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adei is Anti-U.S. and Anti-Israel

But loves the Democracy we Enjoy

February 1, 2011

During his tenure as Director General of the United Nations IAEA, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction of U.S. and Israeli policies in dealing with the Iranian development of a nuclear bomb.

I never felt it was reasonable for the UN to appoint a Muslim head over the inspections of a Muslim nuclear facility. It seemed to me that his massaged final reports showed favoritism toward Iran.

However, in what you just read, and in the Archive Blogs which follow, I now like the man because, like h is Father, he

loves the Egyptians, and I can certainly understand his tendency to favor his own belief and his fellow countrymen. After I wrote the Blogs which follow, and got a better understanding of him, I changed my mind about him, and would now like for him to be Egypt’s next President.

But, like his Father, he is a compassionate man, and if he is the next President, the Muslim Brotherhood will turn on him when the Assyrian drives south into Israel, and Egypt will fall. The Muslim Brotherhood hates secular Democracy. I believe ElBaradei loves it!

Please consider the following Archive Blogs from 2008

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Everything fitting a 2010 to 2015 war Window!

I am very Satisfied with the attack Date Estimate!

Over the last Year All the War preparations Estimates

From Intelligence Sources Forecast They Will be Finished

By Terrorist Nations & Groups during a Forecast War Window!

I continue to estimate final war will begin between 2010 & 2015!

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ElBaradei – Iran’s Little HELPER!

The Wonderful Islamic Wizard of “UN”

Would like to see Iran blow Israel into Kansas

I do hope he’ll be home in Egypt as Syria roars South

When the Assyrian Antichrist opens wide a Devouring Mouth

Daniel 11:42,43 – 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.

Daniel 7:25 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Begin Excerpt from Middle East Media Review Institute (MEMRI)

June 23, 2008

No. 1967

IAEA Chief ElBaradei: Iran Can Produce Enough Enriched Uranium for a Nuclear Bomb in Six Months to a Year

The following are excerpts from an interview with IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei. The interview aired on Al-Arabiya TV on June 20, 2008.

“A Military Strike [Against Iran] Would Be the Worst Thing Possible”

“In my view, a military strike would be the worst thing possible. It would turn the Middle East into a ball of fire.”

Interviewer: “It would be worse than sanctions?”

ElBaradei: “Much worse, because a military strike would mean, first and foremost, that even if Iran does not produce nuclear weapons today, it would implement a so-called ‘crash course,’ or an accelerated plan to produce a nuclear weapon, with the agreement and blessing of all the Iranians – even the Iranians living in the West.”

[…]

Interviewer: “Dr. ElBaradei, what do the Iranian officials tell you when you confront them about the need for more transparency?”

ElBaradei: “They say there will be more transparency, but at the end of the day, I’d rather wait to see this transparency.

[…]

“I always think of resigning in the event of a military strike.”

Interviewer: “You will resign in the event that…”

ElBaradei: “If military force is used, I would conclude that there is no mechanism left for me to defend.”

Interviewer: “This is a threat directed at the Americans – if you strike, I will resign.”

ElBaradei: “I am not doing this for material profit. If I was working in the private sector, I would… I am doing this out of the conviction that I am defending shared values. If we deviate from these shared values…”

Interviewer: “So there is no justification for an attack…”

“There Will Be No Point in My Continuing My Work If Military Force Is Used”

ElBaradei: “The day I believe that the international system has begun to collapse is the day I will resign.”

[…]

Interviewer: “If the world reaches a consensus that there is no solution but to attack Iran, would you still resign

? What if Europe, America, and the entire West agree that the only resolution is a military one?”

ElBaradei: “I don’t think that what we are seeing today in Iran poses a clear, imminent, and immediate danger.”

Interviewer: “But in a year or two, it could become…”

ElBaradei: “If this happens, it will be a different story, but if a military strike is launched against Iran now, in my opinion, I will have no choice but to…”

Interviewer: “So there is no justification for a strike against Iran today.”

ElBaradei: “None whatsoever. There will be no point in my continuing my work if military force is used at present.”

End MEMRI Excerpt

As ElBaradei leaves Padlock his Office Door,

Providing a One-Way Ticket to Iran as he Leaves!

Begin DEBKAfile Article

Exclusive: Uproar, military alerts, oil price surge over apparent Israeli air drill for Iran attack

June 21, 2008, 1:12 AM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that an oil price surge of 5 percent to $135.92 was triggered by the report leaked by US government officials of an Israeli air force drill over Greece for an apparent strike against Iran, Friday, June 20.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a war alert in the Revolutionary Guards and armed forces, with the Israeli and US Gulf forces following suit.

Tehran made no immediate comment, while Iranian leaders were reported puzzled by the Bush administration’s motives in leaking the report to the New York Times.

