blog.Tribulationperiod.com

Lebanon Conflict may be the Last Big One before a Future Jihad!

July 26, 2006

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Every conflict from a major war to a minor brief struggle has its own particular characteristics.

I was thinking about some conflict I could use to compare with the war on terror we are currently engaged in on a worldwide basis, and was hard pressed to do so.

So I tried to find some expression that could describe it.

How about saying we are involved in a war that is like being pecked to death by a chicken?

Begin YNet News.

Com Article

Iran threatens response if Syria Attacked

YNet News. Com

July 25, 2006

Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani says ‘Israel can’t deal with our capabilities; Lebanon war beginning of end of Israel’

By Dudi Cohen

Iranian threats against Israel continue: Iranian media outlets published sections of interviews given by Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani, who said that Hizbullah’s military capability has greatly increased in the last decade, and threatened that if Israel harmed Syria, the Iranians would respond with force.

Sheybani stressed that Iran would support Syria if it is attacked by Israel. “There should be no doubt on this issue: If Syria is harmed, even in the slightest way, we will respond with force.

This, on the basis of the joint defense agreement in effect between the two countries and already signed by the two ministers of defense,” he said.

Sheybani added that he thought “Israel did not have the ability to deal with Iran’s capabilities.”

The Iranian news agency Fars, closely associated with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, published parts of the interview, and reported that Sheybani denied that his country was transferring arms to Hizbullah, but said that the organization has been busy heavily arming itself since the IDF’ s withdrawal from Lebanon.

“There are those who ask whether Hizbullah’s military ability compares with that of Israel. Our answer is that the Hizbullah model of 2006 is very different to the Hizbullah model of 1996,” Sheybani said.

However, he denied that Iran armed the organization, and hinted that the organization could be using weapons left behind by Israel in Lebanon.

“After the withdrawal of Israel in 2000, a lot of weapons arrived in the hands of Hizbullah. And therefore there is the possibility

that the sound of the missiles exploding in Haifa are known to Israelis: These missiles were left there from 2000,” he claimed.

‘Beginning of the end of Israel’

Addressing the possibility that the IDF may conquer parts of Lebanon, Sheybani said: “In this war there is the chance that Israel could enter Lebanese soil and hold parts of it – that’s certainly a possibility.

But the problem is that if someone enters it’s not sure he will be allowed to leave,” the ambassador said.

Sheybani repeated the claim of the Hizbullah Chief Hassan Nasrallah according to which no Hizbullah member was killed in IDF attacks, and added that there nothing to be happy about in reports of the IDF battle in Maroun al-Ras.

Sheybani’s comments came a day after Hizbullah representative in Iran, Hussein Sif al-Din, threatened that his organization planned to increase its attacks in Israel, until “no place in Israel will be safe.”

At a conference in Tehran, attended also by Hamas and Palestinian Authority representatives, al-Din threatened that “this war will be remembered as the beginning of the end of Israel.”

End YNet. Com Article

An American small children’s game in the lower grades is called “show and tell.” It would seem, judging from the above article, Hizbollah and the Iranian military have a similar game for their graduate officers. I supposed it would be called “blow and go!” I believe the Islamic nations are at least two years away from being able to form a coalition of 10 nations with enough military might to drive Israel into the Negev, and it may take up to six years before they develop such expertise. I also see our troops in Iraq into 2008, and I do not expect 10 Arab nations try to start a war with Israel while they are still in the Middle East.

FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. You may use material originated by this site. However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.

Things Are Slowly Shaping Up On Israel’s Two Fronts!

July 25, 2006

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

I indicated in previous blogs Israel would capture Bint Jbeil but, as I also indicated, they would find very little in the way of hidden rockets or any other form of military hardware, because they would have been whisked away to safer environs once the fall of Bint Jbeil was evident.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article 1

IDF controls ‘terror capital’ Bint Jbeil

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

July 25, 2006

Col. Amnon Eshel Assulin, Commander of the IDF Armored Brigade, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday IDF troops operating in the village of Bint Jbeil, considered the “capital of terror” in southern Lebanon, had proven their ability to reach any location in Lebanon, and could even enter Beirut if the government decided on that course of action.

Assulin told the Post that that IDF had taken control over Bint Jbeil and had so far killed at least 40 Hizbullah guerrillas

“The town is completely controlled by us,” Asulin said, adding that dozens of Hizbullah guerrillas had been killed in clashes with Golani troops, paratroopers, and tanks.

Soldiers, Assulin said, took several guerrillas captive during the fighting. He said that there were still pockets of resistance on the outskirts of the village, and most of the Hizbullah guerrillas left inside, just under 100, were hiding in the Kasbah marketplace.

The IDF was still encountering Hizbullah gunmen who were shooting from inside mosques, hospitals, and schools. They take advantage of the population, Assulin said, “But the IDF has high moral values and does its best to avoid harming anyone uninvolved.”

