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Negotiating with Lying Islamic Historical Revisionists is Useless!

February 16, 2007

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In the land of the Caliphs there is a simple formula that has always been employed to produce peace. If you are stronger than your enemy, do not negotiate, destroy him.

If you are not stronger than your enemy, do negotiate with him until you become stronger than he is, then destroy him. The purpose of a hudna (truce) has always been to gain enough strength to destroy your enemy.

Once your enemy is destroyed, then you have peace!

I have, in my experience among the Middle Eastern Arabs, come to the same conclusion about many of their leaders, as was expressed of the Cretians in Titus 1:12.

Titus 1:12 – One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

A lasting genuine peace in the Middle East can only be based on truth, which is why one can never be reached between the Arabs and Israel. It will not occur until the Prince of Peace, the Messiah, returns to earth at his Second Advent to establish it.

Zechariah 14:4,5 – And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

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 two articles which follow demonstrate the almost unbelievable trait possessed by Islamic leaders to be able to completely disregard what has been historically proven to be the truth. The leaders believe whatever is politically expedient by accepting an absolute lie. It is impossible to have any sort of meaningful negotiations with those leaders who possess such an unbelievable trait, but

negotiations have been attempted since 1948 to do the impossible, and will continue to be attempted until Israel is attacked from the north by an Islamic confederation.

Begin Canadian Nation Post Article

The Palestinians’ Blind Eye to History

Michael Coren (National Post-Canada)

The Israel-Palestine conflict presented its contorted face to Canada with a steaming, hysterical anger last week. In Jerusalem a bus full of unsuspecting Canadian tourists was attacked by rock-wielding Palestinian youths.

Palestinians and their Muslim comrades in other countries have turned to violence. They complain that the Israelis are rebuilding a ramp that connects to the Temple Mount.

The last remaining icon of the ancient Jewish Temple, the Wailing Wall, is at the very epicenter of Judaism.

The Israelites under King David conquered Jerusalem around 1000 BCE and rebuilt and expanded the city.

David’s son Solomon built the great Jewish Temple and it stood for half a millennium until destroyed by the Babylonians.

It was rebuilt and remained in place until the Roman defeat of the Jewish uprising in 70 CE.

Muslim forces arrived, very much as latecomers, in 638 CE.

Shortly afterwards, Caliph Umar asked the Christian Patriarch Sophronius to show him the exact spot of the Jewish Temple. It was here that the al-Aqsa Mosque would be built.

But according to the Palestinian leadership there was no Temple. This is the mythology driving the stone-wielding Palestinians.

In spite of irrefutable evidence to the contrary, many in the Muslim world refuse to accept that the Jews have any historical claim to live in Israel and continue to deny that the Temple of Jewish, Christian and secular history ever existed.

In other words, the world is flat if it suits one’s political purposes.

Begin Weekly Standard Article

Iran’s Obsession with the Jews: Denying the Holocaust, Desiring Another One

Matthias Kuntzel

Weekly Standard

The Tehran Holocaust deniers’ conference marks a turning point not only because of its state sponsorship, but also because of

its purpose.

Up until now, Holocaust deniers have wanted to revise the past.

Today, they want to shape the future: to prepare the way for the next Holocaust. In his opening speech to the conference, the Iranian foreign minister, Manucher Mottaki, left no doubt on this point: If “the official version of the Holocaust is called into question,” Mottaki said, then “the nature and identity of Israel” must also be called into question.

If it should turn out, however, that the Holocaust did happen after all, Ahmadinejad explains that it would have been a result of European policies, and any homeland for the Jews would belong not in Palestine but in Europe. Either way, the result is the same: Israel must vanish.

The writer is a Hamburg-based political scientist and a research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Weekly Standard)

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“IF” the Earth’s Surface was made of Gold, Men would die for a Pot of Dirt!

February 15, 2007

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Israel’s Prime Minister is quite correct when he says, “IF” Europe, the U.S., China, and Russia join forces, they can create such damage to the Iranian economy that it will force them

to reconsider. However, the oil revenue money from the Iranian economy has been the goose that laid the golden eggs, and Russia and China are not about to kill the goose that has kept their economies lively – Leaders tend to die for what keeps them in office in their own country, not what affects their popularity in the international community. They want the Iranian oil bucks to keep flowing into their coffers from weaponry sales, a small percentage of which trickles down into the pockets of their supporters.

North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and China are now in competition for the oil revenue monies from the other moderate oil producing nations, who are scared to death of a Shiite Iranian nuclear bomb.

If you think the leaders of Russia and China will do anything to help our image, you are out of your mind.

