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Temple won’t be Built until Christ Returns

The Temple ‘Big Day’ Will Be a Millennial Day

God’s Son Left The Temple Spiritually Desolate

Predicting It Would Soon be Physically Destroyed

He Did Not Say They’d See Him After THEY Rebuild It

The Third Temple Will Not Be Built Until After Ezekiel 39

And the Messiah will have returned to order a Rebuilding

Christ Will make Triumphant Entry Walk into it in Ezekiel 43

August 1, 2008

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Matthew 23:37 to 24:2 – O Jerus alem, Jerus

alem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto

you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew

him the buildings of the temple.

[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

[3] And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be

? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world

?

Luke 21:26,28 – 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.

Ezekiel 39:8,9 – Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken. [9] And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

Zechariah 6:12,13 – And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: [13] Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. (He would be BOTH King and High Priest)

Ezekiel 43:1-6 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. [3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. [4] 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.

Begin Excerpt from YNet News

Youths contribute to advancement of Third Temple

Jerusalem’s Temple Institute takes biblical statement ‘build me a Temple and I shall dwell amongst you’ literally, enlisting hundreds of teens for this endeavor

Kobi Nahshoni

Mourning over the destruction of Jerusalem is normal in the month of Av, but at the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faith Movement all focus is on the “big day” – the day in which the Third Temple will be built.

As part of the preparations, hundreds of teenagers are expected to sign the “Temple Treaty” and to proclaim, “We commit to doing everything in our power to abide by this commandment and to devote at least half an hour a week toward this effort.”

In the youth conference conducted by

the Temple Institute in the Old City of Jerusalem, scheduled for Thursday, participants will discuss possible plans of action to further the building of the Temple.

Under the title, “Building the Temple, it’s in Our Hands,” lessons will be given by rabbis identified with the Temple and for

the first time ever, a treaty pertaining to the necessity of building the Temple will be revealed.

“God commanded us in his Torah, ‘build me a Temple and I shall dwell amongst you’,” as written in the document, “All of Israel must do everything they can to obey this commandment…”

In a conversation with Ynet, Temple Institute Director Rabbi Yehuda Glick vowed that this is the first event in a series that will institutionalize and widen youth activities.

“(Deceased general) Mota Gur said (during the conquest of east Jerusalem in the Six-Day War), ‘The Temple Mount is in our hands’, and I say now the Temple is in our hands,” said Glick.

“The treaty we composed contains a bunch of suggestions like Temple studies, embroidering priestly clothes, illustration for books on the subject, enhancing awareness, fundraising, or any other activity we believe can further the building of the Temple.

“No clause calls for the launching of LAW missiles or the exploding of the mosque at the Temple Mount,” Glick stressed.

Women are also expected to participate in Thursday’s event, during which they will watch a performance intended to encourage them to be active in the advancement of the Temple.

“This Temple is not just something historic stored in a memory chest,” said Glick, “everyone has the opportunity to contribute to this goal.”

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Iraqi did have WMD prior to U.S. Attack

I have long believed that Iraqi WMD Existed

That were carried to Syrian Territory before War!

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Begin Archive Prophecy Update Number 154B, January 14, 2004

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 154B

January 14, 2004

Whatever Happened to the WMD in Iraq?

This has been an intriguing question that has produced a lot of political hay for those who say the Iraqi WMD did not exist, but were merely an excuse to invade Iraq. And, to be perfectly honest, no one knows for sure what happened to the WMD.

There was an event, which I did report in Special Prophecy Update Number 81A, that I reall

y did not understand involving Iraq and Syria, and it did indeed seem strange at the time,

considering past relationships between the two countries.

The following three paragraph quote is taken from the August 17, 2002 Update 81A, titled “More Strategic Dialog Among the 10 Toes,” which was written some seven months before Iraq was invaded by coalition forces.

