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Will Lebanon be one of the Three Subdued King Horns?

June 15, 2007

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Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horn s

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 h

and until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume

and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. (For a full of Daniel 7:24-27 please read Archive Prophecy Update Number 234A)

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Lebanese PM appeals to UN for Cooperation

June 14, 2007

BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called for an extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the murder of MP Walid Eido on Wednesday.

“We are calling for an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Arab foreign ministers so that the Arab League assumes its responsibilities towards Lebanon,” he said after a government meeting.

Siniora, who declared Thursday a “day of national mourning,” also urged the United Nations to provide technical help for the investigation into Eido’s murder along with nine others in a Beirut car bombing.

He said Eido’s killing should be added to the UN enquiry into previous attacks in Lebanon, including the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri which has been widely blamed on neighbouring Syria.

Damascus, which has denied links with the attacks, was forced to end 29 years of military domination in Lebanon after the Hariri assassination.

“We will not surrender… despite the dozens of assassinations and hundreds of bombings” against anti-Syrian targets in Lebanon since October 2004, Siniora said.

“They want to drown Lebanon in destruction… they don’t want a free and independent Lebanon,” he said, vowing not to “surrender to terrorism.”

Siniora said Eido’s murder was part of a plan to destabilise Lebanon, including security breaches by “a gang sent from across the border” which has been locked in fierce fighting with the army in north Lebanon since May 20.

A government official said Siniora made the appeal after calls to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, Arab League chief Amr Mussa, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed.

Lebanon’s parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri blamed Syria for Eido’s murder and called on the Arab League to “boycott the terrorist regime” targeting his country.

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The New Zealand Herald

By Tom Perry and Yara Bayoumy

June 14, 2007

A Lebanese civil defence personnel rests next to an unidentified body near the site of an explosion in Beirut. Photo / Reuters

BEIRUT – The UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned today the latest political killing in Lebanon, of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido and nine other people nearby.

In a policy statement read at a formal meeting, the council also condemned “any attempt to destabilise Lebanon through political assassination or other terrorist acts.”

The statement, initiated by France, supported efforts by the Beirut government to condemn terrorism, solidify democracy and extend its authority throughout the country.

“The Security Council unequivocally condemns the terrorist attack in Beirut … including Member of Parliament Walid Eido,” the 15-member body said.

In comments to reporters, Ban said, “I again condemn in the strongest possible terms such heinous terrorist acts to kill civilians and political leaders.”

“I urge again the Lebanese government to take all necessary measures to find the perpetrators to bring justice. This is just unacceptable,” the secretary-general said.

He said he would ask Prime Minister Fouad Siniora about any assistance he needed.

A parked sports utility vehicle packed with 60 to 80 kg of explosives blew up as Eido’s car was driving away from a Beirut beach club, a senior security source said.

One of the parliamentarian’s sons and two bodyguards were among the dead. At least 11 people were wounded.

Eido, 64, belonged to the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls the government.

A Sunni Muslim lawyer, he had been a foe of Syrian influence in Lebanon and an ally of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, who was assassinated by a suicide truck bomber in February 2005.

Eido was killed just three days after a UN Security Council resolution came into effect setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in Hariri’s assassination.

Saad al-Hariri says Syria was behind his father’ s killing and later attack

s. Damascus denies any involvement.

Eido’s death brought to seven the number of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists killed in Lebanon since 2005.

“It is the same fingers that assassinated the martyred premier Rafik al-Hariri … the fingers of evil and its evil agents that plant terror in Lebanon,” Hariri said of Eido’s killing. “They don’t want Lebanon to rest.”

There was no immediate comment from Syria.

Its allies in Lebanon denounced the assassination.

Condemnation also came from the United States, France, Britain and the European Union.

“We stand with the people of Lebanon and Prime Minister (Fouad) Siniora’s government as they battle extremists who are trying to derail Lebanon’s march to peace, prosperity and a lasting democracy,” said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said his country stood by Lebanon “in the face of these repeated attempts at destabilization”. He urged the Lebanese to resume dialogue.