The operation in Bint Jbeil, initially slated to take 48-72 hours, would last as long as necessary to kill all the Hizbullah terrorists and destroy the infrastructure there, Assulin said.

“Two tank battalions fought bravely, killed terrorists, and evacuated their wounded comrades from the battlefield,” Assulin told the Post when describing the fighting in Bint Jbeil since early Monday. He said that infantry battalions were working cohesively with tanks, and that “one could not exist without the other.”

Also on Tuesday, Lt.-Col. Avi Mano, commander of the Keren artillery battalion, told the Post that his cannons had fired 3000 shells at Bint Jbeil since the beginning of operations there earlier this week.

Mano said artillery cannons were capable of making direct hits on houses and other targets, while causing more damage than Katyusha rockets cause in Israel.

The artillery battery is stationed along the northern border in conjunction with an artillery officer who accompanies infantry troops into Lebanon to provide coordinates for artillery fire.

“One of our significant accomplishments is that we are helping infantry troops in Lebanon fulfill their mission by providing them with artillery cover fire,” Mano said.

End Jerusalem Post Article 1

Hizbollah would love to see Syria become involved in their conflict with Israel, but Syria has no desire to do so.

Both Syria and Iran are using Hizbollah as an experimental pawn to manipulate for the accumulation of intelligence information on Israel’s strengths and we

aknesses, which will be used against her when the two are part of a future Arab Jihad.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article 2

MI: Syria, Israel uninterested in Clash

Sheera Claire Frenkel, THE JERUSALEM POST

July 25, 2006

Neither Syria nor Israel are interested in a direct military clash, although the Syrian military has been put on its highest state of alert, IDF Intelligence Chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday.

Calling the current situation “explosive,” Yadlin expressed concern that any “mistake” or “misfire” could ignite the situation between Israel and Syria.

He explained that Hizbullah operatives were firing at the Golan Heights, where an errant attack could entangle Syria in the fighting.

“Hizbullah is trying to instigate, to force, another front for Israel with Syria,” Yadlin said. He added that Syria has freely supplied weapons to Hizbullah until now, and that several of the rockets that have killed civilians in Haifa had originated in Russia and been given to Syria before making their way to Hizbullah.

Yadlin also said that Hizbullah receives more than $100 million in funds from Iran via Syria each year. Hizbullah’s dependence on Iranian and Syrian support and weaponry has given those countries a level of oversight over Hizbullah’s tactics, added the military intelligence chief. It was highly possible, said Yadlin, that Syrian and Iranian officials were staying Hizbullah’s hand from launching several longer-range missiles capable of reaching major Israeli towns in the Dan region.

“They don’t want to deplete their forces and use all their weaponry too quickly, they want this fight to be drawn out as long as possible,” said Yadlin. “They know that it will be difficult to get more weapons in, they need to make due with what they have.”

Yadlin also dismissed the claims made by several cabinet ministers that the IDF had been surprised by Hizbullah’ s force

s in south Lebanon.

“We were aware of Hizbullah’s deployment in the south and passed that information along to the cabinet,” said Yadlin.

Committee Chairman MK Tzahi Hanegbi seconded Yadlin’s claim, adding that he was “insulted” by politicians who claimed that they had not known about Hizbullah’s forces.

End Jerusalem Post Article 2

The following Excerpt from our Blog of 23 July, 2006, which asked two questions, had both answered in Jerusalem Post Article 3, which follows it.

Begin Excerpt from Previous Blog

Could This Be True

? Is the Answer in Damascus

?

July 23, 2006

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Anyone, who has attempted to predict what is going to happen in a given situation in Middle East dealings, learns quickly the prediction usually has more questions than answers.

If, by some miraculous chance, this latest attempt to being a temporary false peace between Israel and the Palestinians should succeed, it will only do so if the real leader of the Hamas terrorist government, Khaled Meshal, who resides in Damascus, sanctions the Egyptian-brokered deal.

Fatah Claims Hamas willing to accept Deal with Israel

By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent

July 22, 2006

Senior Fatah sources in Gaza said on Saturday Hamas is ready to accept a deal that involves freeing abducted soldier Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and an end to IDF actions in the Gaza Strip.

What is not clear is whether Khaled Meshal, the Hamas leader in Damascus, will sanction the Egyptian-brokered deal.

The initiative, proposed by Egypt and discussed by Palestinian leaders in Gaza in the last few days, consists of freeing Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and the cessation of the IDF’s assassinations in the Gaza Strip and freeing Palestinian prisoners later on.

The deal also includes understandings to set up a national unity government.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met Hamas parliament members and leaders in Gaza, urging them to accept the deal before American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s arrival this week.

