Simple Arab Formula – When fighting each other, attack Israel to get back Together!
The question of a Final Middle East War has never bee
n “IF,” but rather “WHEN!”
May 28, 2007
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Anytime that Islamic nations, and/or the terrorist groups within, are fighting each other, then one oft applied formula to get them all back together into a united Jihad front is to simply get Israel involved in the conflict – They will stop fighting each other temporarily and unite to destroy Israel. None of them like each other, but they all hate Israel!
During the last century I believed WHEN 10 Arab nations finally did attack Israel it would likely be WHEN the end of a 40 year period was drawing near, following the 1967 Israeli-Arab War. The question of IF, as far as I am concerned, is settled by the prophetic Scriptures. The 40 year period will be up in June, and conditions could not be better for an attack to occur at some point in time after 2007, but prior to 2013.
When I first read the following article from the al-Shar al-Awsat Daily in July 2002, I guesstimated the attack might come in 2006. And I was wrong in my guess, but certainly over the last five years it has become apparent it is not a far distant event.
It has become apparent the only way this horrific bloodshed can end in the Middle East is by way of the beginning and ending of a terrible great war, followed by return of the Messiah at His Second Advent.
The question as to when the following verses would be fulfilled has never been IF, but WHEN, and it will be a GUESS until it happens. WHEN it does happen, it will begin with an attack from the north by 10 Islamic nations. The final battle will occur some three and on-half years later at Armageddon.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land (Israel), 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 (Israel) fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part (Israel) 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.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
[9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Back in 2002 it was clear to the Arabs the only solution they could ever accept was a war that they would win and recover all of Palestine from Dan to Beersheba.
Their solution has not changed, and they will soon possess the ability to do it.
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Al-Sharq al-Awsat: the next war against Syria
Syria-Israel, Politics, 7/1/2002
The London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat daily indicated Saturday to the news published on Friday in Tel Aviv on the next war against Syria as it has practically started and that the field military side is only a matter of time and that the US administration has been acquainted with events taking place concerning this war and that “Israel gives this war as a contribution to the war launched by the US against Arab terrorism.”
Al-Sharq al-Awsat added that it was clear from these published news that the military plan to strike Syria has been ready since several years and it was amended according to the requirements of the phase and was determined several months ago and the Israeli army was ready to implement it in the mid of March this year, in retaliation of the “operation” carried out close to the Lebanese borders when an armed Palestinian opened fire at several Israeli sedan car and killed seven Israelis.
In its news report from Tel Aviv, the paper explained that the Israeli army deputy chief of staff Gen Moshe Yaloun who will be the army chief of staff in less of two weeks, visited Washington in May and left the impression in those whom he had met that the war with Syria is inevitable as one of its aims is to take part in the American war against terrorism. When this next American war will be directed against Iraq, then Israel will take the part and will not strike only towns and positions in Lebanon but also in Syria.
The paper said that an Israeli official returned back last week to repeat this statement stressing that these are not mere estimates, rather it is a policy.
The paper also said that at a time when the Israeli army in the north led by Gen.
Ghabi Ashkinazi used to accept the instructions of the Israeli government and abstained from carrying out military operations, the new leader of the “North Contingent” Veni Jentis hears “silent cries and says that it is the best time for Israel in order to attack Syria.”
End 2002 Article 1
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 2
Analysis: Lebanese infighting could be dangerous for Israel
Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 27, 2007
While most eyes have been turned to the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, where Israel is busy combating Palestinian Kassam rocket fire, Military Intelligence and the IDF’s Northern Command have also been keeping an eye on Lebanon, with growing concern that violence there will spill over across the border.
Since fighting broke out in the Nahr al-Bared camp, located on the outskirts of the north Lebanon port city of Tripoli, at least 80 soldiers, Fatah al-Islam rebels and civilians have been killed.
Until this past weekend, the violence appeared to be limited to the refugee camp, where the Lebanese army – backed by military equipment airlifted to Beirut from the United States – was poised to raid the closed neighborhood.
But with news reports quoting Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as blaming Israel for the violence, the IDF is justifiably concerned that in an effort to halt the clashes with the Lebanese Armed Forces, Fatah al-Islam will turn its guns to the south.
“Even if Israel is not involved right now, instability is not good for us in the long run,” said a Defense Ministry official who is closely following the developments in Lebanon.
While Hizbullah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah announced over the weekend that he planned to stay out of the conflict, Israel fears that his organization will join the fray by firing rockets into Israel and taking advantage of the Lebanese army’s preoccupation with fighting Fatah al-Islam. Hizbullah has been rebuilding its infrastructure in south Lebanon and according to some reports
has recently started a massive recruitment campaign in search of guerrilla fighters.
“If the Lebanese army can’t deal with this relatively small and isolated group, how does it think it will be able to confront Hizbullah – a much larger and powerful group – when the day comes,” said Dr. Eitan Azani, deputy director of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC, Herzliya.
Associated with al-Qaida, the Palestinian terror group Fatah al-Islam also has UNIFIL extremely concerned. Al-Qaida has attacked Israel from within Lebanon in the past. In December 2005, an al-Qaida cell in south Lebanon fired Katyusha rockets at Kiryat Shmona.
In December, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of Military Intelligence’s Research Division, told the cabinet there were increasing signs that al-Qaida elements were setting up a presence in Lebanon and planning attacks against UNIFIL. Baidatz said that the French, Italian, and Spanish contingents were at particular risk.
According to Azani, the current clashes in Lebanon should also be of concern for Israel since they indicate the growing presence of al-Qaida in neighboring countries. Azani said the violence drew Lebanon even closer to a civil war that it already was on the brink of, as demonstrated by the mass rallies organized by Hizbullah following the Second Lebanon War.
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