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Hamas Needs a Hudna (Truce) to Gain Time

to Build a Standing Army!

March 6, 2006

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Iran has been gaining time by endless negotiations, with everybody and his brother, in order to develop a nuclear weapon to insure they will have it available as a deterrent in their coming showdown conflict with the Israelis, which will be a conventional war as opposed to a nuclear. I believe the Arabs will finally do what they were not able to do in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 – defeat Israel in a conventional war.

They are fully aware they cannot win a nuclear war with the West and Israel, and are developing the nuclear weapon primarily as a deterrent to Israel’s huge nuclear arsenal of Jericho missiles.

The United States, European Union, Russia, China, Israel, and nations of Islam do not want a worldwide nuclear war, each one for slightly different reasons.

The coming war in the Middle East is going to be a conventional war. The individual “national interest” of all those nations possessing nuclear weapons demands it. I believe they are going to let Israel and the Arabs slug it out in a conventional ground and air war. I assure you that both the United States and Israel are convinced they can easily whip the Arabs in a conventional war. I must admit, in every war sin 1948, Israel has established a track record that supports this belief, but this time they will be fighting a consolidated force of 10 Islamic nations united in a Holy Jihad, and Israel will be driven into the Negev wilderness within three weeks after the attack is launched. There will be an international call for truce, as was the case in every Middle East war since 1948, and the Arabs and Israelis will accept it, which will then leave Israel in the Negev for three and one half years, after which Jesus will defeat the many nations that come against Israel at Armageddon, and Israel will return to claim the Land Grant God promised to their forefather Abraham through Isaac in Genesis 15:18.

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.

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Revelation 19:16-21 – And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

[17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the

flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and

against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

The following article from Arutz Sheva, Israel National News, is what all the terrorist groups have done, are doing, and will continue to do – build a collection of terrorists also trained to fight a conventional war. The difference between hit and run guerilla warfare, and a conventional war, is quite sharp.

Make no mistake, we are heading for a showdown in the Middle East, and I expect Israel to be attacked by 10 Arab Nations as early as late 2007, or as late as 2012.

There has never been any question in my mind that this conflict would occur. In the last century I thought it could occur as early as 2003, or as late as 2008 but, as I have constantly made clear, the event itself is certain, the exact time of the attack is really no more than a guesstimate. The Bible lets us know the event will occur, but the precise time is always in God’s hands.

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Hamas Sets Up Standing Army in Gaza to Spread Jihad

Saturday, March 4, 2006 / 4 Adar 5766

The Hamas terror organization, which won control of the PA legislature in January elections, is setting up a standing army in Gaza based on its military wing, the Al-Kassam Brigades.

A senior official in the Hamas military, known by his nom de guerre, Abu Huzaifa, told the PA news agency Duniya Alwatan that since the Disengagement from Gaza, the Hamas has set up military bases in every city in Gaza. The bases have been training a new cadre of highly motivated fighters for the Jihad, or holy war against non-Moslems in general and the Jewish state in particular.

Recruits are sent to the camps for four months. The first month consists of basic training, and after that, recruits are taught more advanced military maneuvers.

More specifically, Abu Huzaifa said PA soldiers are taught a number of techniques including firing rifles, shooting Kassam rockets, crawling under fences, and climbing up and down buildings. The instructors are Hamas terrorists who received training abroad.

The goal, he said, was to turn the Al-Kassam Brigades into a full-fledged standing army. That army would be dedicated to eliminating Israel and replacing it with an Arab state ruled by the Hamas.

Abu Huzaifa said that military units were already working on developing more sophisticated rockets and explosive devices to advance the Jihad.

Wary of being targeted by Israel, Hamas terrorists have also set up an intelligence infrastructure to warn of an impending Israeli strike, according to the Duniya Alwatan news agency. Terrorist have been deployed at strategic locations in order to provide advance warn

ing as Israeli fighter jets or helicopters approach the Gaza district.

The Hamas already has a communications system capable of warning thousands of terrorists of an oncoming Israeli air strike, or of the need to deploy fighters on the border with Israel, in the event that Israel decides to send ground forces into Gaza.

Abu Huzaifa warned Israel that it will encounter fierce resistance, should it try to reconquer Gaza from the Hamas.

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Some Substantiation to Previous Blog on Troop Withdrawal from Iraq!

March 5, 2006

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The previous Blog carried the account of two UK papers claiming that all foreign forces would be out of Iraq by spring in 2007. The Report from DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources gives some evidence of the UK articles having some validity. I do not doubt they will be out of Iraq by 2008, but “by the spring of 2007” may be a tad early.

