This article by pastor F.M.Riley is a warning of things he sees as coming to the world in the next one or two weeks during the feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot.

He mentions comet Elenin  and the El Hierro volcano in the canary Islands of the coast of Africa and the sun as being part of the hotchpotch of events that are coming our way in the near future.

He mentions the Rapture as a real possibility to happen in these days. I want to mention also that events in the middle east concerning Iran, Syria and the Palestinians are also items that are in the works for all these days.

Nando

F.M. Riley (14 Oct 2011)
“Update!  Alert!“

By Pastor F. M. Riley

October 13, 2011

“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch,” Mark 13:37.

MARK THESE DATES AND WATCH AND PRAY!

OCTOBER 17 – 18

     Elenin…….No, Elenin has not dissipated, dissolved, been broken apart, or gone away.  Elenin is very much alive and well!  All of these claims are fictitious tails by those who are either wishfully thinking or outright trying to deceive.   No, Elenin is not a comet.  It is a brown dwarf star that has an elliptical orbit similar to that of a comet, but it is not a comet.  It is big; HUGE, and has a powerful electromagnetic and gravitational field.   Because of its powerful electromagnetic and gravitational fields, it is pushing space debris ahead of it and pulling a long trail of space debris behind it.

Elenin will come flying past the earth on October 17^th-18^th.  It is coming up from beneath the elliptical plane [orbit] of the earth, so it will be “right on top” of us before it is even seen by most of humanity.   As it passes there is the possibility of major earthquakes, volcanoes erupting and exploding, and tsunamis in all the seas and oceans on earth.   As it comes past the earth it will cross earth’s orbit before earth arrives at that spot in its orbit around the Sun.  This means that as the earth then approaches the same spot on its orbit after Elenin has passed, the earth will then enter into the trail of space debris being dragged through space behind Elenin.   According to reports I have received this tail behind Elenin contains rocks, asteroids, dust, clouds, etc.  It is believed by some scientists who are studying this scenario that it is highly likely that the earth will be pummeled by rocks and asteroids which make it through earth’s atmosphere without burning up.

Solar Flares…….The Sun is now throwing off some of the largest solar flares [CME’s] into space that have been recorded since modern scientists have been keeping records.  The Sun in its own revolving in space is right now turning to bring some of the most explosive spots on its surface into direct alinement with the earth; some of the most explosive spots on the Sun ever been seen by modern man.   Scientists watching and filming all of this hyper activity on the Sun have already issued alerts for the possibility of the earth being bombarded with massive solar flares this next week.  What dates in particular?   Yes, October 17^th-18^th.   Is this just coincidence?  Well…??

El Hierro Volcano…….On Saturday, October 8^th, a 4.5 earthquake shook this island located in the Canary Island chain off the coast of northern Africa.  It was the largest in a series of almost 10,000 earth tremors which have shook these islands in the past three months.   These islands are the site of some of the largest and most dangerous volcanoes on earth.  A warning was immediately issued by the government on the islands, because volcanologists believe this 4.5 quake just off the coast of the island opened up fissures in the caldera of the volcano itself beneath the sea, allowing sea water to begin pouring into the volcano.   It is already well known that there is a vast sea of molten fire in the bowels of the earth under these islands.   The scientists studying these volcanoes claim that the sea water will cause tremendous pressure to build up under these volcanoes and throw them into violent eruption or even cause the volcanoes to explode with such force as has never been previously witnessed in modern times.

When are such eruptions or explosions anticipated to occur?  According to a public announcement made by a world renown volcanologist on Monday, October 10^th, he stated that he expected the volcano or volcanoes to “explode” in 7 to 10 days.  Now look at your calendar!  That places the anticipated explosion of these volcanoes on…, yes, October 17^th-18^th. 

But this isn’t the worst of the matter…..  The explosion of one or more of these huge volcanoes in the Canary Islands could potentially cause a massive tsunami [tidal wave] that scientists estimate would be a thousand feet or more high.  This tsunami would then sweep across the Atlantic Ocean towards the east coast of North and South America, reaching the east coast in an estimated 6 to 8 hours.   They estimate that it would still be between 100 and 300 feet high when it hit the east coast of the Americas.  There is no question that such a tsunami would wipe out everything and everyone along the east coast of America, and this nation and life as we presently know it would cease to exist.   Will this actually occur?  I don’t know!  But we sure don’t have long to wait to find out!

The Feast of Tabernacles…….This Jewish festival begins today, October 13^th, Tishri 15 on the Jewish calendar.  It will continue for 7 days through October 19^th, Tishri 21 on the Jewish calendar.   October 20^th, the 8^th day, is then Tishri 22, a special “Sabbath” day.  See Leviticus 23:33-43.  Then the day following the end of Tabernacles, October 21^st, Tishri 23, is what the religious Jews refer to as “Simhat Torah.”  This literally means “the reinstitution of the Law” for the coming year.