Most Palestinian factions, including the Hamas leadership, agreed to the deal in principle, but argued that Israel is not ready for a cease-fire as long as Shalit is held captive. Fatah’s leadership also rejects a unilateral cease-fire at this stage.

End Excerpt from July 23 Blog

Begin Article 3 from Jerusalem Post

Hamas Leader firm on Prisoner Swap

JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

July 25, 2006

The IDF soldiers held by Hamas and Hizbullah will only be released as part of a prisoner swap, a top Hamas official in Syria said Tuesday.

Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, of Mitzpe Hila, was captured on June 25 in an attack on IDF troops near the Kerem Shalom cross

ing at the Gaza border. The attack was coordinated by at least three different Palestinian terror organizations.

Reservists Ehud Goldwasser, 31, from Nahariya and Eldad Regev, 26, from Kirtyat Motzkin, were kidnapped on July 12 when Hizbullah operatives ambushed an IDF patrol along Israel’s northern border, an act that sparked the current violent conflict between the IDF and Hizbullah.

Mohammad Nazal, member of Hamas’ political bureau in Damascus, also raised the possibility of teaming up with the Shi’ite terrorist group Hizbullah to negotiate terms that would lead to the release of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israel in exchange for the three soldiers – two held by Hezbollah and one by Hamas.

“The only grounds for dealing with the two Israeli detainees held by the Lebanese Hizbullah party and the Israeli solider captured by the Palestinian militants, is an exchange of prisoners,” Nazal said in a telephone call. “There will be no talk about any other deal.”

End Jerusalem Post Article 3

It may seem that things in the Middle East are not “shaping up” in the midst of all the current turmoil, but they are slowly heading in that direction. Events in the Middle East have a long establish pattern that follows a certain trend. The major question during each reoccurrence of this pattern is always: “How Much Longer Will This Last?” The repetitive cycle “Pattern” is as follows:

1. A period of ever increasing threats and incidents against Israel.

2. Incident occurs that puts Israel in what I call “the Popeye mode.”

3. The Popeye mode is – “I can’t stands no more.”

4. Israel blasts the perpetrators of what put her in that mode.

5. World community says, “Now you’ve hurt ‘Bluto’ enough.”

6. Some sort of a face saving deal is worked out for a cease fire.

7. Number 1 kicks in again as the threats and incidents begin.

People are always asking, “When do you think the ‘Big One’ is going to shake California to its foundations?” My guess is that it will occur during the same time I think it likely that a great Jihad will be launched against Israel, which is at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. I believe the next time Israel pushes north into Lebanon will be three and one half years before the battle of Armageddon.

FAIR USE NOTICE: Th is site

contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. You may use material originated by this site.

However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.

Replenished Rocket Supply will not be exhausted in Future Jihad!

July 25, 2006

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

I have watched the flow of all types of rockets and shoulder held anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles into Hizbollah in the north, the Gaza Strip in the south, and the West Bank in between, for many years.

A lot are still stored in deep limestone caves and crevices for future use in a massive Jihad against Israel. Between now and the time this Jihad is finally launched, a steady influx of all sorts of military hardware will continue to flow in spurts from Iran via Syria, into Gaza from the Sinai, and from al-Qaeda via the Jordan into the West Bank.

By the time the attack occurs the hiding places will be full to the brim. I believe they will reach strategic sufficiency at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.

Began Article from Jerusalem Newswire – Christian Zionist

More Iranian Rockets en Route to Hezbollah

July 23, 2006

Ryan R. Jones – All Headline News Correspondent

(AHN) – Tehran intends to replenish Hezbollah’s diminished stockpile of advanced short and medium-range missiles in the coming week, if a report regarding an intercepted call from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Lebanese terror group proves accurate.

G2Bulletin reports that the call was monitored by a Mossad listening post positioned along Israel’s border

with Syria. Israel accuses Iran of having supplied Hezbollah, via Syria, with a vast arsenal of advanced missiles.

Since the start of the current fighting, northern Israel has been hit by Iranian-made Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 missiles, according to the Israeli military. Israel also says its warplanes have destroyed several ZelZal-2 missiles, which have a range of up to 200 kilometers (122 miles).

End Article from Jerusalem Newswire – Christian Zionist

Begin Excerpts from Archive Prophecy Update 49A (Which contains Excerpts from Archive Prophecy Updates 1, 2, and 11A.)

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 49A

January 8, 2002

The recent confiscation of a 50-ton Iranian arsenal of deadly military weaponry, intercepted by Israeli commandos in the Red Sea, is of great importance in evaluating the position I have maintained in all previous updates.

The weapons were valued at an estim

ated 10 million dollars. This is all part of a plan for a future Islamic Jihad against Israel in which these weapons will be used.

This weaponry, along with all the other previously smuggled armaments hidden in the West Bank, is not just be used in the present, or in a future, internal conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis. The Palestinians will also use the weapons during a future confederated Islamic Jihad against Israel.

