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Results of the European Phonéton 2013 Armenian Fund Monday 25 Nov. 2013 http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=95083 The European Phonethon organized by the Armenian Fund of France in favor of Armenia, Karabakh and the Armenian community of Syria humanitarian operation, under the sign of solidarity and sharing and sponsored this year by actress Ariane Ascaris and director Robert Guédiguian, was closed this Sunday, November 24, 2013. Helped by nearly 750 volunteers from Orange platforms over € 1.46 million was raised (+4% compared to 2012 ), calls were collected in pledges from 50,000 families and businesses contacted during this operation. For the president of Armenian-Fund-of-France, Bedros Terzian, " once more, nor the economic crisis or political uncertainty could not start the unwavering commitment of our volunteers and donors to the population of Armenia, Karabakh and their brothers and sisters in Syria. In this year of 2013, their dedication and generosity, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium, as in all countries where the Armenian Fund is established, they send a strong message of hope for the future." Thousands of families will benefit from the projects that these gifts will achieve: agricultural development in Armenia; rural social welfare centers in Karabakh; road construction Vardenis - Mardakert, support to Armenian schools in Syria. € 1.24 million in pledges from France, Germany € 62,000, € 77,000 in Switzerland, € 23,000 in Greece, € 11,000 in Belgium etc. . Similar operations happening right now in the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Lebanon, as well as Armenia and Karabakh. [Armenia do have oil & gas in their homeland like azerbaijan to finance freely projects but they do have hears to give, and by giving their heart get bigger while the Azeri heart get smaller because they rely on oil & gas and not on themselves and their human abilities to donate by the sweat of they work; Azeris end up being lazy]. The Phonethon continues after November 24 . You can donate via www.fondsarmenien.org website or by phone : No Azur (cost of a local call) 0810 24 24 24, until 31 December 2013. About Armenian Fund of France: Calls are emitted from 4 centers ( Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse) provided by Orange, official partner of Phonethon . The Fund builds infrastructure in Armenia and Artsakh ( roads, schools, clinics and hospitals, drinking water, irrigation, electricity and gas, agriculture and livestock networks ... ) essential for socio-economic development of the people. Monday, November 25, 2013 , Ara © armenews.com

Sunday 43 Nov. 2013 Despite the crisis affecting Europe, Armenians throughout the European continent have responded overwhelmingly to the calls of filmmaker Robert Guédiguian and actress Ariane Ascaris to donate whatever they can, Nouvelles d’Armenia reports. This Phonethon, organized by the All-Armenia Fund in France, 1,460 million euros (almost one million & half) in four days, an increase of 4% compared to 2012, for the benefit of Artsakh, Armenia and the construction of schools in Syria.

Armenology author in his new book say "Karabakh (Artsakh) is Armenian and no Azeri was ever mentioned there Russia-resident Bashkir author and playwright Kim Bakshi was born in 1931 in Moscow. He started studying Armenology since 1964. He authored 6 books dedicated to Armenia and co-authored a documentary on Matenadaran. Yet in 2012, Kim Baksh informed the President of Armenia, that the collection of his books recounting about the Armenian people soon will be augmented by a new book already in production - The Spiritual Treasures of Artsakh. The President of Armenian thanked the celebrated writer who throughout his prolific activities dedicated numerous works to the Armenian people, its history and culture, contributing to the propagation, presenting our nation to the world in its best and making it more recognizable. For the years-long work aimed at the strengthening and development of the Armenian-Russian friendship and cultural ties, the President of Armenia decorated Kim Bakshi with the Order of Honor, which the great friend of the Armenian people received on the occasion of Armenia's 21st anniversary of Independence. For Armenian version of this article click on: http://armenpress.am/arm/news/740878/karabakh-is-armenian-land-and-no-azeri-was-ever-mentioned-there-kim-bakshi.html KARABAKH IS ARMENIAN LAND AND NO AZERI WAS EVER MENTIONED THERE: KIM BAKSHI Interview by Roza Grigoryan Nov. 21. 2013 http://armenpress.am/eng/news/740878/karabakh-is-armenian-land-and-no-azeri-was-ever-mentioned-there-kim-bakshi.html YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. Renowned author, scholar of the Armenian Studies, translator and culture expert Kim Bakshi authored a new book dedicated to Armenia and the Armenian people. "The Spiritual Treasures of Artsakh" dedicated to the history, picturesque landscape, and historical and cultural monuments has already been introduced to the public. "Armenpress" News Agency launched a visionary journey with Kim Bakshi and talked to him about the spiritual ties, which connect him with the Armenian people. - Kim Naumovish, how did You create Your new book titled "The Spiritual Treasures of Artsakh"? How long did it take You to write the book? - First of all I would like to mention that the idea of the book belongs to a wonderful woman Greta Mirzoyan, who once chaired the soldiers' mothers committee. Then, I attended the photo-exhibition by Hakob Berberyan, which was dedicated to Shushi. All those photos have been enclosed in this book. The Presidents of the Nagorno Karabakh Arkady Ghukasyan and then Bako Sahakyan urged me to create this book introducing the treasures of Artsakh. We paid USD 30 thousand only to the printing house to publish the book. Also, the Karabakh authorities gave me certain amount of money, so that I could travel in Europe and study books dedicated to Artsakh in France, England, and in the United States as well. First of all this book states that Artsakh is a place historical and cultural importance and it's an Armenian land. No Azerbaijani was ever mentioned or live there. It's a great spiritual centre. The Sarkisov family, Sergey Hambardzumyan, and Suren Sargsyan helped me to write the book. It took me two years to write the book. - There is a question you are, probably, frequently asked - how did you love Armenia? - When I visited Armenia for the first time 50 years ago, I did not know much about your country. I knew it was a sunny country and that the world's ancient state Urartu was here. We were fond of the Armenian cognac with three stars in Moscow. That time I paid a visit to Armenia as Vakhtang Ananyan's guest, who took me to Garni, Geghard, and Etchmiadzin, where I met with Catholicos Vasken I, who presented me a watch made in Switzerland. Even now I have a watch with the Armenian letters engraved on it (smiling). At that time I met with Silva Kaputikyan and Sos Sargsyan. We used to meet each other very frequently. Their loss grieved me deeply. After, we launched the production of movie titled "Matenadaran" with filmmaker Hovik Hakhverdyan. Serzh Sargsyan honors great Russian writer Kim Bakshi 24.Nov.2012 see photo at link http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/11/24/president-award/?sw/?sw Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has bestowed an Order of Honor upon the renowned Russian fiction writer, culture expert and Armenologist, Kim Bakshi. Receiving the great writer on Saturday, the president praised his role in the the strengthening and development of Armenian-Russian friendship and cultural ties. He thanked Bakshi for devoting numerous works to the Armenian nation, its history and culture over the course of his creative activity. According to a press release by the Presidential Office, Bakshhi told the president that his new book, The Spiritual Treasures of Artsakh, will soon enrich his literary series devoted to the Armenian nation. Sargsyan wished the writer sound health and success in all his future initiatives. Kim Bakshi was honored on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of Armenia’s independence.

IB = International Baccalaureate Advanced Placement (AP) courses and the International Baccalaureate (IB) program are both designed to provide opportunities beyond what the high school curriculum traditionally offers. The AP program, which is structured around a curriculum representing introductory college courses, allows students to enroll only in those courses in which they exhibit both ability and interest. In contrast, the IB program combines advanced content knowledge with a focus on the development of critical thinking and an appreciation of global issues. Earning an IB diploma requires a multiyear commitment across disciplines. UWC Dilijan authorised as an IB World School26.11.2013http://www.armradio.am/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dilijan-International-School-620x300.jpg In November 2013, UWC Dilijan has become fully accredited as an IB World School. This means that it is authorised to offer the IB Diploma Programme (taught in English), to students aged 16-18, starting in September 2014. The IB Diploma has become a symbol of academic integrity and intellectual promise throughout the world of international education, and is a sound preparation for students seeking entrance to the best universities and colleges in the world. In the full Diploma programme, each student studies three Higher Level (HL) and three Standard Level (SL) subjects. IB candidates are also required to write an Extended Essay, complete a course of Theory of Knowledge (TOK), and actively engage in Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) components. See the Academic section of this website for the subjects to be offered at UWC Dilijan. In October, 2013 Dilijan International School became a UWC school (United World Colleges) under the name of UWC Dilijan. Dilijan International School is a large-scale philanthropic initiative which will put Armenia on the world educational map. DIS will open its doors in September 2014 for 90 students. By 2023 the school will host 650 students from at least 60 countries. 90% of gifted students will receive full scholarships granted by the DIS benefactors.

