Charles Krauthammer writes:

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas unwaveringly insists on the so-called “right of return,” which would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state.

He has repeatedly declared, as recently as last week in New York: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state.”

The Palestinians are quite prepared to sign interim agreements, like Oslo. Framework agreements, like Annapolis. Cease-fires, like the 1949 armistice. Anything but a final deal. Anything but a final peace. Anything but a treaty that ends the conflict once and for all —

anything that will leave a Jewish state standing.

"Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah, [which is called the West Bank today]. Zechariah 12:2

May I wish each of you L'Sha'na Tova - A happy and blessed New Year - the year 5772.

Jewish tradition holds that Rosh Hashanah celebrates the anniversary of the creation of the world, a day when “God takes stock of all of His Creation,” which of course includes all of humanity. Translated from the Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means “head of the year” – rosh means head, while hashanah means year. Jews believe that God’s judgment on this day determines the course of the coming year.

Leshana tova tika’teivu vete’chatemu

Translation: May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year

Beneath the revitalized layer of exaggerated hatred for Israel spreading over the Middle East dwell thousands of Arabs who are willing to help and even love the Jewish state.

Thanks to the "Arab Spring" revolutions in surrounding nations, a growing number of Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, Iraqis...are realizing just how good and decent Israel is compared to their own totalitarian societies, despite the fact that many were raised from childhood to view Israelis as blood-thirsty monsters.

Acting on that realization, and desirous of fleeing new regimes that may actually be worse than the previous rulers, thousands of foreign Arabs have sent requests to Israeli government agencies requesting asylum, visas to visit and even offering to serve the Israeli army and Mossad.

Israel's Foreign Ministry told the Yediot Ahronot newspaper that it is receiving requests even from "members of Arab parliaments, members of political movements and other important political figures." [israeltoday]

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, [The descendants of Esau, the Edomites made their home in Mount Seir], and prophesy against it and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste. “I will lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 35

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has submitted application to the United Nations Security Council to appeal for recognition as a new country and attain acceptance in the body.

"I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land..." Joel 3

And so it begins ~~

"I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle." Zechariah 14:2

The first tremors of that feared earthquake have begun.

A source in the Samarian Jewish community of Neve Tzuf told Israel Today that on Monday evening, a number of activists affiliated with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction used their vehicles to block the entrance to the village.

Many of the Jewish residents trying to get home simply turned around and decided to try again later. But at least one was reportedly forced to defend himself when several Palestinian thugs approached his vehicle in a menacing way.

"Tension is in the air and I can tell that neither side wants it," said the source. "I'm afraid that the few true Abbas supporters are lighting the fire as I talk to you."

The Jewish man continued by relating his fear that by the end of the week, when Abbas will officially request membership for "Palestine" in the UN, the number of violent incidents between Palestinians and Jewish "settlers" will "be too much for the army to control."

"For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart." Jeremiah 24:6-7

The Palestinians warned the Obama Administration that vetoing their UN Security Council bid for statehood would "destroy" the two-state solution to the conflict.

The warnings comes just hours after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas confirmed in a speech in Ramallah that on Friday, September 23 he will address the UN General Assembly, after which he will submit to the Security Council an official application for UN membership~~  for "Palestine."

"I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land."  Joel 3:2

Religious leaders of all stripes, gowns and headgear gathered in Jerusalem’s Mishkenot Sha’ananim neighborhood  to attend the third annual Interfaith Ethics and Tolerance conference.

Bringing together Jewish and Muslim clerics, as well as clergy from numerous Christian denominations and those of the Bahai and Hindu faiths, the conference this year focused on the role of spiritual leaders in promoting peace and tolerance as well as the challenges of religious leadership in today’s globalized world.

''O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say,

Baruch Haba Bashem Adonai

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!" Luke 13

"O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore." Psalm 131:3

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Israel is evacuating its embassy in Jordan in advance of a demonstration promoted on Facebook under a banner "No Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory".

70 activists burned American and Israeli flags in a noisy protest opposite the embassy in Amman chanting  "The people want the Americans out."

"Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me." Psalm 138

Turkish PM Erdogan seems nearly determined to provoke an armed clash with Israel as he orders warships to eastern Mediterranean to confront Israeli navy vessels enforcing Gaza blockade.

Turkey’s military has installed new technology that will allow warplanes and ships to target Israeli vessels. Previously, Turkish planes, ships and submarines used American technology, which automatically classified Israeli equipment as 'friendly'.

The switch, pioneered by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s regime, was declared ready just days after Erdogan suspended defense trade with Israel and termed Israel a “spoiled child.”

"The mosques are our barracks, says Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."

Erdogan was greeted in Cairo by an enthusiastic crowd chanting, “Allahu Akbar!” and “Egypt, Turkey, one fist!”

‘Son of man, prophesy against Gog of the land of Magog,[Russia] the prince who rules over the nations of Meshech and Tubal. Give him this message from the Sovereign Lord: Gog,[Antichrist]I am your enemy! I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws to lead you out to your destruction. I will mobilize your troops and cavalry and make you a vast and mighty horde, all fully armed. Persia,[Iran] Ethiopia,[Cush] and Libya [Put] will join you, too, with all their weapons. Gomer [Turkey] and all its hordes will also join you, along with the armies of Beth-togarmah [Turkey, Armenia, and the Turkish-speaking people of Asia Minor] from the distant north and many others.’” Ezekiel 38:1-6

"The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord...." Psalm 33:10-12

The Palestinians have given up on talks with Israel, and within the next two weeks plan to ask the United Nations to grant them membership and statehood recognition within the 1967 lines, including East Jerusalem as a capital.

