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Getting the Negev Wilderness Ready for Future Occupation!

A Supplement to Archive Prophecy Updates 5 to 10

November 24, 2005

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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Please take another look at Prophecy Updates 5 to 10 in our Archives.

The following extracts from a Jerusalem Post article by David Horovitz are most informative as to the current effort to prepare the Negev for a large Jewish population.

BEGIN EXTRACTS FROM JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

Restorative for a Shrinking Israel

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David Horovitz, THE JERUSALEM POST

November 22, 2005

Late next month, some 20,000 young people – mostly Israelis, but with several thousand coming from overseas as well – are set to participate in a three-day walk through the Negev.

It’s a “symbolic march, taking in religious and historical sites, designed to highlight the opportunities there,” says Russell Robinson, chief executive officer of the Jewish National Fund.

The self-proclaimed “caretaker of the land of Israel,” the JNF last year unveiled

a highly ambitious initiative: to encourage at least 250,000 Jews to make their homes in what Robinson calls the Negev “frontierland” over the next five to 10 years. And crucial to its success is bringing potential residents to the area to see the possibilities for themselves.

Robinson characterizes the “Blueprint Negev” project as a return to Jewish origins – “our land has always been an integral part of our survival.” It’s a return to origins for the JNF, too, “which has always been about reclaiming the land.”

And it’s a return, he adds, that is only feasible in good part because of the JNF’s focus in recent years on helping boost the quantity of water at Israel’s disposal. “There’s now 8.5 percent more water available than 7 years ago,” he says. “If that hadn’t happened, if there weren’t new technological possibilities with water, recycling and so on, our Negev project might have been impossible.”

Not that it’s smooth and straightforward even now. Although the project is being coordinated with the Israeli government, Robinson is still anxious to see Israel’s political leaders fully internalize the fundamental “change of thinking” required in encouraging the settlement of the south.

“The days of putting people onto buses, and telling them ‘this is where you’ll live,’ are long gone.

This is the era of choic e” – in Israel, and for potential immigrants.

As Robinson sees it, indeed, we’re now living in “the first period since the Second Temple where there are no Jews in enforced exile.” So if Israel and its supporters want to achieve a dramatic population growth in the Negev, “we can’t be thinking ma’abarot [immigrant transit camps]. We need to be thinking Phoenix, Arizona.”

And then, of course, there’s the fundamental matter of money. To achieve its goal, the JNF is aiming to raise $500 million. Its overall 2005 campaign, Robinson says, has brought in some $50m.

But Robinson is adamant that all the challenges are surmountable, with enough vision, enthusiasm and goodwill.

“Of course Beersheba, which has a current population of 200,000, can become a town of 400,000, and a wonderful place to raise children.

We’re the only ones preventing it.”

By way of precedent, he cites the Beit Shemesh and Modi’in experiences. Plenty of skeptics down the years argued that neither of those towns would flourish, “but look at them now,” he notes.

In contrast to the heavy emphasis in Diaspora fundraising of recent years on giving money to an Israel battered by terrorism, Robinson stresses that the Negev project is an opportunity for a partnership with the Diaspora built “not on blood and tears, but on the positive aspects.”

Outside Beersheba, the Negev’s Jewish population is about 140,000, and there are some 150,000 to 170,000 Beduin.

The JNF’s project to remake those demographics was in the planning stage for five years before it was formally unveiled.

One year on, Robinson says, “we’ve had detailed enquiries from 15,000 Israelis.” Of course, he clarifies, “not all will move there.”
But some already have – more than two dozen families to Sansana, northeast of Beersheba, for example, where the planning envisages an eventual 400 families. Another small group to Merhav Am, between Sde Boker and Yeroham. “These are young Israelis who are moving down there on a leap of faith.”

With time, though, the firm intention is to provide the most concrete reasons for people to move: a desirable quality of life thanks to affordable, available housing, job opportunities and good education.

Robinson says this is gradually taking shape, via a strategic plan involving “strengthening circles” around Eilat, Mitzpe Ramon and Beersheba, negotiations with businesses and entrepreneurs and partnerships with local councils.

Asked where those 250,000 Negev arrivals are going to come from, Robinson speaks first of Israelis, especially those who might otherwise consider leaving the country because of the high cost of living in the more central areas. “In the Negev, they can have a front yard and a back yard. A law office in Ofakim,” he enthuses, “a stockbroker’s, an accountant’s.”

