ISRAEL AT WAR: 11.4.23 - PT 2 - Iranian Proxies Are Starting To Join The War

 Iranian Proxies Are Starting To Join The War, And That Is Really Bad News- by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/iranian-proxies-are-starting-to-join-the-war-and-that-is-really-bad-news/ It is beginning to happen. We have been told that a worst case scenario for the war in the Middle East would be for Iranian proxies to join the war followed by Iran itself. Thatsort of escalation could lead to an apocalyptic conflict that spirals completely out of control, and so great efforts have been made to try to keep the rest of the “Axis of Resistance” on the sidelines. Unfortunately, those efforts appear to have failed, andthat is really bad news. On Tuesday, it was being reported that the IDF and Hamas were engaged in “fierce battles” deep inside Gaza… Israel today said it has killed ‘dozens’ of Hamas terrorists during ‘fierce’ fighting ‘deep’ inside Gaza with video showing soldiers scouring the streets for the gunmen amidraging battles. Israeli troops attacked Hamas positions within the terrorists’ vast tunnel network in a bid to free hostages trapped there – a key objective for Israel as it expands groundoperations inside Gaza to wipe out Hamas following its gun rampage three weeks ago that killed over 1,400 people. In the fifth day of major ground operations inside northern Gaza, the army said it had engaged in ‘fierce battles’ with Hamas terrorists, with footage showing columns of tanksand soldiers advancing further into the besieged enclave. IDF forces have reached “the outskirts of Gaza City” and are steadily surrounding it on all sides. But Israel is not in a rush. The Israelis are going to take things one step at a time, because they want to minimize civilian casualties as well as their own losses… The gradual progress of the present campaign is intended to avoid pitched fighting in built-up areas, while troops are wary of approaching the vast network of secret subterraneantunnels in which Hamas hides. The go-slow tactics may succeed in limiting Israeli military losses and potentially civilian deaths, yet risk prolonging a war. I think that a methodical approach makes a lot of sense. Hamas has spent many years preparing their tunnels, and so it is wise to use caution. As fighting rages in Gaza, Iran is warning that their proxies “won’t stay silent”… Iran today boasted its powerful proxies ‘won’t stay silent’ and hinted the fighting between Israel and Hamas could engulf the Middle East after the Tehran-backed Huthi rebelsfired drones into the Jewish state from Yemen. The Huthis, who seized Yemen’s capital Sanaa in 2014 and control large swathes of the country, said they fired a series of drones towards the Red Sea city of Eilat this morningin retaliation to Israel’s war against Hamas. Personally, I don’t think that the Houthis represent too much of a threat. First of all, they have their own war to worry about. Secondly, any rockets that they can fire toward Israel shouldn’t be too much of a threat. Thirdly, they simply aren’t capable of transporting large numbers of troops to areas where they could engage Israel. But even though they will not be a major player in this war, the Houthis have apparently decided to officially join it anyway… Yemen’s Houthi rebels have entered the war with Israel after it launched drones and missiles at the south of the country earlier today. The Houthis are part of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” and have rallied behind Hamas since the October 7 attacks. They have been at war with Yemen’s internationally recognisedgovernment since 2014 and control the capital city of Sana’a. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group launched a “large number” of missiles and drones toward Israel and that it would continue to attack “to help the Palestiniansto victory”. Meanwhile, Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria continue to attack U.S. troops. In fact, it is being reported that U.S. forces have now come under fire for the 25th time since October 7th… U.S. forces deployed to the Middle East have been targeted for the 25th time since the Hamas attack on Israel October 7, amid fears of a widening conflict. The attack came as two armed drones targeted the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq, which U.S. and international forces use in western Iraq to go after remnants of ISIS. The American people might not realize it yet, but we are already at war in the Middle East. Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria are constantly targeting our troops, and they aren’t going to stop. Of course when it comes to Iranian proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon is the big dog, and everyone is watching to see what they will do… Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, has found itself in an awkward position since its ally Hamas launched a deadly, surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Now, after yearsof spoiling for a fight with Israel, Hezbollah is torn between maintaining its credibility as a defender of the Palestinians, and its hesitation to get involved in a full-scale war. I’ll tell you the number one reason why Hezbollah is hesitating. They don’t want to get nuked. If Hezbollah started firing thousands of missiles at Israel and attempted to launch a full-blown invasion from the north, there is a very good chance that the Israelis woulduse nuclear weapons. But at some point the pressure to join the conflict will likely become just too great, and that will especially be true once it becomes clear that Hamas is on the verge ofbeing wiped out… A Lebanese official who speaks with Hezbollah said the militants have said their red line for intervention is the destruction of Hamas, and that they will enter the war ifthe group is on its last legs. But Israel’s stated goal is the destruction of Hamas. Hezbollah is not going to just sit there and watch the IDF achieve total victory over Hamas. That just isn’t going to happen. Of course Hezbollah has already been engaging the IDF on a regular basis along Israel’s northern border. In fact, Hezbollah is claiming that they just destroyed an Israelitank… Hezbollah has announced an Attack today on Israeli Forces along the Border with Southern Lebanon, which is claimed to have resulted in the Targeting and Destruction of a MerkavaMark lll or lV Main Battle Tank. We are so close to a major regional war. The worse that things get for Hamas, the more enraged the Iranians and their proxies will become. By the time this thing is over, I believe that the entire world will be completely and utterly shocked by what happens. --------------------------------- The Road to Another Holocaust Is Being Paved With Wokeness And Apathy – By Olivier Melnick - https://harbingersdaily.com/the-road-to-another-holocaust-is-being-paved-with-wokeness-and-apathy/ At the end of World War II, the world was in shock as it had discovered the horrors of the Holocaust that had come