A WAR BEGINNING
BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015
IS STILL HOLDING UP AS MOST
LIKELY TIME FOR A MAJOR MIDDLE
EAST WAR TO START BETWEEN THE JEWS
AND FOLLOWERS OF THE ISLAMIC GOD ALLAH!
March 9, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
This year’s Israeli Intelligence Assessment forecasts a year void of being attacked by any of its enemies, but that Iran would reach the point of no return in its nuclear program by
the end of 2009.
The actual breaking out of the final war of this Age of the Gentiles is no longer a question of IF, but rather WHEN it will occur.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Annual Intel assessment: War with enemy states unlikely in ’08
Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST
March 9, 2008
There is a low likelihood of enemy states initiating an attack on Israel in 2008, but a growing likelihood of violence by Hizbullah, intelligence officials said Sunday, as the cabinet heard a strategic briefing from the country’s various intelligence arms.
Intelligence assessments were given by representatives from Mossad, military intelligence, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the intelligence arm of the Foreign Ministry and the police.
These pointed to five major threats faced by Israel in 2008: Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Palestinian terror, and Islamic jihad.
The intelligence community warned that a conflagration in any one front could lead to other fronts opening.
For instance, they said, an escalation in violence in the Gaza Strip could lead to a Hizbullah attack in the north.
Both Mossad and military intelligence officials agreed that the central strategic threat faced by Israel comes from Iran – both by the progress of its nuclear program and by its establishment as the leader of a radical axis
in the Arab world.
Intelligence officials said Iran was likely to reach a point of no return in its nuclear program by the end of 2009, while Syria was in the midst of an intense armament program and was putting long-range missiles into position. Both the Syrian and the Iranian strategic doctrines are based on the assumption that Israel will not be beaten in conventional war, due to its superiority on land and in the air, but rather by missiles on the Home Front that they are developing.
The representatives from Mossad and military intelligence said that the region was in the midst of a struggle between a radical axis led by Iran, and a pragmatic camp which includes Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf states, Jordan and Egypt. These did not face any immediate danger from Iran in 2008, they said.
The officials said that while Syria is a member of the radical axis, some in the intelligence community believe that “under certain circumstances and if there were certain developments,” there is a possibility of pushing Syria out of that axis. The price for this would be a full Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights and American rapprochement with Syria.
They said Syria believes that the chances of this happening in 2008 are low, but not completely impossible.
Foreign Ministry representatives said that the US was suffering from declining status in the Middle East, and that this was causing an increase in the maneuverability of other factors, including radical ones. However, they said, these radical forces were deterred by Israel, were worried by its strength and concerned it would use it. This, the officials said, prevented them from acting with all their strength.
On the Palestinian front, intelligence officials said they were seeing a certain drop in support for Hamas and a boost for Fatah, but this change was not considered to be significant. As long as the diplomatic process between Israel and Fatah continued, they said, the chances of an agreement between Hamas and Fatah was low.
Shin Bet representatives said that there was an increasing separation between Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was making an effort to show an appearance of building up Fatah security forces, although in practice this was not being done, they said.
They also pointed to growing tensions between Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Hamas in Gaza.
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