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Straightshot
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Message 1 of 27 (767470)
08-29-2015 7:23 AM


Middle East news update

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Straightshot
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08-29-2015 10:42 AM
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Re: Awaiting a good opening post
Phat
It might be a good idea to combine Revelation's Unfolding with current Middle East News ..... I can do it ..... actually easier for me
This way my postings can be consolidated and simple
Not certain where you would want something like this place on the forum
I have an opening post ready to go for your review:
Straightshot
Here it is:
The region of focus of the Lord's prophets is the Middle East from the Noahic flood [Genesis 6] to our day .... and beyond
Google Maps
The book of Daniel has a specific view of the time of the end of this age related to the returned remnant of Israel to the land surrounded by the tiny nation's historical and current virulent enemies in the Middle East [Daniel 2; 7; 8; 9; 11:36-45; 12:1-7]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwxy9yqhzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Pcoxkay2I
Why should the believer in Jesus Christ be interested in Israel and the controversy between Issac [Israel] and Ishmael [the Muslims] set long ago by the Lord Himself?
Genesis
12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:
12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Ishmael and Isaac
Here is why:
If you read Daniel's visions above you will see his future view of a returned Israel to the land after centuries of being exiled over the last 2000 years until our time .... Ezekiel and Micah also see the same [Ezekiel 38; 39; Micah 5]
The "little" horn [king] of Daniel's visions will arise north of Israel [northwestern Mesopotamia] [Syria/Iraq today] [Daniel 7:7-8; 7:19-28; 8:9-25]
This coming king of the north will be a Muslim Caliph who will conquer and rule the Middle East with 10 other related kings .... and this one will invade and occupy Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple mount [Jeremiah 30; Daniel 11:41; Micah 5:5-6; Zechariah 12; 13; 14; Matthew 24:15-16; Luke 21:20-36; Revelation 11:2; 12:6; 12:14]
And it will be in the days of these things that Jesus Christ will intervene to rescue Israel from the king of the north and destroy him and his Islamic followers [Jeremiah 30:8; Ezekiel 38; 39; Daniel 11:45; Joel 3; Micah 5:5-6; Zechariah 14; Revelation 14:14-20; 16:1-16; 19:11-21]
Daniel speaks to Nebuchadnezzar king of the Middle Eastern neo-Babylonian Empire centuries ago:
Daniel
2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
2:22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
2:23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
2:24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
2:25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
2:26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
2:27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
2:29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
2:32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
2:33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. [the Persian and the northern Seleucid]
2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. [the little horn's coming kingdom including the 10 other kings]
2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes [10], part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [Muslim tribal divides today]
2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
2:47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
Joel
3:11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
3:21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
The current setting in the Middle East today is moving in the direction for the fulfillment of the visions of the Lord's Bible prophets
The new Islamic State [[ISIS] now occupying parts of Syria and Iraq is the nesting of the northern little horn's coming Middle Eastern kingdom [Ezekiel 38; 39; Daniel 8:9; 11:36-45; 12:7]
Resolving the Syrian war is not the silver bullet for stopping ISIS DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis August 29, 2015
The war to stop the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has entered a dark tunnel. And with it the bottomless conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq. The search for a ray of light moves next week from Moscow to Washington, when Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz makes his first visit as monarch for talks with President Barack Obama.
The three worried Arab rulers received in the Kremlin Tuesday, Aug. 25, by President Vladimir Putin could only talk in circles: Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi,is embattled on three fronts, Sinai, his border with Libya and Cairo; Jordan’s King Abdullah II — is wedged between two wars; and UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent his army to fight the Yemen insurgency alongside Saudi Arabia.