Then there’s the immigrant potential. The JNF is working in that area with organizations such as Nefesh B’Nefesh. “Ra’anana, Modi’in and Beit Shemesh,” where many Western olim are making their homes, “are great,” he stresses. “But let them go to a new suburb.”

He notes that improved transport is bringing the Negev ever closer to the country’s center, with Route 6 in place and a double track train from Tel Aviv to Beersheba expected in three to five years.

His fear is that with Beersheba only 35 minutes from Tel Aviv by train people may want to study at Ben-Gurion University but head home each day rather than live there. “That’s why we have to turn Beersheba into an oasis, to bring people to school there and make sure they’ll want to stay afterwards.”

And if timing is everything, Robinson posits that, psychologically, now might just be the perfect moment. “I think that the Gaza pullout and the building of the [West Bank] fence have given us the feeling that we’re shrinking. Well, here’s a way to show that we’re not shrinking, a way to lead the movement south.”

END EXTRACTS FROM JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

THE EVIL AXIS ASSESSMENT HAS PROVEN TO BE TRUE!

Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 137E

November 23, 2005

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When President Bush first identified and announced, what he labeled as “The Evil Axis,” which he identified as Syria, Iran, and North Korea, he was ridiculed across Europe for having created a null hypotheses, a “straw man,” that did not exist.

However, his analysis has proven to be correct.

I believe North Korea will fade into the background, only to be replaced by Iraq after American troops are pulled out.

In less than a year after they pull out, most of Iraq will be transformed into a type of Islamic republic government.

The following ABC article came from the Daily Alert Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

BEGIN DAILY ALERT ARTICLE

Iran Is Building Nukes in Underground Locations

North Korea Lending Iran a Hand to Develop Nuclear Missiles:
Iranian Consultant

By LUIZ MARTINEZ and JACQUELINE SHIRE

November 22, 2005

Iran has built, with the help of North Korea, dozens of underground tunnels and facilities for the construction of nuclear-capable missiles, according to Alireza Jafardazeh, a Washington D.C.-based consultant and former spokesman for the National Council of the Resistance of Iran, an Iranian opposition group.

Speaking this morning at the National Press Club, Jafarzadeh described an “extensive large-scale operation” for the development of nuclear-capable missiles “in the most sophisticated, hidden way” in tunnels in a mountain range east of Tehran. Jafarzadeh named several Iranian entities involved in Iran’s missile program, overseen by the Hemmat Industries Group. He said that eyewitnesses describe the facilities, begun in 1989, as an “underground township.”

Jafarzadeh added that, in addition to work on the Shahab family of missiles, Hemmat is overseeing work on a new long-range missile, Ghadar, which is still in development and has a projected range of 1,300 to 1,900 miles.

Reports of North Korean cooperation with Iran on its nuclear and missile programs have surfaced previously.

In July 2005, Reuters cited a three-page intelligence report charging that North Koreans were teaching secret graduate-level courses at Tehran’s Polytechnic University in nuclear technology. The UK’s Telegraph reported in June 2005 that North Korean specialists in underground construction had arrived in Tehran to help design their facilities that would better shield Iran’s nuclear program from international scrutiny.

Jafarzadeh’s allegations come on the heels of the latest report on Iran from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which reveals that Iran received a document from the A.Q. Khan network in 1987 describing the “casting and machining” uranium into “hemispherical forms,” a process directly relevant to the design of a nuclear warhead.

A State Department official contacted by ABC News about Jafarzadeh’s charges was unable to corroborate them but did confirm that the Hemmat Industries Group

was sanctioned in May 2003 as the unlawful recipient of missile technology from Moldova.

The Shahab-3 was flight-tested by Iran in 2004.

It is known to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and has a range of 1,500 kilometers.

Experts do not know how many such missiles Iran has produced or deployed.

END ALERT CENTER ARTICLE

Could be a Preview of Coming Attractions!

Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 74D

November 22, 2005

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Rather than asking you to scan back through our Prophecy Archives to 74D, I am repeating it here exactly as it was issued more than three years ago on July 3, 2002. The activity along the nor

thern border of Israel may be a preview of what will eventually cause the launching of a Jihad against Israel from that area by 10 Arab nations, perhaps as early as 2007.

