Backsliding Against Israel Expands

Because the military and ideological threat to Israel looms so largely each day, it is easy to miss other, just as important signs that the Middle East is heading for war.

What am I referring to? Specifically?

The financial world is keeping Israel at arm's length. NOT because her economy is on the brink, as is our, but because of the geopolitical turmoil that surrounds her.

It seems even those whose sole reason for being is making money are even abandoning Israel, even though the Jews have discovered one of the largest natural gas deposits in history, right off the coast of Haifa. One would think a financial conglomerate would want to get its hands into that pie. This, however is not the case, which leads me to believe the prophecies I continually mention in this blog are in full swing toward fulfillment.

From the Jerusalem Post

Citigroup: Israel a risky bet
By SHARON WROBEL
07/29/2010 0


Israel's economy is strong, but geopolitical risk is concerning.
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Geopolitical risk, especially increased tensions with Iran, could scare off investors interested in Israeli companies, Citigroup Inc. said in a report released Wednesday.

“Underlying economic fundamentals are strong in Israel, especially relative to other developed markets, but we are concerned by the geopolitical risk,” Citigroup analyst Michael Klahr was quoted as saying in the report titled Assessing Geopolitical Risk and the Investment Case for Israel. “There exists significant geopolitical risk due to an adversarial relationship with the Palestinians, Hizbullah (in Lebanon) and perhaps more worryingly with Iran.”

Citigroup cited the “ongoing conflict with the Palestinians that at times has taken a military turn, most recently in the Gaza offensive in late 2008, and there are the increasing tensions with Iran that have risen markedly since President Ahmadinejad came to office in 2005.”

Ongoing military conflict over the past 18 years has not impeded Israel’s economic growth a great deal, the report said.

The economy grew at an annual rate of 4.2 percent from 1980-2009 and maintained high fiscal credibility and low sovereign risk, it said.

Real GDP growth in Israel since 1960 has averaged 5.5% annually, well ahead of the global GDP rate of 3.5%.

“Non-existential geopolitical risk relates to the conflict with the Palestinians and with Hizbullah (and the PLO before them) in Lebanon, and in our view, does not constitute a threat to Israel’s existence,” Klahr said. “Existential geopolitical risk, such as the 1967 wars with Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and more recently, the threat of conflict with Iran, in our view, were, and could be, a threat to the country’s existence.”

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Obama upgrade of Palestinian delegation means US is not serious about direct talks
Posted by Israel Insider on July 26, 2010

Late last week the Obama Administration upgraded the diplomatic status of the PLO mission in Washington. From now on, the PLO will be allowed to fly its flag like a regular embassy, and its representatives will enjoy diplomatic immunity just like diplomats from other nations. PLO delegate in Washington, Maen Areikat, claimed that the PLO’s diplomatic status in the US is now equivalent to that of Canada and Western Europe states.

While this step does not constitute US recognition of a Palestinian state in the absence of a peace treaty between the Palestinians and Israel, it signals that this is the direction the US is heading, unilaterally, and before PA leader Mahmoud Abbas has delivered the goods in terms of responding to American demands for direct talks with Israel. When asked to comment on the move, White House spokesman Thomas Vietor said, “This decision reflects our confidence that through direct negotiations, we can help achieve a two-state solution with an independent and viable Palestine living side by side with Israel. We should begin preparing for that outcome now, as we continue to work with the Palestinian people on behalf of a better future.”

Indeed, Abbas is making his demands even more unreasonable . In addition to his demand that Israel agree ahead of time to withdraw to the 1949 "Auschwitz lines," he is demanding that it also agree to withdraw all of its forces to those lines and accept the deployment of foreign forces along its borders with the Palestinian state. A pragmatic US administration upon hearing these demands would recognize that there is no chance that the Palestinians will agree to any reasonable offer of a peace treaty in the foreseeable future.

Columnist Caroline Glick suggests that the move makes sense "only if the US is secretly preparing to help the Palestinians avoid negotiations and obtain a state that is not established in the framework of a peace treaty." She notes that "there is no Palestinian leader – not the US favorites Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad and not their competitors in Hamas – who accepts the legitimacy of the Jewish state. And so any state formed outside the framework of a peace treaty will be in a de facto state of war with Israel. Indeed, its legitimacy with the Palestinian people and other Arabs will be defined by its commitment to the eventual destruction of the Jewish state. And now, by upgrading the PLO’s mission, the Obama administration is actively encouraging just such an outcome."

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Ditch Digging

CUTE!

