Watchman of Zion

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) The call for a political union within the Eurozone

Egypt’s new Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi made his first trip to the United States and met with President Obama. Morsi told the United States that if the USA wants Egypt to honor its 1979 peace treaty with Israel that the US should live up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule. He said the United States must respect the Arab world’s history and culture even when that conflicts with Western values.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Turkey on September 21 to discuss when would be the best time to ask the UN General Assembly to vote to upgrade its status to become a non-member state as well as the content of that request. The US is pressuring the Palestinians to postpone their upgrade plans until after the U.S. elections in November.

Mahmood Abbas gave a speech at the UN General Assembly regarding the status of the peace process. Abbas accused Israel of ethnic cleansing, terrorism, racism, house demolitions, imprisoning “soldiers of freedom,” rejecting the two-state solution and undermining the PA and the Oslo Accords. Abbas was trying to convince the international community that the peace process is dead and that the only solution lies in imposing a solution rather than reaching one through negotiations. Abbas said: “We have started intensive consultations with the various regional organizations and the state members in order for the General Assembly to take a decision granting the state of Palestine the status of nonmember state during this UN session.” Palestinian officials said that their bid for recognition will likely be submitted to the General Assembly on Nov. 29 after the US presidential election.

In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the Abbas speech by saying  “We won’t solve our conflict with libelous speeches at the UN. That’s not the way to solve it. We won’t solve our conflict with unilateral declarations of statehood.” The two sides needed to “sit together, negotiate together, and reach a mutual compromise in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the one and only Jewish State.”

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Egypt’s New Leader Spells Out Terms for U.S.-Arab Ties
2) Palestinian leader seeks Turkey’s support for recognition
3) Analysis: Abbas’s charge sheet against Israel
4) Abbas accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’
5) PM draws clear ‘red lines’ on Iran nuclear program

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is intervening to support Bashar Assad in his effort to remain in power in Syria by taking on the task to train and transform Assad’s Alawite Shabbiha militia into a fighting force modeling the Iranian elite Al Qods Brigade.  Iran has promised the Syrian outfit weaponry on a par with the Al Qods arsenal. Al Qods is the IRGC’s arm of clandestine and terrorist operations in Iran’s foreign arenas. Upon completion of the project, Assad is expected to have an extra 50-60,000 professional Alawite soldiers under arms – the nucleus of a Syrian Revolutionary Guards Corps. Assad along with the Iranian government would have the biggest special operations force in the Middle East. At present, the number of Iranian military personnel present in Syria had grown to 2,200.

Iran is intervening in Syria based upon two conclusions:

1) They don’t believe that the US plans an imminent military strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

2) If a surprise attack against Iran happens from the US or Israel, Iran would be in position to strike against Israel from the Syrian border.

Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood has given King Abdullah II notice that he has until October to bow to their demand to transform the Hashemite Kingdom into a constitutional monarchy or face a Jordanian “Arab Spring”.  The Muslim Brotherhood has already set a date for mass demonstrations against the King to start on Oct. 10 and ordered its members to go to work at once to mobilize at least 50,000 demonstrators for daily protests against the king and the royal family until he bows to their will. Saudi Arabia fears the oil kingdom may be next in line if Jordan is crushed by the next stage of the “Arab Spring.”

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Jordan on the brink: Muslim Brothers mobilize for King Abdullah’s overthrow
2) Iranian officers reshape Assad’s Shabbiha militia into a second al-Qods

Hamas leader Mahmoud A-Zahar and deputy commander of its military arm, Marwan Issa, spent time speaking with leaders in Lebanon and Iran finalizing and signing protocols covering a binding commitment by Hamas of the Gaza Strip to join Iran, Syria and Hizballah in a war on Israel. Hamas agreed to obey any orders to attack Israel coming from Iran, Syria or Lebanon.

In a TV interview on the CBS news program “60 Minutes”, US President Barack Obama called Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insistance that the US set “red lines” regarding its nuclear program as “noise” that he needs to ignore. He said: “When it comes to our national security decisions – any pressure that I feel is simply to do what’s right for the American people. And I am going to block out – any noise that’s out there.” The US president was crystal clear: By saying he will be ruled solely by American security interests, he showed them that they too were being left to be guided by Israel’s security interests. So forget about red lines for America, he was telling Netanyahu.

In a speech before the UN General Assembly which focused mainly upon the Iranian nuclear program, Netanyahu insisted that “red lines” should be set by the US and the international community to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Netanyahu said that the “red line” should be preventing Iran from enriching uranium to 90%. Netanyahu explained that there is 3 main stages to building a nuclear bomb. The first stage is enriching uranium to 70%. The second stage is enriching uranium to 90%. The third stage is using the enriched uranium to actually make a nuclear bomb. “Where’s Iran?” he asked. “Iran has completed the first stage which consists of enriching uranium to 70%.  It took them many years but they completed it.” He said that Iran was well into the second stage which entails enriching uranium to 90%. He estimated that Iran would be able to move into the final stage and be able to produce a nuclear bomb by the spring or summer of 2013.