In Prophecy Update Number 1, the very first issued last year (2001), I advised as follows: “Eventually there will be some form of peace between the Palestinians and Israel. It may be a ‘forced’ peace, but the final result will be an enclosed Palestinian State within the borders of Israel. This will create an impossible situation for Israel. There is no worse military position than to have an enemy within while being attacked from an enemy without.

It will be the best coordinated attack ever launched against Israel and, with the Palestinians operating from within, it will force Israel into the Negev.”

In Archive Prophecy Update Number 2, issued early last year (2001), I advised as follows:

“The Palestinians have also been sneaking in thousands of katyusha rockets through tunnels under the Egyptian border.

These rockets pass through the Palestinian controlled Gaza Strip, and some eventually end up in the areas around Tul Karm and Kalkilya (Qalqilya). These are two autonomous Palestinian cities on the Samarian bluffs just east of the coastal cities of Haifa, Netanya, and Tel Aviv, and they will play a major role in the future attack of a confederation of Arab nations against Israel. Approximately 70% of Israel’s Jewish population lives in the coastal zone to the west of these bluffs, with most of that being concentrated in Haifa, Netanya, and Tel Aviv. About 80% of Israel’s industrial productivity is also in this area, as well as many important military installations. The high elevations, where Tul Karm and Kalkilya rest, strategically dominate the coastal zones from a military standpoint. I expect the IDF to eventually raid these areas, but with only limited success. The Palestinians have been smuggling some katyushas across the Jordan River at night. They move them westward through the dendritic openings of the eastern Samarian Mountains. They are then passed through the highlands around Nablus, and to the south of Jenin and Afula. They will be used for launching against Israeli forces that come north through the Jordan Valley to repulse the Syrian attack from the north. But the main weaponry smuggled into these areas consists of anti-tank launchers, which have been concealed in this zone in countless numbers from south of Jenin to Nablus to north of Ramalla.” And in closing of Archive Update Number 2 (2001) we concluded with: “When the future surprise attack is launched against Israel from the north, thousands of these rockets will shower down on the coastal population from Tel Aviv to Haifa.” As the Israelis come north with their M-3’s and M-4’s up the Jordan Valley to repulse the inferior Syrian tanks, every dendritic opening in the western Samarian Mountains will be full of Palestinians who have come down them to await the Israeli tanks, and they will be packing two different types of anti-tank weapons. It is possible that even the M-4 might not be able to withstand the ones they are currently smuggling in by ship.

Since Prophecy Update Number 2 was issued early last year, the Israelis have penetrated into the aforementioned West Bank areas to root out terrorists, but, as we indicated last year would be the case, have met with little success in finding the weapon hoards concealed in the karst limestone topography.

In Prophecy Update Number 11A, I wrote: “These weapons are being held in reserve for the time that a coordinated attack by Syria, leading several other Arab nations, can be conducted with the Palestinians creating internal chaos in central Israel.”

Two years ago (1999), after I had ridden the Israeli ski lift to the top of Mount Herman and descended, I traveled south into the deep southern Negev. I led an incursion of several men on a “rough and ready” tour through the Negev, which I had been promising I would do for years, having been through it many times on the surface, and also seeing it from satellite readouts on countless occasions. We had been on the long Israeli road from Eilat to the Gaza Strip, when we were stopped by Israeli border guards at a point south of the Gaza Strip. The IDF would only let us proceed northward if we had weapons to defend ourselves, because the Palestinians were actively engaged in attempting to smuggle weapons across the border of Egypt (Sinai) both on the surface and through tunnels. I speak conversational Hebrew, so I told the young Israeli guard in charge that I had a weapon. He asked to see it, and I jokingly replied, “Young man, my whole body is a weapon.” Looking at my chubby 67 year old body, he thought that was funny. I kept on buttering him up, and finally he said, alright, go ahead. I turned to the group I was leading and said quietly, move, move, move, before he changes his mind.

We got in our vehicles and were heading out, but suddenly he ran out in front of us waving his hands for us to stop. He had gotten on his walkie-talkie to his field commander, and was told no, no, no!

The Israelis have become proficient in stopping a large part of the surface and underground smuggling efforts, but it is too late, because large quantities of katyusha rockets, anti-tank weaponry, AK 47’s, land mines, and a multiplicity of modern killing equipment is already in place in the West Bank. Because of the increased Israeli proficiency on land, the Palestinians and their allies turned to the sea. They have not abandoned attempting to smuggle by land, but it is now on a smaller scale. Please bear in mind that I am using the word “Palestinian” in a very broad sense. I am using it to refer to ALL smuggling activity that puts weaponry into the areas controlled by the Palestinians. It may involve the Palestinian police force, their al Fatah, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or any other group opposed to Israeli occupation. In other words, any group sponsored by, or associated with, or linked to, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, the Palestinians, and ESPECIALLY Iran.

