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Feb. 24 , 2012

Peres on Iran: When We Say 'All Options,' We Mean It

By IsraelNationalNews.com & Ha’aretz.com

President Shimon Peres addressed the Iranian threat Thursday in a speech before the annual Jerusalem meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "The state of Israel is a sovereign one and it has the right and the ability to defend itself from every threat," he said. "When we say all options are on the table, we mean it. A nuclear Iran is a strategic threat not only on Israel but on the entire world. Iran is a center of moral corruption and world terror."

Peres may have been trying to carry out "spin control" following a report in Ha’aretz, according to which he intends to tell President Barack Obama that he opposes an Israeli raid on Iran. "Recently, we have seen an escalation of the sanctions against Iran under the leadership of President Obama and we witnessed his ability to lead a coalition with partnership from Europe and other countries against Iran," Peres said. "I appreciate this and I know full well that those partners share our outlook [and favor] stepping up sanctions while at the same time keeping all options open."

Since early Thursday morning, Peres has received messages from officials close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressing surprise at the report that Peres was due to voice objection to Israeli attack on Iran. Officials close to Netanyahu said that the prime minister "was surprised to see Peres' comments in the newspaper."

Peres, apparently, decided to use his speech on Thursday afternoon to attempt to clarify the issue. "When we say that all options are on the table on Iran, we really mean it," he said.

Earlier, Lieberman also spoke to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and said any public statements on the Iranian issue are unnecessary and harmful. "The discussions and decisions on Iran must be left for the appropriate forums," Lieberman said.

Obama Administration Refuses to Grant Visa to Israeli Knesset Member

By Ha’aretz

The U.S. government refused to grant a visa to National Union parliamentarian Michael Ben Ari, on the basis of his membership in a "terror organization."

Ben Ari recently submitted a request to the U.S. consulate for a visa, so he could take part in two conferences held in the United States this week, one aimed at encouraging aliyah to Israel. In response, however, he was told that he cannot be granted the visa based on a clause that allows the State Department to prohibit the entrance of people who were involved in terror activities or were members of a terror organization in a foreign country.

Ben Ari believes that the U.S. government is referring to his membership in the Kach movement, a far-right political movement founded by an American-Israeli citizen, the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, which is considered a terror organization in Israel, Canada, the European Union and the United States.

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, in a letter addressed to the U.S. ambassador in Israel, Daniel Shapiro, wrote, "I would like to express my protest against the decision and request that it be reconsidered. Mr. Ben Ari is a Knesset member who represents the National Union party, an entirely legitimate party in the Israeli parliament. As a public official in Israel, a close ally of the U.S., he cannot be recognized as a member of a terror group or be prohibited from visiting the U.S.,"

Ben Ari said in response to the decision, "The U.S. government, who receives with open arms [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, who calls for the destruction of Israel, [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas, who planned the murder of children in Jerusalem, and [Israeli Arab MK] Ahmed Tibi, who enthusiastically encourages shahids, chose to bar me from meeting with Jewish communities in the U.S. and to encourage aliyah to Israel, with claims that I am a terrorist. Now it is clear that the American blindness that cannot differentiate who is a terrorist threatening world peace is what brought about the horrible terror attacks of September 11."

'March to Jerusalem' Wants To Bring 1 Million Arabs to Border

By IsraelNationalNews.com

An attempt is being made by the BDS movement to have a ‘Global March to Jerusalem’ on March 30, to coincide with the so-called “Palestinian Land Day,” in a repeat of the failed Naqba Day attempt last year. “The concept behind it is to have a million people marching on Israel’s borders from all the surrounding countries – Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt,” CiF Watch reported.

The BDS movement declares, “Commemorating Land Day, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) invites people of conscience around the world to unite for a BDS Global Day of Action on 30 March 2012 in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.”

The project’s official website says: “The march will confirm that the policies and practices of the racist Zionist state of Israel against Jerusalem and its people are a crime not only against Palestinians but against all humanity.”

The CiF Watch reported that the “results are therefore likely to be grave…The leaders of the ‘Global March to Jerusalem’ are very much aware of [its] links to proscribed terrorist groups, and yet its endorsers include a rather predictable list of organizations and US and other nationals, including a UN employee and a former British MP.”

Israel, like any other sovereign country, cannot permit any type of attack on its borders, threatening its right to self-defense and autonomy as an independent state.

On last year's Naqba Day (the day the state was established, called "catastrophe day" by Palestinian Arabs) media-hyped attempts by Arabs to cross the border were stopped by Israel on several fronts. Lebanese forces prevented marchers from approaching Israel's border, so as to avoid confrontation. Only Syria aided the marchers, hoping to get their minds off its own internal rioting, and some 100 did manage to enter Israel and were repelled. Israel has since taken measures to prevent a repeat of that possibility.