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“Iraq has recently been conducting large-scale military maneuvers on the Syrian border, reportedly by prior agreement with Syria’ s new Pre

sident, Bashar Assad. Assad later made a trip to Iran to hold talks with its President, Mohammad Khatami. The talks were described as a strategic dialog.

The healing process is taking time because of all the past conflicts that have occurred between these nations, but it is progressing because of a common healing balm – Their natural hatred for Israel, which far exceeds their dislike for each other. The great breaches between them occurred in the last decade. Iraq and Iran fought a very bitter war that took the lives of millions.

The relations between Iraq and Syria, which are ruled by two rival wings of the Baath party, were severed in the eighties, but have been on the mend since 1997, fueled mainly by trade links. We have covered these trade links in detail in previous updates, as well as the sneaky way that Syria is militarily assisting Iraq and receiving oil benefits in return. This is one of the reasons that Bashar, last month, sent a message to Saddam on the thirty-fourth anniversary of his rival Baath party rising to power in Baghdad. In the message he underlined his desire to boost the brotherly ties between Iraq and Syria.

An independent Jordanian newspaper, Al Hilal, reported that last week Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein on the border between the two countries.

The article said Assad took along his brother, Maher, and the head of the Syrian Intelligence Service with him to the meeting. During the meeting the report stated that Saddam presented Assad with an ancient rifle taken from the Iraqi museum.”

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This meeting between two presidents of two rival Baath parties of two countries, who did not like or trust each other, seemed strange to me at the time. Recent reports from a senior Syrian journalist, Nizar Najoef, who has recently defected to Western Europe, suggest that this meeting may have been for more than just a get together for a friendly chat. It may have been to coordinate the transfer of Iraq’s WMD across the border into Syria in the event Iraq was overrun by foreign forces, and the Iraqi maneuvers along the border on the Iraqi side may have involved the scurrying movement of special units of Saddam’s Republican Guard, who could have been in the process of concealing them along the border for a quick transfer to the Syrians, if necessary.

I linked the events of Update 81A in 2002 with a report from a Dutch newspaper article of January 5, 2004. It carried a letter from Nizar Nijoef in which he identified three Syrian sites

where Iraq’s WMD are stored.

Nijoef says he knows where they are hidden. Does he know? I honestly don’t know, and I cannot vouch for the validity of his claim, but it does explain the strange meeting of Assad and Hussein in 2002.

The Newspaper was “Die Telegraff,” and Nijoef claims the storage places to be as follows:

1. Sjinsjar on the Lebanese border with Syria.

2. The villege of Tal Snan.

3. In a vast complex of tunnels that are part of a great underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles.

He claims that Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels. This underground complex is said to be beneath the town of al- Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria.

Is his report the truth? I don’t know! But if it is, then you may rest assured the U.S. and Israeli Intelligences will find out, or already know one way

or the other. And if is true, and I were Bashar Assad, I would be making every effort to make peace with Israel and to get on the “good side” of the United States before they took action to eliminate the WMD. Oddly enough, this is precisely what Assad has been doing over the last two months.

It is somewhat ironic that the aforementioned Syrian city of Hama is ancient Hamath, which will soon mark the northern extent of the vast land grant promised to Israel by God through Abraham and Isaac. The vast grant will be occupied by Israel for a thousand during the reign of its Messiah.

Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

Last year I issued a Prophecy Update titled “Kurds in the Whey.” In it I discussed the role of the Kurds in the northern neck of Iraq. It is quite obvious that the shortest distance between Iran and Syria is across this northern neck. Do not be surprised if they discover some WMD have, and possibly still are, being moved across this land of the Kurds, or put in remote places in Iraq for future use. Believe it or not, Syria, Iran, and North Korea really are an axis of terror, and Osama ben Laden is among them.

