June Coming in with a Bang in the Middle East
I came out with a Bang seventy-seven Years Ago!
June 2, 2009
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As you can see from all Excerpts fiollowing from World News & DEBKAfile, this is likely to be a Bang-Bang Month in the Middle East. I wa
s born on June 2 in 1932, three years after the stock market crash of 1929.
My Father could not find work and my Mother worked in a Jewish ten cent store in Augusta, Arkansas. They had to live off her income.
In those days abortions were looked upon with great disdain, and no one could afford to pay for one, or even find a doctor who would perform it.
However, it was considered O.K. to sit in cold water, rising up and down, in hopes it would force the baby to abort itself. Mom tried it, but God decided to keep me, and I came out with a bang on June 2, 1932. Don’t be hard on Mom – You did not go through the great depression. She did not tell me until I was in my fifties. She was a loving mother to me all my life. The greatest birthday present I could ask for today would be to see the one who formed me in my mother’s womb.
I John 3:2 – Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Begin Excerpts from World News and DEBKAfile
Israel tests response to ‘doomsday’
Al Jazeera
Israel has begun its largest-ever defence drill, testing the response of its emergency services to a “doomsday scenario” of missile attacks, bombings and natural disasters.
The five-day national exercise got…
Sirens sound in Israel ‘doomsday’ drill
Independent online (SA)
Tel Aviv – Sirens wailed across Israel on Tuesday, sending many into shelters as part of the largest-ever exercise to test the response to a “doomsday” mix of missile attacks, suicide bombings and natural…
Israel begins its biggest civil defense drill
The Guardian
STEVE WEIZMAN Associated Press Writer – JERUSALEM (AP)
Israel began the biggest civil defense drill in its history on Sunday, putting soldiers, emergency crews and civilians through rehearsals for the…
Israel’s ‘doomsday’ drill
Al Jazeera
Israel has begun its largest-ever defence drill, testing the response of its emergency services to a “doomsday scenario” of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and missile attacks from Iran and…
Israel begins its biggest military drill to date
Daily Star Lebanon
Netanyahu plays down exercise as ‘routine’ Monday, June 01, 2009 – Powered by Steve Weizman Associated Press OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel began the biggest military drill in its history on Sunday, putting…
Israel Begins Biggest Civil Defense Drill Amid Iran Tensions
Fox News
JERUSALEM — Israel began the biggest civil defense drill in its history on Sunday, training soldiers, emergency crews and civilians for the possibility of war at a time of rising tensions with…
Israel begins its biggest civil defense drill to prepare for possibility of war
Newsday
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel began the biggest civil defense drill in its history on Sunday, training soldiers, emergency crews and civilians for the possibility of war at a time of rising tensions with Iran….
Will Israel launch another Mideast war
?
Middle East Online
TEL AVIV – Israel will stage its largest-ever national exercise next week to test security and emergency responses to potential missile attacks, bombings and natural disasters, an official said on Wednesday….
Israelis take shelter in country’s biggest-ever defence drill
Gulf News
Occupied Jerusalem: Air raid sirens sounded across Israel on Tuesday, sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters and blastproof rooms in the country’s biggest-ever civil defense drill. It was part of a…
Israel’s Secret War With Iran
Wall Street Journal
By RONEN BERGMAN Those who leaf through the secret files of any intelligence service know what grave mistakes bad intelligence can lead to. But they also know that sometimes even excellent intelligence doesn’t…
Israeli Air Force Conducts War Games
Voa News
Israel conducted war games this week amid growing tensions with nearby Iran. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak (file)The Israeli Air Force concluded a major, four-day exercise to prepare for the possibility…
Israel begins largest national military exercise
Gulf News
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel on Sunday began its largest-ever national exercise to test the response of emergency
Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile
Hamas West Bank cells ordered to launch terror war on Abbas forces, Israel
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 31, 2009, 10:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that Sunday night, May 31, Hamas commanders in Damascus and Gaza ordered all West Bank cells to unleash a terrorist assault on the West Bank with bomb cars, roadside bombs, snipers and missiles.
