my views on fallen angels my views are exactly like his! He is a scholar and spent years on this and my experience and studies aren't even a year yet! I think God is trying to tell us this to warn us! Aliens Hybrids, Genetics & Satan! CHRISTIANS NEED TO LISTEN TO GOD SPEAK!

Hebrew scholar and expert in biblical prophecy, Douglas Hamp, warned that we're entering into an era of genetic manipulation that will set the stage for celestial intervention into the affairs of mankind. He predicted that within the next ten years a major disclosure event will take place which will convince the public to cooperate with aliens (who are actually demons rather than ETs) to participate in the next level of evolution. These aliens are using a hybridization program, mixing human genetics with the Satanic, in order to create an army to fight Jesus upon his return, he postulated. Further, he suggested that the hybrids might be currently kept in underground facilities.

He correlated such beings with biblical accounts, in which the Nephilim or fallen angels, mated with human females, and had offspring, some of whom were said to be giants. Scientific tampering with the genetic code, such as with recombinant DNA, may lead to the possibility that people will be offered genetic enhancements, and if they accept them they'll be turned into Satanic hybrids, akin to the Bible's 'mark of the beast,' Hamp commented.

Biography:

Douglas Hamp graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with an M.A. in the Hebrew Bible and Its World. He is a specialist in ancient languages including Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek. He is the author of three books and dozens of articles and has lectured on biblical languages, creationism and prophecy in the United States and internationally for over eight years in English and Spanish.

Behold, the beginnings of the Human Hybrid Grey Alien Agenda
(A.K.A. The Hybrid Integration Program)

As science fiction as this may sound, this is the truth behind the elusive aliens that claim thousands of abductions eachyear. When abducted, many people report that they are probed and stuck with needles in and around their reproductiveorgans. This is where Grey Aliens begin the process of extracting human DNA that allows Grey Aliens to cross breedtheir own DNA and create Human/Alien Hybrids that will allow them to perpetuate their alien race.

One scientist like David M. Jacobs, Director of the International Center for Abduction Research states, "aliens wouldabduct humans to cross-breed their DNA with ours and create an army of hybrid creatures that would slightly invade ourplanet. Although we may disagree with this theory and its details about aliens taking over through this program, the general idea of what is going on is there."

To our knowledge, Grey Aliens and their Hybrid Program is not set out to conquer our own planet, but to solve their dyingraces' issue and continue to live among the cosmos. However, we must also remember, they were creatures created forthe sole purpose of producing nutrition for the Reptilian Race; their nutrition is negative energy, so evil intentions would suite them fine.

Once someone has been abducted and placed into the infamous room with blinding
lights and metallic tables, it said that they feel a sense of drowsiness, but it is not drugs
that paralyse the individual, but the telekinetic powers of the Grey Aliens that subdue
the abductee.

Here, men and women are carefully subdued and the process begins for the extraction
of human embryos or male sperm. Grey Aliens utilize the sperm for the hybrid process
where the DNAs are mixed, and then the sperms are inserted into the embryos. Then,
they wait!

In one instance, a woman reported that while abducted she was impregnated and
released. Once the embryo reached a certain age, she was abducted again so the
aliens could extract her baby and begin the mixing of the DNAs.

Official: Syria moving chemical weapons components

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. and allied intelligence have detected Syrian movement of chemical weapons components in recent days, a senior U.S. defense official said Monday, as the Obama administration strongly warned the Assad regime against using them.

 

A senior defense official said intelligence officials have detected activity around more than one of Syria’s chemical weapons sites in the last week. The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about intelligence matters.

 

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Prague for meetings with Czech officials, reiterated President Barack Obama’s declaration that Syrian action on chemical weapons was a “red line” for the United States that would prompt action.

 

“We have made our views very clear: This is a red line for the United States,” Clinton told reporters. “I’m not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. But suffice it to say, we are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur.”

 

Syria said Monday it would not use chemical weapons against its own people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Syria “would not use chemical weapons – if there are any – against its own people under any circumstances.”

 

Syria has been careful never to confirm that it has any chemical weapons.

 

The use of chemical weapons would be a major escalation in Assad’s crackdown on his foes and would draw international condemnation. In addition to causing mass deaths and horrific injuries to survivors, the regime’s willingness to use them would alarm much of the region, particularly neighboring states, including Israel.

