Who is the “Greatest Man Who Ever Lived”?

[jusplay4fun]

The wanted to keep and control the secret knowledge.

Try Grammarly, or even a basic spell check. Better yet, at least pay attention to the red lines when you type in CC.

There were no Red Lines; spell checker did not pick up my one letter error.

Do you actually have anything of substance or are you going to be a nitpicker?

LOL

I love how it’s a “one letter error” when he does it…but when he wants to attack someone it’s “carelessness, which demonstrates a lack of clarity of thought”.

LOL

I doubt that you even had NOT a clue what bioaccumulation even means. I do not need to prove how smart I am. Compared to jimb, most on CC look like Dirac, Mozart, or Einstein.

For your most recent error in the other thread you confused SUE vs USE, jimb. You make an error about every other post. I make one error about once a month; you and 2dimes want to turn that into a Federal Case. What a pathetic and sad life that you have. SAD, very SAD. PERIOD.

[jusplay4fun]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)

What evidence is there that

the early Christian Community was completely exterminated

?
No evidence. Even massive killing of early Christian martyrs by Roman Emperors failed to KILL the early Church.

substituted by a replacement community

by whom? Arians? Gnostics? NO, not true.

All this is mere speculation by saxi with NO evidence provided.

How many followers does saxi have? Maybe ralph..?? for one..??

Followers of Jesus Christ? about 2 Billion or 2,000,000,000. I think the evidence is rather one-sided.

Maybe there is one more CRAZY person who believes THIS fake news by that "prophet" saxi, but that person must be hiding in a closet, or has his head buried in the sand.

[Dukasaur]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

There's no evidence whatsoever for that assertion.

Jesus is believed to have died sometime between 30 and 40 A.D. There is no independent record whatsoever of anyone preaching about him until about 55 A.D. when Paul began preaching Christianity. Paul did not, at any point, quote a single word that Jesus is alleged to have preached prior to his crucifixion. Paul does not mention the birth of Christ, Christ's ancestry, the Apostles, the entry into Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate, the trial, the miracles, the Temptation of Christ, John the Baptist, nothing. If Paul had any contact with any other followers of Christ, they certainly didn't tell him anything about the man.

The first gospel was written (following the most charitable timeline available) around 70 A.D., and likely later than that. At that point, when Jesus was dead at least 30 years and probably more, the authors of the synoptic gospels started weaving together a life story for Christ. My view is that they wove it together out of whole cloth. In other words, completely made it up. Nobody knew anything about the life of this preacher they had heard about, but it was starting to be a going concern and so a backstory had to be invented. Sort of like when Coca-Cola's marketing assholes conjuring up a fake origin story for Coke that magically circumvented mention of cocaine.

What evidence is there that

the early Christian Community was completely exterminated

?
No evidence. Even massive killing of early Christian martyrs by Roman Emperors failed to KILL the early Church.

?

The evidence is in the scriptures themselves. The fact that there seems to be no overlap whatsoever between Paul spreading this new religion and the events alleged to have happened in Christ's life. The founder of the Church makes NOT ONE mention of the events of Christ's life prior to the crucifixion. The gospellers made it all up later.

Here's an excellent documentary on the subject.

[jusplay4fun]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

There's no evidence whatsoever for that assertion.

Jesus is believed to have died sometime between 30 and 40 A.D. There is no independent record whatsoever of anyone preaching about him until about 55 A.D. when Paul began preaching Christianity. Paul did not, at any point, quote a single word that Jesus is alleged to have preached prior to his crucifixion. Paul does not mention the birth of Christ, Christ's ancestry, the Apostles, the entry into Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate, the trial, the miracles, the Temptation of Christ, John the Baptist, nothing. If Paul had any contact with any other followers of Christ, they certainly didn't tell him anything about the man.

The first gospel was written (following the most charitable timeline available) around 70 A.D., and likely later than that. At that point, when Jesus was dead at least 30 years and probably more, the authors of the synoptic gospels started weaving together a life story for Christ. My view is that they wove it together out of whole cloth. In other words, completely made it up. Nobody knew anything about the life of this preacher they had heard about, but it was starting to be a going concern and so a backstory had to be invented. Sort of like when Coca-Cola's marketing assholes conjuring up a fake origin story for Coke that magically circumvented mention of cocaine.

What evidence is there that

the early Christian Community was completely exterminated

?
No evidence. Even massive killing of early Christian martyrs by Roman Emperors failed to KILL the early Church.

?

The evidence is in the scriptures themselves. The fact that there seems to be no overlap whatsoever between Paul spreading this new religion and the events alleged to have happened in Christ's life. The founder of the Church makes NOT ONE mention of the events of Christ's life prior to the crucifixion. The gospellers made it all up later.

Here's an excellent documentary on the subject.

NO proof. I do not accept anything on Youtube as fact.

Try again.

One key point: the followers of Jesus thought He was coming back SOON and saw NO NEED to write anything down. That does not mean it was ALL made up. You offer no proof to your assertion, other than your "documentary."

I said earlier that at this point that EYEWITNESS accounts were held to a greater authority and truth than anything actually written, as one cannot ask questions TO a document and get a first hand reply. Only when Jesus did not return and the eyewitnesses started to DIE off that someone (or more) saw the need to ACTUALLY write something down. So the lack of a written account shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus MAKES sense.

Why would nearly all 11 Apostles and many martyrs DIE for a fake story, a LIE? You have offered no explanation of that. The fact that you see no value in Religion makes your OPINIONS very biased. So are mine, on this matter.

I offer the death of the Apostles and martyrs as proof. And many others suffered too, and they did so for A LIE, for Fake News? No..!! They believed in Jesus based on the testimony of ACTUAL EYEWITNESSES, the 11 Apostles and other Disciples who were with him. Most of these men (and some women) were not scholars, historians, professors, or writers. They were fishermen and working men. I doubt that most could read or write. It was not necessary for their jobs. What was necessary was that they could provide an honest, credible, compelling (even cogent), and believable testimony to what Jesus said, did, and taught.

[saxitoxin]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

[DirtyDishSoap]

No. YOU have a READING issue! My reading is IMPECCABLE! Saxi ONCE again REFUSES to acknowledge my CAPABILITIES when it comes to READING! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading
I am CLEARLY the better PLAYER because I can HYPERLINK my WIKIPAGES.
So f*ck YOU SAXI!

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[DirtyDishSoap]

There's nothing supporting your claim that Napoleon inspired the game RISK.
Quit talking out of your ass.

[2dimes]

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

There is a complete denial of the reading and comprehension issue. Every time it's the writers fault.

You make an error about every other post. I make one error about once a month; you and 2dimes want to turn that into a Federal Case.

Yeah, I filed a motion with the Supreme Court of Rhodesia.

Or I quoted a sentence that he would complain made no sense due to a missing letter if Jim wrote it and he read it, but anyone else could use context to figure out. Then added another quote of one of his actual petty overreactions.

Even though he does it much less, the point was, it’s a “one letter error” when he does it…but when he wants to attack someone it’s “carelessness, which demonstrates a lack of clarity of thought”.

[jusplay4fun]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

[saxitoxin]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

[Dukasaur]

Here's an excellent documentary on the subject.

NO proof. I do not accept anything on Youtube as fact.

Nobody asked you to accept it as fact. Think about it and consider it. What conclusions you draw are your own.

As for the fact that it's on YouTube, that means nothing either way. There is lots of truth and lots of lies on YouTube, just as there is lots of truth and lots of lies in other media. It's our problem to consider each argument for both internal and external consistency and make an evaluation of it.

One key point: the followers of Jesus thought He was coming back SOON and saw NO NEED to write anything down. That does not mean it was ALL made up. You offer no proof to your assertion, other than your "documentary."

Proof, no. Logical inference, yes.

I said earlier that at this point that EYEWITNESS accounts were held to a greater authority and truth than anything actually written, as one cannot ask questions TO a document and get a first hand reply. Only when Jesus did not return and the eyewitnesses started to DIE off that someone (or more) saw the need to ACTUALLY write something down. So the lack of a written account shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus MAKES sense.

No it doesn't. The Jews had a well-evolved religious bureaucracy that kept meticulous records. The Romans judicial system did, too. So did the intellectual class of nearby Ptolemaic Egypt. With an enormous amount of writing going on around them, you think it makes sense that nobody among the alleged followers of Christ kept at least a journal of these amazing events?

Why would nearly all 11 Apostles and many martyrs DIE for a fake story, a LIE? You have offered no explanation of that.

Why did dozens willingly die for Ali Pasha? Why did hundreds willingly die for Jim Jones? Why did tens of thousands willingly die for the idea of bushido? Why have millions marched off to war for one ruler or another?

Homo sapiens is a pack animal. The power of our willingness to sacrifice ourselves for the pack, or for our imaginary idea of what the pack represents, is truly monstrous.

The fact that you see no value in Religion makes your OPINIONS very biased. So are mine, on this matter.

Not really. I reject the supernatural aspects of religion. I don't reject the idea of religions as a moving force in history. I'm actually quite fascinated by religious history.

There's no way you could persuade me that Jesus really is a god. But if you could show me actual concrete evidence of Jesus the mortal man, of his true words and his actual deeds, I would be absolutely delighted to see it.

I offer the death of the Apostles and martyrs as proof. And many others suffered too, and they did so for A LIE, for Fake News? No..!! They believed in Jesus based on the testimony of ACTUAL EYEWITNESSES, the 11 Apostles and other Disciples who were with him. Most of these men (and some women) were not scholars, historians, professors, or writers. They were fishermen and working men. I doubt that most could read or write. It was not necessary for their jobs. What was necessary was that they could provide an honest, credible, compelling (even cogent), and believable testimony to what Jesus said, did, and taught.

Well, we certainly know that there were martyrs, and that many of them were willingly martyred. But as far as the alleged Apostles, we have no proof whatsoever. The earliest actual documentary evidence of anything resembling Christianity comes 40 years after the supposed date for the death of Christ. Feel free to dismiss the video I posted, but hundreds of scholars have at one time or another put forth similar theses: That Christianity was made up out of whole cloth in the second half of the first century, that its founders knew little or nothing about the actual Jesus Christ and simply used his name because they needed some shred of truth on which to peg their stories.

[2dimes]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

Have either of you considered this?

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"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name." Revelation 3:10-12

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Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar declares Palestinian war on Israel will go on - Debka

Spelling out the incoming Palestinian government's agenda, a-Zahar said: We will not recognize Israel; our armed struggle will go on until all of Palestine is "liberated;" we will abrogate the Oslo accords and all the agreements the PLO and the Palestinian Authority signed; all negotiations with Israel must go through a third party; we don't need money from Israel or "the Satan;" Arab nations will give us money; we have long-range missiles.

DEBKAfile: Mahmoud a-Zahar, who is terminally ill with cancer, in effect handed down his political-military testament. It contained the incoming Palestinian government's point-by-point response to the conditions laid down by the United States, Israel and the Middle East Quartet (sans Russia) for dealing with a Hamas-led government – recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor international accords. He showed the Islamic terrorists to be unmoved by threats of isolation and the restrictive rules of engagement the Olmert government proposes to impose on a Palestinian Authority after Hamas is sworn in.

Responding to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's election pledge to set Israel's final borders, the Hamas leader declared total war on the Jewish state and its very existence.

A-Zahar scorned the constitutional "white" revolution to unseat Hamas which Abu Mazen attempted on the last day of the departing, Fatah-dominated legislature.

He was also telling Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades that Hamas could match the new Aqsa 207 Katyusha rockets they had just acquired.
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Supreme Court Justice Mishael Heshin defines the Palestinian Authority as an enemy state de facto - Debka

He rejected petitions to allow Palestinians married to Israelis to settle in Israel under the family reunification law as a loophole that would pose a risk to state security. "Just listen to daily declarations made by Hamas," Heshin said. "The Palestinian people chose Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, and they are citizens of an enemy state."

He asked why Israel should take risks with Israeli lives, any more than did England and America by admitting Germans during World War II. The judge said no one is preventing mixed couples from building a family, but they should live in Jenin. The right to life takes priority over any other consideration, he said.
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Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal says: Our mission is to liberate Jerusalem, purify the Aqsa Mosque - Debka

Addressing a pro-Hamas rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Mashaal referred to Western threats to cut off aid: "God, the Islamic nation are with us, will lead us to victory and liberation. Do not fear poverty." He thanked Sudanese parties for raising funds for the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government.
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Mofaz: Hamas part of 'axis of evil' - Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Presidential palace in Cairo Tuesday that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it dismantled its terror infrastructure, recognized the State of Israel and accepted all previous agreements made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Hamas's control over the Palestinian Authority is just another part of the 'axis of evil' that includes Iran, Syria, and now extends to the PA from where it will extend to additional countries that harbor terror organizations," Mofaz told reporters following his hour long meeting with Mubarak.

In addition to Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections, the two officials also discussed the current tense situation along Israel's northern border with Hizbullah and the growing global terror perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al Qaida.

Israel, Mofaz told Mubarak, believed that Syria and Iran were giving financial and logistical support to Hizbullah with the goal of shifting the international community's focus from those countries to the Hizbullah.

"Their goal is that the focus of the international world will be there [along the northern border] and not on Syria, since the Syrians are under pressure," Mofaz said.

Mubarak, Mofaz said, asked Israel to "have patience" since Egypt believed that it was only a matter of time before the Hamas met all of Jerusalem's criteria for the renewal of negotiations between the PA and Israel.

"Mubarak believes that the pressure Egypt has placed on Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and the Hamas will bear fruit and that the Hamas will change its ways," Mofaz said.
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'3rd intifada on its way'- By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

Terror leaders detail for WND 'massive new war' against Israel

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its "military wing" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation – against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah party scored poorly in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.


"The new intifada is only a question of time and this will be the hardest and the most dangerous one. It's just about timing until the order to blow up a new wave of attacks will be given," Abu Nasser, a senior Al Aqsa Brigades leader from the Balata refugee camp in northern Samaria told WorldNetDaily in an interview.

Israel expecting new wave of terror

In the last 10 days Israeli forces intercepted 12 potential suicide bombers and have stopped several dozen bombings the past few months, prompting fears of "a new and worrisome wave of terror," said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security services.

Hamas last month catapulted to power, winning Palestinian parliamentary elections by a large margin and wresting control from Fatah. Israel has warned the losing terror groups, particularly Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, will try to stymie efforts by Hamas to form a new government and sign a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state. Also, members of the Islamic Jihad terror group expressed disappointment their organization decided not to run in elections, and have warned they will stop Hamas from imposing a truce.

Last week, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his Kadima party, leading overwhelmingly in the polls for next month's Israeli elections, will seek to "change Israel's borders" by withdrawing from most of the West Bank. Some security officials told WND they fear terror groups will increase attacks to claim credit for an Israeli West Bank pull-out.

After Israel announced its withdrawal from Gaza, which it carried out this past summer, terror organizations, mostly led by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group, increased attacks in the area, at one point firing an average of seven rockets per week at Gaza's Jewish communities.

Diskin warned that Iran and Syria, currently under mounting international pressure, are streaming large sums of money to Palestinian terror groups to spur on local cells to carry out attacks in hopes of starting regional violence.

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

The terror groups themselves say they are planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, which some terror leaders are calling a "third intifada." They detailed for WorldNetDaily how they will carry it out.

Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'

The Al Aqsa Brigades was formed in 2000 by then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat as a military offshoot of the Fatah party. PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a cease fire with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last February, to which the Brigades was party – but the terror group continued carrying out attacks.

Al Aqsa's Abu Nasser claims Israel put Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a result.

"For the last 10 months we respected a cease fire expecting to see changes in the lives of the Palestinian people, but we received from the Israeli side more assassinations ... and above all we received the Hamas victory, which seems to be the result of an Israeli and international conspiracy. They believe that Hamas will give up easier our lands and rights. I think that they are right, but we will not allow this to happen. We will fight and we will blow up the new intifada," Abu Nasser told WND.

Sources close to Al Aqsa say Abu Nasser was involved in preparing the last three suicide bombings in Israel, including the attack last month at a Tel Aviv shwarma restaurant that injured more than 30 Israelis.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal over the weekend said his group might sign a long-term cease fire with Israel, but told reporters he will not ask other Palestinian group to stop attacks.

Abu Nasser told WND the Brigades will not respect any cease fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

"I am sure Hamas will start arresting us, but it will not be that easy [for them]," said Abu Nasser. "We are preparing ourselves for the worst scenario."

Asked if Al Aqsa's new terror war will be launched less out of aggression toward Israel and more to revolt against Hamas, Abu Nasser replied, "This is partially true. When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?

Continued Abu Nasser: "I am sure once [Hamas is] in power it is only that power that is really important for them. They will be ready to give up things that President Arafat refused to do. The proof for what I am saying is that in the last days when the Israeli army killed more than 15 Palestinian activists, most of them from our Brigades, we did not hear the voice of Hamas. Where are their resistance principles? Did they disappear after the elections?"

Abu Nasser warned the so-called third intifada will be a combination of suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish towns.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades recently unified most of our cells and groups and we will wait for the most suitable moment to launch our resistance acts. As for the acts, there will be suicide attacks but there will be a massive use of rockets. These rockets will be launched against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but also if needed against Israeli cities inside the green line."

Rocket war against Israel

Since Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip this past August, security officials have been warning that the Palestinian terror groups transferred their rocket capabilities to the West Bank, which is within firing range of Israel's international airport and many major Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israel has confirmed that at least two rockets have been fired in the West Bank so far from the northern Samaria town of Jenin. There is information terror groups in the West Bank, particularly the Al Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad, will step up attacks against the area's Jewish communities ahead of any Israeli withdrawal from the area.

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned that his organization is preparing a rocket war against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Oudai said his organization and other terror groups have stockpiled Palestinian rockets, including Qassams, which can travel about 2 miles, more primitive Jenin-1 and Jenin-2s, and Arafat-1 and Arafat-2 rockets, some of which can reportedly travel up to 3 miles. He claimed his group is developing a new rocket that will put all of Israel's major cities within firing range.

"The very near future will prove their capacity to kill and destroy and to beat the Israelis in the West Bank exactly like we did with these rockets in the Gaza Strip," Oudai said.

Oudai pocked fun at Israel's West Bank security barrier, which has been credited with making it more difficult for Palestinian groups to carry out suicide bombings.

"[The Israelis] have built a huge wall on which [it] spent billions of dollars but still we are hitting Israel with our rockets and reaching every target we want. This wall will not defend [Israel] from our rockets which have defeated the wall and all the security measures taken to prevent our attacks," Oudai boasted.

Israeli military leaders previously warned that the Jewish state will launch an "unprecedented" military campaign against any rocket firing from the West Bank.

The Israeli Defense Forces did not initiate any large-scale anti-rocket operation in response to the rockets launched from Jenin. It has been largely unable to stop the rockets regularly fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli Negev towns.

The Israeli army regularly responds to Qassam firings from Gaza with surgical missile strikes and artillery fire at areas it says are used to launch rockets. In December, Israel set up a buffer zone in sections of Gaza occasionally used to fire rockets into nearby Israeli Negev communities, but the Palestinian terrorists shifted their launching sites to other areas and have continued the attacks.

Said Oudai: "Israel already has used all its tools. Tanks, aircrafts, assassinations and everything it could use. But we are still here and still fighting. We do not get excited from the Israeli threats. What can be this unprecedented reaction? They have already tried everything."

In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization of several Palestinian terror groups, has taken credit for many of the rockets launched from the area since 2000.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Committees, boasted his group transported missiles to the West Bank.

"If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank," Abu Abir told WorldNetDaily.

Abu Abir said his group has "improved [our] capacities in shooting these rockets. Even the Israeli officers agreed that the improvement is at all levels, [including] the distance that these rockets can reach, the capacity of explosives and their accuracy. In the last five years, there is no doubt that our abilities have improved."

Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'

Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for every suicide bombing against Israel since last February's cease fire, including bombings in a Tel Aviv disco and restaurant and a Netanya shopping mall, among others. Al Aqsa leaders told WorldNetDaily they aided the recent bombings. Islamic Jihad also says it fired most of the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel's August withdrawal.

Israel says Islamic Jihad is directly backed by Iran and Syria. Jihad chief Ramadan Shallah operates openly from Damascus and regularly visits Tehran.

Security sources say Hezbollah headquarters in Damascus and Beirut have ordered Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks in hopes of drawing Israel into a protracted military conflict.

Israel's Diskin warned that Iran and Syria are looking to use Islamic Jihad in part to distract mounting international pressure against their respective countries.

Iran is under fire for its alleged nuclear ambitions, and the international community led by the United States has threatened to bring Syria to the United Nations Security Council for allegedly interfering in the investigation into the assassination last year of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raqif Hariri, for which Syria has been widely blamed.

WorldNetDaily spoke with Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader Abu Khalil, who warned his terror group is planning a terror onslaught to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

"We will launch very soon very painful attacks that will shake the enemy. In fact, this is more the continuation of the (second) intifada because we never said that the intifada has ended. We will never give calm and security to the enemy. This will happen only when Israel will run away from Jerusalem and the West Bank like it did in Gaza," Abu Khalil said.

Abu Khalil, like leaders from the Al Aqsa Brigades, said his group will not respect a Hamas request to halt attacks against Israel.

"I don't believe the brothers in Hamas will ask us to stop. In any case, our only commitment is towards Allah, and the blood of our people and brothers and towards our political leadership," Abu Khalil told WND.

"Therefore we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and to launch all kinds of attacks against Israel everywhere there is an Israeli soldier or any Israeli goal in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine [the entire state of Israel]."

Asked which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."

Hamas: 'Our goal is to rebuild Palestinian society'

Hamas, a terror group responsible for more than 60 suicide bombings, last month won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and is currently attempting to form a governing coalition.

Hamas leaders claim they will focus on rebuilding Palestinian society, and have stated they may sign a long term cease fire agreement with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told WorldNetDaily his group will "rebuild the Palestinian life shattered by corruption in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is our goal now. To make a better life for the Palestinians."

In a widely circulated interview, al-Zahar even recently claimed to WorldNetDaily that Hamas might negotiate with Israel using a third party.

He said his group will likely agree to a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state, but said it will not recognize Israel or renounce its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel by "assaulting and killing."

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this weekend said his group will not stop other Palestinian organizations from carrying out attacks against Israel.

Still, some analysts contend Hamas might use its power to halt some anti-Israel violence in hopes of receiving financial aide from international donors.