This article is of interest to Armenians as Armenia has chosen UC of Russia. Armenia faces some/few treatments that Russia gave to Ukraine.. Putin's Gambit: How the EU Lost Ukraine By SPIEGEL Staff 25 Nov. 2013 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/how-the-eu-lost-to-russia-in-negotiations-over-ukraine-trade-deal-a-935476.html This tug-of-war began four years ago, when the EU proposed an "eastern partnership" with Ukraine as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus. Russian President Vladimir Putin's decisive move came on Nov. 9. That day, after years of courtship, and several months of promises and threats, he met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at a military airport near Moscow. The meeting was so clandestine the Russians initially denied that it had taken place at all. Before that point, the plan had been for Yanukovych to sign a 900-page association agreement, a sort of engagement contract, with the European Union in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Nov. 29. But in early November near Moscow, Putin seems to have sealed an alliance with Ukraine, preempting his rivals in Brussels. And last Thursday Yanukovych postponed the signing of the EU agreement indefinitely. After giving temporary asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden and brokering a deal to have Syria give up its chemical weapons, it was Putin's third recent victory over the West, albeit probably not a permanent one. After all, Yanukovych's agreement with Putin is a marriage of convenience, not a marriage of love. Europe's 'Eastern Partnership' Dream This tug-of-war began four years ago, when the EU proposed an "eastern partnership" with Ukraine as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus. The EU offered cooperation, free trade and financial contributions in exchange for democratic reforms. Officials in Brussels spoke enthusiastically about the emergence of an historic Eastern European policy not unlike former German Chancellor Willy Brandt's rapprochement with the Warsaw Pact countries in the 1970s. The planned partnership agreements were intended to facilitate visa-free travel, reduce tariffs and introduce European norms. The only thing that was not offered was EU membership. The EU's other goal, even though it was not as openly expressed, was to limit Russia's influence and define how far Europe extends into the east. For Russia, the struggle to win over Ukraine is not only about maintaining its geopolitical influence, but about having control over a region that was the nucleus of the Russian empire a millennium ago. The word Ukraine translates as "border country," and many feel the capital Kiev is the mother of all Russian cities. This helped create Cold War-style grappling between Moscow and Brussels. The Russian president, hardened by his fights in the Kremlin, is more adept than EU bureaucrats at manipulating people with venality and affections. None of the top European politicians made a serious effort to win over Ukraine, with neither German Chancellor Angela Merkel nor European Commission President José Manuel Barroso flying to Kiev to convince its wavering president. 'Unprecendented Pressure' from Russia "I believe the unprecedented pressure from the Russians was the decisive factor," says former Polish Prime Minister and intermediary Aleksander Kwasniewski. "The Russians used everything in their arsenal." Elmar Brok, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the European Parliament, says: "Yanukovych kept all options open until the end, so as to get the best possible deal." The official reason for the agreement's failure is Yulia Tymoshenko, the opposition politician who has been in prison for the last two years. The EU had made her release a condition of the agreement. Yanukovych was unwilling to release his former rival, and last week the parliament in Kiev failed to approve a bill that would have secured her release. But then there are the financial incentives. In the end, the Russian president seems to have promised his Ukrainian counterpart several billion euros in the form of subsidies, debt forgiveness and duty-free imports. The EU, for its part, had offered Ukraine loans worth €610 million ($827 million), which it had increased at the last moment, along with the vague prospect of a €1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Yanukovych chose Putin's billions instead. The EU had been banking on its radiant appeal, and on its great promise of prosperity, freedom and democracy, but now Brussels must confront the fact that, for the first time, an attempt at rapprochement was rebuffed because the price was wrong. "If Yanukovych doesn't want to make a deal, then he simply doesn't want to," says Brok. Battle of the Unions The EU's eastern partnership had gotten off to a rocky start even before the Ukrainian incident. Belarus dashed the EU's hopes it would join when protesters were violently suppressed after the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in 2010. Armenia called off an association agreement with the EU this September. In the case of Ukraine, it initially seemed as if the Europeans' rational arguments would prevail over Russia's threatening gestures. According to an internal EU analysis, joining the "Eurasian Union" -- a Russia-backed proposed political and economic union including Russia, Tajikistan, Kazahkstan, Belarus and others -- would severely limit Ukraine's sovereignty. Once such a union had been formed, Kiev would no longer be able to enter into any other free trade agreements without Moscow's approval. An alliance with Moscow would thus have the exclusive nature of a marriage. The EU's eastern partnership, in contrast, would still allow Ukraine to enter into other alliances. And Yanukovych, who has been considered a puppet of the Kremlin, even implemented many of the reforms demanded by the EU. The legal system and criminal law were modernized, trade restrictions were reduced and a few political prisoners were released. "He implemented more reforms than the pro-Western predecessor regime under Tymoshenko," says an EU negotiator. EU Hopes Dashed But it turns out those reforms didn't go as the EU hoped. According to the Freedom House organization, democratic basic rights in these eastern partnership candidate nations have not been strengthened in the wake of EU reform demands. Instead, they claim, many of the reforms were implemented half-heartedly and governments only consolidated their power. The Europeans had mistakenly believed Kiev would automatically turn to the West. After all, isn't half of the population in favor of closer ties with the EU? And aren't there more Ukrainian immigrant workers living in the West than in Russia? They based their argument on economic sustainability, believing they could convince Yanukovych with the prospect of long-term growth rates of at least 6 percent. By contrast, a customs union with Russia would reduce Ukraine's economic growth in the long term. But in truth, the most important goal for Yanukovych -- who may come across as unsophisticated, but is in fact a shrewd poker player -- is to hold onto power. In order to be reelected in 2015, he needs rapid economic improvement. Ukraine has slid into recession and could even be insolvent soon. The rating agencies have repeatedly downgraded the country's credit rating. Besides, Ukraine is dependent on Russian natural gas, and Moscow has already flexed its muscles by turning off supplies in the winter on three occasions. This is why Yanukovych needs the Putin who in recent months has made the consequences of an EU deal unmistakably clear to Ukraine. In August, Russian officials began painstakingly inspecting trucks from Ukraine bringing goods across the border into Russia. Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuck was barred from importing steel pipes to Russia, and a former cabinet minister was prevented from selling his chocolate in the country. These measures have led to a 25 percent decline in exports since 2011. Ukraine exports a third of its goods to Russia and other former countries of the former Soviet Union, and only 25 percent to the EU. Russia also threatened that it would require Ukrainians to apply for visas to travel to the country in the future. Three days after the secret meeting in Moscow, Ukrainian oligarchs, apparently in consultation with the Kremlin, asked Yanukovych to postpone signing the EU association treaty by a year. Zurkov the Manipulator The Kremlin made it clear the harassment could become permanent. Sergei Glazyev, Putin's adviser for the economic reintegration of the republics that gained their independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, predicted that Kiev would experience an "economic disaster" if it signed the agreement with the EU. "Ukraine is sacrificing its sovereignty," he said threateningly at a conference on the Crimean Peninsula, which is former Russian territory. Vladislav Zurkov -- the Kremlin's former main ideologist, who had fallen out of favor but was brought back by Putin two months ago -- was sitting in one of the back rows. His mission was to help Moscow regain its control over the countries of the former Soviet Union. When someone like Zurkov appears at a meeting, it means intrigues are under way. In Russia, Zurkov has founded parties and let them fade away based on Putin's needs. He could do the same thing in Ukraine, by siphoning off Yanukovych's pro-Russian voters and all but destroying Yanukovych's chances of reelection. It is unclear whether Putin had to voice all of these threats in his meeting with Yanukovych. It was probably no longer necessary. Yanukovych had already understood that his only hope for political survival was to throw in his lot with the Russians. The threats were also accompanied by promises. Putin held out the prospect of loans, lower gas prices and debt forgiveness with Russian energy giant Gazprom, to which Ukraine owes $1.3 billion. Pipeline Under Threat Another project could suffer a fate similar to that of the association agreement: a natural gas contract, negotiated under the auspices of the EU, which was supposed to be signed on Nov. 22. Once again, everything seemed to have been agreed upon, but then the Ukrainians were suddenly saying minor technical details had yet to be ironed out. "This has already been going back and forth for a year now," says one of the frustrated lead negotiators. Everyone had expected the agreement to be signed, because it would have enabled the Ukrainians to liberate themselves, gas-wise, from the clutches of the Russians, especially as they now pay significantly more for Russian gas than major Western companies, such as German energy conglomerate RWE. Under the new agreement, pipelines in EU member-state Slovakia would be rebuilt to allow for reverse gas flows, so gas destined for Western Europe could also be transported to Ukraine in the future. But Yanukovych is hesitating. Because of the necessary upgrading work, the gas from the West could not begin flowing to Ukraine until next September. This would make the Ukrainians vulnerable to blackmail, at least this winter. And the negotiations over the new contract already seem to have helped Yanukovych, with the Russians signaling significant price cuts for Ukraine. It appears Yanukovych has played his cards right once again. That is, if he can contain the political anger within Ukraine. On Sunday, the largest demonstration in the country since 2004's Orange Revolution took place in Kiev. According police estimates, 23,000 people protested the withdrawal from the EU pact negotiations, including boxing champ Vitali Klitschko. Organizers place the number at over 100,000. Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter, Eugenia, personally reached out to Angela Merkel for help in an interview with Germany's Bild tabloid, saying that, if nothing was done, her mother would die. What Now? In Brussels, European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule tried to compose himself last Friday. "Only when the summit officially begins will we know, once and for all, whether or not Ukraine intends to sign." But no one expects a quick agreement anymore. Even Fule is already thinking about possible next steps. He also seems somewhat at a loss when he says that the EU has no interest in engaging in a competition with Russia -- as if one hadn't already happened. "It's difficult to say when the negotiations will be resumed," says middleman Kwasniewski. The European Parliament will be elected next year, there will be changes at the European Commission, and a presidential election in Ukraine in 2015. "It seems to me that the pause is going to be longer rather than shorter," Kwasniewski adds. REPORTED BY CHRISTOPH PAULY, JAN PUHL, MATTHIAS SCHEPP, GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ AND CHRISTOPH SCHULT -------------------------------- P.S by MAN: The situation in Ukraine is bad, when it split from the Soviet Union IT HAD NO DEBT AT ALL, but after liberation and privatization of its economy it had debt in the billions and billions and not being able to pay back; Ukraine's dept keeps increasing. Its people left by the millions & millions seeking work outside Ukraine. Its girls and women went into prostitution so they can survive, Turks specially are crazy visiting Ukraine for blond beauty of Ukrainian women ready to sell their bodies in sex for money. Russia is the few countries in the world now that has no debt or just a little; Russia is so large (larger than USA) that minerals, gas and oil in their land is enough to keep Russia debt free.

