TRUMP WATCH: 11.26.16 - Trump and General Flynn move in on Syria, Iraq wars

Trump and General Flynn move in on Syria, Iraq wars - http://www.debka.com/article/25789/Trump-and-Gen-Flynn-move-in-on-Syria-Iraq-wars

 

Unlike most US president elects, Donald Trump is not waiting to be formally sworn into office on Jan. 20. debkafile's exclusive military and Washington sources reveal that he has already plunged unannounced into managing America's military role in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. His national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is secretly in close touch  with the Head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, as well as President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Jordan's King Abdullah. Their covert discussions are preparing the ground for a combined assault on the Islamic State's bastions in Iraq and Syria shortly after Trump moves into the White House. Their plan of operation would also involve the regular armies of Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Persian Gulf nations.

 

Israel's role in the secret track began to surface in the new Golan border arrangements only just revealed by debkafile on Nov. 21:

 

Israel, Jordan and Syria have embarked on secret discussions for the stabilization of their borders in southern Syria by restoring the status quo ante that reigned on the Golan prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

 

This is reported exclusively by debkafile from intelligence, Washington and Moscow sources.

 

The incoming Trump administration in Washington and Russian President Vladimir Putin are in the picture; so is the United Arab Emirates ruler, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

 

Although still at a preliminary stage, the talks have produced their first tangible result: A vanguard of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has arrived on the Syrian side of the Golan. It has taken up position at its former Fawwar Camp base 4km east of Quneitra, which it evacuated during the Syrian fighting. The main body of the force, around 1,000 UN soldiers and 70 observers, is expected soon, to take up the task of reconstituting the former demilitarized zone that separated Israel and Syria under the 1974 armistice agreement.

 

This DMZ runs 80km along the Hermon range up to the Lebanese border in the north and down to the Israel-Syrian-Jordanian triangle in southern Syria up to the Jordanian border. In the 25km long Golan strip, between half a kilometer and 10 deep, the IDF and Syrian army were originally limited as to the number of soldiers and types of weaponry they are allowed to maintain. The strip will revert to Syrian civil administration under UNDOF control, and the Israeli-Syrian border crossing point will be reopened in the Quneitra area under the joint supervision of UN, Israeli and Syrian officers.

 

The military arrangements are still in discussion and changes may be introduced to this format.

 

The main obstacle to the return of pre-Syrian war conditions to this sensitive border region is the presence of radical Syrian rebel forces in southern Syria, mainly the Khalid bin Walid Army, whose leaders have sworn allegiance to Islamic State commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

 

These forces will face the option of accepting the authority of the Syrian army or fighting a win-or-die battle.

 

Israel has an additional, compelling interest in restoring the disengagement zone with Syria in that it leaves no room for the grab for a military presence opposite Israeli Golan and Galilee that was made in recent months by Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hizballah, for the purpose of opening a new front for terrorist attacks against Israel - as debkafile was first to reveal. .

 

An indirect clue to the secret diplomatic talks ongoing came from the Syrian ruler Bashar Assad in an interview he gave on Nov. 16 to a Portuguese radio station, when he said: "If -if - he [Trump] fights the terrorists, it is clear that we will be a natural ally, together with the Russians, Iranians and many other countries who want to defeat the terrorists."

 

The parties with varying degrees of involvement in the restoration of the UN-controlled DMZ on the Golan border are, therefore, the incoming Trump administration, Moscow, Damascus, Amman, Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem. Russia, Jordan and the Emirates have gained relevance for the first time as a result of changes in the strategic balance engendered by the Syrian war. 

 

 New Sheriff in town - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

We are seeing the impact of the new leadership. One significant event is President-Elect Donald Trump's off the record meeting with mainstream television network media moguls. The New York Post broke the insider story depicting how Trump used the time to dress down the media, quoting an unnamed source saying "The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead got a Trump-style dressing-down...Trump kept saying, "We're in a room of liars, the deceitful, dishonest media who got it all wrong." Since the meeting was off the record, Trump proved once again their dishonesty.

 

As someone who has been a media advisor to politicians, chief executive officers and celebrities most of my adult life, I can say with certainty that it took a lot of nerve to gather all the big on-air talent into a room and call them liars. A lot of people said this was a bad move, but it is the kind of leadership that we may grow to expect from Trump. It's time to shake things up and there is a new sheriff in town who is doing just that. One of the attributes of President Ronald Reagan was his directness. While he was far more gracious in disagreement than Trump, one always knew where Reagan stood. Trump appears to be that and more. The fact is that the TV execs know they lied. Trump knows it. And we know it.

 

Another indicator of new leadership is a little reported event that happened last week. Ford CEO Mark Fields called Trump to tell him that Ford Motor Company was staying in the US rather than moving a plant to Mexico. Of course, the media reported that Trump was wrong all along that Ford didn't intend to move at all. This is an example of how the media twists things. But Ford and its jobs are staying here and it appears Trump's election had something to do with it. In fact, business in general is improved already. Saying they are moving from an interest rate-driven market to an earnings-driven market, US stocks have been on an upward swing since Trump's election, setting an all time record high Tuesday.

 

Meantime, the globalist at the United Nations, for example, are crying the blues because their agenda of resettling the world population to make all nations the same is being met with a hard push back. Antonio Guterres, the incoming UN Secretary General, said that many people are rejecting globalism. He says people in developed nations are rejecting refugees because their jobs have been lost to cheap labor. Guterres said, "So globalization has not been as successful as we had hoped." When you think about it, we have had globalist presidents since 1988. It didn't work out so well for us. Maybe the new Sheriff in town will shake things up more than we thought. Proverbs 29:2 says, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice." Let us pray for righteous leadership.

 

 

 Heaven's Post-election Priorities - Terry James - http://raptureready.com/rap16.html

 

News pundits are pontificating in every direction about what President-Elect Donald J. Trump's priorities will be come January 20, 2017.

 

We are told about building the wall on our southern border. There is much talk about repealing and replacing Obamacare. We hear about the new president's intention to power up the faded U.S. military and to do away with many of the executive orders that he believes have helped bring the American economy and social structure to an unacceptable status.

 

The new president's priorities are, of course, important. We welcome new direction as we sense reprieve from the God of Heaven this election has brought. The prayers of God's people, as I've pointed out previously has, I believe, helped win that reprieve from what seemed impending judgment.

 

Perhaps correction would be the most appropriate term. God's people prayed that God would hear from Heaven and would put the nation on a course correction.

 

This, He seemingly has done.

 

He intervened a century ago to make a profound course correction following the raucous Gay Nineties and the debauched era following World War I termed the Roaring Twenties.

 

Writer John Steinbeck captured this corrective era in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath. And, it was indeed an era when the crops of corrective judgment, whose seeds of refusing to follow the God-designed course for America had been planted more than a decade earlier, came to fruition.

 

Again, the tremendous Dust Bowl of the 1930s, I'm convinced, was a corrective easure while God prepared the American people for the Second World War-a conflict God didn't cause, but certainly used to temper and harden this nation to make it ready to meet its destiny.

 

That destiny was primarily to bring modern Israel to birth on May 14, 1948. Also, to spread the gospel to the world through advancing communications technologies. The United States was blessed, economically, from that point, making it the wealthiest and most technologically advanced nation that has ever existed.

 

So, while Mr. Trump's political agenda is important, even critical, to achieving worthy, laudable goals in turning America in the right direction, Heaven's priorities are truly the matters for which God's reprieve have been so mercifully given.

 

Of course, the Church (all born-again believers) should take this reprieve as a mandate to recapture moral ground--to roll back some of the social evils the Obama administration has brought forth--most through executive fiat. It is that very Church which has, in my estimation, allowed this slide toward the moral abyss through her acquiescence.

 

However, that said, I am convinced that the same two major issues are involved in this God-given reprieve.

 

Heaven's post-election priorities again involve 1) seeing to it that the gospel message is carried forth throughout the world; and 2) that the nation Israel continues to have the most powerful nation on the planet as an ally and protector.

 

It is beyond argument that God doesn't need the United States to protect Israel. But, it is also beyond argument--to my way of thinking, at least--that the Lord has used America to act first as midwife in birthing Israel into modernity and then to act as guardian during decades since that rebirth. The Lord of Heaven has chosen America for this specific function, it is likely, for as long as the planet remains in the pre-Tribulation era.

 

There will come a time when Israel will be under the wrathful hand of Antichrist and the rest of the world. God will intervene directly at that time. Daniel the prophet, passing along the angel's words, puts it this way:

 

"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." (Dan 12: 1)

 

So, while we watch the unfolding of post-election aftermath, let us view things through the prism of Bible prophecy. We are not about to go into an era that offers prospect of the Church building Heaven on earth as the Kingdom-Now purveyors would have it. All is further stage-setting for the Rapture of the Church and the appearance of the son of perdition .

 

But, it is a reprieve from Heaven we are witnessing and living, so let's keep in mind Heaven's priorities.

 

The Great Commission is still the top priority. Bringing as many lost people as possible into God's family before the time of Tribulation is our post-election mandate.