MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

I agree. There is no force in the world today that can remove the weapon from their hand. But there soon will be …

Matthew 24:27, “For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

Joel 3:1-2,4, “In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,  I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land… Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.”

Palestinian TV (Fatah), 11/13/2012: “From my wounds, my weapon has emerged. Oh, our revolution, my weapon has emerged. There is no force in the world that can remove the weapon from my hand. My weapon has emerged. My weapon has emerged. This revolutionary people has sacrificed and offered in order to live in freedom! My weapon has emerged. My weapon has emerged.”

Isaiah 2:4, “He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.”

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER – “Al Qaeda committed ‘truly shocking’ human rights abuses including crucifixions and the beheading of an alleged sorceror during its 16 months in control of a southern region of Yemen, a report by Amnesty International claimed today.

The London-based charity has also released a video which appears to show a suspected thief having his hand amputated by the Ansar al-Sharia militia, which seized power of the Abyan governorate in February 2011.

Amnesty said dozens more civilians were then killed during reckless counter-insurgency operations by the Yemeni government as it sought to win back the territory from the Al Qaeda-affiliated group.

The tragedies would ‘haunt Yemen for decades to come’ unless the perpetrators were caught and the families compensated, the charity said.

Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Director Philip Luther said: ‘Abyan experienced a human rights catastrophe as Ansar al-Sharia and government forces vied for control of the region during 2011 and the first half of 2012.

‘The Yemeni authorities must ensure that a commission of inquiry announced in September covers the truly shocking abuses committed.

‘The tragedy of Abyan will haunt Yemen for decades to come unless those responsible are held to account and victims and their families receive reparations.’

Amnesty’s 55-page report, Conflict in Yemen: Abyan’s Darkest Hour, documents violations of the rules of war during the armed conflict between government forces and Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamist armed group affiliated to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.” Read more.

Flashback: Obama Administration Paves The Way For Sharia Law In America – “The most terrifying danger Americans face from a second Barack Obama term isn’t the economy, which is scary enough. The most harrowing prospect is the Obama Administration’s passivity in the face of attempts to introduce aspects of sharia law into our legal system. Now there is strong and open evidence of the Obama administration collaborating with Islamist activists to ensure the path toward sharia law is accelerated.” Read more.

Flashback: Obama Marks Ramadan: ‘Islam Is Part Of The Fabric Of Our Nation’ – “Here in the United States, Ramadan reminds us that Islam is part of the fabric of our Nation, and that—from public service to business, from healthcare and science to the arts—Muslim Americans help strengthen our country and enrich our lives. Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths.” Read more.

Update: Mohammed Morsi goes for an early walk as protests turn violent …

By Yasmine Saleh and Marwa Awad, Reuters – “Egyptian police fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against President Mohamed Mursi’s drive to hold a snap referendum on a new constitution and some broke through police lines around his palace, live television footage showed.

Several thousand protesters had gathered nearby in what they dubbed ‘last warning’ protests against Mursi, who has angered opponents with a November 22 decree that expanded his powers. ‘The people want the downfall of the regime,’ chanted the protesters.

Mursi ignited a storm of unrest in his bid to prevent a judiciary still packed with appointees of ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak from derailing a troubled political transition.

Riot police had earlier mustered around the palace as activists chanted ‘leave, leave’ and held up Egyptian flags with ‘no to the constitution’ written on them. Other protesters assembled in front of two mosques north of Cairo before marching towards the palace.

‘Many of our national leaders and youth will join us in our marches today,’ said Hussein Abdel Ghany, a spokesman for the opposition coalition. ‘Our marches are against tyranny and the void constitutional decree and we won’t retract our position until our demands are met.'” Read more.

Hundreds Chant ‘Freedom Or We Die!’ During Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Demonstration Outside Mosque – “‘Freedom or we die,’ chanted a crowd of several hundred outside a mosque in the Abbasiyah district. ‘Mohammed Morsi! Illegitimate! Brotherhood! Illegitimate!’ they also yelled, alluding to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood from which Morsi hails. ‘This is the last warning before we lay siege on the presidential palace,’ said Mahmoud Hashim, a 21-year-old student from the city of Suez on the Red Sea. ‘We want the presidential decrees cancelled.'”” Read more.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The real problem that the world faces today is right-wing Islamophobes. Like the Tea Party. And Christians. Even one of the greatest thinkers of our modern era, Rosie O’Donnell, has concluded as much …

When they can, they will.

By BOB UNRUH – “A little less than every five hours, somewhere around the world a Muslim is carrying out a fatal jihadist attack.

These are not the regular beatings and vandalism against Christians, Hindus and Buddhists but religion-oriented attacks in which someone dies at the hand of a member of the ‘religion of peace.’

A website called ‘The Religion of Peace’ has listed more than 20,000 such fatal attacks since Sept. 11, 2001.

As of today, the total was 20,022. The 20,000th came a few days ago when a Jewish woman was cut in pieces in Iran by religious radicals ‘intent on expanding a mosque.’