 

At the White House, press secretary Jay Carney said, “We are concerned that in an increasingly beleaguered regime, having found its escalation of violence through conventional means inadequate, might be considering the use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people. And as the president has said, any use or proliferation of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime would cross a red line for the United States. “

 

Administration officials would not detail what that response might be.

 

Although Syria is one of only seven nations that have not signed the Chemical Weapons Treaty, it is a party to the 1925 Geneva Protocol that bans the use of chemical weapons in war. That treaty was signed in the aftermath of World War I, when the effects of the use of mustard gas and other chemical agents outraged much of the world.

 

Clinton didn’t address the issue of the fresh activity at Syrian chemical weapons depots, but insisted that Washington would address any threat that arises.

 

An administration official said the trigger for U.S. action of some kind is the use of chemical weapons or movement with the intent to use or provide them to a terrorist group like Hezbollah. The U.S. is trying to determine whether the recent movement detected in Syria falls into any of those categories, the official said. The administration official was speaking on condition of anonymity this person was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue.

The senior defense official said the U.S. does not believe that any Syrian action beyond the movement of components is imminent.

 

An Israeli official said if there is real movement on chemical weapons, it would require a response. He didn’t say what that might be and spoke on condition of anonymity pending a formal government response to the reports of the latest activities.

Israeli officials have repeatedly expressed concerns that Syrian chemical weapons could slip into the hands of Hezbollah or other anti-Israel groups, or even be fired toward Israel in an act of desperation by Syria.

 

Syria is believed to have several hundred ballistic surface-to-surface missiles capable of carrying chemical warheads.

 

Its arsenal is a particular threat to the American allies, Turkey and Israel, and Obama singled out the threat posed by the unconventional weapons earlier this year as a potential cause for deeper U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war. Up to now, the United States has opposed military intervention or providing arms support to Syria’s rebels for fear of further militarizing a conflict that activists say has killed more than 40,000 people since March 2011.

 

Clinton said that while the actions of President Bashar Assad’s government have been deplorable, chemical weapons would bring them to a new level.

 

“We once again issue a very strong warning to the Assad regime that their behavior is reprehensible, their actions against their own people have been tragic,” she said. “But there is no doubt that there’s a line between even the horrors that they’ve already inflicted on the Syrian people and moving to what would be an internationally condemned step of utilizing their chemical weapons.”

 

Activity has been detected before at Syrian weapons sites, believed to number several dozen.

 

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in late September the intelligence suggested the Syrian government had moved some of its chemical weapons in order to protect them. He said the U.S. believed that the main sites remained secure.

 

Asked Monday if they were still considered secure, Pentagon press secretary George Little declined to comment about any intelligence related to the weapons.

 

Senior lawmakers were notified last week that U.S. intelligence agencies had detected activity related to Syria’s chemical and biological weapons, said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door meetings. All congressional committees with an interest in Syria, from the intelligence to the armed services committees, are now being kept informed.

 

“I can’t comment on these reports but I have been very concerned for some time now about Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons and its stocks of advanced conventional weapons like shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles,” said House intelligence committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich. “We are not doing enough to prepare for the collapse of the Assad regime, and the dangerous vacuum it will create. Use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime would be an extremely serious escalation that would demand decisive action from the rest of the world,” he added.

 

Syria is believed to have one of the world’s largest chemical weapons programs, and the Assad regime has said it might use the weapons against external threats, though not against Syrians. The U.S. and Jordan share the same concern about Syria’s chemical and biological weapons – that they could fall into the wrong hands should the regime in Syria collapse and lose control of them.

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Pray for PEACE of Jerusalem

EU discuss possibility of all 27 states writing to J'lem to express discontent, call in Israeli envoys for consultations.

EU mulls response to settlement building plans

 

 

 

BRUSSELS - European Union states struggled to agree on Tuesday on a common response to Israel's plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, highlighting the divisions within the bloc over how to tackle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

At a meeting in Brussels, ambassadors responsible for security issues discussed the possibility of all 27 EU states writing to Jerusalem to express their displeasure or calling in Israeli ambassadors for consultations, as five EU countries have already done.

