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Islamic Unity Floodgates Opened by Annapolis!

December 13, 2007

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Annapolis Peace Conference Opens Radicalization between Islamic Nations and Terrorist Groups

The Annapolis Peace Conference did not establish a path to an eventual lasting peace between the Arabs and Jews.

It did set in motion a scene of moderate Arabs rushing to establish a united front with Syria and Iran because of the consequences of being on the wrong side, in a war they believe is certain to come. As a result of this unity move, now being seen by leaders and diplomats shuffling from country to country, there will be a period of adjustment between the different Islamic factions, which will keep them so involved that a period of “relative” false peace will be in place at least until 2010, but I doubt it can continue past 2015.

The Iranian Persians and the Arab nations will now be actively pulling toward a common goal – UNITY! A result of this goal will concentrate on their assuring one another that none of them will try to take over the other after Israel is defeated, which countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan fear would be a goal of Syria and Iran. The leaders of Persian Iran and all the Arabs do not like the Al Qaeda terrorists, because Al Qaeda h as

little use for the leaders of

these countries, but they do affiliate with them because Al Qaeda is useful to them at the present time.

It is not possible to build a democratic government in Iraq and, as soon as the American troops are pulled out in sufficient numbers, Iraq will return to what will amount to an Islamic Republic, eventually becoming one of the 10 Arab nations which attack Israel. She could not possibly survive as a democratic government with Syria bordering her on the northwest and Iran bordering her to the southwest. Iraq wants U.S. troops to remain in Iraq long enough for her to become strong enough to prevent Iran taking her over as a satellite, but she will not allow the U.S. to build permanent Military installation on her soil.

The two articles which follow, one from the DEBKAfile and the other from the UK Guardian, lend credence to my premises in the preceding paragraphs.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: “Moderate” Arab rulers woo Tehran and Damascus, following track opened by Washington

December 11, 2007, 7:27 PM (GMT+02:00)

Monday night, Dec. 10 Cairo announced plans to resume diplomatic relations with Tehran.

An Egyptian emissary was sent to Iran to discuss the resumption of relations after 27 years. DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that this step was part of an initiative for Saudi Arabian, Jordanian and Egyptian leaders to come together in a new summit to embrace the Syrian ruler and bridge their policy differences with the radical Syrian-Tehran line.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will be invited and urged still more emphatically to starting patching up his Fatah’s quarrel with the extremist Hamas and adapt to the newly emergent Arab reality with a tougher line against Israel. DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report: The road to radicalization embarked on by this central Arab bloc is the direct result of the dialogue Washington has opened with Tehran, while also reflecting the ubiquitous Arab drive for unity.

Saturday, Abbas sent Ahmad Qureia, head of the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel, to Damascus for guidance from Syrian officials on future tactics in these negotiations.

He was preceded by Bassam Iwadallah, personal adviser to Jordan’s King Abdullah, who informed Syrian officials of the king’s initiative for a new Arab summit to restore their ruler to the Arab fold.

The Jordanian official disclosed that the king was fully engaged in bids to heal the rifts between Saudi Arabia and Syria, and the Palestinians and Syria.

Bashar Assad responded favorably by sending Syrian foreign minister Walid Moualem to Amman Sunday, Dec. 9, where he was personally received by Abdullah. He also sent the Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to Riyadh Saturday, on two errands:

1. To let Hamas’ Saudi bankers hand out the directive for a nod to Fatah overtures to his movement for a reconciliation – with effect in Gaza and Lebanon.

2. To embody the Assad regime’s willingness to begin coordinating its policies with fellow Arab rulers.

DEBKAfile reports that Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert will find a different Abbas when they meet Wednesday, Dec. 12, to start the talks for a Palestinian state that were kicked off at the Middle East conference in Annapolis last month. The Palestinian leader will now be following fresh guidelines from the Arab bloc which is emerging from the chrysalis of Washington’s direct engagement with Tehran, rather than conforming with the spirit of Annapolis.

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The resumption of history?

Simon Tisdall

December 11, 2007 6:00 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2007/12/the_resumption_of_history_1.html

Improved security, an expanding economy and new understandings with Iran, Syria and Turkey are encouraging an almost forgotten emotion among leaders of Iraq’s Shia-led government: optimism.

But for Sunni Arab neighbours in the Gulf, Baghdad’s returning confidence raises the ghosts of troubled times past. Saddam Hussein is no more; Iraqi nationalism never died.

Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq’s national security adviser, typifies Baghdad’s brash boosters.

Speaking on the sidelines of a weekend security conference in Bahrain, he warned Saudi Arabia’s princely rulers and other Gulf potentates to watch out. “We are out of the woods … We are building a new Iraq under a democratic parliamentary system. There is a new sense of belonging in Iraq,” he said.

“These people have to get a grip. They should understand Iraq is going to lead the region in a new way, with democracy and a new nationalism and a western orientation. They should understand these upstart Shia are not going to go away.

“We will have provincial elections by the end of next year. The government will serve its full term to December 2009 … Our strategic direction is very clear to everybody in the region.

