As the POTUS continues to behave like a spoiled little boy, and PM BiBi Netanyahu makes plans to speak to the US Congress on the dangers of terrorism, we read that:

at least 26 people were killed today in a series of terrorist attacks targeting army and police positions in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the website of the Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

The attacks included car bombs and mortar rounds, and civilians were among those killed, according to the report.

36 people were injured in the attacks in the town of El-Arish, in North Sinai, where the army is battling an Islamist insurgency that has spiked since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. [arutz sheva report]

Another example of the peaceful religion of Islam.

Please be in prayer regarding this very important speech:

Israel’s ambassador to the United States has defended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to address a joint session of Congress in March, calling the movie a “sacred duty” that is vital for the “survival” of the state of Israel.

Ambassador Ron Dermer, speaking at an event Sunday night, said that current nuclear talks between the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran leave the possibility for Iran to reach “threshold nuclear power.”

Reiterating Netanyahu’s stance, Dermer made clear that Israel cannot and will not accept any outcome where Iran has access to nuclear material.

“The prime minister’s visit to Washington is intended for one purpose, and one purpose only,” he told an audience at an Israel Bonds dinner in Florida. “To speak up while there is still time to speak up. To speak up when there is still time to make a difference.”

Netanyahu has come under a harsh wave of criticism for accepting an invitation from House Speak John Boehner to speak to Congress. The Obama administration called the move “unusual” and announced that the president refuses to meet with the prime minister while in Washington.

As BHO rants and raves about the upcoming visit of Israel' prime minister to share with congress the horrible truths of Islamic terrorism, and as BHO cuts short his visit to India, altering his plans in order to fly to Saudi Arabia to mourn the passing of a sharia law enforcing, terrorist training muslim dictator, we read:

13 STABBED IN TERROR ATTACK ON TEL AVIV BUS: 4 BADLY HURT: A Palestinian terrorist armed with a knife stabbed 13 people during rush hour on Wednesday morning in a terror attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Four of the victims were badly hurt in the attack. At roughly 7:15 am, Hamza Matrouk, a 22-year-old from the town of Tulkarm, boarded Dan bus number 40 in Tel Aviv. He immediately stabbed the driver and more than a dozen passengers before fleeing the scene. He was quickly tracked down by Israel Prison Service officers present in the area, shot and apprehended. Of the wounded, four are in serious condition, three sustained moderate wounds and the rest were lightly hurt. People were also treated for shock after the attack. (Ynet)

“When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.” Isa 59:19

'Pray for those wounded in another savage terrorist attack as well for those who have suffered shock. May healing, mercy and comfort be abundant for each victim and their loved ones.' [Batya and Barry Segal]

: House Speaker John Boehner announced Wednesday he is inviting Israeli PM Netanyahu to address Congress next month about the threat from Iran, in a sharp rebuke to President Obama. The invitation comes as lawmakers weigh legislation, supported by Republicans and some Democrats, to tee up more sanctions against Iran in case negotiations fail to curtail the country's nuclear enrichment program. Obama vowed Tuesday during his State of the Union address to veto any such legislation. ButBoehner signaled he wants Netanyahu to explain the stakes of the debate, as he pledged to press ahead with the legislation. “In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.”

It appears, at least to me, that 'peace loving' muslims are their own worst enemies...

"In a dramatic and opposite response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks from the rest of the civilized world, over 200 Salafis in Gaza held a protest in support of the terrorists who killed over 17 people in France. The demonstration was in protest of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s insults offered to the prophet Mohammed by depicting his caricature.

Held outside the French Cultural Institute in Gaza, protesters shouted threats against French citizens and waved signs in support of the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly, the three were the terrorists who perpetrated the attack on Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher supermarket." [Breaking Israel News]

Just read the following...

"Seven men thought to be the so-called Islamic State group cell members have been arrested by Israeli security forces after reportedly being caught violently beheading live animals in preparation for an attack on Israeli occupied regime. They were supposedly beheading the animals as practice for what they would do to Israelis.