A US spokesman for the Obama administration said that the United States and Israel share the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but remains opposed to Netanyahu’s push for Obama to set a red line that Iran must not cross if it is to avoid military action.

On the other hand, the commander of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, responded to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “red line” speech by saying Israeli threats of military action only reinforce Iran’s determination to push on with its nuclear program

After speaking at the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu spoke with US Secretary of State, Hilliary Clinton. DEBKA reports that Clinton made it clear that President Barack Obama would not tolerate the Israeli prime minister having a say in US policy over Iran. Clinton said that Obama is committed to diplomacy regardless of Netanyahu’s warning that it was getting “late, very late” to stop a nuclear Iran. Clinton then announced a decision by the world powers to make another effort to go into another round of nuclear negotiations with Iran. EU foreign executive Catherine Ashton was directed to try again to get in touch with Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalilee although both met with each other on September 18 with no agreement. Meanwhile,  it is being reported that the US and Israel have come to an understanding that Israel will hold back from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites before the US election in November while a special team set up by President Barack Obama completes a new paper setting out the end game for Iran.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Hamas signs binding military commitment to Iran-led war on Israel
2) Obama snubs Netanyahu on Iran: My decisions – only what’s right for America
3) Full text of PM Netanyahu’s speech at the UNGA
4) PM draws clear ‘red lines’ on Iran nuclear program
5) US: We share Israeli goal of stopping Iran nukes
6) White House irked by Netanyahu’s “red line” speech, reverts to Iran diplomacy
7) Iran says it’s more determined following ‘red line’ speech

11 European foreign ministers held a meeting calling for a single, elected European President under a common European defense policy. The ministers also proposed sweeping new powers for the European Parliament and further splitting of the EU by creating a new parliamentary sub chamber for the 17 countries of the eurozone. The plan was backed by Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Holland, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and Portugal. Recently, European Parliament leader Jose Manuel Barroso called for the European Union to become a “federation” of states under a new European treaty or constitution.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Europe’s most powerful countries call for elected EU president

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly looking into canceling the Oslo Accords and the economic and security agreements related to them. This marks the first time the Palestinian leadership has debated canceling the Oslo Accords since they were signed in 1993. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said that canceling the Oslo Agreement is “on the negotiating table” in light of “the Israeli denial of the peace process.” Rabbo said that the process of rejecting the Oslo Accords would involve canceling the peace agreement and finding an alternative to push Palestinian causes forward.

The first Oslo accord, the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, established the PA in 1993. It tasked the Palestinian body with governing and overseeing administration in the West Bank. The agreement was meant to last for a five-year period, at which point a final-status negotiation was to be concluded. Oslo II, The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, was signed in 1995. The permanent or core issues of dispute between Israel and the Palestinians — Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security, and borders — were not resolved in the interim accords, and were to have been resolved in a final-status agreement.

Meanwhile,PA President Mahmoud said that he was determined to lead the “battle for recognition” of a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly later this month. Abbas said he would deliver a speech before the General Assembly on September 27 before the opening session of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in which he would ask for recognition of a Palestinian state. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the terms of reference for Palestinian negotiations with Israel will be set in a proposed UN General Assembly resolution. He said that he did not know if a resolution would be introduced to the General Assembly before or after the upcoming US presidential elections. He went on to say that in any event, it will happen well before the end of the year. The goals of such a move would be to obtain a draft resolution signed by 150 nations in support of a two-state solution based on 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital.

In order to pass, a majority of nations within the UN General Assembly must support it. Right now, about 120 countries have already granted the Palestinians the rank of a sovereign state. It is expected that as many as 130 to 150 countries would support the proposal at the UN.  Upon approval by the 193 member nations of the UN, the PLO would become get an upgrade of their status from an observer to a non-member state of the UN. As an observer state, Palestine could not only participate in assembly debates but also join various U.N. agencies such as the Law of the Sea Treaty and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in the Hague. Passage of such a General Assembly resolution would be considered a de-facto recognition of statehood. It request cannot be vetoed by any single nation. However, only the Security Council can grant membership rights and full nation status at the UN where Britain, France, the USA, Russia or China could choose to veto the request.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, “The occupied territories are not disputed territories. There is wide consensus among the nations of the world that the border of both states is at the pre-1967 line. When the Palestinians gain recognition, Israel can not argue that these are disputed territories. After the UN vote … Palestine will become a country under occupation. Israel will not be able to say that this is a disputed area. The terms of reference for any negotiations will be about withdrawal, not over what the Israelis say is legal or not legal. Once Abbas delivers his address on September 27, the Palestinians begin geo-political discussions with UN nations to solicit support for their resolution for non-member state status.”

Erekat rejected any attempts to characterize their efforts at the UN as unilateral steps. “We never said our right to self determination is subject to negotiation. When it comes to a two state solution, the PA is focusing its efforts on the UN, as the first and best step. Once Palestine is recognized as a non-member state, he said, the rest of the process will fall into place. Once there is an accepted resolution defining the two state solution along the pre-1967 line, negotiations with Israel can center on staged steps for withdrawal.”

