Israel perturbed by the arrival of 3,000 Iranian troops in Syria with 2,000 Cubans - http://www.debka.com/article/24950/Israel-perturbed-by-the-arrival-of-3-000-Iranian-troops-in-Syria-with-2-000-Cubans
Israel and Iran engaged in a duel of messages on Wednesday and Thursday (October 14-15), with Russia standing behind Iran.
Israeli military and intelligence sources were uncharacteristically forthcoming when they revealed on Thursday, Oct. 15, that 3,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards troops had secretly landed in Syria. This was the largest Iranian ground force ever to set foot in Syria.
Until now, Israel had kept under close wraps any intelligence obtained about the movement of the Iranian forces. However, in consideration of the large number of troops, the continuation of the Russian and Iranian airlifts of forces to Syria, and the possibility that the Iranian troops could be deployed on the Syrian side of the Golan, Israeli leaders decided to go public in this latest development.
This is because of their grave concern that Iran may take advantage of the IDF's transfer of forces from its northern borders to the domestic fronts for quelling the current outbreak of Palestinian terrorist violence, to go for territorial gains on the Golan and the Israel-Lebanon border.
The IDF released information Wednesday night that it had sent drone and intelligence gathering units from the Northern Command to the center of the country to deal with the Palestinian terror.
The intelligence-gathering units are relatively new, attached recently to field brigades and divisions for supplying data gained by observation posts, forays behind enemy lines and questioning captured prisoners. The transfer of these units to the center of the country presents the IDF with difficulties on other fronts and may leave the military with no option but to start calling up army reserves very soon, if the wave of terror does not end.
Fearing the IDF may strike its forces in Syria, Tehran sent Jerusalem a deterrent message: the revelation of its underground tunnel networks for launching and storing ballistic missiles.
The missiles were shown loaded on dozens of giant trucks with team standing ready for launching, to show Israel that all his ready for immediate action, including war.
Revolutionary Guards chiefs were shown on Iran's state TV inspecting the tunnels and the missiles and trampling contemptuously on US and Israeli flags.
The previous day, Iran announced that its forces had conducted a test of the new "Emad" long-range ballistic missile, without specifying the weapon's range or the date and location of the launch.
In Washington, the Obama administration's response to these messages was low-key, describing the ballistic missiles as a certain violation of the UN arms embargo against Iran.
In another military development connected to the Golan, US defense sources revealed Wednesday night that that Russia had airlifted to Syria Cuban army units to fight alongside the army of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The sources said they were members of Cuban armored corps units who would drive Syrian tanks, adding that the Cuban chief of staff, Gen. Leopoldo Cintra Frias, arrived in Syria with the troops.
debkafile's sources: The arrival of the Cuban forces broadens the Russian war effort.
The fact that Cuban troops will man Syrian tanks attacking rebel groups represents a dramatic achievement for Russian President Vladimir Putin's proxy war in Syria.
They are not in the Middle East for the first time. In 1974, the USSR flew two Cuban tank brigades to Syria and placed them opposite IDF positions on Mt. Hermon and other parts of the Golan. From February to May, the IDF traded heavy artillery fire with the Cubans, accompanied by dogfights between Israeli and Syrian warplanes. This war, conducted on the Syrian side by Russian officers, ended on May 31,1974 with the signing of a separation of forces agreement between Israel and Syria.
In addition to demonstrating Russia's strategy of establishing an international military coalition to support President Assad, the deployment of Cuban troops serves as a clear hands-off signal to Israel.
Israel under Fire - Alf Cengia - http://omegaletter.ca/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=8132
Those who keep a watchful eye on headlines coming out of the Middle East shouldn't really be surprised at the current attacks on Jewish citizens in Israel. The ingredients for this escalating violence have been cooking in the pot for a long time.
However, much of the western world has remained blas�. When it does pay notice, ISIS or the Syrian conflict gets the most attention. Even then, as long as they're not directly affected, casual observers are happy to get back to their lattes and other pursuits.
