Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Syria and Hezbullah Coup in Lebanon is to Stop Hariri Murder Probe!
February 11, 2007
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Syria is attempting to use Iran’s puppet doll Hizbollah to get away with the blatant murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, which was ordered by Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Quite frankly, I believe Syria will eventually prevail in this endeavor, and by the time a second border war erupts with Israel, Lebanon will be secured as a pawn in the power of Syria’s whims. I believe Syria will get away with murder. The current Lebanese government is not caught up in justice at the moment – It is caught up in survival.
When the prophesied Jihad attack against Israel occurs, the current ruler of Lebanon will have fallen, and the present government will
have been plucked up by the roots. Syria will have gotten a stooge of its own as the head of the government through Hezbullah, and will look upon Lebanon as “greater Syria,” just as they have in
the past. I have taught for many years that Lebanon was likely to be one of the three horns plucked up by the roots by the Assyrian antichrist of Daniel 7.
(Please See Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Updates 62 to 69 – Nationality of the Antichrist).
Daniel 7:8 – I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7:20 – And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
DEBKAfile Exclusive: A surprise UN-Lebanese signing establishes the Special Hariri Tribunal.
Damascus expected to fight back inside Lebanon and on Israel’ s northern border
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February 7, 2007, 10:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The director general of Lebanon’ s mini
stry of justice and UN under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel signed an agreement in Beirut Tuesday, Feb.
6, setting up a special tribunal to prosecute the alleged killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in Feb.
2005. A legal formula circumvented the Lebanese constitutional impediment in its path.
Syria, whose president Bashar Asad and close family are suspected of a hand the murder, is unlikely to let the tribunal start work without further acts of violence.
DEBKAfile’s sources report that the surprise signing was ordered by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after Serge Brammertz threatened to quit as head of the UN probe into the Hariri murder and 14 other bombings against anti-Syrian figures in Lebanon, unless the tribunal was set up. It had been delayed by a Lebanese constitutional stalemate. Prime minister Fouad Siniora was prevented from summoning parliament to ratify the tribunal by the refusal of two key pro-Syrian figures, Speaker Nabih Berri and president Emil Lahoud, to cooperate.
The breakthrough came about after high-powered American, French and Lebanese officials meeting in Paris were handed a solution by American international law experts hired by the US State Department.
They proposed that the agreement signed by Lebanon and the UN would contain the following clause: The tribunal’s establishment and operation is authorized under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter whereby UN Security Council resolutions are validated in practice for all UN member-states by means of a simple signature by an accredited government representative without requiring any further ratification.
Ban Ki-moon, determined to prevent Brammertz’s resignation and the first major crisis of his term in office, while at the same time not letting the cat out of the bag, commented diplomatically Tuesday that he hoped the Lebanese government “would take the necessary measures to ratify this process in line with the country’s constitutional requirements.”
This development catches Asad between two impossible situations: the list of suspects Serge Brammertz proposes to submit to the tribunal will include his brother and brother-in-law and several generals, thereby exposing the mainstays of his regime to charges of assassination and terror. But if he refuses to turn them over, the tribunal will apply to the UN Security Council for extreme sanctions against his regime.
The Syrian ruler’s only logical course is yet another bid to overthrow Fouad Siniora’s government and invalidate the signature which set up the tribunal, or to stir up military tensions in the region.
Therefore, more attacks are to be expected against Lebanon’s anti-Syrian majority leaders, while Hizballah and its pro-Damascus allies may stage more anti-government rallies in Beirut – any gambit to interfere with the international trial process.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources add: President Assad scented the tribunal affair was about to go against him well in advance. After failing to lure Israel into peace talks as a diversion, he summoned his top aides in mid-January and ordered them to organize a military crisis on Israel’s northern borders. The bomb-trap Israeli troops discovered and detonated on the Lebanese-Israeli border opposite Avivim on February 5 was but the first such step.
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
Jacob is headed to ward
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Big Trouble, Followed by Deliverance!
February 9, 2007
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In another excellent Jerusalem Post article, Caroline Glick issues clear warning of the reality of the coming war Israel faces. She seems to me to have a firm grasp of the existing situation and prognosis of the future results it is likely to produce in Israel. She is a female hawk among the male political doves in leadership. As a synoptic analyst I agree with the conclusions she has reached, and the projections she makes based on it, without any consideration of the biblical prophecies associated with the existing and future situations of the nation of Israel. As a Gentile who is a believer in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and a student of the Old and New Testaments, I find there is no disagreement between the positions I hold from both a secular and religious perspective. I believe the Old Testament verses, which follow, describe the present and the future events in Israel.