In last year’s Prophecy Updates, I indicated I would continue to watch both the Syrians and the Israelis regarding the reality of negotiations between them that could lead to a false peace settlement

between them. So far it has a been a lot of rhetoric between them to create the effect of which is the “good guy” who really wants peace, and who is the “bad” guy who doesn’t. The situati on is worth watching, but until more than rhetoric to gain press favor and headlines stops, I simply intend to just keep

on listening and watching for something real.

End Archive Prophecy Update Number 154B, January 14, 2004

Begin World Net Daily Excerpt via Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Daily Alert

July 31, 2008

U.S. Official: Iraqis Told Me WMDs Sent to Syria

Ryan Mauro (WorldNetDaily)

Don Bordenkircher, who served two years as national director of prison and jail operations in Iraq, said that about 40 prisoners he spoke with “boasted of being involved in the transport of WMD warheads to Syria” in the three months prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He said he was told the WMDs were shipped by truck into Syria, and some ended up in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

Prisoners who said they worked at the al-Muthana Chemical Industries site said the cargo included nitrogen mustard gas warheads for Tariq I and II missiles.

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Lebanon toe is already in place as one of Ten

Soon she will be joined by a large Turkey Hen

As In-country forces of Islam will remove Mask

Then Turkey will become as it was in the Past!

So to her NATO allies her friendship won’t Last

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Begin Excerpt from MERIA Journal

Volume 1, Number 4, December 1997

Radical Islamic Political Groups in Turkey

By Ely Karmon

December 1997

The “Hezbollah Muslims” appeared for the first time publicly in 1984 and, as the original Hezbollah, proclaimed support for the Iranian revolution and the defense not of nations or sects, but of “Allah’s way.”

According to Imset, Kalim Siddiqui, a Pakistani active at the Muslim Institute in London, had a key role in unifying Turkey`s radical Islamic Movement. Thus, the first Hezbollahi appeared in Turkey as ‘the followers of Siddiki.’ A pro-Hezbollah magazine published in November 1987 “The guidelines of the Islamic Movement,” which included the acceptance of the Islamic State as the center of religious belief, the leadership of Muslim scholars, the spread of the mentality of martyrdom and the leadership of the Islamic revolution [in Iran].

A significant development occurred in the middle of

the 1980s, with the conversion of some members of the right-wing Nationalist Movement (MHP) to Islam. The death of one of their leaders in prison in 1984 and the tortures suffered by many others convinced a group of extreme nationalist activists (called also Ulkucus)”to turn to Allah” and condemn the “darkness of nationalism.” They were heavily influenced by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, but later concluded that Sayyd Kutub’s death forced the Egyptian Islamists into a nationalist position and that true Islam could not tolerate nationalism. These militants were already professionals in the field of terrorism and street fighting and represented significant operational support for the Islamic Movement.

In southeast Turkey, Islamic radicalism emerged in poor towns and villages with a large Kurdish population (Dyarbakir, Silvan, Cizre, Kiziltepe and others), especially among the young and unemployed. They followed the teachings of local Muslim scholars or sheiks and often organized themselves around extremist Islamic publications such as Tevhid, Yeryuzu and Objektif. Their activity became more visible at the beginning of the 1990s, influenced more and more by Khomeini`s teachings, and they were identified by the local public as Hezbollah, although they considered themselves as belonging to the Islamic Movement.

THE IDEOLOGY OF THE TURKISH ISLAMIC MOVEMENT

There are few sources for research on the Turkish Islamic organizations, although they have their own publications and manifestoes distributed quite freely even when they threaten future victims of terrorist attacks. All the material is in Turkish and has neither been collected nor translated. The only other source consists of interviews given by anonymous leaders and activists to Turkish journalists.