And the only way they will ever think of helping to promote peace in the Middle East, will be if it is most beneficial to them. Most of our diplomacy today does not deal with any form of reality, but in a dream world that international diplomacy can ever be based on anything other than individual national interest.

Russia and China are now jumping with glee that the moderate Arab nations are running scared of Iran’s growing nuclear potential, and are stepping in to provide them with nuclear facilities and know how, which will stimulate both their economies to greater heights. Our two great enemies of the cold war will lay back in the wings to supply the Islamic forces with all sorts of high tech weaponry for a piece of the pie from their oil revenues, and the

forces of Allah will use them to drive Israel into the Negev Wilderness. Then some three and one half years later, China and Russia will join the Islamic nations for a bigger slice of the oil pie at the final battle of Armageddon, which

will mark the end of the age of the Gentiles.

North Korea, Pakistan, China, and Russia are all waiting and anxious to get on the gravy train of oil revenues by supplying any Islamic country with all kinds of high tech and nuclear technology, as attested by the DEBKAfile article. I suppose that if the surface of the earth was made

of gold, mankind would sell its existence for a pot of dirt.

Begin Two Paragraph Extract from Jerusalem Post Article

Olmert: Iran can be stopped without resorting to Violence

Greer Fay Cashman, THE JERUSALEM POST

February 6, 2007

There is no need for violent action to stop Iran from moving forward with its nuclear program, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Tuesday night.

“If the international community joins forces and applies the necessary restrictive measures on the economy of Iran, it will force Iran to reconsider its position,” said Olmert. If Europe, the US, China and Russia join forces, he continued, “they can create such damage to the Iranian economy that it will force them to reconsider.”

Begin DEBKAfile Article

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Saudis to purchase nuclear option, advanced missiles and spy satellites off the shelf from Pakistan and Russia

February 15, 2007, 3:27 PM (GMT+02:00)

Moscow will assist in Saudi development of a civilian nuclear program and build six “research satellites” for the oil kingdom.

DEBKAfile’s Gulf intelligence sources report this was agreed in the talks held in Riyadh earlier

this week by visiting Russian president Vladimir Putin and King Abdullah.

Israeli military sources report that Moscow in fact undertook to provide Saudi Arabia with half a dozen military surveillance satellites, launch them and set up ground control centers, thereby making the oil kingdom the first Middle East national with a multiple spy satellite capability for tracking the military movements of its neighbors, including Iran and Israel.

This Saudi-Russian venture has got Israel worried because it will enable Riyadh to pick up highly sensitive intelligence on its military movements and relay it to Egypt and the Palestinians.

This development confirms DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s previous disclosures that the Saudis do not intend wasting time developing their own military capabilities but are going shopping for finished products.

On Jan. 21, Saudi rulers favored visiting Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf with exception honors when he arrived at the outset of a tour of five Arab capitals.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly described King Abdullah as personally welcoming the visitor and driving him in the royal convoy to a palace outside the capital where they were closeted alone for three hours.

The king also conferred on the Pakistani ruler

the King Abdul Aziz Award.

This ceremonial led up to an epic accord of 7 secret clauses on the terms in which Pakistan would make nuclear weapons available to, and sell, Saudi Arabia nuclear-capable missiles. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s sources revealed that Musharraf undertook to make them available in the event of a nuclear emergency facing Saudi Arabia, the Gulf emirates, Egypt or J

ordan. A mechanism was thus set up for Saudi Arabia to potentially beat Iran to the draw in acquiring a nuclear bomb, as well as controlling the security of its allies.

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Al Aksa Mosque Rallying Point of Islamic Hipe – Terror – Hudna – False Peace – Holy War!

February 15, 2007

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The title of this Blog is indicative

of the sequence of events I expect to see from now until the time I guesstimate Israel is likely to be attacked, which I believe will be at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.

Why do I expect the future path down which the Palestinian Authority and Israel will travel chronologically is: (1) Terror, (2) Hudna (Truce), (3) False Peace, and (4) Holy War (Jihad)? Simply because the Mecca Agreement between Fatah and Hamas (The Majority Party), allows the Hamas to (1) Never Recognize Israel as a State, (2) Not Stop or even Renounce Terror, and (3) Not keep any previous agreements the PA made with Israel.

The work at the Rambam Gate will suffer temporary stoppages from time to time, but Israel is determined to complete the job, and will do so. Just as Israel is determined to eventually complete the job, which they have every right to do so – so are the Arabs determined to use what they will erroneously identify as a desecration of a holy site, in order to cause a fueling of the spirit of Islamic Jihad.

