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Security Fence Length Keeps Getting Longer!

May 11, 2006

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The initial estimates on the security fence

were much less than what appears will be the final length, which is now estimated to

be some 305 miles. I suppose if one wanted to give a full comprehensive title to this 305 mile thing, it would be something like: The security barrier fence wall barbed wire trench detection unilateral convergence check points separation zone.

This is the current status on how much has already been completed and

the activity associated with its building, as reported in a Haaretz article by Aluf Benn, which follows.

Begin Haaretz Article

Ramon: Fence is Priority, Settler Compensation Must Come Later

By Aluf Benn

May 9, 2006

Justice Minister Haim Ramon wants the government to hold off on advancing a law compensating settlers who evacuate their homes voluntarily until after the West Bank separation fence is completed.

Ramon, who is to head the ministerial committee on legislation, supports offering compensation to settlers willing to leave settlements that are beyond the fence and slated for evacuation. However, he maintains t

he issue should be discussed only toward the end of the year. Security officials promised him yesterday that 95 percent of the fence, which comes to 120 kilometers, will be completed by then.

So far, 350 kilometers of the fence, out of a planned 500 kilometers, have been built.

Ramon said the construction of the fence is necessary to advance the convergence plan in the West Bank, and told government

officials yesterday that he would work to speed up delays related to judicial and administrative backlogs. As long as the fence is only partly finished, he said, it is too early to deal with canceling benefits for the settlements, all of which are considered part of a top national priority zone.

The justice minister dedicated his first working meeting with senior officials in his ministry to the completion of

the fence, which he sees as having top priority. Ramon said he decided to focus on the barrier since “the fence is a project that saves lives.”

Participants in the meeting described the legal situation regarding each section of the fence.

They said 61 High Court petitions against 46 different sections of the fence are pending, and 16 administrative petitions are being assessed by appeal committees that deal with sections located within the Green Line.

The High Court has already heard 53 additional petitions.

Several leading legal and defense officials participated in the meeting, including Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, State Prosecutor Eran Shendar, assistant prosecutor Michael Blass, outgoing Justice Ministry director general Aharon Abramowitz

and officials from the defense and justice ministries and the Israel Defense Forces.

Ramon promised to “make every effort, along with the judicial establishment, to expedite the procedures to construct sections of the fence that have yet to be built.” He also asked the participants for detailed timetables for the completion of administrative procedures and said he plans to work with the court administration to make sure there would be no delays in the legal deliberations related to the separation fence.

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Hereditary-Religious-Environmental Hatred toward Jews & Infidels!

May 10, 2006

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I truly wish there was a glimmer of hope for true peace in the Middle East but, being a student of the Bible, and having lived among both Jew and Islam, I assure you that the only possibility of any kind of peace must be identified as a “relative false peace.” I believe such a peace will finally arrive in the Middle East once

the great security barrier is finally completed to enclose the Palestinian terrorists and end contact with the Israeli civilian citizenship.

A brief period of relative false peace will then follow the wall’s completion, but my guesstimate is that it will be broken at some point in time between 2008 and 2012 in a lightning Jihad attack against Israel by a united coalition of ten Arab nations.

The revival of Islamic Jihad fervor, amidst the anticipated arrival of the promised Muslim Mahdi, is not going to fade away. If we destroy Iran off the face of

the earth, it will only inflame Islam more.

When Osama bin Laden proved to the Islamic world that hit and run guerilla terrorist warfare could drive the once great Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, the dye was cast, and nothing will dissuade the extremist Islamic elements they cannot do the same to all the foreign devils now in their land, using basically the same tactics.

The article which follows by Dave Shiflett (Bloomberg) was extracted from The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert. It paints a vivid picture of what Jews and Infidels are really up against in the vast Middle East as they face an emotional, fired-up Islamic population.

I am being quite honest when I say I feel terribly sorry for whoever is elected President of the United States in 2008, and there is also a great sorrow in my heart for Israel for what lies in its future during his or her four years in office.

Begin Bloomberg Article from Daily Alert

Hamas: Search for Martyrdom, Hatred of Israel

By Dave Shiflett (Bloomberg)

May 8, 2006

Anyone hoping that Hamas’ p arli

amentary triumph will convert that martyr-making machine into a vehicle of peaceful democracy may be seriously dismayed by a new PBS special.

“Inside Hamas,” which aires Tuesday, May 9 at 9 p.m. New York time, strongly suggests the buzzard, not the dove, will continue to rule the roost in the Holy Land.

Kate Seelye reports from Gaza that the streets are teeming with angry young warriors bearing automatic weapons and deep grudges, all strutting their stuff beneath posters of martyrs.

When Seelye asks Mahmoud Zahar, the Hamas foreign minister, if the group will change its charter and recognize Israel, he responds, “Why? to satisfy you?”