from one of the most educated countries on the planet. Dependingon how one looks at it, the Holocaust took place ONLY eighty years ago or ALREADY eighty years ago. Within the scope of human history, it wasn’t a long time, but when we look at man’s lifespan, it helps us understand that almost all those who have gone throughthe horrors of the “Shoah” (catastrophe) and survived it are now gone, simply because of old age. Only a handful of firsthand survivors remain around us today, most of them in their nineties. Very soon, nobody will be able to hold someone’s hand and turn theirarm to discover the infamous tattoo of doom–the death number of the camps. The voices of the Shoah are fading away, while the voices of historical revisionism are shouting that the Holocaust was either grossly exaggerated or never happened. Its memoryis in the hands of family members of Holocaust victims. That is why I continue to tell the story of how my mother was hidden in the South of France after her father was taken by the Gestapo and sent to be murdered in Auschwitz. Some people realized early onthat the horrendous, organized genocide of the Jewish people had to be documented. One of these people was General Dwight Eisenhower. He understood the importance of documenting and remembering the Holocaust the minute that he walked inside the camp at Orhdruf. As he visited this sub-camp of Buchenwald withGenerals Bradley and Patton, he realized the magnitude of what he was witnessing. He immediately wrote a letter to the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George Marshall, in which he said: …The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring thecamp, I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another, had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leaveme a bit sick….I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to “propaganda.”
 As the story goes, General Patton had to excuse himself to go into a private corner and throw up at some point during the visit. Despite the commendable efforts made by Eisenhowerand others, the Holocaust increasingly runs the risk of being relegated into some obscure corner of history, even worse…Some will soon believe that it simply never happened. This is also why part of the process was for the US military to force as many Germansas possible to witness the horrors that had taken place around them. Perpetrators and bystanders alike were faced with the results of evil in their midst. General Eisenhower would be furious and probably disgusted by today’s younger generation. Their lack of interest and lack of knowledge of the Jewish catastrophe is helpingthose who wish to make it disappear from history. Some schools barely touch the subject for fear of hurting the feelings of other people groups. In the meantime, the Shoah is slowly being erased one person at a time, one memory at a time, one testimony ata time. Fast forward to October 7, 2023, when the world became a witness to the horrors of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. We now know that their attack was straight out ofthe Nazi playbook. Actually, it was more like a merging of Nazis and Isis on steroids. Most people have been unable to watch any of the gruesome footage gathered by the IDF. How are human beings able to perform such torture on people including very young childrenand the elderly? Moreover, how can anyone in their right mind even question that what Hamas did was inhuman and clearly belonged to the category of “crimes against humanity?” Queen Rania of Jordan has been questioning the beheading of Israeli children by Hamas in an interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN. Colleges and universities in the USAand other parts of the world have rallied against Israel and in favor of Hamas, putting many Jewish people at risk for their lives…in 2023. This is 1933 all over again! We have turned an important corner in modern antisemitism. The beast has been globallyunleashed, and it is on a brutal rampage for Jewish lives. To counter the irrational pushback from the media and other organizations or governments, Israeli authorities had an “Eisenhower moment.” They decided to show a group of journalistsa 43-minute compilation of the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7, so that they would not forget. It is so sad that such an event would even have to be held, but the world must know. As difficult as these images are to look at, we must not turn our headsaway, lest we become the new bystanders of the 21st century. If this is the new normal for Jewish people worldwide, then, we must adjust to it as well, and as believers, we must not be silent. Thousands of Hamas sympathizers have gatheredall over the globe to rally against Israel in the biggest display of double standard we have ever witnessed. The Jewish people need to know that there are Christians who are ready to commit to their rescue and safety. Where is the Church when pro-Hamas peopleare chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” or “Gas the Jews!” The world is being split in two as we see pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian factions take sides. To be sure, not all Palestinians side with Hamas. Many of them just want to livein peace, but the lines are being blurred by biased reporting and double standards. Add to that the fact that younger generations easily buy the lies about Israel because they have no clue about history. They are gullible victims of the propaganda spewers.Consider this: •63% of Millennials and Gen Z didn’t know that six million Jews died in the Holocaust. •48% of Millennials and Gen Z couldn’t name one single concentration camp. •56% of Millennials and Gen Z were unable to identify Auschwitz. •11% of Millennials and Gen Z believe that Jews caused the Holocaust. •49% of Millennials and Gen Z have seen Holocaust Denial on Social Networks. Israel needs you, the Jewish people need you, and now is not the time to sit on the fence! Ian Kershaw said “The Road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved with indifference,” to which I add, “The Road to another Holocaust is being rebuilt by hate but now pavedwith wokeness and apathy.” ------------------------------- The Truth About Palestine - By Jack Kinsella - https://www.raptureforums.com/jack-kinsella/palestine/ The land claimed by Israel is smaller than the state of Rhode Island. In comparison to the Arab Middle East, Israel is like a single piece of sod on a football field. Carrying the analogy further, imagine that one team has to defend that single piece of sod from an opposing team that outnumbers them 650 to 1. The other team, claiming unfair advantage, is demanding the single piece of sod be divided and half of it be awarded to them. The referees agree, and penalize the defending team for refusing to concede half of its 1/6th of one percent of the field to the opposition [that outnumbers them 650 to one].The crowd loudly boos the defenders. That is roughly analogous to the rules of