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Without The Jews to Blame For Arab Problems,

The fanatical jihad leaders of the radical Factions,

Would have their own people cast them from Power!

Jews Aren’t the Problem, Arab Leaders are the Problem,

While They stay in power by focusing blame on the Israelis,

Indeed, the Fatah & the Hamas are their Own Worst Enemies!

Nothing other than false peace or hudna can arise from a Chaotic

Middle East maze of hate and confusion in the turbulent Middle East,

The question is Not IF a final War will break out, the Question is WHEN!

I’ve Pondered the answer to that Perplexing Question for some 42 years!

I hope, before 2015, the final war will begin, until then II Corinthians 4: 5-9!

September 1, 2009

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II Corinthians 4:5-9 – For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. [6] For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. [7] But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. [8] We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; [9] Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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Special Dispatch – No. 2513

August 31, 2009

Dr.

Mamoun Fandy: The Palestinians Are Their Own Worst Enemy

In his column in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, liberal Arab intellectual and scholar Dr. Mamoun Fandy calls on the Palestinians to take advantage of the current global political climate, which he says is favorable to them, to advance their cause. He says that the Arabs must confront the Palestinian leadership with its shortcomings

– such as its rejection of the political proposals offered to the Palestinians, its damaging adherence to a “resistance” aimed at self-glorification, and the Hamas-Fatah schism – and states that the Palestinians must decide right now whether to be part of the problem or part of the solution.

Following are excerpts from Dr. Fandy’s column: [1]

“Where Should Someone Who Wants to Mediate in Solving the Palestinian Problem Go” – to the PA or to Hamas?

“Where should someone who wants to mediate in solving the Palestinian problem go? Should the Europeans and the Americans go to the Palestinian Auth ority in Ramallah,

or to Hamas in Gaza? Who should former U.S. senator George Mitchell or EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana talk to…?

“Today, there is in fact no Palestinian partner [for peace] – and the idiotic warring Palestinian factions can take ‘credit’ for that. There are of course those who make a living from the [intra-Palestinian] struggle, with their writing or their television programs, but they are not confronting the Palestinian [leadership] with this truth. But it’s better to discuss the Palestinian problem like adults, not like adolescents.

“In terms of international [climate], there has never been a better opportunity than there is right now for solving the Palestinian problem. Europe supports the Palestinians and wants a U.N. resolution establishing a Palestinian state, like the

resolution that established the state of Israel – and Javier Solana is pushing for this. [U.S. President] Barack Obama is most certainly the best U.S. president ever for the Arabs in general – and for the Palestinian problem in particular. The ones who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state today are the Palestinians and the Israelis – in that order…

“The birth of a new state in the Middle East – which is an unstable region from the outset – must have international support and aid, and must [contribute] to the stability of the entire region. A state that only adds to the anarchy is undesirable. A Palestinian state will add to the region’s stability if it has a strong and cohesive leadership, and

if it is led by a forceful individual. One such Palestinian leader is Muhammad Dahlan, a powerful security figure, who despite Hamas’s opposition to him has the best capabilities and the most [correct] outlook [to bring about] the birth of a Palestinian state that is a partner in the region’s security and stability…

“The behavior of the various Palestinian factions, and the rivalry between them, looks to the world like efforts to maintain the status quo. [Hamas prime minister] Isma’il Haniya and [Hamas political bureau head] Khaled Mash’al have so far shown no political maturity proving that they want a solution instead of rejecting one.”

The Palestinian Leadership Must Confront Its Shortcomings; “The Palestinians Today Are the Worst Enemy of Their Own Cause”

“There is no doubt that the occupation and Israel’s establishment of settlements contribute nothing to solving [the Palestinian problem]. But in our articles in Arabic, which are not directed at Israel, we must confront the Palestinian leadership with its shortcomings. Condemning Israel must not be a free pass for the Palestinian factions to commit folly against their own people and their own cause. Those of us with any sense will reject any immunity from criticism for the Palestinian leadership.

“It is important that we be honest in criticizing the Palestinian situation, which is precarious in the best of cases. Once I was invited to a meet

ing with the Palestinian foreign minister, in an important country.