We are heading west.”

Rubaie’s upfront chutzpah hides subtle depths. Addressing Manama Dialogue, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he trumpeted the intended creation by July of a long-term strategic partnership with the US, including a status of forces agreement, an extension of the UN mandate and a development package. Britain is also negotiating a new aid and assistance deal to follow this weekend’s Basra handover.

But despite claims by hard-left western commentators and hard-right Iranian rejectionists, Rubaie told al-Arabiya television the pact did not give a green light to unending US occupation. Heading west did not mean knuckling under.

“We need the US in our war against terrorism,” he said. “We need them to guard our borders sometimes; we need them for economic and diplomatic and political support. But permanent forces or bases in Iraq for any foreign forces is a red line that cannot be accepted by any nationalist Iraqi.”

Rubaie explicitly assured Iran, long-time patron and protector of much of Iraq’s Shia leadership, that the US alliance was not aimed at Tehran, and did not threaten it.

In another sign of growing confidence, he called instead for direct US engagement with Iran and Syria, describing it as a prerequisite for long-term regional security. “You cannot stabilise Iraq and destabilise Iran at the same time,” he said. This pointed message was also aimed at Saudi Arabia, which he accused of waging a proxy war with Iran on Iraqi soil.

Senior US officials advising the Baghdad government say they, too, are increasingly hopeful about current trends, while adding the usual caveats about fragility of the security environment and deep-rooted political animosities.

They say infiltration of jihadis from Syria has measurably declined, as has some of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s more objectionable pot stirring.

Iraqi and independent experts confirm the shift. Civilian deaths are down 60% across Iraq, and down 75% in Baghdad, since the US military surge began in February.

Despite scepticism among critics of the war, the officials insist a key reason for recent progress is the Sunni Arab Awakening movement in Anbar and other provinces, where tribal leaders have turned against al-Qaida. On the other side of the sectarian divide, the ceasefire by Moqtada al-Sadr’s Shia Mahdi army, and a largely unpublicised US operation to clean up the interior ministry, have also been crucial.

US commanders scoff at claims that the Sunni resistance has made a tactical withdrawal in order to regroup. “The big summer offensive we were expecting to happen happened. Except we hit them first – and they lost,” a US official said.

Parallel attempts by militias and death squads to turn Baghdad into “a Shia Arab city” had also been thwarted, he said.

Iraqi and American officials stress the battle for Iraq is far from over. It could still go pear-shaped if US troop withdrawals, commencing this month, allow the insurgents to hit back as defences weaken.

Much the same may hold true as Britain draws down in Basra. Flashpoints such as Kirkuk and the northern border with Turkey, and entrenched problems such as bureaucracy, incompetence, corruption, mutual suspicion and sheer political bloody-mindedness remain as additional triggers for failure, they say.

But like Rubaie, a senior Iraqi adviser to the country’s leadership who asked not to be identified said he believed the past few months had brought changes that were irreversible.

” What happened in Iraq

? What happened was that after Saddam, both sides – Sunni and Shia – went too far, much too far, and foreigners interfered,” the adviser said. “Now we are coming back from the extremes.

An equilibrium is forming, a kind of balance. There has been a strategic shift.”

This is not victory. But it is not defeat, either. And for Iraq’s southern neighbours in particular, it may mean history is starting again.

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HORN SUBJECTING CONTINUES!

December 12, 2007

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Daniel 7:19-21 – Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; [20] And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. [21] I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Lebanon will be one of the three horns “FALLING” to

the control of Iran and Syria.

The pre-falling scenario has been in progress for years, and recent events indicate it will soon occur.

Daniel 7:23-25 – Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

[24] 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.

The fourth Kingdom, which followed the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, and Grecian Kingdoms, was the great beast, the mighty Roman Empire.

It covered most of the known world of Daniel’s day, which included all, or large parts of, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iran. I believe they will be the 10 horns which

will attack Israel from the north at some point in time between 2010 and 2015.

In order for Lebanon to fully support the attack, it must be dominated by a government fully supportive and controlled by the motivations of Iran and Syria, which are supportive of a common desire to eliminate a Jewish presence in the Middle East as a Jewish state. This will require a subjection of any Lebanese government desire to be part of a pro-free world affiliation.

All the assassinations and turmoil in Lebanon over the last several years have been an attempt to “SUBDUE” the rulers in Lebanon to the will of fanatical Islam, and to “PLUCK” the country out of the influence of pro-western thinking.

The two articles which follow, from Haartz and the Times On Line, give a history of assassinations and events associated with what I believe to be the groundwork for the fall of the first of the three horns in Daniel 7.

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Chronology of Events in Lebanon since Hariri assassination

By Reuters

December 12, 2007

Here is a chronology of some of the main events in

Lebanon since former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed, along with 22 other people, on Feb.

14, 2005.

Feb. 28 – Pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigns.

March 5 – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tells his parliament Syrian troops will start phased pullout from Lebanon.

April 26 – Last Syrian soldiers leave Lebanon.

June 2 – Samir Kassir, journalist opposed to Syria’s role in Lebanon, is killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car.

