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Syria at the Heart of Arab resistance to its East, South, and West!

May 3, 2007

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President Bashar al-Assad has the Arab acquired ability to speak out of both sides of his mouth on a regular basis.

While denying his support of the terrorist groups in Lebanon, Israel, and Iraq to the United States, he publicly brags about it in his in-country speeches.

He is about to head for a conference in Iraq to find ways Syria can help Iraq find solutions to the inflow of terrorists across

their border with Syria, but at the same time he is praising the terrorists who are crossing from Syria into Iraq.

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Assad hails Iraqi ‘resistance’ ahead of security meeting

Tehran Times

May 2, 2007

DAMASCUS (AFP) — Syria is “at the heart of events” in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, hailing the Iraqi “resistance” days ahead of a conference on security in the war-torn country.

“To the east there is the resistance in Iraq, to the west there is the resistance in Lebanon and to the south there is the resistance of the Palestinian people,” Assad was quoted as saying by the official SANA agency.

“We, in Syria, are at the heart of all these events,” he said during a speech in eastern Syria.

Washington accuses the Syrian regime of allowing anti-US insurgents to cross from Syria into Iraq and of supporting terrorist groups in Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories.

Syria denies the accusations.

“Syri a, the Ar

ab region and the Middle East are going through a dangerous period. Destructive colonial projects are seeking to divide and reshape our region,” Assad said.

“Now, we see these projects failing, particularly that of the Greater Middle East,” he said, referring to Washington’s controversial 2004 plan to bring greater democracy to the region.

Nevertheless, Assad said, “we should not underestimate our enemies who are playing their last hand, that of sedition and division…. Every Syrian citizen supports the Iraqi people who are resisting” the American occupation.

The U.S. withdrew its ambassador from Damascus after linking Syria to the February 2005 assassination in Beirut of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, an outspoken opponent of Syrian dominance over Lebanon. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday said he was ready to meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the sidelines of the Iraq security conference which starts on Thursday in Egypt “if she wishes.”

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Preaching at another Location away from your own Pulpit!

May 2, 2007

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During my 28 year excursions in conducting more than 500 revival meetings away from my own home pulpit at Dardanelle, I often heard the expression, “I’ll bet you don’t preach that hard where you pastor.” It is very tempting for some preachers to unload on a congregation they don’t have to pastor, while preaching only salvation by grace messages, security of the believer, and heavenly rewards at the church they pastor.

I remember as a boy in churches where I grew up, I would leave church after a hard message, thinking the man delivering the sermon was mad as a wet hen, and he would scare me half to death with what he said was going to happen if we didn’t do this and that. When I asked a deacon or older church member about it, I usually got the answer: “Don’t worry about it, Tom Mac, he was just preaching.” Well, I said all that to say this: I don’t think the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who was away from his Ramallah pulpit in Sudan, was “just preaching” in the Jerusalem Post article which follows

our introduction.

The Sheik meant what he said, and I don’t believe he was preaching in view of a call in Sudan. One of the problems

in this country is that most of the American public believes the Islamic radical preachers are “just preaching,” but they are dead serious, and I firmly believe he means what he says in the Jerusalem Post article which follows.

He doesn’t want to just wait and let us die a natural death, then have Allah burn us in Hell. He wants Allah to empower Islam to kill us all here physically in combat, and then for Allah to burn our souls in Hell. Somehow, I don’t think we are going to change that kind of mindset with dialog and diplomacy. I am not a conservative hawk because I like to kill people, but because it is the only way to deal with the Middle East problem.

In fact, that is the way Scripture indicates God is going to finally settle the Middle East and World mess that man has been able to create with all his great carnal ingenuity since the flood.

Ezekiel 39:1-12 – 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: [3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and

will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

[4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39:17-29 – And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. [18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. [20] Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. [21] And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. [23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

[24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them,

and hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have ga thered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more

there. [29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

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Top Hamas official: Kill all Americans

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

May 1, 2007

Sheik Ahmad Bahr, acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, declared during a Friday sermon at a Sudan mosque that America and Israel will be annihilated and called upon Allah to kill Jews and Americans “to the very Last One”. Following are excerpts from the sermon that took place last month, courtesy of MEMRI.

Ahmad Bahr began: “You will be victorious” on the face of this planet.

