Some of the best words ever spoken

Philippians 3:
⁸ Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ ⁹ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.

Message to the LBL Beast of Islam and the Taliban - God is not pleased

Floods ravage NW Pakistan, kill 430 people
"PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.

The flooding capped an already deadly week in Pakistan, which is no stranger to calamities, natural or otherwise. A passenger jet flying in bad weather slammed into hills overlooking the capital, Islamabad, on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board."

Obama's negotiating partner...

Iran accused of supporting Taliban attacks
"Iran is waging a secret campaign to arm, train and fund the Taliban-led insurgency against Nato forces in Afghanistan, according to American military reports"

Egyptian Journalist: In Actual Terms, Gaza Is Not Under Siege
"'A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast. Further, the sight of the merchandise and luxuries filling the Gaza shops amazed me. Merchandise is sold more cheaply than in Egypt,"

Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon
"Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on 'at least two countries' in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run Press TV."

Ahmadinejad slams US 'cowboy logic' - Iranian president mocks latest sanctions, calls for talks with US.: "'We are for negotiations, but to do so you have to sit down like a good boy,' Ahmadinejad was quoted by AFP as saying in reference to the US in his speech. 'They adopt a resolution to force a dialogue, but this cowboy logic has no place in Iran.'"

Happy Summer!

This is the sentence of the day...

India's 'Lost' Jews Seek A Place In Israel
"'There might be billions of lost tribes out there by now. Because 28,000 were dispersed by Sennacherib and Shalmaneser, kings of Assyria. Through natural increase, this could be half the world today,' Weil says."

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There's one option left to stop Iran
Netanyahu facing the biggest decision of his life

Oil tankers line up into Iran in defiance of America's sanctions

Oil convoys to Iran drive through US sanctions
"EVEN as the United States imposes new sanctions on Iran, one of the biggest gaps in the US strategy is on full display here in Iraq.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in crude oil and refined products are being smuggled over the scenic mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan every year"

Moscow pledges Tehran oil products - against US embargo
Countering the new US embargo on petroleum and oil distillates embargo on Iran, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Iranian Oil Minister Masud Mir-Kazemi Wednesday, July 14 signed a series of far-reaching energy-related agreements, including a deal to sell Tehran Russian petroleum products and petrochemicals.

Palestinians 'preparing' for Israeli strike on Iran: "Planning for evacuations, attacks on Jewish state's home front"

Libyan ship shifts course from Gaza
"Also yesterday, Israeli bulldozers destroyed six buildings, including at least three homes, in contested east Jerusalem, resuming the demolition of Palestinian property after a halt aimed at encouraging peace talks."

DEBKAfile - Libyan aid ship turns back

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Libyan aid ship to arrive in 2 days: "MK Ahmed Tibi (Ta'al) echoed Sawani's claims that the Amalthea activists are still intending to sail directly to Gaza. Tibi has been in contact with the organization sending the ship.

'The goal is to reach Gaza,' said Tibi. 'There is not only a humanitarian goal, but there is also a political message.'"

Irrational Iran can't get nuclear arms: Netanyahu
"'Irrational regimes' like Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear arms and it is a mistake to think Tehran's ambitions can be contained, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on U.S. television."

Russia says Iran close to nuclear weapons

The Climategate Whitewash Continues: Don't Believe the 'Independent Reviews' About Goings on at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (by Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute)
"Global warming alarmists claim vindication after last year's data manipulation scandal. Don't believe the 'independent' reviews."

Obama's debt commission warns of fiscal 'cancer'
"The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation's fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer 'that will destroy the country from within' unless checked by tough action in Washington."

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Hezbollah says it has list of targets in Israel
"A senior official with the militant Hezbollah group said Sunday they have a list of military targets inside Israel to strike in any future war: "Let the enemy's leaders know that we have a bank of targets that is full and they all know that all their drills and threats will collapse in front of the resistance's surprises in any future war,"."

Hizb'allah advances 20,000 troops to Israeli border
The next conflagration may be just a single lighted match away. It could be ignited by some local incident, a terrorist event outside the Middle East or an order from Tehran.

Libyan ship: We're going to Gaza
"The aim of the Libyan backed aid ship the Amalthea remains to sail directly to Gaza, Youssef Sawani, executive director of Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation, which has mounted the operation, said Sunday in an interview with Army Radio.

In response to these comments Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Army Radio on Sunday that 'no ship of any kind will be allowed to arrive at Gaza.'"

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Philistia is today's Gaza Strip (enemy=Hamas)
Tyre and Sidon is Lebanon (enemy=Hezb'allah)

Abbas to Arabs: We'd Support a War Against Israel
"Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Arab leaders that the PA is ready to wage war on Israel if the rest of the Arab world does, according to the PA daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida as translated by Palestinian Media Watch.

“If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability to do it,” Abbas quoted himself as having said at the March Arab League Summit in Libya. "

Joel 3:

⁴ “What do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and you cities of Philistia? Are you trying to take revenge on me? If you are, then watch out! I will strike swiftly and pay you back for everything you have done. ⁵ You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples. ⁶ You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, so they could take them far from their homeland.

⁷ “But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done.

Not that this is news, but the UN is a joke. Iran's Ahmadinejad must be laughing his head off at the Obama Administration's impotence. Iran has no reason to stop its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The rest of the world just proved it is far too weak to do anything about it.