Early last year, the Israelis intercepted one of Iran’s first seagoing smuggling vessels.

It came directly from Lebanon with a load of weapons from Iran that were brought across Syria into Lebanon. It also had katyushas and anti-tank weapons. In fact, the inventory was pretty much the same type as that on the Karine A, only much less in quantity. The Israeli naval police off the coast of Israel, as a result of that conquest, have become expert at interception in that zone, and it is very difficult to penetrate it by night or day.

So now, in this latest intercepted catch of weapons, we have seen a much more elaborate plan put in play against Israel. Bearing in mind what I have been saying about the growing union between Iran, Iraq, the Palestinians, and Syrian controlled Lebanon, let us examine the recent episode as it has unfolded.

Step 1. Ali Mohammed Abbas, an Iraqi national, in August of last year, purchases the Rim K., a Lebanese flag, general vessel, operated by Diana K shipping of Beirut.

Step 2. The Rim K is then registered on the other side of the globe in Tonga (South Pacific) in September, and its name is changed to the Karine A.

Step 3. The Karine A leaves out of Lebanon for Sudan, and from there takes a cargo of merchandise from Sudan to Yemen. Sudan has been the home of Osama bin Laden and, regardless of what it says, is still a terrorist state. The Yemen hills are loaded with terrorists. In Yemen’s port of Hudayda, the crew is replaced by one headed by Omar Akawi, a colonel in the Palestinian naval police. Then, last month, it sailed to a designated spot off the Iranian island of Qeshm or Kesh.

Step 4. The weapons, prepared and packed for deployment in northern Iran, have been transported southward, and are waiting at the port of Bandar e Abbas. There they are loaded on ferries, which take them to a predetermined location for transfer of their cargo to the Karine A.

They are packed in dense waterproof plastic sleeves. These sleeves may be inflated or deflated, such that the crates can be made to float visibly on the water surface, or invisibly just below the surface.

Step 5. The Karine A sets sail around the southern coastline of the Arabian peninsula, passes through the Gulf of Aden, then northward into the Red Sea. But her crew is unaware that she has been the object of satellite surveillance for some time, and is about to be intercepted by Israeli commandos in Operation Noah’s Ark. So, instead of going north through the Gulf of Suez into the Suez Canal, she is commandeered through the Gulf of Aqabah to the Israeli port of Eilat.

Aboard the 4,000 ton ship there were some 50 tons of multiple types of weaponry, mostly of Iranian and Russian manufacture, which was packed in about 83 crates. The two most important things in her weapon array were the katytusha rockets and the anti-tank weapons, of which I have spoken repeatedly for years as being used internally in the coming Jihad. It is likely that the interrupted treachery involved dropping the crates into the water at night at some distance off the Gaza Strip. They would probably have inflated them just enough to float about a foot below the surface.

If they were dropped at the right location at the time of current and tide, they would eventually float up on the Gaza Strip shoreline. I have been called upon to perform oceanographic estimates of where floating objects in the oceans would be in six-hour increments for up to a thirty-six hour period while a member of the National Security Agency. It would be no big deal to make a reasonably accurate estimate of when such an object would make land, and there they could be quickly concealed for eventual smuggling into the West Bank.

There were thirteen crewmen, four of which were Palestinians. The Captain, a Palestinian, Omar Akawi, is an official of the Palestinian shipping authority. Akawi has been a member of Arafat’s Fatah organization since 1976. In his first interview, he said that a Palestinian Authority official had overseen the operation.

I have been monitoring the events in the Middle East since my first tour there in 1952 and 1953, where we were intercepting, and I was plotting and analyzing Soviet Mesrans. I now see Iraq, Iran, and Syria beginning to overlook their past hatred of one another. They are beginning to come together for what they believe will be the destruction of Zionism. Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, and others are involved in terrorism, but Iran, Iraq, and Syria are the “Big Three” that control the terrorist groups, ESPECIALLY Iran.

End Excerpts from Archive Prophecy Updates 49A, 1, 2, and 11A

FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. You may use material originated by this site. However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.

Devil Dancing Determines Deadly Diplomatic Decisions!

July 24, 2006

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

As an analyst who is a believer, I am bound to accept the final outcome of the last day Middle East conflict as ending in a cataclysmic war, which finally terminates in the battle called Armageddon. I have no other choice. I have studied the great and small wars of history, and one thing sticks like a sore thumb – Diplomatic decisions, in general, stink!

