George W. Bush Bashes Obama on Middle East

April 26, 2015 – by Josh Rogin

In a closed-door meeting with Jewish donors on Saturday night, former President George W. Bush delivered his harshest public criticisms to date against his successor on foreign policy, saying that President Barack Obama is being naïve about Iran and the pending nuclear deal and losing the war against the Islamic State.

One attendee at the Republican Jewish Coalition session, held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas with owner Sheldon Adelson in attendance, transcribed large portions of Bush’s remarks. The former president, who rarely ever criticizes Obama in public, at first remarked that the idea of re-entering the political arena was something he didn’t want to do. He then proceeded to explain why Obama, in his view, was placing the U.S. in “retreat” around the world. He also said Obama was misreading Iran’s intentions while relaxing sanctions on Tehran too easily.

According to the attendee’s transcription, Bush noted that Iran has a new president, Hassan Rouhani. “He’s smooth,” Bush said. “And you’ve got to ask yourself, is there a new policy or did they just change the spokesman?”

Bush said that Obama’s plan to lift sanctions on Iran with a promise that they could snap back in place at any time was not plausible. He also said the deal would be bad for American national security in the long term: “You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. That’s how Americans should view the deal.”

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A Century Later, Turkey Still Won’t Come to Terms with the Armenian Genocide

April 27, 2015 – The National Review – By David Pryce-Jones  

The Turks in 1915 destroyed the minority of Armenians in their midst, killing probably as many as a million and a half, and driving hundreds of thousands into exile. Such a nation-wide exhibition of human brutality takes its lasting place in the collective memory. Yet Turkish officials and spokesmen for the past hundred years have refused to accept responsibility for this great crime, much less apologize for it.

They contest the numbers of victims. A world war had opened, and bad things happen in war everywhere. Armenians, they like to say, were making common cause with the Russian enemy, and ethnic cleansing was therefore a security measure. Turks as Muslims were waging jihad, but Armenians as Christian infidels had brought it all on themselves. In “Minorities,” one of his most judicious essays, Elie Kedourie ascribes much of the blame to the handful of Armenians who had let nationalist ideology take possession of them, a malady or infection “eating up the fabric of settled society.” In his summary of their fate, “the Armenians were forced to be free.”

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Deep Repentance & Healing as Holy Spirit touches hearts / Pastor’s healing testimony

Dear family and friends in Christ,

1) This past weekend Pastor Daniel and a team from CTFM ministered in Bendigo, VIC where there was much prayer and preparing for these meetings by the local church.  We praise God He did not let them down as the Holy Spirit moved most wonderfully touching many hearts.

Ps Daniel spoke on “Standing in the gap in Intercession” on Saturday night and “Who holds your Legal Right” on Sunday morning. At both meetings many people were healed from hurts, offences, anger and un-forgiveness, etc. as people responded to the word of God by coming to the altar, asking forgiveness and repenting publicly. Then people started going to each other and saying “I am sorry if I have offended you”. This was absolutely amazing as many were in tears hugging each other.

The first to come forward was the Pastor and his wife. We take our hats off to them both as they had the guts to stand up and say “I am sorry”. By the end of the day the Pastor of the church said, “several people in my congregation have told me that they feel so free and as if a big weight had been lifted off their shoulder.” Glory to God.

The Pastor testified, “I was having severe back pains, but praise God over night the pain has just disappeared. I thank God for my healing.”

Two weekends ago Ps Daniel ministered in Townsville & Ingham, QLD. Here too the Lord Jesus powerfully touched many lives.

2) Pr Daniel will be speaking at CTFM in Hallam at the 9:30am & 6:30pm services this Sunday 17th May.

Please note that this service will be live webcast at www.reformationharvestfire.com beginning at 10.30am (AEDT).

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Political Commentator Glenn Beck Wonders Why ‘No One’ in U.S. Cares for Christians’ Plight in Middle East

By Isaiah Narciso (news@gospelherald.com) Apr 21, 2015

Conservative political commentator Glenn Beck brought up a controversial issue on Monday, asking why Christians in the United States haven’t done more to help their fellow brethren, who are being persecuted in the Middle East.

