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JANUARY 17 20141

THE TRUMPET WEEKLY THE TRUMPET WEEKLY J A N U A R Y 1 7 2 0 1 4

Suicide training camps for kids 2

China leapfrogs US in world trade 6

Chinese test hypersonic missile 7

Japan mulls aircraft carrier for drones 7

When a dollar store is too expensive 9

BY RICHARD PALMER

Irsquo to write on France without mentioning themost sensational story of the daymdashPresident Fran-ccedilois Hollande alleged affair with a young actress in an

apartment that has links to the mafia But therersquos another

more important story right now Tatrsquos not to say that thepresidentrsquos infidelity isnrsquot importantmdasha leaderrsquos charactermatters But the scandal is pushing an even bigger story offthe front pages

France SurrendersEU Leadership to Germany

see LEADERSHIP page 12

French President Franccedilois Hollande aGerman Chancellor Angela Mer

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JANUARY 17 20142 THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

issuesrdquo he told el Aviv Universityrsquos In-stitute for National Security Studies hellip

Gun Business Thrivingin JordanMIDDLE EAST ONLINE | January 15

F in Jordan havesoared tenfold since the war in

neighboring Syria erupted in butmore people than ever are buyingguns for protection against a possiblespillover of the violence

Te number of licensed weaponsstands at but there are morethan million unlicensed guns in thekingdom of million people accord-ing to interior ministry estimates

According to a study by the Jor-

danian Society for Political Sciences percent of Jordanians own gunslegally and illegally

ldquoTe conflict in Syria makes peoplefeel unsafe Tey do not know whatis coming in the futurerdquo Seri Nassersocial sciences professor at the Univer-sity of Jordan said

ldquoJordanians buy guns to protectthemselves because they think thatsecurity services are incapable ofmeeting their expectationsrdquo hellip

Iran HonorsHezbollah Chief

JERUSALEM POST | January 15

T U States on uesday con-demned a decision by Iranrsquos foreign

minister to place a wreath at the grave

of a former Lebanese Hezbollah leaderaccused of perpetrating attacks thatkilled hundreds of people

Iranian Foreign Minister Moham-mad Javad Zarif was photographed onMonday laying a wreath at the graveof assassinated Hezbollah militarycommander Imad Moughniyeh in thesouthern suburbs of Beirut

Mugniyah has been implicated interrorist attacks that have killed hun-dreds of people including the bomb-ing of the US Embassy in Beirut

which killed over people in and the bombing of the Israeli Em-bassy in Buenos Aires in hellip

NATO Shield NotDesigned for Israel


T accepted assurancesa planned missile defense

system in which it is playing a part isnot designed to protect Israel as wellthe alliancersquos deputy secretary-generalsaid on Wednesday

Alexander Vershbow said objec-tions by Prime Minister ayyipErdoğanrsquos government had resulted inpart from confusion about a urkish-

hosted radar Ankara had beenfurther assuaged by alliance Patriotanti-missile batteries assigned to pro-tect its territory from Syria

A leaked US diplomatic cable from described the Islamist-rootedErdoğan under whom urkeyrsquos once-solid ties with the Jewish state havedeteriorated as worrying that the shield might provide cover fora threatened Israeli attack on Iranrsquosnuclear sites

Addressing an Israeli security fo-

rum Vershbow said there had been ldquoalot of confusionrdquo in urkey includingover the similarity between its radar and a US radar posted in Israelto help it spot any ballistic missilelaunches by Iran

ldquoI think that there was mispercep-tion that somehow the systemwould be focused on the protectionof Israel and that Israeli-based assetswould be part of the systemwhereas in fact these are two separate

T H government in Gaza celebrated the gradua-

tion on Monday of paramilitary camps geared at train-ing high-school children ldquoto follow in the footsteps of thesuicide martyrsrdquo

Te camps titled ldquothe pioneers of liberationrdquo are run byHamasrsquos ministries of education and interior Some students in grades - participated in the one-week train-ing camps this year compared to last year when theprogram was launched Israeli sources with knowledge ofthe program said

Te corps of instructors consists mainly of activemembers of Hamasrsquos security forces and the curriculumincludes weapons training first aid self-defense marchingexercises and ldquosecurity awarenessrdquo classes on identifying

Israeli spiesHamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh Interior Minister

Fathi Hammad and Education Minister Usama Mzeini at-

tended the graduation ceremony on Monday each deliveringfiery speeches stressing the importance of military trainingin developing a new generation of Palestinian combatants

ldquoBeware this generationrdquo Haniyeh said addressing IsraelldquoTis is a generation which knows no fear It is the genera-tion of the missile the tunnel and the suicide operationsrdquo

Te Hamas prime minister added that female train-ers are also on staff ldquoto oversee the training of the youngwomen to follow in the footsteps of the female suicideoperativesrdquo

Hammad the interior minister said the training was inpreparation for the coming war with Israel

ldquoTis generation is a sapling from God on Earth It will

harvest the enemies of God and be the pride of all nationsrdquohe said hellip

13000 Teens Complete Hamas Suicide Training CampsThe Times of Israel | January 15

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Last month Jordanian border

guards said that arms smuggling hasincreased between Jordan and Syriaby percent adding that they havefoiled hundreds of trafficking attemptswhile the military state security courtis examining several related cases

Concerned at the rapid weaponiza-tion of the kingdom the governmenthas banned the issuing of licensesand the renewal of permits to carryfirearms It has also stopped givingpermits for the opening of new gunshops hellip

World Powers lsquoSurrenderedrsquo to Iran

FOX NEWS | January 14

I P Hassan Rouhaniboasted on witter that the United

States and other world powers effec-tively ldquosurrenderedrdquo to ehran withthe newly struck nuclear deal

ldquoOur relationship w the world is

based on Iranian nationrsquos interestsIn 983075Geneva agreement world powerssurrendered to Iranian nationrsquos willrdquoa tweet from the Iranian leaderrsquos ac-count said on uesday

Te brash statement which is sureto rile those in Congress pressing foradditional sanctions comes just daysaer all sides of the negotiations an-nounced the details for implementingthe six-month deal Te agreementcalls for Iran to start eliminating itsstockpile of highly enriched uranium

limit its overall enrichment capabilityand open up its nuclear sites to moreinspections In exchange the UnitedStates and other states will providesanctions relief