And they always stink if you are diplomatically negotiating with devils. The taste of dainties obtained by negotiations with a demon may taste sweet when the paper is signed, but it will turn to poison later, and the end result eventually produces a much greater death toll than would have occurred if you had destroyed the demon. Israel will soon be found diplomatically dancing with the local devils of the Middle East and the results will eventually be disastrous for her, as they were for Europe when it danced diplomatically with the devil Hitler. Fellowship with the demon leaders of fanatical religions and ideologies leads to partaking of the dainties of their deceit and cunning – they simply cannot be trusted. The worst kind of war is one between peoples having diametrically opposed religious beliefs, in which they consider the ones not holding their belief as hell bound unbelievers, particularly if one or more of the beliefs happens to think their god approves of sending them there early.

Psalm 141:4 – Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Proverbs 23:6 – Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Matthew 10:34 – Think not that I (Jesus) am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Jesus is properly called “The Prince of Peace,” but he knew before his reign of peace, from which he earned the title, there would be nothing but war after war until he returned, due to the depraved character of those he came to save. The “War on Terror” is a religious war that has no solution depraved mankind can reach other than Armageddon. The question for believers is not “how” it will end, but rather “when” it will end. For the unbeliever the question is “how” can WE bring in peace, but for the believer it is WHEN will Jesus return to being in peace. It is impossible for man to maintain peace.

He cannot be trusted to eternally keep his word because he inherited Adam’s nature. Man’s covenants established by negotiations are made to be broken.

God can be trusted to eternally keep his word.

Consequently, his covenant will never be broken.

As a young man I watched Hitler break agreement after agreement, and finally cause World War II on September 1, 1939. I watched the blood and gore of that war spill out across the surface of the earth, always remembering the diplomatic negotiated settlement Neville Chamberlain and Hitler reached at Munich, which caused Europe and the world to resonate with this cry, ‘Peace in Our Time’. The world did not have the courage to unite and crush the tyrants of Germany, Italy, and Japan, until it became a question of having to do it or die – Neither does this generation have the courage to stand against the ungodly tyrants of Islam, and they, like the tyrants of World War II, are being allowed to grow stronger with each passing year. The tyrants of the Axis Powers in WW-2 and the Axis Powers of Islam today, have a characteristic that shows up in their love for negotiations. They love it because they never intend to keep any agreement. It is just a means to obtaining everything they want at a minimum cost to themselves – It is merely a means to an end result they have already decided.

The current crisis is vibrating to the cry of “diplomatic negotiations and a cease fire is the only way.” So we will have, as they say is always best, a diplomatic, political, negotiated, settlement to supposedly end the current Middle East Conflict, and “won’t it be wonderful there.” And then, in a few years, the diplomatic, political, negotiated, agreement will again be broken, but this time Islam will be much more united and much stronger militarily, and Israel is going to be driven into the Negev. Then Europe and the United States will cry out for guess what? You got it – a diplomatic, political, negotiated, agreement – and three and a half years later the antichrist will break it by calling the forces of Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Russia, and North Africa together in Israel to fight the great last battle of Armageddon, after which we will finally have peace with the Prince of Peace.

No one will be able to help the antichrist when he sits in his palace (appeden) on the temple mount, surrounded by the tabernacles (tents) of his mighty gathered horde, because when he orders them south to destroy Israel in the Negev, Michael will stand up, the horde will be destroyed, and Messiah will return to being peace.

Antrichrist plants himself as Allah himself on the sacred ground where Solomon’s Temple once stood, and sends out a call to all nations to come and help him forever eliminate the descendants of Jacob,

the nation of Israel. These invitations are extended to those nations who were once part of the old Roman Empire, which reached its maximum expansion under Trajan.

The nations will come from the known world at the time the Book of Revelation was written, which was “the whole world” of the prophetic writings. They will come from Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The antichrist will direct them from the Temple mount in Jerusalem, and they will “go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” The reason that “none can help him” does not mean no one will make the attempt, it means that 10,000 nations could not help him when God decides to destroy him and his army with the greatest display of geological and meteorological hell ever unleashed on this earth.

In verse 45 the word translated as “tabernacles” is OHEL. It always means “tents,” never a temple made of stone. The word translated as “palace” is APPEDEN, meaning a pavilion or palace tent, and it is never translated as “temple.” APPEDEN refers not to a rebuilt temple on Jerusalem’s temple mount, but to a command post pavilion on the Temple mount from which the antichrist issues his commands. At the time of Daniel’s writings, it was the custom for all kings to have a portable type of command post that could be quickly set up in a position from which the king could issue his orders to the men in the field. The picture painted in Daniel’s account is of the antichrist in his command post on the Temple Mount with the tents of his men stretching from Haifa, past the Tel of Armageddon, through the Plain of Jezreel, down the Jordan Valley, and up to Jerusalem. He will, by this time, consider himself a God, and his followers will follow him as the God of their final Jihad. He will sit in his pavili on command post

on the Temple mount claiming to be like Allah.

There are many who insist, because of what is written in Daniel 11:45 and II Thessalonians 2:4, that a temple must be rebuilt on the existing temple mount before Jesus returns. I rather doubt that this will happen. I KNOW that one will be built AFTER He returns, but I do not believe one will be built BEFORE He comes to rule and reign from Jerusalem.

