Wednesday, November 25, 2020

NEWS FROM ABROAD 11/24/2020

 Submitted by: M Mulukin

US sends heavy B-52H Stratofortress Bombers to Middle East via Israel.

24 November 2020

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The United States this week rapidly deployed several heavy bombers to the Middle East in an apparent threat to Iran, amid swirling speculation that US President Donald Trump plans to take military action against Tehran before President-elect Joe Biden enters office.

there is a tremendous level of biblically prophetic activity that has taken place in America and the Middle East over the last 72 hours. Now we are learning that President Trump has ordered a fleet of B-52H Stratofortress Bombers to the Middle East for a possible strike on Iranian military interests in Iran, Lebanon and other places where they exist to do damage to the nation of Israel.

It looks as though Donald Trump has accomplished all that which God placed in him office to do, and indeed, Trump has done many great things for the Jews and the nation of Israel. But with the release of the Abraham Accords, the beginning of the end times covenant, it looks like Trump's time has come to an end. Now it also looks like God will use Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to oversee the establishment of the Palestinian state, and the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

FROM TIMES OF ISRAEL: In a highly irregular move, the B-52H Stratofortress planes were seen flying toward Israeli airspace on Saturday en route to the base where they will be stationed, likely in Qatar. The aircraft were spotted on civilian tracking software approaching Israel before they apparently turned off their transponders, rendering them invisible on those applications.

It was the third time in the past year and a half that B-52 bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons and other powerful munitions, have been deployed to the region in tacit threats to Iran. In previous cases, the bombers were not seeing flying through Israeli airspace. It was not immediately clear what accounted for the change in route.

US Central Command said the planes were sent into the region “to deter aggression and reassure US partners and allies.”

The planes were ordered on short notice to fly to the Middle East nonstop from their home base in North Dakota, refuelling along the way in mid-air. The bombers were accompanied on the mission by F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, as well as KC-10 and KC-135 refuelling planes, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.

“The ability to quickly move forces into, out of and around the theatre to seize, retain and exploit the initiative is key to deterring potential aggression,” Lt. Gen. Greg Guillot, commander of the US military’s 9th Air Force, said in a statement.

The general said deploying bombers to the region allows their crews to better acquaint themselves with the area and work better with local units.

“These missions help bomber aircrews gain familiarity with the region’s airspace and command and control functions and allow them to integrate with the theatre’s US and partner air assets, increasing the combined force’s overall readiness,” Guillot said.

The US has previously deployed B-52 bombers to the region during periods of heightened tensions. This occurred in early 2020 after the US killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike in Iraq. The strategic aircraft were also sent to the region in May 2019, when Iran allegedly attacked a number of US allies in the Persian Gulf and shot down an American spy drone that flew near its airspace.

The deployment of the long-range heavy bombers came amid reports that the Trump administration — and Israel — planned to carry out military operations against Iran before Biden enters office. The US president-elect is expected to take a somewhat softer, more diplomatic approach than Trump, who pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal world powers signed with Iran and employed a so-called “maximum pressure” campaign of heavy economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Though analysts say this effort has created leverage for future negotiations, the tactic has not yet borne fruit in terms of halting Iran’s nuclear efforts — indeed the Islamic Republic has amassed far more nuclear material and at higher levels of enrichment under the campaign — nor has it curbed Tehran’s regional hegemony ambitions. Biden, who was vice president to Barack Obama when the 2015 accord was signed, has said that he plans to return to the agreement as a basis for further negotiations with Iran.

The Trump administration is reportedly planning a bevy of wide-ranging sanctions on Iran to make it more difficult for the incoming administration to rejoin the nuclear deal. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the region over the past week, including a stop in Israel, in which he told the Jerusalem Post that the US would consider a military strike against Iran.

“The administration has been clear on that for its entire four years. There is no reason that would change today or tomorrow,” Pompeo said.

Last Friday, Channel 13 reported that Israel and the US were planning to increase pressure on Iran with “covert operations” and economic sanctions during Trump’s final weeks in office. Jerusalem and Washington assess that Tehran will not respond militarily before the end of Trump’s term, according to the unsourced report. The report did not elaborate on the nature of actions that may be taken.

