If they landed in South Libanon maybe they came from Syria or Iran aimed at the Israeli troups?
I would not be suprised.

DEBKAfile: Syrian president Bashar Assad: They said peace was the only way but now, after seeing how Hizballah fought, I see an option.

August 14, 2006, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)

“Syrian hands will liberate Golan.”

The Syrian ruler threatened not only Israel but also the Siniora government in Beirut: It’s time to go, he said.

DEBKAfile adds: There is deep concern in Washington for the life of Fouad Siniora. It is feared he may be the victim of a murder conspiracy by Hizballah and Syrian intelligence as a means of trashing UN Security Council resolution 1701 and any chance of ending hostilities in Lebanon.

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DEBKAfile: Hizballah is filtering reinforcements into South Lebanon among returning refugees. They are taking up positions in the still undamaged bunkers and fortified civilian dwellings

August 15, 2006, 12:01 AM (GMT+02:00)

Therefore, although the rockets and guns were silent up to Monday night and thousands of displaced people in Israel and Lebanon headed for their ravaged homes, DEBKAfile’s military sources report trepidation about the durability of the ceasefire. (picture of damaged Nahariya hospital)

Cars loaded with Hizballah fighters, boxes of guns and military equipment were clearly visible heading south. Israeli troops were not authorized to stop them.

Fresh Hizballah strength is now heading back to man the underground war stations anew.

.....................................................benny

the lawless have no rules...

'This ceasefire won't work'
Hizb'allah already refusing to disarm

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Israel: Our ceasefire demands remain
Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday said the UN-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hizb'allah has no chance of holding because it is not based on the disarmament of the terrorists.

Speaking to reporters, he said of UN Security Council Resolution 1701:

"It looks good on the surface but I am, myself, a little discomforted by the lack of specificities and the language regarding the disarming of Hizb'allah. Unless there's a clear determination and a clear authority to disarm Hizb'allah this isn't going to work."

As part of its initial war objectives, Israel's leadership stated that it would no longer accept a situation where an armed Hizb'allah sits on its northern border threatening nearly half the nation with missiles supplied by Syria and Iran.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz claim that 1701 has fulfilled Israel's goals in that regard by creating the conditions for Hizb'allah's removal from southern Lebanon and its disarmament in the very near future.

But reports out of Beirut Monday suggested they are both deadly mistaken.

According to Ha'aretz, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called a cabinet meeting Sunday to discuss disarming Hizb'allah as a national initiative, which is the only condition under which the terror group said it would consider the option. But Siniora promptly canceled the meeting after Hizb'allah's two cabinet ministers communicated through Parliament Speaker Nabih Beri that the group has no intention of actually laying down its arms.

Lebanese Tourism Minister Joe Sarkiss followed up by telling Al Jazeera:

"The [Lebanese] army will not deploy in the south [in accordance with resolutions 1559 and 1701] unless there are no arms in the south except those of a legitimate military force and UNIFIL."

A day earlier French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy made clear in an interview with Le Monde that French-led peacekeepers would also not employ force against Hizb'allah, even if it refuses to comply.

"We never thought a purely military solution could resolve the problem of Hizbollah. We are agreed on the goal, the disarmament, but for us the means are purely political."

With no one actually willing to disarm Hizb'allah, and the terror group clearly not prepared to voluntarily lay down its arms, Howard's prediction looks set to become reality.
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Netanyahu: Switch from unilateral to mutual steps



Opposition chairman tells Knesset 'Lebanon war proves that concept of unilateral withdrawals has collapsed'
Ilan Marciano



Following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's address to the Knesset plenum Monday night, chairman of the opposition Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage and delivered a compelling, if biting, speech. He recounted his efforts to help the government in its PR war, but was quick to criticize the government's policy.



According to Netanyahu, "There were failures in identifying the threat, in managing the war, in dealing with the homefront…There is no doubt that we must learn our lesson and correct our mistakes. We were asleep and we received a wake-up call."




"In 2000, we withdrew from Lebanon without guarantees and without security agreements, and this action brought about Hizbullah's speech about spider webs, which was adopted by Hamas. The resulting Intifada made us decide, out of pain and out of good will, to withdraw unilaterally once more," Netanyahu declared.



"These unilateral withdrawals deteriorate our deterrence, and lend credence to our enemies, a credence that improves their ability to bombard our cities and towns. This concept (of unilateral withdrawals) is now disappearing, and rightly so," he added.




Like Olmert, Netanyahu opened his speech with condolences, noting both the harsh incidents and united Israeli spirit seen in recent days: "All of our hearts skipped a beat when our soldiers went to battle to protect us and all of our hearts grieved alongside the families of fallen soldiers or the citizens who fell victim to attacks on our cities."



Ahmadinejad most bitter enemy since Hitler




Netanyahu emphasized that "This is a moment of unity and a moment of self examination. I don't mean simply learning lessons from the recent conflict. I think that we need to examine our collective self as a state, based on one basic principle – every living thing must do two things in order to survive: it must identify dangers and it must arm itself sufficiently to protect itself from these dangers."



Netanyahu stated the importance of nurturing military, state, economic and spiritual strength: "A hundred years ago, our people did not have such capabilities. A leader, Herzl, saw the burning coals of anti-Semitism and understood that there was a threat of a fire that would threaten the Jews of Europe and eventually the Jews of the rest of the world. Today I say: we are standing before a grave danger. A new potential fire threatens our people. Not only our soldiers, citizens and economy, but our very existence."