But the Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza warned that after Israel's Gaza withdrawal Hamas attacks will be focused on West Bank Jewish communities. The Center is reportedly closely aligned with Hamas and, according to Israeli security officials, it espouses Hamas ideology:

"[Hamas will be] transporting warfare technologies such as mortars and rockets from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. These will provide an easy way to bombard Israeli populated areas adjacent to the security fence, and the fence, which is currently under construction, will therefore become useless," stated a recent publication by the Research Center, according to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.

Al-Mustaqbal stated Israel's Gaza withdrawal provided Hamas and other terror groups with a staging ground from which to launch attacks and to transport rockets to West Bank communities. It said the Gaza withdrawal proves Israel will vacate other areas in response to repeated attacks.

PFLP: Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out recent West Bank shooting attacks and rocket firings from the Gaza Strip. The group's leader, Ahmad Saadat, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for allegedly planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavaam Zeevi in October 2001.

Israeli security officials say the PFLP has scaled back its participation in attacks the past few months, but Abu Hani, a leader of the PLFP's "armed wing," the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, told WorldNetDaily his group used the time earned from last year's cease fire to build its arsenal in preparation for a third intifada.

"The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel," Abu Hani said.

He told WorldNetDaily the PFLP is "forced" to launch a new terror war.

"It is not that we prepare an intifada. It is the reality on the ground that dictates a new intifada. There is the fence, there is the building in the Jewish settlements, the daily Israeli penetration into Palestinian cities, villages and camps and of course the killing of our comrades and brothers," Abu Hani says.

Israel routinely conducts anti-terror military raids in the West Bank when it receives intelligence warning of new attacks. The Israeli Air Force fires at targets in Gaza in attempts to halt Palestinian groups from launching rockets at nearby Jewish communities.

Abu Hani warned, "The current situation does not leave to the Palestinians many choices but to fight with all the tools we have or can have. The Gaza withdrawal proves unfortunately that force, attacks and rockets is the only language and attitude that the Israelis understand. They do not withdraw unless they are hit by the Palestinian resistance. So if there is a way that has already obliged the Israelis to withdraw, why not to use it again?"
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Events Sweeping World Leaders Toward Apocalyptic Confrontation With Israel - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst - http://www.watch.org

Wash—Feb 13—KIN—Since the beginning of 2006, a riptide of current events has been propelling the leaders of Russia, Iran and Syria toward an irreversible apocalyptic confrontation with Israel that surpasses even their own understanding and fulfills the predictions of ancient prophets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar Assad are taking public decisions that reach far beyond peaceful geo-political strategy as the path they have chosen seems to be an unalterable march to eliminate Israel using Islam as the point of the dagger hidden beneath a cloak of peace and behind the rhetoric of reason.

The prophet Ezekiel proclaimed some 2,500 years ago, "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations…(Ezekiel 38:3-8)."

The nation of Israel was re-established from the vote of the United Nations in May 1948 (brought forth out of the nations where Jews from around the world re-gathered to form the nation after being separated throughout millennia because of the sword, or wars) and biblical scholars widely agree that Gog is the land occupied by today's Russia, Persia is Iran and Ethiopia is Northeast Africa, including Egypt, and Libya is Northwest Africa, including Libya, Sudan, Nigeria and other nations hostile to Israel. This apocalyptic battle results in these nations being miraculously destroyed where it will take seven months to bury the dead (Ezekiel 39:12) and the weapons will burn for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9)

Russia's actions, irrespective of whether Putin even understands how his decisions have coincided with prophecy, are those of a country preparing for war. Russia, once the heart of the powerful communist Soviet Union, has historically supported Islamic nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon against Israel as evidenced in the immediate 1948 fight for independence and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel. But today, Russia is renewing its move tip the balance of power in the Middle East boldly using Islamic fascism that aims to annihilate the tiny nation of Israel and her steadfast ally, the United States.

Putin on January 31 boasted to the world that Russia has new missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system and said, "Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has. These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but it doesn't matter to them whether that exists or not. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path." Putin also said the new missiles are nuclear capable. The Russian military since has announced it is revamping and upgrading its nuclear arsenal. Russia has been at the heart of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program as Putin has agreements to build Iran's nuclear plants and Russian engineers, as assisted by North Korean and Chinese colleagues, are known to be helping the Iranians design missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads long range.

In one of his boldest foreign policy moves to date, Putin took a public decision to solidify Russia's position in the Middle East by opening dialogue with yet another political body sworn to the destruction of Israel. Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow for discussions. And Putin signaled to the world that there was more than just diplomacy at stake. Putin said he was inviting Hamas to Russia to hold talks, reminding the international community that, Russia has never, in Putins words, "considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people." Putin said it's not good to burn political bridges and that's why Russia has not "rushed to call any organization 'terrorist'."

This raised immediate red flags within the diplomatic circles at the White House since Russia, a member of the Middle East Peace Quartet also including the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, was a signatory to a statement after the Palestinian elections saying "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic State. A two-State solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." Putin's move drew a sharp response from U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack on February 9, "We would urge any government that might have contact with Hamas to deliver the very clear message that was in the Quartet statement and that is that Hamas has some decisions to make. They must recognize the state of Israel, renounce terror and live up to the international obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to. As a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message." Then the day after, he said, "We believe that should Russia have taken the opportunity to have chosen to have a meeting, they should take it as an opportunity to reinforce the message. Whether or not it has any effect on Hamas is going to be up to Hamas. They're the ones -- the onus is on Hamas to make certain decisions. The international community has laid out very clearly what is required of them. It's up to them to respond to that."

Despite the State Department's optimism that Russia will deliver the so-called "international message" to Hamas, several analysts believe Russia is playing a different game—one of strengthening its military ties in the Middle East—and Putin's statements say little to change that impression. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated emphatically that Russia will deliver the message to Hamas, it remains to be seen how strongly in private the message will be delivered and whether it will be communicated with a "wink." Relying on Russia to assist in keeping the peace in Iraq held a disastrous conclusion in the Oil for Food scandal where Putin, himself, reportedly received bribes from Saddam Hussein and Russia's influence over Iran's nuclear program has hardly yielded any legitimate hope for a diplomatic solution. Russia in general and Putin in particular, has a proven track record that supports Islamic fascism rather than the goals of western democracy.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ahmadinejad has been busy since the New Year spreading his militant philosophy throughout the Middle East. In early January, Ahmadinejad told theological students in Iran that its time for Islam to rule the world. "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world," Ahmadinejad said. "We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return." According to Mehran Riazaty, an Iranian Analyst, Ahmadinejad believes Islam must prepare the world for the return of its Shiite messiah, the Mahdi, who, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. Ahmadinejad believes Mahdi will come within the next two years and then will rule the world for seven years. It is very interesting that Ahmadinejad's beliefs parallel prophecies about the anti-Christ and the tribulation. The anti-Christ will rule for seven years, some believe, after a major catastrophic event will launch him into power—an event like the Gog-Magog war.

Ahmadinejad, on the eve of the Palestinian elections, met with Hamas and other terrorist groups in Syria. Hamas came away with Ahmadinejad's commitment to support the terrorist group both militarily and financially. Ahmadinejad's support was a public unveiling of what many in the intelligence community knew was happening all along, but Iran used the pending victory of Hamas to signal to the Islamic world that it would stand behind those who want to eliminate Israel and its ally, America. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Hamas would receive funding from Iran and urged the terrorist organization to not buckle under pressure of the West to recognize Israel, which Ahmadinejad says, should be "wiped off the map."

Iran, too, is preparing for war. During the week of January 20, Iran begins withdrawing its money from European bank accounts. Also in late January were terrorist attacks in Israel that pointed directly to Iran and Syria as the culprits. Ynet News reported that Israeli Defense officials gathered solid evidence in the hours following the January 19th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists. "The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz charged during a meeting with top security officials in Tel Aviv following the bombing. Mofaz said "we possess conclusive evidence that the attack is a direct result of the terror axis operating against Israel at all times." Defense officials were able to trace based on "unequivocal evidence," the funding of the attack to Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus was the one to provide operative orders that resulted in the bombing, according to the evidence. The execution of the attack was entrusted with an Islamic Jihad cell in the West Bank town of Nablus, where the suicide bomber originated.

Additionally, intelligence sources revealed in January that Iran is also supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups as Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad are using the borders of Syria as staging grounds to send militants into both Iraq and Israel. The military alliance between Iran and Syria was shored up during a January meeting between Ahmadinejad and Assad. Emboldened, Assad's actions in Syria since the Ahmadinejad meeting prompted senior Israeli Defense Force officials from the Northern Command to report on February 9th that if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to feel threatened by the United States and the rest of the international community, he may be pushed into a corner and decide to fire missiles at Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported that according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Syria has an estimated 45 missile launchers and has probably assembled a few Scud D rockets with a range of nearly 700 kilometers - a major threat to Israel because they can be armed with chemical warheads. The IDF officers said they did not foresee a near-term war with Syria. But Assad's handling of diplomatic affairs has the IDF concerned.

While the Russian, Iranian and Syrian leaders are seemingly supernaturally dashing toward their destiny with prophecy, the United States is also playing into the prophetic conundrum. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his unease with Iran's inflammatory rhetoric in an interview with Reuters February 2nd: "Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States; it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well." Asked whether he meant the United States would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush, as if having Ezekiel's words etched upon his subconscious, replied: "You bet, we'll defend Israel." The remarks puzzled analysts and historians alike, who claimed this was the first time a U.S. President publicly stated that America would militarily defend Israel against its enemies.

It is as if these world leaders have little control over the words that leave their lips or the orders they give when it comes to the question of Israel—one of the smallest nations in the world, yet the only nation that burdens the entire world. In Zechariah 12:3, the Lord says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it.: And Zechariah 2:8 also speaks of Israel prophetically , "For thus says the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled for you: for he that lays a hand upon you, strikes the pupil of His eye."
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If you're not ready you best get ready! - Jerry Golden - http://www.thegoldenreport.com

And if you don't think a Middle East war is about to get underway you should get your head out of that hole and look around. Iran today has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East it is believed that they already have nuclear weapons. And they have an army just to our north called Hizbullah, who they have armed with over 13,000 missiles armed with chemical warheads to attack Israel with. It is also known that Iran wants desperately to produce many more nuclear bombs before they go to war, but are willing to go with what they now have. They feel confident that they can destroy Israel before anyone can stop them, they are wrong. Their missiles can reach nearly all of Europe as well as Turkey and they can count on! an attack. The United States knows that Iran can reach them from any number of merchant vessels in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and deliver a nuclear bomb for EMP literally closing down the entire country for months if not years. We need to understand something very clearly, some nations have nuclear weapons for protection but Iran wants them so they can use them. Iran will use them and very soon, we are talking about insane Islamic devils.

Today high ranking IDF Generals are saying that Bashar Assad of Syria is contemplating an all out offensive again! st Israel and has acquired many missiles capable of reaching all of Israel thanks to Russia. It has come out in today's Israeli newspapers that Putin has invited the heads of the Islamic Terror Organization to Moscow for talks. With weapons pouring across the Gaza/Egypt border and Hamas now in total power in Gaza, along with the Iranian armed Hizbullah massed on our northern borders and the President of Syria under extreme pressure from the international community for harboring Terrorist groups in Damascus, not to mention the fact that he has taken in all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and has them hidden in Syria. And now has the United States breathing down his neck making sounds that sounds more like an attack in soon coming. Like all Dictators when faced with this kind of pressure their only solution is to start a war to unit their people behind them.

Lets say the US will be spared and only Israel and Europe gets hit with Iranian nukes. Is there anyone on earth that thinks Israel will sit here and take it without sending nuclear bombs over Iran? Israel also knows that the moment they send missiles towards Iran, that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attack Israel as well, so you can expect Israel to turn the Middle East into a giant glass factory. Folks this is deadly serious, get ready. Even if the US is spared have you given any thought to what will happen to the price of oi! l. My guess is it will go over $500 a barrel or even higher. The US simply will not be able to survive, the US economy will simply collapse and the US is a materialistic society. And folks from that point thousands of other unthinkable events will begin to happen across the US. So I will ask you again, are you ready, if not get ready. I believe God is quickening the minds of Believers to prepare so they can be a witness in a time of crisis. It's hard to witness while you're digging in a garbage can for food to feed your kids.

There is something I do know because the Bible tells me so, Israel will survive and will be here for the return of Messiah Yeshua, for He will plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, not in New York, Paris or anywhere else but right here in Israel. I also believe that between now and then a terrible price will be paid for Israel's sin against the most high God of Israel. God will shake and cleanse His own house in a violent and terrible way, and all will fear Him like they have never feared Him before. Jews in Israel will fall on their faces repenting and seeking God in their lives, then we will see the Messiah.

Jews around the world will be under such persecution many will be killed and many will lie denying their Jewishness, but many others will flee running for their lives to Israel. For the world will once again blame the Jews for all the ills of the human race, saying if it were not for the Jews and Israel none of this would have happened, let us kill the Jews and rid ourselves of this terrible curse. It is then that the world will feel the full wrath of God's anger and know that His Word is true.

I'm not saying you need to dig a hole and fill it with food to last for years. But you should have a couple months of food on hand, but most important is water, if you don't have drinkable water you will die, and it may surprise you to find out how much one person uses in a weeks time. As for a nuclear attack, if you are upwind from the attack and not to near, your chances of survival are good. If you are downwind you need a lot of help from fall out. If you are to close to ground zero, you won't need any of the above, say hello to your Master, and I pray it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and if it's not, right now would be a great time to settle that, just get on your knees and ask Yeshua to be the Lord of your life, and live for Him.

If God has called you to this ministry it is time to realize there would be no better place to invest your money, for when this all comes down you won't have any anyway. For regardless of what happens God's Word will come to pass and He will re-gather the Jews back to the Land that He calls His own. The Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) has touched this messenger and others to prepare to collect Jews and bring them home. We have precious little time to get everything in order, and the larger boat must be purchased soon. Just as important is the groundwork in Turkey and elsewhere, and the word has to be put out in certain places i! n Europe. We need your part of this ministry ASAP. Not one Jew will be saved without the help of many Believers who made it possible, and God is certainly watching.

Connie and I just returned from a trip to Cyprus, got back in Israel around 2AM. It was a successful trip with meetings with other Believers and some very necessary arrangements put into action for this Ministry. It is now necessary for us to make other trips to meet with others in Turkey for it is there that most of the groundwork must be accomplished. It is also there where we will buy the larger boat. God is calling only the very serious to this Ministry and it is with a spiritual certainty that we move forward knowing that God has witnessed to those who have drawn close to Him knowing the seriousness of the day that we now live.

In a recent letter I said that it may be necessary for Connie and I to move to Cyprus or even possibly into Turkey, but on this last trip to Cyprus God has shown us that He wants us to stay in Israel, that from this location we will receive His directions. Because of the problems Cyprus and Turkey have with each other it is not possible! to travel back and forth between those two countries and we must be able to move freely when the time comes.

In conclusion I will say that I know this is a frightening report, but it is one you need to read over again, for what is about to happen is beyond the ability of most to even comprehend. If this ministry is not fully ready we will do what we can with what God has given us. We still have the time to prepare to rescue many, but that depends of the obedience of those God has touched to bless the Apple of His eye. For most it comes down to a decision of priority, and making a choice of who or what do you serve.

There are few Believers who have been given the opportunity to really bless Israel like we have. Maybe we should be looking at it in reverse, God is not asking us to give but to receive. Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemies. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
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Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

I DO get it; you're full of crap, as usual. You draw bad conclusions; that is your normal M.O. I get it; you spread fake news.

Moving on.

[jusplay4fun]

What is your point of the long copy and paste, 2dimes, in this thread?

I stopped reading after the first 5 lines and then saw the other 200+ or more lines of dribble.

2dimes on Thu May 25, 2023 10:37 pm

And where is the "Copy and Paste police", jimb, to throw a flag for "piling on"?

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The title of "Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" can be attributed to different historical figures depending on each person's perspective. Some of the people often considered for this title include religious leaders such as Jesus Christ, Buddha and Muhammad, as well as political and social leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. There are also notable scientists and philosophers such as Albert Einstein and Socrates, who have left a significant impact on the world.

The answer to this question may vary depending on each person's individual beliefs and values. There is no single definitive answer, as different people may have different opinions about who the "Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" is.

[DirtyDishSoap]

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

Have either of you considered this?

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PROPHECY UPDATE - News & Information for the End Times

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"For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." (1Thessalonians 5:9-11)

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name." Revelation 3:10-12

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Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar declares Palestinian war on Israel will go on - Debka

Spelling out the incoming Palestinian government's agenda, a-Zahar said: We will not recognize Israel; our armed struggle will go on until all of Palestine is "liberated;" we will abrogate the Oslo accords and all the agreements the PLO and the Palestinian Authority signed; all negotiations with Israel must go through a third party; we don't need money from Israel or "the Satan;" Arab nations will give us money; we have long-range missiles.

DEBKAfile: Mahmoud a-Zahar, who is terminally ill with cancer, in effect handed down his political-military testament. It contained the incoming Palestinian government's point-by-point response to the conditions laid down by the United States, Israel and the Middle East Quartet (sans Russia) for dealing with a Hamas-led government – recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor international accords. He showed the Islamic terrorists to be unmoved by threats of isolation and the restrictive rules of engagement the Olmert government proposes to impose on a Palestinian Authority after Hamas is sworn in.

Responding to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's election pledge to set Israel's final borders, the Hamas leader declared total war on the Jewish state and its very existence.

A-Zahar scorned the constitutional "white" revolution to unseat Hamas which Abu Mazen attempted on the last day of the departing, Fatah-dominated legislature.

He was also telling Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades that Hamas could match the new Aqsa 207 Katyusha rockets they had just acquired.
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Supreme Court Justice Mishael Heshin defines the Palestinian Authority as an enemy state de facto - Debka

He rejected petitions to allow Palestinians married to Israelis to settle in Israel under the family reunification law as a loophole that would pose a risk to state security. "Just listen to daily declarations made by Hamas," Heshin said. "The Palestinian people chose Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, and they are citizens of an enemy state."

He asked why Israel should take risks with Israeli lives, any more than did England and America by admitting Germans during World War II. The judge said no one is preventing mixed couples from building a family, but they should live in Jenin. The right to life takes priority over any other consideration, he said.
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Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal says: Our mission is to liberate Jerusalem, purify the Aqsa Mosque - Debka

Addressing a pro-Hamas rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Mashaal referred to Western threats to cut off aid: "God, the Islamic nation are with us, will lead us to victory and liberation. Do not fear poverty." He thanked Sudanese parties for raising funds for the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government.
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Mofaz: Hamas part of 'axis of evil' - Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Presidential palace in Cairo Tuesday that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it dismantled its terror infrastructure, recognized the State of Israel and accepted all previous agreements made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Hamas's control over the Palestinian Authority is just another part of the 'axis of evil' that includes Iran, Syria, and now extends to the PA from where it will extend to additional countries that harbor terror organizations," Mofaz told reporters following his hour long meeting with Mubarak.

In addition to Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections, the two officials also discussed the current tense situation along Israel's northern border with Hizbullah and the growing global terror perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al Qaida.

Israel, Mofaz told Mubarak, believed that Syria and Iran were giving financial and logistical support to Hizbullah with the goal of shifting the international community's focus from those countries to the Hizbullah.

"Their goal is that the focus of the international world will be there [along the northern border] and not on Syria, since the Syrians are under pressure," Mofaz said.

Mubarak, Mofaz said, asked Israel to "have patience" since Egypt believed that it was only a matter of time before the Hamas met all of Jerusalem's criteria for the renewal of negotiations between the PA and Israel.

"Mubarak believes that the pressure Egypt has placed on Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and the Hamas will bear fruit and that the Hamas will change its ways," Mofaz said.
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'3rd intifada on its way'- By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

Terror leaders detail for WND 'massive new war' against Israel

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its "military wing" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation – against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah party scored poorly in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.


"The new intifada is only a question of time and this will be the hardest and the most dangerous one. It's just about timing until the order to blow up a new wave of attacks will be given," Abu Nasser, a senior Al Aqsa Brigades leader from the Balata refugee camp in northern Samaria told WorldNetDaily in an interview.

Israel expecting new wave of terror

In the last 10 days Israeli forces intercepted 12 potential suicide bombers and have stopped several dozen bombings the past few months, prompting fears of "a new and worrisome wave of terror," said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security services.

Hamas last month catapulted to power, winning Palestinian parliamentary elections by a large margin and wresting control from Fatah. Israel has warned the losing terror groups, particularly Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, will try to stymie efforts by Hamas to form a new government and sign a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state. Also, members of the Islamic Jihad terror group expressed disappointment their organization decided not to run in elections, and have warned they will stop Hamas from imposing a truce.

Last week, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his Kadima party, leading overwhelmingly in the polls for next month's Israeli elections, will seek to "change Israel's borders" by withdrawing from most of the West Bank. Some security officials told WND they fear terror groups will increase attacks to claim credit for an Israeli West Bank pull-out.

After Israel announced its withdrawal from Gaza, which it carried out this past summer, terror organizations, mostly led by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group, increased attacks in the area, at one point firing an average of seven rockets per week at Gaza's Jewish communities.

Diskin warned that Iran and Syria, currently under mounting international pressure, are streaming large sums of money to Palestinian terror groups to spur on local cells to carry out attacks in hopes of starting regional violence.

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

The terror groups themselves say they are planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, which some terror leaders are calling a "third intifada." They detailed for WorldNetDaily how they will carry it out.

Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'

The Al Aqsa Brigades was formed in 2000 by then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat as a military offshoot of the Fatah party. PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a cease fire with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last February, to which the Brigades was party – but the terror group continued carrying out attacks.

Al Aqsa's Abu Nasser claims Israel put Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a result.

"For the last 10 months we respected a cease fire expecting to see changes in the lives of the Palestinian people, but we received from the Israeli side more assassinations ... and above all we received the Hamas victory, which seems to be the result of an Israeli and international conspiracy. They believe that Hamas will give up easier our lands and rights. I think that they are right, but we will not allow this to happen. We will fight and we will blow up the new intifada," Abu Nasser told WND.

Sources close to Al Aqsa say Abu Nasser was involved in preparing the last three suicide bombings in Israel, including the attack last month at a Tel Aviv shwarma restaurant that injured more than 30 Israelis.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal over the weekend said his group might sign a long-term cease fire with Israel, but told reporters he will not ask other Palestinian group to stop attacks.

Abu Nasser told WND the Brigades will not respect any cease fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

"I am sure Hamas will start arresting us, but it will not be that easy [for them]," said Abu Nasser. "We are preparing ourselves for the worst scenario."