Why am I mentioning all of this?  Because during the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ “the feast of tabernacles” is explicitly mentioned by name in the Scriptures, John 7:1-2.  It was during that festival “about the midst of the feast” [John 7:14] that the Lord Jesus entered the Temple and began teaching the people.  If we should superimpose that time on our calendar today, “the midst of the feast” would be October 17^th-18^th.  Another “coincidence”?

On “the last day, that great day of the feast” [John 7:37…the 8^th day, the special “Sabbath” day] the Lord Jesus gave a grand invitation to the people, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink.  He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water,” 7:37-38.  If we were to superimpose that time on our calendar today, this would be October 20^th, Tishri 22^nd on the Jewish calendar.   Will that date be the final call for His people to “come up hither” to Himself, Revelation 4:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17?  I don’t know!  I am not claiming that it will be!  All I am pointing out is that we believers living today are in the “time frame” of our Lord’s coming to resurrect and rapture His people to glory, and that time is VERY CLOSE.  Those who choose to ignore all the prophesied “signs” of the end-time and refuse to “watch” as the Lord Himself explicitly told His children to do [Mark 13:35-37]  will have no one but themselves to blame for the consequences.

Are all these things I have pointed out, every one of them pointing to a time of crisis on or near October 17^th-18th just “coincidences”?   I don’t know!  But I am not going to “play the fool” [Luke 24:25] by just totally ignoring them.  I have connected the dots!  Now do whatever you choose to with them!

Pastor F. M. Riley   

Nando

This is a very important prophetic news concerning the time of the Tribulations and the Nation of Israel.

Nando

Gabriel (VIDEO) Urgent Prophecy News..Abbas gets 9 votes in Security Council

Nando

The message coming from Mr. Gary Stearman of Prophecy in the News is one of warning, in the middle East and at home all things are looking very bad for the State of Israel.

Must see to appreciate the things that are on the burner against Israel. May God protect his people from all the evil that is being plotted against it.

Nando

Nando

Today in response with a comment on the post Tribulation Rapture and Yom Kippur Michael Wellman has this to say:

I can’t argue with Dan;9 numbers…

This guy also has the same timeline, he almost figured out the Jubilee…

TRIBULATION YRS.. 2011-2018

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG5VM35CWDQ

He missed, Allenby’s victory at the…

Battle of Megiddo (1918)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(1918)

The Battle of Megiddo (Turkish: Megiddo Muharebesi, less commonly known as the Battle of Armageddon) or the Battle of the Nablus Plain by the Turks), from 19 September to 1 October 1918, and its subsequent exploitation, was the culminating victory in British General Edmund Allenby’s conquest of Palestine during World War I

•10th of Tishrei, 5679 = 16 September 1918, Yom Kippur
•21st of Tishrei, 5679 = 27 September 1918, Hoshana Raba

1 October 1918 +100 = 1 October 2018

100 years to the DAY!!!

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 16And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. (Zechariah 9:12-17)

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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. (Leviticus 25:8)

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Historically, the Temple doors were left open until the end of the Day of Atonement.

After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. Rev 4

Get ready to meet The KIng.

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In the above comment it is very important that you watch the youtube video. It is a very real possiblity that events will happen just as they are described in that video of a timeline.

The last car I saw before I came in to make this video started with 266 — Was Jesus giving me a two day warning to the 66 (Book of Revelation?)

Highly recommended

Nando

This study by Jean Stepanosky is about the feast of Yom Kippur as related to Rosh Hashnna and the Rapture.

My opinion on this study is that if Jesus second coming is to be on the feast of Yom Kippur of 2018 then the beginning of  the Apocalypse is on the same date in 2011 and the Rapture is to be in or before that date.

The beginning of the seven year Tribulation is also related to the treaty or covenant the Antichrist (Barack Hussein Obama) makes with Israel and many plus the appearance of the two witnesses on that date.

It is obvious that if we see these two things happen that we know that we are in the Tribulation. Consequently the Rapture should happen before.

The reader must understand that The prophecies of the Bible are placed with dates that are very specific in their fulfillment and once they happen we can see the specificity of the date, but before it happens it is not as easily discernible. the obvious case in point is Daniels prophecy of the seventy weeks of years that pedicted the first coming of Jesus exactly to the date, but was not discerned by the Jewish priests or the Nation of Israel when it happened.

As such it is with the second coming and the prophecy of Matthew 24: 32-35. In this case the generation is the time specific event, but a generations age could be fulfilled in various amount of years, from a minimum of 40 years to a maximum of 120 years with the most possible dates being 40 or 70 years from the fig tree beginning to put forth leaves (Israel birth May 14, 1948).

So there you have it in a nut shell, the maximum span for the starting of the Tribulations is passed once the fall feast of the year 2011 are passed.