You are the masters of the world on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran says that] “you will be victorious,” but only “if you are believers.” Allah willing, “you will be victorious,” while America and Israel will be annihilated. I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards, who are eager for life, while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah. That is why America’s nose was rubbed in the mud in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere.

Bahr continued and said that America will be annihilated, while Islam will remain.

The Muslims “will be victorious, if you are believers.” Oh Muslims, I guarantee you that the power of Allah is greater than America, by whom many are blinded today. Some people are blinded by the power of America.

We say to them that with the might of Allah, with the might of His Messenger, and with the power of Allah, we are stronger than America and Israel.

The Hamas spokesperson concluded with a prayer, saying: “Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters.

Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness.

Oh Allah, who sent down His Book, the mover of the clouds, who defeated the enemies of the Prophet defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them.”

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Ding Dong Daddies from Dumas Downtown Dancing Delicately in Delight – And you ought to see them do their Stuff!

May 2, 2007

The song, “Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas” was written by Phil Baxter, a popular Band Leader in the thirties, in about 1930, but didn’t become popular on a national level until after World War II, when Bandleader Phil Harris recorded it.

It was originally written about Dumas in the Texas Panhandle, but was later adopted by Dumas, Arkansas.

I know I don’t have the correct words to the song, but don’t bother to send me the correct ones. It’s a catchy little tune, and I still sing it just like I remember it as a child when I jumbled up the lyrics, even though I learned they were incorrect when I passed into my teens. Sorry, but I like my jumbled up lyrics better, and am too old to change.

I remember riding in the back seat of what I think was a 1935 or 38 Ford and listening to my Dad sing “I’m a ding dong daddy from Dumas, and you ‘oughta’ see me do my stuff – I’m a capper ‘cuttin’ cutie from Horner’s corner, and you ‘oughta’ see me strut.” I use to sing that little ditty every time I drove through Dumas, Arkansas preaching revivals.

And when I think of our Congress and the Israeli Knesset, for some reason, over the years, I have come to think of them as a bunch of Ding Dong Daddies, trying to strut their stuff. I never thought of Congress that way until President Ronald Ragan left office. And I never thought of the Knesset like that until Ariel Sharon left

office.

I always bought a scorecard when I went to watch the Kansas City Athletics while I worked in

the Federal Office Building in downtown Kansas City. In the months to come you will need one to follow the dance of the Knesset Ding Dong Daddies as they curtsey and bow when they change partners with a dagger up their sleeve.

This is going to be a wild ride. Oddly enough, the strongest candidate at the moment is probably Tzipi Livni, but that can change very quickly. So far she has stayed out of it. In any case, the article from DEBKAfile is the best I’ve seen so far resembling a scorecard, so I am forwarding it on to you.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was Isaac Tollar, but I still can’t vote for anyone. If I could vote, I would vote for Caroline Glick, who is not eligible, because I want to see a hawk as Prime Minister with backbone. But because she is not eligible, I would vote for Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, whom I greatly admire as a soldier and leader.

Livni, Peres, Mofaz Lead the Field to Replace Olmert as Prime Minister

DEBKfile Exclusive Report

May 1, 2007, 11:05 PM (GMT+02:00)

The resignation on live television of minister of trade and commerce, Eytan Cabel, Labor, declaring Ehud Olmert must go as he had lost the country’s confidence, was the first open crack in the government coalition.

It occurred Tuesday morning, May 1, less than 24 hours after the Winograd commission handed down its harsh condemnation of Olmert, defense minister Amir Peretz and chief of staff, Lt. Gen Dan Halutz, for their handling of the Lebanon War.

But behind the scenes and its leader’s back, Kadima’s coalition chairman Avigdor Yitzhaki scurried around the ranks, front man for one of the key contenders for the succession, foreign minister Tzipi Livni.

The prime minister’s other deserters included vice premier Shimon Peres, Israel Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman and most of Labor, including the three contenders for the party leadership, former PM Ehud Barak, Ami Ayalon and Ophir Pines-Paz.

That was only the first wave to batter against Olmert’s defenses.

Another wave threatened Thursday, April 3: The Knesset has been called into emergency session to consider the Winograd report; so too has the ruling Kadima faction.