Putin's RUSSIA TODAY F. Stephen Larrabee writes in Journal of International Affairs Issue: Vol. 63, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2010 Page 33-52 http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/russia-ukraine-and-central-europe-return-geopolitics For a decade [after the fall of the Soviet Union], Russia’s weakness prevented Moscow from exerting much influence in global and regional affairs, and Western policy makers became accustomed to having a free ride. Russia objected to many Western policies—NATO enlargement, Kosovo, etc.—but it was powerless to do much about them. The predominant Western assumption was that with time Russia would “come around” and see the advantage of closer cooperation with the West. Many of these assumptions, however, proved to be wrong. Russia has recovered more rapidly than many observers expected. Much of the credit belongs to Vladimir Putin. Putin came to power determined to rebuild the power of the Russian state and reassert Russian power and influence abroad, particularly in the post-Soviet space. Aided by a significant rise in energy prices in the first years of his rule, he largely succeeded. During his presidency, the Russian economy significantly recovered, and Russia’s influence abroad visibly increased. Indeed, there was a close connection between Putin’s domestic and foreign policy. In Putin’s conception, restoring Russia’s power and influence abroad required rebuilding the power of the Russian state at home, particularly halting the erosion of power from the “center” to the periphery that had occurred under Yeltsin, and regaining state control over the “commanding heights” (i.e. key strategic industries, particularly energy) of the economy. This in turn required reducing the independence and power of the oligarchs—who had exploited the free-wheeling economic climate and lack of strong state control under Yeltsin to amass great wealth—either through co-option, intimidation, or exile. It also meant exerting greater central control over the unruly media, and making it a more compliant tool and supporter of government policy. The extent of Russia’s political and economic recovery, however, is not the only significant aspect; its nature and goals were also extremely important. Russia today has become, in effect, a revisionist power; it seeks to reestablish its influence in the post-Soviet space and wants to change the post-Cold War security order in Europe. Russia feels that order was imposed upon it by the West at a time when Russia was weak. This security order does not, in the Russian view, sufficiently take into consideration Russia’s recently changed status and interests. This was the essence of Putin’s message in his famous speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2007.1 In his speech, Putin made clear–in strident language reminiscent of the Cold War—that Russia was back and that it did not need, nor intend to take, lessons from the West about how to behave in the international arena. This statement was especially directed at the United States, which Putin claimed was ignoring and trampling all over international law. Russia had its own national interests, he stressed, and these interests would dictate Russian policy.

Putin Beats Europe in Battle for Ukraine By Leonid Bershidsky Nov 25, 2013 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-25/putin-beats-europe-in-battle-for-ukraine.html This is good analysis article about what is happening in Ukraine, if you have time click and read. Ukraine as member of Customs Union of Russia will have its persecutions in Armenia, for much good. Here are some thoughts from the article: With the European Union afflicted by financial troubles and rising nationalism, it's particularly impressive that the people of one country -- Ukraine -- still want in; also some in Armenia want the same with the sick EU that may fall dead any day now. Yanukovych (Ukraine prez) and his team were determined to sell their country's allegiance to the highest bidder. EU, afflicted by financial troubles, offered to Ukraine 1 billion euros over seven years, (while modernizing Ukrainian industry to EU standards will cost at least 150 billion to 165 billion euros). Putin, when Yanukovich secretly went to Kremlin, offered Ukraine something more persuasive than whatever cheap loans and grants the EU was willing to put up. Putin promised to renegotiate Ukraine's contracts with Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled natural gas supplier. Ukraine pays about $410 per thousand cubic meters of natural gas, compared with the $175 Gazprom charges the more pliant Belarus. "About half the country [of Ukraine] has been building their own personal [of Western] Europe at home, they start with small things: not chucking cigarette butts from their windows, planting flowers on balconies, trading cars for bicycles for a number of personal reasons, teaching their children tolerance and several foreign languages. With schizophrenic persistence, they refuse to bribe judges and police [the legacy of the Soviet Union], paying for this with lost cases and huge fines." It was these people [some 100,000] who took to the streets on Nov. 24 to demand that Yanukovych, their president, sign the EU deal no matter what. But the cynical Ukrainian government will go with whoever offers to bail it out.

I Am coming to renew the Earth, to free man from his misery, sorrow and sinSunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 14:00 My dearly beloved daughter, I want the world to see Me, their beloved Saviour, the Son of man, in all My Glory, so that they will draw into My Divine Mercy. I want all those, especially those who do not believe in God, to see Me and run to Me first. They are My first concern and I tell them this. You do not know Me. You do not see Me. You do not want to believe in Me, but I love you. I want you to be part of My Kingdom, so I can lavish upon you all the Gifts of My New Paradise, My New World, My New Beginning. I want you, your family, your relatives and friends to be as one, with Me and the whole of humanity. You must wait until the great event, the day when the world will alight with My Rays and when it will stay still for fifteen minutes. When you see this and witness it, you must not be afraid. Know then that My Love is Divine and that the world will, from that day, change beyond recognition. Do not try to run away from Me, for I Am coming with good news. I Am coming to renew the Earth, to free man from his misery, sorrow and sin. I Am coming to destroy all evil in the world by providing everyone with the proof of My Existence. When this is given to you, you must allow Me to prepare you for the Eternal Life I promised. Eternal Life is a life where you will live in body and soul with Me forever. I will put you out of your misery and eliminate the pain, which you have to endure because of the existence of Satan and he will be banished for eternity. Do not reject Me, for I do not want to lose you. I Am your Salvation. I Am the Truth. I Am your beloved Jesus Christ and I, at last, will soon make Myself known to the world and especially to those who do not believe in Me. Your Jesus

Olympic 2013-2014 California-born skier Arman Serebrakian is an American alpine skier set to hit the slopes for the Armenian ski team in Sochi, 26 years old, he was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in a family of ethnic Armenians from Iran. Sochi will be Serebrakian’s first Olympic Games, and he has taken a year-long break from his medical studies – he is interested in becoming a surgeon like his father – to train, with a trip to Armenia planned ahead of the games, which are set to kick off February 7. 2013. Armenia has won a total of 12 Olympic medals and just one gold, all of those came in the Summer Games events of wrestling, weightlifting and boxing. Sochi, home to a large percentage of the 281,000 ethnic Armenians who, according to 2010 census data, live in the Krasnodar Region, where the Black Sea resort is located. Unofficial estimates have put that number at 500,000 or higher. Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia on the Kuban River. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai (also known as Kuban). There are many Armenians living in the Krasnodar city and Kuban region. They are active participants in region's social and political life.

Usually Armenia follows Russia in matters of...and its expected that the Armenian president will sign a similar bill as Russia against abortion. However, we hope to see in the news soon that Russia will give Armenian mothers of Armenia a million dollars each in order to breed children in dozens who will emigrate when adult to Russia to help in the prosperity of Russia, since Armenia has become a breeding land for Russia's population increase, Russia might as well start paying the Armenian mothers with children. Putin OKs Bill Banning Advertising for Abortions http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131125/184974270/Putin-OKs-Bill-Banning-Advertising-for-Abortions.html MOSCOW, November 25, 2013 (RAPSI) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off Monday on a bill banning advertising for abortion through either medical intervention or traditional practices. The bill also addresses other areas of the country’s health system and marks the latest effort at restricting access to abortion as Russia battles to boost stagnant birth rates. One provision raises the age at which minors do not need require parental consent for medical examinations from 14 to 15. The age at which parent’s consent is needed for treatment for drug dependency will be raised from 16 to 18. The law also regulates the provision of HIV patients with free medication administered by federal and regional outpatient clinics. And producers and distributors of pharmaceutical goods will now face penalties for encouraging physicians to prescribe specific drugs in exchange for gifts and financial inducements. Abortion was a common method of birth control in the Soviet era and Russia still had the highest number of abortions per woman of childbearing age in the world in 2004, according to UN data. A law passed in 2011 made abortion legal only up until the 12th week of pregnancy. Some exceptions for termination up to the 22nd week of pregnancy are still permitted in the event medical complications or rape.