A senior Israeli official said that if the Palestinians went through with their UN bid it would be a “confidence destroying measure” that would “raise extremely serious questions about their real commitment to a negotiated agreement.” If the Palestinians asked for non-member statehood status in the UN, he said, it would break the most fundamental commitment of the Oslo accords: that all outstanding issues would be negotiated between the two sides.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) PLO considers canceling Oslo Accords
2) PA’s Abbas ‘determined’ to lead battle for statehood
3) Erekat: UN resolution will set terms for talks with Israel
4) PMO: PA statehood bid at UN violates Oslo peace process
5) Palestinians seek UN upgrade opposed by Israel, U.S.
6) Palestinians want 150 votes for UN non-member status

Iran continues to fly military personnel and quantities of weapons into Syria to support the government of Bashar Assad.  Iran is increasing its military involvement in the constantly escalating Syrian civil war, broadening it into a multinational conflict which threatens to drag Lebanon in, by means of the Iranian-Syrian ally, Hizballah. Iran is not hiding its actions. On Sept. 16, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Gen. Ali Jafari said openly that Al Qods Brigades units were present and operational in both Syria and Lebanon. The increased Iranian involvement in Syria caused a surprise two-division strength drill by Israel on its Golan border with Syria. These war games are the biggest that Israel has conducted in the six years since the second Lebanon war on Hizballah in 2006, with tens of thousands of soldiers and senior officers, including the artillery and the air force taking part. Last weekend,  heavy traffic of convoys of tank and APC carriers and military vehicles with emergency store markings were seen heading toward Israel’s northern border with Syria.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Iran pours more troops into Syria, ready to target Israel from Syria and Lebanon
2) Tens of thousands of Israeli troops in surprise Golan drill. Khamenei: No bending to the West

Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran “occasionally” gave the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “false information” to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities. He also said “There is no choice but to mislead other intelligence bodies. Sometimes we show weaknesses we don’t have. Sometimes we show strengths we don’t have. Later this is evident in talks with the IAEA.” Meanwhile, the head of the IAEA said that power lines to Iran’s most controversial nuclear enrichment plant  from the city of Qom to the underground Fordo plant had been blown up on August 17.

Tensions between US President Barack Obama and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue to rise. Last week, Barack Obama decided to snub Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the coming United Nations General Assembly meetings to be held at the end of September. Now, Obama has also decided to not meet with Israel’s No. 2, Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Barak will be in New York next week to attend the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative. Any decision by Israel to attack Iran’s controversial nuclear research program would be a collective decision by both Netanyahu and Barak yet Obama has decided to avoid them both. However, Obama will find time to meet with Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi, to discuss the implications of the recent riots by street gangs near the U.S. embassy in Cairo. Furthermore,  Obama told 1,200 American rabbis that he was not willing to impose a “set of conditions” or red-lines on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program. US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is attempting to put Obama into a corner by demanding the US president delineate “little red lines” which if passed would prompt US military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. In response, Binyamin Netanyahu warned that Iran was just six to seven months away from being able to build a nuclear bomb stressing the urgent need to set clear “red lines” over Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu further said that by mid-2013, Iran would be 90 percent of the way toward enough enriched uranium for a bomb. You have to place that red line before them now, before it’s too late.

In any event, the United States, Britain and France warned Iran that time is running out for negotiations to find an agreement with the West to stop its nuclear program. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting discussing sanctions on the Iran, US Ambassador Susan Rice said “time is wasting,” and warned that the West “will not engage in an endless process of negotiations that fail to produce any results.” However, she said, “We believe there is still time and space for diplomacy.” Britain’s UN envoy Mark Lyall Grant said that Iran is “at a crossroads,” and that it must decide “soon” whether or not it wants to be a responsible member of the international community. French ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud also attacked Iran for failing to negotiate over its nuclear program. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded by saying that his country does not “accept the demands of any superpower and makes its decisions solely based on the interests of its people and the country, even if all of the world’s powers get angry at its decisions.”

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Iran atomic chief admits Tehran misled IAEA
2) Iran atomic chief says ‘explosives’ cut power at Fordo
3) Obama snubs another Israeli leader
4) Obama to rabbis: No ‘set of conditions’ on Iran
5) Panetta: ‘Little red lines’ on Iran a political ploy
6) Netanyahu warns: Iran on brink of nuke bomb in 6-7 months
7) US, Britain, France warn Iran: Time for talks running out
8.) U.S. warns Iran: Time is running out on diplomacy over nuclear program
9) West warns Iran time running out for nuclear accord
10) Khamenei: Iran will never cave to Western ‘anger’

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) The prospects for a banking and political union in the Eurozone and the Fed starts QE3.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has urged its 57 member countries to lend its full support to encourage the UN General Assembly to recognize a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Right now over 130 countries around the world recognize a PLO state.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) OIC shoring up support for Palestine upgrade bid at UN

According to Middle East officials, the Obama administration expressed willingness to negotiate with Russia over providing European countries with a missile defense shield if Russians would no longer support the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Obama offers ‘flexibility’ to Russia

The US and Israel are engaged in a high profile public disagreement regarding the policy of setting “red lines” over the Iranian nuclear program which would trigger military action against Iran. Last week, Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that sanctions aren’t slowing Iran’s nuclear advances “because it doesn’t see a clear red line from the international community.” In response to these charges, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said that the US is “not setting deadlines” for Iran and still considers negotiations as “by far the best approach” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Since April, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — the US, the UK, France, China and Russia – plus Germany, have engaged in three rounds of diplomacy with Iran. Even with pressure from an array of new US and EU sanctions on energy, trade, banking and shipping, the talks have failed so far to persuade Iran to suspend aspects of its nuclear program.

