Great Preparation in Southern Lebanon for a War with Israel Alone!
August 20, 2006
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I have never believed that the United States would commit troops to the soon coming war between Israel and 10 Islamic Nations. By the time 2008 is in full swing, all the American troops will be out of Iraq, and any desire to recommit them
to a war in Israel will be subdued by political expedience, national interest, a weariness with war, and public opinion. In the next war both the United States and Israel will believe Israel can win it without our help, as she has proven in all her previous wars with the Arab Nations, but this time they will be wrong. By the time the U.S. recognizes this, it will be too late to intervene.
Please read the article from Arutz Sheva, and then read Archive Update 71A, which follows it.
The following article from Arutz Sheva, Israel News Service, is the best I have read on the highly confused situation left in the wake of a weak Resolution 1701, which none of the parties involved ever had any real intension of putting into effect. The outcome of all the shortcomings in the article will result in a larger force of Israel haters across Israel’s northern border in 2008. They will be better trained, better equipped, and more determined to drive Israel out of the land the Bible identifies as Israel, that is, The Land from Dan to Beersheba. My guesstimate is that they will launch an attack at some point in time between 2008 and 2012, and I believe it will be successful.
Cracks In UN Plan Expose Israel
Friday, August 18, 2006 / 24 Av 5766
Arutz Sheva
Offers by anti-Israel countries to patrol Lebanon, Hizbullah’s welcoming of Lebanese troops and the abandonment of vows to disarm the terrorist group leave Hizbullah stronger and Israel weaker.
Any hopes that the United Nations Security Council ceasefire resolution ending the hostilities between Hizbullah terrorists and Israel would make Israel safer continue to dissipate. “Villagers throwing rice and Hizbullah supporters holding banners welcomed the [Lebanese] army to south Lebanon,” according to the Associated Press.
For the first time in three decades, Lebanese Army troops neared the Israeli border this morning [Friday], as they cont inue to deploy
in southern Lebanon.
However, the commander of the Lebanese forces said that his soldiers would not take over a particular village near the border until the heavily war-damaged fence is repaired and the IDF soldiers leave the area.
At the same time, the Hizbullah presence does not seem to be noticeably weaker.
At the village of Kila, several hundred yards from the Israeli border, Hizbullah supporters waved their flags, and terrorists made it a point to symbollically attack the United States and Israel during funeral processions in southern Lebanon.
In one village, residents scorned U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “You will not see your new Middle East,” said one sign addressed to Rice.
Further complications for Israel are the almost across-the-board abandonment of the UN resolution’ s intention of di
sarming Hizbullah south of the Litani River.
According to a Lebanese cabinet decision, Hizbullah will not disarm in southern Lebanon, but its members will refrain from carrying weapons in public. Pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud clearly defined the Lebanese intentions.
“The weapons of the resistance are the only ones, of all Arabs, that succeeded in standing up to Israel and defeating it. No one can take away the weapons of the resistance,” he told the cabinet.
Israel has criticized the violation and complained about the failure to bring about the return of two IDF soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah terrorists.
But beyond statements, Israel seems powerless to stop what some feel is shaping up as a charade.
“I would say the show is on the road,” said UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown.
France and Germany Make Way for Muslim Nations
France disappointed the U.N. with its surprise announcement that it is sending only 200 troops instead of the thousands that were anticipated. The absence of the French and the refusal of Germany to place its soldiers in a situation of direct confrontation leaves Muslim nations with a larger percentage of the proposed force.
Indonesia and Malaysia each have offered to send 1,000 troops. Neither country has diplomatic ties with Israel, and Malaysia as recently as last week encouraged the world to cut off diplomatic ties with Jerusalem. Israel has objected to the placement of troops from countries with which it does not have diplomatic relations.
Turkey has offered to send 5,000 men, more than any other country. However, Turkey also has been a major transit point for Hizbullah terrorist weapons, according to Israeli intelligence and comments made at an American State Department briefing Thursday.
Italy has proposed sending between 2,000 and 3,000 soldiers, but has also made statements indicating sympathy for Hizbullah. A government minister termed the terrorists’ kidnapping of IDF soldiers a “military action,” and the government emphasized it would not try to disarm Hizbullah.
Prime Minister Romano Prodi told an Italian news service, “The fact that it won’t be Italy who will disarm Hizbullah militia seems to me to be a moot point, also because I don’t think the attempt would be productive.”
