Islamic Syrian Crescent Moon on Mount Dov
April 16, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I have often stood at the top of the Mount Herman Ski Lift and gazed on the crescent shaped lineament described in the first article from the DEBKAfile.
Each time I have surveyed it, I have visualized the day the forces of Islam would be roaring south in the valleys below where I was standing.
One day, most likely at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, a crescent shaped Islamic wave of Arab and Persian forces will sweep south into Israel as Syrian artillery and planes catch Israeli forces on Mount Herman napping, and the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period will have begun. But for now, it is only the rattling of the sword. However, it is definitely a genuine form of practice for the future event, which everyone knows must eventually occur.
The second article is a Blog we issued 15 months ago about the ever tightening Islamic Crescent Moon locking itself like a vice around the Star of David.
All the Islamic Nations and Israel have been conducting War
game exercises along their borders and testing their ground and air defense mechanisms for the coming war. Everyone knows it will arrive, but no one knows exactly when.
The third article is from the Daily Alert and discusses
the inevitability of Middle East War.
If the United States and Israel would blow the Sam Hill out of Iran with conventional air power for about two months and then abruptly stop, it would change the attitudes of Hamas, Hizbullah, Syria, and Iran rather dramatically, and likely move the war of Antichrist to an even later time than I am guesstimating, but I think the U.S. and Israel are playing a game of Blind Man’s Bluff with Iran, and are unlikely to do as I have just recommended.
Begin DEBKAfile Excerpt
Exclusive: Another Syrian armored division masses on Israeli-Lebanese borders
April 14, 2008, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Damascus has deployed the 10th armored corps at the Massaneh crossing of Mount Hermon. It links up with the northwestern positions
the 14th division took up last month on the Syrian-Israeli border which cuts through the Hermon range.
Syrian troops are now strung along a continuous crescent-shaped line from the central Lebanese mountains through Mt Dov on the western slopes of Mt. Hermon and up to southeastern Lebanon.
This deployment, commanding Syria’s Israeli and Lebanese borders, is under the command of the president’s brother, Maher Assad.
The 10th armored corps was moved forward straight after Syria’s snap civil defense exercise which crashed after three hours last Thursday, April 10.
The exercise was ordered without notice by president Bashar Assad on the last day of Israel’ s five-day homeland defen
se drill.
DEBKAfile’s military sources are criticizing Israel officials for attributing Syria’s latest military movements to domestic troubles inside the Syrian leadership. They say this is throwing sand in the public’s eyes and at one with the government’s practice of playing down all the heightened military threats to Israel – whether from Syria, the Lebanese Hizballah or the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza.
The IDF’s Northern Command officers report that the Syrian army’s buildup opposite Israel has accelerated in April and warn that its units are arrayed for a quick transition to attack mode.
The link-up between Syria’s 10th and 14th divisions on the border running through Mt Hermon should have been a wake-up call for the government in Jerusalem, they say, and elicited counter-moves to show Damascus that Israel is ready to meet every contingency.
Sunday, April 13, prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met briefly to rough out the position Abbas will put before President George W.
Bush whom he meets at the White House in ten days. Olmert made the gesture of licensing the entry to Israel of 5,000 Palestinian construction workers.
This gesture was challenged by security services as a carrying the risk of terrorist infiltration and by economic leaders who say the Palestinians will take Israeli jobs.
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni is in Qatar, where she is to address the 8th annual Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade. Qatari rulers plan to persuade her that Israel should back their initiatives to patch up quarrels in the Arab world between Egypt and Syria and the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas. Neither is in Israel’s interest, because conciliation would confer legitimacy on Arab and Islamist radicalism and spur its expansion.
Livni, who knew she would come under pressure during her Doha visit, insisted on going through with it andtreating it as a breakthrough in Israeli relations with the Gulf emirates.
Begin Blog of January 17, 2007 with Haaretz Article
Islamic Moon Cradling Israel in its Crescent!
January 17, 2007
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The ancient moon god, who once held the descendants of Ishmael in his grasp, has now succeeded in cradling Israel like the Islamic symbol of a star in a crescent moon flag. The crescent now curves from Syria via Lebanon to Gaza, like an open mouth ready to devour Israel.
How appropriate that the Islamic crescent moon and star flag of the old Turkish Ottoman Empire pictures a crescent moon seemingly poised to devour a star. How ironic that the Star of Jacob will, in reality, in the last days, devour the crescent moon of Islam, according to Balaam, the son of Beor.
Numbers 24:17 – I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
The latest Military Intelligence reports continue to confirm that both al-Qaeda and Iran are continuing to strengthen the crescent of power they have linked across the northern border of Israel and down to Gaza. The two articles from Haaretz and the New York Post give the details of the strengthening of that Islamic crescent.
Begin Haaretz Article by Gideon Alon
Military Intelligence: Al-Qaeda Sent to Lebanon to Attack UNIFIL, Iran Rearming Hizbullah, Hamas Is Strengthening
Gideon Alon
The head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday: “Between several dozen and several hundred al-Qaeda activists have arrived in Lebanon from Iraq and Pakistan, in accordance with instructions from the group’s leadership to deploy in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt in order to carry out terror attacks.” He added that the targets could be UNIFIL and other Western interests. He said a small number of al-Qaeda operatives had infiltrated Gaza, and a few have been found in Nablus in the West Bank.
According to Yadlin, Hizbullah has not left southern Lebanon and arms transfers from Syria are continuing apace, It is currently focused on rehabilitating its strength with the help of large quantities of arms from Iran.
Yadlin said Hamas’ financial situation is improving, along with its standing in relation to Fatah, adding that Hamas members have received training in Syria and Iran. He said Fatah incurred most of the casualties during the recent Palestinian clashes in Gaza, but Fatah remains the main power broker in the West Bank.
Yadlin said 77 Palestinian suicide bombers were arrested in 2006, 45 of whom were en route to an attack. Terrorists fired 1,200 Kassam rockets at Israel in 2006, 700 of which hit populated areas. (Ha’aretz)
End Haaretz Article by Gideon Alon
Begin Article from Daily Alert by Amir Taheri
Facing Iran: Arabs See No Choice but War
Amir Taheri
A recent tour of Arab capitals shows that Arab leaders appear resigned to a military showdown with the Islamic Republic of Iran and are preparing for it. Tehran has spent vast sums of money and energy to procure clients in the Sunni Islamist Hamas movement and leftist guerrilla groups.
The Islamic Republic has launched a new program under which thousands of Palestinian “volunteers for martyrdom” are trained in Iran, Lebanon, and Syria to fight both Israel and the secular faction of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
One reason for Tehran’s “increasing cockiness” is Ahmadinejad’s success in convincing the Khomeinist leadership in Iran that the U.S. is in “strategic retreat.” “The American Great Satan is wounded and bleeding,” says Hassan Abbasi, Ahmadinejad’s strategic advisor. “If we break Bush, no other American leader would have the heart to defy Islam,” he says. Tehran started beating the drums of war over a year ago. If one listens carefully, one can now hear the response from the Arab side – in the form of faint drumbeats that are bound to get louder in the months ahead. (New York Post)
End Article from Daily Alert by Amir Taheri
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