MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) 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:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: 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, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
HAMAS - THE PALESTINIANS AND THE EGYPTIANS ARE TRYING TO FIGURE THINGS OUT WHILE ISRAEL IS STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MESS. I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT THE EU HAS NOT GOTTEN INVOLVED YET BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS ITS THE EU THAT GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR PEACE. I THOUGHT THE NATO OR EU TROOPS WOULD BE AT ALL THE BORDERS TO PROTECT ISRAEL, IF NOT YET, IT IS COMING THOUGH, THE EU HAS TO GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY NOT THE U.S.A.
Defiant Hamas bulldozes Rafah crossing wider By Nidal al-Mughrabi Fri Feb 1, 2:42 PM ET
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Hamas used a bulldozer to widen a breach in the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday so trucks could pass out of the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory despite Egypt's efforts to seal the crossing, witnesses said. An armed Hamas militant clung on to the outside of the yellow bulldozer's cab as the driver went about his work, and a number of other armed men close by provided additional cover.Local Palestinian residents and the waiting truck drivers cheered crush the barrier and shouted out Hamas as the bulldozer cleared a path wide enough to allow trucks to pass in either direction.The truck drivers then hurried back to their vehicles to cross the border in the fading afternoon light while Egyptian forces, who earlier this week closed two other crossings and narrowed the third, backed away and watched from a distance.
The development came as a second day of talks between Egypt and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was winding down. Meshaal, who arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for talks with Egypt on passage through the Gaza border, departed for Damascus shortly after with no agreement reached with Cairo.We covered a large stretch in the talks but we didn't reach an agreement, and it was decided there will be a new round of talks soon, Imad al-Alami, a member of the Hamas delegation told reporters at Cairo airport.Egypt called in police reinforcements on Thursday to seal gaps made last week by Hamas, whose militants blasted open the border to let hundreds of thousands of Gazans into Egypt to hunt for food and supplies in defiance of an Israeli-led blockade.A senior Egyptian security official said Egypt had given orders to security men to close the border in phases in order to minimize friction with Palestinians.
But they backed off on Friday after Hamas militants threatened to blow another hole in the wall, the Palestinian witnesses added.
FIRST BREACH
Since the first breach was made, Egyptian forces have used cement and sandbags to seal gaps in the border and to reinforce their own positions.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected Hamas demands it control the border and won U.S., European and Arab backing to take control of the Rafah crossing without Hamas.But it is unclear how Abbas, the Fatah leader whose authority is now limited to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, would be able to exert control over Rafah given opposition from Hamas, whose forces control the Gaza Strip.Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a newspaper interview on Friday that Abbas would be to blame for any failure of the Cairo talks and that Hamas had ideas on how to run the Rafah crossing.Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a speech in Gaza on Friday that the Islamist movement would not agree a return to the cage of siege and the 2005 passages agreement governing the Rafah crossing.We want a free Palestinian-Egyptian crossing ... regardless of the sacrifices, we will not accept the occupation's (Israel's) control of the crossing, he said.Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip last June after ousting Abbas's Fatah forces in a brief but bloody civil war in the coastal territory which is home to some 1.5 million inhabitants.(Writing by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Aziz El-Kaissouni in Cairo; Editing by Jon Boyle)
Putting Humpty Together Again in Gaza By TIM MCGIRK/JERUSALEM Fri Feb 1, 5:10 PM ET
Egypt's efforts to restore order on its breached border with Gaza suffered a setback Wednesday in Cairo, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to talk to the leaders of Hamas. Needing a Palestinian partner to police the Rafah crossing, President Hosni Mubarak had invited his Palestinian counterpart to meet with leaders of the Islamist movement that has, since last summer, been the only effective authority in Gaza. But Abbas's refusal to acknowledge the facts on the ground created by Hamas's takeover of the territory left the Egyptians with no easy way forward. By tearing down the border wall between Egypt and Gaza last week and breaking Israel's siege, Hamas dramatically altered the equation between Israel, the Palestinians and Egypt. It also frustrated attempts by the Bush Administration, its Palestinian protege Abbas and Israel to isolate the radical movement that refuses to recognize the Jewish State. Two years after the Palestinians' legislative elections made clear that Hamas cannot be ignored, the explosions at the Rafah crossing reaffirmed that reality. But while the Egyptians have recognized that reality, President Abbas surely hasn't.