Among other covert operations against Iran’s rogue nuclear program, Israel and the US were reportedly responsible for introducing the Stuxnet computer virus to sabotage parts of Iran’s nuclear enrichment process a decade ago, and for more recent sabotage attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Israel’s Mossad spy agency spirited out a vast trove of Iranian documentation regarding the regime’s nuclear program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in 2018.

Israel has also been linked in reports to the killings of several Iranian nuclear scientists, and last week The New York Times reported that Israeli agents killed Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 Abu Muhammad al-Masri in Tehran in August at the behest of the US.

Last Monday, the Times reported that Trump had asked top advisers if he had options to strike Iranian nuclear sites during his last weeks in office, but was dissuaded with warnings it could lead to a wider conflict.

Trump convened the officials a day after the UN nuclear watchdog said Iran had stockpiled over 12 times more enriched uranium than the 2015 nuclear deal allows, the report said, citing four current and former US officials.


Netanyahu flies to Saudi desert city to meet Crown Prince and Pompeo

November 24, 2020

The meeting was a close secret until the prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s flight landed at the western Saudi town of Neom on Sunday night, November 22 for a unique rendezvous with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Neither side officially confirmed the event, believed to be the first high-level official Israeli-Saudi meeting after many years of secret relations between the two countries. The private jet that carried the prime minister to the Red Sea coastal town Sunday evening, returned him to Israel five hours later. The meeting between Pompeo and the prince was published in advance.

The only surprise was Netanyahu’s arrival. He was accompanied by Mossad Director Yossi Cohen. The prime minister’s office did not confirm or deny the meeting took place. An excuse was made for postponing the coronavirus cabinet meeting from Sunday to Monday.

Hours before he took off, Netanyahu said in a speech: President-elect Biden’s administration “must not go back to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.” This was seen as a signal that the prime minister will go back to the highly vocal  campaign he conducted against the nuclear deal which six world powers, led by the Obama administration of which Biden was vice president, signed with Iran in 2015 and from which Donald Trump withdrew in 2018.

Secretary Pompeo has been making the rounds of US Middle East allies, most significantly Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, in the past two weeks in what appears to be his last major project for the Trump administration – the establishment of a firm regional pro-US security pact for countering Iran’s nuclear weapons program, as well as its violent drive for regional hegemony.

On Friday, US special adviser on Iran, Elliott Abrams issued a blunt warning: “Iran and its proxies would be sorry for any military or terrorist activities that kill Americans.” Muscular support was provided by a heavy, long-range US Air Force B-52 bomber flying over the Mid-East in the weekend, escorted by fighter jets.

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which last month established normal relations with Israel, fostered by the Trump administration, all share deep concern of Biden’s possible intentions to go easy on Iran. So, too, is Saudi Arabia, which has so far stayed out of the normalisation pacts, while maintaining close security cooperation with the Jewish state.

The venue of the epic trilateral meeting carries high symbolism for the crown prince. Neom, still under construction, into which Riyadh has poured $500bn, epitomizes his vision of a smart, futuristic, eco-friendly megacity, a hub of techno innovation (flying taxis and an artificial moon) and a bridge to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.

It may be assumed that Israel’s role in this vision came up in their first conversation.


Palestinian state? Absolutely, no question about it now, Joel 3:2 has it right.

24 November 2020

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Over the weekend, a stunning end times development took place. Prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, got an a plane and under cover of darkness flew to Saudi Arabia where he took part in a secret meeting with Crown prince Mohamed bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. What was on the table? Oh, not much, just the Abraham Accords, the creation of a Palestinian state, and a giant step towards the Daniel 9:27 covenant with death and Hell.

"Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." Isaiah 28:15-18

Where does it all lead to? Exactly where your King James Bible says it does, smack-dab, centre of the target of the Daniel 9:27 covenant that Isaiah says is a covenant with "death and Hell". Palestinian state? Absolutely, no question about it now, Joel 3:2  has it right. This is where we are, it's real and it's spectacular


Treacherous Martyn Indyk back on the Political Scene with his sights on Israel.

24 November 2020

 

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In 2013-14, Martin Indyk [R – above] served as the head of then-Secretary of State John Kerry's negotiations team.

 

Indyk pulled out all the stops to coerce Israel into transferring the vast majority of Judea and Samaria to PLO control and to partitioning Jerusalem. He bitterly blamed Israel when his aggressive efforts came to naught.

