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Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, Tareq Al-Suwaidan
Hamas TV: Every Muslim mother “must nurse her children on hatred of the sons of Zion”
Terror attack in Jerusalem
Sheik Abd Al-Barr Al-Rawdhi Al-Rahma Mosque Italy
Friday Sermon at Italian Mosque: Kill the Jews to the Very Last One
Abd Al-Bari Atwan: Arafat Ignited Second Intifada; Why Don’t We Do the Same in West Bank?
Jordanian Political Activist Husam Al-Abdalat Jordan Future TV
Host Pulls Out a Sword: If Arab Leaders Are Not Real Men, They Should Let Real Men Fight in Gaza
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Israel’s Operation Protective Edge entered its 28th day on Monday
https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/status/496182002173767682/photo/1
IDF recap shows 119 rockets fired at Israel Sunday Day 27 OPE
Headline: 2:38-Hamas says Monday’s truce aims to ‘divert attention from Israeli slaughter’
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri responds to the IDF’s declaration of a seven-hour humanitarian truce on Monday, saying it’s a unilateral act which is designed to “divert attention from Israel’s acts of slaughter.” “We don’t trust this truce and we call to our people to exercise caution,” he says.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: Hamas Calls for ‘3 Day Uprising’ During Ceasefire
Hamas on Monday specifically called on Arabs in Judea and Samaria to conduct attacks on Israelis, urging them to start the “third intifada” that would start with attacks on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and eventually move into the rest of Israel. In a message sent out by Hamas Monday to “the Palestinians of the Occupied West Bank,” Hamas called on Arabs to “conduct mass riots” over the next three days as a “sign of support” for Gaza, and of “resistance” to “violence” by Israel. On Monday night, Israeli media outlets, quoting Egyptian sources, said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad had agreed to an Egyptian demand for a three-day cease-fire. The sources said that the cease-fire could go into effect as soon as Tuesday morning. In its message, Hamas called on residents of Hevron, Ramallah and Shechem to converge on the main square in their cities and demand that Hamas retain the right to keep its weapons – rockets and tunnels – agains Israel. Hamas on Monday praised the terrorist who killed an Israeli and injured four others with a tractor in Jerusalem. Hamas said that it “congratulated the free Palestinian of Jerusalem for his attack. This attack is a natural response to the occupation of our people,” Hamas said. In a statement, Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said that “the action in Jerusalem was very brave, a natural response to the occupation.”
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183719#.U9_AMWPfVeA
Headline: 8:52- Palestinians riot on Temple Mount
Headline: 5 police officers injured during riot on Temple Mount
Masked Palestinian men riot this morning on the Temple Mount, throwing rocks and fireworks at police forces at the Mughrabi Gate as the holy site is opened to visitors. The young men blockaded two entrances to the mount to keep the police from sealing the entrances themselves. Police and Border Police forces pushed the rioters back into the mosque on the site. Five police officers were lightly wounded in the skirmish, according to Israel Radio.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/5-police-officers-injured-during-riot-on-Temple-Mount-369970
Headline: 17:03- Dozens riot in East Jerusalem
Several dozen people are rioting in East Jerusalem, in the Issawiya neighborhood, clashing with police forces and hurling rocks and firebombs. Police are using nonlethal means to disperse the crowd.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: Man killed in Jerusalem tractor attack
Headline: Soldier shot near Mount Scopus
An Israeli man was shot in the stomach at the entrance to the Har Hatzofim (Mount Scopus) tunnel in Jerusalem, in what looks to be the capital’s second terror attack in a matter of hours. An eyewitness named Eti said that the victim is a soldier. “I saw him falling backward,” she told reporter Moshe Nusbaum. The wounded man is about 20, said the channel’s reporters, and he is in moderate to serious condition and received treatment on the spot. He was then taken to the nearby Hadassah Har Hatzofim hospital. Eyewitnesses said that he was shot by a man who then got on a motorcycle or scooter and then drove off toward the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Joz. There may have been another man on the scooter as well.
Police are conducting a manhunt assisted by helicopters. While the background for the attack is not known, initial estimates are that it is nationalistically motivated. Meanwhile, a pedestrian was killed and six other people were wounded Monday afternoon when a terrorist went on the rampage in an industrial digger in central Jerusalem. The terrorist hit the man as he walked on the street, as well as a bus and a car before being shot dead by an officer from the Israel Prison Service who was in the area. Images from the scene showed an overturned bus, and the the terrorist dead in the cabin of the digger.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183711#.U9-qk2PfVeA
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4554671,00.html
Headline: 3:04- Hamas lauds attacks on Israel, says no life more precious than Gazans’
Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades releases an oddly tensed statement in English in which it lauds strikes on Tel Aviv, Beersheba and Kiryat Malachi, though it’s not clear whether those are attacks it’s planning or have carried out. The group says rocket attacks are a response against “Zionist massacres” and that “the enemy continue to try to cover its military failures by targeting Palestinian civilian [sic] in their homes and shelters.” “If the enemy continues this criminal policy, all Zionist cities it will be targeted,” Hamas says. “No life is more precious than the lives of our dear people.”
