A Bad Deal - By Matt Ward - http://www.raptureready.com/soap2/ward12.html
Details are slowly starting to emerge of the nuclear "agreement" reached between the P5+1 powers, led primarily by America and Iran. Israel, not invited to participate in these negotiations even though they are the nation most directly affected by them, are on edge.
Already the Obama Administration has publically acknowledged that they no longer update the Israelis on the details of the negotiations, an obvious and immature slap in the face to Israel in retaliation for Netanyahu's speech in front of Congress this week.
Netanyahu himself has clearly summarized the crucial nature of the situation Israel finds herself in and therefore, why he feels it necessary to address Congress:
This agreement, if signed, will allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state - meaning that, with the powers' consent, Iran will get a license to develop atom bombs - and this is a country which openly declares its intention to destroy the state of Israel. That is why I will go to Washington to speak before the US Congress, because the US Congress may be the last defense before it is signed. (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)
Susan Rice, President Obama's National Security Advisor and someone who is well known to have no love for Israel has rejected these concerns out of hand, interested not in Israel's national security but on the perceived slight on Obama and his administration. Rice pointed out that Netanyahu speaking to Congress would have real consequences for US - Israeli relations, "It is not only unfortunate but it is also destructive of the fabric of the relationship." (Debka)
Perhaps Susan Rice should consider that while Iran is currently negotiating with America over nuclear weapons, they are also publically destroying a life sized mockup of a Nimitz Class US aircraft carrier in the Straits of Hormuz-as an overt threat to America who they publicly consider to be the "Great Satan."
Perhaps Susan Rice should also consider exactly why Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems. It isn't only to hit Israel because they can already do that with the Shahab class missile systems. Iran is developing these ICBM's to hit America. I wonder what damage this has done to Iran's relationship with the Obama Administration.
However, there are other motivations behind the Obama Administration's actions. Obama has been intent from his earliest days as president on putting a significant distance between the United States and Israel. As Rahm Emanuel, his former Chief of Staff so famously quipped, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
This is exactly what Obama is doing. He is distancing the two one-time allies and using the opportunity presented by the Netanyahu speech in Congress to deflect attention away from disastrous nuclear negotiations. Obama is appeasing Iran and it is indefensible.
Obama publicly promised that Iran would not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, yet the outcome of the current negotiations would effectively mean that after a ten year freeze Iran would pretty much be allowed to do whatever it wants with its new nuclear weapons.
This is a catastrophic disaster for Israel, the Middle East, America and the rest of the world. It is also a very public brutal betrayal of Israel. The undignified spat between brought on by the Obama Administration against Netanyahu has served to distract attention away from the unprecedented concessions Obama is making in these negotiations with Iran.
Let us be under no illusions about this. Obama is a long way down the road to allowing a nuclear weapons armed Iran to exist, and with it he is going to spark a full-blown nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who at one time regarded America as an ally now know that they are very much on their own. Obama is empowering Iran and allowing them to assume regional dominance.
And so we come to Netanyahu's address to Congress on March 3, 2015. He did this only for one reason; because he believes with every fiber of his being that the very survival of Israel is at stake. Netanyahu spoke before the joint session of Congress, the highest platform in America, pleading that its one time protector will safeguard the Jewish state once again. In reality Netanyahu is not only addressed America, but the entire world.
I cannot help but feel that this was some kind of last and final chance when Netanyahu stood on that highest of public platforms and addressed the leading men and women of the leading nation in the world as well as all the Western nations He pleaded for the survival of his people, Israel, but if those pleas are not received then I believe that some kind of watershed may have been reached.
Perhaps a point of no return. A point of no return between Israel and America and perhaps, more ominously between America and God.
It is no coincidence that this month is the Jewish month of Adar, the month where all Jews celebrate the feast of Purim. This is the feast where the evil Persian nobleman Haman tried unsuccessfully to wipe the Jews from the face of the earth, only to be thwarted by the bravery of Queen Esther.
Today, also in the month of Adar and also in Persia (Iran), there is another Haman who wants to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons. America finds herself standing in the gap.
Will they help deliver Israel as Esther did all those thousands of years ago or not?
The Lord God is clear:
"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse" (Genesis 12:3, emphasis added).
NBC News Interview--Iran says Israel should be annihilated - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
While NBC News 'Ann Curry seemingly conducted a timely interview with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the purpose from the Iranian side was to paint Israeli Prime Minister as a child killer and an obstacle to peace. The spin was in full motion for Iran to look reasonable and to discount concerns that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon. It was full of denials from the man known to shout at those negotiating with him, including Secretary of State John Kerry. Breitbat, however, reported found buried in the transcript of the interview that Zarif once again, at Curry's persistent questioning, said that Israel "should be annihilated. That this regime is a threat."