engagement under which the Middle East conflict is being played out. The Arab side makes two concurrent claims; 1) Israel has no historical right to the land; and 2) Israel, by its existence, has dispossessed the indigenous Palestinian people,leaving them with nowhere to go. Except for a few decades of Christian control during the Crusades era, the land claimed by Israel was under Islamic control for 1300 years. This is one of the principle argumentsadvanced in favor of the Palestinian claim that Israel has no historical right to the Land of Promise. That argument is bolstered by the existence of an Arab mosque atop what the Jews claim as Temple Mount, a mosque that has graced Mount Moriah for some 1,350 years. According to modern Islam, the mosque atop Mount Moriah is the third-holiest site in Islam. Recently Islamic tradition says the al Aqsa Mosque marks the place where Mohammedascended into heaven aboard a winged horse. For that reason, it now ranks third in line behind Mecca and Medina as Islam’s holiest cities. In ancient times, Israel sat atop the most strategic crossroads of the known world. One couldn’t get from Babylon to Egypt by chariot without passing through it. Israel and Jerusalem have been fought over and conquered by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and finally, the British in 1917. In each of its conquests, Jerusalem was strategic because of its strategic value as Israel’s God-given capital. From Nebuchadnezzar to Titus, each successive conqueror acknowledgedJerusalem as the capital of the Jews. When the region was conquered by Islam, taking Jerusalem was a strategic, rather than religious necessity. Whoever controlled the Jewish holy city controlled the remainingindigenous Jews. The reconquest of Jerusalem became a holy religious duty only after the Crusaders claimed the city for Christianity. Since the city was holy to Judaism and holy to Christianity,it became holy to Islam, as well. But ‘holy’ doesn’t mean the same thing to Islam as it does to Christians and Jews. To Christians or Jews, ‘holy’ means worthy of reverence, whereas to Islam, ‘holy’ meansworthy of possession. Under Islamic possession, Jerusalem was just another dusty city of the province of Southern Syria. In the four hundred years Jerusalem was under Ottoman rule until 1917, thecity was never even a regional or provincial capital. After the Ottoman Empire fell to the Allies in the First World War, British foreign secretary Lord Balfour put into writing Britain’s support for “the establishment in Palestineof a national home for the Jewish people.” When the League of Nations made Palestine a British mandate after the war, Lord Balfour’s declaration was assumed as part of the deal and the allied powers of the Great Warall agreed. By 1935, there were more than 300,000 Jews in Palestine. Tel Aviv, founded in 1909, had 100,000 people. In 1947 Britain, which had been handed the Palestine problem by the now-defunct League of Nations passed it on, with relief, to the newly born United Nations. The UN agreedto partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a neutral UN zone containing Jerusalem, a city sacred to three religions. The Jews were thrilled, the Arabs adamantly opposed. In late 1947 the plan was ratified by the UN, and the State of Israel proclaimed on May 14, 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the country. The the British pulled out completely, and most of the Arab world- Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, as well as Palestinians- immediately attackedin an attempt to destroy Israel. By the time of armistice in 1949 Israel held three quarters of Palestine- twice as much land as the UN had proposed- Jordan had taken the land on the West Bank of the JordanRiver, and Egypt had taken the Gaza Strip. It is at this point in the story of the Middle East that history ends and the modern myth of the Middle East is born. Assessment The modern myth is that at the end of the Israeli War of Independence, the indigenous ‘Palestinian’ people were dispossessed by Israel and left with nothing. The historical fact is that, until the mid 1930’s, the term ‘Palestinian’ was a label applied to the Jews. Until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST; the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE; Bank Leumi was the ANGLO-PALESTINEBANK; the Israel Electric Company was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY; there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC. All these were Jewish organizations. In America, Zionist youngsters sang “PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE”, “PALESTINE SCOUT SONG” and “PALESTINE SPRING SONG” In general, the terms ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinian’ referred to the region of Palestine as it was prior to 1948. Thus “Palestinian Jew” and “Palestinian Arab” are straightforward expressions. “Palestine Post” and “Palestine Philharmonic” refer to these bodies as they existed in a placethen known as Palestine. The adoption of a Palestinian identity by the Arabs of Palestine is a recent phenomenon. Until the establishment of the State of Israel, and for another decade or so, theterm ‘Palestinian’ applied exclusively to the Jews. The claims of the Arab ‘Palestinians’ to be a separate people is an utter fiction. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. Therehas never been a land known as Palestine governed by Arab Palestinians. Arab Palestinians are indistinguishable from Jordanians (recent British inventions all), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Syria was created by the British and subsequently given to France as the French Mandate. The Syrians declared independence after the British left in 1946, two years beforeIsrael did the same thing. Jordan was created by the British in 1921. The same British government that created the modern Arab world in 1920 at the San Remo Conference in Italy — by decree — also created a Jewish homeland the same way at thesame conference. And the Jewish Palestine of the Balfour Declaration as confirmed at San Remo encompassed a much bigger chunk of ground than Israel claims today. Until the Jews renewed their claim to the land of Palestine, nobody else wanted it. The Jews petitioned for statehood on the principle that Palestine was “a land without apeople” and that the Jews were “a people without a land.” Arab revisionist historians say that claim was ‘a myth.’ History and mathematics tell a different story — if anybody were interested in the facts, that is. In 1948, there were about 735,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs in Palestine. There were about 716,000 Jews. Since the same land now supports a population of more than 12 millioncombined Arabs and Jews, the argument that the Arabs were ‘crowded out’ by the Jews makes no sense. The ‘Palestinian refugees’ languishing in ‘refugee camps’ in Jordan, Lebanon and elsewhere, were not interned by Israel. They were interned by their own governments afterthose governments lost the war with Israel. Those Jordanian citizens that lived in Jordan’s West Bank and the citizens of Egypt’s Gaza Strip (who, on May 30, 1967 were still Egyptians), became instant ‘Palestinians’ on June 7, 1967. From the moment of its declaration of statehood, the Jews of Israel have lived under the constant threat of annihilation by the surrounding Arab states. As Golda Meir observed during the Yom Kippur War, “the Arabs can fight, and lose, and come back to fight another day. Israel can only lose once.” What makes this significant is that NONE of this is a secret. Knowing this, the entire world prefers the fictional account advanced by the Islamic world; that the Palestinianspre-existed the Jews, that the Jews stole ‘Palestinian land’ dispossessed its inhabitants and locked them away in refugee camps. Remember the football field and the single square of sod analogy. To the world, dividing that single square of sod defended by a team outnumbered 650 to one that holds therest of the football field is an example of ‘leveling the playing field’. It is nothing short of madness. But it is a madness that seems to have infected the world at large. The Islamic version of the Arab-Israeli conflict is a monstrous lie beingadvanced in favor of a claim to land that nobody wanted until the Jews did. In the midst of a global war on terror, the world is prepared to countenance an openly terrorist government ruling over a ‘people’ that do not exist, (a people whose onlygoal is the ANNIHILATION of another people whose history is THE most documented record of ancient times) based on the argument that the Jewish claim to Jerusalem is historically invalid. That lie is so delusional that it boggles the mind. Yet it is the basic reason for a global war on terror that now threatens to spill over into an all-out war of civilizations. Israel, by its very existence, is a stench in the nostrils of the secular world. It is a constant reminder of the existence and reality of God, and therefore, man’s accountabilitybefore Him. Paul explains it this way: “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind…” (Romans 1:28) The secular world’s war against the Jews is unreasoning, blind anti-semitism so ingrained in its psyche it is blissfully unaware it even exists. Any critically-thinking person can see the truth, yet the UN consistently finds the ‘anti-truth’ when it involves Israel. It is almost supernatural in its scope and breadth.In fact, scratch ‘almost’ from that last sentence. It IS supernatural. ---------------------------- Is Hezbollah On The Verge Of Entering The War In The Middle East?- by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/is-hezbollah-on-the-verge-of-entering-the-war-in-the-middle-east/ There are all sorts of rumors floating around on social media that Hezbollah is about to join the war in the Middle East. In this article, I am going to go over what has beenconfirmed and what has not been confirmed. If Hezbollah chooses to enter the war, things are going to get really crazy. The terror organization has approximately 100,000 highly trained fighters, and it possesses well over 100,000 missiles. If thousands uponthousands of missiles start raining down on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, the response by the IDF will be overwhelmingly forceful. In other words, we could be about to witness a truly apocalyptic scenario play out right in front of our eyes. On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told the entire world that there will be �harsh consequences� if a ceasefire in Gaza does not happen immediately� Iran�s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian warned on Wednesday of �harsh consequences� if attacks continue on the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of warnings fromthe country, which backs Hamas in Gaza and militias elsewhere in the region. �If an immediate ceasefire doesn�t take place in Gaza Strip and the rapid attacks by U.S. and Zionist Regime continue then the consequences would be harsh,� he said in Ankara. So what would �harsh consequences� look like? That is a very good question. If the Iranians plan to take more direct action, one of the first things that is likely to happen is that Hezbollah will officially enter the war. Of course there has already been constant fighting along the northern border. Since October 7th, 47 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in clashes with the IDF� With dozens of Hezbollah fighters killed in three weeks of border clashes with Israel, the Lebanese group is working to stem its losses as it prepares for the possibilityof a drawn-out conflict, three sources familiar with its thinking said. The Iran-backed group has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon�s frontier since its Palestinian ally Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7 � about a fifth of thenumber killed in a full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006. But what we have seen so far is just small potatoes compared to what would happen if Hezbollah officially joins the war. What that happens, the entire world will know it because vast numbers of missiles will start raining down on Israel. In recent hours, I have seen all sorts of rumors on social media that Hezbollah has warned that it will join the war if the fighting in Gaza does not end by Friday. Here isjust one example� HEZBOLLAH & IRAN informed America that they have until Friday morning (before Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah�s speech) to end the aggression against Gaza, or else they will enterinto a direct and open war with the entire resistance axis and there will be no going back. I have not been able to find any confirmation of this rumor from any mainstream source. But it is true that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to give a major speech on Friday� Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is set to deliver a speech on Friday, his first public address since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. The speech is scheduled for 3 p.m. Israel time, during a ceremony to honor the �martyrs who died on the road to Jerusalem,� according to pro-Hezbollah news outlet Al Mayadeen. And it is being reported that the head of Iran�s elite Quds Force has landed in Beirut� Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the leader of Iran�s elite Quds Force, landed in Beirut this Tuesday. According to Lebanon�s Nidaa al-Watan newspaper, this isn�t his firstvisit since the Gaza war erupted. The timing is noteworthy, as it precedes a significant speech by Hezbollah�s chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. His arrival could definitely be an indication that something is up. But we will just have to wait and see if anything changes on Friday or the days immediately following. If Hezbollah does decide to pull the trigger and join the war, there is going to be a tremendous amount of death and destruction. In recent articles, I have stated that