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NO ONE CAN SAY COL. QADDAFI WASN’T PREPARED FOR A REVOLT!

THE GOVERNMENT EVENTUALLY COMING OUT OF LIBYA UPRISING

IS NOT PREPARED TO STOP THE RISING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

AND IT WILL EVENTUALLY FOLLOW THE JIHADIST LEADERSHIP

TO BECOME 1 OF10 HORNS LED BY AN ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST

AS HE ATTACKS THE EGYPTIAN ARMY VIA THE NORTHEAST!

February 28, 2011

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Daniel 11:40-42 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. [42] He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

In verses 40 to 42 Daniel details the entrance of the antichrist into Israel from the north, his conquest of Israel north of Beersheva, his driving of Israel into the Negev, his by-passing Jordan because of a lack of strategic value, the absolute necessity of his conquest of the Suez Canal, and his preparation to enter Egypt for a strategic base of his future activities during the next three plus years.

Daniel 11:43 – 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.

The antichrist is to be a tactical military genius. That being the case, he will follow the only logical way to conquer Egypt. Just what is Egypt geographically? It is bordered on the west by Libya, on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the south by Sudan, and on the east by the

western border of the Gaza Strip, the Negev, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Red Sea. However, in reality, that is not Egypt. Egypt, population wise, consists of the narrow strip of coastline (up to three miles inland) touching the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea, plus its major population distribution along and 20 miles either side of the Nile River and its northern delta. The antichrist will lead a Jihad coalition of 10 Islamic nations, two of which will be Libya and ancient Ethiopia, which now exists as Sudan along the southern border of Egypt. He will not want either of these nations to share in land acquisition rewards from the conquest of Egypt, but he will use them to make his victory much easier. He will instruct Libya to mass its troops along its northern coastal border with Egypt, and the Sudan to mass its troops where the Nile River enters Egypt from the south. This will force Egypt to move some of its troops to these areas in a defensive mode, and, as a result, the antichrist will take Cairo in less than a day.

His troops will move rapidly west along the northern coastline, south along the eastern coastline, and down the Nile River to the Sudanese border. This will complete his conquest of Egypt. All the rest of it has less than one percent of the population, and is virtual wasteland.

In his initial conquests only 10 Islamic nations will be involved. As you may discover in volumes of previous Prophecy Updates, these 10 have been identified as being made up of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Sudan. Those directly involved in the initial Jihad onslaught from the north will be Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, with the Palestinians attacking internally out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Libya, and Sudan will be more involved in the strategic and logistical positional support than in actual combat. However, after quick successes against Israel and Egypt, all the other Islamic nations will immediately jump on his bandwagon, and suddenly all the aspirations of Mohammed, and the Biblical prophecies of a final evil empire, will be fulfilled. After all the Islamic nations climb on board it will cover as far to the west from Cairo as Daniel’s fourth be ast conquered, that is to Morocco, and

as far to the east as his second and third beast conquered, that is to India. I am persuaded it will of course include the 10 already mentioned, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. During the three plus years of antichrist’s reign, most of Europe will come under his control or strong influence, and in the final battle of Armageddon, which closes his reign, all the nations of Europe, Africa, Eurasia, Asia, and the Middle East will join him in a final massive attack again Israel in the Negev.

The antichrist’s caliphate will be an empire that dominates the known world in the days the prophets wrote from Isaiah and Micah in 700 B.C. to John in A.D. 95. They wrote to the people of their day and we are meant to understand it the light of how they perceived it. There is no question that God knew the world as we know it today, but I am convinced He meant for us, in the prophecies relating to the extent of the antichrist’s empire, to interpret it as meaning the world as the prophets knew it. So, as regards the size of his empire, when they used expressions like “the whole world, all the earth, wherever men dwell, etc.,” it does not refer to the earth as we know

it today, but to the earth as it was known by the writers.

These same expressions, when used as pertaining to such things as the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:18-20, do mean the earth as we know it today by implication of the directive. The believing world today waits for an antichrist that will dominate the whole world as we know it today and, quite frankly, they could be right. I am prepared for that!

But I am also prepared for an antichrist that dominates the aforementioned areas I have outlined.

There is a distinct possibility of this eventuality. So watch the Middle East, and if such an empire does arise, then don’t set on your duff waiting for an antichrist to arise out of Europe that will dominate all the world as we know it today. If I am correct in what I believe as to the size and dominion of his empire, then it will shatter end time teachings that arose in the early nineteenth century, and eventually solidified in the twentieth century. In any case, I am convinced that the next five years will settle the question as to the correct interpretation.

The antichrist will conduct his activities of his caliphate during his stay of some 3 and ½ years from his Cairo command center, and then something happens which causes him to head back to Jerusalem as his time on earth is drawing to a close.

For better or for worst, I believe his initial attack is likely to be launched be

fore the year 2015. Most of the world has no idea of the horror soon to be unleashed in the Middle East.

Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

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Qaddafi’s air force is up again and ferrying fresh troops to defend Tripoli

DEBKAfile Special Report

February 27, 2011, 10:10 PM (GMT+02:00)

Hours after the UN Security Council unanimously imposed sanctions on Col. Muammar Qaddafi and his regime, his reactivated air force was flying army and tribal reinforcements from the south and landing them at the military airfields of Tripoli, Misrata and Sirte.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report. Sunday night, Feb. 27, men were immediately deployed at the main road intersections leading to the capital.

This move at the current stage of Libya’s civil war lessens the military significance of the rebels’ reported takeover of towns around Tripoli, including Al Zawiya to the west, from which Qaddafi’s forces pulled back to guard the main road to Tripoli.