The most extreme reaction came from the UN nuclear watchdog’s director Mohamad ElBaradei, who threatened to resign if there was a military strike on Iran, warning such an attack would turn the region into a “fireball.”

“A military strike would be worse than anything possible,” he warned. “..it will mean that Iran, if it is not already making nuclear weapons, will launch a crash course to build them…”

Russian foreign minister Sergei Ivanov maintained that neither Israel nor the United States had produced proof that Iran was developing nuclear weapons and said the issue must be dealt with by diplomacy and talks with Tehran.

The American UN ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad agreed.

While stating the view that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would be “unacceptable,” he stressed:

“We’re in the phase of diplomacy; we want a diplomatic settlement of this issue.

The ball is frankly in Iran’s court.”

DEBKAfile’s political sources comment that if a reported air maneuver simulating an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities raised so much international, financial and military dust, how much more extreme would the world response be to a real attack.

The Greek Air force confirmed its participation in the Israeli military exercise held three weeks ago, but did not confirm the claim by Washington officials that it was a rehearsal for a potential attack on Iran. The Greek source stated no ground targets were involved as the drill was mainly aimed at personnel training. It w as the first l

arge-scale exercise between Israel and the air force of Greece, a member of NATO.

UP to 40 Israeli Air force F-15 and F-16 warplanes were based at the Greek Air Force Station at Souda on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete for the duration of the exercise, said the source.

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A Quarter Million Today, Hoping for a Million on Tuesday,

Crying FOR Hosni Mubarak’s Resignation ON Wednesday

Singing “I’ll Fly Away” from My Eagle’s Height on Thursday,

As world waits to see who will fly up to fill Mubarak’s Roost.

January 31, 2010

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Begin Excerpt 1 from THE JERUSALEM POST

250,000 protesters gather in Cairo’s Tahrir Square

By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND JPOST.COM STAFF

01/31/2011 16:14

Curfew-defying protesters continue 7th day of anti-government demonstrations calling for Mubarak’s removal; Al-Jazeera network says 6 English-language journalists arrested, subsequently released.

Around 250,000 protesters gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square Monday afternoon as anti-government protests continued for the seventh day, the pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera reported.

Protesters ignored the state-imposed curfew which began at 3 p.m. as a coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to the streets Tuesday to demand the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified leadership was emerging for Egypt’s powerful but disparate protest movement.

Earlier Monday, Al-Jazeera reported that six of its journalists were in Egyptian custody after authorities ordered the closure of the network’s Cairo office. By mid-afternoon, the network reported via Twitter that

the six were released but that authorities had seized their equipment.

The Qatar-based network said the journalists were working for its English-language channel — a sister operation to the flagship Arabic service.

The detentions came a day after Egyptian authorities shut Al-Jazeera’s office, complaining its round-the-clock coverage was slanted toward protesters and could encourage more unrest which has reached its seventh day.

Al-Jazeera denounced the closure as an attempt to muzzle open reporting as anti-government demonstrations and protests continued. The network had managed to continue coverage in Egypt with fixed-position cameras and reports by phone.

On Monday morning, Egyptian helicopters were sighted flying above Tahrir Square, CNN reported.

Egyptian soldiers and armored tanks continued their presence on city streets, CNN said and Al-Jazeera reported that the military presence in downtown Cairo “just keeps getting stricter day by day; there’s more roadblocks, more barbed wire, there’s more restrictions on who can move about and TV cameras are more restricted.”

In an online audio posting on the network’s Twitter feed, Al-Jazeera “has confirmed that regular police are redeploying in the city, they’re back on the streets…they were seen at a police station…on the west side of the Nile, southwest of central Cairo.”

An Al-Jazeera correspondent said the police were spotted “at a police station where the civilians on the street reportedly were not actually unhappy to see them. They were shaking hands and talking casually, perhaps happily…which might not make immediate sense since these are the people who are blamed for the deadly violence that racked the city just days ago but that’s what our crews are seeing.”

A leading Muslim Brotherhood official told The Associated Press that the fundamentalist movement wants to form a committee of opposition groups along with Nobel laureate and leading reform advocate Mohamed ElBaradei as a way of uniting the disparate groups calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

Saad el-Katatni said that his group has not selected ElBaradei to represent it.

The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt’s largest opposition movement, and wants to form an Islamist state in the most populous Arab nation.

The police, which before the revolt could be seen on nearly every corner, melted away Friday, giving way to looting and arson.

Gangs of thugs have cleared out supermarkets, shopping malls and stores, as well as luxury homes and apartments in affluent residential areas in the suburbs.

On Monday, police were beginning to redeploy in many neighborhoods.

Begin Excerpt from Al Jazeera

ElBaradei: Cut US Mubarak support

With his feet on the ground in Egypt, opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei presses the US to abandon Hosni

Mubarak.