The follow article by Arieh O’Sullivan in the Jerusalem Post may be practice for what could be the real thing in 2007.

Update 74D follows it.

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

Top Brass Meets to Assess Violence in North

By Arieh O’Sullivan

November 21, 2005

Top security officials met Monday evening in order to reassess the state of security on Israel’s northern border following an afternoon of escalating violence.

An attack that began with a massive barrage directed against IDF posts on Mount Dov Monday afternoon quickly spread westward.

Shortly after the initial barrage, IDF troops prevented two infiltration attempts near the border town of Rajar. As gunbattles continued around Rajar, the mortar barrages moved westward, targeting northern Galilee towns and kibbutzim.

Hizbullah later extended the fighting across the entire northern border, as mortars landed near the western towns of Nahariya and Shlomi.

Eleven soldiers were reported wounded in Monday’s events, with two reported to be in moderate condition after undergoing operations at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital.

As a result of the shelling, residents of the north from the Mediterranean to Mount Hermon were ordered into bomb shelters Monday evening for the first time in years.

A house in Metulla was directly hit by a Katyusha. While family members were in the house at the time, no injuries were reported. Extensive damage was caused to the building.

In response, IAF aircraft bombed a building used by Hizbullah as a headquarters –

as well as a number of roads – in southern Lebanon.

Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz, speaking from his headquarters in Tel-Aviv, said the Hizbullah attack on the northeastern border throughout the afternoon was a coordinated combination gunfire, mortar fire and kidnap attempt.

“Syrian and Iranian interests are behind this event. Their interest is to escalate the situation in the north to alleviate the pressure off Syria,” Mofaz said.

The defense establishment, he said, will meet to discuss the attack. “Our aim is to come up with the best solution to provide the residents of northern Isr ael w

ith the best possible protection,” he added.

Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev Boim, speaking on Channel 1 TV, reiterated Mofaz’s analysis that Hizbullah’s actions were aimed at releasing pressure from Syria – which is implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri.

Earlier Monday, soldiers killed three Hizbullah terrorists who were trying to infiltrate Israel through the border town of Rajar Monday evening under heavy barrages by Hizbullah.

The terrorists were riding on motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and opened fire on the building that houses the local councils. IDF forces intercepted the terrorists and returned fire, killing three.

Hizbullah terrorists also reportedly tried to hijack a vehicle in Rajar.
A fourth terrorist was killed in a second infiltration attempt aimed at an IDF position in the same sector.

The infiltration attempt followed an afternoon of heavy barrages by Hizbullah terrorists against IDF posts on Mount Dov, during which dozens of mortars, anti-tank rockets and light arms were fired.

In response, IDF artillery returned fire alongside IAF air strikes from helicopters. Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at suspected terrorist hideouts about 500 meters from the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanese security officials in south Lebanon said.

According to the sources, Hizbullah had been detected taking unusual steps near Mount Dov, which intelligence officers here interpret as preparations by the Iranian-backed group to stage a “quality attack,” a combined assault similar to Monday’s events.

“Hizbullah is scrambling things up on the northern border at this moment. Hizbullah understands that it is playing with fire, but this is because the firefighters in Lebanon aren’t working. These firefighters are the government of Lebanon and no one else.”
Halutz also said that Syria was aiding Hizbullah both directly by arming them and indirectly by “synchronizing” their actions.
AP contributed to this report.

END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

BEGIN 2002 UPDATE NUMBER 74D

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 74D

July 3, 2002

THE INTERNATIONAL JUSTIFICATION BLAME GAME!

WE DID IT BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED US FIRST!

The age of so-called civilized warfare really began in the era of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815. And, with the passage of time, it has become increasingly important for the two countries involved in a conflict to convince the rest of the world the other is the culprit who started the conflict. Every time Hitler, in his early conquests, marched his troops into countries to take them over in bloodless battles, he always had an excuse to justify his attacks. Finally, when he came to his planned conquest of the Poles, he could not really find what even remotely seemed like a justifiable reason. So he manufactured one.

He had his own SS troops dress up in Polish uniforms and attack a German border outpost. Then the SS put dead Polish bodies in the immediate vicinity of the outpost and had photographers and reporters in to verify their story. Using t his farce as justification for

his actions, he attacked Poland in September of 1939, and World War II began.

