Some 30 Military Clashes SINCE 1948 Involved Water!
Six MAJOR FACTORS Make a Middle East War Inevitable!
Water, Land, Oil, Blame, Religion, AND DEEP Rooted Hate,
Are all involved in a future INEVITABLE final war of this Age,
Even if you DO NOT believe the prophecies found in the Bible,
Six factors listed above are evident and must end in great War!
April 22, 2010
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For the last 35 years, I have indicated in my books, numerous Blogs, Birth Pangs, and Prophecy Updates separately, the six factors in our heading as the contributors to the premise Middle East War is inevitable. These six factors have never been as evident as they are now, and while I cannot be certain as to precisely when it will begin, I am convinced it will begin before 2015. The Article which follows Prophecy Update Number 85A from our Prophecy Update Archives in 2002, discusses water as one of the major factors which may be involved in tricking Israel to push into Lebanon
as the King of the South, to start the final Middle East War with Syria, the King of the North.
Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries,
and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
The excerpt by Bloomfield in THE JERUSALEM POST, which follows our 2002 Prophecy Update Number 85A, discusses the possibility of water as a contributing factor.
BEGIN SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 85A
September 14, 2002
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE THE KING OF THE SOUTH PUSH AT THE KING OF THE NORTH AND FALL INTO A PRE-JIHAD TRAP!
Water in Israel is much more valuable than oil or gold. Water is in very short supply in all of Israel, and an every increasing demand ranks it at the top of national interest. It is more than worth going to war over, because without it Israel would cease to exist. It is a constant problem for Israel with Lebanon and Syria. The five upper headwater tributaries of the Jordan have their sources in the snows
of the upper Golan Heights and in the Syrian and Lebanese ranges just across the northern border of Israel. Tampering with these water sources, at some point in time after Israel has been lulled into a false peace mode, could be used as a clever ploy to get Israel to push north into Syria and Lebanon, thinking they could take care of the problem. But upon so doing they might find several divisions of Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese troops poised and ready to counterattack, then to drive south into Israel. I have spent time on the top of Mt. Herman and explored all five of the upper Jordan spring-fed tributaries.
Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Israeli officials have been closely observing water being pumped from the Wazzani River, which is a tributary of the Hatzbani River. The Hatzbani flows into the the Sea of Galilee, which empties into the Jordan. The last time I was in Israel, just before the intifada, the Lebanese had already begun to pump water by a pipeline extending in
to the Wazzani. Shortly after I returned to the United States they installed a much larger pipe, and now they are installing one almost a foot and a half in diameter. One that large can pump a lot of water. Lebanon claims it is only pumping about five million cubic meters a year, and that it is entitled to fifty million cubic meters according to international water treaties. Israel claims that when the current project is completed
by Lebanon, then some twenty-five percent of the Wazzani’s flow will be drained off by its northern neighbor each year.
After a form of “forced peace” has lulled Israel into a false sense of security, within a short period of time after this state of “a false peace” is in place, I am convinced that the Islamic nations will want Israel to appear to be the aggressor when they launch a surprise Jihah against it. The bait used may be a move to threaten Israel’s water supply, or a launching of rockets across the border by Hizbollah. Israel has repeatedly warned both Syria and Lebanon that either of these could lead to a cross-border strike by IDF forces to cleanup the problem.
The following article is from the Internet Jerusalem Post and was written by David Rudge.
The viewpoints and opinions expressed in all preceding material do not reflect those of The Internet Jerusalem Post or of David Rudge. What follows is being sent as a non-profit informational service by http:www.tribulationperiod.com/ to a limited
audience.
2002 ARTICLE BEGINS
PM Warns Lebanon Over Wazzani Waters
David Rudge
Israel will not accept Lebanese plans to draw additional water from the Wazzani River, which ultimately flows into Lake Kinneret, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday.
Israel Radio said the government had relayed its concern to Lebanon along with calls to stop the project.
According to reports in the Lebanese press, work on laying 16-inch diameter pipes to be used to convey water from the Wazzani, a tributary of the Hatzbani, to towns and villages in south Lebanon has been completed.
The next stage of the project is slated to involve the construction of an enlarged pumping station and a reservoir from where the water will be channelled into the pipeline.
The entire project, being carried out by the Council of the South which is affiliated with Amal and its leader, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Beri, is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
So far the Lebanese government has rejected Israel’s warnings and international pressure to stop the project which Sharon was quoted as saying was in breach of previous water treaties, including unwritten accords.