During the meeting, the Palestinian foreign minister was shown a map of the Israeli settlements. When the minister took hold of the map, I immediately realized why the Palestinian cause is going nowhere: He looked at the map, but [could not make head or tail of it]. It was obvious that he had never looked at a map in his life. I wondered: Why, when we have the best intellectuals from the best universities in the world, do we let these leaders represent us… This is a question that the Palestinians must answer for themselves.

“The people in Gaza or in the West Bank want a state like everyone else has. They want a better life under a sovereign state that respects their humanity. In this aspect, Gaza is no different than Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria. The [Palestinian] people are tired of this pointless ‘resistance’ – because resistance must have a political goal.

“States and movements do not fight or resist unless there is a political goal behind the war or the resistance. To date, the Hamas leadership, and even many in the Fatah leadership, have not convinced us that they are striving to attain a particular logical and practical goal. If the goal [of the resistance] is for a few members of the leadership to be recognized as symbols of resistance and [national] honor – we are perfectly willing to give them this recognition, but there is no need to sacrifice innocent lives in order to accomplish such a limited goal.

“However, if the goal is realizing the dream of establishing a Palestinian state, and for this people to live in dignity like other peoples – then that is a different struggle, which requires new strategies.

The first [of these] strategies is the creation of a united leadership for the future Palestinian state – one that will convince its enemies to negotiate with it and to give it the land. It is easy to convince friends – but solving the problem requires first of all convincing enemies…

“The Palestinians today are the worst enemy of their own cause. The time has come for us to tell them this openly, out of love, and not

out of vindictiveness.

“There Will Never Be a Political Situation Better Than There Is Now for the Arabs, And Particularly for the Palestinians”

“Global political circumstances have changed since Barack Obama entered the White House.

There will never be a political situation better than there is now for the Arabs, and particularly for the Palestinians.

Thus, the Palestinians must be flexible with Obama if they wish to solve their problem; they must unite their leadership, and they must commit to a cessation of violence and to return to the discussion table to deal with the two-state solution presented in the Arab [peace] initiative… No one in the international community who wants a solution seeks three states [Gaza, Ramallah, and Israel]. Israel too must understand that this time there will be no way around accepting a Palestinian state alongside it.

“The era of delay is over. We already know that Israel will not accept such a state without intense international pressure… At the Fatah [Sixth General Conference], [2] the Palestinians must… create the impression that they are a people worthy of independence – and not a people in some adolescent stage, in which its sons consume each other.

“The Palestinians again face an historic choice: whether to be part of the solution or part of the problem.

They also [now] have [an opportunity] to give Palestine a cohesive leadership, with a single address – to which the whole world can come if they want to talk.”

[1] Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), July 27, 2009

[2] The article was published prior to the conference, which took place August 4-5, 2009 in Bethlehem.

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61 Years of Middle East TERROR,

Playing A Middle East PEACE GAME!

Begin A Good Cop – Bad Cop Routine,

The Good Cop Syria says we want Peace,

Bad Cop Iran says Annihilate all of the Jews,

Keep predicting a True Middle East Peace Soon,

AND Ignoring Prophetic BIBLE Scripture Predictions,

It will be brief & false followed by Sudden Destruction!

Now you have a Middle East situation in place since 1948,

And it’s been almost 1990 years since Jerusalem fell to Titus,

But the Lord is Not Slack concerning His Jerusalem Prophecies,

Jerusalem will fall again to be trodden down by Islam 42 Months,

Until Israel returns

from the Negev Wilderness led by her Messiah,

To Begin His Millennial Reign On This Present Earth For 1000 Years!

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II Peter 3:1-4, 8,9 – This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: [2] That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: [3] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue

as they were from the beginning of the creation.

[8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. [9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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.

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.

Revelation 11:2 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Daniel 7:24,25 – 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.

Zechariah 14:3 – Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

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

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August 31, 2009

Syria backs peace with Israel on UN rulings

Assad: Syria seeks ‘fair and global peace’ based on UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338.

DAMASCUS – Syria favours a peace deal with Israel based on implementation of UN resolutions, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday at a meeting in Damascus with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

“Syria is working for a fair and global peace based on UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338,” Assad was quoted as saying by SANA state news agency.

Those resolutions call for Israel to withdraw from the territory it occupied in 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem, in exchange for Middle East peace.

Assad and Solan a dis

cussed “ways of reviving the peace process in the region,” SANA reported.