In one such interviews, published in February 1993, a militant declared: “We are fighters of the Islamic Liberation Movement, the sword against Satan, blasphemy, Zionism and Imperialism. We have begun taking action only recently in Turkey and our move is based on pain, suffering and patience. We do not pursue a tribal case; our objective is to establish a state for the Muslims.” Asked whether he belonged to Hezbollah, the militant replied that the press gave that name to the organization and that they will adopt it only when the movement will be worthy of it. Meanwhile it has not reached “that level of perfection”

In speaking about the special relationship of the Movement with Iran, the same militant seemed careful not to confirm “the lies of the Turkish state” about such links. Iran is seen as an example and a guide but the instructions are “from the Koran” and not from Iran, “the land of Dar-ul Islam where blasphemy has been crushed.” The Movement needs no instructions from any country because the Koran is the program and shows the strategies and the tactics to be adopted.

A report prepared by the Turkish security authorities for the National Security Council at the beginning of 1997 outlined the objectives of the radical religious movements and stressed that their strategy consists of three stages.

The first stage is the message (teblig), and calls for an effort by the radicals to persuade the people to adopt the Islamic religion, establish an Islamic state and administration, live in accordance with Islamic rules and struggle to safeguard the Islamic way of life.

The second stage is the community (cemaat) and calls for the restructuring of communities in accordance with the requirements of the first stage.

The third stage is the struggle (jihad) and calls for the armed struggle to safeguard the Islamic way of life.

Special mention should be made of a strange organization called The Great Eastern Islamic Fighters Front (IBDA-C) active since the middle of the 1970s but more extremist and aggressive

since the beginning of the 1990s. Although an Islamic movement struggling for the constitution of an Islamic state, it uses leftist slogans in its publications and accepts ex-Marxists in its ranks.

It is also extremely antisemitic and anti-Christian in its propaganda and terrorist activity as well.

ENEMIES AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

A chronological analysis of terrorist activity of Islamic groups shows that 1990 was probably the starting point for their offensive against the Turkish secular establishment: A professor, journalist, political scientist and writer were assassinated by Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Operation (or Action), the first time this name was used.

Muammar Aksoy, a liberal political scientist, was also killed in 1990 and then for the first time the name Islamic Movement appeared.

During 1991, the year of the Gulf War, Islamic radicals seemed to enter a period of reassessment, which ended after the Madrid peace talks between Arab countries and Israel. In October an Americ

an soldier was killed and an Egyptian diplomat wounded by Islamic Jihad. The year 1992 represented the turning point in radical Islamic terrorist activity. The objectives attacked during this year being from the exiled Iranian opposition as well as Jews and Israelis.

But the government, security authorities, public and even the press became really aware of and shocked by the Islamic terrorist threat when Ugur Mumcu, one of Turkey’s top investigative reporters–who had covered the PKK, the rise of Islamic radicalism, and drug smuggling networks–was killed on 24 January 1993 by a car-bomb similar to that used in the assassination of an Israeli diplomat in March 1992 and an American computer specialist in October 1991. Both the Islamic Liberation Organization and IBDA-C took responsibility for the murder.

Several days later an attempt was made on the life of a well- known Turkish businessman and community leader of Jewish origin, Jak Kamhi, by a group of four terrorists who used automatic weapons and even a rocket-launcher. He escaped uninjured.

The same month the tortured body of an exiled Iranian dissident–Abbas Gholizadeh, a former officer and the Shah’s bodyguard–kidnapped several weeks before, was discovered by the police.

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Leading article: Collision course in Turkey

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

It is hard to think of a nation more familiar than Turkey with the tensions between East and West, between religion and nationalism, between autocracy and democracy. But those opposing forces seem to be reaching a new intensity of late.

The ruling Islamic party is at risk of being outlawed by the Constitutional Court. Another court is hearing a case against a collection of ex-army officers accused of plotting to overthrow the government by force.

But this battle for Turkey’s soul is not merely tak ing place

in court rooms. There is blood on the streets too. Two bombs exploded in Istanbul yesterday, killing 17 people. The main suspects are Kurdish separatists.

The country’s stock markets have taken a battering as investors grow nervous about the future direction of the country. A sense of crisis is building.

