Finish of the Jordan River Plain Barrier is connected to the War
January 5, 2014
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West Bank Barrier Fence/Wall Desperately Needs Completion
Jordan Valley Plain East of West Bank is the Most Vulnerable
Israel will never surrender the Jordan River Valley to the PA
It would hasten Success of a Military Invasion by ten Horns
Pushing rapidly South along the Length of the Jordan River
Horns will turn West at Jericho to Move toward Jerusalem!
If Israel does not finish the security wall/fence along the base of the foothills of the eastern West Bank before Obama leaves office, then the IDF will be attacked from the north, east, and west as Daniel’s horns charge south planning to conquer Jerusalem. This is going to happen even it Israel does not finish the long security barrier from Jericho to the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee, but the horns will be able to do it much quicker if the barrier isn’t completed,
Begin Excerpt from the Times of Israel
Amman said to back Israel demands on Jordan Valley
Amman expected to coordinate with its neighbor on convincing the US to accept long-term IDF presence, report says.
BY LAZAR BERMAN
December 5, 2013
Jordan has been pushing the United States to support Israel’s position that it needs to maintain a security presence in the Jordan Valley under any agreement with the Palestinians.
Israel is expected to coordinate with Amman to drive home the message this week to the Americans — especially Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in the region Thursday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials — that keeping the IDF on the Jordan River is crucial to regional stability, a Thursday report in the Israeli daily Maariv said.
Kerry landed in Israel Wednesday night and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday morning. According to US officials, Kerry brought with him a West Bank security plan that he intends to present in meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week.
Israel insists on having an IDF presence on the Israeli-Jordanian border, which gives the narrow country some strategic depth and early warning on its eastern border, and rejected an American proposal to place an international force there.
A senior Israeli official told Maariv that Netanyahu is determined to finish building a security fence along the border with Jordan, a move Amman sees as important to its own security as well. Israel is worried about the proliferation, through Jordan, of arms to a future Palestinian state, which Jerusalem has insisted remain demilitarized.
In a reference to his demands that Israel maintain a buffer zone in the Jordan Valley, Netanyahu said during a Knesset address in October that Israeli negotiators “will have to convince the Palestinians to adjust their demands to the circumstances around us.”
Israel must maintain a security presence in the Jordan Valley “precisely as Yitzhak Rabin insisted,” Netanyahu told the Knesset during a special session marking the 18th anniversary of the late prime minister’s assassination. “What was vital then is even more vital today, given the rise of Islamic extremism and Iran’s takeover of territory we relinquished in the [South Lebanon] security zone and Gaza.”
Israeli negotiators offered in October to transfer sovereignty of the Jordan Valley to the Palestinian Authority, which would in turn lease it back to Israel. Palestinian representatives rejected the idea out of hand.
Hours ahead of Kerry’s arrival Wednesday, former Palestinian negotiator Mohammed Ishtayeh said that wide gaps made a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians impossible. Ishtayeh, a senior aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who quit the Palestinian negotiating team a month ago over Israeli settlement construction, said he believed US mediation was “unbalanced” in favor of Israel.
While noting that he was expressing his personal views, Ishtayeh urged other world powers to join the talks as Kerry prepared to return to the region to try to salvage the troubled negotiations.
Under heavy US pressure, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians resumed in July after a three-year hiatus. Although they have continued out of the media spotlight, reports have mounted that the two sides have reached an impasse.
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
January 2, 2014
The Jordan Valley: Israel’s Eastern Security Border
Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Uzi Dayan
(Israel Hayom)
Borders are a main component of any framework deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and Secretary of State Kerry knows that Israel has a right to defensible borders. Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s letter of recognition in 2004 discussed America’s commitment to “secure, defensible borders, and to preserve and strengthen Israel’s capability to deter and defend itself, by itself, against any threat or possible combination of threats.” Israel is not weak, but it is small and narrow and therefore vulnerable: 70% of its population and 80% of its industrial manufacturing capabilities are concentrated along a narrow coastal plain controlled from the east by the hills of the West Bank.
In Jordan there are 1.2 million Syrian refugees. There are now also tens of thousands of global jihadist terrorists in the region. So Israel cannot ignore the possibility that an eastern front can emerge.
Israel must maintain an anti-terrorism buffer. We see what happened in Gaza and Lebanon after Israeli forces withdrew. Only an Israeli presence along the eastern side of the West Bank will facilitate the implementation of a demilitarized Palestinian entity.