The following quote from the Arutz Sheva article represents the height of fanatical Islamic cunning – How appropriate to get groups of Arab school children on the temple platform, so that Israel can be blamed for any deaths or injuries that might occur during

the riots. Why send the children in to harms way, other than

to further inflame moderates into the fanaticism of Islamic Jihad?

Begin Quote

“The committee called upon Arab schools to organize field trips for children to Al Aksa, so they can “be appraised of the situation,” and to set aside two hours of the weekly school schedule for discussing the matter. Additional activities are planned in Arab villages and cities throughout Israel.”

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Begin Arutz Sheva Article

High Alert in Jerusalem as Arab Leadership Plans More Rioting

Aretz Sheva

Sunday, February 11, 2007 / 23 Shevat 5767

High alert was declared on the Temple Mount, as the government approved the continuation of renovation work at the Rambam Gate (Mughrabi Gate). Dichter: Arab MKs don’t even know where the gate is.

Today’s Cabinet vote to approve the continued works was passed with no ‘nay’ votes, though three ministers abstained: Defense Minister Amir Peretz, Education Minister Yuli Tamir, and newly-appointed Arab minister Rhaleb Majadle.

Peretz said that there is “no question” regardi

ng Israel’s sovereignty in the area, and that it would be appropriate to act “with restraint” in this regard.

In actuality, however, there is a question in this regard.

Supreme Supervision Committee of Israel’s Arabs announced Saturday that it does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the site of the Al-Aksa mosque, and sees the eastern neighborhoods

of Jerusalem as occupied territory.

The committee, which includes representatives from most factions and organizations in the Israeli Arab sector, held a special session to discuss the renovation work being done near the Rambam Gate.

Minister Peretz claimed at today’s Cabinet meeting that he did not know in advance that the Rambam Gate was to be refurbished.

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter of the Kadima Party implied that this was an untruth, and said that on January 21, a preliminary meeting on the issue was held, with the participation of IDF and police representatives.

Peretz was attacked from other quarters as well. Ministers Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) and Ze’ev Boim (Kadima) castigated Peretz for running to the press with his concerns over the matter, instead of directly to Prime Minister Olmert.

Ministers from both Kadima (Sha’ul Mofaz) and Labor (Binyamin Ben-Eliezer) said that the tensions between Olmert and Peretz are not called for and harmful. “A Prime Minister and a defense minister must talk to each other,” Mofaz said, while Ben-Eliezer said that the competition between them “increases the lack of public trust in the political echelons.”

Outside the government, MK Avshalom Vilan (Meretz) also said that the Olmert-Peretz feuding was dangerous for Israel.

The excavations in question are being carried out under the walkway leading up to the Temple Mount from the Western Wal plaza, in preparation for the refurbishing and possible relocation of the entrance and walkway.

The Arabs have claimed that Israel is attempting to undermine the entire Temple Mount, and have called for massive and active resistance.

Minister Dichter, a former head of Israel’s Shabak (General Security Service), toured the area this morning, and ridiculed the Arab claims.

“The Temple Mount is not being touched,” he said. “Some Israeli-Arabs, including Knesset Members, don’t even know that the Mughrabi Gate is outside the Temple Mount altogether.”

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky said he was “worried about the city’s situation and hoped there would not be further deterioration,” a reference to the riots by Muslim worshippers Friday at the nearby Al-Aksa mosque.

Lupoliansky invited the head of the Muslim Waqf, Adnan Husseini, to meet with him and try to defuse the tension.

Sheikh Raad Salah, who heads the northern wing of the Islamic Movement, said that he intends to erect a protest tent near the Old City, which he is currently forbidden from entering by virtue of a restraining order.

The Israeli-Arab group decided at Saturday’s meeting to organize a demonstration at the Al Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount next week. It was also decided that Israeli-Arab leaders would hold a protest session Monday in front of the Rambam Gate and meet with the Muslim Waqf officials responsible for the mosque.

The committee called upon Arab schools to organize field trips for children to Al Aksa, so they can “be appraised of the situation,” and to set aside two hours of the weekly school schedule for discussing the matter. Additional activities are planned in Arab villages and cities throughout Israel.

The committee intends to send letters to foreign embassies demanding they intercede with Israel regarding the work being done at Rambam Gate. It also intends to meet regularly to follow up on the situation at the gate.

The committee’s leader, Sheikh Raad Salah, charged that “the Zionist establishment is carrying out terrorist acts in Al Aksa.” Committee member Knesset Member Hana Sweid also claimed that the Olmert government is trying to “Judaize” the areas adjacent to Al Aksa by buying land and apartments, and building a synagogue.