The irony is that the governing AK Party, despite its roots in the Islamist movement, has done a good job of contradicting the popular notion that political Islam can never settle within a secular and democratic state. Under the leadership of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the AK Party won a hefty mandate from the Turkish people in fair elections last year. It has pursued liberal economic policies and pluralist social policies.

No one disputes that the AK Party enjoys broad democratic consent.

What it lacks is the consent of the fiercely secular governing classes and the military. This is the background to the attempt by the Turkish chief prosecutor to have the AK Party banned on the grounds that it is attempting to subvert Turkey’s secular constitution.

The case might be regarded as being, in one respect, commendable. It shows that the Turkish government is subject to the rule of law. But it is also hard to avoid the conclusion that the secularists have overplayed their hand. The moves by the AK Party to lift the ban on female students wearing headscarves do not add up to a secret plot to Islamise the state.

Of course, Turkey is not the only nation to face a constitutional crisis, the threat of a coup, or a separatist insurgency.

But Turkey is globally pivotal in a number of ways – and it matters. Most obviously, it matters to the future of

the Middle East. Military incursions into the Kurdish-ruled north of Iraq threaten to plunge that country into fresh turmoil. A democratic government is far less likely than a military junta to embark on an invasion of its south-eastern neighbour. Turkey also matters to Europe. Much is rightly made of the potential prize of incorporating this fast-growing economy into the EU. And just as valuable is the leverage the possibility of entry offers to progressive politicians within the country. If Turkey is to emerge from this crisis as a stable and democratic nation, it will need all the help its friends can muster.

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Islamic Illusion of a True Peace now coming on Stage

Muslim Magicians Talk to keep Our Eyes off Their Hands

Which are preparing audience for what lies under the Veil

When Islamic illusionists finally whisk away what is Covered

We Will See it as a False Peace Veil hiding Sudden Destruction

I Guesstimate Will Begin at Some Point between 2010 and 2015

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The Golan Heights is the most valuable piece of real estate in the Israeli

security

alert system to provide information of pre-attack possibilities on the part of Islamic forces against Israel. I have taken many to the top of Mount Herman on the ski lift to show them the great strategic military value of the Golan Height in the prevention of a sneak attack on Israel. Being a graduate of the MAC Military Academy, I can assure you it would be a great military blunder to give it back to Syria.

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.

Please Consider the following excerpt from the Ariel Center for Policy Research

THE GOLAN HEIGHTS AND THE FACTS

Yoram Ettinger

Policy Paper No.

108, 2000

Executive Summary

Wishful-thinking, oversimplification and ignorance of the Middle East arena – its threats and resulting security requirements – have colluded in the promotion of the Golan Heights Giveaway policy.

The following policy paper is based on a series of twenty full page advertisements, published by the Ariel Center For Policy Research (ACPR) in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. The aim of the policy paper is to educate the public, policymakers and public opinion molders, in Israel and the US, on the critical role played by the Golan Heights in the shaping of the history of the Jewish state and in the securing of its survival.

In fact, the key elements, which highlight the centrality of the Golan Heights in the national security policy of Israel, also apply to the mountain ridges of Judea & Samaria, which are located at a much more strategically sensitive location than are the Golan Heights.

The military importance of the Golan Heights has increased during recent years precisely because of the advent of ballistic technologies. The 1991 Gulf War, and the proliferation of US military bases and installations throughout the globe, attest to the critical role played by topographic edge, geographic depth and strategic location in the bolstering of one’s national security.

While most advanced high-tech military and early-warning systems enhance the capabilities of one’s military forces, they cannot replace the unique contribution of a vital territory. The high-tech of today is bound to become the low-tech of tomorrow, but the high ground of today remains the high ground of tomorrow! Israel’s neighbors may be able to acquire superior technological systems, but they cannot produce a replica of the mountain ridges of the Golan Heights and Judea & Samaria. No sophisticated military system is immune to jamming, but no one can jam a topographical edge!