Asked if the Obama administration will lay out sharper “red lines” for Iran or state explicitly the consequences of failing to negotiate a deal with world powers by a certain date, Clinton said, “We’re not setting deadlines.” While the US and Israel share the goal that Iran not acquire a nuclear weapon, Clinton said there is a difference in perspective over the time horizon for talks.

Meanwhile, in reaction to the Clinton comments, an Israeli official said, “These sorts of statements will not stop Iran’s centrifuges from spinning, unfortunately the opposite could be true. This won’t deter Iran but could put it at ease.”

The US State Department said setting red lines on the Iranian nuclear program “is not useful”. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said: “If Iran decides to make a nuclear weapon, the United States would have a little more than a year to act to stop it. The United States has “pretty good intelligence” on Iran. “We know generally what they’re up to. And so we keep a close track on them.” US President Barack Obama decided to phone Netanyahu over the issue. In their converstation, Obama rejected an appeal by Netanyahu  to make the size of Iran’s stockpile of close-to-bomb-grade uranium the threshold.  Obama told Netanyahu that the US has a “red line” and it is Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.

After the phone conversation, Netanyahu replied: “We are facing great challenges. As Prime Minister of Israel, it is my duty to uphold the vital interests of the State of Israel, to ensure its security and its future. The greatest interest today is to prevent Iran from continuing on its clear steps to achieving nuclear weapons, this from a country that calls for our destruction and intends to achieve its goal.” Netanyahu said he would uphold those interests, even if not easy, “because leadership is tested in upholding them even if there are disagreements with friends, even the best of friends. This is what I have done and this is what I will continue to do for the State of Israel and the security of its citizens.”

After making these comments, the next day, Netanyahu said: “The world tells Israel ‘wait, there’s still time’. And I say, ‘Wait for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel. Now if Iran knows that there is no red line. If Iran knows that there is no deadline, what will it do? Exactly what it’s doing. It’s continuing, without any interference, towards obtaining nuclear weapons capability and from there, nuclear bombs,” he said.

In angry response to Netanyahu’s insistence that the US set a “red lines” for the Iranian nuclear program, Obama refused a request by Netanyahu to meet him when Netanyahu arrives in the US at the end of September to give a speech at the UN General Assembly saying that he had no time for a meeting.

Israel had been in conversation with the US regarding finding common ground regarding their policy toward Iran. However with the refusal to meet Netanyahu when he comes to the US, talks between Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta collapsed. They had aimed at an agreement to bridge their differences over an attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

A Jewish US Senator from the state of Connecticut, Joseph Lieberman, disagreed with the policy of the Obama administration by saying, “I hope he can find a way to really spell out with just a little more detail” what the US is willing to do to prevent Iran from become a nuclear power. He said he wanted Obama to “take it beyond that just all options are on the table, including military force” when it comes to US intentions on the subject. If Iran leaves the world no choice between accepting an Iranian bomb or attacking Tehran’s nuclear facilities, the US should lead an international consortium in striking Iran.

However, another Jewish US Senator from the state of California, Barbara Boxer wrote a letter to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accusing him of trying to interfere with the US election by opposing Obama. She also reprimanded Netanyahu and expressed her “deep disappointment over your remarks that call into question the US support for Israel.” She went on to describe them as “utterly contrary to the extraordinary United States- Israel alliance.” Netanyahu responded to these allegations by saying they were “completely groundless.” Netanyahu said: “It has nothing to do with the American elections, because the Iranian nuclear program doesn’t care about the American political calendar. If the centrifuges stop miraculously, if they stop preparing enriched uranium to make atomic bombs then I suppose I wouldn’t have to speak out. But the Iranian nuclear program proceeds unabated and they don’t care about the internal American political calendar. For me this is a policy issue, a security issue, and not a political issue,” he said.

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was asked by reporter George Stephanopoulos in a TV interview with the US television network, ABC, if his “red lines” were the same as Obama regarding Iran. Romney said, “Yes. My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon,” Romney explained. “Iran as a nuclear nation is unacceptable to the United States of America.”