Hamas’ victory in January has brought a flowering of Islamic fundamentalism, including a total ban on alcohol and a return to the veil for increasing numbers of women.

End Bloomberg Article from Daily Alert

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The Islamic Mahdi Expectation is the Spirit of Antichrist!

May 10, 2006

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Regardless of what Israel, the United States, and the vast international community of nations does to Iran, whether they blow up all its nuclear facilities or wipe it off the face of the earth, the dye is cast – the spirit of the expectation of the long awaited Mahdi is burning ever brighter in the hearts of Islam, and it will not be extinguished.

Having lived among Islamic believers, attended technical institutes with them, and trained them, I know what they believe, and have, for some 32 years, tried in desperation to warn what was coming in the Middle East that would eventually affect the entire world.

I don’t know what else I can do! The prophetic world has turned a deaf ear to my claim the Antichrist would not come out of Europe, and many of my own faith have branded me as a false prophet, revisionist, or heretic.

Forgive me – I am not saying this as part of a “pity party” for poor old Tom. I knew what would happen at age 44 when I finished writing my first book, “Tectonic Chaos,” some 30 years ago. I went into this with my eyes open. I am only hopeful, that as those who disagree with it begin to watch it all unfold in the Middle East, it will be of some value to them.

The following article by Yaakov Katz in the Jerusalem Post has got it quite right as to the long-term goals of Islam.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

‘Iran wants to Change World Order’

By Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

May 9, 2006

“Wiping Israel off the map is just one step in Iran’s attempt to create a new world order,” said Brig.-Gen Yosef Kuperwasser, head of the IDF Military Intelligence’s research division.

“Iran is interested not only in turning into a superpower, but also in changing the world order,” Kuperwasser said at a conference on power projection at the Fisher Institute of Strategic Studies in Herzliya.

“Iran is at the forefront of global terrorism, and aids Hizbullah in Lebanon, al Qaida, and Palestinian terror organizations, and is behind attacks on US armed forces in Iraq,” the general asserted.

Obtaining nuclear power, Kuperwasser said, would not only establish Iran as a superpower on a global level, but would also assist the country in establishing its domestic regime.

“Nuclear capabilities would ensure that regime returns to its former glory and revives the Islamic revolution there,” he explained, adding that there were elements in Iran who believe that the race to achieve a nuclear bomb, plus the government’s support of terror, was having an adverse effect on reviving the revolution.

“Power projection”, the subject of

the conference, addresses challenges originating from terror organizations in distant countries.

Just hours before the UNSC votes on sanctions against Iran, Maj-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad said that he believed Iran was vulnerable to sanctions.

“Iran is Not North Korea,” Gilad said. “It’s a country of intelligent, intellectual people.”

Earlier Tuesday, Gilad had told Army Radio that Israel should place itself at the forefront of the Iran conflict, as the crisis over the country’s nuclear program was “international.”

Gilad said, referring to Vice Premier Shimon Peres’ remarks Monday that “Iran can also be wiped off the map,” that any threats Israel made should be “big” but not pointed.

End Jerusalem Post Article

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Moist Clay is attached to Iron as the Ten Come Together for One Hour!

May 9, 2006

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Virtually all prophetic expositors agree that the ten toes of Daniel 2 are the ten horns of Revelation 17. What they do not all agree on is where they arise.

Most believe they will arise out of the territory occupied out of Daniel’s fourth prophetic kingdom, which was the old Roman Empire. A few, like myself, do not adhere to the popular view they will be ten European Union nations, which indeed did make up the northern part of the ancient Roman Empire. I have believed for more than 32 years the ten nations would come out of the southern part of the old empire, which occupied, at its maximum extent, either by conquest or treaty, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, northern Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. It covered more Arab countries than these, but these are the best candidates to eventually be the ten toes of Daniel’s great statue of Daniel 2. Clay will not adhere to Iron unless it is moist. The word “miry” in Daniel 2:43 come from a Hebrew root that means “sticky.” Moist or wet clay is sticky, and can temporarily be attached to iron

or any most other metals.

But as soon as it is taken from its source region where it has been receiving its moisture, it eventually will lose its “stickiness,” and break its bond with the iron.

The clay and iron will hold together for “one hour,” meaning a short time. I believe that time will be less than seven years, but greater than three and one-half years.

Just as God put into the heart of the Egyptian King to do his will, so will he put into Islamic hearts to hold together for “one hour,” which will be the last “hour” of the fullness of the Gentiles.

Daniel 2:42,43 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Romans 11:25 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

The article which follows from the Lebanon Daily Star complements the movie we sent on our last Blog notification as an attachment. If you did not receive it, please let me know and I will be happy to send it

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Begin Lebanon Daily Star Article

Fatal Attraction: The Hamas-Iran Alliance

By Anna Mahjar-Barducci

The Iranian regime and Hamas are currently upgrading their alliance, which is over a decade long, across

the great Islamic divide, between a Sunni group and a Shiite regional power.