The EU foreign policy supremo arrived in Damascus on Sunday as part of a four-day Middle East trip amid renewed international efforts to resume peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Speaking in a press conference with Solana, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem stressed that “the Palestinian dossier takes precedence,” whether it is “freezing settlements, lifting the blockade on Gaza or making East Jerusalem Jewish.”

Solana next heads to Israel for talks with hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leading members of his government, before going to Ramallah to see Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

On Tuesday he will be in Lebanon and will round off the trip in Egypt on Wednesday.

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The Region: Let’s pretend we’re making peace

August 30, 2009

Barry Rubin , THE JERUSALEM POST

Here is one of my favorite stories explaining how the Middle East works as told by the famed Egyptian journalist Muhammad Hussanein Heikal. Like all of Heikal’s stories, it may or may not be true, which is also part of the lesson being taught.

When Muammar Gaddafi first became Libya’s ruler, Heikal was dispatched to meet and evaluate him by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.

After returning to Cairo, Heikal was quickly ushered into the president’s office.

“Well,” said Nasser, “what do you think of Gaddafi?”

“He’s a disaster! A catastrophe!”

“Why,” asked the president, “is he against us?”

“Oh no, far worse than that,” Heikal claims to have replied, “he’s for us and he really believes all the stuff we are saying!”

The point was that the Egyptian regime took the propaganda line out of self-interest that all Arabs should be united into one state under its leadership, all the Arab monarchies overthrown, Israel wiped off the map immediately and Western influence expelled, but it knew itself incapable of achieving these goals and to try to do so would bring disaster. Indeed, when Nasser had tried to implement part of this program in 1967, he provoked Israel into attacking and suffered his worst nightmare.

Come to think of it, Arab regimes are still playing this game of systematically purveying radicalism, hatred and unachievable goals to distract their populace, excuse their own failings, focus antagonism against foreign scapegoats and seek regional ambitions.

Western governments do this kind of thing a bit differently.

In this regard, recent statements by a number of leaders including US President Barack Obama, prime ministers Gordon Brown and Binyamin Netanyahu and others establish an important principle: Actually achieving Middle East peace is of no importance. The only thing that is important is saying that progress is being made and that peace will come soon.

I don’t mean that as a statement of cynicism, but as an accurate analysis of what goes on in international affairs at present. What’s achieved by pretending there is progress and success is imminent? Some very real and – in their way – important things:

• World leaders are saying that they are doing a great job, doing the right things, remaining active and achieving success.

• By saying peace is near, the situation is defused. Why fight if you are about to make a deal?

• Israel (and anyone else from the region who joins in) shows that it is cooperating, so others should be patient and not apply pressure.

• Since the West is taking care of business, Arab states will supposedly feel comfortable working with it on other issues, like Iran for example.

I want to stress that this behavior is not as silly as it might seem. Often this is how politics actually work.

THE FREEZE on settlement construction, as another example, is a scam. If Israel gives something on this issue, the Western governments declare victory and go home, so to speak. That doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons for not doing so, but the virtually open cynicism of the US and European strategy is striking.

When the US president portrays the possibility of two tiny states, Oman and Qatar, letting one-man Israeli trade offices reopen as a major triumph in confidence-building, despite being his sole achievement after months of top-level diplomacy, what can one do but snicker?

Finally, since Israeli-Palestinian peace is not within reach, pretending it is while knowing the truth is not such a bad alternative. It is certainly progress, since the Obama administration came into office and originally pursued a policy based on the idea that it could achieve peace in a matter of months.

What is the downside here?

There are three problems. The first is if Western leaders believe their own propaganda.

Because if peace is “within reach” but isn’t actually grasped, then someone must be blamed. That someone will, of course, be Israel.

Why? Because if the West blames the Palestinians, leaders presume that Arabs and Muslims will be angry and not cooperate on other matters. There could be more terrorism and fewer profitable deals and investments. They gain nothing.

But if they insist that everything is going well, there is no need to blame anyone. This is the phase we are now entering.

The second problem, however, is that neither the Palestinians nor Arab regimes will join in the optimism. Their line is: The Palestinians are suffering! The situation is intolerable! Something must be done! And since we will make no concessions or compromises, the only solution is for the West to pressure Israel to give more and more while getting nothing in return.

