Islamist Groups Still Increasing Across The Ancient Umayyad Caliphate!
Pre-election Rhetoric of Obama victory over Terrorism is being Exposed
Islamist Terror Groups Are Growing from Algeria to the Fertile Crescent.
Post WW-1 Maneuvering for Control of the Middle East Fertile Crescent
Is fantasy world of Foreign Policy intrigue and cover-up US Acceptance,
Which shall continue Until a Final Armageddon Battle At His 2nd Advent
Lord’s 2nd Advent Ends The Gentile Age and Starts His Millennial Reign!
Israel shall occupy most of Fertile Crescent After The Tribulation Period,
Which was promised to Abraham in God’s covenant in Genesis15:18-21
Excerpt from the UK Telegraph
January 17, 2013
Algeria hostage crisis: latest
Britain says it was not informed in advance of the military intervention in Algeria in which multiple hostages have been killed.
• 34 hostages, 15 kidnappers killed by Algerian airstrike – reports
• Four hostages, including two Brits allegedly freed by Algeria army
• Britain not informed of raid before it began
• Crisis the ‘price we pay for supporting French Mali mission’
• David Cameron postpones speech on Europe to focus on crisis
19.40 HIllary Clinton, who is back to work after her blood clot scare, says that the situation in Algeria is still too fluid to comment on the hostage taking.
19.38 According to Richard, who again is citing obscure Middle Eastern reports, among the militants killed were an up-and-coming Mauritanian jihadi leader, 18-year-old “Zarqawi al-Mauritani” (which might just mean the Mauritanian Zarqawi, after the late leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq), and the leader of the “Sons of the South for Islamic Justice”, Taher Amir (Lord Taher), who was in his 50s.
19.30 Richard Spencer, our Middle East Corresopndent, meanwhile says that the seizure of the gas complex by the desert jihadis could not have been more embarrassing for the famously tough Algerian armed forces.
The country was supposed to have had the Islamists beaten, after a war which cost 100,000 lives in the 1990s civil war. Only last Saturday, the Algerian, Libyan and Tunisian prime ministers issued a joint pledge to enhance security on their borders.
Yet, over a territory without cover, the attackers managed to creep up on and surprise hundreds of local and foreign staff.
Algeria relies on its oil and gas reserves to maintain its economy, and relies on foreign companies to keep them pumping.
A determination to hit back hard and fast, irrespective of the consequences, may have been the result. Analysts say the army, known for brutality in the war but not for recklessness since, normally refrains from “all guns blazing” operations.
19.28 Ed Butler, Executive Chairman of Salamanca Risk Management, who served 24 years in the British Army, where he spent the majority of his time with UK Special Forces, tells The Telegraph that this particular operation will have been hugely challenging.
The facility may have been booby trapped, the terrorists have been operating in the area for 20 years and there were a large number of local and expatriate hostages.
The decision to use force, taken and implemented so fast, would almost certainly be handled in a very different way by a European power where such situations are thankfully rare. Political priorities militate against an assault – unless all alternative strategies have been exhausted. In contrast, Algeria’s lengthy conflict against extremists has produced a more hard-nosed approach.
Algeria never allows foreign forces to operate within in its borders and their troops and planners face a very demanding mission – there are many hostages both local and expatriate, and the group behind the attack has been operating in the region for 20 years.
End UK Telegraph Excerpt
THE PROMISE TO ABRAM
Genesis 15:18-21 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: [19] The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, [20] And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, [21] And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
THE FULFILLMENT OF IT AFTER ARMAGEDDON
SEE ARCHIVE WHOLE NUMBERED PROPHECY UPDATES 62 TO 69
Micah 5:4-9 – And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. [5] And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. [7] And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. [8] And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. [9] Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
January ??, 2013
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa. The term was first used by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted. Having originated in the study of ancient history, the concept soon developed and today retains meanings in international geopolitics and diplomatic relations.
In current usage the Fertile Crescent has a minimum extent and a maximum extent. All definitions include Mesopotamia, the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The major nation in this region is Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia), with small portions of Iran near the Persian Gulf, Kuwait to the south and Turkey in the north. More typically the Fertile Crescent includes also the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea, with Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and the West Bank. Water sources include the Jordan River.