After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the huge surge of pride in, and support for, the revolution in the Muslim world threatened Sunni religious hegemony. Two great victories restored Sunni predominance in the Islamic world: a 10-year effort, where Saudi Arabia used a great deal of its resources to support the jihad in Afghanistan, leading to the defeat of the Soviet empire; and an equally substantial effort by the kingdom to spread Sunni, albeit Wahhabi, Islam through its funding of Islamic centers and mosques worldwide.

The election of Iranian President Ahmadinejad marked the start of a second Islamic Revolution, and with it a revival of radical aspirations dating back to the days of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Hamas is the Palestinian branch of

the Muslim Brotherhood. During the second intifada it was assisted by the Iranian-supported Lebanese Shiite group Hizballah with significant military support and funding.

The Hamas-Iran alliance is a fatal attraction. The Hamas leadership identifies more with Ahmadinejad, the popular leader who wears second-hand jackets like they do, than with the Muslim Brotherhood sheikhs who wear expensive robes and own shares in American chain-stores, like Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradhawi. (Daily Star-Lebanon)

End Lebanon Daily Star Article

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It All Began in Afghanistan with Osama and will End at Armageddon!

May 9, 2006

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When we were involved in the cold war with the Soviet Union we saw the Soviet Union alone as the only nation capable of dealing us any real harm, and we took every opportunity to deal them misery, and rightly so.

We dealt them great misery in Afghanistan by supplying the rebel terrorist guerillas with all sorts of weaponry. By hit and run terrorist attacks, the shooting down of Soviet aircraft with shoulder held missile launchers, with road bombs and anti-tank penetration missiles, Osama terrorist guerillas defeated the Soviet Union, and they withdrew from Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden’s victory over a major world power shocked the world. And it sparked the fire of Islamic jihad, terrorist guerilla warfare, as the only way to drive Israel and the foreign devil infidels out of the Arab lands. This success also gave the Palestinian terrorists assurance that intifada, which is little more than a form of terrorist guerilla warfare, would eventually drive Israel into the Sea, as the song goes, “with a little help from my friends.”

Although I utterly deplore what the

Islamic personalities are quoted as having stated in the extract which follows from the World Net Daily, I must admit they are telling it like it is, even though some of their hopes are overstated.

Begin World Net Daily Article

Global Jihad

Saudi cleric sees U.S. collapsing, Muslim victory

Al-Jazeera broadcasts remarks on upcoming ‘battle’ with ‘enemies of Allah’

WorldNetDaily.com

May 5, 2006

Al-Omar said the “Islamic nation now faces a great phase of jihad, unlike anything we knew 50 years ago.”

Fifty years ago, jihad was attributed only to a few individuals in Palestine, and in some other Muslims areas, he said, but “following the events of Afghanistan, the nation has embraced jihad. Young and old, men and women – everyone is talking about jihad.”

Some young Muslims today, however, because of their “love for jihad,” are getting involved in conflicts that are not properly jihad, he said, adding “all these minor battles, which took place in certain Muslim countries, only delay the victory.”

“This diverts the strife and calamity into the lands of the Muslims, instead of aiming them directly at the enemies,” he said.

In a June 13, 2004, interview with Al-Majd television, Al-‘Omar said “America is collapsing from within.”

“Where are America’s principles of justice and democracy?” he asked. ” … Is America now, with its reputation and status, the same America of 30 years ago – the source of hope for many people?”

Islam is “advancing according to a steady plan,” the sheik said, “to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America.”

“Today,” he said, “America is defeated. I have no doubt, not even for a minute, that America is on its way to destruction.”

But the United States “will be destroyed gradually,” he said, requiring Muslims to be “patient.”

MEMRI recently reported Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi

declared in a speech aired on Al Jazeera that Islam will take over Europe without violent force within a few decades.

“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe,” Gadhafi said. “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

End World Net Daily Article

I do not believe the rider on the white horse is Antichrist, but I do find it interesting that Islam is influencing Europe to the extent that it seems to have subdued it mentally by threats without launching any arrows from a bow, or missiles from a launcher.

I don’t think you have to wait a few decades for the rider on the white horse in Revelation 6 to subdue Europe.

Europe is so afraid of Islamic uprisings inside it that it looks like a cur dog running away with its tail between its legs. And the Pope is more sympathetic toward Islam than Israel. I don’t agree with Gadhafi. Islam is already in the process of conquering Europe by waving a bow without having any arrows and, by 2008, Iran won’t have to launch any of their missiles toward Europe to keep them at bay. They will keep them at bay when Islam attacks Israel by simply waving a few missile launchers in their hand.

Revelation 6:1,2 – And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

[2] And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering,

and to conquer.

You may read what I believe about all the riders and horses under “PROPHECY UPDATE” on our Website Menu.

They are the Archive Prophecy Updates 145A through 145E.

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