Rabbinic Expert: First Super Blood Moon of the Year Sign of Earthquakes, Governments Will Fall - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - www.breakingisraelnews.com
The sun shall turn into darkness And the moon into blood." Joel 3:4 (The Israel Bible�)
On the evening of January 21, as the holiday of Tu B'shvat begins, a lunar eclipse will pass over the Washington D.C., just as the President will reach the halfway point of his term in office. The eclipse will be a super blood moon, described in Jewish sources as having powerful significance.
On the Gregorian Calendar:
The lunar eclipse will be visible in its entirety from North and South America, as well as portions of western Europe and northwest Africa, on the evening of Sunday, January 20 and in the early morning hours of Monday, January 21. The evening of the eclipse will be a supermoon when the moon is at its perigee, the point in its month-long elliptical orbit that brings it closest to Earth. At that time, the moon appears up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than at its apogee, its furthest point from Earth.
This will not only be the first lunar eclipse of 2019 but also the year's first supermoon. At that time, the proper conditions will exist to create a blood moon in which the moon has a distinctly reddish tint. This will be the last total lunar eclipse until May 26, 2021.
On the Political Calendar:
The date also marks the halfway point of Donald Trump's presidency, coming exactly two years after he was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. It should be noted that Trump was born on the night of June 14, 1946, within fifteen minutes of a total lunar eclipse and 700 days before the state of Israel was established. Trump's lucky sevens did not end there. When he was sworn in as President on January 20, 2017, he was 70-years-old, seven months and seven days.
On the Jewish Calendar:
The holiday of Tu B'shvat, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, begins at sundown on the same day. Known as the new year of the trees, Tu B'Shvat is one of four "New Years" mentioned in the Mishnah (the oral law).
Rabbi Mordechai Genut discussed the lunar eclipse in his book Davar B'ito, a guide to the calendar based on esoteric Jewish sources.
"A lunar eclipse in the month of Shevat is a sign of the rise of the aspect of din (judgment) in the world," Rabbi Genut told Breaking Israel News. "This eclipse will rule over the Americas but for Israel, it will bring chesed (loving-kindness)."
Rabbi Genut described specifically how this judgment will be expressed.
Judgement Expressed
"There will be a marked increase in earthquakes and volcanoes, even more than we have seen in the past year," Rabbi Genuth said. "Just as the eclipse is a conflict between the sun and the moon to rule over the heavens, there will be a similar conflict on earth. This will begin a time when governments are in balance. Some governments that seem powerful right now will fall and others will rise in their place."
Rabbi Genut bases this on a verse in Isaiah.
In that day, Hashem will punish The host of heaven in heaven And the kings of the earth on earth. Isaiah 24:21
Jewish Interpretation of Solar and Lunar Eclipses:
Judaism has a tradition of interpreting solar and lunar eclipses. In its discussion of eclipses, the Talmud (Sukkot 29a) specifically described solar eclipses as being a bad omen for the nations. Indeed, the complete solar eclipse that transversed the continental United States in August 2018 ushered in the most devastating hurricane season in US history.
The same source in the Talmud specifies that lunar eclipses are a bad omen for Israel since Israel is spiritually represented by the moon and the Hebrew calendar is figured by the lunar cycles. If during the course of the lunar eclipse the moon appears red, as the upcoming eclipse will be, the Talmud states that this is an omen that great wars will come to the world.
At the end of this section describing the omens contained within eclipses, the Talmud states a disclaimer: "When Israel does the will of God, they have nothing to fear from all of this," citing the Prophet Jeremiah as a source.
Thus said Hashem: Do not learn to go the way of the nations, And do not be dismayed by portents in the sky; Let the nations be dismayed by them! Jeremiah 10:2
Rabbi Yosef Berger applied this teaching in the Talmud to the current geopolitical situation.
"It's not that the bad judgment symbolized by the lunar eclipse just disappears," Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News. "It is merely averted to our enemies. In this case, the wars and evil will fall on our enemies. By choosing to be our enemies, the Arab nations have brought the evil that might have befallen Israel upon themselves."
"This is especially true when the lunar eclipse falls on Tu B'Shvat, a day when only good can happen to Israel."