The importance of the Golan Heights to Israel’s national security hinges on the eastern mountain ridge, stretching between Mount Hermon in the north and the steep canyon of the Rokad River in the south, which constitutes a most effective natural tank barrier. The control of this mountain ridge enabled 177 Israeli tanks to fend off the surprise offensive of 1,400 Syrian tanks during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. A withdrawal from that natural tank barrier would deny Israel the key strategic benefit of the Golan Heights, exposing the Jewish state to lethal threats!

A withdrawal from that mountain ridge, which is located 35 miles from Damascus, would deprive Israel of a most effective posture of deterrence, which would induce further hostilities in the region.

Some Israelis have been impressed by the promise of US security guarantees, or a defense pact, offered in exchange for the Golan Heights. However, an examination of the track record of security guarantees issued by the US, and by previous global powers, demonstrates that they do not possess automaticity or specificity as far as implementation. The vast majority of security guarantees have not been implemented!

The US issued a presidential (Executive) guarantee in 1957 in order to coax Israel into a full withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.

However, American failure to implement the guarantees, when Egypt, Syria and Jordan declared a war on Israel in 1967, was a trigger for the Six Day War.

Security guarantees have not constituted a credible insurance policy. Rather, they have produced a dangerous delusion, sacrificing long-term national security on the altar of a short-lived false sense of security.

The eastern mountain ridge of the Golan Heights constitutes the watershed of the Lake of Galilee, which provides Israel with 30% of its water. A Syrian control of the watershed would contaminate the lake, and could enable Damascus to divert the sources of the lake.

Syrian promises to supply Israel with adequate quantity and quality of water, and to refrain from any offensive initiatives, should be examined against the backdrop of Damascus’ track record as a serial violator of commitments to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Israel. Syrian commitments are not carved in stone, they are carved in ice!

Moreover, the assessment that Syria has launched a strategy of peace should be assessed against the background of the absence of comprehensive peace between Syria and each of its Muslim neighbors.

Would it then be logical to assume that Syria would share with the Jewish state that which it has denied its Muslim neighbors?! Would it be logical to assume that Syria – a leader of international narco-terrorism, a chief abuser of human rights, a brutal occupier of Lebanon, a proliferator of military systems of mass destruction, an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel inciter, a host of Nazi war criminals and a holocaust denier – seeks peace with its Jewish neighbor?!

Why is the US cutting its nose to spite its face?! US interests have been best served by a more constrained Syria. However, a Golan Giveaway would transform Syria into a less-constrained country, dedicating more military resources toward its regional ambitions, which have historically upset regional stability, undermining the stability of pro-US regimes, such as Turkey, Jordan and the Gulf States.

Finally, the Golan Heights has always been an integral part of the Jewish Commonwealth. For instance, Moses controlled the Golan Heights (biblical Bashan), assigning it to the tribe of Menashe. The Great Uprising against the Roman Empire featured the battle of Gamla on the Golan Heights, which was at least as heroic as the battle of Masada!

Jewish attempts to resettle the Golan Heights took place during the 19th century and have been accelerated since 1967.

No People should determine the future of the Golan Heights without the grasp of critical facts. Rather than wishful thinking, oversimplification and ignorance, this policy paper promotes realism and acquaintance with the facts, which are the prerequisites for a sound policy-making and for a thoughtful vote cast by the electorate.

Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post

‘Israeli-Syrian talks end positively’

July 30, 2008

Jpost.com staff and ap , THE JERUSALEM POST

“The fourth round [of Turkish-mediated Israeli-Syrian talks] has ended. It was positive. The fifth round will be in mid August, and again indirect,” the Reuters news agency quoted a senior source close to

the talks held in Istanbul, Wednesday.

A Turkish official said also that delegations from Syria and Israel have agreed to hold more indirect peace talks in the future, with Turkey’s help.