Hezbollah possesses an arsenal of 130,000 missiles. That is actually the most conservative number that is floating around out there, and that is why I have been using it. But I have also seen estimates of 150,000, 180,000 and 200,000. Nobody in the western world actually knows the true number, but everyone agrees that it is very large. And Iran has been feeding Hezbollah even more missiles on a continual basis for a very long time. Of course Israel possesses very sophisticated anti-missile systems, but they can only handle so many missiles at a time. If Hezbollah starts launching thousands of missiles at Israeli cities, most of them will get through. Could this be what I saw on the morning of April 17th, 2022? In my book entitled �End Times�, I shared what I was shown� With all that being said, I would like to share what I was shown about Israel on the morning of April 17th, 2022. This was an experience that I had while asleep, but it was qualitatively different from a normal dream. Those that have similar experiences know what I am talking about. In this experience, I saw an endless barrage of missiles being fired at Israel during what seemed to be a major war in the Middle East. The missiles were being launched inrapid fire fashion, and it kind of reminded me of some of the footage that I have seen from Ukraine. I did not see where the missiles landed. I also did not see the death and destruction that they caused. Of course Israel has very advanced anti-missile systems, and so perhaps a lot of these missiles were being intercepted. I was not shown any of that. My perspective was from the side of those firing the missiles. There seemed to be a lot of emotion. It appeared to me that the goal was to inflict as much damage upon Israelas possible. These missiles were not being fired from a vast distance away. Rather, they all seemed to be coming from other nations or terror groups in the Middle East. And in my dream I had the impression that there were more missiles pointed at the land of Israel than anywhere else on the globe. Those that were firing all of those missiles were not identified during that experience. But certainly Hezbollah possesses the kind of firepower that I witnessed. If Hezbollah chooses to fire thousands of missiles at Israel, the Israelis will respond. And the response will be even more devastating than the initial attack. At this point, the Israelis fully understand that this is a fight for national survival. When Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7th, they were told �to kill every person we see�� Israel�s Shin Bet released footage on Wednesday of a Hamas terrorist describing his actions in the south of Israel during the October 7 massacre. �The mission was simply to kill,� said Hamas operative Omar Abu Rusha. �We weren�t supposed to kidnap. Just kill.� He specified: �[We were told] to kill every person we see and come back.� The interviewer asked if he was told to make any distinction between men, women, and children. He said he was not. And a top Hamas official recently stated during a television interview that his organization will do the same thing over and over again until Israel is destroyed. When there are people that are absolutely determined to kill you, that severely limits your options. There will be no peace with Hamas or Hezbollah. Both organizations are fundamentally committed to wiping out the nation of Israel. So now the final confrontation between the two sides has begun, and it appears that it could soon reach a cataclysmic stage. ------------------------------------ Esau, Hamas, and the Last Days - By Jack Kinsella - https://www.raptureforums.com/jack-kinsella/esau-hamas-and-the-last-days/ The Book of Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament at only 21 verses. But Obadiah�s theme could have been lifted directly from the pages of the Jerusalem Post. It is all about the abuse of God�s people, God�s land, and God�s Holy Hill, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The villain, the guilty party, will end up devastated. Obadiah identifies the guilty party as Israel�s twin brother Esau (Edom), and his physical and spiritual descendants. Obadiah accuses Edom of �violence against your brother Jacob.� (v 10) This is not an isolated incident of violence, but systematic, repetitive, unrelenting violence. The Book of Obadiah reads as a formal indictment against Edom and their allies. One of the first things to examine in prophecy is the time frame in which it applies. Someprophecies were given for the near-term, others are for the long term. In Obadiah�s case, it is both. Or, put another way, Obadiah looks at Edom from beginning to end in a glance. The abuses accumulate throughout history, and end with the establishment of God�s rule on earth.It is a broad chronological perspective ranging from the Destruction of the First Temple to the end of days. Visions that prophets were given are not always restricted to a thin slice of time. Some encompass a very long period of time, as is the case in the Messianic prophecies. Some were fulfilled at Jesus� First Advent, others will be fulfilled in His Second. Some verses contain prophecies that address both Advents in the same verse. Who is Edom today? I believe the Bible answers that question. The ancient Edomites were the descendants of Edom, or Esau. The area known as Edom eventually became known asIdumea. King Herod was an Idumean, or Edomite, puppet king who was installed by the Romans. Edom � or Idumea, bordered what is today the West Bank. Genesis 25 tells the story of Esau trading his birthright, as Isaac�s eldest son, to Jacob, his younger twin brother. In Genesis 25:30 God renamed Esau to Edom: �And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.� Ezekiel picks up where Obadiah leaves off, identifying the modern Edomites in Ezekiel 36:5. �Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, �Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselvesas a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.� (NASB) Obadiah further illuminates Edom�s identity in his indictment, delivering four �you should not haves�. Verse 14 says, �Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that didremain in the day of distress.� When, during a deadly time in Jewish history, a time of death and destruction, did the Palestinians serve as accomplices of the agents of death by not allowing Jews to cometo their place of refuge? A better question would be, when didn�t they? Edom has much to answer for. But there is a specific historical point that eclipses all others. The Arab riots of the late 1930�s forced the British to restrict Jewish immigration to their ancestral homeland during the Holocaust. Had it not been for Arab rioting andviolence, the British would not have enacted those policies. Therefore, Edom was responsible for �killing those who tried to escape.� The Nazis were the hatchet men, but the Palestinians were accessories and accomplices. Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during the Nazi era,played a major role in the Holocaust. al-Husseini lived in Berlin during the war years. He worked closely with Hitler to help achieve the Nazi Final Solution to the Jewish Question. He even personally recruitedBosnian Muslims who formed a whole division of the Nazi Waffen SS. While Jewish immigration was tightly restricted during the Nazi era, Arabs were under no immigration limits. Arabs flooded into the Holy Land to help the British keep outthe Jews. Obadiah notes in his indictment: �Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;� (v 13) Let�s tick off the charges in Obadiah�s indictment and see if there is any validity to identifying �Edom� with the Palestinian Arabs of the last days. Verse 10 indicts Edom of violence against �thy brother, Jacob�. Jacob�s descendents are modern Israel. Verse 12 indicts Edom for celebrating Israel�s catastrophes; �Neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldestthou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.� Compare that verse to images of chanting crowds of Palestinians dancing for joy at the news of a new bombing attack against Israeli civilians. Or the cheering crowds thatcelebrated Saddam�s missile attacks on Israel during the 1991 Gulf War. Verse 13 indicts Edom for �entering the gates of my people�. When the British Mandate ended in 1948, the Arabs immediately seized the Old City of Jerusalem. It took until 1967 for the Jews to re-take the city. They still have no control over the Jewish Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount, remain at the heartof the Arab-Israeli conflict, as God said they would. Verse 14 indicts Edom for handing over Jews in their day of trouble. Verse 21 says that, in the last days, �Saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau;and the kingdom shall be the LORD�s.� The mount of Esau upon the mount of Zion can only refer to the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. And completing Obadiah�s identification of Edom as the Palestinian peopleis his mention of the emblem of the Palestinian Authority. �Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.� The PA�s official emblem is the eagle. In verses 10-11 of Obadiah, the prophet jumps forward to the last days. He writes: �Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understandingout of the mount of Esau? And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.� The word �Teman� means south. And the �mount of Esau�, in context, is located on mount Zion. Let�s take another look at what the verse is saying. �Your mighty allies in thesouth (the Saudis?) will be neutralized, and those who try to keep possession of al Aqsa will be slaughtered.� In verse 11, Obadiah writes, �For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.� But how strong a case does Obadiah make for �Edom� being representative of the modern Palestinian people? The word rendered chosen by Obadiah and rendered in English as �violence� in verse 11 is translated from the Hebrew word �chamac.� �Chamac� transliterated into modern Hebrew, is pronounced, �Hamas�. ------------------------------- A State of Terror - By Jack Kinsella - https://www.raptureforums.com/jack-kinsella/a-state-of-terror/ Note: Even though this article was written in 2005, it is stillrelevant to what�s happening now! --------------------  A reader took exception to my characterization of a Palestinian state as a �terrorist state� and emailed me to tell me so. The Palestinians, he explained, were only using terror because they have no other weapon with which to fight against Israeli �occupation� of Palestinian lands. The Israelis bring the terror upon themselves, argued my correspondent. Palestinian terror is the result of resistance to Israeli occupation. Remove the occupation and theresistance will end. Etc., etc., ad nauseam. The argument sounds plausible enough. It seems to be the logic behind the shift of US support to a return to the 1949 armistice lines as a final solution to the conflict underthe terms of the US-inspired Road Map to Peace effort. End what the Arabs define as �the occupation� ie; a return to the 1949 Armistice lines, and there will nothing for the resistance to resist. Peace at last! Simple. In reality the argument breezes right by �simple� � not stopping until it gets to �stupid�. The argument is �stupid� � but it is built on what would more rightly be termedwillful ignorance. In the years between 1949 and 1967, Israel stayed within the 1949 Armistice lines now being championed as the solution to terrorism against Israel. There was no �occupation� to resist. The 1949 Armistice lines gave what is today called �occupied Palestinian territory� in what the Jews call Judea and Samaria to Jordan. Jerusalem was divided into JordanianEast Jerusalem and Israeli West Jerusalem. The Gaza Strip was, according to the agreed-on 1949 Armistice lines, given to Egypt. Jordanians settled in their territory and Egypt sent settlers into theirs to establishpossession. There was no territory under dispute that was �occupied� in any meaningful sense. The world had accepted the 1949 lines and the existence of the State of Israel as a legally established member state of the United Nations, whether the Arabs accepted it philosophicallyor not. Remember, the issue under discussion is the removal of the �occupation� as a solution to Arab �resistance�. In the years 1951-1955, while Israel was inside the 1949 Armistice lines and there was neither an �occupation� nor a �resistance� 503 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacksemanating from the Jordanian West Bank. Another 358 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacks emanating from Egypt�s Gaza Strip. Terrorist attacks launched from Lebanon and Syria killed another 61 Israelis. Then, as now, the majority of the attacks were launched against population centers and the majorityof the targets were innocent Israeli civilians. For example, on June 11, 1953 terrorists attacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess, and shot them to death. The victims weren�t collateral damage of a �legitimateact of resistance� to some �illegal occupation� � they were a young couple planning a life together in their own country who were deliberately targeted and murdered. On March 17, 1954, terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Maale Akrabim in the northernNegev. In the initial ambush, the terrorists killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The terrorists then boarded the bus, and shot each passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers died in the attack. Survivors said the terrorists spat on the bodies of their victims.The attack was launched from Jordan�s West Bank. In 1957, a kibbutz farmer was killed and two others wounded by a Jordanian landmine; another was killed from ambush as he worked in the fields. In 1958, two fishermen were shot and killed as they fished; a motorist was ambushed near Sharon�this wasn�t resistance to an �occupation�. It was