KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL (THE WEST)(SAUDIA ARABIA WITH WEST)
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
(COUNTRIES AGAINST THE WEST)(NOTICE GERMANY-TURKEY IN THE AGAINST)
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
AUG 21,13 NEAR DAMASCUS ASSADS BROTHER ORDERS THIS ATTACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GPTqxf8rE&bpctr=1377899658
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4Hqc045oc
OBAMA AND COMPANY ON ATTACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAqtVqHi1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDN4L00Ls9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWTGS7Rnb4
OBAMA ABOUT SYRIA
IN NO EVENT ARE WE CONSIDERING ANY KIND OF MILITARY ACTION INVOLVING BOOTS ON THE GROUND THAT WOULD INVOLVE A LONG TERM CAMPAIGN.BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT THE POSSIBILITY OF A LIMITED-NARROW ACT THAT WOULD HELP MAKE SURE THAT NOT ONLY SYRIA BUT OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD UNDERSTAND THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CARES ABOUT MAINTAINING THIS CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN.
RUSSIAS FM RESPONSE TO KERRYS STATEMENTS ON SYRIA
WASHINGTONS STATEMENTS THREATENING TO APPLY FORCE TO SYRIA ARE UNACCEPTABLE.EVEN U.S ALLIES (GERMANY) HAVE CALLED FOR TAKING A BREAK TO WAIT FOR THE U.N EXPERTS TO COMPLETE THEIR WORK IN ORDER TO GET AN OBJECTIVE PICTURE OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
WHAT HAPPENS TO GIVE THE GO AHEAD OF THE ATTACK
THE PRESIDENT HAS THE PROOF HE THINKS THAT ASSADS BROTHER ORDERED THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK ON THE CITIZENS.NO NEED TO WAIT FOR THE U.N REPORT WHICH WILL BE COMPLETED SATURDAY (TODAY) IN SYRIA.AS THE U.N WILL BE LEAVING TODAY.THEN OBAMA CAN GIVE THE GO AHEAD TO BOMB SYRIA ANY TIME AFTER THE U.N INSPECTORS LEAVE.
OBAMA WOULD GIVE THE EXICUTE ORDER.OBAMA WOULD SIGN THE PAPERS AND GIVES THE GO AHEAD AND DO IT.MEANING BOMB SYRIA.THE PAPERS SIGNED BY OBAMA WOULD THEN GO TO THE PENTEGON.WHICH IN TURN WOULD BE SENT OUT TO THE FLEET OF 5 U.S NAVY WARSHIPS IN THE EAST MEDITTERRANEAN SEA NEAR SYRIA.AND UNDER OBAMAS USELESS WORD THE 5 SHIPS WITH 40 TOMAHAWKS ON EACH COULD START BOMBING SYRIAS TARGETS THAT AMERICA WANTS TO HIT IN THIS LIMITED STRIKE ON SYRIA.THE 200 TOMAHAWK MISSLES-40 ON EACH OF THE 5 WAR SHIPS ARE GUIDED BY GPS TO HIT A PERCISE PLACE IN SYRIA SINCE THEY ARE THAT ACCURATE.WITHIN HOURS OF OBAMA GIVING THE OK THE TOMAHAWKS COULD START BEING SHOT FROM THE WARSHIPS.INTO SYRIA.
HANS BLIX ON A SYRIA ATTACK-EX U.N CHIEF WEAPONS INSPECTOR
HANS SAYS IN 2003 BUSH LISTENED AND SAW THE U,N REPORTS BUT JUST IGNORED THEM BUT THIS TIME OBAMA NEVER EVEN LOOKED AT THE REPORT ABOUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS BEING USED IN SYRIA.HE JUST WANTS TO BOMB ASSAD QUICKLY.HANS ALSO SAYS ITS NOT ENCOURAGING THAT OBAMA ONLY WANTS LIMITES ATTACKS ON ASSAD.ITS LIKE SAYING TO THE WORLD.YOU SYRIANS CAN GO ON FIGHTING THE WAR-BUT MUST NOT USE GAS.I THINK WHAT THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR IS PUT A BAN ON THE USE OF GAS AND OTHER CHEMICAL MEANS.AND DRIVE FOR A CEASE FIRE FOR PEACE.THE WHOLE SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD CONDEMN THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS SAYS BIX.THE U.N MAY NOT BE ABLE TO POINT TO ASSAD OR THE REBELS WHO USED THEM ON THEIR CITIZENS.BUT RUSSIA-CHINA AND THE WHOLE SECURITY COUNCIL MUST CONDEMN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.AND CHEMICAL WEAPON USE.HANS SAYS THE U.S SHOULD GO TO THE WORLD COURT THE SECURITY COUNCIL BEFORE THEY DO ANY BOMBING OF SYRIA.BIX SAYS NOBODY IN THE WORLD WANTS THE U.S OR NATO TO BE THE WORLD POLICEMAN.HANS SAYS THE U.S SHOULD NOT GO ALONE ON THIS SITUATION.
THE U.S SAYS SINCE THE U.N INSPECTORS JUST WENT INTO SYRIA TO DETERMINE THAT CHEMICAL WEAPONS WERE USED.AND SINCE THE U.S KNOWS THAT ASSAD USED THEM.THE U.S DOES NOT HAVE TO EVEN GO TO THE U.N REPORT.THEY CAN DIRECTLY GET ALLIES TOGETHER AND BE THE WORLD POLICEMAN IN THIS SITUATION AND GO AFTER ASSAD AND SCOLD HIM WITH A LIMITED MISSLE BOMBING.OBAMA JUST WON'T PUT TROOPS ON THE GROUND OR MAKE IT A LONG TERM FULL BLOWN WAR.OBAMA SAYS SYRIA AND ASSAD WILL JUST KEEP GASING CITIZENS IF HE DOES NOT SCOLD ASSAD NOW WITH A BRIEF BOMBING.IF OBAMA WOULD NOT DO THIS BOMBING NOW THOUGH.HE WOULD BE CALLED A LIAR,HYPOCRIT AND AMERICA WOULD BE THOUGHT OF AS A HAS BEEN LOSER WHO SPEAKS THREATS BUT DOES NOT TAKE ACTION.THIS COULD FULFILL PROPHECY THAT SAYS AMERICA WILL NOT BE THE WORLD LEADER IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE AGE OF GRACE.BUT THE EUROPEAN UNION WOULD.YES IF OBAMA FAILS TO DO WHAT HE SAYS HERE.HIS CREDABILITY WILL BE SHOT AND THE WORLD WOULD SWALLOW UP THE VACCUM AND LOOK TO THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR THE WORLD LEADER IN POLITICS.WE CAN SEE PROPHECY COMING TOGETHER BIGTIME IN THIS SITUATION.
REPUBLICAN ELIOT ENGEL SAYS HE DISAGREES WITH BIX ON THIS SITUATION.ELIOT SAYS THAT ASSAD WOULD HAVE GLADLY LET THE U.N HAVE QUICK ACCSESS TO THE CHEMICALIZED SITE IF HE WAS INNOCENT OF GASING HIS PEOPLE.BUT SINCE HE NEVER GAVE ACCESS FOR 5 DAYS AFTER.THIS SAYS ASSAD IS GUILTY AS CHARGED.AND HE AGREES WITH OBAMA A BRIEF BOMBING CAMPAIGN.OBAMA HAS DRAWN THE RED LINE IN THE SAND AND HE MUST GO THREW WITH IT.
TOMAHAWK LAND ATTACK MISSLE
1-LAUNCHED FROM U.S NAVY SHIPS AND SUBMARINES.
2-APPROXIMATE COST PER MISSLE $1.2 MILLION DOLLARS.
3-APPROXIMATE RANGE 1,100 MILES
4-FIRST USED IN DESERT STORM IN 1991
I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT PLANES BOMBING SYRIA FROM THE SKY.AND THAT WOULD BE THE QUICKEST WAY OF DESTROYING ASSADS PALACE OR PALACES.AND TARGETS THE U.S WANT TO GO AFTER.
POSSIBLE MILITARY TARGETS IN SYRIA
1-WEAPONS DELIVERY SYSTEMS.
2-MILITIA TRAINING CAMPS.
3-COMMAND POSTS.
I SAY BOMB ALL BRIDGES AND THE AIRPORTS SO ASSAD CAN NOT ESCAPE SYRIA.THATS THE ONLY WAY TO GET ASSAD.EVEN THOUGHT OBAMA SAYS HES NOT GOING AFTER ASSAD.I WOULD GO AFTER ASSAD AND JUST SAY TO THE WORLD I WILL NOT GO AFTER A REGIME CHANGE.BUT IN FACT IN MY MIND-ASSAD WOULD BE DONE LIKE A ROAST CHICKEN WITH PIGS BLOOD THROWN ALL OVER IT.SINCE ARABS-ISLAM BELIEVE THEIR DESECRATED IF THEY TOUCH PIGS BLOOD.OR IN FACT JUST POUR PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER SYRIA AND JUST MISSLE DAMASCUS ONLY.SAVE ON THE MISSLES.BUT THOUSANDS OF PIGS MUST BE KILLED SO THEIR BLOOD CAN BE POURED OUT ALL OVER SYRIA ESPECIALLY IN DAMASCUS.
ANYTIME TODAY AFTER THE U.N INSPECTORS LEAVE.YOU COULD EXPECT AN IMMENANT STRIKE BY OBAMA.AND IF OBAMA HAS ANY ALLIES GOING WITH HIM.
ALLIES WITH THE U.S
1-FRANCE
2-TURKEY
3-SAUDI ARABIA
4-UK
5-ISRAEL
6-EUROPEAN UNION
ARABS WITH THE WEST SILENT.NO HELP
ALLIES AGAINST SYRIA ATTACK
1-RUSSIA
2-CHINA
3-IRAN
4-HEZZBOLLAH
5-ARAB LEAGUE
6-MUSLIM COUNTRIES
7-GERMANY
AND JIMMY CARTER OF COURSE AGREES WITH THE RUSSIAN ALLIES THAT OBAMA IS BREAKING INTERNATIONAL LAW BY TOMAHAWKING SYRIA.AND HE SHOULD BE GOING THREW THE U.N-NOT ON HIS OWN.BUT THEN CARTER WANTS A PALESTINIAN STATE WITH JERUSALEM DIVIDED TO.THIS TELLS YOU WERE HIS MIND LIES.WITH THE RUSSIAN--ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
THIS WILL LEAD TO A WIDER MIDEAST WAR OVIOUSLY.AND THE TARGET WILL BE ISRAEL BY ALL THE HATERS.ITS NOT THE CHEMICALS.ITS NOT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.ITS ALL THE RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES WANT ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.BUT THANKS TO GOD (KING JESUS) OUR AND ISRAELS JEWISH MESSIAH USING BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO PROTECT ISRAEL WITH ITS 400 NUKES GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL.ISRAEL WILL NEVER EVER BE DESTROYED.THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ISRAEL WITH JERUSALEM AS ITS CAPITAL.AND IN FACT JERUSALEM WILL SHORTLY BE THE WORLD CAPITAL.MAYBE AS A RESULT OF THIS OBAMA ACTION.THE RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIMS MIGHT GO AFTER ISRAERL.ISRAEL WILL DESTROY 5/6TH OR 300 MILLION OF THEM WITH NUKES BY PROTECTING ITSELF.ISRAEL WILL THEN SAY SINCE ISLAM IS ALMOST ALL DESTROED WE CAN REBUILD THE 3RD TEMPLE AND WE WILL AIM AT JERUSALEM AS THE WORLD CAPITAL.NOT JUST THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.AND AT SOME POINT GOD WILL ALLOW JERUSALEM AS THE WORLD CAPITAL THE BIBLE SAYS.
Video: What Do New Yorkers Think About a Strike in Syria? Arutz Sheva's reporter went out to ask New Yorkers what they think about American intervention in Syria.By Eliran Aharon, New York-First Publish: 8/31/2013, 9:05 PM-Israelnationalnews
With speculations growing that the United States is planning a military strike in Syria in response to the regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own people, Arutz Sheva went out to hear from residents of New York and get their opinion on the matter.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCr7C-HJAg
Erdogan: Syrian Strike Should Topple Assad-Limited strikes in Syria are not enough, declares Turkey's Prime Minister as the U.S. mulls action in Syria.By Elad Benari, Canada
First Publish: 8/31/2013, 12:00 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The goal of any military intervention in Syria should be to topple Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.Erdogan said that the limited strikes which the United States is reportedly planning against Syria would not be enough and pushed for a broader military offensive."A limited operation cannot be satisfactory for us," he was quoted as saying by the NTV news channel."An intervention akin to that decided for Kosovo must be launched. An operation of one or two days will not be enough. The goal should be to force the regime out," declared Erdogan.His comments came as President Barack Obama reiterated that he has not made a final decision about a military strike against Syria, but added he is considering a limited action in response to a chemical weapons attack that he says Syria's government carried out last week.