Does peace with the Palestinians matter this Israeli election? - By Lahav Harkov -
The Palestinians, peace talks, and settlements seem to be almost entirely irrelevant to this election season.
Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni talks about negotiations with the Palestinians a lot. It's become her calling card. And yet, it was jarring to read a press release her spokesman sent this week in which she talked about "an immediate dialogue with the Palestinian Authority," saying that "separation [from the Palestinians] is an Israeli interest."
Livni's comments - which were so characteristic for her - were still a shock to the system because, well, talks have been so low on the agenda for so long.
The Palestinians, peace talks, and settlements seem to be almost entirely irrelevant to this election season.
It would be one thing if it was the Right that wanted to avoid talking about the conflict, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes is more realistic to manage as opposed to resolve in the near future. But it's the Center and the Left that have deemphasized it.
The word "peace" left the political lexicon long ago. Ahead of the 2015 election, then-Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog defended his avoidance of the word "peace," saying: "We have to be realistic and not naive about it." But he still talked about negotiations with the Palestinians, something that we have barely heard so far from like-minded parties in the past month.
The leading opposition party to Netanyahu, Israel Resilience led by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, has kept almost entirely quiet on all issues. Gantz made his first political statement on Monday, saying the Nation-State Law needs to be changed. When it comes to what he thinks about peace talks or what the map would look like after an agreement with the Palestinians, we only have old interviews to rely on.
Yesh Atid had a detailed party platform in 2015 that addressed the issue, and party chairman Yair Lapid has made comments here and there on the subject over the ensuing years, so we have an idea of what he wants - such as keeping the settlement blocs and organizing a regional conference to help Gaza economically. He even dedicated some time to the matter in an event in English this week. But this has never been Lapid's focus or his strong suit.
And what does Labor leader Avi Gabbay think should be done? Several Labor MKs have come up with their own peace plan in recent years, but it's not clear what he endorses. Gabbay has an event planned for Tuesday to discuss a "regional plan," together with MK Itzik Shmuly - who's best known for his work on social issues, specifically with helping the elderly - and former foreign correspondent Henrique Cymerman, who joined Labor.
One theory is that Gabbay wants to mostly avoid discussing the Palestinian issue. According to Livni, one of the reasons she and Gabbay had a falling-out leading to the breakup of the Zionist Union, was that she wanted to talk about separation from the Palestinians while Gabbay wanted a campaign focused on himself.
Perhaps Labor's shift from what used to be one of its defining issues is why former Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Oppenheim moved from being a perennial Labor primaries candidate to running in Meretz.
But even Meretz seems to be avoiding the subject. The party's Facebook page did not use the words "occupation," "peace" or "Palestinians" in any of its posts going back three months.
Instead, the focus is on Netanyahu's alleged corruption, along with the occasional social issue.
The Joint List is the exception that seems to prove the rule, with bloc leader Ayman Odeh launching the election campaign for the Hadash Party by lamenting "the right's increasing oppression of the Palestinian people."
The irony is that the Right talks about the Palestinians fairly often, because it's an easy way to sling mud. When Netanyahu successfully postponed the election for over a month, it was in part because of his caterwauling about his coalition partners, who were repeating the political mistakes that led to the Oslo Accords being signed. When Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked launched their New Right Party, they brought up Netanyahu's past support for a Palestinian state.
National Union leadership candidate Bezalel Smotrich said in an interview with Reshet Bet that he doesn't trust the New Right, because Netanyahu and former prime minister Ariel Sharon had said they opposed a Palestinian state, and then made concessions.
There are still almost three months until the election, and campaigns really only get into high gear after lists are submitted, which will be on February 20-21. Then, we might hear a little more about the peace talks.
But maybe not that much more. The lack of talk about talks can also partly be attributed to the fact that, unlike in previous elections, there is no US president pressuring Israel to make concessions. US President Donald Trump has put his "deal of the century" on hold until after the election, instead of calling Netanyahu out on the issue like past US presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did.
At this point, talks just aren't pressing on the news agenda. Rockets and rioting on the border with Gaza are constantly in the headline, and that in of itself is a problem, but hardly any Israelis see Hamas-ruled Gaza as a part of the peace-talks equation at this point, anyway.