White House Press SecretaryJay Carney downplayed Rouhanirsquosremarks when asked about them atuesdayrsquos press briefing He said thesekinds of remarks are ldquoexpectedrdquo andgeared toward their governmentrsquos

ldquodomestic audiencerdquo

ldquoIt doesnrsquot matter what they say It

matters what they dordquo he said hellipRouhanirsquos latest statement couldfuel concern in Congress that Iran feelsless pressure now to both comply withthe deal and pursue a comprehensiveagreement Dozens of US senatorsare pushing for a new bill that wouldtrigger additional sanctions if Iran failsto meet its obligationsmdashbut Obamaand the rest of his team are vigorouslyfighting the legislation warning that itcould derail nuclear talks hellip

Big lsquoYesrsquo Vote onEgyptrsquos ConstitutionLOS ANGELES TIMES | January 16

U Tursday in-dicated that Egyptrsquos new constitu-

tion was approved by about percentof voters a lopsided margin reminis-cent of elections that were held priorto the uprising against Hosni Mubarak

D the [Geneva ] nuclear deal hasdiverted attention from an even riskier bet that Obama

has placed the idea that Iran can become a cooperativepartner in regional security

Although they wonrsquot say so publicly Mr Obama and

Secretary of State John Kerry surely dream of a ldquoNixon toChinardquo masterstroke Tey are quietly pursuing a strategicrealignment that they believe will end decades of semi-open warfare between Iran and the United States and theirrespective allies hellip

Tere are two main reasons for this attempted shi Oneis simply the desire of the president to extricate the UnitedStates from the Middle East Te other reason arguablymore important is fear of al Qaeda Te White Houseundoubtedly sees Iran and its Shiite allies as potential part-ners in the fight against Sunni jihadism

Te Obama strategy is breathtakingly ambitious It isalso destined to fail

First it ignores the obvious fact that unlike China atthe time of President Richard M Nixonrsquos diplomacy in thes Iran does not share a common enemy that wouldforce it to unite with America hellip Iranrsquos rulers simply donot regard al Qaeda as an existential threat on a par withthe ldquoGreat Satanrdquo (as they see the United States) By contrastMao did see the Soviet Union as a sufficient threat to justifyan alliance with the ldquocapitalist imperialistsrdquo in Washington

Te second major problem is that Iran has always

harbored dreams of regional hegemony Tere is no signthat the election of the ldquomoderaterdquo cleric Hassan Rouhanias president has changed anything

On the contrary Iran is stepping up its support for mili-tants in the region hellip

Iranrsquos power play is engendering a violent pushbackfrom Sunnis increasingly radicalized in the process Tisis the third and final problem that will doom Obamarsquosoutreach to ehran

In Iraq the Shiite prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Malikiwho is surrounded by aides with ties to the Iranians hasbeen arresting prominent Sunnis in Anbar Provincethereby driving many of the tribal fighters who once foughtal Qaeda in Iraq back into an alliance with the terroristgroup hellip

Jihadist influence now extends from western Iraq intoneighboring Syria where Sunnis are reacting just as vio-lently to the Iranian-orchestrated offensive to keep Assadrsquos

Alawite regime in power hellipTis shows what happens when the United States stands

aloof and refuses to do more to counter Iranian powerAmericarsquos allies in the region take matters into their ownhands Te result is the polarization of the entire regioninto pro- and anti-Iran blocs that feed a mushroomingcross-border civil war hellip

Mr Obamarsquos hopes of using an opening to Iran to stabi-lize the Middle East will almost certainly backfire hellip

Obamarsquos Losing Bet on IranNEW YORK TIMES | January 15

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JANUARY 17 20144 THE TRUMPET WEEKLY NOORULLAH SHIRZADAAFPGETTY IMAGES

three years agoTe military-backed interim gov-

ernment had campaigned vigorouslyfor approval of the rewritten charterwhile the Muslim Brotherhood theIslamist movement of deposed presi-dent Mohamed Morsi had called for aboycott of the two-day vote

State media citing unofficial talliesreleased by of Egyptrsquos governor-ates reported a turnout of about percent which would surpass theroughly one third of eligible voterswho cast ballots in the previous con-stitutional referendum held duringMorsirsquos tenure

Te turnout was only about per-centage points larger than the Morsi-era vote despite official hopes for amore decisive margin Te unofficialcount did not yet include the gover-

norate of North Sinai where armytroops and police have been battlingan Islamist insurgency

With the interim governmentbilling the constitutional vote as apopular mandate on its six monthsof rule staying away from the pollswas the only means available to mostEgyptians for expressing opposition

Gen Abdel Fattah Sisi the militarychief who is essentially running thecountry said before the balloting that

he would take a strong affirmative vote as a sign of the peoplersquos will thathe run for president

Political dissent is perilous in Egyptthese days A tough law that tookeffect two months ago bans streetprotests not approved in advance byEgyptian authorities hellip

At polling places uesday andWednesday voters expressed near-unanimous support for the constitu-tion and for Sisi hellip

TW I N B R I E F

n Iranrsquos looming presence in theMiddle EastAs the US prepares for the nextround of Syria negotiations to beheld on January there is talk ofIran being invited to participate TeUS allowing Iran to participate inSyrian peace talks speaks volumeson Iranrsquos growing influence overthe Middle East Iranian influence

permeates the regionand is linked directlyto the prophecies in theBible Speaking fromIsrael on January US Secretary of StateJohn Kerry raised thequestion ldquoNow could

[Iran] contribute fromthe sidelines Are thereways for them conceiv-ably to weigh in hellip Itmay be that there areways that could hap-penrdquo While Kerry hasnrsquot asked theIranians to be a major player in thenegotiations he clearly entertainsthe idea of Iran being a part of theprocess And why wouldnrsquot Iran wantto be there Iran has a lot invested inSyria and the Levant Whether Iran

ends up participating or not based onKerryrsquos comments the US is start-ing to realize that Iran exerts a largeamount of influence over Syria andcannot be ignored Iran is a big sup-porter of Assad and his Shiite govern-ment With Assad in power Iran hasinfluence from ehran to the Mediter-ranean Now that Assad is preparingto negotiate Iran must look for newways to ensure its best interests andregional ambitions are met at the

negotiating table as well as on thebattlefield Iran will undoubtedly belooking for ways to influence the up-coming Geneva talks Te fact thatIran is playing a larger role in regionalpolitics shows that it now has morecontrol than ever before Tis rise inpower and influence over the MiddleEast is not happening by mere chanceTe rise of Iran is actually prophesiedin your Bible Daniel speaksof a ldquoking of the southrdquo in our daythat will rise to power in the Middle