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Mohamed ElBaradei says he’s been ‘mandated by the people’ to help create a ‘unity government’

GALLO/GETTY

Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei has put pressure on the United States to support calls for Hosni Mubarak, the embattled Egyptian president, to step down, saying “life support to the dictator” must end.

In a series of interviews with a US television networks from Cairo on Sunday, ElBaradei also said he had a mandate to negotiate a national unity government and would soon reach out to the army, at the heart of power in Egypt for more than a half century.

ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate for his work with the UN nuclear agency, said it was only a matter of time before Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for three decades, stepped down.

He urged Barack Obama, the US president, to take a stand.

“It is better for President Obama not to appear that he is the last one to say to President Mubarak, ‘It’s time for you to go,'” he told CNN.

Mubarak’s democracy ‘a farce’

ElBaradei, a possible candidate in Egypt’s presidential election this year, dismissed US calls for Mubarak to enact sweep ing democratic and economic reforms

in response to the protests.

“The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe that a dictator who has been in power for 30 years would be the one to implement democracy. This is a farce,” he told the CBS program “Face the Nation.”

“This first thing which will calm the situation is for Mubarak to leave, and leave with some dignity.

Otherwise I fear that things will get bloody.

And you (the United States) have to stop the life support to the dictator and root for the people.”

ElBaradei returned to Egypt on Thursday night in the midst of large-scale protests that have left Mubarak clinging to power with the army in the streets.

ElBaradei addressed the protesters in Cairo on Sunday.

Muted US response

Obama is performing a delicate balancing act, trying to avoid outright abandoning Mubarak — an important US strategic ally of 30 years – while supporting protesters who seek broader political rights and demand his ouster.

The US response to ElBaradei’s return has so far been muted, perhaps signalling a reluctance to be seen as meddling in a country where Washington has long cast a shadow with annual aid of about $1.5 bn per year.

ElBaradei is a well-known figure in Washington. He had an uneasy relationship with the administration of former President George W. Bush after he disputed the US rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Earlier on Sunday, a leading member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said Egyptian opposition forces had agreed to support ElBaradei to negotiate with the government.
In his US interviews, ElBaradei rejected concerns about extremism within the Muslim Brotherhood, which is popular among the underprivileged, partly because it offers social and economic services in deprived neighbourhoods.

“They are no way extremists. They are no way using violence,” he told ABC’s “This Week” programme.

“This is what the regime … sold to the West and to the US: ‘It’s either us, repression or al Qaeda-type.

Source:
Agencies

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Sacrificing the Pawns to save the King’s Checkmate Power,

The Muslim Brotherhood Will NOT control the Government

Initially coming out of this Egyptian revolution Outbreak,

But will gain great influence in it before a King of North

Attacks Egypt from the Northeast with Daniel’s Horns!

January 30, 2011

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I do not believe the Muslim Brotherhood will be the head of any government which comes out the current uprising, but it will grow stronger as time passes, and will internally assist the King of the North to defeat Egypt when he drives Israel into the Negev Wilderness, then veers southeast to attack and conquer Egypt.

This uprising will not leave the Muslim Brotherhood in control, but it will give them freedom to increase in power in the Arab world and, before 2015 it will have created enough union between iron and clay to begin the Middle East war, which will lead to the final battle of Armageddon some 3 & ½ years later.

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.

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.

Daniel 11:42 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

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

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Cairo regime change could make IDF boost forces in South

By YAAKOV KATZ

01/30/2011 05:28

Israel Concerned new government in Egypt would allow arms flow to Gaza, cut military dialogue; Muslim Brotherhood previously threatens to rip up Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty if in control.

Regime change in Egypt would force the IDF to reallocate resources and possibly increase its strength in the South, senior defense officials warned on Saturday.

Israel was closely following the demonstrations in Egypt and teams were assembled at Southern Command headquarters in Beersheba as well as at the Kirya military headquarters and Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv to discuss possible scenarios and outcomes.

The 1979 peace treaty with Egypt has allowed the army to focus most of its forces and procurement efforts on the northern front – Syria, Lebanon and Iran.

“If a hostile regime takes over in Egypt, the IDF will need to restructure itself and would be pushed to the limit in its ability to deploy adequate resources on the various fronts,” one defense official said.

Israeli concerns regarding Egypt relate to several issues but focus on the long-term strategic effect Mubarak’s downfall would have on the country and the Muslim Brotherhood’s potential to take over the country. The Brotherhood has said that one of the first things it would do would be to rip up the peace treaty

Israel is also concerned about the effect a regime change would have on Egypt’s border with Gaza, where security forces have recently been working more aggressively to stop arms smuggling to Hamas. While weaponry and explosives have still made their way to the Strip, the security forces have nonetheless been effective in curbing the flow.

“A change in power could change what happens on the border as well,” a senior defense official said.

