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then rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [2] The kings of the earth

set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. [5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. [6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [7] I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

[8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. [10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. [11] Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. [12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Matthew 24:21-22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Begin Guardian Excerpt

Quake Triggers Tsunami in Indonesia

Wednesday September 12, 2007 3:46 PM

By ROBIN McDOWELL

Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – A massive earthquake shook Indonesia on Wednesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and triggering a tsunami that hit one city on the island of Sumatra, authorities said. Tsunami warnings were issued for much of the Indian Ocean region.

A wave of up to 9 feet was reported to have struck the city of Padang about 20 minutes after the magnitude-8.2 quake, said Suhardjono, an official with Indonesia’s meteorological agency, who goes by only one name.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also reported that a small tsunami hit Padang.

At least one person was killed and dozens injured in Bengkulu, the town closest

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to the epicenter, local government official Salamun Harius told El Shinta radio.

Several buildings along the coastline were damaged or collapsed, residents said, and phone lines and electricity also were cut. Most of the damage appeared to be from the quake.

Residents in Bengkulu, where at least one building was demolished, said the quake triggered panic and that people ran inland.

“Everyone is running out of their houses in every direction,” said Wati Said, who spoke by cell phone standing outside her house.

“We think our neighborhood is high enough.

God willing, if the water comes, it will not touch us here.”

“Communic ation

is cut, we can’t call out,” she added. “I don’t know how you contacted us.

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Everyone is afraid.”

Several buildings in Padang were damaged and at least one car showroom collapsed, according to the news Web site detik.com, which said people were searching to see if anyone was inside. It did not say whether the quake or wave caused the damage. Suhardjono said communication with the area was difficult.

The quake could be felt in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, 375 miles away, where office workers streamed down the stairwells of tall, swaying buildings. It also caused tall buildings to sway in neighboring Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

The undersea quake hit at about 6:10 p.m. (7:10 a.m. EDT), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 80 miles southwest of Sumatra island at a depth of 18.6 miles.

“Earthquakes of this size have the potential to generate a widespread destructive tsunami that can affect coastlines across the entire Indian Ocean Basin,” the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said, warning that waves could hit Indonesia and Australia within an hour, and Sri Lanka and India within three hours.

It lifted the alert for Indonesia about two hours later.

Begin Jerusalem Post Excert

‘Advisors to Assad pressuring him to respond with force’

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 12, 2007

Advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad are pressuring him to respond to the alleged IAF attack by “landing a blow to an Israeli target,” the Kuwait-based Al-Jareeda reported Wednesday. According to the report, Israel targeted long-range missile batteries that were brought to Syria from Iran. The report said five IAF fighter jets carried out the attack.

Israel Radio quoted the Kuwaiti paper to the effect that the group advocating a military response is being spearheaded by Assad’s brother in law, who has met in recent days with senior Hizbullah and Hamas officials in an effort to draw up an operation plan.

The Kuwaiti paper also reported that the Syrian army has begun drafting reservists from the armed corps, missile corps and anti-aircraft units, and quoted “sources in the know” who said the draft was a response to Israel raising its level of readiness in the north.

According to a report by The Nazareth-based al-Sinara newspaper Wednesday, the IAF targeted a joint Syrian-Iranian missile base in northern Syria.

Begin DEBKAfile Article

Sixty-nine Israeli soldiers injured when three missiles launched from Gaza hit their boot camp early Tuesday. Ministers demand serious military action

September 11, 2007, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)

Four of the new recruits were seriously injured, two critically, from shrapnel and blast.

One of the Qassams exploded in an empty tent in the Zikkim facility north of Gaza; a second outside the mess tent full of soldiers on their last day of basic training. Jihad Islami and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility. Israel is pondering a large-scale military response to stamp out the seven-year Palestinian missile campaign once and for all and the cutoff of supplies and services to the Gaza Strip. Israeli air and ground forces meanwhile executed pinpoint strikes at missile sites in N. Gaza. Palestinians fired celebratory shots in the mosques.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

Analysis: Israel’s tense holiday season

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 12, 2007

It was only a matter of time. For months now, the defense establishment has been waiting for a major Kassam attack – one that would cause enough casualties and destruction – which would finally leave Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with no choice but to embark on a large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip.

In the IDF’s Southern Command – which has been pushing for a massive operation for a year now – the understanding that only a “strategic Kassam attack” would change government policy was internalized months ago. Israel was living on luck.