For now, the rebels face four main difficulties:

1. They lack organized military strength to stand up to Qaddafi’s professionally-trained and equipped soldiers.

This imbalance can only be offset by a mutiny in the army’s ranks or assassination.

2. Instead of digging in and consolidating their control of the eastern part of the country after its capture, the rebels went after Tripoli in order to topple Qaddafi.

Sunday night, this goal looked unattainable.

3. They have rejected US and European offers of military assistance in the strongest terms warning that if foreign troops intervened they would redirect their guns from Qaddafi on the interlopers.

4. The rebels are fighting without air cover, while Qaddafi’s forces command enough air power and air fields in the south to keep up a steady flow of fresh fighting men in his support.

Early Sunday, Feb. 27, US President Barack Obama called on Libyan ruler Col.

Muammar Qaddafi to leave now, having lost the legitimacy to rule since “his only means of staying in power is to use violence against his own people,” and the UN Security Council’s 15 members unanimously slapped down wide-reaching sanctions on members of his family and regime commanders, calling for an immediate
International Criminal Court probe of Qaddafi, his seven sons and daughter and military commanders, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In Libya, former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil has established a provisional government in Benghazi.

President Obama, having issued his statement after a long telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, cannot expect Qaddafi’s removal to be easy or quick. American, European and possibly Arab forces may need to enforce the Security Council resolution because, unlike Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, the Libyan ruler, according to DEBKAfile’s military and Middle East sources, is not about to go willingly.

He was fully prepared militarily for the challenge of popular dissent to his rule by creating a well-armed and trained paramilitary force of 20,000 loyal troops outside Libya’ s conventional army.

He also laid up a war chest of many billions of petrodollars stashed out of reach of sanctions enforcers.

Living under the pressure of sanctions is not a new experience for Qaddafi who survived them for 20 years of his 41 years in power over his sponsorship of international terrorists. He also withstood an American bombardment of his residence in April 1986.

By dismantling and passing to Washington his nuclear weapons program in 2003, the Libyan ruler won another eight years in power. He believes he can escape international and American ire once again, although for the first time he has lost half his country and Western armies may appear on his doorstep at the invitation of the transitional government of Cyrenaica. Libya’s final chapter under Qaddafi rule is still to come.

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THE KING OF THE NORTH (SYRIA) WILL COME WITH MANY SHIPS,

WHEN THE KING OF THE SOUTH (ISRAEL) PUSHES INTO LEBANON,

AND SHIPS OF ISRAEL AND ISLAM WILL ENGAGE IN COASTAL WAR,

BUT THE OTHER SHIPS OF THE WORLD WON’T ENGAGE IN BATTLES

TILL THE ANTICHRIST CALLS NATIONS TO COME FOR ARMAGEDDON!

February 27, 2011

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In Balaam’s final parable to Balak he laid out what Israel would do to the peoples bordering on the Dead Sea to its east, southeast, and south quadrant during the latter days.

Numbers 24:14 – And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

The lives of the Son of David the Son of God are so intertwined in prophecy in deed it is, at times, difficult to tell when it is referring

to David or to Jesus or to both.

Some writers believe Numbers 24:17-22 refers to David, others to Christ, and some to both..

I believe his parable he took up in Numbers 24:23,24 refers to the time of the final battle of Armageddon.

Numbers 24:23,24 – And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! [24] And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

Daniel 11:40 occurs when Israel is initially attacked, at which time the ships of Islam and Israel will engage. Armageddon occurs some three and one-half years later.

Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass

over.

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Balaam’s Ancient Armageddon Prophecy

Is found in the final parable Balaam Uttered!

Much of what he said before it has been Fulfilled!

July 22, 2009

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DARDANELLE MBC

The last parable Balaam issued in Numbers concerning future events in the Middle East has to do with the final battle of Armageddon at the close of the Age of the Gentiles. I do not believe the navies of the world powers will actively engage until the very last battle of Armageddon, which will be one single horrific battle that will end at Christ’s Second Advent.

Numbers 24:23-25 – And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! [24] And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever. [25] And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

The ships of Russia, America, Great Britain, and France will literally blanket the Mediterranean Sea during the tribulation period, but will not actively join in the final war between Islam and Israel until the final battle of it, which will be the great battle of Armageddon.

The Russians have been setting these Syrian ports up for some time now, as the old February 25, 2006 Blog indicates.

Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 27 and 28

February 25, 2006

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As I detailed in Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 27 and 28, the many

descendants of Magog, at the time of Ezekiel’s writings, covered that part of the globe we now identify as Russia. Russian will be a part of the many nations that come down to attack Israel at the final battle of Armageddon, but it will not be a part of the attack of 10 Arab nations that come to attack the Israelis some three and one-half years before Armageddon.

Russia, the European Union, China, Eurasia, and Africa will be invited by the Assyrian Antichrist to be active partners in the final great battle of Armageddon against Israel in the Negev. The vast world oil reserves of the Middle East will be too much of a temptation for them to ignore. Please take a look in our Archives at Prophecy Updates 27 and 28, which were issued in the Spring of 2001.

The following excusive article, from the DEBKAfile Report, is another indicator of Russia’s desire to receive a piece of the pie that eventually is cut out of the Middle East oil fields.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Russian missile cruiser Moskva – on a NATO exercise – docked at Syrian Latakia port on Feb. 21

February 22, 2006, 5:22 PM (GMT+02:00)

A task force led by the Moskva and the Azov landing ship became the first Russian naval force in a decade to call at a Syrian port.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report: The force sailed out of its home port

of Sevastopol on the Black Sea, on Feb. 5, to join a NATO-led anti-terrorist operation in the Mediterranean for a combined three-month drill focusing on combating the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction, illegal weapons trade and migration.

