IAF Test Adds to National Feeling of Peace & Safety
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Updates 66A, 67A, & 27 to 31
December 3, 2005
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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) successfully tested an improved Arrow Two anti-ballistic missile on Friday against a simulated Iranian Shihab 3 missile launch against Israel. There is coming a time, perhaps as early as 2007 or as late as 2012, when Israel will believe her surface and air defenses will insure an era of peace and safety from attacks within and without. The security wall/barrier/fence will soon be completed to stop Palestinians by internal surface containment, and Israel’s anti-ballistic missile shield will protect its skies.
However, as I have contended for many years,
the coming attack and war in the Middle East will not be an atomic war – it will be a conventional war fought with sophisticated conventional weapons. And it will not just be three or four of the Arab nations launching an attack – it will be 10 united in a Jihad to drive the Israelis into the sea. I continue to believe this attack may occur as early as 2007, and that it is likely to occur before 2012.
Ezekiel 38:8,9 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
[9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Please take a look at Archive Prophecy Updates 66A, 67A, & 27 to 31 for a full line by line exposition of what I have stated up to this point.
Arieh O’Sullivan is one of my favorite writers in the Jerusalem Post, which has a talented staff
of writers. The article, which follows, was extracted from the Jerusalem Post
BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Air Force Successfully Tests Arrow Scud Buster
By Arieh O’Sullivan, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 2, 2005
The Air Force held the 14th test of the Israeli-designed Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile on Friday, successfully intercepting an incoming rocket at a higher altitude than ever before.
A day after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel would not tolerate Iranian efforts to get nuclear arms, the test demonstrated Israel’s robust interception capability against incoming missiles that may be armed with nuclear or chemical warheads.
The Defense Ministry said
the routine test, which was scheduled over a year ago, tested improvements made to
the Arrow 2 system.
The test took place at 10:28 a.m., when the Arrow 2 interceptor was launched from the Palmachim Air Force base south of Tel Aviv.
An F-15 fighter jet flying over the Mediterranean dropped a Black Sparrow test missile specially designed to simulate an incoming Iranian Shihab 3 missile headed toward the Israeli shore.
The radar detected the Black Sparrow missile and relayed its data to a battle management center, which issued the command to launch the Arrow 2 interceptor.
“The interceptor performed successfully and intercepted the target,” a Defense Ministry st
atement said. “The test’s success is a major step in the system’s operational improvements to deal with future ballistic missile threats.’
Air Force officers carried out the test, but officials from the companies which manufacture the system as well as US officials were also on hand.
Air Force Patriot batteries also participated passively in the test, following the incoming missile with their radars and simulating interceptions.
This tested the entire missile defense screen of the country, the only nation in the world to have a national missile defense shield.
“The defense establishment, the Ministry of Defense, the defense industries and the IDF have proven once again their technological contribution to Israel’s national defense,” said Jacob Toren, director general of the Defense Ministry.
“The success of the test will improve the existing operational capabilities of the Arrow system that will be able to cope successfully with future threats.”
The Arrow 2 was delivered to the Air Force in 1998 and has been declared operational for over five years.
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