Islam Rising like Yeast won’t Cease,
Turkey turns to the Beast in the East,
The climate of Fear in Her will Increase!
Egypt stays with her friends in the West,
Which in Future War for her won’t be Best!
Ten toes of Daniel will make her pay a Price,
Cause she stays with West over toe’s Advice!
So is overrun by 10 toes before two 0 one Five,
But will be Rewarded in Millennium as a Surprise!
February 2, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
It is no secret that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan served four months in jail in 1999 for reciting what courts deemed to be an inflammatory poem interpreted as being anti-secular. Turkey is a staunchly secular state. But he has succeeded, like a snake in the grass, from hiding his anti-secular, pro-Islamic by swearing he is pro-secular long enough to gain sufficient power to put down the military power against him, such that the snake has now been able to expose himself without being deposed by a military coup. He is changing Turkey from a secular state with a massive population of Islamic believers into an Islamic Republic, which will join Syria and Iran to form an iron ring of toes in a Jihad crescent moon that will encircle Israel through the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley. Please take the time to read the two excerpts which follow our heading.
DURING THE ATTACK OF 10 TOES IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
Daniel 11:42,43 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON AND SECOND ADVENT
Isaiah 19:19-25 – In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. [20] And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. [21] And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it. [22] And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. [23] In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. [24] In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: [25] Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
A climate of fear
February 1, 2009
Abe Selig , THE JERUSALEM POST
Ever since she was a kid, Sheila wanted to be married in Istanbul’s famous Neveh Shalom Synagogue.
“It’s a very beautiful place,” the 26-year-old told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “Growing up in Istanbul, all the girls want to to have their weddings there.”
But Sheila, who made aliya three years ago and lives in Jerusalem, said that given the dramatic increase in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment in Turkey following Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last month, her dream wedding is turning into something of a nightmare.
“I was engaged three months ago,” said Sheila, who asked that her last name not be published out of fear for her family’s safety, all of whom still live in the Turkish metropolis. “My fiance is Israeli, and his family no longer wants to go there for
the wedding. On top of that, when my mother goes to the ministry offices [in Istanbul] to try and get the marriage forms filled out, they won’t help her.
They won’t help her because she’s Jewish.”
Describing a “climate of fear” in her former hometown, the Turkish immigrant said she will most likely cancel her wedding plans.
“Frankly, I’m scared to have my wedding there now,” she said. “On the one hand, yeah, it’s my dream, but on the other hand, the situation there has simply gotten out of control.”
“Every day it gets worse,” Sheila continued. “My parents told me that a shopkeeper near one of the Jewish neighborhoods, where my grandparents live, put a sign in the window of his store that said, ‘No Jews allowed, but dogs are welcome.’
“Even when my parents go to buy a phone card to call me, they get harassed by the shopkeepers the minute they say they’re trying to make a call to Israel.”
Sheila also said that during the war, billboards went up around town decrying the Israeli “crimes” in Gaza, and the government made students in every Turkish school stand for a moment of silence in solidarity with the children of Gaza.
“They even had to do it at the Jewish school I went to as a kid,” Sheila said. “I can only imagine how uncomfortable the students must have felt.”
And while she admits that Turkish anti-Semitism was always a festering force somewhere in the shadows, Sheila said it’s now reached levels unseen in her lifetime, or in that of her parents, and is spilling over into the streets.
“Just look at the way they stood outside to meet [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan] when he came back from Davos,” Sheila said, referring to the popular head of government’s grand reception after his televised spat with President Shimon Peres. “He’s the one to blame for this, he’s rallying the poor and uninformed people behind his rhetoric, and they’re buying it. We knew it would be bad the minute he came into the government, but we never thought it would be this bad.”
Sheila is not alone.
Nathalie, also a new immigrant from Istanbul, lives in Tel Aviv. She agreed to speak to the Post, but also asked that her last name remain unpublished.
“I’m going there on Friday,” Nathalie said. “And yes, I’m a little scared.”
“I think this is the sign of Turkey moving toward a very dangerous future,” she said. “Since the Gaza war started, the newspapers have been writing really nasty stuff and the demonstrations on the street have gotten really ugly. It’s not just against Israel,” she said. “they’re demonstrating against Jews.”
“I think people are starting to think about leaving,” Nathalie continued. “But then there are those who feel like it will calm down as well. I think the main thing to remember is that local elections are coming up in Turkey, and the prime minister is demonizing the Jews to rally more votes.
It’s like a classic anti-Semitic theme. But at the same time, there’s such strong ties between Israel and Turkey, it makes you wonder if he’s crazy. It doesn’t make any sense.”