Nando

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2011/jeans104.htm

Jean Stepnoski (4 Oct 2011)
“Two Studies About Yom Kippur“

Dear Doves,
There are two studies about Yom Kippur which I will be reading and studying this week. According to the Hillel Calendar, Yom Kippur will be 10-7 to 8. According to the sighting of the moon from Israel on 9-29, that would place Yom Kippur one day later, from 10-8 to 9.
One of these studies is available at www.mayimhayim.org/Festivals/Feast8.htm which is a book excerpt from a book by Eddie Chumney. It is ten pages and gives a fine overview of the importance of Yom Kippur. The other is a posting from five doves on 10-6-2005. It is by Arlene at archives at the following website and is  8 pages at www.his-forever.com/yom_kippur_rapture.htm. One of the things she notes is the need to complete 40 days of repentance and teshuvah until Yom Kippur rather than after the 30 days of Elul at Rosh Hashanah (The Feast of Trumpets) 10 days earlier. The number 40 is The Scriptures is about a period of preparation and/or repentance. The life of Moses of 120 years was in three 40 year periods. There were 40 years in the wilderness and 40 years between the Ascension and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The Master had 40 days of preparation before His public ministry began. There were 40 days and nights of rain in the times of Noah. Ninevah was given 40 days to repent after the preaching of Jonah. The sign of Jonah was 3 days or 40 days. There were 40 days from The Feast of First Fruits until Christ’s Ascension. The concept of 40 is very significant in The Scriptures. It can be argued that the most important 40 day period in The Scriptural Year, begun at Nisan 1, would be from Elul 1 to Tishri 10 (Yom Kippur).
As I have noted in posts in recent years at Doves, Rosh Hashanah is not complete until Yom Kippur. They are connected to each other in a process of 10 days and days 30 to 40 and 40 days. As Arlene noted, Yom Kippur is THE DAY of REPENTANCE for THE REDEEMED! What are most of the houses of faith, the congregations, told to do in The Book Of Revelation? They are commanded by Christ to repent. REPENT! Eddie Chumney notices that one of the phrases for Yom Kippur is “THE DAY.” This is the phrase used about the times of Noah or Lot by Messiah/Christ! “They knew not until the day that Noah entered the ark.” Paul noted that some would “see the day approaching” and we have that phrase again of “the day.” The Scriptures note that “the day” is about Yom Kippur. Perhaps The Master using the phrase “the day” would have been understood by those of His times as relating to Yom Kippur, but not recognized by people in our times? First was “the day” in the times of the family Noah, then “the day” in the times of the family Lot, then “the day” for the Repentant and Redeemed of Messiah/Christ? Is Yom Kippur the link and THE DAY for us?
I hope many Doves will be blessed in reading these two studies. For Jews and Gentiles alike, Yom Kippur is well worth our understanding. If it is “THE DAY” linked to The Blessed Hope, the apostacia ( the departure) then it is ALL IMPORTANT! Come quickly, Lord… May we be WATCHING!

With Love and Shalom,
Jean

Nando

That this site is about prophecy and the nearest of the return of Jesus in the clouds to Rapture the church is obvious by the content.

Equally obvious to every Bible reading Christian who has made the study of prophecy and the signs a thing of priority is the nearness that the Rapture is and the start of the Apocalypse. I believe that the Lord Jesus communicated to me that the Apocalypse started on the month 7 of this year. As of today the month of July was not the message and I am awaiting fulfillment on the month of Tishri which is also the seventh month of the Jewish calendar given to Moses.

Luis Vega has been studying the signs of the times as they pertain to the Rapture and the Apocalypse and he has made charts that take these signs to graphic form.

Thanks Luis Vega for these interpretations and possible scenarios of the things that are coming at the speed of light.

Nando

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2011/luisv930-1.htm

Luis Vega (30 Sep 2011)
“CONFIRMING THE COVENANT”

CONFIRMING THE COVENANT:
Pattern of Years from the Oslo Accord in Relation to the 2014-15 Tetrad
by: Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.sonoma.edu/users/v/vegalu/eschatology
PDF Link to online Chart at: http://www.sonoma.edu/users/v/vegalu/eschatology_files/Covenant.pdf
And ‘he’ shall confirm the covenant with many for 1 week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it         desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.-Dan 9:27

Confirming the Covenant refers to the Prophecy of Daniel & the Book of Revelation alluding to the notion that a ‘confirmation’ will be established by a World Figure to an already existing ‘Covenant’ or Treaty made. This Treaty or ’Covenant’ is understood to have already promised to deliver a “Lasting Peace” or “Peace & Security” guaranteed to Israel. It is possible that the Oslo Accord of 1993 is that ‘Covenant.’ The various key stages of implementation dates only requires a ‘confirming’ of what has already been agreed upon.

(1) Some ‘One’ within the UN, as a possible condition of establishing a sovereign Palestinian State might be the One to ‘confirm the Covenant’ or
(2) a later prominent World Leader will arise, after a probable regional Middle East war (Psalm 83) against a victorious Israel thereafter to confirm the pre-set conditions. The UN could be the “Many” as in many Nations or the Quartette made up of the US, EU, UN & Russia.

