The Best Offense is a Good Defense in Sports and War!
November 28, 2006
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I have heard the oft-used expression “The Best Offense is a Good Defense” used countless times by football coaches. I have long believed that the major reason Iran is so desperate to produce nuclear weapons is for a credible defensive deterrent, which would allow Islam to launch a major conventional war against Israel. Iran, and all the other Islamic nations, are acutely aware that the massive nuclear arsenals of Europe, the United States, and Israel would wipe Iran off the face of the earth, if she launched a nuclear warhead against Israel. They know that Israel will not launch weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against them, unless they are first launched against them.
It is possible for 10 Arab Nations to drive Israel into the Negev. It is not possible for 10 Arab Nations to win a WMD war against Israel – But it is possible for them to win a high tech convention war against them. It has always been known that the major warring advantage of the Arab world against Israel is “numbers,” not WMD’s. I believe the 10 most likely candidate nations for the 10 toes and 10 horns of Revelation and Daniel are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iraq. The populations of these 10 countries total more than 318 million, while the population of Israel totals just over seven million, 20 percent of which are Muslims. I do not believe Israel will launch WMD’s unless they are first sent against her – To do so would give Russia and China a “sort” of international justification to launch against them. No one wants a thermonuclear war, and this includes Islam.
They would like to have a few people left around to worship Allah. (Please take a look at Archive Prophecy Update 187A to see my reasons why I do not believe the coming Middle East war will be a nuclear war).
Leaders of clay Islamic nations like Iraq are being courted to join forces with the leaders of iron nations like Iran and Syria to become a part of a 10 toed force united against Israel. Leaders are scurrying like ants from one capital to another to build an iron and clay Islamic Kingdom that will hold together until Messiah comes.
Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong,
and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Jesus is the living stone out of God, the Eternal Mountain, who destroys the Islamic Kingdom of 10 toes. The 10 will come out of sections of four ancient empires, namely, the Babylonian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the southern half of the Roman Empire. Jesus will set up his kingdom on this earth when he returns to defeat the armies of Antichrist at the final battle of Armageddon.
Daniel 2:45 – Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
The stage for Jihad is being set by building an Arab conventional war bonding of Islamic clay and Iran around Israel, while the Arabs build a nuclear shield around themselves. Israel will be driven into the Negev by great numbers and high tech conventional weapons.
Please consider the Articles which follow. They lend credence to my frequently stated guesstimate that a high tech conventional attack will be launched into Israel by Islamic nations at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. They are merely bracing themselves defensively against an aerial retaliation by Israeli missiles and planes. As I have stated for more than 30 years, WHEN is always a guesstimate until it actually happens, but it WILL happen, and the stage is being set for the event.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Hizbullah: Missile supply back to 100%
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 25, 2006
Hizbullah has been successful in restocking their missile supply after last summer’s war with Israel, diplomatic sources in Beirut told Time magazine Friday.
According to the report, Hizbullah currently has an estimated 20,000 short-range rockets. The report contradicted an Israeli estimate in which Hizbullah was said to have acquired only half the number of rockets that they had before the war.
During the war with Israel, Hizbullah fired over 3,000 rockets.
Sources in Saudi Arabia claimed that Iran and Syria were behind the rearmament, supplying the guerilla organization with enough ammo to return to its former strength.
“The arms pipeline from Iran through Syria started to function even during the war,” one source in Beirut said.
Officials in Iran and Syria continued to deny the claim that they provided Hizbullah with arms.
End Jerusalem Post Article
Begin DEBKAfile Article Number 1
DEBKAfile reports: Russia sells Iran sophisticated missile systems capable of repelling US or Israeli air or missile assaults
November 25, 2006, 10:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
The first of 29 Tor-M1 systems in the $700m deal have been delivered to Iran by Moscow despite US opposition to their sale of a weapon widely regarded as
the most advanced of its kind in the world. Some Iranian and Russian air defense experts say its full deployment at Iran’s nuclear installations will make them virtually invulnerable to American or Israeli attack in the foreseeable future. Therefore, no more than six months remain, until the Russian Tor-M1 systems are in place, for any attempt to knock out Iran’s nuclear weapons industry.
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that Iran’s military and Revolutionary Guards units are on top war alert for the second month. Their fighters and bombers are parked on the runways ready for takeoff, their surface missiles including Shehab are a button’s push away from firing and their war ships and submarines cruise out at sea in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. Tehran is determined not to be caught napping by any surprise attacks. The fact that officials in Moscow, albeit unidentified, announced the Tor-M1 missile’s delivery to Iran indicates the Russian president Vladimir Putin has decided to shrug off US objections, including a request put to him in person by President George W.
Bush when they talked in Moscow and Hanoi earlier this month.
DEBKAfile adds some information about this super-missile: The first batteries to be delivered come ready with Iranian crews trained at Russian air defense corps facilities. The advantages of the Tor-M1 system are principally its ability to simultaneously destroy two targets traveling at up to 700km/h in any weather by day or night; its powerful, jamming-resistant radar with electronic beam control, and its vertically-launched missiles’ ability to maintain high speed and maneuverability throughout their operation. According to military experts, the 3D pulse Doppler electronically beam-steered E/F-band surveillance radar feeds to a digital fire control computer range, azimuth, elevation and automatic threat evaluation data on up to 48 targets.
