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Has anyone noticed that, this all started the day Corporal Shalit was kidnapped?  The same day, Iran was suppose to answer the UN, 5 July 2006.

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Yes Brother, I did.

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Yep and it is no coincidence.

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I was starting to get nervous..................then I read

Mat 24:6  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.


I feel better.

Pray hard, give praise, love everyone, love them into the kingdom with us

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Yep and it is no coincidence.

As you know brother, I also don't believe in coincidence.  As you know, Iranian President Ahmadinejad romised an answer to the UN on 22 August.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared he will make an announcement on August 22 2006.

Some possible thoughts..................

This provides four possible scenarios I can think of, at the moment.

1. Iran will cooperate with the U.N.S.C. (I doubt it though.)

2. Iran will declare they have nuclear capability with at least (four?) missiles with nuclear warheads (common knowledge I believe, in intelligence circles) that can easily reach all of Israel and threaten to use these against Israel if that country does not immediately cease attacks on the Hezbollah and Lebanon.  (I can see raghead Ahmadinejad bozo, doing this anyway.)

3. In the event that Israel does not immediately comply, Iran will declare war on Israel and fire nuclear missiles. (The start of Ezekiel 38 & 39?)

4. Iran is about to nuke Israel.  (And lose big time, see above.)
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Daniel 11:2-4 And now I will show you the truth. Behold, there shall arise three more kings in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than they all. And when he has become strong through his riches he shall stir up and stake all against the realm of Greece.  3 Then a mighty [warlike, threatening] king shall arise who shall rule with great dominion and do according to his [own] will. 4 And as soon as he has fully arisen, his [Alexander the Great's] kingdom shall be broken [by his death] and divided toward the four winds [the east, west, north, and south] of the heavens, but not to his posterity, nor according to the [Grecian] dominion which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be torn out and uprooted and go to others [to his four generals] to the exclusion of these.

Jeremiah 5:20-22 Declare this in the house of Jacob and publish it in Judah: 21 Hear now this, O foolish people without understanding or heart, who have eyes and see not, who have ears and hear not: 22 Do you not fear and reverence Me? says the Lord. Do you not tremble before Me? I placed the sand for the boundary of the sea, a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass and by an everlasting ordinance beyond which it cannot go? And though the waves of the sea toss and shake themselves, yet they cannot prevail [against the feeble grains of sand which God has ordained by nature to be sufficient for His purpose]; though [the billows] roar, yet they cannot pass over that [barrier]. [Is not such a God to be reverently feared and worshiped?]

Matthew 24:3-10 While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age? 4 Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error]. 5 For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place; 8 All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish]. 9 Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.  10 And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.

Matthew 24:31-34 And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect (His chosen ones) from the four winds, [even] from one end of the universe to the other.  32 From the fig tree learn this lesson: as soon as its young shoots become soft and tender and it puts out its leaves, you know of a surety that summer is near. 33 So also when you see these signs, all taken together, coming to pass, you may know of a surety that He is near, at the very doors. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation (the whole multitude of people living at the same time, in a definite, ]given period) will not pass away till all these things taken together take place.

Let us remember in our prayers, Israel tonight as we pray.
Bob

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I was starting to get nervous..................then I read

Mat 24:6  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

Let us not forget, Matthew 24:33 So also when you see these signs, all taken together, coming to pass, you may know of a surety that He is near, at the very doors.

Pray hard, give praise, love everyone, love them into the kingdom with us

AMEN Gary!! KEEP LOOKING UP!!

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Iran soldiers killed in Lebanon transferred to Tehran via Syria

Follows info Revolutionary Guard units assisting Hezbollah against Jewish state
Posted: July 23, 2006
4:15 p.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – The bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers who were killed by the Israeli army in Lebanon have been transported to Syria and flown to Tehran, senior Lebanese political sources told WorldNetDaily.

The information was confirmed by Israeli and Egyptian security officials. It follows scores of reports the past few days Iranian soldiers have been aiding Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon in their attacks against Israel, including help with the firing of rockets into Israeli population centers.