The drill is named The Active Endeavors Operation. NATO leaders and US army chiefs were keen enough on Russian participation for NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer to promise the gesture of the first visit by an alliance chief aboard the Moskva. However, neither he nor the Americans taking part in the exercise had any idea that the Russian naval force intended to break away from the exercise long enough to put in at a Syrian port – a call which Syrian president Bashar Assad took as a gesture of support from Moscow.

The visit underlined the Kremlin’s plan to play a larger part in the military affairs of the Middle East, largely by making friendly overtures to America’s adversaries. President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to discuss arms sales in Moscow with an invited Hamas delegation was part of this picture.

The Moskva missile cruiser was built in 1982 to hunt down and destroy aircraft carriers.

It underwent major repairs which were completed in 2000. It carries a 510-man crew and its main armament is the Bazalt cruise missile, which weighs 6 tons, has a speed of Mach 2.5 and range of 550 km. The 186.5-meter vessel can carry either a nuclear warhead or a 500-kilo conventional one. Its S300f anti air system stretches over the Moskva an aerial umbrella with a 75 kilometer radius. It is also equipped to fight submarines. On Feb. 15, in the course of the NATO drill, the Moskva captured the British destroyer the Nottingham when it played the part of the enemy. The Russian cruiser also seized the Spanish frigate Navarro.

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Russia builds key naval HQ in Syria: Missile presence worries Israel

DEBKAfile Special Report

July 21, 2009, 4:24 PM (GMT+02:00)

A high-ranking Russian navy source reported July 21 that the Soviet-era naval maintenance base near Tartus in Syria is to be expanded and modernized to become “fully operational.” DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Russian is building the facility up as its main sea base for operations in four seas: The Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The upgrade of Russian port facilities at Tartus, its only foothold in the Mediterranean, will automatically enhance Moscow’s strategic interests in Syria and Bashar Assad’s regime.

The Russian source said that the 50 naval personnel and three berthing floats currently deployed at Tartus with accommodation for up a dozen warships will be beefed up with a new berthing float delivered by two tugboats from the Black Sea Fleet. DEBKAfile’s sources disclose that those warships will include large vessels such as the nuclear-armed guided missile cruiser Peter the Great and the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which called in at Tartus in January.

In September 2008, DEBKAfile first disclosed that the Russian Navy commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky and his Syrian counterpart Gen.

Taleb al-Barri, had signed contracts for converting Tartus into one of Russia’s most highly-developed naval infrastructures outside its territory. Its warships based there will capable of reaching the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar in a matter of days.

Israel is deeply concerned, according to our military sources, by the sophisticated air-defense S-300PMU-2 and Iskander-E missile systems the Russians propose to hand Syria on the pretext of installing a shield to defend the facility against air or missile attack. Moscow claims they will remain under the control of Russian crews but, according to information reaching Israel, they will be quietly and gradually handed over to the Syrian army; the Russian teams are in fact instructors.

Russia justifies this, according to DEBKAfile’s Moscow sources, by the deployment of the highly sophisticated American FBX-T missile-interception radar systems at the Israeli Negev base of Nevatim.

Furthermore, Moscow will have its rejoinder for the disputed US deployment of missile interceptors in Eastern Europe. As we reported last September, the Russian Black Sea fleet and new Mediterranean-based warships will coordinate their operations under a single command. They are designed as counter-deployments to the post-Georgian-war US and NATO naval presence in the Black Sea as well as its fleets in other parts of the Mediterranean including Israel’s shores.

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ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 74

June 27, 2002

Daniel 11:43 – 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.

We closed Part 3 with the antichrist in full control of Egypt in verse 43, after having driven the woman Israel into the Negev Wilderness, where she will remain for 3 and ½ prophetic years, or 1260 days. The woman will be made up of 1/3 of the Israel population (1.8 to 2.0 million) surviving his initial drive to Beersheva.

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.

While Israel is boxed in the Negev for 3 and ½ years, the city of Cairo will be his capital, and the center of his empire. He would be a fool to return to his home in Syria.

Cairo is the midpoint of an Islamic world that stretches far to the east from Morocco to India, with a long shoreline extending along the entire southern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern coastline of the Black Sea, along both sides of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and eventually to the coastline of India. The political, economic, and military position of Cairo will meet all his requirements and he will rule his empire from Cairo. His influence in Europe, Africa, Eurasia, and Asia will be extremely strong, and by the end of his 3 and ½ years in Cairo, all of this area will politically be in his pocket. It is in this area that I believe the mark of the beast will be readily accepted, particularly in all the Islamic countries. It is also in this area that I believe the most horrific events of the Tribulation Period will occur.

I believe he will have influence in the western hemisphere, but I do not believe he will rule it.

After 3 and ½ years of dominating the nations of Europe and the eastern hemisphere, he will receive news out of the north and out of the east that troubles him.

Daniel 11:44 – But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly

to make away many.

This was written in 600 B.C. Every time a great leader would arise in the east, his country would be identified as the one the antichrist would go forth to destroy with great fury, and to carry away many. Genghis Khan, the great Mongol ruler of one of the greatest empires in history, was believed to be the object in the east that was going to trouble the antichrist in A.D. 1200 to 1227. Attila, king of the Huns, from A.D. 441 to 450 claimed domination from the Alps and the Baltic to the Caspian Sea. He was labeled the Scourge of God, and was looked upon as being the source of bad news from the north that would trouble the antichrist. With the advent of the rise of the two great powers, the Soviet Union in the north, and China in the east, it was only natural that expositors would pick them as the culprits causing the bad news from the north and east. Now, it is supposed to be Russia and China. I do not doubt that both Russia and China will be among the nations that attack Israel at the final battle of Armageddon, but I do not believe one has to go all the way to Russia and China to find the source of the news that is troubling the antichrist.