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: 8:26- ‘Disarmament not raised in Gaza ceasefire talks’
Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nahla, the group’s number-two, says that the issue of disarming the Gaza Strip has not come up in ceasefire talks in Cairo, and that the demand is in any case unacceptable to Palestinian factions in the Strip, Israel Radio’s Gal Berger says, citing a report in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram. Palestinian factions are meeting with Egyptian intelligence officials in an effort to broker a ceasefire to a month of fighting. Israel was set to join the talks multiple times, but in the past week has said that due to Hamas’s violations of multiple ceasefires, Israel would no longer negotiate any agreement with Hamas.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: 9:09- Egypt asks Israel to let Hamas, Jihad leaders into Gaza
Headline: 19:28 – Egypt, Hamas: Truce may be declared within hours
Headline: 22:37 – Egypt: All sides agree to 72-hour truce starting Tuesday
The pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reports that Egypt is discussing with Israel the possibility of allowing two senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials, Khalil Al-Hiye and Khaled Al-Batsh respectively, to return to Gaza from truce talks in Cairo without being targeted by Israel. Palestinian officials at the truce talks have said that Israel’s decision not to attend the talks after Hamas’s latest break of the weekend ceasefire “doesn’t interest us, since we wouldn’t have met with [Israel] directly in any case,” Ynet reports.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: US, Qatar again working on alternative ceasefire
Palestinian sources in Cairo revealed on Monday that the United States and Qatar have again renewed their attempts to reach an understanding on a ceasefire in Gaza, even as Palestinian factions meet Egyptian officials in Cairo to forge their own proposal. Representatives of the US administration are in Cairo at the same time as a Palestinian delegation that includes senior officials from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah. The Palestinian sources suggested that the US-Qatari initiative slows and undermines the Egyptian efforts. Sources told The Times of Israel that the Egyptian effort is focused on convincing Hamas to first stop fighting on the basis of the understandings obtained after Pillar of Defense in 2012, then moving to a broader ceasefire which will include demands on Israel to withdraw from Gaza and to ease restrictions at the border crossings and to allow the rehabilitation of Gaza.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-qatar-again-working-on-alternative-ceasefire/
Headline: 17:04- France says Gaza may need ‘imposed’ solution
France’s foreign minister is calling on the international community to impose a solution on Israel and Hamas, saying the warring sides have shown themselves unable to negotiate. In an unusually strong statement Monday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says Israel’s right to security “does not justify the killing of children and the massacre of civilians.” France is closely allied with Israel, and Fabius’s statement is a rare direct criticism. Fabius says a ceasefire, followed by a two-state solution, is needed and “should be imposed by the international community because, despite numerous attempts, the two sides have shown themselves to be incapable of concluding negotiations.”
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: 17:25- Netanyahu: Op goes on until no rockets fired
Headline: 20:01 – In south, leaders say operation to go on
Operation Protective Edge will continue until no more rockets are fired on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows. “The campaign in Gaza continues,” he says after security consultations with the military leadership in the country’s south. “What is nearing conclusion is the IDF’s activity on the tunnels, but this operation will only be over when the calm and security returns to Israel’s citizens for an extended period of time.” Israel has no intention of hurting civilians in Gaza, Netanyahu says, adding that it is Hamas that harms Gazans by preventing them from accepting humanitarian aid. “I think the international community should vocally condemn Hamas and demand, as we do, that Gaza’s rehabilitation be linked to its demilitarization.”
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: Readiness upped over attack fears ahead of ceasefire
Security forces have drastically ramped up preparedness as reports come in of a possible ceasefire in the next few hours, Channel 2 reports. Officials fear terrorists will use the last hours before the ceasefire goes into effect to launch large volleys of rockets at Israel, or they may try to infiltrate into southern communities to carry out attacks. The hours before ceasefires have, in the past, seen an uptick in hostilities, as combatants try to get in their last licks before laying down their arms. According to Channel 2, a 72-hour ceasefire brokered in Egypt will be announced in the coming hours and go into effect Tuesday morning.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: Hamas Fortress in Shuja’iya
http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/08/04/map-exposes-hamas-fortress-shujaiya-neighborhood/
Headline: Hamas Demands UN ‘Apologize’ for Demanding Soldier’s Release
Hamas officials called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to “formally apologize before the Palestinian people” for “accepting Israel’s version of events” regarding their breaking a humanitarian ceasefire on Friday, claiming that the fact that IDF soldier Hadar Goldin (hy”d) was killed and not abducted proves that Israel lied to international community on being attacked by Hamas. Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu-Zuhri, called Ban a “partner in slaughter” to Israel in his remarks and demanded an apology.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183692#.U9-rp2PfVeA
Headline: 20:29 – HRW accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza
Headline: Captured Hamas Combat Manual Explains Benefits of Human Shields
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of killing civilians as they attempted to flee a stricken neighborhood of Gaza, in what it says amounts to a war crime. “Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25,” says the New York-based watchdog. “Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.” The group says civilians faced “grave dangers” in Khuza’a, including repeated shelling, lack of access to medical care, and coming under attack from the Israelis as they attempted to flee to nearby Khan Younis. The report points out that, although Israeli forces had warned people to leave Khuza’a prior to July 21, “the failure of civilians to abide by warnings does not make them lawful targets of attack.”