The Lebanese sources said between six and nine deceased Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers were brought in trucks last week into Syria for flight back to Iran. They said the bodies were transported along with the tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians fleeing the country into Syria.

Since Israel began its military campaign in Lebanon two weeks ago following a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state in which two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped, Syrian authorities have reported more than 140,000 Lebanese have entered their country, mostly through open areas in the Syria-Lebanon border.

WND reported earlier this month Israeli security officials said they have "concrete information" hundreds of Iranian soldiers stationed at Hezbollah positions in Lebanon have aided in efforts to fire missiles into the Jewish state.

The Israeli officials said Iranian guards directed the firing two weeks ago of a radar-guided C–802 missile that hit an Israeli navy vessel off the coast of Lebanon, killing four soldiers. Israel says Iran acquired the missile from China.

The officials said the Iranian soldiers' duties include keeping custody of long-range missiles within Hezbollah's arsenal, including Zalzal rockets which are said to have a range of 125 miles, placing Tel Aviv within firing range.

Jordanian officials told WND they are "100 percent sure" Iranian Revolutionary Guard unit soldiers have fired rockets into Israel. They also said the Syrian army has provided Hezbollah with intelligence information on the locations of strategic Israeli targets to aid in Hezbollah rocket fire.

A Ba'ath party official operating out of the Golan Heights told WND he has information Iranian soldiers have been firing rockets into Israel.

A senior Egyptian security official told WND it would be "very logical" if Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers have been helping Hezbollah fire the rockets.

Israel has long maintained Iranian Revolutionary Guard units have traveled regularly to south Lebanon to help train local Hezbollah fighters in terrorist tactics and to fortify Hezbollah positions along Israel's northern border.

At times, Revolutionary Guard soldiers could be seen operating openly at Hezbollah outposts in plain view from the Israeli side, military officials say.

Iran and Syria are the largest financial sponsors of Hezbollah. Israel says many Hezbollah rockets were made in or upgraded by Iran.

Earlier, Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mark Regev said Israel has information Hezbollah was trying to transfer the two soldiers it kidnapped to Iran.

Hezbollah has fired over 1000 rockets into northern Israeli towns the past two weeks. Dozens of rockets have slammed into Haifa, Israel's third largest city. Fifteen Israelis have been killed in the attacks, which have prompted over 2 million citizens – about one-third of the Jewish state – to live under the threat of rockets.

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U.S. Will Rush Bombs to Israel
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Posted on Jul 21, 2006
The United States has agreed to a request from Israel to expedite a shipment of precision munitions.  As fighting continues in Lebanon and Israel readies ground forces, the United States’ willingness to comply with such a request could further inflame the region.

From the N.Y. Times:

The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/world/middleeast/22military.html?hp&ex=1153627200&en=ccb5206208860925&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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I see the times still aiding the enemy.

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Yes...........however aside from the biased media, this could really escilate the situation. The west supporting the infidels yet again to give them the upper hand. hard to say where this will lead.

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I see the times still aiding the enemy.

Add to the list, "The Washington Post."

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Nuclear rods in Rockets

Friday, July 21, 2006

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
LONDON – The British intelligence service MI6 has established that Hezbollah is poised to launch a new "rain of terror" on Israel with rockets equipped with "dirty bomb" nose cones, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

"The nose cones will contain spent nuclear rods from Iran's nuclear programme. The rods are wrapped with conventional explosives. The dirty bombs are primarily intended to create increased panic across an already nervous population in northern Israel," claimed a senior intelligence officer in London.

Meantime, Mossad undercover agents are desperately trying to locate where the "dirty bomb" arsenal is located. It is believed to be in the Bekaa Valley.

The Israeli intelligence service has also told MI6 that it believes Hezbollah now has "up to a thousand" other rockets poised for launch.

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Syria warns against ground incursion
josh brannon, THE JERUSALEM POST    Jul. 23, 2006

Israel and Syria went on high alert along their mutual border late Sunday after Syria's Information Minister Muhsein Bilal warned that his country would join the conflict if Israel entered Lebanon with ground forces.