"Yes, in each generation there are those that rise up seeking our destruction. But since Hitler, there has not risen such a bitter enemy as Iran's president, Ahmadinejad, who openly declares his desire to annihilate us and his development of nuclear weapons in order to carry out this desire. Until he carries out his scheme, he is using his covert forces: in the south, Hamas, a Sunni force, and in the north, Hizbullah, a part of the Shiite arc that extends from Tehran to Lebanon," Netanyahu elaborated.




The opposition chairman praised security and rescue forces, as well as citizens in the line of fire and "a third force, that came forward, the force of the entire nation…people enlisted privately…businessmen, teachers, nurses, spiritual leaders, artists, ordinary people."



"The nation opened their hearts and pockets and homes," he continued. "In times of trouble, the people of Israel are all brothers and, in times of trouble, we must understand that the fate of one is the fate of all and that all people of Israel are responsible for one another." Regardless, Netanyahu stated that private donations would not suffice and that government intervention would be required.

............................................Yes,...........It will take a very very strong security agreement to convince Israel to believe that she is living in peace and safety...................Daniel 9;27 will be just exactly that.................A strong security agreement.....................................benny



Iran threatens to withdraw from IAEA



Iran warned on Sunday that it would withdraw from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if its "inalienable rights" are deprived of, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"If depriving Iran of its inalienable rights is the result of its membership in international organizations, including the IAEA, our withdrawal from such bodies is well justified," parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel was quoted as saying.

He reiterated Iran's rejection to a UN Security Council resolution that urges Tehran to "suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development" by Aug. 31 or face the prospect of sanctions.

"Iran does not accept suspending its uranium enrichment activities," Hadad-Adel told an open session of the Iranian parliament.

"There is no single reason to justify their decision for depriving a country of its rights and peaceful activities, while all the reports released by the IAEA inspectors have stated that there exists not even an iota of diversion in Iran's nuclear activities and researches towards military purposes," he said.

The Iranian parliament chief, however, emphasized that the path of negotiations was still open to solve the country's nuclear issue.

"We are still keen to resolve the issue through talks because we believe that our view points and stances are logical," Hadad- Adel said.

"Yet, if they (the West countries) prove to have opted for another course of action, we will certainly change our path," he added.

Iranian officials have recently expressed indignation over the UN demand, warning the world body against taking acrimonious measures to force Iran to comply or Iran would quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and stop cooperation with the IAEA.

The United States has accused Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons under a civilian front, a charge categorically denied by Tehran which says that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

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IAF Leaflets Cite Iran and Syrian ´Masters´
18:15 Aug 14, '06 / 20 Av 5766


(IsraelNN.com) Israel Air Force planes Monday morning dropped thousands of leaflets over Beirut, blaming Hizbullah and its Iranian and Syrian "masters" for the war. One flyer showed Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah building a sand castle threatened by a huge wave, according to an Agence France Presse report cited by the Lebanon Daily Star newspaper.

"To the Lebanese citizens of Lebanon: Hizbullah, which is serving its Iranian and Syrian masters, has led you to the edge of the abyss," said one of the flyers. "With its isolationist, reckless and false policy, Hizbullah has brought you many achievements: destruction, displacement and death," said the leaflet.

"Can you pay this price a second time? Know that the Israeli Defense Forces will return and work with the required force against any terrorist act that will be launched from Lebanon to harm the State of Israel," it said.

The Lebanese army opened fire with anti-aircraft batteries at the planes, and many residents tore up the flyers.

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Unless the government of Lebanon is disbanded, Hezbollah remains in the position of leadership among the Shiites. Israel wanted a buffer zone to protect the citizens of Israel against rockets fired by Hexbollah. Hezbollah has scattered about Lebanon rocket launchers so as to overtake the government of Lebanon or to scare the populace into restraint, I don't know which one. I think Hezbollah is in control of the water, the energy, and other things in Lebanon. This my friends is the result of the great proclamation of demonocracy.

Tehran Takes Gloomy View of the Lebanon War and Truce


August 14, 2006, 3:35 PM (GMT+02:00)

While the damage caused Israel’s military reputation tops Western assessments of the Lebanon war, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report an entirely different perception taking hold in ruling circles in Tehran.

After UN Security Council resolution 1701 calling for a truce was carried Friday, Aug. 11, the heads of the regime received two separate evaluations of the situation in Lebanon – one from Iran’s foreign ministry and one from its supreme national security council. Both were bleak: their compilers were concerned that Iran had been manipulatively robbed of its primary deterrent asset ahead of a probable nuclear confrontation with the United States and Israel.

While the foreign ministry report highlighted the negative aspects of the UN resolution, the council’s document complained that Hizballah squandered thousands of rockets – either by firing them into Israel or having them destroyed by the Israeli air force.

The writer of this report is furious over the waste of Iran’s most important military investment in Lebanon merely for the sake of a conflict with Israeli over two kidnapped soldiers.

It took Iran two decades to build up Hizballah’s rocket inventory.

DEBKAfile’s sources estimate that Hizballah’s adventure wiped out most of the vast sum of $4-6 bn the Iranian treasury sunk into building its military strength. The organization was meant to be strong and effective enough to provide Iran with a formidable deterrent to Israel embarking on a military operation to destroy the Islamic regime’s nuclear infrastructure.