East Te rumpet has warned of howIran is set to lead this radical Islamicpower for years In rumpet edi-tor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote thebooklet Te King of the South Tisbooklet reveals Iran to be the head ofthe radical Islamic bloc of nations thatwill make up this king Iranrsquos moder-ate cloak shouldnrsquot deceive those whoknow Bible prophecy Iran is risingand the immediate consequences areabout to shock the world

n The Taliban and poppies grow togetherOpium is the lifeblood of the alibanIf the US has any hopes of leavingAfghanistan without the alibanimmediately filling the vacuum withwell-trained and well-funded mili-

tias it must put an end to the opiumproduction Unfortunately for theUS and coalition troops opiumproduction is highly lucrative andis on the rise Te United NationsOffice on Drugs and Crime ()has released its Afghanistan opiumsurvey for and the figures donrsquotlook good According to the

ldquoopium poppy cultivation in Afghani-stan reached a sobering record highin Te gross value of opium on

the Afghan economy is estimated tobe billionmdashan increase of billion over Could Afghanistanwitness such rapid poppy expansionif the nation was held under tightercontrol of coalition forces Te truthis that where security is weaker ter-rorists are stronger and where theterrorists are stronger the opiumindustry flourishes Te expansionof Afghanistanrsquos opium industry istestimony to the resurgence of thealiban and the diminishing impact

of the United Statesmdashin Afghanistanand the entire Mideast as a whole Allthe while a booming opium market ismaking the task of defeating the ali-ban increasingly unlikely Te rum-

pet has been warning of the inevitabledemise of the US in the region forover a decade If you are interestedin following these trends and gaininga deeper appreciation of just whereworld events are leading the rumpet has what you need

An Afghan security force member walks

through poppy fields in the Noor Gal districtof eastern Kunar province Afghanistan

8112019 Tw 20140118


JANUARY 17 20145 THE TRUMPET WEEKLY FRANCO ORIGLIAGETTY IMAGES

EUROPE

The Vatican in BritainGareth Fraser

| January 17

A economistEuropean expert and ministerial

adviser Rodney Atkinson shares his views on the influence of the worldrsquoslargest church on Britain

Over the years we have quoted andinterviewed Rodney Atkinson to ob-tain his astute insight on British andEuropean affairs

In July with contributions fromWilliam Dorich and Edward Spalton

Mr Atkinson released his latest book And Into the Fire Six months lateramidst an atmosphere of EU enlarge-ment growing euroskepticism in hisnative England and increasing popu-larity for Christianity we asked himto share his views on the power of theCatholic Church in Europe

n Te Trumpet In Chapter ofyour book you address incursions ofthe worldrsquos largest church on EuropeIn this light is it realistic that the

church can influence your Protestantisland nationn Atkins We should not imag-

ine that Britain the greatest bulwarkagainst Roman Catholicismrsquos religiouspolitical and constitutional ambi-tions in Europe and from which allother Protestants and free churcheson the Continent draw much inspira-tion is immune from such attackstoday On the contrary Te Vatican isactive through its many adherents in

the Scottish and Westminster Parlia-ments in the attempt to have the Act

of Settlement repealedmdashin the nameof ldquoequal opportunityrdquo of course TeChurch of England has within it thosewho seek to use ecumenical toleranceas a tool for Anglicans to rejoin theChurch of Romen Te Trumpet Is there evidence

of present-day influencen Atkins Te Vatican has

recently through one of its journalsin Britain Te Catholic Herald suc-ceeded in removing a selected Conser-

vative Party candidate Tat candidateAdrian Hilton had written a factualbook about the Vaticanrsquos role in creat-ing the European Union Hilton hadin fact the support of many leadingCatholics he had been elected by hisconstituency party and that associa-tion stood by him Conservative Cen-tral Office had already dismissed theidentical charges laid against AdrianHilton by Te Catholic Herald the pre-

vious year He was eventually removedby the Party at the center by sacking

the whole Constituency Associationwhich had democratically selectedhim Hilton was much later and undera new ory Party leader restored tothe candidates list

Te Catholic Herald had written inits attempt to remove Adrian Hiltonat Slough ldquoTe Catholic Herald doesnot normally tell its readers how to

vote We will certainly not endorsea political party in the election butwe have no hesitation in saying that

no Catholic should cast a bal lot forAdrian Hiltonrdquon Te Trumpet Was this more

about an individual beliefs or powerprojection

n Atkins Let us be in no doubtthat this open and blatant removal ofa democratically supported candidatefor a British election was done in thename not of religious belief but inthe name of a foreign power with aspecific constitutional agenda AdrianHilton was not removed becausehe told lies or insulted a religion orbecause he supported abortion orembryo research or homosexual mar-riage but because he told unmention-able political truths about an imperial

powerrdquon Te Trumpet What is the real

end game heren Atkins No nation on Earth

knows more about the politicalintrigues of the Vatican than do theBritish people Te United Kingdomwith its worldwide interests and influ-ence would be the greatest prize forthe Vatican Tat is why for over years hardly a single attempt to con-quer Britain was not supported and

blessed by the Church of Romemdashevenif that meant as it did during the Sec-ond World War substantial and opensupport for Nazism and Fascism

Mr Atkinsonrsquos book is available on-line via Amazon and the iBooks store

Bible prophecies reveal a future-nation European combine of whichBritain will not take part that willbe led by the Catholic Church Tereturning Jesus Christ will destroy forall time this seventh and final end-

time resurrection of the medieval HolyRoman Empire and usher in a utopianWorld omorrow governed in lovingpeace (Revelation chapters -)

Tis interview underscores thefruits of a six-year legal battle ledby our editor in chief to distributeHerbert W Armstrongrsquos warning mes-sage in his most requested book TeUnited States and Britain in Prophecy Join over million others and requestor download your free copy today

St Peterrsquos Square in Vatican City

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Sino-JapaneseTensions Set to RiseCOURCYrsquoS INTELLIGENCE

SERVICE | January 15

T China and Japanare likely to keep increasing for

the foreseeable future Te build-upof Japanrsquos military budget (along

with stated plans for the future) is ofcourse raising tensions in and of itselfbut a corollary of that increase inmilitary spending is a need for moremaneuvers hellip

okyo has approved three keydocuments Japanrsquos first-ever NationalSecurity Strategy the National DefenseProgram Outline and the Mid-termDefense Plan Te National Security

Strategy explains the context whilethe other two provide the practicalresponse China reacted with predict-able fury to the approval of the docu-ments by the Japanese government and(also predictably) publicly showed nounderstanding that Japanrsquos new strategymight be a reaction to its own actions hellip

okyo intends to invest in anti-missile destroyers submarines

ASIA

C the United States in to becomethe worldrsquos biggest trading nation ending Americarsquos

decades-long trade dominance according to data releasedby the two countries

Chinarsquos total exports and imports of goods for hit trillion Te US hasnrsquot yet released its final figuresfor the year but its trade of goods for the first months to-taled tril lion which puts it considerably behind Beijing

