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Ocean of Nations of the Region will cut

the Root of the Zionist Regime from Dan to Beersheba and rub them with the Earth!

May 25, 2007

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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinehad has assured Israel it will be “uprooted” if it attacks Lebanon this summer, promising that the ocean of Middle East nations surrounding Israel would become “angry and will cut the root of the Zionist regime from its stem,” indicating “the hand of power of the nations of the region will rub you criminals with earth.”

From among the ocean of Middle East Nations to which Ahmadinehad refers as having the hand of power, there will arise 10 HORNS (kings) of Daniel and Revelation, which will indeed for some three and one half years uproot Israel from the land from Dan to Beersheba, driving her into the Negev Wilderness.

Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten HORNS out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

(See Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 234A)

Revelation 13:1,5,6 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten HORNS, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. [5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

[6] And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (See Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 236A)

Revelation 17:12,13,17 – 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 be

ast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

(See Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 236B)

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

Iran warns Israel not to attack Lebanon

AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

May 24, 2007

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahm adinej

ad on Thursday warned Israel it would be uprooted if the Jewish state attacked Lebanon in

the coming summer.

“If you think that by bombing and assassinating Palestinian leaders you are preparing ground for new attacks on Lebanon in the summer, I am telling you that you are seriously wrong,” Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the city of Isfahan.

“If this year you repeat the same mistake of the last year, the ocean of nations of the region will get angry and will cut the root of the Zionist regime from its stem,” added Ahmadinejad, speaking live on state television.

Referring to the history of Israel, Ahmadinejad said that “60 years of invasion and assassination is enough.

If you do not cease invasion and massacre, soon the hand of power of the nations of the region will rub you criminals with earth.”

There has been no indication so far of any eventual new Israeli-Lebanese conflict but Ahmadinejad’s comments came as IDF troops arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members in the West Bank early Thursday, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors, pressing forward with an offensive against the Islamic group.

Ahmadinejad is well known for his verbal attacks on Israel.

In October 2005, he raised outrage in the West when he said in a speech that Israel’s “Zionist regime should be wiped off the map.” His supporters and some independent analysts have since argued Ahmadinejad’s words were mistranslated from Farsi and should have been better translated as “vanish from the pages of time”, implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.

The Iranian hard-liner appears to be stepping up his confrontational tone in recent days – at a time when Teheran faces renewed pressure by the UN Security Council over its controversial uranium enrichment program and just days before first direct Iran-US talks on Iraq security issues on Monday in Baghdad.

The United States, which has long accused Iran of providing sophisticated explosives to militants in Iraq, has also increased its military presence in the Gulf as a show of force in Iran’s face.

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Navy and Marines at Sea – YES! Army Ground Divisions – NO!

May 24, 2007

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I do not expect the U.S. to ever recommit Army land divisions into the Middle East after they are withdrawn from Iraq, but large Naval Forces with Marines aboard ship will continue to operate in waters around the shorelines of the Middle East up to the time of Armageddon.

A discussion of how this Navy and Marine force will be deployed just before and during the Battle of Armageddon follows the Jerusalem Post and DEBKAfile Articles.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article (Article 1)

US Navy shows force off Iranian coast

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

May 23, 2007

The US Navy staged its latest show of military force off the Iranian coastline on Wednes day,

sending two aircraft carriers and landing ships packed with 17,000 US Marines and sailors to carry out unannounced exercises in the Persian Gulf.

The carrier strike groups led by the USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz were joined by the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard and its own strike group, which includes landing ships carrying members of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

The Navy said nine US warships passed through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Merchant ships passing through the busy strait carry two-fifths of the world’s oil exports.

Aircraft aboard the three carriers and the Bonhomme Richard were to conduct air training while the ships ran submarine, mine and other exercises.

The maneuvers came just two months after a previous exercise in March when two US carrier groups carried out two days of air and sea maneuvers off the Iranian coast.

Before the arrival of the Bonhomme Richard strike group, the Navy maintained around 20,000 US personnel at sea in the Gulf and neighboring waters.

US warships have frequently collided with merchant ships in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf.

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Nine US military ships enter Persian Gulf Wednesday, assembling off Iran’s coast in largest American naval move since 2003

May 23, 2007, 6:56 PM (GMT+02:00)

They sailed through the Strait of Hormuz by day – according to US Navy officials for training exercises. The vessels carry around 17,000 combat and marine personnel.