The Beirut government declared Thursday, when the funerals were due to take place, a day of national mourning.

“Lebanon and the Lebanese will not submit to terrorism,” Siniora said after an emergency cabinet session.

He said the government was asking the UN commission investigating Hariri’s assassination to help with the inquiry into Eido’s killing and add it to the tribunal’s work.

The blast, near a seafront amusement park and a football club, set a car ablaze and shattered windows of nearby buildings. It hurled the bodies of Eido and his son over a wall and into the football ground, witnesses said.

Two players in the Nejmeh football team, which is in Lebanon’s top league, were among those killed.

“It sounded like it was in your backyard,” said Herbert Lahout, 45, a US citizen who had been playing volleyball on a nearby beach. “It was like a mushroom cloud, a big ugly cloud.”

Five less powerful bombs have exploded in and around Beirut in the past month, killing two people.

Eido’s death was likely to fuel tension between Siniora’s Western-backed government and the pro-Damascus opposition led by the Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah group.

Parliament member Wael Abou-Faour said Eido had been killed “because there is a decision by the Syrian regime to terminate the March 14 bloc”, referring to the Hariri-led coalition.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shi’ite opponent of the government, condemned the killing, as did Hezbollah and Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun.

Tension was already high in Lebanon, where the army has been battling al Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north for more than three weeks.

Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in fresh fighting at the Nahr al-Bared camp on Wednesday, security sources said.

The battle for the camp, Lebanon’s bloodiest internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war, has killed 144 people — 62 soldiers, 50 militants and 32 civilians — since May 20.

REUTERS

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Two State Solution finally Works – But it’s not the PA & Israel – It’s Hamas & Fatah – Hamastan in the Gaza Strip & Fatahstan in the West Bank!

June 15, 2007

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Two wild jackasses – Hamas made of Iron – Fatah made of Clay – simply could not hold together, and have slipped apart – But not to worry, when the Antichrist shows up he will have a large container of Elmer’s glue, which will hold them together for 1260 Plus days.

Daniel 2:42-45 – And as the toes of

the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

[45] Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. (For a line by line full exposition of Daniel 2:42-45, Please read Archive Prophecy Update Number 233B)

The kingdom that replaces the Islamic Caliphate of 10 kings in verse 44 will be the huge Kingdom of the Messiah, the stone of verse 45, who will being in his kingdom at his Second Advent, after the woman Israel spends 1260 days in the Negev Wilderness.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Following the 1260 days the Second Advent will end the Gentile Age!

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

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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Olmert to tell Bush: We need to separate Gaza Strip, West Bank

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies

June 14, 2007

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is planning to tell United States President George Bush at their meeting at the White House next Tuesday that there is an urgent need to view the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as separate entities and prevent contact between them, political sources in Jerusalem said Thursday.

According to the sources, the defense establishment is recommending a “separation policy” for the two territories, and is emphasizing the importance of “ensuring that what is happening this week in Gaza will not happen in the West Bank.”

Bush and Olmert’s meeting will center on Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip in recent days, and they will discuss whether it is possible to move the peace process forward, and in what ways.

A political source noted: “As we predicted, the Palestinian unity government has failed.”

“We need to utilize all the available force in the handling of Hamas,” he added.

Olmert will also raise the topic of deploying a multi-national force along the Gaza-Egypt border in his meetings with Bush and later with United Nati ons

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. An international force would be deployed in order to curb the smuggling of arms from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, and strengthening Hamas.

Israel, however, has not yet formulated a unified stance regarding the deployment of the force, which would be commanded by the Arab League, and the security cabinet will meet on the topic when Olmert returns from the U.S.

The second issue for the meeting between the two leaders will be the question of curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The U.S. and Israel agreed last week to reevaluate the use of sanctions on Iran at the end of the year. “At that point we will prepare for strengthening the sanctions, or for something else entirely,” a politic

al source said.

