US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel versus Syria and Iran,
With their allied and non-allied Islamist radical terrorist Groups,
Will Continue To Push “Shifting Sands” From Morocco to India
During Evolution Of The ‘Arab Spring’ Revolution Movement,
Which will eventually consummate with Daniel’s 10 Horns
Of Islam surrounding Israel in a vast Negev Wilderness,
While The Antichrist Is Forming His Mid-East Caliphate!
August 9, 2012
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The shifting of Arab positions in this time of great Middle East confusion will depend individually on what their leaders believe is best to keep them in control. At the fixation of the final prophesied 10 horns at the time of the Antichrist’s attack on Israel, I believe they represent Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Daniel 7:20-22 – And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. [21] I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; [22] Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
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Jalili in Damascus underscores Iran’s commitment to Assad
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 7, 2012, 9:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran gave Bashar Assad its strongest avowal of support Tuesday, Aug. 7, while heaping threats on the heads of his enemies. Saeed Jalili, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, stood alongside the Syrian ruler in Damascus at the end of their talks and vowed not to let Iran’s “close partnership with the Syrian leadership to be shaken by the uprising or external foes” or the “axis of resistance (Iran, Syria, Hizballah) be broken in any way.” Assad then affirmed his determination to purge Syria of violence and bring his forces to victory.
DEBKAfile: When Iranian and Syrian leaders refer to “external foes,” they mean the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel.
Jalilii was sent to Damascus to publicly and unambiguously display Iran’s commitment to save Assad from being overthrown either by internal or external forces. He arrived from Beirut after a conference Monday with Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Iranian official most likely laid before the Syrian ruler plans for the responses of the three allies to coming events in the Syrian conflict.
DEBKAfile reported earlier Tuesday:
Tehran is not done with threats after shaking its fist at Israel: Tuesday, Aug. 7, Iranian Armed Forces Chief Gen. Hassan Firuzabadi pointed at Ankara and other Middle East capitals when he declared: “Turkey will be next in line for violence after Syria if it continues to work on behalf of Western interests.”
He went on to assert that “Ankara is toeing the Western (American) line in the region, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. They are therefore accountable for the bloodshed in the Arab Republic [Syria]”
The Iranian army chief warned: “If those nations carry on this way, they should realize that Turkey is the next in line.” He was in fact holding them all responsible for a potential outbreak of war with Turkey.
Spreading around responsibility for violence with accompanying threats appears to be Iran’s latest diplomatic ploy.
Earlier Tuesday, Tehran passed a message to Washington in which the United States was held responsible for the lives of the 48 Iranians nabbed by Syrian rebels in Damascus last week. The message was dropped off at the Swiss embassy in Tehran which handles US interests in the absence of diplomatic ties. It denied that the hostages were Revolutionary Guardsmen and insisted they were pilgrims to Shiite shrines in Syria. All the countries “supporting current events in Syria, starting with the US,” would be held responsible for their safety by Tehran.
The rebel Free Syrian Army‘s Al-Baraa Brigade has threatened to execute its Iranian “prisoners” if Syrian army shelling continues against Aleppo. Three were reported already dead as a result of that shelling.
Gen. Firuzabadi addressed his threat to Turkey shortly before the arrival in Ankara of Iran’s foreign minister, Ali-Akbar Salehi, in the hope of galvanizing the Turks into forcing the Syrian rebels to let go of their Iranian hostages.
Tehran now holds at least three nations, the US, Turkey and Israel, in peril of military action in the context of the Syrian conflict. Israel was the object of the first threat of engulfment by the “Syrian fire.”
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Revise peace treaty to uproot terrorism
Op-ed: Eradication of Sinai terror requires massive military presence in region
Yaron Friedman
Published 08.07,12, 20:03
Until recently the Sinai Peninsula was a tourist paradise: A demilitarized area nearly empty of soldiers that symbolizes the peace between Israel and Egypt – with enchanting desert views and tropical beaches on which courteous Bedouins serve coffee. So how did it become a terrorist paradise?
In accordance with the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, the Sinai desert is a demilitarized area with a very limited number of soldiers securing it. This agreement, which is supposed to keep the border region quiet, has become very problematic in recent years. The lack of a significant Egyptian military presence has left a dangerous void in Sinai. Islamist terror groups became aware of the region’s potential more than 10 years ago, and the financial means at their disposal have allowed them to strike deals with local Bedouin tribes – the real rulers of the desert.
The Bedouin tribes, who will do anything to get rich, including stealing organs from African refugees, serve as the foundation for the flourishing terror in Sinai. The Sinai terror threat has intensified since the establishment of Hamas’ Islamist entity in Gaza in 2007. The tunnels and other secret passageways between the Strip and Sinai allow the terrorists to transfer arms and materials used to make bombs and missiles. It is safe to assume that trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza’s residents also carry a large amount of weapons. These weapons are meant not only for Hamas, but for other terror groups that do not submit to Hamas’ authority.
Thus, a new situation has been created whereby Hamas police monitor the activity of local Islamist organizations in Gaza to prevent them from seizing control of the coastal enclave.