Get an atlas with a map that has Cairo, Russia, and China on it and consider how far away the antichrist will be from Russia and China. Now consider this: the population of Russia is 150 million plus, and the population of China is 1 billion, 300

million plus. Now, look again at this scripture.

Daniel 11:44 – But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

If he proceeds forth from Cairo, with great fury to attack China and Russia, that’s quite a few folks “to destroy, and to make away many.”

I do not believe you have to look thousands of miles to the east, and thousands of miles to the north, to find the source of the news that troubles the antichrist. Just look directly east of the city of Cairo and you will see the Negev Wilderness where he left the children of Israel some three years before, and then look to the north and you will see that portion of the Mediterranean Sea extending to the southern shores of Turkey. Those are the two locations from which the bad news will radiate.

Some three years before the antichrist heavily fortified the zone along the northern border of the Negev north of Beersheva in order to prevent a breakout by the Israelis. But the narrow zone that is marked today by the Gaza Strip begins to look vulnerable to him because of the news he hears from the north and the east.

The U.S. Navy has a frequent publication titled TRANSITIONS – All the Ships at Sea. It gives the location of the fleet on a specific date. You will discover from it that a U.S. carrier, and fighter attack squadron are routinely kept in the Mediterranean between Egypt and Turkey, and that at times it may consist of cruisers, destroyers, attack submarines, frigates, and support ships. In a recent mission in this area there were some 15,000 sailors and marines on these ships. During the last 25 years there have been some 18 episodes of U.S. marines conducting joint exercises with the IDF in the Negev. What the antichrist hears is that the U.S. and the IDF may be planning to cut off his rear flank back to his home country by conducting a military operation in the Gaza Strip.

With the marines conducting an amphibious landing on the south of the Gaza Strip, and the IDF driving northwest to join them, they would do what no military commander wants to happen, that is, have his rear flank cut off from direct access to his major source of land supplies. The Scripture does not say whether what he hears is true or untrue, merely that what he hears troubles him. I would imagine it is only a rumor, but apparently he believes it enough to take the appropriate response.

He heads for the city of Jerusalem, super reinforcing the Gaza Strip on his way, and sets himself up to issue a call for all nations to come and help him do what he could not do to Israel some 3 and ½ years before. He calls for all the nations of Europe, Eurasia, Asia, and Africa to come and help him to “go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many” Israelis in the Negev Wilderness.

Daniel 11:44,45 – But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [45] And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

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‘Syria and Iran to cooperate on naval training’

By JPOST.COM STAFF

02/26/2011 13:45

Announcement comes same day of reports that Russia intends to complete transfer of cruise missiles to Syria.

Iran and Syria have agreed to cooperate on naval training, Iran’s official news agency said on Saturday, Reuters reported.

“The two parties will cooperate with each other in training issues and the exchange of personnel,” IRNA quoted the agreement, signed by the commanders of both navies, as saying, according to the report.

The agreement came days after two Iranian warships – the Khark, which has 250 crew members and can carry three helicopters, and the Alvand, which is armed with torpedoes and anti-ship missiles – arrived at Syria’s Latakia seaport on Thursday, sailing through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean.

The announcement of the cooperation agreement came the same day that Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that Russia would fullfill its contractual obligation and complete the transfer of cruise missiles to Syria, according to AFP.

According to the report, news agencies in Moscow said the Kremlin did not intend to withdraw from the deal signed between the two countries in 2007, despite the objections of Israel and the United States.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Thursday, that the two Iranian naval vessels crossing the Suez Canal was a show of power and part of a “wider scheme” to exert influence in the Middle East. The ships’ crossing was the first time the Islamic Republic has sent a naval convoy through the Suez Canal in over three decades.

Barak said that, “I don’t like it, but I don’t think that any one of us should be worried by it.”

The defense minister commented that Iran was trying to assert their power in the region by sending ships to the Syrian port, and that the move was nothing more than them “projecting…self-confidence and certain assertiveness in the region.” Despite reports that Iran may have been bringing advanced weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Barak suggested that the focus of the trip is for Iranian cadets to visit Syria.

Yaakov Katz contributed to this report.

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UNIONS ARE ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED,

BUT SOME AMERICAN UNION MEMBERS ARE KILLING THEM

BY NOT PAYING THEIR DUES AND LEAVING THE UNION!

COLLECTIVE BARGINING GAINS EXORBITANT WAGES.

UNIONS HAD TO DO IT OR LOSE MEMBER’S DUES!

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC CUT ITS OWN THROAT,

VOTING IN KNIFE PROVIDING POLITICIANS.

AMERICAN’S GREED IS DESTROYING IT!

UNIONS ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY,

THEY DO OBTAIN FINE LIVING WAGES,

AND PROTECT YOU FROM EMPLOYERS!

I PAYED DUES IN RETAIL CLERK UNION.

I PAYED DUES IN THE TEACHER UNION,

NEVER MISSING A PAYMENT IN EITHER

I HAD THIS REASON FOR PAYING DUES:

MANY EMPLOYERS DO NOT PAY LIVING

WAGES WITHOUT UNION PROTECTION!

February 26, 2011

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The Unions did not come into existence to destroy the economy with highly inflated wages, but to insure that workers world receive a good wage to exist comfortably in the society of their day. Unfortunately, some members will not stay in the unions unless they get huge wage increases every time their union bargains with employers.

And many will not join a union for the same reason. Unions were not started to make workers wealthy.

