Daniels profecía: Zona de Israel en el crepúsculo (15/07/2006)

The world has been realigned again, since it has so often, search North Korea Nuclear, nuclear Iran to the UN, the EU and Arab Islamic quest Quest to wipe out Israel from the face of the Earth. I was asked the question today at lunch in a restaurant atmosphere, from a well to do landowner help here in the Peru, on why the States always to Israel, and why you are doing what you are doing (I think that one of the reasons, Israel gets bad media coverage). I wasn't sure how to respond to any questions, especially the second, but it is obvious, when you look at it from the point of eschatology, I always try to do when cornered with such a question on Israel.

Eschatology in the Christian sense refers to end time events; to Israel I guess it means... escapes such drastic events because they will be the center of attraction in the 'Twilight Zone', if indeed I can use that term.

We all have our own biblical interpretations of prophesy end time events, which in its rightful place means to me: warning! Ask the question, why is the world so worried about a small piece of land sobre in the Middle East, with a few million people. Why was the Bible as Israel-centric? Recently we see that the majority of the countries of the Middle East are acojonado of Israel, the dirty game of hide and seek, hit and run, Iran, and Syria. And when Lebanon is home to a terrorist group, saying: "we are not part of that group that kills Jews and the cities of bombs, despite the fact that we allow them to camp in our backyard." We are so stupid to believe this? We all know that Syria and Iran do not want to Palestinians to have peace; It would not serve their long-term goals. Keep the Islamic Arab move and wash and will sacrifice themselves for a loaf of bread.

Russia and China are on the side of Iran course, as excepted; but when it comes to international trade, both have a double standard: one for them and Israel. Anyway all we know this. But the answers to the questions were simply: who will help Israel if America does not: answer, anyone here arrived with the final solution design of Hitler: with the blessing of the UN, the EU and the two nobles: China and Russia.

Germany and United States are the only two countries at this point that I know have any spinal column on this topic, and perhaps Japan, marked by the Israel right to defend itself, the rest of the world would be to have them killed game until the Arabs got their sharp swords to cut off heads.

-Let's look at the prophecy of time for a moment: we are in an essential chronological count, prophetic speech: Israel is fighting for their lives, while the rest of the world is worried about dinner tomorrow.

Daniel was in the service, the courts of the great Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar [Iran]; Daniel knows that it is approaching the divine judgment and prayers of God for insight, a Messenger came to him from God, it was Gabriel that announced the birth of Christ and so that came to Mohammad, from what I read. All prophecy has to do with the people of Daniel and his city, Jerusalem and the Jewish. We see Daniel 70 weeks: week one is the building (or restoring) of Jerusalem, which was destroyed by the armies of the King. Will come at the end of the 70 weeks (week # 69), the Prince of Israel, appear, which of course is the Messiah or Christ.

But today we should be concerned with the week 70, we are clearly its benefactors. Time in which we will see a broken Treaty and a time of desolation that lasts until the full end of the week [a period of seven years in the not so distant future]. There then the Messiah will inaugurate a new period, pouring blessings in the nation of Israel.

Those who believe in the old testament and the Qur'an, must recognize this and the Christians of the New Testament, also, should that integrates in the book of revelation, which is the only book I know, where God says: 'you are blessed to read it'.

So we are fighting! The world looks to the other side, while Syria and Iran (the main supporters of chaos for this small country this year of 2006), and their neighbours do the dirty work for Satan. Neighbors have had clear backing, have had his ass kicked twice before, and I think that Israel would like to give them another - save, the United States pulls them back, after the power of Israel stomach pain is too and the world pleads to the United States to take advantage of them.

Do long week 69? We have to take into account a variable of things to make the count; It would even look at the book of revelation, facing the Jewish calendar (and the Aramaic language) for its duration, but to save time skip the basics and give you: we must look at a cycle of 490 years or seventy Sevens (see Daniel 9: 24). (See Daniel, Chapter 7 and 9;) Chapters of 1 Esdras and book of revelation Chapter 12). Weekends 69th near the birth of Christ. We are going to find the end of the week 69: 69 weeks of 7-year = 173.880 days or 69 x 7 x 360 = 173.880, if we start in 445 b.c. [date of the reconstruction of Jerusalem]. We are now in 32 AD. We have 119 leap involved years here.

Bear with me, this will take a little time, we are looking for the week 70. We have two main events so far that we have been exposed to the timeline: the reconstruction of the city of Jerusalem and Christ's death (and perhaps of birth).

We see that a gap in time is necessary to fulfil this prophecy of Christ or the Messiah coming second, and what determines this are two events for the 70 week begin. So far we have based our timeline on the developments that have taken place, we now do it in reverse, events that will take place will determine the timeline.

The seventy weeks period (which is actually from seven years to one day)) or last week that is seven years)) begins when Israel makes a firm 'Pact' between them and the (a new future Empire: some say that the EU and its new leader)) the new Roman Empire, with its new Roman Prince)). And just prior to this and during this period of time, the new Jewish Temple will rise (another sign of the times). Any combination of forces this brings with it, terrorism and the EU and UN pressure, there will be confusion, and it will be filled with Satanic opportunities.

This 7th week will be divided into 31/2 weeks, where in the mist of the agreement there, a setback for friendly relations will take its toll at Jews, the agreement will be null and void by the new dictator of the world. We all know only promises of this kind of peace about the war is strong when the dam is strong, once it becomes the week, agreements are simply a pretext for selfishness for its destruction; affordable only to the strongest. So Israel has a lot of Devils working against them there.

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Iran, Israel: Showdown!

British Foreign Secretary William Hague alleges that Iran has carried out secret tests of missiles capable of delivering a nuclear charge. If so, these tests would be in violation of the 1929 of the UN resolution. But there is one greater problem than simply a breach of a UN resolution; It is a matter in which the world, Yes, is at stake.

Does not seem much doubt that Iran was trying to improve the accuracy of these misiles-misiles of test which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Thus, as well as improving the accuracy of missiles, it is clear that Iran is trying to build nuclear warheads which will pass on these missiles.

These tests mean that the terrorist regime is preparing to seize the region (then the world) and Israel, which are the first two steps necessary to introduce the twelfth Imam (the Mahdi or the Muslim Messiah)-kill scenario of the world. (Shi'a Muslims believe that 12th Imam, who supposedly lived in the 9th century AD, never died.) (They believe that when he returns publicly, he will bring the world under the domination of Islam). Iranian President Ahmadinejad believes he is in direct communication with the Mahdi who, supposedly, has given direction to obtain nuclear weapons to carry out these measures "necessary". Here is where these missile tests come into play.

Thus, the real danger is that Ahmadinejad and his regime are following religious zeal, which cannot be negotiated or influence. As a result, there is only one way to stop this regime of acquisition of nuclear bombs, and that replacing it. Since that biblical prophecy shows clearly that God will not anyone can eliminate Israel, we know that it will not be Israel will happen; Instead, it will be the Iranian regime that turned.

The only nation with the capacity and the willingness to go after that Iran is Israel. Search the nation therefore Jewish launch a military attack against Iran before the terrorist regime can acquire nuclear capability. When? Well, according to some nuclear experts, Iran could be nuclear capable at the end of this year.

To meet its goal of dominating the Middle East, Iran is deepening its infiltration in countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and Gaza. For example, three American soldiers in Iraq were killed last week in an attack with rockets near the Iranian border. This marks the bloodiest month for US troops in Iraq in two years. The increasing number of dead in Iran, which is the training, equipment and funding Shiite militias in Iraq with the express purpose of killing us troops blamed military officials.

The Ambassador of United States to Iraq, Jeffrey James, said Tuesday that the evidence shows that Iran is supporting Iraqi insurgents with new weapons and training. Other United States Defense officials confirmed recently that Iran has channeled new weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has smuggled explosion of shells in Iraq militia allies, which have already caused the death of American troops assisted by rocket. In addition, the Iranians have provided long range missiles to Taliban in Afghanistan, enabling the ability of insurgents hit United States and other positions of the coalition from a safe distance.

In another corner, Prince Saudi Turki al - Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence Chief, warned officials that NATO military if Iran obtains nuclear capabilities, Saudi Arabia to build nuclear weapons. Experts in the Middle East have feared for some time that if Iran takes on nukes, they generate a nuclear arms race in the region. That would be one dangerous place all deadliest.

However, do not get, as Bible prophecy indicates that the region will be eventually (do perhaps sooner than later?) open to the Jewish nation in a Treaty of "peace and security". In addition, although Iran is racing toward nuclear capability, Israel will not that the regime to get it. And as the terrorist regime is trying to move forward in its plan, Iran is devoting much of its defense towards Israel and United States, their main threats in the region. However, the Iranian regime will not be able to overtake Israel, God's chosen country; and, in fact, Israel will be the lone threat to Ahmadinejad and the regime of terror.

But the drama is building, as God the region prepares for a dramatic showdown between Israel and Iran. This dramatic accumulation is a necessary preparation for military launch of Israel on the terrorist system, which will likely result in a coup d ' état in the Persian Government. In addition, this will culminate in a dramatic and climate change in the region, preparing the East for the Treaty of the end times with Israel and leaders of the world proclaiming, "Peace and security!"

Therefore, as we can see Iran move closer to its goal of obtaining nuclear weapons, can know the time is getting short. For those who understand what the Bible says about the future, this should not produce a sense of foreboding, but a realization that God has a plan of great and surprising in the store. It is a plan which will initially lead Israel to overcome terrorism and lead (seven years) for the return of Christ.

Therefore, keep looking!