I would submit that it is far worse to irrate the Creator of the Universe by opposing his longest, and most steadfast covenant! The course that has been laid out by our leadership in the White House will leading to a deep ditch being dug around our nation.

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Right Action....Wrong Motive

Ex-CIA chief Hayden: Military action against Iran "seems inexorable"

DEBKAfile Special Report July 25, 2010

Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden said Sunday, July 25, that during his tenure (under President George W. Bush), a strike was "way down the list" of options. But now it "seems inexorable" because no matter what the US does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Talking to CNN's State of the Union, Gen. Hayden predicted Iran would build its program to the point where it's just below having an actual weapon. In his view, "That would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing."

debkafile's sources take this as affirmation that neither Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf states nor Israel will be willing to live on constant edge with an Iran which can build nuclear bombs or warheads whenever it likes. They note that Hayden has added his voice to a growing number of leading American figures and publications which have indicated in the past fortnight that the military option against Iran has climbed the top of President Barack Obama's list of priorities.

According to our Washington sources, the US president switched course after hearing Saudi King Abdullah assert explicitly: "We cannot live with a nuclear Iran."

Abdullah added he no longer believes diplomacy or sanctions will have any effect and made it clear that if the Americans continued to back away from direct action to terminate Iran's advance on a nuclear bomb, the Saudi and its allies would go their own way on the nuclear issue.

Today, therefore, the White House is no longer willing to countenance Iran's nuclear development advancing up to the threshold of a weapons capacity and stopping there. And since Tehran will never cede its prerogative to determine every stage of its nuclear program without outside interference, the only option remaining to the United States is military.

debkafile's Washington sources add that the White House was finally brought to the point of seriously considering military action against Iran, as Gen. Hayden noted - not as a result of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's efforts at persuasion - which failed, but because of the Saudi ruler's ultimatum.

The Middle East can therefore expect far-reaching military shifts and redeployments in the coming weeks -but Israel is not likely to gain any kudos for this new development because it has lost considerable traction under the incumbent government.

Once again, it is not Israel's interest that is in the forefront of Obama's decisions....it is the Muslim World, in this case, the SAUDIS. We talk about the Genesis 12 blessing/curse for those who either side with Israel, or turn against her. Even if the president attempts to solve the Iranian nuclear problem by military force, it will not be with the intent of blessing Israel....it will be for OIL and ISLAM! This nullifies the Abrahamic blessing and pushes the USA further into the column of the Abrahamic curse. In the end, if the US acts, Israel will still be blamed by the radical jihadists. Bank on it!

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Alarm!

This alarming story comes on the heels of the return of Shahram Amiri, an intelligence source used heavily by Israel and the US to ascertain the progress of Iran and its nuclear program.

It appears that Amiri was a plant...used to feed faulty information to Iran's enemies. His information was swallowed hook, line, and sinker. Now, a revised assessment says

Israel and US now fear Iran May Test Nuclear Bomb this Year
Posted by Israel Insider on July 20, 2010

Shahram Amiri's voluntary repatriation to Iran and a second close look at the nuclear data he passed to the CIA are raising grave doubts about its value, debkafile's intelligence sources report.

There is mounting suspicion in Washington and Jerusalem that Tehran employed the scientist to strew red herrings in their path, namely, out-of-date material for concealing and misdirecting their attention from the rapid progress taking place secretly in Iran's nuclear program.

A high-ranking intelligence source in Washington remarked Monday, July 19, that he would not be surprised "if we woke up one morning to find the Iranians had conducted an underground nuclear test." This was not to say Iran had a bomb or nuclear warhead ready packed for delivery, he said, "Only that it was a lot closer to this option than the Americans and Israelis had been led to believe."

How long will Israel sit on its own potent military capabilities? hmm

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The Turkey Twist

As I mentioned in yesterday's post (July 23, 2010), Turkey has made the full swing towards radical, anti-Israeli Islam and the leadership in Israel doesn't want to admit it.

Carolyn Glick of the Jerusalem Post had these words;

Change has come to the Middle East. Over the past several weeks, multiple press reports indicate that Turkey is collaborating militarily with Syria in a campaign against the Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey.

Turkey is a member of NATO. It fields the Western world’s top weapons systems. Syria is Iran’s junior partner. It is a state sponsor of multiple terrorist organizations and a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction.

Last September, as Turkey’s Islamist government escalated its anti-Israel rhetoric, Ankara and Damascus signed a slew of economic and diplomatic agreements. As Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu made clear at the time, Turkey was using those agreements as a way to forge close alliances not only with Syria, but with Iran.