Asked if Al Aqsa's new terror war will be launched less out of aggression toward Israel and more to revolt against Hamas, Abu Nasser replied, "This is partially true. When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?

Continued Abu Nasser: "I am sure once [Hamas is] in power it is only that power that is really important for them. They will be ready to give up things that President Arafat refused to do. The proof for what I am saying is that in the last days when the Israeli army killed more than 15 Palestinian activists, most of them from our Brigades, we did not hear the voice of Hamas. Where are their resistance principles? Did they disappear after the elections?"

Abu Nasser warned the so-called third intifada will be a combination of suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish towns.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades recently unified most of our cells and groups and we will wait for the most suitable moment to launch our resistance acts. As for the acts, there will be suicide attacks but there will be a massive use of rockets. These rockets will be launched against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but also if needed against Israeli cities inside the green line."

Rocket war against Israel

Since Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip this past August, security officials have been warning that the Palestinian terror groups transferred their rocket capabilities to the West Bank, which is within firing range of Israel's international airport and many major Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israel has confirmed that at least two rockets have been fired in the West Bank so far from the northern Samaria town of Jenin. There is information terror groups in the West Bank, particularly the Al Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad, will step up attacks against the area's Jewish communities ahead of any Israeli withdrawal from the area.

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned that his organization is preparing a rocket war against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Oudai said his organization and other terror groups have stockpiled Palestinian rockets, including Qassams, which can travel about 2 miles, more primitive Jenin-1 and Jenin-2s, and Arafat-1 and Arafat-2 rockets, some of which can reportedly travel up to 3 miles. He claimed his group is developing a new rocket that will put all of Israel's major cities within firing range.

"The very near future will prove their capacity to kill and destroy and to beat the Israelis in the West Bank exactly like we did with these rockets in the Gaza Strip," Oudai said.

Oudai pocked fun at Israel's West Bank security barrier, which has been credited with making it more difficult for Palestinian groups to carry out suicide bombings.

"[The Israelis] have built a huge wall on which [it] spent billions of dollars but still we are hitting Israel with our rockets and reaching every target we want. This wall will not defend [Israel] from our rockets which have defeated the wall and all the security measures taken to prevent our attacks," Oudai boasted.

Israeli military leaders previously warned that the Jewish state will launch an "unprecedented" military campaign against any rocket firing from the West Bank.

The Israeli Defense Forces did not initiate any large-scale anti-rocket operation in response to the rockets launched from Jenin. It has been largely unable to stop the rockets regularly fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli Negev towns.

The Israeli army regularly responds to Qassam firings from Gaza with surgical missile strikes and artillery fire at areas it says are used to launch rockets. In December, Israel set up a buffer zone in sections of Gaza occasionally used to fire rockets into nearby Israeli Negev communities, but the Palestinian terrorists shifted their launching sites to other areas and have continued the attacks.

Said Oudai: "Israel already has used all its tools. Tanks, aircrafts, assassinations and everything it could use. But we are still here and still fighting. We do not get excited from the Israeli threats. What can be this unprecedented reaction? They have already tried everything."

In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization of several Palestinian terror groups, has taken credit for many of the rockets launched from the area since 2000.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Committees, boasted his group transported missiles to the West Bank.

"If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank," Abu Abir told WorldNetDaily.

Abu Abir said his group has "improved [our] capacities in shooting these rockets. Even the Israeli officers agreed that the improvement is at all levels, [including] the distance that these rockets can reach, the capacity of explosives and their accuracy. In the last five years, there is no doubt that our abilities have improved."

Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'

Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for every suicide bombing against Israel since last February's cease fire, including bombings in a Tel Aviv disco and restaurant and a Netanya shopping mall, among others. Al Aqsa leaders told WorldNetDaily they aided the recent bombings. Islamic Jihad also says it fired most of the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel's August withdrawal.

Israel says Islamic Jihad is directly backed by Iran and Syria. Jihad chief Ramadan Shallah operates openly from Damascus and regularly visits Tehran.

Security sources say Hezbollah headquarters in Damascus and Beirut have ordered Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks in hopes of drawing Israel into a protracted military conflict.

Israel's Diskin warned that Iran and Syria are looking to use Islamic Jihad in part to distract mounting international pressure against their respective countries.

Iran is under fire for its alleged nuclear ambitions, and the international community led by the United States has threatened to bring Syria to the United Nations Security Council for allegedly interfering in the investigation into the assassination last year of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raqif Hariri, for which Syria has been widely blamed.

WorldNetDaily spoke with Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader Abu Khalil, who warned his terror group is planning a terror onslaught to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

"We will launch very soon very painful attacks that will shake the enemy. In fact, this is more the continuation of the (second) intifada because we never said that the intifada has ended. We will never give calm and security to the enemy. This will happen only when Israel will run away from Jerusalem and the West Bank like it did in Gaza," Abu Khalil said.

Abu Khalil, like leaders from the Al Aqsa Brigades, said his group will not respect a Hamas request to halt attacks against Israel.

"I don't believe the brothers in Hamas will ask us to stop. In any case, our only commitment is towards Allah, and the blood of our people and brothers and towards our political leadership," Abu Khalil told WND.

"Therefore we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and to launch all kinds of attacks against Israel everywhere there is an Israeli soldier or any Israeli goal in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine [the entire state of Israel]."

Asked which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."

Hamas: 'Our goal is to rebuild Palestinian society'

Hamas, a terror group responsible for more than 60 suicide bombings, last month won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and is currently attempting to form a governing coalition.

Hamas leaders claim they will focus on rebuilding Palestinian society, and have stated they may sign a long term cease fire agreement with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told WorldNetDaily his group will "rebuild the Palestinian life shattered by corruption in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is our goal now. To make a better life for the Palestinians."

In a widely circulated interview, al-Zahar even recently claimed to WorldNetDaily that Hamas might negotiate with Israel using a third party.

He said his group will likely agree to a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state, but said it will not recognize Israel or renounce its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel by "assaulting and killing."

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this weekend said his group will not stop other Palestinian organizations from carrying out attacks against Israel.

Still, some analysts contend Hamas might use its power to halt some anti-Israel violence in hopes of receiving financial aide from international donors.

But the Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza warned that after Israel's Gaza withdrawal Hamas attacks will be focused on West Bank Jewish communities. The Center is reportedly closely aligned with Hamas and, according to Israeli security officials, it espouses Hamas ideology:

"[Hamas will be] transporting warfare technologies such as mortars and rockets from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. These will provide an easy way to bombard Israeli populated areas adjacent to the security fence, and the fence, which is currently under construction, will therefore become useless," stated a recent publication by the Research Center, according to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.

Al-Mustaqbal stated Israel's Gaza withdrawal provided Hamas and other terror groups with a staging ground from which to launch attacks and to transport rockets to West Bank communities. It said the Gaza withdrawal proves Israel will vacate other areas in response to repeated attacks.

PFLP: Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out recent West Bank shooting attacks and rocket firings from the Gaza Strip. The group's leader, Ahmad Saadat, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for allegedly planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavaam Zeevi in October 2001.

Israeli security officials say the PFLP has scaled back its participation in attacks the past few months, but Abu Hani, a leader of the PLFP's "armed wing," the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, told WorldNetDaily his group used the time earned from last year's cease fire to build its arsenal in preparation for a third intifada.

"The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel," Abu Hani said.

He told WorldNetDaily the PFLP is "forced" to launch a new terror war.

"It is not that we prepare an intifada. It is the reality on the ground that dictates a new intifada. There is the fence, there is the building in the Jewish settlements, the daily Israeli penetration into Palestinian cities, villages and camps and of course the killing of our comrades and brothers," Abu Hani says.

Israel routinely conducts anti-terror military raids in the West Bank when it receives intelligence warning of new attacks. The Israeli Air Force fires at targets in Gaza in attempts to halt Palestinian groups from launching rockets at nearby Jewish communities.

Abu Hani warned, "The current situation does not leave to the Palestinians many choices but to fight with all the tools we have or can have. The Gaza withdrawal proves unfortunately that force, attacks and rockets is the only language and attitude that the Israelis understand. They do not withdraw unless they are hit by the Palestinian resistance. So if there is a way that has already obliged the Israelis to withdraw, why not to use it again?"
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Events Sweeping World Leaders Toward Apocalyptic Confrontation With Israel - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst - http://www.watch.org

Wash—Feb 13—KIN—Since the beginning of 2006, a riptide of current events has been propelling the leaders of Russia, Iran and Syria toward an irreversible apocalyptic confrontation with Israel that surpasses even their own understanding and fulfills the predictions of ancient prophets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar Assad are taking public decisions that reach far beyond peaceful geo-political strategy as the path they have chosen seems to be an unalterable march to eliminate Israel using Islam as the point of the dagger hidden beneath a cloak of peace and behind the rhetoric of reason.

The prophet Ezekiel proclaimed some 2,500 years ago, "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations…(Ezekiel 38:3-8)."

The nation of Israel was re-established from the vote of the United Nations in May 1948 (brought forth out of the nations where Jews from around the world re-gathered to form the nation after being separated throughout millennia because of the sword, or wars) and biblical scholars widely agree that Gog is the land occupied by today's Russia, Persia is Iran and Ethiopia is Northeast Africa, including Egypt, and Libya is Northwest Africa, including Libya, Sudan, Nigeria and other nations hostile to Israel. This apocalyptic battle results in these nations being miraculously destroyed where it will take seven months to bury the dead (Ezekiel 39:12) and the weapons will burn for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9)

Russia's actions, irrespective of whether Putin even understands how his decisions have coincided with prophecy, are those of a country preparing for war. Russia, once the heart of the powerful communist Soviet Union, has historically supported Islamic nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon against Israel as evidenced in the immediate 1948 fight for independence and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel. But today, Russia is renewing its move tip the balance of power in the Middle East boldly using Islamic fascism that aims to annihilate the tiny nation of Israel and her steadfast ally, the United States.

Putin on January 31 boasted to the world that Russia has new missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system and said, "Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has. These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but it doesn't matter to them whether that exists or not. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path." Putin also said the new missiles are nuclear capable. The Russian military since has announced it is revamping and upgrading its nuclear arsenal. Russia has been at the heart of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program as Putin has agreements to build Iran's nuclear plants and Russian engineers, as assisted by North Korean and Chinese colleagues, are known to be helping the Iranians design missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads long range.

In one of his boldest foreign policy moves to date, Putin took a public decision to solidify Russia's position in the Middle East by opening dialogue with yet another political body sworn to the destruction of Israel. Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow for discussions. And Putin signaled to the world that there was more than just diplomacy at stake. Putin said he was inviting Hamas to Russia to hold talks, reminding the international community that, Russia has never, in Putins words, "considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people." Putin said it's not good to burn political bridges and that's why Russia has not "rushed to call any organization 'terrorist'."

This raised immediate red flags within the diplomatic circles at the White House since Russia, a member of the Middle East Peace Quartet also including the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, was a signatory to a statement after the Palestinian elections saying "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic State. A two-State solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." Putin's move drew a sharp response from U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack on February 9, "We would urge any government that might have contact with Hamas to deliver the very clear message that was in the Quartet statement and that is that Hamas has some decisions to make. They must recognize the state of Israel, renounce terror and live up to the international obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to. As a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message." Then the day after, he said, "We believe that should Russia have taken the opportunity to have chosen to have a meeting, they should take it as an opportunity to reinforce the message. Whether or not it has any effect on Hamas is going to be up to Hamas. They're the ones -- the onus is on Hamas to make certain decisions. The international community has laid out very clearly what is required of them. It's up to them to respond to that."

Despite the State Department's optimism that Russia will deliver the so-called "international message" to Hamas, several analysts believe Russia is playing a different game—one of strengthening its military ties in the Middle East—and Putin's statements say little to change that impression. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated emphatically that Russia will deliver the message to Hamas, it remains to be seen how strongly in private the message will be delivered and whether it will be communicated with a "wink." Relying on Russia to assist in keeping the peace in Iraq held a disastrous conclusion in the Oil for Food scandal where Putin, himself, reportedly received bribes from Saddam Hussein and Russia's influence over Iran's nuclear program has hardly yielded any legitimate hope for a diplomatic solution. Russia in general and Putin in particular, has a proven track record that supports Islamic fascism rather than the goals of western democracy.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ahmadinejad has been busy since the New Year spreading his militant philosophy throughout the Middle East. In early January, Ahmadinejad told theological students in Iran that its time for Islam to rule the world. "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world," Ahmadinejad said. "We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return." According to Mehran Riazaty, an Iranian Analyst, Ahmadinejad believes Islam must prepare the world for the return of its Shiite messiah, the Mahdi, who, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. Ahmadinejad believes Mahdi will come within the next two years and then will rule the world for seven years. It is very interesting that Ahmadinejad's beliefs parallel prophecies about the anti-Christ and the tribulation. The anti-Christ will rule for seven years, some believe, after a major catastrophic event will launch him into power—an event like the Gog-Magog war.

Ahmadinejad, on the eve of the Palestinian elections, met with Hamas and other terrorist groups in Syria. Hamas came away with Ahmadinejad's commitment to support the terrorist group both militarily and financially. Ahmadinejad's support was a public unveiling of what many in the intelligence community knew was happening all along, but Iran used the pending victory of Hamas to signal to the Islamic world that it would stand behind those who want to eliminate Israel and its ally, America. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Hamas would receive funding from Iran and urged the terrorist organization to not buckle under pressure of the West to recognize Israel, which Ahmadinejad says, should be "wiped off the map."

Iran, too, is preparing for war. During the week of January 20, Iran begins withdrawing its money from European bank accounts. Also in late January were terrorist attacks in Israel that pointed directly to Iran and Syria as the culprits. Ynet News reported that Israeli Defense officials gathered solid evidence in the hours following the January 19th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists. "The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz charged during a meeting with top security officials in Tel Aviv following the bombing. Mofaz said "we possess conclusive evidence that the attack is a direct result of the terror axis operating against Israel at all times." Defense officials were able to trace based on "unequivocal evidence," the funding of the attack to Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus was the one to provide operative orders that resulted in the bombing, according to the evidence. The execution of the attack was entrusted with an Islamic Jihad cell in the West Bank town of Nablus, where the suicide bomber originated.

Additionally, intelligence sources revealed in January that Iran is also supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups as Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad are using the borders of Syria as staging grounds to send militants into both Iraq and Israel. The military alliance between Iran and Syria was shored up during a January meeting between Ahmadinejad and Assad. Emboldened, Assad's actions in Syria since the Ahmadinejad meeting prompted senior Israeli Defense Force officials from the Northern Command to report on February 9th that if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to feel threatened by the United States and the rest of the international community, he may be pushed into a corner and decide to fire missiles at Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported that according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Syria has an estimated 45 missile launchers and has probably assembled a few Scud D rockets with a range of nearly 700 kilometers - a major threat to Israel because they can be armed with chemical warheads. The IDF officers said they did not foresee a near-term war with Syria. But Assad's handling of diplomatic affairs has the IDF concerned.

While the Russian, Iranian and Syrian leaders are seemingly supernaturally dashing toward their destiny with prophecy, the United States is also playing into the prophetic conundrum. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his unease with Iran's inflammatory rhetoric in an interview with Reuters February 2nd: "Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States; it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well." Asked whether he meant the United States would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush, as if having Ezekiel's words etched upon his subconscious, replied: "You bet, we'll defend Israel." The remarks puzzled analysts and historians alike, who claimed this was the first time a U.S. President publicly stated that America would militarily defend Israel against its enemies.

It is as if these world leaders have little control over the words that leave their lips or the orders they give when it comes to the question of Israel—one of the smallest nations in the world, yet the only nation that burdens the entire world. In Zechariah 12:3, the Lord says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it.: And Zechariah 2:8 also speaks of Israel prophetically , "For thus says the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled for you: for he that lays a hand upon you, strikes the pupil of His eye."
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If you're not ready you best get ready! - Jerry Golden - http://www.thegoldenreport.com

And if you don't think a Middle East war is about to get underway you should get your head out of that hole and look around. Iran today has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East it is believed that they already have nuclear weapons. And they have an army just to our north called Hizbullah, who they have armed with over 13,000 missiles armed with chemical warheads to attack Israel with. It is also known that Iran wants desperately to produce many more nuclear bombs before they go to war, but are willing to go with what they now have. They feel confident that they can destroy Israel before anyone can stop them, they are wrong. Their missiles can reach nearly all of Europe as well as Turkey and they can count on! an attack. The United States knows that Iran can reach them from any number of merchant vessels in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and deliver a nuclear bomb for EMP literally closing down the entire country for months if not years. We need to understand something very clearly, some nations have nuclear weapons for protection but Iran wants them so they can use them. Iran will use them and very soon, we are talking about insane Islamic devils.

Today high ranking IDF Generals are saying that Bashar Assad of Syria is contemplating an all out offensive again! st Israel and has acquired many missiles capable of reaching all of Israel thanks to Russia. It has come out in today's Israeli newspapers that Putin has invited the heads of the Islamic Terror Organization to Moscow for talks. With weapons pouring across the Gaza/Egypt border and Hamas now in total power in Gaza, along with the Iranian armed Hizbullah massed on our northern borders and the President of Syria under extreme pressure from the international community for harboring Terrorist groups in Damascus, not to mention the fact that he has taken in all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and has them hidden in Syria. And now has the United States breathing down his neck making sounds that sounds more like an attack in soon coming. Like all Dictators when faced with this kind of pressure their only solution is to start a war to unit their people behind them.

Lets say the US will be spared and only Israel and Europe gets hit with Iranian nukes. Is there anyone on earth that thinks Israel will sit here and take it without sending nuclear bombs over Iran? Israel also knows that the moment they send missiles towards Iran, that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attack Israel as well, so you can expect Israel to turn the Middle East into a giant glass factory. Folks this is deadly serious, get ready. Even if the US is spared have you given any thought to what will happen to the price of oi! l. My guess is it will go over $500 a barrel or even higher. The US simply will not be able to survive, the US economy will simply collapse and the US is a materialistic society. And folks from that point thousands of other unthinkable events will begin to happen across the US. So I will ask you again, are you ready, if not get ready. I believe God is quickening the minds of Believers to prepare so they can be a witness in a time of crisis. It's hard to witness while you're digging in a garbage can for food to feed your kids.

There is something I do know because the Bible tells me so, Israel will survive and will be here for the return of Messiah Yeshua, for He will plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, not in New York, Paris or anywhere else but right here in Israel. I also believe that between now and then a terrible price will be paid for Israel's sin against the most high God of Israel. God will shake and cleanse His own house in a violent and terrible way, and all will fear Him like they have never feared Him before. Jews in Israel will fall on their faces repenting and seeking God in their lives, then we will see the Messiah.

Jews around the world will be under such persecution many will be killed and many will lie denying their Jewishness, but many others will flee running for their lives to Israel. For the world will once again blame the Jews for all the ills of the human race, saying if it were not for the Jews and Israel none of this would have happened, let us kill the Jews and rid ourselves of this terrible curse. It is then that the world will feel the full wrath of God's anger and know that His Word is true.

I'm not saying you need to dig a hole and fill it with food to last for years. But you should have a couple months of food on hand, but most important is water, if you don't have drinkable water you will die, and it may surprise you to find out how much one person uses in a weeks time. As for a nuclear attack, if you are upwind from the attack and not to near, your chances of survival are good. If you are downwind you need a lot of help from fall out. If you are to close to ground zero, you won't need any of the above, say hello to your Master, and I pray it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and if it's not, right now would be a great time to settle that, just get on your knees and ask Yeshua to be the Lord of your life, and live for Him.

If God has called you to this ministry it is time to realize there would be no better place to invest your money, for when this all comes down you won't have any anyway. For regardless of what happens God's Word will come to pass and He will re-gather the Jews back to the Land that He calls His own. The Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) has touched this messenger and others to prepare to collect Jews and bring them home. We have precious little time to get everything in order, and the larger boat must be purchased soon. Just as important is the groundwork in Turkey and elsewhere, and the word has to be put out in certain places i! n Europe. We need your part of this ministry ASAP. Not one Jew will be saved without the help of many Believers who made it possible, and God is certainly watching.

Connie and I just returned from a trip to Cyprus, got back in Israel around 2AM. It was a successful trip with meetings with other Believers and some very necessary arrangements put into action for this Ministry. It is now necessary for us to make other trips to meet with others in Turkey for it is there that most of the groundwork must be accomplished. It is also there where we will buy the larger boat. God is calling only the very serious to this Ministry and it is with a spiritual certainty that we move forward knowing that God has witnessed to those who have drawn close to Him knowing the seriousness of the day that we now live.

In a recent letter I said that it may be necessary for Connie and I to move to Cyprus or even possibly into Turkey, but on this last trip to Cyprus God has shown us that He wants us to stay in Israel, that from this location we will receive His directions. Because of the problems Cyprus and Turkey have with each other it is not possible! to travel back and forth between those two countries and we must be able to move freely when the time comes.

In conclusion I will say that I know this is a frightening report, but it is one you need to read over again, for what is about to happen is beyond the ability of most to even comprehend. If this ministry is not fully ready we will do what we can with what God has given us. We still have the time to prepare to rescue many, but that depends of the obedience of those God has touched to bless the Apple of His eye. For most it comes down to a decision of priority, and making a choice of who or what do you serve.

There are few Believers who have been given the opportunity to really bless Israel like we have. Maybe we should be looking at it in reverse, God is not asking us to give but to receive. Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemies. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
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Great post DDS

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

Have either of you considered this?

Prophecy Update - If you're not ready you best get ready! - 2/14/06
Randy Thomas
Feb 14, 2006

PROPHECY UPDATE - News & Information for the End Times

Greetings,

"For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." (1Thessalonians 5:9-11)

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name." Revelation 3:10-12

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Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar declares Palestinian war on Israel will go on - Debka

Spelling out the incoming Palestinian government's agenda, a-Zahar said: We will not recognize Israel; our armed struggle will go on until all of Palestine is "liberated;" we will abrogate the Oslo accords and all the agreements the PLO and the Palestinian Authority signed; all negotiations with Israel must go through a third party; we don't need money from Israel or "the Satan;" Arab nations will give us money; we have long-range missiles.

DEBKAfile: Mahmoud a-Zahar, who is terminally ill with cancer, in effect handed down his political-military testament. It contained the incoming Palestinian government's point-by-point response to the conditions laid down by the United States, Israel and the Middle East Quartet (sans Russia) for dealing with a Hamas-led government – recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor international accords. He showed the Islamic terrorists to be unmoved by threats of isolation and the restrictive rules of engagement the Olmert government proposes to impose on a Palestinian Authority after Hamas is sworn in.