UN's "condemns" South Korea ship sinking [by North Korea]
"The statement, read by the council president, calls for “appropriate and peaceful measures to be taken against those responsible.” But it doesn't identify who is responsible, and takes note of North Korea's response 'that it had nothing to do with the incident.'"

flashback: North Korea torpedoes South Korean ship, kills 46 sailors...and the world sleeps

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Lybian ship to sail for Gaza
"The Libyan Embassy in Greece announced that a ship carrying humanitarian aid from Libya to Gaza is scheduled to set sail from Greece on Friday"

Ezekiel 39:
⁵ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya will join you, too, with all their weapons.

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Good article - If Israel Attacks Iran In July 2010
"...So if the reactor at Bushehr is on the attack list, the attack must happen soon before the reactor goes into operation. As we stated before, Russia says it will go online in August and Iran says it will go online in September."

DEBKAfile, Iran's Bushehr reactor will be running by September
Moscow and Tehran have announced that the nuclear reactor Russia is building Iran at Bushehr - its first - has completed all its test-runs and will be up and running in early September - ahead of schedule.

Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein (as well they should be, but not just because of his name)

Obama ‘ready’ to come to Israel
"Obama has yet to visit Israel since his election."

'US will attack Iran if it must'
"Senators in Jerusalem to discuss Middle East tensions."

On defence, Obama tries to improve U.S.-Israeli relations:
CIA Director Panetta says sanctions won’t stop Iran from getting the Bomb; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs agrees « Joel Rosenberg’s Weblog

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Israel Emanuel, Bibi and Obama

Reciprocal compliments galore - this time
It's apparently a 'new day' in Israel-US relations.

Obama's new attitude may be due to his reading of Exodus 7 (although realistically, there's no Bible in the White House)...

BP Disaster - resembles blood

Pharaoh's (Obama's?) Plague #1:

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn, and he still refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵ So go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the river. Stand on the bank of the Nile and meet him there. Be sure to take along the staff that turned into a snake. ¹⁶ Then announce to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you, “Let my people go, so they can worship me in the wilderness.” Until now, you have refused to listen to him. ¹⁷ So this is what the Lord says: “I will show you that I am the Lord.” Look! I will strike the water of the Nile with this staff in my hand, and the river will turn to blood. ¹⁸ The fish in it will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’

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The Cowardice Of Not Calling Islam the Enemy
"Holder's avoidance of the obvious continues the absurd and embarrassing refusal of the Obama administration to acknowledge who out there is trying to kill Americans and why. In fact, it has banned from its official vocabulary the terms jihadist, Islamist and Islamic terrorism.

Instead, President Obama's National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do you define those seeking your destruction? — 'a loose network of violent extremists.'"

UAE ambassador to US: 'Bomb Iran'
"The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that it would be worthwhile to bomb Iran's nuclear program, The Washington Times reported. Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba reportedly endorsed the military option if sanctions do not stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."

Iran sends letter to EU detailing its conditions for nuclear talks with the West
"State TV says Iran has sent a letter to the European Union detailing its conditions for talks about the country's nuclear program and is demanding the EU guarantee there would be no threats against Tehran."

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Malachi 3:
¹⁴ "You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty? ¹⁵ But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.' "

¹⁶ Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name.

¹⁷ "They will be mine," says the LORD Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. ¹⁸ And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

US questions its unwavering support for Israel

There are questions that rarely get asked in Washington. For years, the mantra that America's intimate alliance with Israel was as good for the US as it was the Jewish state went largely unchallenged by politicians aware of the cost of anything but unwavering support.

But swirling in the background when Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, arrives in Washington tomorrow to patch up relations with the White House will be a question rarely voiced until recently: is Israel ‑ or, at the very least, its current government ‑ endangering US security and American troops?

Dubai: Iran smuggles nuclear equipment via UAE ports
"United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Hamad al-Kaabi has confirmed reports that Iran is using Dubai ports to smuggle equipment needed for its nuclear program"

Hizbullah trying to stop UNIFIL patrols
"The civilians stoned the patrol, which decided to leave the scene, hitting a motorcycle that had been parked blocking the road. The crowd then surrounded the patrol, punctured the vehicles’ tires, smashed the windows, and tried grabbing weapons mounted on the vehicles. In response, the soldiers, from the French Battalion, fired warning shots in the air."

Islamic hard-liners in Indonesia pledge war against Christians; government remains silent
"A banner with a picture of a young, bespectacled Christian man is draped in front of a mosque, a fiery noose around his neck and the words, 'This man deserves the death penalty!'

Churches are shut down. And an Islamic youth militia held its first day of training."

Flashback: Rabbi Reveals Name of the Messiah

"Israel Today spoke to two of Kaduri’s followers in Jerusalem who admitted that the note was authentic, but confusing for his followers as well. “We have no idea how the Rabbi got to this name of the Messiah,” one of them said."

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The battle between Israel and Ishmael is happening in America...

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Jihadi undercuts president: "The Times Square bomber flies in the face of Obama administration efforts not to name Islamism as the enemy."

IAEA's chief inspector to resign
"Heinonen, a 63-year-old Finnish radio-chemist, caused great international worry in February 2008 with a power-point presentation to diplomats showing links between Teheran's efforts to process uranium and Iranian tests of high explosives and modifications to missiles to deliver a nuclear payload."