II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

When Paul wrote this verse he used the Greek word NAOS for “temple.” There are two Greek words in the New Testament that are translated as “temple,” NAOS and HIERON. HIERON is always used to refer to a temple made of stone, like the three that once historically stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, NAOS can refer to any type of container that houses something, such as a local one made up of human bodies as an assembly (ekklesia) among which the Spirit dwells, or an individual human body where the Spirit of Christ dwells, or as a collected family of people in which the Spirit dwells individually. Paul used NAOS a total of eight times in all his epistles.

But he always used HIERON to refer to a temple of stone, that is, unless he used NAOS in II Thessalonians 2:4 for such a structure. My point is this: if Paul wanted to leave no doubt he was referring to the antichrist perched in a rebuilt temple of stone on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, he would have used HIERON, rather than NAOS in II Thessalonians 2:4.

The word NAOS means “an inner sanctuary, a dwelling place.” The suffix on it varies as to the part of speech it represents. The total number of times Paul used NAOS in his epistles, where it is translated as “temple,” are found in the following Scriptures.

I Corinthians 6:19 – What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

I Corinthians 3:16,17 – Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? [17] If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. (The “you” and the two “ye’s” are plural)

II Corinthians 6:16 – And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (The two “in’s” may be translated as “among” or “in” – either is correct. The “ye” is plural).

Ephesians 2:21,22 – In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: [22] In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

I believe this pictures him as claiming to be the God of all men, and he is proving it to himself, and the whole world, by setting on God’s Temple Mount in his Command Pavilion to establish himself as the sanctuary of God.

Paul only used the word HIERON twice where it is translated as “temple,” once by writing it himself, and again in dictating a previous episode in his life to Luke in the Book of Acts.

Acts 26:21 – For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

I Corinthians 9:13 – Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

In both these cases there is no doubt he meant the Jerusalem Temple of stone.

For better, or for worst, I am convinced he would have used HIERON, rather than NAOS, if he meant a temple of stone in Jerusalem.

Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

The reason that “none shall help him” is very simple, it

is because none CAN help him, as the first verse following in the 12th Chapter validates. He, and the mighty army he calls together, to come and destroy Israel (which has been militarily trapped in the Negev for three and one-half years), are both on the verge of being zapped by God. When God’s wrath is poured out on them there is no power that can help antichrist, or his army. The verse following Daniel 11:45, which is the last verse in Chapter 11, and, remembering the chapter divisions were supplied by the KJV translators, the next verse in a continuous narrative would be 12:1.

Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

According to Ezekiel 38:19 to 39:2, five-sixths of the antichrist’s army will be destroyed by natural phenomena God unleashes on them.

Ezekiel 38:19 to 39:2 – For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. [22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. [1] Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

This unleashing of God’s power is also mirrored by most of the Old Testament prophets in many places, and most emphatically by John when God’s wrath is poured out at Armageddon.

Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

And, as the battle of Armageddon is ended by the 2nd Advent of Christ, the doom of the false prophet, antichrist, and his armies, is graphically described by John in Revelation.

Revelation 19:19-21 – 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.

The Ongoing Effort to Cripple Hizbullah and Its Rocket Threat!

(1) Manpower and Weaponry Arsenal of Hizbullah Heading North out of Bint Jubayl while Mil ita

ry Hardware Flies into Israel and Syria!

July 24, 2006

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Hizbullah is making an effort to clear as much of its arsenal out of Bint Jubay as possible before the IDF sweeps in to remove and destroy it. I doubt if a lot will be left when the IDF arrives, and it will be of no huge concern to Hizbullah, because military hardware from Iran has been flowing into Syrian military airfields as fast as Carter makes little liver pills. Syria is having difficulty in smuggling it into Lebanon during the conflict because Israel has knocked out the roads and bridges normally used for transport, but it will eventually trickle into Hizbullah’s hands.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

IDF Prepares for Raid on Hizbullah’s ‘Terror Capital’

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

July 23, 2006

Israel geared up to push its military forces deeper into Lebanon late Sunday night as ground troops took up positions outside their new target – the village of Bint Jubayl, branded the Hizbullah’s “terror capital” in southern Lebanon.

Despite sporadic gunbattles throughout the day in

the village of Maroun al-Ras – the scene of heavy fighting last week – the IDF on Sunday dispatched troops to take up positions on the outskirts of Bint Jubayl, a village east of Maroun al-Ras.

IDF sources estimated that Hizbullah had accumulated large quantities of weapons and missiles in the village, which they said would be raided as part of Operation Change of Direction launched July 12, following the abduction of two soldiers in a cross-border Hizbullah attack.

