WORLD AT WAR: 7.27.19 - War Drums - Hezbollah Deploys Forces Along Israel's Northern Border

War Drums - Hezbollah Deploys Forces Along Israel's Northern Border - http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3346

 

Hezbollah is reportedly deploying its forces on the Lebanon-Israel border, The Daily Beast reported over the weekend, linking the move by the Iranian-backed Shi'ite terrorist group to the rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.

 

According to the report, while the majority of the deployment has taken place on the Lebanon-Israel border, Hezbollah has also bolstered its forces in the Syrian Golan Heights.

 

A Hezbollah commander The Daily Beast identified only as "Samir" said the group was feeling the bite of the sanctions the United States has imposed on Iran, which he said have cut into Hezbollah's budget. The salaries of Hezbollah fighters have been cut in half, according to the report.

 

Hezbollah is "ready to initiate hostilities--if and when Tehran deems that necessary," said Samir. "The sanctions now have us preparing for dealing with the Israeli front. ... We will fire the first shot this time," he said.

 

He further boasted that Hezbollah has new drone capabilities and new anti-aircraft and anti-naval weapons acquired in Syria, alongside a more seasoned fighting force. He emphasized the importance of the Lebanese terrorist group's positions in the Syrian Golan, which he said give it the ability to open a second front against Israel

 

According to the report, Samir is in charge of 800 fighters on Lebanon's border with Israel.

 

Israeli military intelligence pegs Hezbollah's missile arsenal at 150,000, and estimates that all of Israel is within their range.

 

"Our wish before the war in Syria was to go and open a front in the Golan but [the Syrian government] set a red line," said Samir, referring to the limitations Syrian President Bashar Assad imposed on Hezbollah's activities in Syria prior to the onset of the 2011 civil war.

 

"Now there are no red lines," he said.

 

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz commented on the report, saying that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah "knows well that any threat to Israel will meet a forceful response. He has to understand that this time, he won't be able to make it back to the bunker."

 

Nasrallah has been in hiding since the 2006 Second Lebanon War and is believed to be living in a bunker from which he rarely emerges.

 

In a speech last Friday marking the 13th anniversary of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah boasted of the terrorist organization's expanded military capabilities and threatened that another war would "bring Israel to the brink of extinction."

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Sunday by threatening to deal Lebanon and Hezbollah "a crushing military blow" if Hezbollah attacks.  

 