The nation of Israel is now as a woman in the early stages of birth pains, who is experiencing the birth pangs she should have accepted when her Messiah first came some 2000 years ago, but she refused to accept the Child as her deliverer. For this reason Isaiah pictures her as a woman who brought forth wind instead of a child and, as a consequence of her rejection of the Child, Israel has not been God’s instrument by which the earth was to be delivered. The Gentiles accepted him and they have been the main instruments and carriers of his message of deliverance. Because of their initial rejection, nei
ther have they been used to cause the nations of the earth to fall down before him in repentance, while awaiting his coming Kingdom. I love Israel, and look forward to the day when she will be restored to a position far greater than she has ever known.
Ezekiel 37:25-28 – And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
[26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. [27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [28] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING VERSES OF SCRIPTURE!
They describe the current condition of Israel, the tribulation that is soon coming on Israel, a resurrection of dead believers like Isaiah, and God’s acceptance of individual Israelites at the end of it who are written in his book, when Israel’s Messiah, the Sun of Righteousness, returns with the glory as of the Sun at his Second Advent.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Isaiah 26:17-21 – Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord. [18] We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. (See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 299 and 300) [19] Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. [20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
[21] For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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.
Malachi 3:16 to 4:3 – Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. [17] And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. [18] Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. [1] For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. [2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
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.
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Column One: As we bumble into War
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 8, 2007
Today Israel’s leaders claim that Saudi Arabia is our new best friend. The Wahhabis will protect us from Iran and its proxies they promise.
It’s difficult to see how this view jibes with reality.
Indeed today, in a manner eerily reminiscent of last spring, we are on the precipice of a new war and our leaders stubbornly reject truth for delusion.
Unless they acknowledge reality soon, they will again bar the IDF from fighting effectively, again maneuver us into diplomatic isolation and so again lead Israel to defeat.
With this in mind, it is our duty today to take a hard look at reality.
As they did in the months that preceded the outbreak of their jihad in September 2000, for the past several months the Palestinians have been accelerating their preparations for war. On Monday Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Director Yuval Diskin revealed some of those preparations.
Diskin said that in 2006, the Palestinians imported 30 tons of explosives into Gaza from Egypt. Hamas has dug 10 tunnels into the western Negev from which it will be able to launch attacks against the IDF or against civilians. The situation along the breached Gaza-Egypt border is even worse. Diskin referred to the weapons and personnel smuggling tunnels there as “one big rabbit warren.”
As the Palestinians prepare themselves for battle, this week they invented their justification for attacking the Jews. Just as they did in September 2000, this week Palestinian and Israeli Arab leaders opened their propaganda campaign for war by falsely accusing Israel of conspiring to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount.
Like its excavation by the Western Wall that has been going on quietly for the past several months, the Israel Antiquities Authority coordinated its salvage dig by the Mughrabi Gate of the Old City with the Islamic Wakf, the Jordanian government and all other relevant authorities before its archeologists began their work this week. Everyone understood that the excavation is being conducted 70 meters away from the Temple Mount and will in no way affect it.
But facts are irrelevant. The Arabs are not interested in the facts.
They are interested in war. Sheikh Abdullah Nimer Darwish, the head of the southern branch of the Israeli Islamic movement, made this point clearly Thursday morning when he told Israel Radio that the war will likely begin when the heads of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh, return from Mecca. It can be reasonably concluded from Darwish’s statement that the Fatah-Hamas unity talks taking place in Mecca have more to do with coordinating the coming jihad than with dividing government ministries in their soon-to-be-formed, Saudi-sponsored terrorist unity government.
However the talks conclude, there is no doubt that the PA is gunning for war with Israel. Palestinian television, which Abbas and Fatah control, has been showing incendiary live and archival footage from the Temple Mount for the past three days. The images are interspersed with speeches by Palestinian and pan-Islamic leaders calling on the Muslim world to protect Al Aksa mosque.
As Israel’s leaders praise the Saudis for their role in promoting the peace process, Al-Jazeera satellite network is broadcasting live calls to war to the entire Muslim world live from the Temple Mount. While Al-Jazeera reporters have been kicked out of Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan for calling for war against anyone who doesn’t talk like Osama bin Laden, and even the PA closed its offices twice, the Israeli government apparently has no problem with Al-Jazeera reporters calling the Islamic world to launch a genocidal jihad against the Jewish state from the Temple Mount.
On the Lebanese front, the situation is also frighteningly familiar. Just as last summer the Palestinians and Hizbullah worked in close coordination, so the escalation of hostilities along the border with Lebanon this week shows that their coordination remains high. What is new in the current situation is the hostile role being played by the Lebanese military, and what this role tells us about the nature of the coming war.
Last summer many warned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that it would be unwise to allow the Lebanese military to deploy to the border. To the extent those forces participated in the last war, they did so on the side of Hizbullah. Lebanese units directed Hizbullah’s missile attack against the INS Hanit.
They were similarly involved in identifying targets in northern Israel for Hizbullah’s rocket units. Forty percent of the soldiers and officers serving in the Lebanese army are Shi’ite and many of them owe their primary allegiance to Hizbullah.