Responding to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's election pledge to set Israel's final borders, the Hamas leader declared total war on the Jewish state and its very existence.

A-Zahar scorned the constitutional "white" revolution to unseat Hamas which Abu Mazen attempted on the last day of the departing, Fatah-dominated legislature.

He was also telling Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades that Hamas could match the new Aqsa 207 Katyusha rockets they had just acquired.
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Supreme Court Justice Mishael Heshin defines the Palestinian Authority as an enemy state de facto - Debka

He rejected petitions to allow Palestinians married to Israelis to settle in Israel under the family reunification law as a loophole that would pose a risk to state security. "Just listen to daily declarations made by Hamas," Heshin said. "The Palestinian people chose Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, and they are citizens of an enemy state."

He asked why Israel should take risks with Israeli lives, any more than did England and America by admitting Germans during World War II. The judge said no one is preventing mixed couples from building a family, but they should live in Jenin. The right to life takes priority over any other consideration, he said.
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Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal says: Our mission is to liberate Jerusalem, purify the Aqsa Mosque - Debka

Addressing a pro-Hamas rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Mashaal referred to Western threats to cut off aid: "God, the Islamic nation are with us, will lead us to victory and liberation. Do not fear poverty." He thanked Sudanese parties for raising funds for the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government.
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Mofaz: Hamas part of 'axis of evil' - Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Presidential palace in Cairo Tuesday that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it dismantled its terror infrastructure, recognized the State of Israel and accepted all previous agreements made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Hamas's control over the Palestinian Authority is just another part of the 'axis of evil' that includes Iran, Syria, and now extends to the PA from where it will extend to additional countries that harbor terror organizations," Mofaz told reporters following his hour long meeting with Mubarak.

In addition to Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections, the two officials also discussed the current tense situation along Israel's northern border with Hizbullah and the growing global terror perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al Qaida.

Israel, Mofaz told Mubarak, believed that Syria and Iran were giving financial and logistical support to Hizbullah with the goal of shifting the international community's focus from those countries to the Hizbullah.

"Their goal is that the focus of the international world will be there [along the northern border] and not on Syria, since the Syrians are under pressure," Mofaz said.

Mubarak, Mofaz said, asked Israel to "have patience" since Egypt believed that it was only a matter of time before the Hamas met all of Jerusalem's criteria for the renewal of negotiations between the PA and Israel.

"Mubarak believes that the pressure Egypt has placed on Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and the Hamas will bear fruit and that the Hamas will change its ways," Mofaz said.
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'3rd intifada on its way'- By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

Terror leaders detail for WND 'massive new war' against Israel

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its "military wing" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation – against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah party scored poorly in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.


"The new intifada is only a question of time and this will be the hardest and the most dangerous one. It's just about timing until the order to blow up a new wave of attacks will be given," Abu Nasser, a senior Al Aqsa Brigades leader from the Balata refugee camp in northern Samaria told WorldNetDaily in an interview.

Israel expecting new wave of terror

In the last 10 days Israeli forces intercepted 12 potential suicide bombers and have stopped several dozen bombings the past few months, prompting fears of "a new and worrisome wave of terror," said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security services.

Hamas last month catapulted to power, winning Palestinian parliamentary elections by a large margin and wresting control from Fatah. Israel has warned the losing terror groups, particularly Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, will try to stymie efforts by Hamas to form a new government and sign a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state. Also, members of the Islamic Jihad terror group expressed disappointment their organization decided not to run in elections, and have warned they will stop Hamas from imposing a truce.

Last week, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his Kadima party, leading overwhelmingly in the polls for next month's Israeli elections, will seek to "change Israel's borders" by withdrawing from most of the West Bank. Some security officials told WND they fear terror groups will increase attacks to claim credit for an Israeli West Bank pull-out.

After Israel announced its withdrawal from Gaza, which it carried out this past summer, terror organizations, mostly led by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group, increased attacks in the area, at one point firing an average of seven rockets per week at Gaza's Jewish communities.

Diskin warned that Iran and Syria, currently under mounting international pressure, are streaming large sums of money to Palestinian terror groups to spur on local cells to carry out attacks in hopes of starting regional violence.

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

The terror groups themselves say they are planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, which some terror leaders are calling a "third intifada." They detailed for WorldNetDaily how they will carry it out.

Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'

The Al Aqsa Brigades was formed in 2000 by then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat as a military offshoot of the Fatah party. PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a cease fire with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last February, to which the Brigades was party – but the terror group continued carrying out attacks.

Al Aqsa's Abu Nasser claims Israel put Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a result.

"For the last 10 months we respected a cease fire expecting to see changes in the lives of the Palestinian people, but we received from the Israeli side more assassinations ... and above all we received the Hamas victory, which seems to be the result of an Israeli and international conspiracy. They believe that Hamas will give up easier our lands and rights. I think that they are right, but we will not allow this to happen. We will fight and we will blow up the new intifada," Abu Nasser told WND.

Sources close to Al Aqsa say Abu Nasser was involved in preparing the last three suicide bombings in Israel, including the attack last month at a Tel Aviv shwarma restaurant that injured more than 30 Israelis.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal over the weekend said his group might sign a long-term cease fire with Israel, but told reporters he will not ask other Palestinian group to stop attacks.

Abu Nasser told WND the Brigades will not respect any cease fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

"I am sure Hamas will start arresting us, but it will not be that easy [for them]," said Abu Nasser. "We are preparing ourselves for the worst scenario."

Asked if Al Aqsa's new terror war will be launched less out of aggression toward Israel and more to revolt against Hamas, Abu Nasser replied, "This is partially true. When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?

Continued Abu Nasser: "I am sure once [Hamas is] in power it is only that power that is really important for them. They will be ready to give up things that President Arafat refused to do. The proof for what I am saying is that in the last days when the Israeli army killed more than 15 Palestinian activists, most of them from our Brigades, we did not hear the voice of Hamas. Where are their resistance principles? Did they disappear after the elections?"

Abu Nasser warned the so-called third intifada will be a combination of suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish towns.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades recently unified most of our cells and groups and we will wait for the most suitable moment to launch our resistance acts. As for the acts, there will be suicide attacks but there will be a massive use of rockets. These rockets will be launched against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but also if needed against Israeli cities inside the green line."

Rocket war against Israel

Since Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip this past August, security officials have been warning that the Palestinian terror groups transferred their rocket capabilities to the West Bank, which is within firing range of Israel's international airport and many major Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israel has confirmed that at least two rockets have been fired in the West Bank so far from the northern Samaria town of Jenin. There is information terror groups in the West Bank, particularly the Al Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad, will step up attacks against the area's Jewish communities ahead of any Israeli withdrawal from the area.

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned that his organization is preparing a rocket war against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Oudai said his organization and other terror groups have stockpiled Palestinian rockets, including Qassams, which can travel about 2 miles, more primitive Jenin-1 and Jenin-2s, and Arafat-1 and Arafat-2 rockets, some of which can reportedly travel up to 3 miles. He claimed his group is developing a new rocket that will put all of Israel's major cities within firing range.

"The very near future will prove their capacity to kill and destroy and to beat the Israelis in the West Bank exactly like we did with these rockets in the Gaza Strip," Oudai said.

Oudai pocked fun at Israel's West Bank security barrier, which has been credited with making it more difficult for Palestinian groups to carry out suicide bombings.

"[The Israelis] have built a huge wall on which [it] spent billions of dollars but still we are hitting Israel with our rockets and reaching every target we want. This wall will not defend [Israel] from our rockets which have defeated the wall and all the security measures taken to prevent our attacks," Oudai boasted.

Israeli military leaders previously warned that the Jewish state will launch an "unprecedented" military campaign against any rocket firing from the West Bank.

The Israeli Defense Forces did not initiate any large-scale anti-rocket operation in response to the rockets launched from Jenin. It has been largely unable to stop the rockets regularly fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli Negev towns.

The Israeli army regularly responds to Qassam firings from Gaza with surgical missile strikes and artillery fire at areas it says are used to launch rockets. In December, Israel set up a buffer zone in sections of Gaza occasionally used to fire rockets into nearby Israeli Negev communities, but the Palestinian terrorists shifted their launching sites to other areas and have continued the attacks.

Said Oudai: "Israel already has used all its tools. Tanks, aircrafts, assassinations and everything it could use. But we are still here and still fighting. We do not get excited from the Israeli threats. What can be this unprecedented reaction? They have already tried everything."

In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization of several Palestinian terror groups, has taken credit for many of the rockets launched from the area since 2000.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Committees, boasted his group transported missiles to the West Bank.

"If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank," Abu Abir told WorldNetDaily.

Abu Abir said his group has "improved [our] capacities in shooting these rockets. Even the Israeli officers agreed that the improvement is at all levels, [including] the distance that these rockets can reach, the capacity of explosives and their accuracy. In the last five years, there is no doubt that our abilities have improved."

Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'

Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for every suicide bombing against Israel since last February's cease fire, including bombings in a Tel Aviv disco and restaurant and a Netanya shopping mall, among others. Al Aqsa leaders told WorldNetDaily they aided the recent bombings. Islamic Jihad also says it fired most of the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel's August withdrawal.

Israel says Islamic Jihad is directly backed by Iran and Syria. Jihad chief Ramadan Shallah operates openly from Damascus and regularly visits Tehran.

Security sources say Hezbollah headquarters in Damascus and Beirut have ordered Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks in hopes of drawing Israel into a protracted military conflict.

Israel's Diskin warned that Iran and Syria are looking to use Islamic Jihad in part to distract mounting international pressure against their respective countries.

Iran is under fire for its alleged nuclear ambitions, and the international community led by the United States has threatened to bring Syria to the United Nations Security Council for allegedly interfering in the investigation into the assassination last year of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raqif Hariri, for which Syria has been widely blamed.

WorldNetDaily spoke with Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader Abu Khalil, who warned his terror group is planning a terror onslaught to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

"We will launch very soon very painful attacks that will shake the enemy. In fact, this is more the continuation of the (second) intifada because we never said that the intifada has ended. We will never give calm and security to the enemy. This will happen only when Israel will run away from Jerusalem and the West Bank like it did in Gaza," Abu Khalil said.

Abu Khalil, like leaders from the Al Aqsa Brigades, said his group will not respect a Hamas request to halt attacks against Israel.

"I don't believe the brothers in Hamas will ask us to stop. In any case, our only commitment is towards Allah, and the blood of our people and brothers and towards our political leadership," Abu Khalil told WND.

"Therefore we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and to launch all kinds of attacks against Israel everywhere there is an Israeli soldier or any Israeli goal in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine [the entire state of Israel]."

Asked which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."

Hamas: 'Our goal is to rebuild Palestinian society'

Hamas, a terror group responsible for more than 60 suicide bombings, last month won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and is currently attempting to form a governing coalition.

Hamas leaders claim they will focus on rebuilding Palestinian society, and have stated they may sign a long term cease fire agreement with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told WorldNetDaily his group will "rebuild the Palestinian life shattered by corruption in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is our goal now. To make a better life for the Palestinians."

In a widely circulated interview, al-Zahar even recently claimed to WorldNetDaily that Hamas might negotiate with Israel using a third party.

He said his group will likely agree to a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state, but said it will not recognize Israel or renounce its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel by "assaulting and killing."

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this weekend said his group will not stop other Palestinian organizations from carrying out attacks against Israel.

Still, some analysts contend Hamas might use its power to halt some anti-Israel violence in hopes of receiving financial aide from international donors.

But the Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza warned that after Israel's Gaza withdrawal Hamas attacks will be focused on West Bank Jewish communities. The Center is reportedly closely aligned with Hamas and, according to Israeli security officials, it espouses Hamas ideology:

"[Hamas will be] transporting warfare technologies such as mortars and rockets from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. These will provide an easy way to bombard Israeli populated areas adjacent to the security fence, and the fence, which is currently under construction, will therefore become useless," stated a recent publication by the Research Center, according to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.

Al-Mustaqbal stated Israel's Gaza withdrawal provided Hamas and other terror groups with a staging ground from which to launch attacks and to transport rockets to West Bank communities. It said the Gaza withdrawal proves Israel will vacate other areas in response to repeated attacks.

PFLP: Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out recent West Bank shooting attacks and rocket firings from the Gaza Strip. The group's leader, Ahmad Saadat, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for allegedly planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavaam Zeevi in October 2001.

Israeli security officials say the PFLP has scaled back its participation in attacks the past few months, but Abu Hani, a leader of the PLFP's "armed wing," the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, told WorldNetDaily his group used the time earned from last year's cease fire to build its arsenal in preparation for a third intifada.

"The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel," Abu Hani said.

He told WorldNetDaily the PFLP is "forced" to launch a new terror war.

"It is not that we prepare an intifada. It is the reality on the ground that dictates a new intifada. There is the fence, there is the building in the Jewish settlements, the daily Israeli penetration into Palestinian cities, villages and camps and of course the killing of our comrades and brothers," Abu Hani says.

Israel routinely conducts anti-terror military raids in the West Bank when it receives intelligence warning of new attacks. The Israeli Air Force fires at targets in Gaza in attempts to halt Palestinian groups from launching rockets at nearby Jewish communities.

Abu Hani warned, "The current situation does not leave to the Palestinians many choices but to fight with all the tools we have or can have. The Gaza withdrawal proves unfortunately that force, attacks and rockets is the only language and attitude that the Israelis understand. They do not withdraw unless they are hit by the Palestinian resistance. So if there is a way that has already obliged the Israelis to withdraw, why not to use it again?"
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Events Sweeping World Leaders Toward Apocalyptic Confrontation With Israel - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst - http://www.watch.org

Wash—Feb 13—KIN—Since the beginning of 2006, a riptide of current events has been propelling the leaders of Russia, Iran and Syria toward an irreversible apocalyptic confrontation with Israel that surpasses even their own understanding and fulfills the predictions of ancient prophets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar Assad are taking public decisions that reach far beyond peaceful geo-political strategy as the path they have chosen seems to be an unalterable march to eliminate Israel using Islam as the point of the dagger hidden beneath a cloak of peace and behind the rhetoric of reason.

The prophet Ezekiel proclaimed some 2,500 years ago, "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations…(Ezekiel 38:3-8)."

The nation of Israel was re-established from the vote of the United Nations in May 1948 (brought forth out of the nations where Jews from around the world re-gathered to form the nation after being separated throughout millennia because of the sword, or wars) and biblical scholars widely agree that Gog is the land occupied by today's Russia, Persia is Iran and Ethiopia is Northeast Africa, including Egypt, and Libya is Northwest Africa, including Libya, Sudan, Nigeria and other nations hostile to Israel. This apocalyptic battle results in these nations being miraculously destroyed where it will take seven months to bury the dead (Ezekiel 39:12) and the weapons will burn for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9)

Russia's actions, irrespective of whether Putin even understands how his decisions have coincided with prophecy, are those of a country preparing for war. Russia, once the heart of the powerful communist Soviet Union, has historically supported Islamic nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon against Israel as evidenced in the immediate 1948 fight for independence and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel. But today, Russia is renewing its move tip the balance of power in the Middle East boldly using Islamic fascism that aims to annihilate the tiny nation of Israel and her steadfast ally, the United States.

Putin on January 31 boasted to the world that Russia has new missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system and said, "Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has. These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but it doesn't matter to them whether that exists or not. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path." Putin also said the new missiles are nuclear capable. The Russian military since has announced it is revamping and upgrading its nuclear arsenal. Russia has been at the heart of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program as Putin has agreements to build Iran's nuclear plants and Russian engineers, as assisted by North Korean and Chinese colleagues, are known to be helping the Iranians design missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads long range.

In one of his boldest foreign policy moves to date, Putin took a public decision to solidify Russia's position in the Middle East by opening dialogue with yet another political body sworn to the destruction of Israel. Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow for discussions. And Putin signaled to the world that there was more than just diplomacy at stake. Putin said he was inviting Hamas to Russia to hold talks, reminding the international community that, Russia has never, in Putins words, "considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people." Putin said it's not good to burn political bridges and that's why Russia has not "rushed to call any organization 'terrorist'."

This raised immediate red flags within the diplomatic circles at the White House since Russia, a member of the Middle East Peace Quartet also including the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, was a signatory to a statement after the Palestinian elections saying "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic State. A two-State solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." Putin's move drew a sharp response from U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack on February 9, "We would urge any government that might have contact with Hamas to deliver the very clear message that was in the Quartet statement and that is that Hamas has some decisions to make. They must recognize the state of Israel, renounce terror and live up to the international obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to. As a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message." Then the day after, he said, "We believe that should Russia have taken the opportunity to have chosen to have a meeting, they should take it as an opportunity to reinforce the message. Whether or not it has any effect on Hamas is going to be up to Hamas. They're the ones -- the onus is on Hamas to make certain decisions. The international community has laid out very clearly what is required of them. It's up to them to respond to that."

Despite the State Department's optimism that Russia will deliver the so-called "international message" to Hamas, several analysts believe Russia is playing a different game—one of strengthening its military ties in the Middle East—and Putin's statements say little to change that impression. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated emphatically that Russia will deliver the message to Hamas, it remains to be seen how strongly in private the message will be delivered and whether it will be communicated with a "wink." Relying on Russia to assist in keeping the peace in Iraq held a disastrous conclusion in the Oil for Food scandal where Putin, himself, reportedly received bribes from Saddam Hussein and Russia's influence over Iran's nuclear program has hardly yielded any legitimate hope for a diplomatic solution. Russia in general and Putin in particular, has a proven track record that supports Islamic fascism rather than the goals of western democracy.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ahmadinejad has been busy since the New Year spreading his militant philosophy throughout the Middle East. In early January, Ahmadinejad told theological students in Iran that its time for Islam to rule the world. "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world," Ahmadinejad said. "We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return." According to Mehran Riazaty, an Iranian Analyst, Ahmadinejad believes Islam must prepare the world for the return of its Shiite messiah, the Mahdi, who, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. Ahmadinejad believes Mahdi will come within the next two years and then will rule the world for seven years. It is very interesting that Ahmadinejad's beliefs parallel prophecies about the anti-Christ and the tribulation. The anti-Christ will rule for seven years, some believe, after a major catastrophic event will launch him into power—an event like the Gog-Magog war.

Ahmadinejad, on the eve of the Palestinian elections, met with Hamas and other terrorist groups in Syria. Hamas came away with Ahmadinejad's commitment to support the terrorist group both militarily and financially. Ahmadinejad's support was a public unveiling of what many in the intelligence community knew was happening all along, but Iran used the pending victory of Hamas to signal to the Islamic world that it would stand behind those who want to eliminate Israel and its ally, America. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Hamas would receive funding from Iran and urged the terrorist organization to not buckle under pressure of the West to recognize Israel, which Ahmadinejad says, should be "wiped off the map."

Iran, too, is preparing for war. During the week of January 20, Iran begins withdrawing its money from European bank accounts. Also in late January were terrorist attacks in Israel that pointed directly to Iran and Syria as the culprits. Ynet News reported that Israeli Defense officials gathered solid evidence in the hours following the January 19th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists. "The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz charged during a meeting with top security officials in Tel Aviv following the bombing. Mofaz said "we possess conclusive evidence that the attack is a direct result of the terror axis operating against Israel at all times." Defense officials were able to trace based on "unequivocal evidence," the funding of the attack to Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus was the one to provide operative orders that resulted in the bombing, according to the evidence. The execution of the attack was entrusted with an Islamic Jihad cell in the West Bank town of Nablus, where the suicide bomber originated.

Additionally, intelligence sources revealed in January that Iran is also supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups as Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad are using the borders of Syria as staging grounds to send militants into both Iraq and Israel. The military alliance between Iran and Syria was shored up during a January meeting between Ahmadinejad and Assad. Emboldened, Assad's actions in Syria since the Ahmadinejad meeting prompted senior Israeli Defense Force officials from the Northern Command to report on February 9th that if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to feel threatened by the United States and the rest of the international community, he may be pushed into a corner and decide to fire missiles at Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported that according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Syria has an estimated 45 missile launchers and has probably assembled a few Scud D rockets with a range of nearly 700 kilometers - a major threat to Israel because they can be armed with chemical warheads. The IDF officers said they did not foresee a near-term war with Syria. But Assad's handling of diplomatic affairs has the IDF concerned.

While the Russian, Iranian and Syrian leaders are seemingly supernaturally dashing toward their destiny with prophecy, the United States is also playing into the prophetic conundrum. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his unease with Iran's inflammatory rhetoric in an interview with Reuters February 2nd: "Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States; it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well." Asked whether he meant the United States would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush, as if having Ezekiel's words etched upon his subconscious, replied: "You bet, we'll defend Israel." The remarks puzzled analysts and historians alike, who claimed this was the first time a U.S. President publicly stated that America would militarily defend Israel against its enemies.

It is as if these world leaders have little control over the words that leave their lips or the orders they give when it comes to the question of Israel—one of the smallest nations in the world, yet the only nation that burdens the entire world. In Zechariah 12:3, the Lord says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it.: And Zechariah 2:8 also speaks of Israel prophetically , "For thus says the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled for you: for he that lays a hand upon you, strikes the pupil of His eye."
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If you're not ready you best get ready! - Jerry Golden - http://www.thegoldenreport.com

And if you don't think a Middle East war is about to get underway you should get your head out of that hole and look around. Iran today has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East it is believed that they already have nuclear weapons. And they have an army just to our north called Hizbullah, who they have armed with over 13,000 missiles armed with chemical warheads to attack Israel with. It is also known that Iran wants desperately to produce many more nuclear bombs before they go to war, but are willing to go with what they now have. They feel confident that they can destroy Israel before anyone can stop them, they are wrong. Their missiles can reach nearly all of Europe as well as Turkey and they can count on! an attack. The United States knows that Iran can reach them from any number of merchant vessels in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and deliver a nuclear bomb for EMP literally closing down the entire country for months if not years. We need to understand something very clearly, some nations have nuclear weapons for protection but Iran wants them so they can use them. Iran will use them and very soon, we are talking about insane Islamic devils.

Today high ranking IDF Generals are saying that Bashar Assad of Syria is contemplating an all out offensive again! st Israel and has acquired many missiles capable of reaching all of Israel thanks to Russia. It has come out in today's Israeli newspapers that Putin has invited the heads of the Islamic Terror Organization to Moscow for talks. With weapons pouring across the Gaza/Egypt border and Hamas now in total power in Gaza, along with the Iranian armed Hizbullah massed on our northern borders and the President of Syria under extreme pressure from the international community for harboring Terrorist groups in Damascus, not to mention the fact that he has taken in all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and has them hidden in Syria. And now has the United States breathing down his neck making sounds that sounds more like an attack in soon coming. Like all Dictators when faced with this kind of pressure their only solution is to start a war to unit their people behind them.