Since this is not going to happen if Israel resists, they fall back on their alternative approach: Okay, so since you aren’t forcing Israel to give us what we want, you have to give us other things, like money, and you cannot demand we help you.

The best outcome is th at certain Arab st

ates, with other interests at stake, will downplay the conflict altogether and focus on more pragmatic needs. The radicals – principally Iran and Syria

– will never do so and will claim that the situation shows how the West cannot be trusted and must be defeated.

What’s the third problem

? Actions that might actually promote regional stability, or even Arab-Israeli peace, are not taken. These include two especially important tactics:

• More energetic efforts to overthrow the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.

As long as Hamas is running half the Palestinian territories and outflanking Fatah in militancy, there won’t be peace. Keeping Hamas from taking over the West Bank, isolating it and maintaining sanctions against it is a good policy and can preserve the status quo. It is not, however, the best policy and the pressure on Hamas could erode over time.

• More pressure on the Palestinian Authority to moderate and compromise. The PA and its positions are the main barriers to peace. As the PA possibly becomes more radical, the likelihood of violence increases. Thus, while in the short-to-medium run the “feel good” and status quo policy may work, it also has risks and limits.

Still, it is the best that can be expected at present.

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Obama has no clue as to how the Middle East Functions,

By making it abundantly clear U.S. won’t start another War,

U.S. Can’t Defend Vital Interests by adopting Passive Approach,

There’s a lot more blocking PA peace talks than Jewish Settlements.

August 31, 2009

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America has elected a novice lifted up with pride, who will fall and take this country with him. Such a thing has happened to many young pastors.

I Timothy 3:6 – Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Begin Excerpt from Lebanon Daily Star via Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/ Daily Alert

August 28, 2009

By Michael Young

Obama feels that an America forever signaling its desire to go home will make things better by making America more likable. That’s not how the Middle East works.

Politics abhor a vacuum, and as everyone sees how eager the U.S. is to leave, the more they will try to fill the ensuing vacuum to their advantage, and the more intransigent they will be when Washington seeks political solutions to prepare its getaway. That explains the upsurge of bombings in Iraq lately, and it explains why the Taliban feel no need to surrender anything in Afghanistan.

Engagement of Iran and Syria has also come up short.

However, there was always something counterintuitive in lowering the pressure on Iran in the hope that this would generate progress in finding a solution to its nuclear program.

Where the Obama administration erred was in not seeing how dialogue would buy Iran more time to advance its nuclear projects, precisely what the Iranians wanted, while breaking the momentum of international efforts to force Tehran to concede something – for example, temporary suspension of uranium enrichment. For Obama to rebuild such momentum today seems virtually impossible, when the U.S. itself has made it abundantly clear that it believes war is a bad idea.

In Syria, the Assad regime has shown no signs of breaking away from Iran, even as it has facilitated suicide attacks in Iraq and encouraged Hamas’ intransigence in inter-Palestinian negotiations in Cairo. The Obama administration can, of course, take the passive view that Syria is entitled to destabilize its neighbors in order to enhance its leverage; or it can behave like a superpower and make the undermining of vital U.S. interests very costly for Bashar Assad.

But it certainly cannot defend its vital interests by adopting a passive approach.

With respect to the Palestinian-Israeli negotiati ons, Obama has taken Israel

on over its settlements.

However, there is more to Palestinian-Israeli peace than settlements.

Obama is exerting considerable political capital to confront Israel, but it may be capital wasted at a moment when Hamas can still veto any breakthrough from the Palestinian side and render the whole enterprise meaningless.

But how can the U.S. weaken Hamas when improving relations with its main regional sponsors, Iran and Syria, remains a centerpiece of American efforts

?

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Welcome To A Mad Hatter’ s Tea Party!

Ahmadinejad’s NEW Cabinet Appointees,

Seem to have the same two Characteristics,

In that they do seem to be Cruel and Yes-Men,

But Sweet Ahamdinejad promises ALL HIS People,

And takes a VOW he will continue to serve Iranians,

Fighting for people’s RIGHTS with ‘efforts and Abilities’

Using his cruel yes-men appointee’s efforts and Abilities!

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Proverbs 26:24-28 – He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; [25] When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

[26] Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

[27] Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

[28] A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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2009-08-30

Ahmadinejad urges parliament to approve cabinet

Iranian President says his victory confirms Iranians want his government to continue on same path of first term.