In spite of these warnings, Olmert and Livni did not merely accept the Lebanese army’s deployment along the border. They insisted on it. And Wednesday night, when the Lebanese military attacked IDF units operating within sovereign Israel, those who preached caution were proven right. By insisting that the Lebanese army deploy along the border, Olmert and Livni effectively enabled Hizbullah’s reassertion of control over south Lebanon.
It should be recalled that the timing of last summer’s war was anything but a coincidence. At the time, Iran ordered Hizbullah to attack Israel two days before the G-8 summit where the world leaders were poised to condemn Iran for refusing to cease its uranium enrichment activities, and a week before the International Atomic Energy Agency was scheduled to refer Iran’s nuclear program to the UN Security Council.
So too, today, the escalation of enemy incitement and operations is anything but random. On February 21, IAEA inspectors are scheduled to report to the Security Council that in defiance of Resolution 1737 from two months ago, Iran has not ceased its uranium enrichment activities.
In the wake of this report, the sanctions set out in the resolution are supposed to be firmly enforced.
On the Iraqi front, hostilities between the US and Iran escalate daily and signs abound that the much awaited US offensive in Baghdad is about to start. If successful, the offensive will seriously weaken Iranian proxy forces in that country and similarly weaken Iran’s influence over the Iraqi government.
All in all, a two-front war against Israel would go a long way towards advancing Iran’s interests today.
All of this naturally raises the question: What are Israel’s leaders doing as our enemies prepare for war?
While demanding that Olmert order the IAA to stop its salvage dig at the Mughrabi Gate, Defense Minister Amir Peretz is preparing to renew his hostilities against his greatest foes – the Israelis who live in Judea and Samaria. Last week Peretz ordered the IDF to draw up plans to destroy several Israeli communities in the areas. As to the Palestinians, Hizbullah and their state sponsors, Peretz has nothing constructive to say.
For her part, Livni continues to applaud her brilliance in negotiating the cease-fire agreement last summer under which Hizbullah has rearmed and reasserted its control over south Lebanon. Then too, Livni continues to act as the spokeswoman for the Fatah terror organization.
In her joint appearance with British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett on Tuesday, Livni said that Israel and Fatah (which she refers to as the “moderates in the Palestinian Authority”), “are on the same side.”
While repeating her vapid mantra distinguishing “moderates” from “extremists,” Wednesday Livni claimed that the incitement surrounding the Temple Mount is being carried out by “irresponsible elements” which include “political groups within Israel and extremist elements outside Israel.” As is her practice, Livni ignored the fact that her “moderate” friend Abbas stands at the center of those “extremists” inciting for war.
Finally we have Prime Minister Ehud Olmert himself. In his testimony last week before the Winograd Commission which he appointed to investigate last summer’s war, Olmert continued to insist that Israel won. This being the case, we oughtn’t be concerned about the defeated Hizbullah.
As to the Palestinians, Olmert is now busily preparing for his February 19 meeting with Abbas, the “moderate” terror master, and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He continues to forbid the IDF from striking the burgeoning terror armies and armories in Gaza and refuses to acknowledge the known fact that Fatah is supported by Iran.
This week Olmert again tried to lull us into complacency about the ayatollahs’ nuclear weapons program. Speaking to the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, Olmert enthused that we have ample time to deal with the threat and that anyway, the international community including China and Russia can be counted on to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons through diplomacy.
At this juncture it is worth recalling precisely what was wrong about the Olmert government’s handling of the war last summer. While the Winograd Commission writes its report, the citizens of Israel should realize that regardless of what the members of the commission who Olmert appointed say, the war was not merely or mainly a military failure. The central cause of Israel’s defeat was the incompetence of our political leaders. Specifically, Olmert and Peretz failed to act to ensure that the IDF achieved the goals they set for it.
Before ordering the IDF to war, Olmert held no discussions regarding the conditions on the ground, and so did not consider whether the war plans he approved were relevant to the achievement of his declared goals.
Olmert and Livni failed to grasp the diplomatic opportunities the war created. Had they been paying attention they would have seen a tangible willingness in Washington to consider a joint Israeli-American strike against the terror headquarters and training bases in Syria that serve not only the Palestinians and Hizbullah, but the insurgents warring against coalition forces in Iraq. The consequences that such a joint operation would have had on both Israeli-US relations and on Syrian-Iranian relations would have changed the face of the region in a dramatic and positive way.
Due to their ignorance of both military and diplomatic affairs, Olmert and colleagues barred the IDF from conquering south Lebanon and so denied the army the only means of achieving the goal of ending the missile attacks on northern Israel and destroying Hizbullah as a fighting force.
When Olmert’s, Livni’s and Peretz’s incompetence last summer is compared to their current behavior, the unavoidable conclusion is that they have learned nothing from their experience and so remain incompetent to contend with the dangers we face today.
And so, as they bumble us into another war while speaking dreamily of their friends in Mecca, at least Olmert, Livni and Peretz cannot say that they weren’t warned.
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