Doctoral work, seminar of Phoenix; M.s.,th.m, from the Greek New Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary; B.A., English, University of Northern Iowa

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Israel must be wiped off the map - Treasongate origin

CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED

Carthage was Rome's implacable foe; thus, did the Roman Senator Cato conclude whatever the topic at hand on the floor of the Senate with: "Carthago delenda est" - Carthage must be destroyed! Eventually, once the Senate of Rome realized her proximity to the pesky Punic, they attacked with impunity and wiped them off the map in the Third Punic War (149-146 BC), salting Hannibal's commercial bastion, never to have her rise again; thus Rome's supreme illustration of brutality and imperial ambition incorporated, like the Borg of Star Trek, the commercial aspects of Empire.

Alas! Meeting the challenge of President Bush's infamous remarks hurled at the Axis of Evil (which clearly includes Iran), and reinforced by his NED speech given on October 6, 2005 to wit:

" . . . authoritarian regimes, allies of convenience like Syria and Iran, that share the goal of hurting American and moderate Muslim governments, and use terrorist propaganda to blame their own failures on the West and America, on the Jews . . . we're determined (against Syrian and Iran) to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes . . . STATE-SPONSORS like Syria and Iran have a long history of collaboration with terrorists, and they DESERVE NO PATIENCE FROM THE VICTIMS OF TERROR. The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them, BECAUSE THEY'RE EQUALLY AS GUILTY OF MURDER. Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization . . . and the civilized world must hold those regimes to account."

. . . Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to fight fire with fire: ISRAEL MUST BE DESTROYED! He shot back at the "World Without Zionism" conference held in Tehran this week against the United States and Israel (a.k.a., the USA=The Great Satan; Israel=The Little Satan...DiscoverTheNetworks). Ahmadinejad called Israel a "disgraceful blot" on the Islamic world, and the US Middle East "roadmap" nothing more than a diversion from the crusader wars between the Islamic world and perceived imperialists like the USA (http://news.viewlondon.co.uk)

"Israel must be 'wiped off the map' . . . she is a 'disgraceful blot' on the Islamic world . . . the US Middle East Roadmap to peace is a diversion from the crusader wars between the Islamic world and perceived imperialists such as the United States. Furthermore, Iran's President attacked other Muslim nations which recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state (an obvious allusion to Egypt). Israel is naught but the product of an ideological struggle between the 'Arrogant World Order' and 'Islamic rule.'" (News.viewlondon.co.uk)

Quoting Mr. Ahmadinejad:

"Over the past 100 years, the last bastions of the Islamic world have collapsed. The World Arrogance turned the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem into a staging-ground to dominate the Islamic world . . . there continues a historic war between the World Arrogance and the Islamic World, the roots of which go back hundreds of years ago."

Now that sounds vaguely familiar. In my last article, "The Crusader vs. The Caliphate" President Bush targeted the source of terrorism's frustration:

"The excuses for violence (range from) the Israeli presence on the West Bank . . . the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia . . . the defeat of the Taliban . . . or the CRUSADES of a thousand years ago."

ISRAEL: AMERICA'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER

Putting it bluntly: The problem, President Bush, is the Israeli aircraft carrier--the USS Israel--poised on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, ready (as far as the Middle Eastern edge of the Axis of Evil is concerned--Syria/Iran) to launch its cruise missiles throughout the Islamic lands in order to expand its Arrogant World Order (a.k.a. the Decadent West--The American New World Order System) under the guise of democracy, women's rights, religious freedom, and, of course, economic globalization; in sum: Western world hegemony.

In 1991, Daniel Pipes in Commentary described the then unnamed Axis of Evil by inquiring:

"Why did British and American imperialists want Israel to exist? Arabs have a rich assortment of answers to the question. Ash-Sha'b, a leftist Egyptian newspaper, portrays Israel as a branch-office of the Central Intelligence agency, one which requires CIA "approval and support" before taking almost any step. Ahmad Jibril (leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command) dubs Israel 'America's Mideast aircraft carrier.' Khalid al-Hasan, another PLO leader sees Israel as 'something like a conglomerate-General Motors, for example.'

"And what functions does this intelligence office/aircraft carrier/multinational corporation serve? To jeopardize whatever it may be the speaker holds most dear. Thus, for Nasser, the Pan-Arab leader, Israel endangered Pan-Arab nationalism. His 1962 Charter of National Action dubbed Israel 'the tool of imperialism' and 'a whip in their hands to fight the struggling Arabs.' In 1968 the PLO was still under Nasser's influence, so its Covenant accused Israel of being 'a geographic base for world imperialism placed strategically in the midst of the Arab homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab nation for liberation, amity and progress.'"

SO WHAT'S NEWS? THE "CLEAN BREAK"

Hating and annihilating Israel is not news. However, the hate rhetoric's been ratcheted up a great deal--especially the "religious" overtones and undertones, greatly! Instead of President Carter and the Ayatollah Khomeini, who founded the first modern Islamic Republic (Iran) chattering away over American hostages for 400+ days--we now have President Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (perhaps to the right of the original supreme leader Khomeini) blasting away at one another.

Somehow, the current war in Iraq, the intel scandal rocking the nation, and Israel-America being fed up with Moslem terrorists (who more and more interfere with our quest for "hidden treasurers" in the Middle East--i.e., OIL), has got to be dealt with. Is/was there a plan to effect this sea change in the Middle East--i.e., put the terrorists on notice (and to flight) after the collapse of the Soviet Union and their little war they lost in Afghanistan, as we, the Americans, supplied millions to the likes of Osama ben Laden and his Mujahadeen (Holy Warriors) to defeat the red menace?

Indeed, thus was laid the plan entitled "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." The document was prepared in 1996 by an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. The document was a precursor to the then-incoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan was, according to the London Guardian, Brian Whitaker and syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, designed to reshape Israel's "strategic environment" (Christian Century) Alas! The proposal/plan has turned out, according to Geyer, to be Bush's blueprint for Iraqi policy--and, I hasten to add, the centerpiece for an upcoming confrontation with both Syria and Iran.

The 1996 plan called for the removal of Saddam Hussein, the installation of a monarchy akin to Jordan's--similar to one that ruled Iraq in the mid-1900s. Next, with Saddam eliminated, Jordan and Turkey would team up, along with Israel, to severely weaken Syria. Thus, "Israel will not only contain its foes, it will transcend them."

Naturally, to orchestrate the plan, Israel would need extensive American downfield blocking. Thence, was born the linguistics of the Cold War to persuade the Americans to get on board; and, after all, it would (in the long/short run) secure America's insatiable quest for cheap energy. Hard to say who was pushing whom here . . . the Israelophils/Israelis the Americans or the Americans the Israelophils/Israelis!

In any event, by 2000 the Americans under the then (now deposed) Richard Perle--perhaps the most prominent of the war hawks after 9/11 insofar as Iraq is concerned, and strong proponent of Dr. Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, wherein the Judeo-Christian West vs. Islam is a defacto reality of life (apparently, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unwittingly embraces the same reality)--drafted additional expansions of "Clean Break" - to wit:

"Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies' 'Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000.' The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,' is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.

As group leader, Perle (also of the American Enterprise Institute at the time, and still is), knew full well the immediate plans insofar as Syria were concerned:

"Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which America can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by:

o Striking Syria's drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure in Lebanon, all of which focuses on Razi Qanan.

o Paralleling Syria's behavior by establishing the precedent that Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces.

o Striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.

It is safe to say that Perle, who has spent considerable time in Israel, is a staunch supporter of Israel's conservative Likud Party. Furthermore, while the 2000 report wholeheartedly supports the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime (i.e., "regime change"), it wholly backs the encirclement and neutralization of Syria:

"Given the nature of the regime in Damascus, it is both natural and moral that Israel abandon the slogan 'comprehensive peace' and move to contain Syria, drawing attention to its weapons of mass destruction program, and rejecting 'land for peace' deals on the Golan Heights."

And, finally, the coup de maître:

"Israel can make a clean break from the past and establish a new vision for the U.S.-Israeli partnership based on self-reliance, maturity and mutuality -- not one focused narrowly on territorial disputes."

Perle headed up the discretionary-funded Defense Policy Board (Advisory Committee) which provided the Secretary of Defense, under Bush (i.e., Donald Rumsfeld), "independent, informed advice and opinion concerning major matters of defense policy."

Prior to "financial indiscretions" which brought Perle down (March 28, 2003), Perle was a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC--an original signer of their January 26, 1998 letter sent to President Clinton. An outstanding article/intentions of PNAC can be found at the 11th Hour (http://www.11th-hour.info/Articles/PNAC.html), by Frank Reilly. The group's fascination with "American Dominance" is no small accusation (to say the least, throughout the whole world). Interestingly enough, in today's light, original signers included:

"Richard Armitage, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Ellen Bork (the wife of Robert Bork), Dick Cheney, Zalmay Khalilzad, Lewis Libby, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. A large number of its ideas and its members are associated with the neoconservative movement."

NEOCONS AND MICHAEL LEDEEN

In case you haven't noticed, the NEOCONS (that most despised of expletives hurled from the Left) are peppered amongst the PNAC group and ipso facto, main backers of the demise of Saddam Hussein, and aggressive democratization of the Middle East--in particular, Syria and Iran. In defense against the British Left's accusations, Ledeen, currently National Review Online contributing editor, author of The War Against the Terror Masters, and resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (among other "items"--we'll discuss later) remarked in a July 13, 2005 piece for NRO entitled THE JEWS, War and a Sickness:

"The final component of British blindness on the subject of the Middle East is one we are not supposed to talk about in good company: the Jews. Yet I don't know any country this side of the Levant in which there has been so much anti-Semitism, so many complaints that 'Zionists,' 'Likudniks,' 'Jewish hawks,' and -- the single epithet that sums up all of the above -- 'neocons' had manipulated America and its poodle Blair into the ghastly blunder of Iraq. The BBC has devoted hours of radio and television to slanderous misrepresentations of places like the American Enterprise Institute, where I sit, and of such Jewish luminaries as Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, and Paul Wolfowitz. Sometimes it seemed one was reading translations from the Saudi or Egyptian or Iranian press, so total was the hatred of the Jews." (My emphasis.)

