An excellent article as a follow up.....things are still really hot, and could go up in flames at any moment.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/07/how-close-did-israel-just-come-to-its-own-cuban-missile-crisis/




Come Lord!!! We are watching and waiting for you!!!!

*Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu: Hamas leader seeks to destroy Israel*


JERUSALEM --- Israel's prime minister says comments by the leader of
Hamas shows that the Palestinian militant group wants to destroy Israel.


In his first reference to Khaled Mashaal's visit to the Gaza Strip,
Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet Sunday that a speech given by
Mashaal a day earlier showed that Hamas remained an enemy to the Jewish
state.


Netanyahu said: "We have been exposed once again, over the past day, to
the true face of our enemies. They have no intention of compromising
with us. They want to destroy our country, but they will obviously fail."


Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, does not recognize the existence of
the state of Israel. Mashaal, its exiled leader, arrived for his
first-ever visit to the coastal territory on Friday.


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*Israel grows jittery of new Palestinian uprising*


By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press


JERUSALEM --- The rising confidence and bellicosity of Hamas militants
in the Gaza Strip, combined with rapidly deteriorating relations with
Israel's would-be peace partner in the West Bank, are raising jitters in
Israel that a new Palestinian uprising could be near.


A number of prominent voices urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
Sunday to take steps to ease the tensions and bolster the Western-backed
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Netanyahu's political rival,
former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, warned that renewed violence might
not be "far off."


But the Israeli leader stood tough. Poised for re-election, it appears
unlikely he will float a bold new initiative anytime soon. "We in the
government have no illusions. We want a true peace with our neighbors.
But we will not close our eyes and stick our heads in the sand,"
Netanyahu told his Cabinet.


Over the past month, Netanyahu has taken a series of steps that appear
to have unintentionally emboldened the rival Palestinian leaderships in
Gaza and the West Bank.


In mid-November, Israel carried out an eight-day military offensive in
Gaza in response to months of intensifying rocket fire from the
Hamas-ruled territory.


Although Israel claimed to inflict heavy damage, the operation failed to
halt the rocket fire before an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took hold
and Hamas emerged intact. Hamas has claimed victory, won newfound
recognition across the Middle East and boosted its popularity with the
Palestinian public.


Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Gaza over the
weekend to welcome the movement's exiled leader, Khaled Mashaal, as the
Islamic militant group celebrated its 25th anniversary with rallies,
speeches and displays of weapons.


It was the first time Mashaal has ever been to Gaza, and his presence in
the seaside territory was a reflection of the group's rising clout.
Mashaal, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 1997, is now
confident enough to enter Gaza and walk around in public, thanks to his
group's warm relations with the new Muslim Brotherhood-dominated regime
in neighboring Egypt.


Mashaal, known as a relative pragmatist inside the movement, showed no
signs of moderation during the three-day visit. In speech after speech,
Mashaal praised Hamas fighters for standing up to Israel and repeated
the movement's original goal of wiping Israel off the map.


"God willing, we shall liberate Palestine together, inch by inch,"
Mashaal told university students on Sunday, referring to the West Bank,
Gaza, Jerusalem and Israel. "We started this path and we are going to
continue until we achieve what God has promised."


Hamas seized control of Gaza in mid-2007, ousting forces loyal to Abbas.
Repeated attempts at reconciliation have failed.


The Palestinian rift has pushed Abbas into an uneasy alliance with
Israel, with both sides united in their opposition to Hamas. But
Israel's ties with Abbas have also frayed as peace efforts remained
frozen. Abbas and Netanyahu blame each other for the deadlock.


Fed up with the impasse, Abbas last month won U.N. recognition of a
Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip,
territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.


While the move did not change the situation on the ground, it was seen
as an international endorsement of the Palestinian position on future
borders with Israel.


It also amounted to international rejection of Israeli settlement
building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Netanyahu responded by
announcing plans to build thousands of new settlement homes, sparking
fierce international condemnations.


The tensions further escalated over the weekend when a Palestinian
security officer briefly scuffled with Israeli troops in the West Bank
city of Hebron. The incident quickly attracted some 250 Palestinian
protesters. A second clash developed elsewhere in the West Bank.


Israel's Channel 10 TV showed video from the second clash on Sunday
under the headline, "Third Intifada?" using the Arabic word for uprising.


Speaking at a business conference, President Shimon Peres, a Nobel peace
laureate, said the events in Gaza over the weekend showed that Abbas is
a peaceful and desirable alternative to Hamas.


"We have two clear choices, nobody is perfect but one is right and the
other is wrong. We have to choose between Mashaal and Abbas," Peres said.


Olmert, speaking at the same conference, accused Netanyahu of
undermining moderate Palestinian elements.


"We methodically hurt the ones who do want peace. We help raise the
radical elements instead. The result of this policy could be the
collapse of the Palestinian Authority government very rapidly, which
would create the worst intifada we've seen thus far. We are not far from
it," Olmert warned.


Olmert's government conducted a year of peace talks with Abbas in 2008
that resulted in closing many gaps but no final accord.


Netanyahu showed no signs of bending. Speaking to his Cabinet, Netanyahu
said the celebrations in Gaza over the weekend exposed "the true face of
our enemies."


"They have no intention of compromising with us. They want to destroy
our country, but they will obviously fail," he said.


He also said it was "interesting" that Abbas "has issued no
condemnation" of the Hamas comments. "To my regret, he strives for unity
with the same Hamas that is supported by Iran."


Netanyahu's tough approach has gone over well with the Israeli public.
With elections scheduled for Jan. 22, opinion polls forecast Netanyahu
winning re-election as leader of a coalition dominated by hard-line
nationalist and religious parties.


The Palestinians have launched two uprisings against Israeli occupation.
The first erupted exactly 25 years ago, on Dec. 9, 1987, and lasted
nearly six years. The second, deadlier uprising broke out in late 2000
and stretched for about five years. More than 3,000 Palestinians and
more than 1,000 Israelis died in the fighting.


Palestinian officials in the West Bank have signaled they have no desire
to return to the days of the uprising, when armed militant gangs
controlled Palestinian cities, Israeli military raids were common and
Israeli troops strictly controlled movement throughout the West Bank.


"We are not ready for war. The only way forward is peace," Abbas told
Arab leaders at a gathering in Qatar on Sunday.


Majed Swailim, a Palestinian political scientist, said Palestinian
disappointment in failed peace efforts could lead to anti-Israel street
protests in the West Bank in the coming months. But he did not expect an
open armed rebellion.


"People here don't want to repeat the violent intifada because they know
that Israel can paralyze life in the entire West Bank," he said.


___


Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah,
West Bank, and Lauren E. Bohn in Tel Aviv contributed reporting.


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OMG! I started reading this post and forgot how old it was, reading from the beginning and got so excited, until I saw it was from a month ago. I was thinking to myself that I hadn't seen anything on tv about the truce being over...lol...! Maybe we should start a new subject line...lol...! Just kidding, but boy was that wild.

In Him,

Lizzy

Lizzy,

It's not over yet, Israel is out Key sign to our Departure!

It's just a lull before the actual storm!

But we all know that all nations will go up against her, and God will send Jesus back to defend her during Armageddon!

For when they peace and safety, sudden destruction will come!

For us, we keep our eyes on Jesus, and His chosen people of Israel...especially Jerusalem. Jerusalem will become a cup of trembling for all nations, and we've seen just the top of the iceburg so to speak.

Israel is our Key Sign to when our departure will happen.

Keep watching,

Maranatha,

Valerie