According to reports in Jerusalem, the economic sanctions are causing concern for Iran’ s middle cla

ss and business community.

Olmert will suggest Bush broaden “external sanctions” which go beyond the UN Security Council approved sanctions currently in force, such as targeting the Iranian banking system and economy, and the prevention of American pension fund investment in companies trading with Iran. The prime minister also supports the measure of denying

Iranian passport-holders entry to western countries.

Also on Thursday, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told a weekly meeting of security officials that Israel would not allow the ongoing violence between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip to spread into attacks on southern Israel, meeting participants said.

Earlier Peretz had said “we mustn’t allow the fighting between the Palestinian factions deter from the preparedness and alertness of the Israel Defense Forces.”

The defense establishment is to hold meetings next week in an effort to prepare recommendations for a new policy in the Gaza Strip, in the wake of what seems to a Hamas conquest of the area.

The general assessment in the Israel Defense Forces is that there is a new reality in the Strip and that Hamas has defeated Fatah in the battle for power.

Israel is watching the developments in the area with grave concern.

Most of the dead in internal clashes have so far been affiliated with Fatah, although at least two civilians participating in a peace demonstration and two United Nations aid workers were also killed Wednesday.

Since Hamas is boycotted by Israel, it is still unclear how essential contacts will be handled, particularly in matters of coordination over the control of transit points and the entry into Israel of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip for humanitarian purposes.

At this stage all crossings into the Gaza Strip are closed to traffic because of the fighting.

IDF forces along the border fence have been instructed to show restraint and avoid being dragged into the Palestinian infighting.

Israeli political sources said Wednesday that the Hamas takeover requires that Israel reexamine its ties with the Gaza Strip, and whether it will continue its economic ties, the infrastructure links – providing of fuel and electricity from Israel.

The situation emerging in the Gaza Strip is also lending greater urgency to the Olmert’s decision to promote an initiative for the deployment of a multi-national force along the Philadelphia Route and for the construction of a barrier to combat smuggling of arms and weapons into the Gaza Strip.

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Iranian weaponry flowing out to Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas, and Taliban produced miniature Iranian states in Southern Lebanon and Gaza!

June 14, 2007

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The flow of Iranian weaponry into the Hizbullah, Hamas, and Taliban terrorist forces has led to the creation of little Iranian states in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Hizbullah controls southern Lebanon, and now Hamas controls the Gaza Strip. Iran is now supplying military weapons to their former enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan, to drive out the American and NATO Forces for the glory of Shiite Islam. Iran is providing arms to Shiite forces in Iraq to drive out the Americans and the British. There is no question that the Shiite Muslims are attempting to eventually install a Caliphate Empire from Morocco to India and from Turkey to Sudan and Yemen. They are flooding this area with Iranian military technicians and equipment, and providing war training camps within their own country for those who would join their cause from Islamic states.

Once we pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, it is just a matter of time until both governments will fall to fanatical Islamic fundamentalists, and the two countries that we rescued, will turn against us, and be part of the destroying force that comes against Israel.

The two articles which follow, from the Jerusalem Post, describe the immediate scenario stage of the latest developments in Iran’s drive to build a Caliphate Empire.

It is out of the development of such a great Caliphate that the Antichrist will arise. Article 3 is from DEBKAfile.

It gives the events of the last few days that led to the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas.

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‘Iran, Syria pushing Hamas to take Gaza’

JERUSALEM NEWSWIRE

By Stan Goodenough

June 13, 2007

The Iranian regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Syrian ally Bashar el-Assad are fueling the inter-“Palestinian” violence in the Gaza Strip.

So insinuated Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman Tuesday, after trying to get Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to get his people to agree to a ceasefire.

A senior Fatah official was more explicit, telling a London-based Arab newspaper that Iran and Syria have poured millions of dollars into Hamas’ coffers, and the money is being used to establish a Hamas state in the Gaza Strip.