Some 1,800 deadly Muslim terror attacks happen each year, amounting to about 150 a month and five a day.

The purpose of the website, according to operator Glen Roberts, a pseudonym, is to put the level of violence being inflicted by Muslims in perspective.

‘I started watching [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] in the months after 9/11,’ said Roberts, ‘and I was astonished by the self-absorption. Each day people are maimed and killed explicitly in the name of Islam while this organization complains about headscarves and hurt feelings.

‘I thought,’ he said, ‘that maybe if I started documenting the violence, it would Read more…

If Assad decides to use chemical weapons (which appears increasingly likely), will he decide to use them upon the rebels who are all but certain to soon topple his regime? Will he opt to use them against Israel as a last “hurrah” before fleeing in order to invoke a devastating Israeli response upon the rebel’s grand prize of Damascus? Both? …

By Elad Benari, INN – “Engineers working for President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation told Wired.com’s Danger Room on Monday.

International observers are now more worried than they’ve even been that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people, the report said.

The U.S. doesn’t know why the Syrian military made the move, which began in the middle of last week and is taking place in central Syria, nor are they sure why the Assad government is transferring some weapons to different locations within the country, as the New York Times reported on Monday.

‘Physically, they’ve gotten to the point where they can load it up on a plane and drop it,’ the official told Wired.com.

Sarin gas has two main chemical components: isopropanol, popularly known as rubbing alcohol, and methylphosphonyl difluoride. The Assad government has more than 500 metric tons of these precursors, which it ordinarily stores separately, in so-called ‘binary’ form, in order to prevent an accidental release of nerve gas.

Last week, reported Wired.com, that changed. The Syrian military began combining some of the binaries. ‘They didn’t do it on the whole arsenal, just a modest quantity,’ the official said. ‘We’re not sure what’s the intent.’

Back in July, the Assad regime publicly warned that it might use its chemical weapons to stop ‘external’ forces from interfering in Syria’s bloody civil war. The announcement sparked a panic in the intelligence services of the U.S. and its allies, which stepped up their efforts to block shipments of precursors for those weapons from entering the country.

‘This is a more serious moment than July,’ the official said.” Read more.

Flashback: Syria’s FM Says Israel is Leading ‘The Plot to Bring Down Assad’ – “Syria’s foreign minister on Sunday blamed Israel for the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime. ‘The Zionist regime is at the forefront of the plot to bring down the Syrian government and to destabilize the country,’ said Walid Muallem, speaking at a joint press conference in Tehran on Sunday afternoon with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi. Israel’s stance on Syria is proof of an international plot against Assad’s regime, Salehi added. Apart from Israel, Muallem accused Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of conspiring against Syrians.” Read more.

A man who praised Osama Bin Laden and condemned America for his death is now demanding that the very group which he presides over — a maniacal, bloodthirsty gang of savages who time rocket launches to coincide with innocent Israeli schoolchildren walking home from school, who believe that killing Jews is a way to worship Allah, who have fallen decapitated head-over-heels in love with death, who praise and promote suicide bombings and all forms of jihad, who use civilians as human shields and desire nothing more than to finish the job that Hitler started — should no longer be identified as a terror organization. If that isn’t terrorism, then I don’t know what is …

Ahmadinejad and Haniyeh: Brothers of Peace

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH – “‘The time has come for the US and EU to remove Hamas from the list of designated terrorist organizations,’ Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday.

Haniyeh’s appeal came during a meeting in Gaza City with a visiting European mission in solidarity with the Palestinians.

‘Hamas and the Palestinian groups are national liberation movements that are defending themselves against Israeli aggression on our people,’ Haniyeh told the delegation.

He also called for prosecuting Israeli leaders ‘for their ongoing crimes against our people, especially the last eight-day aggression [in the Gaza Strip].’

Haniyeh complained that the UN-sponsored investigative report into Operation Cast Lead, which was prepared by South African judge Richard Goldstone, ‘had been shelved by some countries that help the occupation.’

The Hamas leader said that had the report been ‘activated,’ Israeli leaders would have been prosecuted for war crimes.” Source – The Jerusalem Post.

Flashback: Gaza and the West Bank: 31 Opportunities for Statehood Squandered in Favour of Genocide – “There is an eerie déjà vu about an unmistakable and oft-repeated process in the Arab–Israel conflict. The process started in 1937 and has repeated itself with minor variations many times over the subsequent 74 years. The process is as follows: Arabs go to war with Israel, promising Israel’s destruction and the annihilation of its Jews. Israel wins the war and offers peace. Arab leaders reject Israel’s peace offer, renew their promises of destruction and annihilation; and after a while they go to war again, and lose again, and Israel again offers peace. Repeat this process 31 times and you have the history of the Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell.” Read more.

Flashback: Hamas MP and Cleric: The Caliphate is Coming and in a Few Years a ‘Great Massacre of Jews’ – “The (Jews) are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang… All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews… In Just a few years, all the Zionists and the settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil.” Read more.