On Saturday night, Channel 1 reported gunfire near the border with Gaza coming from Rafah.

Israeli defense sources confirmed that the IDF was not currently built to counter a military threat from Egypt and would have to restructure its divisions and the air force to effectively meet the challenge.

Defense officials said there was concern that a new regime in Egypt would also cancel the joint dialogue that has dealt with key issues such as smuggling under the Philadelphi Corridor between Sinai and Gaza.

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Israel silently watches the unfolding of two new fronts

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

January 29, 2011, 11:56 PM (GMT+02:00

Egypt, one of the only two Arab states to sign peace with Israel, is wobbling dangerously on the brink of revolutionary change with potentially spreading fallout. This week, Israel was dismayed to find itself looking suddenly at three latently hostile fronts about to spring up around its borders: Lebanon, which has dropped into the Iranian orbit, followed by Egypt, which is heading for terra incognita, and the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian Hamas, offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, has gained altitude as a Middle East player from the rise of its less radical parent.

Indeed Gaza’s rulers, who are close to Iran, are puffing themselves up as a bridge between the Shiite Revolution of Iran and the Sunni-led revolution of Egypt.

In the five days of the Egyptian upheaval from Tuesday, Jan. 25, none of the Israeli Middle East experts and pundits interviewed in one broadcast after another pointed to the three most pertinent common factors of the regime changes overtaking Tunisia, Lebanon and Egypt – all in the space of days.

1. Not a single protester or slogan-bearer summoned up the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as a factor in the most revolutionary transformations to overtake the region’s countries in half a century. The Palestinians issue was totally absent from street demonstrations and Iran’s takeover of Lebanon – giving the lie to the decades-long claim by Western decision- and opinion-makers that the Israel-Palestinian conflict was the root-cause of instability in the Arab and Muslim worlds and if it were not settled, those worlds would turn against the West. The Palestinians were plainly far from the minds of this week’s Arab demonstrators.

2. The force most energized by the popular uprising in Egypt week turns out to be the extremist Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood – not only in Gaza and the West Bank, but also in Jordan. Its enhanced potency makes it a menace for Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the rival Fatah, and the Hashemite throne in Amman.

Flexing his new muscles, Hammam Saeed, head of the Muslim Brotherhood of Jordan and a close ally of the Hamas’s Damascus-based leader, Khaled Meshaal, said this in Amman Saturday, Jan.

29: “Egypt’s unrest will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.”

DEBKAfile’s Middle East experts predict that however the Egyptian uprising turns out, and in whichever direction it is pushed and pulled by the United States, it will end in a new parliamentary election and a new civilian government in which the Muslim Brotherhood will be substantially represented.

This government will not abrogate the 1979 peace treaty binding Israel and Egypt for 33 years – no Cairo administration will risk losing the substantial aid package from America – but its format will change. The intimacy of day-to-day cooperation on common security and other matters may well be disappear and Israeli political, military and intelligence figures will not longer be welcome in Cairo for consultations on common concerns as they are today.

The Palestinian leader Abbas may also find the welcome mat withdrawn, unless he is willing to succumb to Hamas and cede control of the West Bank to the Palestinian extremists.

Both set s of visitors will be replaced by Hamas leaders from Damascus, Beirut and the Gaza Strip beating a path to the Egyptian capital.

Over the weekend, more than one high Iranian official was patting himself on the back over the way the Egyptian upheaval was turning out – especially the Al Qods Brigades commander, Qhassem Soleimani, whom DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources disclose has just been promoted to Major General, the second highest rank in Iran’s armed forces.

For 15 years as Al Qods chief, he has overseen all of Iran’s clandestine, sabotage and subversive operations in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq, managed Hizballah’s terrorist and spy cells active in West and East Africa, built up Hizballah as the leading military force on home ground in Lebanon, and developed the military prowess of the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami in the Gaza Strip.
Soleimani feels triumphantly vindicated in his decision to build up Hamas as Hizballah No. 2 and furnish the Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip with the missiles and weapons systems required to make them a formidable military force.

The Al Qods Brigades chief now takes credit for Hamas’s readiness for the enhanced role it has gained from the popular uprising in Egypt.

But Israel’s strategic planners should be kicking themselves for failing to curb Iran’s military expansion into Lebanon and the Gaza Strip before it developed. The consequence of their inaction is two new long potentially hostile borders to Israel’s south.

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If Brotherhood takes over, IDF will face formidable enemy

By YAAKOV KATZ

01/30/2011 02:29

This year is turning into a critical one for Israel, which is becoming more isolated in the ME. Turkey is gone and Egypt appears to be on the way.

The collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt is not yet about Israel but soon will be, depending on his successor.

If the Muslim Brotherhood grabs the reins in the massive Arab country, Israel will face an enemy with one of the largest and strongest militaries around, built on some

of the most advanced American-made platforms.

