Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Covenant with Many - Temple Mount

My Way News - Israeli leader vows 'aggressive steps' to halt fighting
My Way News reports: "Israel's prime minister on Tuesday said he would take a series of 'aggressive steps' to halt a wave of violence in Israeli cities after two attacks in Jerusalem left three Israelis dead. Three Palestinians, including two attackers, were also killed. [...] The violence erupted last month over the Jewish New Year, fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. While Israel says the rumors are unfounded, clashes have quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip."

My Way News - Jerusalem hospital copes with treating victims and attackers
My Way News reports: "The Hadassah Medical Center prides itself on checking politics at the door and treating Palestinian attackers and Jewish victims alike. But the tensions on the street are increasingly seeping through the hospital's sterile walls, with family members clashing in the hallways and causing the wounded even more trauma. "

My Way News - The Latest: US condemns Palestinian attacks against Israelis
My Way News reports: "The Obama administration has issued a strong condemnation of Palestinian incitement and assaults against Israeli civilians and soldiers after a particular bloody day of violence. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday 'the U.S. condemns in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attacks, the recent terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians which resulted in the murder of three Israelis and left numerous others wounded.' He said the U.S. stresses the 'importance of condemning violence and combating incitement.'"

Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Covenant with Many - Temple Mount

My Way News - Netanyahu accuses Arabs of incitement in wave of stabbings
My Way News reports: "Palestinians carried out three stabbings Monday in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily accused the country's Arab leaders of helping incite weeks of violence. [...] In a new setback for efforts to restore calm, the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the U.N., the European Union and Russia - postponed a trip to the region."

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My Way News - Amid Russian airstrikes, a Putin craze takes hold in Mideast:
My Way News reports: "The Russian leader is winning accolades from many in Iraq and Syria, who see Russian airstrikes in Syria as a turning point after more than a year of largely ineffectual efforts by the U.S.-led coalition to dislodge the Islamic State militants who have occupied significant parts of the two countries. The reactions underscore that while the West may criticize Putin for supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad, there is some relief in the region at the emergence of a player with a coherent — if controversial — strategy. [...] Iraq's prime minister said last month that his government also entered a joint intelligence sharing agreement with Russia, Iran and Syria, opening an operations center in the heart of Baghdad."

Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Covenant with Many - Temple Mount

My Way News - Palestinians stab Israelis in 2 Jerusalem attacks
My Way News reports: "Palestinians carried out two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem on Saturday before being shot dead by police, while another two Palestinians were killed during a violent demonstration near the Gaza border fence, as a weeklong bout of violence showed no signs of slowing. Jerusalem has seen a wave of stabbing attacks linked to tensions over a sensitive holy site in the Old City that is sacred to Jews and Muslims. In recent days the attacks by Palestinian assailants have spread to the rest of Israel, while violent protests have erupted in the West Bank and along the Gaza border, where seven Palestinians were killed on Friday."

War - Doomed Damscus - King of the North

My Way News - IS advances near Syria's Aleppo despite Russian strikes
My Way News reports: "Islamic State militants captured a string of villages near Aleppo on Friday in a lightning attack that brought them closer to the prized city in northern Syria, despite a major increase in Russian airstrikes that Moscow insists are targeting the extremists. [...] It comes amid a wave of intense Russian airstrikes that have targeted insurgents fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, and a ground offensive by the Syrian army in the country's central region."

My Way News - US abandons Pentagon's failed rebel-building effort in Syria
My Way News reports: "The Obama administration is overhauling its approach to fighting the Islamic State in Syria, abandoning a failed Pentagon effort to build a new ground force of moderate rebels and instead partnering with established rebel groups, officials said Friday."

Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Temple Mount - Covenant with Many

My Way News - Israel struggles to contain wave of stabbing attacks
My Way News reports: "Unrest that erupted several weeks ago at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site spread Friday to Gaza in the form of deadly border clashes with Palestinian protesters, as Israeli security forces struggled to contain a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against civilians and soldiers. [...] Recent days have seen a series of attacks by young Palestinians wielding household items like kitchen knives, screwdrivers and even a vegetable peeler. The youths had no known links to armed groups who have targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians at random, complicating security efforts. [...] The latest unrest began about three weeks ago, when Palestinians repeatedly barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City [the Temple Mount, Ed.], hurling stones, firebombs and fireworks at police."

My Way News - The Latest: US condemns rash of Palestinian attacks
My Way News reports: "The Obama administration has condemned the ongoing rash of Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers and appealed for calm on all sides. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby referred to the Palestinian attacks on Israelis as 'acts of terror.'"

Knowledge Increases

My Way News - Gene editing: Research spurs debate over promise vs. ethics
My Way News reports: "The hottest tool in biology has scientists using words like revolutionary as they describe the long-term potential: wiping out certain mosquitoes that carry malaria, treating genetic diseases like sickle-cell, preventing babies from inheriting a life-threatening disorder. It may sound like science fiction, but research into genome editing is booming. [...] Does the promise warrant experimenting with human embryos? Researchers in China already have, and they're poised to in Britain."

Nations in Distress - Final Kingdom

My Way News - EU agrees to speed migrant deportation, buttress borders
My Way News reports: "The European Union on Thursday took measures to buttress its porous external borders and toughen up its migrant return program in an attempt to build a credible refugee policy that would continue to embrace those fleeing for their lives yet punish those seeking economic gain. Facing their toughest refugee emergency since World War II, the 28 EU nations committed to speed up and intensify the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum, including more special flights out and detention for those who might slip into illegal residence."

Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Covenant with Many - Temple Mount

My Way News - Israeli leader calls for calm amid spiraling attacks
My Way News reports: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to calm Israelis Thursday as a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks spread deeper into Israel and clashes erupted across the West Bank, vowing to combat the growing violence without alienating international allies. Netanyahu has come under fire from hard-liners within his own governing coalition as well as opposition lawmakers for not putting an end to the surging violence, which erupted weeks ago over tensions surrounding a Jerusalem site revered by Muslims and Jews."

My Way News - The Latest: Palestinians meet UN official to protest attacks
My Way News reports: "The Palestinian United Nations ambassador says representatives of several major U.N. groups met a senior U.N. official to convey their 'outrage' at recent Israeli attacks against Palestinians."

Rumors of War

My Way News - AP INVESTIGATION: Nuclear smugglers sought extremist buyers
My Way News reports: "The previously unpublicized case is one of at least four attempts in five years in which criminal networks with suspected Russian ties sought to sell radioactive material to extremists through Moldova, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. One investigation uncovered an attempt to sell bomb-grade uranium to a real buyer from the Middle East, the first known case of its kind."

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How Iranian general plotted out Syrian assault in Moscow - Reuters
Reuters reports: "At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory - with Russia's help. Major General Qassem Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step in planning for a Russian military intervention that has reshaped the Syrian war and forged a new Iranian-Russian alliance in support of Assad."

Rumors of War - Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Covenant with Many

My Way News - After weeks of unrest, Palestinian leader appeals for calm
My Way News reports: "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Tuesday for calm after several weeks of heightened unrest with Israel, saying his people had no interest in any further 'escalation' and urging renewed dialogue. [...] The clashes erupted three weeks ago at the start of the Jewish new year and have turned more violent in recent days. [...] Abbas also said he was ready to renew dialogue with Israel, a topic that could come up during a gathering of international Mideast envoys from the U.S., Europe, Russia and the United Nations in Jerusalem on Oct. 14."

Peace and Security of Jerusalem - Covenant with Many

My Way News - Israeli PM vows 'strong action' against Palestinian unrest
My Way News reports: :"Netanyahu's warnings came after a rash of violence that began Thursday when Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli couple in their car near a settlement in the West Bank as their four children watched. Two days later, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man to death and seriously wounded his wife as they walked in Jerusalem's Old City, then attacked and killed another Israeli man."