They include the two aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and USS Stennis, as well as the USS Bonhomme Richard LHD 6 Group, the world’s biggest amphibious strike force. Iran was not notified of the planned arrival.

DEBKAfile reports the maneuvers take place less than two weeks after Vice President Dick Cheney visited the region and informed Saudi King Abdullah and fellow Gulf rulers that President George W. Bush has determined that if Iran refuses to waive a nuclear weapon capability, the US will attack its nuclear, military and economic infrastructure before he leaves the White House in Jan.

2009.

(This was first disclosed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 300 on May 11.)

Our sources also note that the US armada sailed into the Gulf on the day the latest UN Security Council ultimatum expired for Iran to give up uranium enrichment or face a fresh set of sanctions.

Its presence backs up Cheney’s pledge and tells the region and Iran that Washington may not be satisfied with sanctions and the military option

is alive. Washington is also stiffening its posture ahead of its first direct talks with Tehran on Monday, May 28, when US and Iraqi ambassadors meet in Baghdad.

The message to Iran and its ally Syria is that if the Baghdad talks fail, and they refuse to suspend their backing for Iraq’s insurgents and al Qaeda, the US stands ready with a military option.

Tuesday, May 21, a senior US officer in Baghdad accused Iran of orchestrating a summer offensive against US troops in Iraq “linking al Qaeda and Sunni insurgents to its Shiite militia allies.” Our sources add that Iran with Syrian support has also embarked on a summer offensive in other parts of the Middle East, including Lebanon and the Gaza Strip

Rear Admiral Kevin Quinn said maneuvers beginning now are part of a long-planned effort to reassure nearby countries of America’s commitment to regional security. He told reporters before crossing: “There is always the threat of any state or non-state actor deciding to close one of the international straits, and the biggest one is the Strait of Hormuz.”

End DEBKAfile Article

Begin Archive Prophecy Update Number 51

January 18, 2002

Daniel 11:44,45 – But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [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.

Please bear in mind that Daniel does not bring antichrist out of the land of Egypt he has conquered until verse 44, when he heads back for the glorious holy mountain, which is the middle hill of the three hills upon which the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem rests.

It is better known as the Mount of Moriah, where the first three temples sat, and is located between two seas, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Dead Sea.

Before the mighty former Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin arose, some identified this troubling news out of the north as being about Attila the Hun, after him it was about the German Kaiser of WW1, then about Hitler of WW2, and so forth and so on. Before the great communist revolution of Mao brought forth the present huge sleeping giant of Red China, some identified the troubling news out of the east as being about Genghis Khan, the great Mongol conqueror from the east. But modern day exposi tors generally now tend

to make it news concerning Russia in the north and China in the east. I do not believe it is either. When Daniel wrote his book, it was written to the people of his day. So it is important to consider what they knew to be immediately to the north and to the east of Egypt. But before we discuss what was, and still is, immediately north of Egypt, and what was, and still is, immediately east of Egypt, let me advise you why I do not believe it involves Russia or China.

Get out a world map and measure how far it is from Cairo to the borde

rs of China and Russia. The population of Russia today is more than 150 million, and the population of China is more than 1 billion, 300 million.

Do you really think he is going to take them on? And are they not supposed to join forces with him at the final battle of Armageddon? If he were, it would be rank insanity to return to Jerusalem to take them on! And, besides all that, the land we know as China and Russia, for all practical purposes, was perhaps mentioned only in fables in Daniel’s day. Do you really think he will “go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly make away many” from two distant, vast, countries with a combined population of almost one and one-half billion?

So what is immediately north of Egypt? What touches its northern border? The Mediterranean Sea! And what land is immediately east of Egypt? What touches its eastern border? The Negev! And what could possibly be in the Mediterranean Sea that would trouble him? The U.S. Fleet! And what could possibly be in the Negev that would trouble him? Between 1.7 and 1.9 million Israelis! The U.S. Navy & Marine Corps publish periodical “TRANSITIONS” of “All the Ships at Sea.” You will find it amazing how many vessels we routinely have on scheduled patrols in the Mediterranean Sea. We keep a carrier constantly on station patrolling that section of the Mediterranean immediately south of Turkey and north of Egypt. The carriers USS Enterprise and the USS Theodore Roosevelt have often relieved each other on this permanent patrol station, along with other carriers.