In an effort to try to persuade Netanyahu to NOT attack Iran if it crosses Israel’s “red lines”, representatives from Britain, France and Germany had conversations with the Israeli government. Sir John Sawyers, the head of England’s MI6 intelligence agency, traveled to Israel to speak with Netanyahu. Then, France’s president called Netanyahu and stressed to him that “a diplomatic solution must be found.” In addition, Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle told Netanyahu that Germany is also opposed to a unilateral Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Finally, the United States and its Western allies have persuaded Russia and China to support a resolution critical of Iran’s nuclear defiance, in the hope of showing Israel that diplomacy is an alternative to military force against Iran’s nuclear program. With fears growing over the possibility of Israeli military attack and other diplomatic efforts on Iran deadlocked,  the document is significant in seeking to show a unity among world-powers in opposing an Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear program.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Clinton: US ‘not setting deadlines’ for Iran
2) Official: Clinton’s comments may put Iran at ease
3) Lieberman to ‘Post’: Obama should define how to stop Iran
4) US: Setting red lines for Iran is not useful
5) Panetta: US has a year if Iran decides on a nuke
6) US official: Nuclear bomb is our red line
7) PM to continue pressing for red lines on Iran
8.) PM: World powers have no moral right to block us
9) US: No time for Obama-Netanyahu meeting
10) By refusing to see Netanyahu, Obama sharpens his Iran dilemma
11) Senator slams Netanyahu for interfering in US election
12) Netanyahu: I am not interfering in US presidential election
13) Romney says his ‘red line’ on Iran is the same as Obama’s
14) MI6 chief was British messenger sent to dissuade Israel from Iran strike
15) Hollande: Diplomatic solution needed for Iran crisis
16) German FM to Netanyahu: Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites could fracture international coalition
17) Russia, China agree to back IAEA resolution critical of Iran

The Federal Reserve announced an open ended policy whereby they plan to purchase $40 billion of mortgage debt a month in a third round of quantitative easing. Quantitative easing (QE) is an unconventional monetary policy used by central banks to stimulate the national economy when conventional monetary policy has become ineffective. A central bank implements quantitative easing by buying financial assets from commercial banks and other private institutions with newly created money in order to inject a pre-determined quantity of money into the economy. Quantitative easing increases the excess reserves of the banks. In doing this, the U.S. money supply is expanded when the Fed electronically credits banks with more funds. A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is an asset-backed security that represents a claim on the cash flows from mortgage loans through a process known as securitization. In the United States, the most common securitization trusts are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, U.S. government-sponsored enterprises.

Pastor Lindsey Williams mentioned in talking with his retired oil executive elitist friend that on September 6, China announced that they will permit oil to be traded using the Chinese currency, the yuan. Since WWII, oil has been traded primarily with US dollars. As a result, the US dollar has been seen and used as the world’s reserve currency.  This process will weaken the value and use of the US dollar in the world. As a result, Pastor Lindsey Williams said that with the Chinese announcement on September 6 and the trend of more countries to engage in bi-lateral trade, the US dollar has now essentially died. It will take about 6 to 9 months for the average person to realize the impact that these things will have on the purchasing power of the US dollar.

On 2 March 2012, the heads of state or government of all EU member states with the exception of the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic signed a Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG) in the Economic and Monetary Union. This Treaty aims at safeguarding the stability of the euro area as a whole. The TSCG will enter into force after it has been ratified by 12 euro area member states, and it will be open to the accession of EU member states other than the contracting Parties. The target date for entry into force is 1 January 2013.The aim is to incorporate the TSCG’s substance into EU law within five years of its entry into force.

There was a challenge submitted to the German court system regarding the legality of Germany’s involvement in their participation in the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund. The German Supreme Court ruled that it can ratify the ESM.  With the German ruling, the 17 countries of the euro zone will be able to move ahead with the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, something like a continental version of the International Monetary Fund. The mechanism will handle bailouts and work in tandem with the European Central Bank to buy the bonds of countries like Italy and Spain that are straining under high interest rates. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the Eurogroup, following the decision of the German Constitutional Court in favor of the European Stability Mechanism announced the  inaugural meeting of the ESM-Board of Governors in Luxembourg on October 8.

The technocrats who run the EU ultimately want a banking, economic and political union. In a speech to the European Parliament, the head of the bloc’s executive, President Jose Manuel Barroso, said … “Let’s not be afraid of the words: We will need to move towards a federation of nation states. This is our political horizon. This is what must guide our work in the years to come” he said.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Fed Undertakes QE3 With $40 Billion Monthly MBS Purchases
2) Federal Reserve launches QE3
3) Mortgage-backed security
4) Quantitative easing
5) Lindsey Williams: The Dollar died on Sept 6, 2012
6) Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance signed
7) German Court Backs EU Rescue Fund With Liability Cap
8) In Victory for Merkel, German Court Backs Euro Rescue Fund
9) EU Juncker: To Convene First Meeting Of ESM Governors Oct. 8
10) Europe must become ‘federation of states’, Barroso says

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

This week’s update (Sept 8) is now posted. It is (1 hr 8 minutes).