“We may establish similar mechanisms with Iran and other mechanisms. We want our relationship with our neighbors to turn into maximum cooperation via the principle of zero problems,” Davutoglu proclaimed.

And now those agreements have reportedly paved the way to military cooperation. Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited Istanbul twice in the past month and then two weeks ago, on the Kurdish New Year, Syrian forces launched an operation against Kurdish population centers throughout the country. On Wednesday, Al-Arabiya reported that hundreds of Kurds have been killed in recent weeks

It gets worse.... From Worldtribune.com

Turkey Moving Rapidly to Develop Nuclear Weapons

Very senior sources in Israel, Russia, and the U.S. have privately expressed concern that Turkey is proceeding with its nuclear weapons program, and that Turkey has obtained a significant knowledge of nuclear weapons technology, protocols, and operational doctrine from its association with NATO and Israel. Moreover, officials in Israel, Russia, and the U.S. are fully aware that neither the Turkish Government nor the Turkish military pays any attention to confidentiality clauses, end user certificates, or use strictures on weapons, intelligence, or defense systems made available to Turkey by its allies. One Israeli official told GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs:
"We are all fully aware that when the Turkish Armed Forces invaded Cyprus in 1974 they did so using U.S. military equipment in defiance of the use strictures placed on that equipment when it was provided by the U.S. to Turkey. Today, Turkey is in open violation of all of its agreements with the U.S. and Israel with regard to the U.S. and Israeli military systems which are the backbone of the Turkish Armed Forces now occupying Northern Cyprus." This was the first disclosure that Israeli military equipment was being used by the Turkish military in Cyprus, and that this was a violation of understandings between Turkey and Israel when the equipment was supplied.

Again, the signs are present that the Magog coalition is solidifying, at least in direction. Iran and Russia are currently having a spat over President Medvedev's agreement to withhold delivery of the S-300 Anti-missile/aircraft system to Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is royally ticked and accusing Russia of collusion with the evil West. Amazing!

With Syria becoming more aggressive by the day, Israel will soon be forced to deal with them, as well as admitting that Turkey as twisted out of its alliance with the Jews.

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Not So Subtle Evidence of Magog Coalition

More evidence surfaces that Israel has not quite accepted the fact that a long time ally, Turkey, is in a full-swing mode toward radical Islam. This was the last piece of the Gog/Magog coalition that was expected to fall into place in the Ezekiel 38 and 39 puzzle. I began challenging people to watch Turkey since it elected a pro-radical president in 2006. The change came slowly, but has picked up enough steam for me to be able to say that the coalition is in place. What keeps it from pouncing, as described in Ezekiel?

1. For one, the Lord has not put the hook in Magog's mouth as of yet.

2. Israel is still attempting to stave off the next two wars by diplomatic means, and by trusting America to help administer the peace. Valiant, but hopeless!

3. Another quick war is prophesied, one that will expand Israeli territory while expanding world hatred against the Jews. The Inner Ring War...Psalm 83, Isa. 17, Ezekiel 25, Obadiah 15-18, Zephaniah 2, and Zechariah 9. Israel's neighbors will become such a threat, and will possibly perpetrate some evil, so much so that Israel will be forced to destroy them. Could that be the hook?

Read from Debka File

More Israeli appeasement of Turkey - return of four flotilla boats

DEBKAfile Special Report July 23, 2010
The Netanyahu government's decision to send back to Ankara the four flotilla boats used by the Turkish IHH terrorist sponsors of Hamas was Israel's fourth gesture of abject appeasement in a week to Ankara, which continues to whip up anti-Israel agitation in line with its undisguised hostility towards the Jewish state, debkafile's military sources report.
The Islam-orientated government of Recep Erdogan is cracking down on pro-Israeli elements of the Turkish high army command, including the chief of staff; the IHH group which is closely allied with the government elite continues to foster ties with fellow Islamic extremists; and Ankara has abused the conditions of purchase of Israel drones and is sharing their advanced technology with Syria, a country at war with the Jewish state.

Yet Thursday, July 22, Netanyahu's inner cabinet of seven resolved to return the four IHH-owned vessels which led the flotilla which Israeli commandos prevented from breaking the Gaza blockade on May 31, virtually without any strings attached.It seems as though, notwithstanding all the evidence to the contrary, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman are determined to keep their heads stuck in the sand and delude themselves that appeasement will restore the rosy ties of yore.