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/08/04/captured-hamas-combat-manual-explains-benefits-human-shields/
Headline: Expert Says Terror Tunnels a Threat in the Galilee
Prize-winning geologist and onetime advisor on terror tunnels suggests Hezbollah could be building Gaza-esque tunnels into Israel. For a long time he spoke to every official, every minister, and every IDF Chief of Staff over the threat of terror tunnels – in Gaza and elsewhere – but the system preferred to silence him. Now, Geologist and res. Col. Yossi Langotsky speaks to Arutz Sheva for the first time since Operation Protective Edge began 28 days ago about his perspective on the current conflict, and on how war tunnels may continue to threaten Israel despite the operation. Col. Langotsky commanded for five years in Operational Intelligence and won the Israel Security Prize twice. Despite his expertise, however, his warnings about terror tunnels were apparently ignored. “For nine years I raised hell, and said [terrorists are] digging tunnels into Israeli territory, and the state security system is not organized with enough seriousness required to deal with the intensity of the threat,” he recounted. This operation, he noted, is the result. Langotsky, while happy that the tunnels are being taken care of in Gaza, noted that the IDF’s partial withdrawals indicates that the entire threat will probably not be eradicated; Israel will have to destroy terror tunnels again, he predicts – and is not aware of the danger, even now.
*****For complete information on why this is important, please see the 2nd link
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183691#.U9-s0mPfVeA
http://endtimesresearchministry.com/the-mahdi/
Headline: Rabbi attacked in Sweden, days after synagogue vandalized
A rabbi from the Swedish city of Malmo was attacked by men who hurled objects at him from a car and used anti-Semitic pejoratives. Rabbi Shneur Kesselman was assaulted on Saturday night along with a member of his congregation, the Sydsvenskan daily reported Sunday. The attack, which resulted in no physical injuries, came on the heels of vandalism against the southern city’s main synagogue on July 31, when unidentified individuals smashed three of the building’s windows by hurling objects at them.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.608813
Headline: Israeli Leaders Hung in Effigy in Hungarian Town
The mayor of a town in eastern Hungary has held an event hanging effigies of the prime minister and former president of Israel to protest the war in Gaza. Mihaly Zoltan Orosz, who has been mayor of Erpatak since 2005, told The Associated Press Monday that the “Jewish terror state” is trying to obliterate the Palestinians and said he opposed “the efforts of Freemason Jews to rule the world.” Hungary’s foreign ministry condemned the mayor’s actions, saying he was using innocent victims of the war “to spread hate-inducing propaganda.” An online video of Saturday’s event shows an executioner with a black hood over his face kicking chairs out from under the puppets of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Shimon Peres, each tied to a gallows.
Aug. 4, 2014
Jordan
Headline: Officer killed, MPs survive attempted attack in Maan
Police on Sunday said they were searching for unidentified assailants who reportedly shot and killed an on duty Gendarmerie officer in Maan earlier in the day. Also on Sunday, a man was arrested for attempting to attack lawmakers with a homemade bomb, which did not detonate. Second Lieutenant Nart Nafesh, 23, was part of a patrol that was guarding a post in the city of Maan, some 220km south of Amman, when a group of suspects opened fire with machine guns at 4:45am on Sunday, Gendarmerie Public Relations Department Director Lt. Col. Ahmad Abu Hammad said. A committee was formed to investigate the incident and “arrest the perpetrators”, according to an official statement issued by the press office of the Gendarmerie Forces.