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that the Palestinians with the support of Arab countries, Islamic states and the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement will back a Palestinian request to seek a non-member status at the United Nations at the end of September. This will happen, said Abbas, despite United States pressure opposing the move. Abbas said that there are 133 states that recognize Palestine with its capital in Jerusalem and additional states with which we share diplomatic relations. Arab League Secretary Nabil al-Arabi  said that Arab nations will support a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly. He told reporters: “It has been decided to back the request of Palestine for non-member status at the United Nations because of the difficulty to obtain a full membership which requires Security Council approval.” Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said, “Egypt continues to support any move decided by the Palestinian leadership to obtain full membership in the United Nations.” A simple majority vote in the 193-member General Assembly would be enough to bestow non-member observer status to the Palestinians.

The democratic party originally removed reference to God in their platform as well as Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Israel Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said “The fact that the Democrats removed a united Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from their platform is more worrying than the argument over Iran. The change may have far-reaching consequences. Anyone who thinks that dividing Jerusalem will bring peace is mistaken and does not understand the Middle East. A united Jerusalem will help bring peace and stability.” Because of political criticism, the democratic party through a voice vote amended the platform to reinstate the reference to God and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In response to this,  Rivlin said “I have no doubt that [US President Barack] Obama put Jerusalem back in his party’s platform out of political and electoral considerations and because of the sharp criticism from Israel and the US.” The Palestinians criticized the U.S. Democratic Party’s decision to declare Jerusalem as the Israeli capital saying  failure to recognize the Palestinian claim to East Jerusalem will “destroy the peace process” and lead to “endless war.” The democratic platform language on Jerusalem is at odds with official U.S. policy calling for the status of Jerusalem to be resolved through negotiations. Both Israel and the Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their capital.

Finally, in a 82-page paper entitled “Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East”, said that American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Israel. The authors conclude that Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and  Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community. The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence Community comprising 16 American intelligence agencies including the departments of Navy, Army, Air Force, Homeland Security, the US state department, FBI and CIA who commissioned the study.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Arabs to back Palestinian bid for UN non-member status
2) Abbas says he has backing for new UN bid
3) Abbas: Palestinians will seek UN recognition, despite U.S. pressure
4) U.S. Democratic Party removes reference to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from official platform
5) Rivlin: Obama doesn’t understand the Mideast
6) US envoy in Israel to Rivlin: Obama will visit Israel
7) Democrats Change Platform to Add God, Jerusalem
8.) ‘Obama only put J’lem back in platform for votes’
9) Palestinians: Democrats’ failure to recognize our claim to Jerusalem will destroy the peace process
10) US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East?

Foreign intervention in the Syrian conflict has started. Turkey is considered to have stepped directly into the Syrian conflict marking the onset of foreign intervention. Turkish army officers have assumed direct command of the first two Syrian rebel brigades fighting Bashar Assad’s government forces in Northern Syria. After this, Britain and France reported that they were sending aid directly to the Syrian opposition. This was followed by U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham urging the US to help arm Syria’s rebels with weapons and create a safe zone inside the country for a transition government. Lieberman said: “The opposition has effectively seized control of a piece of land in northern Syria. If we help them protect themselves from Assad’s helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft they can establish a transitional government … I am confident that if we set it up and told (the regime) that if they attacked it there would be a vigorous response, they would not attack it.”  It will now be up to the Syrian rebels, backed and steered by a US-led Arab-Western-European-Turkish coalition, to fight for the safe haven, purge it of forces and militias loyal to Assad and expand it for control of large tracts of territory in eastern and western Syria.

DEBKA analysis of the situation is that the first US-Turkish backed steps for creating safe havens in Syria and possible strategic bombardment of the Syrian army have brought the Middle East close to two dangerous things. First, the increased probability that Assad will use chemical weapons to try to preserve his power and secondly, war between Hizballah in Lebanon and Israel. Hizballah supports the Assad government and if Hizballah feels that Assad is losing his grip on power, they may decide to start a war with Israel.

While Russia announced recently that it will cut back its military aid to Syria, the thinking in some circles in the USA is that Russia’s disengagement from its military support of Assad is making it possible for increased foreign intervention in Syria. In any event, Russia is still strongly supporting Syria in a non-military way as Russia rejected U.S. calls for increased pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to relinquish power. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after meeting with US Secretary of State Hilliary Clinton said that Russia is opposed to U.S.-backed penalties against the Assad government because it hurts Russia’s commercial interests. Lavrov said: “Unilateral U.S. sanctions against Syria and Iran increasingly take on an extraterritorial character, directly affecting the interests of Russian business, in particular banks. We clearly stated that this was unacceptable.”

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Turkish officers take command of Syrian rebel brigades. N. Israel on alert
2) U.S. Senators McCain, Lieberman, Graham urge tougher stand on Syria, Iran
3) Chemical threat is back. Hizballah, Israel close to clash
4) Russia rejects US’ calls for pressure on Syria, Iran

Republican Congressman Mike Rogers from Michigan indicated that he witnessed a sharp exchange between Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador Dan Shapiro. Rogers said that it was “very, very clear” from the meeting that the Israelis “had lost their patience with the Obama administration. There was no doubt. Right now, the Israelis don’t believe that the US administration is serious when they say that all options are on the table, and more importantly neither do the Iranians. That’s why the [nuclear] program is progressing,” he said.  Rogers said that he walked out of the meeting feeling that Israel was at their “wits’ end,” and feeling that the window for impacting the Iranian program was starting to close. Meanwhile, Netanyahu met with the told Italian foreign Minister and lobbied for the European Union to strengthen sanctions against Iran while pleading with the international community to “set a clear red line for Iran that it knows it cannot go beyond in pursuit of nuclear weapons.”

Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that regarding the timetable for military action against Iran in order to stop their nuclear program that “Israel and the US’s clocks are ticking at different times” and that the US respects that “Israel reserves the right to make sovereign decisions on Iran.” Evangelical Christian leader Mike Evans has spoken with leadership within the Israeli government and he believes that there is a 75% chance that Israel will attack Iran between September 15 and October 15. When they do, Evans says that Israel would begin military action with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack which would cripple Iran’s power grid.

Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with US President Obama at the UN General Assembly meetings the end of September. If Israel would agree to delay attacking Iran until after the US elections in November, the US is discussing supplying Israel with some advanced Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker-buster bombs that can penetrate through up to 60 feet (almost 20 meters) of reinforced concrete. This equipment will make it easier for Israel to damage Iran’s nuclear weapon program should it decide to attack Iran.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) US congressman confirms sharp exchange between PM, US envoy
2) PM calls on Europe to step up Iran sanctions
3) ‘US, Israel clocks tick at different times on Iran’
4) Israel readies ‘secret weapon’ for Iran attack
5) Report: Obama, Netanyahu to Meet After Yom Kippur
6) Israel May Delay Attack in Return for MOP Bunker Buster Bombs

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) The prospects for economic collapse in the USA and the world

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran and the growing influence of Islam in countries whose rulers were overthrown in the Arab Spring was a major obstacle in restarting direct peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Israel believes that if the Iranian nuclear threat was eliminated and its regional influence with the Syrian government of Bashar Assad and Hamas in the Gaza Strip was reduced, it would be easier to strike a peace deal with the Palestinians. The US position is that a breakthrough on the Palestinian issue would have a great deal of impact in dealing with Iran as more Arab and Muslim countries would support the United States effort to halt Iran’s nuclear program.

The Republican Party platform of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports a two-state solution in the Middle East. Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas indicates that the Palestinians will ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital this fall. Abbas said that such a request would protect the peace process and preserve the two state solution.  It is expected that about 130 countries would support the Palestinian request which is enough to pass the resolution.  If such a decision is made by the General Assembly, it would enable the Palestinians to have the status of a non-member state and be able to join the International Criminal Court and seek to indict Israel for alleged war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel rejects the Palestinians efforts for recognition of a PLO state at the United Nations which bypasses direct peace negotiations. Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel should present Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with an ultimatum: If he doesn’t resume negotiations and abandon his unilateral campaign for UN recognition as a state, Israel will cease to see him as a legitimate negotiating partner. Israel, he said, must take whatever measures is necessary to stop Abbas’ UN application. Meanwhile, the United States is opposed to the Palestinians making a request to the United Nations General Assembly for recognition of a PLO state prior to the November US elections. A senior PA official said that the Obama administration threatened to withhold financial aid from the Palestinians if they made the request to the United Nations General Assembly before November 6. As a result, the Palestinian Authority have decided to delay their request to unilaterally declare a state at the United Nations until after the November’s presidential election in the US. A British official said that Britain will not suspend their financial aid to the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians decide to submit their application to the UN General Assembly seeking recognition of Palestine as a non-member state of the UN.

India has stated they they support a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital. An Indian spokesperson said that India in support for UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 wants a negotiated solution resulting in a sovereign, independent, viable and united State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its Capital, living within secure and recognized borders, side by side at peace with Israel as endorsed in the Quartet Roadmap and UNSC Resolutions 1397 and 1515. Finally, in a meeting with Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi, China expressed support for a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital as well.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Netanyahu: Iran, Islamic rise are barriers to negotiations
2) Republicans set to endorse two-state solution at convention next week
3) Abbas: UN bid will protect two state solution
4) Lieberman to Haaretz: Israel must launch concerted campaign to delegitimize Abbas
5) Obama to Palestinians: Delay statehood until election over
6) Palestinians put UN recognition bid on hold
7) Britain will not suspend PA aid over new UN bid
8.) India asks Israel to stop all settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territories
9) Egypt: Nation, China Back Establishing Palestinian State Within 1967 Borders, Al-Quds As Its Capital

Israel media reports that former Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert ordered the 2007 strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor immediately after former US president George W.  Bush informed him that the Americans would not attack the facility. The US had decided to handle the Syrian threat via diplomacy. The Israelis were convinced that time was fairly short, and that they had to strike the reactor — built by the Syrians with extensive input from the North Koreans — before it went live.  As a result, Israel unilaterally bombed the reactor. Would the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu respond the same way if Israel feels that US President Barack Obama would not be willing to attack Iran within the time frame that Israel feels is necessary to stop Iran’s nuclear program ?