Bint Jubayl, the sources said, had become Hizbullah’s main base of terror operations since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. The Shi’ite village served as a comfortable and sympa thetic breeding ground,

they said, for the Hizbullah.

Over the weekend however the IDF noticed that a large percentage of the village had begun to move to the north

after IAF fighter jets distributed flyers warning residents there of

the looming IDF raid.

Sources said that only 20 percent of the 20,000 residents in the village remained alongside the Hizbullah fighters.

Meanwhile Sunday, the IDF said it planned to finish razing Hizbullah outposts along the border with Israel by the end of the week. The plan, officials said, was to create a one-km-security zone along the border and into Lebanon that would be off limits to Hizbullah guerillas. The IDF was also considering laying mines in the area.

Head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin warned Sunday night that Hizbullah might try to surprise Israel by attempting to kidnap Israeli soldiers or by attacking Israeli institutions abroad. He said that Hizbullah was influenced by Iran and Syria, both of which were enjoying from the current conflict in the North since it drew international pressure away from them.

Yadlin said that in some villages in southern Lebanon, the Hizbullah had hidden rockets which it received from Syria and Iran inside private homes, sometimes building new rooms to house the missiles.

End Jerusalem Post Article

(2) The IDF estimates that Hizbullah would have the capability to continue launching rockets into Israel for a little over a month before their underground storage facilities were emptied.

Begin DEBKAfile Exclusive

DEBKAfile Exclusive: In response to Iranian re-supplies to Hizballah, a US arms airlift began running to Israel Saturday, July 22

July 23, 2006, 3:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

It is carrying fresh stock of bombs, missiles and spare parts for Israeli Air Force aircraft and helicopters. Giant Galaxy C141 transports have been landing, unloading and taking off at short intervals.

DEBKAfile adds: The American airlift to Israel follows the air corridor Iran opened to replenish Hizballah’s stocks on Wednesday, July 19, landing supplies at Syria’s Abu Ad Duhur military airfield north of Homs. The deliveries for Hizballah include large quantities of new missiles, including the long-range Zelzal and Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles, Katyusha rockets, anti-tank and anti-air missiles sent out from the RG HQ in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf. Some of these missiles can reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Thursday, July 21, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. RG forward command posts are operating out of Iranian embassies in Beirut and Damascus. Syria has placed its army, Scud missiles and air force in a state of preparedness.

End DEBKAfile Exclusive

(3) The IDF has found the Hizbullah Terror Army a better trained army than they had anticipated. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard units have trained them well, and

the fact that many are willing to fight as martyrs to the death, has made it more difficult for the Israelis.

Begin Haaretz Article 1

IDF expanding presence in south Lebanon, says Hezbollah capable of firing rockets for a month

By Amos Haral, Haaretz, Correspondent, and AP

July 24, 2006

The Israel Defense Forces estimates it has between a week to ten days to continue its offensive in Lebanon before a cease-fire is called suspending its military activity against Hezbollah.

In light of its recent estimation, the IDF is expanding the deployment of its forces in southern Lebanon. Large forces crossed the border Sunday night and the Hezbollah announced that the IDF has taken over the village of Maroun al-Ras, where the two sides fought a tough battle during the past 48 hours.

Meanwhile, IDF soldiers captured two Hezbollah fighters during a battle in south Lebanon, IDF officials said early Monday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters, had no further details.

The IDF had no immediate comment.

Army Radio reported that the two were the first prisoners Israeli forces have taken in the current offensive.

Also Sunday, Syrian Information Minister Muhsan Bilal warned that Syria will not remain idle if Israel invades Lebanon, explaining that a penetration of southern Lebanon would bring Israeli ground forces within 20 kilometers of Damascus.

At this stage, no IDF ground forces have entered the village of Bint Jbayel. Senior officers told Haaretz Sunday night that the operation is moving “slowly and carefully, under heavy fire, from the air, tanks and artillery, in order to soften up resistance.”

End Haaretz Article 1

Begin Excerpt from Haaretz Article 2

Two killed in rocket strikes on Haifa; city comes under repeated fire

July 24, 2006

Israel Defense Forces officials admitted Sunday that efforts at reducing or preventing Hezbollah rocket

fire have yet to bear fruit.

The IDF believes that unless the pace of the army’s anti-Hezbollah operations in Lebanon is quickened, the Shi’ite group will maintain the capability to lob Katyushas into northern Israel continuously for one month.

Earlier Sunday, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hezbollah operatives have launched close to 2,200 rockets, half of which have struck Israeli towns in the north.

The IDF’s chief of military intelligence, Amos Yadlin, told reporters that a similar number of rockets have been destroyed as a result of IDF raids.

Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Israeli estimates placed the number of rockets and missiles in Hezbollah’s arsenal at between 10,000 and 12,000.

End Excerpt from Haaretz Article 2

FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc.

We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. You may use material originated by this site. However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.