Just posted this on my website...
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In a Hurry
Recently elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's victory speech on March 29 was telling. As reported by The Jerusalem Post, these were among the first 'on the record' remarks made my Olmert following his March 28 election victory:
"In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority," he said. "We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians."
The agenda for Olmert's newly formed government is unambiguous. Even as his coalition government was being sworn in on May 5th, the world learned of Olmert's plans to divide Jerusalem in the coming months. As [I]WorldNetDaily reported that same day:
"'We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,' Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
"Most Jerusalem neighborhoods with large Arab populations would be given to the Palestinians, he said.
"'Those same neighborhoods will, in my assessment, be central to the makeup of the Palestinian capital ... al-Quds,' said Schneller, calling Jerusalem by its Arabic name."[ii]
Olmert is operating with a sense of urgency, and in an April interview with The Wall Street Journal Olmert told the world he planned to "finalize plans for a large pullout from parts of the West Bank within the next 18 months."[iii]
Olmert further stated, "The State of Israel will change the face of the region. "I will not miss this opportunity."[iv]
These 18 months correspond with the final period of the George W. Bush Presidency, and Olmert has made it clear that he wants to complete his plan while Bush is still in the White House. For example:
"It is time for the Palestinians to change their ethos, to accept compromise as soon as possible. If they manage to do this soon, we will sit and work out a plan. If not, Israel will take control of its own fate, and in consensus among our people and with the agreement of the world and US President George Bush, we will act. The time has come to act," he said.[v]
Bush promptly invited Olmert to Washington.[vi]
Last week Voice of America News quoted a Senior Israeli Officials as saying that the Palestinians had "until the end of this year" to prove that they are "are willing to negotiate a border."[vii] The same article quotes Israel's Justice Minister Haim Ramon as follows:
"If they will accept these principles then fine for us, we are ready to talk," he said. "If we wait a month, two months, three months or half a year and we do not see any change, then most likely we are going to move forward even without an agreement, or without negotiations."[viii]
An emerging 'New Axis of Terror' in the Mid East region - identified by one Associated Press writer as "Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government"[ix] - is partly responsible for the renewed sense of resolve. Olmert is clearly not alone in his thinking.
The Jerusalem Post reported on May 7 that Jordan's King Abdullah II believes that "peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians must be completed within two years."[x] Quoting the article:
"What is required now from peace advocates in the region," the king recommended, "is to work on continuing the momentum in the peace process and build on what has been achieved so that we don't lose this historic opportunity."[xi]
It seems as though world leaders a clamoring to fulfill Bible prophecy. Daniel 9:27:
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The Prophet Isaiah tells us what is really going on in Isaiah 28:15:
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.
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[1] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
[ii] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-...RTICLE_ID=50072
[iii] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[iv] Ibid.
[v] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
[vi] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[vii] http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-10-voa44.cfm
[viii] Ibid.
[ix] http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/17/D8H25KGO1.html
[x] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[xi] Ibid.
Full Version: Olmert 'in A Hurry'
"'We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,' Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
How prophetic. The church is also here at the moment. She wants to share herself (Jerusalem) with the world. This we will see more and more as the apostate church moves to share herself with the world.
We must not partake of the world, but come out of her, who is planning to share.
Again, prophetic......
How prophetic. The church is also here at the moment. She wants to share herself (Jerusalem) with the world. This we will see more and more as the apostate church moves to share herself with the world.
We must not partake of the world, but come out of her, who is planning to share.
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If not, Israel will take control of its own fate, and in consensus among our people and with the agreement of the world and US President George Bush, we will act
Again, prophetic......
QUOTE(Cornelius @ May 17 2006, 03:11 PM)
"'We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,' Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
How prophetic. The church is also here at the moment. She wants to share herself (Jerusalem) with the world. This we will see more and more as the apostate church moves to share herself with the world.
We must not partake of the world, but come out of her, who is planning to share.
Again, prophetic......
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How prophetic. The church is also here at the moment. She wants to share herself (Jerusalem) with the world. This we will see more and more as the apostate church moves to share herself with the world.
We must not partake of the world, but come out of her, who is planning to share.
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If not, Israel will take control of its own fate, and in consensus among our people and with the agreement of the world and US President George Bush, we will act
Again, prophetic......
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"...with the agreement of the world and US President George Bush, we will act".
Signet
UMMM
Jimminy Christmas shaking our heads yet once again
I'm so sick of US PLAYING babysitter
Jimminy Christmas shaking our heads yet once again
I'm so sick of US PLAYING babysitter
QUOTE(daysofnoah @ May 17 2006, 02:43 PM)
Just posted this on my website...