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Dancing the Palestinian Two-Step

The peace process seemed to be moving in the direction of renewed, direct talks between Israel and the Fatah wing of the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu completed a much-needed photo op with Barrack Obama, then eased restrictions for goods flowing into the Gaza Strip. He even continued the moratorium on Jerusalem settlements.

Then, suddenly, and without fanfar, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House. Trouble! With a nod from Obama, Abbas adds to the demands he wants met before he will sit and talk with Netanyahu. The new demand?

'US Commitment Before Direct Talks'

By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH 07/21/2010
Abbas won't talk until Palestinian state's borders are guaranteed.


Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has told his Fatah movement he wants a more specific US commitment on the borders of a future Palestinian state before agreeing to direct talks with Israel.Abbas says he received assurances from US President Barack Obama, but that they weren't clear enough. He says he expects enormous pressure, but that he will not go "blindly" into negotiations.

This is the Palestinian two-step...a dance that is designed around piling one concession on top of another. It is a dance that never ends. The problem is that Barrack Obama seems to be dancing the two-step with the Palestinians.

A recent Frank Luntz poll in Israel revealed that 83% of Israelis believe that Obama is decidedly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. Of the remain 17%, only a small percentage actually believe Obama has Israel's best interest at heart.

In the meantime, Israel successfully completed its test of the "Iron Dome" early warning system. The high-tech radar will alert Israel to any missile launch in the region (particularly Iran) and provide precise telemetry as to the missile's target. There is one catch, the Iron Dome system is on loan from the USA and will not be operationally installed until November or December. Then, it is only a temporary loan.

It appears this high-stakes game of Middle-East poker is as complicated as ever.

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The Prophetic Word is Still Alive

The EXTREME Duel

OpEds verses God's Word

I took the time to read an OpEd today from the Jerusalem Post. I read them most days, or at least scan them trying to see what the Israeli mindset might be. Just so you know, the spectrum of political ideology is just as ranging in Israel as it is in America. You'll find neo-conservative voices living in fear of annihilation and stating the fact. You'll read folks who are conservative...desiring Israeli security, but also ready to find some sort of peaceful existence with their neighbors. Moderates and liberals abound, as do neo-liberals who loath Zionism and believe the restoration of Israel has only led to heartache and trouble. Sounds like the good ole USA.

One particular article today was decrying the rise of modern day prophets. In the words of the author, these prophets are false because "the day of prophecy is over." His take on the various voices is understandable. But one thing he has missed, as do all secularists. If the day of prophecy is over....there is absolutely NO HOPE for Israel. Without the anchor point of the Abrahamic Covenant and how it will shape the future, Israel will be wiped off the map simply because of overwhelming numbers. I'm not only talking about the populations surrounding Israel, but the overwhelming anti-Israeli bent that exists in 2010.

Yet, God is not offended by the secular Jew and his way of thinking. Rather, he sent his prophets to broadcast the current mindset, but in so doing, he left us with prophetic truth that cannot be ignored. Maybe the writer of the article is right....maybe there are no longer any Jeremiahs, or Ezekiels, or Zechariahs, but the power of their prophecies did not die.

One sure word that makes an extreme prophecy to Israel is this... Amos 9:15 "I will plant them in THEIR land, and they SHALL NEVER AGAIN BE UPROOTED out of the land that I have given them, says the Lord your God."

Maybe the secularist can't say it himself, so I'll say it for him..... AMEN!

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Actions Speak Louder than Photo-ops

Despite charm offensive, most Jews here find Obama biased against Israel
Posted by Israel Insider on July 16, 2010

US President Barack Hussein Obama’s efforts to reach out to the people of Israel last week – when he hosted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a positive meeting at the White House and gave his first interview as president to an Israeli television station – were unsuccessful, according to a Smith Research poll for The Jerusalem Post.

When asked whether they saw Obama’s administration as more pro-Israel, more pro- Palestinian or neutral, just 10 percent of Israeli Jews said more pro-Israel, 46% said more pro-Palestinian, 34% said neutral and 10% did not express an opinion.

Obama's not doing so well among Americans, either. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president, while 44% Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17.
Just 23% now believe the federal government has the consent of the governed. Sixty-eight percent (68%) believe the nation’s Political Class doesn’t care what most Americans think.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve.
Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove.

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Not to be a Naysayer....but....

I know it is probably getting old, but I'll say it again. Sanctions against Iran will never work! They didn't work against Cuba, though the people suffered greatly. Sanctions will do nothing to stop the jihadist, radical, Israel-hating, extremists who rule in Iran.

WHY?