He said that while his preference would have been for the international community to move forward on a response to the chemical attack, he was in the planning process for a response to the chemical weapons use in Syria.The comments came after the U.S. released an intelligence assessment that found with "high confidence" that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's government carried out a chemical weapons attack last week.Erdogan was once an ally of Assad but is now one of his fiercest critics and, since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, has repeatedly called on Assad to go.The heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria have led to several cross-border incidents, including the explosion of a Syrian mortar in Turkish territory, which killed five civilians last year.The Turkish army responded by attacking several targets in Syria. Turkey's parliament later gave the government the green light to use military force against Syria if necessary.In another incident, Turkey intercepted a Syrian Airbus A320 flying from Moscow to Damascus and escorted it to the Esenboga Airport in Ankara.Turkey later claimed it had seized "objectionable cargo" aboard the Syrian passenger plane. Syria, in turn, accused Turkey of lying.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Here’s the text of the White House assessment of Syria’s use of
chemical weapons last week. Secretary of State John Kerry, in remarks
at the State Department, said the “findings are as compelling as they
are clear.” The pdf is here and a map accompanying the text is here.
Secretary of State John Kerry made the administration’s case for action in Syria in remarks Friday afternoon as the U.S. released its assessment of the alleged chemical attack. Here is the transcript of his remarks, provided by Federal News Service (www.fednews.com). Update: Read our WSJ article here.
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: President Obama has spent many days now consulting with Congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in Syria. And last night the president asked all of us on his national security team to consult with the leaders of Congress as well, including the leadership of the congressional national security committees. And he asked us to consult about what we know regarding the horrific chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs last week.I will tell you that as someone who spent nearly three decades in the United States Congress, I know that that consultation is the right way for a president to approach a decision of when and how and if to use military force. And it’s important to ask the tough questions and get the tough answers before taking action, not just afterwards.And I believe, as President Obama does, that it is also important to discuss this directly with the American people. That’s our responsibility: to talk with the citizens who have entrusted all of us in the administration and the Congress with responsibility for their security.That’s why this morning’s release of our government’s unclassified estimate of what took place in Syria is so important. Its findings are as clear as they are compelling. I’m not asking you to take my word for it. Read for yourself, everyone, those listening, all of you, read for yourselves the evidence from thousands of sources, evidence that is already publicly available, and read for yourselves the verdict reached by our intelligence community about the chemical weapons attack the Assad regime inflicted on the opposition and on opposition-controlled or contested neighborhoods in the Damascus suburbs on the early morning of August 21st.
Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and rereviewed information regarding this attack. And I will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment. Accordingly, we have taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people, who can judge for themselves.But still, in order to protect sources and methods, some of what we know will only be released to members of Congress, the representatives of the American people.That means that some things we do know, we can’t talk about publicly.So, what do we really know that we can talk about? Well, we know that the Assad regime has the largest chemical weapons program in the entire Middle East. We know that the regime has used those weapons multiple times this year, and has used them on a smaller scale but still it has used them against its own people, including not very far from where last Wednesday’s attack happened.We know that the regime was specifically determined to rid the Damascus suburbs of the opposition, and it was frustrated that it hadn’t succeeded in doing so. We know that for three days before the attack the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons personnel were on the ground, in the area, making preparations. And we know that the Syrian regime elements were told to prepare for the attack by putting on gas masks and taking precautions associated with chemical weapons. We know that these were specific instructions.We know where the rockets were launched from, and at what time. We know where they landed, and when. We know rockets came only from regime-controlled areas, and went only to opposition-controlled or contested neighborhoods.And we know, as does the world, that just 90 minutes later all hell broke loose in the social media. With our own eyes we have seen the thousands of reports from 11 separate sites in the Damascus suburbs. All of them show and report victims with breathing difficulties, people twitching, with spasms, coughing, rapid heartbeats, foaming at the mouth, unconsciousness and death.
And we know it was it was ordinary Syrian citizens who reported all of these horrors.And just as important, we know what the doctors and the nurses who treated them didn’t report: not a scratch, not a shrapnel wound, not a cut, not a gunshot wound. We saw rows of dead lined up in burial shrouds, the white linen unstained by a single drop of blood.Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from Assad’s gas, and surrounded by parents and grandparents who had suffered the same fate.The United States government now knows that at least 1,429 Syrians were killed in this attack, including at least 426 children. Even the first responders — the doctors, nurses and medics who tried to save them — they became victims themselves. We saw them gasping for air, terrified that their own lives were in danger.This is the indiscriminate, inconceivable horror of chemical weapons. This is what Assad did to his own people.We also know many disturbing details about the aftermath. We know that a senior regime official who knew about the attack confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime, reviewed the impact and actually was afraid that they would be discovered.
We know this.
And we know what they did next. I personally called the foreign minister of Syria, and I said to him, if, as you say, your nation has nothing to hide, then let the United Nations in immediately and give the inspectors the unfettered access so they have the opportunity to tell your story.Instead, for four days they shelled the neighborhood in order to destroy evidence, bombarding block after block at a rate four times higher than they had over the previous 10 days. And when the U.N. inspectors finally gained access, that access, as we now know, was restricted and controlled.In all of these things that I have listed, in all of these things that we know, all of that, the American intelligence community has high confidence, high confidence this is common sense, this is evidence, these are facts.So the primary question is really no longer, what do we know. The question is what are we — we collectively — what are we in the world going to do about it.As previous storms in history have gathered, when unspeakable crimes were within our power to stop them, we have been warned against the temptations of looking the other way. History if full of leaders who have warned against inaction, indifference and especially against silence when it mattered most.Our choices then in history had great consequences, and our choice today has great consequences.It matters that nearly a hundred years ago, in direct response to the utter horror and inhumanity of World War I that the civilized world agreed that chemical weapons should never be used again. That was the world’s resolve then. And that began nearly a century of effort to create a clear red line for the international community.It matters today that we are working as an international community to rid the world of the worst weapons. That’s why we signed agreements like the START treaty, the New START treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, which more than 180 countries, including Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, have signed onto.It matters to our security and the security of our allies. It matters to Israel. It matters to our close friends Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, all of whom live just a stiff breeze away from Damascus. It matters to all of them where the Syrian chemical weapons are, and if unchecked, they can cause even greater death and destruction to those friends.And it matters deeply to the credibility and the future interests of the United States of America and our allies. It matters because a lot of other countries whose policies challenge these international norms are watching. They are watching. They want to see whether the United States and our friends mean what we say. It is directly related to our credibility and whether countries still believe the United States when it says something. They are watching to see if Syria can get away with it because then maybe they too can put the world at greater risk.And make no mistake. In an increasingly complicated world of sectarian and religious extremist violence, what we choose to do — or not do — matters in real ways to our own security. Some cite the risk of doing things. We need to ask what is the risk of doing nothing.It matters because if we choose to live in a world where a thug and a murderer like Bashar al-Assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity, even after the United States and our allies said no, and then the world does nothing about it, there will be no end to the test of our resolve and the dangers that will flow from those others who believe that they can do as they will.This matters also beyond the limits of Syria’s borders. It is about whether Iran, which itself has been a victim of chemical weapons attacks, will now feel emboldened in the absence of action to obtain nuclear weapons. It is about Hezbollah, and North Korea, and every other terrorist group or dictator that might ever again contemplate the use of weapons of mass destruction. Will they remember that the Assad regime was stopped from those weapons’ current or future use, or will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?