Regardless of the scenarios, these world political entities will play a significant political, economic, military & religious End Game on Israel in the near future.

The purpose of this chart/timeline (PDF Link above) is to analyze the key milestones of dates for the various stages of the 1993 Oslo Accords implementations between the State of Israel & the Palestinian Authority that established “Road Map to Peace in the Middle East.” It appears that there are a series of Year-Patterns associated  with key start-dates in conjunction to the peculiar Total Blood Moons & Solar Eclipses that make up the Tetrad of 2014-15. This analysis is taken from a Judeo-Christian Biblical point of view  -in relation to the Prophecy of Daniel in the Old Testament regarding the fulfillment of a last 7 Week Confirmation of a ‘Covenant with Death’ that Israel will make. When will this “Confirming of the Covenant” happen? This study of the Year-Patterns might lend a significant clue. For Illustration Purposes Only. No Predictions are Made.

Observations:
IF you start with the Oslo Accord signing in 1993, & IF it is the ‘Covenant’ -then you end up with the following peculiar phenomena:
A. The 5 Main Stages of the implementation of the Accord key Dates produce a repeated Year-Pattern of 20, 22 & 16 years respectively.
B. There are 2 set of 20 Years & 1 set of 16 Years. If by coincidence, the Date-Patterns from the Accord to the Tetrad are exact -down to the very Day
C. The Declaration of Principles are 22 years & the Sharmel-Sheikh Memo are 16 years exactly to the day of the Solar Eclipse of Sep 13, 2015.
D. The Oslo Accords II is exactly 20 years to the day on a Blood Moon & the Al-Aqsa Intafada is 15 years to the same Blood Moon of Sep 28, 2015.

E. The Wye River Memo Is exactly 16 years to the day on the Solar Eclipse of Oct 23, 2014.

F. The 2nd Gulf War is exactly 12 years to the day landing on March 20, 2015 which is both the Summer Solstice & Total Solar Eclipse.
G. IF the Confirming happens on Yom Kippur 2011, 1260 (3.5 years) days later will land exactly on the 3rd Blood Moon of the Tetrad, April 4, 2014.
H. This 3rd Blood Moon of April 4, 2014 would be then the Mid-Point -exactly 3.5 years from Oct 8, 2011 Yom Kippur.
I. The Tetrad of 2014-15 is bracketed by 2 Partial Solar Eclipses that are 3.5 years apart exactly.

The Tetrad
It is the 8th since Christ & it seems to model an 8-string Lyre/Guitar with the various end-dates as if ‘Notes’ to be played. The Tetrad occurs in-between 2 Partial Solar Eclipses marked off exactly by a 3.5 years period.

Passover (15 Days later from Equinox

April 14, 2014 (3rd Blood Moon of Tetrad)
1260 Days from Yom Kippur -Oct  08, 2011

Possible Scenarios:
If a ‘Confirming’ Happens:
1. On OCT 8, 2011 then this 3.5 years could be the start of the Tribulation.
2. On April 4, 2015 then this 3.5 years could be the start of the Tribulation.
3. In the Fall of 2018, this 3.5 years could be the start of the Tribulation.

Nando

In the article below you will see two links that are a must to see. It is 4.15 PM on the 26 of Sept of 2011 and it we are approaching the time where the video on Elenin says the effects of Elenin will start having a magnetic interference on earth.

The feast of Trumpets Rosh Hashanah is also coming this week on the evening of the Wednesday the 28 to sundown on the 30th.

The anticipation is great and both videos are a must to see.

Nando

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2011/harveyt926-2.htm

Harvey Troyer (26 Sep 2011)
“Two very Important New and Must-See Posts—Dr Owuor Prophecy and ELEnin Dwarf Star Warning!”

September 26, 2011

Dear John Tng and all Faithful Doves,

[WELCOME BACK JOHN!]

Subj:  Two very Important New and Must-See Posts—Dr Owuor Prophecy and ELEnin Dwarf Star Warning!

Please click on the following URL LINKS and read the entire posts and watch the videos.  Be encouraged doves!  We are almost at the finish line.  Our rewards will be great!  Hallelujah!

1)   Dr Owuor’s New Prophecy on Israel—The LORD is Extremely Furious—He Says Now I Will Fight for Israel!

http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3138553015&frmid=389&msgid=1182295&cmd=show

2)  ELEmin Dwarf Star Warning September 26, 2011—Shocking New Information—Read and Watch the Video

http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3138553015&frmid=389&msgid=1181906&cmd=show

“FAIR USE FOR INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION PURPOSES”

 Maranatha! (Come Quickly Lord Jesus!)

 Harvey Troyer (YBIC)
 Emmaus Road Ministries

Nando

I just received this link from a close friend about Elenin.

