Inside the White House……..
By Bill Koenig
17 August 2019
By Bill Koenig
17 August 2019
Israel’s decision not to let in the congressional BDS activists into the country were wise, legal and to a certain extent hilarious.
It is reported that President Trump suggested to PM Netanyahu that Israel shouldn’t let IIhan Omar [R below] and Rashida Tlaib [L below] into the country.
Israel had been pondering this and finally used their 2017 Knesset law that prohibits pro-BDS people from being allowed into Israel.
Sky News-UK, BBC, Deutsche-Welle, France 24, Al Jazeera, Arab News, Al Arabiya, Russia Today, all of Israel’s news organisations and many others from around the world had this as their lead news story.
Of course, the Democratic Leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi [pictured below] protested for two reasons, one it was Trump and two they were Democrats.
President Trump cleverly called Omar and Talib both the new face of the Democratic Party.
This is not a decision that President Trump has made for Israel. Israeli officials were speaking throughout the night.
They've been debating this since this trip was announced in July by Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
They were set up and put in a bad situation by Ilhan Omar… She introduced the resolution, the BDS resolution …which is geared toward eliminating Israel… The day after, she provocatively announced that she was going on a trip to Israel, with Rashida Tlaib, knowing that Israel has a long-standing policy of not allowing people who support BDS into the country. So, they set this up.
The Turkey, Russia, Iran, Syria and China news is very serious as these nations continue their final day alignment spoken of in Ezekiel 38-39, Jeremiah 49:35-39, Zechariah 12-14 and many other scriptures.
Israel and the United States are continuing to watch closely the dangerous Iranian activities inside of Iraq.
Israel continues to hit Iranian locations inside of Iraq. Israel’s challenges on their border with Hezbollah and Iran are getting close to Israel’s red line.
Israel has always had the gift of pre-emptive strikes; and fortunately, they have a friend in the White House that will support them and participate with them.
Israel has been involved in the recent Persian Gulf military maneuvers, which has irritated Iran.
We will be watching and reporting on these activities very closely.
Burning of Heifer Takes Place in Preparation for Third Temple….
August 15, 2019
August 15, 2019
A major step was made towards reinstating the Temple service: after an intensive study into the practical details, an actual heifer,albeit not a red one, was burned in precisely the manner that will enable the Jewish people to be purified.
Chapter 19 of the Book of Numbers gives an in-depth description of the Mitzvah (Torah commandment) of the burning of the red heifer and subsequent mixing with water for the purpose of sprinkling on the Jews as a means of ritual purification from contact with a dead body.
Despite the Biblical description, the Mitzvah of the red heifer is considered the most enigmatic of all the Biblical commandments.
The red heifer is essential to the restoration of the Temple service.
The return of the mitzvah of the red heifer is described by the Prophet Ezekiel as a stage in the final redemption.
The design of the entire experiment took many months, and the implementation itself was carried out far from the eye of the public and the media.
Only after analysing the results did it become possible to publish it. In the course of the experiment, all of the specifications mentioned in the sources were reconstructed, beginning with the excavation of a ‘winepress; a rectangular pit, in which the pyre was built of dried wood of the pine, oak, and fig trees.
For the purpose of the experiment, a mature but sick heifer was selected of the Baladi breed which was prevalent in ancient Israel.
The process of burning lasted some nine hours, and the heifer’s ashes together with the wood used to burn it yielded several tens of kilograms of ashes.
This is a ground-breaking study of historical significance because there has been no investigation into the practical implementation of the laws of the red heifer since the destruction of the Temple.
The experiment was designed to check the amount of ash produced, and whether it would be enough to purify every Israelite living today.
Tick, tick, tick…….
U.S.-Turkey Safe Zone Rising in Northern Syria, Russia’s Ditched in the South…….
17 August 2019
17 August 2019
A US-Turkish safe zone is beginning to take shape in north-eastern Syria amid unresolved arguments.
In the south-east, however, the Russians have scrapped the safe zone they had monitored and opened the door for pro-Iranian forces to recover their old positions close to the borders of Israel and Jordan.
Both big power initiatives are fraught with discord in highly volatile regions at the two ends of Syria.