They were formed to protect them from greedy employers that grossly underpaid their employees. Workers should not expect unions to being home big raises and benefits when the economy is going down hill.

The Constitution does not grant teachers the right to bargain collectively with employers.

This right is based on applicable provisions in state constitutions, federal statutes, or state statutes.

Similarly, teachers do not have a constitutional right to strike, though other federal law or state law may permit teachers to strike.

It has been left up to the State Legislatures.

Something happened in Israel in the days of the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, which caused God to punish the people by sending them into some seventy years of Babylonian captivity. What happened to them has happened in America.

The Prophets and Priests were supposed to be the teachers of the people of their day. God sent them to do a work of teaching his people

his ways in his word. But they became more interested in excess mammon than teaching his people his ways.

The Prophets and the Priests began to what they did for the people’s hand-earned money they worked to obtain by their means. The false prophets prophesied to the people what

they wanted to hear as a means to become prosperous and respected. The priests taught the people what they wanted to hear and became prosperous

and respected. Then both Prophets and Priests, by the wealth they had received by the means of their own hands, accumulated enough to be the rulers of the people from whom they had obtained it. But the day came when God ended all of it.

Jeremiah 5:31 –The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Joel 3:14 – Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

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A wide range of provisions may be negotiated in collective bargaining between teachers’ unions and school districts. Some subjects are mandatory, while others are merely permitted or even prohibited. State law governs the appropriateness of subjects to be bargained.

The First Amendment of the BILL OF RIGHTS provides: “Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting . . . the right of people peaceably to assemble.” This right, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, has been interpreted to give teachers and other employees the right to free association, including the right to join a union, such as the National Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers.

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Middle East Oil Producers Played World Powers after the Suez Conflict.

Some say: “World economy will fall if revolts spread to South Arabia,”

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What they are saying may well be the best resultant Conclusion.

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The following direct quote is from page 78 of my first book ‘Tectonic Chaos,’ which
I wrote in 1976.

“The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus of the final kingdom, and the ten crowns are the power of the kings that will rile them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is replacing the U.S. dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. The world power block will block itself as the Arab nations prosper in our midst.”

End 1976 Quote

Well, it happened, and great fluctuations in oil prices, which are now controlled to a great extent by Islamic nations, are dramatically influencing an already weak world economy

I doubt if the rising price of oil will cause the world economy to collapse, but they will weaken it further, even after it eventually stabilizes.

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Oil-Price Swings Double as Unrest Spreads Before Saudi Talks

By Grant Smith and Lananh Nguyen

Feb 21, 2011 11:11 AM

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — John Sfakianakis, chief economist at Banque Saudi Fransi, discusses the impact of civil unrest in parts of the Middle East on the price of oil. He speaks from Riyadh with Linzie Janis on Bloomberg Television’s “Global Connection.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Mark Gilman, an analyst at Benchmark Co., and David Lubin, chief emerging markets economist at Citigroup Inc., talk about unrest in the Middle East and the impact on the oil market, and the outlook for Exxon Mobil Corp. They speak with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance Midday.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Oil-price swings have doubled this year as unrest spreads through the Middle East, source of one- third of global crude supply, hampering producer and consumer efforts to stabilize the world’s biggest commodity market.

As officials from more than 90 nations including Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi and U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman gather in Riyadh tomorrow to seek ways of curbing fluctuations, oil’s 20-day historical volatility has risen to 29.4, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

It was at 12.6, an all-time low, at the end of December.

U.S. futures for April jumped as much as 4.5 percent today as violence spread in Libya, holder of Africa’s biggest crude reserves.

Oil has risen to a two-year high, with Brent crude prices in London exceeding $105 a barrel today, as the Middle East turmoil stoked concern that shipments from the region may be disrupted. Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s son warned yesterday that a civil war would risk the country’s oil wealth as security forces attacked protesters, killing more than 200, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. Nations including Iran and Bahrain are cracking down on opposition groups demanding change amid upheaval that’s toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.

“Prices gyrate wildly with each new headline,” said Mike Fitzpatrick, Energy Overview editor in New York, and a former futures broker at MF Global. “If more moderate and friendly-to- the-West governments like Jordan or Bahrain topple, $100 may not be so ridiculous as it seemed only a few days ago.”

Libyan Oil Production

Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corp

The following three paragraph quotes were extracted from Wikipedia:

The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, w

as a war fought by Britain, France, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956.

The attack followed Egypt’s decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal, after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam, which was partly in response to Egypt recognizing the People’s Republic of China during the height of tensions between China and Taiwan. Britain and France were also strongly opposed to Nasser’s plan to annex the Sudan.

Israel feared that Egypt intended to launch an attack against it in March or April 1957 with Soviet support.

From the British, French and Israeli perspective the crisis had begun on 26 July, and the actual military operation was simply their response to it.

The three allies, especially Israel, were mainly successful in attaining their immediate military objectives, but pressure from the United States and the USSR at the United Nations and elsewhere forced them to withdraw. As a result of the political pressure Britain and France failed in their political and strategic aim of controlling the canal. Israel fulfilled some of its objectives, such as attaining freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran. As a result of the conflict, the UNEF would police the Egyptian-Israeli border to prevent both sides from recommencing hostilities.

Begin Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post

‘World economy will fall if revolts spread to S. Arabia’

By BEN HARTMAN

02/24/2011 04:47

Israeli security expert Gal Luft tells ‘Post’ that military intervention won’t help, stresses importance of breaking oil’s monopoly on transport.

“If something like we have seen in Egypt or Libya happens in Saudi Arabia, we’re talking about a catastrophic scenario that will bring a global economic meltdown.”