The link shows a video taken of Elenin from the Stereo B satellite at Nasa. The voice will show Elenin approaching earth and it shows Elenin much bigger that earth. One observation to make is that from the diagram showing the orbits of earth, Jupiter and Elenin with respect to Stereo B the distances to the celestial bodies are not the same and object comparison for size are not perfect. That said Elenin looks very big for the cameras location on Stereo B.

It will be a very interesting alignment coming up on the 27. Keep in mind that Feast of Trumpets is the 29, two days after the alignment.

Also the UN security council will consider the Palestinian Statehood request on Moday the 26.

Nando

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArJAxXh9tI&feature=uploademail

Nando

Today is a event changing day. The UN was the center of a great battle that has been an ongoing war from the eons past and that started with the two first humans in the garden of Eden. This battle between God and Satan has been waged by Satan through his human proxies and the culmination of the final battle is schedule to take place in the following seven years during the time known as the Apocalypse.

Today we saw the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophet Zecariah’s words
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Zechariah 12

New International Version (NIV)

Zechariah 12

Jerusalem’s Enemies to Be Destroyed

¹A prophecy: The word of the LORD concerning Israel.

The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: ² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³ 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. ⁴ On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. ⁵ Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.’

⁶ “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

⁷ “The LORD will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. ⁸ On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them. ⁹ On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

Please watch both speeches and the amount of people that chose to be present to hear them. Also watch the members participation with applaud and standing ovations for the contents of the speeches.

This is a grave travesty of justice by all the nations that participated in the assembly.

Israel is not alone the God of the Universe is watching and keeping taps. The hour of judgment is around the corner and Israel and God will prevail.

Nando

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speech:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/NetanyahuU

Nando

Palestinian President Abbas speech:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AbbasU

Nando

This is live video coverage of the Assembly speakers. The time is not assigned but the list of speakers is available and shown here.

Nando

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Israeli-Palestinian-Leaders-Address-General-Assembly/10737424257/

The following link is for the list of speakers in order.

http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/En/lateste.pdf

Nando

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/full-transcript-of-netanyahu-speech-at-un-general-assembly-1.386464

• Published 05:56 24.09.11
• Latest update 05:56 24.09.11

Full transcript of Netanyahu speech at UN General Assembly

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 66th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech.

Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu UN

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and good will. I extend it to the people of Libya and Tunisia, with admiration for those trying to build a democratic future. I extend it to the other peoples of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with whom we want to forge a new beginning. I extend it to the people of Syria, Lebanon and Iran, with awe at the courage of those fighting brutal repression.

But most especially, I extend my hand to the Palestinian people, with whom we seek a just and lasting peace.

	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressesing the 66th UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 23, 2011.
	Photo by: Reuters

Ladies and gentlemen, in Israel our hope for peace never wanes. Our scientists, doctors, innovators, apply their genius to improve the world of tomorrow. Our artists, our writers, enrich the heritage of humanity. Now, I know that this is not exactly the image of Israel that is often portrayed in this hall. After all, it was here in 1975 that the age-old yearning of my people to restore our national life in our ancient biblical homeland — it was then that this was braided — branded, rather — shamefully, as racism. And it was here in 1980, right here, that the historic peace agreement between Israel and Egypt wasn’t praised; it was denounced! And it’s here year after year that Israel is unjustly singled out for condemnation. It’s singled out for condemnation more often than all the nations of the world combined. Twenty-one out of the 27 General Assembly resolutions condemn Israel — the one true democracy in the Middle East.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It’s the — the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam’s Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

You might say: That’s the past. Well, here’s what’s happening now — right now, today. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world’s security.

You couldn’t make this thing up.

So here in the UN, automatic majorities can decide anything. They can decide that the sun sets in the west or rises in the west. I think the first has already been pre-ordained. But they can also decide — they have decided that the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest place, is occupied Palestinian territory.

And yet even here in the General Assembly, the truth can sometimes break through. In 1984 when I was appointed Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, I visited the great rabbi of Lubavich. He said to me — and ladies and gentlemen, I don’t want any of you to be offended because from personal experience of serving here, I know there are many honorable men and women, many capable and decent people serving their nations here. But here’s what the rebbe said to me. He said to me, you’ll be serving in a house of many lies. And then he said, remember that even in the darkest place, the light of a single candle can be seen far and wide.

Today I hope that the light of truth will shine, if only for a few minutes, in a hall that for too long has been a place of darkness for my country. So as Israel’s prime minister, I didn’t come here to win applause. I came here to speak the truth. (Cheers, applause.) The truth is — the truth is that Israel wants peace. The truth is that I want peace. The truth is that in the Middle East at all times, but especially during these turbulent days, peace must be anchored in security. The truth is that we cannot achieve peace through UN resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties. The truth is that so far the Palestinians have refused to negotiate. The truth is that Israel wants peace with a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians want a state without peace. And the truth is you shouldn’t let that happen.