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment [as seen from God's eternity], is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

MARANATHA.!!!.. 

Staff Sgt. Brian Mast is a true hero: a decorated American soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan, now attends Harvard, works for the US government and has a third child on the way. But in his spare time this disabled vet, who walks on prosthetic legs, has flown to Israel to volunteer with the IDF. Why? Because he loves Israel and wants to show his children what standing for values really means

 

Pray for this young man.  Such courage and conviction.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply troubled following the International Criminal Court' announced it would begin a preliminary examination of Israel’s actions during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, following the Palestinian Authority’s allegations of Israeli war crimes.

That this tribunal in The Hague would entertain an Arabic terror-organization accusations against Israel is expected.  Sad for all of us, there are those that see Israel as the enemy instead of the only democratic nation in the Middle East.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

A group of 24 French immigrants arrived at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Monday and officially made Aliyah to Israel less than a week after the terror attack at a kosher supermarket in a suburb of Paris. Among the new olim is the family of Yohan Cohen who was killed during the attack in France and was laid to rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon.

The Islamic State has chemical weapons. And its leaders are furious — and determined, in their fury, to use those murderous weapons to huge effect.

The reason they are furious is not that Israel continues to (allegedly) mistreat Palestinians. Instead, the Islamic State is angry because Israel and the Palestinians are finally about to announce a lasting peace. The Islamic State doesn’t want Arabs to make peace with Israel; it wants Israel, and all Jews, to cease to exist. And it wants to kill anybody and everybody who enables peace, and anybody and everybody who stands in the way of a widespread, eventually global, caliphate.

National Review/January, 2015

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396171/wake-its-war-quin-hillyer

In the wake of two terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 17 people, France is gearing up for a giant unity rally on Sunday with world leaders expected to attend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli governmental leaders will be in attendance.

Urging the French Jews to come home PM Netanyahu said Israel would welcome French Jews “with open arms.” He added that he was flying to Paris to join “the renewed fight against Islamist terror which threatens all of humanity, something that for many years I have called for.”

"A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” 

John 12:35-36

 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against......

“ISIS is on the right path,” an imam at a mosque in northern Israel told his congregants.

“When the picture becomes clear, everyone will understand that the Islamic State is the only solution for everyone. Jews should also support the state and convert to Islam,” another imam told Ynet.

In Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth, a large sign featuring the ISIS symbol and a threat against “infidels that do not accept Islam” was taken down by police, only to be put back up with little or no public outcry.

"...the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God a service." John 16:2

Israel froze NIS 500 million ($127 million) in Palestinian tax revenue Saturday in response to the Palestinian Authority’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this week.

The decision to withhold the money was made during a special meeting convened Thursday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the Israeli response to PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s unilateral move, Channel 10 reported. The funds are taxes collected by Israel on Ramallah’s behalf. They were intended to be transferred into PA accounts on Friday.

“The funds for the month of December were supposed to be transferred on Friday, but it was decided to stop it as part of the response to the Palestinian move,” a senior Israeli official told Ha’aretz

Wondering how long it will take before USA or other foreign countries bring condemnation to Israel for their "bad" behavior.??.

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas applied immediately to join the International Criminal Court after the UN Security Council rejected a resolution to recognize the PA as a "Palestinian state." The PA had warned that if the resolution failed, they would seek to join international organizations including the International Criminal Court, and seek to sue Israel. Such a move is a direct violation of previous agreements signed with Israel. The decision to turn to the ICC could backfire, however. By joining the Rome Statute the Palestinian Authority - and particularly Hamas - will also be exposed to potential Israeli lawsuits for war crimes including the deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians and use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. In a recent interview, the PA's envoy to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) admitted the PA has no hope of pressing charges against Israel in international courts - because Palestinian terrorist groups are far worse violators of international law themselves. (Israel National News)

“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.” Prov 16:27

 Be prosperous in 2015.  

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  

Happy New Year.!!.