Last week’s Kassam barrage on Sderot as children arrived for the second day of the school year was not considered such an attack. Apparently, the rocket that hit inside the IDF’s Zikim base on Tuesday morning is not one either.

There are several reasons for this. Firstly, the peace summit scheduled for November in Washington. If Israel launches a large operation in Gaza – it would almost certainly cause heavy causalities on both sides – Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas might be forced to cancel his participation, alongside a number of moderate Arab states. Israel’s aggressive actions would be blamed.

The second reason is the tension along the northern border. While defense officials have claimed in recent days that the tension – escalated by the alleged IAF strike in Syria last week – has begun to subside, there is a fear that the deployment of large forces in Gaza would create a “window of opportunity” for Damascus.

The third consideration against a Gaza operation is that Sderot, as well as the other Gaza-belt communities, are not yet reinforced to the point that the defense establishment would like. A better level of protection is expected to be in place by the end of the year.

There is also the civilian vs soldier factor. If Israel initiates an operation following the Zikim attack, there will most likely be a public outcry against what would appear as government policy biased toward soldiers and uncaring of the daily attacks against civilians. How can the government, people will ask, launch an operation after an army base is targeted and not after a Sderot kindergarten is hit

So what are Israel’s options? In place of a large operation, the IDF could expand its limited operations already ongoing in Gaza. At the moment, the army has permission to operate two kilometers from the Gaza security fence. These operations are mostly of a defensive nature, meant to uncover terror tunnels being dug into Israel and to prevent Hamas and Islamic Jihad from establishing border positions, like the ones Hizbullah had until last summer’s war.

These operations, a senior officer explained Tuesday, are not, however, effective in stopping the rocket attacks. The Kassam Tuesday has nearly a 15 kilometer range and operating two kilometers inside the Strip is not enough to discover the launchers or even to push the rocket squads out of range. Operations deeper inside Gaza might bear real fruit and could have a deterrent effect on terror groups.

Alternatively, Israel can implement a long list of sanctions against the Palestinian civilian population with the hope that Hamas would cave in under pressure from the people and stop its terror activity. Some cabinet ministers have suggested cutting off electricity, water and fuel supplies to Gaza. On Tuesday alone, several hundred calves were transferred into the Strip via the Sufa crossing ahead of Ramadan.

The defense establishment is split on the question of cutting off supplies. Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered his office to look into the legal ramifications while Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i, along with a large number of IDF officers, believe such a move would have the opposite effect and turn Gazans toward Hamas.

The understanding in the defense establishment is that a large-scale operation is just a matter of time. But the timing is not yet right. While all this might change with just one on-target Kassam attack, what is certain is that on Wednesday evening, Israel will be starting a very tense holiday season.

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PARALLEL SECURITY JOKES!

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Parallel Secur ity

Jokes

September 12, 2007

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As I indicated in several previous blogs, the main purpose for the recent intrusion into northern Syrian airspace was to test various maneuvers and technical applications of F-151 avoidance systems to avoid detection by the latest Russian systems, which were recently acquired by Syria to protect its northern Scud launch sites, and by Iran to protect its nuclear development complex. It appears the mission was a success.

The article which follows by Yoan Stern, Haaretz Correspondent, tells of a joke about the many Scud Missile Sites, widely scattered across northern Syria to avoid a wipe out by closeness of juxtaposition to one another. There was a similar joke floating around our USAF Bases in the sixties to the eighties. All the Russians had to do to locate our many missile silos scattered around some of our bases, was to simply follow the clearly marked Air Force blue vehicles that carried relieving missile crews from the base to the road that led

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Analysis: Syria fumes as the rest of the Arab world stays silent

September 10, 2007

By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent

There is a joke in Damascus about a bus that carries passengers to distant parts of the country. In every town where the bus stops, the driver announces its name and opens the door to let passengers on or off. Between two villages, he stops and cries out: “Secret missile base.” At that point, two soldiers disembark.

Public op inion

in Syria, and in the Arab world in general, is demanding detailed explanations. It is hard to gauge Syrian public opinion from a distance, but the Internet exposes some of what Syrian citizens are feeling.

“For 60 years, we have heard the slogan that a war will not be imposed on us at a time and place that is not suitable for us,” an Arab Internet surfer wrote last week, echoing analysts’ statements. On the web site of the official daily Al-Thawra, another wrote: “Would not the best timing and the most appropriate response be to shoot down one of the attacking aircraft?”