To this end, Tehran bought the Israeli military doctrine of preferring to fight its wars on enemy soil. In the mid-1980s, Iran decided to act on this doctrine by coupling its nuclear development program with Israel’s encirclement and the weakening its deterrence strength. The Jewish state was identified at the time as the only country likely to take vigorous action to spike Iran’s nuclear aspirations.

The ayatollahs accordingly promoted Hizballah’s rise as a socio-political force in Lebanon, at the same time building up its military might and capabilities for inflicting damage of strategic dimensions to Israel’s infrastructure.

That effort was accelerated after Israeli forces withdrew from the Lebanese security zone in May 2000. A bunker network and chain of fortified positions were constructed, containing war rooms equipped with the finest western hi-tech gadgetry, including night vision gear, computers and electronics, as well as protective devices against bacteriological and chemical warfare.

This fortified network was designed for assault and defense alike.

Short- medium- and long-range rockets gave the hard edge to Hizballah’s ablity to conduct a destructive war against Israel and its civilians – when the time was right for Tehran.

Therefore, Iran’s rulers are hopping mad and deeply anxious over news of the huge damage sustained by Hizballah’s rocket inventory, which was proudly touted before the war as numbering 13,000 pieces.

Hizballah fighters, they are informed, managed to fire only a small number of Khaibar-1 rockets, most of which hit Haifa and Afula, while nearly 100 were destroyed or disabled by Israeli air strikes.

The long-range Zelzal-1 and Zelzal-2, designed for hitting Tel Aviv and the nuclear reactor at Dimona have been degraded even more. Iran sent over to Lebanon 50 of those missiles. The keys to the Zelzal stores stayed in the hands of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers who were in command of Hizballah. Nasrallah and his officers had no access to these stores.

But Tehran has learned that Israel was able to destroy most of the 22 Zelzal launchers provided.

That is not the end of the catalogue of misfortunes for the Islamic rulers of Iran.

1. The UN Security Council embodied in resolution 1701 a chapter requiring Hizballah to disarm – in the face of a stern warning issued by supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in person in the early days of the war. Revolutionary Guards commanders went so far as to boast: “No one alive is capable of disarming Hizballah.”

The disarming of Hizballah would therefore be a bad knock to the supreme ruler’s authority and prestige as well as a disastrous blow for the deterrent force so painstakingly and expensively fashioned as a second front line to protect the Islamic republic from a safe distance.

2. Hizballah’s ejection from South Lebanon, if accomplished in the aftermath of the ceasefire, would moreover deprive Tehran of the sword hanging over Israel’s head of instantaneous attack.

For the sake of partial damage control, Tehran handed Nasrallah a set of new instructions Sunday, Aug. 13:

First, to find a way of evading the ceasefire and keeping up war operations against Israeli forces.

Second, to reject the proposal to disarm before the Lebanese government meets on this Monday afternoon. In fact, that meeting was called off after Hassan Nasrallah sent a message to the Lebanese ministers flatly refusing to have Hizballah give up its weapons in the south. He also turned down a compromise proposal handed him later, whereby the Lebanese army’s first mission after deploying in the south would be to help Hizballah evacuate its fighters with their arms to positions north of the Litani River.

The strategy evolving in Tehran since the ceasefire went into effect Monday morning requires Hizballah to employ a range of stratagems – not only to prevent the truce from stabilizing but to stop the Lebanese army from deploying n the south and, above all, the entry of an effective international force.

Furthermore, Hizballah is instructed to stretch the military crisis into the next three of four months, synchronously with the timetable for a UN Security Council sanctions-wielding session on Iran.

According to exclusive reports reaching DEBKAfile’s sources, the Iranian government believes that Israel and the United States are preparing a military operation for the coming October and November to strike Iran’s nuclear installations. It is therefore vital to keep the two armies fully occupied with other pursuits.

Iranian leaders’ conviction that the Lebanon war was staged to bamboozle them rests on certain perceptions:

As seen from Tehran, Israel looked as though it was carrying out a warming-up exercise in preparation for its main action against Iran’s nuclear program. The Israeli army was able to explore, discover and correct its weak points, understand what was lacking and apply the necessary remedial measures. They therefore expect the IDF to emerge from the war having produced novel methods of warfare.

They also have no doubt that the United States will replenish Israel’s war chest with a substantial aid program of new and improved weaponry.

From the Iranian viewpoint, Israel succeeded in seriously degrading Hizballah’s capabilities. It was also able to throw the Lebanese Shiite militia to the wolves; the West is now in a position to force Nasrallah and his men to quit southern Lebanon and disarm. The West shut its eyes when he flouted the Resolution 1559 order for the disarmament of all Lebanese militias. But that game is over. The Americans will use Resolution 1701 as an effect weapon to squeeze Iran, denied of its second-front deterrence, on its nuclear program.

Tehran hopes to pre-empt the American move by torpedoing the Lebanon ceasefire and preventing the termination of hostilities at all costs.

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As one nuclear flashpoint reaches a lull, another simmers away

Paul Dibb
August 15, 2006
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NOW that the building blocks for achieving a cessation in hostilities in the crisis involving Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are in place, the focus can shift back to the main game - Iran and North Korea.

Both flashpoints have the potential to escalate out of control if they are not managed carefully. Yet neither region is noted for the success of its diplomacy. Both the Middle East and North-East Asia are heavily armed parts of the world characterised by deep-seated hatreds and long-standing territorial disputes.