No formal decisions were taken during the meeting and the issue will be discussed further on Friday, EU diplomats told Reuters. But it remains possible that language censoring Israel could be included in a statement to be issued by EU foreign ministers after a meeting on December 10 in Brussels, they said.

"We have agreed on a recommendation so it is not obligatory," one EU diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Divisions in Europe over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were highlighted last week when the bloc's 27 governments failed to find a common position on the United Nations General Assembly vote on a de facto recognition of a of state of Palestine.

Fourteen European governments backed the Palestinians' successful bid for a status upgrade at the UN, but 12 abstained and one, the Czech Republic, voted against it.

The EU has repeatedly spoken out against Israeli settlements on land that the Palestinians want for their state, saying they hinder peace efforts and undermine the chances of creating a state of Palestine.

But some governments are wary of pushing the Israeli government too hard and hurting EU ambitions to build up its credentials as a power broker in the Middle East and bolster its voice on the diplomatic stage.

The EU is the biggest foreign aid donor to the Palestinians, providing them around 300 million euros ($393 million) a year from the EU budget. Individual governments add a similar amount in addition to that, with the funds spent on direct budget support, refugees and Palestinian institution-building.

EU officials argue that European support to Palestinian state-building efforts in the West Bank, and other policies, were an important ingredient of international efforts to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

But the EU's leverage with the Israelis is limited and its aid to the Palestinians far outweighed by Washington's economic and military support for Israel.

The United States has ratcheted up criticism of Israel over the new settlement plans, urging it to reconsider despite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's refusal to back down. Washington has so far stopped short of threatening any concrete measures against the Jewish state.

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Israel accuses US of backing European settlement backlash

Israel has accused its closest ally, the United States, of endorsing a concerted European backlash against its plans to expand settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank

 

Five European countries, including Britain, have registered formal protests with Israeli ambassadors over last week’s decision by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to build 3,000 settlers’ homes and develop an area of the West Bank that could render a Palestinian state unviable.

Along with Australia and Brazil, they were joined by Egypt, threatening to destabilise its fragile regional relations.

The Egyptian foreign minister said it had registered a “strong protest” with Israel’s Cairo ambassador over the proposals.

Despite the mounting international protest however, Mr Netanyahu’s office indicated there would be no backing down over its settlement plans.

An official in Mr Netanyahu’s office told the AFP news agency: “There will be no change in the decision that has been made.”
 

He spoke after Israel said that, in addition to last week’s announcement, it would also revisit plans to build 1,700 homes in Ramot Shlomo in east Jerusalem, and another 2,600 in Givat Hamatos.

 

The Ramot Shlomo development was shelved in 2010 after it provoked a row with the US.

 

 

Britain, France, Sweden, Spain and Denmark all summoned Israeli envoys on Tuesday to protest over the settlement plans, while Germany and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, denounced it.

 

 

The newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, quoted unnamed Israeli diplomats as saying the outcry could not have occurred without the complicity of the Obama administration, which has profound differences with Mr Netanyahu over settlements.

 

“We would not be mistaken to say that Europe was acting with Washington’s encouragement,” the paper’s commentator, Shimon Shiffer wrote. “The White House authorised Europe to pounce on the Netanyahu government and to punish it.”

 

One Israeli official told the Daily Telegraph that while the US was unlikely to have ordered such a move, it may have signalled approval.

 

“It’s more likely that they [the Americans] have been informed and have not raised any objection, but also showed some understanding and maybe even more,” he said. “There’s probably an understanding between the US and the Europeans that this is the right thing to do at this point.”

 

The former US ambassador to Israel, Dan Kurtzer, accused Mr Netanyahu of unveiling plans to develop the previously off-limits E1 section of the West Bank to punish President Barack Obama for failing to endorse a previous American-Israeli understanding that many settlements would remain despite any future peace deal. “It wasn’t just retribution at the UN, it was retribution at the US as well,” he told the liberal Haaretz newspaper.

 

William Hague, the foreign secretary, dismissed the possibility of European Union sanctions against Israel but said other measures could be applied.

 

“If there is no reversal of the decision that has been announced, we will want to consider what further steps European countries should take,” he said.

 

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