Talking to Gal Luft about security and the effect of oil on

the global economy is not for the faint of heart. The executive director of the Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday during the fourth annual Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference, in a 45-minute conversation that described the petroleum tightrope on which the world’s economies are teetering.

“The world needs to wake up to the fact that if a country like Saudi Arabia follows the same path we’ve seen in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, it would be a very, very dangerous situation for every economy in the world – the rich and poor alike,” said Luft. “The first thing that will happen is, the poor people of the world will starve; there will be no oil to distribute food in places like Africa.

Then all the world markets will collapse.”

He noted that “every single recession since World War I except for one has been preceded by an oil crisis.

When there is an oil crisis, very shortly after, you see a major recession.

The reason that the situation now is so delicate is that we just had a recession. When you have a recession on top of a recession, it’s like a heart attack on a heart attack – you are too weak, you can’t handle it.”

According to Luft, “if we get another oil shock, it can roll back all of the economic recovery we’ve had. Then you will see millions of people losing their jobs around the world.”

To make matters worse, Luft said he didn’t believe that a hypothetical Western-led military intervention to secure Saudi Arabia’s oil fields would help matters.

“Let’s say the US sends the military to take over Saudi Arabia. The oil fields in Saudi Arabia are in the eastern, mostly Shi’ite province next to Iran, so the Iranians will start an intifada there. They’d blow up the fields, they’d blow up the pipelines, they’d boobytrap everything there and you’ll see a situation like Iraq or Afghanistan, just in the world’ s riche

st oil province,” he said.

“These are very, very dangerous, catastrophic scenarios, so I don’t think sending the military over will make us any safer economically.

It’s very easy to take over an area militarily. It doesn’t mean you can maintain economic activity in the same place.”

If the world’s oil supply is threatened, security issues for Israel would only worsen, Luft added.

“The flipside is that [in such a scenario,] the very same countries we’re trying to weaken, like Iran, would strengthen. What you would see is a historic transfer of wealth from the world’s poorest people to the world’s richest people. Because people in Africa will have to buy oil for the same price that everybody else does; they don’t get a discount for being poor.”

Luft, who is also the co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition – an alliance of national security, environmental, labor and religious groups promoting ways to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil – said the most crucial necessity was to break oil’s monopoly on the world’s transportation systems.his, he said, could help end the current situation wherein we “base our entire future and prosperity and way of life on a group of dictatorships that might collapse in a matter of a few days.”

“The transportati on sector, which underlies the global ec

onomy, runs on oil. Your food, your clothes, everything is dependent on oil. We’re all treading on very thin ice if we think about this, like a turkey before Thanksgiving.

Everything is good, you’re getting your food and you’re happy, and then you wake up and it’s Thanksgiving and life gets very unhappy.”

Luft said the United States must pass laws that would require every new car sold in America be a “flexible fuel” car, arguing that “if you’re running out of oil, then it’s folly to continue to put cars on the road that can only run on oil.”

Luft mentioned conclusions drawn in his book, Turning Oil into Salt: Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice, which describes how salt went from being one of the world’s top commodities to just another resource.

“Salt used to be one of the world’s most prestigious commodities because it had a monopoly on food refrigeration,” he explained. “Then we invented canning, and later refrigeration, and that’s it, you no longer needed to send soldiers to defend salt mines.

Salt became boring. Hopefully the same will happen with oil, making it just another commodity stripped of its strategic power.”

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Ham as

Iran-made missiles hit Beersheba as Iranian warships dock in Syria

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

February 24, 2011, 11:26 AM (GMT+02:00)

Israel’s security leaders ought not to have been surprised when Hamas fired two long-range Iranian-made Grad missiles Wednesday night, Feb. 23 at the Negev cities of Beersheba and Netivot. The attack occurred exactly when Iranian Navy commander Adm. Habibollah Sayyari was due in Syria’s Latakia port to attend the welcoming party for the two Iranian warships which made it through the Suez Canal without US or Israeli interference. It also marked a fresh, redoubled Hamas offensive against Israel.

The occupants of the Beersheba home, hit by the first long-range Grad surface missile to reach the Negev city from the Gaza Strip (30 km away) since Israel’s Cast Led campaign of 2009, saved themselves by using the seconds between the warning siren and the explosion to take shelter in a bomb-proof room.

That was the only part of their home to survive the blast. Eleven shock victims were hospitalized along the battered street.

The town of Netivot was spared by the Grad falling outside the built-up area.
Earlier that day, a shoot-out flared at the Karni crossing when a P alestini

an gang laid explosives at the border fence and followed up with mortar fire. IDF border patrols and tanks crews returned the fire, injuring 11 Palestinians. A second round of Palestinian mortar fire followed against a Shaar Hanegev kibbutz.

No Israelis were hurt in this round of incidents.

Wednesday night, Israel put the communities within range of the Gaza Strip, including the cities of Beersheba, Netivot, Ofakim, Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod, on heightened alert status for further Palestinian attacks. That night, Israeli air strikes hit a Jihad Islami missile team and then spread out to bomb Hamas command centers, which had meanwhile been hurriedly evacuated in expectation of Israel’s routine aerial reprisal.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that more aggression from the Gaza Strip is inevitable given the Netanyahu government’s feeble or non-response despite the urgent need to shore up Israel’s security situation continuously eroded by the turbulence in Arab capitals.

Even though it was obvious that Hamas had been strengthened by Hosni Mubarak’s fall in Egypt, Israel stood by as Hamas rampaged out of Gaza and into Sinai and the Egyptian-Israeli border areas – even when a Hamas special team on Feb. 5 blew up the Egyptian pipeline which conveyed 43 percent of Israel’s gas needs. Replacement sources have added close to $400 million a month to Israel’s energy bill.
All Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did was to permit an additional Egyptian troop brigade and a half to enter Sinai, some of them to guard the pipeline, which Cairo shows no sign of repairing.