For them, resolving the Syrian conflict looked like the silver bullet, the key to ending all their troubles. But whichever Russian or Iranian plans and ideas they considered for a way forward, they were all forced to come back to the same impasse. Even Putin and Obama can’t get around or ignore two solid facts:
1. In the year since the US built an international coalition for fighting ISIS, the brutal Islamists have not been cut down; they have instead been empowered to seize more turf outside their Iraqi and Syrian conquests, such big oil fields in Libya, an ascending threat to Egypt and big plans for Lebanon.
2. A major letdown has followed on the high hopes reposed in Iran. The nuclear deal negotiated with the six world powers - and the elevated regional status conferred on Iran - hinged closely on US expectations that Tehran would put up effective military resources for tackling ISIS.
But the Revolutionary Guards, the popular Syrian and Iraqi forces the Guards established,and the Afghan and Pakistani Shiite militias they imported — none have proved a match for ISIS and jihadi tactics.
In Syria, ISIS stands fast, unthreatened in the terrain, towns and oil fields they have captured, in the past year - excepting only on fringe fronts, where they have been forced back by local Kurdish rebel fighters.
Hizballah is a big part of the disappointment. It was supposed to serve as a bulwark against ISIS invading eastern Lebanon from Syria. Instead, these Lebanese Shiite fighters, allies of Assad’s army, are bogged down in a bitter battle for the strategic Syrian town of Zabadani, after failing to breach Syrian rebel defenses in forays from the south, the north or the center.
The door is therefore open for the Islamist State to march into Hizballah’s strongholds in the Lebanese Beqaa valley and head north to the port of Tripoli for a foothold on the Mediterranean.
Whether Bashar Assad stays or goes, which might have made a difference at an early stage of the Syrian insurgency, is irrelevant now that his army and allied forces are in dire straits.
In Iraq, the forces fighting ISIS are equally stumped. The jihadis are in control of a deadly string of strategic towns, Ramadi, Faluja, the refinery city of Baiji, Mosul, and most of the western province of Anbar, including Haditha which commands a key stretch of the Euphrates River. [Revelation 9:13-21; 16:12-21]
Here, too, the Islamist terrorist army’s lines remain intact, unbroken either by the undercover Jordanian Special Forces campaign 200 km inside Anbar, albeit backed by US and Israeli military and intelligence assistance; by the popular mobilization committees set up by the Iranian general Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy of the Al Qods chief Qassem Soleimani, or less still by US-trained Iraqi army units.
This week, the impasse spurred two combatants into chilling escalations:
--- Iran began shipping its solid propellant missile, Zelzal-3B (meaning earthquake), across the border into Iraq, in the hope that this powerful projectile, with a range of 250km , would give the Revolutionary Guards their doomsday weapon for tipping the scales against ISIS.
--- The Islamists, for their part, embraced a new tactic, known in the west as SVBIED mobile defense. Scores of armed vehicles are packed tight with hundreds of tons of explosives and loosed against military convoys on the move and static enemy positions and bases.
This tactic quickly proved itself by killing the 10th Iraqi Division’s chief, deputy and its command staff, as well as the deputy chief of Iraqi forces in Anbar.
In Moscow last week, Putin offered his three Middle East guests Russian nuclear reactors, arms, joint pacts for fighting terror and assorted ideas for the future of Bashar Assad. But he too had no practical proposals for bringing the Islamic State down.
President Obama may likewise offer King Salman all sorts of assistance for standing up to ISIS, but he will find no buyers in Riyadh for his failed policy of reliance on Saudi Arabia’s rival, Iran, for liquidating the Islamist threat looming against the oil kingdom from neighboring Iraq. Neither is US aid much use for stemming the tide of pro-ISIS radicalism spreading among young Saudi men.
As matters stand today, therefore, the Islamic State faces no tangible threat — even if Iran does go ahead and achieve a nuclear bomb
.... however, the real threat is coming from One who never looses
Revelation
16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
[16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.][Matthew 25:1-13; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-9; Revelation 3:10]
16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
16:18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Inspirational
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JQ1q-13Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9UqWhid9LU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbGjzF3mB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSlgPtyjvek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjrivXWczGU
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Straightshot
Member (Idle past 2799 days)
Posts: 89
From: Mitchell SD USA
Joined: 08-25-2015