Ideology for one. These are people who are given over to a religious philosophy that rewards suffering and martyrdom. More virgins anyone? They will do everything possible to fulfill their extreme Shia eschatology of bringing back the Mahdi. (Islamic Messiah) but,

Sanction Breaking is the second reason sanctions will not work....and now....as we knew they would, Russia is breaking its weak acquiesence to Obama sanctions by promising that gas and oil will continue to flow between the two countries. There is absolutely no reason for Iran to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Russia was behind it in the first place. Read on from Debkafile...

Moscow pledges Tehran oil products - against US embargo

DEBKAfile Special Report July 15, 2010
Countering the new US embargo on petroleum and oil distillates embargo on Iran, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Iranian Oil Minister Masud Mir-Kazemi Wednesday, July 14 signed a series of far-reaching energy-related agreements, including a deal to sell Tehran Russian petroleum products and petrochemicals.
debkafile's Moscow sources report that the pacts aim squarely at the law signed by President Barack Obama on July 2 to hit Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps' prime source of income, imported refined oil products including gasoline. The Russian and Iranian energy ministers contracted specifically to "increase cooperation in transit, swaps and marketing of natural gas as well as sales of petroleum products and petrochemicals ."The accords also set up "a joint bank to help fund bilateral energy projects."
This latter provision bypasses the US ban on the banks and insurance companies involved in funding refined oil supplies to Iran by creating a shared banking instrument for handling the funding of fuel purchases. Russian insurance firms connected with the new joint bank may insure shipments.By this step, Moscow moved to offset the penalties America imposed on Iran in the wake of UN Security Council sanctions of June 9 and challenged the United States to blacklist Russian firms by invoking the new US law closing American markets to companies and banks doing energy business with Iran.

At the same time, debkafile sources predict that US inaction against the Russian sanctions-busting transactions with Iran will encourage other countries and international business interests, particularly in the Caucasus and Central Asia which share borders with Iran, to follow their lead and defy the US embargo.According to the latest rumors flying around the oil markets, China and Turkey are willing to help Iran evade the fuel sanctions. Pictures have appeared in some Western media showing long convoys of hundreds of fuel tankers standing by on the Iraqi Kurdistan border and waiting to cross into Iran to deliver tons of petroleum. Even the heavy presence of US and Iraqi troops nearby appears to pose no deterrent to the prospective traffic - much less its absence on Iran's other borders.

What a sad commentary on the weakness of the Obama Administration. But lest we come down too hard on our president, read God's take on the ongoing developments surrounding the Middle East by going to Ezekiel 38 and 39. Most of the Magog Coalition's members are named or hinted at in the above article. Missing....Libya and the Sudan.

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Abbas Advocates War

Abbas Said Palestinians Are Ready to go to WAR

Israel National News

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Arab leaders that the PA is ready to wage war on Israel if the rest of the Arab world does, according to the PA daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida as translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
“If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability to do it,” Abbas quoted himself as having said at the March Arab League Summit in Libya.
Arab cities in Judea and Samaria were “completely destroyed” in the Israeli counterterrorism operations that took place during the Oslo War (Second Intifada), Abbas told Arab League members. “We will not agree that it will be destroyed again,” he said.
What's ironic is that Abbas is on one hand beating the drum of war, yet on another hand says the Palestinians won't fight Israel alone. The problem is they want "help" from their fellow Arabs. Well, for students of Bible prophecy we know that eventually the Arab brotherhood will respond and get together in order to go to war with Israel. How do we know this? Very easily, it is foretold in Psalm 83. And from the reports on the ground, war is being anticipated by nearly everyone in the region. With the Middle East peace process basically stalemated and hopelessly lost, the Palestinians and their fellow Islamists are beginning to stir for a fight. With the Gaza flotilla crisis fresh in everyone's memory, it doesn't take much imagination to see that the soil is ripe for the seeds of war to grow.

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Who Will Dictate the Terms of the Coming War?

According to the IDF briefing last week, Hizbollah forces have some 40,000 short- and medium-range missiles at their disposal.

Those missiles have been augmented by hundreds of guided long-range missiles north of the Litani with warheads capable of bringing down skyscrapers in Tel Aviv. Moreover, they are further augmented by Syria’s massive Scud missile and artillery arsenals and by a frightening potential fifth column among Israeli Arabs in the Galilee. Sunday’s assault on police forces operating in the Syrian-allied Druse village of Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights is a mild indicator of what is liable to transpire in Israeli Arab villages in the North in the next war.