The impact on Israel will be immediate – the IDF will need to undergo major structural changes, new units will need to be created and forces in the South will likely need to be beefed up. Since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the IDF has not had to worry about two fronts at once. Until now.

The appointment of Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman as the vice president in Egypt is a reassuring sign for Israel.

Suleiman has played a key role in Israeli- Egyptian relations over the years and is considered in charge of the “Israeli Dossier” His office has been responsible for coordinating efforts to stop smuggling via tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor with Gaza and he is considered something of a moderate in comparison to outgoing Defense Minister Mohamed Tantawi.

In a cable published recently by WikiLeaks, Suleiman told the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2009 that Egypt was stopping Iranian money from making its way through the country to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

A new regime in Egypt could change all of that, and the transfer of Iranian funds to Hamas would be the least of Israel’s concerns.

Due to the peace with Egypt and Jordan as well as the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the IDF has spent the last decade focused on the internal Palestinian threat, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Israel’s military buildup was performed accordingly, including procurement plans regarding the number of tanks, armored personnel carriers and fighter jets acquired.

“With its current assets, the IDF will currently find it very difficult to be able to deal with two live fronts at once,” a senior defense official admitted recently.

In the meantime, in Israel the hope is that Mubarak survives the calls for his downfall and

that the appointment of Suleiman as well as the dismissal of the government succeeds in easing the demonstrations on the streets.

At the moment, assessments in Israeli intelligence circles are that Mubarak will survive. The demonstrations throughout Egypt, while large and growing, do not have an organized leadership behind them, and fearing a violent crackdown, the Muslim Brotherhood is staying underground.

The question, though, is what happens the “day after” Mubarak? Who will succeed him and what role will the Muslim Brotherhood play? Israel’s concerns though are not isolated to Egypt.

One former senior Mossad official said on Saturday that Israel needed to be more concerned with a potential revolution in Jordan.

“In Egypt, Israel has Sinai as a major buffer zone,” the official said. “This is not the case in Jordan, where there is a massive Palestinian population that could directly threaten Israel through the West Bank.”

This year is turning into a critical one for Israel, which is finding itself increasingly isolated within the Middle East. Turkey is gone and Egypt appears to be on the way.

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The Governments Initially Formed out of this Middle East Mess,

Will NOT be headed by the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Group,

But they will be weaker than the ironhanded regime of Mubarak,

And FURTHER on down the line will be taken over by Brotherhood!

January 29, 2011

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II Timothy 3:1-4 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

The history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt following its founding in 1928 has been one of huge growth followed by successive government crackdowns.

Both royal and nationalist Egyptian governments suppressed the Brotherhood in 1948, 1954, 1965 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered.

Periodic suppressions have continued even after the Brotherhood officially renounced violence in the 1970s. Today it is illegal but tolerated as Egypt’s most popular and powerful non-governmental organization.

Headl ine Excerpts from Haareth

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ine 1

Mubarak swears in intelligence chief as Vice-President

Headline 2

Omar Suleiman assumes position vacant for 30 years after cabinet forced to resign, while Muslim Brotherhood demands transfer of power.

Headline 3

Egypt death toll reaches 55; tens of thousands return to the streets

Headline 4

Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood: Arabs will topple U.S.-backed tyrants

Headline 5

MESS Report / The price Mubarak will have to pay

Just two days ago, Mideast experts and commentators could not foresee that the Egypt could be on the verge of a revolution, and Mubarak’s 30-year regime might come to a forced end.

Headline 6

Aluf Benn / Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast

Without Egypt’s Mubarak and with relations with Turkey in shambles, Israel will be forced to court new potential allies.

Headline 7

PM Netanyahu: Israel will monitor but not comment on Egypt protests

Headline 8

Dozens of Israelis flee Egypt on emergency flight

The Israeli embassy in Cairo has been closed since the riots broke out, and will remain closed on Sunday; Netanyahu has not yet voiced political stance on protests.

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Massive demonstration swells in downtown Cairo

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

01/29/2011 15:40

CAIRO — A massive crowds of tens of thousands calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is gathering in the streets and squares of downtown Cairo in a peaceful demonstration and they are vowing to defy a curfew that is to go into force in less than an hour.

There was only a light military presence — a few tanks — and soldiers are not intervening. No police were seen in the crowds and no clashes were reported.

One army captain joined the demonstrators, who hoisted him on their shoulders while chanting slogans against Mubarak. The officer ripped a picture of the president.

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Mubarak hangs on to power as Obama dictates terms. But for how long?

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 29, 2011, 2:31 AM (GMT+02:00)

In his first public appearance in four days of violent protests against his rule, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said after midnight Friday, Jan. 28, he would not resign, but had asked the cabinet to step down, would form a new government Saturday and promised democratic reforms.