June 16 – UN investigation into Hariri’s killing starts.

June 19 – Lebanese parliamentary elections end in victory for anti-Syrian alliance led by Hariri’s son Saad al-Hariri.

June 21 – Former Communist Party leader and critic of Syria George Hawi is killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car.

Oct. 20 – UN investigators say high-ranking Syrian officials and their Lebanese allies were involved in Hariri’ s killing, in report to UN Security Council.

Syria denies it.

Dec. 12 – Gebran Tueni, anti-Syrian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate, is killed by a car bomb near Beirut.

July 12, 2006 – Hezbollah captures two Israel Defence Forces soldiers in cross-border raid, setting off Second Lebanon War.

Nov. 11 – Five pro-Syrian Shi’ite Muslim ministers from Hezbollah and its ally, the Amal movement, resign after collapse of all-party talks on their demand for more say in government.

Nov. 21 – Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel is killed by gunmen. UN Security Council approves plans for tribunal to try suspects in assassination of Hariri and subsequent attacks.

Dec. 1 – Hezbollah, Amal and supporters of Christian leader Michel Aoun camp outside Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s office in central Beirut in open-ended campaign to topple government.

Jan. 25, 2007 – Aid conference in Paris pledges more than 7.6 billion to help Lebanon recover from the war.

Feb. 13 – Three people are killed in two bomb blasts near a Christian
village northeast of Beirut.

June 13 – Anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido and five other people killed by a car bomb near a Beirut beach club.

Sept. 2 – Lebanese troops seize complete control of Nahr al-Bared camp after months of fighting with Fatah al-Islam militants. More than 420 people, including 168 soldiers, have been killed in the worst internal violence since the civil war.

Sept. 19 – Car bomb in Beirut kills seven people, including anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem.

Sept. 25 – Parliament postpones a presidential election for the first of eight times in a bid to break a deadlock over a consensus candidate and end the political crisis. France leads mediation efforts for a deal on a presidential candidate.

Nov. 23 – President Emile Lahoud leaves presidential palace at the end of his term, without a successor.

Nov. 24 – Siniora says his cabinet is assuming executive powers in the absence of a president.

Dec. 5 – Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says rival Lebanese leaders have agreed on General Michel Suleiman as president.

Dec. 11 – Berri postpones parliament session to elect Suleiman to Dec. 17 to give rivals more time to reach broad political agreement.

Dec. 12 – Car bomb kills Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, the army’s head of operations, and a number of bodyguards in a Christian town east of Beirut.

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TIMES ONLINE

December 12, 2007

Lebanese army leader killed in car bomb

The man widely tipped to become Lebanon’s next military commander was killed in Beirut this morning in a powerful car bomb.

General Francois al-Hajj, head of military operations in the army command, died along with his bodyguard when their car was blown up as the pair drove through a Christian suburb of the city.

He is the first army figure to be assassinated, following a string of bomb attacks on politicians in the last few years.

He had been the favourite to become Army chief if Gen Michel Suleiman, the current commander, takes over as president.

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Shuffling for Position in “False Peace” Period is now Evident!

WHAT I HAVE WAITED TO SEE FOR 40 YEARS HAS ARRIVED!

December 11, 2007

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In March of 2001, in Archive Prophecy Update 12, I stated my belief as to what I believed had to happen before a period of false peace would arrive on the scene in the Middle East.

The arrival of this time of false peace had to occur in advance of an eventual attack by Islamic forces against Israel. It has arrived, but could well end anytime from 2010 onwards. But, for the first time since 1967, I am convinced the period of false peace has come on the scene, and will continue until a sudden jihad is launched against Israel from the north.

Even though Iran, in 2003, stopped producing those parts essential to the final assembling of the bomb itself, and the encasement and covering for placement in a warhead for their Shihab missile series, it is certain she is going full speed ahead with uranium enrichment, planning to have 50,000 enrichment centrifuges swinging by 2012.

I was six years old at Christmas in 1938 when two German scientists first discovered the uranium molecule could be scattered by proton bombardment. I was 28 years old when France built a 24 megawatt atomic reactor for Israel at Dimona in the Negev, in return for help in the Suez Conflict, with the promise by Israel they would not use it to produce a nuclear bomb. The footprints of the French were still in the Negev soil when Israel began to jack it up to 150 megawatts to eventually produce their first atomic bomb when I hit 32. Now, at age 75, I am watching Iran producing enriched uranium, which will eventually be used in a 1000 plus megawatt reactor to build their first nuclear weapon.