Meanwhile, official Damascus is slowly preparing for a diplomatic offensive. Senior Syrian officials are counting their friends. The official Syrian news agency SANA is collating every condemnation: political parties from Yemen, individuals from Lebanon, the Arab League, some lukewarm statements from Egypt, Qatar and Turkey.

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a joined in, with a Foreign Ministry source calling for a unified Arab stance – which seems to be more distant than ever.

There is considerable frustration

in Damascus that key Arab countries have not bothered to denounce Israel and express their support for Syria.

The editor-in-chief of the daily Tishrin, Isam Dari, reflected this frustration.

In an editorial on Saturday, he wrote that what is disheartening is not what the enemy is doing, but the response of Syria’s Arab brothers. “They remain silent in face of Israeli piracy, as if this had happened on Mars or Jupiter,” he said.

The fact that countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states and the Maghreb states have not expressed their support for Syria reflects its isolation in the Arab world. These countries, often termed “moderate,” have major differences with Syria – not only about Lebanon, but also about its strategic decisions, particularly its alliance with Iran, which they consider a threat to the Arab world in general.

Nonetheless, all the states in the region, including Israel, are still waiting for a clear Syrian response. Will it make do with a passive reaction through diplomatic channels, or will it opt for something else? Past experience suggests that Syria will avoid direct confrontation with Israel at any price.

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The border between the two has been Israel’s calmest ever since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Syria’s advantage lies elsewhere: In recent years, it has put together a long list of dubious allies that serve as subcontractors for its military operations.

Thus one possibility is that Syria’s response to the Israeli challenge will take a different form and come from in a different place.

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SAILING INTO HARM’S WAY!

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

SAILING INTO HARM’S WAY!

TRUMAN FORCES BATTLE CRY IS: “GIVE EM HELL”!

September 11, 2007

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With ever increasing Middle East military armament on the land, in the air, and across the water surfaces of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Persian Gulf,

we see the potential for war growing daily across the entire region.

It is a forgone certainty, with only the question of WHEN circling over the planet as a foreboding bird of prey.

Once the “WHEN” war begins it will initiate a three and one half year countdown to the final battle of Armageddon.

Numbers 24:12-14,23,24 – And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, [13] If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I spea

k? [14] And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

[23] And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

[24] And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – 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. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

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

Begin Article Extract from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert

Sunday Telegraph-UK

Iran Spy Post Heightens Gulf Tension with U.S.

Gethin Chamberlain

Iran has established a sophisticated spying operation at the head of the Arabian Gulf in a move which has significantly heightened tensions in its standoff with the U.S. The operation, masterminded by the Revolutionary Guard, includes

the construction of a high-tech spying post close to the point where Iranian forces kidnapped 15 British naval personnel in March. The U.S. military says that the spying post, build on the foundations of a crane platform sunk during the Iran-Iraq war, is equipped with radar, cameras and forward facing infra-red devices to track the movement of coalition naval forces. Commanders fear that one of the main purposes of the Iranian operation is to enable the Revolutionary Guard to intercept more coalition vessels. (Sunday Telegraph-UK)

Begin DEBKAfile Article

DEBKAfile Reports: Two US carrier-strike groups are bound for Persian Gulf region, bringing number back to three

September 10, 2007, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that from the third week of July, the only American strike force- carrier in the Persian Gulf-Arabian Sea region was the USS Enterprise. By the end of September, it will be joined by the USS Nimitz and the USS Truman Strike Groups. Our sources note that with their arrival, three American naval, air and marine forces will again confront Iranian shores at a time of crisis in the military and civilian leadership of Iran – signaled by the abrupt change of Revolutionary Guards Corps commanders, rising Israel-Syrian tensions and a troubled situation in Lebanon.

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The Nimitz left the region to take part in large-scale Malabar 2007 II exercise with five Asian nations, termed by Indian military observers “ the first step towards establishing Asian NATO.

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7, the Nimitz has been on its way back to the Persian Gulf.

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The Truman group, made up of 12 warships and submarines, including a nuclear sub, with 7,600 sailors, air crew and marines aboard, has just completed a long series of training exercises and is preparing to set out for its new posting.

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It carries eight squadrons of fighters, bombers and spy planes.

The Truman force’s battle cry is: “Give ‘em hell”.