Ledeen, who also heads the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, expressed his foreign policy initiatives in his recent release:

"The awesome power of a free society committed to a single mission is something [our enemies] cannot imagine. ... Our unexpectedly quick and impressive victory in Afghanistan is a prelude to a much broader war, which will in all likelihood transform the Middle East for at least a generation, and reshape the politics of many countries around the world."

Ledeen's co-worker at the American Enterprise Institute, Richard Perle, has articulated a new neocon book entitled: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. Check out this review:

"Billed as a 'manual for victory' in the war on terror, the book suggests 'reinvigorating homeland security with a new security agency; waging a global campaign against the terrorist ideology...' Among the book's proposals are: funneling U.S. aid to Iranian dissidents to help them overthrow their government; promoting the secession of Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province; and rejecting the jurisdiction of the United Nations Charter, unless it is modified to accommodate the doctrine of preemption. According to Frum (co-author) and Perle, militant Islam has replaced communism as the main threat to U.S. and global security. 'There is no middle way for Americans,' they write. 'It is victory or holocaust.'" (My emphasis.)

A group, comprising of many of these same people, was formed around the time of the Iraqi incursion--CLI: Committee for the Liberation of Iraq

"Like most front groups, the CLI was a transitory political project (Note: Membership included . . . Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Joshua Muravchik AND Senator Bob Kerrey, former Congressman Steve Solarz, Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute (an offshoot of the center-right Democratic Leadership Council), Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and former Secretary of State George Shultz, who served as honorary chairman of the CLI advisory board.) . . . that (i.e., the CLI's mandate) faded as soon as the invasion was launched - despite its professed mission of working beyond the 'liberation' to ensure the reconstruction, democratization, and institution of the rule of law in Iraq. For CLI organizers, the toppling of the Hussein regime constituted, as President Bush declared on May 1, 2003, evidence of a 'mission accomplished.' Thus, the attention of the new crusaders turned to Iran, Lebanon, and Syria, while talk continued about restructuring Saudi Arabia and the Muslim nations of North Africa. Two months prior to the Iraq invasion, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton (now US Ambassador to the UN), an early associate of PNAC and a former AEI vice president, traveled to Jerusalem to meet with Ariel Sharon. Bolton promised Sharon that the Iraq offensive would be just the first of the disarmament wars, declaring that "it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran, and North Korea afterwards." http://presentdanger.irc-online.org/commentary/2003/0311damascus_body.html

Ledeen, considered by some to be . . .

". . . the neocons' point man on regime change in Iran (and in Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia), is apparently capable of viewing diplomacy only through the barrel of a gun, arguing in a November 2003 piece for the National Review Online that the 'appeasers' in Congress and the State Department 'don't want to know about Iran, because if they did, they would be driven to take actions that they do not want to take. They would have to support democratic revolution in Iran, and they prefer to schmooze with the mullahs.' He concludes, 'I guess some top official will have to die at the hands of (obviously) Iranian-supported terrorists before the Pentagon is permitted to work on the subject.'" (Unpunished Failure, NRO, Nov., 2003 and the International Relations Center).

Now, the Road to Damascus (title of Ian Williams' article below) appears on the horizon, but a close second (to Ledeen and other neocons) is the Prince of Persia (Iran) . . . listen to Ian Williams in his November 28, 2003 article which appeared in the Interhemispheric Resource Center (Foreign Policy in Focus publication of IRC):

"The neocon chorus and Vice President Cheney made it possible--in defiance of the UN, major allies, and much of Congress--to stampede the U.S. into a paroxysm of righteous patriotism against Iraq by manipulating claims of WMDs, terrorism, and similar bogeys. They have made it plain that they would like to do it again for Syria, and they may find allies in the White House who are more expedient in their views about Damascus. Syria would be a good scapegoat for continuing failure in Iraq during an election year. Taking another capital in the Spring is unlikely to hinder Republican prospects in the Fall. To paraphrase Woody Allen, just because I'm paranoid does not mean that they won't try to follow Iraq with Syria."

The DEAD-WRONG intelligence afflicting the administration on the incursion of Iraq, quite frankly, was overruled by the presuppositions and passions for a CLEAN BREAK with the status quo in the Middle East--which, as far as they were concerned--could only get worse. But, let's look at another aspect of that faulty intelligence--through the eyes of Michael Ledeen.

ALL ROADS LEAD THROUGH MICHAEL LEDEEN TO ROME

The on-going investigations regarding outing Valerie Plame-Wilson as a CIA agent via Mr. Irv Lewis "Scooter" Libby, et al, is naught but a side bar to the real story--which everyone knows--on how in the world did all this "disinformation" and so-called "intelligence" get started in the first place?

Ultimately, the preemptive invasion of Iraq occurred. Now the pending conflicts in both Syria and Iran seem inevitable (now that today, November 4, 2005, we hear of massive movements of war materials through Iran's borders into Iraq (not a new story), and of the continued insurgency in Iraq and support of the same through Syria--to say nothing of the US/UN pressure upon Bashir Assad to give up both his brother and brother-in-law who allegedly orchestrated the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri).

But, the initiation of the bogus intelligence that Saddam attempted to purchase "yellowcake" from the Central African nation of Niger (which later on Ambassador Joe Wilson investigated and found utterly preposterous) in order to make WMD, was confirmed by the British, and announced in the now famous "16-word" utterance by President Bush during his January, 2003 State of the Union Address, to wit:

"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa ."

The retribution ("treasongate")--i.e., "getting back" at Joe Wilson for having his article published in the New York Times exposing the bogus "yellowcake deal" (July 6, 2003) by having Robert Novak "out" Joe's CIA-wife, Valerie-Plame, in a syndicated article on July 14, 2003--leads us to backtrack. The "who said, he said, she said" smokescreen is NOTHING compared to the origination of the fraud itself!

So, what's Rome got to do with Ledeen, the British, Niger, Joe Wilson, Saddam, and ultimately, the war in Iraq? Much, in every way . . .

After 9/11, 2001, events rapidly changed...by October, 2001 the US moved on the Taliban in Afghanistan...but it was not until March 20, 2003 that Iraq was invaded. The "yellowcake" via Niger to Iraq intelligence was somehow hatched in Rome and some very interesting people showed up for the Roman party.

First of all, Michael Ledeen (Karl Rove's foreign policy advisor!) and others met in Rome with Italian intelligence in December 2001 (over a year before Bush's infamous "16-words"). Their intention was to procure evidence against Iraq as an excuse for war.

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Doug is a member of the "Last Days Network" . . . a group of evangelical pundits providing news and analysis on Religion in Politics. "Applied Biblical prophecy," apostasy and deception, the impact of the American New World Order System, and the influence of the Religious Right and Left upon American culture--are topics discussed by the group. He is an educator in the public schools (California) and an administrator. Doug’s articles can be found all over the net—but anchored @ http://www.the-tribulation-network.com (a real upbeat web site, given the name).

Iran waging a war in the Lebanon against Israel and the United States?

During the Cold War, the Superpowers never engaged in direct head-on conflict with one another. To have done so, might well have led to a chain of escalation that ultimately culminated in a nuclear exchange. Then, the outcome, even in victory, might well have resembled to "lose - lose" proposition, given the extent of devastation and loss of human life involved. Instead, when the ideological confrontation grew "hot", it did so in the more limited context of proxy wars, some of which were formidable in their own right, in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The ongoing conflict being fought between Hezbollah and Israel, on to battlefield that extends across northern Israel's civilian centers and throughout most of Lebanon, may well be an early proxy war waged on behalf of to rising Iranian power. According to the May 11, 2006 edition of Al - Sharq al - Awsat Iran to views Hezbollah as "one of the mainstays of its strategic security." Hezbollah is one of the strategic and tactical weapons Iran employs against its enemies, namely the United States, Israel, and the West. Former Hezbollah Secretary-General Subhi Al - Tufeili explained as much when I revealed that Hezbollah's "real leadership is 'the rule of the jurisprudent' - in other words, Khamenei."

The developments leading up to Hezbollah's highly provocative step of abducting two Israeli soldiers from Israeli soil suggest that Iran might well have had at least an indirect role in initiating the act that led to the ongoing hostilities. On June 16, 2006, Al - Sharq Al - Awsat reported, "Well-informed sources in Tehran have told Al - Sharq al - Awsat that the talks held in Tehran between Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani and his Iranian counterpart Mustafa Mohammad Najjar did not only deal with military and security aspects of the strategic cooperation between the two countries, but also with the situation in Lebanon." At the time, there was no Israeli presence on Lebanese soil. The newspaper also noted, "Syria, on its part, has renewed its previous agreements with Iran which allow Iranian ammunition trucks to pass [through Syria] into Lebanon" to resupply Hezbollah. In short, at at time when the Lebanon-Israel border was quiet, Iran was discussing "the situation in Lebanon" with Syria and facilitating the supply of arms to Hezbollah.

Then, on July 8, multiple news organizations reported that President Ahmadinejad urged the Islamic world to take action to destroy Israel. Voice of America reported, "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke Saturday in Tehran at the opening of regional Conference of Islamic nations." He said the basic problem in the Islamic world is the existence of what I have called the Zionist regime. "He said the Islamic world must mobilize to remove the problem." Arguably, that was the "green light" for Tehran that Hezbollah was awaiting.

Following Hezbollah's act of aggression, Edward N. Luttwak, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Toronto Globe & Mail, "Iran's leaders have apparently decided to reject the Western offer to peacefully settle the dispute over its weapons - grade uranium-enrichment program..." Evidently, Sheikh Nasrallah felt compelled to serve Iran's strategy. "Aside from the multimillion-dollar monthly subsidy it provides, Iran is the spiritual homeland of Hezbollah leaders, some of whom have studied in Iranian religious schools."