Since Chinarsquos exports and imports are growing consid-erably faster than those of the US the gap between thetwo nations is likely to become even wider this year

Tis is not Beijingrsquos first significanteconomic victory over other leadingeconomies Back in China over-took Germany to become the worldrsquoslargest exporter Ten in Beijingeclipsed Washington to become theworldrsquos thirstiest energy consumer amilestone that reflected both Chinarsquosextraordinary economic growth and its multiplying cloutas an industrial giant

Tese trends confirm a historic geo-economic shi Butthe US is not yet overthrown Te US economy is stil lalmost double the size of Chinarsquos with a gross domestic

product in of about trill ion compared to Chinarsquos trill ion for that year

Nevertheless Chinarsquos economic might is rapidly grow-ing Its mushrooming influence threatens to unsettleregional trading blocs as it becomes the most importantcommercial partner for nations not only in Asia andEurope but also in distant countries like Brazil where theUS has played second fiddle to Beijing since

Tis trend is yet another indication of the USrsquos declin-ing economic and geopolitical influence For most of thepast century America has been the worldrsquos single greatest

guarantor of global stability and themain player maintaining the system ofopen trade

But now in arena aer arena theUS is being overtaken and outper-formed by nations like China whichdo not prioritize maintaining globalstability or operating in ways that

benefits other nations the way Washington long did Forunderstanding about the rapid shi that is now underwayand what to expect in the wake of Americarsquos decline readour article ldquoWhat Happens Aer a Superpower Diesrdquo

Follow Jeremiah Jacques witter

China Leapfrogs the US in World Trade Jeremiah Jacques | January 17

TW I N B R I E F

n German arms dealers exploitGreeksRecent reports have alleged briberyand corruption by German armsdealers in sales to Greece A Greekgovernment official from the defensedepartment and others cite manu-

facturers provided million-dollarpayments in an effort to secure con-tacts According to German ForeignPolicy ldquoTese deals helped inflate the

countryrsquos debts and were thereforein part responsible for escalating thecrisis Others such as Siemens hadalso paid mil lions in bribes to landlucrative contracts from Athensrdquo Telucrative contracts helped plungeGreece into crisis while boostingGerman industry anks howitzers

submarine renovations and anti-aircra system updates top the listof alleged dirty dealings wo yearsago we warned ldquoEven as the Greek

economy continues its agonizing col-lapse with the nation struggling tosubmit to extreme austerity measuresbeing enforced by its masters inBerlin the nationrsquos unelected tech-nocratic government is overseeing agiant fiddle of the books involvingthe channeling of bailout money into

the coffers of Germanyrsquos armamentsindustryrdquo Read Germanyrsquos Conquestof the Balkans to see what is reallygoing on in Europe

ldquoBible prophecy confirms that the time

will soon be here when the US will be

removed from the picture and Asian

nations will rise up powerfullyrdquo

mdashTrumpet January 2014

8112019 Tw 20140118



amphibious vehicles surveillancedrones US fighter planes and ver-tical take-off Boeing Osprey aircra

hellip Particularly concerning to Chinaare Japanrsquos plans to deploy new long-range surveillance drones in tohelp monitor the Senkaku Islands(which China claims sovereignty overas the Diaoyu Islands) Additionallytwo or three drones will fly from aUS base in Japanese territory hellip

Given the long-term nature of thedefense strategies to which okyo isnow committed Sino-Japanese ten-sions cannot truly decrease unlessChina is able to learn to live with the

new reality rather than flexing ever-larger military muscles of its own

Japan Mulls AircraftCarrier FutureTHE DIPLOMAT | January 15

Jrsquo M Self-Defense Forcemay begin flying unmanned surveil-

lance drones from destroyers at sea as

a possible prelude to procuring aircracarriers local media [are] reporting

According to Te Japan imes ldquoTe

Maritime Self-Defense Force is consid-ering deploying fixed-wing unmannedreconnaissance aircra that can takeoff from and land on destroyersrdquo Ifthe plan is approved the s intendto research these operations exten-sively

ldquoDepending on its research Japanmight someday build an aircra car-rier equipped with fighter jetsrdquo Te

Japan imes report said citing numer-ous unnamed sources No detailswere provided about the affiliations of

the sources that might help evaluatethe credibility of their claims hellip TeDefense Ministry source did say thatunmanned drones would be deployedon the ships however because thesecan operate in ldquodangerous areas inemergenciesrdquo

Te move to operate aircra fromsurface ships is likely to spark concernand criticism from some states in theregion particularly China hellip

By starting with unarmed aircra

Japan could seek to gradually seek tomake the region comfortable with itoperating fixed wing aircra from

surface ships Moreover even if theDefense Ministry source is beingtruthful in saying that only dronesand not fighter jets will be flown fromJapanese ships unmanned aircrawill become increasingly capable ofbeing used in some of the same waysas bombers and jets in the years ahead

Still the decision to use surveil-lance drones is also consistent withJapanrsquos strategic interests In particu-lar as okyorsquos dispute with Beijingover the DiaoyuSenkaku Islands has

dragged on Japan has taken a numberof steps to increase its surveillancecapabilities over some of its outerlying islands Tis has most certainlyincluded fielding a capable droneforce As Te Diplomat has previouslyreported Japan intends to procureRQ- Global Hawk drones in the com-ing years to augment the ones the USalready maintains in Japan hellip

One issue Japan wil l encounterif it moves forward with the plan is

T C military executed a hypersonic missile testlast week and three members of Congress are already

saying the Chinese ldquoappear to be leaping ahead of usrdquo inregards to developing the technology

Itrsquos hard to tell if they are correct as few details have

been released on the test and how it compares to theadvances made by the US military which has executedmultiple hypersonic tests in the past few years

A hypersonic missile must travel between Mach andMach or ndash miles per hour in order to be con-sidered hypersonic

US China India and Russia have all researched hyper-sonic missiles in order to pierce missile defense systems notbuilt to intercept such fast moving missiles odayrsquos cruisemissiles travel about to miles per hour