Ladies and gentlemen, when I first came here 27 years ago, the world was divided between East and West. Since then the Cold War ended, great civilizations have risen from centuries of slumber, hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty, countless more are poised to follow, and the remarkable thing is that so far this monumental historic shift has largely occurred peacefully. Yet a malignancy is now growing between East and West that threatens the peace of all. It seeks not to liberate, but to enslave, not to build, but to destroy.

That malignancy is militant Islam. It cloaks itself in the mantle of a great faith, yet it murders Jews, Christians and Muslims alike with unforgiving impartiality. On September 11th it killed thousands of Americans, and it left the twin towers in smoldering ruins. Last night I laid a wreath on the 9/11 memorial. It was deeply moving. But as I was going there, one thing echoed in my mind: the outrageous words of the president of Iran on this podium yesterday. He implied that 9/11 was an American conspiracy. Some of you left this hall. All of you should have. (Applause.)

Since 9/11, militant Islamists slaughtered countless other innocents — in London and Madrid, in Baghdad and Mumbai, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in every part of Israel. I believe that the greatest danger facing our world is that this fanaticism will arm itself with nuclear weapons. And this is precisely what Iran is trying to do.

Can you imagine that man who ranted here yesterday — can you imagine him armed with nuclear weapons? The international community must stop Iran before it’s too late. If Iran is not stopped, we will all face the specter of nuclear terrorism, and the Arab Spring could soon become an Iranian winter. That would be a tragedy. Millions of Arabs have taken to the streets to replace tyranny with liberty, and no one would benefit more than Israel if those committed to freedom and peace would prevail.

This is my fervent hope. But as the prime minister of Israel, I cannot risk the future of the Jewish state on wishful thinking. Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. We must do our best to shape the future, but we cannot wish away the dangers of the present.

And the world around Israel is definitely becoming more dangerous. Militant Islam has already taken over Lebanon and Gaza. It’s determined to tear apart the peace treaties between Israel and Egypt and between Israel and Jordan. It’s poisoned many Arab minds against Jews and Israel, against America and the West. It opposes not the policies of Israel but the existence of Israel.

Now, some argue that the spread of militant Islam, especially in these turbulent times — if you want to slow it down, they argue, Israel must hurry to make concessions, to make territorial compromises. And this theory sounds simple. Basically it goes like this: Leave the territory, and peace will be advanced. The moderates will be strengthened, the radicals will be kept at bay. And don’t worry about the pesky details of how Israel will actually defend itself; international troops will do the job.

These people say to me constantly: Just make a sweeping offer, and everything will work out. You know, there’s only one problem with that theory. We’ve tried it and it hasn’t worked. In 2000 Israel made a sweeping peace offer that met virtually all of the Palestinian demands. Arafat rejected it. The Palestinians then launched a terror attack that claimed a thousand Israeli lives.

Prime Minister Olmert afterwards made an even more sweeping offer, in 2008. President Abbas didn’t even respond to it.

But Israel did more than just make sweeping offers. We actually left territory. We withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and from every square inch of Gaza in 2005. That didn’t calm the Islamic storm, the militant Islamic storm that threatens us. It only brought the storm closer and make it stronger.

Hezbollah and Hamas fired thousands of rockets against our cities from the very territories we vacated. See, when Israel left Lebanon and Gaza, the moderates didn’t defeat the radicals, the moderates were devoured by the radicals. And I regret to say that international troops like UNIFIL in Lebanon and UBAM (ph) in Gaza didn’t stop the radicals from attacking Israel.

We left Gaza hoping for peace.

We didn’t freeze the settlements in Gaza, we uprooted them. We did exactly what the theory says: Get out, go back to the 1967 borders, dismantle the settlements.

And I don’t think people remember how far we went to achieve this. We uprooted thousands of people from their homes. We pulled children out of — out of their schools and their kindergartens. We bulldozed synagogues. We even — we even moved loved ones from their graves. And then, having done all that, we gave the keys of Gaza to President Abbas.

Now the theory says it should all work out, and President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority now could build a peaceful state in Gaza. You can remember that the entire world applauded. They applauded our withdrawal as an act of great statesmanship. It was a bold act of peace.

But ladies and gentlemen, we didn’t get peace. We got war. We got Iran, which through its proxy Hamas promptly kicked out the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority collapsed in a day — in one day.

President Abbas just said on this podium that the Palestinians are armed only with their hopes and dreams. Yeah, hopes, dreams and 10,000 missiles and Grad rockets supplied by Iran, not to mention the river of lethal weapons now flowing into Gaza from the Sinai, from Libya, and from elsewhere.

Thousands of missiles have already rained down on our cities. So you might understand that, given all this, Israelis rightly ask: What’s to prevent this from happening again in the West Bank? See, most of our major cities in the south of the country are within a few dozen kilometers from Gaza. But in the center of the country, opposite the West Bank, our cities are a few hundred meters or at most a few kilometers away from the edge of the West Bank.