Aug. 3, 2014
http://jordantimes.com/officer-killed-mps-survive-attempted-attack-in-maan
Lebanon
Headline: Syrian rebels kill 10 Lebanese troops, take others captive
Syrian rebels killed 10 Lebanese troops and likely captured over a dozen more in a raid on a Lebanese border town, the country’s military chief said, the most serious spillover of violence yet into the tiny country from its neighbor’s civil war. The capture of Lebanese soldiers and police raised fears that the country could become further entangled in the Syrian civil war and could worsen already-brewing sectarian tensions. “What happened today is more serious than what some people imagine,” Lebanon’s army chief, Gen. Jean Kahwaji, told journalists. The raid came hours after the army said troops detained Syrian Imad Ahmad Jomaa, who identified himself as a member of the Nusra Front. The state-run National News Agency said Jomaa was detained as he was being brought to a hospital in Lebanon after being wounded while fighting Syrian troops. The Nusra Front is one of the most powerful groups fighting to overthrow the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The army chief said the fighters belonged to extremist Sunni groups, but did not name them. He said the fighting had killed 10 soldiers, while 13 were missing.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.608681
*****Compare the above story to this one
Headline: The Islamic State expands into Lebanon
Arsal is in jihadi hands. In a matter of hours, radical jihadi militants were able to seize this Bekaa Valley town. Militants affiliated to the Islamic State and its “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi overran the town’s streets along with a few army barracks and an Internal Security Forces (ISF) station in the area. Then, after some hesitation, militants from al-Nusra Front joined the battle. Immediately after it apprehended the wanted fugitive Imad Jumaa, (aka Abu Ahmed Jumaa), the radical jihadi group known as the Islamic State declared war on the Lebanese army. The Islamic State “emir” in the Qalamoun region, who is known as Abu Hassan al-Filastini, ordered his men to occupy Ersal; within a few hours, dozens of militants deployed to its streets, cutting off the main road that links the town to Labweh, before attacking Lebanese army positions in Ersal.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/islamic-state-expands-lebanon
Headline: Tripoli protest against Army measures in Arsal
Headline: Hezbollah vows to support the Army against militants
Headline: Hezbollah calls North Beqaa residents to arms; vows to support army
A protest kicked off in the northern city of Tripoli Monday evening against the Army’s operation in Arsal, where the military has been battling Islamist militants for three days. The protest, led by the Committee of Muslim Scholars, began at the Harba neighborhood in the Sunni-majority neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh and was supposed to conclude at the highway connecting Tripoli to Akkar. The military deployed in the neighborhood and prevented the protesters from reaching their destination. Angered by the Army blockade, men fired shots at soldiers who responded by firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. Soldiers, backed by armored vehicles, launched raids in Tripoli in search for the gunmen and reinforced its posts in the city that have witnessed several rounds of clashes in previous years. Carrying black flags with the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria’s logo, the protesters demanded that the Army end its military operation in Arsal and open a humanitarian corridor to the northeastern town.
*****Just a reminder: ISIS is Sunni, Hezbollah Shiite
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: Saudi Arabia voices support for LAF
Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Assiri expressed his support for the Lebanese Armed Forces, who are locked in fighting with Syrian Islamists in the border Beqaa town of Arsal. “I hope that the unity of the Lebanese in all their political parties would be reflected through a national unity that supports the army and the nation,” Assiri said on Monday. The Saudi envoy also voiced his hope that all Lebanese leaders be “united and make Lebanon’s safety, sovereignty, and stability their priority.”
Aug. 4, 2014
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/558736-saudi-arabia-voices-support-for-laf
Egypt
Headline: Egyptian army says 11 militants killed in Sinai
Egyptian troops have killed 11 militants in shoot-outs in the restive Sinai Peninsula where security forces have battled an insurgency since president Mohammad Mursi’s overthrow, the army said on Monday. The fighters were killed on Sunday when troops clashed with them during a raid in north Sinai, the army said, adding that three cars and eight motorbikes belonging to the “terrorist elements” were destroyed in the firefight. Since Mursi was deposed in July 2013, the army has poured arms and soldiers into the peninsula to quell the insurgents, who have also struck Cairo and other cities using car and roadside bombs.
Aug. 4, 2014
Syria
Headline: Eighteen rebel factions announce new military grouping
Eighteen rebel factions in Syria announced Sunday the formation of a new unified “Revolutionary Command Council” based inside the country, in the latest bid to address the rebels’ fragmentation. The factions include leading groups from the Free Syrian Army, namely the Hazm Movement and the Syria Rebel Front, as well as members of the Islamic Front, such as the Islam Army and Suqour al-Sham. Notably, the announcement leaves out the Islamic Front’s Ahrar al-Sham militia as well as the Nusra Front, which cooperates with Islamist militias in many parts of the country although it is not a part of the seven-member Islamic Front.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: Syria conducts airstrikes on militants along Lebanon border
Syrian regime forces on Monday afternoon conducted a series of air-strikes on militants deployed along the country’s border with Lebanon amid the fighting raging in the eastern Beqaa town of Arsal, Lebanon’s state National News Agency reported. However, the report did not elaborate further.