Western military sources report that the Iran-backed Palestinian Hamas is further exploiting the shaky situation in Cairo and Israeli inaction to double or even triple the quantities of weapons smuggled via the Suez Canal and Sinai into the Gaza Strip. One Israeli officer said he had never before seen surface-to-surface missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank missiles secreted into Gaza in such bulk.

The free passage afforded the two Iranian warships for transiting the Suez Canal Tuesday, Feb. 22 – without Egypt or US and Israeli warships even inspecting their cargoes – has encouraged Tehran to press on with its expansionist ambitions. Hamas understood that its redoubled offensive against Israel would be most welcome. The Palestinian extremists held their fire until Tehran announced the warships had put into Latakia Wednesday and the arrival of Iran’s navy chief that night. And then they went into action – first against an IDF border patrol, then to fire Grads at Beersheba and Netivot.

Israel’s policy-makers have chosen to ignore the role of those two vessels as the thin edge of a wedge: They are to set up a permanent base on the Mediterranean with more Iranian naval vessels continuing to pass through the Suez Canal and joining them at Latakia.

Hamas is counting on Iran building up its military presence and on Israel to stand by helplessly – just as it did when its request to the new military rulers of Egypt to stop the Iranian flotilla’s passage through Suez went unanswered.
The Palestinians ruling Gaza are sending Grad missiles as messengers to Israel that they now enjoy Iranian support close by in the Mediterranean. DEBKAfile’s military sources wonder if this message will not finally act as a wakeup call for Jerusalem.

Excerpts which follow are from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

February 24, 2011

Excerpt 1 –Wall Street Journal

Second Suspected Syria Nuclear Site Found – Jay Solomon (Wall Street Journal)

A second suspected nuclear installation has been identified in Syria, according to commercial satellite photos published Wednesday by Washington’s Institute for Science and International Security.

The photos are of one of three additional sites the IAEA believes could be connected to the Dair Alzour facility, destroyed in a 2007 Israeli military strike.

Excerpt 2 – AFP

Israel: Iran Overcoming Nuclear Program Problems (AFP)

Iran is gradually overcoming problems in its nuclear program, and could still detonate a nuclear device within a year if it put its mind to it, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN in Washington.

But Barak said Iran was “several years” from having the capability of putting a nuclear weapon on a medium-range missile.

“It’s clear they had certain holdups along the way and they are moving slower than expected… but the painful fact is they keep moving forward. They are overcoming gradually the difficulties they faced.”

Excerpt 3 – Bloomberg

UK: Some Middle East Rulers Use Issue of Israel as a Distraction – Robert Hutton (Bloomberg)

UK Prime Minister David Cameron told students in Qatar that some Middle Eastern rulers were using the Israel-Palestine conflict as a distraction from their own oppressive regimes.

Excerpt 4 – BBC News

Will Arab Revolt Spread to Palestinians? – Jon Donnison (BBC News)

As Arab uprisings spread across the Middle East, Palestinian leaders face their own crisis of legitimacy.

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ mandate expired more than two years ago, but he remains in power. Parliamentary elections were cancelled in 2010 and are now over a year late. The parliament in Ramallah has not passed a law for more than three years.

Palestinians remain politically and geographically split – with the Islamist Hamas in power in Gaza and Fatah running the West Bank.

“After Egypt and Tunisia, God knows who might be next,” joked Mr. Abbas in a speech in Ramallah last week. “Don’t laugh. It might be me.”

Excerpt 5 – Los Angeles Times

Some in Israel Warn Against Google Street View – Jessica Guynn (Los Angeles Times)

Government officials in Israel are worried that Google’s Street View map service could endanger public figures by giving terrorists detailed information that could be used in carrying out attacks.

Street View allows users to virtually tour locations in 27 countries as Google dispatches a fleet of camera-equipped vehicles to the locations.

Israeli Cabinet members discussed the security and privacy implications of Google Street View on Monday and decided to work with Google in launching the service in the coming months.

“We already have problems with Google Earth, which exposes all kinds of facilities,” said retired Lt. Col. Mordechai Kedar, a veteran of Israeli intelligence. Palestinian militants in Gaza have said they use Google Earth to identify targets for rocket attacks.

Excerpt 6 – Washington Post

Gaddafi Tightens Grip on Libyan Capital as Rebels Advance – Leila Fadel and Sudarsan Raghavan

Moammar Gaddafi tightened his grip on Libya’s capital, Tripoli, on Wednesday, flooding the streets with militiamen and loyalist troops, as rebels consolidated their control of key eastern cities and continued advancing west.

It appeared that Libya’s powerful tribes, long a beneficiary of Gaddafi’s patronage, were turning against him. “We are seeing more and more tribal defections. A lot of police and military in Tobruk, Benghazi and other eastern cities defected because their tribal leaders had ordered them,” said Ronald Bruce St. John, an expert on Libya. But so far, it appears that the major tribes in and around Tripoli continue to support Gaddafi. (Washington Post)

Excerpt 7 – AP and Jerusalem Post

Libya: 2,000 Reported Killed in Benghazi, 1,000 in Tripoli

A French doctor working in Benghazi told Le Point magazine that over 2,000 people were killed in that city alone in the past days of fighting, AFP reported.