By Friday, two days into the talks, Mubarak's efforts to broker a Palestinian deal on managing the border seemed doomed. Not only did Abbas cold-shoulder the Hamas delegation, he insisted that he would never speak to the Islamic militants until they agreed to end what he called their coup in Gaza. Hamas, he added, must accept all international obligations and accept holding early elections. After that, our hearts are open for any dialogue. Abbas's posture may please his sponsors in Washington, but his denial of Hamas's new status has angered Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza who want reconciliation between the rival factions. In Gaza, even many Hamas opponents admire the militants for their dramatic rupture of Israel's seven-month blockade. Having been violently ejected from Gaza last June, Abbas's militia no longer has any muscle in the Palestinian enclave. Hamas officials said it was laughable to think that Hamas would turn power in Gaza over to Fatah. The most that Abbas could hope for, says Hamas, is for some of his former border guards to temporarily resume their posts at crossings into Gaza from Israel and Egypt. Says Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhr: Hamas does not accept anything less than a key role in the Rafah crossing.
Still, Hamas is wary of provoking Egypt. On Friday, in what may have been the only positive result of the Cairo talks, Hamas militants actually helped Egyptians reseal the breaches in the border wall with chain-link fencing and barbed wire - with the proviso that the crossing be left open for Palestinians and goods coming through Egypt. That, of course, would negate Israel's siege strategy, but the Jewish State has few good options in Gaza: Israeli military officials say their forces are capable of resealing the border themselves, but that would require a major military incursion of a type Israel has thus far avoided. The Egyptian public, along with the wider Arab world, initially applauded President Mubarak for allowing thousands of starving Gazans to swarm in to Sinai towns for a shopping frenzy. But Egyptian public opinion has begun to shift amid concerns that Gazans were fleeing into Egypt and remaining there. Also, Egyptian police say they arrested two groups of Palestinians with arms and explosive devices, possibly en route to launch attacks in southern Israel. While the Egyptians were happy to bring relief to suffering Palestinians, they reject taking responsibility for a situation they see as created by Israel. As the pro-government weekly Al-Mussawar put it in a headline this week, We refuse settling the Palestinians in Sinai.The Egyptians are wary of the argument heard from some quarters in Israel that with Rafah open, Israel no longer has any humanitarian responsibility for Gaza, and that Egypt should instead assume the task. The United Nations view is that Israel's humanitarian responsibility for Gaza persists because it remains the occupying power, by virtue of its control of Gaza's airspace and the maritime and land routes into the territory. Cairo insists that it will not be dragged back into administering Gaza, insisting that the only entity to which Israel can hand over sovereign control of the territory is a future state of Palestine. Mohamed Salmawy, head of the Cairo-based Writers Association, argues that Israel could not have dreamed up a better scenario than the ongoing fighting between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority ... which is leading the Palestinian dream to a dead end, pushing it not towards Jerusalem and the West Bank but towards [the Sinai towns of] Rafah and al-Arish. But the future state of Palestine will remain entirely hypothetical as long as Abbas refuses to talk to Hamas.
- With reporting by Amany Radwan/Cairo and Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem
Israelis told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war Sat Feb 2, 8:20 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Retired senior officers told Israelis on Saturday to prepare rocket rooms as protection against a rain of missiles expected to be fired at the Jewish state in any future conflict.
Speaking on radio as part of a military propaganda offensive, retired general Udi Shani said: The next war will see a massive use of ballistic weapons against the whole of Israeli territory.Shani was tasked recently with drawing up a report on the way the military authorities operated during Israel's 2006 summer war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.During that conflict thousands of rockets hit Israel, but were limited to the north of the country from where hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated.The character of war has changed, said the general.Strikes to the rear must now be taken into account -- that is what will come and we must prepare in a totally different way for this eventuality, he said.Another reserve officer, Colonel Yehiel Kuperstein, added: Protection of civilians must today be assured even inside their homes.
There is no absolute protection, but the best possible sort is that of a room able to provide shelter inside houses, he said, evoking the norms in force in Israel for several years which envisage each apartment having a room with reinforced walls able to serve as a shelter.Today in Israel only one third of apartments have such a room able to provide shelter... they have neither an air filter nor ventilation system enabling anyone to stay there for a long time, Kuperstein said.At the beginning of 2008 the military command in charge of passive defence began an information campaign to prepare Israelis for any future conflict in the light of lessons drawn from the war in Lebanon.The authorities have distributed a brochure in six languages with advice on what to do, particularly in the event of missile attacks, as well as launching a campaign on radio and television.The report of a commission of inquiry into failings in the Lebanon war, which was released on Wednesday, highlighted serious errors in the protection of frontline residents.As the Israeli military bombed and shelled much of the infrastructure of Lebanon and killed an estimated 1,200 Lebanese, the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fired more than 4,000 rockets at north Israel during the 34-day war.Around a million Israelis took to primitive shelters or fled to safety in the south of the country.