Morocco, which has ties with Israel and has a growing militant Muslim population, has offered to send 1,500-2,000 troops. Like many other nations, it wants a clearer definition from the UN of what is expected of the soldiers and when they are to open fire.
Little Experience
One of the major problems with the UN force that is shaping up is its lack of experience which, accompanied with the presence of a poorly-trained Lebanese army, leaves the area free for Hizbullah to mobilize. Israel already has committed itself to leave southern Lebanon once the UN force is in place.
Brown admitted, “We have [the force] in quantitative terms, but the issue is which battalions we can get
there in the timeline required. Are they the right battalions with the right skills and equipment?”
He also explained that the international force would not try to disarm the terrorists, because of the agreement between Hizbullah and the Lebanese government. The force is to join the 2,000-member UNIFIL, unit which has proven to be ineffective – and some say pro-Hizbullah – since its introduction to the area in 1978.
U.S. Secretary of State Rice also has backed down from her previous insistence that Hizbullah cease to be “a state within a state,” and that Israel’s situation be improved over its pre-war condition. “I don’t think there is an expectation that this force is going to physically disarm Hizbullah,” she told USA Today. “I think it’s a little bit of a misreading about how you disarm a militia. You have to have a plan, first of all, for the disarmament of the militia, and then the hope is that some people lay down their arms voluntarily.”
Hizbullah terrorist leaders have made it clear they will keep their weapons, and its terrorists have vowed to continue their war against Israel.
Hizbullah official Sheikh Mohammed Yazbik said, “We will preserve the resistance. We won’t give up our weapons, our dignity and our honor.”
One man, Mohamed Ballout, told Reuters, he is “ashamed that my son was not martyred.”
Hizbullah has gathered the support of more than 600,000 Shi’ite Muslims in the area and has built weapons and command centers in the last six years, after then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Barak ordered a sudden unilateral withdrawal of IDF troops in May 2000.
Even a senior American official expressed pessimism about the future. “Our history in Lebanon has not been a happy one,” lamented Assistant Secretary of State David Welch.
End Arutz Sheva Article
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 71A
June 8, 2002
WHEN ISRAEL IS SUDDENLY VISIOUSLY ATTACKED IN A SURPRISE LIGHTNING JIHAD BLITZKRIEG FROM ITS NORTH, WHY DOESN’T THE U.S. ATTACK THE ISLAMIC GROUP OF NATIONS THAT ARE ATTACKING HER?
This is a question I have been asked over and over again for a long time. I was asked again on e-mail recently, and this time, rather than answering the query privately, I decided to make it a prophecy update, so that that in future I could just attach this update to any new query and save myself repeating it again.
The one thing that I learned in the National Security Agency which has been, is, and always will be the motivating factor in any decision made by any country, including the United States, may be simply stated in two words: NATIONAL INTEREST. Many will cry out and say, not so, we did it for humanitarian reasons, we did it to secure justice, we did it out of compassion, we did it out of love, we did it because we love freedom, we did it because we are a great nation: and on and on shall come statements from every realm of society, from “bleeding” liberal hearts to the “hardened” hearts of the extreme right, all giving different reasons as to why this country did something. But the truth of
the matter is that, in the end, we always did it for what amounted to NATIONAL INTEREST.
The United States has quick response attack naval and marine forces in position at all times to put down a banana republic type of minor conflict on short notice. But in order to conduct a successful operation again a Jihad the magnitude of the coming attack of many nations against Israel, we would require some time to get enough regular ground troops in place to have a real hope of victory. It took us a very long time to get enough men and equipment into the Middle East to insure success in our victory against Iraq. The Scriptures indicate that 10 Islamic nations will be led by the Antichrist, and that they will quickly take Jerusalem and drive Israel into the Negev. When Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran come pouring southward on both sides of the Samarian mountains, and the Palestinians break out in all directions internally from within the enclosed buffer zone, chaos will reign supreme from Dan to Beersheva. There will be so much inner mingling of the attack forces of Israel and those of the enemy with the fleeing civilian population that air strikes would kill as many on one side as the other. Since the U.S. is fully aware of the Israel War Contingency Plan to evacuate as much of the population as possible to the Negev if overrun from the north, it will set in shock and indecision until it is too late to do anything except help to evacuate some of the coastal population from Tel Aviv to Haifa into the Negev, and to air lift supplies into the Negev.