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In a Hurry
Recently elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's victory speech on March 29 was telling. As reported by The Jerusalem Post, these were among the first 'on the record' remarks made my Olmert following his March 28 election victory:
"In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority," he said. "We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians."
The agenda for Olmert's newly formed government is unambiguous. Even as his coalition government was being sworn in on May 5th, the world learned of Olmert's plans to divide Jerusalem in the coming months. As [I]WorldNetDaily reported that same day:
"'We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,' Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
"Most Jerusalem neighborhoods with large Arab populations would be given to the Palestinians, he said.
"'Those same neighborhoods will, in my assessment, be central to the makeup of the Palestinian capital ... al-Quds,' said Schneller, calling Jerusalem by its Arabic name."[ii]
Olmert is operating with a sense of urgency, and in an April interview with The Wall Street Journal Olmert told the world he planned to "finalize plans for a large pullout from parts of the West Bank within the next 18 months."[iii]
Olmert further stated, "The State of Israel will change the face of the region. "I will not miss this opportunity."[iv]
These 18 months correspond with the final period of the George W. Bush Presidency, and Olmert has made it clear that he wants to complete his plan while Bush is still in the White House. For example:
"It is time for the Palestinians to change their ethos, to accept compromise as soon as possible. If they manage to do this soon, we will sit and work out a plan. If not, Israel will take control of its own fate, and in consensus among our people and with the agreement of the world and US President George Bush, we will act. The time has come to act," he said.[v]
Bush promptly invited Olmert to Washington.[vi]
Last week Voice of America News quoted a Senior Israeli Officials as saying that the Palestinians had "until the end of this year" to prove that they are "are willing to negotiate a border."[vii] The same article quotes Israel's Justice Minister Haim Ramon as follows:
"If they will accept these principles then fine for us, we are ready to talk," he said. "If we wait a month, two months, three months or half a year and we do not see any change, then most likely we are going to move forward even without an agreement, or without negotiations."[viii]
An emerging 'New Axis of Terror' in the Mid East region - identified by one Associated Press writer as "Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government"[ix] - is partly responsible for the renewed sense of resolve. Olmert is clearly not alone in his thinking.
The Jerusalem Post reported on May 7 that Jordan's King Abdullah II believes that "peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians must be completed within two years."[x] Quoting the article:
"What is required now from peace advocates in the region," the king recommended, "is to work on continuing the momentum in the peace process and build on what has been achieved so that we don't lose this historic opportunity."[xi]
It seems as though world leaders a clamoring to fulfill Bible prophecy. Daniel 9:27:
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The Prophet Isaiah tells us what is really going on in Isaiah 28:15:
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.
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[1] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
[ii] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-...RTICLE_ID=50072
[iii] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[iv] Ibid.
[v] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
[vi] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[vii] http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-10-voa44.cfm
[viii] Ibid.
[ix] http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/17/D8H25KGO1.html
[x] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[xi] Ibid.
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In a Hurry
Recently elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's victory speech on March 29 was telling. As reported by The Jerusalem Post, these were among the first 'on the record' remarks made my Olmert following his March 28 election victory:
"In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority," he said. "We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians."
The agenda for Olmert's newly formed government is unambiguous. Even as his coalition government was being sworn in on May 5th, the world learned of Olmert's plans to divide Jerusalem in the coming months. As [I]WorldNetDaily reported that same day:
"'We will not divide Jerusalem, we will share it,' Kadima lawmaker Otniel Schneller told the Associated Press.
"Most Jerusalem neighborhoods with large Arab populations would be given to the Palestinians, he said.
