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Ahmadinejad’s Iran has Its Tentacles In All Islamic Countries!

The Iranian Octopus uses suction cups to draw them to It

An Octopus has a hard beak mouth in its central Head

THERE ARE MANY Different Species Of THE Octopus!

ALL of the many Octopus varieties are Venomous

Only ONE type is venomous enough to kill Men

I Would SAY Iran Must Be of that ONE Type!

We spend Lives & Trillions in the Mid-East

The time is near when they will be Used

To drive Jews into a Negev Wilderness

All Arab nations will turn against U.S.!

August 27, 2011

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I applaud the efforts the US has made to help oppressed people in Persian Iran, and in the Arab nations of Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I have no criticism of our effort to do so.

However, I know that in a few years, they will not be democracies as we know them, but Islamic republics with shar’ia law, the foreign aid we have, are, and will send them to rebuild their infrastructures, will have made them strong Islamic foes against both us and Israel. And a lot of our foreign aid will be used to buy high tech weaponry from Russia, North Korea, and China.

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Drumbeats of War – Iraqi Scuds Hit Kuwait

August 26, 2011

No, this is not an old post.

This is being written in the wee hours of Friday morning, August 26, 2011, United States time.

Three Scud missiles exploded on open ground in Kuwait early Friday morning in Kuwait. Israeli sources with Mossad connections say these were warning shots to Kuwait to stop building the Grand Mubarak Port on the Persian Gulf.

They were not fired by the Iraqi government per se, although there is a convoluted pathway that involves the government. I’ll try to make it brief.

Jalal Talabani was first elected President of Iraq in 2005.

In 2010 he came up for reelection. He did not have the votes to win.

He went to Iran, hat in hand, and begged for Iran to order the Shia community in Iraq to vote for him.

He got his wish.

He has been dependent on Iran for his political life ever since.

Ketaeb Hizballah (KH), a Shia militant group in Iraq, is said to have direct connections with the radical Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al-Qods (Jerusalem) Brigade, and according to Israeli sources, has been trained by Lebanese Hezbollah.

KH has claimed, since the end of the U.S.-Iraq war, that they ‘liberated’ most of Saddam Hussein’s remaining inventory of 250 Scud missiles. That is the type which caused the most U.S. casualties during the war. They are big, awkward, not terribly accurate… but pack a pretty big wallop, if they find their target. The U.S. Patriot anti-missile defense was claimed to have a 90 percent or higher kill ratio of Scuds during the war. Afterward, we found out it was the other way around. About 10 percent.

So why, after all this time, has KH finally used three of them? And why did Iran let them?

The Grand Mubarak Port being built in Kuwait… I have have to stand in wonder at the choice of that name after the regime change in Egypt… is a very big deal, said to be costing well over a billion dollars for construction alone. When completed in four phases, the last ending in 2016, it will handle more than two million shipping containers annually.

And oil. Lots and lots of oil.

Problem is, Iraq has been building its own oil transit facility on the Persian Gulf, named the Faw Grand Port.

Ever since Kuwait announced plans for the Grand Mubarak, Iraq has been livid, accusing Kuwait of undermining Iraq’s economy, making the Faw Grand project obsolete before it was finished, and, perhaps self-servingly, providing friendly expert testimony that the Grand Mubarak is so big that it will ‘impede navigation’ in the Persian Gulf.

That was the official Iraqi government talking. According to Israeli sources, KH staged a ‘demonstration’ of some sort, nature unknown, against the port on

the Iraqi-Kuwait border. The Kuwaiti government warned… who it warned isn’t clear — call it everyone in Iraq… that Kuwait would show ‘zero tolerance for any border incursions’.

I’m thinking a few Scuds are probably a pretty palpable ‘border incursion’.

Even with all of the above, it just does not seem reasonable that Iran, through KH, with at least the passive acquiescence of the Iraqi government, would pull the tarps off some pretty valuable old missiles, and toss them into Kuwait as a warning.