The protests, Mubarak charged, were part of a plot to destabilize Egypt and destroy his own legitimacy. As he spoke, dozens of army tanks massed in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square.

President Barack Obama then confirmed at the White House that he had called the Egyptian for the first time since the crisis erupted last Tuesday and told him he must deliver on his pledges for a better democracy and greater economic opportunities.

In his speech, Mubarak defended the hated security forces’ actions against the protesters.

While promising to fix the economy and provide more freedoms and jobs, he said this would come through national dialogue, not chaos. The Egyptian president said he had a duty not to let anything happen to threaten the country’s peace and security or permit terr

orism.

DEBKAfile: The coming hours will see how the protest movement responds to Mubarak’s decision to hold on to power in defiance of their main rallying cry and how the army conducts itself as thousands of protesters defy the nationwide curfew decree. So far, they have not fired the machine guns on their tanks and the soldiers were welcomed although there were some cases of hostility.

According to some sources, tanks are surrounding the British and US embassies.

After announcing that US aid to Egypt would be reviewed in the light of “unfolding events,” Obama laid down five conditions for Mubarak to stay on as president with US support:

1. Egyptian military and security forces must be restrained from violence against civilians. The US would defend the rights to freedom of assembly and speech everywhere.

2. Mubarak must deliver on his pledges of reforms for a better democracy and greater economic opportunities;

3. He must hold a dialogue with the opponents of his regime and abandon the use of force;

4. The shutdown of Internet and other services must be reversed.

Before Obama communicated with Mubarak, his administration was generally seen to have abandoned the Egyptian president as a write-off and thrown its support behind

the protesters.

“The situation must be solved by the Egyptian people which deserves to have its universal rights respected,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs when asked if the administration supported its pro-Western Arab ally. President Barack Obama had not spoken to President Mubarak since the crisis began, Gibbs said, stressing that it was up to the Egyptian government to “immediately address the legitimate grievances of the Egyptian people by reforms – not violence. Military and security forces must act with restraint.”

Gibbs warned that US aid to Egypt would be reviewed in the light of unfolding events.

The Egyptian president is clearly on trial in Washington as well as at home. It is not clear if he can survive both tests.

An interesting Ayatollah Sermon

Radical Islam push out Pro-Yanks

Jihad radicals minorities in Protests,

But are experts in taking over by Few,

Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen,

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami IN Friday Sermon:

New Islam-Based Middle East Is In The Making;

Unrest Is 1979 aftershock of Iran Islamic Uprising!

January 29, 2011

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II Timothy 3:1-4 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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Middle East Media Research Institute

January 28, 2011

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami in Friday Sermon: A New Islam-Based Middle East Is In the Making; Unrest Is Aftershock of 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran

In his sermon today, Tehran interim Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said that in contrast to the U.S.’s dream of a new Middle East under its domination, a new Middle East based on Islamic principles is now taking shape.

Stating that the popular uprisings in the Arab world herald the creation of “an Islamic Middle East” based on the religion and religious democracy – in contrast to claims by former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice that a new Middle East would be developed under the leadership of the U.S. and Israel – he underlined that this ongoing unrest is the aftershock of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

He added that the recent uprisings in the Arab world have Islamic support, as people poured into the streets with the slogan of “Allahu Akhbar (Allah is the Greatest).”

Addressing worshipers at the Tehran University campus, Ayatollah Khatami noted the events unfolding in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen, and pointed out that while the Western countries have, in their media, denied the roots of the Islamic Revolution and these revolutions’ religious nature, the fate of

the Tunisian dictator demonstrated the divine tradition that those who oppose the sacred religion of Islam are doomed to failure.

Referring to the ongoing rallies in Yemen, he said that such developments are inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran. He also noted that Tunisians were holding their first Friday prayers since the departure of their dictator to demonstrate the Islamic Revolution’s influence on their protests.

On recent developments in Lebanon, Khatami said that the Lebanese nation is demanding the foiling of the enemies’ insidious plots and conspiracies there, because they wish to make their own decisions.

He congratulated Hizbullah, and said that the incoming Lebanese government is causing intense concern to the usurper Zionist regime and the U.S.

Elsewhere in his sermon, he noted that on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the 10-Day Dawn (i.e. the national celebration of the anniversary) serves as the symbol of the Iranian nation’s freedom and independence, which revived Islam and gave the sacred religion of Islam its grandeur.[1]

Endnote:

[1] IRIBnews, Fars, Press TV, IRNA, Mehr, Lenziran.com (Iran), January 28, 2011

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‘We’re living on a volcano,’ experts warn

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

01/28/2011 01:44

As with Iran in ’79, Islamists could hijack pro-democracy movements; ex-IDF research chief: “We’re on thick ice, but even that melts eventually.”