Message 5 of 27 (767474)
08-29-2015 12:40 PM
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08-29-2015 11:19 AM


Re: Awaiting a good opening post
Phat
I can comply with your forum rules .... no problem
And I have very thick skin, so I know how to handle scoffers
I have also been on many boards over the last 10 years, so I know the theater
.... a tough environment today
What is the next step in getting a posting
And I would prefer the title of "Israel and the Middle East"
Where would you like to have this posted?
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Straightshot
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Message 8 of 27 (767511)
08-30-2015 9:38 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Dogmafood
08-30-2015 9:07 AM


Re: According to plan
"Why would the Lord Himself do such a thing?"
Here is why, and His ultimate intent and action [Genesis 3:1-19; Psalms 2; Romans 1:18-22; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; Jude 1:14-15; Revelation 6:12-17; 20:11-15]
Here is an example of what is to come [Ezekiel 39; Revelation 19:11-21]
Romans
2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
And remember this .... He is the Lord .... we are not
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Straightshot
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From: Mitchell SD USA
Joined: 08-25-2015


Message 10 of 27 (767611)
08-31-2015 7:17 AM
Reply to: Message 9 by Dogmafood
08-31-2015 7:10 AM


Re: According to plan
ISIS declares war on the US dollar with the gold dinarDEBKAfile Special Report August 31, 2015, 2:00 PM
The Islamic State on Sunday, Aug. 30, launched a new campaign to destabilize the US Dollar with a 54-minute video tape, produced professionally by a New York Madison Avenue PR firm, for general distribution. This is the first known instance of a terrorist organization declaring financial war on America. Graphic diagrams and figures are displayed to demonstrate that the mighty dollar is nothing but a piece of paper, whose value declines year by year when this is realized.
The Jews are inevitably presented as the prime movers behind the dollar’s false status as the world’s strongest currency.
The ISIS tape calls on world markets to stop using the dollar and revert to the financial system of the medieval Muslim caliphates. It offers the following currency substitutes:
1. A dinar coin weighing 4.25 grams of 21-carat gold, worth $139 at current gold prices;
2. A silver dirham coin, currently in use in some Muslim countries such as Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and parts of Libya, where ISIS is snapping up oil fields and installations.
3. Two copper coins known as fulus, which are handy currency for small transactions and daily use.
4. The jihadis also accept gold trinkets in lieu of coins.
The tape shows details of the coins’ production process at a plant in Mosul, ISIS’s Iraq headquarters.
While the Islamists’ plan for war on the dollar may recall a bygone age in history, it is worth noting that just two years ago, Iran was paid for its oil sales to India in gold and gold ornaments, to beat the Western oil embargo.
Most financial circles have greeted the ISIS reach for world domination by the gold dinar as a stunt. They maintain that ISIS itself uses American dollars to buy arms on the black market and pay its fighters.
All the same, DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism experts disclose that the jihadis are deadly serious about their plan to wage a war of terror on the Western economy and financial system with four goals in view:
a) ISIS is not a run-of-the-mill terrorist organization, it is a movement seriously determined to forge an Islamic state and world order governed by its fundamentalist values.
b) Their territorial expansion and conquest of land has been accompanied by the pirating of natural resources, in their reach for affluence and control of the world’s economic levers.
ISIS’s consistent drive for terrain rich in oil, uranium, gold, silver and other natural resources, shows up in their grab for dominance in places like Libya, Iraq, Syria and the Sinai Peninsula. In Afghanistan, the Islamists have of late seized and ousted the Taliban from areas rich in precious metals.
c) The Islamic State is gaining a strong hand in the arms and oil black markets in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe. It is also gaining leverage for forcing traders to accept payment in gold dinars.
And there is no reason why they should refuse. Some of them already trade in bitcoins, a virtual currency with no national, economic or banking backing.
d) Like Al Qaeda in its heyday of the 90s, ISIS has many secret sympathizers among the rich and powerful of the Gulf emirates. If a hundred of them could be persuaded that the jihadist cause required them to start trading in gold dinars in their international business transactions, including the halawa (word of mouth system), Islamist gold would soon start infiltrating the world’s financial system.
The first response came Monday, Aug. 31, from the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir of Britain. It advised examining the benefits of returning to the old Gold Standard for resolving the sovereign debt crisis threatening the Eurozone, instead of printing counterfeit money on keyboards.
The ISIS video was not released merely as a provocative propaganda thrust against the likes of Wall Street and Western financiers. The jihadis seriously believe that financial terrorism can be a destructive weapon for destabilizing the US-dominated global economy at least as devastating as a raging horde of suicide bombers.
My comment
Mosul,Iraq now occupied by the Islamic State [ISIS] was the core of the Ancient Assyrian Empire on the Tigris River in the Middle East [Micah 5:5-6]
The term "Assyrian" used in Micah's prophecy is used symbolically to identify the one that some call the"antichrist" .... the first beast of Revelation, ["little horn"] in Daniel's visions [Daniel 7:7-25; 8:9-25; 11:36-45; 12:7]
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Straightshot
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Message 11 of 27 (767612)
08-31-2015 7:47 AM
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08-31-2015 7:17 AM


Re: According to plan
"You are not really answering the questions. I am aware of what the plan is. The question is why is that the plan? Why did the Lord Himself set us up for such a fall? Why didn't He give everyone the love of the truth? Why would He Himself delude some into believing a lie and then damn them for being so gullible?"
I did answer you Proto .... you just do not believe in and or understand the Lord's Word
He knows the end from the beginning of all things, has placed humans on the earth, and requires that there be a mutual relationship between Himself and the human
Humans are given a free will and must choose this relationship .... on His terms
So the drama being played out on the earth is one that will result in the preservation of those who choose Him and the destruction of those who reject [John 3:1-18]
There is nothing that can change this destiny .... and the present world is headed for His intervention to change the coarse of human existence [Psalms 2; Micah 24:36-39; Jude 1:14-15; Revelation 6:12-17]
Few humans will comply [Matthew 7:13-14; Revelation 3:10]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffnfN4rITiI
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Straightshot
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Message 13 of 27 (767624)
08-31-2015 8:51 AM
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08-31-2015 8:25 AM


Re: According to plan
"As soon as you start threatening eternal damnation replete with suffering and misery then free will sort of goes out the window"
It is appointed for a man once to die and then the trial will begin [Genesis 3; Hebrews 9:27]
So you have your choice in the body within human limitations
That is the way it works .... like it, or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pQdCPlxP50
This thread is for discussing Israel and the Middle East
What contribution do you have .... if any?
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Message 14 of 27 (767707)
09-01-2015 7:52 AM
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08-31-2015 8:51 AM


Re: According to plan
ISIS declares war on the US dollar with the gold dinarDEBKAfile Special Report August 31, 2015, 2:00 PM (IDT) Tags: ISIS, economic war, US dollar, gold,
Islamic Caliphate currency in gold dinars.
The Islamic State on Sunday, Aug. 30, launched a new campaign to destabilize the US Dollar with a 54-minute video tape, produced to the professional standards of New York Madison Avenue. for general distribution. This is the first known instance of a terrorist organization declaring financial war on America.
Graphic diagrams and figures are displayed to demonstrate that the mighty dollar is nothing but a piece of paper, whose value declines year by year when this is realized.
The Jews are inevitably presented as the prime movers behind the dollar’s false status as the world’s strongest currency.
The ISIS tape calls on world markets to stop using the dollar and revert to the financial system of the medieval Muslim caliphates. It offers the following currency substitutes:
1. A dinar coin weighing 4.25 grams of 21-carat gold, worth $139 at current gold prices;
2. A silver dirham coin, currently in use in some Muslim countries such as Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and parts of Libya, where ISIS is snapping up oil fields and installations.
3. Two copper coins known as fulus, which are handy currency for small transactions and daily use.
4. The jihadis also accept gold trinkets in lieu of coins.
The tape shows details of the coins’ production process at a plant in Mosul, ISIS’s Iraq headquarters.
While the Islamists’ plan for war on the dollar may recall a bygone age in history, it is worth noting that just two years ago, Iran was paid for its oil sales to India in gold and gold ornaments, to beat the Western oil embargo.
Most financial circles have greeted the ISIS reach for world domination by the gold dinar as a stunt. They maintain that ISIS itself uses American dollars to buy arms on the black market and pay its fighters.
All the same, DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism experts disclose that the jihadis are deadly serious about their plan to wage a war of terror on the Western economy and financial system with four goals in view:
a) ISIS is not a run-of-the-mill terrorist organization, it is a movement seriously determined to forge an Islamic state and world order governed by its fundamentalist values.
b) Their territorial expansion and conquest of land has been accompanied by the pirating of natural resources, in their reach for affluence and control of the world’s economic levers.
ISIS’s consistent drive for terrain rich in oil, uranium, gold, silver and other natural resources, shows up in their grab for dominance in places like Libya, Iraq, Syria and the Sinai Peninsula. In Afghanistan, the Islamists have of late seized and ousted the Taliban from areas rich in precious metals.
c) The Islamic State is gaining a strong hand in the arms and oil black markets in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe. It is also gaining leverage for forcing traders to accept payment in gold dinars.
And there is no reason why they should refuse. Some of them already trade in bitcoins, a virtual currency with no national, economic or banking backing.
d) Like Al Qaeda in its heyday of the 90s, ISIS has many secret sympathizers among the rich and powerful of the Gulf emirates. If a hundred of them could be persuaded that the jihadist cause required them to start trading in gold dinars in their international business transactions, including the halawa (word of mouth system), Islamist gold would soon start infiltrating the world’s financial system.
The first response came Monday, Aug. 31, from the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir of Britain. It advised examining the benefits of returning to the old Gold Standard for resolving the sovereign debt crisis threatening the Eurozone, instead of printing counterfeit money on keyboards.
The ISIS video was not released merely as a provocative propaganda thrust against the likes of Wall Street and Western financiers. The jihadis seriously believe that financial terrorism can be a destructive weapon for destabilizing the US-dominated global economy at least as devastating as a raging horde of suicide bombers.
My comment
[Revelation 13:15-18]
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Message 15 of 27 (767716)
09-01-2015 9:23 AM
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09-01-2015 7:52 AM


Re: According to plan
Breaking News
ISIS surprise raid seizes Damascus district, fires missile at TV station
DEBKAfile August 31, 2015, 8:57 PM (IDT)
In a surprise attack Monday, the Islamic State overran the Qadam district of southern Damascus, bringing its forces closer to the center of the Syrian capital than any other anti-Assad group before, DEBKAfile reports. That night, an ISIS rocket exploded outside the Syrian State TV building. The jihadis followed their usual practice of avoiding major showdowns for large targets and instead, seeking out weak points in the opposition’s defenses and moving in.

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Message 17 of 27 (767774)
09-01-2015 8:58 PM
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09-01-2015 3:55 PM


Re: According to plan
The Lord speaks:
[Isaiah 11; 27;12-13; Jeremiah 30; 31:31-37; Ezekiel 36; 38; 39; 40-48; Daniel 9:24-27; Joel 2; 3; Micah 5; Zechariah 12; 13:8-9; 14; Matthew 24; Luke 21:20-36; Romans 11:25-36; Revelation 7:1-8; 14:1-7]
The time of the end was not in 70 AD .... neither for Israel .... and Matthew 24 is not directed to the "church" of today, but to national Israel and the coming time of Jacob's trouble
Here is what the Lord says about today's professing "church" [Matthew 25:1-13; Revelation 3:10; 3:15-19]
The majority living at the time will enter and experience His coming time of wrath and judgment .... the rest will be kept from it
The dividing line will be drawn here [Romans 11:25]
Then His focus will be upon Israel, however His gospel of salvation will proceed "conquering and to conquer" [Revelation 6:2]
.... but those in the tribulation will have to repent and turn to Him to gain their salvation .... not many will do this [Revelation 9:15-21]
The "Christian" forums have become severely corrupted with false teachers and their disassociated followers today .... no doubt
.... not much left of biblical truth ..... and this is to be expected as the world moves closer to the Lord's coming visitation
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Message 18 of 27 (767803)
09-02-2015 9:46 AM
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09-01-2015 8:58 PM


Re: According to plan
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 1, 2015, 9:35 PM (IDT)
Russia gearing up to be first world power to insert ground forces into Syria
Despite strong denials from Moscow, Russian airborne troops are preparing to land in Syria to fight Islamic State forces. The surprise attack on Monday, Aug. 31, by ISIS forces on the Qadam district of southern Damascus, in which they took over parts of the district - and brought ISIS forces the closest that any Syrian anti-Assad group has ever been to the center of the Syrian capital - is expected to accelerate the Russian military intervention.
Moscow is certainly not ready to endanger the position of President Bashar Assad or his rule in Damascus, and views it as a red line that cannot be crossed. If Russia intervenes militarily in this way, Russia will be the first country from outside the Middle East to send ground forces into the Syrian civil war.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that discussions by the Russo-Syrian Military Commission, which was established last month in Moscow to coordinate the intervention, accelerated during the last few days.
Our intelligence sources point out that the concerted activities of the commission are taking place amid the nearly complete paralysis of the US Central Command-Forward-Jordan (CCFJ), where operations against the rebels in southern Syria, including those holding positions across from Israel’s Golan, are coordinated. Officers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel are attached to the CCFJ.
Most of the operations of the CCFJ have been halted due to a conflict that erupted between the Syrian rebels and the U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM. The US military is opposed to the rebels cooperating with Al-Qaeda-linked groups, such as the Al-Nusra front, while the rebels claim that this cannot be avoided fir they are to defeat the forces of Bashar Assad and Hizballah.
The paralysis of the CCFJ is spurring the Russians to try to show that their central command for Syria is operating without any difficulties.
In recent weeks, the Russians have taken four military steps related to Syria:
1. On Aug. 18, six of Russia’s advanced MIG-31 Foxhound interceptor aircraft landed at the Syrian Air Force’s Mezze Airbase, which is the military section of Damascus international airport. After the fighters landed, they were immediately followed by giant Russian Antonov AN-124 Condor cargo planes carrying 1,000 of Russia’s 9M133 Kornet anti-tank missiles.
The advanced jets are intended to serve as air support for the Russian units that arrive in Syria.
2. Before the Russian planes landed in Damascus, Moscow reached an agreement with Washington for the removal of NATO’s Patriot missile batteries from Turkey. The removal was carried out gradually during the month of August, thus preventing the possibility that NATO Patriot missiles could hit Russian fighters carrying out operations in Syrian airspace.
3. During the last week of August, a large number of Russian troops, mostly logistical teams whose job is to lay the groundwork for the arrival of the combat units, arrived in Syria. The troops were seen in Damascus and in Jablah district of Lattakia province, where the Russian forces are building a military base.
4. Our intelligence sources also report that Moscow has started to supply Damascus with satellite imagery of the ground situation on the different fronts.
DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that all of these preparatory steps by Moscow for the introduction of ground forces are being carried out in coordination with Washington and Tehran.
The more that the three capitals tighten their coordination in support of Assad, the sooner the Russian intervention is expected to take place.
My comment
How effective will the Russian involvement against ISIS be? ..... not certain .... it was the Russians who were run out of Afghanistan by the Taliban long ago
My guess .... Russia would be better off to stay out of the conflict .... Putin's objective is to keep some active presence in the Middle East along with his support of Assad of Syria, Hezbollah, and Iran ... and Russian fear of radical Muslims at their doorstep of the Caucasus divide
What I do see is that all nations including the Middle Eastern states are being drawn into the upheaval raging around Israel [Zechariah 12:1-12; Luke 21:20-36]
Daniel 11:44 also gives a view of the fate of the nations to the far east and north outside of the Middle East who will oppose the king of the northern Middle East .... Satan's beast in the little horn of Daniel's visions [Daniel 7; 8; 11:36-44; 12:7]
I believe that the northern opposition will come from Russia
Some believe that Russia is one of the subjects of Ezekiel 38 .... I do not
The Lord is addressing Satan [gog] in this passage of scripture who will attack Israel from the immediate north of Israel [Syria/Iraq territory today] by his beast in the little horn, the coming Muslim Caliph [Ezekiel 38:17]
The Russians will end up being this one's victims

