25 Warnings in Ten Years to the United States

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25 Warnings in Ten Years to the United States - Bill Koenig

In John McTernan's and my book, "Israel: The Blessing or the Curse," we showed how the Lord over ten years has given the United States 21 warnings the same day the U.S. has pressed Israel to give up their land. There were record-setting earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical storms, floods and stock market corrections. I have also included 4 more since President George W. Bush took a more active role in the Middle East talks.

October 30, 1991 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Michael Gorbachev begin the Madrid Conference. The Perfect Storm (a movie and book were written about it) begins forming in the Atlantic. It develops into the largest Atlantic waves in history.

October 31, 1991 - Syria and the Palestinians say Israel must give up their land for peace. The Perfect Strom hits the New England coast causing $1 million in damage to President George H.W. Bush Kennebunkport home.

August 23, 1992: The Madrid talks move to Washington. The day the conference begins Hurricane Andrew, the most expensive storm in U.S. history, clobbers Southern Florida and Louisiana.

September 13, 1993: Israel and the PLO sign a joint agreement; the same day Hurricane Emily hits the North Carolina coast.

January 4, 1994: U.S. Clinton and Assad meet in Geneva, Switzerland calling for Israel to leave the Golan Heights. Within hours the 6.9 Northridge earthquake rocks Southern California, the second most expensive national disaster in history.

March 1, 1997: Arafat arrives in Washington to discuss the Har Homa Housing project in Israel. The Israeli government had started buidling 6500 housing units in East Jerusalem. Arafat leaves on March 2 for a U.S. speaking tour against Israel. On the day Arafat begins his speakig tour powerful tornados devastate huge sections of the nation, tornados hit Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. While Arafat continued his speaking tour storms stalled over Ohio and caused serious flooding. The tornadoes destoyed Arkadelphia, Arkansas, while the flooding destroyed Falmouth, Kentucky. The storms did over $1 billion in damage. Also, heavy snow fell in March and April causing the worst flooding in a century in the Dakotas. This too was a billion dollar disaster. (Note: March 1 was also the day President Clinton signed into law a bill that would release $385 million to 100 countries for family planning, some of the money could be used for abortion.)

July 2, 1997: Thailand devalues currency which helps begin world economic destabilization. July 15, 1997 the UN votes to condemn Israel's housing construction.

January 21, 1998: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is pressured to give up land by Clinton and Albright. They refuse to have lunch with him. That afternoon the Monica Lewinsky case breaks.

September 24, 1998: Clinton announces Arafat. Netanyahu comes to the UN to discuss stalled peace talks. Hurricane George builds and zeroes in on Key West.

September 27, 1998: Albright working out final details: Georges slams Gulf Coast - 110 mph, gusts up to 115 mph and flooding.

September 28, 1998: Clinton meets Arafat and Netanyahu at White House to finalize land giveaway. Hurricane George lingers. Arafat speaks to rousing and sustained ovation at the United Nations. George smashes Gulf Coast, Arafat leaves the storm dissipates.

October 15, 1998: The Wye River talks begin. Heavy rain and tornado hits Texas. San Antonio receives 20 inches and experiences major flooding. On October 21, Clinton declares disaster. On October 23, the Wye meetings end.

November 23, 1998: Yasser Arafat comes to the United States to raise money. The U.S. provides $400 million and the Europeans $1.7 billion. Dow tumbles 217 points. European markets experience worse drop in history.

December 1, 1998: The U.S. House deliberates articles of impeachment on Dec. 12 four articles are approved. Clinton meets with the Palestinians in a controlled section in Israel at the same time the impeachment newsbreaks. Clinton calls for statehood status for the Palestinians and for a capital to be in Jerusalem. Clinton becomes the first President to be impeached in 130 years.

December 15, 1998: Clinton arrives home. Four days later the U.S. House accepts two articles of impeachment. Two weeks before there were not enough votes, Clinton commits $300 to $500 million to the Palestinians, and at the exact time there was a heart change in the House and he was impeached.

March 23, 1999: Arafat meets Clinton in Washington on Israel land giveaway. Dow tumbles 219 points. The next day Clinton authorizes a Serbia attack. Russia becomes very angry and World War III almost begins. Russia and China are brought together due over the Kosovo incident.

May 3, 1999: Arafat is prepared to declare Jerusalem the capital of his new state. Clinton sends Arafat a letter encouraging aspirations of his own land and the right to determines their own future the right to live in freedom today, tomorrow and forever. Record breaking tornadoes hit Oklahoma and Kansas, the 316 mph winds are the highest wind speeds in history.