"If Israel invades Lebanon then it will be only about 20 km. from Damascus and we will not stand with our hands tied," Bilal said in an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC.

"We have cooperation forces on alert," he added. "If Israeli troops provoke us, Damascus will act to guarantee the national security of Syrian territory."

Following a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Sunday, Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Israel had no intention of entering into a war with Syria.

Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky told the weekly cabinet meeting that the IDF was not operating near the Syrian-Lebanese border, to avoid unnecessary escalation.

"If Syria does not attack Israel, Israel will not attack Syria," Vice Premier Shimon Peres told a visiting delegation of the World Jewish Congress on Sunday.

"I wouldn't take it too seriously," Brig.-Gen. (res.) Shlomo Brom, senior research associate at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, said of Syria's tough talk, in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. The former head of the Strategic Planning Division in the General Staff said Syria was ill-equipped for all out war against Israel.

"Even if the IDF were to attack within Syria's borders, it would not be in their interest to respond in face of Israel's overwhelming military superiority," Brom said. "The greatest difficulty faced by the IDF and other modern armies is the asymmetrical nature of warfare against guerrilla organizations. Unlike Hizbullah, Syria is full of juicy targets that the Israel Air Force could decimate within hours, and the Syrians know this."

Therefore, Brom added, the Syrians would rather use their proxy of Hizbullah to launch attacks than risk the destruction of its own military and strategic installations in an exchange with Israel.

According to Brom, Hizbullah's greatest asset was its ability to fire on Israel and then disappear into the surrounding countryside. Made up of 5,000-6,000 fighters hardened by 18 years of combat against IDF troops in Southern Lebanon, Hizbullah cells are able to capitalize on the rugged landscape in the region to frustrate the Israeli military machine.

IAF attack helicopter pilots were taking measures to stay out of range of advanced shoulder-fired missiles known to be in the possession of Hizbullah cells, military officials said.

Arab commentators have suggested that if its closest ally were be attacked, Iran would be obliged to respond following its February 2005 pledge to form a "united front" with Syria against any threats.

At the time, Iranian Vice President Muhammad Reza Aref said Iran was "ready to help Syria on all grounds to confront threats," and he urged other Islamic states to join in forming a powerful alliance in the face of "US and Israeli plots." The two countries have had close relations since the Islamic Revolution in 1978. In 1980, Syria backed Iran against Iraq, a fellow Arab nation, in their 1980-88 war.

Brom dismissed the doomsday scenario of Iran and Syria joining forces and igniting a regional war against Israel.

"They do not share a common border so Iran cannot move forces into the region to attack Israel from the north, and at the most we will have more ground-to-ground missiles launched at us from the East, and we have seen that, while unpleasant, Israel can withstand missile barrages on its cities."

Syria warns against ground incursion

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Iran's attack on Israel has begun

Israel's war of self-defense in southern Lebanon is a response to an Iranian Shiite fanatical attack on the Israeli people
Yaakov Lappin

A sampling of foreign media coverage of the war on the Israeli-Lebanese border indicates that the international press has, once again, missed the story unfolding in the Middle East. 

Hizbullah's rockets continue to pound Israeli cities, towns, and villages, creating a wave of Israeli refugees fleeing the north.

The displaced northerners can be seen all over Tel Aviv: They are families, young people, and children, all searching for accommodation and a place to rest.

The constant attacks by Hizbullah are creating daily, heart wrenching tragedies. Israelis are being killed and injured after trying to take cover from rocket barrages, or for simply going to work.

And there are the daily chilling air raid sirens which test the nerves. They signal yet another brutal Hizbullah assault on the civilian population centers of northern Israel.

Firm Israeli determination

Despite the hardships though, the Israeli people are almost unanimously united in their backing of the military's efforts to defend them, and their support for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

A firm determination is shared by nearly all of the people of this country to see this war through until the aggressors to the north are dealt with.

There is, however, a very serious twist to this war: It is no secret that Iran is using Lebanese territory as a frontline zone for an assault on northern Israel.