"As in the sixteenth century … we will once again make the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, together with Turkey , the center of world politics in the future. That is the goal of Turkish foreign policy and we will achieve it." Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoglu SO FAR TURKEY HAS BECOME THE CLOWN OF THE MIDDLE EAST It will end up in flames during World War III Deceiving 'Window of Opportunity ' 'Arab Idol' No More Backpedaling too late Syria, Egypt Reveal Erdogan's 'Hidden Agenda' By Nicola Nasser http://en.ammonnews.net Nov-23-2013 http://www.aina.org/...31123122501.htm Quoted by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby, writing in last March/April edition of www.worldaffairsjournal.org, the goal of Erdogan's AKP ruling party for 2023, as proclaimed by its recent Fourth General Congress, is: "A great nation, a great power." Erdogan urged the youth of Turkey to look not only to 2023, but to 2071 as well when Turkey "will reach the level of our Ottoman and Seljuk ancestors by the year 2071" as he said in December last year. "2071 will mark one thousand years since the Battle of Manzikert (1071)," when the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire and heralded the advent of the Ottoman one, according to Fradkin and Libby. Some six months ago, Davotoglu felt so confident and optimistic to assess that "it was now finally possible to revise the order imposed" by the British -- French Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 to divide the Arab legacy of the Ottoman Empire between them. Davotoglu knows very well that Pan-Arabs have been ever since struggling unsuccessfully so far to unite as a nation and discard the legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, but not to recur to the Ottoman status quo ante, but he knows as well that Islamist political movements like the Muslim Brotherhood International (MBI) and the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) were originally founded in Egypt and Palestine respectively in response to the collapse of the Ottoman Islamic caliphate. [this may explain was Erdogan became a member of Muslim Brotherhood before being elected PM] However, Erdogan's Islamist credentials cannot be excluded as simply a sham; his background, his practices in office since 2002 as well as his regional policies since the eruption of the Syrian conflict less than three years ago all reveal that he does believe in his version of Islam per se as the right tool to pursue his Ottoman not so-"hidden agenda." Erdogan obviously is seeking to recruit Muslims as merely "soldiers" who will fight not for Islam per se, but for his neo-Ottomanism ambitions. Early enough in December 1997, he was given a 10-month prison sentence for voicing a poem that read: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers;" the poem was considered a violation of Kemalism by the secular judiciary. Deceiving 'Window of Opportunity ' However, Erdogan's Machiavellianism finds no contradiction between his Islamist outreach and his promotion of the "Turkish model," which sells what is termed as the "moderate" Sunni Islam within the context of Ataturk's secular and liberal state as both an alternative to the conservative tribal-religious states in the Arabian Peninsula and to the sectarian rival of the conservative Shiite theocracy in Iran. He perceived in the latest US withdrawal of focus from the Middle East towards the Pacific Ocean a resulting regional power vacuum providing him with an historic window of opportunity to fill the perceived vacuum. [Actually US was pushed out of the Middle East and is in the proccess of being pushed out after the fiasco of the "Arab Spring" while Russia is getting stronger steadily in the Middle East] "Weakening of Europe and the US' waning influence in the Middle East" were seen by the leadership of Erdogan's ruling party "as a new chance to establish Turkey as an influential player in the region," Günter Seufert wrote in the German Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) on last October 14. The US and Israel, in earnest to recruit Turkey against Iran, nurtured Erdogan's illusion of regional leadership. He deluded himself with the unrealistic belief that Turkey could stand up to and sidestep the rising stars of the emerging Russian international polar, the emerging Iranian regional polar and the traditional regional players of Egypt and Saudi Arabia , let alone Iraq and Syria should they survive their current internal strife. For sure, his allies in the Muslim Brotherhood International (MBI) and his thinly veiled Machiavellian logistical support of al-Qaeda -- linked terrorist organizations are not and will not be a counter balance. He first focused his Arab outreach on promoting the "Turkish model," especially during the early months of the so-called "Arab Spring," as the example he hoped will be followed by the revolting masses, which would have positioned him in the place of the regional mentor and leader. But while the eruption of the Syrian conflict compelled him to reveal his Islamist "hidden agenda" and his alliance with the MBI, the removal of MBI last July from power in Egypt with all its geopolitical weight, supported by the other regional Arab heavy weight of Saudi Arabia, took him off guard and dispelled his ambitions for regional leadership, but more importantly revealed more his neo-Ottoman "hidden agenda" and pushed him to drop all the secular and liberal pretensions of his "Turkish model" rhetoric. 'Arab Idol' No More Erdogan and his foreign policy engineer Davotoglu tried as well to exploit the Arab and Muslim adoption of the Palestine Question as the central item on their foreign policy agendas. However, in interviews with ResearchTurkey, CNN Turk and other media outlets, Abdullatif Sener, a founder of Erdogan's AKP party who served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in successive AKP governments for about seven years before he broke out with Erdogan in 2008, highlighted Erdogan's Machiavellianism and questioned the sincerity and credibility of his Islamic, Palestinian and Arab public posturing. "Erdogan acts without considering religion even at some basic issues but he hands down sharp religious messages … I consider the AK Party not as an Islamic party but as a party which collect votes by using Islamic discourses," Sener said, adding that, "the role in Middle East was assigned to him" and "the strongest logistic support" to Islamists who have "been carrying out terrorist activities" in Syria "is provided by Turkey" of Erdogan. In an interview with CNN Turk, Sener dropped a bombshell when he pointed out that the AKP's spat with Israel was "controlled." During the diplomatic boycott of Israel many tenders were granted to Israeli companies and Turkey has agreed to grant partner status to Israel in NATO: "If the concern of the AKP is to confront Israel then why do they serve to the benefit of Israel ?" In another interview he said that the NATO radar systems installed in Malatya are there to protect Israel against Iran . Sener argued that the biggest winner of the collapse of the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad would be Israel because it will weaken Lebanon 's Hizbullah and Iran , yet Erdogan's Turkey is the most ardent supporter of a regime change in Syria , he said. Erdogan's Syrian policy was the death knell to his strategy of "Zero Problems with Neighbors;" the bloody terrorist swamp of the Syrian conflict has drowned it in its quicksand. Liz Sly's story in the Washington Post on this November 17 highlighted how his Syrian policies "have gone awry" and counterproductive by "putting al-Qaeda on NATO's (Turkish) borders for the first time." With his MBI alliance, he alienated Egypt , Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in addition to the other Arab heavy weights of Syria , Iraq and Algeria and was left with "zero friends" in the region. According to Günter Seufert, Turkey 's overall foreign policy, not only with regards to Syria , "has hit the brick wall" because the leadership of Erdogan's ruling party "has viewed global political shifts through an ideologically (i.e. Islamist) tinted lens." Backpedaling too late Now it seems Erdogan's " Turkey is already carefully backpedaling" on its foreign policy," said Seufert. It "wants to reconnect" with Iran and " Washington 's request to end support for radical groups in Syria did not fall on deaf Turkish ears." "Reconnecting" with Iran and its Iraqi ruling sectarian brethren will alienate further the Saudis who could not tolerate similar reconnection by their historical and strategic US ally and who were already furious over Erdogan's alliance with the Qatari financed and US sponsored Muslim Brotherhood and did not hesitate to publicly risk a rift with their US ally over the removal of the MBI from power in Egypt five months ago. Within this context came Davotoglu's recent visit to Baghdad , which "highlighted the need for great cooperation between Turkey and Iraq against the Sunni-Shiite conflict," according to www.turkishweekly.net on this November 13. Moreover, he "personally" wanted "to spend the month of Muharram every year in (the Iraqi Shiite holy places of) Karbala and Najaf with our (Shiite) brothers there." Within the same "backpedaling" context came Erdogan's playing the host last week to the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani, not in Ankara , but in Diyarbakir , which Turkish Kurds cherish as their capital in the same way Iraqi Kurds cherish Kirkuk . However, on the same day of Barzani's visit Erdogan ruled out the possibility of granting Turkish Kurds their universal right of self-determination when he announced "Islamic brotherhood" as the solution for the Kurdish ethnic conflict in Turkey , while his deputy, Bulent Arinc, announced that "a general amnesty" for Kurdish detainees "is not on today's agenda." Three days earlier, on this November 15, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said, "Turkey cannot permit (the) fait accompli" of declaring a Kurdish provisional self-rule along its southern borders in Syria which his prime minister's counterproductive policies created together with an al-Qaeda-dominated northeastern strip of Syrian land. Erdogan's neo-Ottomanism charged by his Islamist sectarian ideology as a tool has backfired to alienate both Sunni and Shiite regional environment, the Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Emirati, Saudi and Lebanese Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Israelis and Iranians as well as Turkish and regional liberals and secularists. His foreign policy is in shambles with a heavy economic price as shown by the recent 13.2% devaluation of the Turkish lira against the US dollar. "Backpedaling" might be too late to get Erdogan and his party through the upcoming local elections next March and the presidential elections which will follow in August next year.