The first began taking off with the landing of 90 US military personnel at Tal Abyad in southern Turkey following an agreement reached on August 8 between Washington and Ankara to “rapidly… stand up a joint operations centre in Turkey… to coordinate and manage the establishment of a safe zone.”
This cautious locution glides over the continuing difficulty to resolve US-Turkish dissent over the status of the pro-American Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the dominant component of which are fighters of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
This militia, a close US ally, is viewed by Turkey as an integral arm of the Kurdish PKK (Workers Party), a Turkish separatist movement branded a terrorist organisation by Washington as well as Ankara.
The US has proposed a two-tiered safe zone: the SDF would evacuate a 5km strip along the entire Syrian-Turkish border and pull their heavy weapons back beyond that line to a total depth of 14km.
This zone would be under American control with a third non-Turkish party patrolling the 5km strip.
Ankara, however, insists on controlling a 32km deep zone devoid of any SDF fighters, asserting that only Turkish forces can be relied on to safeguard its border security.
Therefore, although some pieces of the safe zone of north-eastern Syria are moving into place, it is still hard to see a concrete resolution of this conflict.
This difficulty emerges clearly from President Recep Erdogan’s [pictured above] version of the safe zone agreement.
He keeps on saying that “the understanding with the US” creates a “peace corridor” controlled by Ankara along the Turkish-Syrian border, to which he claims America has pledged its “intent and commitment” – a pledge that was never signed off by the Trump administration.
At the opposite end of Syria, in the south-east, we find another world power, Russia, handling its own dilemmas with a different partner.
Whereas the US struggles with the unsolvable Turkish-Kurdish feud, Russia has simply given in to Iran by reneging on the pledgePresident Vladimir Putin gave US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in mid-2018 to keep pro-Iranian forces out of the Israeli and Jordanian borders districts.
A “safe zone” was to take shape with no military presence other than Russian and Syrian military forces.
That arrangement held up for 10 months but soon developed cracks.
They widened after some Russian forces assigned to monitor Syria’s southern border zones with Israel and Jordan were scaled back and recalled to home base.
The remainder were ordered to relocate to the east near the Syrian-Iraqi border and regroup inside a new Russian military enclave.
This new pocket is held by the Syrian army’s 5th Corps which acts under Russian orders as Moscow’s arm on the ground under the command of Ahmed al-Odeh, a one-time leader of the Lions of Sunna Brigade in Daraa. [see map above]
This pro-Russian force is designed to operate in the south-east on lines approximating those of the pro-US SDF in the north-east.
The ban on non-Russian entry to this enclave is strictly enforced, including access to its main roads.
In contrast, all restrictions have been lifted on the access of Iran’s Al Qods Brigades [pictured above] and Hizballah to Syria’sborderlands with Israel and Jordan.
Both are already rebuilding their former military and intelligence positions close to those borders.
The US and Israel have tried unsuccessfully to find out whether the Russian pull-back from those sensitive border districts heralds a new Kremlin policy for Syria under Putin’s direction, or the local Russian command was acting at the behest of its Defence Ministry superiors in Moscow.
How to handle the new situation looming over the inflammable border areas of southern Syria is yet to be decided in Washington and Jerusalem.
According to some suppositions, Moscow took this radical step to get back at the Americans for enlarging their footprint in the north-east by the device of establishing a safe zone for separating the two hostile forces, the Turks and the Kurds.
Developing hourly…..
Why Did the Saudi Air Force Stay out of the Aden Coup?……..17 August 2019
Much has been made of the attempt by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (MbZ) [left above] to heal the UAE’s rift with Saudi Arabia over Yemen as the purpose of his unconventional trip to Riyadh on August 12 during the Eid festival.
After he sat down with King Salman Bin Abdelaziz [pictured below] and Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman (MbS), [right above] a joint statement was issued, urging the conflicting parties in Yemen to enter into dialogue for ending their civil war.
But MbZ had come on a more urgent errand.
He pressed his Saudi hosts to call off their air campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents, in return for which the Houthis would halt their drone and missile attacks on Saudi military and civilian locations.
The Saudi rulers’ response to this proposition is not known.
However, the situation in Yemen has appeared more or less unchanged in the past week, and the Yemeni rebels continue to strike targets in Saudi Arabia.
This may mean either that the Saudi rulers rejected the UAE leader’s proposition, or that they are at odds among themselves on the issue, with King Salman inclined to accept it and MbS against - or demanding more time to decide.