Republican House Armed Services Committee membersRep Howard P ldquoBuckrdquo McKeon Rep Randy Forbes andRep Mike Rogers issued a joint statement uesday saying

they are concerned in light of hearing about the Chinese testabout Americarsquos ability to maintain its technological advan-tage with the level of budget cuts that Congress has approved

ldquoWhile round aer round of defense cuts have knockedAmericarsquos technological advantage on its back the Chi-nese and other competitor nations push towards militaryparity with the United States in some cases as in this one

they appear to be leaping ahead of usrdquo the lawmakers saidin the statement ldquoTis situation does nothing to supportpeaceful coexistence in the Pacific We have dithered forthree decades now delaying badly needed replacementequipment for our troops relying on hardware that was

built during the Reagan yearsrdquoItrsquos unclear how much the committee members know

about the test versus what information exists in the mediaas all three attended a closed committee hearing uesdayHowever for the Chinese to have leaped ahead of the USon hypersonic missile technology it means their missiletest must have been as successful as the one flown by theUS last May

During that test the hypersonic missile tested by theUS Air Force reached a maximum speed of Mach at feet aer the missile was released from a B-HStratofortress

Called the X- WaveRider built by Boeing Co the test

was declared by the Air Force as the ldquolongest air breathinghypersonic flight everrdquo Te test was the fourth and finalion of the nine-year million project

Te WaveRider program has run out of money and theAir Force is waiting to see when a follow-on hypersonic mis-sile program will be approved Officials have said they hopeto deploy unmanned hypersonic weapons as early as hellip

Congress Reacts to Chinese Hypersonic Missile TestDEFENSETECH | January 14

8112019 Tw 20140118



Related ldquoBeheading Mexicordquo

Mexican VigilantesClash With SoldiersBBC | January 15

V Mexico have clashedwith soldiers deployed in the west-

ern state of Michoacan to disarm thegroups who last week launched anoffensive against the Knights emplar

drug cartelMost groups have ignored a govern-ment order to lay down their weapons

In the town of Antunez they saysoldiers shot dead at least three peoplefrom the community including an-year-old girl

Vigilante groups have now takencontrol of large areas of Michoacanstate

Tere is a strong police and militarypresence in the town of Apatzingan

considered the stronghold of theKnights emplar cartel

Most businesses around the townare closed in a form of self-imposedcurfew says the rsquos Will Grant inMichoacan hellip

TW I N B R I E F

n Chaos in South SudanTe worldrsquos youngest nation is unravel-ing in bloody ethnic warfare Since the

violence began on December over people have been killed accord-ing to the United Nations Accordingto the Crisis International Group thatfigure is almost Over half amillion people have already fled thecountry in fear On January an over-loaded makeshi ferry with fleeing

South Sudanese refugees capsized onthe White Nile killing more than people South Sudan is predominantlyChristian It ceded from the Muslimnorth in aer years of religioustension Now the frac12-year-old nation isitself embroiled in an ethno-religiousconflict pitting the Catholic Dinkatribe against the Presbyterian Nuer eth-nic group UN humanitarian aid meant

for those suffering is also being stolenby both government and anti-govern-ment forces the most recent the oc-curred on January Nations are waryof whatrsquos happening in South SudanTe UN Security Council has approveddoubling the number of peacekeep-ers in the region Watch for Europe toincrease its presence in this regionmdashforsecurity and religious concerns Europeis prophesied to be militarily present inthe Middle East and North Africa

LATIN AMERICAAFRICA

ANGLO-AMERICA

Brutal Truth of UKrsquosMilitary DeclineTELEGRAPH | January 16

R Grsquo devastating critiqueof Britainrsquos military decline since

the governmentrsquos ill-considered Strategic Defense and Security Reviewis as long overdue as it is welcome

Te former US Defense Secre-tary who served under both the Bushand Obama administrations havingpreviously enjoyed a glittering career

at the says the ldquofairly substantialreductionsrdquo to the defense budgetundertaken by the coalition mean thatBritain can no longer [be] viewed as aldquofull partnerrdquo by the US

So far as our national security isconcerned this is simply devastating

that its current destroyers are notequipped with takeoff and landingequipment for aircra Itrsquos possiblethat one of the Izumo-class helicopterdestroyers Japan is currently build-ing and testing wil l be upgraded tohave this capability Japan unveiledthe first of these new large helicopter

destroyers last year which some inChina called an ldquoaircra carrier indisguiserdquo Some have speculated thatthe larger size of the Izumo-class

vessels was due to Japanrsquos desire tolaunch V Ospreys off the shipsHowever the larger size may alsoallow Japan to use them to launchdrones

TW I N B R I E F

n Beijing orders fishing boats outof most of South China SeaChinese leaders have ordered foreignboats to obtain approval from Beijingbefore fishing or surveying in twothirds of the South China Sea Teorders went into effect on January

and Beijing says ships that fail tocomply will be forced out of the areaface fines of up to and havetheir catches confiscated Boats couldalso be confiscated and crews couldbe prosecuted under Chinese law OnJanuary a Chinese maritime vesselstruck a Vietnamese fishing boat nearthe Paracel Islands in the first incident

under the order Vietnamese mediasaid Chinese authorities used batonsand asers to subjugate the fishermenand confiscated their fishing gear and-ton catch Te new order comesat a time when Beijing is graduallytightening controls in the region ldquoAsChinarsquos navy grows strongermdashand

the US Navy shrinksmdashWashingtonrsquosoptions will run out in a few yearsrdquoformer State Department official Johnkacik said ldquoI donrsquot know that anyonein Washington either at State or thePentagon is thinking this challengeout beyond a year It is Americarsquos mis-fortune that it no longer has any realmaritime strategistsrdquo

8112019 Tw 20140118



Close military cooperation betweenBritain and the worldrsquos only super-power if essential if we are to stand

any chance of defending ourselvesas well as protecting our interestsoverseas

Butmdashas I have argued consistentlysince the cuts were announcedmdashthe government has blithely pressedahead with cutting the s budgetwithout giving the slightest consider-ation to the damage it has inflicted toour defense capabilities and the disas-trous effect this would inevitably haveon our standing as a leading militarypower hellip

[A]s Mr Gates points out it issimply fanciful for our politicians toparrot their claims that the budgetcuts have not inflicted serious dam-age on our armed forces For examplethanks to we will spend at leasta decade without a proper aircracarrier strike capability the armywill soon be too small to mountlong-term military campaigns of thetype recently undertaken in Iraq andAfghanistan and our ability to protect

our shores from maritime threats hasbeen seriously diminished because ofcuts both to the size of the Royal Navy

and our airborne maritime patrols hellip

Record ChineseTreasury HoldingsBLOOMBERG | January 15

C rsquo of US reasuriesincreased billion to a record

trillion in November data re-leased on the reasury Departmentrsquoswebsite showed