Since the onset of fighting, Iranian media organizations having close ties to its ruling conservative clerics have used the outcomes to date to validate perceptions of Israeli and American weakness. Such commentary has argued that Israeli "invincibility" has ceased to exist, Israel is weaker than it was 40 years ago, and that Israelis are abandoning Israel.

On July 13, yi-Jomhuri Eslami wrote of Hezbollah's raid, "Israel's security network is now damaged and this will lead to more pressure on Israel's government." Five days later, it proclaimed, "[N] ow that the Hezbollah has shown its military superiority it proves that all of America's plans have been nothing more than a mirage and they have to tolerate the bitter taste of defeat again." On July 20, Resalat claimed, "Following the inefficiency of the Zionist regime in dealing with Hezbollah's activities the myth of Israel's invincibility has come to an end..." "Shelling Israel's cities by Hezbollah has started to trend of reverse immigration from Israel and the people are leaving the occupied lands."

Such commentary has also attempted to elevate Iran's role against the rest of the Middle East as spokesman for the "world of Islam" and to proclaim the birth of a new Middle Eastern order arrayed against the United States and Israel. On July 20, pro-Khamenei daily Kayhan dismissed Saudi Arabian and Egyptian criticism of Hezbollah stating, "The rulers of Saudi Arabia and Egypt can't talk on behalf of themselves and their people but not on behalf of the world of Islam or even Arab people."
Separately, the Kayhan explained what it saw as a new emerging geopolitical order in the Middle East:

American and Israeli groups are furiously confused. They have understood very well that their big Middle East plan has turned into a series of explosive traps against themselves. If Iran was alone in the past, gradually the triangle of Iran, Syria and Lebanon was formed. Now Hamas has turned this into a square triangle. And the establishment of the principle-ist government in Iraq after it has turned into a pentagon. This pentagon represents the new coordinates of the Middle East.

Iran's geopolitical calculations suggest that the stakes in the outcome in Lebanon are too great for Iran to allow Hezbollah to be "defeated". Therefore, if Iran is involved in any part of the ceasefire/peace process Iran will likely insist on a ceasefire from which Hezbollah would gain, whether it would be Hezbollah's retaining its ability to function as an armed group in Lebanon or realizing its initial demand for a "prisoner swap." At the same time, it would likely seek to thwart any deal if it cannot leverage gains for its nuclear weapons program.

Such backing will likely embolden Hezbollah and its backers within Lebanon preclude from accepting compromises that would diminish Hezbollah's capabilities. Hence, if Iran has its way, on ceasefire would preserve Hezbollah, if not allow it to make gains, while failing to meet Israel's core need for security. After all, why would Iran seek to accommodate Israel's core needs when, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel is a "fake state" that should be eliminated. In fact, Iran's commentary views the outcome in Lebanon as a potential downpayment toward that end with Keyhan, another Khamenei-affiliated periodical, describing it as "a big opportunity to demolish Israel."

All said, the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah might well mark Iran's proxy war with Israel first and the United States. Given the geopolitical ramifications involved, it probably won't be the last such conflict and future ones could be even deadlier as more powerful weapons and technologies are injected into the mix. Therefore, if the international community seeks regional stability and peace, it will need to work toward a decisive settlement with Lebanon's leaders to eliminate Hezbollah as an armed element. It will also need to work energetically toward translating any ceasefire agreement into a full peace treaty between Israel and Lebanon. Otherwise, Lebanon will all but certainly become the host of combat in future proxy wars waged on behalf of Iran, and its people will experienced renewed suffering as a consequence.

Don Sutherland has researched and written on a wide range of geopolitical issues.

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DRIVING THE U.S.-ISRAEL "STRATEGIC DIALOGUE"

"Strategic Dialogue" talks between the U.S. and Israel--were commenced in earnest at the end of November, 2005 (U.S. State Dept. Bulletin). These "talks" are propelled to their inevitable conclusion (i.e., the U.S.-ISRAEL DEFENSE PACT/TREATY) by Iran's preposterous charges this past week: No Jewish Holocaust under Hitler; Israel is a "Zionist-European Tumor" which, ipso facto, should be excised from the Middle East and transplanted into Germany-Austria; and, "no, we're not making a Weapon of Mass Destruction, even though 'Israel must be wiped off the map!" (My conjectures.)

Historic revisionism is alive and well--therefore, do not conclude that this series on the "Strategic and Eschatological Imperatives" embedded in the U.S.-Israel Defense Pact (upcoming) is as naïve as you may have surmised (i.e., pure speculation and benignly obscure Christian fundamentalism gone amok). Israel's audacious materiality--in spite of the Adolf Hitler-Grand Mufti, Haj Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini original Axis of Evil--mocks the secular outrage toward Zionism and declares heretical the blather, and hyper symbolism of Biblical liberalism! (Palestinefacts.org)

There are forces like those written hereunder which make the heralding of Daniel the Prophet's final week of Gentile World Power all the more irreversible and prophetically intrusive, in spite of the mockers--both secular and religious--who claim these prognostications are fantasy, or just plain fear-mongering among theological misfits who still claim the Bible has something to say about where this world's heading!

"They've been wrong before--let them prattle about their future Antichrist all they want . . . it's relatively harmless . . . besides, who's listening; who cares . . .in any event, the Millerites, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses and wacko-Christian fundamentalists like Hal Lindsey et al, have always dabbled in the ethereal world of prophetical make believe and we're still here, aren't we?"

Friend . . . you'd better get a grip . . . things are changing, faster than you had any idea . . . and their "prophetical alignment" does not bode well for a world utterly unprepared for what's driving the personality behind: "HE SHALL CONFIRM A COVENANT (i.e., "Treaty") WITH THE MANY..." (Daniel 9:27).

As Winston Churchill once said:

"We reject with scorn all these learned and laboured myths that Moses was but a legendary figure. We believe that the most scientific view, the most up to date and rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible literally. We may be sure that all these things happened as they are set out in Holy Writ. In the words of a forgotten work of Mr. Gladstone, we rest with assurance upon 'the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture...' Let the men of science and of learning expand their knowledge and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from these dim ages. All they do is to fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded truths which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of man."

THE PRINCE OF PERSIA

When I published my article "Behold, the Prince of Persia" (buzzle.com, June 2005), there were fears that a "Nuclear Iran" would galvanize Radical Islam and stiffen the insurgency in Iraq, compel a "democratic takeover" of secular Middle East nations like Egypt and Turkey, and drive Israel (and for that matter the U.S.) to the brink of a unilateral-preemptive strike at Iranian nuclear facilities. Likewise, because of the Iranian-Syrian Defense Pact (early 2005), Syria and the Palestinian Authority, would find themselves pouring into the "cup of trembling to all the nations 'round about" Israel.

Well, we stand on our "prophetic laurels" and declare the rise of the "Prince of Persia" is all the more enraged through the election and regime of one, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran since August 3, 2005) . . . consider this, as the world continues to spin upon this precarious axis of inscrutible uncertainty . . .

Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Dec. 10, 2005, told the newly-awarded Nobel Prize winner, Mohamed El-Baradei, that his comments to persuade Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program (because its heading toward a nuclear explosion in either Jerusalem or Tel Aviv) the following not-so-ambiguous-mafia-sounding remarks: "He (El-Baradei) knows Iran has not diverted in its nuclear program . . . it would be better for him not to have many interviews." (Comcast Netnews)

The Iranians, with diplomatic hubris, simultaneously suggested, through Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi that the U.S. participates in Iran's nuclear program to wit: "America can take part in international bidding for the construction of Iran's nuclear power plant if they observe the basic standards and quality."

All this during the same week (December 3-10, 2005) in which these not so subtle remarks were made by the ever-more-resembling the coordinator of the American Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

"Some European Countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces and they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary to that they condemn that person and throw them in jail . . . although we (i.e., the Iranians) don't accept this claim (i.e., the Holocaust--six million Jews perishing in Hitler's death camps), if we suppose it (the Holocaust) is true, our question for the Europeans is: Is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem?" (Paul Hughes, Reuters, Dec. 8, 2005)

Of course, all this was compounded by President-American-Hostage-Leader Ahmadinejad suggesting that Israeli Jews be transplanted to provinces in both Germany and Austria to salve the conscience of their Nazi past. How fitting that all these remarks were made at the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference held in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia!

Naturally, the U.S.-Israeli reaction was vehement, especially after the October, 2005 "Israel must be wiped off the map" remarks of Mr. Ahmadinejad (The Tribulation Network):

"I hope that these outrageous remarks will be a wake-up call to people who have any illusions about the nature of the regime in Iran" (Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev).

" . . . an outrageous gaffe, which I want to repudiate in the sharpest manner" (President George Bush).

Finally, the bottom line remarks of White House spokesman Scott McClellan:

"It just further underscores our concerns about the regime in Iran. And it's all the more reason why it's so important that the regime not have the ability to develop nuclear weapons."

Just how outrageous were Mr. Ahmadinejad's remarks?

"So, Germany and Austria, come and give one, two or any number of your privinces to the Zionist regime so they can create a country there . . . and the problem will be solved at its root . . . you oppressed them, so give a part of Europe to the Zionist regime . . . why do they insist on imposing themselves (the Europeans) on other powers and creating a tumour (Israel) so there is always tension and conflict?"

Now, Scott McClellan's "all the more reason why it's so important that the regime not have the ability to develop nuclear weapons" and the innocuous subtrafuge of the U.S. State Department's remarks regarding the U.S.-Israel Strategic Dialogue to wit, "The United States and Israel look forward to continuing this dialogue in the Spring of 2006 in Israel"--demands further "strategic dialogue."

Trust me--unless you're in the market for a hot bridge deal--these U.S.-Israeli Strategic Dialogue discussions have not only commenced, they have only intensified as a result of the bombastic absurdities of Iran, along with the rhetoric and actions of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the acceleration of the insurgency in Iraq against Bush's War on Terror.