Some interesting developments, involving Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the terrorist groups, particularly Hizbollah, have been occurring along the northern border of Israel with Lebanon.

I do not believe what I am now observing in that area will lead to an immediate war, but I suspect it may well do so in the not too distant future. And, if I am correct in my assumptions, it could give Syria justification for attack

ing Israel in the eyes of most of

the international world.

President Bush has demanded that Syria cut it’s backing for the Hizbollah terrorists that operate along the southern border of Lebanon, and that it expel the other Palestinian terrorist groups it currently has operating out of Syria. Damascus now hosts 10 Palestinian terrorist groups, which include the extremist groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. In response to the demands of President Bush, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said: “Syria supports the Lebanese national resistance, including Hizbollah, in resisting Israeli occupation and liberating land.” Concerning the demand that the other terrorist groups in Syria be removed, he said: “Their work is limited to political and media activities, and their offices in Damascus provide political representation to the 400,000 Palestinians who look to attain their rights and return to their land.” Israel has repeatedly warned Syria that if Hizbollah continued its border attacks on Israeli civilians and troops on its northern border, they would start hitting targets in Syria in retaliation. Bashar has responded by saying that Syria would defend itself against any Israeli action. He said: “If the Israeli government involves itself in waging aggression on the territory of Syria, then Syria will defend itself.”

So far Israel’s policy against recent Hizbollah attacks has shown remarkable restraint, probably because of not wanting to open a second front of conflict to the one they now have going in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though seven Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hizbollah terrorist team that penetrated the border fence, Israel has held back from violent retaliation. And now Bashar al-Assad has joined with Iran to provide heavier rockets for the Hizbollah arsenal of terror. Israeli officials have w atched Hizbollah deploy thousands of new missiles and rockets th

at are aimed at Israeli civilian population centers.

Once Israel has completed its long buffer zone fence around the West Bank, and beefed up the one it already has around the Gaza Strip, it will become confident it has finally achieved the impossible, it will say it has “peace and safety.” And all the time that it was tied up internally in so doing, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon will have been slowly slipping troops in position for a lightning Jihad from the north. Israel’s preoccupation with its internal safety is going to cause them to slack off in their gaze on what is going on externally.

During the time that Alexander’s great empire had been divided into four sections, the Syrian section (Seleucid) held Israel some of the time, and the Egyptian section (Ptolemy) held it when they took it from the Syrians. Israel was, at times, a part of the Egyptian section, at times, a part of the Syrian section, and, at times, a part of both. Daniel lists a very long series of battles between the king of the north (Syria) and the king of the South (Egypt). Most of Daniel’s prophecies about these two kingdoms were fulfilled by their many kings from Daniel 11:4 through 35, but there remains one war yet to be fulfilled, and I believe it is the aforementioned Jihad that begins in Daniel 11:40. Since Israel was once part of the section occupied by Ptolemy, I am persuaded that Israel is the king of the south and Syria is the king of the north in Daniel 11:40-45.

I suspect that after Israel has lulled itself into a false sense of peace and safety by its military might, it will have gained even more confidence in its great ability to take care of any Islamic intrusion.

It may well be that Syria will get Hizbollah to kick up a storm of activity along the northern border by launching a massive missile and rocket attack across the border into the populations of northern Israel. Syria will do this knowing that Israel will cross the border into Lebanon and hit Syrian targets from the air. But this time Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran will be waiting for it, and six other Islamic nations will be poised to supply logistical support. The Islamic nations can cry out while they head south: “We were attacked first, we are justified in this response to the Israeli invasion of our sovereign territory.” This will cause a hesitation by the western world at first and, by the time it wakes up, Jerusalem will have fallen, and Israel will be fleeing into the Negev.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

First comes a time when Israel actually believes it can maintain “peace and safety.” Then a time of false “peace and safety” sets in for a brief period. Then a border incident!

Then a response! Then a Jihad, and the last 1260 days of the tribulation period are under way.

END 2002 ARCHIVE UPDATE 74D

Israel Continues to Add to its Underwater Nuclear Deterrent!

Supplement to Archive Prophecy Updates 155B, 176A, & 187A

November 21, 2005

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Israel already has three submarines carrying nuclear warheads in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf – Soon there will be five! This is one of the re asons I h

ave long been convinced there will not be a nuclear war in the Middle East. There will be a Jihad fought with large arsenals of sophisticated conventional weapons. Neither Israel nor the nations of Islam want, or would profit from, a nuclear war, no matter how fanatical the Islamic terrorists are in their religious practices. In the case of Saddam Hussein it was a horse of a different color.

