MIDEAST UPDATE: 6.3.23 - WORLD AT WAR !!!!

 Israel Warns Iran Their Presence Will Not Be Tolerated As Syria Reports IDF Strikes Over Damascus – By TV7 - https://harbingersdaily.com/israel-warns-iran-their-presence-will-not-be-tolerated-as-syria-reports-idf-strikes-over-damascus/ Iranian and Hezbollah targets in the vicinity of Damascus came under attack. The regime-run SANA news agency reported that Israeli missiles appeared over the skies of the Syrian capital at 11:45 PM Sunday night. Citing a Syrian military source, state media said the strikes were launched from the direction of the “Israeli-occupied Golan Heights” had targeted several sites it did notidentify. “Our air defences confronted the aggressors’ missiles and downed some of them with only material losses,” said the military source. While authorities said no one was injured during the bombardment and only material damage was sustained at unspecified sites. The London-based Syrian Observatory for HumanRights, however, reported there were 5 Syrian casualties and extensive damage to Hezbollah and Iranian infrastructure. Iran’s proxy militias, led by Hezbollah, now control large areas of eastern, southern and northern Syria and in several suburbs around Damascus. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit neither confirmed or denied involvement in the latest attack – although Israeli officials have previously acknowledged mounting hundreds of attackson Iranian-linked targets in Syria from which the Islamic Republic and its proxies have tried to attack neighboring Israel over the last decade, repeatedly stating that Iran’s presence just over the northern frontier will not be tolerated. “There is a clear policy of preventing Iran from entrenching in Syria, from building an infrastructure that threatens Israel, a terrorist infrastructure that seeks to turnthe quiet Golan Heights border into a war-fighting border,” Security Cabinet Minister Israel Katz said while speaking to Army Radio. Iranian leaders have frequently threatened to annihilate the Jewish State. The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has never publicly acknowledged that Iranian forces operate on Syrian soil, claiming Tehran only has military advisors on theground to help battle insurgents in the civil war that has raged since 2011. Western intelligence sources say the Islamic Republic has stepped up aerial weapons shipments to its terrorist proxies, including Hezbollah, in attempts to evade IDF strikeson overland ground convoys amid Israel’s escalation to eliminate Iranian-linked targets inside Syria as part of the “shadow war” between the two arch-foes. Research centers for weapons development and munitions depots operated by IRGC have particularly been in the IDF’s crosshairs. Although many may simply view Israeli strikes in Syria as a regular occurrence in the region, Christians take particular notice when discussing military actions in the country’scapital. That is because Damascus, which is the longest continually inhabited city in the world, has its future end detailed in Scripture. Jack Hibbs, the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, after an Israeli strike near Damascus last year, explained the city’s Biblical significance. “For those of us who know our Bibles, it’s always an attention-getter whenever we hear about Damascus being involved in any form of warfare,” Hibbs described. “The book ofIsaiah chapter 17 tells us that there will be an utter and total devastation that comes to the city of Damascus.” Isaiah 17:1 reads, “The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” “With all that’s going on in the world right now, keep your eye on the news with your Bible open,” Pastor Hibbs underscored. “It may be that such an event will trigger eithera regional or world war…” According to Hibbs and many other Bible Prophecy students, Damascus’ future destruction may also be the catalyst for “the Ezekiel 38 battle,” in-which Russia, Iran, Turkey,and others come together from the north, with weaponry supplied by Russia, to attack the Jewish State. ------------------------------- 11 Signs That Global Conflict Could Soon Spiral Completely Out Of Control- by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/11-signs-that-global-conflict-could-soon-spiral-completely-out-of-control/ The world seems to be gripped by a really bad case of war fever. National leaders all over the globe are rattling their sabers, and that should deeply alarm all of us. Thelast time that there was a “world war”, tens of millions of people died. This time around, it could be hundreds of millions or even billions of people. Today, we literally possess the ability to destroy all of humanity. So a worldwide conflict in which nuclearweapons are used should be avoided at all costs, but unfortunately those that are running things seem absolutely determined to push us toward such a conflict anyway. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been so many alarming developments. The following are 11 signs that global conflict could soon spiral completely out of control… #1 Russia just signed a deal to deploy tactical nuclear weaponsto Belarus… The defense ministers of Russia and Belarus on Thursday signed a document on the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory, the state-run TASSnews agency reported, citing the Defense Ministry of Belarus. Russia will retain control over its non-strategic nuclear weapons stationed in neighboring Belarus, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a document-signing eventwith his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Khrenin in Minsk. “Russia will not transfer nuclear weapons to the Republic of Belarus: control over them and the decision to use them remains with the Russian side,” he said. #2 U.S. and Taiwanese officials have reportedly been talking aboutbringing Taiwan under the “nuclear umbrella” of the United States. Needless to say, such a move would make war with China much more likely… There seems to be a