Israel is ready for Missile Launches from Syria and Iran!
February 12, 2007
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This is a very important development, in that it takes away from the advantage of a first strike capacity by Iran and Syria. I have included three accounts of the tests from the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, and the DEBKAfile reports of it, in order to give the capabilities of the arrow defensive missile interceptor.
The coming war between the Islamic forces of antichrist and Israel will be a war of conventional high tech weaponry, where neither side will launch weapons of mass destruction on the other. The Islamic forces advantage against Israel will be its sheer weight of numbers of troops – not nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. They would be foolish to give up this advantage by waging a WMD war they had no chance of winning.
When Israel flees into the Negev Wilderness, the Islamic army will stop at Beersheba, the gateway to the Negev, because it is the best camouflaged, most heavily fortified, zone on the face of the earth. This will leave Israel in the Negev with its nuclear capabilities intact for some three and one-half years, which will be the deterrent that keeps Islam’s forces at bay during that period until the final battle of Armageddon.
Please consider the following quote from our Archive Prophecy Update Number 6, issued six years ago in January, 2001.
All the ingredients for the final war of this age of the Gentiles are finally in place.
Begin Quote of 2001 Archive Update
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
In Revelation 12:6 we find this flight described in graphic detail: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” Prophetic years in scripture are based on a year of 360 days, hence this represents a period of three and one-half years. So Israel will be kept trapped in the Negev wilderness for the last 3 and ½ years of the tribulation period.
Israel has spent billions and billions of dollars preparing the Negev for the possibility of such an evacuation of her population in the in the event of a sudden attack from the north.
The Negev has been the central focus of her war contingency plan from the beginning. Her God put this thinking in the minds of her political and military leaders in the late forties, and active preparation of the area began in the early fifties. Today, the Negev is the most cleverly camouflaged zone on the surface of the earth, and unless sky satellites had watched it being prepared, one would not suspect that numerous military installations were implanted in it. Even knowing where certain defense mechanisms were originally placed, it is now extremely difficult to spot them, even driving by them at ground level.
Thousands of tourists pass through the Negev and admire the beauty of her terrain from her roads, but her military capabilities are cleverly camouflaged on the surface, hidden beneath her, and concealed inside her mountains.
Active preparation of the Negev began in the early fifties.
After the Six Day War of June, 1967, Israel poured her finances and efforts into the creation of a hidden fortress in the Negev wilderness. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was followed by Israel quadrupling her military forces by 1980, and the bulk of this increase was placed in the vast Sinai. The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt led to the evacuation of this increase in men and equipment from the Sinai into the much smaller Negev. This turned the already heavily fortified Negev into an impenetrable fortress.
By 1983 the Sinai IDF and equipment had been withdrawn into the Negev. The IDF packed up about 80 thousand tons of military equipment, same 3800 military vehicles, and 3 airfields, and moved it into the Negev. The Negev is about 20 percent the size of the Sinai. By 1988 about 40 new military camps had been set up in the Negev. By 1990 the Negev had been topographically transformed, at a fantastic expense, into an area no enemy would dare to attempt to penetrate.
When Syria, assisted by troops from Iraq and Iran, secretly and very slowly smuggled in across her southern and western borders, attacks Israel from the north, then Israel will get to use her Negev wilderness for about 3 and ½ years. These three nations, because of the sharing of satellite information received from the Russians about the Negev, know all about the military strength there and, because of this, will stop their southward push into Israel just north of Beersheva.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will be able to hold the Negev, and the woman Israel will stay there for the last 3 and ½ years of the tribulation period.
End Quote of 2001 Archive Update
Begin Jerusalem Post Extract
First nighttime Arrow missile defense test successful
Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 11, 2007
In the face of Iran’s efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, the Israel Air Force successfully conducted its 15th test of the Arrow missile defense system Sunday night, which officials said was capable of intercepting an Iranian nuclear missile.
Defense officials explained that the test, which was conducted for the first time at night and was held less than two weeks after Syria tested an advanced model of its Scud missile, was unique since it was conducted under extreme circumstances and was meant to “meet future threats to the State of Israel.”
Begin Haaretz Article Extract
Steinitz: Arrow test gives Israel advantage over Syria, Iran
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies
February 12, 2007
Israel’s latest test of its Arrow missile defense system
proves Israel has a jump on its fiercest enemies, Iran and Syria, a senior lawmaker on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said Monday.
Israel successfully tested the Arrow anti-missile system Sunday night, in its first nighttime trial, intercepting a test target that simulated the warhead of a long-range Iranian surface-to-surface Shihab-3 missile.
“The test yesterday was exceptional,” said MK Yuval Steinitz, a former head of the committee.
“It proved it can bring down any kind of ballistic missile, a capability no power in the world possesses.”
He said that, “Even if Iran or Syria were to develop more sophisticated missiles than they now have, Israel is one step ahead.”
Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Fattal, a senior official in the Defense Ministry department responsible for
the project, said Sunday that the successful test firing of the Arrow missile shows
that Israel can now defend itself against an Iranian nuclear missile threat.
“The test proves that Israel is prepared to deal with a missile attack from Iran, including a nuclear one,” Fattal told Army Radio.
“The missile is capable of dealing with future Syrian and Iranian threats as we see them, as of now. I believe that the citizens of Israel can sleep peacefully.”
Begin DEBKAfile Extract
Israel successfully tests two Arrow anti-missile missiles – one serving as a decoy Sunday night
February 12, 2007, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The two Arrow missile radar systems homed in on a mock target dropped by the Israeli Air Force. DEBKAfile’s military sources add: Israeli military planners are working on the unproven assumption that Iran has developed a multiple warhead for its Shehab-3 medium-range missile, which can reach Israel.
This is claimed by Tehran but has not been demonstrated. The Israeli test after dark Sunday, Feb. 11, was designed to test the ability of the US-Israeli Arrow missile and its radar to beat an attack by a multiple warhead missile – whether conventional or nuclear – by firing two missiles simultaneously – one as a decoy to confuse the incoming Iranian missile. This test elevates the electronic warfare race between Israel and Iran to a new level. Until recently, Israel was generally considered unchallenged in its electronic warfare capabilities.
In the next stage, Iran is will be seeking a way around the method Israel tested Sunday night.
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