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 Incredible!Hamas was paying “protesters” to storm Israel's borders. Naturally, IDS fired to keep them out. youtu.be “Hamas Paying Protesters to Charge Gaza Border, Israel Reveals” More than 50 Palestinian demonstrators killed, 2,700 hurt in protests and attempts to infiltrate Israel Monday • Rather than send Hamas operatives to risk their lives at border riots, Hamas urges civilians, families to charge border for little pay. www.jns.org “Hamas Pays Families of Gazans Killed in Border Clashes with Israel” Relatives of fatalities receive $3,000, injured Palestinians paid $200-$500 in compensation www.timesofisrael.com |
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An ex KGB Agent . . . You do not really believe this, I hope. Get real. Putin has eyes on bigger returns than what you're "suggesting" I'm sure. |
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Hamas and Don't know who thought of offering financial gain to poor Palestinians foolish enough to rush armed Israeli border guards, but that is not related to the mysterious purposes Putin has for his interests in aligning himself with Syria's leader. The question revolves around Russia's interest in Syria. |
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One common reason for Russia, etc to back a foe of America is because Russia and Putin are NOT our friends. |
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mo-one . . . Searching the information available on the Internet further establishes your assertion, incidentally. “Why Does Russia Support Syria and President Assad?” How did Russia get involved in Syria? The story goes back at least to Cold War times, when the Soviet Union gained influence in Syria in the 1970s, giving aid and arms. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, its influence in Syria reduced. In 2000, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia and Bashar al-Assad became president of Syria. They did not have a close relationship, but in the mid-2000s, Putin began to expand the Russian military. "Putin began to think about developing Russia as a great power again," says Richard Reeve, director of the Sustainable Security Programme at the Oxford Research Group, a security think-tank. Russian ties with Syria began to strengthen because of their previous Cold War relationship. (read more at www.bbc.co.uk) “Russia Has Been Assad's Greatest Ally – As It Was to His Father Before Him” Before the White House ordered airstrikes in Syria, Russia had been the most dominant outside military force, participating in a bloody military escapade aimed at propping up Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government. Since the fall of 2015, Russia has launched airstrikes on opposition strongholds, deployed special forces units on the ground, and supplied Syrian government troops with food and medical aid. And this intervention has been critical to ensuring Assad's political survival. "The regime was on the verge of collapse," said Matthew Rojansky, director of the Washington-based Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center and an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union. "Assad had lost almost everything. He was really on the ropes. Compare that to today, when he's even been emboldened enough to use chemical weapons, and it's clear the effect Russia's assistance has had in the last year and a half." www.latimes.com Looking forward to the near future may I suggest there are other far-reaching reasons for Russia's linking with Syria. Namely Israel's vast oil reserves and Russia's tanked and desperate economy. “Potential Game-changing Oil Reserves Discovered in Israel” HAIFA, Israel – After Israel complained for years that it was surrounded by oil-rich states but didn’t have a drop within its own borders, it appears there’s a big-time turnaround with the announcement Wednesday that massive oil reserves have been located in the Golan Heights,close to the country’s border with Syria. Afek Oil and Gas, an Israeli subsidiary of the U.S. company Genie Energy, confirmed the find in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TVbut conceded that until the oil is actually extracted, they won’t be sure of the actual amounts and quality of the oil that has been discovered. “We are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is important is the thickness and the porosity,” the company’s chief geologist, Yuval Bartov, explained. “On average in the world, strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities. The important thing is to know the oil is in the rock and that's what we now know.” www.foxnews.com “Discovery of Oil in Israel Means the Jewish State Could Produce 'Significant' Quantities of 'Black Gold' . . . And Potentially Change the Face of the Middle East” Vast oil reserves have been discovered in Israel that could transform the country into world energy power and change the face of the Middle East for years to come. Afek Oil and Gas, an Israeli subsidiary of the U.S. company Genie Energy, said the breakthrough came in the Golan Heights, near the border with Syria. Yuval Bartov, the firm's chief geologist, said there was 'enormous excitement' about the immense wealth it could bring to the Jewish state, which has long yearned for its own resource