Te figures scheduled for release at am tomorrow in Washington wereinadvertently posted on the reasuryrsquoswebsite Japanrsquos holdings rose billion to trillion the figuresshowed

Chinarsquos swelling foreign-exchangereserves reported today to havereached a world record trill ion atthe end of December may sustain thenationrsquos appetite for US debt Capitalinflows and intervention to limit gains

A Tribute toHerbert W Armstrong THE TRUMPET DAILY | January 16

STEPHEN FLURRY

Remembering the most pivotal religious

figure of the th century

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n ldquo Why So Much Hopelessness and Despair Among Young Peoplerdquo

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in the yuan have contributed to Chinabuilding up currency holdings that area third of the global total hellip

Te yuan this week reached per dollar the strongest since the gov-ernment unified the official and mar-ket exchange rates at the end of Te latest data on Chinarsquos foreign-

currency holdings contrasted with YiGang a deputy governor at the centralbank saying in November that it was

ldquono longer in Chinarsquos favor to accumu-late foreign-exchange reservesrdquo

Te US data showed net long-termportfolio investment outflow was billion in November aer a revised in-flow the month before of billionthe reasuryrsquos figures showed Tetotal cross-border outflow in Novem-ber including short-term securitiessuch as reasury bills and stock swaps

was billion aer a revised inflowof billion in October the datashowed hellip

When a Dollar Store IsToo ExpensiveMyBudget360 | January 15

Y things are tough whenpeople face a challenge purchasing

goods at dollar stores Te dollar storeeconomy has been robust for the lastdecade as the US economy has shedthe weight of millions of middle classfamilies As more people move downthe economic ladder these stores hit acritical niche I remember when dol-lar stores were simply a place to findexcess junk inventory Tat changedover the last few years Many of thesedollar stores like the Cents Store and Family Dollar now have a giantsection of food

o many families these are theirsupermarkets In fact a giant portionof revenues come from food items aspeople shi gears into lower priceditems and there are few items morenecessary than food No longer areoff the wall brands on the shelves butname brands trying to capture thefunds from the million Americanson food stamp debit cards

However there are signs that evendollar stores are having a tough time

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with some customers given the ex-tremely tight budgets they face

It was interesting to hear the of Family Dollar explain the dynam-ics of tougher times for the poorand weaker than expected earnings

ldquo(Reuters) For the last several quar-ters wersquove discussed the economic

challenges our customers are facingOver the last two years I think wersquoveseen hellip Higher-income householdswho have benefited from marketgains better employment opportuni-ties or improvements in the housingmarkets have become more comfort-able and confident in their financialsituation But our core lower-incomecustomers have faced high unem-ployment levels higher payroll taxesand more recently reductions in

government-assistance programs helliprdquoTe media is busy singing the

praises of a record in the stock marketand a boom in real estate but we stillhave a peak in food stamp usage hellip

Over million Americans areon food stamps Tat is an incrediblyhigh number Te number of food

stamp users has grown dramaticallyduring the nearly five years of recov-ery starting in hellip

In we had million peopleon food stamps oday it is up to million (an increase of million)Tis is a massive portion of our popu-lation that literally has no savingsand no assets to their name Wheredid these additional million peoplecome from Most have come from thedestruction of good paying middle

class jobs to a new economy based onlow wage hellip cronyism hellip

Remember how there was suppos-edly no inflation in the economy Lowcost fast food leader McDonaldrsquos isthinking about adding items to their dollar menu that cost more than dollar ldquo(USA oday ) Te McDonaldrsquos

Dollar Menu may be outgrowing itsnamemdashand its price point

ldquoTe fast-food giant strugglingto keep sales up in an ultracompeti-tive environment says it is testing aseriously different version of theDollar Menumdashdubbed Dollar Menuamp Moremdashthat sells an array of itemsat and even so-called share-able items such as -piece boxes ofMcNuggetsrdquo

All of this matters when wages

B writes former defense secretary RobertGates he had concluded that President Obama ldquodoesnrsquot

believe in his own [Afghanistan] strategy and doesnrsquot con-sider the war to be hisrdquo

Not his America is at war and hersquos Americarsquos com-

mander in chief For the soldier being shot at in the field itmakes no difference under whose administration the fight-ing began In fact three out of four Americans killed inAfghanistan have died under Barack Obamarsquos commandTatrsquos ownership enough

Moreover Gatesrsquos doubts about Obama had begun longbefore A year earlier trying to understand how two seniorofficials could be openly working against expressed policyGates concluded that ldquothe most likely explanation was thatthe president himself did not really believe the strategy hehad approved would workrdquo Tis just four months aerObama ordered his troop ldquosurgerdquo into Afghanistanwarning the nation that ldquoour security is at stake the se-

curity of our allies and the common security of the worldrdquoTe odd thing about Gatesrsquos insider revelation of

Obamarsquos lack of faith in his own policy is that we knew itall along Obama was emitting discordant notes from the

very beginning In the West Point ldquosurgerdquo speech itself the very sentence aer that announcement consisted of thefurther announcement that the additional troops would bewithdrawn in months

How can any commander be so precise so far in advanceabout an enterprise as inherently contingent and unpre-dictable It was a signal to friend and foe that he wasnrsquotserious And as if to amplify that signal Obama added

that ldquothe nation that Irsquom most interested in building is ourownrdquo thus immediately undermining the very importanceof the war to which he was committing new troops

Such stunning ambivalence I wrote at the time hadproduced the most uncertain trumpet ever sounded by apresident One could sense that Obamarsquos heart was neverin it

And now we know hellipHow can a commander in good conscience send troops

on a mission he doesnrsquot believe in a mission from which heknows some will never return Even worse Obama ordered

a major escalation expending much blood but not anounce of his own political capital Over the next four yearsnotes Gates with chagrin Obama ignored the obligationof any commander to explain support and try to rally thenation to the cause

And when he finally terminated the surge he did so inthe middle of the fighting season Militarily inco-herentmdashbut politically convenient It allowed Obama tocampaign for reelection proclaiming that ldquothe tide of war isrecedingrdquo

One question remains however If he wasnrsquot committedto the mission if he didnrsquot care about winning why didObama throw these soldiers into battle in the first place

Because for years the Democrats had used Afghani-stan as a talking point to rail against the Iraq Warmdashwhileavoiding the politically suicidal appearance of McGover-nite pacifism hellip

ranslation Tey were never really serious aboutAfghanistan (Nor apparently about Iraq either Gates re-counts with some shock that Hillary Clinton admitted sheopposed the Iraq surge for political reasons and Obamaconceded that much of the opposition had indeed beenpolitical) hellip

ldquoIf I had ever come to believe the military part of thestrategy would not lead to success as I defined itrdquo writes

