Two largest Islamic armies in the Middle East will be on opposite Sides,
During the early stages of the final Middle East war of the Gentile Age,
But united in Antichrist Caliphate before a final Armageddon Battle.
Jesus’ Second Advent ends the final battle of the Gentile Age,
And begins his one thousand years on this Present Earth!
Jesus’ Kingdom Alone can Control Man’s Carnal Mess!
July 23, 2011
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In the first stage of the division of the Macedonian Kingdom of Alexander the Great it was divided into four sections. Among the modern day nations included in
the Seleucid Kingdom were Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon. Among modern day nations included in the Ptolemaic Kingdom were Egypt and Israel. In Daniel 11:40 to 43 the King of the North, in the early stages of the final war of this age, is the primary group involved in the conflict. Israel and Egypt represent the King of the South. I do not believe Egypt will help Israel as she is driven into the Negev. Egypt will stay neutral, and will be shocked when the King of the North invades Egypt across the northern Sinai, after he drives Israel into the Negev Wilderness.
Portions of, or all, of the four modern day nations of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, historically made up what is referred to as “Greater Syria.” Egypt and Jordan will not be involved in the initial attack.
However, Jordan will quickly overthrow its king by its huge refugee Palestinian population, and thereby escape invasion by the king of the north, who is the Antichrist that rises out of “Greater Syria” to the north of Jordan and Israel,
Daniel 11:40-43 – 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. [42] 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.
The following two paragraphs are Excerpts from Wikipedia
The Armed Forces of Egypt are the largest on the African continent, in the Arab world and one of the largest in the world (ranked 10th), consisting of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy, Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Air Defense Command.
In addition, Egypt maintains large paramilitary forces. They numbered about 397,000 in 2007. The Central Security Forces, and the Border Guard Forces are under Ministry of the Interior control.
The National Guard, about 60,000, comes under the control of the Ministry of Defence.
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Egypt army moves to secure key role in country’s future
By OREN KESSLER
07/20/2011 18:22
General’s call for military to protect Egypt from “whims” of future president prompts outcry by critics over Islamist influence in gov’t
The military establishment running Egypt’s interim regime is discreetly moving to ensure the army retains its influence over Cairo’s post-revolutionary government, leading some who welcomed President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster to question whether Egypt can break free from the iron grip the military has kept over the country for most of its modern history.
Bowing to popular pressure, the Supreme Military Council announced last week it would draft a set of guidelines for writing a new constitution after national elections, originally scheduled for September but which could be held as late as November.
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The move was prompted by widespread concerns of Islamist influence over the constitution. But critics say the army’s domination of the drafting process – and its deepening ties with Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood – is itself cause for concern.
“The militarist rulers made a deal with Islamists, that they would release some of their prisoners and empower their voice, so that they would in return ensure that militarists keep being above the law, ever since 1952 coup,” an Egyptian who blogs under the name Kefaya Punk told The Jerusalem Post by e-mail.
Egypt’s military leaders have enjoyed nearly unchallenged power since the 1952 coup against the British-backed monarchy.
The Associated Press quoted Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Shaheen, a member of the council who is leading the constitution drafting process, as saying this week that the country’s next constitution should safeguard the army against the “whims” of a future president, in effect asking for the armed forces to be given virtually complete independence.
Hisham Bastawisi, a legal expert consulting the military, went further, suggesting the army be vested with the role of “guaranteeing supra-constitutional principles.”
On Wednesday a key member of the constitutional panel said most of its members oppose permitting the army a significant role in politics.
Legal expert Tahany el-Gibali said the new constitution will have guarantees to protect all Egyptians while also safeguarding the civilian character of the state.
Still, democracy activists fear the worst. “Forget about freedom if militarists aren’t held accountable for their actions,” said Kefaya Punk.
“Bastawisi’s suggestion won’t free us.”
On Tuesday, Gibali said that following elections, parliament would appoint a 100-person panel to draft the official constitution, including 20 constitutional experts and 80 people representing of various segments of the Egyptian population – including farmers, human rights activists, businesspeople and Islamists – in “equal proportions.” The Muslim Brotherhood opposed the move.
“The military in Egypt is unlike militaries in other countries where the military is isolated from the political life,” Gibali told The New York Times. The armed forces continue to enjoy unparalleled prestige at home, due in large part to the damage it inflicted on Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
“The military’s legacy gives it a special credibility, and hence it is only normal that the military will share some of the responsibility in protecting the constitutional legitimacy and the civil state,” she said.
Unlike Egypt’s police, the military was largely spared the public’s wrath during the 18-day protests that forced out Mubarak on February 11. Since then, public’s patience has been tested as military courts have been slow to pursue trials against the former president and administration officials, and Cairo’s central Tahrir Square has again filled with angry protesters demanding faster democratic reform.
Those protests are increasingly targeting the military itself. Last week a coalition of 24 political groups and five presidential candidates threw their support behind an initiative to force the army to relinquish power to civilian authorities now rather than wait for national elections.