At maximum extent, the Fertile Crescent also may include Egypt and the Nile Valley and Delta within it. The inner boundary is delimited by the dry climate of the Syrian Desert to the south. Around the outer boundary are the arid and semi-arid lands of the Caucasus to the North, the Anatolian highlands to the west, and the Sahara Desert to the west.
The region is often called the cradle of civilization; it saw the development of many of the earliest human civilizations. Some of its technological inventions (but not necessarily first or uniquely) are writing, glass, and the wheel. The earliest known western civilizations manifestly arose and flourished using the water supplies and agricultural resources available in the Fertile Crescent. They were not necessarily the first or the only source of civilization, as Breasted believed. Moreover, plants and animals were not domesticated there but in the surrounding nuclear area, where the original plant species still grow wild.
Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
January 16, 2013
Excerpt 1 – Politico
White House Won’t Confirm or Deny Quotes Attributed to President
Donovan Slack
(Politico)
The White House is not denying a report that President Obama repeatedly said that “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.”
The comment, reported by columnist Jeffrey Goldberg on Monday, came after the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced it would advance plans for settlements in the West Bank following recognition by the UN in November of the Palestinan Authority as an observer “state.”
Excerpt 2 – New York Times
President Morsi’s Repulsive Comments
Editorial
New York Times
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s scurrilous comments from nearly three years ago about Zionists and Jews, which just came to light, have raised serious doubts about whether he can ever be the force for moderation and stability that is needed. That kind of pure bigotry is unacceptable anywhere, anytime. But it is even more offensive in public discourse, coming from someone who became the president of a major country.
The sad truth is that defaming Jews is an all too standard feature of Egyptian, and Arab, discourse. Teaching children to hate and dehumanizing one’s adversaries is just the kind of twisted mentality that fuels the conflicts that torment the region. (New York Times)
Excerpt 3 – Commentary
Egypt’s U.S.-Subsidized Politics of Hate
Jonathan S. Tobin
Commentary
Better late than never is the only way one can describe the New York Times’ decision to run an article about Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s history of anti-Semitic slanders. The problem is that Morsi’s use of a phrase that is commonly employed throughout the Muslim world to describe Jews as well as other comments that are straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is so common in Egypt as to make it almost unexceptionable. That is in no small measure the result of Brotherhood propaganda and mainstream Islamist thought in which demonization of Israelis, Jews, and Americans is commonplace.
While some might paint the Brotherhood as a responsible political movement, Jew-hatred is one of its core beliefs. The question is not so much whether Morsi will publicly disavow these slurs but whether the Obama administration will continue to buy into the myth that Morsi is some kind of a moderate whose government deserves to continue to be treated as an ally.
Morsi’s talk about “apes and pigs” is not a side issue to be ignored in the name of stability. It goes straight to the heart of whether Egypt should be treated as a nation ruled by a radical and hostile government that is confident that nothing it does will cause it to lose its American subsidy. (Commentary)
Excerpt 4 – Atlantic
Obama, Israelis, and Palestinians: More Words, Less Action
David Makovsky and David Pollock
Atlantic
In addressing the seemingly endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the second Obama administration enjoys the ironic advantage of exceedingly low expectations. The entire issue will probably have lower priority as compared with Obama’s first term. Other, more urgent Mideast crises in Syria, Iran, Egypt and elsewhere, and the president’s own perception of a pressing need for more “nation-building at home,” make Palestinians and Israelis pale by comparison.
Objecting to new Israeli construction in the West Bank is at best only half a strategy. To promote Israeli-Palestinian peace, the U.S. needs to pay at least as much attention to hate speech as to housing starts. The writers are fellows at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. (Atlantic)
Excerpt 5 – Wall Street Journal
The Struggle for the Fertile Crescent
Fouad Ajami
(Wall Street Journal)
A struggle rages for a large swath of the Fertile Crescent, perhaps the most serious challenge to the borders of that slice of the Arab world since the European map makers stood up the states of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon in the aftermath of World War I.
During the Iraq War, the Alawite rulers in Damascus aided and abetted Sunni jihadists keen to do battle against the Americans and their Shiite supporters. With Syria ablaze, those jihadists, who see a chance to throw off the Alawite yoke, now war against Assad.
If the people in the Fertile Crescent had expected help and deliverance from the pre-eminent liberal power in the world, they now know better.
The writer is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.
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