So our concern is not just about some far-off land oceans away. That’s not what this is about. Our concern with the cause of the defenseless people of Syria is about choices that will directly affect our role in the world and our interests in the world.It is also profoundly about who we are. We are the United States of America. We are the country that has tried, not always successfully, but always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. This crime against conscience, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us, and it matters to who we are. And it matters to leadership and to our credibility in the world.My friends, it matters here if nothing is done. It matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens.America should feel confident and gratified that we are not alone in our condemnation and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. The world is speaking out, and many friends stand ready to respond. the Arab League pledged, quote, “to hold the Syrian regime fully responsible for this crime.” The Organization for Islamic Cooperation condemned the regime and said we needed, quote, “to hold the Syrian government legally and morally accountable for this heinous crime.”Turkey said there is no doubt that the regime is responsible. Our oldest ally, the French, said the regime, quote, “committed this vile action, and it is an outrage to use weapons that the community has banned for the last 90 years in all international conventions.”The Australian prime minister said he didn’t want history to record that we were, quote, a party to turning such a blind eye.So now that we know what we know, the question we must all be asking is what we will do. Let me emphasize President Obama, we in the United States, we believe in the United Nations. And we have great respect for the brave inspectors who endured regime gunfire and obstructions to their investigation. But as Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general, has said again and again, the U.N. investigation will not affirm who used these chemical weapons. That is not the mandate of the U.N. investigation. They will only affirm whether such weapons were used. By the definition of their own mandate, the U.N. can’t tell us anything that we haven’t shared with you this afternoon or that we don’t already know. And because of the guaranteed Russian obstructionism of any action through the U.N. Security Council, the U.N. cannot galvanize the world to act, as it should.
So let me be clear: We will continue talking to the Congress, talking to our allies and, most importantly, talking to the American people. President Obama will ensure that the United States of America makes our own decisions on our own timelines based on our values and our interests.Now, we know that after a decade of conflict, the American people are tired of war. Believe me, I am too. But fatigue does not absolve us of our responsibility. Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about.And history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator’s wanton use of weapons of mass destruction against all warnings, against all common understanding of decency. These things, we do know.We also know that we have a president who does what he says that he will do. And he has said very clearly that whatever decision he makes in Syria, it will bear no resemblance to Afghanistan, Iraq or even Libya. It will not involve any boots on the ground. It will not be open-ended. And it will not assume responsibility for a civil war that is already well underway.The president has been clear: Any action that he might decide to take will be limited and tailored response to ensure that a despot’s brutal and flagrant use of chemical weapons is held accountable. And ultimately, we are committed, we remain committed, we believe it’s the primary objective is to have a diplomatic process that can resolve this through negotiation because we know there is no ultimate military solution. It has to be political. It has to happen at the negotiating table. And we are deeply committed to getting there.So that is what we know. That’s what the leaders of Congress now know. And that’s what the American people need to know. And that is at the core of the decisions that must now be made for the security of our country and for the promise of a planet where the world’s most heinous weapons must never again be used against the world’s most vulnerable people.Thank you very much.
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ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL (THE WEST)(SAUDIA ARABIA WITH WEST)
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
(COUNTRIES AGAINST THE WEST)(NOTICE GERMANY-TURKEY IN THE AGAINST)
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
AUG 21,13 NEAR DAMASCUS ASSADS BROTHER ORDERS THIS ATTACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GPTqxf8rE&bpctr=1377899658
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4Hqc045oc
OBAMA AND COMPANY ON ATTACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAqtVqHi1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDN4L00Ls9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWTGS7Rnb4
OBAMA ABOUT SYRIA
IN NO EVENT ARE WE CONSIDERING ANY KIND OF MILITARY ACTION INVOLVING BOOTS ON THE GROUND THAT WOULD INVOLVE A LONG TERM CAMPAIGN.BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT THE POSSIBILITY OF A LIMITED-NARROW ACT THAT WOULD HELP MAKE SURE THAT NOT ONLY SYRIA BUT OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD UNDERSTAND THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CARES ABOUT MAINTAINING THIS CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN.
RUSSIAS FM RESPONSE TO KERRYS STATEMENTS ON SYRIA
WASHINGTONS STATEMENTS THREATENING TO APPLY FORCE TO SYRIA ARE UNACCEPTABLE.EVEN U.S ALLIES (GERMANY) HAVE CALLED FOR TAKING A BREAK TO WAIT FOR THE U.N EXPERTS TO COMPLETE THEIR WORK IN ORDER TO GET AN OBJECTIVE PICTURE OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
WHAT HAPPENS TO GIVE THE GO AHEAD OF THE ATTACK
THE PRESIDENT HAS THE PROOF HE THINKS THAT ASSADS BROTHER ORDERED THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK ON THE CITIZENS.NO NEED TO WAIT FOR THE U.N REPORT WHICH WILL BE COMPLETED SATURDAY (TODAY) IN SYRIA.AS THE U.N WILL BE LEAVING TODAY.THEN OBAMA CAN GIVE THE GO AHEAD TO BOMB SYRIA ANY TIME AFTER THE U.N INSPECTORS LEAVE.
OBAMA WOULD GIVE THE EXICUTE ORDER.OBAMA WOULD SIGN THE PAPERS AND GIVES THE GO AHEAD AND DO IT.MEANING BOMB SYRIA.THE PAPERS SIGNED BY OBAMA WOULD THEN GO TO THE PENTEGON.WHICH IN TURN WOULD BE SENT OUT TO THE FLEET OF 5 U.S NAVY WARSHIPS IN THE EAST MEDITTERRANEAN SEA NEAR SYRIA.AND UNDER OBAMAS USELESS WORD THE 5 SHIPS WITH 40 TOMAHAWKS ON EACH COULD START BOMBING SYRIAS TARGETS THAT AMERICA WANTS TO HIT IN THIS LIMITED STRIKE ON SYRIA.THE 200 TOMAHAWK MISSLES-40 ON EACH OF THE 5 WAR SHIPS ARE GUIDED BY GPS TO HIT A PERCISE PLACE IN SYRIA SINCE THEY ARE THAT ACCURATE.WITHIN HOURS OF OBAMA GIVING THE OK THE TOMAHAWKS COULD START BEING SHOT FROM THE WARSHIPS.INTO SYRIA.
HANS BLIX ON A SYRIA ATTACK-EX U.N CHIEF WEAPONS INSPECTOR
HANS SAYS IN 2003 BUSH LISTENED AND SAW THE U,N REPORTS BUT JUST IGNORED THEM BUT THIS TIME OBAMA NEVER EVEN LOOKED AT THE REPORT ABOUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS BEING USED IN SYRIA.HE JUST WANTS TO BOMB ASSAD QUICKLY.HANS ALSO SAYS ITS NOT ENCOURAGING THAT OBAMA ONLY WANTS LIMITES ATTACKS ON ASSAD.ITS LIKE SAYING TO THE WORLD.YOU SYRIANS CAN GO ON FIGHTING THE WAR-BUT MUST NOT USE GAS.I THINK WHAT THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR IS PUT A BAN ON THE USE OF GAS AND OTHER CHEMICAL MEANS.AND DRIVE FOR A CEASE FIRE FOR PEACE.THE WHOLE SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD CONDEMN THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS SAYS BIX.THE U.N MAY NOT BE ABLE TO POINT TO ASSAD OR THE REBELS WHO USED THEM ON THEIR CITIZENS.BUT RUSSIA-CHINA AND THE WHOLE SECURITY COUNCIL MUST CONDEMN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.AND CHEMICAL WEAPON USE.HANS SAYS THE U.S SHOULD GO TO THE WORLD COURT THE SECURITY COUNCIL BEFORE THEY DO ANY BOMBING OF SYRIA.BIX SAYS NOBODY IN THE WORLD WANTS THE U.S OR NATO TO BE THE WORLD POLICEMAN.HANS SAYS THE U.S SHOULD NOT GO ALONE ON THIS SITUATION.
THE U.S SAYS SINCE THE U.N INSPECTORS JUST WENT INTO SYRIA TO DETERMINE THAT CHEMICAL WEAPONS WERE USED.AND SINCE THE U.S KNOWS THAT ASSAD USED THEM.THE U.S DOES NOT HAVE TO EVEN GO TO THE U.N REPORT.THEY CAN DIRECTLY GET ALLIES TOGETHER AND BE THE WORLD POLICEMAN IN THIS SITUATION AND GO AFTER ASSAD AND SCOLD HIM WITH A LIMITED MISSLE BOMBING.OBAMA JUST WON'T PUT TROOPS ON THE GROUND OR MAKE IT A LONG TERM FULL BLOWN WAR.OBAMA SAYS SYRIA AND ASSAD WILL JUST KEEP GASING CITIZENS IF HE DOES NOT SCOLD ASSAD NOW WITH A BRIEF BOMBING.IF OBAMA WOULD NOT DO THIS BOMBING NOW THOUGH.HE WOULD BE CALLED A LIAR,HYPOCRIT AND AMERICA WOULD BE THOUGHT OF AS A HAS BEEN LOSER WHO SPEAKS THREATS BUT DOES NOT TAKE ACTION.THIS COULD FULFILL PROPHECY THAT SAYS AMERICA WILL NOT BE THE WORLD LEADER IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE AGE OF GRACE.BUT THE EUROPEAN UNION WOULD.YES IF OBAMA FAILS TO DO WHAT HE SAYS HERE.HIS CREDABILITY WILL BE SHOT AND THE WORLD WOULD SWALLOW UP THE VACCUM AND LOOK TO THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR THE WORLD LEADER IN POLITICS.WE CAN SEE PROPHECY COMING TOGETHER BIGTIME IN THIS SITUATION.
REPUBLICAN ELIOT ENGEL SAYS HE DISAGREES WITH BIX ON THIS SITUATION.ELIOT SAYS THAT ASSAD WOULD HAVE GLADLY LET THE U.N HAVE QUICK ACCSESS TO THE CHEMICALIZED SITE IF HE WAS INNOCENT OF GASING HIS PEOPLE.BUT SINCE HE NEVER GAVE ACCESS FOR 5 DAYS AFTER.THIS SAYS ASSAD IS GUILTY AS CHARGED.AND HE AGREES WITH OBAMA A BRIEF BOMBING CAMPAIGN.OBAMA HAS DRAWN THE RED LINE IN THE SAND AND HE MUST GO THREW WITH IT.
TOMAHAWK LAND ATTACK MISSLE
1-LAUNCHED FROM U.S NAVY SHIPS AND SUBMARINES.
2-APPROXIMATE COST PER MISSLE $1.2 MILLION DOLLARS.
3-APPROXIMATE RANGE 1,100 MILES
4-FIRST USED IN DESERT STORM IN 1991
I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT PLANES BOMBING SYRIA FROM THE SKY.AND THAT WOULD BE THE QUICKEST WAY OF DESTROYING ASSADS PALACE OR PALACES.AND TARGETS THE U.S WANT TO GO AFTER.
POSSIBLE MILITARY TARGETS IN SYRIA
1-WEAPONS DELIVERY SYSTEMS.
2-MILITIA TRAINING CAMPS.
3-COMMAND POSTS.
I SAY BOMB ALL BRIDGES AND THE AIRPORTS SO ASSAD CAN NOT ESCAPE SYRIA.THATS THE ONLY WAY TO GET ASSAD.EVEN THOUGHT OBAMA SAYS HES NOT GOING AFTER ASSAD.I WOULD GO AFTER ASSAD AND JUST SAY TO THE WORLD I WILL NOT GO AFTER A REGIME CHANGE.BUT IN FACT IN MY MIND-ASSAD WOULD BE DONE LIKE A ROAST CHICKEN WITH PIGS BLOOD THROWN ALL OVER IT.SINCE ARABS-ISLAM BELIEVE THEIR DESECRATED IF THEY TOUCH PIGS BLOOD.OR IN FACT JUST POUR PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER SYRIA AND JUST MISSLE DAMASCUS ONLY.SAVE ON THE MISSLES.BUT THOUSANDS OF PIGS MUST BE KILLED SO THEIR BLOOD CAN BE POURED OUT ALL OVER SYRIA ESPECIALLY IN DAMASCUS.
ANYTIME TODAY AFTER THE U.N INSPECTORS LEAVE.YOU COULD EXPECT AN IMMENANT STRIKE BY OBAMA.AND IF OBAMA HAS ANY ALLIES GOING WITH HIM.
ALLIES WITH THE U.S
1-FRANCE
2-TURKEY
3-SAUDI ARABIA
4-UK
5-ISRAEL
6-EUROPEAN UNION
ARABS WITH THE WEST SILENT.NO HELP
ALLIES AGAINST SYRIA ATTACK
1-RUSSIA
2-CHINA
3-IRAN
4-HEZZBOLLAH
5-ARAB LEAGUE
6-MUSLIM COUNTRIES
7-GERMANY
AND JIMMY CARTER OF COURSE AGREES WITH THE RUSSIAN ALLIES THAT OBAMA IS BREAKING INTERNATIONAL LAW BY TOMAHAWKING SYRIA.AND HE SHOULD BE GOING THREW THE U.N-NOT ON HIS OWN.BUT THEN CARTER WANTS A PALESTINIAN STATE WITH JERUSALEM DIVIDED TO.THIS TELLS YOU WERE HIS MIND LIES.WITH THE RUSSIAN--ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
THIS WILL LEAD TO A WIDER MIDEAST WAR OVIOUSLY.AND THE TARGET WILL BE ISRAEL BY ALL THE HATERS.ITS NOT THE CHEMICALS.ITS NOT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.ITS ALL THE RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM COUNTRIES WANT ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.BUT THANKS TO GOD (KING JESUS) OUR AND ISRAELS JEWISH MESSIAH USING BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO PROTECT ISRAEL WITH ITS 400 NUKES GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL.ISRAEL WILL NEVER EVER BE DESTROYED.THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ISRAEL WITH JERUSALEM AS ITS CAPITAL.AND IN FACT JERUSALEM WILL SHORTLY BE THE WORLD CAPITAL.MAYBE AS A RESULT OF THIS OBAMA ACTION.THE RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIMS MIGHT GO AFTER ISRAERL.ISRAEL WILL DESTROY 5/6TH OR 300 MILLION OF THEM WITH NUKES BY PROTECTING ITSELF.ISRAEL WILL THEN SAY SINCE ISLAM IS ALMOST ALL DESTROED WE CAN REBUILD THE 3RD TEMPLE AND WE WILL AIM AT JERUSALEM AS THE WORLD CAPITAL.NOT JUST THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.AND AT SOME POINT GOD WILL ALLOW JERUSALEM AS THE WORLD CAPITAL THE BIBLE SAYS.
Video: What Do New Yorkers Think About a Strike in Syria? Arutz Sheva's reporter went out to ask New Yorkers what they think about American intervention in Syria.By Eliran Aharon, New York-First Publish: 8/31/2013, 9:05 PM-Israelnationalnews
With speculations growing that the United States is planning a military strike in Syria in response to the regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own people, Arutz Sheva went out to hear from residents of New York and get their opinion on the matter.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCr7C-HJAg
Erdogan: Syrian Strike Should Topple Assad-Limited strikes in Syria are not enough, declares Turkey's Prime Minister as the U.S. mulls action in Syria.By Elad Benari, Canada
First Publish: 8/31/2013, 12:00 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The goal of any military intervention in Syria should be to topple Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.Erdogan said that the limited strikes which the United States is reportedly planning against Syria would not be enough and pushed for a broader military offensive."A limited operation cannot be satisfactory for us," he was quoted as saying by the NTV news channel."An intervention akin to that decided for Kosovo must be launched. An operation of one or two days will not be enough. The goal should be to force the regime out," declared Erdogan.His comments came as President Barack Obama reiterated that he has not made a final decision about a military strike against Syria, but added he is considering a limited action in response to a chemical weapons attack that he says Syria's government carried out last week.
He said that while his preference would have been for the international community to move forward on a response to the chemical attack, he was in the planning process for a response to the chemical weapons use in Syria.The comments came after the U.S. released an intelligence assessment that found with "high confidence" that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's government carried out a chemical weapons attack last week.Erdogan was once an ally of Assad but is now one of his fiercest critics and, since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, has repeatedly called on Assad to go.The heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria have led to several cross-border incidents, including the explosion of a Syrian mortar in Turkish territory, which killed five civilians last year.The Turkish army responded by attacking several targets in Syria. Turkey's parliament later gave the government the green light to use military force against Syria if necessary.In another incident, Turkey intercepted a Syrian Airbus A320 flying from Moscow to Damascus and escorted it to the Esenboga Airport in Ankara.Turkey later claimed it had seized "objectionable cargo" aboard the Syrian passenger plane. Syria, in turn, accused Turkey of lying.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
August 30, 2013, 1:14 PM-WALL STREET JOURNAL
Text of U.S. Assessment on Syria’s Use of Chemical Weapons
- The White House
U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s
Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013
The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. We further assess that the regime used a nerve agent in the attack. These all-source assessments are based on human, signals, and geospatial intelligence as well as a significant body of open source reporting.Our classified assessments have been shared with the U.S. Congress and key international partners. To protect sources and methods, we cannot publicly release all available intelligence – but what follows is an unclassified summary of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s analysis of what took place.
Syrian Government Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21
A large body of independent sources indicates that a chemical weapons attack took place in the Damascus suburbs on August 21. In addition to U.S. intelligence information, there are accounts from international and Syrian medical personnel; videos; witness accounts; thousands of social media reports from at least 12 different locations in the Damascus area; journalist accounts; and reports from highly credible nongovernmental organizations.A preliminary U.S. government assessment determined that 1,429 people were killed in the chemical weapons attack, including at least 426 children, though this assessment will certainly evolve as we obtain more information.We assess with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out the chemical weapons attack against opposition elements in the Damascus suburbs on August 21. We assess that the scenario in which the opposition executed the attack on August 21 is highly unlikely. The body of information used to make this assessment includes intelligence pertaining to the regime’s preparations for this attack and its means of delivery, multiple streams of intelligence about the attack itself and its effect, our post-attack observations, and the differences between the capabilities of the regime and the opposition. Our high confidence assessment is the strongest position that the U.S. Intelligence Community can take short of confirmation. We will continue to seek additional information to close gaps in our understanding of what took place. 2
Background:
The Syrian regime maintains a stockpile of numerous chemical agents, including mustard, sarin, and VX and has thousands of munitions that can be used to deliver chemical warfare agents.
Syrian President Bashar al-Asad is the ultimate decision maker for the chemical weapons program and members of the program are carefully vetted to ensure security and loyalty. The Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) – which is subordinate to the Syrian Ministry of Defense – manages Syria’s chemical weapons program.We assess with high confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year, including in the Damascus suburbs. This assessment is based on multiple streams of information including reporting of Syrian officials planning and executing chemical weapons attacks and laboratory analysis of physiological samples obtained from a number of individuals, which revealed exposure to sarin. We assess that the opposition has not used chemical weapons.The Syrian regime has the types of munitions that we assess were used to carry out the attack on August 21, and has the ability to strike simultaneously in multiple locations. We have seen no indication that the opposition has carried out a large-scale, coordinated rocket and artillery attack like the one that occurred on August 21.We assess that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons over the last year primarily to gain the upper hand or break a stalemate in areas where it has struggled to seize and hold strategically valuable territory. In this regard, we continue to judge that the Syrian regime views chemical weapons as one of many tools in its arsenal, including air power and ballistic missiles, which they indiscriminately use against the opposition.The Syrian regime has initiated an effort to rid the Damascus suburbs of opposition forces using the area as a base to stage attacks against regime targets in the capital. The regime has failed to clear dozens of Damascus neighborhoods of opposition elements, including neighborhoods targeted on August 21, despite employing nearly all of its conventional weapons systems. We assess that the regime’s frustration with its inability to secure large portions of Damascus may have contributed to its decision to use chemical weapons on August 21.3
Preparation:
We have intelligence that leads us to assess that Syrian chemical weapons personnel – including personnel assessed to be associated with the SSRC – were preparing chemical munitions prior to the attack. In the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human, signals and geospatial intelligence that reveal regime activities that we assess were associated with preparations for a chemical weapons attack.Syrian chemical weapons personnel were operating in the Damascus suburb of ‘Adra from Sunday, August 18 until early in the morning on Wednesday, August 21 near an area that the regime uses to mix chemical weapons, including sarin. On August 21, a Syrian regime element prepared for a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus area, including through the utilization of gas masks. Our intelligence sources in the Damascus area did not detect any indications in the days prior to the attack that opposition affiliates were planning to use chemical weapons.
The Attack:
Multiple streams of intelligence indicate that the regime executed a rocket and artillery attack against the Damascus suburbs in the early hours of August 21. Satellite detections corroborate that attacks from a regime-controlled area struck neighborhoods where the chemical attacks reportedly occurred – including Kafr Batna, Jawbar, ‘Ayn Tarma, Darayya, and Mu’addamiyah. This includes the detection of rocket launches from regime controlled territory early in the morning, approximately 90 minutes before the first report of a chemical attack appeared in social media. The lack of flight activity or missile launches also leads us to conclude that the regime used rockets in the attack.Local social media reports of a chemical attack in the Damascus suburbs began at 2:30 a.m. local time on August 21. Within the next four hours there were thousands of social media reports on this attack from at least 12 different locations in the Damascus area. Multiple accounts described chemical-filled rockets impacting opposition-controlled areas.Three hospitals in the Damascus area received approximately 3,600 patients displaying symptoms consistent with nerve agent exposure in less than three hours on the morning of August 21, according to a highly credible international humanitarian organization. The reported symptoms, and the epidemiological pattern of events – characterized by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers – were consistent with mass exposure to a nerve agent. We also received reports from international and Syrian medical personnel on the ground.4We have identified one hundred videos attributed to the attack, many of which show large numbers of bodies exhibiting physical signs consistent with, but not unique to, nerve agent exposure. The reported symptoms of victims included unconsciousness, foaming from the nose and mouth, constricted pupils, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty breathing. Several of the videos show what appear to be numerous fatalities with no visible injuries, which is consistent with death from chemical weapons, and inconsistent with death from small-arms, high-explosive munitions or blister agents. At least 12 locations are portrayed in the publicly available videos, and a sampling of those videos confirmed that some were shot at the general times and locations described in the footage.We assess the Syrian opposition does not have the capability to fabricate all of the videos, physical symptoms verified by medical personnel and NGOs, and other information associated with this chemical attack.We have a body of information, including past Syrian practice, that leads us to conclude that regime officials were witting of and directed the attack on August 21. We intercepted communications involving a senior official intimately familiar with the offensive who confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime on August 21 and was concerned with the U.N. inspectors obtaining evidence. On the afternoon of August 21, we have intelligence that Syrian chemical weapons personnel were directed to cease operations. At the same time, the regime intensified the artillery barrage targeting many of the neighborhoods where chemical attacks occurred. In the 24 hour period after the attack, we detected indications of artillery and rocket fire at a rate approximately four times higher than the ten preceding days. We continued to see indications of sustained shelling in the neighborhoods up until the morning of August 26.To conclude, there is a substantial body of information that implicates the Syrian government’s responsibility in the chemical weapons attack that took place on August 21.As indicated, there is additional intelligence that remains classified because of sources and methods concerns that is being provided to Congress and international partners.
August 30, 2013, 1:35 PM-WALL STREET JOURNAL
Transcript: Kerry’s Remarks on U.S. ‘Responsibility’ in Syria
By WSJ Staff
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- Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the situation in Syria from the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington, DC on August 30, 2013.
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: President Obama has spent many days now consulting with Congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in Syria. And last night the president asked all of us on his national security team to consult with the leaders of Congress as well, including the leadership of the congressional national security committees. And he asked us to consult about what we know regarding the horrific chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs last week.I will tell you that as someone who spent nearly three decades in the United States Congress, I know that that consultation is the right way for a president to approach a decision of when and how and if to use military force. And it’s important to ask the tough questions and get the tough answers before taking action, not just afterwards.And I believe, as President Obama does, that it is also important to discuss this directly with the American people. That’s our responsibility: to talk with the citizens who have entrusted all of us in the administration and the Congress with responsibility for their security.That’s why this morning’s release of our government’s unclassified estimate of what took place in Syria is so important. Its findings are as clear as they are compelling. I’m not asking you to take my word for it. Read for yourself, everyone, those listening, all of you, read for yourselves the evidence from thousands of sources, evidence that is already publicly available, and read for yourselves the verdict reached by our intelligence community about the chemical weapons attack the Assad regime inflicted on the opposition and on opposition-controlled or contested neighborhoods in the Damascus suburbs on the early morning of August 21st.
Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and rereviewed information regarding this attack. And I will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment. Accordingly, we have taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people, who can judge for themselves.But still, in order to protect sources and methods, some of what we know will only be released to members of Congress, the representatives of the American people.That means that some things we do know, we can’t talk about publicly.So, what do we really know that we can talk about? Well, we know that the Assad regime has the largest chemical weapons program in the entire Middle East. We know that the regime has used those weapons multiple times this year, and has used them on a smaller scale but still it has used them against its own people, including not very far from where last Wednesday’s attack happened.We know that the regime was specifically determined to rid the Damascus suburbs of the opposition, and it was frustrated that it hadn’t succeeded in doing so. We know that for three days before the attack the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons personnel were on the ground, in the area, making preparations. And we know that the Syrian regime elements were told to prepare for the attack by putting on gas masks and taking precautions associated with chemical weapons. We know that these were specific instructions.We know where the rockets were launched from, and at what time. We know where they landed, and when. We know rockets came only from regime-controlled areas, and went only to opposition-controlled or contested neighborhoods.And we know, as does the world, that just 90 minutes later all hell broke loose in the social media. With our own eyes we have seen the thousands of reports from 11 separate sites in the Damascus suburbs. All of them show and report victims with breathing difficulties, people twitching, with spasms, coughing, rapid heartbeats, foaming at the mouth, unconsciousness and death.
And we know it was it was ordinary Syrian citizens who reported all of these horrors.And just as important, we know what the doctors and the nurses who treated them didn’t report: not a scratch, not a shrapnel wound, not a cut, not a gunshot wound. We saw rows of dead lined up in burial shrouds, the white linen unstained by a single drop of blood.Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from Assad’s gas, and surrounded by parents and grandparents who had suffered the same fate.The United States government now knows that at least 1,429 Syrians were killed in this attack, including at least 426 children. Even the first responders — the doctors, nurses and medics who tried to save them — they became victims themselves. We saw them gasping for air, terrified that their own lives were in danger.This is the indiscriminate, inconceivable horror of chemical weapons. This is what Assad did to his own people.We also know many disturbing details about the aftermath. We know that a senior regime official who knew about the attack confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime, reviewed the impact and actually was afraid that they would be discovered.
We know this.
And we know what they did next. I personally called the foreign minister of Syria, and I said to him, if, as you say, your nation has nothing to hide, then let the United Nations in immediately and give the inspectors the unfettered access so they have the opportunity to tell your story.Instead, for four days they shelled the neighborhood in order to destroy evidence, bombarding block after block at a rate four times higher than they had over the previous 10 days. And when the U.N. inspectors finally gained access, that access, as we now know, was restricted and controlled.In all of these things that I have listed, in all of these things that we know, all of that, the American intelligence community has high confidence, high confidence this is common sense, this is evidence, these are facts.So the primary question is really no longer, what do we know. The question is what are we — we collectively — what are we in the world going to do about it.As previous storms in history have gathered, when unspeakable crimes were within our power to stop them, we have been warned against the temptations of looking the other way. History if full of leaders who have warned against inaction, indifference and especially against silence when it mattered most.Our choices then in history had great consequences, and our choice today has great consequences.It matters that nearly a hundred years ago, in direct response to the utter horror and inhumanity of World War I that the civilized world agreed that chemical weapons should never be used again. That was the world’s resolve then. And that began nearly a century of effort to create a clear red line for the international community.It matters today that we are working as an international community to rid the world of the worst weapons. That’s why we signed agreements like the START treaty, the New START treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, which more than 180 countries, including Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, have signed onto.It matters to our security and the security of our allies. It matters to Israel. It matters to our close friends Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, all of whom live just a stiff breeze away from Damascus. It matters to all of them where the Syrian chemical weapons are, and if unchecked, they can cause even greater death and destruction to those friends.And it matters deeply to the credibility and the future interests of the United States of America and our allies. It matters because a lot of other countries whose policies challenge these international norms are watching. They are watching. They want to see whether the United States and our friends mean what we say. It is directly related to our credibility and whether countries still believe the United States when it says something. They are watching to see if Syria can get away with it because then maybe they too can put the world at greater risk.And make no mistake. In an increasingly complicated world of sectarian and religious extremist violence, what we choose to do — or not do — matters in real ways to our own security. Some cite the risk of doing things. We need to ask what is the risk of doing nothing.It matters because if we choose to live in a world where a thug and a murderer like Bashar al-Assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity, even after the United States and our allies said no, and then the world does nothing about it, there will be no end to the test of our resolve and the dangers that will flow from those others who believe that they can do as they will.This matters also beyond the limits of Syria’s borders. It is about whether Iran, which itself has been a victim of chemical weapons attacks, will now feel emboldened in the absence of action to obtain nuclear weapons. It is about Hezbollah, and North Korea, and every other terrorist group or dictator that might ever again contemplate the use of weapons of mass destruction. Will they remember that the Assad regime was stopped from those weapons’ current or future use, or will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?
So our concern is not just about some far-off land oceans away. That’s not what this is about. Our concern with the cause of the defenseless people of Syria is about choices that will directly affect our role in the world and our interests in the world.It is also profoundly about who we are. We are the United States of America. We are the country that has tried, not always successfully, but always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. This crime against conscience, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us, and it matters to who we are. And it matters to leadership and to our credibility in the world.My friends, it matters here if nothing is done. It matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens.America should feel confident and gratified that we are not alone in our condemnation and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. The world is speaking out, and many friends stand ready to respond. the Arab League pledged, quote, “to hold the Syrian regime fully responsible for this crime.” The Organization for Islamic Cooperation condemned the regime and said we needed, quote, “to hold the Syrian government legally and morally accountable for this heinous crime.”Turkey said there is no doubt that the regime is responsible. Our oldest ally, the French, said the regime, quote, “committed this vile action, and it is an outrage to use weapons that the community has banned for the last 90 years in all international conventions.”The Australian prime minister said he didn’t want history to record that we were, quote, a party to turning such a blind eye.So now that we know what we know, the question we must all be asking is what we will do. Let me emphasize President Obama, we in the United States, we believe in the United Nations. And we have great respect for the brave inspectors who endured regime gunfire and obstructions to their investigation. But as Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general, has said again and again, the U.N. investigation will not affirm who used these chemical weapons. That is not the mandate of the U.N. investigation. They will only affirm whether such weapons were used. By the definition of their own mandate, the U.N. can’t tell us anything that we haven’t shared with you this afternoon or that we don’t already know. And because of the guaranteed Russian obstructionism of any action through the U.N. Security Council, the U.N. cannot galvanize the world to act, as it should.
So let me be clear: We will continue talking to the Congress, talking to our allies and, most importantly, talking to the American people. President Obama will ensure that the United States of America makes our own decisions on our own timelines based on our values and our interests.Now, we know that after a decade of conflict, the American people are tired of war. Believe me, I am too. But fatigue does not absolve us of our responsibility. Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about.And history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator’s wanton use of weapons of mass destruction against all warnings, against all common understanding of decency. These things, we do know.We also know that we have a president who does what he says that he will do. And he has said very clearly that whatever decision he makes in Syria, it will bear no resemblance to Afghanistan, Iraq or even Libya. It will not involve any boots on the ground. It will not be open-ended. And it will not assume responsibility for a civil war that is already well underway.The president has been clear: Any action that he might decide to take will be limited and tailored response to ensure that a despot’s brutal and flagrant use of chemical weapons is held accountable. And ultimately, we are committed, we remain committed, we believe it’s the primary objective is to have a diplomatic process that can resolve this through negotiation because we know there is no ultimate military solution. It has to be political. It has to happen at the negotiating table. And we are deeply committed to getting there.So that is what we know. That’s what the leaders of Congress now know. And that’s what the American people need to know. And that is at the core of the decisions that must now be made for the security of our country and for the promise of a planet where the world’s most heinous weapons must never again be used against the world’s most vulnerable people.Thank you very much.
