THE SHAM OF A TRUE MIDDLE EAST PEACE
SYRIA HAS NOW ADOPTED AN IRANIAN TACTIC
AND HAMAS’S TRUCE IS ALSO NOW EMPLOYING IT
KEEP TALKING WHILE GETTING READY TO KILL THEM
ASSAD WILL WAIT FOR BARACK OBAMA TO TALK TO HIM
July 8, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Most of the “crazies” in the Middle East such as Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, and Hamas are stalling conflict while preparing for a future major war in the Middle East, which I am guessing will occur at some point in time between 2010 and 2015. Islamic Jihad and a few of the other super duper crazies are not playing the game. Don’t be surprised if they keep up this process until the coming U.S. Presidential elections, hoping good ole Barack Obama will get in.
There is no way under heaven Syria will ever break away from Iran. It is tied to Iran like a sacrificial animal is bound to the altar by strong cords. Now Israel is finally being lulled by talk into a false security of “peace and safety.” I have waited for this for more than 30 years. Syria made its final chose of alignment some time ago.
I wrote about it in the following Archive Prophecy Update four years ago.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 161C
March 5, 2004
Syria Makes a Very Bad Choice
I have always believed and taught that the most likely part of the old Roman Empire, which would foster the rise of the Antichrist, would be Syria. Syria has been hanging suspended between two choices: (1) Turn toward the United States in order to avoid sanctions, and to gain support from the western world in a war on terror, or, (2) Turn toward Iran to make an alliance and continue to give support to all the terrorist groups. On February 28 Syria apparently made its choice. The Iranian Defense Minister, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, came to Damascus and signed a new military pact with the Syrian Defense Minister, General Mustufa Tias. I believe this is a clear sign that President Assad has made his choice to put his trust in an Iran-Syria Axis to protect his administration from a coup by terrorist groups in his own country. President Assad has been active recently in communications with Wash
ington to see what they would give him in the way of security if he should choose to give up sponsoring the many terrorist group offices in Syria, and Hizbollah in Lebanon. Really, he did not have much of a choice. Had he turned pro-west and resisted the terrorist groups, his regime would have been overthrown in a matter of weeks. Syria’s new military pact with Iran likely contains an Iranian promise to invest in additional long range Scud-C missiles, now in mass production at Syria’s underground missile facility near Hamah,
which is somewhat ironic in that the northern extent of Israel’s territory, after it defeats Syria at the end of the tribulation period, will extend to Hamah. The biblical name for Hamah is Hamath.
Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Ezekiel 47:19 – And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
If you want to envision the size of the Abrahamic Land Grant promised to the descendants of Abraham through Jacob (Israel), then go southwest from the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip along the coastline of the Mediterranean 35 miles and place a point on the shoreline. Then draw a line directly east from that point until you hit the Euphrates River of Iraq. That is the southern border of the land God promised to the seed of Abraham through his grandson, the man whom God renamed Israel, the man Jacob, the son of Isaac, the promised seed God gave through Sarah. The northern border of the land grant may be visualized by finding Hamah or Hama in north central Syria, and then drawing an east-west line through it, which ends on the Mediterranean to the west, and on the Euphrates River to the east. This is the northern border of Abraham’s God given Land Grant. As you can see, this is a very large tract of land, 95 percent of which is occupied by descendants of Abraham through Ishmael’s twelve sons, the six sons of Abraham by Keturah, and Moab and Ammon, the two sons of Abraham’s nephew Lot by his own daughters. They are identified generally as Arabs, and some 95 percent of them are of the Islamic faith. Since they believe that the promises of God come through Abraham’s son Ishmael through Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaiden, you can see the basic reason for the hatred between Arabs and Jews that has only intensified with the passage of the centuries (See Prophecy Updates 67 and 68 in the Archives).
I am confident that the new military pact will undoubtedly transfer the information necessary for the manufacture of the advanced Shihab-3 missile in Syria, as well as the financing for greater production of long-range artillery and ammunition.
The United States and Europe wanted Syria to follow Libya’s lead, but Bashar Assad was really in no political position to do so without being overthrown by the terrorist elements in his own country.
There were four things the United States wanted Syria to give up.
(1) Scrap your long-range missile program.
(2) Scrap your WMD program.
(3) Drive all the terrorist groups out of Syria.
(4) Stop supporting Hizbollah in Lebanon.
I feel confident it was a choice Bashar Assad simply could not make. Iran and Syria are of the same mind on these four issues. Had Syria chosen to do those four things, it would have cut Iran’s flow of weaponry and the movement of terrorists to Hizbollah. Syria was left without any military backup with the fall of Iraq, so Assad has chosen to shore up and expand its existing ties with Iran, and create new military ties with them for a joint defense against the west. The strong showing by the radical Shiite hardliners in Iran’s elections last month was a strong element that Assad considered in making his choice. Iranian Shiites will continue to have a direct pipeline via Damascus airport for massive shipments of military hardware to the large Hizbollah terrorist army, which it has supported in southern Lebanon for years, as have the Syrians.