The combined naval strike groups include the Monterey-CG 61 guided missile cruiser, the USS Barry DDG 52 and USS Mason-DDG 87 guided missile destroyers, the USS Albuquerque-SSN 706 fast nuclear strike submarine and the combat logistical USNS Arctic T-AOE 8.

In the last week of August, the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group took up position oppo site

the Lebanese coast amid trepidation over the September presidential election. Our military sources reported that aboard the group’s vessels are members of the 22nds Marine special operations-capable Expeditionary Unit, who are ready to execute landings on Lebanese beaches.

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This May be the Straw that broke the Camel’s Back!

Monday, September 10th, 2007

This may be the Straw that broke the Camel’s Back!

OPERATION ARM PIT IN GAZA STRIP!

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The Kassam attack, described in the Jerusalem Post article that follows immediately, may be the long awaited final provocation which invokes a violent response from Israel. I will be surprised if they let this one go with just a slap on the wrist.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

Thirty-six wounded in Kassam attack near IDF military base

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 11, 2007

Thirty-six soldiers were wounded after Palestinians fired a Kassam rocket into Israel on Monday night.

*(After we prepared this Blog we received an update indicating the number of wounded might reach 70).

The rocket struck inside an IDF basic training camp in Zikim, located one kilometer north of the Gaza Strip. The Kassam landed next to a tent in which a group of soldiers were sleeping.

The severity of wounds received by the troops, both male and female, varied between them.

All of the wounded were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon and Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.

Twenty ambulances were alerted to the scene, south of Ashkleon, where they are accompanied by two helicopters responsible for evacuating the wounded.

The Nasr Salah al-Din Brigades, the Palestinian Resistance Committee’s armed wing, claimed responsibility for the attack. The IDF, who confirmed the attack, said that the rockets were fired from Beit Hanun.

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The Gaza Strip, since the days of the Philistines in Saul and David’s day, has been a part of Israel producing the smell of an arm pit without any type of deodorant.

Israel has never been quite sure what to do with it, but would love to be rid of the problems that have come out of it down through

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the ages. It does appear from the three articles which follow, one from last week, and one to begin this week, that Israel is going to step up retaliatory actions against Hamas for increasing rocket attacks and kidnapping attempts, now coming out of the Gaza Strip.

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Barak: We are heading for a major ground operation to stamp out Palestinian missile attacks and curb the Hamas military buildup

September 6, 2007, 7:03 AM (GMT+02:00)

This statement came Wednesday from Israel’s defense minister at a meeting of security chiefs after a special defense cabinet session on ways to halt the Qassam missile barrage from Gaza.

DEBKAfile’s military sources say the first part of the operation has begun.

Wednesday, Sept 5, Israeli forces were present in N. Gaza in sufficient strength to catch and destroy 11 missile launchers ready to go, which DEBKAfile also reports Iranian smuggling rings had spirited into Gaza through Sinai.

Tuesday, DEBKAfile disclosed exclusively that Israel had warned Egypt that it was left with no choice but military action to recapture the Philadelphi route bordering Egypt to halt this illicit traffic – part two of the operation. The decision followed the upsurge of missile fire against Sderot and the Egyptian forces’ discovery in Sinai of several dozen 240 mm Katyusha rockets, the first addressed to Hamas and Jihad Islami of the type used by Hizballah to blast northern Israel last year. The rockets were found in a cache with 2.7 tons of explosives.

DEBKAfile’s military sources disclosed that the message delivered Monday, Sept. 3, meant Israeli armed forces were standing by for an order to recapture the Philadelphi route running along the southern Gaza border with Egypt.

From Gaza, these rockets can reach the southern approaches of Beersheba, not just the towns of Ashkelon and Netivot.

According to intelligence input, the rockets were intended for immediate use by the two Palestinian groups. This information convinced Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi that radical military action can no longer be delayed.

They decided that the Philadelphi route – evacuated by Israel two years ago with the rest of the Gaza Strip – would have to be retaken.

DEBKAfile’s military sources add that Israel sent the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas an abbreviated version of the warning to Cairo.

The message to Egypt contained full operational details to emphasize that Israel has no wish to infringe on Egyptian sovereignty. It left an opening for President Hosni Mubarak to avert the Israeli operation by ordering Egyptian security forces to take full control of the Egyptian-Gaza border sector. Senior Israeli officials strongly doubt this will happen and expect it to be left to the IDF.

They are taking into account that all the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip will be led by Hamas and Jihad Islami in a violent response to Israel’s capture of Philadelphi by emptying their missile stocks on Israeli towns and villages in addition to Sderot.