So I want to ask you. Would any of you — would any of you bring danger so close to your cities, to your families? Would you act so recklessly with the lives of your citizens? Israel is prepared to have a Palestinian state in the West Bank, but we’re not prepared to have another Gaza there. And that’s why we need to have real security arrangements, which the Palestinians simply refuse to negotiate with us.

Israelis remember the bitter lessons of Gaza. Many of Israel’s critics ignore them. They irresponsibly advise Israel to go down this same perilous path again. Your read what these people say and it’s as if nothing happened — just repeating the same advice, the same formulas as though none of this happened.

And these critics continue to press Israel to make far-reaching concessions without first assuring Israel’s security. They praise those who unwittingly feed the insatiable crocodile of militant Islam as bold statesmen. They cast as enemies of peace those of us who insist that we must first erect a sturdy barrier to keep the crocodile out, or at the very least jam an iron bar between its gaping jaws.

So in the face of the labels and the libels, Israel must heed better advice. Better a bad press than a good eulogy, and better still would be a fair press whose sense of history extends beyond breakfast, and which recognizes Israel’s legitimate security concerns.

I believe that in serious peace negotiations, these needs and concerns can be properly addressed, but they will not be addressed without negotiations. And the needs are many, because Israel is such a tiny country. Without Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, Israel is all of 9 miles wide.

I want to put it for you in perspective, because you’re all in the city. That’s about two-thirds the length of Manhattan. It’s the distance between Battery Park and Columbia University. And don’t forget that the people who live in Brooklyn and New Jersey are considerably nicer than some of Israel’s neighbors.

So how do you — how do you protect such a tiny country, surrounded by people sworn to its destruction and armed to the teeth by Iran? Obviously you can’t defend it from within that narrow space alone. Israel needs greater strategic depth, and that’s exactly why Security Council Resolution 242 didn’t require Israel to leave all the territories it captured in the Six-Day War. It talked about withdrawal from territories, to secure and defensible boundaries. And to defend itself, Israel must therefore maintain a long-term Israeli military presence in critical strategic areas in the West Bank.

I explained this to President Abbas. He answered that if a Palestinian state was to be a sovereign country, it could never accept such arrangements. Why not? America has had troops in Japan, Germany and South Korea for more than a half a century. Britain has had an airspace in Cyprus or rather an air base in Cyprus. France has forces in three independent African nations. None of these states claim that they’re not sovereign countries.

And there are many other vital security issues that also must be addressed. Take the issue of airspace. Again, Israel’s small dimensions create huge security problems. America can be crossed by jet airplane in six hours. To fly across Israel, it takes three minutes. So is Israel’s tiny airspace to be chopped in half and given to a Palestinian state not at peace with Israel?

Our major international airport is a few kilometers away from the West Bank. Without peace, will our planes become targets for antiaircraft missiles placed in the adjacent Palestinian state? And how will we stop the smuggling into the West Bank? It’s not merely the West Bank, it’s the West Bank mountains. It just dominates the coastal plain where most of Israel’s population sits below. How could we prevent the smuggling into these mountains of those missiles that could be fired on our cities?

I bring up these problems because they’re not theoretical problems. They’re very real. And for Israelis, they’re life-and- death matters. All these potential cracks in Israel’s security have to be sealed in a peace agreement before a Palestinian state is declared, not afterwards, because if you leave it afterwards, they won’t be sealed. And these problems will explode in our face and explode the peace.

The Palestinians should first make peace with Israel and then get their state. But I also want to tell you this. After such a peace agreement is signed, Israel will not be the last country to welcome a Palestinian state as a new member of the United Nations. We will be the first. (Applause.)

And there’s one more thing. Hamas has been violating international law by holding our soldier Gilad Shalit captive for five years.

They haven’t given even one Red Cross visit. He’s held in a dungeon, in darkness, against all international norms. Gilad Shalit is the son of Aviva and Noam Shalit. He is the grandson of Zvi Shalit, who escaped the Holocaust by coming to the — in the 1930s as a boy to the land of Israel. Gilad Shalit is the son of every Israeli family. Every nation represented here should demand his immediate release. (Applause.) If you want to — if you want to pass a resolution about the Middle East today, that’s the resolution you should pass. (Applause.)

Ladies and gentlemen, last year in Israel in Bar-Ilan University, this year in the Knesset and in the U.S. Congress, I laid out my vision for peace in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state. Yes, the Jewish state. After all, this is the body that recognized the Jewish state 64 years ago. Now, don’t you think it’s about time that Palestinians did the same?

The Jewish state of Israel will always protect the rights of all its minorities, including the more than 1 million Arab citizens of Israel. I wish I could say the same thing about a future Palestinian state, for as Palestinian officials made clear the other day — in fact, I think they made it right here in New York — they said the Palestinian state won’t allow any Jews in it. They’ll be Jew-free — Judenrein. That’s ethnic cleansing. There are laws today in Ramallah that make the selling of land to Jews punishable by death. That’s racism. And you know which laws this evokes.