Historically, such situations have been a recipe for disaster.

Not so long ago we were being told that we were living in a peaceful, interdependent world. Yet the fact is that the constraints and understandings of the bipolar Cold War world have been replaced by a more uncertain world, where there is much more jockeying for position and influence.

In the Middle East, the destruction of Saddam Hussein's regime and its replacement, at least for now, by a weakened Iraq has allowed Iran to become the dominant regional power. The regime in Tehran is hell-bent on exporting terrorism and acquiring nuclear weapons.

For Israel, the ceasefire may stall the military action, but the longer-term real strategic threat it faces - the spectre of a nuclear-armed Iran equipped with ballistic missiles of sufficient range and accuracy to target Israel without taking out Palestinian or neighbouring Arab territories - will not go away.

Israel will not tolerate this and the US needs to make it clear to Tehran that any such attack on Israel will bring about Iran's destruction. That was a good enough understanding with the USSR at the height of the Cold War. But this discipline no longer applies because now there is only one superpower, which cannot control both Israel and Arab-Iranian protagonists.

In North Korea a similar situation applies. Having seen the destruction of Saddam's regime, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons to preserve his regime. But the end of the Cold War has eroded the influence of North Korea's allies over its military ambitions and sense of security. China has been embarrassed by its inability to restrain North Korea from testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and Russia no longer wields any influence over the rogue state.

In many ways, the situation in North-East Asia is potentially even more dire than in the Middle East. North Korea's recalcitrance in dismantling its nuclear weapons program comes at a time of unprecedented tensions between China and Japan and South Korea and Japan where one false move could spell disaster.

North Korea is playing a dangerous game of bellicose brinkmanship; it continues to keep more than a million troops on high-alert status, including heavy artillery concentrations only 50 kilometres from Seoul, a city of more than 10 million people.

North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons threatens to seriously destabilise North-East Asia and result in a nuclear arms race developing there. As it is, the North's belligerence is encouraging Japan to build up its military capabilities. This at a time when China's poor relations with Japan are worrying. The Chinese communist leadership drums up anti-Japanese nationalism whenever it suits, while China's military build-up greatly concerns Japan.

The pace of Beijing's defence spending is puzzling, particularly as China faces no military threat for the first time in many decades.

Similarly, Japan's relations with South Korea are at a low point, partly over Japan's view of the history of World War II but also because of territorial disputes, which Seoul has elevated to the level of national pride, threatening the use of military force. This is occurring when, from Tokyo's perspective, South Korea is drifting from the orbit of the US alliance and getting uncomfortably close to China, as well as appeasing North Korea.

All this is an unhealthy mix of great power tensions and deep-seated historical distrust and growing military capabilities. The bigger worry is that Pyongyang's adventurism will incinerate any efforts to stabilise a region full of dangerous rivalries, as will the inevitable collision between Iran and Israel in the Middle East.

Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb was the Australian representative at the first plenary meeting of Experts and Eminent Persons at the ASEAN Regional Forum in South Korea in June.

North Korea is playing a dangerous game of bellicose brinkmanship; it continues to keep more than a million troops on high-alert status, including heavy artillery concentrations only 50 kilometres from Seoul, a city of more than 10 million people.

North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons threatens to seriously destabilise North-East Asia and result in a nuclear arms race developing there. As it is, the North's belligerence is encouraging Japan to build up its military capabilities. This at a time when China's poor relations with Japan are worrying. The Chinese communist leadership drums up anti-Japanese nationalism whenever it suits, while China's military build-up greatly concerns Japan.

The pace of Beijing's defence spending is puzzling, particularly as China faces no military threat for the first time in many decades.

Similarly, Japan's relations with South Korea are at a low point, partly over Japan's view of the history of World War II but also because of territorial disputes, which Seoul has elevated to the level of national pride, threatening the use of military force. This is occurring when, from Tokyo's perspective, South Korea is drifting from the orbit of the US alliance and getting uncomfortably close to China, as well as appeasing North Korea.

All this is an unhealthy mix of great power tensions and deep-seated historical distrust and growing military capabilities. The bigger worry is that Pyongyang's adventurism will incinerate any efforts to stabilise a region full of dangerous rivalries, as will the inevitable collision between Iran and Israel in the Middle East.

Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb was the Australian representative at the first plenary meeting of Experts and Eminent Persons at the ASEAN Regional Forum in South Korea in June.
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Ahhh, I see. So I'm right on a few things and a few more are confirmed, such as, the elimination of Saddam Hussein and his two sons were just the beginning. And the money that was flowing in from Kuwait was helping the funding of the anti-American-Israel regimes, i.e. Khomeini and all them. That is why they are so bold, they control the oil. In Texas is the headquarters of the bin Laden Group, the oil company of Saudi Arabia, headed by Osama bin Laden. They may have done away wih Osama. And they are mopping up the rest now.

yes, the ossman was one of our operatives...and he broke free...to
uncover hypocrisy...as the opponent...and became an enemy in the shadow...

however, we have learned alot...not quite enough though..
religion seems like the culprit...but it is oil, and precious resources..
that produce wealth and power...there is no shortage of oil...except
for the financing to get it...and to get governments out of the way
to do it...and of course to make a few democracies...that will bend
to the financial conciliation while the corporate religion of greed
overtakes the world...

there is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed...