I suspect some are skeptical as to whether there's anything particularly significant in the current stabbing attacks. They likely view these as another temporary flare-up among fiery people who can't seem to get along. Inevitably, somewhere down the track, Israel will be blamed and they'll talk about the so-called Two State Solution...again.
I recall a relative once asking a rhetorical question during family lunch: "Why don't the Palestinians and Israelis just put away their guns and get along?" Someone else chimed in by suggesting that Israel should simply return the "stolen land" to the Palestinians if they really want peace.
It was too easy to find facile solutions to complex issues over Christmas Turkey. I've had many similar latte conversations. I bet most people have.
Responding to simplistic statements is frustrating because it's inevitably met with skepticism by people who haven't closely followed the situation. They've been fed diets of media tidbits and language biased against Israel - e.g., the use of the words "occupation" and "apartheid." Often ignoring evidence to the contrary, there's a resistance to believe the problem lies with one group of people wanting to annihilate the other.
The current attacks on Jews haven't occurred in a vacuum. They have little to do with "stolen land" or "oppression." Tensions between Jews and Arabs extend back to, and long before, Israel's inception as a nation. For those who have a Facebook account StandWithUs has a 1947 incident captured on camera of an Arab man stabbing a Jewish journalist. The writer observes:
"...Terrorism, the terror that we saw today, is the product of the indoctrination of hate. A hate that teaches children that it's heroic to murder Jews."
I agree. In recent times tensions between the Palestinians and Israel have been fomented by several dynamics:
1) Muslim leaders and clerics. One Gaza cleric recently admonished young Palestinians:
"We don't want just a single stabber. Oh young men of the West Bank: Attack in threes and fours. Some should restrain the victim, while others attack him with axes and butcher knives...Do not fear what will be said about you. Oh men of the West Bank, next time, attack in a group of three, four, or five. Attack them in groups. Cut them into body parts..." (Emphasis mine)
Inciting blood lust in young men is an ideal recipe because it works. Extremist Islamist clerics groom young men to violence for Islam. We see this in those who travel from all over the world to join ISIS. We've seen it in the recent European refugee conflicts, which almost exclusively involve younger men. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters has commented on this phenomenon before. A transcript of his talk is available HERE.
So called moderate Abbas is no different. On Sep 16 during a PA television broadcast he declared:
"Al-Aksa Mosque is ours. They [the Jews] have no right to desecrate it with their filthy feet. We won't allow them to do so and we will do everything in our power to defend Jerusalem. We bless every drop of blood spilled for Jerusalem. This is clean and pure blood, blood that was spilled for God. It is Allah's will that every martyr will go to heaven and every wounded [terrorist] will receive God's reward."
Then there's moderate Jordan. In context to the recent temple mount incidents; the Jordanian House of Representatives has accused Israel of "continued aggression against the Palestinian people, land, and holy sites as a 'state terrorism' conducted before the eyes of the entire world." Yet it is the Jews who are routinely harassed whenever they approach the Temple Mount area.
2) A biased or indifferent media generally ignores the above. It tends to blame Israel for creating an atmosphere which invites bad behavior. The Palestinians are presented as marginalized. Israelis are the oppressors. A lot more may be said here but I'll leave it to readers to research further at their leisure. CAMERA is a great place to start.
3) The church. This is the one I find most egregious. There are professing Christian leaders who deny a future biblical redemption of national Israel, and rights to the land. They routinely misrepresent the conflict, thereby inciting activism against Israel and inflaming tensions.
Several Christian organizations have been active in this process: the organizers of Christ at the Checkpoint Conferences; Sabeel; PCUSA (Boycott Divest Sanction activism); the Palestinian Israel Ecumenical Network etc.
Gary Burge's Huffington Post article on the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict (But They Use Human Shields!) reached a significant audience. It would take another article to fully parse his commentary. What most Huff Post readers may not realize is that Burge is a long-time anti-Israel activist. His book (Whose Land? Whose Promise?) reveals these inclinations.
