Syria may have a New President when Jihad is launched against Israel!
December 21, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I do not believe a peace treaty will be signed between Syria and Israel, nor do I believe Bashar Assad will be in power when a Jihad is launched against Israel. His regime just keeps sinking into the mire of both internal and external pressure, and I suspect his position as President is hanging in the balance.
The following article by Ron Ben-Yishal (Ynet News) gives a good assessment of Assad’ s precariou
s situation.
If, and when, Bashar Assad is replaced, I have an avid curiosity as to the character and abilities of the man who replaces him. He might be the one described in Daniel 11:36, and 41 to 45. (For a full exposition of Daniel 11:41 to 12:1, See Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 70 to 76).
Daniel 11:36 – And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Daniel 11:41 – 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.
Begin Ynet News Article
Assad Can’t Deliver
Ron Ben-Yishai (Ynet News)
December 21, 2006
Syrian President Assad knows well that if he meets even some of the demands presented to him by Israel, the U.S., and Europe, his regime would face genuine danger as would the Alawite-Shiite sect he leads. Therefore, he is unable to deliver the goods even if he receives everything he wants.
He is unable to disengage from Iran because it’s getting stronger and is assisting him in expanding his ballistic missile arsenal. Iran also controls Hizballah, which is able to thwart overnight all of Assad’s hopes regarding Lebanon.
Tehran knows it has the power to veto any Syrian move it doesn’t like.
Assad is also unable to deliver the goods in the American context regarding Iraq. If he curbs the flow of money, fighters, and weapons to the Sunni rebels in Iraq, he knows they will launch a war against him and his regime with the help of Syria’s Sunnis.
The Sunni majority in Syria, and particularly the Muslim Bro
therhood, are desperate for outside assistance in order to act against the Alawite-Shiite regime in Damascus.
The Iraqi Sunnis refrain from acting against Syria because Assad provides them assistance.
Should Assad stop the assistance, the Iraqi Sunnis would join forces with the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and threaten Assad’s regime.
They will also resort to terrorism in order to torpedo any attempt for Syrian-Israeli cooperation or normalization should a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement be signed.
The bottom line is that Assad, under the conditions currently prevalent in the Middle East, cannot give Israel and the West anything substantive in exchange for a peace agreement involving the Golan, even if he wants to do so.
The reasons for Assad’s peace offensive are mostly tactical: He believes that engaging in negotiations with Israel, even if indirectly, would remove international pressure regarding the Hariri trial.
End YNet News Article
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.