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What Will Happen in 2012?

By Tamar Yonah (IsraelNationalNews)

The horrors of history, the highs of humanity, they can all be found embedded in the Torah (Bible) Codes. Bible codes are Hebrew letters making up words which are found in equidistant sequences encoded in the Torah. The words they form can appear in horizontal, vertical, diagonal or even backwards directions and sometimes intersect each other, giving greater connective strength to a code..

On April 3rd, I interview(ed) Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, an Israeli who is an expert in the Torah codes, and has authored over 25 books on different Torah topics, Jewish Mysticism, and other Judaic topics.

If you check out his website and videos at: www.glazerson.com you will see some of the various historic or other news-shaking events that he has found in the Torah such as the following topics:

*Gadaffi's Defeat In Bible Codess
*Syrian Dictator, Bashar al-Assad's Downfall
*The Japan Tsunami and Redemption
*The Slaughter of the Fogel Family in Itamar last month

Those are just a few, as visiting his website will show you codes which show dozens of other events, including the Gaza Flotilla, U.S. president Obama, and even a threat to the world by Korea.

Will the Moshiach (Messiah) come next year in 2012?

Torah code proponents know that one cannot predict the future with Bible codes because every future possibility is already encoded into the Torah. It is up to the free will of Mankind as to which future will materialize, therefore one may find a code that could portend an upcoming event, but it may or may not happen, and therefore, Torah codes should NOT be sed to foretell events. However, it can be used to show when events could be RIPE to happen. Below is such a venue.

There is one event that most all of Mankind is waiting for, and that is the arrival of the Moshiach (Messiah). I will be asking Rav Glazerman about a video he put up showing the possibility of the Moshaich coming in almost exactly one year's time from now, next Passover, 2012. In this video below, he shows the time could be ripe for just such an event.

Will it happen? No one knows. We'll have to wait until next year to either laugh or cry. For more topics and videos showing recent events coded in the Torah, see his additional website here which focuses more intensely on these matters. http://torahcode.us/

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Paradise Regained, Paradise Lost

By Don Canaan (Commentary)

This year marked the 29th anniversary of the return of the Sinai by Israel to Egypt--a day of mourning by many of the 2,000 settlers who settled and later were forcibly evacuated by Israeli authorities under the command of Ariel Sharon, from the seaside city of Yamit on the Mediterranean.

Yamit was former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's dream--a projected seaport and city of 250,000 founded on the Sinai sand dunes overlooking date palm trees and the blue Mediterranean--a populated buffer between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on the other side of the Suez Canal.

Some alternate historians say Moses and the children of Israel passed near the site of Yamit 3,500 years ago as they wandered for 40 years through the Sinai Desert on their way to the proverbial land of milk and honey.

Since April 25, 1982 only the whine of the desert wind weaves its currents through the crevices of destroyed homes, businesses and monument--a memorial to the young men who died during the 1967 Six Day war.

Christians, Jews and Muslims died during three Arab-Israeli wars and battles that took place in the Sinai in 1956, 1967 and 1973--Egyptian and Israeli--young people who fought and died in that desolate, forsaken desert wasteland.

The modern-day chariot carrying Egyptian President Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat hugged the intermittently green coastline of Sinai on its historic mission to Jerusalem. Israelis glancing upward into the clear night sky saw merely a jet banking gently to the northwest.

Official Israeli government policy was that the settlers had to be removed and the army came and forcibly removed the remaining diehard residents. The Jerusalem Post described the scene: Apocalypse had arrived in Yamit and in the dust and noise and destruction one could wander freely. Dozens of bulldozers and giant mobile air hammers were loose in the city like a pack of predatory beasts."

April 25, 20011 marked the 29th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Yamit and Sinai and a cold peace between long-term enemies.

That gift of peace silently glided overhead as the Sabbath disappeared and the stars appeared. At 8:01 p.m. Sadat's jetliner landed at Ben-Gurion Airport and the first minutes of a then potential peace came to the Middle East.

Old enemies became new friends. The crowds roared its approval when Sadat shook hands with Moshe Dayan. A person standing nearby, according to the Jerusalem Post, said Sadat told Dayan, "Don't worry Moshe, it will be all right."

The peace treaty between the two nations was signed on March 26, 1979 and on April 25, 1982; the events that had started on a November day at Camp David came to fruition. Sinai was returned to Egypt. Yamit was bulldozed to the ground. But Anwar Sadat did not live to see that day. He had been assassinated seven months before.

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