Zarif at first denied that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei had tweeted that Israel should be annihilated. Then Zarif admitted to that and went on to say that the Netanyahu regime is a threat that should be annihilated. This is the story that didn't make the headlines at a time when the US "president" is trying to convince Americans that it is all right to allow Iran to enrich uranium for nuclear purposes because the terrorist sponsoring state has given its word that it will not develop a nuclear bomb. Netanyahu says otherwise, pointing out that the deal being cooked up by the White House and negotiated by Kerry, is the very path for a nuclear Iran.
This is an example of how the fourth estate, the free press, is not doing its job. NBC has been long considered a shill for this Islamist Marxist White House, and once again is proven its reputation. All week, Iran and the US "president" have done their best to discredit the leader of the primary state at risk if Iran gets the bomb--Israel. Iran has repeatedly, along with its terrorist allies--Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and a host of other Islamic terrorist arms both Shiite and Suni, said that Israel must be annihilated. Yet the American White House chimes in with virtually the same rhetoric trying to discredit the leader that says Iran is lying. So who is lying?
The Apostle Paul writes about the coming end times in 2 Timothy. Verses 1-5 say, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God: Having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." Does this not describe the players in this Iranian nuclear deal? It is insane to think that a terrorist sponsoring state would tell the truth, or that an Islamist Marxist "president" would know the truth. The last four words of verse 5 are: "from such turn away."
Iran Working as Strategic Partner with Hezbollah against Israel - By Jonathan Spyer -
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/31467/iran-working-strategic-partner-hezbollah-israel-opinion/#6BdZ62ar42KHYlzo.97 All is not quiet on the northern front between Israel and Syria/Lebanon.
The recent Hezbollah attack on an Israel Defense Forces convoy in the Har Dov area close to Israel's border with Lebanon, in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, was the latest move in a dangerous and high stakes game that is now underway on Israel's northern frontier. Israel and Hezbollah are not the only players. The Islamic Republic of Iran, which the U.S. defines as the leading state-sponsor of terrorism, is also a key presence as Hezbollah's strategic partner.
The attack at Har Dov was the second move by Iran/Hezbollah in response to the Israeli operation on the Syrian Golan Heights on January 18th. In the Israeli operation, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer, Mohammed Allahdadi, was killed, as was Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of a famous Hezbollah commander.
Israel appears to have chosen not to immediately respond to the Hezbollah attack. As a result, fears of an imminent escalation to full conflict between the Jewish state and the Lebanese Shia Islamists have diminished. But the silence is deceptive. The border incidents cast a sudden light on an ongoing war between Israel and Iran which is more usually played out in the shadows.
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh announced on February 2nd that his country has exported technology to Hezbollah "for the production of missiles and other equipment, and they can now stand against the Zionist regime."
Just last week, the IRGC, Hezbollah and Assad's soldiers launched an offensive in the direction of the Golan Heights to reclaim territory seized by Syrian rebels and jihadis. The offensive seems to have stalled amid the February snow for now.
But the Iranian/Hezbollah determination to drive the Syrian rebels away from the border area is clearly intact. This ambition lies at the root of the tensions on Israel's northern border.
The Israeli strike on January 18th was a response to an attempt by Iran and Hezbollah to re-write the delicate "rules of engagement" that pertain between Israel and the Shia Islamist organization in Lebanon and now in Syria.
Could the Golan Become a Front for Attacks on Israel?
The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the Golan as a front for possible "jihad duties" against Israel. Syria is in chaos. The area east of the Israeli-held Golan is precisely the kind of lawless territory from where Iran's regime and its proxies would find it suitable to launch acts of violence against Israeli communities.
Both Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the course of 2014, made unambiguous public statements threatening the opening of military activity against Israel in this area.
Iranian General Allahdadi, Mughniyeh and the others were in the Golan Heights as part of the effort to make these statements a reality. They were, it appears, in the process of preparing an infrastructure for attacks on Israel. Israel acted to prevent this, but also to send a broad and clear message to Iran/Hezbollah that it would not tolerate the establishment of a second springboard for attacks on Israeli communities, just east of the Quneitra Crossing.
Israel Does Not Want To Be Drawn into the Syrian Civil War
The emergence of a terror infrastructure facing the Golan, with regular attacks from Hezbollah or (more likely) un-named proxy groups could lead the Jewish state to face the alternative of accepting a war of attrition against northern communities or entering to prevent it. So Israel is determined to prevent the emergence of that reality.
In pursuing this mission, Israel relies only on its own capabilities. This is a stance born from bitter experience. The guarantees of the "international community" have proven to be an ineffective barrier to the ongoing march of Teheran's ambitions. Just north of Israel's border with Lebanon, Iran and Hezbollah have constructed a powerful war machine. The existence of UNSC Resolution-1701, intended precisely to prevent this, has done nothing serious to even hinder this process.