There is also a report issued periodically on marine units deployed on the many ships that patrol the seas of the Middle East from the Mediterranean through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean and up into the Persian Gulf.

It is simply called “All the Marines Deployed.” The U.S. Marines and IDF have been conducting joint operations in the Negev off and on for some 25 years.

So the antichrist has had Israel bottled up in the Negev for more than three years at this future point in time. I believe the news he hears is simply this: the U.S. Marines and IDF are planning to close his rear flank back to the country from which he originally came, Syria. He will have left a strip heavily fortified across Gaza and the northern Sinai, but he will begin to have reservations about the ability of his troops to hold it.

He will then head back for Jerusalem to finally do what he wishes he had previously done, that is, to end the Jewish problem. He will “go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” He will super fortify the northeast Sinai and Gaza Strip, and head northeast to Jerusalem to prepare for the destruction of Israel in the Negev. In Prophecy Update Number 52, Lord willing, I will define his palace, the tabernacles, and the nations involved.

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Once removed, U.S. won’t recommit Ground Troops Support in Middle East!

May 24, 2005

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One question I have been asked for the last 33 years – What role will the United States play in the tribulation period? My answer has always been that it will play a logistical role, but not one in which it commits a large contingency of ground troops similar to what it committed in Iraqi Freedom, which may soon have some 160,000 men and women on the ground in Iraq

and Kuwait. I believe the bulk of these ground forces will be withdrawn from Iran during 2008, and should all be pulled out in 2009.

However, the United States will continue to maintain a large Naval Fleet with onboard small Marine units in the waters of the Middle East up to the time of the final Battle of Armageddon, and logistical naval and air evacuation support will be provided for Israel when she is pushed into the Negev.

The U.S., Russia, China, and Europe will have no ground troops in the initial attack against Israel, which I guesstimate is likely to occur at some point in time after 2007, but before 2013.

They will allow Israel and 10 Islamic nations to slug it out until Jerusalem falls and Israel is driven into the Negev Wilderness, at which time they will all four push the UN to secure a truce, and Israel will remain south of a line from the southern tip of the Dead Sea, just north of Beersheba, and just south of the Gaza Strip, for some three and one-half years of relative calm. Then the final battle of Armageddon will break out and all of continental Europe, Africa, Eurasia, Russia, China, and Asia will join Islam in a final attack against Israel.

God’s reaction to this attempt to destroy Israel, the apple of his eye, may be found following Jane’s Intelligence Review.

Jane’s Intelligence Review

Mission fatigue – the future of military interventionism

May 21, 2007

By Jim Dorschner

Four years after the US-led invasion of April 2003, the war in Iraq is arguably a major contributor to a shift in public and political perception away from interventionism. The continued factional violence in the country, alongside the concomitant casualties for coalition forces, has undermined support for the Iraq conflict among the US population, polity and armed forces.

Combined with other long-running peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions that have returned mixed results, a creeping ‘mission fatigue’ may be weakening support for such operations, with countries involved in multilateral interventions increasingly questioning their commitments. This has raised the question of whether interventionism is now less feasible than prior to 2003, and if isolationism is likely to become more influential in decisions concerning expeditionary warfare.

The deterioration of US will to sustain its interventionist role in Iraq was made apparent by US Army General (retd) Barry McCaffrey in a 26 March After Action Report (AAR) following a comprehensive fact-finding visit to Iraq, where he stated: “US domestic support for the war in Iraq has evaporated and will not return.” In the AAR, he postulates: “Planning horizons should assume that there are [fewer] than 36 months remaining of substantial US troop presence in Iraq”.

Among several reasons for this conclusion he cites overstretch and the fact that “some active units have served three, four or even five combat deployments. We are now routinely extending nearly all combat units in both Iraq and Afghanistan. These combat units are being returned to action in some cases with only seven to 12 months of stateside time to re-train and re-equip”.

General McCaffrey is noted for his candid and sober assessments in an establishment otherwise prone to optimism, and many experts believe that military and political conditions are such that there is little chance of maintaining anything like a substantial US presence in Iraq beyond mid-2008.