Lets say the US will be spared and only Israel and Europe gets hit with Iranian nukes. Is there anyone on earth that thinks Israel will sit here and take it without sending nuclear bombs over Iran? Israel also knows that the moment they send missiles towards Iran, that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attack Israel as well, so you can expect Israel to turn the Middle East into a giant glass factory. Folks this is deadly serious, get ready. Even if the US is spared have you given any thought to what will happen to the price of oi! l. My guess is it will go over $500 a barrel or even higher. The US simply will not be able to survive, the US economy will simply collapse and the US is a materialistic society. And folks from that point thousands of other unthinkable events will begin to happen across the US. So I will ask you again, are you ready, if not get ready. I believe God is quickening the minds of Believers to prepare so they can be a witness in a time of crisis. It's hard to witness while you're digging in a garbage can for food to feed your kids.

There is something I do know because the Bible tells me so, Israel will survive and will be here for the return of Messiah Yeshua, for He will plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, not in New York, Paris or anywhere else but right here in Israel. I also believe that between now and then a terrible price will be paid for Israel's sin against the most high God of Israel. God will shake and cleanse His own house in a violent and terrible way, and all will fear Him like they have never feared Him before. Jews in Israel will fall on their faces repenting and seeking God in their lives, then we will see the Messiah.

Jews around the world will be under such persecution many will be killed and many will lie denying their Jewishness, but many others will flee running for their lives to Israel. For the world will once again blame the Jews for all the ills of the human race, saying if it were not for the Jews and Israel none of this would have happened, let us kill the Jews and rid ourselves of this terrible curse. It is then that the world will feel the full wrath of God's anger and know that His Word is true.

I'm not saying you need to dig a hole and fill it with food to last for years. But you should have a couple months of food on hand, but most important is water, if you don't have drinkable water you will die, and it may surprise you to find out how much one person uses in a weeks time. As for a nuclear attack, if you are upwind from the attack and not to near, your chances of survival are good. If you are downwind you need a lot of help from fall out. If you are to close to ground zero, you won't need any of the above, say hello to your Master, and I pray it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and if it's not, right now would be a great time to settle that, just get on your knees and ask Yeshua to be the Lord of your life, and live for Him.

If God has called you to this ministry it is time to realize there would be no better place to invest your money, for when this all comes down you won't have any anyway. For regardless of what happens God's Word will come to pass and He will re-gather the Jews back to the Land that He calls His own. The Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) has touched this messenger and others to prepare to collect Jews and bring them home. We have precious little time to get everything in order, and the larger boat must be purchased soon. Just as important is the groundwork in Turkey and elsewhere, and the word has to be put out in certain places i! n Europe. We need your part of this ministry ASAP. Not one Jew will be saved without the help of many Believers who made it possible, and God is certainly watching.

Connie and I just returned from a trip to Cyprus, got back in Israel around 2AM. It was a successful trip with meetings with other Believers and some very necessary arrangements put into action for this Ministry. It is now necessary for us to make other trips to meet with others in Turkey for it is there that most of the groundwork must be accomplished. It is also there where we will buy the larger boat. God is calling only the very serious to this Ministry and it is with a spiritual certainty that we move forward knowing that God has witnessed to those who have drawn close to Him knowing the seriousness of the day that we now live.

In a recent letter I said that it may be necessary for Connie and I to move to Cyprus or even possibly into Turkey, but on this last trip to Cyprus God has shown us that He wants us to stay in Israel, that from this location we will receive His directions. Because of the problems Cyprus and Turkey have with each other it is not possible! to travel back and forth between those two countries and we must be able to move freely when the time comes.

In conclusion I will say that I know this is a frightening report, but it is one you need to read over again, for what is about to happen is beyond the ability of most to even comprehend. If this ministry is not fully ready we will do what we can with what God has given us. We still have the time to prepare to rescue many, but that depends of the obedience of those God has touched to bless the Apple of His eye. For most it comes down to a decision of priority, and making a choice of who or what do you serve.

There are few Believers who have been given the opportunity to really bless Israel like we have. Maybe we should be looking at it in reverse, God is not asking us to give but to receive. Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemies. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
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Thank you mookie. <3

Great post DDS

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

Have either of you considered this?

Prophecy Update - If you're not ready you best get ready! - 2/14/06
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Feb 14, 2006

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"For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." (1Thessalonians 5:9-11)

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name." Revelation 3:10-12

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Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar declares Palestinian war on Israel will go on - Debka

Spelling out the incoming Palestinian government's agenda, a-Zahar said: We will not recognize Israel; our armed struggle will go on until all of Palestine is "liberated;" we will abrogate the Oslo accords and all the agreements the PLO and the Palestinian Authority signed; all negotiations with Israel must go through a third party; we don't need money from Israel or "the Satan;" Arab nations will give us money; we have long-range missiles.

DEBKAfile: Mahmoud a-Zahar, who is terminally ill with cancer, in effect handed down his political-military testament. It contained the incoming Palestinian government's point-by-point response to the conditions laid down by the United States, Israel and the Middle East Quartet (sans Russia) for dealing with a Hamas-led government – recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor international accords. He showed the Islamic terrorists to be unmoved by threats of isolation and the restrictive rules of engagement the Olmert government proposes to impose on a Palestinian Authority after Hamas is sworn in.

Responding to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's election pledge to set Israel's final borders, the Hamas leader declared total war on the Jewish state and its very existence.

A-Zahar scorned the constitutional "white" revolution to unseat Hamas which Abu Mazen attempted on the last day of the departing, Fatah-dominated legislature.

He was also telling Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades that Hamas could match the new Aqsa 207 Katyusha rockets they had just acquired.
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Supreme Court Justice Mishael Heshin defines the Palestinian Authority as an enemy state de facto - Debka

He rejected petitions to allow Palestinians married to Israelis to settle in Israel under the family reunification law as a loophole that would pose a risk to state security. "Just listen to daily declarations made by Hamas," Heshin said. "The Palestinian people chose Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, and they are citizens of an enemy state."

He asked why Israel should take risks with Israeli lives, any more than did England and America by admitting Germans during World War II. The judge said no one is preventing mixed couples from building a family, but they should live in Jenin. The right to life takes priority over any other consideration, he said.
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Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal says: Our mission is to liberate Jerusalem, purify the Aqsa Mosque - Debka

Addressing a pro-Hamas rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Mashaal referred to Western threats to cut off aid: "God, the Islamic nation are with us, will lead us to victory and liberation. Do not fear poverty." He thanked Sudanese parties for raising funds for the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government.
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Mofaz: Hamas part of 'axis of evil' - Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Presidential palace in Cairo Tuesday that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it dismantled its terror infrastructure, recognized the State of Israel and accepted all previous agreements made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Hamas's control over the Palestinian Authority is just another part of the 'axis of evil' that includes Iran, Syria, and now extends to the PA from where it will extend to additional countries that harbor terror organizations," Mofaz told reporters following his hour long meeting with Mubarak.

In addition to Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections, the two officials also discussed the current tense situation along Israel's northern border with Hizbullah and the growing global terror perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al Qaida.

Israel, Mofaz told Mubarak, believed that Syria and Iran were giving financial and logistical support to Hizbullah with the goal of shifting the international community's focus from those countries to the Hizbullah.

"Their goal is that the focus of the international world will be there [along the northern border] and not on Syria, since the Syrians are under pressure," Mofaz said.

Mubarak, Mofaz said, asked Israel to "have patience" since Egypt believed that it was only a matter of time before the Hamas met all of Jerusalem's criteria for the renewal of negotiations between the PA and Israel.

"Mubarak believes that the pressure Egypt has placed on Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and the Hamas will bear fruit and that the Hamas will change its ways," Mofaz said.
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'3rd intifada on its way'- By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

Terror leaders detail for WND 'massive new war' against Israel

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its "military wing" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation – against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah party scored poorly in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.


"The new intifada is only a question of time and this will be the hardest and the most dangerous one. It's just about timing until the order to blow up a new wave of attacks will be given," Abu Nasser, a senior Al Aqsa Brigades leader from the Balata refugee camp in northern Samaria told WorldNetDaily in an interview.

Israel expecting new wave of terror

In the last 10 days Israeli forces intercepted 12 potential suicide bombers and have stopped several dozen bombings the past few months, prompting fears of "a new and worrisome wave of terror," said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security services.

Hamas last month catapulted to power, winning Palestinian parliamentary elections by a large margin and wresting control from Fatah. Israel has warned the losing terror groups, particularly Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, will try to stymie efforts by Hamas to form a new government and sign a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state. Also, members of the Islamic Jihad terror group expressed disappointment their organization decided not to run in elections, and have warned they will stop Hamas from imposing a truce.

Last week, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his Kadima party, leading overwhelmingly in the polls for next month's Israeli elections, will seek to "change Israel's borders" by withdrawing from most of the West Bank. Some security officials told WND they fear terror groups will increase attacks to claim credit for an Israeli West Bank pull-out.

After Israel announced its withdrawal from Gaza, which it carried out this past summer, terror organizations, mostly led by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group, increased attacks in the area, at one point firing an average of seven rockets per week at Gaza's Jewish communities.

Diskin warned that Iran and Syria, currently under mounting international pressure, are streaming large sums of money to Palestinian terror groups to spur on local cells to carry out attacks in hopes of starting regional violence.

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

The terror groups themselves say they are planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, which some terror leaders are calling a "third intifada." They detailed for WorldNetDaily how they will carry it out.

Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'

The Al Aqsa Brigades was formed in 2000 by then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat as a military offshoot of the Fatah party. PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a cease fire with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last February, to which the Brigades was party – but the terror group continued carrying out attacks.

Al Aqsa's Abu Nasser claims Israel put Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a result.

"For the last 10 months we respected a cease fire expecting to see changes in the lives of the Palestinian people, but we received from the Israeli side more assassinations ... and above all we received the Hamas victory, which seems to be the result of an Israeli and international conspiracy. They believe that Hamas will give up easier our lands and rights. I think that they are right, but we will not allow this to happen. We will fight and we will blow up the new intifada," Abu Nasser told WND.

Sources close to Al Aqsa say Abu Nasser was involved in preparing the last three suicide bombings in Israel, including the attack last month at a Tel Aviv shwarma restaurant that injured more than 30 Israelis.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal over the weekend said his group might sign a long-term cease fire with Israel, but told reporters he will not ask other Palestinian group to stop attacks.

Abu Nasser told WND the Brigades will not respect any cease fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

"I am sure Hamas will start arresting us, but it will not be that easy [for them]," said Abu Nasser. "We are preparing ourselves for the worst scenario."

Asked if Al Aqsa's new terror war will be launched less out of aggression toward Israel and more to revolt against Hamas, Abu Nasser replied, "This is partially true. When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?

Continued Abu Nasser: "I am sure once [Hamas is] in power it is only that power that is really important for them. They will be ready to give up things that President Arafat refused to do. The proof for what I am saying is that in the last days when the Israeli army killed more than 15 Palestinian activists, most of them from our Brigades, we did not hear the voice of Hamas. Where are their resistance principles? Did they disappear after the elections?"

Abu Nasser warned the so-called third intifada will be a combination of suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish towns.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades recently unified most of our cells and groups and we will wait for the most suitable moment to launch our resistance acts. As for the acts, there will be suicide attacks but there will be a massive use of rockets. These rockets will be launched against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but also if needed against Israeli cities inside the green line."

Rocket war against Israel

Since Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip this past August, security officials have been warning that the Palestinian terror groups transferred their rocket capabilities to the West Bank, which is within firing range of Israel's international airport and many major Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israel has confirmed that at least two rockets have been fired in the West Bank so far from the northern Samaria town of Jenin. There is information terror groups in the West Bank, particularly the Al Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad, will step up attacks against the area's Jewish communities ahead of any Israeli withdrawal from the area.

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned that his organization is preparing a rocket war against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Oudai said his organization and other terror groups have stockpiled Palestinian rockets, including Qassams, which can travel about 2 miles, more primitive Jenin-1 and Jenin-2s, and Arafat-1 and Arafat-2 rockets, some of which can reportedly travel up to 3 miles. He claimed his group is developing a new rocket that will put all of Israel's major cities within firing range.

"The very near future will prove their capacity to kill and destroy and to beat the Israelis in the West Bank exactly like we did with these rockets in the Gaza Strip," Oudai said.

Oudai pocked fun at Israel's West Bank security barrier, which has been credited with making it more difficult for Palestinian groups to carry out suicide bombings.

"[The Israelis] have built a huge wall on which [it] spent billions of dollars but still we are hitting Israel with our rockets and reaching every target we want. This wall will not defend [Israel] from our rockets which have defeated the wall and all the security measures taken to prevent our attacks," Oudai boasted.

Israeli military leaders previously warned that the Jewish state will launch an "unprecedented" military campaign against any rocket firing from the West Bank.

The Israeli Defense Forces did not initiate any large-scale anti-rocket operation in response to the rockets launched from Jenin. It has been largely unable to stop the rockets regularly fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli Negev towns.

The Israeli army regularly responds to Qassam firings from Gaza with surgical missile strikes and artillery fire at areas it says are used to launch rockets. In December, Israel set up a buffer zone in sections of Gaza occasionally used to fire rockets into nearby Israeli Negev communities, but the Palestinian terrorists shifted their launching sites to other areas and have continued the attacks.

Said Oudai: "Israel already has used all its tools. Tanks, aircrafts, assassinations and everything it could use. But we are still here and still fighting. We do not get excited from the Israeli threats. What can be this unprecedented reaction? They have already tried everything."

In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization of several Palestinian terror groups, has taken credit for many of the rockets launched from the area since 2000.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Committees, boasted his group transported missiles to the West Bank.

"If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank," Abu Abir told WorldNetDaily.

Abu Abir said his group has "improved [our] capacities in shooting these rockets. Even the Israeli officers agreed that the improvement is at all levels, [including] the distance that these rockets can reach, the capacity of explosives and their accuracy. In the last five years, there is no doubt that our abilities have improved."

Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'

Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for every suicide bombing against Israel since last February's cease fire, including bombings in a Tel Aviv disco and restaurant and a Netanya shopping mall, among others. Al Aqsa leaders told WorldNetDaily they aided the recent bombings. Islamic Jihad also says it fired most of the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel's August withdrawal.

Israel says Islamic Jihad is directly backed by Iran and Syria. Jihad chief Ramadan Shallah operates openly from Damascus and regularly visits Tehran.

Security sources say Hezbollah headquarters in Damascus and Beirut have ordered Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks in hopes of drawing Israel into a protracted military conflict.

Israel's Diskin warned that Iran and Syria are looking to use Islamic Jihad in part to distract mounting international pressure against their respective countries.

Iran is under fire for its alleged nuclear ambitions, and the international community led by the United States has threatened to bring Syria to the United Nations Security Council for allegedly interfering in the investigation into the assassination last year of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raqif Hariri, for which Syria has been widely blamed.

WorldNetDaily spoke with Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader Abu Khalil, who warned his terror group is planning a terror onslaught to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

"We will launch very soon very painful attacks that will shake the enemy. In fact, this is more the continuation of the (second) intifada because we never said that the intifada has ended. We will never give calm and security to the enemy. This will happen only when Israel will run away from Jerusalem and the West Bank like it did in Gaza," Abu Khalil said.

Abu Khalil, like leaders from the Al Aqsa Brigades, said his group will not respect a Hamas request to halt attacks against Israel.

"I don't believe the brothers in Hamas will ask us to stop. In any case, our only commitment is towards Allah, and the blood of our people and brothers and towards our political leadership," Abu Khalil told WND.

"Therefore we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and to launch all kinds of attacks against Israel everywhere there is an Israeli soldier or any Israeli goal in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine [the entire state of Israel]."

Asked which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."

Hamas: 'Our goal is to rebuild Palestinian society'

Hamas, a terror group responsible for more than 60 suicide bombings, last month won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and is currently attempting to form a governing coalition.

Hamas leaders claim they will focus on rebuilding Palestinian society, and have stated they may sign a long term cease fire agreement with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told WorldNetDaily his group will "rebuild the Palestinian life shattered by corruption in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is our goal now. To make a better life for the Palestinians."

In a widely circulated interview, al-Zahar even recently claimed to WorldNetDaily that Hamas might negotiate with Israel using a third party.

He said his group will likely agree to a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state, but said it will not recognize Israel or renounce its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel by "assaulting and killing."

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this weekend said his group will not stop other Palestinian organizations from carrying out attacks against Israel.

Still, some analysts contend Hamas might use its power to halt some anti-Israel violence in hopes of receiving financial aide from international donors.

But the Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza warned that after Israel's Gaza withdrawal Hamas attacks will be focused on West Bank Jewish communities. The Center is reportedly closely aligned with Hamas and, according to Israeli security officials, it espouses Hamas ideology:

"[Hamas will be] transporting warfare technologies such as mortars and rockets from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. These will provide an easy way to bombard Israeli populated areas adjacent to the security fence, and the fence, which is currently under construction, will therefore become useless," stated a recent publication by the Research Center, according to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.

Al-Mustaqbal stated Israel's Gaza withdrawal provided Hamas and other terror groups with a staging ground from which to launch attacks and to transport rockets to West Bank communities. It said the Gaza withdrawal proves Israel will vacate other areas in response to repeated attacks.

PFLP: Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out recent West Bank shooting attacks and rocket firings from the Gaza Strip. The group's leader, Ahmad Saadat, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for allegedly planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavaam Zeevi in October 2001.

Israeli security officials say the PFLP has scaled back its participation in attacks the past few months, but Abu Hani, a leader of the PLFP's "armed wing," the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, told WorldNetDaily his group used the time earned from last year's cease fire to build its arsenal in preparation for a third intifada.

"The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel," Abu Hani said.

He told WorldNetDaily the PFLP is "forced" to launch a new terror war.

"It is not that we prepare an intifada. It is the reality on the ground that dictates a new intifada. There is the fence, there is the building in the Jewish settlements, the daily Israeli penetration into Palestinian cities, villages and camps and of course the killing of our comrades and brothers," Abu Hani says.

Israel routinely conducts anti-terror military raids in the West Bank when it receives intelligence warning of new attacks. The Israeli Air Force fires at targets in Gaza in attempts to halt Palestinian groups from launching rockets at nearby Jewish communities.

Abu Hani warned, "The current situation does not leave to the Palestinians many choices but to fight with all the tools we have or can have. The Gaza withdrawal proves unfortunately that force, attacks and rockets is the only language and attitude that the Israelis understand. They do not withdraw unless they are hit by the Palestinian resistance. So if there is a way that has already obliged the Israelis to withdraw, why not to use it again?"
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Events Sweeping World Leaders Toward Apocalyptic Confrontation With Israel - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst - http://www.watch.org

Wash—Feb 13—KIN—Since the beginning of 2006, a riptide of current events has been propelling the leaders of Russia, Iran and Syria toward an irreversible apocalyptic confrontation with Israel that surpasses even their own understanding and fulfills the predictions of ancient prophets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar Assad are taking public decisions that reach far beyond peaceful geo-political strategy as the path they have chosen seems to be an unalterable march to eliminate Israel using Islam as the point of the dagger hidden beneath a cloak of peace and behind the rhetoric of reason.

The prophet Ezekiel proclaimed some 2,500 years ago, "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations…(Ezekiel 38:3-8)."

The nation of Israel was re-established from the vote of the United Nations in May 1948 (brought forth out of the nations where Jews from around the world re-gathered to form the nation after being separated throughout millennia because of the sword, or wars) and biblical scholars widely agree that Gog is the land occupied by today's Russia, Persia is Iran and Ethiopia is Northeast Africa, including Egypt, and Libya is Northwest Africa, including Libya, Sudan, Nigeria and other nations hostile to Israel. This apocalyptic battle results in these nations being miraculously destroyed where it will take seven months to bury the dead (Ezekiel 39:12) and the weapons will burn for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9)

Russia's actions, irrespective of whether Putin even understands how his decisions have coincided with prophecy, are those of a country preparing for war. Russia, once the heart of the powerful communist Soviet Union, has historically supported Islamic nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon against Israel as evidenced in the immediate 1948 fight for independence and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel. But today, Russia is renewing its move tip the balance of power in the Middle East boldly using Islamic fascism that aims to annihilate the tiny nation of Israel and her steadfast ally, the United States.

Putin on January 31 boasted to the world that Russia has new missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system and said, "Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has. These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but it doesn't matter to them whether that exists or not. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path." Putin also said the new missiles are nuclear capable. The Russian military since has announced it is revamping and upgrading its nuclear arsenal. Russia has been at the heart of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program as Putin has agreements to build Iran's nuclear plants and Russian engineers, as assisted by North Korean and Chinese colleagues, are known to be helping the Iranians design missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads long range.

In one of his boldest foreign policy moves to date, Putin took a public decision to solidify Russia's position in the Middle East by opening dialogue with yet another political body sworn to the destruction of Israel. Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow for discussions. And Putin signaled to the world that there was more than just diplomacy at stake. Putin said he was inviting Hamas to Russia to hold talks, reminding the international community that, Russia has never, in Putins words, "considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people." Putin said it's not good to burn political bridges and that's why Russia has not "rushed to call any organization 'terrorist'."

This raised immediate red flags within the diplomatic circles at the White House since Russia, a member of the Middle East Peace Quartet also including the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, was a signatory to a statement after the Palestinian elections saying "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic State. A two-State solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." Putin's move drew a sharp response from U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack on February 9, "We would urge any government that might have contact with Hamas to deliver the very clear message that was in the Quartet statement and that is that Hamas has some decisions to make. They must recognize the state of Israel, renounce terror and live up to the international obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to. As a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message." Then the day after, he said, "We believe that should Russia have taken the opportunity to have chosen to have a meeting, they should take it as an opportunity to reinforce the message. Whether or not it has any effect on Hamas is going to be up to Hamas. They're the ones -- the onus is on Hamas to make certain decisions. The international community has laid out very clearly what is required of them. It's up to them to respond to that."

Despite the State Department's optimism that Russia will deliver the so-called "international message" to Hamas, several analysts believe Russia is playing a different game—one of strengthening its military ties in the Middle East—and Putin's statements say little to change that impression. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated emphatically that Russia will deliver the message to Hamas, it remains to be seen how strongly in private the message will be delivered and whether it will be communicated with a "wink." Relying on Russia to assist in keeping the peace in Iraq held a disastrous conclusion in the Oil for Food scandal where Putin, himself, reportedly received bribes from Saddam Hussein and Russia's influence over Iran's nuclear program has hardly yielded any legitimate hope for a diplomatic solution. Russia in general and Putin in particular, has a proven track record that supports Islamic fascism rather than the goals of western democracy.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ahmadinejad has been busy since the New Year spreading his militant philosophy throughout the Middle East. In early January, Ahmadinejad told theological students in Iran that its time for Islam to rule the world. "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world," Ahmadinejad said. "We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return." According to Mehran Riazaty, an Iranian Analyst, Ahmadinejad believes Islam must prepare the world for the return of its Shiite messiah, the Mahdi, who, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. Ahmadinejad believes Mahdi will come within the next two years and then will rule the world for seven years. It is very interesting that Ahmadinejad's beliefs parallel prophecies about the anti-Christ and the tribulation. The anti-Christ will rule for seven years, some believe, after a major catastrophic event will launch him into power—an event like the Gog-Magog war.

Ahmadinejad, on the eve of the Palestinian elections, met with Hamas and other terrorist groups in Syria. Hamas came away with Ahmadinejad's commitment to support the terrorist group both militarily and financially. Ahmadinejad's support was a public unveiling of what many in the intelligence community knew was happening all along, but Iran used the pending victory of Hamas to signal to the Islamic world that it would stand behind those who want to eliminate Israel and its ally, America. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Hamas would receive funding from Iran and urged the terrorist organization to not buckle under pressure of the West to recognize Israel, which Ahmadinejad says, should be "wiped off the map."

Iran, too, is preparing for war. During the week of January 20, Iran begins withdrawing its money from European bank accounts. Also in late January were terrorist attacks in Israel that pointed directly to Iran and Syria as the culprits. Ynet News reported that Israeli Defense officials gathered solid evidence in the hours following the January 19th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists. "The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz charged during a meeting with top security officials in Tel Aviv following the bombing. Mofaz said "we possess conclusive evidence that the attack is a direct result of the terror axis operating against Israel at all times." Defense officials were able to trace based on "unequivocal evidence," the funding of the attack to Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus was the one to provide operative orders that resulted in the bombing, according to the evidence. The execution of the attack was entrusted with an Islamic Jihad cell in the West Bank town of Nablus, where the suicide bomber originated.

Additionally, intelligence sources revealed in January that Iran is also supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups as Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad are using the borders of Syria as staging grounds to send militants into both Iraq and Israel. The military alliance between Iran and Syria was shored up during a January meeting between Ahmadinejad and Assad. Emboldened, Assad's actions in Syria since the Ahmadinejad meeting prompted senior Israeli Defense Force officials from the Northern Command to report on February 9th that if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to feel threatened by the United States and the rest of the international community, he may be pushed into a corner and decide to fire missiles at Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported that according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Syria has an estimated 45 missile launchers and has probably assembled a few Scud D rockets with a range of nearly 700 kilometers - a major threat to Israel because they can be armed with chemical warheads. The IDF officers said they did not foresee a near-term war with Syria. But Assad's handling of diplomatic affairs has the IDF concerned.

While the Russian, Iranian and Syrian leaders are seemingly supernaturally dashing toward their destiny with prophecy, the United States is also playing into the prophetic conundrum. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his unease with Iran's inflammatory rhetoric in an interview with Reuters February 2nd: "Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States; it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well." Asked whether he meant the United States would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush, as if having Ezekiel's words etched upon his subconscious, replied: "You bet, we'll defend Israel." The remarks puzzled analysts and historians alike, who claimed this was the first time a U.S. President publicly stated that America would militarily defend Israel against its enemies.

It is as if these world leaders have little control over the words that leave their lips or the orders they give when it comes to the question of Israel—one of the smallest nations in the world, yet the only nation that burdens the entire world. In Zechariah 12:3, the Lord says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it.: And Zechariah 2:8 also speaks of Israel prophetically , "For thus says the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled for you: for he that lays a hand upon you, strikes the pupil of His eye."
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If you're not ready you best get ready! - Jerry Golden - http://www.thegoldenreport.com

And if you don't think a Middle East war is about to get underway you should get your head out of that hole and look around. Iran today has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East it is believed that they already have nuclear weapons. And they have an army just to our north called Hizbullah, who they have armed with over 13,000 missiles armed with chemical warheads to attack Israel with. It is also known that Iran wants desperately to produce many more nuclear bombs before they go to war, but are willing to go with what they now have. They feel confident that they can destroy Israel before anyone can stop them, they are wrong. Their missiles can reach nearly all of Europe as well as Turkey and they can count on! an attack. The United States knows that Iran can reach them from any number of merchant vessels in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and deliver a nuclear bomb for EMP literally closing down the entire country for months if not years. We need to understand something very clearly, some nations have nuclear weapons for protection but Iran wants them so they can use them. Iran will use them and very soon, we are talking about insane Islamic devils.

Today high ranking IDF Generals are saying that Bashar Assad of Syria is contemplating an all out offensive again! st Israel and has acquired many missiles capable of reaching all of Israel thanks to Russia. It has come out in today's Israeli newspapers that Putin has invited the heads of the Islamic Terror Organization to Moscow for talks. With weapons pouring across the Gaza/Egypt border and Hamas now in total power in Gaza, along with the Iranian armed Hizbullah massed on our northern borders and the President of Syria under extreme pressure from the international community for harboring Terrorist groups in Damascus, not to mention the fact that he has taken in all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and has them hidden in Syria. And now has the United States breathing down his neck making sounds that sounds more like an attack in soon coming. Like all Dictators when faced with this kind of pressure their only solution is to start a war to unit their people behind them.

Lets say the US will be spared and only Israel and Europe gets hit with Iranian nukes. Is there anyone on earth that thinks Israel will sit here and take it without sending nuclear bombs over Iran? Israel also knows that the moment they send missiles towards Iran, that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attack Israel as well, so you can expect Israel to turn the Middle East into a giant glass factory. Folks this is deadly serious, get ready. Even if the US is spared have you given any thought to what will happen to the price of oi! l. My guess is it will go over $500 a barrel or even higher. The US simply will not be able to survive, the US economy will simply collapse and the US is a materialistic society. And folks from that point thousands of other unthinkable events will begin to happen across the US. So I will ask you again, are you ready, if not get ready. I believe God is quickening the minds of Believers to prepare so they can be a witness in a time of crisis. It's hard to witness while you're digging in a garbage can for food to feed your kids.

There is something I do know because the Bible tells me so, Israel will survive and will be here for the return of Messiah Yeshua, for He will plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, not in New York, Paris or anywhere else but right here in Israel. I also believe that between now and then a terrible price will be paid for Israel's sin against the most high God of Israel. God will shake and cleanse His own house in a violent and terrible way, and all will fear Him like they have never feared Him before. Jews in Israel will fall on their faces repenting and seeking God in their lives, then we will see the Messiah.

Jews around the world will be under such persecution many will be killed and many will lie denying their Jewishness, but many others will flee running for their lives to Israel. For the world will once again blame the Jews for all the ills of the human race, saying if it were not for the Jews and Israel none of this would have happened, let us kill the Jews and rid ourselves of this terrible curse. It is then that the world will feel the full wrath of God's anger and know that His Word is true.

I'm not saying you need to dig a hole and fill it with food to last for years. But you should have a couple months of food on hand, but most important is water, if you don't have drinkable water you will die, and it may surprise you to find out how much one person uses in a weeks time. As for a nuclear attack, if you are upwind from the attack and not to near, your chances of survival are good. If you are downwind you need a lot of help from fall out. If you are to close to ground zero, you won't need any of the above, say hello to your Master, and I pray it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and if it's not, right now would be a great time to settle that, just get on your knees and ask Yeshua to be the Lord of your life, and live for Him.

If God has called you to this ministry it is time to realize there would be no better place to invest your money, for when this all comes down you won't have any anyway. For regardless of what happens God's Word will come to pass and He will re-gather the Jews back to the Land that He calls His own. The Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) has touched this messenger and others to prepare to collect Jews and bring them home. We have precious little time to get everything in order, and the larger boat must be purchased soon. Just as important is the groundwork in Turkey and elsewhere, and the word has to be put out in certain places i! n Europe. We need your part of this ministry ASAP. Not one Jew will be saved without the help of many Believers who made it possible, and God is certainly watching.

Connie and I just returned from a trip to Cyprus, got back in Israel around 2AM. It was a successful trip with meetings with other Believers and some very necessary arrangements put into action for this Ministry. It is now necessary for us to make other trips to meet with others in Turkey for it is there that most of the groundwork must be accomplished. It is also there where we will buy the larger boat. God is calling only the very serious to this Ministry and it is with a spiritual certainty that we move forward knowing that God has witnessed to those who have drawn close to Him knowing the seriousness of the day that we now live.

In a recent letter I said that it may be necessary for Connie and I to move to Cyprus or even possibly into Turkey, but on this last trip to Cyprus God has shown us that He wants us to stay in Israel, that from this location we will receive His directions. Because of the problems Cyprus and Turkey have with each other it is not possible! to travel back and forth between those two countries and we must be able to move freely when the time comes.

In conclusion I will say that I know this is a frightening report, but it is one you need to read over again, for what is about to happen is beyond the ability of most to even comprehend. If this ministry is not fully ready we will do what we can with what God has given us. We still have the time to prepare to rescue many, but that depends of the obedience of those God has touched to bless the Apple of His eye. For most it comes down to a decision of priority, and making a choice of who or what do you serve.

There are few Believers who have been given the opportunity to really bless Israel like we have. Maybe we should be looking at it in reverse, God is not asking us to give but to receive. Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemies. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
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Great post DDS

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

Have either of you considered this?

Prophecy Update - If you're not ready you best get ready! - 2/14/06
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Feb 14, 2006

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"For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." (1Thessalonians 5:9-11)

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

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Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar declares Palestinian war on Israel will go on - Debka

Spelling out the incoming Palestinian government's agenda, a-Zahar said: We will not recognize Israel; our armed struggle will go on until all of Palestine is "liberated;" we will abrogate the Oslo accords and all the agreements the PLO and the Palestinian Authority signed; all negotiations with Israel must go through a third party; we don't need money from Israel or "the Satan;" Arab nations will give us money; we have long-range missiles.

DEBKAfile: Mahmoud a-Zahar, who is terminally ill with cancer, in effect handed down his political-military testament. It contained the incoming Palestinian government's point-by-point response to the conditions laid down by the United States, Israel and the Middle East Quartet (sans Russia) for dealing with a Hamas-led government – recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor international accords. He showed the Islamic terrorists to be unmoved by threats of isolation and the restrictive rules of engagement the Olmert government proposes to impose on a Palestinian Authority after Hamas is sworn in.

Responding to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's election pledge to set Israel's final borders, the Hamas leader declared total war on the Jewish state and its very existence.

A-Zahar scorned the constitutional "white" revolution to unseat Hamas which Abu Mazen attempted on the last day of the departing, Fatah-dominated legislature.

He was also telling Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades that Hamas could match the new Aqsa 207 Katyusha rockets they had just acquired.
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Supreme Court Justice Mishael Heshin defines the Palestinian Authority as an enemy state de facto - Debka

He rejected petitions to allow Palestinians married to Israelis to settle in Israel under the family reunification law as a loophole that would pose a risk to state security. "Just listen to daily declarations made by Hamas," Heshin said. "The Palestinian people chose Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, and they are citizens of an enemy state."

He asked why Israel should take risks with Israeli lives, any more than did England and America by admitting Germans during World War II. The judge said no one is preventing mixed couples from building a family, but they should live in Jenin. The right to life takes priority over any other consideration, he said.
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Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal says: Our mission is to liberate Jerusalem, purify the Aqsa Mosque - Debka

Addressing a pro-Hamas rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Mashaal referred to Western threats to cut off aid: "God, the Islamic nation are with us, will lead us to victory and liberation. Do not fear poverty." He thanked Sudanese parties for raising funds for the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government.
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Mofaz: Hamas part of 'axis of evil' - Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Presidential palace in Cairo Tuesday that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it dismantled its terror infrastructure, recognized the State of Israel and accepted all previous agreements made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Hamas's control over the Palestinian Authority is just another part of the 'axis of evil' that includes Iran, Syria, and now extends to the PA from where it will extend to additional countries that harbor terror organizations," Mofaz told reporters following his hour long meeting with Mubarak.

In addition to Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections, the two officials also discussed the current tense situation along Israel's northern border with Hizbullah and the growing global terror perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al Qaida.

Israel, Mofaz told Mubarak, believed that Syria and Iran were giving financial and logistical support to Hizbullah with the goal of shifting the international community's focus from those countries to the Hizbullah.

"Their goal is that the focus of the international world will be there [along the northern border] and not on Syria, since the Syrians are under pressure," Mofaz said.

Mubarak, Mofaz said, asked Israel to "have patience" since Egypt believed that it was only a matter of time before the Hamas met all of Jerusalem's criteria for the renewal of negotiations between the PA and Israel.

"Mubarak believes that the pressure Egypt has placed on Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and the Hamas will bear fruit and that the Hamas will change its ways," Mofaz said.
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'3rd intifada on its way'- By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

Terror leaders detail for WND 'massive new war' against Israel

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its "military wing" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation – against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah party scored poorly in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.


"The new intifada is only a question of time and this will be the hardest and the most dangerous one. It's just about timing until the order to blow up a new wave of attacks will be given," Abu Nasser, a senior Al Aqsa Brigades leader from the Balata refugee camp in northern Samaria told WorldNetDaily in an interview.

Israel expecting new wave of terror

In the last 10 days Israeli forces intercepted 12 potential suicide bombers and have stopped several dozen bombings the past few months, prompting fears of "a new and worrisome wave of terror," said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security services.

Hamas last month catapulted to power, winning Palestinian parliamentary elections by a large margin and wresting control from Fatah. Israel has warned the losing terror groups, particularly Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, will try to stymie efforts by Hamas to form a new government and sign a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state. Also, members of the Islamic Jihad terror group expressed disappointment their organization decided not to run in elections, and have warned they will stop Hamas from imposing a truce.

Last week, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his Kadima party, leading overwhelmingly in the polls for next month's Israeli elections, will seek to "change Israel's borders" by withdrawing from most of the West Bank. Some security officials told WND they fear terror groups will increase attacks to claim credit for an Israeli West Bank pull-out.

After Israel announced its withdrawal from Gaza, which it carried out this past summer, terror organizations, mostly led by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group, increased attacks in the area, at one point firing an average of seven rockets per week at Gaza's Jewish communities.

Diskin warned that Iran and Syria, currently under mounting international pressure, are streaming large sums of money to Palestinian terror groups to spur on local cells to carry out attacks in hopes of starting regional violence.

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

The terror groups themselves say they are planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, which some terror leaders are calling a "third intifada." They detailed for WorldNetDaily how they will carry it out.

Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'

The Al Aqsa Brigades was formed in 2000 by then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat as a military offshoot of the Fatah party. PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a cease fire with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last February, to which the Brigades was party – but the terror group continued carrying out attacks.

Al Aqsa's Abu Nasser claims Israel put Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a result.

"For the last 10 months we respected a cease fire expecting to see changes in the lives of the Palestinian people, but we received from the Israeli side more assassinations ... and above all we received the Hamas victory, which seems to be the result of an Israeli and international conspiracy. They believe that Hamas will give up easier our lands and rights. I think that they are right, but we will not allow this to happen. We will fight and we will blow up the new intifada," Abu Nasser told WND.

Sources close to Al Aqsa say Abu Nasser was involved in preparing the last three suicide bombings in Israel, including the attack last month at a Tel Aviv shwarma restaurant that injured more than 30 Israelis.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal over the weekend said his group might sign a long-term cease fire with Israel, but told reporters he will not ask other Palestinian group to stop attacks.

Abu Nasser told WND the Brigades will not respect any cease fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

"I am sure Hamas will start arresting us, but it will not be that easy [for them]," said Abu Nasser. "We are preparing ourselves for the worst scenario."

Asked if Al Aqsa's new terror war will be launched less out of aggression toward Israel and more to revolt against Hamas, Abu Nasser replied, "This is partially true. When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?

Continued Abu Nasser: "I am sure once [Hamas is] in power it is only that power that is really important for them. They will be ready to give up things that President Arafat refused to do. The proof for what I am saying is that in the last days when the Israeli army killed more than 15 Palestinian activists, most of them from our Brigades, we did not hear the voice of Hamas. Where are their resistance principles? Did they disappear after the elections?"

Abu Nasser warned the so-called third intifada will be a combination of suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish towns.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades recently unified most of our cells and groups and we will wait for the most suitable moment to launch our resistance acts. As for the acts, there will be suicide attacks but there will be a massive use of rockets. These rockets will be launched against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but also if needed against Israeli cities inside the green line."

Rocket war against Israel

Since Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip this past August, security officials have been warning that the Palestinian terror groups transferred their rocket capabilities to the West Bank, which is within firing range of Israel's international airport and many major Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israel has confirmed that at least two rockets have been fired in the West Bank so far from the northern Samaria town of Jenin. There is information terror groups in the West Bank, particularly the Al Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad, will step up attacks against the area's Jewish communities ahead of any Israeli withdrawal from the area.

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned that his organization is preparing a rocket war against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Oudai said his organization and other terror groups have stockpiled Palestinian rockets, including Qassams, which can travel about 2 miles, more primitive Jenin-1 and Jenin-2s, and Arafat-1 and Arafat-2 rockets, some of which can reportedly travel up to 3 miles. He claimed his group is developing a new rocket that will put all of Israel's major cities within firing range.

"The very near future will prove their capacity to kill and destroy and to beat the Israelis in the West Bank exactly like we did with these rockets in the Gaza Strip," Oudai said.

Oudai pocked fun at Israel's West Bank security barrier, which has been credited with making it more difficult for Palestinian groups to carry out suicide bombings.

"[The Israelis] have built a huge wall on which [it] spent billions of dollars but still we are hitting Israel with our rockets and reaching every target we want. This wall will not defend [Israel] from our rockets which have defeated the wall and all the security measures taken to prevent our attacks," Oudai boasted.

Israeli military leaders previously warned that the Jewish state will launch an "unprecedented" military campaign against any rocket firing from the West Bank.

The Israeli Defense Forces did not initiate any large-scale anti-rocket operation in response to the rockets launched from Jenin. It has been largely unable to stop the rockets regularly fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli Negev towns.

The Israeli army regularly responds to Qassam firings from Gaza with surgical missile strikes and artillery fire at areas it says are used to launch rockets. In December, Israel set up a buffer zone in sections of Gaza occasionally used to fire rockets into nearby Israeli Negev communities, but the Palestinian terrorists shifted their launching sites to other areas and have continued the attacks.

Said Oudai: "Israel already has used all its tools. Tanks, aircrafts, assassinations and everything it could use. But we are still here and still fighting. We do not get excited from the Israeli threats. What can be this unprecedented reaction? They have already tried everything."

In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization of several Palestinian terror groups, has taken credit for many of the rockets launched from the area since 2000.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Committees, boasted his group transported missiles to the West Bank.

"If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank," Abu Abir told WorldNetDaily.

Abu Abir said his group has "improved [our] capacities in shooting these rockets. Even the Israeli officers agreed that the improvement is at all levels, [including] the distance that these rockets can reach, the capacity of explosives and their accuracy. In the last five years, there is no doubt that our abilities have improved."

Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'

Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for every suicide bombing against Israel since last February's cease fire, including bombings in a Tel Aviv disco and restaurant and a Netanya shopping mall, among others. Al Aqsa leaders told WorldNetDaily they aided the recent bombings. Islamic Jihad also says it fired most of the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel's August withdrawal.

Israel says Islamic Jihad is directly backed by Iran and Syria. Jihad chief Ramadan Shallah operates openly from Damascus and regularly visits Tehran.

Security sources say Hezbollah headquarters in Damascus and Beirut have ordered Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks in hopes of drawing Israel into a protracted military conflict.

Israel's Diskin warned that Iran and Syria are looking to use Islamic Jihad in part to distract mounting international pressure against their respective countries.

Iran is under fire for its alleged nuclear ambitions, and the international community led by the United States has threatened to bring Syria to the United Nations Security Council for allegedly interfering in the investigation into the assassination last year of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raqif Hariri, for which Syria has been widely blamed.

WorldNetDaily spoke with Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader Abu Khalil, who warned his terror group is planning a terror onslaught to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

"We will launch very soon very painful attacks that will shake the enemy. In fact, this is more the continuation of the (second) intifada because we never said that the intifada has ended. We will never give calm and security to the enemy. This will happen only when Israel will run away from Jerusalem and the West Bank like it did in Gaza," Abu Khalil said.

Abu Khalil, like leaders from the Al Aqsa Brigades, said his group will not respect a Hamas request to halt attacks against Israel.

"I don't believe the brothers in Hamas will ask us to stop. In any case, our only commitment is towards Allah, and the blood of our people and brothers and towards our political leadership," Abu Khalil told WND.

"Therefore we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and to launch all kinds of attacks against Israel everywhere there is an Israeli soldier or any Israeli goal in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine [the entire state of Israel]."

Asked which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."

Hamas: 'Our goal is to rebuild Palestinian society'

Hamas, a terror group responsible for more than 60 suicide bombings, last month won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and is currently attempting to form a governing coalition.

Hamas leaders claim they will focus on rebuilding Palestinian society, and have stated they may sign a long term cease fire agreement with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told WorldNetDaily his group will "rebuild the Palestinian life shattered by corruption in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is our goal now. To make a better life for the Palestinians."

In a widely circulated interview, al-Zahar even recently claimed to WorldNetDaily that Hamas might negotiate with Israel using a third party.

He said his group will likely agree to a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state, but said it will not recognize Israel or renounce its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel by "assaulting and killing."

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this weekend said his group will not stop other Palestinian organizations from carrying out attacks against Israel.

Still, some analysts contend Hamas might use its power to halt some anti-Israel violence in hopes of receiving financial aide from international donors.

But the Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza warned that after Israel's Gaza withdrawal Hamas attacks will be focused on West Bank Jewish communities. The Center is reportedly closely aligned with Hamas and, according to Israeli security officials, it espouses Hamas ideology:

"[Hamas will be] transporting warfare technologies such as mortars and rockets from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. These will provide an easy way to bombard Israeli populated areas adjacent to the security fence, and the fence, which is currently under construction, will therefore become useless," stated a recent publication by the Research Center, according to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.