By Aresu Eqbali and Farhad Pouladi – TEHRAN

Iran’s embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed re-election unleashed the worst crisis in the Islamic republic’s history, appealed to parliament on Sunday to approve his new cabinet.

“I hope the majlis will firmly approve all ministers and with a decisive vote it will turn the hopes of ill-wishers into despair,” he told MPs as he introduced his proposed line-up at the start of a three-day debate ahead of a vote of confidence on Wednesday.

Ahmadinejad said his victory in the June 12 presidential election was confirmation that the Iranian people wanted his government to “continue on the same path” of his first four-year term.

“We are committed to spreading justice, preserving the national dignity, achieve progress and confront the bullying powers. We will continue to support oppressed nations and cooperate constructively with all nations except the Zionist regime,” he said of arch-foe Israel.

But Ahmadinejad faces a daunting task in securing a mandate from the conservative-dominated assembly for his line-up which includes several new faces, among them three women — a first in the Islamic republic.

Lawm

aker Ali Akbar Yousefnajed, who was a senior official in the government of Ahmadinejad’s reformist predecessor Mohammad Khatami, criticised the hardliner.

“The president used the same words in qualifying his cabinet as he used four years ago. How come we have 14 new faces?” he asked. “Where are those who were sacked in the last four years?”

During his first term, Ahmadinejad received flak for firing 10 ministers, two central bank chiefs and several other top officials.

But conservative MP Hossein Garousi defended the new line-up.

“The nominees are highly educated and they coordinate well with the president,” he said. “If we saw people changing (in the existing cabinet), it was because the president is very meticulous when it comes to management.”

The confidence vote comes as Iran is gripped in political turmoil after Ahmadinejad’s re-election triggered massive street protests which left at least 30 people dead and shook the pillars of the Islamic regime.

Ahmadinejad is under fire from his own hardline camp over several decisions he took soon after his re-election, and many MPs are furious at not being consulted over his cabinet choices.

Iran’s continued hardline stance over its nuclear drive and the crackdown on election protesters has also further isolated it from the West.

Ahmadinejad has retained five ministers in the same posts, including Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.

Current defence minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has been nominated as interior minister, while commerce minister Masoud Mirkazemi is his pick for the crucial oil ministry in OPEC’s second largest exporter.

However, Mirkazemi is expected to be rejected because of his lack of expertise in the sector, media reports said.

He was also nearly impeached in 2007 and 2008 over rising prices of basic commodities.

Reformist MP Mohammad Reza Tabesh said: “The worry is that if he gets rejected, then there is less possibility of a stronger person getting nominated.”

The three female nominees are also expected to face an uphill task as some clerics have questioned the managerial abilities of women.

“Islam respects women, but respecting women does not mean that heavy social positions be given to them,” hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami said on Saturday.

Sousan Keshvaraz, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi and Fatemeh Ajorlou have been proposed respectively as ministers of education, health, and welfare and social security.

All three are seen as lacking executive experience, but Ahmadinejad said the presence of women in the cabinet had raised the “self-confidence” of women in Iran and triggered “jubilation.”

“The government has fulfilled its task by selecting efficient women and I hope the majlis will help the government in completing the job it has started.”

Conservative MP Qassem Mohammadi appeared to back Ahmadinejad’s decision.

“I do not understand why they want to keep 50 percent of the nation’s potential in the kitchen,” he said, adding that two of the three would probably be rejected.

Influential MP Mohammad Reza Bahonar has predicted that four to five men and all women nominees will fail to pass muster.

“The president wants to be the ruler in sensitive ministries of intelligence, interior, culture, oil and foreign. So he has introduced people whose major quality is that they are yes-men,” prominent MP Ali Motahari said last week.

Begin Excerpt 2 from Middle East Online

2009-08-29

Ahmadinejad vows serving Iranian people

Iranian president says government to continue fighting for people’s rights, exert all ‘efforts and abilities’

TEHRAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that his current government fought for people’s rights and served them honestly, as he prepares to face a vote of confidence on his new cabinet.

“In my view, the ninth government exerted all its efforts and abilities in the path of honesty, service and fighting for people’s rights,” the hawk said at the shrine of the founder of the republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

“I think that the ninth government did its best and I hope that God almighty will continue protecting, guiding and accepting our services to the people,” the president was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster.