France desires to work with Turkey to create a buffer zone for the Syrian rebels. France has also proposed that the Syrian opposition form a provisional government promising to grant it immediate diplomatic recognition. Russia has suspended the use of its naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus.  Russia continues to support the Assad government politically and in a humanitarian way along with providing intelligence and information but is not planning to provide major arms supplies to Syria. A Russian official said, “We cannot, by military means, oppose countries that support the Syrian opposition.” Finally, a significant number of Sunni Islamist militants who are fighting against the Syrian government of Bashar Ashad want a strict form of Sharia Islamic law to be implemented as part of a future Syrian government. As a result of the overthrow of leaders in other Arab countries, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood desires to govern Egypt and Libya by religious Islamic Sharia law also.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Olmert struck Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 immediately after Bush refused to do so
2) Syrian Rebels Seek Implementation Of Strict Sharia Law…
3) France confirms it is working to establish buffer zone within Syria
4) Russia Will Not Use Military Force to Protect its Facility in Syria
5) Russia is disengaging from Syria: Arms shipments stopped, warships exit Tartus
6) Russian Troops Welcomed Into NORAD, America’s Cold War HQ

Russia reports that the Iranian Busheur atomic power plant is now operating at full capacity. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that Iran has doubled the number of uranium- enrichment centrifuges it has at the Fordow facility to 2,140 from 1,064 in May. Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on the international community to establish a clear “red line” for the Iranian nuclear program so that there would be direct consequences for their actions. He said that that  “time has run out” for diplomacy and it is not acceptable to have open-ended diplomacy regarding Iran’s nuclear program. In doing so, Netanyahu  got into a diplomatic shouting match with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro over US President Barack Obama’s handling of the issue. However, the Obama administration insisted that “there is time and space” for a diplomatic solution.

Furthermore, the US is said to be working with a top Israeli newspaper to stymie Israel’s efforts to strike Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey said that he did not want to be “complicit” if Israel chose to strike Iran’s nuclear program. Dempsey said an attack would “clearly delay but probably not destroy Iran’s nuclear program,” but added that the “international coalition” pressuring Iran “could be undone if it was attacked prematurely”. Meanwhile, Israel Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon said he feared Iran did not believe it faced a real military threat from the outside world because of mixed messages from foreign powers including the United States. Iran sponsored a conference of non-aligned countries of the United Nations where Iran had harsh words to say about Israel. As a result, Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to address the UN General Assembly regarding the threat that Iran poses to Israel and the entire Middle East. He is scheduled to leave for the UN on September 27, immediately after Yom Kippur, and return to Israel on September 30, just before the onset of Succot. Although there has been talk of a meeting at the UN with US President Barack Obama, no meeting has yet been officially announced.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Russia says Iran’s nuclear power plant is fully operational
2) IAEA: Iran has doubled underground nuclear capacity
3) PM: Time for world to set ‘clear red lines’ for Iran
4) ‘PM tells US ‘time has run out’ on Iran diplomacy’
5) Diplomacy With Iran Still Is Viable, U.S. Says
6) Obama ‘Using Israeli Paper to Foil Iran Strike’
7) Dempsey: I don’t want to be complicit in Iran strike
8.) Ya’alon: US is undermining military threat against Iran
9) Morsi to shop for nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing en route for Tehran. Netanyahu, Obama meet Sept. 27
10) PM to ‘speak the truth’ on Iran in UN speech

Germany and France have agreed to form a joint policymaking body to create a more integrated economic and fiscal policy in the eurozone and structure a new banking supervision regime. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s wants European leaders to work on a new treaty aimed at deepening political integration among the European Union’s 27 members at a summit in December. The treaty could include provisions such as giving the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg power to monitor the budgets of member states and punish those who exceed deficit limits. Meanwhiel, legendary investor Jim Rogers warned Americans to prepare for “Financial Armageddon,” saying he fully expects the economy to implode after the U.S. election.

Pastor Lindsey Williams received information that Raytheon gave a warning to the company that US government would shut down soon from a financial crisis. Doug Hagmann reports according to my well-placed source within the Department of Homeland Security apparatus, a final authorization was given to DHS directly from the White House to support a staged event to ensure the reelection of President Obama. “What happens and when it happens depends on the events of the next sixty days. If it appears that Obama does not have a lock on the next four years to finish what he started … then watch for it ‘going hot.’” Liberty man, John Moore, has also received a report than an event will happen in October which will cause the suspension of US elections and cause Obama to remain in power under martial law.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) SPIEGEL: Merkel Wants An EU Political Integration Pact
2) Germany and France agree to work together on solution to eurozone crisis
3) Jim Rogers: It’s Going To Get Really “Bad After The Next Election”
4) Pastor Lindsey Williams:  Raytheon Warning – US Government to Shut Down Soon
5) Doug Hagmann told from DHS Source: “It’s going hot”
6) Rick Wiles Interview with Doug Hagmann
7) John Moore: No Election this Fall – Financial Collapse
8.) A Prophetic Word for the USA this fall

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l