Israel Seeking and Saying “Peace and Safety” with Great Zeal!
STAGE IS BEING SET FOR THE “SUDDEN DESTRUCTION” OF I THESSALONIANS 5:3 TO COME ON ISRAEL AFTER ELECTION CHANGE IN WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATION!
December 27, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The changes in the Middle East after the Annapolis Conference, and the CIA intelligence report downgrading the Iranian nuclear threat, has produced a flurry of activity in the Arab world, which has put Israel in a position where Prime Minister Olmert is seeking and saying “PEACE AND SAFETY” like never before.
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.
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.
We will see countless ifs, ands, or buts on peace talks between now and the time Israel is attacked from the north to begin the final war of the “Age of the Gentiles”, but the stage is set, and I feel confident the initial attack, which begins the “sudden destruction”, is likely to occur at some point in time between 2010 and 2015.
The article which follows, from the ARAB NEWS, is a harbinger of the nearness of the prophesied “sudden destruction” period, a period of some three and one half years of great tribulation, which will come upon Israel before it is climaxed by the battle of Armageddon.
This period is likely to beg in at some po
int in time between 2010 and 2015.
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ARAB NEWS
December 27, 2007
Olmert Seeks Peace Talks with Syria
Reuters
JERUSALEM, 27 December 2007 — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told visiting US lawmakers he was interested in restarting peace talks with Syria but was awaiting a signal from Damascus first, one of the lawmakers said yesterday.
“It is the proverbial story of chicken and egg, what comes first?” Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania told reporters one day after meeting with Olmert in Jerusalem.
Olmert has for months passed messages to Syria through third parties, including US lawmakers, seeking assurances peace talks would lead Damascus to sever ties with Hamas, in control of the Gaza Strip, with the Hezbollah group in Lebanon and with Iran, Israeli officials said.
Specter said his visit to the region would include talks in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Syria took part in a US-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood after Washington agreed to allow discussion on the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed in a move not recognized internationally.
Olmert told Specter and Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island that he was “interested” in renewing peace talks, which collapsed in 2000 without resolving the fate of the Golan, but that “he is looking for a signal from Syria,” according to Specter.
Specter said Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Fayssal Al-Mekdad told him on the sidelines of the Annapolis conference last month that “Syria is interested in negotiations.”
Kennedy said he would tell Assad that he was “mistaken” if he believed he could wait until US President George W.
Bush, a Republican, leaves office in January 2009 in order to get a better deal should a Democrat be elected.
“If he thinks there’s going to be some ability for concessions, or less resolve … he is going to be mistaken in that approach,” Kennedy said.
Assad has set his own preconditions for revived talks with Israel: Olmert’s commitment to a full withdrawal from the Golan.
Tensions flared between the neighbors when
the Israeli air force carried out a strike inside Syrian territory on Sept. 6. Some US officials have linked the raid to suspicions of secret nuclear cooperation between Damascus and North Korea.
Syria and North Korea have denied any nuclear ties.
Mohammed Mar’i adds from Ramallah: The Israeli foreign minister said in a new intelligence assessment that Syria is interested in peace agreement with Israel but is waiting for the next United States administration to take over in 2009 in order to initiate talks.
The ministry’s yearly assessment was presented to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday by Nimrod Barkan, director of the ministry’s Center for Policy Research.
According to the report, the Syrians do not believe that negotiations will be able to advance as long as President Bush is in office, and therefore prefer to wait until the end of his term, hoping
that the next administration will be willing to renew talks with Damascus and will give its blessing to Syrian-Israeli negotiations.
Barkan told the committee that, “Damascus is interested in an agreement with Israel, but only according to Syria’s conditions and with American involvement.”
“The Syrian surface-to-surface missile threat has increased in the past year,” he added. “Israel’s deterrence against Syria and Hezbollah still exists and even increased during 2007, but we must watch closely for the possibility that the deterrence could weaken.”
Barkan added that the US twice tried to “open a door for Syria” in 2007, but Damascus failed to meet the administration’s demands regarding its continued involvement in Lebanon.
European diplomatic sources said on Friday that an attempt to exchange messages between Israel and Syria in recent months has failed due to inability to reach an agreed-upon agenda for talks between the two countries.
“The Syrians wanted the talks to revolve only on the (occupied) Golan (Heights),” the European diplomats said. “But Israel wanted to first talk about other issues that trouble it, such as (Syria’s) ties with Iran and the support for Hezbollah and Hamas, and Syria did not agree.”
In another development, the Israeli special ministerial committee advising Prime Minister Olmert on the issue of releasing Palestinian prisoners “with blood on their hands” in exchange for abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is likely to recommend that the government relax conditions for freeing such prisoners.
According to Israeli sources, three of the five ministers on the committee support changing prisoner release policies.
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