Itzik Behar, who made aliya from Izmir in 1948, agrees.
“They need us more than we need them,” he said, as he stood outside of a barber shop in Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda Market on Sunday. “But I’ll tell you the truth, I love Turkey, I used to go back all the time. But now, I wouldn’t go there if you paid me.”
Behar cited two reasons.
“First, it’s because of the situation there now – I’d be afraid for my safety, as an Israeli and as a Jew.
“But second, it’s because of that fear. I’m really angry with the Turks. They always received me so well, and treated me like a brother – after all, I grew up there. But to see this on the news every night, the way they’re demonstrating and being violent, I feel like they’ve turned on me, like they’re traitors,” Behar said.
“They turned on all of Israel in a heartbeat, and I don’t think many Israelis will forget that. Go to the airport and see how many Israelis are flying to Turkey today. No, you know what, I’ll save you the trip.
None. Zero.”
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
The Region: Egypt and Turkey
February 1, 2009
Barry Rubin , THE JERUSALEM POST
Two of the region’s most important countries – Egypt and Turkey – are at a crossroads. Egypt has the chance to again be the Arab world’s central power; in contrast, Turkey’s government is throwing away the opportunity to become a major diplomatic player in
the region while hammering the last nail into the coffin of its chance for European Union membership.
Let’s consider Egypt first. In the Gaza war’s aftermath, everyone is asking Cairo its preferences for policing the border with Hamas’
s radical Islamist semi-state next door. Egypt must take the lead in any new arrangement to stop arms’ smuggling. Moreover, that country is now the Palestinian Authority’s indispensible patron and will determine whether a coherent international effort will be made to bring down Hamas. Any hope for an Arab-Israeli peace process or, more likely, simple stability is riding with Egypt now.
But that’s not all. In recent months, Egypt has taken decisive public steps toward being the leader of moderate Arab resistance to the Iran-Syria axis, radical Islamism and – in most Arabs’ minds – the Shi’ite threat.
[…….]
THEN THERE’S Turkey. We have known for some time that the Ataturk era is over, but now we see that an Islamist-oriented period has begun. It isn’t just the unprecedented high level of abuse aimed against Israel. Nor is it merely the statements verging on the anti-Semitic which have frightened Turkish Jews more than at any time in modern history. It is also the increasing confidence – one might say arrogance – of the ruling AKP party, more openly pushing an Islamist-oriented agenda, and in some ways apparently drifting closer to Iran and Syria.
What is motivating the AKP to seem more and more like a wolf in sheep’s clothing? The most important factor is its success. From election to election, the AKP increases its base of support. The opposition remains divided and incompetent. The party’s leaders may increasingly be thinking they will be in power forever and inclined to make sure their wish comes true.
And so the media is intimidated; the army is curbed by periodic arrests in retaliation for alleged coup plans.
A new constitution is being written for the country. Systematically, institutions are being taken over: The party’s men are put into the bureaucracy, its controlling shadow falls on the universities and it installs new judges in the courts.
The presidents of Iran and Sudan are feted as heroes, the would-be mass murders of the first and the already implemented killings of the second are ignored. The first got a security cooperation treaty; both obtained offers of more Turkish investments in their gas producing fields. No wonder the AKP is so friendly with Iran, Sudan and Hamas – it views them as ideological fellows.
As the Turkish analyst Soner Cagaptay put it, “It appears that [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has finally answered the question of where Turkey belongs – and that in his opinion, it’s not with the West.” Almost exactly 70 years after his death, the republic’s founder Kemal Ataturk is no doubt rolling in his grave, which, by the way, the AKP no longer invites visiting Islamist leaders to visit when they come to Ankara.
It is not all a free ride for Turkey, though. Erdogan has thrown away the economically valuable Israeli tourist trade – advice: go to Georgia or Azerbaijan instead – and his country’s diplomatically prestigious ability to mediate in disputes. The Turkish government was proud to host the Israel-Syria talks, but it is doubtful if Israel will trust it again in that position. And as for the idea of Turkish participation in guarding Gaza’s borders against smuggling, Erdogan’s inciteful hate Israel speeches will exclude the country from that role also.
Even worse, there are many in the European Union looking for new reasons to keep Turkey out of that select club.
The AKP’s extremist turn gives ample evidence of an Islamist rather than a moderate, “modern” orientation.
The Turkish government’s open partnership with radical forces horrifies many Turks and will lose Ankara lots of friends abroad. It is not too late to pull back, but probably the AKP will go even further, fueled by likely successes in local elections this summer.
For Egypt, in contrast, there is a great opportunity.
Will Ankara’s loss be balanced by Cairo’s gain?
The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal.
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