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THE TRUMPET WEEKLY THE TRUMPET WEEKLY N O V E M B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 4

Iran: U.S. must bow to our nuclear rights 2

Israel-Jordan peace on the brink? 3

France to vote on recognizing Palestine 4

Britain’s EU departure imminent? 5

Waiters, bartenders outnumber manufacturers 11

BY DARYLE HOCHSTETLER

I Yehuda Glick wants Jews to be allowedto pray on what is re erred to as the emple Mount in Je-rusalem. For that provocation, a man driving a motorcyclepulled up beside him, asked him his name, and then shot himin the chest our times. Both the terrorist groups Fatah andIslamic Jihad claimed responsibility or the attempted murder.

Even suggesting a change in the status quo o the empleMount area is an extremely dangerous proposition. Mus-lims, who have controlled the site that houses the a l-AqsaMosque since , allow Jews to visit but not pray there.

On October , Glick had just exited a con erence about

greater Israeli rights on the emple Mount when he wasattacked. He remains in a medically induced coma.Te next day, afer a sharp gun battle, Israeli police shot

and killed the suspected shooter, Moataz Hejazi.Following the shooting, and due to subsequent riots,

Israeli police shut down the emple Mount or the rsttime since . Te closure enraged Palestinian leaders. Aspokesman or Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, NabilAbu Rudeina, said, “Tis dangerous Israeli escalation is a dec-laration of war on the Palestinian people and its sacred placesand on the Arab and Islamic nation” (emphasis added).

On the other side o the ence, Likud lawmaker MosheFeiglin, an Orthodox Jew said, “All the nations have theirholiest site, some in Mecca, some in Rome, some in the Far

East. We the Jewish people have one place; it’s this place. Itcannot and it will not be taken away rom us.” AlthoughIsraeli Prime Minister

A Third Intifada in Jerusalem—Happening Now?

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The al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusale

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concessions being made by ehranin talks, according to regional mediareports.

Despite Western media reports andindications rom the Obama admin-

istration that Iran may be moderatingits hardline position, there has been“no change in Iran’s rigid stance on itsinalienable nuclear rights,” accordingto comments made uesday by IranianForeign Minister Javad Zari and re-ported in Iran’s state-controlled-media.

“Some [Western] countries haveallen prey to miscalculations [about

Iran’s position] due to wrong analy-ses,” Zari was quoted as saying on theheels o another round o talks withthe United States and other Western

countries ahead o the November deadline. …Zari ’s comments highlight the

gaps that remain between ehran andthe West as negotiations approachtheir deadline. As Iran digs in over theright to enrich uranium, the key uelin a nuclear bomb, the Obama admin-istration has indicated that it may bewilling to accede to this demand. …

With less than two weeks be oretalks are scheduled to end, new

Why U.S. Had to SendMore Troops to IraqINDEPENDENT| November 9

T I State has a grisly ritualwhereby its victims are compelled tochant “[the Islamic State] remains” inthe moments be ore they are executed.Un ortunately, the slogan remains alltoo true: Five months afer it de eatedthe Iraqi Army and captured much onorthern and western Iraq, it is stilltightening its grip and nobody hasdevised a easible policy to de eat it.

Te United States announced onFriday that it is to send another ,soldiers to Iraq to advise and train its

army, doubling the number it alreadyhas in the country. … Te supposedreason or sending them, accordingto the Pentagon press secretary, RearAdm. John Kirby, is because “theIraqis have demonstrated the will-ingness and the will to go afer [theIslamic State].”

A more likely motive or send-ing U.S. rein orcements at this timeis that, over the past six weeks, themilitary situation in Iraq has either

not changed or, in parts o the coun-try, has deteriorated signicantly.On October , [the Islamic State]launched an offensive in Anbar, a vastprovince west o Baghdad that makes

up a quarter o Iraq. It captured mosto the towns, villages and bases it didnot already hold, winning a victoryin the battle or Anbar that has beengoing on since the start o the yearand opening the way or an attack onBaghdad. Contrary to what the Penta-gon is saying, the Iraqi Army showedthat it remains unable to stop [theIslamic State] and launch an effectivecounteroffensive. …

U.S. Must Bow toIran’s Nuclear Rights WASHINGTON FREE BEACON|November 12

I ’ minister and leadnegotiator in nuclear talks said thisweek that the United States must bowto Iran’s “inalienable nuclear rights”and hinted that Western countriesare being ooled about the extent o

A thousands o militia ghters who ocked to

northern Iraq to battle militant group Islamic State overthe summer was Qais al-Khazali. …

Khazali is the head o a militia called Asaib Ahl al-Haqthat is backed by Iran. Tanks to his position, he is one othe most eared and respected militia leaders in Iraq, andone o Iran’s most important representatives in the country.

His militia is one o three small Iraqi Shiite armies, allbacked by Iran, which together have become the most pow-er ul military orce in Iraq since the collapse o the nationalarmy in June. …

Te militias, and the men who run them, are key toIran’s power and inuence inside neighboring Iraq. …

ehran’s high prole contrasts sharply with Washing-ton’s. Both Iran and the United States are preparing or along battle against [the Islamic State]. But Iraqi officials saythe two take very different views o Iraq.

“Te American approach is to leave Iraq to the Iraqis,”said Sami al-Askari, a ormer member o Iraq’s parliament

and one-time senior adviser to ormer Prime MinisterNouri al-Maliki. “Te Iranians don’t say leave Iraq to theIraqis. Tey say leave Iraq to us.” …

Te danger, Iraqi officials say, is that Iran’s deep inu-ence will perpetuate sectarian conict in Iraq. …

Coordinating [Iran’s three big Iraqi militias] is QudsForce commander Qassem Suleimani …. “Suleimani is anoperational leader. He’s not a man working in an office. Hegoes to the ront to inspect the troops and see the ghting,”said one current senior Iraqi official. “His chain o com-mand is only the supreme leader. He needs money, getsmoney. Needs munitions, gets munitions. Needs material,gets material.”