He writes: "No country wants a UN webpage like this describing its conduct." Then he links to a UN webpage with the headline "Occupied Palestinian Territory." Thus Burge directs his readers to an organization notorious for its anti-Israel bias, while insinuating Israel occupies stolen land.
Burge's article held Israel to impossibly high moral standards, contrary to Hamas. While he acknowledges that Israel warned Gazans of the bombing raids he claims they had nowhere to escape to. Anyone who has looked at a map of Gaza would know this to be untrue.
In chastising Israel's bombing of civilian areas (where rockets were being deployed) he omitted the fact that Hamas kept its own people in place at gun point. He even admits that Hamas is baiting Israel. But he prefers to emphasize Israel's crossing of an ethical line.
The irony is that failing to hold Hamas (or other Islamist extremists) to full account encourages the terrorist acts we are seeing - as does unfairly demonizing Israel. An "ethical line" has already been crossed by this sort of prejudiced commentary.
We could spend a whole day identifying a bunch of causes and excuses for the current attacks on Jews. But don't be misled into thinking that it is all about stolen land. History is against that myth. It is all about hatred...and the devil is in the details.
Although it isn't popular (and even considered odd) to look to the Bible for answers - I heartily agree with Charles Lee Feinberg who wrote on The Cause of Anti-Semitism:
"What, then, is the true and only cause? In a word, it is Satan. The solution is to be found in Revelation 12. Satan hates the nation through whom has come so much blessing to the world, especially the Savior. First, the dragon is incensed against the child of the woman (Jesus Christ), then he goes to make war with the remnant of her seed, Israel. Moreover, when Satan is angry against Israel, it always culminates in defiance against the Lord Jesus Christ. The two are inseparable."
We know this hatred won't last because God has revealed His plans for Israel.
Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." Zechariah 8:23
Maranatha
Arab terrorist propaganda in Jerusalem - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
The Arab terrorists in Israel (the Palestinians) have claimed that 13 year old Ahmed Manasra was gunned down by Israeli soldiers after the teen tried to stab two people, including a Jewish teenager. Now CBS News has obtained confirmation that Manasra is in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem recovering, and very much alive. This is part of the propaganda war that the Palestinians wage every time they start a fight against Israel. Usually it works because news organizations such as CBS and CNN are so pro-Palestinian in their reporting that they believe the stories. Once the Israeli government provides proof that the Palestinians lied, there rarely is a corrective story. This happened to be the exception. But then...
The CBS story went on to apologetically describe that there have been a "string of knife attacks against Israelis." The story reported: "Palestinians, mostly young men, armed with knives, appear out of nowhere, stabbing as many as they can. Their targets appear to be random -- which has only added to the fear. All the suspects have been arrested or shot by Israeli security forces, including one woman gunned down at a bus station." In other words, CBS is giving the impression that the Palestinians were just out having a little fun scaring people with knives and the evil Israeli Security Forces gunned them down. The media doesn't seem to think that if you are out trying to kill innocent people, there may be consequences.
We have the same situation here in the US. Certain people attack or kill police officers and somehow the news media believes it is their right to do so because they have been victims of social injustice. No one seems to want to focus on the choice an individual makes to perpetrate violence on another human being. It all is justified in some sort of twisted idea that if you are a member of a group of people that some consider "oppressed" or "disadvantaged," that it gives license to breaking things up and being violent against others. It doesn't. There are laws. Both America and Israel have laws that protect people from being randomly attacked by others. Yet, there are some who believe there should be exceptions.
In watching the news coverage of the new wave of Palestinian terrorism in the streets of Jerusalem, one would think that every Jew that lives in Israel is at fault for being there. That these Palestinians are angry because they are being occupied and that gives them some sort of pass to kill. Nothing could be further from the truth. If this was about land, why then would the Palestinians be interested in .2% of the Middle East in land mass when Islam already controls about 33% of the entire land mass of the world? This is about killing Jews. Psalm 122:6 says, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you." It's also important to keep in mind the words of Jesus in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you."
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