The situation is as bad or worse with the UK’ s relatively

small army. In a controversial October 2006 interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, Chief of the General Staff General Sir Richard Dannatt openly expressed considerable frustration with the mission in Iraq in comments that were widely supported by the rank and file, including the statement that the British should “get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems”.

More to the point, in the interview he publicly articulated otherwise closely held views within the UK defence and political establishments that are nonetheless driving critical aspects of policy formulation. “The original intention [in Iraq] was that we put in place a liberal democracy that

was an exemplar for the region, was pro-West and might have a beneficial effect on the balance within the Middle East. I do not think we are going to do that. I think we should aim for a lower ambition.”

General Dannett later distanced himself somewhat from the thrust of his remarks, although in February the UK Ministry of Defence seemingly concurred in principle by announcing a major reduction of troop strength in Iraq from 7,100 to 5,500 in the next rotation scheduled for mid-2007. In fact, most observers expect a nearly complete withdrawal early in 2008 in order to concentrate on progressing the war in Afghanistan.

End Jane’s Intelligence Review

We began a series on the Islamic antichrist in Prophecy Update Number 71 with Daniel 11:41, and we exposited on 11:42-44 in Prophecy Updates 72, 73, and 74. Then, in Special Prophecy Updates Numbers 74C and 74D, we covered the two kings of the north and south in Daniel 11:40. In this update 75 we will continue in Daniel 11:45. He has returned from Egypt to Israel to set in his command post on the Jerusalem Temple Mount and direct a final attack upon the remnant of Israel in the Negev Wilderness.

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 inspired word for “tabernacles” is “ohel,” which always means “tents.” The “ohel” in the wilderness was a “tabernacle” that was a huge tent. These tents house the many millions that will have come to Israel for the final onslaught against the small Jewish remnant in the Negev, which the Scripture identifies as the battle of Armageddon. He will issue a call to all the nations of Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to come and join him in this great

battle, and the demonic frog spirits of the father, son, and unholy false prophet will influence them to come to this final battle of Armageddon.

Revelation 16:13-16 – 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. [15] Behold, I come as a thief.

Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

[16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

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 inspired word for “palace” is appeden, and it appears only once in this particular form throughout the Bible.

At the time this Scripture was written all the great kings carried portable command post buildings with them when they went forth to conquer. They included a royal throne, on which the king would set issuing the commands to his troops in the field.

This is what an “appeden” is – a portable command post from which the king issues battle directives to his troops in the field.

The king of the north, the antichrist, will set his command post on the glorious holy mountain, which is Mount Moriah, the center hill of the three hills of eastern Jerusalem. This Mount lies between the Mediterranean and Dead Seas. His millions of troops will blanket all of Israel north of Beersheva, with the heaviest concentrations filling the two valleys that join at the Tel of Megiddo, the Plain of Esdraelon and the Jezreel Valley. Most of the incoming troops will disembark at the port of Haifa, then proceed southeastward down the Esdraelon-Jezreel Valley into the Jordan Valley, and hence southward to Jerusalem and the border of the northern Negev. Millions will stand in place and await the command of antichrist to start the attack on the small remnant of Israel in the Negev.

One would be inclined to think that the antichrist, with millions of troops behind him, would be absolutely unstoppable, and that God’s chosen people, the nation of Israel, would be killed to the last man by this massive onslaught. That is what makes the last part of this verse so strange, as Daniel states: “yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

I remember that several years ago, an old friend of mine, Dr. I.K. Cross, who was presenting a message at the annual Pastors and Missionaries Conference in Texarkana, delivered a sermon titled “We’re Gonna Win.” And the crux of his message made clear that the reason we were going to win was because of what Christ had already done, was doing, and would do in the future.

It is Jesus Christ, returning to the earth with all his power, that will use His earth, atmosphere, and universe to forever destroy the antichrist, his false prophet, and his vast army. I believe the following Scriptures attest to that fact:

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.

Zechariah 14:12 – And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh

shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Malachi 4:1-3 – 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.

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.

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Both Sides circling their Wagons to keep out Nuclear Arrowheads!

May 23, 2007

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The Syrians and Iranians are circling their military installations with the latest Russian Air Defense Systems as witnessed by Article 1, while the U.S. is circling its own European military installations, and Israel’s military and civilian centers on a joint venture in Article 2.