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PROPHECY UPDATE 12

March, 2001

The Apostle Paul had a deep spiritual burden for his own people, the nation of Israel. His born again heart longed for them to forsake their unbelief by turning to Jesus as their Messiah. He expresses this desire in Romans 10:1 as he states: “Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.” There is no question that Paul saw Israel as being in unbelief. But he knew that some future day they would believe, and consequently be grafted back into God’s olive tree, from which they had been broken off because of their unbelief. He stated this principle in Romans 11:20, as he wrote: “Well, because of unbelief they were broken off.” But he goes on in verse 23 to indicate they will one day believe, and thereby restored to being part of God’s olive tree. He writes, “And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.” I said all this to explain the words “they” and “them” in I Thessalonians 5:3, where Paul states: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh on them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” Paul, in his use of “they” and “them,” is referring to the nation of Israel in unbelief. However, it would also in part apply to all unbelievers in the last days. So why have I given this discourse? The word translated as “safety” is “asphaleia,” which means “the security one experiences when standing on something that is firmly fixed. It gives the one standing on it a sense of “not falling.” The last four leaders of Israel have worn out the following expression: “We must have a peace with security.” We have heard it used hundreds of times on the media, and

it has been printed over and over again in countless articles. Why is this important? God indicates a time will come when Israel actually believes she has “a peace with security.” Why is it so important that we understand this prediction? Because we can know that the final war, involving Israel’s Islamic neighbors, will not occur until it is fulfilled! Israel must be lulled into a false sense of security before any united Islamic attack against her can be successful. Until this happens, and it will, I merely wait for it to come

to pass. Then, when peace and security for Israel does appear to arrive in the Middle East, you can know that the final war of this age is about to occur.

Don’t believe all these terrorist attacks will suddenly cause the final war of this age to begin. It is only when they cease that you can know the last war, which finally produces Armageddon some 3 and ½ years after it begins, is imminent.

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The three articles, which follow the seven Scriptures, are from the Herald Tribune, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post.

The articles give positive signs that the time of “false peace” in Israel, which was to precede a time of “sudden destruction”, followed by God’s deliverance some three and one half years later at Armageddon, is now coming on the scene.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Daniel 7:25 – 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.

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.

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

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.

Zechariah 12:9 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

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Iranian President: US Report Positive

December 11, 2007

By Ali Dareini

Associated Press Writer

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday called a U.S. intelligence report concluding Iran stopped developing its nuclear weapons program four years ago a “step forward” in comments that marked a change from his usually harsh anti-Western rhetoric.

The hard-line leader told reporters that an “entirely different” situation between the two countries could be created if more steps like the intelligence report followed.

We consider this measure by the U.S. government a positive step. It is a step forward,” Ahmadinejad said.

“If one or two other steps are taken, the issues we have in front of us will be entirely different and will lose their complexity, and the way will be open for the resolution of basic issues in the region and in dealings between the two sides,” he said.

Iran has said its nuclear program is peaceful, but until last week, the United States and Western allies had countered that Iran was hiding plans for a bomb.

The latest U.S. intelligence assessment on Iran, however, says Tehran once had a weapons program but shelved it in 2003. The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate was in stark contrast to a 2005 estimate that said Tehran was continuing its weapons development.

When asked about what other steps Washington needs to take, Ahmadinejad suggested that one would be for the U.S. to “make a serious change in position in the region.”

“Regional nations have rights and want to fully use their rights. Respecting these rights is a serious change in strategy. This is the next step. If it is done, then you will see that … it is not that a 60-year issue can’t be resolved,” he said referring to an Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He repeated a previous invitation to President Bush for a public debate and said Iran was studying requests from U.S. officials to come to Iran. He did not elaborate.

“Many requests reach us from American officials for dialogue and travel to Iran. We are investigating,” Ahmadinejad said.

But he also made clear that any more economic sanctions against Iran would have “no legal leg” to stand on.

On Tuesday, diplomats from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany are to discuss a draft plan for new United Nations sanctions against Iran. If passed by the Security Council, the plan would slap a third round of sanctions on Iran for defying international demands that it halt its enrichment of uranium.

“The agency report and the NIE are before the eyes of the international public opinion. There is no reason for the continuation of enmities and hostilities.

The threats failed, they were not effective,” he said.

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Jordanian king urges pan-Arab stance on Israeli ‘occupation’

By News Agencies

December 9, 2007

Jordan’s King Abdullah urged a Pan-Arab stance to end Israel’s occupation of Arab lands.

Abdullah held talks Sunday with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the latter’s RARE VISIT to Amman.

The pair discussed the OUTCOME of last month’s ANNAPOLIS MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONFERENCE.

Moallem’s visit came in the wake of last month’s SURPRISE VISIT by King Abdullah to Damascus that seemed to have OPENED A NEW CHAPTER in bilateral coordination on the Arab-Israeli PEACE PROCESS.

His meeting with King Abdullah came 48 hours before the monarch was DUE TO VISIT Turkey, France and Strasbourg on Tuesday and Wednesday to muster support for the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians that were launched at Annapolis on core issues: Jerusalem, settlements, frontiers and refugees.

Moallem’s one-day visit signals improved relations between the two Arab neighbors.

He met behind CLOSED DOORS with Jordanian Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi and was also scheduled to meet separately with his Jordanian counterpart, Salaheddine al-Bashir.

Little details emerged from Moallem’s talks, which follow a November 18 surprise visit by Abdullah to Damascus, where he met with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

At the time, Jordanian government officials said Abdullah urged Assad to send a representative to the U.S.-sponsored international peace conference, which was held in Annapolis, Maryland on November 27.