The Jordan Valley provides Israel with the minimum vital strategic depth to allow the fight against terrorism to be effective. There is no technological system that can replace such a defensive buffer.
Moreover, Israel cannot trust foreign forces to protect Israelis, since they would be the first to retreat during a crisis. The entire Jordan Valley, under complete Israeli control, is Israel’s eastern security border.
All the West Bank Palestinian people will likely be surrounded by one long wall, while Israelis will live in a vast unwalled area named Israel, it will be an unwalled land that antichrist attacks.
Ezekiel 38:9 – Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
This describes the suddenness of the blitzkrieg attack of Gog the antichrist against Israel from the north. It compares the attack with the rapid development of a cumulonimbus cloud when it first comes quickly toward the observer as a rumbling thunderstorm, and then rapidly covers the land where he or she stands from horizon to horizon. This will be the manner the bands and many people supporting Gog will abruptly spread southward across Israel.
Ezekiel 38:10-12 – Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] And thou shalt say, I WILL GO UP TO THE LAND OF UNWALLED VILLAGES; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, ALL OF THEM DWELLING WITHOUT WALLS, AND HAVING NEITHER BARS NOR GATES, [12] To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
The exposition of the last phrase in Ezekiel 38:8, which is: “And they shall dwell safely all of them.” This phrase is directly tied to the “evil thought” that comes into the mind of the antichrist concerning the purpose of the false peace he has led them into by deceit. Verse 11, in the terminology of the people of Ezekiel’s day, painted a picture of people at peace with the other peoples around them. Believe it or not, in spite of what is currently going on around, and in, Israel, I believe that before 2018 you will see Israel lulled into a false sense of security by agreements with the Palestinians, Lebanon, and Syria. The arrangements, whether by voluntary free will choice, or by force, or by a little of both, will cause Israel to have truce security with all the nations that touch her borders, and terrorists that exist within her. But they will be agreements of deceit by Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinians. The Islamic leaders, and the leaders of the terrorist groups they support, are now becoming aware they can never defeat Israel by their present tactics, and that what is going on now, and what has been going on since 1948, can never accomplish their objective of driving Israel out of the choice northern part of her domain. In order for Israel to believe they have what every leader of Israel since 1967 has said they must have, that is, A TRUCE WITH SECURITY, TRUCE WITH SAFETY, the terrorist groups must temporarily cease their activities for a reasonable period of time, so that a well coordinated plan of blitzkrieg attack can be formulated between Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and the terrorist groups behind closed doors.
Verse eleven describes Gog’s evil plan to attack a nation he has deceived with a false truce agreement. Verse 12 tells us he will break or betray the agreement (“turn thine hand”), and that he will take the spoils of war from the nation of Israel. The “spoils” are identified in terms the readers of Ezekiel’s day would understand (“cattle and goods”), but to us they are to mean all the national wealth and high tech resources of modern Israel. I firmly believe that in spite of what appears to be a state of never ending conflict between Israel and the other descendants of Abraham in and around her, soon a false truce will come to exist between them. And it will be followed by an attack against Israel, a nation in unbelief, as a sudden blitzkrieg from the north.
Israel does not live inside the long security wall they have built, the Palestinians do. Think of the significance of this! This security wall, hundreds of miles in length, is a wall around two gigantic enclosing all the Fatah villages in central Israel, and all the Hamas villages in southwestern Israel, while the Israelis live outside the wall, having no walls surrounding their individual towns.
So the Israelis live without the wall, making all their villages to meet the Scripture requirement of being “unwalled” villages.
When Israel is driven into the Negev, God will finally get her attention drawn to her true Messiah.
Begin 2 Archive Blogs from 2009 and 2008
Security Barrier Wall Construction at a Standstill!
Attack on Dimona May Revive Renewed Effort to Finish It.
No Question of Need for Barriers, but Not Enough Funds Available.
February 6, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Palestinian law suits and Environment group protests in Israel’s courts have been used as excuses by the government to slow construction on the national security barrier wall. The government was delighted to do this because they had run out of money to complete a fence that should have been finished two years ago. Additionally, the number of suicide bombings in Israel had dropped drastically as a result of what barrier wall had been completed, and the issue was put on a back burner in the minds of the Israeli public. However, the Dimona Suicide bomber attack was the first in more than a year, and should at least cause a short burst of building activity.