As I indicated they would in the previous Blog, the Pentagon Defense Department denied the report by the two UK news papers, and rightly so.

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US troops redeploy in Iraq ahead of pull-out, have evacuated one-fifth of its territory – DEBKA-Net-Weekly 244 revealed on Friday, March 3

March 5, 2006, 9:06 AM (GMT+02:00)

The British papers Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph subsequently reported a decision taken in Washing ton and London

to pull their troops from Iraq by early 2007.

Both governments accept that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq is now a large obstacle to securing peace.

Pentagon spokesman Major Paul Swiergosz denied the report: We`ve made no such plans,” he commented. In its Friday edition,

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources named the regions where the US presence has shrunk. One is the western side of Mosul

in northern Iraq.

Sunni guerrilla and al Qaeda forces which fled to safety on the Syrian side of the border are back

and in control of much of West Mosul.

Hardly a s ingle US troop rema

ins in the al Qaim province, where from March 2003 American forces fought many a bitter battle to sever the underground highway from Syria into Iraq and eradicate the strongholds carved out by insurgents and terrorists to smuggle in manpower, cash and weapons from Syria.

US forces have likewise exited the Sunni Triangle towns north of Falluja, Ramadi and Ar Rutbah. Their withdrawal from parts of Baghdad has also left a discernible gap in security while also reducing US casualties.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly added: President George W.

Bush approved the revamped tactics before he set out on his visits to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan this week.

However, our military experts doubt whether the new tactical plan will stand up to the waves of terror engulfing Iraq or contribute much to subduing it.

The American redeployment has been too rapid and the tempo of training the different Iraqi units too slow to bring relief any time soon.

While US forces have evacuated around one-fifth of the territory they formerly occupied, not a single Iraqi battalion or brigade is as yet capable of operating without US backup, whether air force, armor, artillery, medical units or logistical suppliers of ammo and food.

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Withdrawal of Allied Foreign Troops from Iraq!

March 5, 2006

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If these reports from two British newspapers, reported by Reuters in Haaretz, are correct, then my prediction of all foreign troops being out of Iraq by 2008 was not too far off.

After all the dust has settled and all foreign troops are withdrawn, I am certain that Iraq will be as anti-Israel and anti-American as it was before Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. I believe the United States did the right thing in both conflicts – Saddam Hussein had to be stopped, but I have never

believed it was possible to build a democratic government in Iraq.

Even if the two UK papers happen to be correct, I would expect a quick denial by our State Department.

They have no desire to give a timetable to the terrorist groups, and rightly so.

The following paragraph is quoted from our Blog of February 23, 2004, titled “Islamic Posturing for Withdrawal of Foreign Forces from Iraq.”

“I suspect the foreign forces will be withdrawn from Iraq by 2008, and the security turned over to the Iraqi forces now being trained to assume that responsibility.

I will be very surprised if the current government lasts more then a year,

after the American troops pull out.

I believe it will break apart to become an Islamic Republic, and will be one of the 10 nations of Islam that eventually launch a Jihad against Israel.”

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Reports: U.S., U.K. Plan Full Troop Pullout from Iraq by Spring 2007

March 5, 2006

By Reuters

The United States and Britain are planning to pull all their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two British newspapers reported in their Sunday editions, quoting unnamed senior defense ministry sources.

The Sunday Telegraph said

the planned pull-out followed an acceptance by the two governments that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq was now a large obstacle to securing peace.

“The British government is understood to be the driving force behind the withdrawal plan but all 24 coalition members are likely to welcome the move, given the growing international unpopularity of the war,” the Telegraph said.

There are currently about 135,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines and about 8,500 British troops in Iraq. The full U.S.-led coalition numbers around 160,000. Italy, which has the fourth largest contingent in Iraq, has said it plans to pull out this year.

Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper also reported on the planned withdrawal saying it would happen within 12 months.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have said frequently in the past that foreign troops will be gradually withdrawn from Iraq once Iraqi security forces are capable of guaranteeing security for the 27 million population.

U.S. and British troops have trained around 230,000 Iraqis to take on roles in the police force and a slowly expanding Iraqi army, although both are currently incapable of securing the country on their own.

The U.S. military withdrew around 15,000 troops after Iraq had successful elections in December for its first full-term parliament since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Tensions in Iraq have soared over the past two weeks as fighting between the country’s main Muslim sects has intensified. There is also an on-going two-year-old insurgency being waged by militants against the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, its security forces and foreign troops.

The recent sectarian violence has provoked fears that the country is on the brink of civil war, a scenario that could greatly complicate the role of foreign troops.