Al-Mustaqbal stated Israel's Gaza withdrawal provided Hamas and other terror groups with a staging ground from which to launch attacks and to transport rockets to West Bank communities. It said the Gaza withdrawal proves Israel will vacate other areas in response to repeated attacks.

PFLP: Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out recent West Bank shooting attacks and rocket firings from the Gaza Strip. The group's leader, Ahmad Saadat, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for allegedly planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavaam Zeevi in October 2001.

Israeli security officials say the PFLP has scaled back its participation in attacks the past few months, but Abu Hani, a leader of the PLFP's "armed wing," the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, told WorldNetDaily his group used the time earned from last year's cease fire to build its arsenal in preparation for a third intifada.

"The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel," Abu Hani said.

He told WorldNetDaily the PFLP is "forced" to launch a new terror war.

"It is not that we prepare an intifada. It is the reality on the ground that dictates a new intifada. There is the fence, there is the building in the Jewish settlements, the daily Israeli penetration into Palestinian cities, villages and camps and of course the killing of our comrades and brothers," Abu Hani says.

Israel routinely conducts anti-terror military raids in the West Bank when it receives intelligence warning of new attacks. The Israeli Air Force fires at targets in Gaza in attempts to halt Palestinian groups from launching rockets at nearby Jewish communities.

Abu Hani warned, "The current situation does not leave to the Palestinians many choices but to fight with all the tools we have or can have. The Gaza withdrawal proves unfortunately that force, attacks and rockets is the only language and attitude that the Israelis understand. They do not withdraw unless they are hit by the Palestinian resistance. So if there is a way that has already obliged the Israelis to withdraw, why not to use it again?"
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Events Sweeping World Leaders Toward Apocalyptic Confrontation With Israel - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst - http://www.watch.org

Wash—Feb 13—KIN—Since the beginning of 2006, a riptide of current events has been propelling the leaders of Russia, Iran and Syria toward an irreversible apocalyptic confrontation with Israel that surpasses even their own understanding and fulfills the predictions of ancient prophets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar Assad are taking public decisions that reach far beyond peaceful geo-political strategy as the path they have chosen seems to be an unalterable march to eliminate Israel using Islam as the point of the dagger hidden beneath a cloak of peace and behind the rhetoric of reason.

The prophet Ezekiel proclaimed some 2,500 years ago, "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations…(Ezekiel 38:3-8)."

The nation of Israel was re-established from the vote of the United Nations in May 1948 (brought forth out of the nations where Jews from around the world re-gathered to form the nation after being separated throughout millennia because of the sword, or wars) and biblical scholars widely agree that Gog is the land occupied by today's Russia, Persia is Iran and Ethiopia is Northeast Africa, including Egypt, and Libya is Northwest Africa, including Libya, Sudan, Nigeria and other nations hostile to Israel. This apocalyptic battle results in these nations being miraculously destroyed where it will take seven months to bury the dead (Ezekiel 39:12) and the weapons will burn for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9)

Russia's actions, irrespective of whether Putin even understands how his decisions have coincided with prophecy, are those of a country preparing for war. Russia, once the heart of the powerful communist Soviet Union, has historically supported Islamic nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon against Israel as evidenced in the immediate 1948 fight for independence and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel. But today, Russia is renewing its move tip the balance of power in the Middle East boldly using Islamic fascism that aims to annihilate the tiny nation of Israel and her steadfast ally, the United States.

Putin on January 31 boasted to the world that Russia has new missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system and said, "Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has. These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but it doesn't matter to them whether that exists or not. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path." Putin also said the new missiles are nuclear capable. The Russian military since has announced it is revamping and upgrading its nuclear arsenal. Russia has been at the heart of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program as Putin has agreements to build Iran's nuclear plants and Russian engineers, as assisted by North Korean and Chinese colleagues, are known to be helping the Iranians design missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads long range.

In one of his boldest foreign policy moves to date, Putin took a public decision to solidify Russia's position in the Middle East by opening dialogue with yet another political body sworn to the destruction of Israel. Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow for discussions. And Putin signaled to the world that there was more than just diplomacy at stake. Putin said he was inviting Hamas to Russia to hold talks, reminding the international community that, Russia has never, in Putins words, "considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people." Putin said it's not good to burn political bridges and that's why Russia has not "rushed to call any organization 'terrorist'."

This raised immediate red flags within the diplomatic circles at the White House since Russia, a member of the Middle East Peace Quartet also including the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, was a signatory to a statement after the Palestinian elections saying "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic State. A two-State solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." Putin's move drew a sharp response from U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack on February 9, "We would urge any government that might have contact with Hamas to deliver the very clear message that was in the Quartet statement and that is that Hamas has some decisions to make. They must recognize the state of Israel, renounce terror and live up to the international obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to. As a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message." Then the day after, he said, "We believe that should Russia have taken the opportunity to have chosen to have a meeting, they should take it as an opportunity to reinforce the message. Whether or not it has any effect on Hamas is going to be up to Hamas. They're the ones -- the onus is on Hamas to make certain decisions. The international community has laid out very clearly what is required of them. It's up to them to respond to that."

Despite the State Department's optimism that Russia will deliver the so-called "international message" to Hamas, several analysts believe Russia is playing a different game—one of strengthening its military ties in the Middle East—and Putin's statements say little to change that impression. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated emphatically that Russia will deliver the message to Hamas, it remains to be seen how strongly in private the message will be delivered and whether it will be communicated with a "wink." Relying on Russia to assist in keeping the peace in Iraq held a disastrous conclusion in the Oil for Food scandal where Putin, himself, reportedly received bribes from Saddam Hussein and Russia's influence over Iran's nuclear program has hardly yielded any legitimate hope for a diplomatic solution. Russia in general and Putin in particular, has a proven track record that supports Islamic fascism rather than the goals of western democracy.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ahmadinejad has been busy since the New Year spreading his militant philosophy throughout the Middle East. In early January, Ahmadinejad told theological students in Iran that its time for Islam to rule the world. "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world," Ahmadinejad said. "We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return." According to Mehran Riazaty, an Iranian Analyst, Ahmadinejad believes Islam must prepare the world for the return of its Shiite messiah, the Mahdi, who, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. Ahmadinejad believes Mahdi will come within the next two years and then will rule the world for seven years. It is very interesting that Ahmadinejad's beliefs parallel prophecies about the anti-Christ and the tribulation. The anti-Christ will rule for seven years, some believe, after a major catastrophic event will launch him into power—an event like the Gog-Magog war.

Ahmadinejad, on the eve of the Palestinian elections, met with Hamas and other terrorist groups in Syria. Hamas came away with Ahmadinejad's commitment to support the terrorist group both militarily and financially. Ahmadinejad's support was a public unveiling of what many in the intelligence community knew was happening all along, but Iran used the pending victory of Hamas to signal to the Islamic world that it would stand behind those who want to eliminate Israel and its ally, America. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Hamas would receive funding from Iran and urged the terrorist organization to not buckle under pressure of the West to recognize Israel, which Ahmadinejad says, should be "wiped off the map."

Iran, too, is preparing for war. During the week of January 20, Iran begins withdrawing its money from European bank accounts. Also in late January were terrorist attacks in Israel that pointed directly to Iran and Syria as the culprits. Ynet News reported that Israeli Defense officials gathered solid evidence in the hours following the January 19th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists. "The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz charged during a meeting with top security officials in Tel Aviv following the bombing. Mofaz said "we possess conclusive evidence that the attack is a direct result of the terror axis operating against Israel at all times." Defense officials were able to trace based on "unequivocal evidence," the funding of the attack to Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus was the one to provide operative orders that resulted in the bombing, according to the evidence. The execution of the attack was entrusted with an Islamic Jihad cell in the West Bank town of Nablus, where the suicide bomber originated.

Additionally, intelligence sources revealed in January that Iran is also supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups as Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad are using the borders of Syria as staging grounds to send militants into both Iraq and Israel. The military alliance between Iran and Syria was shored up during a January meeting between Ahmadinejad and Assad. Emboldened, Assad's actions in Syria since the Ahmadinejad meeting prompted senior Israeli Defense Force officials from the Northern Command to report on February 9th that if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to feel threatened by the United States and the rest of the international community, he may be pushed into a corner and decide to fire missiles at Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported that according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Syria has an estimated 45 missile launchers and has probably assembled a few Scud D rockets with a range of nearly 700 kilometers - a major threat to Israel because they can be armed with chemical warheads. The IDF officers said they did not foresee a near-term war with Syria. But Assad's handling of diplomatic affairs has the IDF concerned.

While the Russian, Iranian and Syrian leaders are seemingly supernaturally dashing toward their destiny with prophecy, the United States is also playing into the prophetic conundrum. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his unease with Iran's inflammatory rhetoric in an interview with Reuters February 2nd: "Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States; it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well." Asked whether he meant the United States would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush, as if having Ezekiel's words etched upon his subconscious, replied: "You bet, we'll defend Israel." The remarks puzzled analysts and historians alike, who claimed this was the first time a U.S. President publicly stated that America would militarily defend Israel against its enemies.

It is as if these world leaders have little control over the words that leave their lips or the orders they give when it comes to the question of Israel—one of the smallest nations in the world, yet the only nation that burdens the entire world. In Zechariah 12:3, the Lord says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it.: And Zechariah 2:8 also speaks of Israel prophetically , "For thus says the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled for you: for he that lays a hand upon you, strikes the pupil of His eye."
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If you're not ready you best get ready! - Jerry Golden - http://www.thegoldenreport.com

And if you don't think a Middle East war is about to get underway you should get your head out of that hole and look around. Iran today has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East it is believed that they already have nuclear weapons. And they have an army just to our north called Hizbullah, who they have armed with over 13,000 missiles armed with chemical warheads to attack Israel with. It is also known that Iran wants desperately to produce many more nuclear bombs before they go to war, but are willing to go with what they now have. They feel confident that they can destroy Israel before anyone can stop them, they are wrong. Their missiles can reach nearly all of Europe as well as Turkey and they can count on! an attack. The United States knows that Iran can reach them from any number of merchant vessels in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and deliver a nuclear bomb for EMP literally closing down the entire country for months if not years. We need to understand something very clearly, some nations have nuclear weapons for protection but Iran wants them so they can use them. Iran will use them and very soon, we are talking about insane Islamic devils.

Today high ranking IDF Generals are saying that Bashar Assad of Syria is contemplating an all out offensive again! st Israel and has acquired many missiles capable of reaching all of Israel thanks to Russia. It has come out in today's Israeli newspapers that Putin has invited the heads of the Islamic Terror Organization to Moscow for talks. With weapons pouring across the Gaza/Egypt border and Hamas now in total power in Gaza, along with the Iranian armed Hizbullah massed on our northern borders and the President of Syria under extreme pressure from the international community for harboring Terrorist groups in Damascus, not to mention the fact that he has taken in all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and has them hidden in Syria. And now has the United States breathing down his neck making sounds that sounds more like an attack in soon coming. Like all Dictators when faced with this kind of pressure their only solution is to start a war to unit their people behind them.

Lets say the US will be spared and only Israel and Europe gets hit with Iranian nukes. Is there anyone on earth that thinks Israel will sit here and take it without sending nuclear bombs over Iran? Israel also knows that the moment they send missiles towards Iran, that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attack Israel as well, so you can expect Israel to turn the Middle East into a giant glass factory. Folks this is deadly serious, get ready. Even if the US is spared have you given any thought to what will happen to the price of oi! l. My guess is it will go over $500 a barrel or even higher. The US simply will not be able to survive, the US economy will simply collapse and the US is a materialistic society. And folks from that point thousands of other unthinkable events will begin to happen across the US. So I will ask you again, are you ready, if not get ready. I believe God is quickening the minds of Believers to prepare so they can be a witness in a time of crisis. It's hard to witness while you're digging in a garbage can for food to feed your kids.

There is something I do know because the Bible tells me so, Israel will survive and will be here for the return of Messiah Yeshua, for He will plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, not in New York, Paris or anywhere else but right here in Israel. I also believe that between now and then a terrible price will be paid for Israel's sin against the most high God of Israel. God will shake and cleanse His own house in a violent and terrible way, and all will fear Him like they have never feared Him before. Jews in Israel will fall on their faces repenting and seeking God in their lives, then we will see the Messiah.

Jews around the world will be under such persecution many will be killed and many will lie denying their Jewishness, but many others will flee running for their lives to Israel. For the world will once again blame the Jews for all the ills of the human race, saying if it were not for the Jews and Israel none of this would have happened, let us kill the Jews and rid ourselves of this terrible curse. It is then that the world will feel the full wrath of God's anger and know that His Word is true.

I'm not saying you need to dig a hole and fill it with food to last for years. But you should have a couple months of food on hand, but most important is water, if you don't have drinkable water you will die, and it may surprise you to find out how much one person uses in a weeks time. As for a nuclear attack, if you are upwind from the attack and not to near, your chances of survival are good. If you are downwind you need a lot of help from fall out. If you are to close to ground zero, you won't need any of the above, say hello to your Master, and I pray it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and if it's not, right now would be a great time to settle that, just get on your knees and ask Yeshua to be the Lord of your life, and live for Him.

If God has called you to this ministry it is time to realize there would be no better place to invest your money, for when this all comes down you won't have any anyway. For regardless of what happens God's Word will come to pass and He will re-gather the Jews back to the Land that He calls His own. The Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) has touched this messenger and others to prepare to collect Jews and bring them home. We have precious little time to get everything in order, and the larger boat must be purchased soon. Just as important is the groundwork in Turkey and elsewhere, and the word has to be put out in certain places i! n Europe. We need your part of this ministry ASAP. Not one Jew will be saved without the help of many Believers who made it possible, and God is certainly watching.

Connie and I just returned from a trip to Cyprus, got back in Israel around 2AM. It was a successful trip with meetings with other Believers and some very necessary arrangements put into action for this Ministry. It is now necessary for us to make other trips to meet with others in Turkey for it is there that most of the groundwork must be accomplished. It is also there where we will buy the larger boat. God is calling only the very serious to this Ministry and it is with a spiritual certainty that we move forward knowing that God has witnessed to those who have drawn close to Him knowing the seriousness of the day that we now live.

In a recent letter I said that it may be necessary for Connie and I to move to Cyprus or even possibly into Turkey, but on this last trip to Cyprus God has shown us that He wants us to stay in Israel, that from this location we will receive His directions. Because of the problems Cyprus and Turkey have with each other it is not possible! to travel back and forth between those two countries and we must be able to move freely when the time comes.

In conclusion I will say that I know this is a frightening report, but it is one you need to read over again, for what is about to happen is beyond the ability of most to even comprehend. If this ministry is not fully ready we will do what we can with what God has given us. We still have the time to prepare to rescue many, but that depends of the obedience of those God has touched to bless the Apple of His eye. For most it comes down to a decision of priority, and making a choice of who or what do you serve.

There are few Believers who have been given the opportunity to really bless Israel like we have. Maybe we should be looking at it in reverse, God is not asking us to give but to receive. Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemies. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
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Great post DDS

Let us see how saxi's views correspond to what we know:

saxi said:

So I know, to my satisfaction:
- Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher who lived in first century Judea and whose teachings caused civil unrest,
- His influence was either enough to maintain a functional community of adherents around an oral tradition of his lectures for a few years until it was transcribed into the Q Source and, thereafter, the gospels, or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no precedent
- The Q Source is either a reasonably accurate approximation of his teachings or the early Christian community was somehow completely exterminated and substituted by a replacement community that accepted it (which is the lesser of the two likelihoods)
- Primitive Christianity has a low opportunity cost; the teachings of the synoptic gospels create no effort or pain for me to follow so, if all this is untrue, I have suffered no injury

or, a religion sprang up around a deceased preacher only decades after his death which would be something with almost no
precedent

Not true; the early followers kept his message alive; it did NOT occur "decades after his death."

Ummm ... that's exactly what I said.

You've recently got into a really bad habit of excerpting a random set of words in the middle of a sentence or paragraph and then screaming about it, even when the person is agreeing with you.

CC User: "It was raining out today. I wish it was sunny today."
JP4: You just said - and I quote - "it was sunny today." You're wrong! It was raining, you moron!

This is symptomatic of dyslexia so I don't want to lampoon JP4 but it's mildly annoying if he knows he has a reading comprehension issue he doesn't take care to process phrases more slowly before exploding.

You posted LOTS of Fake information, (and not just here in this thread) and just because we agree on one small point means that I do NOT validate your crazy ideas. Your interpretation of events after the "pause" are diametrically opposed from mine.

you're still not getting it ...

Have either of you considered this?

Prophecy Update - If you're not ready you best get ready! - 2/14/06
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Feb 14, 2006

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"For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." (1Thessalonians 5:9-11)

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)

"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name." Revelation 3:10-12

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Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar declares Palestinian war on Israel will go on - Debka

Spelling out the incoming Palestinian government's agenda, a-Zahar said: We will not recognize Israel; our armed struggle will go on until all of Palestine is "liberated;" we will abrogate the Oslo accords and all the agreements the PLO and the Palestinian Authority signed; all negotiations with Israel must go through a third party; we don't need money from Israel or "the Satan;" Arab nations will give us money; we have long-range missiles.

DEBKAfile: Mahmoud a-Zahar, who is terminally ill with cancer, in effect handed down his political-military testament. It contained the incoming Palestinian government's point-by-point response to the conditions laid down by the United States, Israel and the Middle East Quartet (sans Russia) for dealing with a Hamas-led government – recognize Israel, renounce terror and honor international accords. He showed the Islamic terrorists to be unmoved by threats of isolation and the restrictive rules of engagement the Olmert government proposes to impose on a Palestinian Authority after Hamas is sworn in.

Responding to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's election pledge to set Israel's final borders, the Hamas leader declared total war on the Jewish state and its very existence.

A-Zahar scorned the constitutional "white" revolution to unseat Hamas which Abu Mazen attempted on the last day of the departing, Fatah-dominated legislature.

He was also telling Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades that Hamas could match the new Aqsa 207 Katyusha rockets they had just acquired.
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Supreme Court Justice Mishael Heshin defines the Palestinian Authority as an enemy state de facto - Debka

He rejected petitions to allow Palestinians married to Israelis to settle in Israel under the family reunification law as a loophole that would pose a risk to state security. "Just listen to daily declarations made by Hamas," Heshin said. "The Palestinian people chose Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, and they are citizens of an enemy state."

He asked why Israel should take risks with Israeli lives, any more than did England and America by admitting Germans during World War II. The judge said no one is preventing mixed couples from building a family, but they should live in Jenin. The right to life takes priority over any other consideration, he said.
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Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal says: Our mission is to liberate Jerusalem, purify the Aqsa Mosque - Debka

Addressing a pro-Hamas rally in Khartoum, Sudan, Mashaal referred to Western threats to cut off aid: "God, the Islamic nation are with us, will lead us to victory and liberation. Do not fear poverty." He thanked Sudanese parties for raising funds for the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government.
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Mofaz: Hamas part of 'axis of evil' - Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Presidential palace in Cairo Tuesday that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it dismantled its terror infrastructure, recognized the State of Israel and accepted all previous agreements made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Hamas's control over the Palestinian Authority is just another part of the 'axis of evil' that includes Iran, Syria, and now extends to the PA from where it will extend to additional countries that harbor terror organizations," Mofaz told reporters following his hour long meeting with Mubarak.

In addition to Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections, the two officials also discussed the current tense situation along Israel's northern border with Hizbullah and the growing global terror perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al Qaida.

Israel, Mofaz told Mubarak, believed that Syria and Iran were giving financial and logistical support to Hizbullah with the goal of shifting the international community's focus from those countries to the Hizbullah.

"Their goal is that the focus of the international world will be there [along the northern border] and not on Syria, since the Syrians are under pressure," Mofaz said.

Mubarak, Mofaz said, asked Israel to "have patience" since Egypt believed that it was only a matter of time before the Hamas met all of Jerusalem's criteria for the renewal of negotiations between the PA and Israel.

"Mubarak believes that the pressure Egypt has placed on Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and the Hamas will bear fruit and that the Hamas will change its ways," Mofaz said.
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'3rd intifada on its way'- By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily.com

Terror leaders detail for WND 'massive new war' against Israel

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its "military wing" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation – against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah party scored poorly in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.


"The new intifada is only a question of time and this will be the hardest and the most dangerous one. It's just about timing until the order to blow up a new wave of attacks will be given," Abu Nasser, a senior Al Aqsa Brigades leader from the Balata refugee camp in northern Samaria told WorldNetDaily in an interview.

Israel expecting new wave of terror

In the last 10 days Israeli forces intercepted 12 potential suicide bombers and have stopped several dozen bombings the past few months, prompting fears of "a new and worrisome wave of terror," said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security services.

Hamas last month catapulted to power, winning Palestinian parliamentary elections by a large margin and wresting control from Fatah. Israel has warned the losing terror groups, particularly Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, will try to stymie efforts by Hamas to form a new government and sign a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state. Also, members of the Islamic Jihad terror group expressed disappointment their organization decided not to run in elections, and have warned they will stop Hamas from imposing a truce.

Last week, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his Kadima party, leading overwhelmingly in the polls for next month's Israeli elections, will seek to "change Israel's borders" by withdrawing from most of the West Bank. Some security officials told WND they fear terror groups will increase attacks to claim credit for an Israeli West Bank pull-out.

After Israel announced its withdrawal from Gaza, which it carried out this past summer, terror organizations, mostly led by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group, increased attacks in the area, at one point firing an average of seven rockets per week at Gaza's Jewish communities.

Diskin warned that Iran and Syria, currently under mounting international pressure, are streaming large sums of money to Palestinian terror groups to spur on local cells to carry out attacks in hopes of starting regional violence.

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

The terror groups themselves say they are planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, which some terror leaders are calling a "third intifada." They detailed for WorldNetDaily how they will carry it out.

Al Aqsa Brigades: 'We'll kill Israelis to revolt against Hamas'

The Al Aqsa Brigades was formed in 2000 by then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat as a military offshoot of the Fatah party. PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a cease fire with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last February, to which the Brigades was party – but the terror group continued carrying out attacks.

Al Aqsa's Abu Nasser claims Israel put Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a result.

"For the last 10 months we respected a cease fire expecting to see changes in the lives of the Palestinian people, but we received from the Israeli side more assassinations ... and above all we received the Hamas victory, which seems to be the result of an Israeli and international conspiracy. They believe that Hamas will give up easier our lands and rights. I think that they are right, but we will not allow this to happen. We will fight and we will blow up the new intifada," Abu Nasser told WND.