For its part, the IDF is seeking to deter such an attack. Wednesday’s briefing, in which the IDF made clear that it knows where Hizbullah has hidden its missiles, was aimed at deterring war.

Unfortunately, the IDF’s warnings will likely have no effect on Hizbullah. If Hizbullah goes to war, it will do so not to advance its own interests, but to protect Iran. Here of course, there is nothing new.

Four years ago this week Hizbullah launched its war against Israel and not because doing so served its interests. Hizbullah launched its war against Israel because Iran ordered it to do so. Then as now, Iran sought a war with Israel in Lebanon to divert international attention from its nuclear weapons program. And now, with the Iranian regime besieged by its own people as never before, and with just a short period required for it to cross the nuclear threshold, Iran has more reason than ever to seek a distraction in Lebanon to buy time for itself.

Four years ago, Israel was taken in by Iran’s Lebanese proxy war. Rather than keeping its eye on Teheran, it swallowed Hizbullah’s bait and waged a war against hapless Lebanon while leaving Iran and its Syrian toady immune from attack. The results were predictably poor and strategically disastrous.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given Iran every reason to believe that Israel will respond in an identical manner if Hizbullah strikes again today. In repeated statements over the past several months, he has maintained that Israel will blame Lebanon – not Iran or Syria – for any Hizbullah action against it.

Four years ago, Israel was reined in by the Bush administration. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice ordered Israel not to attack Syria despite the fact that without Syrian support for Hizbullah, there could have been no war. Israel obliged her both because its leaders lacked the strategic sense to recognize the folly of Rice’s demands and because the Bush administration was Israel’s firm ally.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu just returned from yet another visit with US President Barack Obama. Although the background music was cheerful, from statements by both men it is clear that Obama is not a credible ally. He does not understand or accept the strategic logic behind the US alliance with Israel and will not support Israel in future armed conflicts. Indeed, in the face of the growing Iranian menace, Obama insists on limiting his interests to the irrelevant faux peace process with Fatah while allowing Iran and its proxies to run wild.

What this means is that for better or for worse, under Obama the US is far less relevant than it was four years ago. And this frees Netanyahu to fight the coming war on Israel’s terms. Iran’s domestic troubles and the Arab world’s genuine fear of a nuclear armed Iran provide Israel with a rare opportunity to radically shift the balance of power in the region for the better. It is time for Netanyahu to lead.

Carolyn Glick

Jerusalem Post

I have an entirely different perspective. God will be dictating the next war, and in it, the Hezbollah will cease to exist. (Read yesterday's post.)

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Iran Tightning Up Middle East Tension

Three members of the Ezekiel 38, Magog Coalition, are turning up the heat on Israel. Libya (Put in Ezekiel) has set sail an aide ship for Gaza that is intent on probing Israel's resolve to protect its citizens. Turkey (Gomer in Ezekiel) took the first shot and succeeded in making Israel look like the bad guy.

Now Iran (Persia in Ezekiel) is stepping up the pressure by sending President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad (pronounced aIm-a-nut-job) to Lebanon (a Pslam 83 coalition member called Tyre and Gebal) for the sole purpose of provoking Israel into a war.

What was a quiet weekend is turning out to be the start of an interesting week. While America is watch the capping of an oil well with baited breath, someone is trying to light another match in the Middle East.

This from Debkafile

Hectic preparations for historic

Ahmadinejad visit to Beirut

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 11, 2010

Ahmadinehad ready for his first close-up to Lebanese-Israel border

Feverish preparations are afoot in Tehran for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first visit to the Lebanese capital. Reporting this, debkafile's Iranian sources define the trip's purpose as a confrontational exercise to warn the US and Israel that full implementation of the tough new UN, US and European sanctions will provoke an Iranian war on Israel - waged from Lebanon.

Iran's rulers came up with this plan in their marathon consultations last week, prompted by the realization that the US embargo on gasoline and other refined oil products were for real. Combined with the Obama administration's partial success in closing the US banking system and markets to Iranian firms and the UAE's consent to close its ports to Iranian traffic, the new measures have the potential for throwing a large spanner into the Islamic Republic's normal economic activity.