"As in the sixteenth century … we will once again make the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, together with Turkey , the center of world politics in the future. That is the goal of Turkish foreign policy and we will achieve it." Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoglu SO FAR TURKEY HAS BECOME THE CLOWN OF THE MIDDLE EAST It will end up in flames during World War III Deceiving 'Window of Opportunity ' 'Arab Idol' No More Backpedaling too late Syria, Egypt Reveal Erdogan's 'Hidden Agenda' By Nicola Nasser http://en.ammonnews.net Nov-23-2013 http://www.aina.org/news/20131123122501.htm Quoted by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby, writing in last March/April edition of www.worldaffairsjournal.org, the goal of Erdogan's AKP ruling party for 2023, as proclaimed by its recent Fourth General Congress, is: "A great nation, a great power." Erdogan urged the youth of Turkey to look not only to 2023, but to 2071 as well when Turkey "will reach the level of our Ottoman and Seljuk ancestors by the year 2071" as he said in December last year. "2071 will mark one thousand years since the Battle of Manzikert (1071)," when the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire and heralded the advent of the Ottoman one, according to Fradkin and Libby. Some six months ago, Davotoglu felt so confident and optimistic to assess that "it was now finally possible to revise the order imposed" by the British -- French Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 to divide the Arab legacy of the Ottoman Empire between them. Davotoglu knows very well that Pan-Arabs have been ever since struggling unsuccessfully so far to unite as a nation and discard the legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, but not to recur to the Ottoman status quo ante, but he knows as well that Islamist political movements like the Muslim Brotherhood International (MBI) and the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) were originally founded in Egypt and Palestine respectively in response to the collapse of the Ottoman Islamic caliphate. [this may explain was Erdogan became a member of Muslim Brotherhood before being elected PM] However, Erdogan's Islamist credentials cannot be excluded as simply a sham; his background, his practices in office since 2002 as well as his regional policies since the eruption of the Syrian conflict less than three years ago all reveal that he does believe in his version of Islam per se as the right tool to pursue his Ottoman not so-"hidden agenda." Erdogan obviously is seeking to recruit Muslims as merely "soldiers" who will fight not for Islam per se, but for his neo-Ottomanism ambitions. Early enough in December 1997, he was given a 10-month prison sentence for voicing a poem that read: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers;" the poem was considered a violation of Kemalism by the secular judiciary. Deceiving 'Window of Opportunity ' However, Erdogan's Machiavellianism finds no contradiction between his Islamist outreach and his promotion of the "Turkish model," which sells what is termed as the "moderate" Sunni Islam within the context of Ataturk's secular and liberal state as both an alternative to the conservative tribal-religious states in the Arabian Peninsula and to the sectarian rival of the conservative Shiite theocracy in Iran. He perceived in the latest US withdrawal of focus from the Middle East towards the Pacific Ocean a resulting regional power vacuum providing him with an historic window of opportunity to fill the perceived vacuum. [Actually US was pushed out of the Middle East and is in the proccess of being pushed out after the fiasco of the "Arab Spring" while Russia is getting stronger steadily in the Middle East] "Weakening of Europe and the US' waning influence in the Middle East" were seen by the leadership of Erdogan's ruling party "as a new chance to establish Turkey as an influential player in the region," Günter Seufert wrote in the German Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) on last October 14. The US and Israel, in earnest to recruit Turkey against Iran, nurtured Erdogan's illusion of regional leadership. He deluded himself with the unrealistic belief that Turkey could stand up to and sidestep the rising stars of the emerging Russian international polar, the emerging Iranian regional polar and the traditional regional players of Egypt and Saudi Arabia , let alone Iraq and Syria should they survive their current internal strife. For sure, his allies in the Muslim Brotherhood International (MBI) and his thinly veiled Machiavellian logistical support of al-Qaeda -- linked terrorist organizations are not and will not be a counter balance. He first focused his Arab outreach on promoting the "Turkish model," especially during the early months of the so-called "Arab Spring," as the example he hoped will be followed by the revolting masses, which would have positioned him in the place of the regional mentor and leader. But while the eruption of the Syrian conflict compelled him to reveal his Islamist "hidden agenda" and his alliance with the MBI, the removal of MBI last July from power in Egypt with all its geopolitical weight, supported by the other regional Arab heavy weight of Saudi Arabia, took him off guard and dispelled his ambitions for regional leadership, but more importantly revealed more his neo-Ottoman "hidden agenda" and pushed him to drop all the secular and liberal pretensions of his "Turkish model" rhetoric. 'Arab Idol' No More Erdogan and his foreign policy engineer Davotoglu tried as well to exploit the Arab and Muslim adoption of the Palestine Question as the central item on their foreign policy agendas. However, in interviews with ResearchTurkey, CNN Turk and other media outlets, Abdullatif Sener, a founder of Erdogan's AKP party who served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in successive AKP governments for about seven years before he broke out with Erdogan in 2008, highlighted Erdogan's Machiavellianism and questioned the sincerity and credibility of his Islamic, Palestinian and Arab public posturing. "Erdogan acts without considering religion even at some basic issues but he hands down sharp religious messages … I consider the AK Party not as an Islamic party but as a party which collect votes by using Islamic discourses," Sener said, adding that, "the role in Middle East was assigned to him" and "the strongest logistic support" to Islamists who have "been carrying out terrorist activities" in Syria "is provided by Turkey" of Erdogan. In an interview with CNN Turk, Sener dropped a bombshell when he pointed out that the AKP's spat with Israel was "controlled." During the diplomatic boycott of Israel many tenders were granted to Israeli companies and Turkey has agreed to grant partner status to Israel in NATO: "If the concern of the AKP is to confront Israel then why do they serve to the benefit of Israel ?" In another interview he said that the NATO radar systems installed in Malatya are there to protect Israel against Iran . Sener argued that the biggest winner of the collapse of the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad would be Israel because it will weaken Lebanon 's Hizbullah and Iran , yet Erdogan's Turkey is the most ardent supporter of a regime change in Syria , he said. Erdogan's Syrian policy was the death knell to his strategy of "Zero Problems with Neighbors;" the bloody terrorist swamp of the Syrian conflict has drowned it in its quicksand. Liz Sly's story in the Washington Post on this November 17 highlighted how his Syrian policies "have gone awry" and counterproductive by "putting al-Qaeda on NATO's (Turkish) borders for the first time." With his MBI alliance, he alienated Egypt , Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in addition to the other Arab heavy weights of Syria , Iraq and Algeria and was left with "zero friends" in the region. According to Günter Seufert, Turkey 's overall foreign policy, not only with regards to Syria , "has hit the brick wall" because the leadership of Erdogan's ruling party "has viewed global political shifts through an ideologically (i.e. Islamist) tinted lens." Backpedaling too late Now it seems Erdogan's " Turkey is already carefully backpedaling" on its foreign policy," said Seufert. It "wants to reconnect" with Iran and " Washington 's request to end support for radical groups in Syria did not fall on deaf Turkish ears." "Reconnecting" with Iran and its Iraqi ruling sectarian brethren will alienate further the Saudis who could not tolerate similar reconnection by their historical and strategic US ally and who were already furious over Erdogan's alliance with the Qatari financed and US sponsored Muslim Brotherhood and did not hesitate to publicly risk a rift with their US ally over the removal of the MBI from power in Egypt five months ago. Within this context came Davotoglu's recent visit to Baghdad , which "highlighted the need for great cooperation between Turkey and Iraq against the Sunni-Shiite conflict," according to www.turkishweekly.net on this November 13. Moreover, he "personally" wanted "to spend the month of Muharram every year in (the Iraqi Shiite holy places of) Karbala and Najaf with our (Shiite) brothers there." Within the same "backpedaling" context came Erdogan's playing the host last week to the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani, not in Ankara , but in Diyarbakir , which Turkish Kurds cherish as their capital in the same way Iraqi Kurds cherish Kirkuk . However, on the same day of Barzani's visit Erdogan ruled out the possibility of granting Turkish Kurds their universal right of self-determination when he announced "Islamic brotherhood" as the solution for the Kurdish ethnic conflict in Turkey , while his deputy, Bulent Arinc, announced that "a general amnesty" for Kurdish detainees "is not on today's agenda." Three days earlier, on this November 15, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said, "Turkey cannot permit (the) fait accompli" of declaring a Kurdish provisional self-rule along its southern borders in Syria which his prime minister's counterproductive policies created together with an al-Qaeda-dominated northeastern strip of Syrian land. Erdogan's neo-Ottomanism charged by his Islamist sectarian ideology as a tool has backfired to alienate both Sunni and Shiite regional environment, the Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Emirati, Saudi and Lebanese Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Israelis and Iranians as well as Turkish and regional liberals and secularists. His foreign policy is in shambles with a heavy economic price as shown by the recent 13.2% devaluation of the Turkish lira against the US dollar. "Backpedaling" might be too late to get Erdogan and his party through the upcoming local elections next March and the presidential elections which will follow in August next year.

The Singing Ambassador There is a singing Ambassador, to my best knowledge he is the only singing Ambassador in the world, and the oldest active Ambassador since he is 89 years old (singing makes one stay young); he is the Ambassador of Armenia to Switzerland since 2009. His name is Charles Aznavour and he resides in the place of his ambassadorship in Switzerland. Aznavour has dual citizenship, Armenian and French (or was it Swiss?). He was invited by the Israeli President Shimon Peres not for political business but for giving a concert in Tel Aviv. On Friday 22 November, 2013, before the concert on Saturday, Shimon Peres invited the Armenian Ambassador for lunch who was glad to be hosted by the Israeli President. On Friday he also gave a press conference saying he has come to sing for peace; he said also that he was saddened that Israel has still not recognized the Armenian Genocide by the Turks. He said Jews and Armenians, two people, who know how to love life (la vie) otherwise they would not have survived for so long. Unfortunately the Palestinians did not ask Aznavour to come sing for them since dancing and singing is against the religion of Islam. His Saturday night concert was well received by the Israeli public. There are few songs from that concert posted in You-Tube, just put in You-ube search tap: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Charles+Aznavour+in+Israel+November+2013&sm=12

What will come out of this is that Americans, including Armenian Americans of course, will enter Armenia without a visa, in return Armenian citizens of Armenia will get ten-year multiple entry visas to USA. There is no visa-free entry of Armenians into USA. Americans now travel visa-free to many countries, specially to Europe, their American passports allow them to stay visa-free for three months in each country unless prior arrangements are made. Armenia and US discuss bilateral launch of visa liberalization process November 23, 2013 For MORE click>: http://news.am/eng/news/182237.html The 22nd U.S.–Armenia Joint Economic Task Force (USATF) was held in Washington on Friday. Both sides held discussions on mechanisms to deepen economic ties, increase trade and investment, and advance market reforms, says the statement issued by State Department. Participants discussed the bilateral launch of a visa liberalization process with the goal of achieving a visa-free regime for American travelers and ten-year multiple entry visas for Armenians [coming to USA], leading to increased bilateral trade and investment. The United States highlighted Armenia’s selection as one of 20 focus countries for the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships. Through this initiative, both countries have agreed to undertake a signature effort in the areas of clean energy and water.