Te way Iran and Suleimani work is “completely the op-posite o Saudi intelligence that just gives money but is noton the ground,” said the current senior Iraqi official. “Sulei-mani sees a target, and he has the powers to go afer it.” …

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evidence indicates that Iran’s nuclearprogram is more advanced than previ-ously known—and that ehran ismaking a concerted effort to keep this

act a secret.“We don’t know where they [Iran]

are today, and that’s why it’s impor-tant the [International Atomic Energy

Agency] veries rom the very begin-ning the actual inventory o the centri-

uges and the consumption o the mate-rial,” Olli Heinonen, a ormer deputy

O marked years sincethe signing o a peace treaty be-tween Israel and Jordan in . SinceJordan makes up nearly the whole oIsrael’s eastern border, its peace withIsrael—only the second Arab state a -ter Egypt to hold such an agreement—has contributed greatly to Israel’ssecurity these past two decades.

Suddenly, however, that treaty appears to be underthreat.

In recent months, Jerusalem has steadily become en-gul ed in the worst violence it has seen in a decade—whatsome have termed a “ third inti ada.” Israeli Jews havebeen targeted in thousands o random, violent incidentsusing thrown rocks, Molotov cocktails, reworks used asweapons, stabbings, shootings, and even vehicles driven atramming speed into groups o pedestrians.

On October , a Palestinian gunman shot YehudaGlick, an Israeli activist campaigning or Jews’ rights topray at al-Aqsa Mosque. Te next day, Israeli police killedthe suspected shooter, thenshut down the emple Mount.Tey entered al-Aqsa Mosquein order to track down riot-ers. Inside they ound a cacheo stones, bottles and Molotovcocktails—proo o this “placeo worship” being an incubator

or aith-based violence.Justied as this intru-

sion proved to be, however,it enraged Palestinian lead-ers. A spokesman or Pales-tinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called the police doingtheir job nothing less than “a declaration of war on thePalestinian people and its sacred places and on the Araband Islamic nation.” Several other Muslim leaders pickedup the banner o grievance against Israel de ending itsel .

urkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, or example,called the Israeli presence on the emple Mount “crueltyto the core.”

Jordan was among those nations expressing outrage.Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh insisted, “Tese

violations are in uriating the emotions and the sensitivityo . billion Muslims around the world.” Jordan recalledits ambassador rom Israel. A ew days later, King Abdullahcanceled his nation’s participation in a ceremony markingthe th anniversary o the Jordan-Israel peace treaty.

Te emple Mount compound is administered by a

Jordanian organization called the Waq . Jordan’s guardian-ship o this holy site has been in place or decades and iscodied in the treaty.

Afer Israeli police clashes with Palestinians on the em-ple Mount on November , Jordan told the United NationsSecurity Council that it was ready to take measures to stopIsrael’s actions. Jordanian Ambassador Dina Kawar wrote,“Jordan considers such serious and outrageous actions byIsrael an unprecedented escalation.”

Jordan warns that it intends to reevaluate its diplomaticties with Israel, including its peace accord. Some officialsare calling or the treaty to be revoked.

Anxious Israeli leaders have responded by backing awayrom the emple Mount and reassuring Amman that its

role there will not change.Te last thing Israel needs is the loss o another valuable

alliance. Already what ew alliances Israel has had help-ing to guarantee its security are racturing. urkey, once astable riend, is trans orming into a quite radical Islamicstate. Political instability and radicalism in Egypt put thatnation’s -year peace accord with Israel in doubt. And

relations with Washington,bad throughout the Obamaadministration’s six years, haverecently gotten even worse.

It could be that the highestleaders in Amman value theirrelationship with Israel. Teyhave a strong interest in Israelkeeping the Palestinians undercontrol and suppressing Arab

unrest that could easily spillover into Jordan. However, thenation has a large Palestinian

minority and a popular majority that has no such affectionor the Jews. I nothing else, King Abdullah and other Jor-

danian officials speaking out so strongly demonstrates theirneed to placate the anti-Israel hostility among their people.

Biblical prophecy suggests that, eventually, it is the an-tipathy or Israel that will win out within this Arab nation(read our article “A Mysterious Alliance”).

Israel’s growing isolation is even more troubling inconjunction with the renewed inti ada in Jerusalem.Meanwhile, the Jews’ greatest nightmare—a nuclear-armed

Iran—has never been closer to becoming reality.Israel’s position is growing more desperate. And whathappens next in this volatile region has implications arbeyond this t iny nation. o discover what the Bible proph-esies will occur, read Jerusalem in Prophecy .

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director general o the , said in arecent con erence call with reporters.

Iran, Heinonen revealed, potential-ly has in its possession at least ,advanced nuclear centri uges that ithas been hiding rom the West.

Tis technology allows Iran toenrich uranium about ve times asterthan older model centri uges and po-tentially means that ehran’s programis vastly more advanced than Westernofficials thought. …

Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Over Gaza

REUTERS | November 12

I on Wednesday it wouldnot cooperate with a United NationsHuman Rights Council investigationinto this year’s Gaza War because itsndings were “predetermined.”

Te UN panel, due to make its rstreport by March, is meant to look intothe conduct o both Israel and Hamas,the Islamist movement that controlsGaza, during the -day conict.

But Israel’s government has alreadydismissed the investigation as “kan-garoo court,” accusing its chairman,

Canadian academic William Schabas,o anti-Israeli bias.

“In view o the act that the Schabascommittee is not a act-nding panelbut an investigation whose results arepredetermined … Israel will not co-operate with the committee,” Israel’sForeign Ministry said in a statementon Wednesday.

It added that the decision was alsotaken in view o what it called theGeneva-based council’s “obsessivehostility to Israel.” …

France to Vote on

Recognizing Palestine AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE| November 12

F will vote onNovember on a proposal by theSocialist Party urging the governmentto recognize Palestine as a state, a par-liamentary source said Wednesday.

Te non-binding but highly sym-bolic vote would ollow a similar votein the British Parliament and afer

Sweden announced it ormally recog-nized the state o Palestine. …

France will “obviously at a certainmoment recognize the Palestinianstate,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fa-bius told on Saturday.