a �resistance� to the existence of the State of Israel. In 1965, TWO YEARS BEFORE the Six Days� War that created the so-called �occupation� that is the alleged justification for Palestinian �resistance�, Yasser Arafat�s Fatah attemptedits first terrorist operation against Israel when it tried to bomb Israel�s National Water Carrier. Israel was in 1965 still within the 1949 Armistice lines, the so-called �occupied territories� were part of Jordan, but the �Palestine Liberation Organization� was alreadyin existence. Here�s a brain-teaser. If Jordan and Egypt were in possession of the so-called �occupied� territories in 1965, and if the Palestine Liberation Organization�s first attackwas against Israel and NOT Jordan, then where is the �Palestine� that Fatah was created to �liberate�? I�ll wait and give you a few seconds to think about it. Ready? I want you to get this, so I am typing slowly�the �Palestine� that the PLO was created to �liberate� � the �occupied territory� against which the Palestinians are �resisting��isthe Israel that existed as defined by the 1949 Armistice lines. We return, for a moment, to my original assessment that the �simple� solution slid past �simple� and all the way to �stupid� � it doesn�t sound so harsh anymore. The �occupation� created by the capture of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 is a smokescreen. That isn�t to say that the PA doesn�t want the �occupied territories� of Judea, Samaria and Gaza � but they are a means to an end, not the end itself. The ethnic cleansing of Jews from the territories outside the 1949 Armistice lines is only the first step in the greater historical goal of the ethnic cleansing of Jews fromthe �Palestine� the PLO was created to �liberate�. Israel. In the thirty years from 1960 to 1990, 704 Israelis died from terrorist attacks, including terror attacks against Israeli targets abroad. In 1993, Israel signed its �memorandum of understanding� with Yasser Arafat that resulted in Israel�s disastrous policy of trading portions of the captured territory to Palestiniancontrol in exchange for peace with the Palestinians. Over the course of seven years, the deal expanded until what began as a deal to give the PA limited autonomy over Jericho became all the West Bank, the Gaza strip, and a demandthat Israel withdraw to within the pre-1967 borders. How much peace did Israel get in exchange for trading away half its territory? From the signing of the Declaration of Principles outlining the exchange of land for peace untilArafat launched the Oslo War in September 2000, 256 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacks. That�s a period of precisely seven years. In the preceding thirty years of terror that brought Israel to its knees, 704 Israelis were killed. Averaged over the decades, ummm, 704 divided by three decades�that�s anaverage of 234 victims of terrorist attacks per decade. �Peace�, therefore, killed more Israelis in seven years than war did, on average, in the preceding thirty years! The �peace� for Israel ended when Arafat rejected a settlement that was tantamount to an Israeli surrender to demands that were beyond his wildest dreams when Oslo was firstsigned in 1993. Arafat�s rejection of the Camp David Accords, a virtual surrender to Palestinian terror, has, as of April, killed more than 1,058 Israelis, again, mostly innocent civiliansdeliberately selected as targets. The Oslo formula of trading land for peace has therefore resulted in more Israeli deaths from terrorism since September 1993 than all the terrorist attacks from 1949 to 1993combined. Here is the interesting thing about this whole thing. At least, it is the thing that stands out as the most inexplicable part of it. It isn�t selective propaganda � it isrecent history. Sixty years isn�t that long a period of time, but it is evidently long enough for selective propaganda to create a mythical Palestinian people out of displaced Jordanian andEgyptian terrorists. But Oslo was only twelve years ago. And the terrorism continues unabated. And somehow, history is being revised as it happens. The Palestinian intentions are clear and unmistakable. They are borne out by history, year by year, for each of Israel�s fifty-seven years of continual conflict against anenemy whose goal is Israel�s annihilation. During the 1967 War, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir stood before the global press corps to defend the war, saying, �the Arabs can fight, and lose, and come back to fightanother day. Israel can only lose once.� I�ve yet to hear anybody mount a logical argument to the contrary. None of this is unknown to the leaders of the European Union. Or the leaders of the Russian Federation. Or the diplomats at the United Nations. One would think that even the United States government might have analysts clever enough to detect a pattern here and realize the objective isn�t Palestinian statehood butIsraeli annihilation. So it can�t be chalked up to ignorance in the usual sense. It is willful ignorance. Deliberate, willful ignorance adopted by a conscious choice to ignore the facts and participateinstead in what is, in the final analysis, a global conspiracy against Israel�s existence. The chosen target for the coming flashpoint is Jerusalem. Since there isn�t a world leader on the planet who doesn�t have analysts who can see the same thing we can, theyknow that forcing Israel back behind 1949 lines won�t end the terror. And they also know that Israel will not surrender East Jerusalem by accepting the imposition of the 1949 Armistice lines. Two thousand, five hundred years ago, (think of it!) the prophet Zechariah described the events that would lead up to the coming of Israel�s Messiah. �And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me Whom they have pierced,and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.� (Zechariah 12:10) Zechariah was probably born in Babylon and was among those priests who returned to Jerusalem after the Captivity in the group led by Zerubbabel. This would place the beginningof Zechariah�s work as a prophet around the month of November, 520 BC. In his lifetime, �Israel� had not existed for two hundred years. Judah was under Persian occupation. The Temple had been destroyed and Jerusalem was in ruins. From that vantage point in history, Zechariah described Israel�s political situation in the last generation before the coming of the Messiah. �Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that daywill I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite everyhorse of the people with blindness.� (Zechariah 12:2-4) Jerusalem as a burdensome stone, a place that causes all the people around to tremble. Check. All the nations that �burden� themselves with Jerusalem to be cut into pieces. Hmmm�US support for Israel is the stated cause of 9/11 and the subsequent war on terror. Check. �All the people of the earth gathered against it.