Speaking of a lying spirit...


"But a cerain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession," Acts 6:1

"And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles fee." Acts 6:2

"But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part fo the price of the land?" Acts 6:3


They died in their lies...

Turkey, is one of the many nations that is prophesied to join russia and iran in the blizt lightning attack against Israel.................This is just one of many signs pointing out that "WE".are going HOME SOON!!!...............................................................


Special Dispatch Series - No. 1251
August 16, 2006 No.1251

Turkish PM Erdogan Says 'Nobody Should Expect Us to Remain Neutral': Reactions From the Turkish Media to the Middle East Crisis



In June 2006, the Turkish media reported on two recent surveys, by Pew and by Princeton Survey Research Associates. The Pew study, which was conducted in 15 countries between March 31 and May 14, 2006, found significant erosion of positive feelings towards the U.S. among the Turkish people. The Princeton study showed that most Turks have negative feelings towards Jews and Christians – more than in other Muslim countries and Arab countries – and that most do not believe in democracy, despite the common belief that Turkey is the most democratic country in the Muslim world.
The secular mainstream daily Hurriyet reported that the survey results showed anti-Americanism on the rise among Turks. While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was chosen by 25% of respondents as the most trusted leader, President George W. Bush came last, with only 3%.(1)

Hurriyet's Ertugrul Ozkok warned in his column that Turkey was becoming the most fanatical and hostile country towards Christians in the Islamic world, pointed out that this anti-Western trend was evident among secular ultra-nationalists as much as among Islamists, and opined that Turkey was headed towards catastrophe.(2)

The centrist, secular daily Sabah reported that there was widespread disbelief in Turkey that Arab terror groups were behind the 9/11 attacks.(3)

Since the outbreak of fighting, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's has repeatedly blamed Israel.(4)

Turkey's Islamist media voices the jihadi views of Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hizbullah in headlines, accuses Israel of using chemical weapons, and calls on the Turkish people to attend mass rallies against Jews, the U.S., and the U.N. The secular media – with the exception of a few columnists – has expressed similarly hostile views.

Some of the Turkish media likens Israel to Hitler and the Nazis, denies or justifies the Holocaust, and blames the Jews for everything wrong in the world. The U.S. is often portrayed as the "Great Satan" and as a bloodthirsty vampire that plans to occupy and divide Turkey, while Hizbullah and Hamas are described as legal organizations fighting to defend their homelands.

PM Erdogan has made repeated statements to the effect that "nobody should expect us [Turkey] to be neutral and impartial."(5)

The following are some excerpts from the Turkish media:


Organization of Islamic Conference Secretary-General Ihsanoglu: Israel is Committing "State Terror," "A Crime Against Humanity, and a War Crime"

The Turkish media reported on comments at a press conference by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary-general of the OIC, who is Turkish:

"Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turkish secretary-general of the 57-nation OIC, yesterday denounced an Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon as 'state terror' and criticized the world's silence […]. 'These offensives, which have claimed hundreds of civilian lives, destroyed the infrastructure of Lebanon and Palestine, and violated all principles of international law… qualify as war crimes. What is being done has reached the level of state terror. This is an obvious crime against humanity, and a war crime.' Ihsanoglu was speaking after a meeting [in Istanbul] of nongovernmental organizations from the OIC countries."(6)


Turkish MPs: "Israel is Inflicting the Pain of the Holocaust on Innocent People"

The Islamic Turkish daily Zaman, the centrist, English language Turkish Daily News, and secular, mainstream Hurriyet reported:

"'What Israel is doing gives the impression that it is inflicting the pain of the Holocaust on the innocent people of the Middle East. Israel will one day be punished for this. This is a crime against humanity. Those who commit crimes against humanity will definitely be punished for this,' said [AKP deputy] Mehmet Elkatmis [who is chairman of the Turkish Parliament's Human Rights Commission]. [Elkatmis] also slammed the U.N. and the international community for failing to take action against the current wave of state terror.

"Elkatmis, speaking at [a press conference following] the emergency session of the [Human Rights] Commission, also called on the world's war crimes tribunals to take action to investigate what he called Israeli 'state terror'. […] The parliamentarian said the future was being destroyed and humanity was being massacred in the Middle East. […]

"'Are they waiting for the killing of more Lebanese and Palestinians? Or Palestine and/or Lebanon to be erased from the map? Why do the U.N. Security Council, the E.U., and the world powers remain silent and indifferent against this brutality?' the statement read.

"The […] commission accused the U.S. and other Western countries of supporting Israeli state terror […]"(7)


AKP MP: "Israel is Carrying Out Jihad"; "Turkey Could Be Next"

The Islamic Turkish daily Zaman reported: "Deputy Chairman of the [Turkish] Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission, AKP deputy from Ankara Eyup Sanay, said 'Turkey could be next'. […]

"Sanay said: 'After Gaza, Israel entered Lebanon. After this, Syria may fall, and Iran may be next. It is probable that Turkey's turn will come too. This is not a conspiracy theory. There are plots against Turkey, with the involvement of the U.S. […] Everything Israel does proves that the Arz-i Mev'ud ["The Promised Land"] is not just a theory. We know that [the Turkish city of] Urfa, up to [the Turkish city] Sivas, is within [Jewish] aspirations. Maps dividing our country decorate walls in the U.S. military and strategic institutions. […] All developments show that the U.S. and Israel are plotting bad things for Turkey. They wait only for the right time and conditions.'[…]