“Te question is when and how? Be-cause this recognition must be use ul

or efforts to break the deadlock andcontribute to a nal resolution o theconict,” added Fabius.

British lawmakers voted over-whelmingly on October in avor o anon-binding motion to “recognize thestate o Palestine alongside the state oIsrael as a contribution to securing anegotiated two-state solution.”

Sweden announced on October it officially recognized the state oPalestine, a move criticized by Israeland the United States.

Te Palestinian Authority estimatesthat countries have now recog-nized Palestine as a state, althoughthe number is disputed and severalrecognitions by what are now Euro-pean Union member states date backto the Soviet era.

Saturday, Europe’s oreign policychie Federica Mogherini called or aPalestinian state sharing Jerusalem asits capital with Israel.

24 Percent of Catalans Want to Leave SpainTHE SPAIN REPORT | November 10

Y , the end, despite twoyears o outright re usals romMadrid, the airing o [ ormer leader

o Spain’s Catalonia region, Jordi]Pujol’s raudulent dirty laundry, andweeks o threats o some kind ocriminal prosecution or contempto court, misconduct in public o -ce, sedition or even rebellion, anddespite two specic ConstitutionalCourt bans sought by [Spanish PrimeMinister Mariano] Rajoy’s govern-ment to that end, some Catalans did“vote,” and the Spanish state decidednot to intervene or make any attempt

to stop it. …It was not a ormal vote. It was not

a binding vote. Tere was no elector-al roll. And the result will certainlynot be recognized by the Spanishstate. But more than million Span-ish citizens in Catalonia lef theirhouses to queue in ront o polling

stations, many set up in state schools,to put a piece o paper in a cardboardbox and express a pre erence on thesecession, or not, o Catalonia romSpain. …

Te results, as expected given thelack o legal guarantees and Con-stitutional Court prohibitions, wereoverwhelmingly ( percent o par-ticipants) in avor o the “Yes-Yes”independence option. In a Span-ish region inhabited by . million

people, with an electoral roll at the lastregional elections o . million, just

. million participated in yesterday’sexercise, and just . million—approx-imately percent o all Catalans or percent o those entitled to vote in theregion—voted in avor o secession, oleaving Spain and setting up a differ-

ent country. …

Four More Arrested for TerrorismCNN | November 8

B overnightarrested our men or suspectedterrorism, police said on Friday,adding to the scores that have been

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rounded up in recent months as parto efforts to prevent homegrown at-tacks.

Te men, ages to , wererounded in our different southernEngland locales between : p.m.Tursday and : a.m. Friday, ac-cording to London’s MetropolitanPolice.

Armed police—who are rarely de-ployed in the United Kingdom—tookpart in three o the arrests, thoughno shots were red, the Metropolitan

Police said.Te orce’s errorism Command,working with the regional South EastCounter errorism Unit and Britain’sintelligence agency MI , made the ar-rests as “part o an ongoing investiga-tion into Islamist-related terrorism.”

Te our are hardly the rst to betaken into custody or suspicions tiedto Britain’s errorism Act .

Assistant Commissioner Mark Row-ley said last month that counter-terror-ism officers were “running exception-

ally high numbers o counter-terrorisminvestigations, the likes o which wehave not seen or several years.”

In the year up to October , therehad been terror-related arrests, hesaid, adding that officers are disrupt-ing “several attack plots a year.”

Te UK government raised its ter-ror threat level rom “substantial” to

“severe” -- the ourth-highest o velevels—in late August in response to[the Islamic State] militants’ surge

in Iraq and Syria and their threatsagainst the West. At the time, HomeSecretary Teresa May said “thatmeans that a terrorist attack is highlylikely, but there is no intelligence tosuggest that an attack is imminent.” …

Ukraine Peace PlanCrumblesFRANCE 24 | November 11

T in Ukraine hung bya thread Wednesday afer PresidentPetro Poroshenko accused pro-Russianrebels o endangering the peace pro-cess and ordered troop rein orcementsto eastern cities.

In another sign o how ar apart thetwo sides are drifing, Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk announced he wascutting the rebel-held Donetsk andLugansk regions off rom central gov-ernment subsidies, so as not to nance

“terrorists.”

Artillery explosions could be heardearly Wednesday around the airportin Donetsk, where Ukrainian sol-diers have been holding out or weeksagainst surrounding separatist orces.Following salvos o Grad multiplerockets and cannon re, black smokerose rom the nearby government-held

village o Peski. …Ceasere observers representing

government orces, rebels, Russiaand the European security body [Te

Organization or Security and Coop-eration in Europe] met in Donetsk,but there was little immediate detailavailable about the results o thetalks. …

Ukrainian authorities say they arepreparing or the worst, ollowingrebel threats to expand their terri-tory.

Poroshenko said late uesday hehad ordered troop rein orcements tocities across the east to guard against a

“possible offensive ….” …

Russia said it “respected” therebel elections, but Kiev, the EuropeanUnion and United States all said thatthe polls had badly damaged the peaceprocess, which was based on givingrebel areas autonomy, not indepen-dence. …

Ukraine’s small army has beenbadly mauled during the more thanhal -year o battles.

chie Jens Stoltenberg saidon uesday in Brussels that Russiacontinues to arm, train and support

the rebels, with special orces insideUkraine and more troops detectedmoving troops along the border.

Analysts say the Ukrainian gov-ernment’s biggest ear is the threato an offensive by Russian-backedseparatists to capture Mariupol andthen push along the coast to estab-lish a land corridor linking Russia toCrimea—another Ukrainian region,which was invaded and annexed byRussia in March.

B not prepared to remain in Europe “come whatmay,” and Brussels needs to address people’s concernsabout immigration, [British Prime Minister] David Cam-eron has said.

Te prime minister said that “proper” controls on immi-gration are needed including re orms to movement withinthe European Union.

He said that Britain will not be “ordered around” by otherEuropean Union countries in the single currency union.

He told the Con ederation o British Industry: “Britainwill only succeed in Europe i we are a strong economy.

“From your economic strength comes a lot o your powerin international engagement.

“You never get anywhere in li e unless you have a clearstrategy and plan.