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Boom, Boom, Boom – Happy Valentine’s Day in the Middle East

February 14, 2007

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Daily terrorist bombings across the Middle East have shown a greater yearly frequency for some time, at times being reported in countries like Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Israel all on the same day. And today one was even reported in the land of a major sponsor of the terrorist cells in the Middle East, good ole Iran.

There is only one way all of these perilous times in the Middle East can possible end, when one considers the worldwide depth of total depravity to which mankind has descended – It must end in judgment by God with a time of war in the Middle East, culminated by the final battle of Armageddon. There will be spirits of evil gathering the peoples of this area toward a final judgment by God. Islam has a form of what they identify as godliness, but they deny the deity

of Christ as the incarnate Son of God, and in so doing deny the saving power of God in Christ.

II Timothy 3:1-5 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Revelation 16:13,14 – And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Ten descendant Kings of Ishmael and Keturah will give their strength and power to the antichrist of Islam for one hour (some three and one-half years), and they will drive Israel into the Negev Wilderness for that period of time. At the end of the three and one-half years they will come roaring out to drive north, east, and west to take the land promised by God’s Covenant to Abraham.

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 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.

Zechariah 13:8,9 – 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. [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.

Joel 3:9-17 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. [12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of

the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

[16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

(See Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 62 to 69 for full exposition on Micah 5 and Genesis 15:18).

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:

The three articles which follow were extracted from different articles on Tuesday’s events, and are reflective on a typical day’s events in the wild, wild Middle East.

All of this chaos might temporarily be brought to a truce of false peace, but the roaring infection in the boil will eventually come to a head and burst into a Middle East war to close this Age of the Gentiles.

I think John’s closing verses in Revelation are quite appropriate for this age, and am of the opinion his request will soon be honored.

Revelation 22:20,21 – He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.

Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. [21] The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Amen.

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Iran: 18 elite guards killed in bombing

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

February 14, 2007

A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 18 of the Guards, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday.

The car stopped in front of a Guards’ bus near Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. It called the apparent attack

a terrorist operation and said the car’s occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before the car exploded.

“This blind terrorist operation led to the martyrdom of 18 citizens of Zahedan,” IRNA quoted a Guards commander, Qasem Rezaei, as saying.

State-run television said the bus had been taking the Guards personnel to work when the attack occurred.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Rezaei blamed “insurgents and elements of insecurity” for the attack.

Begin Extract 1 from Arutz Sheva, Israel National News Article

Lebanon Blasts Target Christians, Increase Instability

26 Shevat 5767, 14 February 07 07:08

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) Three people were killed and dozens injured Tuesday morning in twin car-bomb attacks in a predominantly Christian area of Lebanon. Fears of another round of civil war abound.

A bomb exploded aboard a mini-bus passing through Ayn Alak, northeast of Beirut, during the morning commute to work. Shortly afterward, a second bomb detonated on another mini-bus that pulled to a halt behind the first.

Red Cross officials said three people were killed in the bombings, but initial reports put the fatality figures in the double digits.

The attack came one day before a national gathering commemorating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He, too, was killed in a massive car bomb attack carried out by unknown perpetrators.

Several other politicians known for their anti-Syrian positions, and a journalist, have been assassinated since then. In November, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, son of former President Amin Gemayel, was shot to death in a Christian suburb of Beirut. The latest car bomb attacks took place near the hometown of the Gemayel family.

Lebanese leaders were quick to analyze the meaning of the attacks in the c ontext of local and internati

onal pressures on the country. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said that the bombings were aimed at destabilizing his country. Although a rival of Siniora, President Emile Lahoud said that what he called a “massacre” was “a clear attempt to foil all internal, regional and international efforts to achieve Lebanese national unity. Every time the Lebanese seem close to an agreement, enemies of Lebanon commit another crime.”

Speaking with the Voice of Lebanon radio station, Amin Gemayel claimed that “alien hands” were behind the explosions. “Lebanese do not kill Lebanese,” he declared.

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt told Al-Jazeera that the attacks were meant “to terrorize people who are willing to come to mark the second anniversary of Hariri’s death.”

Begin Extract 2 from Arutz Sheva, Israel Nation News Article

Palestinian Terrorism Increases, Aided by Hizbullah

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) With the signing of the Fatah-Hamas agreement and the Mughrabi Gate excavations, Palestinian terrorism has increased in recent days – as have signs of Hizbullah involvement.

No fewer than 12 rock-throwing incidents were recorded over the past two days in Judea and Samaria, in which five people were wounded. In one case, two buses to Maaleh Adumim from Jerusalem were stoned with heavy rocks, smashing large windows in one of the buses and wounding one young woman in the head.