 

Now back in business, Indyk published an article last week on NBC's website setting out how Biden should go about reinstating Obama's Middle East policies.

 

Indyk argued that to advance the cause of peace, Biden should pick on Israel.

 

Biden, Indyk advised, needs to force Israel to accept the Kerry (Indyk) plan as a basis for negotiations, ban all Israeli Jewish construction in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, and force Israel to give land in Judea and Samaria to the PLO.

 

Indyk called on the Arab states that have peaceful relations with Israel to reinstate the Palestinian veto – conditioning ties with them on Israeli concessions to the Arab Palestinians.

 

Indyk's advice is noteworthy in the context of the two other events that happened this week. First, Wednesday saw Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani arrive in Israel for a first official visit by a Bahraini leader. During his meetings in Jerusalem, al-Zayani formally requested to open a Bahraini embassy in Israel and committed to further strengthening bilateral ties between Manama and Jerusalem.

 

As for the Arab Palestinians, in his missive, Indyk wrote contemptuously, "Trump's 'deal' [for peace between Israel and the Arab Palestinians] should be taken off the table when he departs the White House."

 

Biden's team's efforts to date indicate they share Indyk's view and fully intend to begin where Indyk, Kerry and Barack Obama left off four years ago.  Keep in mind also Kamala Harris’s venomous view on all things Jewish.

 

The events of the last several days demonstrate clearly where we are and where we are heading. It is critical that Israel take advantage of where we are to secure its interests as it moves towards a new diplomatic reality in January.

 


China Wants Passenger Tracking System for Global Travel Coronavirus Reset.

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24 November 2020

FROM BREITBART NEWS: During the virtual G20 summit on Saturday, Xi called for a coronavirus “global mechanism” which involves international recognition of health certificates in the form of QR codes to allow people to travel freely, according to state media.

The dictator says the system can be based on “nucleic acid testing results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes,” reported state news agency Xinhua.

“We need to further harmonize policies and standards and establish ‘fast tracks’ to facilitate the orderly flow of people,” he is quoted saying. “We hope more countries would participate.”

QR codes are bar codes that can be read by mobile phones that are a common tool of tracking and control in Communist China.

Under the scheme China has employed since February, users are issued a traffic-light style health code, with a green code allowing someone to travel freely, and an orange or red code indicating that they need to quarantine for up to two weeks.

The codes are based on a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party did not explain how the international scheme might work or if it would mirror the health code system which has been widely adopted in China. The lack of detailed information has already been flagged by critics who see it is a piece of social engineering.

In a tweet, the executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth expressed caution over Xi’s proposal.

“An initial focus on health could easily become a Trojan Horse for broader political monitoring and exclusion,” he said.

China has been building its own mass surveillance network for the past decade, which boasts hundreds of millions of street cameras.

The surveillance network has been billed as the world’s most powerful facial-recognition system and aims to identify any of its 1.4 billion citizens within three seconds. China is also looking at more digital methods of ensuring its citizens comply with the strictures of the single-party state.

Qantas will now require a digital vaccine passport before allowing passengers aboard their international flights – and most likely domestic services also....

Welcome to Revelation 13.


Anglican head to take sabbatical for a MUCH needed ‘Spiritual Renewal’ ........

24 November 2020

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The archbishop of Canterbury will take a sabbatical next year for “reflection, prayer, and spiritual renewal,” following a delay by the COVID-19 pandemic.  And not a day too son either. A man who has done more than anyone of late to allow the influence and antichrist doctrines of Rome to enter Anglicanism.   He needs to spend much more time in the book of Revelation and in the  works of the Puritans to fully understand the evils of Rome and run from them, taking his denomination with him?

“The Bible has lots to say about work and rest. I’ll be taking a sabbatical and study leave from May to early August next year,” Welby, who is considered the spiritual head of the global Anglican Communion, tweeted Sunday. “All CofE clergy can (and should!) apply for this every 7-10 years. It reminds us no minister is indispensable to the work of God.”

“He will return to work in early September after some leave,” Welby’s office said in a statement, which revealed that he will spend the majority of the time in Cambridge and in the United States “doing further study on reconciliation –[whatever that is?] one of the priorities of his time as Archbishop and area he has worked in for many years.”

While he will continue to be in direct touch with colleagues throughout his time away, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is likely to lead the church, and Bishop of London Sarah Mullally will assist, according to The Guardian.



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