Friends,
you might ask why a war now?
1. Netanyahu needs a war because he is under investigation for corruption.
2. The U.S. "deep state" needs a war to divert attention from Trump's destruction of the swamp.
3. The Iranian nuclear documents provide a "false flag" reason to attack Iran.
4. The dominance of the "petro dollar" is being slowly undermined by Russia, China and Iran.
5. Israel, the U.S., France and England are allied with Saudi Arabia against Iran in the current Sunni Shia war.
6. It is the satanic and Vatican plan to exterminate the Christians in the Middle East.
8. You will recall that the Project for a New American Century called for the invasion and de-stabilization of the following countries: 1. Iraq 2. Libya 3. Syria 4. Lebanon 5. Somalia
6. Sudan 7. Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuvV8-82LPQ
9. Finally, all of these events are part of God's plan for the Middle East, Jerusalem and the world. Prepare yourself and your family for the rapture or "harpazo". War is like a raging, flooding river, the flood drags people into the river and you are swept away by the current. War sweeps away everyone and everything.
There have been coups and
revolutions, invasions and proxy conflicts, but the Middle East hasn’t
seen a head-to-head war between major regional powers since the 1980s.
There’s
a growing risk that one is about to break out in Syria, pitting Israel against
Iran.
The Islamic
Republic’s forces are entrenching there, after joining the fight to prop up
President Bashar al-Assad. The Jewish state, perceiving a direct threat on its
border, is subjecting them to an escalating barrage of airstrikes.
The path to escalation is clear, and
the rhetoric is apocalyptic. “We will demolish every site where we see an
Iranian attempt to position itself,’’ said Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor
Liberman, adding that the Iranian
regime is “living its final days.’’
In Tehran, Hossein Salami, deputy
commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said that “100,000 missiles are ready to
fly’’ in Israel’s direction, and warned they could bring about its
“annihilation and collapse.’’
Iran
and Israel have been exchanging threats for decades. What’s different now is
that Syria’s civil war, which sucked in both countries, provides a potential
battlespace -- one that’s much closer to Jerusalem than to Tehran.
Israeli officials say there are
80,000 fighters in Syria who take orders from Iran. As they help Assad
recapture territory, militiamen from Hezbollah have deployed within a few
kilometers of the Golan Heights on Israel’s border. Iran has vowed to avenge
its citizens killed by the Israeli airstrikes.
It’s
a tinderbox, says Ofer Shelach, a member of the foreign affairs and defense
committee in Israel’s parliament. “I’m worried about the possibility that a
match ignited in the Golan will light up a war going all the way to the sea.’’
Israelis lament that
Washington has become a bit-part player, unable to impose a Syrian settlement
that would guarantee Israel's security. Absent that, “we can only represent
our interests through force,’’ Shelach says.
Far from tamping down
tensions, President Donald Trump has been ramping them up. By
threatening to withdraw next week from the international agreement to curb
Iran’s nuclear program, he’s added another volatile element to the regional
mix.
The only power with channels
open to both sides, and the clout to play mediator, is Russia.
President Vladimir
Putin’s intervention in 2015 to shore up Assad has left Russia as the strongest
actor in Syria. Putin is seeking to impose a peace that would
lock in his political gains.
But
that doesn’t mean he’s able or willing to control Iran. While Russia has
cordial ties with Israel, they’re likely outweighed by the confluence of
interests with the Islamic Republic, whose ground forces were crucial to the
success of Putin’s strategy. Repeatedly threatened with attack or
regime-change by its enemies, Iran sees the sympathetic governments in Damascus
and Beirut as providing strategic depth.
Now, the Iranians in Syria have
graduated from helping Assad to “building their strategic presence against
Israel,’’ said Paul Salem, senior vice president at the Middle East Institute
in Washington. “It appears that neither the Russians nor the Assad regime are
in control or can limit these things,’’ he said. “The situation is highly
unstable and highly unmanaged.’’
One test of Russia’s ability to
manage it may come in southern Syria, where ISIS and other jihadists
and terrorists still hold territory near Israel’s border -- enclaves that are among
the likely next targets for Assad’s advancing army.
“Before
they do that, the Russians need to have an arrangement with the Israelis,’’
said Yuri Barmin, a Middle East expert at the Russian International Affairs
Council, which advises the Kremlin. Russia is “willing to negotiate on the
issue of Iran and Iran’s presence’’ in those regions, he said.
That
may not be enough to meet Israeli concerns, which extend far beyond the border.
Earlier in the Syrian conflict,
Israel’s airstrikes typically aimed to destroy weapons convoys bound for
Hezbollah in Lebanon. There’s been a significant change. Two strikes in the
past month, widely attributed to Israel, though the Jewish state doesn’t
comment on such matters, targeted permanent infrastructure used by Iran’s
forces. Both took place deep inside Syrian territory.
“It’s
shortsighted to look at it in terms of how many kilometers from the border Iran
is sitting,’’ said Amos Gilad, who recently stepped down as director of
political-military affairs at Israel’s Defense Ministry. “Iran cannot be
allowed to base themselves militarily in Syria. And Israel is fully determined
to prevent that.’’
To be sure, the goal could be
achieved without a full-blown war. Salem, at the Middle East Institute, says
the likeliest outcome is that Israel and Iran will avoid a conflict that
neither really wants -- though he says the risk that they’ll end up fighting is
higher than at any time since the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.
And
although hostilities have effectively begun with the airstrikes, many analysts
say that they can be contained to Syria -– where Israel and Iran can square off
without their allies necessarily being drawn into the fight.
“Never!’’ said Liberman, when
asked if clashes with Iran could lead to clashes with Russia. “There will be no
confrontation with them.’’
In
Beirut, Sami Nader of the Levant Institute for Strategic Studies said that
Russia may not oppose an Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria, provided
it doesn’t threaten to topple the Assad regime that is “the Russians’ main card
at the negotiating table.” Barmin, the Kremlin adviser, said there’s plenty of
daylight between the “diverging interests” of Russia and Iran.
So
far, Russia’s response to Israeli airstrikes has been muted. But after the U.S.
bombed Syrian targets last month, to punish Assad for an alleged chemical
attack, Russian officials said they
may deliver state-of-the-art S-300 missile defense systems to Syria. That would
pose new risks for the Israeli air force.
Half
a century ago, Israel launched a surprise attack against its Arab enemies. A
few years later, in 1973, the tables were turned. In both cases, one of the
combatants consciously opted for war.
But that’s not how Israel’s more
recent conflicts have started, says Shelach. “It always happened because the
situation escalated, deteriorated, without any of the sides making a
decision.’’
And
that’s the risk he sees now.
Middle East Prophecy Update April 29, 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXvpDMbwlA&t=1627s
U.S. or Israel launches missiles on an Iranian target in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0GNZ-Gfb2E&t=877s
Steven ben Nunn on the missile strike in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU3WyhOoli4
Netanyahu discloses secret Iranian files on nuclear development (Project Amad, Amad in Farsi means pillar, support or missile)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPFH_KIqSc
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