Aug. 4, 2014
Russia
Headline: Ukrainian Soldiers Cross Border Into Russia
Headline: Nato to strengthen military exercises after Russia ‘aggression’
A Russian border security official said Monday that more than 400 Ukrainian soldiers have crossed into Russia, although both sides gave conflicting accounts as to why they did it. The Russian official said the soldiers deserted the Kiev government and the Russian side opened a safe corridor. A Ukrainian military official, who did not give a number for the soldiers involved, were forced into Russian territory by rebel fire after running out of ammunition. Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have been battling the Kiev government since April, a conflict that has claimed at least 1,129 civilian casualties, according to a U.N. estimate. Ukraine and Western countries have accused Russia of providing the rebels with equipment and expertise, a claim that the Russian government has repeatedly denied. The West has also accused Russia of most likely providing the insurgents with surface-to-air missiles that may have been used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over rebel-held territory on July 17, killing all 298 people on board. A Dutch plane carrying victims’ remains from the disaster took off from Kharkiv on Monday. The plane was also carrying personal belongings of victims back to the Netherlands. The Interfax news agency reported Monday that Russia’s air force began military drills in central and western regions of the country, a move that could spark further fears that Moscow is ready to flex its military muscle in Ukraine. The drills will start Monday and last through Friday, air force chief Igor Klimov was reported as saying, and will involve more than 100 fighter jets and helicopters.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/interfax-russia-starts-air-force-drills-24829044
http://euobserver.com/foreign/125178
Headline: Donetsk residents told to evacuate in advance of liberation operation
As the Ukrainian military seeks to regain control over its restive eastern region, the military encouraged residents of the rebel stronghold in Donetsk on Monday to evacuate. The Ukrainian military now surrounds Donetsk, which the rebels re-named the Donetsk People’s Republic. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko expressed concern that the rebels were mistreating the residents of Donetsk. Rebels have forced some to take up arms against the military; in other instances, they have kidnapped and killed residents, seizing control of their homes. The military has established humanitarian corridors to facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of eastern Ukraine. Lysenko added that the government would help evacuees find temporary shelter. It is unclear when the military will move in to liberate Donetsk but with Monday’s evacuation warning, the assault could be imminent.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/08/04/Donetsk-residents-told-to-evacuate-in-advance-of-liberation-operation/9771407161971/?spt=sec&or=tn
Headline: Russia tells Israel to agree to cease-fire
A Russian foreign ministry statement said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also told his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman that the foes “should reach an agreement that excludes the return to violence in which mostly innocent civilians suffer”. Israel launched an offensive against Hamas almost four weeks ago following a surge in cross-border rocket salvoes. Gaza officials say 1,797 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed, while Israel has lost 64 soldiers in combat and three civilians to Palestinian shelling. Moscow supported the Palestinian cause in the Soviet era but established warmer ties with Israel in the past two decades. But its influence in the region has dropped off substantially and Moscow no longer plays an important mediating role between the two sides.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2014_08_04/Russia-calls-on-Israel-to-agree-to-ceasefire-5024/
Iran
Headline: Iran Accuses Israel of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza
Headline: Iran says it gave missile technology to Hamas
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani denounced Monday the “inaction” of the UN Security Council on Gaza, describing the conflict as a “genocidal massacre” of Palestinians by Israel, according to AFP. His comments came at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement’s (NAM) committee for Palestine, with several foreign ministers among officials from Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Sudan, Uganda and other member states. “The savage aggression by the army of this child-killer regime (Israel), continues with a deliberate policy to commit genocide and massacre civilians and destroy infrastructure, houses, hospitals, schools and mosques,” Rouhani said in Tehran. “The inaction of international bodies, in particular the Security Council, to prevent the crimes against humanity of the Zionist regime” is to be condemned, he added.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183704#.U9-rAWPfVeA
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-says-gave-missile-technology-hamas-172659788.html
Iraq
Headline: Iraq air force to back Kurds fighting Islamists
Headline: Kurdish troops declare ISIS counter-offensive
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called upon his country’s armed forces to help Kurdish forces battle a Sunni militant offensive in northern Iraq that has caused tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi community to flee their homes. Iraq’s military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said Monday that al-Maliki has commanded the air force to provide aerial support to the Kurds in the first sign of cooperation between the two militaries since Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, was captured by the militants on June 10.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4554814,00.html
Headline: ISIS Kills 30 Yazidis In Sinjar
Headline: Peshmerga To Attack ISIS In Sinjar On Four Fronts
Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) Militants have captured the Yazidi-majority town of Sinjar, north of Mosul, and the extremist group starts killing Yazidis. According to a BasNews correspondent in Sinjar, ISIS Militants has so far killed 30 Yazidis for not converting to Islam and has warned others to convert or to face the same punishment. Thousands of Sinjar residents have fled to Sinjar Mountain which is under the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the residents have asked Peshmerga to attack the ISIS militants which are in complete control of the town.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/ISIS-Kills-30-Yazidis-In-Sinjar/29050
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Peshmerga-To-Attack-ISIS-In-Sinjar-On-Four-Fronts/29040
Headline: ISIS seizes largest dam in Iraq
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants claimed control of the Mosul Dam on Sunday, after a 24-hour battle with the Kurdish Peshmerga. The dam is located on the Tigris River and provides electricity to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Dam employees were still inside the facility, noted Peshmerga Lt. Col. Herash. Middle East Forum president Daniel Pipes explained the rationale behind the attack, telling CNN “If you control the Mosul Dam, you can threaten just about everybody.” With such control, ISIS would be able to orchestrate a massive flood that could have reverberations as far south as Baghdad, 280 miles away. “It’s a horrendous prospect,” Pipes observed.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: ISIS threatens Kurds after battlefield victories
The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) warned Monday it would seek to further expand into autonomous Kurdish territory after claiming key towns and areas over the past 48 hours. “ISIS brigades have now reached the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. May God Almighty allow his mujahideen to liberate the whole region,” it said in a statement. The jihadist group listed the gains achieved over the weekend in what was its most significant territorial push since first sweeping across Iraq nearly two months ago.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: KRG: The Number of Kurdish Youths Joining ISIS has Increased
A spokesman for a Kurdish Ministry has revealed that following the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) recent attacks in Mosul, the number of Kurdish youths joining the extremist group has increased. Mariwan Naqishbandi, a spokesman for Kurdistan’s Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs told BasNews that after the Mosul attacks last June, about 200 Kurdish youths have joined ISIS Militants who are currently fighting Peshmerga forces as well as the Iraqi Army. “Before the Mosul attacks, about 200 Kurdish youths were members of ISIS, but now the number has risen to about 400; since the Mosul attacks, the number of Kurdish youths fighting with ISIS has doubled,” said Naqishbandi.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/KRG–The-Number-of-Kurdish-Youths-Joining-ISIS-has-Increased/29010
Headline: Tunneling through triangle of death, Islamic State aims at Baghdad from south
Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, Islamic State insurgents are getting dangerously close to Baghdad with the support of heavily-armed Sunni tribesmen, Iraqi security and intelligence officials said. The al Qaeda offshoot, which poses the biggest security threat to Iraq since the fall of Saddam in 2003, has made new bold advances in the north, reaching a major dam and seizing a fifth oilfield and three more towns after routing security forces from the Kurdish autonomous region. But some Iraqi intelligence and security officials are far more alarmed by the Islamic State’s less heralded campaign in rural areas just south of the capital, rugged Euphrates valley terrain once known to U.S. forces as the “triangle of death”. While the Islamic State’s march on Baghdad from the north has been halted near the town of Samarra 100 km (60 miles) from the city limits, the fighters have more quietly building up their forces on the capital’s southern outskirts.