Gates ldquoI could not have continued signing the deploymentordersrdquo Te commander in chief Gatesrsquos book makes clearhad no such scruples

How in Good ConscienceCharles Krauthammer WASHINGTON POST | January 16

8112019 Tw 20140118



have been stagnant for nearly a gen-eration hellip

Te media is largely silent on thisand since poor Americans have littlemoney to fund lobbying groups their

voices will continue to be mutedTe inequality in the US is now at

levels last seen during the Gilded AgeCongress is full of millionaires thatare so removed from the strugglesof working class Americans that theyhave completely forgot about a largeportion of our society When the dol-lar economy is in trouble you knowthings are tough for poorer Americans(and this is now a very large group)

Obama Irsquoll Act With or

Without Congress ASSOCIATED PRESS | January 15

P B Obama has toldSenate Democrats he plans to use

his executive authority to act in when Congress stands in his way

Obama met with senators from hisown party Wednesday at the WhiteHouse Te White House says Obamaand Democrats discussed proposals toraise the minimum wage and efforts

to pass a comprehensive immigrationoverhaul Education initiatives and

jobs measures were also on the agendaTe White House says Obama

wants to work with Congress to makeprogress but will also act on his ownto get things done

Te meeting was the first suchsession of and comes two weeksbefore Obama is set to deliver his Stateof the Union address hellip

TW I N B R I E F

n Britain calls for European reformBritainrsquos Chancellor of the ExchequerGeorge Osborn called for Europe toundertake major reforms January Mr Osborne wants Britain to stay inthe EU and the overall tone and con-

tent of his speech was overwhelmingpro-EU but he did warn ldquoIf we can-not protect the collective interests ofnon-eurozone member states then theywill have to choose between joiningthe euro which the UK will not do orleaving the EUrdquo Tis is the statementbeing reported on and quoted the mostHis call for reform shows that Britainis becoming increasingly discontentedwith the EU It is been seen more andmore as an outdated institution that is

What is the True GospelTHE KEY OF DAVID | January 17

Therersquos a lot of confusion in this world especially among religionsMany people have lost the true gospel and the gospel iseverything Thatrsquos what the entire message of the Bible is aboutGERALD FLURRY

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an obstacle to growth Watch for Brit-ain to continue to move to the marginsof the EU It will not be part of thesuperstate that will soon be formed Formore information on this read ldquoBritainWas Warnedrdquo from our free bookletldquoHe Was Rightrdquo

O T H E R N EW S

English as the officiallanguage of Europe

T E Union commission-ers have announced that agreement

has been reached to adopt English asthe preferred language for Europeancommunications rather than Germanwhich was the other possibility

As part of the negotiations the Brit-

ish government conceded that Englishspelling had some room for improve-ment and has accepted a five-yearphased plan for what will be known asEuroEnglish (Euro for short)

In the first year ldquosrdquo will be usedinstead of the so ldquocrdquo Sertainly sivilservants will reseive this news with

joy Also the hard ldquocrdquo will be replacedwith ldquokrdquo Not only will this klear upkonfusion but typewriters kan haveone less letter

Tere will be growing public en-thusiasm in the sekond year when thetroublesome ldquophrdquo will be replased by

ldquofrdquo Tis will make words like ldquofoto-grafrdquo persent shorter

In the third year publik akseptanseof the new spelling kan be expektedto reach the stage where more kom-plikated changes are possible Govern-ments will enkorage the removal ofdouble letters which have always bena deterent to akurate speling Also alwil agre that the horible mes of silent

ldquoerdquos in the language is disgrasful andthey would go

By the fourth year peopl wil bereseptiv to steps such as replasing ldquothrdquoby ldquozrdquo and ldquowrdquo by ldquovrdquo During ze fifzyear ze unesesary ldquordquo kan be dropdfrom vords kontaining ldquoourdquo andsimilar changes vud of kors be aplidto ozer kombinations of leters

Und eer ze fifz yer ve vil al bespeking German lik zey vunted in zeforst plas hellip

8112019 Tw 20140118


JANUARY 17 201412THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

France is surrendering leadership of the EU to GermanyGermany has been leading the EU for some timemdashoen

under the guise of a Franco-German agreement FormerFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed with GermanChancellor Angela Merkel so much that the two becameknown as ldquoMerkozyrdquo

But when Mr Hollande was elected he threatened

warmdashalbeit the more peaceful kind fought across theconference rooms of Europe instead of its battlefields Fora while it looked like he would lead Southern Europe in anuprising against Germanyrsquos dominance Could the com-bined might of France Italy and Spain force Germany toback down

Wersquore not going to find out While Mr Hollande brokeaway from Sarkozyrsquos close relationship with Merkel henever really fought Germany in earnest Te SouthernEuropean confederation didnrsquot materialize And at a pressconference on uesday Hollande officially gave up thefight promising to return France to Germanyrsquos side

Te bulk of the press conference was devoted to the

economymdashwhere Germany has exerted the most leader-ship in Europe Hollande used to be Europersquos anti-austeritychampion but now he has returned to the German way ofdoing thingsmdashpromising to cut taxes and spending

Terersquos a valid debate on whether this will work Teseare the measures that France needs but whether they areenough and whether Mr Hollande will follow throughwith them remains to be seen Tere is also an argumentthat now is not the time for these reformsmdashthey will causeshort-term pain before the long-term benefits kick in WithFrance already battling high unemployment strugglingwith social unrest and facing a large number of disgruntled

immigrants painful reforms could lead to massive street violenceBut the most important part of this announcement

means that Hollande will no longer be championing an al-ternative way of doing things in Europe Just a few monthsago Germany was telling Europe to cut spending whileHollande said No you donrsquot have to Now even he hastaken the German medicine Even if he fails to implementthe reforms hersquos still given up his opposition to Germany

Ten Hollande devoted the rest of his speech to callingfor a new even closer partnership with Germany He saidthat the two nations would harmonize tax rules He saidthey would work together on energy and electricitymdashcre-

ating a massive energy company along the same lines asAirbus But most importantly he said they would cooper-ate on defense

In October Hollande dissolved Francersquos last French-only regiment based in Germanymdashpart of the symbolicFranco-German Brigade It was a cost-saving exercise butit also sent a message Military cooperation with Germanyis a waste of t ime and money So far the Franco-Germanbrigade has accomplished almost nothing Some wondered

if Hollande would soon break up the whole thingOn uesday he made a complete U-turn Tis time he

praised the brigade but said that it wasnrsquot enough ldquoWemust do more than a brigaderdquo he said ldquoWe must showa common responsibility for peace and security in theworldrdquo Hollandersquos gone from wanting less military coop-eration with Germany to wanting more