August 30, 2001: Hurricane Dennis lingers on the East Coast. Sept. 1, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets with Arab leaders and Barak. On Sept 3 Hurricane Dennis continues to linger and drops enormous rains.

September 13, 1999: Israeli Foreign Minister and Arafat's Deputy workout a final status deal on Israel's land giveaway. Hurricane Floyd, a Category 5 storm, becomes a monster storm and slams into the North Carolina coast dropping 20 inches of rain killing 100,000 hogs; 2.47 million chickens; and 500,000 turkeys.

September 21, 1999: Arafat comes to Washington and visits the UN to discuss Wye. From Sept. 21-23 the Dow drops 524 points. This was a very destructive month.

Week of October 11, 1999: Jewish Settlers from 15 West Bank settlements evicted. While Israel was forcing the settlers off the covenant land, the stock market was melting down. On October 15, the market lost 266 points! Also on October 15, Hurricane Irene hit North Carolina, and on the morning of the 16th, a powerful 7.1 earthquake rocked the Southwest.

January 3-4, 2000: Barak agrees to hand over 5% of its territories to the Palestinians, with complete transfer by the end of the week. Dow drops 359 points, NASDAQ 229 points, and the worst drop ever, with over $600 billion in market capitalization wiped out. Barak has a Golan Heights meeting.

April 12-13: Barak arrives in Washington. Clinton says he want to be more involved in the peace talks. NASDAQ collapses, it falls over 600 points its worst week ever.

June 16, 2000: Arafat and Clinton meet. Clinton wants to finish business by September 13, 2000, which is the seven-year anniversary date. Dow falls 265 points in its final hour.

July 12, 2000: Barak, Arafat have a meeting at Camp David. Talks continue to July 26. Talks collapse over Jerusalem over Muslim and Jewish sections of the Old City. Fires begin in Western United States; 7 million acres burn some of the worst in history. Montana and Wyoming declared disaster areas. Dan Glickman the Secretary of Agriculture reported that the winds were equivalent of the Perfect Storm because there was high winds, high temperatures, lightning and no rain.

July 28, 2000: Texas declares 195 counties disaster areas due to a drought, the worst in history for that region.

March 31, 2001: On the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek arrived in Washington, a Chinese fighter jet "bumped" into one of our EP-3 reconnaissance planes, forcing it-along with the 24-person crew-to make an emergency landing in China. The resulting crisis completely overshadowed the visits of Mubarek and King Abdullah II.

April 10, 2001: Jordan's King Abdullah II arrived in Washington earlier in the week to speaks with Christian leaders, members of Congress and others to get behind the initiative. He visits the White House on April 10 and then returns home to Jordan. The next day China agrees to release the "detained" airmen from the downed plane. The extremely valuable aircraft remains behind in China, evidently to be shipped home in pieces.

May 22, 2001: President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell publicly endorse the Mitchell Report. Concurrently, Vermont Senator James Jeffords is rumored to be leaving the Republican Party. Vermont-already a pro-choice state-becomes the first to approve same sex-unions. That same day, the Dalai Lama arrives in Washington. This visit angers China, and the Chinese Premier calls Bush "unfit" to be President.

May 25, 2001: Senator Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, becoming an Independent, allowing the Democrats to obtain a majority in the Senate, throwing judicial and diplomatic nominations into question. On the same day, Daniel Kurtzer is nominated for Ambassador to Israel and endorsed by pro-land giveaway Reform and Conservative Jews, making up 85% of American Jewry.

June 8, 2001: Reuters News Service reports that United States CIA director George Tenet and a special envoy from Washington have spearheaded an international effort on Friday "to strengthen a fragile Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire" plagued by fresh violence. The Central Intelligence Agency director hosted talks between senior Israeli and Palestinian security officials in Ramallah, while Assistant Secretary of State William Burns met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the West Bank.

June 8, 2001: Catastrophic flooding overnight brings the Houston area to a near standstill, with nearly 10,000 people left homeless and 3,000 homes and businesses affected, Gov. Rick Perry declares a state of emergency in the Houston area and 28 southeast Texas counties. More than two feet of rain fell at Bush Intercontinental Airport causing flights to be cancelled until early Sunday morning.

September 11, 2001: The greatest attack ever on American soil occurred. The hijacking of four airplanes and the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC)in New York City and the Pentagon left upwards of 6,000 dead and thousands injured. These suicide attacks by Muslim terrorists caused over $100 billion in damage and financial losses and stunned the country.