It is somewhat ironic that the two dates involving delivery or final installation of the systems in the two articles are late 2008 and by 2013, which is my guesstimate of the time span during which I believe the great Middle East War is likely to suddenly begin.

Article 1 Extracted from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Asharg Alawsat

Iran to Buy Russian Arms System Via Syria – Jane’s

Monday 21 May 2007

LONDON, (Reuters)

Syria has agreed to supply Iran with at least 10 out of 50 air defence systems that Damascus is in the process of buying from Russia, Jane’s Defence Weekly reported in this week’s edition.

Jane’s quoted a source close to the deal as saying that while most of the Pantsyr-S1E systems were earmarked for Syrian Air Defence Command, “the end user for 10 of the systems is Tehran”.
It said Iran would take delivery of them in late 2008. To reward Syria for its middleman role, Tehran would part-finance Syria’s Pantsyrs as well as paying for its own.

Iran is locked in confrontation with the United States over its developing nuclear programme and delivered its latest warning to Washington last week that it would retaliate severely if attacked.

Iran denies U.S. accusations that it is trying to build atomic weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear programme.

Washington emphasises it wants to resolve the standoff through diplomacy but has not ruled out military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

Jane’s said Syria struck a $730 million deal with Russia earlier this year for some 50 Pantsyr-S1E self-propelled short-range gun and missile air defence systems.

Its source said Moscow had not been officially notified of the reported Syrian arrangement with Tehran, which flowed from a November 2005 strategic accord between the two countries on military and technological cooperation.

Russia, as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council with veto power, is a key player in international diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

A Security Council resolution in March urged all states to exercise “vigilance and restraint” in the supply, sale or transfer of weaponry to Iran, including missile systems.

Article 2 Excerpt from DEBKAfile Report

US-Israeli Anti-Missile Programs to Be Fully Integrated by 2013

May 22, 2007, 1:06 PM (GMT+02:00)

The US House of Representatives last week allocated another $25 for the Arrow’s joint production and integration; and $45 m for the US-Israeli short-range David’s Sling, which is under development for countering high trajectory projectiles, such as Hizballah’s Katyusha rockets.

US and Israeli anti-missile systems are scheduled to be fully integrated by the year 2013. A further American investment of $1 bn in the Israeli programs will top up the $2.8 bn already spent.

Israel’s defense minister Amir Peretz said on May 19 that he hopes David’s Slling will be ready in two years. This leaves Israel unprotected against the Palestinian Qassam, Hizballah’ s Katyu

sha or mortar attack before 2010.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that had the development of David’s Sling not been interrupted three and a half years ago for lack of funds, the system might have been used against Hizballah’s Katyusha rocket blitz of Galilee last year and the Hamas Qassams now raining down on the Western Negev.

Israel will, however, be armed with the most superior shield available for fending off Iranian and Syrian ballistic missile threats: the Arrow for intercepting incoming missiles at high altitudes; the THAAD to screen broad areas such as cities, air fields, battle arenas or military installations; and the Patriots to snag the missiles which dodge the first two levels.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the integrated counter-missile units were given their first field test in the joint US-Israeli Juniper Cobra exercise held in the Negev in March, 2007. At Washington’s request, a news blackout was imposed on the week-long maneuver, which ended March 20.

Its success was reflected in last week’s congressional approval of appropriations for continuing the integrated programs.

At the same time, Israel must consider the pros and cons for its strategic position of filling a front-line role in the American missile shield planned for the east European countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Israel is seen to solidly side with America against Moscow with applications for the inter-power contest over influence and oil and gas markets in the Middle East and Central Asia. This contest is beginning to be called “Cold War Two.”

Russian president Vladimir Putin has made his campaign against the deployment of US interceptor missiles in East Europe the main theme of his foreign policy and confronted Washington with an ultimatum: if the US goes through with the deployment of missiles in Poland and radar stations in the Czech Republic, Moscow will develop missiles capable of busting them.

In a fresh arms race between America and Russia focusing on anti-missile interceptors, Israel as an integral component of the US system could find itself threatened by Moscow’s sales to Iran and Syria of hardware designed to knock out its own anti-missile defenses.

What Israel’s military planners fear most is the Russian Iskander E, which has a range of 200 km, pinpoint precision, and the ability to evade trackers. Its acquisition enables Syria to launch surprise attacks on Israel’s anti-missile positions and air force bases.