"'Those same neighborhoods will, in my assessment, be central to the makeup of the Palestinian capital ... al-Quds,' said Schneller, calling Jerusalem by its Arabic name."[ii]
Olmert is operating with a sense of urgency, and in an April interview with The Wall Street Journal Olmert told the world he planned to "finalize plans for a large pullout from parts of the West Bank within the next 18 months."[iii]
Olmert further stated, "The State of Israel will change the face of the region. "I will not miss this opportunity."[iv]
These 18 months correspond with the final period of the George W. Bush Presidency, and Olmert has made it clear that he wants to complete his plan while Bush is still in the White House. For example:
"It is time for the Palestinians to change their ethos, to accept compromise as soon as possible. If they manage to do this soon, we will sit and work out a plan. If not, Israel will take control of its own fate, and in consensus among our people and with the agreement of the world and US President George Bush, we will act. The time has come to act," he said.[v]
Bush promptly invited Olmert to Washington.[vi]
Last week Voice of America News quoted a Senior Israeli Officials as saying that the Palestinians had "until the end of this year" to prove that they are "are willing to negotiate a border."[vii] The same article quotes Israel's Justice Minister Haim Ramon as follows:
"If they will accept these principles then fine for us, we are ready to talk," he said. "If we wait a month, two months, three months or half a year and we do not see any change, then most likely we are going to move forward even without an agreement, or without negotiations."[viii]
An emerging 'New Axis of Terror' in the Mid East region - identified by one Associated Press writer as "Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government"[ix] - is partly responsible for the renewed sense of resolve. Olmert is clearly not alone in his thinking.
The Jerusalem Post reported on May 7 that Jordan's King Abdullah II believes that "peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians must be completed within two years."[x] Quoting the article:
"What is required now from peace advocates in the region," the king recommended, "is to work on continuing the momentum in the peace process and build on what has been achieved so that we don't lose this historic opportunity."[xi]
It seems as though world leaders a clamoring to fulfill Bible prophecy. Daniel 9:27:
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The Prophet Isaiah tells us what is really going on in Isaiah 28:15:
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.
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[1] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
[ii] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-...RTICLE_ID=50072
[iii] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[iv] Ibid.
[v] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
[vi] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[vii] http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-10-voa44.cfm
[viii] Ibid.
[ix] http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/17/D8H25KGO1.html
[x] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle%2FPrinter
[xi] Ibid.
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Days,
This is incredibly important...thank you for posting that and keeping us updated.
Nice website btw....
Olmert arrives in Washington on the 23rd. Here's an interesting article from DEBKA:
Olmert Seeks Bush Nod as Heir to Sharon Legacy
The advance team Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert sent to Washington to set up his White House talks next Tuesday, May 23, was in fact a decoy, according to DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources in the US capital. That team - Dov Weisglass, Yoram Turbovitch and Shalom Turjeman – was dispatched as a sop to former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s inside circle, which is still powerful in the ruling Kadima party. Olmert himself laid the ground for his talks with American leaders through a group of friends, mainly from Texas: well-heeled Jewish power-brokers with an inside track to the Bush family and the Republican Party.
That group, our sources learn, was asked to pass on to White House officials what the prime minister expects to gain from his first meeting with President Bush. These expectations fall into three main categories:
1. Public presidential acknowledgement of his status as heir to the Ariel Sharon legacy as the administration’s trusted ally in Jerusalem.
2. Endorsement for his policy to shun Mahmoud Abbas as negotiating partner as long as he heads the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
This will be complicated by President Bush’s insistence on his statement after the meeting stressing the need for preliminary dialogue with the Palestinians to precede every Israeli step – whenever this is possible.
3. The American leader also intends inserting a sentence warning Israel against unilaterally establishing facts with regard to permanent frontiers, except in negotiation with the Palestinians. Bush will remark that this position does not run contrary to America welcoming further Israeli pullbacks from the West Bank.
The prime minister’s aides are already working on the phrasing of this ambiguous position for home consumption, to make it sound like a declaration of support for the Olmert consolidation program for Israeli West Bank settlements.
On the whole, Olmert may find his first White House talks disappointing.
According to DEBKAfile’s Washington sources, the prime minister’s friends were told in their secret exchanges that the administration prefers a low profile for its future contacts with the Olmert government. Jerusalem has been asked for a replacement as soon as possible for Danny Ayalon, the Sharon-appointed Israeli ambassador who is due to end his tour of duty in Washington. The US officials asked for an envoy who Olmert trusts to act as the channel for his contacts with the White House.
The Bush administration means to discontinue the practice observed during Sharon’s reign of top US officials traveling to Jerusalem every few weeks to clarify issues and pull policies together. From now on, Washington and Jerusalem are to meet on issues in the US capital. This is very far from a cordial welcome for the new Israeli prime and does not say much for his standing in the Bush administration’s estimation at the outset of his tenure.
The to-ings and fro-ings between Jerusalem and Washington were closely watched this week from the Black Sea resort of Sochi by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his visitor Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority. DEBKAfile’s Moscow sources report the two put their heads together on a joint Russian-Palestinian diplomatic-economic-military initiative, whose launch would be aimed at whipping international media and Middle East headlines away from the Bush-Olmert talks.