“From Tobruk to Darna, they carried out a real massacre….In total, I think there are more than 2,000 deaths,” he said. Italian news reports have said witnesses and hospital sources in Libya are estimating there are 1,000 dead in Tripoli alone. (AP-Jerusalem Post)

Excerpt 8 – New York Times

Gaddafi Massing Forces in Tripoli as Rebellion Spreads – Kareem Fahim and David D.

Kirkpatrick

Gaddafi has built up an elaborate paramilitary force.

At the top of the structure is his 3,000-member revolutionary guard corps, which mainly guards him personally.

Then there are the militia units controlled by his seven sons. But perhaps the most significant force is about 2,500 mercenaries from Chad, Sudan and Niger that he calls his Islamic Pan African Brigade. (New York Times)

Excerpt 9 – New York Times

Arab Unrest Propels Iran as Saudi Influence Declines – Michael Slackman

The popular revolts shaking the Arab world have begun to shift the balance of power in the region, bolstering Iran’s position while weakening its rival, Saudi Arabia. The uprisings are driven by domestic concerns. But they have already shredded a regional paradigm in which Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, aligned with the West, supported engaging Israel and containing Israel’s enemies, including Hamas and Hizbullah. Mubarak of Egypt has been forced to resign, King Abdullah of Jordan is struggling to control discontent in his kingdom and Saudi Arabia faces a rising challenge to its regional role.

“I think the Saudis are worried that they’re encircled – Iraq, Syria, Lebanon; Yemen is unstable; Bahrain is very uncertain,” said Alireza Nader, an expert with the RAND Corporation. “They worry that the region is ripe for Iranian exploitation. Iran has shown that it is very capable of taking advantage of regional instability.” “Iran is the big winner here,” said a regional adviser to the U.S. government. (New York Times)

Excerpt 10 – BBC News

Gaza Militants Fire Rockets at Beersheba, Israel

A rocket fired from Gaza hit a house in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Wednesday for the first time since 2009. Officials said one house in the city was extensively damaged when it was hit by a Grad rocket. (BBC News)

Excerpt 11 – Ha’aetz

Israel to Let 300 Palestinians Return to West Bank from Libya – Barak Ravid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday: “Because of the current violence in Libya I received a personal request from [PA] President Abbas…that Israel allow a number of Palestinians to leave Libya and to enter the West Bank…so Israel will enable 300 Palestinians to enter the West Bank” as a humanitarian gesture. He said the move was “a mark of our desire for good neighborliness and…peace.” (Ha’aretz)

Excerpt 12 – Jerusalem Post

Palestinians to “Boycott U.S.” over Security Council Veto – Khaled Abu Toameh
Following last Friday’s veto against an anti-settlement resolution at the UN Security Council, several Palestinian local councils in the Jerusalem area, at the request of Fatah, announced that they would boycott U.S. government officials and American journalists in protest. Hatem Abdel Kader, a senior Fatah official and former PA minister, demanded that Obama publicly apologize to the Palestinians for the veto. (Jerusalem Post)

Excerpt 13 – New York Times

Mideast Upheaval Jolts Israel – Steven Erlanger

Israelis worry that Arab democracy movements will ultimately be dominated by extremists, as happened in Iran after the 1979 revolution that ousted the shah. They worry about the chaotic transition between revolt and democratic stability, if it ever comes. They see Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as pressing for more solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood. And they fear that Israel’s regional partners in checking Iran are under threat or falling.

Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN and former aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu, said that Arab democracy could make Israel more secure.

“For years, Arab leaders who thought they had legitimacy problems because they were not elected played several chords to the populace – Arab unity, Islamic solidarity, and most important, the struggle against Israel….So if you have regimes legitimized by democratic elections and accountable governance, then they will depend less on the conflict for their own internal standing.” Even so, “the transition to democracy is full of all kinds of land mines,” he said, arguing that the regional destabilization had helped Iran, which Israel regards as its most important threat.

(New York Times)

Excerpt 14 – National Interest

Losing the Middle East – Benny Morris

When

the dust settles in the Middle East in a few months, my guess is that one will see that Western – and Israeli – interests will have been substantially undermined and anti-Western – and anti-Israeli – interests substantially bolstered. In the Gulf states with large Shi’ite populations – such as in Bahrain, where the Shi’ites constitute the overwhelming majority – Iran’s influence will vastly increase.

In Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Jordan, and Yemen, help to the American “War on Terror” will be considerably reduced, or will vanish altogether. Similarly, a greater frostiness will enter into attitudes across the Middle East towards Israel.

In Egypt, opposition elements are already calling for revocation of the 1979 peace treaty with the Jewish state or, at the least, “reconsidering it” and a permanent end to the multi-billion dollar gas exports to Israel. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the Egyptians will attempt to control the flow of arms and ammunition to Gaza as they did during the Mubarak years. (National Interest)

Excerpt 15 – Atlantic Monthly

Egyptian Sheikh Qaradawi Seeks Total War – Jeffrey Goldberg

Mark Gardner and Dave Rich analyzed leading Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi’s 2003 book, Fatwas on Palestine, and concluded that this putatively moderate Islamic cleric argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned, and that the destruction of Israel is mandated by God. Qaradawi writes: It is “obligatory upon every Muslim wherever he is to defend Jerusalem, and al-Aqsa Mosque. This is an obligation upon all Muslims to participate in defending Jerusalem with their souls, money, and all that they possess.” Qaradawi warns Muslims not to be friends with Jews, because such friendship might diminish their desire to wage jihad against Israel. (Atlantic Monthly)

Excerpt 16 – The Bible

Hebrews 9:27 -And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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Excerpt 17 – The Bible

Hebrews 9:28 – So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

1 Peter 2:24 – Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Isaiah 53:6 – All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

John 5:40 – And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

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