They were told to set their sights on all Palestinian Authority officials including Mahmoud Abbas as well as taking aim at Israeli cities north of Tel Aviv.
Our sources quote the Hamas directive as saying: “From tonight, you must go into action without delay against every Palestinian/Israel target within reach, using all the resources prepared in recent months.”
The directive continues: “There are no limits on targets, the more senior, central and important, the better.”
Israel’s homeland defense authority was notified of Hamas’ declaration of war Sunday as it embarked on “Turning Point 3”, Israel’s largest civil defense exercise ever, designed to simulate simultaneous missile attacks from Iran, Syria, Hizballah
from Lebanon and Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
The new Hamas directive placed Sharon towns north of Tel Aviv squarely within its sights. A number of Qassam missiles are believed to be hidden in Palestinian towns in Samaria, northern West Bank.
Hamas leaders’ decision to unleash violence was triggered by three events:
1. In 48 hours, the fundamentalist Palestinian terrorists lost two top West Bank leaders in battle. Friday morning, May 29, an Israeli Border Guard counter-terror unit shot dead its Hebron commander, Abdullah Majid Dudin, when he resisted arrest.
Before dawn Sunday, May 31, a special Palestinian Authority unit killed Hamas’ northern Samaria commander Muhammad Saman after a seven-hour shootout in Qalqilya.
PA troops also detained 22 members.
Hamas leaders, convinced that Israeli and Palestinian security forces acted in conjunction to liquidate their top commanders, determined not to let this go unanswered.
They believe that the Palestinian Authority US-trained security force directed by Gen. Keith Dayton, is not up to much and a determined Hamas offensive would blow the Fatah-led force away on the West Bank as easily as its comrades were defeated in the Gaza Strip.
3. Hamas is worried by the way the US President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are cooperating, as their White House talks Thursday, May 28 indicated. Its leaders are also fiercely opposed to Obama’s forthcoming address Thursday, June offering America’s hand of peace to the Muslim world.
From their command centers in Damascus and the Gaza Strip, Hamas chiefs have concluded that the most effective way to scuttle the US president’s Middle East projects and his diplomatic and financial backing for Abbas’ Fatah-led administration in Ramallah is to set the West Bank on fire by a wholesale terror offensive against the Palestinian Authority and Israeli urban targets.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Airlift of 3,000 Secret Servicemen to Cairo to secure Obama speech to Muslims
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 31, 2009, 8:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama has not yet decided whether his historic speech reaching out to the Muslim world will be delivered on June 4 from a lecture hall at Al Azhar University in Cairo or its main mosque, DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report. If the second, his address will take place in the presence of Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the Sunni Muslim world’s greatest religious authority.
In any event, Al Azhar is the most eminent school of Islamic learning in the world and the US president therefore expects its impact to far outweigh his first address to Muslims from Istanbul.
His arrival from a meeting with Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh on June 3 is planned to add extra weight to Obama’s dramatic outreach to Muslims, since the king officiates as Custodian of
the Holy Places to Islam.
Radical Muslims will therefore have all the more reason for rejecting it.
Giant transports have been landing at Cairo airport, unloading a fleet of armored vehicles, White House helicopters, counter-terror weapons and the vanguard of the 3,000 Secret Service officers backed by CIA and FBI personnel who will secure the US president during his stay in Egypt. Cairo will soon be in turmoil as forces are deployed from a command center at the American Embassy to control sections of downtown Cairo, with guard posts on the Nile River’s banks, the international airport, main railway terminals and approaches to the city.
Some 30,000 Egyptian security personnel including army units stationed in Cairo have been placed on special duty until the American president leaves.
Their names and those of the welcoming party at Al Azhar University were submitted to the US presidential security center.
Obama is due to land in Cairo Thursday at 10 a.m., drive to the Abidin Palace to meet President Hosni Mubarak and proceed from there to Azhar University. His convoy will be escorted by vehicles equipped with sensors for detecting firearms and explosives and covered by Marine helicopters overhead.
Until the last minute, the president’s routes to the university have been withheld from Egyptian security authorities as a safeguard against leaks to hostile elements.
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