The worst fighting in five years between Hezbollah and the IDF took place at the end of November, 2005. This was preceded by a coordinated meeting between Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, and leaders of Hamas (Khaled Meshaal), a deputy leader of Islamic Jihad, and Ahmed Jibril, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Jibril's "organic remarks" tie Iran into the recent assaults in Northern Israel and the suicide bombing of a shopping mall in Israel's Netanya where five Israeli citizens were killed . . .

"We will confirmed that what is going on in occupied Palestine is organically connected to what is going on in Iraq, Syria, Iran and Lebanon" (Jibril) (ICH 12/12/05)

All this in light of Hamas' most recent victories at the polls . . .

"NABLUS, West Bank - Hamas supporters on Friday celebrated a landslide election victory in major West Bank towns, the strongest sign yet of the Islamic militant group's growing political appeal ahead of Jan. 25 parliamentary elections. Israel responded with concern, saying a Palestinian government dominated by Hamas--which calls for Israel's destruction and has killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks-- would not be a partner for peace. Thousands of Hamas supporters joined victory marches after Friday prayers. In Jenin, where Hamas won a majority of local council seats, marchers chanted, 'To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions!' and held up copies of the Quran." (AP, Ali Daraghmeh, Associated Press Writer, Dec. 17, 2005).

UNIT 262, THE F-15I STRATEGIC 69 SQUADRON vs. TOR-M1

As Lebanon, Syrian, Iran and the Palestinian Authority ratchet up the "War on Israel" - Israel has plans of their own . . .

Uzi Mahnaimi of Tel Aviv and Sarah Baxter of the Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) quote a senior White House source saying that the nuclear threat from Iran was moving to the "top of the international agenda and the issue now was 'What next?'"

PM Ariel Sharon quipped: "Israel--and not only Israel--cannot accept a nuclear Iran." Sure sounds like the U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance on parade here!

The IDF has placed its military readiness on "G" alert--the highest stage. Israel is now on the highest military alert to prepare for an attack against Iran!

Israel firmly asserts that by the end of March, 2006, things in Iran, and ipso facto Israel, will have reached the "POINT OF NO RETURN!" UNIAEA head, Mohamed El-Baradei, will present his next report on Iran's nuclear intentions in early March, 2006.

A massive Israeli intelligence probe of Iran's nuclear capabilities, launched from a site in northern Iraq (no doubt in cooperation with the USA) has already identified uranium enrichment sites previously unknown to the IAEA--there could be up to 50 sites in Iran coordinating the uranium enrichment program to produce a nuclear bomb capable of hitting Tel Aviv/Jerusalem.

Israel's top Special Forces Brigade, Unit 262, and their F-15I strategic 69 Squadron, will ready themselves for a non-stop roundtrip to deliver both air and ground devastation to Iran's threats to wipe Israel off the map.

This will be all the more difficult if Iran secures delivery of a $1B anti-ballistic missile system (the Tor-M1) from the Russians. The system is designed to destroy guided missiles and laser-guided bombs from aircraft--likewise, the system can be easily and quickly installed! (ICH 12/12/2005)

Note also: Original Source: The Times of London, Dec. 11, 2005)

"HE WILL CONFIRM THE TREATY"

Let us turn aside, for a moment, shall we, to observe the unvarnished historicity of U.S. Presidential aspirations towards Israel . . . for in this incredible glimpse into the ever-maturing "strategic relationship" between the U.S. and Israel, it has always been her Presidents who have led the way--it is the privilege of the American Executive to orchestrate U.S. foreign policy, and more so, since two World Wars and the Cold War have given birth to the Imperial Presidency; make no mistake to the contrary!

It is this profound political significance between American Presidents and Israel that astounds the world's diplomats and negotiators--especially, European and Moslem observers. Understanding the evolution of the American Imperium and its unusual, yet clearly observable relationship, between its Chief Executive and Israel's security, is most remarkable--to obfuscate this unparalleled association (as some religious and secular observers are loathe to do)--damages the academic and so-called spiritual credentials of those who deny this obvious arrangement!

President Harry S. Truman -

President Truman, whose Baptist roots predisposed him to Israel's rebirth as a nation state for the Jews, commenced a long and ever-deepening relationship between the State of Israel and the USA.

Truman's predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, appeared to be sympathetic to the Jewish cause (i.e., the State of Israel in Palestine); however, his assurances to the Arabs that the United States would not intervene without consulting both parties caused public uncertainty about his position.

President Harry S. Truman, on the other hand after taking office, made it clear that his sympathies were with the Jews; hence, he accepted the Balfour Declaration (made by the British as a quid pro quo for Jewish support for the Allied cause in World War I), explaining that it was in keeping with former President Woodrow Wilson's principle of "self determination."

In point of fact, Daniel Pipes, in his review of Michael T. Benson's book Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel states:

"Benson proves that Truman's policies resulted not from nose-counting (the "Jewish vote" in America) but from deeply-held beliefs. His pro-Israel outlook 'was based primarily on humanitarian, moral, and sentimental grounds, many of which were an outgrowth of the president's religious upbringing and his familiarity with the Bible.' Extensive research into Truman's biography and earlier career shows his impressive consistency. Benson, of the University of Utah, establishes Truman as a studious child and deeply religious young man who, when he unexpectedly found himself in the Oval Office, lived faithfully by his precepts. In the case at hand, he expressed sympathy for Zionism as early as 1939 and reiterated his views many times subsequently." (Palestinefacts.org)

Truman initiated several studies of the Palestine situation that supported his belief that, as a result of the Holocaust, Jews were oppressed and also in need of a homeland. Notwithstanding Truman's support for the Jewish state, and throughout both the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, the Departments of War and State, recognizing the possibility of a Soviet-Arab connection and the potential Arab restriction on oil supplies to the United States, advised against U.S. intervention on behalf of the Jews.

Britain and the United States, in a joint effort to examine the dilemma, established the "Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry." In April 1946, the committee submitted recommendations that Palestine not be dominated by either Arabs or Jews. It concluded that attempts to establish nationhood or independence would result in civil strife; that a trusteeship agreement aimed at bringing Jews and Arabs together should be established by the United Nations; that full Jewish immigration be allowed into Palestine; and that two autonomous states be established with a strong central government to control Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Negev, the southernmost section of Palestine.

British, Arab, and Jewish reactions to the recommendations were not favorable.

In spite of his own Departments of War and State, and of the Brits subterfuge regarding the Jewish State, he immediately recognized the Jewish State upon their declaration of independence--eleven minutes after Israel's declaration of statehood (American Heritage).

This "Presidential Recognition" was, according to Margaret Truman (daughter of President Truman), "the most difficult decision (he) ever faced as president" (Christian Science Monitor). The immediate involvement of the President of the United States--overruling his powerful Secretary of State George Marshall--set a precedence wherein the Presidency and Israel became synonymous in diplomatic parlance. In other words: The President of the United States--not the nation, per se (i.e., Legislative or Judicial branches of government), nor its State Department--became the deciding factor and the fulcrum of the relationship between Israel and the USA.

"Administrative tension" between the U.S. State Department and the President, especially in regards to Israel vis-à-vis U.S. national interest throughout the Middle East, and in particular the acquisition of cheap energy in maintenance of America's ever-expanding economy, is of no small notoriety; yet, provides ample wiggle room when the President wishes to register consternation if the Executive perceives Israel "has gone too far."

President Dwight Eisenhower

With the decline of Britain as the self-appointed protector of the Middle East, and the rise of the Cold War, America's immediate, though periferal role with Israel, was about to change--and change significantly.

Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal in October of 1956--whereupon Britain, France and Israel (as co-conspirators) launched a surprise attack; but, Ike considered the bizarre adventure as a "mid-Victorian form of gunboat diplomacy."

"I've just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things" - October 30, 1956 (President Eisenhower).

It was the President of the United States who torpedoed the tripartite effort against an Arab nation and won him, at the time, the praise of the UN and as the defender of third-world nations against Israel and the West.

The upshot of Suez, in so far as the U.S.-Israel "Strategic Relationship" is concerned--made the U.S. the dominant player in the Middle East, and, ipso facto, intimately involved with Israel. Furthermore, it brought the Cold War smack dab into the midst of the Middle East.

"The affair (Suez) convinced Eisenhower that a move into the area by the Soviet Union would be disastrous to Europe and Nation, because of oil needs. He announced the Eisenhower Doctrine: The U.S. would send weapons and cash to any Mideast nation threatened by communism" (Christian Science Monitor 10/26/2001).

There's no doubt that the USA was supporting Israel from the get-go (not just Arab states opposed to communism) . . . but then came . . .

Presidents John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon

Strategic cooperation accelerated with John Kennedy's 1962 sale of HAWK antiaircraft missiles to Israel--again, over the objection of the "Arabist" State Department.

After Israel's smashing military victory in 1967 and capture of the Siani, Golan Heights and West Bank--as well as the old city of Jerusalem--Presidents Johnson and Nixon became convinced that the Arabs were not capable of attacking Israel for many years.

A policy of quantitative military equlibrium was in place in the early '60s wherein Lyndon Johnson would provide Israel with tanks and aircraft, but would balance these sales by transference of the same to Arab countries. This policy would inhibit any one state from gaining the military advantage over the other. This all changed in 1968 when Johnson committed Phantom jets to Israel. In so doing, he established the USA as the overwhelming arms supplier of Israel and moved the geopolitical equation from quantitative to Israel's qualitative favor.

Indeed, Johnson's Baptist upbringing affirmed his pro-Israel posture:

"Most if not all of you (speaking to an American Jewish audience) have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do, for my Christian faith sprang from yours . . . the Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modern Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls" (Jewish Virtual Library).

At this point Israel did not significantly contribute to "Western defenses" in the region because its potential to contribute to a policy of containment was negligible. However, that perception changed when the USA called upon Israel to buttress King Hussein's government and oust the Syrians from their incursion into Jordan in 1970.