Unless you know that Kuwait had started massing military forces there two weeks ago.

And that Iran has discovered, according to Israeli sources, that the Grand Mubarak will include military naval facilities for the warships of Kuwait, naturally… but also for the U.S. and for the Arab arch-enemy of Iran, Saudi Arabia. Because of the Grand Mubarak’s location in the extremely narrow Gulf, it is big naval trouble for Iran, which has long counted on being able to control the Gulf if a shooting war starts.

Now it makes sense, yes?

It is even a little poetic… using Saddam’s Scuds to deliver a warning message.

And since Iran has developed a tremendous number of different missile types since the U.S. sanctions caused them to become militarily self-sufficient, there is the possibility that a well-aimed barrage, if it were to come, might include new, sophisticated missiles.

Or perhaps the Scuds are good enough to wreak havoc on a port under construction.

Either way, this first use of Scuds by any Middle East militant group marks today as a definite red letter day.

As postscript, I should mention that a sudden ceasefire between Gaza and Israel is to take effect on Friday at 1 p.m. local Israel time, about two hours from the writing of this post.

It is said to be brokered by Egypt and the United Nations.

Hard telling if it is because of the events in Iraq and Kuwait… or despite them.

Either way, the heat under the cauldron of the Middle East just now got turned up a whole bunch of degrees.

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Iran stirs up new conflict: Its Iraqi terrorist arm shoots Scuds at Kuwait

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 26, 2011, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)

Three Scud missiles flying from Iraq to Kuwait early Friday, Aug. 26 were launched by the Iran-backed Ketaeb Hizballah of Iraq, the first such attacks since the US invaded Iraq in 2003.

It was also the first time any Middle East terrorist group had used Scud missiles.

They exploded on open ground, but DEBKAfile’s sources report that this round was meant as a warning for Kuwait to halt construction of the Grand Mubarak Port opposite the Iraqi shore – or else it would be followed by a massive volley.

In the second week of August, Kuwait massed troops on Boubiyan Island just across from Iraq to defend the huge $1.1 billion Grand Mubarak Port under construction there. The force was composed of Military Police of the Amoun Defense Organization, units of intelligence and air defense, the 35th Company, the 6th Brigade and naval forces.

This appeared to be rather a disproportionate reaction to Iraq’s demand that Kuwait freeze construction of the Persian Gulf port until guarantees were provided that the new facility would not hinder the operations of Iraq’s own planned harbor in the southern region of Basra. Iraq also fears it will block the main Persian Gulf gateway for its oil exports to reach the world’s shipping lanes from the Shatt al-Arb.
A government spokesman in Baghdad demanded assurances that free and safe navigation would not be affected by the Kuwait port which is scheduled for completion in 2016.

This dispute did not account for Kuwait’s heavy military deployment on its largest island.

What did is another factor DEBKA-Net- Weekly’s military and intelligence sources reported on Aug. 12: A threat from the Iraqi Shiite radical Ketaeb Hizballah, an arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al-Qods Brigades, trained by the Lebanese

Hizballah, to strike the new port with Scud missiles, a threat they started carrying out this Friday.

This followed Tehran’s discovery that Mubarak Port was also projected to house a large naval base to serve the fleets of Kuwait, the US and Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, a project Iran is determined to put paid to by any means.

Until Friday, there was no confirmation of the group’s claim to have recovered most of the inventory of 250 Scuds held by Saddam Hussein before the US invasion of 2003. But now, is clear to Kuwaiti and Western intelligence officials in the Gulf that the Scud cache has indeed fallen into the hands of the Ketaeb Hizballah of Iraq and that there is a real danger of Tehran using Iraqi Shiite extremists to sabotage the Boubiyan Island project.

Last week, Iraqi Hizballah activities staged a demonstration against the port on the Iraqi-Kuwait border. Kuwait warned it would show zero tolerance for any border incursions.

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What a Week For Washington D.C. and U.S. East of the Appalachians

1st a Rare 5.8 Quake, 2nd a Severe Storm Warning, now a Hurricane

Could This Be A Wake Up Call For U.S., Her President, And Congres

s?

August 26, 2011

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

ise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

[8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thous and years,

and a thousand years as one day.

[9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but

that all should come to repentance.

II Timothy 3:1-5 – 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; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Matthew 24:7,8,32,33 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be fam ines, and pestilences, and earthquakes,

in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows. [32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: [33] So likew ise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it

is near, even at the doors.

HURRICANES+EARTHQUAKES+TSUNAMI+FAMINE+WARS+PESTILENCES

God’s creation manifesting itself in prophesied destructive phenomena

In the groaning of God’s creation as it waits for a Future Appearance

Of the manifestation of the Sons of God on the Surface of His Earth

The beginning of the Tribulation Period is Not a Far Distant Event

Since we’ve been in the “Beginning of Sorrows” for some Time

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Romans 8:19-23 – For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation

of the sons of God.

[20] For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, [21] Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. [22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

[23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

SEVEN SEALS IN REVELATION 6:1-8 ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS
THIS WAS PROPHESIED TO HAPPEN IN “THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS”

Revelation 6:1-8 – And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

[2] And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

[3] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard

the second beast say, Come and see. [4] And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. [5] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the

third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

[6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. [7] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

[8] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger,

and with death, and

with the beasts of the earth.

I AM COVERING THESE VERSES IN A SERIES OF BLOG EXPOSITIONS ON:

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I have already put up Blogs 1, 2, and 2a – I will put up Blog 3 next, Lord willing.

THIS IS “THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS” IN MATTHEW 24:7,8:

Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.

THIS IS “THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS” IN LUKE 21:11:

Luke 21:11 – And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

When “the beginning of sorrows” actually began I covered in Blogs 1,2, and 2a.

The phenomena prophesied to be produced by the four horsemen of the four seals were to slowly increase sporadically over an undefined period, and then suddenly explode on the opening of the sixth seal to launch into the trumpets and vials, which will also increase in intensity, reaching a final peak of terror on the last of seven vials.

THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BEGINS AS THE SIXTH SEAL OPENS!

THE “SORROWS” PHENOMENA BEGINS AN EXPLOSIVE INCREASE

Revelation 6:12-14 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

THE LAST MAXIMUM “SORROWS” EVENT CLOSES THE TRIBULATION

Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called

in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

[17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION – NUMBER 2A

A Supplement to Previous Number 2 Issued on August 22, 2011 Blog

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SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 145C

November 10, 2003

The Seals, the Trumpets, and the Vials of Revelation

Part 2A – A Supplement to the Second Seal Number 2A

The first four seals of Revelation open before the period known as the tribulation period. They occur during the period of time Jesus called “the beginning of sorrows.”

Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

[8] All these are

the beginning of sorrows.

The first seal has already opened and then closed. The second, third, and fourth seals are already open, and will all remain open until the end of the tribulation period, and all three will rapidly intensify when it begins.

Their primary area of fulfillment is the maximum extent of land

occupied by the Southern Roman Empire from what is now Morocco to Iranian the first and second century, and by the Umayyad Caliphate which followed it. The “whole earth,” “all the world,” and similar expressions in the prophetic writings of both the Old and New Testament periods, in many instances, are hyperbolic, and do not refer to the world as we know it today, but to the world as the people, to whom they wrote, knew it from 600 B.C. to 135 A.D. The most severe judgments of the second, third, and fourth horse riders, along with the mark of the beast, will occur in this area.

Revelation 6:1,2 – And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. [2] And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him

had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

The first great world war

to engulf all the known world that existed when John wrote the book of Revelation in about 96 A.D. during the great Roman Empire, which was the fourth beast of Chapter Seven in Daniel, out of which a final revived empire of antichrist was to arise in the latter days, was what we called World War I. Out of World War I came the Balfour Declaration, which did finally lead to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Balfour Declaration was a British statement of policy issued in 1917 by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour. It stated British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine without prejudice to the rights of the non-Jewish population. The white horse rider represents the state of mankind that existed between the two great world wars that occurred between two German tyrants.

The color of the horse, like a white dove, symbolizes the state of peace that existed between 1918 and 1932 across the territories recognized as the Roman Empire during its maximum extent.

I believe most of the prophecies in the book of Revelation will be fulfilled across the known world of John’s day, not in the western hemisphere.

A long series of conquests by Hitler’s shaking of the bow, without firing any arrows, allowed the relative peace to continue until 1939. He was able to occupy several of the lands to his west, southwest, south, and southeast by a series of bluffs, without firing a shout. They succumbed to his threats, and he occupied large sections of nations around Germany. Threats, rather than arrows, secured him much land. The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, followed a policy appeasing Hitler, rather than confronting him.

So, in 1938, he went to Germany and signed the Munich Pact, which allowed Hitler to occupy part of Czechoslovakia. It was a time of peace where those who “went forth conquering, and to conquer,” did so by bluff rather than by blood.

He returned home with the cry “Peace in our times.” The first of the four horse riders has come and gone. He departed the scene when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. That is when the red horse rider came on the scene.. The number of wars did increase after World War II then declined after the great Soviet Union collapse, but they have never stopped, and the red blood of Americans and the rest of the world is still flowing in the Middle East. The Tectonic Chaos of the Tribulation Period will not begin until the opening of Seal 6, and its full wrath fury will not come on the earth until Vial 1 is poured out on an unbelieving world, which ends with the greatest wrath of Vial 7.

Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

Their primary area of fulfillment is the maximum extent of land occupied by the Southern Roman Empire from what is now Morocco to Iranian the first and second century, and by the Umayyad Caliphate which followed it. The “whole earth,” “all the world,” and similar expressions in the prophetic writings of both the Old and New Testament periods, in many instances, are hyperbolic, and do not refer to the world as we know it today, but to the world as the people, to whom they wrote, knew it from 600 B.C. to 135 A.D. The most severe judgments of the second, third, and fourth horse riders, along with the mark of the beast, will occur in this area. War in this area has produced the blood shed of the Red Horse Rider continuously since the end of World War II from 1948 up the present time with three major conflicts twixt Islam and Jews, conflicts between the West and Islamic terrorists, and wars between the Islamic nations. Soon the Red Horse Rider will release his maximum amount of rivers of blood during his ride in the final great war of the Age of the Gentiles.

The excerpt from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert gives a partial account of Arab vs. Arab vs. Persian Red Horse Rider bloodshed since World War II.

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April 25, 2011

Why Golda Meir Was Right

Burak Bekdil

Hurriyet – Turkey

It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Israel’s President Shimon Peres, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” In this holy month of Ramadan full of blood on Muslim territories, let’s try to identify who are the ones who know well how to kill.

As the Syrian death count clicks every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not stop, already over 40,000 since 1984. Only during this Ramadan, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK’s, death toll has reached 50 in this Muslim Kurds vs.

Muslim Turks war. This excludes the PKK casualties in Turkey and in northern Iraq due to Turkish military retaliation since they are seldom accurately reported.

But a simple, strictly Middle East research will reveal one million deaths in the all-Muslim Iran-Iraq war; 300,000 Muslim minorities killed by Saddam Hussein; 80,000 Iranians killed during the Islamic revolution; 25,000 deaths in 1970-71, the days of Black September, by the Jordanian government in its fight against the Palestinians; and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al-Assad

in Hama.

Muslim Arab deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict are estimated at 46,000 including 11,000 during Israel’s war of independence.

That makes 0.05 percent of all deaths in all conflicts, or 0.4 percent of all Arab deaths in the Middle East conflicts.

Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel, had a perfectly realistic point when she said that peace in the Middle East would only be possible “when Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” (Hurriyet – Turkey)

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The Far left Is Flooded With A Pacifist Majority!

Pacifists Now Think In Their Wild Opium Dreams

That Nations from Arab uprisings will be Friendly?

WILL the Arab Nations become True Democracies

And Rulers from Parties that Have Respect for U.S.,

With attitudes favoring a Pro-Western Relationship?

Out of all these Revolts Antichrist Will Eventually Rise

And a False Prophet Working Signs and lying Wonders!

Great falling away from The Faith is continuing Worldwide

Believers are told to stand fast in “the faith” once Delivered!

August 24, 2010

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Jude 3 – Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

II Thessalonians 2:3-15 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; [4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. [5] Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? [6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. [7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

[8] And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness

in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. [13] But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: [14] Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[15] Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

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Saif al-Islam Qaddafi appears in Tripoli: I was never detained. We are winning

DEBKAfile Special Report August 22, 2011, 10:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

In an extraordinary turnabout in the Tripoli standoff between West-backed Libyan rebels and Muammar Qaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam turned up with cheering crowds at the Rixos hotel early Tuesday,

Aug. 23, and told foreign reporte

rs he was never captured as widely reported. “We are winning,”he said.

His detention was not only reported by the rebels but “confirmed” embarrassingly by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutors.

“The rebels fell into a trap,” said Saif.

NATO: Qaddafi Will Be Gone by Sept.

1

Says “shock and awe” resources are ready without waiting for US approval

Assad Unmoved by Turkish Diplomacy

As he turns increasingly to war options, Obama tells him to go.

Rumored military coup in Syria

Generals said to have seized power and retained Assad as front man.

Netanyahu accepts ceasefire to placate Egypt

US defuses Egyptian-Israeli crisis.

End of Sinai demilitarization

Continuous Palestinian blitz

Israel tenses for Gaza strike after Palestinian terror attack

At least 7 Israelis killed, 33 injured in terrorist attacks near Eilat

Egypt’s 5,000 troops take on 2,000 al Qaeda in Sinai

Israel sets up September Commands

Netanyahu accepts ceasefire to placate Egypt, leaves Jihad Islami for later

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 22, 2011, 1:11 AM (GMT+02:00)

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ruled Sunday, Aug.

21, that his first priority is to grant Egypt’s military rulers the kudos for brokering a ceasefire in the Gaza missile war – and deal later with the Palestinian Jihad Islami which fired most of

the 100 missiles exploding in Israel from Gaza in the last four days.

DEBKAfile: He was wrong: Cairo will come back for more concessions under Muslim Brotherhood pressure; Jihad Islami and its masters, Tehran and Hizballah, remain free to restart missile fire any time.

Tehran pulls strings of Gaza missile war through proxy Jihad Islami

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 21, 2011, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)

The role of Iran and Hizballah in manipulating the ongoing Palestinian war on Israel from Gaza is now manifest, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. They planned, orchestrated and funded the coordinated attacks on the Eilat Highway Thursday, Aug. 18 and its sequel: volleys of 90 missiles launched day and night from Gaza against a million Israeli civilians.

The Netanyahu government hesitates to send the IDF to stop the missiles flying from Gaza lest the same aggressors open another front leading to a regional war.

US defuses Egyptian-Israeli crisis: Egypt may post troops in E.

Sinai

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 21, 2011, 12:53 AM (GMT+02:00)

Intense diplomatic efforts by Washington Saturday, Aug.

20, have produced a compromise for resolving the Egyptian-Israeli crisis – moments before their 1979 peace accord was overturned.

Cairo agreed not to recall the Egyptian ambassador from Israel, whereas the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak apologized publicly for the deaths of three Egyptian policemen. DEBKAfile discloses: Israeli also agreed to renegotiate the treaty’s Sinai demilitarization clause banning an Egyptian troop presence.

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