UNIFIL'S Mission Has Failed
Since Hezbollah last attacked Israel during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, a beefed-up UNIFIL's (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) mandate has been to restore peace to the border and assist the Lebanese Armed Forces in disarming Hezbollah. The mission has failed. Hezbollah has likely amassed over 100,000 rockets. It has also infiltrated the Lebanese Armed Forces, to the point wherein many ways it can no longer be reliably discerned where Hezbollah ends and the Lebanese Armed Forces begin.
By way of background, the U.S. designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization in 1995. The long bloody trail of Hezbollah's terrorism can be traced back to 1983. Hezbollah launched a suicide bomb attack against U.S and French military barracks in Beirut. The terror attacks resulted in the deaths of 241 American military personnel and 58 paratroopers. Hezbollah's jingoism against the U.S. did not end in Lebanon; its operative Ali Mussa Daqduq played a key role in murdering five U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2007.
Recently, the Washington Post published details of U.S.-Israeli cooperation in the assassination of Hezbollah's terror mastermind, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus in February, 2008. The latest revelations cast light on the extent of ongoing behind the scenes cooperation against the common threat represented by Iran and Hezbollah. This campaign is a marathon, not a sprint, with achievements and setbacks, moments of greater intensity and periods of waiting.
Deterrence Is an Art
Deterrence, as Admiral Eliezer Marom, former commander of the Israeli Navy, said in an interview on Israeli Channel 1 News following the Har Dov attack, is not an exact science; it's an art. Israeli decision-makers have apparently decided to bring the current episode to a close with no further immediate escalation.
This decision was presumably not easily reached. Silence is not necessarily cost-free. With the Iranian ambition very clear, Israel needs to consider whether accepting Hezbollah's signal to the UNIFIL may mean that the organization and its backers will now feel emboldened to continue to regard the Golan as an "open" front, in the knowledge that Israel's responses, though kinetic, would be limited.
The broader picture, in any case, seems clear after the latest events. The eight years of relative quiet that followed the Second Lebanon War of 2006 are over. The northern border is back to being an active arena in the Israel-Islamist conflict.
Iran's Second Front Against Israel Should Not Be Ignored
Lastly, Iran's growing role in destabilizing Israel's borders should debunk any idea that President Hassan Rouhani is a moderate leader within the Middle East. The Iranian effort to open a "second front" against Israel in the Golan should be seen as part of a larger regional picture in which the Iranians are actively interfering in conflict areas throughout the Middle East - in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank/Gaza, and now once again across Israel's northern border.
Iran plotting fresh offensive on Israel's northern border - Aaron Klein - http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/iran-plotting-fresh-offensive-on-israels-northern-border/?cat_orig=world
Seizure of strategic territory would threaten Jewish state's security
Iranian officers working with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization and Syrian troops are planning a major, imminent offensive to secure control of Syria's border with Israel on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
The offensive aims to secure villages at the center of the Golan Heights, including the border town of Quneitra, which leads to a main road that goes all the way to Damascus.
Quneitra is a strategic, largely unpopulated town along the demilitarized United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone that serves as a buffer between Syria and Israel. The town is located just across from Israeli territory.
Currently, Quneitra is a no-mans land that is sporadically under the control of insurgents fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The planned Iranian-backed offensive is less about Iran's efforts against Israel and more about securing strategic territory for Assad's regime with the aim of resisting rebels on multiple fronts, Middle Eastern defense officials told WND.
Last month, a U.K.-based human rights organization stated Hezbollah and Iranian forces were leading a counterinsurgency targeting rebel strongholds in Quneitra.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Hezbollah-Iran axis was also leading battles against Islamist insurgents in Daraa, at the Jordan-Israel border and along the southwest of Damascus province.
The offensive was reportedly largely a failure for Iran, with the Iranian-led forces unable to gain much territory.
WND in January was first to report that according to Mideast defense officials, Hezbollah and Iran were planning an imminent counterinsurgency against rebel-held positions inside and near the Syrian sections of the Golan Heights aimed at taking the strategic border territory.
Now Mideast defense officials say the Iranian-backed axis is plotting another counterinsurgency, including in the Golan.
While the immediate battle plan included bolstering Assad's regime, the officials say Iran could also use any gained territory to threaten Israel in the future, including with ballistic missiles or Iranian-backed guerrilla raids targeting Jewish communities on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights.
Earlier this week, Syrian forces battled insurgents in the Syrian cities of Lattakia, the biggest Syrian port city; the western province of Homs; and Aleppo, the largest Syrian city.
Last month, amid reports of the Iran-led offensive in the Golan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran was seeking to open a "third front" against Israel using Hezbollah fighters in the north.
"Alongside Iran's direct guidance of Hezbollah's actions in the north and Hamas's in the south, Iran is trying also to develop a third front on the Golan Heights via the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who are in southern Syria and over which Iran holds direct command," Netanyahu told a parliamentary cabinet meeting.
Netanyahu said cabinet ministers were to be briefed on "the security challenges developing around us, first and foremost Iran's attempt to increase its foothold on Israel's borders even as it works to arm itself with nuclear weapons."
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