Ishmael’s Descendants bear his Character – Wild Asses!
June 14, 2007
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Genesis 16:12 – And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Hebrew expression “a wild man” literally means “a wild jackass.”
The struggle going on between different factions of Arabs in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the terrorist groups, does indeed seem to be between a gathering of wild asses in heat. I dread the day when this hatred for one another is united in a Jihad attack against Israel.
Whatever you intend to do toward Jesus, with Jesus, or for Jesus, you had better get at it. This situation in the Middle East is headed toward the last war of this age, which will culminate with the return of Jesus at his Second Advent to end the final battle of Armageddon. As I keep on saying like a broken record, I guesstimate the attack, which begins this last war, will occur at some point in time between 2008 and the end of 2012, and will terminate at the battle of Armageddon some three and one-half years later. And, again, as I have stated many times, that is merely a guess in timing on my part, but I am certain that this Age of the Gentiles is drawing to a close, and these events are not in the far off sweet forever – They are at our door!
The following articles demonstrate the wild jackass characteristics of the hoards of religious Islamic fanatics that will come against Israel. At present Turks are fighting Kurds, Sunnis are fighting Shiites, Lebanese are fighting Fatah refugees, and Hamas is fighting Fatah. Clay and Iron do not mix, but soon they will hold together as 10 toes long enough to drive Israel into the Negev Wilderness.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Thousands of Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah are under Hamas siege at their last bastion – Gaza City’s presidential compound
June 13, 2007, 7:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
They are running out of food, water and ammunition. Hamas and its Executive Force have overrun some 80 percent of the Gaza Strip, while loyalists of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, including complete clans, are surrendering and turning in their weapons. Hamas has set up large prisoner camps, some in the rubble of the Gush Katif villages. Wednesday afternoon, a desperate Abbas appealed to Israel to permit arms and ammunition to be transferred from the West Bank. Israeli officers said it was too late. Fatah is a lost case and any arms crossing into Gaza will be seized at once by Hamas.
Earlier, DEBKAfile reported Hamas’ seizure of Gaza’s main south-north highway in fierce fighting with many casualties, most Fatah.
Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah were fleeing Gaza for Egypt
By borrowing this Israeli tactic for bisecting the territory to contain terrorists, Hamas shut in Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Guard, which has not yet been thrown into battle, and choked off ammunition re-supply routes to Fatah fighters.
To tighten their control, Hamas units also commandeered high rise rooftops.
Hamas then gave Fatah till Friday noon to surrender their arms or become wanted men under sentence of death.
Abbas called the situation “madness.”
Wednesday afternoon, Hamas used a tunnel to blow up Abbas’ Security Service HQ in Khan Younes, killing 10 members. UNWRA has cut down its personnel in Gaza after two aid workers were killed.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas’ planning and combat tactics clear betray the professional hands of Syrian and Hizballah officers who have set up a command center in the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, DEBKAfile reported: The brutal civil strife has brought the fragile Hamas-Fatah unity government to closure.
The War Crimes Prosecution Watch has condemned rival Palestinian factions fighting in Gaza for attacking civilians, prisoners and hospitals.
Senior Palestinian politician Saab Erikat warned the “Mogadishu syndrome” is overtaking Palestinian Gaza. “If war and lawlessness are not extinguished, the fire will burn us all”
The outcome generated by the civil war is the separation of Palestinian rule between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas threw its entire 15,000-strong Executive Force armed with mortars, RPGs, heavy machine guns and grenades into the final bid to conquer the Gaza Strip, whereas Fatah commanders’ desperate appeals to Mahmoud Abbas for rein
forcements drew nothing but a futile call for a ceasefire.
His Fatah earlier mounted an RPG attack on the Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya’s home in Gaza.
No one was hurt. Hamas gunmen then shot dead the top Fatah commander in northern Gaza, his brother and cousin.
Fatah then “executed” the senior Hamas commander in the North. Monday, Hamas bound a Fatah fighter hand and foot and hurled him from a 15-story building in Gaza to his death.
For two days, Hamas gunmen have been targeting injured Fatah fighters, killing them in ambulances and Beit Hanoun hospital beds. Fatah has retaliated with mortar and RPG attacks on the Hamas-controlled Shifa hospital.
Several attempts by the Egyptian mission in Gaza to arrange a ceasefire have been short-lived. In Cairo Tuesday, President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah discussed the Palestinian crisis.
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Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian lawmaker
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 13, 2007
An explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut’s seafront Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and nine others, security officials said. The 65-year-old lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two years in this conflict-ridden country.
Eido’s 35-year-old son, two bodyguards and six others were also killed in the explosion, security officials said. Eleven other were wounded, they said.
The slain parliament member was an ally of Saad Hariri, the leader of the parliamentary majority and son of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated two years ago in a Beirut car bombing.
A car was in flames and black smoke was seen rising from a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara, which is in the Muslim sector of the capital. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station said the explosion came from a bomb-rigged car, a method that has been used to assassinate opponents of Syria over the past two years.
Two bodies covered with a plastic bags were laying in a smoldering car.
The explosion shattered windows of apartments, knocked down walls and scattered debris on top of parked cars in the area, which is near an amusement park, a military club and popular beaches.
The explosion occurred less than two kilometers (less than a mile) from the site of a suicide truck bombing that killed former Rafik Hariri and 22 others in February 2005.
The UN Security Council earlier this month ordered the creation of a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for Hariri’s assassination despite the opposition from Syrian-backed groups in Lebanon.
Hariri’s killing sparked huge protests against Syria, which was widely seen as culpable. Syria denied involvement but was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, ending a 29-year presence.
The issue of the tribunal has sharply polarized
the country. It is at the core of a deep political crisis between the US-backed government led by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and the Syrian-backed opposition led by Hezbollah. The tensions have taken a more sectarian tone in recent months, with 11 people killed in clashes.
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BAGHDAD (CNN) — A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a police station near Tikrit on Sunday morning, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 45 others, some of them civilians, a Tikrit police official said.
At least seven of those killed were police officers, the police official said.
The blast destroyed part of the police station, which is in Albu Ajil, a town about 3 miles (5 kilometers) east of Tikrit, the police official said.
Also Sunday, a parked car bomb exploded outside a fuel station in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding five others Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said.
The station was in Saydiya, a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood.
About fifteen minutes later, another car bomb detonated at a fuel station in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least two civilians and wounding seven others, the official said.
That attack targeted cars in line at the station, which is located in the Shiite neighborhood of Bayaa.
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