“Frankly, Britain’s uture in Europe matters to our coun-try, and it isn’t working or us at the moment, and that’swhy we need to make changes.

“[We want to] belong to a Europe that addresses people’sconcerns, including concerns about immigration.

“Simply standing here saying I will stay in Europe andstick with Europe come what may is not a strategy, is not aplan, and that won’t work.”

On immigration, he added: “We need to have properimmigration control. We need to do more, both outside theEuropean Union and, rankly, inside the European Union.

“But the ipside o the coin on immigration is a wel aresystem that rewards work and an education system thatturns out people with the skills necessary to do the jobsthat we are creating in our country today. …”

Britain Will Not Remain in Europe ‘Come What May’ TELEGRAPH| November 10

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ASIA

Russian WarshipsNear AustraliaSYDNEY MORNING HERALD|November 13

R sent a eet o warshipstowards Australia in an apparentdisplay o muscle-exing ahead o theG- meeting amid tensions betweenthe two countries over the MHcrash.

De ense announced late onWednesday it is “monitoring Russiannaval vessels that are currently transit-ing through international waters tothe north o Australia.” It stressed:“Te movement o these vessels is en-tirely consistent with provisions underinternational law or military vesselsto exercise reedom o navigation in

international waters.” …De ense sources said the AustralianDe ense Force had sent two rigates,the Stuart and the Paramatta, and aP- Orion surveillance plane to moni-tor the Russians.

It comes as [Australian] PrimeMinister ony Abbott had a sharpmeeting with Russian President Vladi-mir Putin in Beijing on the sidelineso the Asia-Pacic Economic Coop-eration summit, during which they

discussed the MH crash.Asked i it was a show o orce, Air

Marshall Binskin said: “You’d have toask the Russians.”

Russia’s news agency reportedlate last month that the battle group,led by a Slava-class cruiser that iscapable o carrying nuclear-tipped

cruise missiles, lef rom Vladivostokon October .Te eet is made up o the “Varyag”

cruiser, a destroyer named “MarshalShaposhnikov,” a salvage and rescuetug, and a replenishment oiler. …

China Tests Stealth JetDuring Obama Visit

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON|November 11

C ’ upstaged theAsian economic summit in Beijingthis week by conducting ights testso a new stealth jet prototype, as theWhite House called on Beijing to haltits cyberattacks.

Demonstration ights by the newJ- ghter jet—China’s second newradar-evading warplane—were a key

eature at a major arms show in Zhu-hai, located near Macau, on Monday.

Te J- ights coincided with[United States President Barack]Obama’s visit to Beijing or the Asia-Pacic Economic Cooperation sum-mit meeting. In a speech and meetingswith Chinese leaders, Obama calledon China to curtail cyber thef otrade secrets.

China obtained secrets rom theF- Joint Strike Fighter through cyberattacks against a subcontractor orLockheed Martin. Te technology hasshown up in China’s rst stealth jet,the J- , and in the J- . Both o the jets’ design eatures and equipmentare similar to those o the F- .

Te Chinese warplanes are part oa major buildup o air power by Chinathat includes the two new stealthghters, development o a new strate-gic bomber, purchase o Russian Su-

jets, and development o advanced airde ense missile systems. China alsois building up its conventional andnuclear missile orces.

Meanwhile, White House DeputyNational Security Adviser Ben Rhodestold reporters in Beijing uesday thatthe president would press China’sleader Xi Jinping to curb Chinesecyberespionage.

“Cybersecurity, o course, will bean important ocus or the president,

R China just agreed to a second major gas deal,

worth slightly less than the billion agreementreached earlier this year, according to Bloomberg.

Te details o the deal mean Russia will supply Chinawith another billion cubic meters o gas every year or thenext three decades through the Altai pipeline, a proposedpipe transporting the gas rom western Siberia to China.

Earlier in the all, Keun-Wook Paik at the Ox ord In-stitute or Energy Studies said this kind o deal would be“Putin’s revenge,” according to the Financial Times.

Many analysts see the move as evidence that Moscow ispivoting away rom reliance on European customers andtoward East Asia, where relatively rapid economic growthshould prop up demand.

It’s also a political move, as relations with the rest o Eu-rope have become increasingly cold afer Russia’s invasion

o Ukraine, and the tit- or-tat sanctions between the Euro-pean Union, United States and Russia.

Te value o the Russian ruble has collapsed recently asthe price o oil has declined. Russia’s economy is dependenton oil, so the currency uctuates with the oil price. Teprice declines in turn threaten Russia’s ability to meet itsbudget obligations and pay debt. In sum, the country acesan economic crisis i it can’t nd new demand or oil andcurrency. …

Te China deal helps both Russia and China lessen theireconomic dependence on the West. It also helps Russiaget around the economic sanctions imposed by the Westbecause o the Ukraine situation. Te Moscow Timesnotes:“Curtailing the dollar’s inuence ts well with China’sambitions to increase the inuence o the yuan and eventu-ally turn it into a global reserve currency. With percento its tril lion oreign exchange reserves invested in U.S.government debt, China wants to curb investment risks in[the] dollar.” …

‘Putin’s Revenge’ BUSINESS INSIDER| November 10

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given some o our concerns related to

cybersecurity and the thef o intellec-tual property,” Rhodes said in advanceo Obama’s meeting uesday with Xi. …

In a speech Monday in Beijing,Obama said he wants China to be-come a state that “rejects cyberthef otrade secrets or commercial gain.” …

Russian MilitaryEncounters With Westat Cold War LevelsNBC NEWS | November 10

A - between a pas-senger jet and a Russian spy planewas among dozens o “highly dis-turbing” recent encounters betweenMoscow and the West, according to athink tank report published Monday.Te study by the European Leader-ship Network ( ) comes days afer

warned o a spike in Russian airactivity over European airspace. Te

said there have been almost

“sensitive incidents”—a return to ColdWar levels—since political upheavalerupted in Ukraine eight monthsago. …