On March 23, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 294 revealed:

1. The US has designated the Israeli-made Arrow anti-missile missile system and its Green Pine radar the first line in its defensive shield against Iranian ballistic missiles. Any incoming missile would have to first outmaneuver the Israeli system located in the Negev before reaching the Europe-based links – 10 interceptors, which Washington plans for Poland and a radar station projected for the Czech Republic – and possibly Georgia too.

The American and Israeli anti-missile deployments are to be integrated to create an inter-operational multilayered air defense system by 2013.

To make this happen, Washington will sink another $1 billion in the Israeli technology on top of the $2.8 billion already invested.

2. The US-Israeli missile defense network is designed not only to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles of 1,300-1,500 km range fired at Europe, but also the short-range Iskander-E short-range ballistic missiles.

This decision was taken after it was discovered that the Iskander-E is designed to outfight key Western ballistic missile defenses, particularly the Patriot Advanced Capability PAC-2/3 low-to-high altitude air-defense system.

The Iskander-E is the export version of the Kolomna-designed 9M72 short-range ballistic missile in current service with the Russian army. Its range is shorter – 280 km compared with the 9M72’s 400 km.

The weapon is essentially an improved version of the old Soviet Scud plus the latest advances in propulsion, guidance and computerized systems.

The Iskander-E’’s pinpoint accuracy and short preparation time are seen by the US and Israel as posing a greater threat than its range or payload. For the first time, Syria has a missile with a solid propellant capable of mounting an effective surprise attack on the Air Force bases and military command centers of northern and central Israel, though not the south – a far cry from the Scud with its liquid propellant and lengthy and clumsy launch preparations.

With a CEP (Circular Error Probable: a measure of missile accuracy) of a few meters, individual aircraft shelters and high value military installations could be effectively targeted.

The Iskander might well encourage Damascus to believe that a surprise attack against US bases in Iraq, Israel and Turkey could be successful.

3. The United States and Israel therefore have more in mind than a defense system against an Iranian ballistic threat to Europe. They do not rule out Moscow’s potential for one day creating the same kind of integrated missile and missile defense system with Iran and or Syria, as the one the US has formed with Israel.

During his Middle East tour in February Russian president Vladimir Putin made no secret of his challenge to American superpower status in the Arab world by offers of advanced weapons sales, nuclear technology and diplomatic espousal.

To re-establish Russian positions in the Middle East, Putin is wooing both radical and conservative governments, Sunni and Shiite alike. The Russian president invited all and sundry to follow Syria’ s example and

shop for Russian missiles.

The Juniper Cobra exercise of March 2007, the fourth of the two-yearly series, was meant as a discreet signal to Moscow, as well as

to its past and future customers – especially Syria – that even before their deployment, the Russian-made missiles on sale have already been outmaneuvered by the US defense systems in position to shoot them down.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Moscow sources report that the Kremlin and top Russian brass greeted the signal with fury. They perceive the Negev maneuver as an American move to check Russia’s drive for restored Middle East status and spoil its weapons export trade.

They have responded with a threat to equip Russia’s European embassies with systems capable of following US and NATO movements in the continent. It was spelled out Monday, March 19, by Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin, commander of Russia’s Space Forces.

He said space monitoring systems in Russian embassy compounds in several countries would track the launches of ballistic missiles abroad. In an interview to the Pace Technology News magazine, Popovkin said quantum-optical equipment posted at the embassies would pick up launches undetectable from Russian territory and adjust the trajectories of missile “killer vehicles” to a potential threat.

On Feb. 27, John Rood, US assistant secretary for international security and non-proliferation, spoke in general about American-Israeli cooperation in defense against missiles in an address to the 8th Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Missile Defense Conference.

He commented: “The rationale for such deployments as detailed in US Defense Department analysis has concluded that Poland and the Czech Republic are the good locations to provide protection for much of Europe and the United States from the evolving Middle East ballistic missile threat. Assuming our negotiations are successful, we hope to begin major construction in these countries in 2008 and to begin missile defense operations by 2012. These missile defense assets would be integrated with existing radars in Fylingdales, UK and Thule, Greenland, as well as the US ground-based mid-course defense system consisting of, for example, existing missile defense interceptors located in California and Alaska.