Interview with Former Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Vagharshak Harutyunyan Interviewed by Nelly Grigoryan Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/11/22/162678/ Former Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Vagharshak Harutyunyan Nov.22. 2013 Vagharshak: Armenia and Karabakh have stronger positions in the sense that resumption of the war from military and political point of view does not generate from the interests of Turkey, the West, and Russia. In fact, Russia has unequivocally stated about it: from the UN platform, Putin and Medvedev have told that they would not allow the resumption of hostilities, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement by force. Lavrov Nelly- In this new situation, when Armenia is prepared for accession into the Customs Union, what are the potential threats to our country in the Karabakh front? - There is no threat for resumption of war militarily. More precisely, this probability is not growing, on the contrary, it is decreasing. Because, if we pay attention to the statements raised in Azerbaijan, Russia’s position interferes them to win the war. At this point, when Armenia becomes a CU member, it further aggravates their fears. It is possible to use Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement as a lever to influence Armenia not to join the CU and not to be in deeper integration with Russia. Such an option is possible, but it will not have any impact on the policy chosen by Armenia. - You mean by the West? - Yes. - In the process of joining the Customs Union, the authorities were constantly pushing the issue of Armenia and Karabakh security forward. In your opinion, by joining the CU, does Armenia solve the problem of security of Armenian states? - In general, there is a wrong idea about the Customs Union. The membership to the CU is a whole process, the first phase of which is signing of a free trade are agreement, the membership to Eurasian Union is the final point of the CU membership. Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have submitted an application to join the CU and have announced that they have a positive attitude towards it. In other words, CU current and future members are the CSTO member states. The economy should not be separated from the security. It would be wrong to say that we only pursue an economic benefit. If an economic area is formed, it must first ensure its security. If security is not provided, then there could be no word about the development. So, these are correlated, they are natural questions, and Armenia entering into the CU, solves both economic and serious security issues. - With respect to CU membership, there were a lot of criticism on economic aspect, because the European market is freer, rich and attractive in all ways. Weren’t the prospects on Armenia’s development in Europe wider? - You know, if we consider the issue from the perspective of which market is more developed, then, of course, the European. This is an axiom, there is nothing to discuss here. But, as to what this market gives Armenia, that’s another matter, and here is the confusion. When judgments are made about Europe, they talk about how developed is the Europe, how rich, but they never ask what Europe has given to us, what Russia has given, and what CU will give. These are very different platforms, in the sense that when we are talking about the CU, it’s a specific organization with clear agreements and economic output. Nothing prevents us to go to the EU market as a member of the CU. Armenia is a member of the World Trade Organization. Europe put the question, either EU or CU. Eventually, today, Armenia also agreed to sign the Association Agreement, but Europe says, no. This is in political aspect. Economically, what CU and EU gives to Armenia are incomparable. I will answer the question related to economic interests by estimates of the Polish ambassador. He said that if Armenia had signed the Association Agreement of EU and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area agreement, then in a few years Armenia would have received an income of $ 150 million. Only the price of gas, which is formed today, decreasing by 30 percent, enables Armenia to save $ 150 million a year. Not to speak about that Armenian products will have free access to the Customs Union market, where our products are competitive. Today, Armenia can export very few products to the European market, which will be competitive. For example, Armenian grapes, apricots, and so on, if they are sold at the CU market without the customs duties, then they will be more competitive, as the Georgian and Azerbaijani ones are going to be more expensive. The same is true of other products. Armenia will definite receive advantages, and it would be apparent. In the case of accession to CU, Armenia must join 19 agreements and ratify 65 other acts, one of them is related to gas and other energy carriers, which would be sold to CU members without any taxes and customs duties. The status of Armenian migrants in social and other issues are almost equal to the status of Russian citizens: only the employment contract enable the person to move freely, social assistances are given to families, children are able to get education and so on. One of senior European officials, answering the question of what Armenia will export to Europe, what it will import and what it will gain, answered that Armenia will export textile, import agricultural products. It’s just ridiculous, and after all that to talk about what Armenia gets in the EU or CU is obvious and pointless. It is not always to go to the powerful and rich side provides necessary effect. Let me bring an example, in 1992, during the years of war in Karabakh, Azerbaijan and Georgia chose the direction to the powerful and wealthy west, Armenia went towards broken, weak Russia. As a result, Armenia won the war, rebuilt its economy, reopened the nuclear plant with the help of Russia and was able to overcome the consequences of war.

Cairo expels Turkish ambassador, downgrades diplomatic relations Published time: November 23, 2013 http://rt.com/news/egypt-turkey-downgrade-relations-198/ The Egyptian government is downgrading diplomatic relations with Turkey and is expelling the Turkish ambassador, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Cairo announced. Cairo said the Turkish ambassador was being ordered out of country over Turkey's continued “interference” in Egypt’s internal affairs. Turkey is "attempting to influence public opinion against Egyptian interests, [and has] supported meetings of organizations that seek to create instability in the country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said. The ministry said in a statement Saturday the Egyptian government had decided to downgrade Turkey’s diplomatic representation to that of a charge d'affaires, and had already recalled its own ambassador in Turkey. Ankara has said it will take "counter measures" following the expulsion of the Turkish ambassador from Cairo. Turkey summoned Egypt’s charge d'affaires on Saturday over the expulsion of the envoy, the ministry said in a statement. Ankara also declared the Egyptian ambassador, currently out of the country, persona non grata. "We are saddened by this situation," said Turkey's foreign ministry. "But responsibility before history belongs to Egypt's temporary administration which came to power under the extraordinary circumstances of the July 3 coup." Earlier this month, Egypt's Foreign Ministry condemned comments from Turkish officials about ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. The Egyptian government accused Turkey of “falsifying the real situation in Egypt and challenging the will of the Egyptian people,” the state news agency MENA reported. On Nov. 5, the Turkish Foreign Ministry urged Cairo to release Morsi, who has been held in detention pending trial since July. "We believe the release of all political prisoners, including elected President [Mohamed] Morsi, will contribute significantly to the emergence and sound implementation of the dialogue and reconciliation process in the country," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.

Most ancient people of the time in the Middle East from Egypt to Syria, Iraq and Arabia practiced physical circumcision, the removing of the foreskin from the penis because HYGIENICALLY was the right thing to do, the common ordinary people seldom took baths or washed themselves then, perhaps once a month, a year or never; (while the nobles and rulers cleaned themselves adequately). Under the foreskin of the poor people all kind of dirt used to accumulate, an imbedding ground for sickness, the best thing considered was to remove the foreskin. Why Jews seldom washed themselves? Since the time of Noah, we see being "naked" was a shameful thing. Read Genesis 9: 21-27. We see in the region of historical Armenia by Mt. Ararat, Armenians there make love with their wives under a blanket and lights out; they never see the nakedness of each other all their life. This was true even at the time of the Armenian Genocide. The Turks know this and in order to further humiliate the Armenians before they slaughtered they forced them to be naked. It is said that the Turks were after the clothes of the slaughtered and didn't want them to be stained by blood, but the fact remains it was a humiliating act, being naked the Armenian victims felt helpless and none resistance to being killed, from the shame they had of being naked. Armenians though went to public baths, once a month, the public baths had separate days for women and for men. There were never a mixing of sexes.

News Analysis: Diplomatic ties straining between Turkey and Egypt Nov. 23. 2013 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/23/c_125751771.htm ANKARA, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Relations between Turkey and Egypt took a nose-dive on Saturday with the latter expelling the Turkish ambassador in Cairo, which Ankara considered as a sign of escalating diplomatic tension between the two powerhouses in the Middle East. "This means Egypt is not satisfied with recent overtures by Turkey to repair bilateral ties amid Ankara's continuous criticism on Egyptian military-backed interim government," Abdullah Bozkurt, political analyst in Ankara, told Xinhua. "The two countries have recently been at loggerheads with each other; Turkey criticized Egypt's use of force against supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, while Egypt condemned the Turkish government for interfering in its domestic affairs," Bozkurt added. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been strained since then. Both countries recalled their ambassadors for consultations in a tit-for-tat policy. In early September, Turkey sent back its ambassador to Cairo as an indication to improve nervous ties, while Egypt did not return the favor by holding back the return of Abderahman Salah El-Din, Egyptian ambassador to Turkey, awaiting the revision of Turkey's stance on Egyptian interim government. Turkish Ambassador to Egypt Huseyin Avni Botsali was summoned to Egypt's Foreign Ministry earlier this month to convey Cairo's discomfort and uneasiness over recent remarks by Turkish officials regarding Egypt. Just a day before Morsi stood for trial in Cairo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly praised the four-finger Rabaa sign, a symbol cherished by the anti-army protesters and Morsi supporters in Egypt, as a defiance of interim government. Erdogan said that the Rabaa symbol has become a sign saying " stop" to injustice in every corner of the world. "It is a sign to say stop to massacres and coups," he said. "I suppose the Egyptian interim government has run out patience with awaiting Turkey to readjust its policy and toning down rhetoric," Mehmet Seyfettin Erol, professor of Ankara's Gazi University and head of the Center for International Strategic and Security Studies (USGAM), told Xinhua. "The declaration of Turkish ambassador as persona non grata is a serious blow to the two countries' relations, as well as a significant message sent to Ankara," he underlined. Meanwhile, Turkey also asked for a fair trial for Morsi, who was charged of inciting murdering protesters during the rallies outside the presidential palace in December 2012. Turkish foreign ministry called on the Egyptian authorities to release Morsi and all other political prisoners, saying it would be a confidence-building measure contributed to dialogue and political reconciliation between the sides. Erdogan had ever invited Morsi to appear at his ruling Justice and Development Party convention last year, which prompted claims that the Turkish government is ideologically close to the Muslim Brotherhood. In July, Erdogan stated that he still considers the ousted president as the leader of Egypt. "Currently, Morsi is still the Egyptian president because he was elected by the people. If we don't consider the situation like this, we would disregard the will of the Egyptian people. In Turkey we respect the will of the people, and we also respect the regime if they had won at the ballot box," he said. "The narrow party vision of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will push relations to a course which Egypt was keen to avoid with the aim of preserving historical relations between the two countries." Egypt's presidential spokesman Ihab Badawi warned in November. He underlined that Egypt is reevaluating ties with Turkey amid what he described as contradictory messages from Turkish officials. "Both countries are tremendously important countries in the Middle East. The fallout for worsening ties will have repercussions beyond the region," Mesut Cevikalp, policy analyst, said. "They need to find a political solution to normalize ties in respond to common threats and challenges that threaten stability in the region," he noted.