The Hamas-Iran Plan to Eliminate Israel - by Bassam Tawil - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14575/hamas-iran-eliminate-israel   "There are Jews everywhere. We must attack every Jew on planet Earth! We must slaughter and kill them, with Allah's help. We will lacerate and tear them to pieces." - Fathi Hammad, Hamas senior leader, at a rally near the Gaza-Israel border, July 14, 2019.   Haniyeh's statements coincided with a visit to Iran by a senior Hamas delegation. Headed by the Palestinian arch-terrorist Saleh Arouri, the delegation will spend a few days in Tehran for talks with Iranian leaders on ways of strengthening relations between the two sides.   If the Hamas arch-terrorist succeeds in his mission to secure more funding from Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip will most likely ratchet up their terror activities against Israel. The most effective way to stop Hamas from carrying out its plan to "slaughter" every Jew is by increasing international sanctions and other means of pressure on Iran -- before it is too late.   Has Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that rules the Gaza Strip, finally accepted the two-state solution and abandoned its objective to destroy Israel?   The headlines in some Arab media outlets on July 20 created the impression that Hamas has changed its policy and is no longer seeking the annihilation of Israel. More remarkably, the headlines made it seem as if Hamas were presenting a new plan for peace with Israel.   Quoting statements by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, several Arab media organizations ran headlines implying that the terror group now favors the two-state solution. "Hamas does not oppose the establishment of a [Palestinian] state on the 1967 borders," the headlines shouted.   Haniyeh reportedly made his statements during a video conference interview with Turkish journalists in Istanbul. The interview was organized by a group called the Palestinian Forum for Communication and Media, which describes itself as an "independent media organization aiming to enhance coordination between Arab and international media organizations to support the Palestinian cause."   Although the initial impression created by Haniyeh's statements suggest a dramatic shift in Hamas's policy - from seeking the destruction of Israel to accepting the two-state solution - it quickly becomes clear from reading the rest of his remarks that there is no change in the terror group's strategy or ideology.   Haniyeh carefully clarified that accepting a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 "borders" does not mean that Hamas would recognize Israel's right to exist. "Hamas is not opposed to the establishment of a state on the 1967 borders, but insists on not recognizing the Israeli occupation of the rest of the Palestinian territories," the Hamas leader is quoted as telling the Turkish journalists.   Haniyeh, to his credit, was more honest that the editors who chose the misleading headlines suggesting that Hamas has accepted the two-state solution.   Listen closely to what Haniyeh was really saying: "If we are offered a Palestinian state next to Israel, we will not say no. While we will take whatever Israel gives us, we will never recognize its right to exist. We will use the state as a launching pad to liberate all Palestine, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River."   Haniyeh's remarks are nothing but a smokescreen, intended, it seems, to deceive the world into thinking that his terror group has softened its position towards Israel and Jews.   Yet, the Hamas leader was quite clear about the terror group's stance. He even went as far as assuring the Turkish journalists that his movement will never abandon the "armed struggle" against Israel. "We often resort to peaceful and popular resistance [against Israel]," Haniyeh said. "This does not mean, however, that we have given up our armed resistance against Israel."   For Haniyeh, the weekly demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel border, which are being held in the context of the Hamas-sponsored "Great March of Return," as "peaceful" and "popular" acts of "resistance." The protests, which began in March 2018, are anything but "peaceful" and "popular."   In the Hamas lexicon, launching rocks and arson kites at Israeli farms and villages near the border with the Gaza Strip is defined as "peaceful resistance."   Although the organizers of the protests have been publicly calling on participants to preserve the "peacefulness" of their weekly demonstrations, Palestinians have repeatedly attempted to infiltrate into Israel by knocking down the security fence along the border or hurling firebombs and explosive devices at Israeli soldiers. They are probably doing that because they do not listen to what their leaders tell them, or because they have lost faith in their leaders and believe that violence is the only way to extract concessions from Israel.   Last Friday, the protests were held under the banner of "The Friday of burning the Zionist flag." The demonstrators not only burned Israeli flags; they also clashed with Israeli soldiers. Reports from the Gaza Strip said that more than 70 Palestinians were injured during the clashes.   In addition, since the beginning of the protests in March 2018, more than 260 Palestinians have been killed, and thousands injured. The number of Palestinians taking part in the Friday protests finally appears to be declining: many Gazans have apparently reached the conclusion that their leaders are using them to advance their own interests. Since the marches started, Palestinians have seen no improvement in their living conditions.   If you follow Hamas's logic, it is only a matter of time before the organization declares that firing rockets again and kidnapping Israeli villagers are also "peaceful" and "popular" means of "resistance." The mainstream media in the West will doubtless continue dutifully to rewrite its definitions.   Hamas's true intentions were expressed by one of its senior leaders, Fathi Hammad. During a rally near the Gaza-Israel border, he recently said: "There are Jews everywhere. We must attack every Jew on planet Earth! We must slaughter and kill them, with Allah's help. We will lacerate and tear them to pieces." He also urged Palestinians to purchase "five-shekel knives" and "cut the necks of Jews."   Haniyeh's statements coincided with a visit to Iran by a senior Hamas delegation. Headed by the Palestinian arch-terrorist Saleh Arouri, the delegation will spend a few days in Tehran for talks with Iranian leaders on ways of strengthening relations between the two sides.   In November 2018, the US Department of State offered a five million dollar reward for information about Arouri, who serves as deputy head of Hamas's "political bureau."   Saleh Arouri's covert operational activities, including the handling of Hamas terrorist squads, are mainly carried out in Lebanon and Turkey," according to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. "In Lebanon, where he lives today, he operates under the sponsorship of Hezbollah with no interference from the Lebanese government, while in Turkey the authorities ignore his activities and those of Hamas."   Arouri is one of the founders of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin al-Qassam Brigades, and is responsible for several bloody terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, including the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank.   