In a report filed by Erica Ritz of The Blaze, Beck looked at how American Christians reacted when they defended the “religious freedom” rights a pizza parlor in Indiana. He then noticed how little attention was paid in the U.S. to Christians being persecuted across the Middle East.

“Why does no one care?” Beck said. “When we talked about a Christian pizza parlor just the other day, Christians responded in large numbers. … Here people are getting executed. Shouldn’t the response be exponentially greater when Christians are literally being beheaded and crucified, children being raped and killed every single day?”

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Egyptian TV Personality Tells Israel’s Netanyahu to ‘Put Your Trust In God and Bomb Iran’

April 15, 2015 - CNS News Michael Morris Amid the Iranian nuclear talks, Egyptian TV personality Tawfik Okasha, called on “our dear friend” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bomb…

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The ghastly shadow of Munich

By Victor Davis Hanson – Jewish World Review – April 2, 2015

The Western capitulation to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement is cited as classic appeasement that destroyed Czechoslovakia, backfired on France and Britain, and led to World War II.

All of that is true.

But there was much more that caused the Munich debacle than simple Western naiveté. The full tragedy of that ill-fated agreement should warn us on the eve of the Obama’s administration’s gullible agreement with Iran on nuclear proliferation.

Fable one is the idea that most people saw right through the Munich folly. True, Europeans knew that Hitler had never once told the truth and was already murdering German citizens who were Jews, communists or homosexuals. But Europeans did not care all that much.

Instead, the Western world was ecstatic over the agreement. After the carnage of World War I, Europeans would do anything to avoid even a small confrontation — even if such appeasement all but ensured a far greater bloodbath than the one that began in 1914.

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RUAP Media Release – Would Andrew Chan & Mayuran Sukumaran had been killed if they had converted to Islam?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -  THURSDAY 30th APRIL 2015 Would Andrew Chan & Mayuran Sukumaran had been killed if they had converted to Islam is a question everyone has failed to…

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Pr Daniel ministering in QLD over Anzac weekend 24-26 April

Dear friends & family in Christ, Pr Daniel will be ministering in Townsville & Ingham, QLD this Friday 24th, Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th April over Anzac weekend. You may…

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Special ANZAC Day video message from Daniel Nalliah / Townsville Radio Interview / ANZAC GALLIPOLI CENTENARY 2015

Dear friends & family in Christ,

1) You may click the following link to watch a 3 minute video message from RUAP National President Daniel about ANZAC Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlhAtqJpPBI&feature=youtu.be

2) You may click the following link to listen to an excellent Townsville radio interview with Pr Daniel.

https://reformationharvestfire.com/townsville-radio-interview/

3) For your interest and understanding, we’re forwarding you the following article from Jill Curry of Catch The Fire Ministries, titled ‘ANZAC GALLIPOLI CENTENARY 2015’.

In 1914, Britain and France were allied with Russia.  Russia wanted control of the strategic narrow waters of the Dardenelles, Sea of Marmara and Istanbul, which were controlled by the Turkish Ottoman Empire.  Britain and France therefore went to war at Gallipoli on the Western shores of Turkey to defeat the Ottomans.  The first ANZACs landed at night in the wrong place and were greeted at dawn with steep cliffs instead of a beach with a gentle slope a few kilometres to the north.  For eight months they battled atrocious conditions before finally retreating before the cold winter really set in, after losing 7,594 men.  This was an horrendous loss to a young nation and has been etched on the hearts of Australians ever since.  Nevertheless, it has been said that it was in the trenches that Australia became a nation as men from different states became joined in heart instead of just federated on paper.  Through hardship their character was forged and their bravery won the respect of the world, while their loved ones back home were unified behind a common cause.

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Was the Mosque fire in Toowoomba an inside job?

Dear friends & family in Christ, You may click the link below to watch a 3 minute video from RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah on the recent Mosque fire in…

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