Tuesday, Sept. 4, therefore, defense minister Barak extended the “special situation” decree governing the border region around Gaza by 48 hours.

This emergency decree grants the IDF’s Southern Comm and competence over civilian affairs, such as opening

and closing schools, medical facilities and factories, the evacuate of civilians if warranted by the security situation, and authorizing war damages to institutions, businesses and private citizens.

At the end of 48 hours,

the defense minister will request a further extension, possibly for a month, from the government, followed by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee.

Begin The Daily Star Article 2

Olmert promises ‘relentless’ attacks in Gaza Strip

Monday, September 10, 2007

Compiled by Daily Star staff

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his army will press forward with its attacks against the Gaza Strip “without hesitation,” a day after Israeli commandos disguised as Hamas forces captured a leader of the Islamic group. Israeli media said the Hamas leader, Muhawesh al-Khadi, was involved in the capture of an Israeli soldier last year and could have information about the serviceman.

“This ongoing, relentless activity will continue and will be carried out without hesitation,” Olmert told his Cabinet, one day before scheduled talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to try to prod along peacemaking efforts ahead of a planned visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “All those who are involved in terror activities and all those who send terrorists and all those who command terrorists, will be hit. We will reach them every place.”

Israel has been grappling with how to deal with Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, which is almost daily.

The Israeli Army frequently conducts air strikes and brief ground incursions it says are aimed at halting the rocket attacks. Last month, such strikes killed three children in the Gaza Strip.

Olmert’s Security Cabinet last week ruled out a large ground operation in Gaza, but is considering cutting off electricity, water and/or fuel supplies to the 1.4 million residents of Gaza in an effort to force the Hamas rulers of the territory to stop the rocket launchings.

In the operation Friday night, Israeli troops penetrated about 2 kilometers into southern Gaza and snatched Khadi, Palestinian officials said on condition of anonymity. The Israeli Army’s spokesman refused to comment.

Palestinian officials said the Israeli forces, disguised in Hamas security uniforms, waited next to a pickup truck with its hood up, pretending to repair the vehicle, on a road that Khadi was traveling on. He was taken to Israel by helicopter, the officials said.

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Khadi is believed by Israel to have been involved in the operation to capture Corporal Gilad Shalit in June 2006 when fighters from Hamas and two affiliated groups tunneled into Israel from Gaza. Shalit remains in captivity.

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Strategic response to Qassams

Repeated Gaza operations will reduce Palestinian motivation to fire rockets

Yitzhak Ben-Israel

The situation in Sderot is intolerable. Every day, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fire Qassam rockets at western Negev residents and particularly at Sderot. The casualty toll is indeed low, yet the disruption of day-to-day life is intolerable. We cannot expect residents to continue living normally when a rocket may land on their heads at any given moment.

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The deliberate firing on civilians is a war crime, and it would suffice to note Islamic Jihad’s announcement last week that the massive fire was “a gift for the opening of the school year.” Against this backdrop, we should be asking why Israel refrains from resorting to military force against the rockets.

I assume that the hesitation to use force stems from considerations pertaining to the cost and benefit analysis of a military operation in Gaza:

First, we do not possess technology capable of intercepting the rockets in midair. The defense establishment has indeed decided to develop such technology, yet its operational deployment will only happen years from now. Until that time, an end to the rocket fire could only be achieved by entering the Strip and taking over several kilometers that would push back the launchers beyond the Qassam range.

Such takeover is possible, but it would come with a casualty toll (for both sides, and particularly for the Palestinians). The nature of this area, which is densely populated, would lead to casualties among civilians regardless of IDF efforts to minimize such deaths.

We can assume that the world will back the weak side and Israel would lose further points in the international public opinion arena.

Secondly, because we do not wish to stay in the Strip, we will have to depart after we clear the launching sites. And what then? Terror groups will apparently be able to return to the sites and renew the rocket fire. The overall balance sheet of such military operation does not seem overly positive.

Yet I believe that the “balance sheet” presented above, although it is accurate in terms of the physical reality, is misleading. Our opening position should not be to seek ways that would physically prevent the rocket fire (as noted, such modus operandi is unavailable.) Rather, we should start a process that would increasingly minimize the rocket threat, until it is curbed almost entirely.

Long-term strategic vision needed

Such a process is impossible under circumstances whereby the State of Israel hesitates to use force, even if the short-term balance sheet does not justify such move. We must change our way of thinking and reshape the rules of the game.