There are no accurate assessments of how much the Lebanese pumping project would drain from the Hatzbani and ultimately the Kinneret, although some estimates have put the amount as high as 50 million cubic meters a year.
This is the equivalent of the quantity Israel intends to import from Turkey each year, as well as the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination unit.
2002 ARTICLE ENDS
2002 ARCHIVE PROPHECY 85A UPDATE ENDS
Begin April 22, 2010 Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST
Could water ignite the next war?
By D. BLOOMFIELD
22/04/2010 10:53
Israel’s 62 years have been marked by some 30 military clashes over this natural resource.
If the last two decades have been marked by wars over oil, the coming decades could see conflict over a much more precious commodity, water. By mid-century more than half of humanity will be facing water shortages, particularly in the Middle East, according to a UN report,
as supply and demand move dramatically in opposite directions.
Talk of Mideast peace focuses on borders, refugees, settlements and Jerusalem, but water may be the greatest – and most neglected – hurdle in an area where consumption far exceeds supply.
A severe freshwater crisis threatens the standard of living, political stability and security throughout the region. The crisis knows no national boundaries and is the most dramatic symbol of the interdependency of the region’s inhabitants. Scientists and policy makers agree that solutions require international cooperation in a region where history has shown it easier to hate than to help each other.
The rain that falls and the snow that melts in one country flows across borders, and when that flow is threatened, as in 1967 (shortly before the Six Day War) when Syria tried to dam the Yarmuk River, which feeds the Jordan River, conflict can erupt. Israel bombed the dam.
THIS WEEK a top State Department official is visiting Israel, Jordan and Egypt in a diplomatic effort to spur regional water sharing and cooperation.
Jon B. Alterman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says water, not war, is “the most likely source of political and social unrest in the Middle East over the next 20 years.” The underground aquifers are a finite resource “being exploited far beyond their capacity to restore themselves.” And as they are drained, wells have to be dug deeper and deeper and the water is less pure.
Geologists warn that Amman may have only 15 more years of water.
According to a report in this month’s National Geographic, “The Jordan River is now depleted by drought, pollution and overuse… The lower Jordan is practically devoid of clean water, bearing instead a toxic brew of saline water and liquid waste.”
In Syria hundreds of thousands of families have had to leave agricultural areas for lack of water and move to the cities, according to a UN report.
Poor water management by the government and a lack of modernized agriculture has combined with the water shortage to exacerbate the crisis.
Nonetheless, Israeli requests to discuss water cooperation have been rebuffed by Damascus, according to Bloomberg News.
The World Bank contends Israelis consume four times as much water per capita as Palestinians, but the Israeli government insists the real number is half that. Amnesty International has accused Israel of neglecting the water needs of Palestinians through discriminatory and restrictive policies, but Israel insists it is meeting its obligations under the Oslo Accords.
Israel charges the Palestinians have “significantly violated their commitments” by failing to build sewage treatment plants, by drilling unauthorized wells, refusing to purify and reuse sewage for agriculture, dumping sewage into streams and not taking advantage of water desalination opportunities.
Palestinians accuse Israel of stealing their water, leaving thousands of homes dry, and insist that the security barrier cuts farmers off from their water supply.
An attempt by the European Union to develop a regional water management strategy broke down earlier this month when Israel and the Arabs could not agree on how to refer to the West Bank and Gaza even though, according to news reports, there was extensive agreement on technical issues related to water management.
ISRAEL’S 62 years have been marked by some 30 military clashes over water, as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan tried at various times to divert the Banyas, Dan, Hasbani and Yarmuk rivers to cut their flow into Israel, and Arabs attacked Israel’s National Water Carrier.
Israel may be water poor but it is rich in water use technology and one of the world’s most scientifically advanced agricultural nations. Making the desert bloom is more than a slogan.
But its higher standard of living and industrialization also mean greater water consumption.
The water crisis in the Arab world is compounded by growing demand, highly inefficient usage, government corruption, domestic instability and poor management, say international experts, leading to inadequate supply, which could spark domestic hostilities as well as conflict with neighboring countries.
Jordan and Israel have been discussing sending water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, desalinating some along the way for human use, producing hydroelectricity and restoring the shrinking Dead Sea.
Water is a strategic, economic, humanitarian, public health and political issue that more than any o ther symbolizes
the interdependency of Israel and its Arab neighbors. Yet long-standing political disputes make solutions all the more difficult to develop.
As the problem grows more critical, the chances for conflict grow as well.
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