Some observers see the army’s latest moves as an attempt to recreate the so-called Turkish model of the military as the protector of secular government. Turkey’s military has frequently intervened in the country’s politics to safeguard the statist model laid out by Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern, secular Turkish Republic. The Turkish military’s political role was enshrined in law following a 1980 coup
“The obvious model is Turkey, which for decades was a quasi-democracy where the military would step in from time to time to make sure that the secular principles of Ataturk were adhered to,” wrote Max Boot, a national security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the Commentary website.
“Now we are seeing the consequences of the army’s diminished role with the Erdogan government steering the country in a more anti-Western, anti-Israeli direction. Turkey at least has some tradition of pluralism that exerts some degree of control–however minimal–over the Islamist government.”
“Egypt has no such tradition. It could all too easily find itself replacing one dictator for another, only this time a dictator with Islamist sympathies,” Boot wrote. “It is hardly a bad thing if the army acts as a referee and rule-keeper for this emerging democracy. The question is whether the cost of the army’s role—in particular the cost for Egypt’s struggling economy—is worth the potential political payoff. It looks as if we’re about to find out.”
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Turkey doubling its military size:
MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011
With Prime Minister Erdogan’s Islamist AK party having seized its third landslide election victory in Turkey, many throughout the international community have been watching to see what will be next on the Turkish agenda.
Now there are strong indicators in the Turkish media that Turkey is planning on literally doubling the size of its army – this com ing from the nation that already has the largest army
in Middle East and the second-largest army in NATO, second only to the United States. Presently, Turkey’s army has over 500,000 troops.
Its army is larger than France, Germany and England combined. And now Turkish media are reporting that they are planning on adding another 500,000 paid soldiers.
According to Egemen Baðýþ, a state minister and Turkey’s chief EU negotiator, the purpose of the army is to kill two birds with one stone, overcoming two of Turkey’s biggest challenges: terrorism and unemployment. This move would create half a million new jobs for Turkey while answering once and for all Turkey’s problem with Kurdish separatist terrorists in the southeast.
Baðýþ spoke to journalists at the Turkish ambassador’s office in Brussels. “The government is prepared to hire 500,000 people. … This structural change will also contribute to our struggle with unemployment,” he said.
Turkey’s nation defense minister, Vedci Gonul, stated that the new army is “the future of Turkey.” But he also said that the actual number of paid soldiers is yet to be determined pending a government study. According to Gonul, the creation of such a large army could take several years to complete.
A poll conducted shows that 80 percent of Turks support the idea while only 9 percent are opposed.
Despite the government’s claims that the purpose of the army would be to address terrorism, skepticism concerning such a massive force is well-deserved.
First of all, creating an army this size merely to address Turkey’s terrorism problem, primarily from the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group in the southeast, would be like trying to kill an ant using a nuclear warhead. Secondly, such a move certainly will only reinforce the concerns of those who believe that Turkey has broad-ranging neo-Ottoman regional aspirations.
The silence of the Western media has been surprising. Imagine Israel announcing an expansion of its forces by 500,000 men to address its Palestinian terrorism problem. Yet the Western media has yet to comment regarding Turkey’s grandiose plans.
Such an expansion would be particularly concerning in light of the Turkish government’s recent swing toward Islamist political alliances.
They have worked to significantly reinforce strategic alliances with both Iran and Syria, two of the most well-established state sponsors of terrorism globally, while significantly cooling its relationship with Israel and the United States. Despite this, the Obama administration this past January, sold the Turkish Air Force 100 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets. Turkey already manufactures it’s own F-16s.
It is also essential to once again remind ourselves of the recent accomplishments of the Islamist AK party under Prime Minister Erdogan’s leadership. In just the past several years, the AK party has edged ever closer to establishing a full-blown dictatorship, all in the name of democracy. Since 2002, they have managed to accomplish the following:
•occupy the presidency;
•occupy the seat of prime minister;
*against a large majority of seats in the parliament;
•fill the judiciary with Islamist-leaning judges;
•behead the top echelons of the military;
•infiltrate the police force (over 70 percent of officers are members the Islamist Gulen movement);
•intimidate and imprison Turkish journalists (there are more Turkish journalists in prison than any other nation in the world – more than China or Iran)
The nation’s leadership is now working toward a bill authorizing them to rewrite the Turkish Constitution, giving them far more sweeping powers over the military and judiciary.
In last month’s victory speech, Prime Minister Erdogan couldn’t have made his regional ambitions any clearer:
“Believe me, Sarajevo won today as much as Istanbul, Beirut won as much as Izmir, Damascus won as much as Ankara, Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, the West Bank, Jerusalem won as much as Diyarbakir.”
In a follow up commentary piece, J.E. Dyer, a retired U.S. Naval intelligence officer asked how the world would take it if Nicolas Sarkozy had proclaimed that a victory for him was a victory for Moscow as much as Paris, for Washington as much as Lyon, for Ankara as much as Marseilles. Dyer then very appropriately reminded us that such comments are, “imperialist at worst, absurdly arrogant at best – to speak of your electoral victories as conferring benefits on foreign humanity – especially on those once occupied by your nation in its days of empire.”
For years, several others and I have been warning of Turkey’s neo-Ottoman dreams and regional ambitions. And for just as many years, the compliant left-wing media has mocked the notion. Within the next several years, with doubling of the Turkish army, it appears as though there will be 500,000 more reasons to worry about Turkey’s regional ascension.
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