He was far from being a genuine religious fanatic – He was a megalomaniac. If he had ever developed a nuclear arsenal, he would assuredly have used it.

The article which follows, by Yossi Melman in Haaretz, is the outcome of negotiations between Germany and Israel in 2004 for the purchase of two additional submarines to add to their defense structure. The article follows:

BEGIN HAARETZ ARTICLE

Germany to Sell Israel Two More Subs at Major Discount

By Yossi Melman

November 20, 2005

Germany will provide Israel with two more Dolphin class submarines, the German weeklies Der Spiegel and Focus reported yesterday.

According to the magazine reports, the outgoing government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder acceded to the Israeli government’s requests, and even

agreed to pay about a third of the cost of the submarines. Construction of the submarines, which will take place at the shipyards in Kiel, will cost around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion), of which a third will be financed by the German government.

If these reports are correct, then the two submarines would join three Dolphin class submarines supplied to the Israeli navy in the past. Two of the three submarines, built to Israeli specifications, were given to Israel gratis following the Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War after it turned out that German companies had aided Saddam Hussein’s weapons program.

In recent years, Israel tried to persuade the German government to provide additional submarines, but the Germans were hesitant. German media reports said the reason was concern that Israel would outfit the submarines for missiles with nuclear warheads.

However, Israeli sources said the primary dispute was over whether Germany should charge the full price. Der Spiegel and Focus said yesterday that Germany had indeed long resisted Israel’s request to help finance the cost of the submarines.

According to foreign media reports, the growing concern over Iran acquiring nuclear weapons has led Israel to develop nuclear “second-strike capability,” and submarines, which cannot be detected and targeted, constitute an effective means to that end. That conclusion, according to foreign media reports, was also drawn from the fact that the torpedo hatches on the Dolphin submarines supplied to Israel have been substantially widened – which ostensibly indicate they are intended for launching nuclear missiles.

Second-strike capability is a country’s ability to respond with nuclear weapons even after a nuclear attack. Sec ond-strike capability requires nuclear missiles c

oncealed underground or installed on submarines.

END HAARETZ ARTICLE

I first announced this purchase of two submarines last December in a supplement to Special Prophecy Update 141C.

The supplement follows.

BEGIN SUPPLEMENT TO 141C

Supplement to Archive Special Prophecy Update 141C

December 12, 2004

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Please take a look at Prophecy Update 141C in our Archives. Israel is building a fleet of the best non-a tomic subs available, and then modifying them

to carry missiles with nuclear warheads. This is an excellent article by Arieh O’Sullivan for the Jerusalem Post. It came from the Jerusalem Post OnLine.

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

Israel to buy 2 more German Dolphin subs

By Arieh O’Sullivan, The Jerusalem Post

December 12, 2004

Navy Adm. David Ben-Bashat has reportedly confirmed that Israel is to purchase two more Dolphin-class submarines from Germany and that the contract will be signed this coming spring.

Speaking at a gathering of the Navy’s friendship association, Ben-Bashat said that the time was ripe for winning German approval for the submarines, which each cost some $350 million, according to the IDF weekly Bamahane.

Last year, the German government reportedly turned down a request for two more Dolphin-class submarines. Berlin was reportedly against the sale because of reports that Israel was equipping them with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.

Sensitive armaments deliveries need approval from Berlin’s secretive security council.

“Next year a wonderful window of opportunity will be opened because of the political situation with Germany and Europe,” the weekly quoted Ben-Bashat as telling the gathering. “I hope that then we will sign a contract with Germany that will allow the addition of two more submarines to the Navy’s fleet.”

Israel received three diesel/electric U-212 Dolphin-class submarines from Germany in the late 1990s.

The two new submarines would reportedly be built at the Kiel-based Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG, the world’s biggest builder of non-nuclear submarines.

The Dolphin-class submarines are the most expensive platforms in the IDF’s arsenal. Germany donated the first two submarines to Israel as a gift after the first Gulf War and split the cost of the third.