The planning for Ahmadinejad's trip to Lebanon - probably towards the end of July or early August - went into high gear after Syrian president Bashar Assad (Pslam 83 Coalition member called Ammon and Ashur) and the Qatari ruler Shiekh Hamad Bin Khalif Al Thani (who engineered the power-sharing accord for setting up the Lebanese government coalition in 2009...also a Psalm 83 member called Ishmael along with fellow Arabs) reacted positively to the notion of the threesome landing in Beirut aboard the same plane or in convoy, at the invitation of Lebanese president Michel Suleiman.
This procedure was advised to insure the Iranian president against a possible Israel attempt on his life and also that of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who would be on hand in the welcoming party headed by the Lebanese president.
Sunday, July 11, debkafile reported that Hizballah had massed 20,000 armed men along the border with Israel, while Israeli Defense Forces had ranged tank and armored divisions on the other side of the border.
The broad outline of the visit was laid down by Lebanese Shiite lawmaker Nabih Beri and Alaedin Boroujerdi, Chairman of the Majlis foreign affairs and security committee, who was in Beirut last week to attend the funeral of the Shiite cleric Ayatollah Hassan Fadlallah.

It was decided to use the occasion for the Iranian, Syrian, Qatari and Lebanese leaders to hold a war conference, essentially to plot moves for ramping up the Arab-Israeli conflict. They have already decided in principle to lay the groundwork for a high-tension crisis to erupt between Israel and Lebanon some time in September or October, by which time Tehran will be able to gauge in full how much the new sanctions are hurting Iran.

This is another in a long string of articles that give us a strong taste of the two, Biblically prophesied wars that will involve Israel.

War #1... will involve the nations immediately surrounding Israel; Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. This war is described in the following passages; Psalm 83, Isaiah 17, Jeremiah 12, Ezekiel 25, Obadiah 15-19, Zephaniah 2, and Zechariah 9.

War #2... will involve an outer ring of nations and is described in Ezekiel 38 and 39; Commonly called the War of Gog and Magog, it will be led by Russia and will be comprised of Iran, Turkey, Libya, the nations along the Caspian Sea, and the nations in the Horn of Africa.

One thing about Biblical Prophecy, though we don't know all the details of when and how, we know for certain it will come true. It appears we are on the brink of witnessing prophecy unfold at some point in the near future.

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Don't Judge by Middle Name...Judge by Actions

During an interview televised in Jerusalem, U.S. President Barack Obama told Channel 2 News on Wednesday that he believed Israel would not try to surprise the U.S. with a unilateral attack on Iran.Obama was asked whether he was concerned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would try to attack Iran without clearing the move with the U.S., to which the president replied "I think the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is sufficiently strong that neither of us try to surprise each other, but we try to coordinate on issues of mutual concern."

During the interview Wednesday, when asked about the anxiety many Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that "some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion." But he added: "Ironically, I've got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate," Obama said.

What he misses is how his outreach to the "Islamic World" has come at the expense of Israel's security and legitimate existence. His Cairo speech fueled radical fervor when he quoted a Koranic verse that, within the context, incites violent jijad against the Jews. His half-hearted push for sanctions against Iran demonstrated he his less than committed to Israel's security, and now it appears that Obama is becoming more comfortable with the thought of a nuclear Iran, sanctions notwithstanding.

Obama went on to say, "I think that sometimes, particularly in the Middle East, there's the feeling of the friend of my enemy must be my enemy, and the truth of the matter is that my outreach to the Muslim community is designed precisely to reduce the antagonism and the dangers posed by a hostile Muslim world to Israel and to the West," Obama went on to say. He said he believed a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be achieved during his current term. "I think [Netanyahu] understands we've got a fairly narrow window of opportunity… We probably won’t have a better opportunity than we have right now. And that has to be seized. It’s going to be difficult."

Again, why is this important? God's everlasting covenant to Abraham ... "I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you." Whether or not we stand with Israel IS IMPORTANT. Pushing to divide the land, according to Joel 3, will hasten the approach of Armageddon. Our best course of action, if Obama continues down this path, is to pray for a spiritual awakening in America. We are in desperate need of it!

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Don't Be Fooled...It's About November, Stupid!

Of course, most of the population that has the slightest inclination to be informed knows that the run to November began in 2008. But the Obama Administration is now in full campaign mode, attempting to pull a disaster out of a catastrophe for the democrat party.

Suddenly, the president is on the side of big business!

Suddenly, the president is for creating jobs. (Green, of course)

Suddenly, the president likes Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel, and actually talks about the bond being unbreakable.

YEP...NOVEMBER is in the cross hairs...as is several million Jewish votes in the United States. Though most of those "diaspora Jews" voted for Obama in 2008, his treatment of Israel has caused many bushy eyebrows to rise. Solution? Bring in Benjamin Netanyahu for a sweet photo op and ignore the dozen other less-than-friendly subs made toward Israel over the last fourteen months. Will it work? Only for the gullible. Gulp!

Jerusalem Post Editor, David Horowitz, offered this OpEd today. The wool doesn't seem to be hanging over his eyes, and he holds no illusions that the Obama Administration will continue to demonstrate love and kisses after the November mid-terms have come and gone.

Obama on Tuesday began the process of assuring us that he has our back – something absolutely essential when any leader of our tiny country contemplates ‘taking risks for peace.’

So, that’s all right then.

It’s all fixed. The president has always trusted the prime minister. The prime minister has always respected the president.
Everything we thought we knew before Tuesday, it turns out, we didn’t.
Well, not too many Israelis are buying completely into the new glossy narrative of American-Israeli relations.

It’s a little too soon to have forgotten the counter-productive White House push for a building freeze in Jerusalem and the calculatedly reinflated crisis over construction plans at Ramat Shlomo, complete with blistering public denunciation.

It’s far too soon to have forgotten the US-enabled, skewed focus on Israel at May’s NPT Review Conference.

And if Democratic Party interests ahead of November’s mid-term elections meant the vexed issue of an extended West Bank settlement moratorium was left hanging this time, it would be a foolish Israeli prime minister, indeed, who believed that he had wriggled out of that dispute, and that it would not be back at the top of the agenda next time these two leaders got together.

I do not profess to know what President Obama will do next, but patterns and attitudes have be set and are obvious. Obama is a cutthroat politician who will do anything to hold the power and position he has attained. Justice matters not (google the Black Panther issue). Illegal immigration is a way to gain a new voting block (so let's side with a Mexican law suit and sew Arizona). Let's get out those teleprompters and wow the crowds.... (gullible idiots!)

However, I do have a Biblical suggestion. Pray for the president...an awakening would help. But also pray for the peace of Jerusalem... on thinking in terms of what the president is trying to do, Pray for the PIECE of Jerusalem!

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Next Round of Concessions Coming Up

Once again, the push for peace is on, and Israel is the entity expected to make the concessions.

It's the same 'ole-same-'ole....another verse of the same song and dance. Obama tries to halt his falling approval rating by playing nice with Israel, but actually continues to apply the pressure for Israel to concede, and then concede some more.

Arutz Sheva News reports on Benjamin Netanyahu's ABC interview.

Interviewer George Stephanopoulos began the talk by noting the very warm and friendly reception Mr. and Mrs. Netanyahu received from U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife. He then asked, "What concrete steps are you prepared to take" to advance the peace process with the Palestinian Authority?
Netanyahu mentioned three areas in which Israel has come towards the PA, saying Israel has "done quite a bit in relaxing hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints," as well as "I've talked about my vision of peace of a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish State of Israel." The third item was the freeze: "We adopted a moratorium seven months ago for the Palestinians to enter the talks. They haven't so far done that."

I admit I am disgusted. Again, the Palestinians are not pushed to the simplest concession of recognizing the right of Israel to exist and have security. They can bomb, fire rockets, attempt flotillas, and generally wreck havoc and get away with it as the victimized party. However, I am also well aware that this is the direction in which events will flow. Why? Okay, hang on to your hat....here's a radically Biblical worldview surfacing.... "Because it is written!" In fact, Joel 3 tells us that the dividing of the land will lead directly down the road to Armageddon. When will that happen? Only God knows.

What I do know is this: The president is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. If so, he would have actually read what he claims to follow...The BIBLE. He does not comprehend the reality. The nations that bless Israel will be blessed. The nations that curse and turn on Israel will be cursed and turned on by God. Since Obama's Muslim-loving speech in Cairo last year, how many disasters, catastrophes, floods, economic woes, and more have occurred? How many more will occur?

Sure, we can attribute these things to the natural occurrences of nature and happenstance. Sure, you can call me a religious nut case! Yes, disasters have always happened. But could there be a pattern and increase to the bad stuff? Is it possible that the hand of God is being withdrawn from our nation....even though we just witnessed a sweet photo-op? Could the path our leadership has chosen (in direct disregard to the majority of Americans who support the State of Israel) be leading us farther and farther from the protective, prosperous hand of God?

I leave you to decide. I have pretty much come to one particular conclusion and am praying that someone in a big, white house will wake up to the truth and start following it.

In the meantime, I pray for the peace of Jerusalem, not its division to people who will then seek to obtain the other half as well. Nothing like radical Islam to throw a wrench in the peace project of Barrack Obama. (Of course, he cannot admit it even exists.)

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