Nixon, continued the policies initiated by Johnson, however, it is well known that his affection towards Israel was at best superficial and, for that matter, his predisposition toward being downright anti-Semitic in his private conversations (William F. Buckley, Nixon and Anti-Semitism on the Right, Feb. 10, 1997, National Review) ultimately led, as some surmise, to Israel's horrific losses during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria sought to regain land lost in the '67 War.

Notwithstanding, Nixon came to Israel's rescue and played nuclear brinkmanship with the Soviets, putting them on notice by declaring a worldwide nuclear alert to prevent their intervention on the side of the Arab belligerents. From here the world would witness, for the first time, a new USA involvement into the Middle East cauldron: The Peace Initiatives . . .

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Israel says that she loves the Beatles Paul McCartney

Life is certainly a magical mystery tour. And for those of us who live in Israel, the long and winding road just became a bit more scenic. With the surprise announcement by Beatles singer and composer Sir Paul McCartney that he will be performing in Tel Aviv next month, the Jewish nation has taken a smiling leap back 40 years in time.

From car radios, open market CD players and inside elegant, modern stores, the warm, loving, magical and mythical blends of Beatles music permeate every city and town in Israel. From Metulla, Haifa and Katzrin in the North, to Hadera, Ra'anana, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Ashkelon, Ashdod, Rehovot, Dimona and Eilat in the south one can hear the sweet voices Paul, John, Ringo and George.

A host of Web 2.0 Facebook and MySpace groups with a number of YouTube videos have been created to celebrate and promote Sir Paul McCartney's historic visit to the Holy Land.

In January, Israel ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, handed a letter of apology to Julia Baird, sister of the late John Lennon, apologizing for a ban that Israel had placed on the Beatles back in 1965.

The story begins back 43 years ago when the Beatles were invited to perform in Israel with a concert which never took place. At the time Israel officials cited financial problems, but it was more than money that kept the Beatles away. Official permission required to withdraw precious foreign currency to pay the Beatles was denied because a ministerial committee feared the corrupting influence of four long-haired Englishmen.

The Israel committee report put it: "The Beatles have an insufficient artistic level and cannot add to the spiritual and cultural life of the youth in Israel."

Sounds like this Israel committee was smoking stronger stuff than anything the Beatles may have experienced with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The Israel politicians believed that The Beatles would corrupt innocent Israeli youth. But was it really naive Israel politicians?

Criticism over the cancellation was directed at former Israel Education Ministry Director-General Yaakov Schneider, whose ministry was required to approve the performance of foreign bands in Israel.

In a page one story in the newspaper Haaretz, former Minister of Education and Environment Yossi Sarid stated that real cause of the cancellation was due to a rivalry between two promoters in Israel. One had been offered a Beatles concert in 1962, before their star had risen, by Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, and had turned them down. When a competitor booked them three years later, the first promoter used his government connections to keep the needed money from being disbursed.

"I can assure you that my father had never heard of the Beatles," Sarid said this week. "The promoter of course didn't come to the government and say, 'I don't like this other guy and I don't want him to get the money.' He said it is a lousy group and will corrupt the spirit of the wonderful, brilliant, pure Israel youngsters. He exploited their ignorance."

Fast forward to 2008 in Liverpool. Prosor, one of Israel's most senior and long-serving diplomats, was only seven years old when the "misunderstanding" between London and Jerusalem took place. But Prosor is a man who quite likely knows the lyrics to most Beatles tune and was not about to miss out on an opportunity to enhance the celebration of Israel's 60th birthday.

In a letter he wrote to the Beatles and their relatives: "There is no doubt that it was a great missed opportunity to prevent people like you, who shaped the minds of the generation, to come to Israel and perform."

The two surviving Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney, 65, and Ringo Starr, 67, were expected to join the anniversary celebrations in Israel in May but never showed.

But McCartney is no fool on the hill. He realizes the importance of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East and may even see himself as one who may be able to bridge and come together with some peace through his music.

A huge outdoor concert in Tel Aviv on September 25 has been confirmed by Sir McCartney.

In his Website, Sir Paul McCartney announced his 'Friendship First' concert in Israel stating: "Israel will finally get the chance to experience a night of music and history Macca-style; the night they have been waiting decades for."

Sir Paul added: "I've heard so many great things about Tel Aviv and Israel, but hearing is one thing and experiencing it for yourself is another. We are planning to have a great time and a great evening. We can't wait to get out there and rock."

The Paul McCartney show, produced by promoter Dudu Zerzevsky, is expected to cost upward of $8 million to produce and will require a 100-person production team, extensive security, an extra-large stage, an expansive sound system, and two vegetarian kitchens at the show's location.

The producers of the single appearance by Paul McCartney in Israel expect to break even with a take of 10 million NIS on the event. These numbers kick in before any sponsorships take place. The businessman backing the event, Yakir Sha'ashua believes it will attract a capacity crowd to Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park, which can accommodate up to 70,000 people.

The Israel business newspaper Globes states that the cost of bringing Beatle Paul McCartney to Israel will reach over NIS 30 million, half of which will go to McCartney and his promoters, while the other half will cover production costs. Price now stand at NIS 1,500 for a front row ticket and NIS 500 for just a seat on grass in the park. The promoters will have to sell 50,000 tickets only to cover the cost. This is the initial quantity which will go on sale at the Leean ticket offices.

According to British media, McCartney, has invited his girlfriend, 47-year-old New York Long Islander Nancy Shevell, to accompany him on the tour. The couple just finished a monthlong road trip across the famed Route 66 in the US, where they were spotted by shocked fans at campsites, gas stations and motels.

But the McCartney trip to Israel will be far from stealth.

Dozens of hate sites have also popped up by Palestinians, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and all those who believe that Paul McCartney is an infidel.

Propagandist Eileen Fleming, who deserves a gold Olympic medal for hateful incitement on an Arab Web site, does not give peace a chance.

She states: "I wondered what Lennon might have said to his old mate in regards to making money from an apartheid state. Apartheid Israel continues to illegally occupy Palestinian and other Arab lands."

We in Israel ask what Apartheid?

Israel Arabs serve in the Knesset, they are equal citizens.

It is extreme Islam which truly practices apartheid with the clear separation of men from women, treating women as second class slaves, the murdering of homosexuals, labeling anyone who is not Islamic an infidel and deserves to be beheaded in the same manner as Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

In fact, Islamic apartheid transcends mere separation and ups the ante with the beheading of anyone who argues with the Satanic verses of the Koran. Can we also add Holocaust denial and clearly stating to "wipe Israel off the map" to the above?

Fleming continues: "Israel has been "committing horrific war crimes in the occupied Gaza Strip, where its illegal and immoral policy of collective punishment - through a hermetic military siege and an almost complete blockage of fuel, electric power, and even food and medicine - is pushing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians to the brink of starvation. Israel's wanton killings of civilians, demolition of homes and property, uprooting of more than a million fruit bearing trees, incessant theft of land and water resources, denial of freedom of movement to millions, dividing indigenous Palestinian's into Bantustans caged by walls, fences and hundreds of roadblocks, is not to be celebrated, but condemned and changed."

Can Fleming pass the pipe? Is that grass, hash or crack?

She is about as stoned as the committee which originally rejected the Beatles back in 1965!

Eileen, sorry to bust your bubble, but if you have not heard, Iran backed Hamas controls Gaza, not Israel. And as for starvation where are the Arab nations helping the citizens of Gaza? They don't need too as over 300 humanitarian UN and Red Cross trucks defy Hamas daily, bringing in food, medicine and fuel.

Gaza has food and water. They only thing that Gazans lack are freedom and democracy.

Eileen, do you think Iran will invite Sir Paul to play in Teheran? Nah, they will probably think that he will corrupt Iran youth.

David Horovitz, editor of the Jerusalem Post puts it right.

Horovitz states that: "after all these years of waiting for you, Sir Paul, what we're getting is just "a day in the life." David now places some Beatles lyrics into Israeli reality.

Any Time At All - Let me get the complaint in early: I know we banned you in 1965, but did it really have to take this long? "Any time at all." That's what you promised. "All you gotta do is call, and I'll be there." That was 43 years ago! Forty-three years to answer the phone?

Come Together - All credit to John Lennon for this astoundingly prescient critique of our internal divides, of the boundless intolerance we in the Jewish state exhibit for approaches to Judaism that differ from our own. I guess we're not "good looking" enough, because those opportunities for Jewish harmony really shouldn't be "so hard to see."

Drive My Car - In Israel? Are you crazy? Take my advice, Sir Paul: Let someone else drive it.

Eight Days A Week - You sing it, Israel lives it - six-day work week, two-day weekend. What we really need is nine days a week, so that the Orthodox among us get a proper weekend too.

Give Peace A Chance - Believe me, Paulie, we've tried. We said yes to two states in 1948, and we've been doing so ever since. Have you thought about singing this to the Iranians?

The Beatles were a pop and rock group from Liverpool, England which was formed in 1960.

The talented and creative group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals).

The Beatles are recognised for leading the 1960s musical "British Invasion" into the United States. Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and homegrown skiffle, the group explored new musical sounds ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock. Their clothes, hair styles, and political statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

After the band broke up in 1970, all four members embarked upon solo careers.

The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music, selling over a billion records internationally. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one, earning more number one albums than any other group in English chart history. This commercial success was repeated in many other countries; their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion records worldwide.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, The Beatles have sold more albums in the United States than any other band. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Beatles number one on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to Rolling Stone, The Beatles' innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s, and their influence on pop culture is still very evident today.

The Hebrew name for the Beatles back in 1965 which was printed on the tickets is worth noting. The performers may have been universally known as the Beatles, but in Israel, then still trying to create a culture buffered from foreign words and influence, they were Hipushiot Haketzev, or the Beat Beetles (like the bugs). What will the tickets look like in 2008?