The UAE ruler undoubtedly came to Riyadh after he was convinced that the Houthis were willing to take certain steps to prove they were not Iranian proxies and that, although they received military assistance from Iran, they were able to act independently.
The UAE ruler undoubtedly came to Riyadh after he was convinced that the Houthis were willing to take certain steps to prove they were not Iranian proxies and that, although they received military assistance from Iran, they were able to act independently.
This message would have been conveyed through recent back-channel contacts between the Yemenis and UAE intelligence.
This development took place in the shadow of the stinging defeat suffered by Saudi forces backing the Yemeni government when the UAE-backed separatist Southern transitional Council (STC) seized the southern port city of Aden. [pictured below]
The followers of Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi abandoned their positions in Aden and fled, leaving behind a conundrum:
Why did the Saudi air force jets cruising over the embattled port city refrain from intervening on their behalf and striking the STC?
An aerial attack on separatist forces could have saved Aden from falling into their hands.
Did the order to the air force to stay out of the battle come from the crown prince or perhaps from his rivals at the royal court?
This point matters.
This point matters.
If the order came from MbS, it would indicate his willingness to go along with the UAE bid to negotiate an end to the Yemen war and engage Iran in diplomatic dialogue, so separating Riyadh from the Trump administration’s maximum pressure policy for Tehran.
But if his enemies were able to stop the Saudi air force from going into action - in defiance of his orders, then Yemen is not alone in suffering a mini-coup; another one may be taking place in Riyadh.
Russia’s Nuclear-Powered Missile Explosion Could Have Caused a “Chernobyl in Space”…………
17 August 2019
17 August 2019
On July 1, 14 Russian sailors died in a fire aboard a nuclear-powered submarine in the Barents Sea.
Moscow, after first withholding comment, allowed a top naval official to laud the men for giving their lives to prevent a “planetary catastrophe.”
On August 8, a small nuclear reactor exploded while testing a missile that used “isotope power sources” on an offshore platform in the Arkhangelsk region near the Arctic Circle. Seven scientists were killed.
A spike in radiation at the nearby port city of Severodvinsk was briefly recorded by the local administration’s website.
The Russian military then announced that radiation levels were normal, without disclosing information about the incident.
However, news of the explosion set off a run on iodine (which prevents the thyroid gland from absorbing radiation) in nearby cities and towns.
Then, on Tuesday, August 13, nine days after the explosion, the TASS news agency quoted the Russian meteorological service in Rosgidromet as reporting “radiation levels in the Arkhangelsk territorial system to be 4-16 times above the background rate of the ambient dose equivalent for this territory.”
Finnish and Norwegian radiation stations said cautiously that they would need a few days to conduct their own measurements.
It seems that, just as we may never learn the nature of the potential “planetary disaster” prevented by a Russian submarine crew on July 1, we may never know exactly what went wrong in Russia’s failed missile test with “isotope power sources” on August 8.
Neverthless, you can practically guarantee the result is far, far worse than we are being told?
Two Young Israelis Injured in Terrorist Car-Ramming at Gush Etzion……...
August 16, 2019
August 16, 2019
A 17-year old boy is in critical condition and a girl of 19 was moderately hurt on Friday, August 16 when an Arab Palestinian's car crashed into them at a bus stop outside the Gush Etzion town of Elazar.
Both victims, a brother and sister, were taken to Sharei Zedek hospital in Jerusalem after being treated by MDA paramedics.
At the hospital, the doctors found the boy had suffered life-threatening multiple injuries, including a fractured skull.
The terrorist swerved at high speed off the road and rammed the car into his victims before losing control of the vehicle and landing in a ditch.
A police officer passing by on his way home shot him dead as he tried to exit the car and flee the scene. The car carried Israeli number plates.
Shlomo Neeman, head of the Gush Etzion local council said: “We have lost our deterrence and this situation is generating a terrorist offensive against Gush Etzion and other parts of Judea and Samaria. We call on the government to take the requisite action for putting an end to the questions hanging over the region’s future.”
In Gaza, Hamas issued a statement of congratulation for the Gush Etzion attack and threatened a fresh explosion of regional violence following “events in Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque and Judea and Samaria.”
Israel Report
Editor; Mike Claydon
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