End Archive Prophecy Update 161C
The conflict between the two articles which follow is a perfect example of the Iranian ploy of “keep them talking while you are preparing to kill them.”
Begin DEBKAfile Excerpt
Iran, Syria sign secret new intelligence cooperation accord
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
July 6, 2008, 1:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Under the intelligence cooperation agreement Iran and Syria signed secretly in Tehran on June 27, thousands of Syrian intelligence and police officers will receive special training in Iran, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report.
It was signed at the end of an unpublicized five-day visit to Tehran of Syria’s clandestine and security service chiefs headed by Gen. Fouad Sultan, superintendent of internal security. His opposite number was the director of the Iranian interior ministry’s external affairs department Ahmed Hosseini.
The accord they concluded is a crucial element in the deepening strategic relationship between Tehran and Damascus. It belies the contention by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and prime minister Ehud Olmert, accepted also by Washington, that the Syrian regime is about to desert its close alliance with Tehran and embrace the West. On the strength of this false premise, Olmert is pressing forward along his peace track with Syria, and Sarkozy invited president Bashar Assad to be his guest of honor at the Bastille Day parade of July 14.
While secretly bolstering his partnership with Iran, Assad has no trouble spreading the illusion of his willingness for a turn to the West, especially when his propaganda effort is promoted by none other than former Israel foreign ministry official Alon Liyel.
Liyal, calling himself “an Israeli diplomat” asserted in an interview to the July 6 Sunday Times that Damascus would sever its strategic ties with Tehran, Hizballah and Hamas for substantial American military and economic aid and Israel’s renunciation of the Golan. All this would happen, the ex-official promised, on Assad’s behalf, after the change of presidents in Washington.
DEBKAfile’s sources report that Liyel spoke without authority or factual corroboration about Assad’s intentions. He omitted to mention the fact that the Assad regime would have acquired a facility to produce fuel for Iran’s nuclear weapons program, were it not for Israel’s pre-emptive strike in September 2007. He also forgot that Damascus has for years provided friendly hospitality for the headquarters of the most extremist Palestinian terrorist groups and shown no sign that he means to evict them.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Liel: Syria prepared to cut Iran ties
July 6, 2008
Jpost.com staff, mark weiss and ap , THE JERUSALEM POST
Syria is prepared to cut its ties with Iran if the US provides it with financial and military backing, former director general of the Foreign Ministry Alon Liel told The Sunday Telegraph.
According to Liel, who the paper said has been engaged in low-key “second track” discussions with Syrian representatives, Syrian President Bashar Assad was open to a deal which would weaken Iranian influence in the Middle East.
Liel said prospects of peace with Syria had increased, though a new US president may need to be elected before a deal could be reached.
“They are asking not only for the Golan Heights but a change in Washington that will break the Syrian isolation internationally,” said Liel. “But I also think they will not do it unless they are assured they have an alternative to Iran.”
Liel went on to say that “months” of negotiations
still lay ahead to bridge the gaps between the two sides. Nevertheless, progress has been reported on issues including borders and water.
“The Golan Heights is considered our Tuscany.
Israelis fell in love with the Golan – and it’s a very easy conflict for us.
That’s why it’s so difficult to convince Israel to withdraw,” Liel continued.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials have confirmed that Turkey will host a fourth round of indirect talks between Israel and Syria later this month.
Jerusalem officials have said that a real sign of progress would be when direct contacts began and Israel was ready to step up the level of negotiations. However, officials connected to the contacts did not expect Damascus to permit such direct talks this month.
Turkish mediators have been shuttling between the Syrian and Israeli delegations in Istanbul throughout three rounds of talks that began in May. No result has been made public.
Previously, Turkey had been holding contacts with the two countries, laying the groundwork for the indirect talks.
A Turkish government official said a fourth round of talks was scheduled for the end of July. That round would aim to get direct talks started, he said, but warned that it might still be early for a breakthrough.
Any agreement for direct negotiations between Syria and Israel would be a major victory for Turkey and help it proclaim a role as a major diplomatic player.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said last week that Turkey aimed to bring “the sides together around a table for direct talks,” but warned that “progress will take time.”
“We are still at the beginning of the process,” he said.
Babacan said “there is hope for peace as long as there is political will and determination on both sides.”
“If these talks end positively, then this will definitely influence the climate in the Middle East and even in a larger geography,” he said.
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