The official said the delegations ended their fourth round of Turkish-mediated talks in Istanbul on Wednesday and agreed to hold more in the coming months. The Turkish mediators travel between negotiators from both sides who stay in separate hotels.

The official said the latest round of talks was “constructive and positive,” but there has been no agreement on moving toward direct negotiations. The official, who is in contact with Turkish mediators, spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.

The latest round of indirect Israeli-Syrian talks began in May.

Previous negotiations between them broke down in 2000.

Israeli officials have been pressing for direct talks from the start of the negotiations in Turkey.

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Syria to make a strategic choice between peace and isolation.

Olmert said the process in Turkey would eventually reach a point where Syria has to choose “between the Iranian grip, partnership in the axis of evil and international isolation, or peace, economic prosperity and a place among the family of nations.”

Begin Excerpt 2 from Arutz Sheva

Olmert Ready to Give Away Golan in Exchange for Direct Talks

27 Tammuz 5768, 30 July 08 07:01

by Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel

(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Damascus that he is prepared to cede the Golan to Syria in exchange for Syria’ s agreement to enter into direct talk

s with Israel, according to sources in the Knesset.

The sources from the opposition parties told Army Radio Wednesday morning that Olmert is wiling to make “painful concessions” in order to promote negotiations between the two countries.

The sources did not specify what, if anything, Olmert asked the Syrians to sacrifice on their part.

According to the report, Olmert promised Damascus that Israel would withdraw from the Golan Heights on the sole condition that the Syrians would agree to direct talks between the two governments, including a discussion on cutting ties with Iran, Hizbullah and Hamas.

The Prime Minister’s Office denied the claims. Officials for the PM said that Olmert has not made any promises to Damascus.

Meanwhile, according to MK Yisrael Katz (Likud), the Syrians have agreed to direct talks with Israel on the condition that Israel gives them the Golan Heights in advance.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni criticized Olmert Tuesday, saying that he would easily give up too much Israeli land without appropriate concessions from the other side. Livni pointed out that there are “issues regarding negotiations with Syria that still require internal planning.”

The FM’s remarks came the same day that Olmert declared a willingness to present Syria with a “true alternative” to partnership with Iran and Hizbullah.

Olmert also expressed his desire that the ongoing indirect talks become direct talks “at a certain stage.”

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U.S. future role in Middle East Wars

Defensive & supportive, not Offensive

In Future U.S. will help Israel Logistically

But won’t put ground troops alongside Her

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

June 30, 2008

The United States is beginning to back away from any offensive action alongside Israel, and from henceforth you will see more and more of our actions being directed to supply Israel, but not to actively, offensively, defend her ourselves. After Korea, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraqi Freedom, the majority of those living in the U.S. want to see us disengaged from overseas wars.

We are withdrawing into a dream world of diplomacy without offensive actions, which ends up with us in isolation until we are drawn into a world war we ran away from, because we hate war. It is a vicious cycle that has been played many times between major wars.

We, probably along with Britain and Australia, will help to air evacuate Israelis out of the narrow western coastal script of Israel from Tel Aviv to Haifa, carrying them to the Negev. And the same three are likely to supply Israel with humanitarian supplies and logistical supplies during her three and one-half year years stay in the Negev.

Begin Archive 2002 Birth Pang Number 41

BIRTH PANG NUMBER 41

The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!

Part 6

March 22, 2002

Revelation 12:14 – And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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.

The woman is Israel. The place that God has prepared for her is the Negev wilderness.

A time is one 360 day year, times are two 360 day years, and half a time is 180 days, which totals 1260 days or 3 and ½ prophetic years. Both these scriptures describe the time period of 42 prophetic months (30 days per month) before the end of the Tribulation Period.

When the antichrist launches his lightning Jihad from

the north it will be a two pronged attack.