Allow me to comment more on the concept of CIRCUMCISION, and the term "dog". Philippians 3:2 "Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision" There are 3 warning-bewares in this short verse: -Beware of the dogs -beware of the evil workers -beware of the false circumcision The word "dog" was used first in the Old Testament as a derogatory term referring to non-Jews (or gentiles) by the Jews. Gentiles were dogs in Jewish perception. For example in Psalm 22: 16-20 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me; They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots. But You, O Lord, be not far off; O You my help, hasten to my assistance. Deliver my soul from the sword, My only [you only Son] from the power of the dog. In this excerpt from Psalm we see "dogs"clearly proved to be the Romans and the Edomite/Moabite religious Jewish leaders both of which came red handed in the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Moreover, in the last line "dog" is given as singular word because there it clearly refers to Satan. Then is this "rabid dog", referred to by the Iranian in his speech, is it Satan in his eyes? Muslims hated dogs (because it is said their prophet hated them and could not stand them) and they still hate dogs, you never see a dog as pet in a Muslim house. Muslims often refer by "dog" to those who are not Muslims, or to worshipers of idols and infidels and those who do not believe in God (from the Armenian Genocide a photo survived where a sadistic Turk is dangling a piece of meat before hungry Armenian children who did not have energy left in them even to stand up --that sadistic Turk was treating those Armenian Christian children as if they were dogs. The Christian zones or sectors of Middle Eastern cities and towns, where the Christians live, are referred by Muslims as "dog zone/sector"s) In Christianity, when in this verse is said "beware of dogs" it cis reference to pagans, like the Romans & Greeks who had idols incorporated in their worship and were unlike Christ, and they reject the teachings of Christ in preference of pagan teachings. By "evil workers" Paul is referring to "false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ" 2Cor. 11-13. (I wrote one of those to be Simon Magus, the Jew from Samaria, who abandoned his Christianity and went to Rome to establish a deviant Jewish religion, and probably this Magus Simon was the one who joined the early Jew "Masons" living in Rome and they infiltrated the Christian Church and later the Vatican, and are active up today to bring the Antichrist in Rome; I put "masonry" between "-- " since early masonry was known by another name then, but that is another story) As to the "false circumcision", Paul mentions two circumcisions, one being false and the other true: "for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh" Philippians 3:3 The false circumcision are those who put their confidence, trust and faith in being physically circumcised, there is no problem if one is circumcised for health reasons but if you make of it your particular religion and faith, then there is problem.

Abraham and circumcision: Abraham was righteous before God while uncircumcised Romans 4: 9-17 “Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised; 11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised. 13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the [Mosaic] Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; 15 for the [Mosaic] Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation. 16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the [Mosaic] Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 (as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. Most ancient people of the time in the Middle East from Egypt to Syria, Iraq and Arabia practiced physical circumcision, the removing of the foreskin from the penis because HYGIENICALLY was the right thing to do, the common ordinary people seldom took baths or washed themselves then, perhaps once a month, a year or never; (while the nobles and rulers cleaned themselves adequately). Under the foreskin of the poor people all kind of dirt used to accumulate, an imbedding ground for sickness, the best thing considered was to remove the foreskin.

It has been given in Gal. 3:29 "And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise." I like to bring some more scriptures regarding who are the descendants of Abraham and who are the children of promise Romans 9:8 "That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants" >>here "flesh" (children of flesh) means physical body as of genetic descent and composition, of being of one physical race. Romans 2:29 "But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God" Galatians 6:15 "For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation [in Christ Jesus]" Colossians 2:11 "and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands by the circumcision of Christ when Christ removed your the body of flesh" >>by flesh here is meant human bondage to sin, the meaning of flesh is further expanded in 1Cor.6:9-11 ---"neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God".

http://rt.com/news/putin-eu-ukraine-blackmail-151/ Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the EU of "blackmailing" and “pressuring” Ukraine over its decision to suspend preparations for a trade pact with the bloc. He added that Ukraine’s decision will be clear in the next few days. "When we heard (I just found out yesterday) that Ukraine has suspended – not canceled but suspended – negotiations with the EU and wants to review everything, we heard a threat from the EU to Ukraine up to the point of holding mass protests. This is pressure and blackmail," Putin said at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg. ....Putin added that there “shouldn’t be any politicizing” of the situation, adding that Turkey has a “big experience of negotiating with the EU” and Russia will ask the advice of Ankara on how to behave in this situation. Erdogan smiled, and said it “was a not a joke,” as Turkey has 50 years’ experience of trade talks with the EU. ------------- Ukraine’s government signed a degree Thursday suspending preparations for the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Lawmakers said that the decision was taken after Kiev considered the effects of the association on its trade relations with Moscow. Russia welcomed Kiev’s desire to rekindle ties with Moscow, and Putin said that he wasn't completely against Ukraine's association with the EU. The Ukrainian president however said that his country would continue its efforts towards European integration, despite the “difficulties.” Putin said Friday that after Ukraine’s decision, the two countries now have a free trade zone agreement. “It means that in many product groups, very sensitive to both countries, we have zero export and import tariffs. The level of customs protection of our territory in relations with EU partners is very different. We have achieved this status as a result of negotiations within the framework of the World Trade Organization, which were carried out over the past 17 years.” If Ukraine signs a trade pact with the EU resetting its trade tariffs, then this would automatically affect Russia if it keeps its free trade zone with Ukraine, Putin said, adding that this could destroy entire sectors of the Russian economy. Putin said that the competitiveness of Russian agriculture and a number of other industries had not yet met the European Union’s requirements. If Ukraine went ahead with its Euro-integration deal, Russia would be forced to cancel preferential tariffs with Kiev, he said.

EU’s ‘ridiculous’ plan to help Ukraine “The problem is that Ukraine is in dire economic strains. Ukraine is 2-6 months from default. They cannot raise money in markets. They are running a deficit. They are having a lot of trouble keeping the currency stable.” The European Union has actually done nothing to convince Ukrainian leaders that association with the EU would actually solve its economic crisis, Polish MEP Pawel Zalewski stated earlier this week. As compared to hundreds of billions of euros channeled into Greek, Spanish and Portuguese economies, he said, one billion offered to Ukraine was inadequate and "ridiculous." "It's a ridiculous amount compared to the resources allocated to rescue Southern Europe from bankruptcy," Zalewski said as cited by PR Newswire. In the meantime Russia has the “means and willingness” to offer Ukraine what the EU lacks, which is money, Eric Kraus, Managing Director of Anyatta Capital told RT, adding that Ukraine is a “vital part” of the European Russian speaking space. “The European Union offers a lot of words,” Kraus said, implying that nothing tangible would have come out of the deal. “What they don’t offer is what Ukraine needs – and that’s money.” “Ukraine is not vital to the EU,” Kraus explained. “It is a part of a geopolitical chess game and they’d like to take that piece. They are not going to spend a lot of money for it. They can’t, they’ve got Portugal, they’ve got Greece. Pretty soon they’ve got France.” The financial analyst also explained the economic problems that Ukraine is facing. “The problem is that Ukraine is in dire economic strains. Ukraine is 2-6 months from default. They cannot raise money in markets. They are running a deficit. They are having a lot of trouble keeping the currency stable.”

http://rt.com/business/ukraine-eu-deal-suspended-088/ Putin’s Customs Union Ukraine’s sizable economy (worth about $155 billion a year) and resource-rich land have both Moscow and Brussels eager to strike exclusive trade deals. If Kiev chooses to pursue EU membership, it will foil Putin’s long-term ambition to create a trade bloc to rival the EU, which so far includes Belarus and Kazakhstan. Armenia has also expressed its intentions to join Russia’s trade orbit. Russia has warned Ukraine that a step west toward joining the European Union would be "trade suicide" and result in billions in lost trade revenue - and that joining the Russia-led Customs Union is more beneficial. Both deals are appealing to Ukraine. On one hand, by siding with Russia, Ukraine continues to foster good relations with its neighbor, which imports nearly 25 percent of Ukraine’s exports. On the other hand, moving west to Europe would save Ukrainian exporters nearly $490 million over 10 years, as 95 percent of goods would have zero customs duties, according to the European Commission. Europe has been courting Ukraine into an associate trade membership for the past four years, which has created a geopolitical battle with Russia. All sides have employed much political brinkmanship in the period leading up to the trade deal. Ukraine threatened to stop buying Russian gas, and Moscow stoked speculation there would be another gas war between the two neighbors, which would leave Ukraine without enough heat to last the winter. Gas divorce? Over the last decade Ukraine and Russia have both been trying to sever their complicated gas relationship. Gazprom has been building a maze of pipelines to circumvent Ukraine to deliver gas to Europe, and Ukraine has been wooing foreign companies in joint ventures in shale and offshore reserves. After Naftogas, Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company, said it was cutting ties with Gazprom, Yanukovych contradicted the statement saying he “hoped for a compromise” with Russia. Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko signed a ‘pre-pay’ contract with Gazprom in 2009 and was later jailed on charges of abuse of power. Since the pre-pay contract was established, Ukraine has complained about expensive gas prices, which average around $400 per 1,000 cubic meters, one of the highest in Europe. Ukraine currently imports more than half of its gas from Russia, but both countries are making efforts to cut down on business. Russia and Ukraine waged two gas wars over prices in the winters of 2006 and 2009 (which lasted 3 weeks) over a claim that Ukraine was late in paying. Debt and downgrades Ukraine’s depreciating currency reserves and massive deficit have brought it close to economic collapse, and an IMF bailout of between $10 billion and $15 billion could be needed in the near future. Russia holds a significant portion of Ukraine’s sovereign national debt. The at-risk currency has prompted the big three rating agencies to downgrade their outlook on Ukraine. Fitch downgraded Ukraine’s long-term foreign local currency issuer default rating to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’ following S&P’s downgrade of its debt rating to ‘B-‘ - the same junk level as Greece and Cyprus. Moody’s cut its rating to Caa1 from B3 in September putting them at “very high default risk.” Ukraine’s government reserves are so depleted they may no longer be able to keep national energy company Naftogaz afloat, and may be forced to find a foreign buyer. US money manager Franklin Templeton picked up $5 billion of Ukraine’s international debt, nearly a fifth, in August.