Notably, Arouri is not travelling to Tehran to discuss with Iranian leaders ways to improve the living conditions of Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. He is wholly preoccupied with how to acquire more weapons and money for killing Jews. It is no coincidence that Hamas chose a commander of its armed wing to head the delegation to Iran. He is going to Tehran to request weapons and funding for terror activities, his special expertise.   The Iranian leaders, for their part, are not about to offer Arouri and his friends cash to construct hospitals and schools in the Gaza Strip. Iran will ensure that its money is earmarked for building more terror tunnels along the Gaza-Israel border and manufacturing rockets that will be used to attack Israel.   Iran's leaders never tire of reminding everyone of their desire to annihilate Israel. The most recent threat came from a senior Iranian lawmaker, Mojtaba Zolnour, chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. "If the US attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel's lifespan," he said.   In another threat earlier this year, the second-in-command of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that Iran will obliterate Israel if it starts a war, and the Israelis will not even be able to bury their dead. "Our strategy is [to wipe] Israel [off] the world's political geography and Israel seems to be approaching this reality by its mischiefs," Brigadier General Hossein Salami told reporters in Tehran. If Israel "does anything that leads to a new war, certainly it will be [the kind of war] that will result in their elimination, and the occupied territories will be retaken. Israelis won't even have a cemetery in Palestine to bury their corpses."   In welcoming the Hamas delegation, the leaders of Iran seem to know something that is hidden by misleading headlines: that Hamas remains committed to its goal of destroying Israel.   The Iranian leaders know that Arouri, with his proven record of terrorism and his hands dripping with Jewish blood, is someone Tehran can do business with. Hamas is desperate for cash and weapons. It needs these resources not because it is ready to accept the two-state solution, but in order to prepare for the next war with Israel. It seems that Arouri is seeking to affirm to his Tehran cash-cow that Hamas is still very much on the same page as they are: eliminating Israel and replacing it with an Iranian-backed terror state.   If the Hamas arch-terrorist succeeds in his mission to secure more funding from Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip will most likely ratchet up their terror activities against Israel. The most effective way to stop Hamas from carrying out its plan to "slaughter" every Jew is by increasing international sanctions and other means of pressure on Iran -- before it is too late.   Sweden Has Become a War Zone - Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/   The nation of Sweden is in my view one of the craziest places on planet Earth. Muslim immigrants have caused crime rates to soar to record levels, and the Swedish government and the news media are totally incapable of dealing with the marauding Muslims. Their ineptitude is so bad they don't even recognize the problem.   Late last year, immigrants went on a rampage, setting dozens of cars on fire. The damage to the vehicles was in the tens of millions of dollars. The event got very little coverage by the Swedish national and international press. Within a few days, it was like the attack had never happened.   Swedish author Bj�rn Ranelid recently warned that the level of crime and violence the previously sedate country is experiencing amounts to a "small scale war."   "Sweden is at war and it is the politicians who are responsible. Five nights in a row, cars have been set on fire in the university town of Lund. Such insane acts have occurred on hundreds of occasions in various places in Sweden over the past fifteen years. From 1955 to 1985, not a single car was ignited in Malm�, Gothenburg, Stockholm or Lund.... None of these criminals are starving or lacking in access to clean water. They have a roof over their heads and they have been offered free schooling.... They do not live in dilapidated houses.... It is called upbringing and this is missing for thousands of girls and boys in Swedish homes today." - Bj�rn Ranelid, Swedish author, Expressen, July 5, 2019.   The CEO of Volvo recently stated that the company is considering moving its headquarters out of Sweden, partly due to a rise in violent crime. H�kan Samuelsson told a conference that the car maker was losing its appeal to foreign experts and engineers and further explained his concerns during an interview with SVD N�ringsliv.   "We are building cars, we cannot solve the other problems, someone else must do that," the CEO said, adding that it is becoming more difficult to attract workers due to Sweden's worsening reputation.   "It's definitely not helping when people read about the shootings in Gothenburg and wonder if they really dare to move to Gothenburg," said Samuelsson.   He said if "the situation" does not improve, the company may even have to consider leaving Sweden at some future date.   Notice that Samuelsson didn't mention what was causing him to contemplate moving his whole company to another nation. He didn't say the M word because you can't link the followers of the Koran with any type of crime problem.   The Chief of Police in Gothenburg County, Erik Nord, denied there was a problem, accusing Samuelsson of getting misinformation from social media. Chief Nord is a self-deluded liar. Some of his units are under so much attack from Muslim youth, there are some areas of the city they don't dare go into. When they do have a presence in Muslim zones, their buildings have to be built like bunkers.   In 2017, a Swedish police report ("Vulnerable Areas 2017") showed that there are 61 such areas - also known as no-go zones - in Sweden. They encompass 200 criminal networks, consisting of an estimated 5,000 criminals. Most of the inhabitants are non-Western immigrants and their descendants.   The Swedish National Forensic Centre estimated that, since 2012, the number of shootings classified as murder or attempted murder had increased by almost 100 percent.   In 2018, Sweden experienced a record number of lethal shootings, 306 in all. Forty-five people were killed and 135 injured nationwide.   It would be bad enough that these Muslim immigrants are armed with atomic weapons. They also make bombs to blow things up. It is just unreal to have them using explosives to cause mayhem, and the authorities just shrugged it off. They sighted crazy excuses like: It's because "young people are unemployed or "these are young people who have not found their place in society."   If you are wondering how people can work in this madness, I found a guideline issued by the city of Malm� municipal workers. Under the heading, "Personal safety - tips and advice on how to avoid getting into unwanted situations," the municipality advises its employees to "Plan your itinerary - know your area...try to minimize the time from when you park your bike/car until you enter [the destination]."   In the book of Isaiah, God warns that the day will come when he will use children to oppress society. I think the prediction is a perfect explanation for why we have young people turning places like Sweden into a war zone.   "And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them" (Isaiah 3:4).   "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths" (Isaiah 3:12).