Moallem declined to say why he was in Jordan. He only gave a vague arrival statement to reporters, saying that Jordan and Syria are “two brotherly neighbors, our people have unique ties and these visits persist because they enrich bilateral relations and tackle existing regional issues.”

Relations between Jordan and Syria have been frosty for years, particularly in the last few months over a host of political issues. Tensions rose last year in the wake of the summer 2006 war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, when Assad called some Arab leaders half men for not supporting Hezbollah during the war.

The last time Abdullah visited Syria was in February 2004, while Assad last visited his southern neighbor a year later.

Under a deal Abdullah concluded with Assad last month, Syria released 18 Jordanian prisoners and sent them home.

Later this month, top Jordanian and Syrian officials are expected to convene a meeting of a committee, which oversees cooperation between the two countries – in yet another sign of improved ties. The exact date of the meeting of the Syrian-Jordanian Higher Committee has not yet been fixed. But it is expected that several trade and water agreements would be concluded then.

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Analyze This: Attack Iran? Tell it to the Marines

Calev Ben-David, THE JERUSALEM POST

December 10, 2007

Last week, in a Time magazine article titled “Why the Pentagon is happy about the NIE,” Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was among the US military heads cited as being relieved that the release of the National Intelligence Estimate declaring that Teheran is not now developing nuclear weapons had seemingly taken the military option off the table.

The reason is simple: With close to 190,000 American troops now in Iraq and Afghanistan, US military manpower is being stretched to the limit. A third front in Iran – or even a deterioration of the current situation in Iraq or Afghanistan, a mischief that Teheran is well capable of – would probably stretch those limits beyond the breaking point.

Perhaps not coincidentally, Mullen chose this time to make a quick visit to Israel, a relatively rare occurrence by an acting head of US military. To reassure us that whatever his specific position on the Iranian nuclear threat, the admiral has our best interests at heart. His handlers cited to local reporters remarks he made two weeks ago at the Army War College in Pennsylvania: “I’ve been to Israel more than once, and I understand to some degree… physically where you live and certainly the concerns that exist from the Israeli perspective about your neighborhood.

“So I think how Israel thinks and views the world is a very important consideration for us in the United States. And certainly from my perspective as military leader in the United States of America.”

Nice words, and perhaps an encouraging sign for the various Israeli officials he met with who wish to convince him that Iran is indeed trying to develop a nuclear capability that will enable it to fulfill Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’ s dream of

seeing Israel wiped off the map.

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A Peace and Safety Time of Positioning for War has Begun!

WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO WAR BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015

December 11, 2007

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The Annapolis Peace Farce, and the CIA Report of Iran’s 2003 nuclear components halt, have been part of the mechanism responsible for a time of international positioning, which the Bible indicates will end in the “sudden destruction” of a Middle East War.

I believe we will see all the major parties, involved in the Middle East struggle between Islam and Israel, jockeying for power positions based on individual national interests.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

There will not be a major Middle East war as long as an appreciable number of U.S. troops are in Iraq.

And there will be no major Middle East war until Iran develops an arsenal of deliverable nuclear warheads to compete with Israel’s vast nuclear arsenal in the Negev.

The two articles from the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz are a part of the international posturing, which can be expected to give a few years of relative “peace and safety” to the Middle East – not less than two nor more than seven.

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Iraqi FM: Pact will set time limit on US troop presence

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

December 10, 2007

Iraq’s foreign minister said Monday that the government has formally requested a final UN extension of a mandate for US-led forces, and he insisted a new security pact with the Americans will set a time limit on the US troop presence in Iraq.

US President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a “declaration of principles” on Nov. 26 that set the foundation for a potential long-term US troop presence in Iraq and confirmed that Washington and Baghdad will hash out an “enduring” relationship. The agreement will replace the present UN mandate regulating the presence of the US-led forces in Iraq.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said a letter had been sent to the UN formally requesting UN authorization for the US-led presence in Iraq.

“We left an underline that the Iraqi government hoped that this would be the last extension of the mandate,” he said, adding the negotiations for a new pact with the Americans would be “the most important that Iraq has ever entered.”

He said the deadline for reaching an agreement was July.

“There will be negotiations about the conduct of these (US) troops and their rights, privileges and also questions of command and control,” Zebari said at a news conference.

He also insisted there would be limits set on the US presence, address

ing concerns among neighboring nations and others that the United States would establish permanent bases in the country.

“Next year, we will enter important, serious and detailed negotiations with the United States,” he said. “We are the ones who will decide on the duration of the agreement.”

“There will really be no permanent (US military) presence,” he said. “The agreement will set a time limit for Iraq’s need for this assistance and there will be checks and restrictions related to sovereignty, legal immunities and the mission of these forces and their relations with Iraqi forces.”

“We must from now prepare and be ready because the negotiations are going to be the most important that Iraq ever entered,” Zebari said. “The question of the time element (for the presence of US forces) will be decided during these talks.”

Zebari said Iraqi security forces were improving, pointing to the improving security situation and US plans to gradually draw down troops by this summer.

“These withdrawals show that the Iraqi forces are performing better and are able to fill the vacuum left behind by these departing (US) forces,” he said. “Our aim is for our security forces to reach a level of preparedness that leaves us with absolutely no need for foreign forces to remain in the country, but we haven’t reached that stage yet.”

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Moscow pushing for follow-up M ideas

t peace summit in April

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

December 12, 2007

The United States supports the holding of a second peace conference in Moscow that would address Israel’ s conflict

s with Syria and Lebanon as well as the Palestinian issue, according to information obtained by the Foreign Ministry from Russian sources in recent days.

Nevertheless, government sources in Jerusalem said they have some doubts about the Russian claim, as they have received contradictory reports from Washington. They added that they expect the situation to become clearer at next week’s meeting of donor nations to the Palestinian Authority, as representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers – the U.S., European Union, United Nations and Russia – will meet on the sidelines to discuss whether to hold a Moscow conference and if so, when and in what format.

According to the Foreign Ministry’s information, obtained from conversations with Russian diplomats in both Moscow and UN headquarters in New York, the conference would probably take place in April 2008 and would be at the level of foreign ministers.

Last month’s Middle East peace summit, held in Annapolis, Maryland, focused almost exclusively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Russia had expressed interest in hosting a follow-up event that would broaden the agenda. Thus far, no member of the Quartet has publicly voiced opposition to Russia’s proposal.

The Russian diplomats assured their Israeli counterparts that the proposed Moscow event, like Annapolis, would be billed as a “meeting” rather than a “conference.” They also said that its purpose would not be to finalize agreements, but merely to move the Middle East peace process forward.

According to the information reaching Jerusalem, the Russians would like to divide the event into two sessions. The first would be devoted to assessing the progress of bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, while the second would deal with the issue of a comprehensive regional peace, with particular emphasis on resumption of negotiations between Israel and Syria, and the launching of Israeli-Lebanese talks.

According to the Russians, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice approves of both the proposed Moscow meeting and the idea of restarting Israeli-Syrian talks.

Jerusalem also supports plan

The Russians’ impression is that Israel, too, looks favorably on both the meeting and the Syrian focus. Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the two discussed the idea.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who heads the Israeli team negotiating with the PA, met with her Palestinian counterpart, Ahmed Qureia, on Monday in order to finalize the agenda for a meeting of the full negotiating teams, which is slated

to take place Tuesday in Jerusalem. “The first meeting of the negotiating teams will deal mainly with procedure and technical arrangements,” said an Israeli government source.

PA threatens to boycott

But Palestinian sources threatened Monday that the PA would boycott the session if Israel did not stop construction of 307 apartments in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa.

In addition, the diplomatic-security cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. Various defense agencies will present reviews of the situation, and a senior government official said the main focus will be on the defense establishment’s views about launching a major military operation against Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza.

“The last [security] cabinet meeting dealt with civilian sanctions, because then, the defense establishment said that it did not support a large military operation in Gaza,” the official said. “Since then, there has been a shift in its position, and therefore, cabinet ministers need to hear about this first-hand.”

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Activation of the Land of Magog for Armageddon!

December 10, 2007

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

The two articles, extracted from the International Herald Tribune and The Gulf News, lend credence to the premise that war in the Middle East is unlikely to begin before 2010, and may not occur prior to 2015. However, as I have stated on numerous occasions,

that is speculation on my part based on developments in the Middle East as they occur. It will take time for Putin to achieve the kind of power he is seeking, and it is his desire not only to rebuild the military forces of the old Soviet Union, but also to reconsolidate as many of the old Soviet satellite nations as possible into a new Russian Union of military might. These two articles describe the current actions he is taken to accomplish that purpose.

All of this will take time, which was one of the reasons, several months ago, I changed 2008 to 2010 as the earliest time a Middle East conflict was likely to begin. It is always necessary to change guesstimates as events dictate.

The two articles, which follow Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 27 and 28 issued in early 2002, describe what is a part of the beginning of the land of Magog’s initial preparation for joining with the nations of Islam in a final massive assault at Armageddon against Israel in the Negev Wilderness, some three and one-half years after Jerusalem falls to Islamic forces.

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Prophecy Update Number 27

2002

Ezekiel 38:1,2 – “And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.” Gog (high extension) appears for the first time in Ezekiel. He is the Anti-christ of whom so much has been written.

Please note that he is identified as the “chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” Many commentators, especially in the last 100 years, have not identified him as the Antichrist, but have identified him as the ruler or chief prince of the land of Magog, which I do not believe Scripture justifies. Before the 20th Century, most identified him as the Antichrist. In verse 2 Ezekiel is told to set his face against two separate things, a person and a place. The person is Gog (Antichrist), and the place is the land of the descendants of Magog where it existed in Ezekiel’s day. If we do not locate the territories of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal as they existed in Ezekiel’s day, then we can have no idea as to where the Antichrist will soon rear his head, or the area from which his attack will be launched. Why? Because more than 2500 years have slipped by since Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, and the bloodlines of all three men been distributed across the entire planet. In order to correctly identify the area, from whence the Antichrist will attack Israel, we must identify where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were residing in 500 and 600 B.C. Why? Because the Antichrist is not the chief prince of Magog, he is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. He will come from the area where their descendants were settled in 500 and 600 B.C.

I will attempt to use two different sources to locate where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were clustered at the time of Ezekiel’s writings. The first is found in the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, and the second is from the Assyrian monument stones of that period. Ezekiel 27:3 – “And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.” Tyrus (Tyre) was a seaport on the southern coast of what we know today as Lebanon, which is directly north of Israel. Tyrus built its first great sea wall to protect its harbored ships more than 3000 years ago, and was a thriving seaport in Ezekiel’s day. Its ships carried merchandise from the countries of the east across all the Mediterranean, and even as far north as the shores of the English Channel. Zidon (Sidon) was also a sea port, and less than 20 miles separated the two cities. The wise men of Tyrus were the navigators of the ships, and the men of Zidon were the deck hands, as portrayed in Ezekiel 27:8 – “The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.” Now, bearing all this in mind, let us look at Ezekiel 27:13 – “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.” Meshech and Tubal were warlike tribes, who often took their captives (persons of men) and the vessels of brass they had captured, or hammered out themselves, and carried them to the NEAREST seaport for trading. The captives were, of course, loaded on the ships and sold as slaves in foreign ports of trade. Why the NEAREST seaport? Because, in Ezekiel’s day, travel was by foot, donkey, camel, and horse. People always carried their trading goods to the nearest port, particularly slaves.

Therefore, I conclude that Meshech and Tubal must have roamed in the area we know today as Syria, Lebanon, northwestern Iraq, and southern Turkey. Meshech and Tubal are the Mushki and Tabali of the Assyrian stone monuments. In the time of Sargon and Sennacherib (700 B.C.) the territory of Tubal adjoined southern Cilicia, while that of Meshech filled the highlands to the east of Tubal. Considering the locations derived from the Bible and stone tablets, it appears that the Antichrist, as the chief prince of the area once occupied by Meshech and Tubal, is likely to arise, and eventually to attack Israel, from Syria or Lebanon. And, since Lebanon is virtually controlled by Syria, it appears Syria is the best guess for his homeland.

But what about the land of Magog? Where were the Magogites settled in Ezekiel’s day? Lord willing, we will attempt to zero in on that area in Prophecy Update Number 28.

Prophecy Update Number 28

2002

Ezekiel 38:1-3 – “And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:”

In Prophecy Update Number 27 we established, from the Scriptures and the Assyrian stone monuments, that the descendants of Meshech and Tubal, at the time Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, were primarily located in what we know as Syria and Lebanon. We also established that the prophecy is again a person, Gog (Antichrist), and against a land, the land of Magog. I am convinced that the Antichrist will attack Israel from Syria. But what about the “land of Magog?” Where were the Magogites located at the time of Ezekiel’s writings? Flavius Josephus, the noted Jewish historian makes the following statements concerning the Magogites in Antiquities of the Jews, Chapter VI, under the title, HOW EVERY NATION WAS DENOMINATED FROM THEIR FIRST INHABITANTS: “Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons.” “They called the nations by their own names.” “Magog founded those that from him were called Magogites, but who by the Greeks were called Scythians.” The Greek writers of the Classic Age said the Scythians occupied the area which today we identify as stretching from Moldova eastward across the Ukraine, southern Russia, and into Kazakhstan, then southward into Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan – Roughly the area north of the Black Sea, between the Black and Caspian Seas, and the area northwest, north, and northeast of the Caspian Sea. I do not believe the nations in this area will join in the initial attack against Israel, but I am certain they will come down for the final battle of Gog’s war, which is the Battle of Armageddon.

The Battle of Armageddon, found in Revelation 16:16, is the final battle in Gog’s war, which began 3 and ½ years earlier.

Verse 3 fails to include the “land of Magog,” and is a message directly pointed, and personally addressed, against the Antichrist Gog, who once again is identified as the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Popular writers in the last century brought a teaching into play that is simply not true. They said the word “chief” was “rosh” in the Hebrew language, which is true. But they said it meant “Russian,” which is not true. The Russian and Hebrew language have never overlapped in history to support such a claim. He is not a Russian prince. He is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, most likely having a Syrian father. The word “rosh,” in the KJV, is translated as “chief” 90 times, as “head” 349 times, as “top” 75 times, as “beginning” 14 times, as “company” 12 times, as “captain” 10 times, as “sum” 9 times, as “first” 6 times, as “principle” 5 times, as “chief man” 4 times, and as “ruler” on two occasions. At no time, in all of history, could it legitimately be identified as someone who is a Russian.

I am convinced this chief prince of Meshech and Tubal will come from northwestern

Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or southern Turkey, but I will be very much surprised if his father is not a Syrian. He will be the leader of a multilateral Arab force that will carry out a surprise attack against Israel from the north. I believe this is spoken of in Revelation 17:12,13 – “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 beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

Although he will have the support of ten Arab nations, I believe the nations directly involved in the initial attack will be Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran from without, and the Palestinians from within. I believe the other nations, which will then immediately become involved in the Jihad, are most likely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan. Lord willing, I will continue a line by line exposition of Ezekiel 38 in Prophecy Update Number 29.

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International Herald Tribune

Putin names choice for his successor

The Associated Press

Monday, December 10, 2007
MOSCOW: In a move likely to decide the presidential election in March, President Vladimir Putin expressed support Monday for Dmitry Medvedev, a first deputy prime minister.

There have been months of intense speculation on who Putin would back in the voting March 2, along with the wider question of what Putin himself will do once he steps down.

Putin’s popularity and steely control are so strong that most observers expected that whomever he supported for the presidency would be a shoo-in.

He made the statement in a meeting with representatives of four parties, including United Russia, which is his power base and dominates Parliament. The parties told Putin they all supported Medvedev.

“I completely and fully support this proposal,” Putin said, according to footage shown on state television.

Putin had long been seen as trying to choose between Medvedev, a 42-year-old business-oriented lawyer, and Sergei Ivanov, another first deputy prime minister, who built up a hawkish reputation while defense minister.

“Medvedev is not an extremist,” said Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. “He is not known for any kind of harsh views on politics, and apparently Medvedev better suits Putin’s view of how to achieve continuity.”

Although Putin is banned by the Constitution from seeking a third consecutive term in office, he has indicated a strong desire to remain a significant power figure. He has raised the prospect of becoming prime minister, and his supporters have called for him to become a “national leader” with unspecified authority.

While Medvedev holds powerful positions as first deputy prime minister and chairman of the board of Gazprom, the government’s natural gas monopoly, he projects a mild-mannered public image and has been widely seen as a functionary devoted to Putin rather than as an independent thinker.

Putin reinforced that perception Monday by saying that electing Medvedev would pave the way for a government “that will carry out the course that has brought results for all of the past eight years.”

The Russian stock market surged on the news, led by Gazprom, whose shares jumped 1.6 percent within a few minutes. The market also apparently was lifted by the end of long uncertainty over whom Putin would designate as successor.

The speculation about Putin’s future has included the possibility that he could try to return as president.

That possibility seemed potentially strengthened by the announcement about Medvedev, said Vladimir Ryzhkov, a prominent liberal politician.

“The strategy is as follows,” Ryzhkov said on Ekho Moskvy Radio. “Medvedev is a compromise choice, because he will allow Putin to keep a free hand. If Putin wants to gradually leave power, Medvedev guarantees him comfort and security and will continue to listen him.”

If Putin decides to return to the presidency after some time, Ryzhkov said, “Medvedev will be the person who will without a doubt give up the path for him.”

Medvedev and Putin worked in the early 1990s under St. Petersburg’s reformist mayor, Anatoly Sobchak. After Putin became prime minister in 1999, he brought Medvedev to Moscow to become deputy chief of staff of the cabinet. Medvedev then moved up to become deputy chief of staff for the president, became head of the Gazprom board in 2002 and became full presidential chief of staff in 2003. Putin named him a first deputy prime minister in 2005.

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Gulf News

December 8, 2007

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin and other top Russia and Belarus officials will consider shortly a proposed framework for the long-debated merger of the two countries into a single state, officials said.

The unexpected move, coming at a time of uncertainty over Russia’s political future, raised speculation that Putin may seek to become leader of the new country created by the merger.

That would permit him to step down as Russian president next May, as required by the constitution, but become chief of the enlarged state.

Draft constitution

Belarus’ presidential office said on Thursday Putin would attend a December 13-14 meeting in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, that would focus on a draft constitution of a Russia-Belarus union. It gave no details, but any constitution would describe the union’s governmental structure.

Analysts and news organisations have speculated for years that Putin could become the president of a combined Russian-Belarusian state. But talks over the merger have been mired in disagreements, particularly over the status of Belarus in the new union.

Asked if the meeting would pave the way for Putin’s election as president of a Russia-Belarus union, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I don’t know anything about such issue being on the agenda.” Sergei Kostyan, a deputy head of foreign affairs committee in the Belarusian parliament, said he saw no movement toward a merger of

the two countries.

Poll : Small party to keep off

Fair Russia, a small political party backing President Vladimir Putin, will not nominate its own candidate for a presidential election in March, the party’s leader said on Friday.

Russians vote in a presidential election next March. Putin is barred by the constitution from standing for a third consecutive term, but says he wants to retain influence after the vote, prompting months of speculation over who will become president.

Analysts had said that a Fair Russia presidential nomination could win the backing of Putin.

“Our party, with 99.9 per cent probability, will not put forward its own candidate in the presidential election and we are determined to support another candidate who is running in the election,” Sergei Mironov told a news conference.

Fair Russia, which has never criticised Putin, was founded last year. It came fourth in recent parliamentary election with 7.8 per cent of vote.

Putin’s United Russia party took first place with more than 64 per cent of the vote.

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