Plus, the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah isn't clamoring to talk. Pro-Palestinian social media accounts have been talking for the past month about how Palestinians are "excluded" from the upcoming election in Israel, saying it proves that the situation is one of apartheid.
But in the meantime, the Palestinian Authority has done everything to avoid giving its people the opportunity to participate in any democratic process at all. Not only has PA President Mahmoud Abbas not held an election since he was elected to a four-year term 14 years ago, but the PA is also avoiding giving its people any kind of hope for a better situation in the future - by continuing to incite violence; paying terrorists and their families; taking unilateral steps in international forums; and snubbing the US, among other moves to avoid direct negotiations with Israel. With Israelis seeing our so-called peace partner turning its back on peace, what kind of demands are they going to make on our politicians?
The public isn't demanding peace talks now. Negotiations don't poll high in the public's priorities, and clearly no parties' internal research has pointed to this as a vote-getter, or the politicians would be talking about it more. This could very well be a year in which negotiating with the Palestinians is just not that much of an election issue.
Babylon Calling - Jim Fletcher -
In the days of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, the Israelites were warned that invasion was coming. Sure enough, in 586 B.C., the Babylonians came from the east, sacked Jerusalem, and carried off thousands back to their kingdom. There, the Jewish exiles mourned for 70 years, before the Lord allowed them to return after a decree from a new empire, the Medo-Persians.
A reversal of sorts was announced this week, as word came that several Iraqi delegations had visited Israeli government officials! Wow, what an amazing turnaround of history, especially given the hostilities of the last century between the countries.
Of course, no one knows where this will end up, but I am reminded of David Allen Lewis's remark on the peace between Egypt and Israel: "A cold peace is better than no peace."
Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged this latest breakthrough and it is nothing short of amazing. Most of the readers of Israel Watch no that in the past few short years, various Arab countries are warming up to Israel, as evil forces threaten all of them.
From a report in Israel National News:
"Three delegations from Iraq visited Israel in recent months, the last of which arrived in Israel within the last month, Hadashot TV reported on Sunday.
"The delegations included a total of 15 influential people from Iraq, including local religious leaders, both Sunnis and Shiites.
"According to the Hadashot TV report, the delegation met with Israeli officials, visited the Yad Vashem Museum and met with academics and organizations related to Iraqi Jewry."
I was not sure at all that Iraq would ever do such a thing, given the Saddam Hussein years and even prior. And remember, Iraq took part in the wars against Israel in '48, '67, and '73, in one form or another. Saddam's well-publicized threats to wipe Israel off the map were routine for decades.
"Last month, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attended a conference of Israeli ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry, and told the diplomats, 'When I meet with Arab leaders, they say to me, 'We have security and economic interests, and we also want to enjoy the fruits of progress, and we will not mortgage our normalization with the State of Israel to the whims of the Palestinians.'"
This is astonishing, and proves that many are getting sick of the tired old Palestinian mendacity. It has brought much destruction not only to Israel, but also to neighboring Arabs. If for no other reason, they have finally grown tired of subsidizing the PLO-Hamas Hatfields' and Mccoys' feud.
Netanyahu has skillfully split-off the Palestinian demands from normalization with other Arab countries or, should I say, actual Arab countries.
There's no question that there are many thousands of Arabs in the Middle East that simply want to get on with life and put an end to a century of fighting, murder, and destruction.
Now, should we expect Netanyahu to host Iraqi President Barham Salih anytime soon? Not so fast, but these delegations are a really big deal.
Things change so quickly geopolitically in the Middle East, but let's enjoy this good news as we head into 2019.
The UN, the "State of Palestine" and the Torture of Women - by Khaled Abu Toameh -
A Palestinian mother of three has accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces of torturing her and threatening to rape her during the two months she was held in a PA prison in the West Bank.
The accusation by the woman, Suha Jbara, 31, came on the eve of PA President Mahmoud Abbas's visit to New York, where he is scheduled to assume the chairmanship of the largest bloc of developing countries in the United Nations, known as the "Group of 77 and China."
As chairman of the group, which represents 134 nations, Abbas and the "State of Palestine" will negotiate and co-sponsor proposals and amendments on various developmental, humanitarian and legal issues that are on the agenda of the UN.