"The world does not consist only of the U.S. and Israel. […] There will come a day when countries with a conscience will stand up and say 'No' to Israel. Sanay, who claimed that Israel was carrying out its own jihad, said: 'This is a sacred war for Israel. The Ten Commandments say that non-Jews can be attacked, killed and be charged interest. That is why they feel no guilt for the massacres they are committing. […]

"Turkey should never send soldiers to Lebanon; this would mean protecting Israel. […] The U.S. wants to neutralize Lebanon and Syria by using Israel's hand. After that, they want to paralyze Iran, who opposes them. They have plans to divide Iran along ethnic lines. They are playing the game of provoking ethnic unrest in the region. The hand behind all these plans is easy to see.'"(8)


Saadet Party Chairman: Hamas, Hizbullah are Heroes Fighting for the Entire Islamic World

The Islamist Turkish daily Milli Gazete reported on a speech by the chairman of the Saadet Party [SP], Recai Kutan, at a convention of local authority heads from his party:(9) "Chairman of SP Recai Kutan said […] that the Palestinian and Lebanese mujahideen were fighting not only for Palestine and Lebanon, but for the entire Islamic world. 'This is our struggle. This noble struggle will continue with no softening and no reduction.'"


CHP Parliamentarian: Israel has "Legitimate Right to Defend Itself"

The CHP opposition party deputy Nuri Cilingir spoke to the centrist, secular Turkish daily Sabah, which wrote:

"When members of the inter-parliamentary Israel caucus resigned en masse [causing it to dissolve], in reaction to Israel's attacks, CHP's Nuri Cilingir was the only voice that justified Israel. He said that Israel is a state recognized by the U.N., and that every state has the legitimate right to defend itself. He said that fighting against Israel was, not a state, but organized groups of terrorists, and added: 'They are bombing Israel with arms they obtain from questionable sources. So shouldn't a sovereign state hold them accountable and defend itself?'

"He added: 'There is a terror organization there. We watched a Hizbullah demonstration with women completely covered in black, with bombs tied around their waists. Is it befitting to Turkey to support an organization like that?... '"(10)


Turkish State TV Cancels Airing of The Pianist

Columnist Ahmet Hakan of the secular, mainstream Hurriyet wrote: "The administration of TRT [Turkish state television] decided to cancel the scheduled airing of Roman Polanski's film 'The Pianist', which tells about the Jewish Holocaust, because… TRT decided that screening a film telling about the 'Jewish Holocaust' at the time of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon, when 37 children are murdered in Kana, would cause a public outcry. What a mistake! On the contrary, this is the right time for 'The Pianist', as it would present us with the opportunity to make comparisons.

"[…] If 'The Pianist' was screened, we would have seen how the 'victims of cruelty' have themselves become 'the cruel.' We would have seen how those who lost their children to savagery, today savagely murder innocent children. How people once persecuted by an 'inhumane' mentality have today lost all humanity. […] It is not too late. TRT must screen 'The Pianist'. Moreover, another TV channel must screen 'Schindler's List' too. This is because the news bulletins of today are filled with images that make it possible to compare between the oppressed of yesteryear and the oppressors of today."(11)


"Turkey is Slowly and Gradually Distancing Itself From the West"

In a column titled "Why are the Turks More Anti-West Than the Arabs?" Turkish columnist Semih Idiz of the centrist, secular Milliyet wrote: "A Syrian friend of mine asked me, '[…] Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has [good] relations only with Turkey and not with the Arabs. This relationship has begun to be of strategic importance. Why do the Turks do what the Arabs don't?' He means, 'Why are the Turks more royalist than the king?' And really, why is it that the Turks dislike Christians more than the Arabs [dislike Christians]? In what direction is Turkey going? […]

"Erdogan's harsh words towards Israel – which surpass those of the Arabs – and his failure to even mention Hizbullah and Hamas, is obviously aimed at a certain [i.e. the Islamist] sector. […] All this hints at the change of direction in Ankara's foreign policy. It is obvious that Turkey is slowly and gradually distancing itself from the West, with its 'strategic interests' overlapping with those of Iran and Syria.[…]"(12)


"Does the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Think Like the Iranian President?"

Columnist Ozdemir Ince of Hurriyet wrote: "Here I write again: Hizbullah is responsible for the Lebanon war. The Israeli-Hizbullah war is not Turkey's war. But the Islamists […] are doing all they can to put our country in the middle of this war.

"[The Islamist] Yeni Safak printed the photograph of PM Erdogan's handshake with [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad (August 4, 2006) with the following words printed between them: 'The real solution is the elimination of Israel.'

"[This is] the same scandalous phrase that is often repeated by Ahmadinejad and his cronies. Ahmadinejad says these words – which could be considered a reason for declaring war – at the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference] summit [in Malaysia] in front of presidents, prime ministers and ministers. Nobody protests – who knows, maybe they even applaud. […] Turkey has recognized Israel since 1949. [It] conducts trade [with it and] is a signatory to bilateral military agreements […].

"But there is no reaction from our prime minister to this phrase. What is the meaning of his silence? Does the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey think like the Iranian president? Is 'elimination of Israel the real solution?'

"[…] PM Erdogan, with his speech at the OIC, and Foreign Minister [Abdullah] Gul, with his article [slamming the U.S.] published in The Washington Post, have declared to the world that they stand together with the Iran-Syria-Hizbullah coalition.[…]"(13)


Tomorrow's Sun Will "Rise on a World Without Israel"

Turkish columnist Ayhan Bilgin wrote in the Islamist daily Vakit: "[...] The rabid attacks by Israel, the golem created by America that feeds on Muslim blood, are diminishing its chances of existing on the sacred [Muslim] land. Nobody should be surprised when tomorrow's sun rises on a world without Israel [...] Not much time remains until the great war."(14)


PM Erdogan "Must Know Best How Dangerous the Rampant Antisemitism in Turkey Can Be"

Columnist Ilter Turkmen wrote in Hurriyet: "[...] In PM Erdogan's approach to foreign policy, it is easy to see the signs of his emotional reactions and his maniacal world view. The same thing happened at the OIC summit [in Malaysia]. The prime minister lacks nuance and frequently falls into contradictions. While he completely ignores the massacres in Darfour, in Sudan, he blows fire at Israel for the human drama in Lebanon.

"The prime minister should calculate the effects his statements have on the world and on Turkish public opinion. He must know best how dangerous the rampant antisemitism in Turkey can be."(15)

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Eze 38:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

Eze 38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Eze 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

Eze 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee

I agree that these are signs of the times...

The Kingdom of God is at hand

World's Humiliation
Sometimes I'm slow writing my commentary. Even though I know readers may be waiting, before I write, I want to find some spiritual sense to what's happening. But, sometimes that spiritual sense doesn't easily come -- only a natural sense. This is one of those times.

You see, the Bible tells us we born again Christians live in two worlds. We live in a physical world where we encounter tangible issues recognizable and addressable by our natural senses and abilities, and we live in a spiritual world where all definitions and procedures are completely different. But, unlike those who are not born again, we Christians can relate to both worlds (1 Cor. 2:15).

My natural side screams at me that Israel can't afford to let this Middle East cease-fire stand. The Arab world is celebrating the cease-fire as a victory for Hezbollah Read about it here. And, it doesn't really matter what Israeli Prime Minister Olmert or US President Bush declare Read about it here, the celebration in the Arab street will continue. And, according to the regional rules of the jungle, it's the street that decides what's true in the Middle East.

The worst of it is Hezbollah is just a local runt. If the cease-fire stands, Syria and Iran will be seen as the only two super-players left on the field. The way the Arab street sees it, if Israel and America had any teeth, they would have taken down Syria and Iran. But, while America hid behind Israel, Israel was humiliated -- and so too was America.

But, my spiritual side reminds me that if Israel and America were humiliated in this crisis, it was for a reason. That's because the Bible tells us humankind's history is moving toward a pre-ordained climax. And, at the center of this global climax we find God's little nation Israel. You see, even if Israel's enemies are perceived by the world as victors in this crisis and already preparing for their next battle Read about it here, the outcome of all future wars against Israel will be the same -- Israel will survive and, ultimately, Israel's enemies will be the ones who are humiliated.

In the meantime, the EU's Javier Solana has been running around the region constructing something for the Europeans and Western powers yet unrecognizable. But, no matter what it is, I suspect when completed another rubber stamp may be waiting. You see, despite the back and forth flow of the news regarding the makeup of the UN forces to be deployed in Lebanon, the debate appears to be more over titles than substance. I suspect the so-called UN forces will likely be under Solana's command center in the EU's Council of Ministers -- where his emergency powers also reside.

Since we're looking at these events spiritually, we might as well move on to where the Bible tells us these events may be going. The book of Daniel says a leader from among a 10-nation alliance and a revived Roman Empire will appear on the scene with a seven-year agreement to offer Israel and the other nations of the Mediterranean Basin. In the middle of that seven-year period, after a short time of peace is achieved, this European leader will suddenly and unexpectedly terminate his agreement with Israel and begin a war against God's people. Yet, even then, Israel will survive. That's because our wonderful Lord and Savior will return from heaven and establish His long promised kingdom.

It'll be the world's turn for humiliation.
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"But, my spiritual side reminds me that if Israel and America were humiliated in this crisis, it was for a reason. That's because the Bible tells us humankind's history is moving toward a pre-ordained climax. And, at the center of this global climax we find God's little nation Israel. You see, even if Israel's enemies are perceived by the world as victors in this crisis and already preparing for their next battle Read about it here, the outcome of all future wars against Israel will be the same -- Israel will survive and, ultimately, Israel's enemies will be the ones who are humiliated"

True. The Lord will personally see to it that this happens. [Jeremiah 30:11] [Zechariah 12:2-3]

Benny,

Your comments here are excellent. Yes, we live in both...and you
put it very eloquently...and I heard your heart.

Thank you.

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Syria warns Israel over occupation of Golan Heights
08.16.2006, 08:58 AM

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DAMASCUS (AFX) - Syria warned Israel that the occupation of the Golan Heights 'cannot last forever' and said Syrians would emulate Hezbollah to recover their land.

'We say to the forces occupying our land that our people warn you that they will not allow our land to be occupied forever,' the government's daily Ath-Thawra said.

'You must understand that our people will fight the way the Lebanese resistance (Hezbollah) fought you,' it added.

'Our people will fight you ... on every inch of the Golan,' it said.