Clever Hamas strategy must be matched: Blair FEB 2,08
LONDON (AFP) - Middle East envoy Tony Blair told The Times newspaper that the international community needed to match Hamas's clever strategy to secure a peace deal, in an interview published Saturday. The former British prime minister, who remains confident of striking a peace deal by 2009, said a situation must be engineered whereby there is everything to gain if Hamas stops its rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip.Blair said the United States was ramping up its involvement in trying to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians as US President George W. Bush's term in office runs out.Hamas have a clever strategy, which is why I keep saying we need a clever strategy as well, which helps the people, isolates the extremists and points out the fact that if at any point in time the rockets stop, the whole situation will be transformed, Blair said.The 54-year-old represents the so-called Quartet of major players in the Middle East peace process -- the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.This is a deal that could definitely be done, and it could definitely be done this year, Blair said. However, unless confidence could be restored between the two sides, the chances of a deal were thin, he added.Blair said Bush was serious about sealing a deal before he leaves office in January 2009.
The American engagement in this has altered significantly both in quality and quantity in the past two months, there is no doubt about that. When I saw him (Bush) in Jerusalem, he was completely up for it, Blair said.The question is, how do you create the circumstances on the ground where the Israelis get confidence that their security concerns are being met and the Palestinians get confidence that the occupation will eventually be lifted? he said.
Without that confidence about the state of the situation on the ground the negotiation becomes more difficult. Sometimes people have looked at this process as one in which if you cut the deal the facts on the ground will alter.In my view it is as much the other way around. Unless you can change the facts on the ground the deal becomes difficult to cut.He said resolving the Arab-Israeli issue would boost the forces of moderation.Resolving it would be a hugely symbolic act, not just between Israel and Palestine but Islam and the West between people of different faiths. There is nothing more important to world peace than resolving this question, he said.
Hamas to help control Gaza border with Egypt: senior leader by Nagham Mohanna FEB 2,08
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Hardline senior Hamas leader Mahmud al-Zahar said on Saturday his movement will work with Cairo to gradually bring order to the breached border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. We will work towards controlling the border between us and Egypt ... This has to be done gradually, Zahar told reporters as he crossed back into Gaza after two days of talks with officials in Cairo.He added that the border would be under control by Sunday.
We have concluded an agreement between us and our brothers in Egypt to operate channels at the local level at the crossing and along the border and we will implement it tomorrow after we meet with the (Hamas-run) government.Cairo has not yet commented on the talks, which followed a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, whose forces were violently driven from Gaza by Hamas seven months ago.An official in Abbas's Palestinian Authority denied that Egypt had made an agreement with Hamas, insisting that Egypt had agreed that it is the Authority that has to take control of the border.As far as we know Egypt has decided to close the border with Gaza, the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity.Hundreds of thousands of people have streamed across the border since January 23, when Palestinian militants blew open and bulldozed large sections of the barrier wall after a near week-long Israeli lockdown of the territory.The opening of the border was a popular act because we could not find coffins for our martyrs, our sick were dying, and 400 people suffering from kidney failure were threatened with death, Zahar said.Since the Islamist Hamas movement seized power in June, Israel has enforced a strict closure regime on Gaza in a bid to halt the near daily rocket and mortar attacks from the coastal strip.Since the opening of the Egyptian border the number of rockets fired has dropped off dramatically, with the Israeli army reporting only 12 projectiles in the past 10 days compared to more than 90 in the week before the breach.Shortly after Zahar spoke, hundreds of pro-Hamas women staged a demonstration at the border crossings, waving green party banners and holding signs saying Save Gaza and The crossing is Egyptian-Palestinian.By Friday Egypt had succeeded in halting all but pedestrian traffic, but Hamas gunmen later dragged away metal barricades to allow a column of massive trucks to push into the centre of Egyptian Rafah.We gave our side of the story to the Egyptians about what happened on the border because there was some behaviour that was unacceptable, Zahar said, without offering specifics.There will not be any armed Palestinians on the border, he said.Zahar said humanitarian aid will continue to flow through the crossing -- the only gateway to Gaza that is not under Israeli control -- adding that trucks carrying food and medicine would be processed on the Egyptian side.
Hamas has demanded that the Rafah crossing be operated through a strictly Palestinian-Egyptian agreement to replace a 2005 arrangement that included European Union observers and Israeli electronic surveillance.Abbas has said his government should operate the crossings and has refused all contact with Hamas unless it returns Gaza to his control. On Saturday Zahar said his delegation and the Egyptians had overcome many obstacles and agreed to normalise the border in the way Hamas had requested. There will be discussions among international bodies to solve these problems, to normalise the border in the way we have demanded and not according to the whims of the Israelis, he added. Since the January 23 breakout the border has evolved into a sprawl of chaos and commerce, with thousands of people streaming across in both directions with crates of goods, herds of animals, and plastic jugs of diesel fuel. Egyptian forces subsequently closed in on the border area, preventing Palestinians from travelling further inland to Cairo and sealing all but two of the breaches in the barrier. But no effort has yet been made to halt pedestrian traffic, and neither Egyptian nor Palestinian security forces have been inspecting goods on their way into or out of Gaza.