Meanwhile, the IDF has not let up in its attempts to arrest wanted terrorists. Arutz-7’s Kobi Finkler reports that terrorists arrested last month revealed their ties with Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon. One illegal Arab alien was arrested while gathering information on civilian infrastructures in Israel – at the behest of Hizbullah.

Especially over the last two years, Hizbullah has been increasing gathering information on Israel’s security apparatus, civilian infrastructures such as electricity, energy and chemicals, and IDF deployment along the northern border. Hizbullah – funded and supervised by Iran – is also interested in Israeli politics and public opinion.

A security officer told Finkler that Hizbullah is developing a wide array of agents and sources in Israel for its information. In addition to the Israeli media, which unwittingly provided valuable information such as the precise location of Katyusha rocket landings during the recent war, Hizbullah is developing civilian and military agents who have access to other sensitive information and who can either be blackmailed or are interested in harming Israel. They must also be able to meet Hizbullah agents abroad. Among the prime candidates for such collaboration are drug dealers, other criminals, former and current police and army personnel, Israeli-Arabs, reporters and businessmen.

The wide-ranging drug smuggling network from Lebanon to Israel is a part of the Hizbullah information-gathering network. Israeli drug-runners are carefully watched, and part of the payment for

the drugs is often sensitive Israeli information. It can be assumed that whatever Hizbullah receives about Israel is shared with its sponsor, Iran.

Recent Terror Round-Up

Two Israelis were hurt in a stoning incident at a car on Mt. of Olives, and a Border Guard policewoman was hurt in the Jabel Mukabar neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. A woman was hurt east of Kalkilye, and three Arabs were arrested after they threw Molotov cocktails northwest of Ramallah.

IDF forces arrested 18 wanted terrorists throughout Judea and Samaria last night, including 13 in the Hevron area and southward.

Terrorists fired an anti-tank rocket at an IDF patrol north of Gaza, causing no damage. Nearby, Israeli forces warned two terrorists to halt as they approached the border fence – and when they did not stop, the forces shot, killing one.

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A Surprise Swiss Valentine to Iran!

Caught by Surprise – Who knows What the Nose Knows – Speak Beak!

February 14, 2007

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As the old cartoon character, Snuffy Smith, used to loudly proclaim when taken by surprise: “GREAT BALLS ‘O’ FIRE!”

This was a shocker to me! It will be interesting to see what comes out of this proposal, if anything.

All negotiations in the past have been nothing more than stalling tactics by Iran while they feverously work toward the completion of a nuclear warhead for their long range missiles.

Begin DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Switzerland submits to Tehran a proposal for solving crisis over Iran’s nuclear program

– over Washington’s objections

February 14, 2007, 12:30 AM (GMT+02:00)

Our intelligence sources reveal that Monday, Feb. 12, the six-point proposal secret Swiss emissaries delivered to the Iranian government ten days ago was accepted.

Its six points are revealed here for the first time:

1. Iran will be allowed to produce a predetermined quota of enriched uranium against its pledge not to exceed this limit or produce it up to weapons grade.

2. International nuclear IAEA inspections will be expanded to encompass

nuclear weaponization activity.

3. In return for Tehran’s acceptance of 1.and 2., the IAEA will supply Iran with advanced nuclear technology and Russia will release

nuclear fuel rods to power its Bushehr atomic reactor.

4. UN Security Council sanctions against Iran will not be stiffened.

5. The US and Europe will promise to desist from any military attack on Iran.

6. America and Europe will close down their clandestine support programs for Iran’s disaffected minorities, such as the Arabs of Khuzistan and the Kurds.

DEBKAfile’s sources report that the Swiss go-betweens were received by aides of former president Hashem Rafsanjani, whose word as one of supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘s closest advisers counts for much in the Iranian capital.

Those aides, according to Swiss sources, were “more than interested” in the proposal and intimated that if Washington could be won over negotiations could go forward to solve the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program.

They also disclose that the Swiss diplomats who brought the proposal to Tehran had also involved themselves in mediation efforts in the past two years to persuade Syrian president Bashar Assad and Hamas leaders in Damascus to agree to talks with Israel. Israel rejected both initiatives.

Bush administration officials suspect that the outgoing French president Jacques Chirac is quietly sponsoring the Bern government’s initiative.

Our Iranian sources disclose Tehran attaches high hopes to the Swiss plan.

The two sides are working on a “non-paper” which European Union’s foreign policy executive Javier Solana will be asked to present in Washington.

End DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

I do not trust Jacques Chirac, Javier Solana, or Iran any further than I can throw them, so it will be interesting to see the American reaction to this proposal.

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