On January 11, Jbara, who was released last week from detention, held a press conference in Ramallah in which she detailed the various methods of torture she experienced at the hands of her Palestinian interrogators. Her horrific experience, however, does not seem to be on the agenda of the UN or the Group of 77 and China, headed by Abbas. Apparently, the UN group's members, who voted in favor of naming the "State of Palestine" as chairman of the group, do not care much about the human rights record of the PA security forces in the West Bank.
Jbara, a dual citizen of the US and Panama, was arrested by the Palestinian Authority security forces in early November 2018 at her home near the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to Jbara, she was accused of "illegally collecting donations" for families of Palestinians killed or wounded during clashes with the Israeli army.
Bizarrely, the PA is accusing Jbara of something that the PA itself has done for years and is still doing: paying salaries to Palestinians in Israeli prison and the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis. According to Jbara, her interrogators also accused her of "collaborating" with Israel. During her detention, she went on hunger strike for 27 days.
The torture, according to Jbara, included pouring cold water on her face, solitary confinement for several days, strip-search, sleep deprivation, lengthy hours of interrogation and verbal abuse.
"The first stages were the worst," Jbara told the Palestinian Wattan TV station.
"They interrogated me for several hours, without taking into consideration that I felt sick. They moved me from one office to another. I saw a number of detainees who were blindfolded and handcuffed. The interrogators were pouring cold water on their faces and some of the detainees were lying on the floor. It was a horrifying experience for me."
Jbara also said that the Palestinian interrogators threatened to take her three children away from her. "They used my children to blackmail me," she reported. The interrogators apparently also threatened her mother, her sisters and her with sexual assault. "I'm now in a very bad health condition," she said. "I even have difficulty walking."
Last month, a representative of Amnesty International met with Jbara, while she was still being held in Palestinian detention, and heard about her brutal treatment at the hands of her interrogators. "The Palestinian authorities must urgently investigate the torture and ill-treatment of Suha Jbara, an activist who has told Amnesty International that she was beaten, slammed against a wall and threatened with sexual violence by her interrogators," the organization wrote.
According to Amnesty's report, Jbara described how, upon her arrest, she had a seizure, lost consciousness and was taken to a hospital. Armed security officials later dragged her barefoot, out of the hospital, and transferred her to the Jericho Central Prison.
There, when she asked for a drink, a male interrogator threw water in her face, slapped her, punched her in the chest and back, and threatened her with further violence. She was blindfolded and handcuffed throughout her interrogation, and was not allowed to drink water or use the lavatory.
"He insulted me all the time," she said, "used very dirty and violent sexual language, threatened to bring a doctor to look into my virginity and say that I was a whore, and threatened to hurt my family and to take my kids away from me."
According to Saleh Higazi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International:
"Suha Jbara has described her torture in harrowing detail. In her testimony she gives an account of ruthless interrogators who have shamelessly flouted Palestine's obligations to treat prisoners humanely and violated the absolute prohibition under international law of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."
Yet, Jbara's story has barely attracted the attention of the international mainstream media. As far as many foreign journalists covering the Middle East are concerned, a Palestinian woman complaining about torture in a Palestinian prison is not newsworthy. Had she been detained by Israel, Jbara would have most likely made it to the front pages of the world's leading newspapers and magazines in a matter of minutes.
This is the kind of story that the "State of Palestine" does not intend to raise during its chairmanship of the largest bloc of developing countries at the UN. It seems that, from the point of view of the Palestinian Authority leadership, Jbara's ordeal does not fall within the category of human rights.
The PA regularly complains about human rights violations of Palestinians held in Israeli prison for security-related offenses. But when the PA's own security forces detain and torture a mother of three, Palestinian leaders are found elsewhere -- like at the helm of a UN bloc.
Actually, Palestinian leaders can rest easy concerning their torture of Palestinians. By being selected to head the bloc of developing countries, Abbas and the leaders of the "State of Palestine" will be in the company of countries rewarded for human rights violations -- including Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela and Yemen -- just elected as the vice-president of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, despite Yemen being ranked "as the worst country in the world on gender inequality (149th out of 149)" -- as well as several countries in Africa and Asia. That group exemplifies the old saying: birds of a feather flock together -- and these birds are definitely of the predator type.
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