Learn what will happen during the tribulation period from beginning to end
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM
(Reuters) - A Palestinian bombing killed at least seven people and wounded more
than 80 on Wednesday in a cafeteria at an international students center in
Jerusalem's Hebrew University. The
military wing of the fundamentalist Islamic group Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack, which it said was in revenge for an air strike in Gaza last week
that killed its commander and 14 other Palestinians, including nine children. The
Palestinian Authority condemned the bombing. The
blast in the Frank Sinatra center, which followed a Palestinian suicide bombing
that wounded four people in Jerusalem on Tuesday, rocked the university's Mount
Scopus campus near Arab East Jerusalem. Police
called the explosion a Palestinian attack but said they did not know if a
suicide bomber was involved. "There
was a boom, everything went up in the air," Lee Seung Jae, a Korean
student, told Reuters. The
cafeteria's windows were blown out and a thick cloud of smoke and the stench of
charred human flesh met medics who rushed to the scene. Emergency workers
carried more than 60 wounded out on stretchers. Police
said at least seven people were killed and more than 80 wounded. "The
cafeteria was pretty crowded and the blast was in the middle of the room. I
didn't see anybody suspicious," said Yossi Halfon, who was dining with
friends. Some
of the injured, their faces streaked with blood, wandered dazed from the
building on the campus, where guards normally patrol walkways and rooftops. "Around
1:40 p.m., an explosion was heard in a cafeteria on the campus," Deputy
Police Chief Ilan Franco said. "There are several dead and dozens of
wounded." Shortly
before the blast, Israel's security cabinet decided to pursue a punitive policy
against families of Palestinian suicide bombers in a bid to deter such attacks
in which over 230 Israelis have been killed in two years, political sources
said. But
it was unclear how the government planned to vault the legal hurdles it has
already faced in threatening to exile relatives of suicide bombers from the West
Bank to the fenced-in Gaza Strip. "The
attack on Mount Scopus makes it evident that Israel is battling for the right to
get on a bus, go to a market or sit in a cafeteria without the fear of being
struck down by Palestinian terror," said David Baker, an official in the
office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The
political sources said the security cabinet decided after four hours of
deliberations on a package of steps to be taken against families of suicide
bombers. They
said the measures included exile -- in accordance with guidelines set earlier
this month by Israel's attorney general -- house demolitions, property
expropriation and trials for relatives who knew of planned attacks but did not
stop them. Arafat's
senior aide, Nabil Abu Rdainah, called the decision "a dangerous
escalation" that damaged the peace process, already battered since a
Palestinian uprising for an independent state began in September 2000. The
army's detention two weeks ago of 22 male relatives of suspected Palestinian
militants in the West Bank and threat to deport them to the Gaza Strip drew
criticism from its closest ally, the United States, and the United Nations. Challenging
the edict, Israeli Attorney General Eliyakim Rubinstein said exile could be an
option only if Israeli authorities proved a family member was linked to an
attack. An
Israeli security source said one of the relatives detained earlier this month
had been found to fit that criterion and would be deported to the Gaza Strip
within days. END An international army will have to be brought in
to keep the peace. This will be a
multinational group and it will keep the peace for a while.
A Palestinian state will be created and East Jerusalem will be their
capital. The future is now and it
won’t be long until these steps will have to be taken, possibly even forced
upon Israel by world pressure. They will be successful for a season, and even Israel will be
excited with the results. But as
time goes forward they will be attacked by the Arab world in revolt of the
antichrist’s wishes. I still believe that there will be a time period between the rapture and the tribulation period in which the world stage will change dramatically. Pastor Malone