� Sadly, that now appears to be true. Check. Zechariah predicted God would smite those who ride against Jerusalem with madness. Hmmmm. (again) The Palestinian Authority has more or less global support for the creation of an openly terrorist state dedicated to Israel�s destruction existing side by side with Israel. Provided Israel surrenders Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the rest of Judaism holiest places. Madness? Check again! There are two conclusions one can draw. The first is that this is quite a coincidence. Simply amazing. What a great guess! If the coincidence theory leaves you flat, thatleaves only one remaining conclusion. Jesus is coming. And He is coming soon. --------------------------------- This Is Now a Two Front War - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-now-a-two-front-war/ Over the past few days, there has been a tremendous amount of speculation about whether or not the conflict in the Middle East will soon become a two front war. But the truthis that there shouldn�t be any speculation at all. As you will see below, the conflict in the Middle East has already become a two front war. The IDF and Hezbollah have already been exchanging fire day after day, and Hezbollah just conducted �19 simultaneousstrikes on Israeli army positions on Thursday�� A formidable military force backed by Iran, Hezbollah has been engaging Israeli forces along the border, where 50 of its fighters have been killed in the deadliest escalationsince it fought a war with Israel in 2006. The group said it had mounted 19 simultaneous strikes on Israeli army positions on Thursday using guided missiles, artillery and other weapons, coinciding with what it calledstrikes using two explosive drones. Hezbollah may not have officially �declared war� on Israel yet, but nobody can argue that conducting �19 simultaneous strikes on Israeli army positions� is not an act of war. In response, the IDF hit a wide range of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon by air� The Israel Defense Forces says it is carrying out wide-scale airstrikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon in response to rocket attacks on northern Israel earlier. The IDF says that among the targets hit so far by fighter jets, tanks, and artillery are military headquarters, rocket launching positions, weapons storage sites, militarycomplexes, and other infrastructure belonging to the terror group. Israel has not officially �declared war� on Hezbollah yet either, but this is what war looks like. A two front war has already begun, and that is really bad news for all of humanity. On Friday, the leader of Hezbollah is scheduled to deliver his very first public remarks about the war� Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech that will be scrutinizedfor clues on how the group�s role in the conflict might evolve. This speech is being hyped up like crazy. In fact, I have never seen this much hype for a speech by Nasrallah. Is he going to announce that Hezbollah is formally entering the war? We shall see. But whatever he plans to say, there is sure a huge effort to get people to tune in and watch� It would appear Hezbollah was going out of its way to ramp up expectations ahead of Nasrallah�s speech, presumably as his behest. A promotional video shows Nasrallah walkingdown a hallway with his back to the camera, with the Hezbollah symbol parading in the background. It announced Nasrallah will speak in a ceremony celebrating �Martyrs who died on route to Jerusalem�. Other unaffiliated sources have since flooded social media with videos and pictures associated with Hezbollah, conveying vague messages designed to raise tensions and to getpeople to endlessly speculate on what he�ll say, a tactic likely designed to beef up ratings for the actual speech. As a descendant of Mohammad, he will be wearing his customary black turban during the speech, and everyone agrees that he is �a skilled orator� � Wearing the black turban of a sayyed, or a descendent of the Prophet Mohammad, and Shi�ite clerical robes, Nasrallah is one of the most prominent figures in the Arab world. Recognized even by critics as a skilled orator, his speeches have long been followed closely by friend and foe alike. He is deemed a terrorist by adversaries including theUnited States. If Hezbollah officially enters the war, things are going to get really crazy. The U.S. has already warned Hezbollah that if it launches large numbers of missiles at Israel there will be a military response. Do most Americans even realize that we are literally on the verge of war with the largest terrorist organization on the entire planet? And the Israelis have warned that they will respond with overwhelming force if Hezbollah decides to officially join the conflict� Israel has warned any conflict with Lebanon would be much more destructive than the 2006 Lebanon war, which killed at least 1,200 Lebanese. �Hezbollah may decide to act, and we will have to respond,� Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer told reporters earlier this week. �The response now will make what happened in 2006 look like child�s play.� Recently, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly stated that there will be �unimaginable� devastation in southern Lebanon if Hezbollah starts launching large numbers ofmissiles at Israel. Needless to say, it doesn�t take much imagination to figure out what he is talking about. Israel possesses nuclear weapons and Hezbollah does not. And one member of the Knesset has already called for a �Jericho missile� to be used against Hamas� Revital �Tally� Gotliv, an Israeli lawyer and member of the Knesset representing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu�s Likud Party, made several posts on X, formerly known asTwitter, stating that Israel must consider nuclear warfare as an alternative to deploying large ground forces. �Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. before considering the introduction of forces. Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion. May God preserve all our strength,� Gotliv wrote on X. The Jericho-2 and the Jericho-3 are both very sophisticated, and they both have enough range to hit any of Israel�s enemies in the region� Israel later developed the Jericho-2, a longer-range missile in the late 1980s, with a length of 15 metres and a diameter of 1.35 meters, while maintaining the same payloadcapacity. It had a range between 1,500 and 3,500 kilometers (about 932 to 2,175 miles). The Jericho-3, an intermediate-range system, was introduced years later and was reportedly tested in 2008, entering service in 2011. It featured improvements over the previousmodels, with a longer length than Jericho-2 and a larger diameter of 1.56 meters. If Hezbollah missiles start raining down on Israeli cities, this is an option that will be very strongly considered. And it is important to keep in mind that the Israelis will hold Iran directly responsible for anything that Hezbollah does. We are so close to the unthinkable, and so let us hope that Hezbollah pulls back from the brink while they still can.