A HUGE MAZE OF SPECULATIVE MEDIA ARTICLES ON SYRIA
ARE MOVING ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST ON ITS FUTURE
THESE BLOG EXCERPTS ARE THE LEAST SPECULATIVE
AMONG CONFLICTING REPORTS ON THE CIVIL WAR
January 3, 2012
http://www.tribulatrionperiod.com/
In our Blog issued on December 30 we listed the many different types of fighting groups now engaged in the Syrian Civil War. So it is only natural there is so much speculation in the reports and assessments of the war flowing out of so many different media sources.
The differences in Muslim theology since the fall of the great Umayyad Caliphate, which was larger than any of first four Empires of Daniel, has grown drastically between Sunni and Shiites, as well as among the smaller Islamic splinter breakaways from Sunni-Shiite factions. I believe they will spend the majority of their time during the rest of President Obama’s term building up defenses against each other, after which time the strongman Antichrist from Greater Syria will unite 10 Islamic Nations to attack Israel.
Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
3 Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
January 2, 2012
Excerpt 1 – AP-Washington Post
Clashes Shut Down Aleppo Airport in Syria
Clashes between government troops and rebels on Tuesday forced the international airport in Aleppo to stop all flights in and out of Syria’s largest city, while fierce battles also raged in the suburbs of the capital Damascus. Rebels have warned that they would target civilian as well as military planes using Aleppo airport, saying the regime is using civilian planes to bring in supplies and weapons.
There was heavy fighting in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, which is near the strategic military air base of Mazzeh. Syrian warplanes bombed Daraya on Tuesday. Daraya is also on the edge of the Kfar Sousseh neighborhood that is home to the government headquarters, the General Security intelligence agency head office and the Interior Ministry. (AP-Washington Post)
Excerpt 2 – Washington Post
Syria Isn’t America’s Fault
Aaron David Miller
The idea that Syria was anyone’s to win or lose, or that the U.S. could significantly shape the outcome there, is typical of the arrogant paternalism and flawed analysis that have gotten this country into heaps of trouble in the Middle East over the years. Since this conflict began in early 2011, all of the military options for intervention have been heavily skewed toward risk rather than reward. The Assad regime had firepower, allies (Russia and China blocking actions in the UN Security Council; Iran supplying money and weapons), determination to do whatever it took to survive, and succeeded in keeping much of the Alawite military, security and intelligence forces intact.
To blame this crisis on Washington is to fail to understand the cruel nature of the Syrian tragedy and the limits of U.S. power and our national priorities. The U.S. is coming out of the two longest wars in its history, in which the standard for victory was never “can we win?” but “when can we leave?” The writer is vice president for current initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (Washington Post)
Excerpt 3 – Der Spiegel-Germany
Gaining a Clearer View of the Syrian Civil War
Christoph Reuter
By late autumn 2012, tens of thousands of rebels were fighting against the Assad regime, but they didn’t match the cliched image of the fearless super-terrorist, heavily bearded and always ready for action. Likewise, the 200 to 300 Libyans who were in northern Syria in September came not to establish an Islamic state, but to topple their next dictator. There are also dozens of Iraqi Sunnis fighting on the rebels’ side, for example around the city of Deir el-Zour near the Iraqi border, and they are the ones most likely to have connections to al-Qaeda’s former Iraqi presence.
Two groups identifying themselves as fundamentalists have also cropped up in Aleppo: “Ahrar al-Sham,” which translates as “Free Men of Syria,” and the “Al-Nusra Front.” Both groups work together with the FSA, but operate outside its command structure. The two groups each include around 50 foreigners in their ranks – Dagestanis, Tajiks, Pakistanis, Tunisians, Libyans, Iraqis, Yemenis, Saudis, Turks – most of whom met in Egypt at a year-long program for Islamic preachers.
What these foreigners in Aleppo have in common, says one member of the Ahrar al-Sham brigade, is less a hatred of Assad than a conviction that they must fight against all Shiites, whom they consider traitors to Sunni Islam. “When this is over,” the man says, “they want to continue on and fight against Hizbullah.” (Der Spiegel-Germany)
This Excerpt from MEMRI is Typical of most Islamist group’s Theology
Middle East Media Research Institute
January 2, 2013
Clip No. 3698
November 16, 2012
When the Mahdi Comes, “Not a Single Jew Will Be Left on the Face of the Earth”
Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Mahmoud Al-Masri, which aired on Al-Nas TV on November 16, 2012
Mahmoud Al-Masri: We must all make an effort for the sake of our country, because if Egypt rises and the Syrian revolution prevails – I swear that this will be the end of Israel, Allah willing.
The Zionist entity has become nervous about us for a simple reason: They cannot forget the utter defeat they suffered in the 1973 war. If some of the superpowers had not intervened to stop that war – if President Sadat had been allowed to continue – it would have been the end of Israel. They stopped the war, but if it had continued, Israel would have been finished off. It would have been erased from the face of the Earth. But Allah decreed otherwise.
Allah willing, Israel will be annihilated, because the Prophet Muhammad said so. Don’t believe it because I said so. Believe it because I say that the Prophet Muhammad said so: “Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.”
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The final annihilation [of the Jews] will come at the time of the Mahdi, or shortly before the Mahdi appears. Then the Muslims will regain the Al-Aqsa Mosque, if they do not manage to spread Islam throughout the land.
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A small group of Jews will remain, but not the Jews living in Palestine. A group of Jews from Isfahan will survive, and they will follow the Anti-Christ, but eventually, they will also be killed, along with the Anti-Christ.
Ultimately, not a single Jew will be left on the face of the Earth. Victory is coming, Allah willing.
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