ORDER OF
A PROPHECY –
FIRST A HUDNA –
BUT MUCH LATER –
JIHAD MARTYRDOM
THEN CONTINUES UNTIL
IT IS FINALLY STOPPED BY
THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST –
SCRIPTURE SHOWS THIS TO BE THE
WAY JIHAD BLOODSHED MUST CEASE
WHEN THE SWORD OF ISLAM KNOWS DEFEAT!
March 12, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
It seems to me, in all this maze of confusion in what will happen next, Hamas and Israel, after much consternation, will have a truce that ends up as a longer term Hudna, which will be broken suddenly and violently by a massive Jihad by ten Islamic nations at some point in time between 2010 and 2015.
Revelation 6:8 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
At its maximum historical expansion of its conquest extensions into the lands of the infidels, the Islamic Caliphate covered most of the “known” world at that time, which would amount proportionately to about one-fourth of the world today. I believe they will be in possession of an even greater Caliphate, with antichrist as its Caliph, which will be in place when Jesus returns at His Second Advent to end it as a Kingdom. (For a full exposition of the size of the Caliphate of antichrist, please consult Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 77, 77A, 77B, and 77C)
Revelation 13:10 – He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with
the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The followers of Allah will lead many into captivity, where most of those led will be beheaded by the sword in the name of Allah. The Middle East will run red with the blood of the infidels. But the followers of Allah will themselves be led into captivity, and will die by the figure of the sword as an instrument of war.
The numerous excerpted selected paragraphs and statements from
an article by Bassem Eid, which appeared in a full article in the Jerusalem Post, give an insight into the basic root character of those who practice Jihad in the name of Allah.
These insights should make it quite clear the mindset is deeply ingrained in those who practice it. I believe the chances of it stopping, prior to the Second Advent of Christ, is about as likely as snow in the Sahara Desert in July.
However, I am going to go out on a limb, and say that the first article from Haaretz does give me hope that the current unbelievable mess on the Gaza Strip
will end in a truce, which will phase into a negotiated “period of calm,” which in turn will end in a hudna. It is then a definite possibility that at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, the very character of Islamic Jihad in the mindset of radical Islamic revenge, will be unleashed upon the Jews with an exposed bloodthirsty mania not seen since the holocaust.
The second previously mentioned article from the Jerusalem Post, containing paragraph excerpts, gives the ingrained mindset of the Martyrdom Jihad mindset, which can only be contained for a short period of time, before being released again in pent up fury.
Begin Haaretz Article
Hamas-Israel deal would put Abbas’ men at Gaza crossings
By Avi Issacharoff
March 12, 2008
A deal being formulated between Israel, Egypt and Hamas involves deploying Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ troops at the crossings with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources told Haaretz Tuesday.
According to the sources, Israel and Hamas have agreed to the Egyptian proposal to deploy Palestinian Authority Presidential Guard members along the Karni, Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings, where cargo is transferred between Israel and Gaza, as well as at the Erez crossing, a passageway for people and goods.
Guard members will be deployed also at the Rafah crossing, which connects Sinai, Egypt with the Strip.
Hamas forces will be positioned nearby and will essentially control the movement of Palestinian civilians in and out of Gaza.
This agreement is in keeping with the 2005 crossings agreement, between the U.S., Israel and the PA, which called for placing the crossings under forces loyal to Abbas.
The Palestinian sources said that Hamas leaders are due to meet with Egyptian mediators within the next two days.
The Egyptians will convey Israel’s views on the Egyptian proposal, and Hamas is to state whether it agrees to a temporary cease-fire.
The current round of violence ended after Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders met with Egyptian officials last week.
The PA also has agreed to the Egyptian proposal. It is expected to present any agreement as a success, because this would mean Hamas has failed to break the siege on Gaza.
It has controlled the coastal strip since overthrowing Fatah there last June.
Meanwhile, Damascus-based Hamas leader Mohammed Nasser released the group’s conditions for a cease-fire with Israel Tuesday. Nasser says Hamas is demanding Israel completely cease “all acts of aggression” in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
By this demand, Hamas is toughening its stance regarding the cease-fire in the works, and is posing a demand that Israel steadfastly has refused to accept so far.
Israel rejects any deal that would bar it from arresting suspected militants in the West Bank.
Ayman Taha, a Hamas spokesman in the Strip, confirmed in a telephone conversation with Haaretz on Tuesday that the radical Islamic group is demanding Israel stop making arrests in the West Bank in exchange for a cease-fire deal.
Nasser also added that Hamas is ready for a temporary cease-fire with Israel, on the condition that it occurs simultaneously and applies to both sides.
Abbas said Monday during a meeting with Jordanian journalists that “a senior figure in the Israeli government is undermining the negotiations for internal reasons and because of personal hostility to me.” He was in Jordan to meet with King Abdullah.
A Jordanian journalist who published the story noted that Abbas was referring to Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
Abbas also said that any agreement on Palestinian refugees’ right of return would be implemented over the course of at least a decade after the signing of a peace deal.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Martyrdom and national identity
BASSEM EID, THE JERUSALEM POST
March 5, 2008
Moreover, nations should not be considered as static, or an unchanging society entity, but rather a dynamic process depending on the specific historical context, continually redefining it.
In this context, I want to outline certain elements of the Palestinian national identity which had emerged under the context of the Aksa intifada. Rashid Khalidi, the author of Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, traces the construction process of the Palestinian national identity. Firstly, before World War I, a national identity was shared by a restricted circle of urban educated elite. This circle itself formed a new elite composed by teachers, clerks, government officials and businessmen, during the Ottoman rule. The Palestinian identity, however, “competed and overlapped with Ottomans and Arabism, as well as older religious, local, and family loyalties.”
[….]
The shocks of War World I deepened a sense of common fate, “making it a primary category of identity for many, if not most, Palestinians.”
Clarifying are the figures presented by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research: 87% of the Palestinian population support the armed attacks against Israeli soldiers, 86% against settlers, and 53% against civilians. Moreover, two thirds of the population believes that armed confrontations have helped Palestinians to achieve their national rights. It is worth mentioning that the vast majority support a mutual cessation of violence, in which both sides stop using arms against each other.
Nonetheless, resistance is perceived as not only “a right and duty,” but as a “remedy for the oppressed” and a means through which Palestinians should express their “human dignity.”
[….]
WITHIN PALESTINIAN society there are voices which try to promote non-violent resistance, arguing that it is the “best form of resistance” and it should include both Palestinians and Israelis in order to “rise together against evil.”
At any rate, violent or nonviolent resistance, apart of its pragmatic meaning, adopted a symbolic one; it is always addressed in nationalistic terms, expected to mobilize and unite Palestinians around their common national aim, namely to put an end to the Israeli occupation.
[….]
ANOTHER CENTRAL factor in shaping the Palestinian national identity is the idea of martyrdom. Palestinians perceive martyrs not only those who commit suicide bombings, but to all of those who died within the context of the struggle against the Israeli occupation.
Since the beginning of the Aksa intifada, Palestinian figures indicate that 2,736 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli security forces and 152 Palestinians – men and women – committed suicide taking with them numerous Israeli civilians – men, women and children.
[….]
Eyad El Sarraj, a psychiatrist, founder and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and a human rights activist, summarizes the process through which suicide bombing and becoming a martyr constitutes an honorable act: “The people who are committing the suicide bombing in this intifada are the children of the first intifada – people who witnessed so many traumas as children. So as they grew up, their own identity merged with the national identity of humiliation and defeat, and they avenge that defeat at both the personal and national levels… During the first intifada, studies showed that 55 percent of the children had witnessed their fathers being humiliated or beaten by Israeli soldiers. The psychological impact of this is stunning. The father, normally the authority figure, comes to be seen as somebody who is helpless, who can’t even protect himself – let alone his children. So children became more militant, more violent.”
SARRAJ CONSIDERS that the symbol of power is the martyr, and “If you ask a child in Gaza today what he wants to be when he grows up, he doesn’t say he wants to be a doc
tor or a soldier or an engineer.
He says he wants to be a martyr.”
In another article by Sarraj, the nationalistic element in martyrdom is presented. He considers that in every country citizens who fight for their country are considered brave men, in the Palestinian side, those who die for their country will be remembered as martyrs.
[….]
The writer is the founder and the director of Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) based in east Jerusalem.
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