The subject also came up in Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s conversations with his Chinese opposition number, Li Zhaoxing, in Beijing on the Iranian nuclear issue. Lavrov tested the ground for China to join such an initiative. A reply is awaited. However, Putin and Abbas brought their plan forward to up to the point of a date. They still have to decide whether to launch their initiative ahead of the Israeli prime minister’s White House meeting - and force a reference from the US president in his closing statement - or leave it for immediately afterwards – and so steal US-Israeli thunder.
The question still hanging over the Washington talks is how much unanimity will be attained. On Iran, US officials do not buy the timeline estimated by Israeli intelligence for Iran to be within reach of weapons-grade uranium for a bomb and nuclear-capable missiles. They are certain they have three or four years to play with, and have made it clear that Jerusalem will not be allowed to force the pace.
The Israeli leader may be asked for a guarantee against any unilateral Israeli initiative on Iran without first touching base with Washington.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1166
Olmert Seeks Bush Nod as Heir to Sharon Legacy
The advance team Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert sent to Washington to set up his White House talks next Tuesday, May 23, was in fact a decoy, according to DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources in the US capital. That team - Dov Weisglass, Yoram Turbovitch and Shalom Turjeman – was dispatched as a sop to former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s inside circle, which is still powerful in the ruling Kadima party. Olmert himself laid the ground for his talks with American leaders through a group of friends, mainly from Texas: well-heeled Jewish power-brokers with an inside track to the Bush family and the Republican Party.
That group, our sources learn, was asked to pass on to White House officials what the prime minister expects to gain from his first meeting with President Bush. These expectations fall into three main categories:
1. Public presidential acknowledgement of his status as heir to the Ariel Sharon legacy as the administration’s trusted ally in Jerusalem.
2. Endorsement for his policy to shun Mahmoud Abbas as negotiating partner as long as he heads the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
This will be complicated by President Bush’s insistence on his statement after the meeting stressing the need for preliminary dialogue with the Palestinians to precede every Israeli step – whenever this is possible.
3. The American leader also intends inserting a sentence warning Israel against unilaterally establishing facts with regard to permanent frontiers, except in negotiation with the Palestinians. Bush will remark that this position does not run contrary to America welcoming further Israeli pullbacks from the West Bank.
The prime minister’s aides are already working on the phrasing of this ambiguous position for home consumption, to make it sound like a declaration of support for the Olmert consolidation program for Israeli West Bank settlements.
On the whole, Olmert may find his first White House talks disappointing.
According to DEBKAfile’s Washington sources, the prime minister’s friends were told in their secret exchanges that the administration prefers a low profile for its future contacts with the Olmert government. Jerusalem has been asked for a replacement as soon as possible for Danny Ayalon, the Sharon-appointed Israeli ambassador who is due to end his tour of duty in Washington. The US officials asked for an envoy who Olmert trusts to act as the channel for his contacts with the White House.
The Bush administration means to discontinue the practice observed during Sharon’s reign of top US officials traveling to Jerusalem every few weeks to clarify issues and pull policies together. From now on, Washington and Jerusalem are to meet on issues in the US capital. This is very far from a cordial welcome for the new Israeli prime and does not say much for his standing in the Bush administration’s estimation at the outset of his tenure.
The to-ings and fro-ings between Jerusalem and Washington were closely watched this week from the Black Sea resort of Sochi by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his visitor Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority. DEBKAfile’s Moscow sources report the two put their heads together on a joint Russian-Palestinian diplomatic-economic-military initiative, whose launch would be aimed at whipping international media and Middle East headlines away from the Bush-Olmert talks.
The subject also came up in Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s conversations with his Chinese opposition number, Li Zhaoxing, in Beijing on the Iranian nuclear issue. Lavrov tested the ground for China to join such an initiative. A reply is awaited. However, Putin and Abbas brought their plan forward to up to the point of a date. They still have to decide whether to launch their initiative ahead of the Israeli prime minister’s White House meeting - and force a reference from the US president in his closing statement - or leave it for immediately afterwards – and so steal US-Israeli thunder.
The question still hanging over the Washington talks is how much unanimity will be attained. On Iran, US officials do not buy the timeline estimated by Israeli intelligence for Iran to be within reach of weapons-grade uranium for a bomb and nuclear-capable missiles. They are certain they have three or four years to play with, and have made it clear that Jerusalem will not be allowed to force the pace.
The Israeli leader may be asked for a guarantee against any unilateral Israeli initiative on Iran without first touching base with Washington.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1166
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