Once the security wall/fence/barrier is finally completed, Palestinians will be living inside two walled cities, while Israelis will exist outside it in a land of unwalled villages.
Daniel 11:40-41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [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.
Ezekiel 38:8-11 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. [10] Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Begin YNet News Article
We need a fence
Dimona attack reminder that security fence not complete yet
Alex Fishman and Roni Shaked
February 5, 2008
Even terror groups were confused yesterday. So many terrorists crossed from Gaza into the Sinai and are all over the place that their masters don’t even know who is out there and where.
The Fatah in Gaza, for example, rushed to claim responsibility for the terror attack in Dimona and published the photos of two terrorists who crossed into the Sinai in order to carry out an attack in Israel. However, according to Hamas sources the bombing in Dimona originated from the opposite direction and was carried out by a Hamas cell in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Palestinian sources in Hebron reported that the suicide bomber’s mother said that he left the house early in the morning and she didn’t hear from him or see him since. Palestinian security forces also launched an investigation and a search yesterday, and sources said they did not know who the second would-be bomber was.
If Hamas’ claim that the bombing came out of Hebron is indeed correct, this is yet another proof that we must not rest on our laurels in Judea and Samaria and we must not wait for the Palestinian Authority to handle security problems. Hamas is alive and kicking in the West Bank as well, and the Shin Bet and IDF must cut it down on a daily basis.
Monday’s terror attack is also a reminder, to those who forgot already, that the security fence south of Hebron – which was supposed to be completed two years ago – only exists on paper. The road leading from the Mount Hebron area to the southern Negev desert is completely breached.
No money for project
It turns out that an interesting coalition has been formed by the Greens, who aim to safeguard some kind of a desert ant, and the settlers, who display a political, almost genetic objection to the fence. This coalition has paralyzed the continued construction of the fence.
The government is actually quite satisfied with the paralysis because it has no money to complete the project. The conclusion: Negev residents must take into account the possibility that because of this madness once in a while they will experience infiltration from the southern Mount Hebron area to one of their communities without an advance warning. Then, either we will be lucky, or we won’t be lucky.
Besides that, in order to guarantee that there is no fence there, the arguments around here will start: Which fence should be built first, the security fence south of Hebron or the border fence between Israel and Egypt? Both of them are old, neglected, and well known vulnerabilities in Israel’s soft belly.
Our own familiarity with ourselves makes us think that a fence will not be built either here or there. In a day or two, the terror attack in Dimona will be forgotten, and we will continue to hear pompous speeches and firm decisions regarding the need for a fence – until the next attack comes around.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Dichter: So Many Fences, So Little Time
30 Shevat 5768, 06 February 08 12:13
by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Tuesday that Israel needs to choose between the different fences that it wants to build to protect itself from Arab terrorists, because they can’t all be built at once.
Dichter, who visited the southern town of Dimona following the suicide attack there Monday, was asked when the fence separating the Hevron area from the Beersheva area would be completed. “This is an old dilemma,” he said. “In the end there will be a fence, but we need to decide first if we seal off the openings in the Hevron area, or complete the fence around greater Jerusalem, or build a fence on the border with Egypt.”
“The dilemmas are difficult, and the state of Israel cannot do everything at the same time,” Dichter explained.
Dichter also commended policeman Supt. Kobi Mor, who shot and killed the second suicide terrorist in the Dimona attack before he could detonate his explosive vest. Mor’s action was documented on video by a local wedding video photographer.
Israeli TV reports Tuesday showed stretches of the area between southern Judea and the Negev desert where there is no security fence, and where Arabs can cross into southern Israel with ease. The infiltration is usually carried out with the complicity of Israeli Arabs, who wait for the infiltrators in their cars, checking all the while that “the coast is clear” and security forces are not watching them. The Israeli drivers transport the infiltrators into Israel, for a fee.
Construction of the security fence around PA-controlled areas began in 2002 and hit a major hitch in 30 June 2004, after Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that a “better balance between security and humanitarian considerations” needed to be struck. This decision was followed by “an intensive reassessment of the route,” according to the Ministry of Defense’s website. Two pairs of terrorists
It was not clear until Tuesday where the suicide terrorists that struck Dimona had come from. Initial reports said the two had infiltrated from Gaza. A video showing two suicide terrorists who had indeed tried to infiltrate Israel was disseminated by terrorists in Gaza and several groups, including Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack. Other reports said the terroists came from Hevron.
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