Aug. 4, 2014
Afghanistan
Headline: War News for Monday, August 4th, 2014
Reported security incidents
#1: A bomb killed a Pakistani religious leader and two of his guards during a celebration at a northwestern shrine on Monday, police said, as officers prepared for a militant backlash over a continuing military operation. Monday’s bomb attack took place as a crowd of thousands gathered at a Sufi shrine near the city of Dera Ismail Khan where the religious leader, Faqir Jamshed, was presiding at a function.
#2: Four Afghan army soldiers were killed and four others wounded in a bomb attack in the outskirts of the national capital of Kabul on Monday morning, the Defense Ministry confirmed. “Four Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel were martyred and four wounded following a roadside bombing in southern outskirts of Kabul. The army personnel were on their routine patrol in an army armored vehicle when the incident took place at around 7:45 a.m. local time,” the ministry said in a statement.
#3: Seven Uzbek terrorists and two army soldiers were killed during the clearance of the Miramshah to Datta Khel road, a military spokesperson said on Monday.
#4: Units of police in coordination with the army personnel have killed 86 Taliban militants during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Monday.
#5: Nine armed Taliban were killed and another wounded in Kunar province last night. According to police chief of Kunar province to BNA, nine armed insurgents were killed in drone attack of foreign forces and another wounded.
#5: Two consecutive explosions inflected financial damages in Nangarhar provinces last night.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Sudan
Headline: South Sudan peace talks resume in Addis Ababa
Headline: 114 South Sudanese soldiers seek refuge in Sudan: report
Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels have resumed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The regional bloc overseeing the talks, Igad, has set a 10 August deadline to agree on a transitional government and implement a ceasefire. The last round of talks between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar stalled in June. Conflict erupted in December after Mr Kiir accused Mr Machar – his sacked deputy – of plotting a coup. Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then marshalled a rebel army to fight the government. More than 1.5 million people have since been displaced and the UN has warned that the country is on the verge of famine. “This session of negotiations must make progress, we must end the war,” said chief mediator Seyoum Mesfin at the resumption of talks in Addis Ababa. He said that if war continues “it will have serious consequences” and added: “Those that insist on continued fighting must be held accountable.”
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28644316
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article51905
Libya
Headline: 22 killed in day of clashes over Libyan airport
A day of militia fighting over control of the international airport in Libya’s capital killed 22 people, the country’s interim government said Sunday, part of the worsening chaos gripping the country. Libya is seeing its worst violence since the 2011 civil war that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi, as militias made up of the rebels who overthrew him largely run wild in the country, armed with heavy weaponry that outguns its poorly organized security forces. Saturday’s deaths bring the death toll after weeks of fighting for control of Tripoli’s international airport, as well as Libya’s second-largest city of Benghazi, to 236 people. Islamist militias from the coastal city of Misrata have led the assault on the airport, seeking to seize it from militiamen from the mountain town of Zintan. Militia shelling has set fire to at least eight huge oil depots, sending plumes of black smoke over Tripoli, Libya’s state-run news agency reported Sunday.
Aug. 3, 2014
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20140803/ml–libya-57190f684c.html
Headline: Algeria, Egypt may lead military force in Libya
Arab League preparing force of Arab nations to help resture order to Libya. News sources have reported that the president of the Justice and Equality movement in Egypt, Ziad al-Qanai, has discovered secret communications circulated in the Arab League concerning the formation of a shared Arab military force including Egypt and Algeria to be deployed in Libya to fight extremist factions there. Amr Moussa, the previous secretary general of the Arab League, also reported that Egypt was planning on sending military forces into Libya due to repeated attacks on Egyptian nationals. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has recently spoken of the threat posed by extremist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Islamic State, and other Islamist groups possibly active in Libya. He added that Egypt would not sit with its hands tied with the threat of such groups at its doorstep. Egyptian news sources said that a number of generals from the Algerian intelligence forces arrived in Cairo on the personal request of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika due to the cooperation between the two countries on the Libyan question.
