KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
BREAKING NEWS ATTENTION ALERT.
WE KNOW BY THE BIBLE THIS WILL NOT BE WW3.SO WE HAVE TO BE WORRIED,ABOUT ISRAELS SAFETY-BUT NOT ABOUT BEING FULL BLOWN WW3.SO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM-ALL. WE KNOW WW3 DOES NOT HAPPEN TILL JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED BY THE BIBLE.THIS OBAMA LIMITED STRIKE.MIGHT STIR UP SOME ARAB-MUSLIMS AGAINST ISRAEL.BUT IF THEY DO GO AGAINST ISRAEL-I PREDICT-ISRAEL WILL GET SOME OF THEIR PROMISED LAND BY GOD GIVIN TO THEM.BY DEFEATING THOSE ARAB-MUSLIMS THAT COME AGAINST ISRAEL.IN THIS LIMITED WAR.THIS MIGHT BE THE TIME THAT ISA 17:1 IS FULFILLED -THOUGH.THAT DAMASCUS WHICH IS ALMOST A HEAP OF RUBBLE ALREADY.MIGHT BE FINISHED OFF.AND NO MORE WILL ANYBODY EVER LIVE IN DAMASCUS AGAIN.BUT AS I SAY THIS WILL NOT BE WW3 YET BY THE BIBLE.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED-NOT BEFORE)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
REVELATION 9:13-18 (HERES THE BEGGINIG OF WW3 IN THE FUTURE)
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
REVELATION 16:12-16 (HERES WW3 SETUP AGAIN)
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
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.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
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.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST ALSO)
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.
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.
VOTES FOR THE WAR-AMERICA
SENATE - YES - 26 - NO - 31 - UNDECIDED - 43
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/syria-congress-vote-count/index.html
CONGRESS - YES - 25 - NO - 175 - UNDECIDED - 233
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/syria-congress-vote-count/house.html
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BREAKING NEWS ATTENTION ALERT.
WE KNOW BY THE BIBLE THIS WILL NOT BE WW3.SO WE HAVE TO BE WORRIED,ABOUT ISRAELS SAFETY-BUT NOT ABOUT BEING FULL BLOWN WW3.SO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM-ALL. WE KNOW WW3 DOES NOT HAPPEN TILL JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED BY THE BIBLE.THIS OBAMA LIMITED STRIKE.MIGHT STIR UP SOME ARAB-MUSLIMS AGAINST ISRAEL.BUT IF THEY DO GO AGAINST ISRAEL-I PREDICT-ISRAEL WILL GET SOME OF THEIR PROMISED LAND BY GOD GIVIN TO THEM.BY DEFEATING THOSE ARAB-MUSLIMS THAT COME AGAINST ISRAEL.IN THIS LIMITED WAR.THIS MIGHT BE THE TIME THAT ISA 17:1 IS FULFILLED -THOUGH.THAT DAMASCUS WHICH IS ALMOST A HEAP OF RUBBLE ALREADY.MIGHT BE FINISHED OFF.AND NO MORE WILL ANYBODY EVER LIVE IN DAMASCUS AGAIN.BUT AS I SAY THIS WILL NOT BE WW3 YET BY THE BIBLE.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED-NOT BEFORE)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
REVELATION 9:13-18 (HERES THE BEGGINIG OF WW3 IN THE FUTURE)
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
REVELATION 16:12-16 (HERES WW3 SETUP AGAIN)
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
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.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
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.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST ALSO)
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.
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.
VOTES FOR THE WAR-AMERICA
SENATE - YES - 26 - NO - 31 - UNDECIDED - 43
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/syria-congress-vote-count/index.html
CONGRESS - YES - 25 - NO - 175 - UNDECIDED - 233
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/syria-congress-vote-count/house.html
Netanyahu Says Syria Must Be Stripped of Its Chemical Weapons
Wednesday, 11 Sep 2013 11:52 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday
Syria must be stripped of its chemical weapons and that the
international community must make sure those who used weapons of mass
destruction pay a price.Netanyahu said Syria had carried out a "crime against humanity" by
killing innocent civilians with chemical weapons and that Syria's ally
Iran, who is at odds with the West over its nuclear program, was
watching to see how the world acted."It must be ensured that the Syrian regime is stripped of its
chemical weapons, and the world must make sure that whoever uses weapons
of mass destruction pays a price for it," Netanyahu said. "The message
that is received in Syria will be received loudly in Iran."
Hinting at dismay with Obama, PM says Israel can rely only on itself
Citing Syria and Iran, Netanyahu says he is guided as Israel’s leader, more now than ever, by the saying, ‘If I am not for myself, who will be for me?’
September 11, 2013, 10:20 pm
3-The Times of Israel
Netanyahu made this concern explicit in his
speech Wednesday, warning, “The message that is received in Syria will
be clearly understood in Iran.”Amid complex diplomacy to try to resolve the
Syria crisis, the prime minister was adamant that “one has to be certain
that the Syria regime is disarmed of its chemical weapons. The world
needs to ensure that whosoever uses weapons of mass destruction pays a
price.”
Netanyahu’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon
echoed his theme, stating that, “At the end of the day, we have rely on
ourselves, on our forces, on our deterrent capacity.”At the same event, President Shimon Peres
stressed that the Syrian regime could not be trusted. But in sharp
contrast to Netanyahu, Peres clearly threw his weight behind
Obama-backed, Russia-initiated diplomacy, saying any agreement reached
by the US and Russia would ensure the safe disposal of Syria’s WMDs.“I know both President Obama and President
Putin, and I am convinced that if an agreement is reached it will be
reliable, explicit and significant,” the president said.Israel’s Channel 2 news said that, behind the
scenes, Jerusalem believed that if diplomacy failed to definitively
resolve the crisis surrounding Assad’s chemical weapons, and yet Obama
did not resort to military action, Iran would be greatly emboldened.Another TV News report, on rival Channel 10,
said Netanyahu in private had indicated his concern that the Iranians
perceive weakness from the US in facing Bashar Assad’s Syria, a far less
potent regime than their own. The TV report said Netanyahu was also
unhappy that Obama had reached out to Israel and to pro-Israel activists
for help in swaying Congress behind military action, only to back away
from that course. And finally, it said, Netanyahu was wary that
destroying Assad’s chemical stockpiles was a lengthy, complex process,
and there was insufficient clarity about how it was to be handled.Last week, Giora Eiland, a former head of Israel’s National Security Council, said a plan by Netanyahu to attack Iran in 2012 was canceled due to US objections.Arab affairs analyst Ehud Yaari noted
Wednesday that seven years after Libya agreed to relinquish its chemical
weapons stockpiles — which were far smaller than the 1,000 tons he said
Assad’s regime held — only 40% of that weaponry had been destroyed.The process in Syria, said Yaari, would take
many years, would require immediate supervision of existing stockpiles
by large deployments if forces, the speedy signing and ratification by
Syria of the treaty against production and proliferation of chemical
weapons, and then the construction of sophisticated facilities to
destroy the weaponry.
Moscow hands US Syria chemical disarmament plan
Kerry, Lavrov to discuss particulars in Geneva on Thursday; Iran says it hopes new US policy is a ‘serious attitude’
The French official close to the president,
who spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations remained
sensitive, said Russia objected not only to making the resolution
militarily enforceable, but also to blaming the alleged Aug. 21 chemical
attack on the Syrian government and demanding that those responsible be
taken before an international criminal court.Wary of falling into what the French foreign
minister called “a trap,” Paris and Washington are pushing for a UN
Security Council resolution to verify Syria’s disarmament. Russia, a
close ally of Syrian leader Bashar Assad and the regime’s chief patron
on the international stage, dismissed France’s proposal on Tuesday.The diplomatic maneuvering threatened growing
momentum toward a plan that would allow President Barack Obama to back
away from military action. Domestic support for a strike is uncertain in
the United States, even as Obama seeks congressional backing for action
— and there has been little international appetite to join forces
against Assad.In a nationally televised speech Tuesday
night, Obama told Americans that diplomacy suddenly holds “the potential
to remove the threat of chemical weapons” in Syria without use of
force, but he declared that the US military will “be ready to respond”
against Assad if other measures fail.Obama said he had asked congressional leaders
to postpone a vote he has been seeking to authorize the use of military
force against Syria. The president pledged that any military action
wouldn’t involve deploying ground combat troops or waging a prolonged
air campaign.Alexei Pushkov, a Kremlin-connected senior
Russian lawmaker, said that Russia could expand arms sales to Iran and
revise terms of US military transit to Afghanistan if Washington
launches a strike on Syria.For many in the Syrian opposition who held out
hopes that Western strikes against Assad would tip the civil war in the
rebellion’s favor, Obama’s decision to seek a diplomatic resolution was
a disappointment.“We believe the regime is just buying more
time, is just trying to fool the international community, is just trying
to get out of this situation,” said Loay al-Mikdad, spokesman for the
Free Syrian Army, a loose-knit alliance of rebel factions that is backed
by the West.“We don’t believe that this delay for any kind
of intervention will stop the regime from killing Syrian people or be
for the Syrian people’s benefit. It will give Assad more time, and every
minute, every day, every hour that passes will cost us more blood and
Bashar will continue killing and nothing will change,” he said.In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
praised the Russian initiative, but said its backers must verify that
Damascus actually follows through and disarms itself of all chemical
weapons.
Obama’s decision also won the applause of
Assad’s close ally Iran, which has provided military and financial
support to the Syrian regime since the revolt began in March 2011.“We hope that the new US attitude toward Syria
would be a serious policy and not a media campaign,” Iranian state TV
quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying. Khamenei has
final say on all state matters.Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told
Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV on Tuesday that Syria would place its chemical
weapons in the hands of representatives of Russia, other unspecified
countries and the United Nations. Syria will also declare the chemical
arsenal it long denied having, stop producing such weapons and sign
conventions against them.French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said
Tuesday the French resolution would demand that Syria open its chemical
weapons program to inspection, place it under international control, and
ultimately dismantle it. A violation of that commitment, he said, would
carry “very serious consequences.” The resolution would condemn the
Aug. 21 attack and bring those responsible to justice, he said.In Geneva, a UN commission said Wednesday it
has confirmed at least eight mass killings perpetrated by Assad’s forces
and supporters and one carried out by rebels over the past year and a
half.Calling all of Syria a battlefield where
“massacres are perpetrated with impunity,” the UN commission said it is
probing nine more suspected mass killings since March. Its latest report
updates the commission’s work from 2011 until mid-July, stopping short
of the Aug. 21 attack.What has been left unaddressed in the flurry
of diplomacy is the broader civil war in Syria, which has already
claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people and forced more than 6
million Syrians — nearly a third of the population — to flee their
homes.Heavy fighting between Syrian government
troops and rebels flared again Wednesday in the ancient, predominantly
Christian village of Maaloula, near the Syrian capital. Troops are
trying to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to
al-Qaeda, from the hilltop enclave which they broke into last week.Most of the village’s 3,300 residents have
fled to safer parts of the country, although some have remained and are
locked up in their houses, activists said.
Maaloula, about 60 kilometers (40 miles)
northeast of Damascus, had until recently been firmly in the regime’s
grip despite being surrounded by rebel-held territory. The village was a
major tourist attraction before the civil war. Some of its residents
still speak a version of Aramaic, a biblical language believed to have
been used by Jesus.
US is ‘floundering’ over Syria, says ex-Mossad chief
Russia’s proposal makes Assad’s ouster less likely, to Israel’s detriment, says Shabtai Shavit; attacks like 9/11 won’t recur, thanks to Western vigilance
September 12, 2013, 12:57 am
1-The Times of Israel
‘On Iran, Israel stands alone’
Echoing comments by Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Shavit said that Israel will likely have to face the Iranian threat on its own.Economic sanctions could cause Iran to halt
its nuclear program if the pressure is strong enough to “strangle” the
Iranian economy, he said, but added that it is doubtful whether the
international community will impose such harsh sanctions. The military
alternative seems less likely than before in light of the Obama
administration’s reluctance to act decisively on Syria.“The US balks at launching half a dozen
Tomahawk missiles at Syria,” he said. Such “floundering,” he added, has
caused Washington “to lose prestige,” he said. “No one [in the world]
wants to wage wars that don’t directly concern them. Will Europe go to
war with Iran?”“We [in Israel] will have to decide on our own
strategy … since the world will not recognize the Iranian threat as a
global threat, [viewing it] only as one directed at Israel. If we stand
alone, we have to weigh the pros and cons.”Could Israel conceivably allow Iran to obtain
nuclear weapons? Shavit did not rule out that possibility — but only in a
different Iran. ”In a scenario where Iran changes from [a leadership]
of Muslim fanatics to a civil society, we can decide that ‘OK, it’s not
worth going to war over.’ Why? because a civil society decides
differently than fanatical Muslim leaders whose duty in life is to
annihilate you.”
The Russian deal: Good for Assad, bad for Israel
Russia’s proposal to strip Syria of its chemical weapons, gradually morphing into international policy,
worried Shavit. The plan demonstrates President Vladimir Putin’s
“mastery of realpolitik,” he said, giving Obama a much-coveted “ladder”
to withdraw his threat of force against Syria.“It seems to me that a deal is being hatched
between Russia, the US and Bashar Assad … Syria announced that it is
willing to destroy its chemical weapons or remove them from Syrian
territory. The world can indeed arrange that without much effort.”Shavit described such a scenario as a win-win situation for the three parties involved.‘Israel’s biggest gain, a strategic gain, [would be if] the axis of evil between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah is broken’“The United States gets off the hook, Russia
will have strengthened its standing in Syria, and Assad remains in
power, albeit weakened. What happens next? That question remains open.”Such an outcome, he stressed however, “is not good for Israel.”Unlike the moralistic tone used by Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in Wednesday’s call for international intervention in Syria, Shavit’s argumentation remains strictly practical.
“Israel’s biggest gain, a strategic gain,
[would be if] the axis of evil between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah is
broken. That would inevitably weaken Hezbollah and leave us alone to
confront Iran. It would mean Iran minus a [military] division; since
Hezbollah is effectively an Iranian division.”
‘A Kurdish secession in Syria would be good for Israel’
The
prospect of an independent or autonomous Kurdish state splintering from
the central government in Damascus — as in Iraq — would be good for
Israel, Shavit opined, but quickly added that such a state will never
come to be due to the objection of two regional powers, Iran and Turkey,
which would actively oppose such a move.
“The reason this will not happen is not only
that Syria will have to pay a territorial price for this [Kurdish]
state, but that a Kurdish state will demand territories under the
control of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Former Soviet Republics.”“The emergence of an independent Kurdish state would entail a price that the surrounding countries will not be willing to pay.”It is for good reason that the Autonomous
Kurdish Region in northern Iraq has not unilaterally declared statehood,
he said. ”If the Kurds unilaterally declare independence, no one will
come to their aid.”
‘An attack like 9/11 cannot repeat itself today’
The United States and Europe are far more
prepared to confront terrorism since the attacks against the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon in September 2001, Shavit said.“I do not believe that global terrorism can
execute an operation on the scale of the 9/11 attacks,” he said. “Many
things have changed in the United States, Europe, and the rest of the
free world, both with regards to preventative and defensive measures and
with regards to the development of offensive counter-terrorism
doctrines.”‘The fact of the matter is that
since 9/11 they haven’t repeated an attack of similar magnitude, and
it’s not for lack of trying’Following 9/11, Shavit founded Athena, a
company which advises countries on issues of homeland security,
intelligence gathering, and counter-terrorism. He maintains the position
of CEO in the company.If international terrorist groups were free to
plan and execute attacks before 9/11, today they invest over 50 percent
of their time worrying about their own survival, he claimed.“The fact of the matter is that since 9/11
they haven’t repeated an attack of similar magnitude, and it’s not for
lack of trying.”
White House: Russian prestige on the line in Syria
As Kerry heads to meet Russian FM in Geneva, Obama administration pins the success or failure of a diplomatic option on Moscow
September 12, 2013, 2:07 am
0-The Times of Israel
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