Te report also documented severalencounters with the U.S. military, in-cluding an unarmed Russian ghter’smaking passes o Cook inthe Black Sea in April and a Russianaircraf that got within miles othe Cali ornia coast a month later,the closest since the Cold War. InSeptember, Russian strategic bomb-

ers practiced cruise missile strikes onthe U.S. rom the Labrador Sea nearCanada. While the aircraf didn’tenter Canadian airspace, the reportsaid, it “was still a provocative movein light o the summit ongoingat the time,” not least because cruisemissiles launched rom that locationwould have New York, Washingtonand Chicago within their range.

has conducted more than intercepts o Russian aircraf this

year alone, the alliance’s gures show,

already three times those in . Ac-cording to the , this is “the rsttime since the end o the Cold Warthat Russia has been rather openlytreating and its partners aspotential opponents, training accord-ingly and testing our de enses.” …

Japan, China, Korea toHold Talks

JAPAN TIMES | November 12

J , C and South Korea haveagreed that their oreign ministerswill hold talks in Seoul by the end othe year, diplomatic sources said onWednesday.

Te meeting … is expected to set

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R P Vladimir Putin said last week that hesees nothing wrong with the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-ag-gression pact that the Soviet Union made with Adol Hitler’sNazi Germany just days be ore World War broke out.

Te Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a promise o non-bel-ligerence by either party toward the other. Just a week aferit was signed, Germany invaded Poland, officially ignitingWorld War .

“Serious research must show that those were the or-eign policy methods then,” Putin said to a group o younghistorians in Moscow. “Te Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. People say: ‘Ach, that’sbad.’ But what’s bad about that i the Soviet Union didn’twant to ght; what’s bad about it?”

But the details o the Molotov–Ribbentrop agreementshow that it was no declaration o pacism by the Soviets.In act, Putin knows ull well that the pact included secretprotocols that divided Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia,Estonia and Finland into “spheres o inuence” or Germa-ny and or the Soviets. Until , the Russians denied theseprotocols, but since then they have acknowledged them.

As a direct result o the protection rom each othergranted by the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, both the Sovietsand the Nazis ravaged Poland. Te captured and ex-ecuted more than , Poles in the Katyn massacre,and the Germans started a campaign that slaughteredaround million Polish Jews.

Is that behavior justied because “those were the oreignpolicy methods” at the time?

Putin’s endorsement o the pact is signicant because othe long history o conict between Germany and Russia.Tere have been seasons o cooperation between the twosides, such as the reaty o Rapallo and the a oremen-tioned Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. But such seasons havebeen brie , and have generally been the autumn just be orewinters o war.

Te Trumpet has predicted that another such pact be-tween the Russian Federation and Germany is either extantor imminent, and that it will be a precursor to a conictlarger than any the world has ever seen.

In the Trumpet’ s November-December issue, editorin chie Gerald Flurry wrote: “[D]id you know that Germa-ny and Russia have probably already dealt with their mosturgent differences? … I believe that Germany’s leaders mayhave already agreed to a deal with Russia, a modern Hitler-Stalin pact where Germany and Russia divide countriesand assets between themselves. Tis agreement wouldallow each to turn its sights on other targets. Any such dealthat may have been struck between Germany and Russia isa precursor to war!”

Vladimir Putin’s endorsement o the Soviet Union’s pactwith Hitler suggests that the idea o a modern equivalentagreement may well be on his mind.

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the stage or Japanese Prime Minis-ter Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier LiKeqiang and South Korean PresidentPark Geun-hye to meet in the rst halo , the sources said.

Abe’s summit meeting on Mondaywith Chinese President Xi Jinping,the rst since the prime minister tookoffice in , has apparently bolsteredthe likelihood o a thaw in relationsamong the three Asian countries ,whose governments differ over histori-cal issues and territorial disputes.

Officials rom the three countriesare expected to work out details andset a date. …

In a related move, China’s Xi andSouth Korea’s Park also said on thesidelines o the Asia-Pacic EconomicCooperation orum summit in Beijingon Monday that the oreign ministerso the three countries should meet bythe end o the year.

I realized, [Japanese ForeignMinister Fumio] Kishida, [ChineseForeign Minister Wang Yi] and SouthKorean Foreign Minister Yun ByungSe will likely discuss deepening tri-lateral cooperation on trade and theenvironment, and conrm the need

or their leaders to meet at an earlydate, the sources said. …

Russia to Fly BombersOver Gulf of MexicoDEUTSCHE WELLE| November 12

I urther show o military mightamid already high tensions with theWest, Russia announced it is planningto send long-range bombers on patrolsover North American waters, includ-ing the Gul o Mexico.

Russian de ense minister Sergei

Shoigu made the announcement amidresh accusations o Russiasending troops and tanks into east-ern Ukraine to prop up pro-Russianseparatists. also accuses Russiao ying “provocative” routes intoEuropean airspace. …

Te Russian planes will also conductreconnaissance missions and monitor

oreign powers’ military activities andcommunications, according to Shoigu.

Tough discontinued afer the

collapse o the Soviet Union, RussianPresident Vladimir Putin has resumedbomber patrol ights …

But a senior U.S. official who spokeon condition o anonymity told the

Associated Press that Russia has neverbe ore own bomber patrols over theGul o Mexico, even during the ColdWar. Other types o aircraf however,including surveillance planes andanti-submarine aircraf have previ-ously own ights over the Gul oMexico, the official said. …

According to the [EuropeanLeadership Network], military inci-dents with Russia have risen sharplysince the nation annexed Crimea. Ina report issued Monday, the thinktank listed nearly incidents, threeo which carried a “high probability”o causing casualties or triggering amilitary con rontation.

Te incidents listed include alarge-scale Swedish hunt or a sus-pected Russian submarine, a narrowlyavoided collision between a Russiansurveillance plane and a civilian air-liner, and the Russian abduction o anEstonian intelligence officer.

Russia and IranSign NuclearConstruction DealMOSCOW TIMES| November 11

R build two new nuclearpower plant units in Iran underan agreement signed in Moscow onuesday between subsidiaries o the

two countries’ state atomic agencies.Te agreement precedes a

November deadline or a deal attalks between Iran and world pow-ers that would curb ehran’s nuclearprogram, which the West says may beaimed at building atomic weapons butIran says is or peace ul purposes.

