Tens of thousands of Syrian nationals are fleeing Syria and others are stockpiling food and supplies as they brace for an imminent military assault on their country by Western powers. Nevertheless, Syrian government officials are remaining calm on the surface and publicly promising that any military effort to weaken the Assad regime will end in failure.The Doha-based media network Al-Jazeera reports that Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi, one of  President Bashar Assad’s closest associates, threatened that if attacked, Syria will become “a graveyard for the invaders. We are not intimidated by their colonial threats.”Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad warned that if the US, France, or the United Kingdom put soldiers on the ground in Syria, “terrorists would use chemical weapons against them.” “Terrorists” is how the regime refers to the rebels in the Syrian civil war. Mekdad also accused the US, France, and United Kingdom of putting chemical weapons in the hands of the opposition in the first place.The Assad regime has repeatedly denied complicity in the August 21st chemical weapons attack on a Damascus suburb that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians. Nevertheless, it has repeatedly obstructed the efforts of a team of United Nations weapons inspectors, who now say they will only be able to file a report on the attack in another four days.
“If the West attacks us before then, we will surprise the aggressors just as we surprised [the Israelis] in the October (Yom Kippur) war in 1973,” Al-Halqi iterated. “I repeat. A Western attack will not bring our government down.”Interestingly, US President Barack Obama seems to entirely agree with that assessment. The London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat states that, in an interview with PBS News Hour, Obama said that any American strike on Syria would be limited and unlikely to affect the balance of power between Assad’s forces and opposition fighters.“I have not made a decision yet (on Syria),” Obama said. “Direct military intervention or involvement in the civil war in Syria will not help in resolving the situation on the ground. . . If we are saying in a clear and decisive but very limited way, we send a shot across the bow saying, stop doing this, this can have a positive impact on our national security over the long term.”
It might, but an equally likely result is that Assad will become even more emboldened to do whatever is necessary to win the civil war, according to the leading editorial in the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
The piece, entitled “Syria: The drums of war are stronger than the impact,” stresses the backing Assad feels he has from Russia, Iran, and China. If the Western response to Assad’s chemical attack is weak, the Syrian regime will see that the West is anything but serious about taking action on humanitarian grounds.“The only thing that is certain about the outcome of a Western attack is that day after it President Assad will come out to announce the failure of the military campaign of the mighty Western armies,” the editorial reads. “He will credit his own leadership capabilities, his army, and the Syrian people that stand with him to bring the country to victory.”In an op-ed in the Saudi-owned A-Sharq Al-Awsat called “Will the Assad regime be terminated after a military strike?” Saleh Qallab disagrees with the previous assessment. Qallab writes that Assad is merely a minor figure in his own regime. His government’s staying power does not come from foreign military backing or from Assad himself, but from the cadre of powerful Alawite political figures that wield real authority in the Syrian government. If that cadre feels that Assad’s time is up, they will remove him themselves.“Bashar Assad was a little boy with no experience or competence when he was chosen as president of Syria after his father died,” Qallab explains. “It’s a dangerous job in a country of military coups and a volatile political climate. He was chosen as president to fend off major instability by more powerful figures in the country than himself.”“The reality is that Assad is man who lives in a valley. He is the victim of those around him who commit horrific actions and crimes against humanity without his knowledge but in his name. To save the Syrian system, the regime may get rid of Assad and make him the scapegoat for their own crimes.”“With this knowledge, a Western military strike could have the effect of toppling not only Assad, but also the dangerous men around him. . . This is important for Syria and the entire Middle East.”

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL

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;