Yet history shows ~ there has never been a Palestinian culture. There has never been a land called "Palestine" ruled by "Palestinians." There had never been a Palestinian president or Prime Minister [until recently]  no government, no military. The invention of Palestine is based on lies and violence, with NO intention of peaceful co-existence with Israel. In the 1880's, Jewish pioneers began to redeem the land from wilderness. Now Eretz Israel blossoms like a rose. With no historical foundation to support their claims, Arabs soon began coming from other lands to benefit from what Israel had built. If peace were truly the intent of the leadership of the enemies of Israel, they only have to recognize Israel's existence, and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, wrote:

"You can't rely on the accounts for history in most Arab nations, because they never accurately teach it, and they have this amazing habit of reinventing it on the spot. This whole notion of there being a Palestine is a recent invention - 1967 to be exact. The homeland of the so-called Palestinians is not Israel. The historical homelands of these nomadic Arabs (Ottomans and Turks) are Jordan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, and approximately 80% of the Jordanian population is made up of Palestinians. They were exiled from these nations, and others, because they were trouble makers and no one wanted them, [and they still don't].

To this day Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other nations finance the PLO and its terrorists in order to keep them out of their own countries."

'Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.'  Golda Meir, Former Prime Minister of Israel


“O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us. “Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolation's, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.” Daniel 9:16-19

"Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it." Isaiah 36:6

The Egyptian government declared a state of emergency early Saturday, Sept. 10 as thousands of demonstrators using sledgehammers smashed through the wall outside the Israeli embassy, broke into the building and dumped the flag and hundreds of documents through the windows.

Egyptian security forces failed to contain the howling mob led by Muslim Brotherhood adherents, the organization Obama endorsed in a new, post-Mubarak government in Egypt.

"...Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them." Isaiah 19:1

"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reaffirmed his support for an independent Palestinian state:

"The Palestinian people are "long overdue" in their quest for an independent state."

Israeli officials are preparing for widespread violence emanating from PA and Hamas enclaves after the vote irrespective of the outcome.

"I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle." Zechariah 14:2

As Sweden commits to support a Palestinian statehood effort, with unrest looming large in Egypt and rockets continuing to pelt Israel from Gaza, Turkey is scheduled to sign a military pact with Egypt after cutting trade ties with Israel we must remember that 'He who watches Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps'.

America, promising to veto any resolution for Palestinian statehood, admits  the US will probably be unable to stop the PA from becoming a non-member state. The Palestinians believe they have the votes to pass the resolution in the 193-member General Assembly, which would elevate their status to nonvoting observer state from a simple observer.

Despite US and Israeli efforts to derail the Palestinians' UN strategy, Israel's ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, was quoted in the Israeli press as saying  efforts have failed.

As the tiny nation of Israel is surrounded by her enemies, those determined to see her destroyed, those committed to her destruction,  let us remember David and Goliath:

"David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." 1 Samuel 17:45

and Jonathan, son of King Saul, and his armor-bearer:

“Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised fellows. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.” 1 Samuel 14:6

The Lion of the Tribe of Judah will defend His people and His land.

"On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves." Zechariah 12:3


     "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem." Psalm 122:6

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu refusal to accept American demands in the “peace process” is evidence that Israel is ungrateful. Gates refers to the prime minister as an “ungrateful ally.”

Gates told the National Security Council Principals Committee -- “Netanyahu is not only ungrateful, but also endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel’s growing isolation and with the demographic challenges it faces if it keeps control of the West Bank.”

Although Prime Minister Netanyahu has offered to surrender most of Judea and Samaria and expel up to 100,000 Jews living outside major population centers...

the Palestinians want more.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has insisted that all large areas of Jerusalem, including the Old City and Western Wall, as well as all of Judea and Samaria be under its sovereignty, [as you read this, remember Gaza].

And the American government heartily agrees.

“At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are casting off the burdens of the past, the drive for a lasting peace that ends the conflict and resolves all claims is more urgent that ever. The international community is tired of an endless process that never produces an outcome.”

"The ultimate goal is two states for two peoples. Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people; each state enjoying self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace," [again as you read, remember Gaza].

God has given this land, His Land, to Israel, through the Abrahamic covenant. He gave Eretz Israel to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob [Israel] and their descendants - forever.

Many ask: "is America in Bible prophecy"?

Yes, indeed. America is mentioned in Joel 3:2 ~~ “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.”

The Lord is going to judge ALL the nations

"Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." Psalm 121:4

September 20, the day the Palestinians make application to the UN for statehood, the vote - a week later.

September 20, the day the UN introduces a resolution to divide Jerusalem.

September 20, the day the US either stands with or against Israel.

September 20, the day the U.S. military's ban on gays ends.

“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told." Habakkuk 1:5

"Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." Psalms 121:4

Turkey has decided to downgrade its diplomatic ties with Israel to the lowest possible level, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday, following Israel's continued refusal to apologize for a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Diplomatic relations with Israel have been reduced to a second-secretary level. All personnel above the second-secretary level, primarily the ambassador, have been expelled.

"Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples..." Zechariah 12