The attack was aimed right at the financial heart of the United States. The effect of this attack on the stock market was devastating. The week after the attack was one of the worst ever for the stock market. It may be the catalyst for an economic depression that could affect the entire world.

President Bush refused, when asked, to say whether he had been prepared to announce his support for a Palestinian state prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.

A CNN article stated that State Department and other senior administration officials have told CNN that drafts of a major policy speech on the Middle East, to be delivered by Secretary of State Powell, had been circulating within the State Department for review.

These officials said the speech was to "clarify its [U.S.] views on an end result" of the (MidEast) peace process, which would lead to the eventual "creation of a Palestinian state."

Powell had expected to deliver the speech on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that began on September 23, but that plan was put on hold after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A future address to the UN was postponed because security couldn't be guaranteed for UN members. This was not just a coincidence.

"It will go farther than we have ever gone," one official said of Powell's speech. "There is an awful lot more that we view as being the end result than what we have said so far."

One point being hotly debated is whether to "call for ending all settlement activity," including so-called natural growth of existing settlements—something previous U.S. administrations have come close to doing, but have never done.

The same official said that such a speech would be a powerful palliative" to the Arab world. "It eases the pain," the official said. "It would end the perception we only move against Islam."

"We are getting hammered in the Arab world," this official said. "And it is not a mystery that one of the ways to diffuse this" is to see some movement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Printer friendly version

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Just a little to update:
September 12, 2003
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Arab and Non-Aligned nations call on the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel carrying out its threat to expel the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, from the West Bank. Elsewhere the European Union and Russia describe the Israeli proposal as a 'terrible mistake'. UN General Secretary Kofi Annan calls the Israel's proposed action "dangerous" and "unwise". The Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, who takes over as President of the European Council in January, tells journalists after a summit meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris that he is "shocked" by the Israeli plan and said his government is "totally opposed" to the Israeli plan. The United States Ambassador to Israel meets the Israeli Defence Minister to outline American hostility to the plan.

September 13th, 2003 Category 5 Hurricane Isabel makes a northwestward turn.
Hurricane Isabel was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It made landfall near Drum Inlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane. Isabel is considered to be one of the most significant tropical cyclones to affect portions of northeastern North
Carolina and east-central Virginia since Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933. Hits NC September 18th..


April 14, 2004 President Bush states:
I welcome the disengagement plan prepared by the Government of Israel, under which Israel would withdraw certain military installations and all settlements from Gaza, and withdraw certain military installations and settlements in the West Bank. These steps will mark real progress toward realizing the vision I set forth in June 2002 of two states living side by side in peace and security, and make a real contribution toward peace.
I am hopeful that steps pursuant to this plan, consistent with this vision, will remind all states and parties of their own obligations under the roadmap.

April 29, 2004 Abu Ghraib photos are released.

August 13, 2004 Hurricane Charley strikes America
August 19 2004
Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, vows to press on with his disengagement plan, despite it receiving another rejection from his Likud party. (BBC)

September 2004 Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Ivan strike the US spawning tornados which left additional damage in their wake Jeanne Karl and Lisa follow within this month.

September 21, 2004 President Bush to the UN- Israel should impose a settlement freeze, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people, and avoid any actions that prejudice final negotiations.

[Mr. Jeeves]

February 12th, 1999. The Senate lets Bill Clinton off...just because.

And God didn't even bother stirring up a Category 1 hurricane. ;)

[Publius6961]

This BS is pervasive and hilarious.
Sort of like the "Bible Code".

Does the code give identical results in all languages and all versions?

Pick a date in the last 50 years; any date.

I can assemble an impressive list of world disasters for the following few days somewhere in the world no matter what date you pick.

Give me a break!

[Blogger]

Ping

[Blogger]

Or made a typo. In the next line they refer to him as George H.W. Bush.

[Larry Lucido]

The Perfect Strom hits the New England coast

"Aw, shucks!"

[Blogger]

It may sound that way. However, Scripture says those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse her will be cursed. Our nation is making very serious mistakes in regards to Israel. We can't expect God to stand up and applaud us.

[Blogger]

The Oslo accords were in the 90s.
Israel had no better friend than Reagan.
When we were in the Gulf, Israel largely had to defend herself and restrained herself against the Iraqi scuds. Things went downhill from there.

We are making huge mistakes, not just towards Israel but towards ourselves in supporting those who will terrorize to get land.

[Blogger]

Study the history of the Jews. Things don't tend to go well for those who oppose them.

[Blogger]

Sorry, wrong god. He doesn't desire sacrife but a pure heart towards Him.

