“Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake”.

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By Haaretz Service
A mild earthquake registering 4.1 on the Richter scale was felt in central Israel shortly after midnight between Friday and Saturday, days after a 4.2 tremor struck the northern Dead Sea earlier this week.
Police said they had received no reports of injuries or damage.
Reports of the quake were recorded, among other places, in Ra'anana, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Rehovot and Jerusalem, Army Radio reported.
Seismology experts said the epicenter of the earthquake was east of the city of Ramle, Israel Radio reported Saturday morning.
The Geophysical Institute of Israel termed the strength of this week's earthquakes "mild to moderate."
On Tuesday, after a rush of media speculation, Uri Frizlander, the institute's director-general, said, "There is no reason to get hysterical - there are constant earthquakes that the public doesn't feel."
However, Frizlander did warn the public to be prepared for a stronger earthquake, and said that the authorities must strictly implement building regulations and strengthen weak foundations of existing structures.
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by Natan Sharansky
Why the conference is doomed to failure.
One of the high points at which the drama could have turned into a farce within seconds occurred nine years ago at the Wye Plantation summit. After exhausting and debilitating efforts, we received from Yasser Arafat a promise (even if half-hearted and unwilling) to delete from the Palestinian Charter the sections calling for the destruction of Israel.
Upon leaving the conference room, we saw one of the closest advisers of President Bill Clinton and proudly told him about our achievement.
"Are you out of your minds?" he shouted. "He's going to be killed because of that. He is too weak for dramatic steps like that. First he has to be strengthened!"
I recalled this tragic-comic story a few days ago as I was talking with a player from the international elements engaged in building up the destroyed Palestinian economy. When I asked him why they weren't making aid to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) contingent on stopping the anti-Israeli incitement on the official television channel and in the Palestinian education system, he replied, "Abu Mazen is so weak, and this is not a popular step. First of all, ...   more »

The Hal Lindsey Report: November 16th       
After months of waffling, the United States Congress finally passed a military spending bill. It's been sent to the White House for the president's signature, but he's not likely to sign it. The bill provides $50 billion for four months' funding of the war, but only if President Bush begins immediately withdrawing troops from Iraq. It's similar to one the president vetoed earlier this year.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told reporters that funding for the Iraq war was conditional to force the president to begin withdrawing U.S. troops. The speaker threatened that if the president vetoed the bill, she would not allow another war spending bill to go before Congress for the rest of the year.
Pelosi later told reporters, "It's a war without end. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. We must reverse it." It was the 58th bill this year sponsored by the Democrats that has been tied to an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Once again, this proves that the liberals, most of whom are Democrats, don't comprehend that we are in a war – not of our choosing – against ...   more »

By ALBERT AJI
Syria announced Sunday that it will attend the Annapolis summit on Mideast peace, saying it would send its deputy foreign minister because the future of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights had been put on the agenda.
The official news agency, SANA, said Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad would travel to the U.S.-backed conference, a decision made "after the Syria track was added to the conference agenda," the agency said. Syria had said it will attend only if the conference discusses the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed.
Syria did not explain why it will not be sending its foreign minister, like other Arab participants, but the decision appears to indicate that it is not entirely confident the conference will address its concerns over the Golan Heights.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said that the Golan Heights were "not specifically on the agenda" but attendees would be able to freely raise issues.
A spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel nonetheless saw the announcement as a positive development.
"The meetings are clearly about the Israeli-Palestinian process, but could be the beginning of new avenues to peace ...   more »