Russia, which is involved in thosetalks, will also cooperate with ehranon developing more nuclear powerunits in Iran, and consider produc-ing nuclear uel components there,according to a memorandum signedby the heads o the state atomic bodies,Sergei Kiriyenko o Russia’s Rosatomand Ali Akbar Salehi o Iran’s AtomicEnergy Organization.

Iran already runs one Russian-builtreactor in its Bushehr power plant.

Russia Inltrates Vital U.S. ComputerNetworksKiall Lorenz | November 11

H breachedthe unclassied Executive Office othe President network in October.

Te Washington Post quoted sourc-es saying it is believed the Russiangovernment sponsored the hackers .Russian hackers, according to recent

security rm reports have attacked, the Ukrainian government andUnited States’ de ense contractors.

Te most disturbing act aboutthe latest network breach was that itwasn’t the White House that oundthe security breach. An American allyalerted the White House to the pos-sible network intrusion. I not or theally, how long would the breach havegone unnoticed?

news reported a possible moreserious incident on November o

Russia hacking American sofware. Itis believed a rojan horse malwareprogram penetrated the nation’s criti-cal in rastructure sofware back in

. Te malware program can causean economic catastrophe.

Oil and gas pipelines, powertransmission grids, water distributionand ltration systems, wind turbines,and even some o the nation’s nuclearplants can be controlled by the hackedsofware. Te sofware allows workers

“A more dictatorial Russian governmentis coming fast .… That power will beable to challenge Europe when nobody

else can, including the U.S. … Russianelections have recently moved President Vladimir Putin much closer to becominga dictator. This strikes intense fear in Eu-rope. The Europeans still remember how violent Russia was in World War II, andRussia is a close neighbor with massivepiles of nuclear weapons.”—Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, January 2004

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to manage various processes romiPads or even smart phones. Hundredso thousands o Americans could beseverely impacted i any o these utili-ties are closed down or damaged.

While U.S. officials are aware o theRussian rojan horse penetration, theydon’t know when or where it wil l beunleashed. Americans relying on vitalpublic utilities are at the mercy o theRussians.

Tese two attacks show how vul-nerable America is to cyberwar are.In a time when a lot o America’sin rastructure and even the militaryare run by computer sofware, such at-tacks could render America helpless.

Trumpet editor in chie GeraldFlurry has warned o this vulnerabilitysince January , when he wrote:

“America is the greatest superpowerthis world has ever known. But wehave a very vulnerable point in ourmilitary—our own Achilles’ heel. …Exploiting this vulnerable point maytrigger the greatest shock in the history

their Chinese oil rig dispute throughdialogue. Te anticipated Japan-Chinameeting to improve relations betweenthe Asian rivals began with an awk-ward handshake and ended with Japa-nese President Shinzo Abe, in a privatemeeting, applauding China’s effort orcreating the Free rade Area o theAsia-Pacic. Te leaders o Japan andSouth Korea agreed to mend rela-tions hurt by multiple issues, includ-ing Japan’s wartime past. o alleviatetensions rom imposed sanctions onRussia, Japan invited Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putin to Japan next year

or bilateral talks. At the same time,China signed a second gas deal withRussia and a ree trade agreement withSouth Korea that will remove tariffson over percent o goods. o capoff the Summit, Asia-Pacic lead-ers agreed to start working toward aChina-backed ree-trade agreementthat will unite the Asian countries andgive Beijing an even bigger inuencein global commerce.

o war are! … Computer dependenceis the Western world’s Achilles’ heel,and within a ew years this weaknesscould be tested to the ull.”

For nearly years, the Trumpet has warned o the strong possibilitythat a major cyberattack could crippleAmerica. Many now see that samepossibility. For more in ormation,read “America’s Achilles’ Heel.”

TW I N B R I E Fn APEC 2014—mending Asian tiesTe th annual Asia-Pacic Econom-ic Cooperation summit in Beijing cre-ated the per ect environment or eud-ing Asian countries to work out theirdifferences and become more united.China was busy mending ties thathad been broken by disputes in theSouth China Sea. Chinese President XiJinping met with his Philippine coun-terpart to calm tensions and improverelations over the disputed waters.China and Vietnam agreed to handle

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

Religion in Latin AmericaPEW RESEARCH CENTER| November 13

L A is home to morethan million Catholics—nearly percent o the world’s total Catholic

population—and the Roman CatholicChurch now has a Latin Americanpope or the rst time in its history.

Yet identication with Catholicism has

declined throughout the region, ac-cording to a major new Pew ResearchCenter survey that examines religiousaffiliations, belie s and practices in

countries and one U.S. territory(Puerto Rico) across Latin Americaand the Caribbean.

Historical data suggest that ormost o the th century, rom through the s, at least percent

o Latin America’s population was

Catholic. oday, the Pew Researchsurvey shows, percent o adultsacross the region identi y as Catholic.In nearly every country surveyed, theCatholic Church has experienced netlosses rom religious switching, asmany Latin Americans have joinedevangelical Protestant churches orrejected organized religion alto-gether. …

ANGLO-AMERICA

42 Percent ofMedicaid Signups AreImmigrants

WASHINGTON EXAMINER|November 13

I their U.S.-bornchildren make up more than

percent o new Medicaid recipients ata cost o . billion, according to ananalysis o government data. …

Part o the increased enrollmentcame as a result o the new health-care law’s expansion o Medicaid toimpoverished and low-income adults.

“Te high rate and signicantgrowth in Medicaid associated with

immigrants is mainly the result o alegal immigration system that ad-mits large numbers o immigrantswith relatively low levels o educa-tion, many o whom end up poor anduninsured,” the report says. “Tis act,coupled with the extensive supportswe provide to low-income residents,unavoidably creates very signicant

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mandated by Congress continue, theArmy could have ewer than ,soldiers by —the smallest orcesince World War .

Te cuts have largely come throughattrition and reductions in recruit-ing, and have, so ar, mostly affectedlow-ranking enlisted soldiers whohave served only a ew years. But thissummer, the cuts ell on officers as well,

, captains and majors, manywho were clearly intending on mak-ing a career o the military. More areexpected to lose their jobs next year.