 

Things are heating up between Israel and Hezbollah in the Golan - By Anna Ahronheim -

https://www.jpost.com/printarticle.aspx?id=596808

 

It's been a hot summer in the Golan. And it's not only the weather.

 

The past week alone saw two deadly attacks against Iranian proxies in southern Syria attributed to Israel. Earlier this week an explosion killed Hezbollah operative Mashour Zidan in southern Syria and a few days later a rocket struck the strategic Tel Haraa site not far from where Zidan was killed.

 

Israel has remained mum on the attacks, but the Jewish State has made it clear that it won't accept Hezbollah's growing presence in the Syrian Golan.

 

But Assad, along with Iranian backed troops, retook the Golan last summer, so what's changed?

 

According to Philip Smyth, the Soref Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the buildup of local forces by Iran and Hezbollah is a major aspect that has been overlooked.

 

"Hezbollah doesn't want to have to execute an entire war on its own in southern Syria. It's much easier to apply plausible deniability and harder to bust a Hezbollah cell if they are locals," he told The Jerusalem Post, adding that they have taken a slightly different approach and being very pragmatic in terms of who they recruit.

 

Zidan, a Druze resident from the village of Hadar, is believed to have been a senior Hezbollah operative responsible for recruiting volunteers from villages near the border with Israel as part of Hezbollah's Golan File.

 

Senior intelligence officers in the IDF's Northern Command said that Hezbollah's Golan Project began last summer following the reconquering of the Syrian Golan by regime troops. Operatives involved in the clandestine file have weaponry available from the civil war and if needed, will receive additional weaponry from Lebanon or existing arsenals kept by Hezbollah and Iran.

 

"Hezbollah knows that Israel is watching, so they are being much more covert than in the past," Smyth said, adding that they are using more local forces rather than sending brigades of Lebanese fighters to the area.

 

Military success in Syria has also allowed Hezbollah to redeploy senior operatives and troops to the area as well as southern Lebanon. The group's leader Hassan Nasrallah has said as much himself in a speech in mid-July.

 

"We are present in every area that we used to be. We are still there, but we don't need to be there in large numbers as long as there is no practical need," he said, adding that "if there was a need to return, all those who were there would go back."

 

According to David Daoud, a research analyst on Hezbollah and Lebanon at United Against Nuclear Iran, the uptick in Israeli strikes in the area is because "there has been increased Hezbollah presence."

 

In mid-March US President Donald Trump announced the formal recognition of the Golan as sovereign Israeli territory, handing Hezbollah a present for their recruitment in the area.

 

"Recognition of the Golan creates common ground for different factions to agree upon - the same applies to the embassy move, and the 'deal of the century," Daoud said, adding that "Different regional groups or axes that might not otherwise agree now have something in common."

 

Smyth told The Post that while "Trump's statement has sent some signals to Iran," Tehran has "upped the ante because of the situation on the ground, not because of Trump's statement. They know that their goals will outlast the Trump administration. But if it rallies the troops, they will use it. They are very pragmatic."

 

While the "Iranians have been following the same program in southern Syria for years, now they're trying to secure and resecure their gains," Smyth said. "There's a lot more opportunity, it's a net gain no matter how you look at it."

 

The attack on Tel Haara on Wednesday was not the first.

 

The site has been used by the Syrian army for years to observe Israeli movement, and since the Assad regime re-took the area from rebels last summer, there have been several strikes on the site blamed on Israel.

 

While the base, which has electronic surveillance capabilities, was supposed to be manned solely by regime troops, pro-Iranian militias including Hezbollah are known to be stationed in it.

 

According to Smyth, Hezbollah and Iran "have been at the forefront of using electronic means to counter their foes, its existed for decades and it wouldn't shock me if they were testing the waters there."

 

The opportunity was there for the taking.

 

The retaking of the Syrian Golan by Assad also forced Israel to end Operation Good Neighbor, where Israel provided humanitarian and, according to foreign reports, military aid to rebels in the Syrian Golan.

 

Israel also treated thousands of Syrians who arrived at the border,both combatants and civilians. According to officials some 70% of the wounded treated by Israel were men of fighting age while the other 30% were women and children.

 

A year later, "times have changed," Smyth told the Post. "Not everyone has switched over but if your stuck in Syria and you have no options...and you can't run into Israel...you have to back the strongest horse."

 

And that's Hezbollah.

 

 

 

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