A Peace and Safety Time of Positioning for War has Begun!
WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO WAR BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015
December 11, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The Annapolis Peace Farce, and the CIA Report of Iran’s 2003 nuclear components halt, have been part of the mechanism responsible for a time of international positioning, which the Bible indicates will end in the “sudden destruction” of a Middle East War.
I believe we will see all the major parties, involved in the Middle East struggle between Islam and Israel, jockeying for power positions based on individual national interests.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
There will not be a major Middle East war as long as an appreciable number of U.S. troops are in Iraq.
And there will be no major Middle East war until Iran develops an arsenal of deliverable nuclear warheads to compete with Israel’s vast nuclear arsenal in the Negev.
The two articles from the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz are a part of the international posturing, which can be expected to give a few years of relative “peace and safety” to the Middle East – not less than two nor more than seven.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Iraqi FM: Pact will set time limit on US troop presence
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 10, 2007
Iraq’s foreign minister said Monday that the government has formally requested a final UN extension of a mandate for US-led forces, and he insisted a new security pact with the Americans will set a time limit on the US troop presence in Iraq.
US President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a “declaration of principles” on Nov. 26 that set the foundation for a potential long-term US troop presence in Iraq and confirmed that Washington and Baghdad will hash out an “enduring” relationship. The agreement will replace the present UN mandate regulating the presence of the US-led forces in Iraq.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said a letter had been sent to the UN formally requesting UN authorization for the US-led presence in Iraq.
“We left an underline that the Iraqi government hoped that this would be the last extension of the mandate,” he said, adding the negotiations for a new pact with the Americans would be “the most important that Iraq has ever entered.”
He said the deadline for reaching an agreement was July.
“There will be negotiations about the conduct of these (US) troops and their rights, privileges and also questions of command and control,” Zebari said at a news conference.
He also insisted there would be limits set on the US presence, address
ing concerns among neighboring nations and others that the United States would establish permanent bases in the country.
“Next year, we will enter important, serious and detailed negotiations with the United States,” he said. “We are the ones who will decide on the duration of the agreement.”
“There will really be no permanent (US military) presence,” he said. “The agreement will set a time limit for Iraq’s need for this assistance and there will be checks and restrictions related to sovereignty, legal immunities and the mission of these forces and their relations with Iraqi forces.”
“We must from now prepare and be ready because the negotiations are going to be the most important that Iraq ever entered,” Zebari said. “The question of the time element (for the presence of US forces) will be decided during these talks.”
Zebari said Iraqi security forces were improving, pointing to the improving security situation and US plans to gradually draw down troops by this summer.
“These withdrawals show that the Iraqi forces are performing better and are able to fill the vacuum left behind by these departing (US) forces,” he said. “Our aim is for our security forces to reach a level of preparedness that leaves us with absolutely no need for foreign forces to remain in the country, but we haven’t reached that stage yet.”
Begin Haaretz Article
Moscow pushing for follow-up M ideas
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By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
December 12, 2007
The United States supports the holding of a second peace conference in Moscow that would address Israel’ s conflict
s with Syria and Lebanon as well as the Palestinian issue, according to information obtained by the Foreign Ministry from Russian sources in recent days.
Nevertheless, government sources in Jerusalem said they have some doubts about the Russian claim, as they have received contradictory reports from Washington. They added that they expect the situation to become clearer at next week’s meeting of donor nations to the Palestinian Authority, as representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers – the U.S., European Union, United Nations and Russia – will meet on the sidelines to discuss whether to hold a Moscow conference and if so, when and in what format.
According to the Foreign Ministry’s information, obtained from conversations with Russian diplomats in both Moscow and UN headquarters in New York, the conference would probably take place in April 2008 and would be at the level of foreign ministers.
Last month’s Middle East peace summit, held in Annapolis, Maryland, focused almost exclusively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Russia had expressed interest in hosting a follow-up event that would broaden the agenda. Thus far, no member of the Quartet has publicly voiced opposition to Russia’s proposal.
The Russian diplomats assured their Israeli counterparts that the proposed Moscow event, like Annapolis, would be billed as a “meeting” rather than a “conference.” They also said that its purpose would not be to finalize agreements, but merely to move the Middle East peace process forward.
According to the information reaching Jerusalem, the Russians would like to divide the event into two sessions. The first would be devoted to assessing the progress of bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, while the second would deal with the issue of a comprehensive regional peace, with particular emphasis on resumption of negotiations between Israel and Syria, and the launching of Israeli-Lebanese talks.
According to the Russians, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice approves of both the proposed Moscow meeting and the idea of restarting Israeli-Syrian talks.
Jerusalem also supports plan
The Russians’ impression is that Israel, too, looks favorably on both the meeting and the Syrian focus. Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the two discussed the idea.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who heads the Israeli team negotiating with the PA, met with her Palestinian counterpart, Ahmed Qureia, on Monday in order to finalize the agenda for a meeting of the full negotiating teams, which is slated
to take place Tuesday in Jerusalem. “The first meeting of the negotiating teams will deal mainly with procedure and technical arrangements,” said an Israeli government source.
PA threatens to boycott
But Palestinian sources threatened Monday that the PA would boycott the session if Israel did not stop construction of 307 apartments in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa.
In addition, the diplomatic-security cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. Various defense agencies will present reviews of the situation, and a senior government official said the main focus will be on the defense establishment’s views about launching a major military operation against Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza.
“The last [security] cabinet meeting dealt with civilian sanctions, because then, the defense establishment said that it did not support a large military operation in Gaza,” the official said. “Since then, there has been a shift in its position, and therefore, cabinet ministers need to hear about this first-hand.”
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