Sources close to Al Aqsa say Abu Nasser was involved in preparing the last three suicide bombings in Israel, including the attack last month at a Tel Aviv shwarma restaurant that injured more than 30 Israelis.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal over the weekend said his group might sign a long-term cease fire with Israel, but told reporters he will not ask other Palestinian group to stop attacks.

Abu Nasser told WND the Brigades will not respect any cease fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

"I am sure Hamas will start arresting us, but it will not be that easy [for them]," said Abu Nasser. "We are preparing ourselves for the worst scenario."

Asked if Al Aqsa's new terror war will be launched less out of aggression toward Israel and more to revolt against Hamas, Abu Nasser replied, "This is partially true. When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?

Continued Abu Nasser: "I am sure once [Hamas is] in power it is only that power that is really important for them. They will be ready to give up things that President Arafat refused to do. The proof for what I am saying is that in the last days when the Israeli army killed more than 15 Palestinian activists, most of them from our Brigades, we did not hear the voice of Hamas. Where are their resistance principles? Did they disappear after the elections?"

Abu Nasser warned the so-called third intifada will be a combination of suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish towns.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades recently unified most of our cells and groups and we will wait for the most suitable moment to launch our resistance acts. As for the acts, there will be suicide attacks but there will be a massive use of rockets. These rockets will be launched against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but also if needed against Israeli cities inside the green line."

Rocket war against Israel

Since Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip this past August, security officials have been warning that the Palestinian terror groups transferred their rocket capabilities to the West Bank, which is within firing range of Israel's international airport and many major Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israel has confirmed that at least two rockets have been fired in the West Bank so far from the northern Samaria town of Jenin. There is information terror groups in the West Bank, particularly the Al Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad, will step up attacks against the area's Jewish communities ahead of any Israeli withdrawal from the area.

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned that his organization is preparing a rocket war against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Oudai said his organization and other terror groups have stockpiled Palestinian rockets, including Qassams, which can travel about 2 miles, more primitive Jenin-1 and Jenin-2s, and Arafat-1 and Arafat-2 rockets, some of which can reportedly travel up to 3 miles. He claimed his group is developing a new rocket that will put all of Israel's major cities within firing range.

"The very near future will prove their capacity to kill and destroy and to beat the Israelis in the West Bank exactly like we did with these rockets in the Gaza Strip," Oudai said.

Oudai pocked fun at Israel's West Bank security barrier, which has been credited with making it more difficult for Palestinian groups to carry out suicide bombings.

"[The Israelis] have built a huge wall on which [it] spent billions of dollars but still we are hitting Israel with our rockets and reaching every target we want. This wall will not defend [Israel] from our rockets which have defeated the wall and all the security measures taken to prevent our attacks," Oudai boasted.

Israeli military leaders previously warned that the Jewish state will launch an "unprecedented" military campaign against any rocket firing from the West Bank.

The Israeli Defense Forces did not initiate any large-scale anti-rocket operation in response to the rockets launched from Jenin. It has been largely unable to stop the rockets regularly fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli Negev towns.

The Israeli army regularly responds to Qassam firings from Gaza with surgical missile strikes and artillery fire at areas it says are used to launch rockets. In December, Israel set up a buffer zone in sections of Gaza occasionally used to fire rockets into nearby Israeli Negev communities, but the Palestinian terrorists shifted their launching sites to other areas and have continued the attacks.

Said Oudai: "Israel already has used all its tools. Tanks, aircrafts, assassinations and everything it could use. But we are still here and still fighting. We do not get excited from the Israeli threats. What can be this unprecedented reaction? They have already tried everything."

In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization of several Palestinian terror groups, has taken credit for many of the rockets launched from the area since 2000.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Committees, boasted his group transported missiles to the West Bank.

"If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank," Abu Abir told WorldNetDaily.

Abu Abir said his group has "improved [our] capacities in shooting these rockets. Even the Israeli officers agreed that the improvement is at all levels, [including] the distance that these rockets can reach, the capacity of explosives and their accuracy. In the last five years, there is no doubt that our abilities have improved."

Islamic Jihad: 'The Israelis should wait for our surprises'

Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for every suicide bombing against Israel since last February's cease fire, including bombings in a Tel Aviv disco and restaurant and a Netanya shopping mall, among others. Al Aqsa leaders told WorldNetDaily they aided the recent bombings. Islamic Jihad also says it fired most of the rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since Israel's August withdrawal.

Israel says Islamic Jihad is directly backed by Iran and Syria. Jihad chief Ramadan Shallah operates openly from Damascus and regularly visits Tehran.

Security sources say Hezbollah headquarters in Damascus and Beirut have ordered Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks in hopes of drawing Israel into a protracted military conflict.

Israel's Diskin warned that Iran and Syria are looking to use Islamic Jihad in part to distract mounting international pressure against their respective countries.

Iran is under fire for its alleged nuclear ambitions, and the international community led by the United States has threatened to bring Syria to the United Nations Security Council for allegedly interfering in the investigation into the assassination last year of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raqif Hariri, for which Syria has been widely blamed.

WorldNetDaily spoke with Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader Abu Khalil, who warned his terror group is planning a terror onslaught to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

"We will launch very soon very painful attacks that will shake the enemy. In fact, this is more the continuation of the (second) intifada because we never said that the intifada has ended. We will never give calm and security to the enemy. This will happen only when Israel will run away from Jerusalem and the West Bank like it did in Gaza," Abu Khalil said.

Abu Khalil, like leaders from the Al Aqsa Brigades, said his group will not respect a Hamas request to halt attacks against Israel.

"I don't believe the brothers in Hamas will ask us to stop. In any case, our only commitment is towards Allah, and the blood of our people and brothers and towards our political leadership," Abu Khalil told WND.

"Therefore we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and to launch all kinds of attacks against Israel everywhere there is an Israeli soldier or any Israeli goal in the West Bank and 1948 occupied Palestine [the entire state of Israel]."

Asked which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."

Hamas: 'Our goal is to rebuild Palestinian society'

Hamas, a terror group responsible for more than 60 suicide bombings, last month won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and is currently attempting to form a governing coalition.

Hamas leaders claim they will focus on rebuilding Palestinian society, and have stated they may sign a long term cease fire agreement with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told WorldNetDaily his group will "rebuild the Palestinian life shattered by corruption in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is our goal now. To make a better life for the Palestinians."

In a widely circulated interview, al-Zahar even recently claimed to WorldNetDaily that Hamas might negotiate with Israel using a third party.

He said his group will likely agree to a long-term cease fire with the Jewish state, but said it will not recognize Israel or renounce its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel by "assaulting and killing."

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this weekend said his group will not stop other Palestinian organizations from carrying out attacks against Israel.

Still, some analysts contend Hamas might use its power to halt some anti-Israel violence in hopes of receiving financial aide from international donors.

But the Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza warned that after Israel's Gaza withdrawal Hamas attacks will be focused on West Bank Jewish communities. The Center is reportedly closely aligned with Hamas and, according to Israeli security officials, it espouses Hamas ideology:

"[Hamas will be] transporting warfare technologies such as mortars and rockets from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. These will provide an easy way to bombard Israeli populated areas adjacent to the security fence, and the fence, which is currently under construction, will therefore become useless," stated a recent publication by the Research Center, according to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.

Al-Mustaqbal stated Israel's Gaza withdrawal provided Hamas and other terror groups with a staging ground from which to launch attacks and to transport rockets to West Bank communities. It said the Gaza withdrawal proves Israel will vacate other areas in response to repeated attacks.

PFLP: Terror forced Israel out of Gaza, will get us rest of Jewish state

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out recent West Bank shooting attacks and rocket firings from the Gaza Strip. The group's leader, Ahmad Saadat, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for allegedly planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavaam Zeevi in October 2001.

Israeli security officials say the PFLP has scaled back its participation in attacks the past few months, but Abu Hani, a leader of the PLFP's "armed wing," the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, told WorldNetDaily his group used the time earned from last year's cease fire to build its arsenal in preparation for a third intifada.

"The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel," Abu Hani said.

He told WorldNetDaily the PFLP is "forced" to launch a new terror war.

"It is not that we prepare an intifada. It is the reality on the ground that dictates a new intifada. There is the fence, there is the building in the Jewish settlements, the daily Israeli penetration into Palestinian cities, villages and camps and of course the killing of our comrades and brothers," Abu Hani says.

Israel routinely conducts anti-terror military raids in the West Bank when it receives intelligence warning of new attacks. The Israeli Air Force fires at targets in Gaza in attempts to halt Palestinian groups from launching rockets at nearby Jewish communities.

Abu Hani warned, "The current situation does not leave to the Palestinians many choices but to fight with all the tools we have or can have. The Gaza withdrawal proves unfortunately that force, attacks and rockets is the only language and attitude that the Israelis understand. They do not withdraw unless they are hit by the Palestinian resistance. So if there is a way that has already obliged the Israelis to withdraw, why not to use it again?"
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Events Sweeping World Leaders Toward Apocalyptic Confrontation With Israel - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst - http://www.watch.org

Wash—Feb 13—KIN—Since the beginning of 2006, a riptide of current events has been propelling the leaders of Russia, Iran and Syria toward an irreversible apocalyptic confrontation with Israel that surpasses even their own understanding and fulfills the predictions of ancient prophets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar Assad are taking public decisions that reach far beyond peaceful geo-political strategy as the path they have chosen seems to be an unalterable march to eliminate Israel using Islam as the point of the dagger hidden beneath a cloak of peace and behind the rhetoric of reason.

The prophet Ezekiel proclaimed some 2,500 years ago, "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army…Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet…in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations…(Ezekiel 38:3-8)."

The nation of Israel was re-established from the vote of the United Nations in May 1948 (brought forth out of the nations where Jews from around the world re-gathered to form the nation after being separated throughout millennia because of the sword, or wars) and biblical scholars widely agree that Gog is the land occupied by today's Russia, Persia is Iran and Ethiopia is Northeast Africa, including Egypt, and Libya is Northwest Africa, including Libya, Sudan, Nigeria and other nations hostile to Israel. This apocalyptic battle results in these nations being miraculously destroyed where it will take seven months to bury the dead (Ezekiel 39:12) and the weapons will burn for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9)

Russia's actions, irrespective of whether Putin even understands how his decisions have coincided with prophecy, are those of a country preparing for war. Russia, once the heart of the powerful communist Soviet Union, has historically supported Islamic nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon against Israel as evidenced in the immediate 1948 fight for independence and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel. But today, Russia is renewing its move tip the balance of power in the Middle East boldly using Islamic fascism that aims to annihilate the tiny nation of Israel and her steadfast ally, the United States.

Putin on January 31 boasted to the world that Russia has new missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system and said, "Russia has tested missile systems that no one in the world has. These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but it doesn't matter to them whether that exists or not. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path." Putin also said the new missiles are nuclear capable. The Russian military since has announced it is revamping and upgrading its nuclear arsenal. Russia has been at the heart of the international crisis over Iran's nuclear program as Putin has agreements to build Iran's nuclear plants and Russian engineers, as assisted by North Korean and Chinese colleagues, are known to be helping the Iranians design missile systems capable of carrying nuclear warheads long range.

In one of his boldest foreign policy moves to date, Putin took a public decision to solidify Russia's position in the Middle East by opening dialogue with yet another political body sworn to the destruction of Israel. Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow for discussions. And Putin signaled to the world that there was more than just diplomacy at stake. Putin said he was inviting Hamas to Russia to hold talks, reminding the international community that, Russia has never, in Putins words, "considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people." Putin said it's not good to burn political bridges and that's why Russia has not "rushed to call any organization 'terrorist'."

This raised immediate red flags within the diplomatic circles at the White House since Russia, a member of the Middle East Peace Quartet also including the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, was a signatory to a statement after the Palestinian elections saying "that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic State. A two-State solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." Putin's move drew a sharp response from U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack on February 9, "We would urge any government that might have contact with Hamas to deliver the very clear message that was in the Quartet statement and that is that Hamas has some decisions to make. They must recognize the state of Israel, renounce terror and live up to the international obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed up to. As a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message." Then the day after, he said, "We believe that should Russia have taken the opportunity to have chosen to have a meeting, they should take it as an opportunity to reinforce the message. Whether or not it has any effect on Hamas is going to be up to Hamas. They're the ones -- the onus is on Hamas to make certain decisions. The international community has laid out very clearly what is required of them. It's up to them to respond to that."

Despite the State Department's optimism that Russia will deliver the so-called "international message" to Hamas, several analysts believe Russia is playing a different game—one of strengthening its military ties in the Middle East—and Putin's statements say little to change that impression. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated emphatically that Russia will deliver the message to Hamas, it remains to be seen how strongly in private the message will be delivered and whether it will be communicated with a "wink." Relying on Russia to assist in keeping the peace in Iraq held a disastrous conclusion in the Oil for Food scandal where Putin, himself, reportedly received bribes from Saddam Hussein and Russia's influence over Iran's nuclear program has hardly yielded any legitimate hope for a diplomatic solution. Russia in general and Putin in particular, has a proven track record that supports Islamic fascism rather than the goals of western democracy.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ahmadinejad has been busy since the New Year spreading his militant philosophy throughout the Middle East. In early January, Ahmadinejad told theological students in Iran that its time for Islam to rule the world. "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world," Ahmadinejad said. "We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return." According to Mehran Riazaty, an Iranian Analyst, Ahmadinejad believes Islam must prepare the world for the return of its Shiite messiah, the Mahdi, who, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. Ahmadinejad believes Mahdi will come within the next two years and then will rule the world for seven years. It is very interesting that Ahmadinejad's beliefs parallel prophecies about the anti-Christ and the tribulation. The anti-Christ will rule for seven years, some believe, after a major catastrophic event will launch him into power—an event like the Gog-Magog war.

Ahmadinejad, on the eve of the Palestinian elections, met with Hamas and other terrorist groups in Syria. Hamas came away with Ahmadinejad's commitment to support the terrorist group both militarily and financially. Ahmadinejad's support was a public unveiling of what many in the intelligence community knew was happening all along, but Iran used the pending victory of Hamas to signal to the Islamic world that it would stand behind those who want to eliminate Israel and its ally, America. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Hamas would receive funding from Iran and urged the terrorist organization to not buckle under pressure of the West to recognize Israel, which Ahmadinejad says, should be "wiped off the map."

Iran, too, is preparing for war. During the week of January 20, Iran begins withdrawing its money from European bank accounts. Also in late January were terrorist attacks in Israel that pointed directly to Iran and Syria as the culprits. Ynet News reported that Israeli Defense officials gathered solid evidence in the hours following the January 19th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv to show the attack was a direct result of cooperation between Iran, Syria, and Palestinian terrorists. "The attack was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz charged during a meeting with top security officials in Tel Aviv following the bombing. Mofaz said "we possess conclusive evidence that the attack is a direct result of the terror axis operating against Israel at all times." Defense officials were able to trace based on "unequivocal evidence," the funding of the attack to Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus was the one to provide operative orders that resulted in the bombing, according to the evidence. The execution of the attack was entrusted with an Islamic Jihad cell in the West Bank town of Nablus, where the suicide bomber originated.

Additionally, intelligence sources revealed in January that Iran is also supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups as Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad are using the borders of Syria as staging grounds to send militants into both Iraq and Israel. The military alliance between Iran and Syria was shored up during a January meeting between Ahmadinejad and Assad. Emboldened, Assad's actions in Syria since the Ahmadinejad meeting prompted senior Israeli Defense Force officials from the Northern Command to report on February 9th that if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to feel threatened by the United States and the rest of the international community, he may be pushed into a corner and decide to fire missiles at Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported that according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Syria has an estimated 45 missile launchers and has probably assembled a few Scud D rockets with a range of nearly 700 kilometers - a major threat to Israel because they can be armed with chemical warheads. The IDF officers said they did not foresee a near-term war with Syria. But Assad's handling of diplomatic affairs has the IDF concerned.

While the Russian, Iranian and Syrian leaders are seemingly supernaturally dashing toward their destiny with prophecy, the United States is also playing into the prophetic conundrum. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his unease with Iran's inflammatory rhetoric in an interview with Reuters February 2nd: "Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States; it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well." Asked whether he meant the United States would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush, as if having Ezekiel's words etched upon his subconscious, replied: "You bet, we'll defend Israel." The remarks puzzled analysts and historians alike, who claimed this was the first time a U.S. President publicly stated that America would militarily defend Israel against its enemies.

It is as if these world leaders have little control over the words that leave their lips or the orders they give when it comes to the question of Israel—one of the smallest nations in the world, yet the only nation that burdens the entire world. In Zechariah 12:3, the Lord says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered against it.: And Zechariah 2:8 also speaks of Israel prophetically , "For thus says the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled for you: for he that lays a hand upon you, strikes the pupil of His eye."
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If you're not ready you best get ready! - Jerry Golden - http://www.thegoldenreport.com

And if you don't think a Middle East war is about to get underway you should get your head out of that hole and look around. Iran today has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East it is believed that they already have nuclear weapons. And they have an army just to our north called Hizbullah, who they have armed with over 13,000 missiles armed with chemical warheads to attack Israel with. It is also known that Iran wants desperately to produce many more nuclear bombs before they go to war, but are willing to go with what they now have. They feel confident that they can destroy Israel before anyone can stop them, they are wrong. Their missiles can reach nearly all of Europe as well as Turkey and they can count on! an attack. The United States knows that Iran can reach them from any number of merchant vessels in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and deliver a nuclear bomb for EMP literally closing down the entire country for months if not years. We need to understand something very clearly, some nations have nuclear weapons for protection but Iran wants them so they can use them. Iran will use them and very soon, we are talking about insane Islamic devils.

Today high ranking IDF Generals are saying that Bashar Assad of Syria is contemplating an all out offensive again! st Israel and has acquired many missiles capable of reaching all of Israel thanks to Russia. It has come out in today's Israeli newspapers that Putin has invited the heads of the Islamic Terror Organization to Moscow for talks. With weapons pouring across the Gaza/Egypt border and Hamas now in total power in Gaza, along with the Iranian armed Hizbullah massed on our northern borders and the President of Syria under extreme pressure from the international community for harboring Terrorist groups in Damascus, not to mention the fact that he has taken in all of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and has them hidden in Syria. And now has the United States breathing down his neck making sounds that sounds more like an attack in soon coming. Like all Dictators when faced with this kind of pressure their only solution is to start a war to unit their people behind them.

Lets say the US will be spared and only Israel and Europe gets hit with Iranian nukes. Is there anyone on earth that thinks Israel will sit here and take it without sending nuclear bombs over Iran? Israel also knows that the moment they send missiles towards Iran, that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attack Israel as well, so you can expect Israel to turn the Middle East into a giant glass factory. Folks this is deadly serious, get ready. Even if the US is spared have you given any thought to what will happen to the price of oi! l. My guess is it will go over $500 a barrel or even higher. The US simply will not be able to survive, the US economy will simply collapse and the US is a materialistic society. And folks from that point thousands of other unthinkable events will begin to happen across the US. So I will ask you again, are you ready, if not get ready. I believe God is quickening the minds of Believers to prepare so they can be a witness in a time of crisis. It's hard to witness while you're digging in a garbage can for food to feed your kids.

There is something I do know because the Bible tells me so, Israel will survive and will be here for the return of Messiah Yeshua, for He will plant His feet on the Mount of Olives, not in New York, Paris or anywhere else but right here in Israel. I also believe that between now and then a terrible price will be paid for Israel's sin against the most high God of Israel. God will shake and cleanse His own house in a violent and terrible way, and all will fear Him like they have never feared Him before. Jews in Israel will fall on their faces repenting and seeking God in their lives, then we will see the Messiah.

Jews around the world will be under such persecution many will be killed and many will lie denying their Jewishness, but many others will flee running for their lives to Israel. For the world will once again blame the Jews for all the ills of the human race, saying if it were not for the Jews and Israel none of this would have happened, let us kill the Jews and rid ourselves of this terrible curse. It is then that the world will feel the full wrath of God's anger and know that His Word is true.

I'm not saying you need to dig a hole and fill it with food to last for years. But you should have a couple months of food on hand, but most important is water, if you don't have drinkable water you will die, and it may surprise you to find out how much one person uses in a weeks time. As for a nuclear attack, if you are upwind from the attack and not to near, your chances of survival are good. If you are downwind you need a lot of help from fall out. If you are to close to ground zero, you won't need any of the above, say hello to your Master, and I pray it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and if it's not, right now would be a great time to settle that, just get on your knees and ask Yeshua to be the Lord of your life, and live for Him.

If God has called you to this ministry it is time to realize there would be no better place to invest your money, for when this all comes down you won't have any anyway. For regardless of what happens God's Word will come to pass and He will re-gather the Jews back to the Land that He calls His own. The Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) has touched this messenger and others to prepare to collect Jews and bring them home. We have precious little time to get everything in order, and the larger boat must be purchased soon. Just as important is the groundwork in Turkey and elsewhere, and the word has to be put out in certain places i! n Europe. We need your part of this ministry ASAP. Not one Jew will be saved without the help of many Believers who made it possible, and God is certainly watching.

Connie and I just returned from a trip to Cyprus, got back in Israel around 2AM. It was a successful trip with meetings with other Believers and some very necessary arrangements put into action for this Ministry. It is now necessary for us to make other trips to meet with others in Turkey for it is there that most of the groundwork must be accomplished. It is also there where we will buy the larger boat. God is calling only the very serious to this Ministry and it is with a spiritual certainty that we move forward knowing that God has witnessed to those who have drawn close to Him knowing the seriousness of the day that we now live.

In a recent letter I said that it may be necessary for Connie and I to move to Cyprus or even possibly into Turkey, but on this last trip to Cyprus God has shown us that He wants us to stay in Israel, that from this location we will receive His directions. Because of the problems Cyprus and Turkey have with each other it is not possible! to travel back and forth between those two countries and we must be able to move freely when the time comes.

In conclusion I will say that I know this is a frightening report, but it is one you need to read over again, for what is about to happen is beyond the ability of most to even comprehend. If this ministry is not fully ready we will do what we can with what God has given us. We still have the time to prepare to rescue many, but that depends of the obedience of those God has touched to bless the Apple of His eye. For most it comes down to a decision of priority, and making a choice of who or what do you serve.

There are few Believers who have been given the opportunity to really bless Israel like we have. Maybe we should be looking at it in reverse, God is not asking us to give but to receive. Gen. 12:3.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemies. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
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