growing demand for a US ‘nuclear umbrella’ in Taiwan amid increasing belligerence by China in the Asia Pacific region. The desire for such a ‘nuclear umbrella’ against a potential invasion by China – which is already provided to Japan and South Korea by the United States (US) – has reportedlyreceived support from defence experts in Taiwan. The US ‘nuclear umbrella’ will not see the deployment of atomic weapons in Taiwan, but will see the world’s ‘sole superpower’ respond in kind to a nuclear attack by Chinaduring an invasion of the island nation. #3 The Russians have just issued an arrest warrant for U.S. SenatorLindsey Graham… Russia’s Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine. In an edited video of his meeting on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was released by Zelenskyy’s office, Graham, a Republican from South Carolina,noted that “the Russians are dying” and described the U.S. military assistance to the country as “the best money we’ve ever spent.” #4 A senior Taliban commander is boasting that “we will conquerIran soon”… The Taliban threatened on Sunday that it could conquer Iran as tensions increase over water disputes between Afghanistan and Iran, leaving at least three people dead. In a video released by the Taliban, a senior commander in the terrorist organization running Afghanistan warned that the Taliban would fight the Islamic Republic’s RevolutionaryGuard “with more passion” than they fought the US forces. He added that the Taliban “will conquer Iran soon if the Taliban’s leaders give the green light. #5 Israel has doubled the number of attacks on Iranian targetsinside Syrian territory in recent months… Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday said that he has “doubled the attacks on Iran in Syria” during his several months in office. Gallant also revealed Tehran’s secret sea war against Israel, presenting new photographic evidence of five different ships it is using to establish another front against theJewish state. #6 Hezbollah just conducted major military exercises very closeto the border with Israel… The military exercise was unusual not only because it was made public — nearly 400 people attended, including Hezbollah supporters and several journalists — but also becauseit was conducted only 12 miles north of the Israeli border, just outside an area where militias are not allowed to operate under a UN Security Council resolution adopted in 2006. #7 Most Americans don’t realize this, but U.S. troops will soonbe deployed in Peru… Unbeknown, it seems, to most people in Peru and the US (considering the paucity of media coverage in both countries), US military personnel will soon be landing in Peru. Theplenary session of Peru’s Congress last Thursday (May 18) authorised the entry of US troops onto Peruvian soil with the ostensible purpose of carrying out “cooperation activities” with Peru’s armed forces and national police. #8 Violent clashes in Kosovo have resulted in more than two dozenNATO troops being injured… NATO-led troops and police clashed with protesters in Northern Kosovo Monday amid an ongoing standoff between ethnic Albanian authorities and local ethnic Serbs who ignoredwarnings not to seize municipality buildings. The violence comes after Kosovo’s police raided Serb-dominated areas in the region’s north and seized local municipality buildings over the weekend. The demonstrations haveled to injuries on both sides, which more than two dozen NATO troops injured. #9 The U.S. military is building a brand new base in northernSyria. Apparently the U.S. occupation of large portions of Syrian territory is not going to end any time soon… The US-led anti-ISIS coalition is building a new military base in Syria’s northern province of Raqqa, The New Arab reported, citing a source close to the Kurdish-led SyrianDemocratic Forces (SDF). The US backs the SDF and keeps about 900 troops (officially at least) in eastern Syria, allowing the US to control about one-third of Syria’s territory. The report said thereare currently about 24 US-led military sites spread throughout eastern Syria. #10 North Korea is claiming that the U.S. and South Korea havejust conducted an “invasion rehearsal”… The South Korean and U.S. militaries conducted large live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate whatit calls an invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. The drills, the first of five rounds of live-fire exercises through mid-June, mark 70 years since the establishment of the military alliance between Seoul and Washington.North Korea typically reacts to such major South Korean-U.S. exercises with missile and other weapons tests. #11 Due to “security concerns”, dozens of “satellite phones foremergency communication” are being issued to members of the U.S. Senate… Amid growing concerns of security risks to members of Congress, over 50 senators have been issued satellite phones for emergency communication, people familiar with the measurestold CBS News. The devices are part of a series of new security measures being offered to senators by the Senate Sergeant at Arms, who took over shortly after the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The satellite phone technology has been offered to all 100 senators. CBS News has learned at least 50 have accepted the phones, which Senate administrative staff recommendsenators keep in close proximity during their travels. We have never seen such a dramatic measure ever be taken before. Are they preparing for something? I wish that I knew. But what I do know is that we are certainly living during a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and it definitely isn’t going to take much to push us over a line that willnever be able to be uncrossed. But for now, most people in the western world simply are not paying attention to what is going on. Most of them just assume that our leaders are wise, competent and will be able to keep us out of any sort of nuclear conflict. -------------------------------------