Tehran is a serious exporter of radical Islam and scorns the so-called moderate Muslim regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. The goal of the mullahs is to establish a Shi’ite-run Middle East.

US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns told CNN Wednesday Iran is funding insurrection all across the Middle East – including the Taliban in Afghanistan, Hizb’allah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that “if Gaza falls into the hands of Hamas it will have regional implications.”

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At least 14 killed in battle for last Fatah stronghold

By JPOST STAFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH, AND AP

June 14, 2007

Hamas fighters overran Fatah-allied Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday, a key target in their battle to control the entire Gaza Strip, witnesses and a security agency official said.

One witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said Hamas gunmen were bringing Preventive Security men out of the building and executing them in the street.

Moments after the key security command was taken over, aides said that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave his first order to his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas rivals.

However, PA officials told the Jerusalem Post that no decision had yet been made and that a meeting between Abbas and his security officials had not yet reached its conclusion.

Nevertheless, the PA officials said that Abbas was expected to officially pull Fatah out of the PA unity government.

The coup de grace to Fatah sovereignty occurred a day after 35 Palestinians were killed in factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Earlier, Fatah operatives called on Abbas to order a move from defense to offense, “even at the price of thousands of dead Palestinians,” to avoid losing the Gaza Strip to Hamas.

The call to Abbas Thursday morning came after Fatah officials urged Abbas to resign Wednesday night. Fatah members have grown increasingly angry at what they termed Abbas’s failure to order a strong counter-attack to Hamas and a lack of clear-cut orders.

More than 70 people, most of them militants, have been killed in the three days since Gaza slid into civil war.

Early Thursday, five more casualties were added to the tally.

“There will be no dialogue with Fatah, only the sword and the rifle,” Nezar Rayyan, a top Hamas leader, told Hamas radio on Thursday.

“This is a battle between Muslims and non-believers, and God willing, we will lead the Friday prayer in the president’s office, and transform the [Fatah-controlled] security complex into a big mosque.”

During the morning’s fighting, retreating Fatah forces tried to prevent further Hamas entrenchment by blowing up their abandoned positions in central Gaza. However, Hamas said it had seized from Fatah thousands of M-16 and Kalashnikov rifles and pistols, communication equipment, armored vehicles, trucks, binoculars, military outfits, tents, sleeping bags, hand grenades, mortars and documents.

Hamas gunmen were seen driving some of the confiscated vehicles that have been decorated with Hamas flags and signs.

Pictures of the weapons were posted on a number of Hamas-linked Web sites. “Most of the weapons came from Egypt and Jordan over the past few years,” a senior Fatah official told The Jerusalem Post. “They did not come directly from the US, although the Americans had initiated the supply of weapons and ammunition.”

Meanwhile, hundreds of Fatah men asked Israel to help them flee the Gaza Strip through Gaza seaport, one of the last locations in the Strip still held by Fatah Thursday morning, for fear they would be executed by Hamas gunmen if they remained in Gaza.

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Hamas Poised to Convert Captured Gaza Strip into Islamist Enclave

June 14, 2007, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)

14 June: Hamas seizes control of strategic Philadelphi enclave on Egyptian border and all Gaza’s border crossings with Egypt and Israel. At least 35 people died in the fighting Wednesday. Any international force in Gaza will be resisted in the same way as an Israeli occupation army, said a Hamas spokesman Thursday, June 14.

Senior Israeli officers described the Hamas victory to DEBKAfile as a greater misfortune for Israel than its Lebanon War setbacks. There, Hizballah was forced by Israeli military action to accept a UN ceasefire and international peacekeepers.

Hamas has no such incentive. In the case of Gaza, the winner takes all and can dictate terms. A radical Islamic enclave with a dominant Iranian-Syrian military presence has sprung up unopposed as a hostile reality on Israel’s southwestern border. It has made the Israeli-Middle East Quartet’s boycott an irrelevance.