In the rapidly growing Facebook group - Israel Welcomes Beatles Sir James Paul McCartney To Tel Aviv - this writer comments: "The producers Dudu and Boaz Zerzevsky and yourself are very well aware that your visit represents a true, defining moment of history. As such, please be aware that Tel Aviv is not New York, London, Montreal, Rome or Paris. One out of four children live in poverty in Israel. The average wage is 1,500 USD per month.

The average Israeli cannot even dream of seeing nor hearing you live.

Please, as a respected humanitarian, produce two more concerts - one in Jerusalem and the other in Haifa. Donate a part of the proceeds to our hungry children.

Please lower the cost of the non-VIP tickets. For as of this moment, the non-VIP tickets ARE VIP tickets - well out of the reach of the Israeli public.

Paul - we wish you a safe, fun and comfortable trip to this magical Holy Land.

May your presence and music unite the many divisions for which the peoples of this region suffer from.

And perhaps you just might want to drop in on English educated Syria President Bashar Assad and ask him to remove a few landmines from the Syria and Lebanon borders. Don't let it be."

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Israel Says She Loves You To Beatles Paul McCartney

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Hamas Did Not Recognize Israel in Agreeing on a Deal with Fatah

On Tuesday (June 27), Hamas and Fatah reached agreement over a document drafted by a number of Palestinian prisoners. This agreement raised the issue of whether Hamas has now met the International Community's terms for a resumption of assistance to the Palestinian Government. It has not.

In the wake of the January 2006 election that saw Hamas gain to majority position in the Palestinian Government, the Madrid Quartet (the UN, EU, United States and Russia) laid out three criteria by which that government would remain eligible for international assistance: recognition of Israel, respect for existing agreements, and diplomatic to renunciation of violence. These minimal conditions are vitally important if a meaningful peace process is to be possible. Recognition of Israel entails to willingness by Hamas to negotiate toward a two-state solution to the historic Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The willingness of Hamas to honor the obligations set forth in diplomatic agreements is essential if diplomacy is to be viable. To renunciation of violence is key to making diplomacy the sole channel by which the historic dispute is addressed.

Even as the specific language of the Fatah-Hamas agreement has not been published, the terms of the prisoners' document on which both parties reached consensus are public. Its terms fall far short of the criteria laid out by the International Community. It does not require Hamas to abandon its objective of seeking Israel's elimination, it does not bind the Hamas-led Palestinian Government to the terms of existing diplomatic agreements, and, rather than renouncing violence, reaffirms its legitimacy.

Article 1 of the prisoners' document contains a "poison pill" by which Israel would be compelled to commit demographic suicide. Article 1 declares that the Palestinian leadership will seek "to secure the right of return for the refugees." Article 9 provides additional language toward that end. By demanding that Israel admit all Palestinian refugees from the 1948 War and all their descendents, the overwhelming majority of whom were not born in Israel, Israel's demographics would be changed so as to render it a Jewish minority state. Afterward, Israel's democratic system could be employed by the new majority population to engineer Israel's demise and subsequent consolidation with a Palestinian state. The outcome would be Israel's disappearance from the map and the language concerning territories captured by Israel in the 1967 War would provide no protection whatsoever from this fate.

Article 3 of the prisoners' document proclaims to "right of the Palestinian people" to maintain an "option" for violence, even as it seeks to focus that violence on territories captured by Israel in 1967. That represents to dramatic rejection the Madrid Quartet's criteria that Hamas renounce violence and that concerning respect for existing diplomatic agreements.

The Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization Agreement of 1993 (the first "Oslo" agreement) declared, "The Government of the State of Israel and the Palestinian team representing the Palestinian people agree that it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, recognize their mutual legitimate and political rights, and strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security to achieve to just"", lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation through the agreed political process." The Oslo Agreement's "agreed political process" does not in any way, shape, or form grant permission for the Palestinians to undertake terrorist acts. The Road Map states that to "two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will only be achieved through an end to violence and terrorism, when the Palestinian people have a leadership acting decisively against terror and able to build a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty willing." The Road Map's language calling for an "end to violence" is unequivocal.

Nonetheless, a number of news stories - almost as if their authors were tripping over themselves to speak for Hamas and will that organization into a position it has not adopted - and pundits have proclaimed that Hamas has now recognized Israel albeit implicitly. Hamas can't speak for itself and it has most clearly. Hamas minister Abdel Rahman Zeidan declared, "You will not find one word in the document clearly stating the recognition of Israel as a state." Nobody has agreed to this. This was not on the table. "This was not in the dialogue." Hamas legislator Salah al - Bardaweel stated, "We said we accept a state [in captured territory] in 1967 - but we did not say we accept two states." On the website, that organization's leading Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri stated that the agreement "doesn't violate any" of Hamas' "constants and principles."

The Hamas Charter lays out those "constants and principles" in unambiguous language. It declares, "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day." It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that." Furthermore, it states, "Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement." "Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion."

At last word, Hamas has given no indication that it plans to alter its Charter. Instead, its spokesmen have dismissed any notions that Hamas has explicitly or implicitly recognized Israel. In the end, if one wants to determine Hamas' intent, judge Hamas by its actions, not the "transference" of reporters' wishful thinking. The key "tests" that will be determined by Hamas' intentions are the following:

or Did Hamas publicly and explicitly recognize Israel's legitimacy and right to exist?

or Did Hamas confirm or post such recognition on its Website?

or Did Hamas modify its Charter to reflect its new position?

or Did Hamas announce plans to cease violence and dismantle its armed elements?

Until then, one should be wary of accepting to "false spring" of to recognition of Israel by Hamas that has not occurred. In the end, while agreement on the prisoners' document might constitute to consensus among Palestinian factions, it most definitely does not meet the minimal criteria set forth by the International Community.

Don Sutherland has researched and written on a wide range of geopolitical issues.

Iran, Israel and the end times of God Plan

Secret military option against Iran?
Sources indicate that it has negotiated a secret Israel - treatment of Saudi Arabia for a military option against Iran. This includes allowing aircraft of Israel to fly through Saudi airspace on their way to attack the terrorist regime. Because some experts believe that Iran could get nuclear capability by the end of this year, Israel is developing plans to put an end to that nuclear progress.

This could be a significant development as it is very likely that Israel will actually attack the terrorist regime of Ahmadinejad at the end of this year. If this happens, it is likely that the opposition movement, which has been growing over the past year and a half, will take advantage of the chaos of the military strike and overthrow the regime. It will result in a significant impact on the Middle East, leading to the apparent sealing of terrorism and a modified region which will be open to working with Israel on a treaty for seven years. This will be the Treaty of end times predicted in the Bible, which will be accompanied by the world's leaders proclaiming "peace and security".

Nuclear progress of Iran
Speaking of Iran seeking nuclear capability, the International Atomic Energy Agency last week issued a report indicating that Iran has carried out seven different types of technologies that could allow Iran to make a nuclear bomb. In addition, the report also indicated that the activities relating to the development of a nuclear charge of a missile. Finally, the report Iran conducted experiments that any other application than nuclear weapons. (These include "explosive compression of uranium deuteride" to produce a short burst of neutrons).

Motivation of Iranian leadership on the exercise of the nuclear activity is the twelfth Imam in the scene. It is the end - times Muslim Messiah (also called the Mahdi) believed that they bring to the world under Islamic rule. Sources indicate that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spiritual leader Ali Jamenei believe that they are in direct contact with this figure of the end times. A_el_parecer, the Mahdi has been directed to do three things: 1) delete Israel; (2) bring the East under Iranian control; (and 3) produce global chaos. Nuclear weapons would be useful for all three of these goals.

Objective number one is why Israel should stop nuclear progress of Iran. While the Jewish nation has slowed progress in a number of ways, Iran is still making strides towards its nuclear ambition. Therefore, it seems that Israel will be forced to launch an attack military - and quite possibly, at the end of this year.

The Inevitable fall of Iran
In addition to the treatment with Israel (mentioned above), Saudi Arabia is trying to rally from the East against Iran. Saudi officials have moved closer to Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Central Asian States (to name a few) for diplomatic and military support against the Persian State.

This adds to the discomfort is deepening in the Iranian regime. After all, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in danger of dismissal by spiritual leader Ali Jamenei in his attempt to wrest control of the Ministry of intelligence. In addition, the opposition movement, launched a year ago and half seems to be growing, with members in senior ranks in the army and Iranian political positions. What began as a crack in the regime, therefore, seems to be a widening gap, preparing to tear down the "House" of Ahmadinejad.

They were Israel to launch a military attack, the opposition movement would probably take the resulting chaos to eliminate the current regime. If that happens, the Government would be replaced by a democratic pro, that could stop the Iranian support to terrorism. This would have an effect on terrorism in the region with groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al - Qaeda being harmed. It is also likely that this encouraged those in the Middle East seeking to rid themselves of the shackles of terrorism and radical Islamic control. This in turn would prepare the region to work with Israel in a Treaty of "peace and security," in line with the biblical end times prophecy.

It seems that God is preparing the actors onstage for his plan of end times. What is described on occur very quickly, so we have to keep looking!

John

Doctoral work, Phoenix Seminary; M.s.,th.m, from the Greek New Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary; B.A., English, University of Northern Iowa

Author; Speaker of the Conference

Why is Israel so special?

How can one country less of Vermont, with a population of less than 10 million people, so much of the worlds demand attention? Every President throughout my life has committed large amounts of energy to find peace in the Middle East, but only encounter frustration. There is much more to Israel holders.

The battle for the land of Palestine or Israel is nothing new. Throughout the old testament of the Bible is mainly on the land. God promised the land of Abraham, called Moses to lead the people to the land and had the King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the nation and the Jewish religion.

The history of Israel became really bitter when Nabucodonosor King of Babylon (today Iraq) had captured in the country and they enslaved its citizens. Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the beautiful temple of God had built King Solomon. All this happened more than 2,500 years ago! Interesting that after the Persians (today Iran) had taken of Babylon, King Cyrus allows the people Jew to have their land back and rebuild their temple. This story in the book of Ezra.