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Message 20 of 27 (767842)
09-02-2015 3:47 PM
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09-02-2015 12:20 PM


Re: According to plan
Here are the 7 Middle Eastern kingdoms of the beast of Revelation's unfolding:
Satan's beast is abaddon/Apollyon .... his "antichrist" [Revelation 9:11; 11:7; 13:1-4; 17:8-17:18]
This rebel angel is the angelic king of the abyss where the Lord has reserved a place for a part of the fallen angels [2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6]
Satan is the "god" of this present world and he has selected Abaddon/Apollyon to specifically rule over human 7 successive kingdoms and the several related king positions in the Middle East [2 Corinthians 4:4]
The 7 kingdoms are referred to as "heads" in Revelation's unfolding [Revelation 13:1-4]
5 of the assigned kingdoms are now historical, sequentially described in the prophetic scriptures, and also a matter of recorded history .... 2 more are still pending .... and will come one after the other
This seems strange that a fallen angel could rule over all of these human kingdoms extending for a long period of time .... this is possible for the created angles which do not die until the time appointed at their judgment of the great day of the Lord that is to come [Jude 1:6]
Here are Abaddon's 7 kingdoms which have been and will be centered in the Middle East in the region of northwestern Mesopotamia [Syria/Iraq today]
His 5th kingdom [head] fell [was "wounded"] just before the first century .... and his 6th kingdom [head] will be healed at the time of the end still pending
The scriptures describe the kingdoms by their core habitations in the land area that they occupy, and it is this same region that all 7 have, and will have, their origins
Here they are going forward from the Noahic flood:
The land of Magog first settled by Magog and his brothers Mesheck and Tobal [the grandsons of Noah]
This kingdom originating in northwestern Mesopotamia, the 1st of the 7 human kingdoms of the beast which existed for about 500 years after the flood and was centered in the region of Mosul, Iraq today
There was another contemporary and like human kingdom located in south eastern Mesopotamia originating in the land of Nimrod where the tower of Babel was erected in the land of Shinar of the southern Babylonians [Genesis 10:8-10]
Asshur and his people left this southern kingdom of Babylonia and migrated northward to build Nineveh on the Tigris River in northwestern Mesopotamia [Genesis 10:11]
And it is at Nineveh where the mighty Assyrian Empire of the Middle East came to in to existence
These northern Babylonians displaced Magog and his brothers and drove them over the Caucasus divide, and the core of the Assyrian Empire was born [Nineveh province of Mosul, Iraq today] .... the 2nd kingdom of the beast
Then the southern Babylonian kingdom of the Chaldeans conquered the northern Assyrians and the neo-Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar then ruled the Middle East .... the 3rd kingdom of the beast [Daniel 2:1-30]
It was the prophet Daniel who, moving forward from the neo-Babylon rule then projected the next and 4th kingdom of the beast, Medo/Persia
This empire was then conquered by Alexander the Great which produced the next and 5th kingdom of the beast, the northern Seleucid kingdom [Syria/Iraq today] which included most of the Middle East except for the other divide of Alexander's holdings, the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt
Antiochus IV was the last king of the Seleucid kingdom of the north, and his successor will be the human little horn of Daniel's visions .... at the time appointed and still pending as we speak [Daniel 11:21-35] .... [Daniel 11:36-45; 12:7]
Daniel projects the last 4 of the 7 kingdoms of the beast beginning with neo-Babylon ending with the 4th [the 7th of 7], the kingdom of the little horn [the 11th king of the set] who will rule the Middle East with the 10 other kings at the time appointed .... the time of the end of this present age
Satan's beast rules over all 7 of these human Middle Eastern kingdoms and related king positions .... 5 have fallen and 2 more are coming .... the 1st [6th of the set] will be a smaller ["little"] kingdom centered in Syria/Iraq at the beginning of the coming tribulation period .... this is why his last human king is called a "little" horn
This same king will expand the 6th kingdom into the 7th larger divided kingdom and will rule with the 10 other contemporary human kings .... the Middle Eastern kingdom of iron and clay, the same as the 4th kingdom of [Daniel 2:40-43; 7; 8; 11:36-45]
Notice the relationship between Daniel's visions and Revelation's view of the same 7th kingdom
The current setting in the Middle East resembles the beginnings of the little horn's 6th and smaller kingdom in the very same region in northwestern Mesopotamia .... this location is occupied by the Muslim terrorists of the Islamic state
The little horn who will be a Muslim Caliph will appear as such at the very beginning of the coming tribulation
.... and Abaddon will be released from the abyss where he has been since the fall of his 5th kingdom to rule through the little horn over his 6th and 7th kingdoms
When the little horn is fully possessed by Abaddon, this angelic prince of the abyss will become the little horn and hence the 8th king ruling over his 7th and final Middle Eastern kingdom [Micah 5:5-6; Revelation 13:1-4; 17:8-18]
The attack upon Israel will come at the beginning of the last half of the 70th week of the 70 weeks of years decreed for Israel .... the coming time of Jacob's trouble [Psalms 83; Jeremiah 30; Ezekiel 36:1-5; 38; 39; Joel 2; 3; Micah 5; Obadiah 1:1-21; Zechariah 12; 13; 14; Matthew 24:15-16; Luke 21:20-36; Revelation 11:2; 12:6; 12:7] .... same as the coming tribulation of the Lord's hour 08-20-2022 5:56 PM of trial and judgment upon an unbelieving world [Revelation 6:12-17]
Notice that Asshur will lead the other Islamic states of the Middle East adjacent to Israel in the attack [Psalms 83:8] .... and also the outer Islamic nations further away the same [Ezekiel 38]
The little horn will invade and occupy Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple mount for the last half of the 1260 days of the 2520 day 70th week decreed [3.5 years, a time, times, and 1/2 time] ... and he will kill many, and scatter the balance of Israel who will flee from him [Zechariah 14:4-5; Matthew 24:15-16; Luke 21:20-36; Revelation 12:6; 12:14]
Then the Lord will confront him at the battle of Armageddon which will last for another 30 days [Daniel 12:11] ... He will destroy the beast and his human followers and then appear to the mortal earth dwellers of Israel and the nations that will survive the coming tribulation [Ezekiel 38; 39; Micah 5:9-15; Zechariah 14:1-3; Revelation 14:14-20; 16:1-16; 19:11-24]
He will then gather all of them in the next 45 days and separate them, sheep from goat [Daniel 12:12] .... the believing sheep will enter and populate His millennial kingdom upon the earth [Micah 3:1-4; 5:7-8], and the unbelieving goats will be rejected because of their disdain for Israel during the time of Jacob's trouble [Matthew 24:29-31; 25:31-46]
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Message 21 of 27 (767854)
09-02-2015 5:21 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by Straightshot
09-02-2015 3:47 PM


Re: According to plan
Obama has empowered Islamic Iran with His removal of economic sanctions as part of the nuclear agreement allowing the rogue state to continue building a bomb
"We will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, especially those countries standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists."
A/P - REUTERS September 2, 2015
Senior Iranian officials continued their rhetoric against Israel on Wednesday, with Revolutionary Guards Tehran commander Brig.-Gen. Mohsen Kazzemeini saying military preparedness would be increased until it overthrows Israel and liberates Palestine.
And we will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, especially those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists, he said, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.
The comments came during massive military drills in Tehran that included 250,000 Basij volunteer paramilitary forces.
On Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for forces at the Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base to increase their readiness.
You should permanently enhance your preparedness and options for confronting different threats, said the Iranian leader at a visit to the air defense base, Fars reported.
The vital defense sensitivities and concerns indicate this reality that you should identify the vulnerable points and all possible enemy methods and work out specific plans and ways to confront all of them, he added.
The Islamic Republic also unveiled two new domestically built radar systems that supposedly are capable of detecting radar-evading targets.
Iran is increasing its defenses near its nuclear facilities because it fears an Israeli attack before the nuclear deal with Western powers is finalized, Israel’s Channel 10 reported Tuesday evening.
Pictures published in the Iranian media showed a military exercise that included placing anti-aircraft missiles near the Bushehr nuclear facility.
Earlier this week, according to the Tasnim News Agency, Iranian military experts upgraded the Talash air defense missile system, which can target high-altitude aircraft.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Arab and Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian met with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Wednesday.
Nasrallah congratulated the Iranian diplomat on the nuclear deal reached with world powers and expressed anger at war crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinians, state news agency IRNA reported. The Hezbollah leader said the resistance would thwart any Israeli threats to Lebanon.
On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met in Tunisia with Rachid Ghannouchi, the head of that country’s Islamist Ennahda movement, and called on Muslims to form a united front against the Zionist enemy, Iran’s Al Alam website reported.
My comment
Iran [modern day Persia] will confederate under the coming Muslim Caliphate of Syria/Iraq who will attack Israel at the middle of the 70th week decreed for the nation [Ezekiel 38:5]
This means that that the Caliph will have Iranian nukes at his disposal .... and he will use them [Daniel 11:44; Revelation 8:6-12; 14:8; 17:16-18; 18]
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Message 24 of 27 (767891)
09-03-2015 7:36 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by Coyote
09-02-2015 10:55 PM


Re: Israel and the Middle East
Breaking News
ISIS claims attack on a Russian military base in Dagestan
DEBKAfile September 3, 2015, 8:21 AM (IDT)
The Islamic State group operating in the North Caucasus region of Russia claimed Wednesday to have attacked a Russian military base in the southern Dagestan region, according to American sources. The alleged attack was not confirmed and their was no information about casualties. ISIS has long been recruiting experienced fighters in this predominantly Muslim region for its war in Syria and Iraq - especially among Chechens. In November 2014, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate terror group was ousted from his position when mid-level commanders switched their allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Message 26 of 27 (767893)
09-03-2015 7:47 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by jar
09-03-2015 7:41 AM


Re: Israel and the Middle East
DebkaFiles, September 3, 2015
Instead of constantly smacking Israel with criticism, the Obama administration and its European comrades should be praising the Jewish state.
The entire free world owes Israel an enormous debt of gratitude.
Were it not for a prescient strike against a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, which foreign media sources credit Israel with carrying out, the fanatics of Islamic State would now be in possession of their own nuclear facility.
This revelation came to light thanks to a recent article on the NK News website by former US diplomat Dennis P. Halpin, who highlighted an intriguing tidbit of information that was otherwise almost completely ignored by the mainstream press.
Back on June 30, the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, which aims to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, posted a satellite imagery brief which revealed that, The destroyed reactor site in Syria is now under the control of ISIL/Daesh [Islamic State, or IS], which is apparently dismantling and possibly conducting excavation activities at the site.
Halpin, who is currently a visiting scholar at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, was the first to point out the significance of the satellite data and he did not mince words in describing it: If it were not for ‘Operation Orchard’ — the Israeli air strike conducted on the Al Kibar reactor on September 6, 2007 — ISIL fighters could well be armed today with atomic weaponry rather than just captured U.S. tanks and Kalashnikov rifles.
According to foreign media reports, Israeli special forces along with aircraft hit the atomic facility, which the Syrian government was building with help from North Korea, in the Deir ez-Zor region of the country.
On April 24, 2008, more than seven months later, the White House press secretary issued an unusual statement saying that Syria had indeed been building a covert nuclear reactor in its eastern desert capable of producing plutonium.
Based on intelligence, the US said there was good reason to believe that reactor, which was damaged beyond repair on September 6 of last year, was not intended for peaceful purposes, and it noted that after it was destroyed, the regime moved quickly to bury evidence of its existence. This cover-up only served to reinforce our confidence that this reactor was not intended for peaceful activities.
Now jump back to the present, and consider what the current situation might be had that Syrian reactor been left in place: it would now be in the hands of IS.
Just the thought of a nuclear-armed Islamic State, which enthusiastically revels in the shedding of blood, should be enough to send chills down the spine.
The group, which now controls swathes of Iraq and Syria equivalent in size to Great Britain, has made headlines over the past year thanks to its expansionist and genocidal ideology, and aims to establish an Islamic caliphate in order to rule the world.
It has shown a penchant for the macabre, releasing videos in which its fighters have proudly beheaded, crucified or burned captives alive.
And as the BBC’s Andrew Hosken notes in his new book, Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State, the terrorist group’s objective is to take over the entire Middle East, all of North Africa and even parts of Europe by 2020.
Hosken is also convinced, as he told the UK Daily Express on August 11, that IS would not hesitate to employ chemical, biological or nuclear weapons to achieve its goals.
If they had weapons of mass destruction, they would use them, he said, adding, There is no question about that.
Needless to say, when the Syrian reactor was destroyed eight years ago, there were those who were quick to criticize the Jewish state for its actions.
Mohamed El Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CNN that the Israeli attack to me is very distressful. If countries had information about covert nuclear programs, they should come to us, he said.
In retrospect, it is now clear just how judicious Israel’s preemptive attack was, for it not only prevented the brutal regime of Bashar Assad from developing nuclear weapons, but also averted a scenario in which IS would have its bloodstained fingers on the nuclear trigger, able to blackmail the world.
El Baradei and others who lambasted Israel for its actions owe the Jewish state a heartfelt apology.
Islamic State’s capture of the bombed-out Syrian reactor once again underlines Israel’s central — and often underappreciated — role on the front lines of the West’s struggle against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
Instead of constantly smacking Israel with criticism, the Obama administration and its European comrades should be praising the Jewish state.
Israel remains the Western world’s only reliable ally in the Middle East, a bulwark against the forces of darkness and despotism.
Indeed, by taking out the Syrian reactor, Israel may very well have saved humanity from the prospect of a nuclear-armed IS wreaking havoc in the Middle East and beyond.
And for that, the world has Israel to thank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeHc4vbQrNY
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