The Hamas Executive Force completed the seizure of all pro-Fatah Presidential Guard border positions, including the Karni goods crossing and the Sufa, Kerem Shalom and Rafah transit points, after midnight Wednesday night, June 14.

Their commander Col. Musbah Basichi and his 60 officers fled to Egypt. At least 35 Palestinians were killed in fighting Wednesday.

Hamas pounced as Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert held a belated conversation with the UN Secretary-General B an Ki-moon on the deployment of

an international force on the Philadelphi route. Hamas leaders flushed with victory will hardly accept such hindrance to the free flow of smuggled arms, missiles and explosives into the Gaza Strip.

Israeli military and security personnel administering the crossings on the Israeli side will have to work cheek by jowl with Hamas operators. The Israeli government, which decided to stay out of the Hamas-Fatah conflict, must now decide whether to break off ties with Hamas-controlled Gaza and seal the crossings, or interact with the new masters in order to admit emergency supplies for 1.4 million Gazans.

13 June: Overnight, thousands of Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah were under Hamas siege at their last bastions – Gaza City’s Presidential Guard compound and the General Security command.

They are running out of food, water and ammunition. Hamas and its Executive Force had overrun some 80 percent of the Gaza Strip, while loyalists of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, including complete clans, surrendered and turned in their weapons. Hamas has set up large prisoner camps, some on the rubble of the Gush Katif villages. Wednesday afternoon, a desperate Abbas appealed to Israel to permit arms and ammunition to be transferred from the West Bank. Israeli officers said it was too late. Fatah is a lost case and any arms crossing into Gaza will be seized at once by Hamas.

Israel decides to stay out of the Palestinian internecine war in Gaza.

Prime minister Ehud Olmert led the cabinet in a decision Tuesday night, June 12, to avoid “fighting on the side of the pragmatists against the extremists.” Olmert said an international force is worth considering

for securing the Philadelphi border enclave of the Gaza Strip against further arms smuggling. DEBKAfile: This would replicate the situation in South Lebanon where UNIFIL troops have been helpless to halt illegal gunrunning to the Hizballah from Syria. The UN Security voiced concern over this traffic only Tuesday, June 12.

12 June: DEBKAfile reported Hamas’ seizure of Gaza’s main south-north highway in fierce fighting with many casualties, most Fatah.

By borrowing this Israeli tactic for bisecting the territory to contain terrorists, Hamas shut in Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Guard, which has not yet been thrown into battle, and choked off ammunition re-supply routes to Fatah fighters. To tighten their control, Hamas units also commandeered high rise rooftops.

Hamas then gave Fatah till Friday noon to surrender their arms or become wanted men under sentence of death. Abbas called the situation “madness.”

UNWRA has cut down its personnel in Gaza after two aid workers were killed.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas’ planning and combat tactics clearly betray the professional hands of Syrian and Hizballah officers who have set up a command center in the Gaza Strip.

DEBKAfile’s Military sources: Iran and Syria are the winners of Hamas’ military coup against Fatah in Gaza Strip

It was the second triumph in a week for a Palestinian force backed by Iran and Syria, after the Lebanese army failed in four weeks’ combat to crush the pro-Syrian factions’ barricaded in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp near Tripoli.

Tuesday, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Palestinian Authority forces faced disaster.

Their inevitable ejection from the Gaza Strip effectively severs Palestinian rule between Ramallah, where Fatah will have to fight to retain control of the West Bank and Gaza, dominated now by an Islamist Palestinian force manipulated from Tehran and Damascus.

The Iran-Syrian alliance has acquired by brute force two Mediterranean coastal enclaves in northern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Its momentum, launched a month ago in both sectors was unchecked. The Fouad Siniora government’s troops failed to break through to the Palestinian camp and crush the pro-Syrian uprising. The Olmert government stood by unmoved as the most radical elements in the Middle East snatched the Gaza Strip on Israel’s southwestern border.