Israel has no intention whatsoever to change the democratic character of our state. We just don’t want the Palestinians to try to change the Jewish character of our state. (Applause.) We want to give up — we want them to give up the fantasy of flooding Israel with millions of Palestinians.

President Abbas just stood here, and he said that the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the settlements. Well, that’s odd. Our conflict has been raging for — was raging for nearly half a century before there was a single Israeli settlement in the West Bank. So if what President Abbas is saying was true, then the — I guess that the settlements he’s talking about are Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jaffa, Be’er Sheva. Maybe that’s what he meant the other day when he said that Israel has been occupying Palestinian land for 63 years. He didn’t say from 1967; he said from 1948. I hope somebody will bother to ask him this question because it illustrates a simple truth: The core of the conflict is not the settlements. The settlements are a result of the conflict. (Applause.)

The settlements have to be — it’s an issue that has to be addressed and resolved in the course of negotiations. But the core of the conflict has always been and unfortunately remains the refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

I think it’s time that the Palestinian leadership recognizes what every serious international leader has recognized, from Lord Balfour and Lloyd George in 1917, to President Truman in 1948, to President Obama just two days ago right here: Israel is the Jewish state. (Applause.)

President Abbas, stop walking around this issue. Recognize the Jewish state, and make peace with us. In such a genuine peace, Israel is prepared to make painful compromises. We believe that the Palestinians should be neither the citizens of Israel nor its subjects. They should live in a free state of their own. But they should be ready, like us, for compromise. And we will know that they’re ready for compromise and for peace when they start taking Israel’s security requirements seriously and when they stop denying our historical connection to our ancient homeland.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That’s like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we’re called “Jews”? Because we come from Judea.

In my office in Jerusalem, there’s a — there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. That’s my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin — Binyamin — the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there’s been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

And for those Jews who were exiled from our land, they never stopped dreaming of coming back: Jews in Spain, on the eve of their expulsion; Jews in the Ukraine, fleeing the pogroms; Jews fighting the Warsaw Ghetto, as the Nazis were circling around it. They never stopped praying, they never stopped yearning. They whispered: Next year in Jerusalem. Next year in the promised land.

As the prime minister of Israel, I speak for a hundred generations of Jews who were dispersed throughout the lands, who suffered every evil under the Sun, but who never gave up hope of restoring their national life in the one and only Jewish state.

Ladies and gentlemen, I continue to hope that President Abbas will be my partner in peace. I’ve worked hard to advance that peace. The day I came into office, I called for direct negotiations without preconditions. President Abbas didn’t respond. I outlined a vision of peace of two states for two peoples. He still didn’t respond. I removed hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints, to ease freedom of movement in the Palestinian areas; this facilitated a fantastic growth in the Palestinian economy. But again — no response. I took the unprecedented step of freezing new buildings in the settlements for 10 months. No prime minister did that before, ever. (Scattered applause.) Once again — you applaud, but there was no response. No response.

In the last few weeks, American officials have put forward ideas to restart peace talks. There were things in those ideas about borders that I didn’t like. There were things there about the Jewish state that I’m sure the Palestinians didn’t like.

But with all my reservations, I was willing to move forward on these American ideas.

President Abbas, why don’t you join me? We have to stop negotiating about the negotiations. Let’s just get on with it. Let’s negotiate peace.

I spent years defending Israel on the battlefield. I spent decades defending Israel in the court of public opinion. President Abbas, you’ve dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That’s what we should aim for, and that’s what I believe we can achieve.

In two and a half years, we met in Jerusalem only once, even though my door has always been open to you. If you wish, I’ll come to Ramallah. Actually, I have a better suggestion. We’ve both just flown thousands of miles to New York. Now we’re in the same city. We’re in the same building. So let’s meet here today in the United Nations. Who’s there to stop us? What is there to stop us? If we genuinely want peace, what is there to stop us from meeting today and beginning peace negotiations?

And I suggest we talk openly and honestly. Let’s listen to one another. Let’s do as we say in the Middle East: Let’s talk “doogri”. That means straightforward. I’ll tell you my needs and concerns. You’ll tell me yours. And with God’s help, we’ll find the common ground of peace.

There’s an old Arab saying that you cannot applaud with one hand. Well, the same is true of peace. I cannot make peace alone. I cannot make peace without you. President Abbas, I extend my hand — the hand of Israel — in peace. I hope that you will grasp that hand. We are both the sons of Abraham. My people call him Avraham. Your people call him Ibrahim. We share the same patriarch. We dwell in the same land. Our destinies are intertwined. Let us realize the vision of Isaiah — (speaks in Hebrew) — “The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.” Let that light be the light of peace.

Nando