No honor among Terrorist Thugs and One Day Egypt will be Sorry!
June 21, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The first article from the Jerusalem Post I read with tongue in cheek, for it is difficult to understand why Abbas was shocked to suddenly see the truth about Hamas being made up of “murderers and terrorists,” after having been aware of their activities for all these years. In fact, he has always known it and, by the time of the future attack by Islam from the north, Fatah and Hamas will suddenly become bosom buddies while they unite to help drive Israel into the Negev.
The second article from Middle East Online tells about Egypt blasting Iran, and is followed by Scripture showing why Egypt will regret one day for having done so.
PA Chairman: Hamas tried to kill me
Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 20, 2007
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Hamas, calling it a bunch of murderers and terrorists.
His attack is the strongest since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip last week.
Abbas accused Hamas of trying to assassinate him.
“I received a video in which Hamas men are seen transferring a 250-kilogram explosive charge,” he said in a speech before Fatah leaders in Ramallah.
“They are heard saying that the bomb is for Abu Mazen,” he said, referring to his nickname.
Abbas said a Hamas official told him Syria-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was behind the assassination attempt. He did not say when the assassination plot was uncovered.
Fatah leaders said earlier this year they had discovered a booby-trapped underground tunnel in Gaza City that was supposed to be detonated as Abbas’ s convoy pa
ssed by.
“I tried many times in the past to solve our problems to avoid civil war,” Abbas said. “But Hamas did not halt its attempts to stage a coup against the Palestinian Authority until they finally seized control of the entire Gaza Strip, looting and destroying security headquarters.”
He accused Hamas of perpetrating crimes against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as well as PA security installations, figures and churches.
“There will be no dialogue with these murderers,” Abbas said. “There will be no dialogue with the forces of darkness.”
He said Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was responsible for Hamas’s atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Abbas called on Hamas to apologize to the Palestinians for staging a bloody coup against the PA.
“The era of militias has ended,” he said. “We will impose law and order in all the Palestinian territories.
Hamas’s Executive Force, which carried out the coup, is illegal and must be dismantled.”
Abbas also hinted at the possibility of overriding the Palestinian Legislative Council, where Hamas has a majority, with the Palestine National Council, to give formal approval to his new cabinet.
The Palestine National Council last convened in 2004, after the death of Yasser Arafat.
Abbas said he would seek to reactivate the PLO, of which Hamas is not a member, presumably to bypass Hamas and strip it of legitimacy.
Earlier, the new PA emergency government headed by Prime Minister Salaam Fayad announced it would not recognize Hamas’s Executive Force. The decision means that the force’s 3,000 members will not receive salaries from the PA government.
The Fayad government also decided to cancel all Palestinian passports issued by the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.
It called on the international community to deal only with Palestinians holding passports issued by the PA in Ramallah. The decision means that residents of the Gaza Strip will no longer be able to travel abroad.
PA Minister of Sports and Youth Ashraf Ajrami said the government decided on a series of measures to consolidate its authority in the West Bank.
“We have approved a security plan to restore law and order to the West Bank and confiscate illegal weapons,” he said. “We want to strengthen the Palestinian Authority on the one hand and isolate Hamas on the other hand.”
Ajrami said the government decided to open a new Interior Ministry office in Ramallah. The ministry, headed by Abdel Razak Yahya, is formally in charge of all the Fatah-controlled security forces. He said the ministry would be entrusted with issuing passports and birth certificates and would replace the Interior Ministry that existed in the Gaza Strip.
Ajrami said his ministry was planning to open an office in the Gaza Strip to enable Palestinians there to apply for passports and other official documents. He said Fayad’s government was holding contacts with Israel to discuss the future of the border crossings into the Gaza Strip, saying he was opposed to giving Hamas any role in controlling them.
Meanwhile, five Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot on Wednesday night. Three people were lightly wounded by shrapnel and evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon for treatment. Two more rockets fell in the western Negev. In addition, one more was fired earlier in the day.
AP contributed to this report.
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MIDDLE EAST ONLINE
Egypt blasts Iran over Hamas takeover of Gaza
June 20, 2007
Egyptian FM accuses Tehran of having encouraged Palestinian Islamist movement to control Gaza.
CAIRO – Egypt’s foreign minister accused Iran of having encouraged Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to seize neighbouring Gaza and said it posed a threat to the Arab world, in remarks published on Wednesday.
“Iran’s policies encouraged Hamas to do what it has done in Gaza and this represents a threat for Egypt’s national security because Gaza is a stone’s throw from Egypt,” Ahmed Abul Gheit said in Al-Masri Al-Yom newspaper.
“The Iranian influence in Iraq also represents a threat for Egyptian and Arab national security. This obliges Cairo to restrict its relations with Tehran,” which were already broken off in 1980, the foreign minister said.
Tehran severed ties after its 1979 Islamic revolution in protest at Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel and for having hosted the toppled Shah of Iran. The two countries have since had only interests sections in each other’s capital.
Egypt condemned last week’s takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas which drove out its secular Fatah rivals in fighting that cost 110 lives and has thrown its weight behind Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the leader of Fatah.
On Tuesday, Cairo decided to transfer its diplomatic representation with the Palestinian Authority from Gaza City to the West Bank political capital of Ramallah where Abbas’s new emergency government is based.
EGYPT WILL ONE DAY REGRET CONDEMNING IRAN!
Daniel 11:42 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
Once the leader of 10 Islamic nations has driven Israel into the Negev, and secured the northern periphery of it to stop Israel from breaking out of it, he will leave Israel trapped in it, and then proceed to his most important military objective, the Suez Canal.
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.
There is no more important zone in the entire Middle East from a military, political, and economic standpoint than the narrow strip of water known as the Suez Canal. World shipping passes through it from the south into the Med
iterranean Sea on its way to European ports, and to the ports of the northern Atlantic. It carries southward through its banks the shipping commerce that services
the ports of the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea, the Gulf of Siam, the South China Sea, and the vast Pacific Ocean.
The sudden lightning Jihad strike from the north will catch the western world by complete surprise. The short period of false peace in the Middle East, following a period of no peace since 70 A.D. for the Jewish nation, will lull Israel and those nations that are friendly to her into a false sense of security.
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.
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 tentatively identified as being made up of Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Sudan, and Turkey. Nations and groups 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, Libya, Sudan, and Turkey will be more involved in strategic and logistical positional support than in actual combat. However, after quick successes against Israel and Egypt, all the other Islamic nations will then 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 a Caliphate will cover as far to the west from Cairo as Daniel’s fourth beast 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 include the 10 already mentioned, plus Egypt, Palestine, 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 empire 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 six years will settle the question as to the correct interpretation.
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