Israeli security experts are casting an uneasy eye at the civil unrest spreading through the region.

On Thursday, Yemen joined the list of Arab states experiencing unprecedented demonstrations calling for authoritarian leaders to step down, and Egypt braced for more civil unrest. While no analysts here predict any immediate ramifications for Israel’s national security, some said mass protest movements that begin as pro-democracy uprisings could easily be hijacked by Islamists.

“We need to understand that we are living on a volcano,” said Maj.- Gen. (res.) Ya’acov Amidror, former head of the IDF’s Research and Assessment Directorate.

“Conditions can change from today until tomorrow. We must ask ourselves, what is the worst case scenario,” he said. “We are on thick ice, but even that melts eventually.”

“Advice we have heard from certain countries in Western Europe [suggesting that the uprisings could lead to a wave of democratic revolutions] should not be followed,” he said. “There’s no immediate fear of any security escalation. The main question is: In the long term, will we be ready for all scenarios?” Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser, and a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), said, “There’s a reasonable chance that if a revolution takes place in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood would rise to power. That would be bad not just for Israel but for all democracies.”

The true struggle in Egypt was not between “Mubarak and pro-democracy elements, but between Mubarak and the Muslim Brotherhood,” Eiland said.

Casting his eye on Lebanon, Giora said the recent confrontation between the pro-Western March 8 alliance and the Hizbullah-led March 14 bloc was not as severe as met the eye.

“It’s true that the two camps have been in a political confrontation that became sharper. But there is a clear interest for both sides to continue to cooperate – not only to prevent a civil war, but to enjoy the best of both worlds,” he said.

“So long as there is a unity government, then pro-Western camp can ask the West for economic and military aid, while pointing to democracy in Lebanon, a free economy, and a functioning parliament. The role of Hizbullah is to continue to be the most powerful military force in Lebanon, and to have strategic control,” Eiland said.

He believes that Israel is better off with a Lebanon formally controlled by Hizbullah, “because as soon as fire is opened at Israel, it’s not Hizbullah but the whole of the state of Lebanon that is responsible. That is a real deterrent, and it has plenty of advantages.

“The same is true of Hamas rule in Gaza,” Eiland said.

Shlomo Brom, director of the program on Israel-Palestinian relations at the INSS, said it was impossible to know what would happen next.

“It’s true that pro-democracy voices are being expressed – and that is positive – but we don’ t know how i

t will end,” Brom said. Even in Tunisia, where the Islamists are weak, we don’t know how it will end. We can’t forget that in Iran, at the end of the 1970s, the uprising against the shah was led by [pro-democracy] youths who took the streets – but this was taken over by Islamists in the end.”

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Pre-Plucking before Antichrist is Revealed,

Middle East Islamic Leaders being Plucked

Islamic Jihad Afghanistan to Mediterranean,

Taking Advantage of the Spirit of Revolution,

Overthrowing A Lot Of Pro-American Leaders!

January 28, 2011

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Daniel 7:8 – I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

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2 killed in Egyptian clashes, ElBaradei under house arrest

One woman killed in Cairo, another man shot to death in Suez, reports al-Jazeera; ElBaradei arrested after hiding in mosque; tens of thousands continue to clash with police in at least 11 of Egypt’s 28 provinces.

Excerpt 2

Thousands in Jordan protest, demand PM step down In 3rd day of protests, opposition supporters took to the streets in Amman to express their anger at rising prices, inflation, unemployment.

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January 27, 2011

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Iran’s Allies Gain Clout

Brian Murphy

From Afghanistan to the Mediterranean, evidence of Iran’s reach is easy to spot: as a power broker in Iraq, in deep alliances with Syria, and as a big brother to Lebanon’s Hizbullah and Hamas in Gaza. Tehran’s proxy portfolio suddenly has a bit more aura after Hizbullah’s latest successful political gambit in Lebanon.

To those keeping score, it would appear that

Iran is winning some important points around the Middle East at the expense of Washington and its allies.

“Certainly there is more visible Iranian influence around the region,” said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.

“But these are no longer just vassals of Iran. As they move into political roles, there will be changes that Iran cannot control.” (AP-Washington Post)

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In Egypt, Protests Show Signs of Cohesion

Sherine Bayoumi and Leila Fadel

The demonstrations in Egypt continued Wednesday despite a strong police presence and hundreds of arrests. There were secularists, socialists and Islamists all walking together and demanding change with a unity that for years eluded Egypt’s opposition. “The psychological barrier of fear has been broken,” said Shadi Hamid, director of research for the Brookings Doha Center. “Eighty million Egyptians saw [Tuesday’s protests]. They saw that it’s okay to come out and that there is safety in numbers.” (Washington Post)

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As Arabs Protest, Obama Administration Offers Support

