DOWN THE RIVER OF NO RETURN!
January 23, 2008
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We are headed down the “River of Peacenik Tears” to a great war of unequaled historical terror, from which there will be no return, except the return of Christ with the Saints to end it at his Second Advent.
And following his return to rule and reign, there will be a river of joy that flows out from Jerusalem. We have followed the internationally known path of appeasement, which has kept Sweden out of major wars in modern historical times, but this coming
war will directly affect all nations, and they are going to be up a creek without a peacenik paddle.
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.
Ezekiel 38:14 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and
in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 1
John Bolton: It will be up to Israel to stop Iran
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 22, 2008
“The questions come to Israel, weather it will use military force to stop Iran,” former US ambassador to the
US John Bolton said Tuesday.
Speaking at the eighth Herzliya Conference, in a special session devoted to the Iranian nuclear race, Bolton said “The united states used to have a policy on Iran and recently there was a new push to create a new policy but sadly, due to the direction American policy is going, it seems that for the next few years the United States will be a bystander to the process.”
“It’s close to zero percent chance that the Bush administration will authorize military action against Iran before leaving office.
At the same time in Teheran they took careful notice of how Israel got into Syria and to prepare for such an action against Iran. Without American policy backing anti Iraq action Israel should be willing to see themselves as a possible last resort.”
“No one should be under any illusions about the United States part of the Iranian situation in the coming year,” he added.
In related news, Bolton spoke at length about the Israeli strike in Syria on September 6, 2007, which was reported in detail only in the foreign media, and criticized sharply the Israeli government decision to censor information regarding the strike.
“Why wouldn’t the government of Israel want to take the credit for a stunningly successful military strike?” he asked
“Our governments … know the details and I wonder if that censorship and classification of information is necessary.
“I, for one, am not bound by any of the Israeli laws of censorship, while the American first amendment stays with me.
“I don’t understand the reason for strong Israeli censorship in the news.
The Syrian and North Korea governments know the whole truth and the USA and Israeli Governments know part of the truth. It’s the citizens of all four countries who don’t.
“Due to its government censorship the people of Israel can know what it feels like to be a citizen of north Korea,” Bolton ended his attack on censorship in the Israeli press.
Bolton continued to describe how North Korea, once it succeeded in being removed from the US list of terror-sponsoring countries, would become a major player in the Middle East arms race.
“The proliferation of nuclear weapons in the middle east will start with North Korea. It counterfeits money, sells narcotics, and it will do anything for hard money,” he said.
“In 1998 North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the pacific ocean near Japan.
After a year North Korea said that it promises that it wouldn’t test such missiles anymore.
“This was a double victory. First to launch the missile and it’s testing and secondly the political benefits of promising not to do so again. This ballistic missile information was shared with Iran,” Bolton said.
He added that Iranian-North Korean cooperation was “getting more intensive.”
Also speaking at the session, former chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Likud MK Yuval Steinitz blasted the American National Intelligence Estimate, calling it “the most bizarre report I have ever read.”
Steinitz said the report, issued jointly at the end of 2007 by several American intelligence agencies, “seriously harmed the struggle to contain Iran. The report gave Russia and China a pretext to soften their stand towards Iran and therefore created great damage, despite being essentially unfounded.”
“The report was given to the White House and relevant agencies unannounced, so there is a certain problem regarding [the Aemrican] democracy,” he added.
The report stated that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, but by neglecting to explain why Iran halted its program, the report failed to advise of the right course of action, Steinitz asserted.
The NIE, he said, reasoned that the fact Iran halted its program in 2003 proved that sanctions and other diplomatic efforts were working, “but one must remember that in 2003 the US began its campaign in Iraq, and its most natural to think that military pressure, that is, the fact that the US went to war in Iraq, is what caused, [Iranian] policy makers to change their mind.
But the report doesn’t say this, because this would hint that the US needs to impose a military ultimatum [on Iran.]”
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‘Iran cannot be stopped militarily’
Haviv Rettig, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 22, 2008
“A military option doesn’t exist. You can only delay” Iranian nuclear armament through military means, according to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, speaking to journalists Tuesday on the sidelines of the Herzliya Conference.
Asked if the world could live with a nuclear Iran, he replied with the question, “Can you stop it? The only way we can be certain of succeeding is an agreement with Iran that’s verifiable. Military options won’t do the trick.”
Bildt also spoke of the Annapolis process, which he believes is the best possibility for peace between Israel and the Palestinians to date.
“There are three factors now that we haven’t seen before,” he explained. “There is an Israeli prime minister who said there’s a partner for peace, the active involvement of the world seen at the Paris donors’ conference, and suddenly the active involvement of the United States.”
According to Bildt, the world sees a “virtual collapse of the Gazan economy” with recent Israeli cuts to the strip’s fuel supply.
He warned that “Israel will be seen in the eyes of the world as responsible for a humanitarian disaster.” Even if Israel tries to end its responsibility for the Gaza Strip, “you can’t get rid of responsibility for access” to the Strip, Bildt said.
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