The terrorist organization of Hizbullah, which began this conflict with a completely unprovoked act of aggression, the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, is only part of the problem.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the fanatical Shiite regime in Tehran have created a mini-state in southern Lebanon.

Hizbullah's attack on Israel was given a green light in Tehran because Iran's official ideology, based on a fundamentalist Shiite theology, calls for the wiping out of Israel and a wave of attacks designed to establish global dominance of Shiite Islam.

"Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 (2005) will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world, The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world," Ahmadinejad declared last year, six days after being appointed president of Iran, as rockets continued to flow into southern Lebanon.

Hizbullah controlled by Tehran

Ahmadinejad sincerely believes that his role on earth is to herald in a period of apocalyptic warfare to annihilate non-Shiite Muslims, and usher in the "return" of the twelfth imam, signaling the end of time and supreme rule of Shiite Islam.

The Shiite southern Lebanese Hizbullah state, the Iranian proxy entity, is being armed, funded, and controlled by Tehran via remote control, to directly serve this end.

This is why a high number of Arab heads of state, from Egypt through to Saudi Arabia, have blasted the Hizbullah – Iranian axis of aggression against Israel. Sunni Saudi Arabia, no great friend of Israel, is frightened by Iran's attempted takeover of the region.

Meanwhile, like a virus, the Shiite Hizbullah state is draining its host, Lebanon, of stability, security, and sovereignty.

Using human shields 

Since Israel evacuated southern Lebanon six years ago, an act of good faith made by a hopeful neighbor striving for peace and respected international borders, Iran has sent in its Quds (Jerusalem) Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to provide Hizbullah with tens of thousands of rockets, missiles, and automatic weapons.

The Iranians and Hizbullah have spent over half a decade preparing for this war, and any illusion that it suddenly began out of the blue is a testament to the success of Iran's ability to keep its activities quiet.

As Iran prepares the region for its "Islamic revolution," its regional arm, Hizbullah, kidnapped Israeli soldiers, and has also taken hostage hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians - human shields being held against their will.

One of Hizbullah's most powerful weapons is the use of human shields. By hiding its soldiers and armaments among civilians in Lebanon, the organization can slow down the Israeli response and manipulate world opinion.

Reports from Lebanon that gun battles have broken out between southern Lebanese villagers trying to leave their villages, and Hizbullah gunmen who have trapped them with roadblocks, are therefore unsurprising.

Threat to global security

The Israeli people know that they are fighting a war against an irrational and belligerent Islamist alliance bent on destroying them and wreaking havoc in the world. Israel will never tolerate a cross-border attack on its sovereignty after withdrawing to its internationally recognized borders.

If the world is interested in peace, stability, and the right of the Israeli people to live safely, not to mention Lebanon's viablity as a sovereign nation-state, it should offer Israel unconditional support in its struggle against Hizbullah, and take a clear stand against Hassan Nasrallah's puppet masters in Tehran.

If, on the other hand, world leaders and the foreign media prefer to be duped by Hizbullah's dirty tactics, and condemn Israel for its war of self-defense, they will be aiding a growing and serious threat to global security, which other nations will also have to face not much further down the road.

Iran's attack on Israel has begun

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Israel does not want escalation of Lebanon case

Monday, July 24, 2006

Israel does not want its massive military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to escalate and involve Syria and Iran, General Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence, said.

LONDON, July 24 (IranMania) - Israel does not want its massive military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to escalate and involve Syria and Iran, General Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence, said.

"The operation is being carried out with the aim of avoiding an escalation when it comes to Syria and Iran, states that support the Hezbollah" Shiite militant group, Yadlin told a press conference, according to an IRNA report.

"Israel is not interested in a confrontation with Syria and Iran, but Israel will do everything so that these countries cease their support and substantial aid that they provide to the Hezbollah," he said.

Both countries insist they provide only moral support for Hezbollah whose capture of two Israeli soldiers brought Israel's onslaught on Lebanon, its civilian infrastructure and Hezbollah posts in the south.

Israel does not want escalation of Lebanon case