According to Bamahane, the newer Dolphins will be able to stay submerged for longer than the present Dolphins

END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE & SUPPLEMENT TO 141C

Since 141C plays such a major roll in understanding how and why the Israelis are developing an underwater nuclear deterrent, rather than just referring you to it, I am including an extract from it in this Blog.

BEGIN EXTRACT FROM 141C

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 141C

October 13, 2002

Conventional to Nuclear – Israel Shifting Military Focus

I have known for 35 years that Israel possessed nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare capabilities. In Prophecy Updates 4 and 17A, issued in early 2001, I shared the history of their nuclear development program. In the last year of the twentieth century, Israel received three Dolphin class diesel submarines form Germany.

They are the best diesel subs in the world, able to stay at sea for more than four weeks with a range of some 2800 miles.

In the late nineties I included a transparency of the first sub Israel received in my lecture series, and pointed out a section of the sub where a modification of the craft could be made such that a cruise class missile could be launched from beneath the surface of the sea. I told the audiences where I lectured during this period that I was certain it would soon carry a nuclear warhead. The submarines were first designed to carry the U.S. made Harpoon missiles, but I told listeners it was a sure thing that Israel would modify the existing launch mechanisms to send missiles carrying nuclear warheads.

I also told them the three subs would patrol three areas, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea. Israel made sure that public announcements of their acquisition of three German submarines reached all the Islamic nations, particularly Iran.

Recent news sources are now quoting senior U.S. and Israeli military officials as saying that Israel has done exactly this, modified American cruise missiles to launch from beneath the sea. Israel is now able to launch nuclear weapons from on land, in the sea, and from the air.

Please read Special Prophecy Update Number 129C in our Prophecy Archives, titled “Atomic War in Israel – Yes or No?,” before continuing. My major purpose in writing this update is not to show the buildup or might of Israel in its WMD arsenal, and Update 129C will advise you why this is the case.

I am writing this to advise you that recent things stated by prominent Israeli war hawks, are making it plain that Israeli officials have no fear of a convention war, but are developing a fear of a WMD conflict. They are convinced they could militarily defeat all the Islamic nations in a conventional war. And this, along with their daily anticipation of a completed security fence giving them an internal peace scenario they could control, added to their belief they could defeat the Arab nations handily in a conventional war, is causing them to be drawn into a false peace sense of security. When they believe they have gained sufficient control of their internal conflict with the Palestinians, they will begin to say: Now! At Last! We have generated our own “peace and safety!” The WMD’s, which they are starting to shift their resources to counter, will not be launched against them, but a Pearl Harbor type of lightning conventional jihad

will, and Israeli will again discover to trust in the power of their Messiah, rather than their own expertise. A forced false peace, followed by a vicious surpr ise blitzkrieg from the North, will drive Israel into the Negev, and I believe it

is likely to occur before 2008.

END EXTRACT FROM 141C

More Activity on the Temple Mount!

November 20, 2005

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A Supplement to Oc

tober 31, November 17, and the Previous Blog!

This is addition information that applies to Archive Special Prophecy Update 165A, a Blog issued this A.M., “How Would Islam React if the walls fell under the Al Aqsa Mosque,” an Archive Blog issued November 17, “The Temple Mount – A Staging Platform for International Jihad,” and the Achive Blog Issued October 31, “The Most Disputed Zone of Contention in Israel.”

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

Raed Salah Visits Temple Mount

By Etgar Lefkovits, THE JERUSALEM POST

November 20, 2005

In coordination with police, the firebrand leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel vi sited

the Temple Mount on Sunday, just two days after postponing a planned Friday visit, police said.

Sheikh Raed Salah was freed from prison in July after serving two years for a series of security offense including financing Hamas activities, money laundering, membership in illegal organizations and holding contacts with hostile figures.

The terms of Salah’s release had bared him from entering Jerusalem until Thursday, but Israeli security officials had been opposed to the fiery leader’s previous plans to come to the Temple Mount to pray at

the El Aksa mosque on Friday, the most sensitive day of the week at the Jerusalem holy site.

Salah, who heads the extremist northern branch of the Islamic Movement of Israeli Arabs, which denies Israel’s very legitimacy, has repeatedly warned supporters that “Al-Aksa is in danger,” and that Israeli extremists intended to attack the mosque at

the Jerusalem holy site.

The well-funded Islamic Movement have been underwriting major Wakf construction and renovation projects on the Temple Mount, as well as in mosques throughout Israel.

END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE