You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:
In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on several things:
1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects of war in the Middle East
3) The prospects for a collapse of the euro and US dollar
Obama gave a speech to AIPAC where he attempted to clarify his meaning of a PLO state “based upon 1967 borders with agreed land swaps”. Obama stated that Israel withdrawing to the 1967 borders has been a longstanding policy of the USA. Netanayahu gave a speech to AIPAC and to the US Congress where he outlined Israel’s parameters for a peace agreement with the PLO. Netanyahu rejected that Israel return to the 1967 borders. The PLO stated that if Israel doesn’t agree to return to the 1967 borders that they will seek to have a PLO state recognized by the UN in September. A UN official said that if the US vetoes recognition of a PLO state that the United Nations is forbidden to recognize a PLO state through the General Assembly. A leading spokesman for the PLO stated that the unity agreement with Hamas is intended to free “all of Palestine”. The PLO clearly does not recognize a 1948 state of Israel. Netanyahu has stated that the conflict with the PLO is not 1967 borders but 1948 borders.
While Obama has stated that US policy is that the settlements are “illegal” and that Israel must return to the 1967 borders which also implies the dividing of Jerusalem, he is trying to portray himself as pro-Israel. He went to Europe asking the EU to not recognize a PLO state this September at the UN. He laid a wreath at the Jewish Warsaw ghetto in Poland. It is reported that the US is seeking to get the PLO and Israel to agree to peace talks with Obama in the USA. Russia (a member of the Quartet) has stated that it will support a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital at the UN this September. Leading figures in Israel who endorsed the “Israeli Peace Initiative” are in Cairo to discuss the peace plan with the Egyptians.
While Obama and Netanyahu talk peace, the PLO is preparing for war. More civilian borders protests are planned for June 3-7. From the last border protest of May 15, Syrian and Hizbullah spies crossed into Israel and are being hidden by the PLO. They are military personnel who are expected to help the PLO in any war with Israel. Egypt has opened the border crossing into the Gaza. Hamas can now smuggle weapons into the Gaza strip. A Gaza flotilla is expected in June.
An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.
The link to these articles are as follows:
1) WRITTEN transcript of Netanyahu’s AIPAC Speech
2) VIDEO of Netanyahu’s AIPAC Speech (Part 1 of 2)
3) VIDEO of Netanyahu’s AIPAC Speech (Part 2 of 2)
4) WRITTEN transcript of Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress
5) VIDEO of Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress (Part 1 of 4)
6) VIDEO of Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress (Part 2 of 4)
7) VIDEO of Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress (Part 3 of 4)
8.) VIDEO of Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress (Part 4 of 4)
9) VIDEO: Why Israel’s 1967 borders are indefensible
10) Obama’s Speech to AIPAC: What are 1967 borders with agreed land swaps?
11) Obama: ’67 borders reflect longstanding policy
12) PA may abandon statehood drive if ’67 lines accepted
13) Palestinians set their sights on UN recognition
14) Palestinians Set Obama’s 1967 Border Guidelines as Precondition to Talks
15) Palestinian Official Calls Netanyahu’s Speech A ‘Declaration Of War’
16) Palestinian fury over Israeli PM’s border stance
17) John Bolton: An analysis of Netanyahu / Obama speeches and the 1967 borders
18) Shaath: Unity deal will allow us to ‘liberate Palestine’
19) Sarkozy backs Palestinian unity, wants peace progress
20) Abbas to push Palestinian unity government to accept Quartet demands
21) Obama: Unilateral recognition of Palestine is worthless without peace talks
22) Obama pushes Europe not to support Palestinians’ U.N. statehood bid
23) Russia supports Palestinian state with E. Jerusalem as capital
24) Russia ready to recognize Palestine: Lavrov
25) ‘Obama trying to head off trainwreck at UN in September’
26) Top UN official: U.S. veto would block vote on Palestinian statehood
27) Obama lays wreath in Warsaw Ghetto
28) A revamped Israeli proposal is a political manoeuvre and Cairo is uninterested
29) White House is set for Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas summit. Israel is downbeat
30) More in store from Syria after easy breach of Israel’s Golan border
31) Israel hunts Syrian, Hizballah spies who slipped in through Golan
32) Here’s Why Peaceful Palestinian Protests Are A Lost Cause
33) More protests at Israel’s borders planned
34) A call to march towards Jerusalem on the first Friday and Sunday of June
35) Egypt to reopen Gaza border crossing, raising Israeli concerns
36) Flotilla to go ahead despite open crossing
Civil war is near in Yemen. Turkey is distancing itself from Syria. The US and the EU have imposed sanctions upon Syria. After Libya, Pastor Lindsey Williams has reported that he was told that the global elite are planning to cause Yemen to fall followed by Syria. Current events are in progress which could see these expectations happen in the near future. Meanwhile, Pakistan is concerned with US interference in its nation and has asked China to build a naval base near the Persian Gulf. China has warned the US that if it interferes with Pakistan that it will wage war with the US.
Wars in the Middle East and WWW III are tribulation events.
The link to these articles are as follows:
1) Civil war looms as big blasts rock Yemeni capital
2) Turkey ditches Assad, calls off participation in Gaza flotilla
3) With Syria sanctions, U.S. fires shot across bow
4) EU imposes sanctions on Syria’s Assad
5) Pakistan grants China a naval base near Persian Gulf entrance
6) US, Pakistan Near Open War; Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack
The Greece government is having emergency meetings regarding if they are going to conform to the economic austerity measures which the IMF and the EU has imposed upon it. If Greece does not conform, the IMF has threatened to withhold loans which makes it risky that Greece will have to declare bankruptcy. If Greece goes bankrupt then other EU countries like Ireland, Portugal and Spain risk going bankrupt also. Meanwhile, the United Nations sees risk of a crisis of confidence in the US dollar if the US doesn’t get its economic house in order which could cause the US to declare bankruptcy. If the US declares bankruptcy then there would be a need to replace the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency with a global currency.
Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one-world currency is a tribulation event.
The link to these articles are as follows:
1) IMF may block aid payments to Greece, Juncker warns
2) UN sees risk of crisis of confidence in U.S. dollar
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