Testing Rocket Range Potential for a Future Jihad from the North?
May 30, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
One of the reasons for the most recent volley of Katyusha rockets is, of course, what the title of the article in the Jerusalem Newswire by Stan Goodenough suggests.
I also believe it may be a prelude to the planning of the launch zone ranges for a future Jihad attack against Israel at a point in time between 2008 and 2012. Please read the article and our Prophecy Update Number 74D from our Archives that follows it, which was issued in July of 2002.
Begin Article from Jerusalem Newswire
Hizb’allah Testing Rocket Reach?
By Stan Goodenough
May 28, 2006
The Iranian-backed, Syrian-supported Hizb’allah organization is suspected of firing a volley of Katyusha rockets into Israel Sunday, hitting an IDF base near the Galilee town of Safed (Tsfat).
While hundreds of Katyusha’s have been fired from northern Lebanon over the past two decades, Sunday’s strike was the furthest south ever hit.
At least two IDF soldiers were wounded in the attack, one of them moderately, the other lightly. Israel’s response thus far has been limited to firing off a warning that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for any strikes emanating from its territory.
The attack came five days after Hizb’allah chief Hassan Nasrallah publicly reiterated an earlier boast: that his group has the ability to shower all of northern Israel with the more than 12,000 missiles currently deployed in southern Lebanon.
Military analysts watching the growing tension between Iran on the one hand and Israel and the United States on the other believe Tehran could unleash an all-out Hizb’allah strike against Israel in the event of an attack on the Iranian nuclear program.
Sunday’s strike is believed by some to be a Hizb’allah test firing to determine rocket range in readiness for what may lie ahead.
While exactly what is in Hizb’allah’s arsenal is unclear, Nasrallah hinted that many more rockets were in his hands, and that more areas than just those in northern Israel were within range.
“When I say we have more than 12,000 rockets I don’t mean 13,000 rockets.”
“I can say that northern occupied Palestine lies under the firing line of [our] rockets. As to what is further than northern occupied Palestine, this will not be revealed.
… [but] if today I go on television to tell the residents of the [kibbutzim and towns] in northern occupied Palestine that they should go down to their [bomb] shelters within two hours, they will all be in Tel Aviv within no time.”
Intelligence agencies in recent years have reported on the group’s acquisition of an unknown number of non-conventional warheads shipped from Iran via the airport in Damascus.
End Article from Jerusalem Newswire
Begin Haaretz Article
Tel Aviv within Range of New Hezbollah Rocket
By Ze’ev Schiff, Haaretz Correspondent
May 29, 2006
Iran has equipped the Lebanese-based radical Islamic group Hezbollah with long-range rockets capable of hitting targets up to 200 kilometers away, putting all of Israel’s major urban centers within striking distance.
The solid-fuel rockets lack an independent guidance system and their accuracy is questionable but they can still cause considerable damage.
According to intelligence estimates, the rockets are meant to strike non-specific areas, such as towns and cities, and carry a warhead estimated to weigh 600 kilograms. This latest development doubles the range of weapons previously in Hezbollah’s arsenal.
End Haaretz Article
ARCHIVE SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 74D
July 3, 2002
THE INTERNATIONAL JUSTIFICATION BLAME GAME!
WE DID IT BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED US FIRST!
The age of so-called civilized warfare really began in the era of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815. And, with the passage of time, it has become increasingly important for the two countries involved in a conflict to convince the rest of the world the other is the culprit who started the conflict. Every time Hitler, in his early conquests, marched his troops into countries to take them over in bloodless battles, he always had an excuse to justify his attacks. Finally, when he came to his planned conquest of the Poles, he could not really find what even remotely seemed like a justifiable reason. So he manufactured one. He had his own SS troops dress up in Polish uniforms and attack a German border outpost. Then the SS put dead Polish bodies in the immediate vicinity of the outpost and had photographers and reporters in to verify their story. Using this farce as justification for his actions, he attacked Poland in September of 1939, and World War II began.