of 'black gold'. www.dailymail.co.uk “Russia's Future Looks Bleak Without Political and Economic Reform” When the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, meets his US counterpart, Donald Trump, at this week’s G20 summit in Hamburg, he will not be doing so from a position of economic strength. To be sure, despite the steep drop in oil prices that began three years ago, Russia has managed to escape a deep financial crisis. But while the economy is enjoying a modest rebound after two years of deep recession, the future no longer seems as promising as its leadership thought just five years ago. Barring serious economic and political reform, that bodes ill for Putin’s ability to realise his strategic ambitions for Russia. www.theguardian.com “Russia's Break From a Recession Was Fleeting” “Growth was driven by a number of one-off factors and now these are unwinding,” said Liza Ermolenko, an economist at Barclays Capital in London. “It does look like the output gap is pretty much closed, so there is not a lot of scope for the recovery to continue.” The slip-up, which came against the backdrop of a recovery in oil prices, leaves the economy in a precarious position going into the new year. Although government-led efforts propped up investment in 2017 -- with Raiffeisenbank estimating that four state-led projects accounted for more than half of the total in capital spending -- some of them will come to an end already this year. While JPMorgan says the “weakness will be transitory,” a letdown so soon after Russia moved past the slump in mid-2015 highlights the dilemma President Vladimir Putin now faces in making the economy a selling point in a campaign for another six-year term in March elections. www.bloomberg.com What these headlines from recent reports suggest to me and others is the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38. Russia will be emboldened and constrained by economic necessity to invade and strike Israel. Fulfilling Biblical prophecy! |
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Current Event Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy Today in my devotional reading I was excited to discover what I deem to be not only Biblical prophecy being fulfilled, but reasons for why Jerusalem is being hailed by Christians and Jews alike for being again in the possession of Israel. Throughout the Biblical narrative Jerusalem has been central to the life and faith of God's people. For centuries after judging His people that land which Israel now occupies was desolate hardly thought of by anybody. A short historical rundown describes recent history. "Palestine is the name (first referred to by the Ancient Greeks) of an area in the Middle East situated between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Palestine was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 and remained under the rule of the Turks until World War One. Towards the end of this war, the Turks were defeated by the British forces led by General Allenby. In the peace talks that followed the end of the war, parts of the Ottoman Empire were handed over to the French to control and parts were handed over to the British – including Palestine. Britain governed this area under a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1948. To the Arab population who lived there, it was their homeland and had been promised to them by the Allies for help in defeating the Turks by the McMahon Agreement – though the British claimed the agreement gave no such promise. The same area of land had also been promised to the Jews (as they had interpreted it) in the Balfour Declarationand after 1920, many Jews migrated to the area and lived with the far more numerous Arabs there. At this time, the area was ruled by the British and both Arabs and Jews appeared to live together in some form of harmony in the sense that both tolerated then existence of the other. There were problems in 1921 but between that year and 1928/29, the situation stabilised. The main problem after the war for Palestine was perceived beliefs. The Arabs had joined the Allies to fight the Turks during the war and convinced themselves that they were due to be given what they believed was their land once the war was over. Clashing with this was the belief among all Jews that the Balfour Declaration had promised them the same piece of territory. In August 1929, relations between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine broke down. The focal point of this discontent was Jerusalem. The primary cause of trouble was the increased influx of Jews who had emigrated to Palestine. The number of Jews in the region had doubled in ten years." www.historylearningsite.co.uk This mass migration of Jews back to the Middle East is prophesied much in the Old Testament. The same for Jerusalem being made the capital of Israel. What was highlighted for me from Zachariah was how this desolate land area would become an oasis of growth and desirable land – unlike the area immediately surrounding it. This is a promise from God, this unique prosperity and favor. It continue to this day. In the end the whole world will witness this unique favor of God upon Israel. God' favor upon Israel is witnessed by the world every day - though they do not recognize it. |
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