Will the World Seize
the Moment?
September 18, 2007
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The answer to the question poised by the title of this article will, to a large extent, determine the length
of time from now until 10 Islamic nations attack Israel
from the north. If the world seizes the moment, described by Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post article which follows, a Major Middle East war may not break out for another seven years. Syria and Iran are not ready for a major Middle East war. If one was to break out at the present time the Islamic world would be soundly defeated, and they know it.
If they wait until they have a nuclear deterrent, have developed an effective aircraft and missile detection and destruction system, and seen the last of U.S. troops in Iraq, then they can and will win a major Middle East war.
The actions and reactions, of the players in the IAF penetration into the teeth of a Russian Detection and Destruction System to knock out a dangerous cache of WMD materials, will be very interesting to observe during the next few months. The Scriptures indicate we are due for a major war in the Middle East, but if the world seizes the moment, 2008 and 2009 may be a tad early for it to occur. As I have indicated in my previous guesstimate, 2010 to 2013 would be the most likely time for a major Middle East war to begin.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Analysis: There’s a reason world is quiet on alleged IAF strike
Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 17, 2007
The world, it’s fair to say, doesn’t like North Korea. Indeed, it’s a tough country to love, especially since dictator Kim Jong Il lets his people starve while he tests various nuclear devices.
It is also fair to say that the world, for the most part, dislikes the idea of a nuclear Middle East. Witness French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner’s recent comment that France should prepare for the possibility of war over Iran’s nuclear program.
So add North Korea together with foreign reports of nukes in the Middle East, and what you get is a situation for which the international community has very little patience.
And that, according to foreign new reports, is what the IAF’s excursion into Syrian skies the other night was all about: stopping the proliferation, via North Korea, of nuclear capability to the Middle East.
While on an existential level, the prospect of Syrian President Bashar Assad – deep in cahoots with Hizbullah and Hamas – in possession of anything nuclear is deeply frightening, and if we believe the foreign reports, on a diplomatic level the fact that the world media is writing “North Korea,” ‘nuclear cache” and “Syria” together in the same sentence could actually be beneficial for Israel.
First of all, if indeed the alleged IAF sortie over Syria had to do with a nuclear shipment from Pyongyang, then Israel’s stock has to go up because it will be seen in a few key capitals as the force that will not allow nuclear proliferation in the region.
It is interesting to note, by the way, the resounding lack of condemnation – either in Europe or even in the Arab world – to Israel’s alleged attack.
Secondly, the alleged North Korean nuclear connection will put Damascus – already not in the world’s good graces – even more on the defensive.
It’s one thing to harbor terrorists who want to destroy Israel, it’s another thing to allegedly have been involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but it is something different entirely to get into the same nuclear bed with North Korea.
If the first two offensives are, in the eyes of the world, pardonable because of various bilateral interests, the third would be much more difficult to forgive. The alleged Syrian-North Korean connection could move Syria from being just an unpopular state to
being a pariah regime.
And Damascus doesn’t want pariah state status. Syria, which has shown that it does want contact with the outside world, has no desire to be quarantined and ostracized as North Korea has been.
Which is where certain diplomatic opportunities just may present themselves.
Damascus, it is safe to assume, will want to shrug off a North Korean image and present itself as a responsible player on the international scene.
It has even expressed interest in coming to the international Middle East meeting that the US is planning later this year.
The allegations of a North Korean-Syrian connection could make the time ripe, therefore, for Israel to push the world to place certain conditions on Syria’s being accepted back into the international fold.
The conditions are obvious, and ones that Israel has been demanding – without any success at all – for years: kicking the terrorist organizations out of Damascus, first and foremost Hamas and its leader Khaled Mashaal, and an end to the support and the supply of weapons to Hizbullah.
In the past Syria has just ignored these calls. But now, in order to avoid being seen as North Korea’s kid brother, it may have no choice but to pay a little attention.
The alleged connection to North Korea makes Syria vulnerable.
The question is whether the world will seize the moment.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Peres: Israel Gave Land Before, but Rec’d No Peace, No Security
6 Tishrei 5768, 18 September 07 06:31
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) President Shimon Peres says the “land for peace” formula on which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is working has not worked for Israel.
Speaking on Tuesday to some 150 foreign reporters at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem Peres poured coldish water on the plans to give up 95% of Judea and Samaria for an Arab state.
It is known that Prime Minister Olmert is working on just such a plan, in anticipation of the upcoming US-sponsored international summit this November.
“The chemistry between Olmert and [PA chief Mahmoud] Abbas is good,” Peres said, “but this does not mean they have reached any conclusions.”
The presidential speech was broadcast around the world, including on Al-Jazeera.
Summing up the situation for those who might not have known, Peres said, “The problems are peace, land, and security… In similar cases, like in Gaza and Lebanon, Israel gave up land – but received neither peace nor security.”
“The negotiations are direct, and I don’ t believe
that intermediaries are needed. The leaders are talking to each other, and to their nations at the same time.
Only the Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister can determine how far and how fast to go without losing the support of their peoples.”
“We have been forced to fight seven wars and two intifadas in our 60 years of existence,” Peres said. “That is, we have had a war every seven years. It is now our hope to form peace with the Palestinians, with the Syrians, and regional peace with all the Arab nations.”
Peres continued a familiar refrain of his by saying that modern war is less about borders than about money: “Wars today are not carried out with tanks or ships, but rather with rockets and weapons of mass destruction. War is more ballistic than geographic.”
Expanding on the same theme, Peres said, “The value of borders, lands, and distances has dropped; the importance today is more economic.”
Peres said that he told the Special European Union envoy to the Middle East, ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, that the EU should “stop supporting the Palestinians financially; they have received a billion dollars a year that were used for corruption and caused the toppling of the Fatah in Gaza. Instead, the money should be used to support the establishment of industrial areas for employment in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.”
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