And or reasons the Army has notexplained, the largest group o officersbeing pushed out—nearly one in ve—began as enlisted soldiers. …

“Tey needed us to ght the ali-ban,” Capt. Nathan Allen said. “Nowthey don’t, so they pull the rug out

rom under us. Loyalty here seemslike a one-way street.”

Appeals CourtUpholds Same-SexMarriage BanCBS | November 7

A court onTursday upheld anti-gay marriagelaws in our states, breaking rankswith other courts that have consideredthe issue and setting up the prospecto Supreme Court review.

Te th U.S. Circuit Court o Ap-peals panel that heard arguments ongay marriage bans or restrictions inOhio, Michigan, Kentucky and en-nessee on August split - , with Cir-cuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton writing themajority opinion. Te ruling creates adivide among ederal appeals courts,increasing the likelihood the Supreme

Court will now take up the issue. …It ollowed more than court victories or supporters o same-sexmarriage since the U.S. SupremeCourt struck down part o the ederalDe ense o Marriage Act last year. …

Te issue appears likely to returnto the Supreme Court so the nation’shighest court can settle whetherstates can ban gay marriage or thatgay and lesbian couples have a un-damental right to marry under the

Satan Cast Down (2014)THE KEY OF DAVID | November 16

Do you believe Satan is real?GERALD FLURRY

costs or taxpayers.”Te report was issued as President

Obama prepared to unveil his execu-tive action to reduce deportationsand allow more illegal immigrants toremain in the country.

According to [Center or Im-migration Studies] officials, most o

the immigrants tallied in the reportentered the United States legally. Tereport also ound that two thirds o theMedicaid recipients were the adult im-migrants and not the children o im-migrants born in the United States. …

Te report ound that percent oimmigrants and their children wereenrolled in Medicaid, compared to percent o non-immigrants and theirchildren. …

Army Cuts HitOfcers HardNEW YORK TIMES| November 12

F the insecurities o war, Capt.Elder Saintjuste always gured theone thing he could count on rom theArmy was job security.

A Haitian immigrant who enlistedas a teenager, he deployed three t imesto Iraq, missing so many birthdays

and Christmases that he sometimeselt he barely knew his our children.

He hid symptoms o post-traumaticstress so he could stay in the Army,because he loved his job and believedthat afer years he could retirewith a captain’s pension.

Ten this summer, on the day Cap-

tain Saintjuste reached his years,the Army told him that as part othe postwar downsizing o the orcehe would have to retire. And addinginsult to injury, he would have toretire as a sergeant, earning ,less per month, because he had notbeen a captain long enough to receivea captain’s pension.

“I worked, I sacriced, I riskedmy li e, and they took it away likeit didn’t matter,” Captain Saintjustesaid as he brought groceries into his

house near Fort Bragg. “It wasn’t justlosing a job. It was like having yourwi e leave you suddenly and not tellyou why. It’s your whole li e.”

For the rst time since the end othe Cold War in the s, the Armyis shrinking. Faced with decliningbudgets, the Army, the largest o theservices, cut its orce this year to

, soldiers rom , , withplans to trim an additional ,troops next year. I unding cuts

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U.S. Constitution. Tirty-two statesrecently asked the Supreme Court tosettle the issue once and or all. …

Obama to AnnounceImmigration PlanFOX NEWS | November 13

P O is planningto unveil a -part plan or over-hauling U.S. immigration policy viaexecutive action—including suspend-ing deportations or millions—as earlyas next Friday, a source close to theWhite House told Fox News.

Te president’s plans were con-tained in a draf proposal rom a U.S.

government agency. Te source saidthe plan could be announced as earlyas November . …

Te draf plan, though, contains initiatives that span everything romboosting border security to improvingpay or immigration officers.

But the most controversial pertainto the millions who could get a depor-tation reprieve under what is knownas “de erred action.”

Te plan calls or expanding

de erred action or illegal immigrantswho came to the U.S. as children—butalso or the parents o U.S. citizensand legal permanent residents.

Te latter could allow upwards o. million illegal immigrant adults

with U.S.-born children to stay, ac-cording to estimates.Critics in the Senate say those who

receive de erred action, according toU.S. Citizenship and ImmigrationServices, receive work authorizationin the United States, Social Securitynumbers and government-issuedIDs. …

Te planning comes as immigrantadvocates urge Obama to act. Aslawmakers returned or a lame-ducksession, Democrats in Congress on

Wednesday implored Obama to takeexecutive action.“We’re begging the president. Go

big. Tese [illegal immigrants] area plus to our nation. Mr. President,please. You said you were going to dosomething. Do it. Act now,” said Rep.Juan Vargas, D-Cali .

House Democratic Whip StenyHoyer said: “I join with my col-leagues in urging the president totake action. …

And Now—God’s WorkExpands in EnglandTHE TRUMPET DAILY | November 12

STEPHEN FLURRY A huge door opens for God’s work in the United Kingdom.

Waiters, Bartenders to OutnumberManufacturing JobsMY BUDGET 360 | November 9

T to low wage employmentcontinues as the latest jobs reportshows that wages are being erodedby ination. O course, the publicis told that ination is muted, butsimply looking at your paycheck ver-sus housing costs, health-care costs,and ood would tell you a differentstory. Americans went to vote witheconomic rustration in their hearts.Tat was the guiding energy driv-ing the electorate. Te vast majorityare rustrated with the current stateo the economy contrary to a recordin the stock market which is largelygoing to a very small portion o ourpopulation. …

So it should not come as a surprisethat we will soon have more waitersand bartenders than actual manu-

acturing workers. Tose that servedrinks to calm away the struggles oa tough economy are in high demandapparently. …

Tis is not a good trend or mostAmericans given how many peopleoccupy each o these elds. Back in

which wasn’t exactly a boom-ing time, we had three manu actur-ing workers or each one waiter orbartender. oday, we now have nearlya -to- ratio.