Aug. 4, 2014
Algeria
Headline: Saharawi Ambassador in Algeria Condemns Moroccan Arbitrary Policy Against Innocent Saharawis
The Sahrawi Ambassador in Algeria Mr. Brahim Ghali condemned Sunday the arbitrary policy practiced by Moroccan occupying forces against the innocent Saharawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, in a speech during the opening of the 5th edition of Gdeim Izik Summer University in the Algerian province of Boumerdes. The Saharawi diplomat praised the ongoing struggle and resistance of the Saharawi people in the occupied territories, calling for the release of all Saharawi political prisoners languishing in Moroccan jails. He also appreciated the recent position taken by the African Union during the 23 AU summit, held in Equatorial Guinea, which is the appointment of Mr. Joaquin Chissano as a special envoy for Western Sahara. Mr. Brahim Ghali praised the Algerian constant support to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination through a just and a free referendum, appreciating the full support of the Algerian committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people. He also confirmed the willingness of the Saharawi people to continue their peaceful struggle until the realization of their right to freedom and independence.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408041778.html
Morocco
Headline: Moroccan FM calls on Algeria to fully shoulder its responsibilities
Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Salaheddine Mezouar, called on Algeria to fully shoulder its responsibilities in searching for a solution to the Western Sahara issue, similarly to Algiers’ involvement in this regional dispute. “Algeria should fully shoulder its responsibilities in searching for a solution similarly to its military, political and diplomatic involvement in the outbreak and persistence of the regional dispute over the Sahara,” Mezouar told Moroccan newspaper Aujourd’hui le Maroc. He also stressed the need for Algeria to “understand that the exercise by the Kingdom of its sovereignty in the Moroccan Sahara is irreversible.” Underlining the direct involvement of Algeria in this dispute notably through “generous and sustained financial, military and logistical support to the Polisario, Mezouar said Algeria’s positions and behavior since the outbreak of the Moroccan Sahara issue, “have made it, indeed, the main party in this regional dispute.” Responding to recent press statements of Algeria’s Foreign Minister, in which the Algerian diplomat reportedly said “normalization of Moroccan-Algerian relations depend on the respect of Algeria’s position over the Moroccan Sahara,” Mezouar said he was “disappointed but not surprised.” He added that Algeria places “its opposition to the Kingdom’s territorial integrity over all other considerations.”
Aug. 4, 2014
Turkey
Headline: NATO reassures Turkey: U.S. radar won’t be used to help Israel
NATO has confirmed to Turkey that a ballistic missile defense radar won’t be used to protect Israel. NATO’s supreme commander Gen. Philip Breedlove said the Western alliance’s facility near the Turkish town of Kurecik would be reserved for European security. Breedlove dismissed assertions by the Turkish opposition that the U.S.-origin radar would relay BMD data on Iran to the Jewish state. “It is an American-supplied radar that is offered to NATO to be a part of the European phase-adaptive approach missile defense of Europe,” Breedlove said. “That is what it is there for.” In July, the opposition asserted that the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan quietly tolerated the NATO radar and its U.S. operation. The opposition said the U.S. military maintained full control over the long-range X-band radar and would work with Israel. “The fact that there has not been a single missile fired on Turkish soil makes this mission a complete success,” Breedlove told CNN Turk. Turkey has opposed Israel’s participation in NATO exercises. Officials said Ankara was abandoning plans to improve relations with Israel.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/08/04/nato-commander-u-s-radar-turkey-wont-used-help-israel/
Armenia
Headline: Death Toll Rises in Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict
Azerbaijan and Armenia on Monday both reported more losses in a sharp escalation of fighting over the South Caucasus region Nagorno-Karabakh, with 18 soldiers now confirmed dead. The Azerbaijani region and some adjacent territory have been under the control of Armenian soldiers and ethnic Armenian local troops since the end in 1994 of a six-year separatist war. Both sides report frequent shootings and attempted incursions along the cease-fire line, but the latest outbreak of fighting has been the worst in many years. Russia, the United States and the European Union have all expressed concern and urged both sides to respect the cease-fire. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Monday that 13 soldiers were killed in the fighting that spiked over the weekend, while Nagorno-Karabakh’s armed forces said five of its soldiers were killed. It was not immediately clear what set off the latest violence between the former Soviet republics, with each side accusing the other of being the aggressor. Armenia’s prime minister said the presidents of the two countries were expected to meet at the end of the week in Sochi, Russia, although this has not been confirmed by Azerbaijan. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan would have separate meetings in Sochi with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-rises-azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-24832635
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Leaked CBP Report Shows Entire World Exploiting Open US Border
A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from more than 75 different countries. The report was obtained by a trusted source within the CBP agency who leaked the document and spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity. The report is labeled as “Unclassified//For Official Use Only” and indicates that the data should be handled as “Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU).” Among the significant revelations are that individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014. As of July 20, 2014, 1,443 individuals from China were caught sneaking across the porous U.S. border this year alone, with another 1,803 individuals either turning themselves in to U.S. authorities at official ports of entry, or being caught attempting to illegally enter at the ports of entry. This comes amid a massive crackdown by Chinese authorities of Islamic terrorists in the Communist nation. Twenty-eight individuals from Pakistan were caught attempting to sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 211 individuals either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry. Thirteen Egyptians were caught trying to sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 168 either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry.