Foreign minister Tzipi Livni has held silent so far but is expected to join the chorus demanding that Olmert step down.

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli demonstrators are expected to tell him to go home at a mass rally in Tel Aviv Thursday night, May 3, called by the reservists’ movement and bereaved families. Residents of the southern towns of Sderot and Beersheba and Haifa in the north are slogging on foot to join Thursday’s rally, amid impromptu protest demonstrations.

The coalition chairman’s talks with government factions Tuesday not only canvassed support for a mutiny against the prime minister, but also explored which Kadima candidate could draw enough support to hold the

government together. Above all, the ruling party wants to avoid a general election little more than a year after it was voted into office.

The foreign minister’s candidacy for prime minister is problematic. She is not popular with Labor or the ultra-religious Shas, two members of the government coalition.

Yitzhaki’s efforts to oust Olmert could therefore lead to Kadima’s candidate ending up as Shimon Peres or transport minister Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister, rather than the foreign minister.

Peres is quietly working three channels:

First, he is selling himself to the second rank in Kadima and Labor as the only candidate capable of preserving national unity at a time of grave danger. His lobbyists also argue that because he is an octogenarian, he will not stay long and is therefore the ideal stabilizing agent to carry the country through the crisis of transition.

Second, he has reached out the discredited defense minister, Labor leader Amir Peretz, asking for his support in return for a helping hand in the Labor leadership primaries at the end of the month.

Third, his agents are in secret talks with the Israel Beitenu leader, Avigdor Lieberman, warning him that if the government falls, Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu will be reinstated in the prime minister’s office.

The least active candidate and the best qualified for handling a security emergency is Shaul Mofaz, former defense minister and chief of staff. He would need the backing of Shas and Israeli Beitenu to beat the other contenders to the post.

The third party undermining Olmert on the quiet is Ehud Barak.

DEBKAfile sources report that it was he who signaled Eytan Kabel to quit the Olmert government and thus set off the wave of political turbulence which has pinnjed the prime minister to the wall.

The fourth of Olmert’s active opponents is Lieberman. He discreetly sparked a revolt in Kadima by ordering two Russian representative lawmakers, Marina Solodkin and Mikhail Nudelman, to hoist the flag of mutiny in the ruling party and call on its leader to quit.

Opposition leader, former Likud prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has played no party in the upheaval, much of which was staged to avert an early election.

According to the latest opinion poll, a general poll now would gain his Likud 36 Knesset seats out of 120 and probable victory.

But even Olmert’s downfall will not end the turbulence.

While the partial Winograd report presented Monday harshly condemned the way the war was conducted by the prime minister, defense minister and chief of staff, it made no specific recommendation for their resignation. The final report due out in August is expected to rectify this omission and name new names, including those of prime ministerial hopefuls.

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Al Qaeda Long Range Global Plan of Islamic War seen in CIA Capture!

May 1, 2007

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has not been difficult to get the West to believe that the goal of Islam and al-Qaeda is to utterly destroy Israel, because as it is a distant event in a far away land, so there is a limit to individual American’s concern over the fulfillment of Israel’s destruction (As long as we are alright, its not so bad). So it is convenient for us to believe they can destroy Israel, but there is no way they can ever destroy us. We will never think about such a possibility until they thoroughly defeat Israel. Whether or not Islam could ever destroy us is really not the issue. I don’t think it would be possible for a hundred years.

The issue is that they think they will be able to do so by the power of Allah. Consequently, that is their long range global plan, which they will follow until Messiah comes to destroy them. The only question in my mind is WHEN the Messiah will come at his Second Advent to destroy the Islamic beast and his armies! My own personal guesstimate it that the great war in the Middle East will begin at some point in time before 2013, and that his Second Advent is likely to occur

before 2017. But man and women have been guessing at these events for almost 2000 years, and will continue to do so until they occur. Please don’t label me as a time setter, I am just anxious for him to come! I would love to be wrong and have him catch me out before I am able to put up this Blog.