The Bush administration is finding itself forced out of key Middle East positions, its main assets Siniora and Mahmoud Abbas trounced on the battlefield.

Israel’s technological feat of placing the Ofeq-7 surveillance satellite in orbit Monday quickly proved ineffective against the sort of tactics Tehran and Syria employ: mobile, suicidal Palestinian terrorists, heavily and cheaply armed with primitive weapons, who are winning the first round of the Summer 2007 war and preparing for the next.

11 June: DEBKAfile reported: The brutal civil strife has brought the fragile Hamas-Fatah unity government to closure.

The War Crimes Prosecution Watch has condemned rival Palestinian factions fighting in Gaza for attacking civilians, prisoners and hospitals.

Senior Palestinian politician Saab Erikat warned the “Mogadishu syndrome” is overtaking Palestinian Gaza. “If war and lawlessness are not extinguished, the fire will burn us all”

The outcome generated by the civil war is the separation of Palestinian rule between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas threw its entire 5,000-strong Executive Force armed with mortars, RPGs, heavy machine guns and grenades into the final bid to conquer the Gaza Strip, whereas Fatah commanders’ desperate appeals to Mahmoud Abbas for reinforcements drew nothing but a futile call for a ceasefire.

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Ishmael’s Descendants bear his Character – Wild Asses!

June 14, 2007

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Genesis 16:12 – And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Hebrew expression “a wild man” literally means “a wild jackass.”

The struggle going on between different factions of Arabs in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the terrorist groups, does indeed seem to be between a gathering of wild asses in heat. I dread the day when this hatred for one another is united in a Jihad attack against Israel.

Whatever you intend to do toward Jesus, with Jesus, or for Jesus, you had better get at it. This situation in the Middle East is headed toward the last war of this age, which will culminate with the return of Jesus at his Second Advent to end the final battle of Armageddon. As I keep on saying like a broken record, I guesstimate the attack, which begins this last war, will occur at some point in time between 2008 and the end of 2012, and will terminate at the battle of Armageddon some three and one-half years later. And, again, as I have stated many times, that is merely a guess in timing on my part, but I am certain that this Age of the Gentiles is drawing to a close, and these events are not in the far off sweet forever – They are at our door!

The following articles demonstrate the wild jackass characteristics of the hoards of religious Islamic fanatics that will come against Israel. At present Turks are fighting Kurds, Sunnis are fighting Shiites, Lebanese are fighting Fatah refugees, and Hamas is fighting Fatah. Clay and Iron do not mix, but soon they will hold together as 10 toes long enough to drive Israel into the Negev Wilderness.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Thousands of Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah are under Hamas siege at their last bastion – Gaza City’s presidential compound

June 13, 2007, 7:31 PM (GMT+02:00)

They are running out of food, water and ammunition. Hamas and its Executive Force have overrun some 80 percent of the Gaza Strip, while loyalists of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, including complete clans, are surrendering and turning in their weapons. Hamas has set up large prisoner camps, some in the rubble of the Gush Katif villages. Wednesday afternoon, a desperate Abbas appealed to Israel to permit arms and ammunition to be transferred from the West Bank. Israeli officers said it was too late. Fatah is a lost case and any arms crossing into Gaza will be seized at once by Hamas.

Earlier, DEBKAfile reported Hamas’ seizure of Gaza’s main south-north highway in fierce fighting with many casualties, most Fatah.

Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah were fleeing Gaza for Egypt

By borrowing this Israeli tactic for bisecting the territory to contain terrorists, Hamas shut in Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Guard, which has not yet been thrown into battle, and choked off ammunition re-supply routes to Fatah fighters.

To tighten their control, Hamas units also commandeered high rise rooftops.

Hamas then gave Fatah till Friday noon to surrender their arms or become wanted men under sentence of death.

Abbas called the situation “madness.”