Aug. 4, 2014
Headline: FBI to hire firm to rate ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ stories about the agency
The FBI is hiring a contractor to grade news stories about the agency as “positive” “neutral” or “negative,” but the agency won’t say why officials need the information or what they plan to do with it. FBI officials wouldn’t even reveal how they will go about assigning the grades, which were laid out in a recent contract solicitation. The contract tells potential bidders to “use their judgment” in scoring news coverage as part of a new “daily news briefing” service the agency is seeking as part of a contract that could last up to five years.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/3/fbi-hires-firm-to-rate-news-stories-about-the-agen/#ixzz39S2AxGAq
Headline:Suspected al Qaeda militants kill nine Yemeni soldiers: local officials
Militants have killed at least nine soldiers in attacks in south and eastern Yemen over the past three days, local officials said on Monday, just as the government sent more troops to the east to confront a growing al Qaeda threat. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), exploiting political turmoil during a 2011 uprising that forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, has repeatedly attacked state institutions, including army camps and government buildings across the U.S.-allied country, killing hundreds of people. The stability of Yemen, which shares a long, porous border with the world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, and whose coast gives onto major shipping lanes, is an international concern. A local official told Reuters that a group of militants attacked a security checkpoint on a main road in Hadramout province in eastern Yemen early on Monday, killing six soldiers. “The militants are believed to be from al Qaeda and they used machineguns to shoot the six soldiers,” the official said. On Saturday, three soldiers were killed in a similar attack in the southern Shabwa province, local officials told Reuters. Al Qaeda militants are trying to impose their version of Islamic law on parts of Hadramout, where government control is perceived to be weakest. Residents said last month that leaflets have been distributed in the eastern city of Seiyoun warning women not to go out without being accompanied by a man.
Aug. 4, 2014
Wars & Rumors of WarsMatthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 “ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Weapons of Mass DestructionZechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: US looks to calm South China Sea tensions
he United States will be looking to calm tensions stoked by recent Chinese oil drilling in disputed waters of the South China Sea at an upcoming meeting of the region’s foreign ministers. Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip in Myanmar, starting Saturday, comes after China angered Vietnam by deploying a deep-sea oil rig near islands claimed by both nations. The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Russel, says China’s withdrawal of the rig in mid-July had removed an irritant but left behind anger in Vietnam and serious questions among other countries about Beijing’s long-term strategy. Russel says the U.S. will be encouraging the half-dozen claimants in South China Sea to take voluntary steps to reduce tensions. Although the U.S. claims neutrality, China is unlikely to respond favorably.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.kfoxtv.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/39f993c5-www.kfoxtv.com.shtml#.U9_XwmPfVeA
Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: Ebola death toll rises to 887, Nigeria cases increase
The death toll from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak had risen to 887 by Aug. 1, while the total number of cases in the four West African countries affected stood at 1,603 on the same date, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Nigeria, the latest country to import the disease, has had up to four cases, of which three are classed as ‘probable’ Ebola and one as ‘suspected’, the Geneva-based agency said in a statement.
Aug. 4, 2014
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Ebola-death-toll-rises-to-887-Nigeria-cases-increase-370040
Headline: HealthMap
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Headline:
August 1, 2014 – Hundreds of Thousands of dead fish wash up in Santa Cruz harbor, California, America
http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_26257880/fish-meet-grisly-end-at-santa-cruz-harbor
August 1, 2014 -Hundreds of dead birds found in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, America
http://www.wgal.com/news/hundreds-of-birds-found-dead-in-lancaster-county/27264626#!bvxz5o
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Thousands stranded, at least 1 killed by Southern California mudslides
About 2,500 people were stranded early Monday after thunderstorms caused mountain mudslides in Southern California, while one person was found dead in a flooded creek, authorities said. Mud, rocks and debris several feet deep blocked roads in the communities of Oak Glen and Forest Falls, and it could be several hours before crews cleared the way through, San Bernardino County Fire spokesman Ryan Beckers said. All residents in the two towns were accounted for and no injuries were reported, he said. To the west, a body was found Sunday in a car that was swept into the rain-swollen water course in Mount Baldy and overturned, fire spokesman Chris Prater said. Coroner’s officials identified the victim on Monday as Joo Hwan Lee, 48, of El Segundo. About 1,500 residents of Oak Glen, and another 1,000 residents of Forest Falls were unable to get out because of thick debris flows caused by flash floods. The stranded include 500 children and adults who had arrived at a Forest Falls campground Sunday morning.
Aug. 4, 2014