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According today's USA TODAY newspaper (December 24), Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ruled out negotiations to start a cease-fire with Hamas. Instead, Olmert has decided to continue the war against Hamas until they stop their rocket attacks against Israel. Also, Israel is going to build 700 new Israeli settlement homes near Jerusalem. Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ is coming very soon!

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Sadly, Bush keeps demanding that Israel stop the building and while he calls for both sides to stop the violence, he continues to put more pressure on Israel to not retaliate and to hold back.

I would love to see an American president truly support Israel and tell the Israelis to do whatever is necessary to protect themselves and secure their borders and people and to end all talk of giving up land for peace!

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Mar 20, 2008 23:37 | Updated Mar 21, 2008 0:37
Israel says Gaza cease-fire deal unlikely
By YAAKOV KATZ

As talks continue between Israel and Egypt over the possibility of a cease-fire deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, senior defense officials said Thursday that they are pessimistic that a deal will be reached.

The defense officials confirmed reports that as part of the talks - with Defense Ministry Diplomatic-Security Bureau chief Amos Gilad in Cairo this week - Egypt had agreed to invest $32 million in building electrical lines to begin supplying Gaza with 150 megawatts of electricity. This will enable Israel to cut off its supply of electricity, via 10 power lines, to Gaza.

"The talks are ongoing but it is unlikely Hamas will abide by it even if we agreed to a cease-fire," said one official involved in the talks. "In addition, if the smuggling doesn't stop from Egypt into Gaza we will not be able to agree to a cease-fire."

Egypt would set up a power line from the city of El-Arish, the officials said, but the deal must still be finalized. But when it's complete, Egypt will within two years build a power line to supply 150 megawatts to Gaza.

An economic adviser to Salaam Fayad, the prime minister of the Palestinian government in the West Bank, said Thursday that Israel had approved the project. Fayad's administration, Egypt and the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia had already agreed to the $32 million project, said the adviser, Jawad Al-Naji.

"We signed the agreement with the Islamic fund and with the Egyptians," Al-Naji said. "Now we have entered the executive phase after the Israeli approval."

Despite Egypt's willingness to begin supplying Gaza with electricity, Israeli defense officials said it was unlikely that Egypt would begin playing a larger role when it comes to facilitating the transfer of supplies in and out of Gaza.

Also Thursday, two Hamas men were killed in an explosion at a Hamas training base in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Hamas blamed Israel for the blast, which it said was caused by an Israeli airstrike. The IDF denied the reports and said it was not involved in the explosion.

AP contributed to this report.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1205420743406

There will be no peace in the Middle East until the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ returns. Israel's enemies want to push Israel into the Mediterranian Sea. You won't find Israel on maps in the Arab countries surrounding Israel. As far as those countries are concerned, Israel doesn't exist. One day, in the not too distant future, the Lord will return and Israel will be restored to the land which God gave her (Genesis 15:18-21)

Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
Genesis 15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Genesis 15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

That's quite a chunk of real estate!

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Either publicly or behind the scenes it's likely the Bush Administration will further push Israel to back down and give in. Saudi Arabia told VP Cheney there needs to be peace in the Middle East but they said America needs to do more to get Israel to do what is necessary for peace. This, of course, was part of their dicussion which included oil output and oil prices.

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Cheney: `Painful concessions' for peace By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
36 minutes ago



RAMALLAH, West Bank - A Mideast peace agreement will require "painful concessions" by Israelis and Palestinians who must work together to defeat those "committed to violence," Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.

After meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Cheney stressed the U.S. commitment to the creation of an independent Palestinian state, saying it was "long overdue."

"Achieving that vision will require tremendous effort at the negotiating table and painful concessions on both sides," said Cheney, whose stop in Ramallah came just two months after President Bush's trip to the West Bank.

"It also will require a determination to keep those who are committed to violence and who refuse to accept the basic right of the other side to exist," Cheney said.

Abbas, a moderate, controls the West Bank and is battling Hamas militants who have taken charge of the Gaza Strip from Abbas-allied forces and have bombarded southern Israel with rockets.

"Terror and violence do not merely kill innocent civilians, they also kill the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people," Cheney said.

In their meeting, Abbas asked Cheney to help stop Israeli settlement expansion and military operations targeting militants, said Saeb Erekat, an Abbas aide.

Speaking at the news conference, Abbas thanked Cheney for U.S. support. But he also lashed out at Israel's settlements and checkpoints, and called for an end to Israeli military operations.

"Peace and security can't be achieved through settlement expansion and building barriers," he said. To reach peace, Abbas said, "what is required is will, courage and strong support from the international community, especially the U.S."

In his remarks, Cheney said, "A negotiated end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ? one that addresses the legitimate national claims of both people ? will have limitless value. Years of mistrust ad violence have achieved nothing, and the extremists who have stood in the way of a settlement have only caused further grief and suffering to the Palestinian and Israeli people."

"No one," he said, "deserves to go through live in a climate of fear of deprivation. ... That should not be and must not be the direction of events in this region."

Before the session, aides to Abbas said Abbas would tell Cheney there had been little progress in peace talks since the Palestinian leader and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to a resumption at a November conference hosted by President Bush in Maryland.

Cheney said "the future belongs to the advocates of peace and reconciliation." He cited Bush as saying that "the establishment of the state of Palestinian is long overdue." The Bush administration, Cheney said, will commit resources to help the Palestinians build the infrastructure necessary to prosper.

Cheney held talks with Israeli officials in Jerusalem before flying by helicopter to the West Bank. After seeing Abbas, Cheney planned a separate meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

The vice president began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of "Amazing Grace" at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about the Mideast peace process and the rising influence of Iran in the region.

"We are obviously dedicated to doing all we can as an administration to try to move the peace process forward, and obviously actively involved in dealing with the threats that we see emerging in the region ? not only threats to Israel, but threats to the United States as well," Cheney said in a meeting with Israel's president, Shimon Peres.

It was clear that Cheney was referring to Iran. Peres was more specific, saying the declarations that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes against Israel cannot be ignored.

"We have this problem of the Iranians who want to build two satellites, the Hezbollah and the Hamas in Gaza. ... Nobody can control us and say that declarations by Ahmadinejad are less serious," Peres said. "We have to take it seriously."

He said time is of the essence in the peace negotiations, but that he believes progress is achievable.

Cheney is on a 10-day trip to the Mideast, where oil, the future of Iraq and Afghanistan and Iran's rising influence in the region have highlighted his talks with foreign leaders. His visit here is part of the Bush administration's strategy to keep the pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to reach a framework agreement for peace before Bush leaves office in January 2009.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080323/ap_ ... _wh/cheney

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Ya' know what's interesting? Check out the map of what God promised to Abraham!

The Royal Grant to Abraham


I've always thought about what God promised the Jews and about what we see today.

Today we hear how the Jews were allowed to return to their homeland. As if God had nothing to do with them returning to that area, and as if they have really been given possession of their homeland.

We are led to believe that the tiny sliver of land England and the UN "gave" to the Jews is their entire homeland. Of course, this leads to the calls for Israel to "return" land they "stole" during wars with the Arabs when the Arabs were intent upon driving them into the sea.

Imagine the outcry if Israel placed a map on the table at the UN and said they wanted all the land God promised them!
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