Fylingdales in Yorkshire is a long-range radar station, which forms part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) and Space Surveillance Network (SSN). Fylingdales was the third and last of the BMEWS ”golfball” stations to be built during the Cold War. The first two are at Thule, Greenland and Clear, Alaska.

Officials in Jerusalem noted that John Rood, while listing America’s missile monitoring assets everywhere else, carefully omitted mention of the Israel-made Arrow’s Green Pine radar system and its integration in the US chain of defenses for Europe as the first line of defense against Iran’s ballistic missiles.

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Shavuot – The Torah (Law) carried to the world to lead Mankind to Messiah!

May 23, 2007

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Yesterday at 6 P.M. Israel time, the Jews began to celebrate Shavuot in Jerusalem. Christians refer to it as Pentecost, but do not celebrate it on the same date as the Jews. The following information was extracted from Wikipedia.

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Shavuot, sometimes pronounced Shavuos (Hebrew:”[Feast of] Weeks”), is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, corresponding to late May or early June. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer and the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai.

It is one of the shalosh regalim,

the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals mandated by the Torah.

Unlike the other two pilgrimage festivals, Passover and Sukkot, the date of Shavuot is not explicitly mentioned in the Torah. Rather, its occurrence is directly linked to the date of Passover. The Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover and culminating on the 50th day, Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks expresses anticipation and desire for the Giving of the Torah. At Passover, the Jewish people were freed from being slaves to Pharaoh; at Shavuot they accepted

the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.

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as many aspects and as a consequence is called by several names. In the Torah it is called Feast of Weeks (Exodus 34:22, Deuteronomy 16:10); Festival of Reaping (Hebrew:Ex. 23:16), and Day of the First Fruits (Numbers 28:26). The Mishnah and Talmud refer to Shavuot as Atzeret (Hebrew: a solemn assembly), as it provides closure for the festival activities during and following the holiday of Passover. Since Shavuot occurs 50 days after Passover, Christians gave it the name Pentecost, (“fiftieth [day]”). However, the actual Christian commemoration of Pentecost occurs on the seventh Sunday after Easter.

In the Land of Israel and among Reform and Karaite Jews, Shavuot is celebrated for one day. In the Jewish diaspora outside Israel, the holiday is celebrated for two days, on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan.

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It is a celebration of the day Moses gave the 10 Commandments of the Law to Moses which was to be delivered to the world through the Jews.

The Law was a schoolmaster to lead mankind to know the Messiah as Savior by revealing the impossibility of men and women being able to keep it perfectly, thereby causing men and women to repent of their sins toward God, and put their faith for salvation in the only man who ever kept it perfectly, His Messiah,

Galatians 3:21-26 – Is the law then against the promises of God

? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should

have been by the law. [22] But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ

might be given to them that believe.

[23] But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

[24] Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [25] But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

[26] For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

John 1:17 – For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Galatians 2:21 – I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Acts 20:21 – Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Romans 10:9,10 – That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Christians celebrate Pentecost (Shavuot) as the time when the Spirit descended on the first local Church, which had already been organized by the Messiah during his earthly ministry, as it was assembled on the Day of Pentecost at Jerusalem. It was the day the first church was fully empowered and given the authority to carry out the commission given to it and those like it which were to follow.

Acts 2:1-3 – And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. [2] And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. [3] And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Matthew 28:19,20 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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THE JERUSALEM POST

May 21, 2007

On Tuesday night, Jews around the world will celebrate Shavuot, which continues the commemoration of the Jewish people’s founding event, the Exodus from Egypt.

The holiday is named Shavuot (weeks) since it concludes the seven-week interval between the flight from Egypt on the original Pessah and the giving Torah at Mount Sinai. To relive the enthusiasm of receiving the Torah, many will study Jewish texts into the night.

In Jerusalem, thousands will gather at the Western Wall at dawn for prayers, ending the sleepless night and recalling how, in ancient times, Jews would bring the first fruits of their harvest to the Temple.

Though Shavuot somehow lacks the public resonance of more symbol-laden Pessah or Hanukka, or the gravitas of the High Holy Days, it remembers an event of universal significance: Moses delivering the Ten Commandments to the Jewish people, and through them to the world.

For Jews and Christians, the Ten Commandments stand at the center of the moral code that underlies Western civilization. Muslims also consider Moses a prophet, and are quick to point out that all of the Ten Commandments can be found in some form in the Koran.

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