Some interesting developments, involving Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the terrorist groups, particularly Hizbollah, have been occurring along the northern border of Israel with Lebanon. I do not believe what I am now observing in that area will lead to an immediate war, but I suspect it may well do so in the not too distant future. And, if I am correct in my assumptions, it could give Syria justification for attack
ing Israel in the eyes of most of the international world.
President Bush has demanded that Syria cut it’s backing for the Hizbollah terrorists that operate along the southern border of Lebanon, and that it expel the other Palestinian terrorist groups it currently has operating out of Syria.
Damascus now hosts 10 Palestinian terrorist groups, which include the extremist groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. In response to the demands of President Bush, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said: “Syria supports the Lebanese national resistance, including Hizbollah, in resisting Israeli occupation and liberating land.” Concerning the demand that the other terrorist groups in Syria be removed, he said: “Their work is limited to political and media activities, and their offices in Damascus provide political representation to the 400,000 Palestinians who look to attain their rights and return to their land.” Israel has repeatedly warned Syria that if Hizbollah continued its border attacks on Israeli civilians and troops on its northern border, they would start hitting targets in Syria in retaliation. Bashar has responded by saying that Syria would defend itself against any Israeli action.
He said: “If the Israeli government involves itself in waging aggression on the territory of Syria, then Syria will defend itself.”
So far Israel’s policy against recent Hizbollah attacks has shown remarkable restraint, probably because of not wanting to open a second front of conflict to the one they now have going in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Even though seven Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hizbollah terrorist team that penetrated the border fence, Israel has held back from violent retaliation. And now Bashar al-Assad has joined with Iran to provide heavier rockets for the Hizbollah arsenal of terror. Israeli officials have watched Hizbollah deploy thousands of new missiles and rockets that are aimed at Israeli civilian population centers.
Once Israel has completed its long buffer zone fence around the West Bank, and beefed up the one it already has around the Gaza Strip, it will become confident it has finally achieved the impossible, it will say it has “peace and safety.” And all the time that it was tied up internally in so doing, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon will have been slowly slipping troops in position for a lightning Jihad from the north. Israel’s preoccupation with its internal safety is going to cause them to slack off in their gaze on what is going on externally.
During the time that Alexander’s great empire had been divided into four sections, the Syrian section (Seleucid) held Israel some of the time, and the Egyptian section (Ptolemy) held it when they took it from the Syrians.
Israel was, at times, a part of the Egyptian section, at times, a part of the Syrian section, and at times, a part of both. Daniel lists a very long series of battles between the king of the north (Syria) and the king of the South (Egypt). Most of Daniel’s prophecies about these two kingdoms were fulfilled by their many kings from Daniel 11:4 through 35, but there remains one war yet to be fulfilled, and I believe it is the aforementioned Jihad that begins in Daniel 11:40. Since Israel was once part of the section occupied by Ptolemy, I am persuaded that Israel is the king of the south and Syria is the king of the north in Daniel 11:40-45.
I suspect that after Israel has lulled itself into a false sense of peace and safety by its military might, it will have gained even more confidence in its great ability to take care of any Islamic intrusion. It may well be that Syria will get Hizbollah to kick up a storm of activity along the northern border by launching a massive missile and rocket attack across the border into the populations of northern Israel. Syria will do this knowing that Israel will cross the border into Lebanon and hit Syrian targets from the air. But this time Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran will be waiting for it, and six other Islamic nations will be poised to supply logistical support. The Islamic nations can cry out while they head south: “We were attacked first and are justified in this response to the Israeli invasion of our sovereign territory.” This will cause a hesitation by the western world at first and, by the time it wakes up, Jerusalem will have fallen, and Israel will be fleeing into the Negev.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
[4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Daniel 11:40 – 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.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Revelation 12:6 – And the wom an fled into the wilderness, where she h
ath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
First comes a time when Israel actually believes it can maintain “peace and safety.” Then a time of false “peace and safety” sets in for a brief period.
Then a border incident! Then a response! Then a Jihad, and the last 1260 days of
the tribulation period are under way.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. You may use material originated by this site. However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.