Syrian and Lebanese troops will launch a blitzkrieg strike southward along the western lees of the Galilean and Samaritan mountain. The Palestinians will zoom northward along the western lee of

the Judean mountains out of Gaza to link with their comrades coming down from the north. This will cut off coastal Israel from interior Israel.

Some 70% of the Jewish population lives along the narrow coastal strip from Tel Aviv to Haifa. They will be kept pinned down by thousands of katyusha rockets being launched from the bluff top cities of Tul Karm and Qalqilya in the Samarian Mountains. It will eventually be necessary to air evacuate the population out of this area across the Mediterranean into the Negev, as stated in 12:14. The other battle prong, consisting of troops from Iraq, Syria, and Iran, will be directed southward along the west bank of the Jordan River in a lightning strike. The Palestinians will pour down the hundreds of dendritic valleys in the eastern lee of the Samarian Mountains, armed with shoulder held antitank launchers. They will destroy many of the Israeli tanks coming north to intercept the southward moving Arab tank units of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The Jewish population to the east of the coastal sections, and to the west of the Jordan River, will flee on land in whatever types of transportation may be available.

This has long been the national Israel contingency plan that is to be carried out in the event of attack from the north, and the Negev has been their emergency contingency evacuation area since 1948. If you desire a detailed discussion of what I have just briefly covered, please review Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, which are found in our Prophecy Archives.

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US will help Israel detect Iranian missiles, but stay aloof from any Israeli attack

DEBKAfile Special Report

July 30, 2008, 6:29 AM (GMT+02:00)

The United States agreed to link Israel up to two advanced missile detection systems

against potential attack by a nuclear-armed Iran, Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday night, July 30, at the end of his Washington talks.

But US officials made it clear that, while prepared to help Israel defend itself against Iranian missile retaliation, they are determined not to be involved in any Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Washington would deliver within six months “before the new US administration arrives” in January, a powerful forward-based X-band FBX-T radar. Increased access to its Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites, which spot missile launches, would take longer.

By putting a time frame around delivery, the Bush administration holds off a possible Israeli attack on Iran for as long as possible.

Barak’s talks with Vice President Dick Cheney, defense secretary Robert Gates and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice ended in agreement for Washington to deliver:

1.The transportable FBX-T radar system built by Raytheon Co. which, by providing early and accurate target-tracing and signature data, enlarges the effective battle space of missile interceptors. US officials say it can track an object the size of a baseball from about 4,700 km, and can be launched from air, sea or land.

It would allow the Israeli Arrow anti-missile system to engage an incoming Iranian Shehab-3 ballistic missile about halfway through its estimated 11-minute flight.

This would give a potentially targeted Israeli population five minutes to prepare for an Iranian missile hit. This would make up for the deficiency of Arrow’s Green Pine radar, which can detect a missile launch in Iran only after it enters the atmosphere on its way to its Israeli target.

2. Increased access to the US Defense Support System (DSP) satellites, which spot missile launches, would help Israel cover the first 5.5 minutes of a Shehab is firing.

This access has hitherto been provided as per request – such as last September for the Israeli strike against Syria’s nuclear facility.- rather than on a constant basis.

DEBKAfile’s sources note that this access continues to be hedged around by the need in every case for lengthy discussion on whether it is applicable to a given military contingency. It is therefore unlikely to be available before the next president enters the White House and will then be subject to his confirmation. Here too, the Bush administration is stretching out the time table for an Israeli attack well into the future.

3. A US consent in principle to the upgrading of the Israeli, largely American-funded Arrow. The projected Arrow III would be capable of shooting down attacking missiles at greater atmospheric heights than the present version as a safeguard against nuclear fallout. It was not clear whether the administration means to grant Israel the required technology or replace the Arrow with American systems.

The upshot of the Israeli defense minister’s mission to Washington for a boost to Israel’s military capability for a possible preemptive attack on a pre-nuclear-armed Iran was therefore the promise of hardware to give Israel more time to defend itself against Iranian missile reprisals.

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