Tis is also reected in the nature ohow many hours people are working:

… the move away rom what we wouldconsider ull-time employment. …

Most people today are enteringan economy o reelance work, andwaiters and bartenders are the per ectexample o this. … We already know

that nearly hal o recent graduateswith degrees are working in elds thatdon’t reect the area in which theystudied.

It is troubling to see that we aremoving to this kind o low wageeconomy. Many poorer countries havemassive ood and service industriesbecause this is something you can’texport and caters to tourists. We are

ar away rom that but the trend israther clear. …

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Benjamin Netanyahu has proclaimed the status quo willnot change, Feiglin is still adamantly ghting or Jews to beable to worship at the emple Mount.

With both sides at odds, Dr. Meir Margalit, a JerusalemCity council member who holds the East Jerusalem port o-lio, thinks a war has already begun. Margalit said, “For sev-eral weeks I have said that we are inside the third inti ada.”He goes on to say, “It’s more similar to the rst inti ada,which was dened by rock throwing and rebombs.”

An article titled “A Quiet Inti ada in Jerusalem” claims ithas been taking place or a ew months now. “It’s quiet,” thearticle says, “because the media isn’t telling you about it.”

“Tere have been thousands o incidents o attacks onJews, with rocks thrown, reworks show as weapons (thenewest thing), and Molotov cocktails hurled at Jews wherethe east and west o the city meet, as well as dozens o caseso rustrated Jews attacking Arabs,” Nadav Shragai wrotein Israel Hayom (September ).

Intifada is an Arabic word that basically means a violentinsurgency. With the Palestinians in Israel, it means shoot-ings and bombings and other violence against soldiers andcivilians. We saw that with the rst inti ada in the late ’ sand early ’ s, and then again in the early s with thesecond inti ada.

Now Jerusalem itsel is shaking. Palestinians haven’t yetreached the level o terrorism that we saw in the rst twointi adas. Tat would make more headlines, like in ,when a terrorist carried a bomb lled with nails into apizza parlor in Jerusalem. He murdered people, includ-ing seven children and a pregnant woman.

But the violence is intensi ying. On November , twoIsraelis were killed and two wounded in two separate ter-

rorist attacks. Te same day, Israeli police shot and killed aman who attacked them with a kni e.Israelis have also become the target o what the media

has taken to calling the “auto inti ada”—a series o attackson Jewish civilians in Jerusalem by Palestinians driving

vehicles. Another our Jews dead, including a -month-oldbaby, due to Palestinians ramming their cars into peoplewaiting or the train.

So when the Jews ear a third inti ada, you can see why.You can understand why they ear that a quiet inti ada willlead to a dea ening explosion.

Te rst inti ada happened in Israel in the late s. InDecember , an Israeli was kil led in Gaza. One day later,

our Palestinians were killed by a truck. As rumor spreadthat the killings were intentional, Palestinians becameenraged. As Israelis and Palestinians attacked each other,Molotov cocktails were thrown, rocks were thrown, roadsblocked, tires burned, gasoline bombs used, grenadeslaunched and guns red. During the uprising, , -plusIsraelis were injured and almost killed. In total around

, Palestinians lost their lives. Te Madrid Con erencein worked to establish peace between Israel and Pal-estinians, but the official end to the conict came in with the Oslo Accords.

Te second inti ada, also termed the al-Aqsa inti ada,

began in afer then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the emple Mount. Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israel’s de enseminister at the time, had contacted Jabril Rajoub, Palestin-ian security chie at the time, to ensure there would be noproblems. Rajoub assured there would be no problems withSharon’s visit i he didn’t enter the mosques. However, Pales-tinians viewed the visit as a con rontation and responded bythrowing rocks. Israeli orces responded with orce, killingPalestinians. Te next day Palestinians responded with coor-dinated attacks. Sharon was blamed or causing the start butthere had already been tensions be ore. Just prior to the visit,a Palestinian policeman working with an Israeli policemanshot his Israeli counterpart. Te Palestinian Authority usedVoice o Palestine, its official radio station, to call Palestin-ians to participate in riots at the emple Mount. Te Pales-tinians continued to attack. Tey attacked religious sites helddear by Israelis. Most armed attackers were part o YasserAra at’s militia— anzim. Te end o the second inti adacame in , with the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit. Te inti-

ada claimed the lives o , Israelis and , PalestiniansPalestinians are at continued odds with Israel as they

pursue their own territory. emperatures continue to heat inIsrael as Arabs and Israelis ght. Tis past summer broughtmore attacks. Arabs threw rocks at trains, buses, cars andeven people—two young children were attacked in Naza-reth Illit. Te attacks became more brazen as Palestiniansand Israelis attacked each other in the middle o the day.

How long will this “quiet inti ada” keep boiling in themidst o Jerusalem be ore the lid blows off the pot? Te twoprevious inti adas had disastrous consequences in Jerusa-lem; recent attacks in Jerusalem could lead to a third. Whatdoes that mean or the rest o the world?

Why must we pay attention?

Jerusalem is the thermometer or world events in theend time. Passages in both the Old and New estamentsshow that Jerusalem is the center around which worldevents orbit in the months and days leading up to thereturn o Jesus Christ. o those who understand thisprophetic reality, Jerusalem is more than just another cityblistered by chaos: It’s a or measuring—and anticipating—end-time events.

“Presently the Jews rule over all o Jerusalem, even thoughEast Jerusalem is mostly comprised o Arabs,” Gerald Flurrywrote in his booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy . “Te Palestinianswant this hal or their capital. But most o the Jews won’tbudge, saying they must rule o Jerusalem.” He then

highlighted Zechariah : - , which state that Christ will re-turn and ght all nations in Jerusalem, “East Jerusalem—one hal o the city—will be conquered by the Palestinians!”

God prophesied that East Jerusalem would be overtakenin the end time. We must diligently heed as tensions cometo a boil in Jerusalem in order to understand where we arein the timeline o prophetic events. We must look to ten-sions in Jerusalem as the thermometer or recognizing thereturn o Jesus Christ.

o learn more about how these attacks affect the rest othe world, read “ Jerusalem: Your Termometer or Measur-ing Crises.”

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