Scott Wilson and Joby Warrick

The Obama administration is openly supporting the anti-government demonstrations shaking the Arab Middle East, a stance that is far less tempered than the one the president has taken during past unrest in the region. As demonstrations in Tunis, Cairo and Beirut have unfolded in recent days, President Obama and his senior envoys to the region have thrown U.S. support clearly behind the protesters, speaking daily in favor of free speech and assembly even when the protests target longtime U.S. allies such as Egypt. (Washington Post)

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U.S. Diplomats Urge Regimes to Embrace Change to Block Islamist Radicals

Jay Solomon and Bill Spindle

(Wall Street Journal)

The Obama administration intensified diplomatic pressure on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to initiate wide-ranging political overhauls.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials have decided not to seek wholesale political change in Cairo and other Arab capitals, but instead to prod their allies into embracing reform movements that, so far, appear to be largely secular and grass-roots in nature.

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A Manifesto for Change in Egypt

by Mohamed ElBaradei

Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei arrived back Egypt on Thursday despite direct threats against his life. On the eve of his return, the former U.N. official who is the Mubarak regime’s most high-profile opponent on the young people who’ve taken to the streets, political Islam, and the role of the United States. Plus, full coverage of the protests in Egypt.

When Egypt had parliamentary elections only two months ago, they were completely rigged. The party of President Hosni Mubarak left the opposition with only 3 percent of the seats. Imagine that. And the American government said that it was “dismayed.” Well, frankly, I was dismayed that all it could say is that it was dismayed. The word was hardly adequate to express the way the Egyptian people felt.

Then, as protests built in the streets of Egypt following the overthrow of Tunisia’s dictator, I heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s assessment that the government in Egypt is “stable” and “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people”. I was flabbergasted—and I was puzzled. What did she mean by stable, and at what price? Is it the stability of 29 years of “emergency” laws, a president with imperial power for 30 years, a parliament that is almost a mockery, a judiciary that is not independent

? Is that what you call stability? I am sure not. And I am positive that it is not the standard you apply to other countries. What we see in Egypt is pseudo-stability, because real stability only comes with a democratically elected government.

If you would like to know why the United States does not have credibility in the Middle East, that is precisely the answer. People were absolutely disappointed in the way you reacted to Egypt’s last election. You reaffirmed their belief that you are applying a double standard for your friends, and siding with an authoritarian regime just because you think it represents your interests. We are staring at social disintegration, economic stagnation, political repression, and we do not hear anything from you, the Americans, or for that matter from the Europeans.

So when you say the Egyptian government is looking for ways to respond to the needs of the Egyptian people, I feel like saying, “Well, it’s too late!” This isn’t even good realpolitik. We have seen what happened in Tunisia, and before that in Iran. That should teach people there is no stability except when you have government freely chosen by its own people.

Of course, you in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That’s obviously bogus. If we are talking about Egypt, there is a whole rainbow variety of people who are secular, liberal, market-oriented, and if you give them a chance they will organize themselves to elect a government that is modern and moderate. They want desperately to catch up with the rest of the world.

Instead of equating politic al Islam with

al Qaeda all the time, take a closer look. Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God.

That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler. Only a few weeks ago, the leader of a group of ultra-conservative Muslims in Egypt issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for me to “repent” for inciting public opposition to President Hosni Mubarak, and declaring the ruler has a right to kill me, if I do not desist.

This sort of thing moves us toward the dark ages. But did we hear a single word of protest or denunciation from the Egyptian government? No.

Despite all of this, I have hoped to find a way toward change through peaceful means.

In a country like Egypt, it’s not easy to get people to put down their names and government ID numbers on a document calling for fundamental democratic reforms, yet a million people have done just that. The regime, like the monkey that sees nothing and hears nothing, simply ignored us.

The young people of Egypt have lost patience, and what you’ve seen in the streets these last few days has all been organized by them. I have been out of Egypt because that is the only way I can be heard. I have been totally cut off from the local media when I am there. But I am going back to Cairo, and back onto the streets because, really, there is no choice. You go out there with this massive number of people, and you hope things will not turn ugly, but so far, the regime does not seem to have gotten that message.

Each day it gets harder to work with Mubarak’s government, even for a transition, and for many of the people you talk to in Egypt, that is no longer an option. They think he has been there 30 years, he is 83 years old, and it is time for a change.

For them, the only option is a new beginning.

How long this can go on, I don’t know. In Egypt, as in Tunisia, there are other forces than just the president and the people. The army has been quite neutral so far, and I would expect it to remain that way.

The soldiers and officers are part of the Egyptian people. They know the frustrations. They want to protect the nation.

But this week the Egyptian people broke the barrier of fear, and once that is broken, there is no stopping them.

Mohamed ElBaradei was awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize along with the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which he headed at the time. Since his retirement at t he end of 2009,

he has emerged as a political force in his native Egypt. His book,

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