Wednesday afternoon, Hamas used a tunnel to blow up Abbas’ Security Service HQ in Khan Younes, killing 10 members. UNWRA has cut down its personnel in Gaza after two aid workers were killed.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas’ planning and combat tactics clear betray the professional hands of Syrian and Hizballah officers who have set up a command center in the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, DEBKAfile reported: The brutal civil strife has brought the fragile Hamas-Fatah unity government to closure.

The War Crimes Prosecution Watch has condemned rival Palestinian factions fighting in Gaza for attacking civilians, prisoners and hospitals.

Senior Palestinian politician Saab Erikat warned the “Mogadishu syndrome” is overtaking Palestinian Gaza. “If war and lawlessness are not extinguished, the fire will burn us all”

The outcome generated by the civil war is the separation of Palestinian rule between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas threw its entire 15,000-strong Executive Force armed with mortars, RPGs, heavy machine guns and grenades into the final bid to conquer the Gaza Strip, whereas Fatah commanders’ desperate appeals to Mahmoud Abbas for rein

forcements drew nothing but a futile call for a ceasefire.

His Fatah earlier mounted an RPG attack on the Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya’s home in Gaza.

No one was hurt. Hamas gunmen then shot dead the top Fatah commander in northern Gaza, his brother and cousin.

Fatah then “executed” the senior Hamas commander in the North. Monday, Hamas bound a Fatah fighter hand and foot and hurled him from a 15-story building in Gaza to his death.

For two days, Hamas gunmen have been targeting injured Fatah fighters, killing them in ambulances and Beit Hanoun hospital beds. Fatah has retaliated with mortar and RPG attacks on the Hamas-controlled Shifa hospital.

Several attempts by the Egyptian mission in Gaza to arrange a ceasefire have been short-lived. In Cairo Tuesday, President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah discussed the Palestinian crisis.

Begin Article 2 – Lebanon

Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian lawmaker

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

June 13, 2007

An explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut’s seafront Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and nine others, security officials said. The 65-year-old lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two years in this conflict-ridden country.

Eido’s 35-year-old son, two bodyguards and six others were also killed in the explosion, security officials said. Eleven other were wounded, they said.

The slain parliament member was an ally of Saad Hariri, the leader of the parliamentary majority and son of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated two years ago in a Beirut car bombing.

A car was in flames and black smoke was seen rising from a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara, which is in the Muslim sector of the capital. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station said the explosion came from a bomb-rigged car, a method that has been used to assassinate opponents of Syria over the past two years.

Two bodies covered with a plastic bags were laying in a smoldering car.

The explosion shattered windows of apartments, knocked down walls and scattered debris on top of parked cars in the area, which is near an amusement park, a military club and popular beaches.

The explosion occurred less than two kilometers (less than a mile) from the site of a suicide truck bombing that killed former Rafik Hariri and 22 others in February 2005.

The UN Security Council earlier this month ordered the creation of a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for Hariri’s assassination despite the opposition from Syrian-backed groups in Lebanon.

Hariri’s killing sparked huge protests against Syria, which was widely seen as culpable. Syria denied involvement but was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, ending a 29-year presence.

The issue of the tribunal has sharply polarized

the country. It is at the core of a deep political crisis between the US-backed government led by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and the Syrian-backed opposition led by Hezbollah. The tensions have taken a more sectarian tone in recent months, with 11 people killed in clashes.

Begin Article 3 – Iraq

BAGHDAD (CNN) — A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a police station near Tikrit on Sunday morning, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 45 others, some of them civilians, a Tikrit police official said.

At least seven of those killed were police officers, the police official said.

The blast destroyed part of the police station, which is in Albu Ajil, a town about 3 miles (5 kilometers) east of Tikrit, the police official said.

Also Sunday, a parked car bomb exploded outside a fuel station in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding five others Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.

The station was in Saydiya, a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood.
About fifteen minutes later, another car bomb detonated at a fuel station in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least two civilians and wounding seven others, the official said.

That attack targeted cars in line at the station, which is located in the Shiite neighborhood of Bayaa.

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