Interesting Message coming from President Bashar Assad in Syria
October 4, 2006
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I believe Syria, Iran, and Hizbollah are becoming quite definite in their plan to eventually launch a Jihad against Israel.
Since I believe that to be the case, there is no question their attack would have its chances of success astronomically improved if they could get Israel to return the Golan Heights
to Israel as part of a peace agreement.
I have spent a great deal of time in the Golan Heights and on top of Mt.
Herman, and am acutely aware of its great strategic value by both radar and visual observation of Syria to the east, and the north-south tank trails in the valleys to its west.
The Syrians and Iranians are not without cunning. They would be very foolish not to agree between themselves that having the Golan Heights in their possession would greatly enhance their chances of surprise and success in a lightning blitzkrieg Jihad down the tank trails into northern Israel. I believe that is why Syria is now renewing its efforts to secure a peace agreement with Israel before launching such an attack.
Syria has tried several times in the past to get the stalled negotiations for the Golan Heights started again, and each time the process has been unsuccessful, but this seems to be the most determined request I have seen for some time. I am including a previous request by Syria in 2003 in Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 128C.
The first Jerusalem Post article, which follows, entails the offer by the Syrian President to negotiate for peace with Israel. Assad’s statements in the first article brought a quick response from Israel Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in the second Jerusalem Post Article.
The scenario, along with other recent happenings in the Middle East, are in line with my guesstimate the attack against Israel will occur at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
Begin First Jerusalem Post Article
Assad gives Israel 6 Months for Peace
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Post Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
October 2, 2006
Syrian president Bashar Assad continued to give clashing messages to the international community with an announcement that he was ready to negotiate with Israel. In an interview with Spanish newspaper El-Pais on Saturday, the president said it would take six months to reach an agreement with Israel. If a peace agreement would not be reached, he added, war would break out.
“Two sides are responsible for the current situation (with Israel) – not just one side. The situation is based on one topic only, the peace process… and perhaps war if no peace is established,” Assad said.
The president said that Syria’s vision has to this point proven itself, as opposed to the Israeli dream, based on military power, which has failed.
“We have a clear vision, and events have proven that we foresee the future in the right direction. It is not based on the ideas of strength and weakness, but rather it is based upon values, history and human ambition, while the Israeli dream, unfortunately, is based solely on a strong army.”
He also said that he has increased the number of troops on the border with Lebanon, a move apparently aimed to appease international demands to bolster security following the Israel-Hizbullah war.
But the troop movement was still likely to draw criticism from the US and Iraqi governments, as President Bashar Assad said Syria shifted forces away from its eastern border with Iraq to fortify its frontier with Lebanon.
The US and Iraq have long accused Syria of not doing enough to stop insurgents crossing into Iraq to fight US troops. Syria denies the allegation, saying it is impossible to fully control
the long desert border it shares with Iraq.
“We have strengthened the border with Lebanon, but of course, this made us move some of our forces guarding the border with Iraq to the border with Lebanon,” Assad said in an interview with Spain’s El Pais newspaper that was released Sunday by Syria’s state-run SANA news agency.
After the 34-day war between Hizbullah and Israel that ended on Aug. 14, the Jewish state said it wanted international troops to deploy on the Lebanon-Syrian border to enforce a halt in weapons shipments.
Hizbullah is widely believed to have received weapons and other support from its backers, Syria and Iran.
But Syria strongly rejected the idea, warning it would close the border with Lebanon. Instead, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said during his recent trip to the Middle East that Assad had assured him Damascus was prepared to delineate its border with Lebanon and increase the number of forces there. It said it would also provide the troops with training and supplies.
Assad said other nations “should have faith in Syria” over controlling its borders.
“If there is a real desire to smuggle (weapons), neither (UN) Security Council resolutions nor surveillance nor the whole armies of the world can prevent this,” he said, according to SANA.
In the interview, Assad also said the United States “was not a fair co-sponsor” of the stalled Mideast peace process and called on Europe to take an active role.
“Regrettably there is not another international power that can replace it (the US), and at the same time, the United States should not be alone, and here is where Europe’s role comes in,” he said.
End First Jerusalem Post Article
Begin Second Jerusalem Post Excerpt
‘PM would agree to talks with Syria’
JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
October 2, 2006
Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Tuesday that Israel would agree to engage in peace talks with Syria in the event of an official Syrian approach.
According to the senior Labor Party member, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would agree to hold negotiations if the Syrians entered without pre-conditions and only if the recognition of Israel’s right to exist were promised, Army Radio reported.
On Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he was ready to negotiate with Israel. In an interview with Spanish newspaper El-Pais, Assad said it would take six months to reach an agreement with Israel. If a peace agreement would not be reached, he added, war would break out.
With that, Ben-Eliezer also said that Isarel must take into account Assad’s recent threats towards Israel, and prepare accordingly.
End Jerusalem Post Second Excerpt
Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 128C
This is the update we issued more than three years ago. It did not meet with success. Israel still retains the Golan Heights.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 128C
July 15, 2003
Golan Heights Back in the False Peace Pie
In order to assure the success of a surprise lightning Jihad attack against Israel from the north, it would be most advantageous for a large part of the Golan Heights to be returned to Syrian control. It was taken from the Syrians by Israel in the 1967 War.
Its high levels give a distinct advantage to Israel in that it provides it with a magnificent view of all enemy troop movements along its northern border in southern Lebanon and western Syria. It gives a clear view of the major tank trails that would be used by enemy tanks coming south against Israel. The two countries were close to an agreement on Israeli withdrawal in 2000, but the talks broke down when Syria demanded a portion of the shoreline
of the Sea of Galilee in its southeastern corner, which it controlled prior to the 1967 war.
Syria has now stated that is it ready to resume peace talks with Israel on the return of the Golan Heights for its recognition of Israel as a nation.
The Tishrin Daily, which reflects Syrian government views, said last week that talks should pick up where they left off three years ago. This is a statement often made by government officials. The paper stated: “it is not permissible that peace negotiations return to a zero point and cancels all that was achieved and had required strenuous efforts.”
Last week Syrian President Bashar Assad asked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to help ease tensions between the U.S. and Syria. And Mubarak pressed Assad to get the ten hard-line Palestinian terrorist organizations, whose headquarters are in Damascus, to cooperate in the continuation of the latest ceasefire in Israel.
I am certainly hopeful that this action by Syria means it has put all the terrorist groups it sponsors on notice to cease their actions against the nation of Israel in order to facilitate any negotiations with Israel on the Golan Heights. And, if so, judging by the recent flurry of diplomatic contacts between Syria and Iran, I am also hopeful this has been agreed to by Iran, and they have likewise put the terrorist groups they sponsor on the same footing. This would open the door for a “negotiated,” rather than a “forced” peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which would be more conducive to Israel being lulled into a false sense of security. The next few weeks may well validate or deny that such a scenario has gone on behind closed doors. A false peace must arrive in the Middle East, but Israel will be lulled into a false sense of security before it is possible for such an attack by Islam to be successful.
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.
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