However, the newspaper urged decision-makers in Israel 'to open up to new perspectives', noting that some in the Jewish state were in favour of making peace with Syria.

'The leaders of this expansionist entity have a choice: either they heed the voice of reason that prohibits them from violating other people's rights or they will face action similar to that carried out by the Lebanese resistance.'

Syria has repeatedly demanded the return of the Golan Heights which Israel conquered in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed in 1981.

Peace negotiations between the two neighbours broke off in January 2000 amid disagreement over the strategic heights, which overlooks Israel's northern Galilee region and command approaches to the Syrian capital, Damascus.
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Aug. 16, 2006 2:09 | Updated Aug. 16, 2006 17:22
Hizbullah: Disarmament not on agenda
By GIL HOFFMAN AND JPOST.COM STAFF



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The issue of disarmament is not on the agenda, senior Hizbullah official Hassan Fadlallah said on Wednesday, jeopardizing the fragile cease-fire in the region. The UN cease-fire resolution clearly states that the area south of the Litani river must be demilitarized.

According to Fadlallah, who spoke with al-Jazeera, Hizbullah will not evacuate its operatives from southern Lebanon since they are the ones who populate the region. "Any such withdrawal means the evacuation of southern Lebanon," he said.

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An official in the Prime Minister's Office warned on Tuesday that the IDF would have to resume operations in Lebanon if Hizbullah is not disarmed.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah reportedly reached a deal allowing Hizbullah to keep its weapons but refrain from exhibiting them in public. Israeli officials called the arrangement a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which passed over the weekend and was approved on Sunday by the cabinet.

"The resolution is clear that Hizbullah needs to be removed from the border area, embargoed and dismantled," the official said. "If the resolution is not implemented, we will have to take action to prevent the rearming of Hizbullah. I don't think backtracking will serve any useful purpose. There has to be pressure on Hizbullah to disarm or there will have to be another round."

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is expected to raise the issue when she meets in New York on Wednesday with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Annan angered Israeli officials when he told Channel 2 on Tuesday that "dismantling Hizbullah is not the direct mandate of the UN," which could only help Lebanon disarm the organization. Annan upset officials further when he said that deploying international forces in Lebanon would take "weeks or months," and not days as expected.

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Aug. 16, 2006 2:16 | Updated Aug. 16, 2006 7:39
IDF says free to hit Syrian arms convoys
By YAAKOV KATZ


Despite the cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah, the IDF is allowed to destroy Syrian weapons convoys that cross into Lebanon to reach Hizbullah guerrillas, a top IDF officer said Tuesday. At the same time, the officer said, the IDF will do its best to uphold the cease-fire until the newly upgraded UNIFIL deploys in southern Lebanon together with the Lebanese Army.

"We see ourselves allowed to strike at convoys moving into Lebanon," the officer said. During the 34 days of fighting, the IAF attacked such convoys on an almost daily basis.

On Tuesday, the cease-fire that went into effect a day earlier held, except for two incidents in which five Hizbullah gunmen were killed. The IDF said in both cases soldiers were defending themselves and it was doing everything possible to uphold its end of the UN-brokered agreement.

Thousands of soldiers, mostly reservists, began to leave Lebanon as their comrades who remained inside took up positions in the old security zone Israel held until 2000.

"If everything goes as planned and the cease-fire agreement lasts, the last soldier will leave Lebanon in seven to 10 days," IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said. A force composed of UNIFIL observers backed by the Lebanese Army is to begin taking control of parts of southern Lebanon on Wednesday.

The IDF, a senior officer said Tuesday, was surprised that Hizbullah was abiding by the cease-fire. "We predicted that Hizbullah wouldn't keep its side of the agreement and that fighting would start again," the officer said.

With the cease-fire so far intact, the IDF is implementing a two-stage plan, firstly withdrawing from the Litani River back to the old security zone, and secondly releasing the tens of thousands of reservists drafted to fight in the war.

Another symbol that the fighting had ended was Halutz's decision to order his deputy, Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky, to return to General Staff from Northern Command where he served as his personal representative.

With the war seemingly almost over, the IDF is now preparing for another grueling process - the investigations. Even if a full-blown state commission of inquiry was not established, Halutz said he planned to appoint a senior officer to investigate the IDF's overall management of the war.

"There are many questions that need to be answered, from the level of the chief of General Staff until the last soldier," the high-ranking officer said. "Everything will be checked."

The army is also preparing for expected negotiations for the release of the two reservists kidnapped in the Hizbullah cross-border attack on July 12. The IDF believes that the bodies of dead Hizbullah fighters it has seized as well as the guerrillas it currently has in custody have improved Israel's negotiating position and could serve as valuable bargaining chips in the talks expected to be brokered by a third party.

Halutz also promised to investigate claims by reservists of a lack of equipment and training. Every reservist soldier, he said, would receive a special form to be used to voice their concerns.

Halutz also said the IDF "would not be an obstacle to the formation" of a commission charged with investigating the management of the conflict.
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If I was Israel, I'd tell the UN to take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut, and then promptly bomb the bejeebers out of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran and anyone else that felt froggy.

Unfaithful Condi?
Something to remember about Bible prophecy is God sees differently. And, as in any communication between parties, this difference must be understood. In order to understand how God sees things, we need time in His Word. With this point in mind, let's consider our title question, Unfaithful Condi?

How, if that's the case, has Secretary of State Condoleezza Ri