Rumors of War - King of the North

My Way News - NATO denounces Russia for violating Turkish airspace
My Way News reports: "In a signal of new tensions raised by Moscow's airstrikes in Syria, NATO denounced Russia on Monday for 'irresponsible behavior' after its warplanes violated Turkish airspace, and Turkey warned that any future aerial intruder would be treated like an enemy. Turkey, a NATO member, mentioned only one Russian intrusion over the weekend, but the military alliance said a second Russian jet also violated Turkish airspace Sunday."

Global Government - Ten Kings

My Way News - United States, 11 Pacific Rim countries reach trade deal
My Way News reports: "The countries reached a contentious trade pact Monday that cuts trade barriers, sets labor and environmental standards and protects multinational corporations' intellectual property after marathon negotiating sessions in Atlanta through the weekend. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is designed to encourage trade between the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, the countries account for 40 percent of world economic output."

Peace of Jerusalem - Jerusalem Security

My Way News - Palestinian kills 2 Israelis, wounds toddler in Jerusalem
My Way News reports: "A Palestinian man fatally stabbed two Israelis as they walked in Jerusalem's Old City and seriously injured a woman and a toddler, before he was shot and killed by an officer on duty [...] Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, issued a statement praising the attack which it called, 'heroic.' It was the latest in a series of deadly Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians. [...] The attack Saturday night follows a recent spike in Palestinian attacks and a hard-line speech at the United Nations by Abbas, the last of several that Israeli leaders have condemned as incitement. Abbas has said that Israelis desecrate the Jerusalem holy site with their 'dirty feet.'"

War - Doomed Damascus - King of the North

My Way News - Russia launches new wave of air raids in Syria
My Way News reports: "Russian warplanes have attacked the Islamic State group and other insurgents in central and northern Syria with a wave of new airstrikes, Syrian and Russian military officials said Saturday as an activist group said Russia's air raids have killed 39 civilians over the three past days. [...] The Russian airstrikes that began Wednesday have mainly targeted central and northwestern Syria, strategic regions that are the gateway to President Bashar Assad's strongholds in the capital, Damascus, and along the Mediterranean coast. [...] In Iraq, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi told reporters that Baghdad welcomes the idea of Russian warplanes attacking IS in Iraq as well."

War - Doomed Damascus - King of the North

My Way News - France tells Putin to confine airstrikes to Islamic State
My Way News reports: "With Russian warplanes bombing Syria for a third day, French President Francois Hollande told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that Moscow's airstrikes must be confined to attacking Islamic State militants, not other rebels opposing the Damascus government. [...] Allies in a U.S.-led coalition that is conducting its own air campaign in Syria called on Russia to cease attacks on the Syrian opposition and to focus on fighting the Islamic State group. A joint statement by France, Turkey, the U.S. Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Britain expressed concern that Russia's actions will 'only fuel more extremism and radicalization.'"

War - Doomed Damascus - Gog Alliance - Persia - King of the North

Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA | Reuters
Reuters reports: "Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a sign the civil war is turning still more regional and global in scope. Russian warplanes, in a second day of strikes, bombed a camp run by rebels trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the group's commander said, putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War."

Persecution - Wickedness Increases

Oregon shooting: Gunman dead at Umpqua Community College - CNN.com
CNN reports: "The gunman who opened fire at Oregon's Umpqua Community College targeted Christians specifically, according to the father of a wounded student. Before going into spinal surgery, Anastasia Boylan told her father and brother the gunman entered her classroom firing [...] Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground. The gunman, while reloading his handgun, ordered the students to stand up if they were Christians, Boylan told her family. 'And they would stand up and he said, 'Good, because you're a Christian, you're going to see God in just about one second,' Boylan's father, Stacy, told CNN, relaying her account. 'And then he shot and killed them.'"

Comment: This is a terrible tragedy but what a powerful witness. These fellow believers were faithful unto death rather than renounce Jesus. WOW.