[Blogger]

Don't you think another year or so more of Clinton was enough?

[DB]

I agree, the article is about the wrong god.

[Blogger]

Those who curse the Jews and those who bless the Jews

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Posted: July 30, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern



By Dennis Prager

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© 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

In 1973, during the Arab embargo on oil exports that followed the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt, many Americans had to deal with embargo-induced hour-long lines at gas stations, gas rationing, and various setbacks to the economy. As a result, some called for our abandonment of Israel for the sake of oil.

Those voices were not heard among evangelical Christians.

In fact, in a television broadcast from his church to his many followers, the Rev. Jerry Falwell said that he would sooner give up his car and ride a bicycle than yield to Arab blackmail. Citing Genesis (12:3), he explained that God "will bless those who bless the Jews and curse whoever curses the Jews."

I have since heard this over and over from lay Christians calling my radio show and from Christian leaders with whom I have shared platforms.

I heard this again this past weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Focus on the Family, where I spoke to a few thousand supporters of that influential evangelical organization. There are many reasons for the support of conservative Christians for Israel – along with social conservatives, the only group giving such support – but their belief that God blesses those who bless the Jews and curses those who curse the Jews plays a central role.

When I first heard this verse cited by the Rev. Falwell, I certainly found it encouraging to hear a major Christian figure say this to fellow Christians. But perhaps because I had just completed graduate work in the social sciences, my rational faculties simply dismissed the idea as more quaint than believable.

Over time, however, that quote stayed with me. Eight years later, when Rabbi Joseph Telushkin and I wrote a book explaining anti-Semitism ("Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism," Simon & Schuster), we noted this verse. But now, after seeing the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim worlds and in Europe, after being asked by the publisher to write a new version of the book, and after hearing Christians repeatedly cite this verse, I feel compelled to finally take a position: Is this verse biblical poetry or verifiably true?

I am increasingly convinced that it is verifiably true.

I think of Spain, for example. One of the world's mightiest powers and most developed cultures in the 15th century, in 1492 it reached its zenith when it sent Christopher Columbus on a voyage that changed history. But the same year, it also expelled all its Jews and intensified the Spanish Inquisition against the many forced Jewish converts to Catholicism (converses). Spain then descended into a 500-year status as "the sick man of Europe."

I think of Germany (and Austria) as the cultural and intellectual center of Europe, if not the world, before World War II. Then Germany (with Austrians' help) murdered nearly every Jew in Europe. Germany lost over seven million people, was divided for a generation, and while it now thrives materially, culturally Germany has become irrelevant. Ask anyone, even an intellectual, to name one living German.

And I think about the world today. Look at who most blesses the Jews and who most curses them, and you decide whether the verse in Genesis has validity.

It is the United States that has, since its inception, most blessed the Jews and that does so almost alone today – in its support of the Jewish state against those who wish to exterminate it. By almost any reckoning, America has been, and remains, the most blessed of countries.

And it is the Arab world that curses the Jews. It rivals Nazi Germany for the ubiquity and intensity of its Jew-hatred. Look at its state. According to Arab scholars appointed by the United Nations to report on the state of Arab society, that part of the world lags behind the rest of humanity, including in most instances sub-Saharan Africa, in virtually every social, moral and intellectual indicator. And there is no question but that its half-century long preoccupation with destroying Israel has only increased the Arab world's woes.

No one can prove it is God who actively blesses those who bless the Jews and curses those who curse them. But, at the same time, the evidence historically and this very moment suggests that there is indeed a real connection between the state of a society and its treatment of the Jews.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28450

[Blogger]

Don't ascribe that opinion to myself.

[Bittersweetmd]

"So were Indians being punished for not supporting a country they'd never even heard of in the period of hyperactive Gulf of Mexico hurricane activity from 3,400 to 1,000 years ago?"

So my question is does God only bless and not curse his people the Church and National Israel now? I mean does he not still bless us? Have his curses been written out of the Bible?

[DB]

I believe in a loving God that is capable of finding those actually responsible and holding them accountable.

[NRA2BFree]

Bump for later read!

[DB]

I trust God to bless and "curse" those with justice.

Taking out a bunch of poor people that literally have nothing to do with Israel as the wrath of God for poor treatment of Israel is simply nuts.

And as far as Israel goes, Israel stands today because America has stood with Israel - and still does.

[hoboken109]

the evidence historically and this very moment suggests that there is indeed a real connection between the state of a society and its treatment of the Jews.
WHAT ?

[Blogger]

Evidentally nothing that will satisfy you.