Most believers don’t mind believing the following Scriptures are going to be fulfilled, and that a Second Advent of Messiah will one day occur. They just don’t believe it will happen in the IMMEDIATE future, simply because they want to live to be a 100 years old, and then it will be great for him to come. Don’t feel guilty about it if you secretly feel that way, many saved men and women have been feeling that way for almost 2000 years, but now I can think of 2000 reasons for believing it must be a lot closer than when Jesus ascended into heaven. I remember, as a young child playing hide-and-go-seek, when it was my turn to be “it,” after I had covered my eyes and counted to a hundred, I would shout, READY OR NOT, HERE I COME. I wonder how long it will be before Jesus returns with a shout, and the voice of the Archangel, and the last trump of God. The following Scripture will be fulfilled at that time!

Revelation 19:16-21 – And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

READY OR NOT, HERE I COME! I remember how hard it was for me to find some of the older ones. Jesus won’t have that problem.

Revelation 22:11-14 – He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. [12] And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. [13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and

the end, the first and the last. [14] Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

I don’t have any doubt that the stage is being set for his Second Advent in the Middle East, because the determination of Islam to spread the teachings of antichrist across the entire earth is perfectly evidenced as the following DEBKAfile article indicates.

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Abd al Hadi Engineered First al Qaeda attacks in Israel and Britain

April 28, 2007, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)

The CIA’s capture of one of Osama bin Laden’s most talented operations officers, Abd al Hadi al-Iraq, Abu Abdullah, 45, is a major American counter-terror coup which turns some hidden pages in al Qaeda’s arcane, bloodstained record.

Picked up last year, presumably while crossing from Iran into his native Iraq, he underwent exhaustive interrogation before being transferred to the Pentagon and the Guantanamo Bay interment center.

A Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman refused to confirm when or where he was captured, only that he was tasked with managing al Qaeda’s affairs and possibly focus on operations outside Iraq against Western targets.

Under US interrogation, his rich experience in charting al Qaeda’s offensive in the West has come to light. Al Hadi is now credited with plotting the first direct al Qaeda suicide attack inside Israel on direct orders from Osama bin Laden.

Two British Muslims were sent to blow up the US embassy in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003. Instead, they bombed a Tel Aviv seafront bar, Mike’s Place, killing three Israelis and injuring 60.

Al Hadi was quick to spot the potential of young British Muslims of Pakistani origin, who are English-speaking and carry EU passports. Their recruitment was a major feat of this Iraqi-born terrorist commander’s global strategy. Two years later (according to the Sunday Times), he is said to have masterminded the July 7 suicide bombings on the British tube and a bus, leaving 52 dead and hundreds injured..

Asif Muhammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, the Mike’s Place bombers, were headhunted at the radical Finsbury Park mosque in London. So too was Richard Reid, the failed shoe bomber serv ing time

in the United States for attempting to blow up an American Airlines plane bound for Miami from Paris in Dec. 2002.

Past investigations established that Hanif, Sharif and Reid all spent time at Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip before they embarked on their missions.

The al Hadi case confirms once again the farsightedness and long preparations al Qaeda invests in operational planning.

In each case, every effort is made to wipe clean any leads to the chain of command after the suicide bombers are dead; the planners have a preset escape route that leaves counter-terror agents very few clues to work with.

Despite the close cooperation between the Israeli, American and British secret services in probing the Mike’s Place attack in 2003, the full scope and depth of Al Qaeda’s mobilization drive in Britain were not appreciated in time to avert the 7/7 bombings on London transport two years later. To this day, no one knows who exactly prepared the explosives used in Tel Aviv and gave the two bombers their instructions.

Full details of the Mike’ s Place bombing, the 4th anniver

sary of which falls in exactly two days, appeared in DEBKAfile on June 3, 2003.

This attack was a flop for its planners in more ways than one, but it served as a useful dry run for the attacks which followed.

Asif Hanif managed to detonate his bomb vest, but

his partner did not. Omar Sharif escaped and two weeks later, a body identified by Israeli security services as his was washed up on the Jaffa coast.

Despite the expanded information-sharing arrangements allied counter-terror agencies, neither the British nor the Israeli secret services has been granted access to al Hadi to perhaps fill in some of the gaps in their investigations.

The optimistic assessments of some al Qaeda pundits in the West that Osama bin Laden is no more than an ideological figurehead of a fragmented terrorist organization was no doubt refuted by al Hadi. On April 25, Taiban commander Mullah Dadullah also asserted that bin Laden is still actively directing al Qaeda operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as DEBKAfile’s terror experts have consistently reported.

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