Never you hear of Jesus? Yes, he was a Jew. After this little story of his death, burial and resurrection the Jewish nation was destroyed and dispersed the last time by the Romans. For 2000 years it survived the Jewish race without a homeland. Throughout its history, their enemies have done everything possible to kill them all. Do remember Hitler? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current President of Iran, is not the first to call for the complete destruction of Israel.

The old testament announced the dispersion of Israel and the last return to the land in Ezekiel 37-39. This prophecy was fulfilled on May 14, 1948, with the blessing of the United Nations, Israel declared its independence and land ownership. The Palestinians and other Arabs have fought them until today.

Politically, Israel is our greatest ally. They have a democratic form of Government and a free market economy.

The Bible has another prophecy about this area of the world, there will never be peace unless Jesus returns. The last battle that Armagedón will fight there. This makes Helen Thomas and his comments seem a bit small. Feel free to deny all this stuff in the Bible, but it is all pretty amazing.

George w. Bush was the first President that suggest two-State solution for Palestine and Israel. This may happen someday, but it will never solve the problem. The Arab world is determined to destroy Israel, regardless of any political solution.

There are 25 Arab countries with their different religion and race. There is a small Jewish country with their own religion and race. Forget about religion, it seems logical that United States will continue to Israel support.

Christian and Islamic religions were born outside the Jewish faith. Christians are instructed to love their enemies and try to save all the people. Muslims have been instructed to kill their enemies. Does that one wonder why Liberals are more support of the Arab position.

I think that I want to stay on the side of Israel.

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Peace for Israel and the Palestinians--why not?

Realmente no creo que Hamas, que el rey nunca mencionó en su Conferencia gran Congreso (hoy) quiere paz, pero aquí está lo que dijo "...Rey Abdullah II de Jordania dijo el miércoles que Estados Unidos debe asumir el liderazgo en la creación de condiciones para una paz permanente entre Israel y los palestinos."... Sus observaciones fueron limitados casi en su totalidad en el conflicto israelo-palestino. ... Sus comentarios sobre la cuestión de Oriente medio antes de su partida de Washington eran mucho más críticas de Israel que los que entregó el miércoles". CNN

No hay ningún idioma para cambiar un mundo de guerra a la paz, sale del corazón, un salto en el corazón tiene que ocurrir y de lo que veo y escuchar de Hama, Siria, Irán y el resto del Oriente Medio, lo indican, decir, mostrar y actúan y producen, no quieren que Israel a existir (por lo tanto, no quieren paza menos que Israel se evapora, esto es un código que viven por), lo que tiene que cambiar está infectado sin derivaciones discurso y las acciones. Y creo que el rey tiene su buena voluntad en su bolsillo, cada palabra que dice que tiene una pequeña etiqueta final diciendo a América e Israel es un tema o un objeto para ellos para curar, cuando la pelota está en manos islámicas. El rey es bueno en inglés, y él sabe todas las variaciones de cómo conseguir emoción desde el oeste, sólo a entregar sus equivocadas ideas para este grupo específico quien quieren persuadir a Israel a morir lentamente (o así lo veo de esa manera).

Si uno considera que es conveniente pensar en ciclos cronológicos y quiere revisar el historial, sugiero que miran por qué cada oportunidad o intento de paz se ha derrumbado entre judío y musulmán, humano confianza de 40 años parece que se han acercado a que la obliteración del Estado de Israel está a la mano, y así el mundo sufre cada vez que ocurre un revés, y ocurre cada vez que esta paz es casi disponible, pero nunca bastante madura lo suficiente para el mundo islámico.

No quiero utilizar hasta demasiado de mi tiempo en este tema desdeñosa, habrá paz cuando Hamas quiere (o Siria, Irán y el resto de Oriente Medio, dejan de apoyar a Hamas y sus formas), hasta entonces, sólo habrá guerra. Como alcoholismo, para decirle a una persona sobria y no tienen algo mejor para él espera, ¿por qué sería él sobrio? De manera similar por lo que veo, Hamas no se ve nada mejor que la guerra, ni los Estados de sus camarada, y la eliminación del Estado de Israel está todavía en sus corazones, una búsqueda que creen que es posible (que tienen un montón de aceite, por lo tanto, tienen una gran cantidad de recursos). Supongo que, como el rey de Jordania, todos tenemos nuestros puntos de vista; no puedo ir junto con su perdón.

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King Abdullah - Jordan was better without peace with Israel

It follows a survey on the political landscape in the Middle East that the usual sabre-rattling in the region has been raised a notch. We are well aware of these rants political and anti-Semitic of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and more recently Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan. But an interesting article today was that it seems to be showing that King Abdullah of Jordan now joined the growing chorus of threats aimed at Israel. Jordan is one of the two Arab countries with a "peace agreement" with Israel, the other being Egypt. King Abdullah was reported to have stated that Jordan was better without peace with Israel. The reports of the national news from Israel website:

King Abdullah Jordan has joined Arab saber rattling against Israel and warned that the status of Jerusalem could erupt into another war. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, also said that Jordan was better economically before he made peace with Israel in 1994.

Taking advantage of the diplomatic offensive led by United States against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the attitude refusal to Obama to Israel, said, "I think that overlapping that occurred between Prime Minister Netanyahu and I 10 or 11 years ago was not very nice." It was really the three most unpleasant months in the relationship between Jordan and Israel...Our relationship with Israel is a low bottom of all. "It was not so bad as it is today and as tense as it is today."

As we can see King Abdullah is trying to collect in the recent political spat between Israel and the United States. King Abdullah Jordan is like many other Islamists and want to get the most bang for your buck measure that increases the tension between Israel and the United States. Jordan figures which will be very important in any solution of two final State it will be the country with the most close proximity to any new Palestinian State. Jordanians also currently helping to "manage" the Temple Mount and the dome of the rock through the Islamic Waqf that was established shortly after Israel captured the eastern part of Jerusalem in the 1967 six-day war.

In the INN article, it seems that King Abdullah tried to repeat several times the threat that a Palestinian State was not setup to the West of the Jordan River and the status of Jerusalem decided that this could ignite the Islamic tension and frustration in the region. King Abdullah went to another State:

In the interview, he warned three times the lack of a new State of the Palestinian Authority to the West of the Jordan and failure to resolve the status of Jerusalem, according to Arab demands could ignite the wrath and Muslim frustration.

The King also maintains that "Jerusalem specifically involving Jordan because we are the custodians of the holy Christian and Muslim sites and this is a flash point that goes beyond relations between Jordan and Israel." King Abdullah nor the interviewer noted that Jordan deny access of Jews and Christians to holy sites when occupied illegally over Jerusalem, including the old city, the Temple Mount and wailing, between 1949 and 1967 wall. This was the result of his successful invasion of the troubled young State of Israel. Jerusalem was never recognized by any other nation as belonging to Jordan.

"Political confidence is gone", he said. "There is no real economic relationship between Jordan and Israel". "So economically we were best in trade and movement before that my father signed the peace treaty."

While Abdullah speaks of things as bad has gotten politically Israel, also noted that Jordan has begun to adopt a more inclined towards Syria, which as we know is closely aligned with invaders future Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38-39. While the Islamic invaders of Ezekiel 38-39 are Russians led in Muslim countries, it should be noted that the major players of the coming Psalm 83 and 17 Isaiah conflicts are Arabic. This would appear to include all Arab countries of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and of course the various terrorist factions on the border with Israel. It seems to me that this rhetoric release by King Abdullah in Jordan potentially could be an additional indication and evidence that Psalm 83 and perhaps Isaiah 17 compliance are not far in the prophetic horizon.

King Abdullah was also quoted in reference to the growing ties between Jordan and Syria. These comments come despite the fact that Jordan is basically the simplest Islamic ties with Israel of any country in the Middle East. King Abdullah was also reported to they have said:

Although Jordan is considered the most warm relations with Israel, King Abdullah comments reflect a shift to warm relations with Syria. "We are sort of the Brigade of power... we and other countries, trying to see where issues of contention between Israelis and Palestinians and make the environment more friendly," he said. "Jordan relationship with Syria is better than it has been in a long time;" probably the best that has ever been, "he told the newspaper." "So the compromise now between the Syrian and Jordanian Government on economic cooperation are in a record".

In the course of the interview King Abdullah appealed again to the demographic card and noted that within eight to ten years to fifty per cent of Israel it was Arabic. While this demographic card has been played numerous times during the negotiations there is a lot of controversy over this claim and there is some evidence that Islamic births are really in the downward spiral while Jews born in upward. Abdullah rejected any suggestion that Jordan absorbs the Palestinians, this is ironic that Jordan is one of the main real origins of the Palestinian people. The truth is Abdullah is not interested in the absorption of the Palestinians and have them become rioters and create chaos in his Kingdom, nor is he interested in welcoming to Hamas and other terrorist groups that used to running wild in Gaza and the West Bank. King Abdullah is only interested in forcing Israel to make concessions to the Islamic global objective of the eventual destruction of the Jewish State.

It is my opinion that these unusual comments from King Abdullah of Jordan could be an indication that we are moving closer and more near the scene of the Psalm 83 and perhaps even for the fulfillment of Isaiah 17 as Syria has made recent announcements that do not sit still in the next conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. These threats and comments have the potential to bring the compliance of prophecies which directly toward the next period of tribulation will lead us and the revelation of the future Antichrist. But before the tribulation and Antichrist appear, the Rapture of the Church will mark believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to heaven before God's wrath spilled during the period of the tribulation of Israel impenitent sinners and unbelievers. With all the hoopla and threats occurs around the Middle East these days, I recommend that all you keep looking, that our redemption is approaching!

God bless you.

Chris Schang founded Rapture forums to provide accurate and timely information on global developments with regard to the abduction, Bible prophecy, end times from a Biblical perspective.