Since the Egyptian revolution erupted on January 25, 2011 on the heels of the Arab Spring, Egypt’s control over Sinai has weakened significantly. The Egyptian army has been preoccupied with the developments in Egypt proper. According to the Washington Post, the Bedouins in Sinai purchased arms that were smuggled from Libya during the revolution – and now they plan to use these weapons against the Egyptian army.
‘Tighten grip on Sinai’
Opposition elements in Egypt, such as the Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution, hold newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi responsible for the death of 16 Egyptian patrolmen during Sunday’s terror attack south of Rafah. According to them, Morsi is responsible for the deteriorating security situation in Sinai. Since his election, Morsi has visited all of Egypt’s sectors, except Sinai. The attack also embarrassed Hamas’ Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, who met with Morsi in Egypt last week.
Haniyeh was quick to condemn the attack and declare that the attackers did not hail from Gaza. He said his regime would investigate, and stressed the need for increased cooperation between Gazan and Egyptian security forces. The attack undoubtedly undermined Hamas’ achievements. Just last week Morsi promised Haniyeh that he would work to ease the Israeli blockade of the Strip and assist its Palestinian inhabitants.
The attack also underscored the conflict of interests between Hamas, which claims to represent the Palestinians, and global jihad organizations (as well as al-Qaeda), which consider both the Egyptian and Israeli armies as enemies of Islam.
The ease in which Israeli forces killed the terrorists once they breached the border with an armored vehicle they had seized during the attack on the Egyptian patrolmen led some Egyptians to claim that the assault was an Israeli conspiracy. They claimed on the Internet that Israel activates terror cells in Sinai to create a rift between Hamas and Egypt and tighten the siege on Gaza.
But Egypt is aware of the severity of the terror threat in Sinai and of the need for cooperation between the new government in Cairo and the army, as well as between Egypt and Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood movement, which condemned the attack, called on the Egyptian army to tighten its grip on Sinai.
However, the eradication of terror in Sinai will be possible only if the Israel-Egypt peace treaty is revised in such a way that would allow for the mobilization of forces from both sides of the border to fight the jihadists.
Dr. Yaron Friedman is a graduate of the Sorbonne. He teaches Arabic and lectures about Islam at the Technion, at Beit Hagefen and at the Galilee Academic College. His book, the Nusayri Alawis: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria, was published in 2010 by Brill-Leiden
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Egyptian helicopters join battle against renewed Islamist attack
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
August 8, 2012, 9:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian attack helicopters went into action Wednesday morning, Aug. 8, firing missiles to break up pitched battles between Salafi Bedouin gunmen and the three Egyptian positions and checkpoints they attacked overnight at Sheikh Zuwayed east of El Arish. witnesses report at least 20 Salafists killed and some Egyptian casualties among officers and men. Not just helicopters, but according to some reports Egyptian fighter jets also took off from El Arish airfield to beat back the Islamist offensive, the second in three days. It was the first time in the 39 years since the October 1973 Egyptian-Israeli Sinai war that Egyptian warplanes were deployed in the skies of the peninsula.
Sunday’s attack in which 17 Egyptian soldiers were killed and the Israeli border breached appears to have been the start of a general Sinai offensive by well-armed Salafi Bedouin gangs, adherents and followers of Al Qaeda. Northern Sinai has become their first battlefield.
Yet until now, DEBKAfile’s military and counter-terror sources report that the regular Egyptian army has not initiated an offensive campaign against the Salafi gunmen proliferating in the Sinai Peninsula. While opting for a defensive posture, the soldiers were forced to fight back when they were attacked early Wednesday.
The army has in fact decided to focus on establishing a buffer zone around El Arish to sterilize it against assault. It has carefully avoided going after the Islamist terrorists’ strongholds at Jebel El Halal and Al-Mahdia, deep in the central Sinai mountains. Both house small training facilities where Bedouin fighters were instructed in the “arts” of coordinated terror tactics which they employed Sunday against Egyptian and Israeli targets.
The Israel Defense Ministry’s political coordinator Amos Gilead defined Salafi Bedouins’ goal in a radio interview Wednesday as being “to drown the Israeli-Egyptian peace pact in rivers of blood” while dragging the entire Middle East into armed strife.
According to DEBKAfile’s sources, the Salafi gunmen who broke through to the Israeli side of the Sinai border Sunday in an armored truck packed with half a ton of explosives were not after an Israeli civilian location but the base of the IDF’s Bedouin Reconnaissance battalion nearby. They planned to repeat there the massacre they had just perpetrated at the Egyptian Mansoura base on the other side of the border.
Had they succeeded, the Salafist terrorists would have accomplished three strategic feats:
* The first simultaneous terrorist attack on two armies. It would have toppled the Egyptian and Israeli security deployments along their common border in Sinai;
* A mortal blow to the Bedouin unit, which is an important buttress of Israel’s combat array around the Gaza Strip;
* Bedouin would have triumphed against Bedouin, so sparking a vendetta between the tribes of Sinai and the Israel Negev.
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