French and German ministers will meet to discuss all

these issues in FebruaryMr Hollande sees cooperation between Germany and

France in these areas as a template for all of Europe Hewants decisions for Europe to once again be hashed outbetween France and Germany first Wersquore returning to thedays of Franco-German-led Europe

At one time this was an equal partnershipmdashperhapswith France even holding the upper hand But not any-more Francersquos economy is weak Mr Hollande personallyis in a position of weaknessmdashhis approval ratings keepsinking lower and lower although they have slightly im-proved aer revelations of his affair

Te whole world is now talking about Francersquos problems

Newsweek published an article a couple of weeks ago titledldquoTe Fall of Francerdquo Te French were outraged Ten Brit-ainrsquos City AM published an article called ldquoFrancersquos failedsocialist experiment is turning into a tragedyrdquo Tis timeFrancersquos embassy in London escalated it into a diplomaticincident bashing Britain in a response on its website

While some of the criticism may be exaggeratedFrancersquos economy is certainly suffering Governmentspending accounts for percent of the nationrsquos economymdashthe second highest level in Europe Regulation is stiflinggrowth London is now the sixth largest French city in theworld as highly paid French workers escape Francersquos mas-

sive tax burdenEven those most optimistic about Francersquos economywould have to agree that the nation cannot stand on equalfooting with Germany France has gone from being a mildopponent of Germany to its junior partner

Of course France may get some concessions Te focuson defense cooperation suggests that Germany may haveagreed to allow the EU to pay for part of Francersquos militarymission in the Central African Republic And France willcontinue to get concessions

But Germany is in the driving seat and France isnrsquot go-ing to argue about it anymore As the elegraphrsquo s AmbroseEvans-Pritchard put it ldquoMr Hollande has thrown in his lot

with Berlin irreversiblyrdquoGermany is far from all-powerful in Europe But with-

out any major opposition watch for this power to grow asthe euro is hit by more and more economic crises As therumpet has warned for years it is Germany along withthe Catholic Church that will lead Europe For more infor-mation on this read our article ldquoGermany Is ConqueringEuroperdquo

Follow Richard Palmer witter

LEADERSHIP from page 1

COVER ALAIN JOCARDAFPGETTY IMAGES

8112019 Tw 20140118



MIDDLE EAST

issuesrdquo he told el Aviv Universityrsquos In-stitute for National Security Studies hellip

Gun Business Thrivingin JordanMIDDLE EAST ONLINE | January 15

F in Jordan havesoared tenfold since the war in

neighboring Syria erupted in butmore people than ever are buyingguns for protection against a possiblespillover of the violence

Te number of licensed weaponsstands at but there are morethan million unlicensed guns in thekingdom of million people accord-ing to interior ministry estimates

According to a study by the Jor-

danian Society for Political Sciences percent of Jordanians own gunslegally and illegally

ldquoTe conflict in Syria makes peoplefeel unsafe Tey do not know whatis coming in the futurerdquo Seri Nassersocial sciences professor at the Univer-sity of Jordan said

ldquoJordanians buy guns to protectthemselves because they think thatsecurity services are incapable ofmeeting their expectationsrdquo hellip

Iran HonorsHezbollah Chief


T U States on uesday con-demned a decision by Iranrsquos foreign

minister to place a wreath at the grave

of a former Lebanese Hezbollah leaderaccused of perpetrating attacks thatkilled hundreds of people

Iranian Foreign Minister Moham-mad Javad Zarif was photographed onMonday laying a wreath at the graveof assassinated Hezbollah militarycommander Imad Moughniyeh in thesouthern suburbs of Beirut

Mugniyah has been implicated interrorist attacks that have killed hun-dreds of people including the bomb-ing of the US Embassy in Beirut

which killed over people in and the bombing of the Israeli Em-bassy in Buenos Aires in hellip

NATO Shield NotDesigned for Israel


T accepted assurancesa planned missile defense

system in which it is playing a part isnot designed to protect Israel as wellthe alliancersquos deputy secretary-generalsaid on Wednesday

Alexander Vershbow said objec-tions by Prime Minister ayyipErdoğanrsquos government had resulted inpart from confusion about a urkish-

hosted radar Ankara had beenfurther assuaged by alliance Patriotanti-missile batteries assigned to pro-tect its territory from Syria

A leaked US diplomatic cable from described the Islamist-rootedErdoğan under whom urkeyrsquos once-solid ties with the Jewish state havedeteriorated as worrying that the shield might provide cover fora threatened Israeli attack on Iranrsquosnuclear sites

Addressing an Israeli security fo-

rum Vershbow said there had been ldquoalot of confusionrdquo in urkey includingover the similarity between its radar and a US radar posted in Israelto help it spot any ballistic missilelaunches by Iran

ldquoI think that there was mispercep-tion that somehow the systemwould be focused on the protectionof Israel and that Israeli-based assetswould be part of the systemwhereas in fact these are two separate

T H government in Gaza celebrated the gradua-

tion on Monday of paramilitary camps geared at train-ing high-school children ldquoto follow in the footsteps of thesuicide martyrsrdquo

Te camps titled ldquothe pioneers of liberationrdquo are run byHamasrsquos ministries of education and interior Some students in grades - participated in the one-week train-ing camps this year compared to last year when theprogram was launched Israeli sources with knowledge ofthe program said

Te corps of instructors consists mainly of activemembers of Hamasrsquos security forces and the curriculumincludes weapons training first aid self-defense marchingexercises and ldquosecurity awarenessrdquo classes on identifying

Israeli spiesHamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh Interior Minister

Fathi Hammad and Education Minister Usama Mzeini at-

tended the graduation ceremony on Monday each deliveringfiery speeches stressing the importance of military trainingin developing a new generation of Palestinian combatants

ldquoBeware this generationrdquo Haniyeh said addressing IsraelldquoTis is a generation which knows no fear It is the genera-tion of the missile the tunnel and the suicide operationsrdquo

Te Hamas prime minister added that female train-ers are also on staff ldquoto oversee the training of the youngwomen to follow in the footsteps of the female suicideoperativesrdquo

Hammad the interior minister said the training was inpreparation for the coming war with Israel

ldquoTis generation is a sapling from God on Earth It will

harvest the enemies of God and be the pride of all nationsrdquohe said hellip

13000 Teens Complete Hamas Suicide Training CampsThe Times of Israel | January 15

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