Let’s assume that we embark on a ground operation in Gaza (with the aim of eventually returning the troops to our territory) where we sustain casualties and cause many casualties to the other side.

Let’s also assume that following a certain period of calm to be achieved through this operation, the rocket fire will be renewed. We would always be able to repeat the operation and enter the Strip, time and again.

Terror groups would be able to embark on a new round of rocket fire-Israeli military operation-period of calm-rocket fire time and again. Yet the experience we accumulated over the past 60 years, as well as common sense, show that every decision to embark on a new round would become increasingly difficult for them and be met with increasing resistance by the Palestinian population, which would recall the results of the previous round.

The accumulated deterrence to be acquired this way has been one of the most basic fundamentals of Israel’s security doctrine since its inception. The long-term strategic vision should overcome the short-term tactical balance sheet in this case.

Ultimately, the situation is rather simple: There is no way to curb the activity of fanatical organizations that do not even recognize our right to exist unless we use force. The use of force, in and of itself, even if it comes with a price, and a heavy price at that, is the only way to create a process that will culminate in the minimization and possibly end of indiscriminate rocket fire on our civilian population.

The writer, a major-general (res), is a Kadima Knesset member

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How Many Israelis will be Left in the Negev Wilderness after Revelation 12:6 and Zechariah 13:8?

Monday, September 10th, 2007

How Many Israelis will be left in the Negev after Rev 12:6 & Zec 13:8?

September 10, 2007

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Some 1.8 million Israelites will be left in the land of Israel in the Negev Wilderness when the attack that fulfills Revelation 12:6 and Zechariah 13:8 occurs, but will be delivered by the Messiah of Israel some three and one half years after the initial attack, at Armageddon.

Considering that the events of Revelation 12:6 and Zechariah 13:8 are not prophetic events predicted to be fulfilled in the far distant future, and since Israel is being ringed by an ever increasing Islamic ring of fanaticism, which increases daily in military training, numbers, and high tech weaponry, I do not believe it will be too much longer until the Psalm 17 prayer of David will be issued in the Negev by Israel.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God,

that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Psalm 17:8-13 – Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, [9] From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. [10] They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. [11] They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; [12] Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. [13] Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

After three and one half prophetic years, each one 360 days in length, the God of Israel will deliver Israel when they turn to their Messiah, His Son, Jesus Christ, in the Negev Wilderness.

They will call on the name of his Son to deliver them. Their call will come in the midst of a world filled with unbelievable tectonic chaos produced by God. The following series of Scriptures describe that sequence of events.

Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

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Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever

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shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened,

there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

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.

Acts 2:19-21 – And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: [20] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

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Israel’s population numbers 7.2 million

JPost.com Staff

THE JERUSALEM POST

This Rosh Hashana eve there are 7.2 million Israeli citizens in the country, according to data released Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).

At the end of 2006 the figure stood at 7,116,700.

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Of those, there were 5,393,400 Jews (75.8 percent), 1,413,300 Arabs (19.9%) and 309,900 others.

It also emerged that Israel’s population growth rate stands at 1.8% – similar to recent years. CBS said the growth rate had returned to that of the 80s, the years during which the rate of immigration was at its lowest.

Compared to an average yearly population growth rate of 3% in the 90s, in 2006, the growth rate of Israel’s Jewish population was 1.5%, while that of the Arab population was 2.6%. Among Muslims the rate was slightly higher – 2.9%.

In addition, according to the CBS statistics, Israel’ s population i

s relatively young compared with Western countries. In 2006, the percentage of children up to the age of 14 was 28, compared with an average of 17% in Western countries. The level of Israelis aged 65 or over was 10% in as opposed to 15% in the West. A moderate rise was recorded in recent years in the number of Israelis over the age of 75, especially amongst Jews – 5.6% in 2006 as opposed to 3.8% 15 years ago.

The CBS data showed that in Israel there were 977 men to every 1,000 women.

It also emerged that in 2006 the number of Israeli natives continued to rise, reaching more than 3.7 million. At the end of 2006, 66% of Israel’s Jews were born in the country, compared with 35% at the cre

ation of the state.

According to the data, 34% of Israel’s Jews are second generation Israelis and, among the Israelis born outside Israel, the largest group was from Europe and America, numbering 2.2 million people at the end of 2006. 869,000 of Israel’s Jews were African immigrants while 691,000 were born in Asia.

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