A Course in Languages: The Hebrew by MAN It is often referred to the Hebrew language and its letters as being holy and coming from God. Even today some Jews and Christians believe that Hebrew was the language of the angels, and that Hebrew was the language originally spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Jewish folklore says that all of humanity spoke Hebrew until the Tower of Babel, when God created all the languages of the world in response to humanity’s attempt to build a tower that would reach the heavens. So let us see historically where the Hebrew language came from. The entire Bible was written by descendants of Abraham. Thus, the languages of Abraham’s descendants were employed to write the Scriptures. Abraham was an Aramean. He was born into a nation of people who spoke Aramaic. When Abraham was called to leave his father’s house and travel to Canaan, he took the Aramaic language with him. Over the course of centuries, when being in touch with other tribes in Palestine, the language of the descendants of Abraham began to change and developed into what has become known as the Hebrew language. Yahweh, or God the Father, began by calling forth one man to be the head and progenitor of a people by whom to develop the spiritual advancement of humanity. This one man was Abraham. Deuteronomy 26:5--"And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father [Abraham] was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.'” The descending from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob came to be known as Hebrews, and scripturally as God's people. While the apostle Paul, in Galatians, says the Christians are God's spiritual people, and the promises of Yahweh was made to the spiritual descendents of Abraham who follow Christ Jesus the promised Messiah by Yahweh: Gal.3:16 "Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as referring to many, but rather to one, 'And to your seed,' that is, Christ." Gal. 3:29 "And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise." Gal. 3:18-19 "For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise."Why the [Mosaic] Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed [Christ] would come to whom the promise had been made." Gal. 3:29 "And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise." According to the Jewish Encyclopedia "The Hebrew language might be appropriately called the Israelitish dialect of Canaanitish, a branch of the Semitic Languages spoken in Palestine and in the Phenician colonies. Almost identical with it is Moabitish, as seen in the stele of Mesha (See Moabite Stone). Closely akin to it was Phenician, and in all probability also the languages of Ammon, Edom, and Philistia. The language used in the Zenjirli inscriptions approaches Hebrew closely. Phonetically Hebrew occupies a middle place between Arabic, on the one hand, and Aramaic, on the other." http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7453-hebrew-language When Abraham clan (who spoke Aramaic) came to Palestine, the Canaanite language was spoken there. Through centuries when Abraham's Aramaic was mixed with the local Canaanite a new language was born which came to be known as Hebrew, this new language was a combination of Aramaic & Canaanite language. Where the word "Hebrew" came from? It drives from "Eber", the son of Shem; ("Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born" Genesis 10:21). Also in scripture, Hebrew is used as an adjective to describe Jews who are "from the other side" of River Euphrates. We see how the "Medieval Jewish scholars considered Arabic and Aramaic, the only cognate languages known to them, as corruptions of Hebrew. In more recent times, however, two opposing theories have been held. One, whose chief exponent is S. D. Luzzatto, is that Hebrew is derived from Aramaic." (Jewish Encyclopedia). All this point to the origin of Hebrew language: a mixture or combination of Aramaic and Canaanite. Jews are experts in combining two languages to give birth to new hybrid one. For example Yiddish is a combination of Hebrew and German); Ladino is a combination of Hebrew and Spanish. Hebrew is classified as a Semitic (or Shemitic, from Shem, the son of Noah) language. Was Hebrew just one of the many Semitic languages such as Canaanite, Aramaic, Phoenician, Akkadian, etc. or a hybrid from those languages? In the period 4000-3000 BC the Sumerians (from the land of Sumer, known as Shinar in the Bible - Genesis 10:10), [by the way "Shinar" is an Armenian word which comes from root: To build, the builder or building] speaking a non-Semitic language, appeared in southern Mesopotamia. Since the Sumerians are related to the people living between the Black and Caspian Seas it's logical to conclude that (they did not call themselves Sumerians, that was later name given to them when living in Mesopotamia in the region Shinar, see Bible Genesis 10:10) that they came from the Caucasus region by Mt. Ararat. By the time of Abraham 2000 BC those migrants from Caucasus adopted and spoke the language of the land, namely, Aramaic. Deuteronomy 26:5 "And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, 'My father [Abraham] was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.'” Abraham was originally an Aramean according to the Bible. He lived among the descendants of Aram. The Arameans settled along the Euphrates River in an area that became known as Babylonia, at the southern end of Babylonia is the city of Ur where Abraham lived according to the Bible. (Genesis 11:27-28). The language these people spoke was Aramaic. Aramaic is not one single language, but it is a family of languages. Hebrew (the language that the clan of Abraham developed in Palestine when mixing their Aramaic with the Canaanite language), Syriac, and Phoenician are all Aramaic languages. Abraham was born around the year 2,000 B.C.. He lived for 175 years, which places him about a century before Hammurabi. Another common language in Babylonia in the time of Abraham and his forefathers was Akkadian, but the Bible says Abraham was an Aramean hence he spoke Aramaic. About 700 BC we see Hebrew nobles still knew Aramaic, as it was spoken all over from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean sea, plus they knew Hebrew which was a hybrid language developed from Aramaic & Canaanite languages: "Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, 'Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.'" II Kings 18:26 Before the Jews were taken captive into the land of Babylon they used Paleo Hebrew alphabet, related to Phoenician alphabet. In Babylonia they adopted the Aramaic-square-script (that is still used in our days) and discarded the Paleo alphabet (around 600BC), so those letters did not come from God but from the Aramaic. Also they learned to speak very well Aramaic by necessity. When they returned from exile to Palestine all were now speaking Aramaic. Once Jews were exiled to Babylon Hebrew began to disappear as a spoken language, though it was still preserved as a written language for Jewish prayers and holy texts. Aramaic remained the common language of the Jews in what is referred to as “the Second Temple Period.” This time spanned between 539 B.C. when the Jews returned from Babylon, and 70 A.D. when the Temple was destroyed, along with Jerusalem, by the Roman General Titus. These years fully encompassed the life and ministry of Christ in Judea. That Christ and His disciples spoke Aramaic is evident from the New Testament Scriptures. The following verses all include examples of Jesus speaking in Aramaic. Mark 5:41 And taking the child by the hand, He said to her, "Talitha kum!" (which translated means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise!"). Mark 7:31-34 And again He went out from the region of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of Decapolis. And they brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they entreated Him to lay His hand upon him. And He took him aside from the multitude by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva; and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, "Be opened!" As the Greek Empire spread, the Greek language went with it. When Rome supplanted Greece, the Greek language had already become entrenched. It had become the lingua franca of the day. The Jewish people who continued speaking Hebrew and Aramaic, while also learning Greek. Hebrew/Aramaic was the native language spoken by the Jewish people in the time of Christ. Rome acquiesced to embracing Greek as the common language of the Empire, while Latin remained the official language of Rome. Christ and His disciples undoubtedly spoke Aramaic with one another. There are many evidences of this found throughout the New Testament. Continuously, Aramaic words are inserted into the text of the New Testament. Following are a few examples of Aramaic words that are found in our Bibles today. Abba - meaning “father.” Raca - meaning “empty head” or “fool.” Mammon - meaning “material wealth” or “greed.” Rabboni - meaning “master.” In the New Testament which was written in Koine Greek, the word for “Aramaic” is never used to describe the speech of the people of Israel. Instead, the Greek word “Hebraisti” is used to denote the language of the Jews in the time of Christ and the apostles. Nevertheless, some Bible translations render “Hebraisti” as Aramaic rather than Hebrew, for the language of the Jews was truly a dialect of Aramaic: John 19:16-17 English Standard Version: "So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha." The entire Bible was written by descendants of Abraham. Thus, the languages of Abraham’s descendants were employed to write the Scriptures. Abraham was an Aramean. He was born into a nation of people who spoke Aramaic. When Abraham was called to leave his father’s house and travel to Canaan, he took the Aramaic language with him. Over the course of centuries, with friction with other tribes in Palestine, the language of the descendants of Abraham began to change and developed into what has become known as the Hebrew language. And the vast majority of the Old Testament is written in this Hebrew language, with less than 2% of its text being written originally in Aramaic. When Jerusalem and Judea fell under the rule of Greece, and later of Rome, they were introduced to the Greek language. Many Jews were multilingual, speaking both their native Hebrew tongue, Aramean, as well as Greek. This proved very helpful when the disciples of Christ were commissioned to take the gospel to the nations. Since the Jews were familiar with Greek, and it was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, the New Testament was written in Greek and spread rapidly. After the year 200 the Hebrew language became extinct (like other ancient languages of the Middle East), it was used only during religious ceremonies and prayer services but never in everyday conversation. Up until a century ago Hebrew was not a spoken language. Ashkenazi Jewish communities generally spoke Yiddish (a combination of Hebrew and German), while Sephardic Jews spoke Ladino (a combination of Hebrew and Spanish). Of course, Jewish communities also spoke the native language of whatever countries they were living in. Jews still used Hebrew (and Aramaic) during prayer services, but Hebrew was not used in their everyday conversation. In 1880 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda said: “in order to have our own land and political life… we must have a Hebrew language in which we can conduct the business of life.” The creation of the modern Hebrew from Jewish religious books and its consequent use by Jews all over the world is due to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. God created all the languages of the world in response to humanity’s attempt to have their trust in their own name in place of the name of God Jesus Christ; hence God and His angels KNOW ALL LANGUAGES not only the Jewish one or Hebrew language.