The 10 most dangerous targets are automatically tracked and prioritized for engagement. The maximum radar range is billed as 25 kilometers but may be more.
On the lower right side of the tracking radar, which is located at the front of the turret, is an automatic TV tracking system with a range of 20 km that enables the system to work in a heavy ECM environment. Last spring, the United States called on all countries to stop all arms exports to Iran
End DEBKAfile Article Number 1
Begin DEBKAfile Article Extract Number 2
Reporting from the Middle East, DEBKAfile notes that none of Iraq’s neighbors are hanging about waiting for a US decision.
They are making waves as though American and British troop withdrawals from Iraq are already in sight. By the time the Bush administration picks an option, the Middle East will have moved on, rendering the recommendations from the various US panels irrelevant. Some steps already in motion are:
1. Ahead of the Tehran summit this coming weekend, Syria and Iraq have agreed to restore diplomatic relations.
2. The Sunnis and Shiites are locked in battle over the domination of Baghdad, both camps gathering in all their manpower and resources from inside and outside Iraq.
3. The US military and Iraqi army are playing no part in this battle royal. They are operating on the fringes of the main combat sectors and stepping in only when their own security zones are threatened. In other words, large sections of the Iraqi capital have slipped out of the control of the Americans and the al Maliki government. This situation prevails also in other main cities.
4. It means in a nutshell that time has run out for building and training a competent Iraqi army capable of operating on its own to bolster central government, defend it and fight Sunni insurgents and al Qaeda.
5. The faint hope of driving a wedge between Tehran and Damascus – on the basis of the former’s backing for Iraq’s Shiites and the latter’s for its Sunnis – has likewise gone up in smoke. The Syrian and Iranian governments are now fully synchronized and equally determined to keep the US-British alliance from attaining any sort of success in Iraq.
6. Their collaboration against the US extends to other parts of the Middle East. In Lebanon, they have activated their pawn, Hizballah, to topple the pro-US anti-Syrian government headed by Fouad Siniora. In the Palestinian areas, Iran and Syria are pumping in hundreds of military instructors and tens of tons of explosives, missiles and cash to dethrone Mahmoud Abbas and demolish his Palestinian Authority. By escalating their missile attacks, Hamas and its radical partners are bent on forcing Israel to launch a full-blown war on the Lebanon War model to crush their strengthened terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
Iran and Syria are therefore in full flight keeping the different Middle East pots on the boil and the pro-Western governments in jeopardy.
End DEBKAfile Article Extract Number 2
Begin YNet News Article
IDF: Gaza Terrorists have Anti-Aircraft Capabilities
Israel Air Force worried, pursuant to Hizbullah success at taking down Israeli chopper in Lebanon. Senior officer: Clear increase in attempt to smuggle weapons into Gaza
Hanan Greenberg
According to a senior Israel Air Force officer, “terror organizations in the Gaza Strip have anti-aircraft capabilities.” The IAF is a joint participant in most Gaza operations, particularly in pinpoint operations or assistance to ground forces.
IAF sources are worried that, pursuant to Hizbullah success to take down an Israel helicopter in Lebanon, terror organizations in the Strip will try to arm themselves with anti-aircraft weaponry.
“The threats of antitank and anti-aircraft missiles in Gaza are increasing and we are preparing for that,” said the officer.
He stated that the IAF has significantly increased its operations over Gaza, which is why terror organizations are trying to damage aircraft.
“We understand that they are struggling against us, that they’re learning lessons from their own experiences and from Lebanon, and we can definitely see an increased effort to smuggle armaments into Gaza.”
“We will keep operating in a fitting manner, but we can’t promise 100 percent that a helicopter won’t be damaged over Gaza,” he said.
The officer stated that he can’t point to a specific organization possessing such weaponry, since the IAF operates against all terror organizations without distinction.
Gaza armament a strategic problem
Chief of the Shin Bet Yuval Diskin warned three months ago, in a cabinet meeting, that “the intensification of terror sources in Gaza is a strategic problem which, if not treated properly, will result in a reality like in Lebanon. We don’t have to wait three years and then launch investigations.”
“Nasrallah is perceived as a national hero among terror organizations, and they are attempting to learn from him.
They understand the power of the antitank missile and guerilla fighting, such as using underground bunkers,” he added at the time.
IDF forces continue to operate against terror infrastructure in northern Gaza, particularly Qassam rockes. The IDF does not intend to extend operations at the current time, and is focusing primarily on rocket-launching areas.
“Our objective is to station ourselves in those areas and operate when necessary,” explained a military source from Southern Command. “It’s a long and ongoing process that is producing results.”
Despite continuing rocket launches from Gaza, the IDF has identified a southward migration of several launching cells and attempted launchings towards the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings.
Military sources emphasized that the terror organizations are not only operating in northern Gaza: “There are additional operations, primarily aerial ones, as part of the IDF’s comprehensive operation against terror.”
End YNet News Article
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