However, the Telegraph, quoting a defense official, said that if civil war were to break out, it would likely cause the withdrawal plan to be put off.

End Article from Haaretz by Reugers

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Finally, France Gets a Little Backbone!

March 4, 2006

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The grow ing union, between Iran and Syria, has led to an

increased movement of military equipment and finances to the Hizbullah terrorist army in southern Lebanon from Iran via Syria.

It cost Bashar Assad politically when he was forced to pull out of Lebanon, and his refusal to personally answer questions of investigators into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri has further weakened his government. As I have previously stated, I do not expect Assad to be the President of Syria in 2008.

French President’s Chirac’s statements, which follow in a Jerusalem Post article by the Associated Press, are a breath of fresh air from France, and a very real indication that the European Union is realizing more and more what a serious threat the rise of the spirit of Islam Jihad in the Middle East constitutes toward the national interests of France.

The recent burnings of vehicles and property across Europe, followed by the riots over Muhammad cartoons, have been a wake-up call to the European Union that Islamic fanaticism is not voluntarily going to fade away. Europe tried over and over again to negotiate, then renegotiate, with Hitler, giving more and more concessions, hoping the spirit of his fanaticism would fade away.

Now, the world is once again negotiating, then renegotiating, over and over again with the spirit of Jihad in Iran, hoping it will fade away and, as in the story of Mother Goose, dreaming it will conclude with “they all loved happily ever after!”

Syria is well aware that its geographical pos

itioning, along with that of Lebanon, to the Mediterranean Sea make it a much easier target for a direct military action by the international community.

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Chirac to Syria: Stay out of Lebanon

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 4, 2006

Any Syrian attempt to destabilize Lebanon through assassinations or weapons shipments will trigger a response by the international community, French President Jacques Chirac warned Saturday.

In an interview with the pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper, Chirac also reminded Damascus that it should fully cooperate

with an international probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

“Syria must understand that any act that encroaches upon the stability of Lebanon, be it through the shipment of weapons or assassinations, is an act that contradicts with its standing in the international community and will trigger a response from the international community,” he said.

Chirac made the comments ahead of a three-day visit, beginning Saturday, to Saudi Arabia, which has also pressured Syria

to cooperate in the Hariri probe.

Chirac, a close friend of Hariri, said in the interview that the former prime minister’s assassination will not go unpunished.

“The truth and justice are necessary for the sake of a new Lebanon,” he said.

“Those who are behind the assassinations (in Lebanon) must realize that those who are defending Lebanon’s independence are not alone.

The international community is with them and it is determined to succeed,” Chirac said.

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Hamas is Willing to Make a Year-Long Hudna (Truce) w ith Israel if

it Agrees to it!

March 4, 2006

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As I have mentioned in several previous Blogs, Israel is committed to the process of unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank and finishing the security barrier around it in 2007.

I expect an increasing number of terrorist acts inside the West Bank, but a decrease outside it in

Israel proper.

And, as I have mentioned in previous Blogs, the establishment of a Hudna (Truce), which is allowable under Islamic law, could mark the start of a time of relative “peace and safety” in Israel proper.

The usurps, which follow, were extracted from www.haaretz.com, and were written by News Agencies.

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Moscow: Hamas Agrees to Year-Long Ceasefire with Israel

March 3, 2006

By News Agencies

MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday said Hamas has agreed to a year-long ceasefire with Israel, on condition of it refraining from any use of force during that time.

“Hamas confirmed its willingness not to withdraw from the March 2005 inter-Palestinian agreement on a cease-fire on the understanding that Israel will also refrain from use of force,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.

The agreement between Palestinian militant factions was struck in Egypt last year following the Sharm al-Sheikh summit where Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed a ceasefire

agreement.

On Friday the U.S. described the meeting between Russian diplomats and Hamas leaders as a positive development.

A Hamas leader in Moscow, Ezzat El-Resheq, said the Islamic militant group would look positively on an extension of the ceasefire, but only if Israel “ended its aggression, assassinations and arrests and freed Palestinian prisoners”.

“The ball is now in Israel’s court,” he told Reuters.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Palestinian election winner Hamas that it must recognize Israel’s right to exist, Interfax news agency said.

“The issue of recognition is a done issue.

We are not going to recognize Israel,” Mohammed Nazzal, a senior official accompanying the group’s exiled political leader Khaled Meshal, told reporters after their delegation arrived in Moscow.

The Russian foreign minister was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency that Hamas was ready to honor all the agreements the Palestinian administration had undertaken as part of the Middle East peace process if Israel made steps to meet it halfway.

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