The aircraft of the Islamic nations will be under orders not to fire on western power’s aircraft unless fired upon, because the one thing they will not want is for the U.S. to get actively engaged with them in an all out war. Once Israel has evacuated as much of its population into the Negev as possible, and the U.S. sees that the Arabs are not going past Beersheva, we will accept the status quo as best for all. Why? Because it will satisfy our NATIONAL INTEREST! How? Israel will be safe and we will still be able to receive Arab Oil shipments.
Revelation 12:5,6 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all NATIONS with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. [6] And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that THEY should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
NATIONS in verse 5 is the precedent to THEY in verse 6. This is the beginning of the final 1260 days that lead up to the final battle of Armageddon, and at this time only 10 Arab nations are involved, so nations such as the U.S., Great Britain, Australia, and Canada will air lift all sorts of supplies into the Negev for Israel, and the Arab nations won’t do a thing to stop it because they will not want to be involved in a world war at this time.
Revelation 12:14 – And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Seventy percent of the total Jewish population of Israel exists in the narrow coastal strip from Tel Aviv to Haifa. The western powers (symbolized as uncircumcised Philistines) will air lift many from this area into the Negev, flying first toward the west over the Mediterranean, then southeast over the Sinai into the Negev. After 1260 days Israel will storm north, northeast, and east out of the Negev, driving deep into Syria, and across all of Jordan to the Euphrates River, and will thus claim the Abrahamic Land Grant given to Abraham. (See Prophecy Update Number 67)
Isaiah 11:14 – But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. (See Prophecy Update Number 71)
Micah 5:6 – And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. (See Prophecy Update Number 67)
Down through the last 200 years we have built up a picture of an antichrist who rises slowly to power over a moderate period of time, then signs a peace treaty that lasts for 3 and ½ years, only to break it at that time to start the final 1260 days of the tribulation period.
I agree that he attacks Israel to begin the final 1260 days of the tribulation period, but am persuaded what is pictured before the attack is largely manufactured on misinterpretation of Daniel 9:27, an error of early 1800.
The rise of antichrist will be quick, as will be the events that follow his appearance. So I am saying that whenever he comes on the scene it will not be a long, drawn out affair from his appearance until his demise. In Prophecy Updates Numbers 55, 56, 57, and 58 I outlined the view that was held by most theologians before 1830, which is the belief I hold today.
In Chapter 38 of Ezekiel, in verses 2 through 6, it identifies the groupings of those peoples who will initially attack Israel from the north. But in verse 13 it identifies groupings of peoples that will not attack Israel at this time.
Ezekiel 38:13 – Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
The closest thing to which I can relate their two questions in today’s modern vernacular is what we would identify as being a “diplomatic protest.”
You may check all reference sources available today as to the location of the descendants of Sheba and Dedan in 600 B.C., when this prophecy was written, and you will find they are almost unanimous that it represents modern day Saudi Arabia. I believe Saudi Arabia will be as surprised
as the United States when Israel is attacked. I also believe Egypt, who is attacked by the antichrist after he drives Israel into the Negev, will also be shocked by his attack on Israel, and then on themselves.
Daniel 11:42 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
The descendants of Tarshish were sea faring men. According to most historians they first established colonies along the coasts of the Mediterranean, then along the coasts of western and northern France, and finally along the coasts of Denmark and Sweden. As such they could represent what we call Europe, and all the western nations, which were established out of European nations, could be “the young lions thereof.”
So I expect the only part that the United States will play in this war will be to violently diplomatically protest, protest, protest, and then protest some more. I believe we will air lift many into the Negev to satisfy our NATIONAL INTEREST vested in our large Jewish population, and will continue to air lift all sorts of supplies into them for a long time. I believe we will not attack in order to prevent a massive outcry of American motherhood in a fantastic body bag count, which is not in the NATIONAL INTEREST, and the loss of Arab oil would most assuredly not be in our NATIONAL INTEREST.
One day, when I kept banishing around this term we identified as NATIONAL INTEREST in the agency, I was asked “Would you define NATIONAL INTEREST.” Now, this is NOT the agency definition, it is mine!
NATIONAL INTEREST IS WHAT WILL ALLOW A PARTY TO STAY IN OFFICE OR TO GET IN OFFICE. IT WAS NOT THAT WAY IN THE BEGINNING, BUT THAT’S THE WAY IT IS NOW, AND IT WILL STAY THAT WAY UNTIL JESUS RETURNS.
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