He was speaking at the shrine to mark annual government week, which commemorates the killing of president Mohammad Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar in a spate of opposition bombings in 1981.

Ahmadinejad was re-elected for a second four-year term as Iran’s president in a disputed June 12 poll, which his rivals claim was heavily rigged.

On Sunday, he will introduce his new 21-member cabinet line-up to members of parliament, who will over three days scrutinise the line-up before the vote of confidence on Wednesday, Iranian media said.

Ahmadinejad is facing stiff opposition from his own conservative camp over some of the candidates he has chosen as next ministers in the new government, which will be the 10th since the republic was founded in 1979.

Several MPs have consistently said that about six nominees, including the key oil minister candidate, could be rejected by parliament.

During his first tenure, Ahmadinejad came under fire for frequently reshuffling the cabinet, sacking 10 ministers and two central bank chiefs and retaining inexperienced ministers.

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COMPROMISE DOES NOT WORK WELL IN RELIGIOUS WARS!

Man is on a threshold of a war twixt Satan’s son & God’s Son!

The Final War of This Age Will Be the Worst in Mankind’s History!

It Will be a War Twixt the Forces of Islam and Those of Christianity,

A war between Muhammad’s Antichrist and God’s Begotten Son Jesus.

Many of mans historical wars have been more Nationalistic than Religious,

But the last War of the Gentile Age Will be More Religious than Nationalistic!

Intelligence Chief Quote: ‘People can compromise, but gods never Compromise’

August 29, 2009

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

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since

the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Revelation 16:9-14 – And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

[10] And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the

mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Joel 3:9-17 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. [12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:

for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

THIS IS THE FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON BETWEEN THE SON OF THE TRUE GOD, JESUS CHRIST, PICTURED ON A WHITE HORSE COMING AT HIS SECOND ADVENT TO DEFEAT THE SEED OF THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD, SATAN, WHO IS THE BEAST PERSONIFIED AS ANTICHRIST, A SEED OF ISLAM.

Revelation 19:11-21 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. [12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

[16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

[20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Begin 3 Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

Begin Excerpt 1 from AFP

Germany Threatens Energy Sanctions Against Iran

German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time on Friday threatened energy sanctions against Iran if it fails to step up cooperation with the international community on its nuclear program. “If there is no progress, we would have to react with further sanctions,” Merkel told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “What is clear is that Tehran, whose president constantly questions Israel’s right to exist, must not get the atomic bomb.” (AFP)

Begin Excerpt 2 from Der Spiegel – Germany

“We All See the Clock Ticking”

Interview with Israeli Intelligence Chief Dan Meridor

“I think Iran shouldn’t be allowed to become a nuclear power. This is not only an issue for Israel but for the whole world. It would be a victory for the extremists over the moderates in the Arab world….One shouldn’t forget that Iranian President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spoken about the illegitimacy of Israel and its destruction. But we should concentrate now on harsher sanctions against Tehran, with America leading the way.

And we are counting on the Europeans to follow with serious actions.

This includes Germany, which is one of Iran’s very important trading partners.”

“We hope [the peace process] will resume, and we have some hopeful signs. But, all in all, it has become more difficult over the years because of the introduction of religion

into this conflict. Arab rulers hated us in the past, but they did it because of nationalistic ideas. Since the (1979) revolution in Tehran, we hear a different tune: The Iranians, Hizbullah and Hamas fight us in the name of religion. This is very bad because people can compromise, but gods never compromise.” (Der Spiegel-Germany)

Begin Excerpt 3 from Israel Today – Hebrew

“The West Must Not Fall into the Trap that the Iranians Are Setting for It”: A Warning by Israel’s Former UN Ambassador in a New Book

The West must not fall into the trap set for it by the Iranians – this is the main recommendation of a new book The Rise of Nuclear Iran by Dore Gold, published Tuesday.

Gold quotes a speech given by a senior Iranian official at a closed meeting in which he boasts that under the mantle of negotiations Tehran conducted with the British, French and Germans, the Iranians managed to complete the construction of new nuclear facilities, leading to a large stock of enriched uranium. Gold assesses that according to all the indications, the internal crisis in Iran after the last election will more likely lead to a policy of escalation by Iran and not more moderate action in foreign policy. (Israel Today-Hebrew)

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