The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 52 Issue: 3 - Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Gog Magog 2006?
For the Israelis, 2006 opened with its government fractured, its Prime Minister's health in serious doubt, and with the prospect of a democratically-elected terrorist state on its border.
To the east, Iran's rabidly anti-Semitic government has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, an entirely plausible threat, given that Iran is less than four months from becoming a nuclear power.
Such a scenario seems that much more likely, given that the United States is currently in talks with NATO about launching a military assault against the Persians sometime in the spring of 2006.
The preparations are more than political bluster; CIA Director Porter Goss, in his last visit to Turkey on December 12, requested Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide military bases to the United States in 2006 from where they would be able to launch an assault.
Iran can stonewall all it wants to, but if the mad mullahs continue their quest for a nuclear bomb, somebody will have to do something.
The Iranians are taking the reports seriously enough to threaten all kinds of dire consequences should it be attacked, but not seriously enough to abandon their nuclear ambitions.
Senior nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani told Iran's state-run radio that talk of an attack was most likely 'psychological warfare,' saying, "Iran has prepared itself . . . they will get a crushing response if they make such a mistake."
Larijani's remarks coincided with Iran's announcement that it had produced equipment for separating uranium from its ore, a development in its drive to control the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from mining uranium to enriching it for use in atomic reactors.
But the warning wasn't aimed at NATO or the United States. It was aimed at Israel.
Israel, he said, would "suffer greatly" if it attacked. "It's a very small country within our range."
Assessment:
Iran is also within Israel's range -- and that is what should keep Ahamadinejad up nights -- not NATO. Israel is a small country within range of Iran, but it is a country with an impressive nuclear arsenal of its own.
Israel also has a doomsday policy called "The Samson Option."
The Hebrew judge, Samson, when captured by the Philistines, blinded and chained to two pillars, chose to pull the building down upon his captors, knowing that in so doing, he would also die with his enemies. Israel's nuclear response policy's nickname is also Israel's nuclear response policy. Before Israel will allow itself to be wiped off the map, it will take the entire Middle East with it.
That is the main reason that NATO and the United States are actively planning to take out Iran's nukes before they can be deployed. Not to save the Israelis so much as to prevent the sands of the Middle East from being fused into a giant, radioactive mirror.
And it is for that reason more than any other that one can be sure the warplans are serious. As crazy as Kim Jong il might be, a nuclear Kim Jong il is nowhere near the threat that a nuclear Iran poses. Kim Jong il is merely nuts -- he doesn't want to die; Mahmoud Ahamadinejad is the Islamic kind of nuts; he can hardly wait to get his seventy-two virgins.
Islamic eschatology contains many similarities to that of the Bible's outline of the last days, but with an Islamic twist. Islam's messiah doesn't come to put an end to war, his job is to lead the global forces of Islam to victory over the infidels and institute Islam as the world's sole religion.
Ahamadinejad believes the Mahdi is due to make his global appearance within the next two years. Ahamadinejad believes his job is to get the ball rolling for him before he arrives.
Middle East Muslims don't condemn the Iranian president because they no longer believe that the West is interested in a 'civilized' debate about Israel, says Dar al Hayat columnist, Abdul Wahab Badrakhan.
"The Arabs have tried it in 2002 when they adopted a peace initiative in the Beirut Summit and it is well-known how Israel reacted: by re-occupying the Palestinian territories and committing more massacres."
Western leaders "did not point out that Israel's behavior was not civilized at all and none of them said whether the racist fence [a reference to what Israel calls a security barrier to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers] is uncivilized and worthy of condemnation, or whether it should be dealt with under the seventh article of the UN charter," he wrote.
"Even worse, Israel was rewarded with recognition, especially in a speech voiced by the UN Secretary General who said that the justification for Israel's existence is the Nazi Holocaust."
"Ahmadinejad's statements might deserve Western condemnation, but it is difficult for the Arabs to endorse this condemnation," he concluded.
To this end, Iran has purchased North Korean missile components that give Iran's Shihab-class missiles the capability to strike anywhere in Europe. