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Iranian Nuclear Facilities Strike Date – When?

Israel likely to Wait for Time Iran’s Bomb Finished!

Then Many World Nations Would be much less Skittish!

If strike comes likely time zone is between 2010 and 2015!

The Strike Might Be The Thing That Starts The Daniel Final War!

Ending at Armageddon after 3 & ½ Years at Jesus’ Second Advent!

June 23, 2008

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Daniel 11:40-45 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and

shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

[42] He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

[44] But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [45] And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

Daniel 7:24-27,13,14 – 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. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

[27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. [13] I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. [14] And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Luke 21:27 – And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

For a full exposition of the Scriptures which appear above, please see Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 233B, 234A, 235A, 236A, & 236B.

I am of the opinion that the suddenness of the chaos, which will come on the world at the time the last three and one-half years of the Gentile Age begins, is going to be so very abrupt and staggering it is beyond human imagination. The tectonic chaos and military attacks will begin in the same frightening association between lightening and the thunder which follows it. All the ingredients for it to burst forth are now lining up for a monstrous final act in the Middle East, which will begin in a series of military and geological actions, pushing some human hearts beyond the capacity to physically function.

And the concern now imploding in my own finite human mind is my belief this event is very likely to begin at a point in time between 2010 and 2015.

Revelation 6:12-17 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. [15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stan

d?

Luke 21:25-28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

[28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your REDEMPTION draweth nigh.

If you have never trusted in the shed blood of Jesus Christ for your sins, I can only hope before all this begins, you will place your trust in him alone to redeem you from all sins by the amazing grace of God which is in him. God will only accept you by faith in His Son. If it still bothers you that you have never put your faith in the living Son of God, accept him now as your only hope

of eternal life.

Ephesians 1:6,7 – To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein HE HATH MADE US ACCEPTED in the beloved. [7] In whom WE HAVE REDEMPTION through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

John 5:39-41 – Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. [40] And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. [41] I receive not honour from men.

John 6:62,63 – What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? [63] It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Romans 10:17,13 – So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. [13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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.

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Mossad Chief Empowered to Prepare Groundwork for Iran Strike

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

June 23, 2008, 11:05 AM (GMT+02:00)

Meir Dagan appointed to seventh year as Mossad Director

By extending the Mossad director, Meir Dagan’s tenure for another year until the end of 2009, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has put in place a vital constituent for a possible eleventh-hour unilateral strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities.

In his six years on the job, the 61-year old external intelligence has proved his covert mettle in a variety of counter-terror operations, graduating most recently to a highly successful intelligence coup leading up to the demolition of Syria’s North Korean plutonium reactor in al Kebir last September.

Appointed by former prime minister Ariel Sharon in 2002, Dagan’s first four years as the Mossad’s tenth chief were dedicated to counterterrorism rather than tracking Iran’s nuclear activities or monitoring Iran’s burgeoning strategic ties with Syria and Hizballah.

From mid-2006, the former general shifted the agency’s priorities to include these targets, while the Mossad continued to show its fearsome counter-terror paces in Damascus, Beirut and other Arab capitals.

Not all the Mossad’s operations have seen the light of day, but it has been credited in the past two years with hits against high-profile Hizballah, Hamas and Jihad Islami operatives in Syria and Lebanon.

The operation against Syria’s plutonium reactor last year was one of the most complex operations ever performed by the Mossad. For the Israeli raiders to put the facility out of commission and lift out the evidence of a working nuclear collaboration between Syria, Iran and North Korea, they needed from the Mossad precise data on the facility’s inner and outer defenses. It had to include the air defense systems in place across Syria, the whereabouts of the materials and equipment the Israeli team was assigned to appropriate from the site and transfer to the United States, and the nature and numbers

of the Syrian, Iranian and North Korean personnel present.

It was not until April 2008, seven months later, that the US Central Intelligence Agency released news of the operation in Washington, providing graphics attesting to the depth of Mossad’s penetration of the of the most secret and well-protected facility in Syria.

Examination of those visuals attested to one or more agents having been planted solidly enough in the Syrian nuclear project to have photographed the different stages of the reactor’s construction and the North Korean equipment installed there – a feat which drew the respect of Dagan’s undercover colleagues in the West.

The other outstanding feature of the Al Kebir operation was one that has come to be associated with the spy chief’s method of operation: No leads or clues were left for the Syrian, Iranian and North Korean investigators to find –even after the photos were published.

His spy or spies proved untraceable.

Dagan, a hands-on spymaster, demonstrated this skill earlier in the operation to eliminate one of the longest-running and most dangerous enemies of Israel and America, the head of Hizballah’s special security apparatus, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus on February 12. It followed similar methods in the preceding two years – usually explosives planted under a driver’s seat or headrests of vehicles driven by Hizballah, Hamas and Jihad Islami operatives. Neither Hizballah nor Syrian intelligence has been able to prevent these liquidations or catch the hit-teams.

The intelligence operation for aborting Iran’s aspirations to acquire a nuclear bomb would undoubtedly ratchet up the Mossad’s targets for its most formidable mission ever. It would be undertaken in the full knowledge that a nuclear bomb in the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran would constitute the most dangerous threat to Israel’s survival in 60 years of statehood, as well as a menace to the free world.

It would be up to Meir Dagan, a Holocaust survivor born in the Soviet Union, to rise to the Mossad’s motto: “Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety” (Proverbs XI/14)

The Mossad chief has his critics at home. In Israel’s clandestine agencies, some find his style excessively individualist, secretive and highhandedly confined to fields which he finds interesting rather than objectively important to national security. He is faulted with shunning the close collaborative relations traditional in the undercover world. The Mossad’s structure is also said to be antiquated and in need of an extensive overhaul, although it recently launched a website for recruitment.

But Dagan has the full trust of his boss, the prime minister.

The timing chosen for extending the Mossad chief’s tenure – early summer of 2008 – is indicative. Israeli intelligence estimates the summer months are critical for acting against Iran’s nuclear advances, especially uranium enrichment which Iran refuses to forego. If it is not stopped by September or October of 2008, it will be too late; Iran will have crossed the threshold to the last lap of its military program.

Israeli intelligence and its armed forces have three months to finish the job which has long been in preparation.

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All Israelis will soon be TDY Negev Tourists

For Some Three and One-Half Years of TDY Duty

Articles following Discuss how Negev’s being Prepared

For Joyful Future Events after Israel suffers much Despair

June 23. 2008

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Israeli Soldiers don’t know it,

but the model Arab village the IDF is now using in the Negev Wilderness to train for necessary future incursions into Gaza and Lebanon, will see their training used in the future to push all the way north to Hamath in extreme northern Syria and west to the great River Euphrates. It will be used for three and one half years to defend Israel surrounded in the Negev by Islam, and then to break out of the Negev at the end of their entrapment.

The Scriptures teach that, in the last days of the Gentile Age, an attack will come against Israel, in which the following series of terrible events will become a reality in Israel. These terrible days of great tribulation will close by Israel’s deliverance at Messiah’s Second Advent, and she will begin to reign like a life giving shower in the midst of the peoples as their queen. Israel will finally know the rest of peace when her Messiah, by his grace, saves a remnant of her out of tribulation in the wilderness of the Negev, which he prepared as a place for her to live for the

final three and one-half years of the Age of the Gentiles. If you want a line by line exposition of this, consult Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Updates 62 to 69 under Prophecy Updates on our Web Site Menu.

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.

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.

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 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 13:9 – 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.

Jeremiah 31:1,2 – At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. [2] Thus saith the Lord, the PEOPLE WHICH WERE LEFT OF THE SWORD FOUND GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

Micah 5:7 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 68 ON MICAH 5

What is the Nationality of the Antichr

ist?

Part 7

May 17, 2002

Please review Prophecy Updates 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 67 before reading 68.

Then Read Update 69

Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Prophecy Update Number 67 closed by stating the following:

“Israel will claim all the land from the River of Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River, with a northern latitudinal border extending to Hamath (Hama) in Syria, and a southern border extending to Kadesh in the Sinai. And all this is not by accident, but by design and promise, for it was God’s ancient land grant promise to Abraham and to Israel. Its periphery is laid out in Genesis and Ezekiel. Its northern limits were to extend to the latitude of Hamath (Hama) in Syria, and its southern limits to the latitude of Kadesh. Its longitudinal limits to the west were to extend to the Mediterranean Sea and to the River of Egypt, and its eastern longitudinal limits were to extend to the “entrances thereof” of the Euphrates River. This is the area of Micah 5:6 that Israel will “waste” and then claim for a thous

and years.

After Christ has himself (all by himself) defeated the Assyrian at the battle of Armageddon to being in “the peace” of a thousand years, then Israel will roar north out of the Negev to mop up what is left of a demoralized army that is fleeing north. Israel will first recover Jerusalem, then drive north, northeast, and east to claim all the land west of the Euphrates River.”

Micah 5:7 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

Just as man had no control over the elements of God that were responsible for the sudden arrival of moisture over a wide area of land, neither would man have any control over the sudden arrival of Israel spreading across the vast tract of land God had said He would one day give to Israel. She will exist as the most important nation on this planet in the midst of all the Gentile nations.

Micah 5:8 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

When Israel’s Lion of Judah, the Messiah Jesus Christ, returns to free her from the bondage of the Assyrian, she will be the most powerful nation on this planet. All the other nations left on the earth will fear her for some 1000 years because of the awareness of the Second Advent of Christ, and His reigning on the throne of David in Jerusalem. Israel will be a Lion nation in the midst of sheep nations. The temple will be rebuilt after the Second Advent and then Christ, the Messianic Glory of God, will enter it to begin a reign that lasts forever: First, an earthly reign of 1000 years, which then laps over into a heavenly reign that lasts forever.

Ezekiel 43:4-7 – And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. [6] And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. [7] And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

Micah 5:9 – Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

Israel will be the most powerful and feared nation that has ever existed on this earth. For some 1000 years no nation or nations shall dare to stand against her because of her God. All the Gentile nations will be required to send representatives to Jerusalem each year at the Feast of Tabernacles to worship the Messiah. If they fail to do so God will cause famine and plague in their land until they submit to His will.

Zechariah 14:16-19 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. [17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. [18] And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [19] This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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In ‘enemy village,’ IDF trains for battle that may lie ahead

June 19, 2008

Abe Selig , THE JERUSALEM POST

A warm dawn haze lifted over the desert, but the moon was still out, and it dimly lit a group of soldiers in the distance – dots of green against the dark, barren landscape – charging silently towards the village.

Within minutes the silence was shattered. Gunfire, smoke and the low boom of grenade explosions echoed through the early morning, as regular infantry outfits mixed with occasional long-haired reservists advanced on their targets, yelling out commands.

“Cover me, I’m moving ahead!” yelled one private, lifting himself up from the ground and bee-lining to a small house on the village outskirts. His comrades followed, one after the other, as rays of sunlight and the neon green light of mosque minarets began to better illuminate the scene

The soldiers moved boldly, pushing forward in clear, decisive steps. Their mission: Enter the large Arab village in pursuit of a terrorist cell and engage in intensive house-to-house combat. Each section of the built-up area would need to be cleared.

We could have been in Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon. But the “fighting” that took place early Thursday morning was actually a training exercise outside Beersheba, and the guns were firing blanks.

Dozens of infantry companies, mainly from the Givati Brigade, stormed the large “village” set up in the desert, at the start of another day’s instruction at the IDF’s Ground Troop Training Center.

Built a year and a half ago, the GTTC is a mock Arab village complete with outlying rural areas, a downtown district and a winding maze of streets and alleyways, pregnant with the constant risk of an unexpected close encounter with the enemy.

During Thursday’s drill, that enemy was a company of female soldiers, dressed in khaki pants and camouflage jackets – a nod to the garb of choice among Hamas and Hizbullah gunmen. Equipped with machine guns, Humvees mounted with rocket-launchers and a steady hold on key positions in the village, the “enemy” soldiers’ resemblance to the IDF’s most potent recent threats extended far beyond clothing.

Explosions continued rocking the town as the sun began to show itself completely, and soldiers, some of whom lay “wounded” or hunkered-down under enemy fire, were forced to deal with a range of volatile factors in the battlefield. As the drill progressed, dozens of officers monitored their troops, looking for flaws and weaknesses that on a real battlefield, in a real conflict, would mean real casualties.

“What are you doing?” barked one company commander as his troops barreled their way into the courtyard of a home. “Do you want to die? You have to move in better than that if you want to do it right.”

Troops were seen evacuating their wounded comrades to safety as others focused heavy gunfire at buildings where “terrorists” had been trapped and were firing in volleys at approaching soldiers.

Designed to train combat units

for urban warfare, the GTTC village aims to replicate situations that soldiers may encounter in an urban combat situation. While Thursday’s drill highlighted basic familiarity with the buildings and other logistical factors in such an environment, other drills feature civilians, media personnel and a central market area filled with people and goods.

Additionally, the GTTC has made the implementation of lessons learned from the Second Lebanon War a top priority. Concepts such as the maneuverability of infantry forces and greater collaboration with the Air Force are heavily stressed, with an emphasis on creating a light, fast-moving fighting force that suffers minimal casualties – a tacit acknowledgement of key mistakes made in the summer of 2006.

Soldiers seemed to be adjusting well on Thursday morning, and commanders, who refused to be interviewed, seemed pleased with their troops’ performance and hard work.

As the drill ended, smoked billowed over the village and the sun was rising red behind a hulking minaret. From that point, commanders were taken to a debriefing room outfitted with the latest digital equipment, to review snapshots, analyze video clips and make recommendations for improvements.

Soldiers were seen taking a break from combat, smoking cigarettes and sitting down in the sand as they relieved themselves of vests and stretchers. The village stood empty in the morning light. And preparations for the next drill were likely already under way.

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From the big city to Negev luxury

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Tags: Israel travel, Negev, Israel attractions, Carmey Avdat

Attraction review

June 12, 2008

In 1953, David Ben-Gurion left the office of Prime Minister and moved to Kibbutz Sde Boker, south of Be’er Sheva, where he lived out his vision of settling the Negev. Today not far from that spot, his vision lives on at the Carmey-Avdat vineyard.

Carmey-Avdat was founded 10 years ago by Eyal and Hannah Izrael as part of the Negev Wine Route project. The venture was launched in 1995 by organizations including the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ramat Negev Regional Council and aimed to promote tourism and create jobs. Today, the couple offer wine, relaxation, and ideology.

The Negev constitutes 60 percent of Israel’s land mass, but only accounts for 8 percent of its population. According to Eyal, the Negev has not been a focus of national development priorities since the 1950s.

“The State of Israel was very busy doing other things -with developing Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and developing the Galilee,” he says. “It seems that it is the turn of the Negev to be the next place to develop.”

While a pro-development ideology played a large role in founding Carmey Avdat, it was not the sole reason. For the founders, it also required a strong element of passion.

“You cannot take a vision of somebody that lived 50 years ago and say that I’m following this vision unless it goes with your vision,” Eyal maintains.

Hannah nor Eyal were born in the Negev, in fact, both were northerners – Eyal from Haifa and Hannah from Kiryat Shmona. But during their travels and army service they fell in love with the Negev and a decade ago decided to take root where a vineyard existed 2,000 years ago.

The couple decided to expand Carmey-Avdat into a bed and breakfast business by building six guest cabins in 2002. The function of the guest cottages is not merely to provide an escape from mundane city life; part of the Izraels’ vision was to bring “people that don’t really know about the desert and don’t really know they could love this region.”

To achieve this end, the two took a unique approach: “There are no televisions in the cabins because we think television and computers and that kind of stuff is what people have in their houses in an ordinary life and we think this will take the focus from the desert.”
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New Negev Research Center to Test Solar Technology

Stephanie Rubenstein

(Jerusalem Post)

June 12, 2008

The newly built Negev-based Solar Energy Development Center is on track to move forward the initiative of a U.S.-Israeli company to build the world’s largest solar plant in California’s Mojave desert.

The site features more than 1,600 glass mirrors, known as heliostats, which track the sun and reflect light onto a 60-meter-high tower. The concentrated energy is then used to heat a boiler atop the tower to 550 degrees Celsius, generating steam that is piped into a turbine, where electricity can be produced.

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New Town in Israel’s Negev: Bahadim City

14 Nisan 5767

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) The Cabinet unanimously approved this morning (Sunday) the establishment of a new “city” in the Negev – a large collection of army bases, with a roving population of 11,000 career officers and soldiers serving their three-year army stints.

The area is to be called Bahadim, based on the popular acronym for IDF Training Base, Basis Hadrachah. Bahadim City will spread out over 1.25 square kilometers, and hundreds of people will be employed in its construction. It will be located at the Negev Junction, 17 kilometers south of Be’er Sheva and ten kilometers northwest of Yerucham.

“This is a historic moment for the Negev,” Prime Minister Olmert said about the plan, “which brings great tidings for Be’er Sheva and the south.

The establishment of Bahadim City will change the face of the entire area, will create thousands of new jobs, and will give a boost to the transfer of quality people to the south.”

Prime Minister’s Office Director Raanan Dinur was slightly more specific, saying, “This will raise the quality of life in the entire area – primarily Be’er Sheva and the nearby Bedouin villages.”

One air force base from the Tel Aviv area has already been relocated to the Negev, with its career personnel living in the area. The technological units of the IDF, including the intelligence and computer units, are also scheduled to be relocated to the south. It is not clear whether the Gitit training base in Samaria will be included in the move.

Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who served in the past as Minister for the Development of the Negev, said, “This decision is a critical part of the implementation of the plan for the development of the Negev. Bahadim City will be an employment anchor for the area and will help strengthen the entire region.”

Defense Minister Amir Peretz said, “This is a major national project, initiated and led by the defense establishment. It will strengthen both our defense and societal security.”

The plan is also backed by the Health and Environment Ministries, which will work to ensure that pollution from the nearby Ramat Hovav industrial and waste-treatment plant will not contaminate the area.

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Negev IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon

Bah’d 1 (Basis Hadracha – Instruction Base)

Grooming the IDF’s top guns

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

May 29, 2008

Maj.

Yoni Shetbon paces back and forth at the front of the classroom.

His M16 rifle slung over his shoulder, the bearded Shetbon walks up to the board in the front of the hall and writes down two words – “Combat Ethics.” He then turns to his audience – a group of 300 wide-eyed young soldiers in the last weeks of their studies before becoming officers. They are sitting in the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Hall at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon, popularly known by its Hebrew acronym Bah’d 1 (basis hadracha – instruction base).

Shetbon knows what he is talking about when it comes to combat ethics. During the Second Lebanon War, the 29-year-old religious father of four demonstrated them as chief operations officer of Battalion 51 of the Golani Brigade.

On July 26, Battalion 51 lost eight soldiers, including several officers, during a battle with Hizbullah in Bint Jbail. Shetbon took command of one of the companies and in what he says was a split-second decision took a team of soldiers and retrieved the bodies of their dead comrades before they were taken by Hizbullah.

Following the war, he was one of 17 soldiers to receive a citation of excellence from IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi.

Due to his exemplary service, after the war the IDF sent Shetbon to be an instructor for Battalion Gefen, the combat officer course. The breakdown in military values discovered during the war, the drop in motivation to serve and the overall feeling of discontent in the military was behind the decision to send officers with a record like Shetbon’s to educate the future generation of infantry commanders.

There is no better way to do this than by telling his personal story from Bint Jbail.

“A commander has several seconds to make a decision,” Shetbon tells his soldiers, a mix from the IDF’s various infantry brigades and special forces units. “In Bint Jbail there were five bodies in an open field and we received a tip on the secure phone line that Hizbullah intended to seize them. I had to make a decision within several seconds whether to send soldiers to risk their lives to retrieve the bodies or not.”

The soldiers, most of them just over 18 months in the army and with almost no combat experience, sit riveted in their seats as Shetbon continues.

“The top brass is telling us that a conflict with our enemies can erupt at any time,” he says while retelling the story of Maj. Ro’i Klein, Battalion 51’s deputy commander who was killed in Bint Jbail. “A commander who doesn’t live according to a set list of values will not know how to make those split-second decisions and will not jump on the grenade [as Klein did during the battle] in the moment of truth.”

This is the IDF following the Second Lebanon War, investing not just in new training regimens and advanced combat platforms but also in the moral standard of its soldiers and ensuring that its future commanders will be taught the right values so they understand what they are fighting for.

This is not a simple task, particularly in light of the recent rise in draft-dodging.

Ahead of the IDF draft last summer, the Human Resources Department reported an increase in the number of teenagers dodging military service. The total reaches 25 percent of those born in 1989 and scheduled to be drafted this year – 11% of them are haredim and received exemptions, an increase of 1% over last year. Seven percent did not enlist for medical reasons, including physical and mental conditions. The figure is nearly double what it was in the 1980s.

Motivation to serve is not the only problem. Following the war and the damage it caused the IDF’s image, the Ground Forces Command recorded a 20% drop in the number of soldiers who asked to go to officer training school, which not only creates a more difficult service for a soldier but also extends it by another 18 months – four and a half years instead of the mandatory three.

The drop in applications, which has in the meantime been curbed, is possibly one of the greatest challenges this training school has faced since it was established 40 years ago in the barren hills near the Ramon Crater.

BEFORE THE BASE opened its doors, the IDF’s officers’ school was in Pardess Hanna and then at Camp Sirkin on the outskirts of Petah Tikva. With the establishment of the state 60 years ago, the IDF replaced the Hagana which had since 1921 held training courses for its fighters in Kfar Giladi in the North.

Before the 1967 Six Day War, prime minister David Ben-Gurion decided to transfer all of the IDF’s training schools from the center of the country to the South as part of his efforts to settle the Negev.

Bah’d 1 was chosen as the first school to make the move, which was pushed off until 1968 due to budget constraints. On May 27 – this week 40 years ago – the new school opened its doors. Since then it hasn’t stopped for a day.

Today, the school gives a number of courses for staff officers, support combat officers and combat officers. The first two are fully integrated, and female soldiers make up more than half of the cadets in most classes.

The combat course lasts 13 weeks, following which infantry officers carry on for another four months of specialization. Soldiers from the Armored, Engineering and Artillery Corps complete their specialization back at their units of origin.

The IDF is facing another growing challenge when it comes to officer training – 25% of the cadets in the combat course come from the national-religious camp, including a large number of settlers, by far the largest representation of a single sector.

IDF officers point out that these soldiers are highly motivated and are found predominantly in the mid-ranks of infantry brigades like Golani, Nahal and Givati. They are eager to fight Israel’s enemies but as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s peace talks with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas advance, there is an underlying concern in some political circles that these soldiers will not follow orders to evacuate West Bank settlements.

Base commander Col. Aharon Haliva is not concerned with the statistics or the political unease. The makeup of his training school is after all, he explains candidly, an exact reflection of trends in Israeli society.

“Today the national-religious see themselves as the state’s pioneers,” he explains from his desert office where bookshelves are stocked with sets of Talmud, several volumes of the Bible and assorted books on military, Jewish and Israeli history. “This is today. Years ago the pioneers used to be the kibbutzniks.”

In his previous job, Haliva, 40, who climbed the ranks in the Paratroopers’ Brigade, served as commander of the Ephraim Regional Brigade, responsible for all military operations in Tulkarm and Kalkilya. Commander of the officers school is almost a definite step toward general. Of the last 16 commanders, 10 went on to become generals, including Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former chief of General Staff.

In what some might interpret as controversial, Haliva speaks openly about the different sectors in society and those which are sending and not sending their children to the school. Like one of the predecessors – OC Human Resources Maj.-Gen. Elazar Stern – Haliva is critical of the education youth are receiving in urban areas.

“We don’t get enough soldiers from cities,” Haliva said. “This is because of the type of education they get at home.”

Following the Second Lebanon War, Stern stirred controversy when he said in a radio interview that he did not need to visit bereaved families in Tel Aviv. “I see which homes I visit and, with all the pain and pride, I also look at the homes I don’t go to… there’s no bereavement in those homes. There’s no bereavement there and there won’t be bereavement there.”

Following in the footsteps of his self-proclaimed mentor, at the end of each course Haliva sends thank-you letters to high schools whose graduates become IDF officers.
One of the things he is most concerned with is the apparent disconnect between Israeli youth and their Jewish roots and values. “We need to have our finger on the pulse of our country’s educational system all the time,” he says.

Haliva served in the territories in a wide range of positions throughout the second intifada. He says candidly that one of the country’s mistakes ahead of the Second Lebanon War was that “we sanctified the watchtower and the patrol car in the West Bank.” In contrast, since the war and having taken over officer training, the curriculum he set up has cadets spending a mere 10% of their time on training for low intensity conflicts – like the conflict with the Palestinians. The rest of the time, soldiers learn how to lead platoons in a conventional war.

“If a cadet learns how to be an officer and lead troops in a conventional war against another country like Syria, then he will know how to operate inside Nablus,” Haliva says.

WHILE HALIVA was leading troops when the second intifada broke out in October

2000, Shetbon was just starting his officer’s training course.

Looking back at his training, Shetbon says that today the IDF is putting a greater emphasis on what some might call “old-fashioned” military values such as the need to always strive for contact and engagement with the enemy.

The importance of this value was made clear in April when Ashkenazi fired a battalion commander who, according to military probes, failed to engage Islamic Jihad terrorists who infiltrated the Nahal Oz fuel depot along the Gaza border and killed two Israelis.

“We make clear to cadets that they always need to strive for contact with the enemy,” Shetbon explains. “We teach them to understand that they have capabilities – both physical and mental – that they don’t yet know about.”

Shetbon recently wrapped up three weeks of intensive training on the Golan Heights with his company of cadets. There, the future officers practiced storming mock Hizbullah “nature reserves” – fortified positions found in southern Lebanon and used to launch Katyusha rockets – and also honed navigational skills by sending each cadet for a 30-kilometer hike alone at night.

“We try to simulate for them what a battle will look like,” says Haliva. “We run live-fire exercises after they haven’t slept a whole day and create an atmosphere like there is a real war, since we need to be ready and we need to win the next war.”

Micki Ohayun from the Paratroopers’ Brigade and Yoav Sarussy from Golani are currently finishing their officer training. Both fall into the minority sector of their course – they are from cities – Beersheba and Haifa.

Sarussy, 20, says that before he volunteered for officer training school his friends tried to dissuade him from signing on for more time in the army. “They asked me what I needed this for,” he recalls. “I told them that someone needs to do it and if it won’t be me, who will it be?”

Ohayun is a littler older and has been in the army for more than two years. He grew up in a military environment and attended a military high school. During the Second Lebanon War his battalion was deployed in Maroun A-Ras. The home he holed up in came under heavy Hizbullah rocket and machine-gun fire. One of his officers was killed.

“That event helped me make up my mind that this was what I wanted to do,” he says. “Today with people talking about destroying us, there is no doubt that we need a strong military.”

Soldiers like Sarussy and Ohayun are given the option of attending officers’ school after a year or more in the army and after undergoing a series of tests. According to Haliva, more than 6,000 cadets come through the school annually, with some attending the staff courses, combat support course and combat course.

The cadets not only study military tactics and strategy but are also imbued with Jewish values. They are taken to Jerusalem to visit the Old City, Yad Vashem and the Supreme Court.

Shetbon, Sarussy and Ohayun’s commander, says that while youth today are more self absorbed than in the past, the soldiers who arrive at the school are the “crème de la crème of Israeli society.”

“Most people today care about how what they are doing affects them,” Shetbon says. “Bah’d 1 is proof that youth today are still willing to sacrifice themselves on behalf of the other.”

While he will be celebrating his school’s 40th anniversary this week, Haliva says he is extremely concerned with what the next 40 years have in store for the country and not just from a security perspective.

“I wonder what type of country we will have in 40 years,” he says, leaning back in his chair with a massive picture of the Temple Mount behind him. “Will we have peace with our neighbors? What will be with the economy and national security?”

One thing he is sure of is that the school will still be here when Israel celebrates its 100th anniversary. “This school,” he says, “is guaranteeing our future.”

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Consequences of an Israeli Missile Attack on Iran!

June 22, 2008

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Such an attack as detailed in the DEBKAfile Exclusive, which follows the information on the Israeli Jericho Missile Series, would likely entail primary use of the improved Jericho II. I include one paragraph from the DEBKAfile Exclusive at this time as follows:

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“They calculate that the moment Iran is attacked, not only will it retaliate, but all hell will break loose on Israeli borders.

Iran’s terrorist stooges, HIzballah will let loose from Lebanon, Hamas from the Gaza Strip and the Syrian air and missile forces go into action from the north. The Israeli Air Force will be vitally needed to protect the population and sufficient aircraft must therefore be kept back for the home front.”

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One of the several reasons that Iran has built the Syria-Hizbullah-Gaza missile net around Israel’s borders is to retaliate against Israel if its nuclear facilities are attacked. The DEBKAfile presents a good picture of the immediate consequence s I

srael will suffer if she attacks Iran.

The old Israel I use to know would attack Iran, but I am of the opinion today’s Israeli Government is bluffing. But if Benjamin Netanyahu was the Prime Minister, I am persuaded Israel would launch some sort of aerial assault on Iranian nuclear facilities

The following information was extracted from: “Commission to Access the Ballistics Missile Threat to the United States,” Appendix III: The Unclassified Working Papers.

ISRAELI JERICHO II

In 1985, a press report appeared that claimed Israel was developing a NEW GENERATION JERICHO WITH A RANGE OF 400 MILES AND SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED ACCURACY.

Public information about the system began to grow when the Israelis initiated a series of test launches into the Mediterranean. According to one source, there were seven launches between May 1987 and March 1992. Six were fired from the missile test facility at Palmichim, and one was launched from an “operational site” in the Judean Hills. 19 These missiles were tested to A MAXIMIM RANGE OF 800 MILES (ABOUT 1300 KILOMETERS).

In 1991, following the first Iraq’s Al Husayn missile attacks on Israel, the Bush Administration was worried that Israel might respond using ground forces or air strikes. Such actions were viewed as politically dangerous to the coalition then waging war against Iraq. In addition, administration officials thought that the presence of Israeli forces in Iraq would complicate military operations for the coalition. United States reportedly encouraged Israel’s leaders to limit any response to use of ballistic missiles. The request was rejected out of hand by Moshe Arens, then Israel’s Defense Minister. According to Israeli sources, Israel the Jericho II was not operational. As a result, Israel could not rely on the new version of the Jericho, even if it had wanted to launch one. These accounts report that Yitzhak Rabin, the previous Defense Minister, had refused to provide funding to make the missile operational, believing that the money could be better spent on other projects.

According to the Israeli account, a decision was made following the Gulf War to deploy the Jericho II, and by 1994 it

was operational.

It is generally believed that the Jericho II has CONSIDERABLY GREATER ACCURACY than the Jericho I. Many observers appear to believe that the system is essentially a version of the Pershing II missile, and that it is equipped WITH A RADAR TERMINAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM. Some observers appear to believe that the Jericho II missiles are deployed at

the same Zachariah launch site originally developed for the Jericho I.

SHAVIT

A considerable amount of information about Israel’s missile capabilities has been derived from studies of the performance of Israel’s space launch vehicle, the Shavit. It was first launched in September 1988.

It is a three stage system built by Israel Aircraft Industries, including two solid-fuel stages produced by TAAS (once better known as Israeli military industries) and a third stage produced by Rafael.

It is generally believed that the first two stages are identical to the Jericho II.

According to one estimate prepared by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a ballistic missile based on the Shavit’s first two stages could carry a payload of 900 kilograms to a range of 3,000 miles (about 4,850 kilometers) or a payload of 500 kilograms to almost 4,700 miles (just over 7,600 kilometers).

ISRAELI JERICHO IIB OR JERICHO III

There are suggestions that there is an advanced version of the Jericho II, sometimes called the Jericho IIb, the Jericho Follow-on, or the Jericho III. According to these sources, the missile could have a range of up to 2,800 kilometers with a payload of 1,000 kilograms.

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Exclusive: Israel’s air maneuver did not simulate possible Iran strike strategy

June 21, 2008, 11:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s Western military sources do not believe that if Israel does attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it will resort to the old-fashioned aerial blitz tactic employed in 1981 for bombing Iraq’s Osirak reactor. They therefore challenge the US officials’ conclusion that Israel’s aerial exercise in conjunction with the Greek Air Force over Crete in early June was in fact a rehearsal for Iran.

What was demonstrated with the Israeli Air Force’s capability for deploying a large aerial force of more than 100 warplanes and helicopters for long-distance operations. The distance from Israel to Crete was indeed roughly equal to the distance to Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.

Israel has already displayed its ability to strike a nuclear site in the attack on the Syrian-North Korean plutonium reactor in northern Syria on September 6, 2007.

But these military sources argue it would be sheer recklessness for Israel to send so large a part of its air fleet for a repeat of the Israeli attack on Iran without first demolishing Iran’s air defenses.

In the attack on Syria, Israel was able to disarm by electronic means the Russian-made air defense batteries

guarding its reactor.

The same systems protect Iran’s nuclear sites. It must be assumed, however, that Iran and the Russian manufacturers learned a lesson or two from the way Israel silenced the batteries in Syria, although Israel too will have added new gadgetry too.

Those Western military sources also deduced from the Israeli aerial exercise eastern Mediterranean that its war planners must have taken stock of the punishing fallout a war operation against Iran would trigger.

Therefore, rather than consigning a large air fleet to Iranians skies, Israel’s war planners are likely to first use large numbers of missiles to demolish Iran’s nuclear facilities and air defense batteries. Some may be delivered by air from a distance outside the range of Iranian fighter craft (most of which are outdated and in bad shape), others from Dolphin submarines.

The Air Force will go into action at a later stage.

They calculate that the moment Iran is attacked, not only will it retaliate, but all hell will break loose on Israeli borders. Iran’s terrorist stooges, HIzballah will let loose from Lebanon, Hamas from the Gaza Strip and the Syrian air and missile forces go into action from the north. The Israeli Air Force will be vitally needed to protect the population and sufficient aircraft must therefore be kept back for the home front.

Given Tehran’s multiple reprisal capability and the limits to which the Israeli Air Force can be stretched operationally at one time, the IDF may well decide to deal with the Hizballah and Hamas short-range rocket infrastructure as well as the Syrian Air Force before going into action against Iran..

In this sense, DEBKAfile’s military experts note, the decision to strike Iran’s nuclear sites is tightly bound up with preventive action against the menaces closer to home, Hamas at the very least.

MK Tzahi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee said in an interview Saturday, June 21, on Day Three of the Gaza truce, that a major operation to demolish Hamas’ war machine will be unavoidable at some point.

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AMERICA HAS NO IDEA WHAT IT’S FIGHTING

WE FIGHT A FALSE CONCEPT IN A FALSE BOOK

THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF ISLAM

WE FIGHT AGAINST THE MADNESS OF MUHAMMAD

ISLAM IS AN EXTENSION OF MUHAMMAD’S INSANITY

PLEASE DON’T TREAT WITH A POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

WHICH IS AN EXTENSION OF OUR POLITICAL INSANITIES

I BELIEVE ALI SINA’S VIEWS ON ISLAM IN THE JP ARTICLE!

June 22, 2008

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I Timothy 4:1,2 – Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Ephesians 6:11,12 – Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. [12] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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Muslim Mindset: ‘The hatred is in Muhammad himself’

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June 19, 2008

Sam Ser , THE JERUSALEM POST

To Westerners and moderate Muslims shocked by the radical form of Islam now topping nightly newscasts, the efforts

of liberal-minded Muslims like Tawfik Hamid, Italian Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi and a handful of others may seem like the perfect solution.

Not so for Ali Sina, who has a different suggestion: destroy Islam.

Sina, who runs Faith Freedom International – an Internet forum dedicated to debunking Islam – calls himself “probably the biggest anti-Islam person alive.” The publication of his latest book, Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allah’s Prophet, will likely cement that position. In it, Sina suggests that Islam’s central figure suffered from a series of mental disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy and obsessive compulsive disorder.

“These disorders,” he says via telephone, “can explain the phenomenon known as Islam… which is nothing but one man’s insanity.”

Sina grew up a non-practicing Muslim. Raised in Iran, educated in Pakistan and Italy and now living in Canada, he began jousting with believers in the 1990s. What bothered him, he tells The Jerusalem Post, was not the penchant for jihad and intolerance that certain fanatical Muslims displayed, but the foundation for such ills in the Koran and core Islamic texts.

(Through the Faith Freedom Web site, Sina lists canonical references to Muhammad’s actions and offers $50,000 to anyone who can disprove Sina’s charge that Islam’s prophet was “a narcissist, a misogynist, a rapist, a pedophile, a lecher, a torturer, a mass murderer, a cult leader, an assassin, a terrorist, a mad man and a looter.” Respondents relentlessly attack Sina’s motives, but none has won the prize.)

With violent conquest and contempt for non-believers central to the tenets of the faith, Sina argues, attempts to forge a moderate form of Islam are doomed.

“The idea that Islam can be reformed is a fallacy,” he scoffs. “It’s like saying we can reform Nazism and it will be a wonderful party.”

No, says Sina, “The only way to reform Islam is to throw away the Koran; 90 percent of it should be thrown away. You also have to throw away the history of Islam, and you have to completely disregard the Sira” – the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad, from which most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived.

For this reason, Sina says, Western suggestions that extremism in Islam can be eradicated if certain imams are quieted, or if Muslims are encouraged to embrace the universalist elements of their faith – but without addressing the extremism inherent in the religion’ s text

s – are based on a mistaken comparison of Islam to Christianity.

“In the West, people ask whether Islam can undergo a reformation like the one that Christianity underwent. That’s a poor parallel,” he says. “In Christianity, it wasn’t the religion that needed to be reformed, but the church; what Jesus preached was good.”

On the other hand, Sina continues, “In Islam, it’s not the community that is bad, but the religion. Islam has nothing like ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ Islam is full of hatred, and the hatred

is in Muhammad himself. I argue in my book that Muhammad was insane – and that Muslims, by emulating him and by emulating his ways, his insanity is bequeathed to them.”

BY NOW, CRITICS of Islam are fairly common in the West. And there are more than a few former Muslims who have rejected Islam in favor of Christianity, citing the difference between their former religion’s overwhelming focus on hatred and their newfound faith’s central teaching of love and forgiveness. But, like Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the handful of other apostate Muslims demanding that Muslims reject the negative aspects of their religion, Sina’s critiques are especially problematic.

“People have to dismiss me some way, they have to put me down in one way or another. I’m a Jew, I’m a Christian, I’ m a Hindu.

I’m whatever people want to say in order to discredit me,” says Sina, who closely guards his true identity because of the death threats he receives.

“But they can’t ignore my questions.”

Sina has little patience for those who believe they can temper Islam with reason and mutual respect, or for those who remain cowed by the masses of Muslim devotees around the world.

“Islam is the biggest hoax, the biggest lie,” he says. “Yes, a billion people believe it. But truth is truth. People will eventually see it.

Believe me, there is no other answer. We will pay a great price until we realize that this is the solution – to undermine Islam itself, to show Muslims that this religion is not from God, that Muhammad was a charlatan and a liar.”

Sina knows that his blunt, outspoken approach can be “problematic.” But he is confident nonetheless that the force of his arguments will ultimately prevail.

“I am sure that, with time, I will convince millions and millions of Muslims, and the foundations of Islam will collapse,” he says.

Already, he continues, Faith Freedom has attracted an impressive amount of attention.

“In Iran, my site is banned. In many parts of Pakistan, it is banned. The list goes on,” he says. “Despite this, I have over 10 million readers in just over two and a half years. And I have received letters from Muslims from all over the world. Muslims everywhere are paying attention. I believe that Muslims everywhere are realizing that something is amiss.

“If I didn’t have so much success in conv

incing people, then I would not be so confident.

But I see that truth works. So many people who are now writing for me and putting things up on Youtube; seven or eight years ago, we were having fierce debates. Now, they are my greatest allies. There are many people who have seen the light after reading FFI and many of them are now working on my side, trying to help others to see the truth.

“This is the way to fight evil. I do not want to kill the enemy. I want to win them as friends and allies.

That is the real victory. In this way, we win because we eliminate our enemy, and our enemy wins by eliminating his ignorance and hate. That is why I believe in my cause. That is why I think I am an instrument of peace.”

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Obama likely President of last Age

U.S. Heads into a Final Political Abyss

Greatest Problem facing our US Politicians

Was their bad record while they were in Office

Shortest candidate record belongs to B.

H. Obama

In today’s mammon-hungry world that’s a safe Haven

Everyday Life of Peace And Prosperity WILL NOT Continue

But Promises of It can easily be made by One with no Record

Everyday lifestyle we have enjoyed so long will abruptly Change

In society today, the longer in office, the more ‘bad’ the media Finds

Luke 17:26-30 – And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

[28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. [30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

June 21, 2008

I have always contended that when Israel is attacked from the north the U.S. will assist Israel with life sustaining supplies and air evacuations, but will not get directly involved in the fighting of the war, which drives Israel into the Negev. I agree with the Creators Syndicate article which follows our heading in an article by Mark Shields. Following his article there is Archive Prophecy Update 187A on why the U.S. will not fight for Israel in the coming Middle East War.

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Article

Obama’s Brandenburg Gate

By Mark Shields

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One iron rule of political campaigns dictates, “As the candidate, you should always do those things — to your own campaign’s advantage — which your opponent is unable to do.”

For example, if your own income tax returns are reasonably simple and straightforward with no suspicious tax loopholes, and you have grounds to believe that your opponent’s returns are overly complicated, confusing and potentially a problem for him to publicly explain, then by all means make your own returns public and challenge — based on “the public’s right to know” — your opponent to do the same immediately.

Likewise, if your opponent — throughout his public career — has depended upon being been backed politically and financially by an identifiable organized group, such as a labor union, and that group’s leadership has recently been indicted for illegal activities, then announce immediately that you will neither seek nor accept the endorsement of any organization under a legal cloud and challenge your opponent to follow your ethical lead.

The old “Do What Your Opponent Cannot Do” rule comes to mind after reading the Pew Global Attitude Project’s 2008 survey of 24,717 people in 24 countries, completed in April.

Even with some modest up-ticks in favorability this year, favorable feelings toward the United States have still dropped like a rock since George W. Bush entered the White House, plummeting some 47 percent in Germany, 30 percent in Great Britain, 20 percent in France and 17 percent in Spain.

When asked, “How much confidence do you have in President George W. Bush to do the right thing regarding world affairs — a lot of confidence, some confidence, not too much confidence or no confidence at all?” 3 percent or fewer of the people in Britain, France, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Argentina and Brazil (not including zero in Turkey) expressed a “lot of confidence” in Bush.

Still, there are signs of foreign attitudes toward the United States improving, according to Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center.

This “reflects an anticipation of change in the White House.”

Why the lift? “People around the world,” finds Andy Kohut, “think the next president will have a positive change on U.S. foreign policy.” There is keen interest in the U.S. presidential election overseas, most especially in Japan, where a higher percentage of citizens (83 percent) are paying close attention to the U.S. election than are in America (80 percent).

The story here is Democrat Barack Obama, who according to Kohut “has made quite a splash across the seas” and “has strong international appeal just about everywhere.” When asked how much confidence they had in Obama to “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” the French (84 percent confidence in Obama), Tanzanians (84 percent), Germans (82 percent), Australians (80 percent), Japanese (77 percent), British (74 percent) and Spanish (72 percent) are incredibly bullish on the young Illinois Democrat. Republican John McCain gets higher ratings than George W.

Bush but trails Obama almost everywhere and by nearly 50 percent in both France and Germany.

Now back to the Iron Rule. McCain put Obama on the political defensive last week over Obama’s failure to visit Iraq during the last two years. Almost certainly, under some pressure, Obama will make a trip to Iraq to visit — and to be seen visiting — with American troops and brass.

But after his meetings in Iraq, Obama could quite legitimately “Do What His Opponent Cannot Do,” by meeting foreign leaders and holding public events in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, London, Paris and maybe even Tokyo and Melbourne, and be guaranteed the kind of huge, enthusiastic and pro-American crowds that would dominate media coverage both here and abroad.

Imagine the compelling sight — to American voters — of French, Germans, Spanish and Japanese holding high in their hands American flags to welcome the Democratic presidential nominee who had been an early opponent of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.

Why does this matter? “It is important for America,” says Kohut, “to be able to persuade other nations to join, to follow the U.S. — rather than for the U.S. to ‘muscle’ them.”

Sure, some xenophobes would object to Obama’s “foreign primary,” arguing that he cares more about Rome, Italy, than Rome, Ga. But tell me, wouldn’t it be grand to have an American leader being cheered — like John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were — in the shadow of the Brandenburg Gate?

To find out more about Mark Shields and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.

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Special Prophecy Update Number 187A

August 29, 2004

Atomic War in Israel – Yes or No

? – Number 2

More than a year ago I issued Special Prophecy Update Number 129C, titled “Atomic War in Israel, Yes or No?” I would like to reaffirm my belief in its validity

in Number 2. The original Update 129C, issued July 23, 2003, was as follows: (BEGIN QUOTE OF 129C)

“One of the main reasons I wrote three books on prophecy in the late seventies and early eighties was to establish a case advocated by teachers of the pre-World War II era. It was, simply stated, that man would not destroy the earth with his weaponry, but rather that God would destroy the earth by the use of this own power. I am certain that the horrifying changes in the topography of Israel, as well as the terrifying destruction of the antichrist’s forces at Armageddon, are by the awesome power of God, not

atomic, chemical, or biological weapons of man. The lifting of the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem, the breaking up of Jerusalem into three sections, the splitting of the Mount of Olives, and the consuming of the flesh, tongues, and eyes of the antichrist’s men are natural phenomena unleashed by God, not by man. All the Scriptures dealing with these phenomena unleashed by God are covered in Birth Pang and Prophecy Archives.

There are many advocates of a great atomic, chemical, and biological war in Israel when the antichrist attacks 1260 days before Armageddon. It might happen at the time of Armageddon, but the initial attack will start what amounts to a non-nuclear, non-chemical, and non-biological war. So why am I so confident and outspoken about this being the case?
Israel has more than 200 extremely well concealed missile silos in the Negev between Beersheba and the Gulf of Aqabah.

(1) It has more than 300 nuclear, chemical, and biological warheads to mount on Jericho missiles.

(2) The Jericho is a very accurate missile, and can hit a target in any Islamic country from Morocco to Pakistan and from Turkey to Yemen.

(3) Israel has an excellent anti-missile defense to protect its array of silos, warheads, and missiles. It is able to pick up an incoming enemy missile launched from Syria before it reaches it maximum altitude.

(4) So why do I believe this array of WMD will not be unleashed by Israel when it is attacked? Because the Israeli War Contingency Plan of Israel directs that WMD will never be launched against a foreign nation unless they are first launched against Israel.

(5) So how do I know the Islamic countries will not launch WMD in their initial attack? All of them are well aware of what is listed in (1) through (5)! The former Soviet Union, which it existed, shared Israeli intelligence information with Syria, which it collected over a long period of time from its hundreds of spy satellites it launched from pads between Moscow and the White Sea, and on the eastern side of the Aral Sea. Syria, in turn, has shared it with some of the other Islamic countries around Israel. Only a leader possessed of rank insanity would ever launch WMD first against Israel, which is why I was so relieved when Saddam Hussein was taken out of the way.

Many believe the United States will quickly rush to the aid of Israel, and, as the world’s greatest power, will immediately deliver her from any kind of attack she can’t handle. There are two problems with this idea: (1) The United States believes Israel can defeat any Islamic attack on its own without any help from us. After all, Israel has easily done so in three previous wars and, (2) This will be a lightning Jihad, and better coordinated than any of the previous wars, and this time Israel will have a Palestinian state attacking it from within, while the other Islamic nations come in from outside its borders. It will prob ably l

ast less than a couple of weeks, and Jerusalem is likely to fall within four days. By the time we decide they must have our help it will be too late, because they will have occupied most of the land from Dan to Beersheba.

It would take months, as it did in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Freedom Iraq, to get enough American troops on the ground to do any good.

What was the character of Israel’s past three wars? They were all very short in duration, and they all ended abruptly in a truce. That will be the case in this war.

The United States knows that the Negev is the place where Israel will flee. When we believe they are safely in the Negev, we will be more than willing to accept a truce to give us time to think about what to do, and Israel will remain trapped in the Negev for some three and one-half years.

The part played by the United States during this period of three and one-half years is interspersed throughout our Prophecy Archives, with some of it in Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, 32 & 33, and 74 & 75.”

(END QUOTE OF UPDATE 129C).

(CONTINUE QUOTE OF UPDATE 187A)

Since Update 129C was issued, several noteworthy things have come to pass that reduce the likelihood of a nuclear war in the Middle East. The area is headed toward a situation where both sides will realize a nuclear war would leave the victor, or victors, in such a powerless state, that any future they might have would be desolate, and leave them in a position of great vulnerability to the rest of the oil consuming nations. Some of these noteworthy recent events, which would tend to create a standoff, such as the one that developed between the United States and the once mighty Soviet Union, are as follows:

(1) Syria now has a better Scud than the Scud B. The Scud D missile, considered to be the most sophisticated weapon of its kind, is now in the hands of the Syrian military. It is able to deliver nuclear, chemical, or biological multiple warheads to their targets in Israel from Syria.

(2) The jointly developed American-Israeli Arrow 2 missile successfully launched an Arrow 2 missile that destroyed a Scud B over the Pacific Ocean earlier this year. The Arrow 2 is designed to intercept an enemy missile before it reaches its peak altitude, far from Israeli territory. However, in a recent test against the Scud D, it failed to intercept the detached warhead. It was not a complete failure, and the results are in the process of being analyzed. Israel says it can still effectively destroy the Scud D.

(3) Syria also maintains a sizeable ballistic missile arsenal and, like Iran, is active in upgrading and expanding its capabilities.

(4) In June Iran announced it is building its first stealth missile, a rocket that can evade electronic detection. The missile was named Kowsar, in honor of the Kowsar river in paradise, which is found in the Koran, the Holy Book of Islam. Iran announced it would be capable of hitting ships and aircraft.

(5) Iran is continuing to steam toward development of its own nuclear bomb, which many believe it could develop as early as next year. It is now going underground, and spreading out its nuclear development sites in order to limit the damage that could be incurred by an Israeli air strike, like the one carried out on Iraq’s nuclear facility in 1981.

(6) Iran is manufacturing various missiles, chief among them being the Shahab-3, whose range of 1300 km (793 mi) allows it to reach Israel. It is designed to carry up to a 700-kilogram conventional warhead. But the Iranians are currently developing the Shihab 4 and 5, with ranges of 3000 km (1830 mi) and 6000 km (3660 mi), which puts all of Europe in its sights, and these both missiles will be able to carry chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons.

(7) At the same time that Iran and Syria are attempting to manufacture weapons of mass destructions, and the missiles to deliver them, they are also building up their conventional arsenal of weapons. Iran has been making its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, and fighter planes, inside its own borders for some time. They have been guided by the designs of weaponry supplied to them by North Korea, Russia, and even China in both their conventional and non-conventional programs of weaponry development. The huge payments from the Iranian oil money have, for some time, helped to keep the Russian Economy afloat, and the North Korean economy from completely collapsing.

I do not believe there will be a nuclear, biological or chemical war in the Middle East. I have long been convinced of this. It will be a great war, but only conventional weapons will be used. I will not rule out the possibility of some being used at Armageddon, but I really don’t believe they will

be launched even them.

It is no secret that, if left unchecked, Iran is determined to become a global nuclear power with long range nuclear missiles that could strike Europe, plus NATO and American forces within a 3600 mile radius, and the United States and Israel are determined to not let that happen.

End Quote of Archive Update 187A

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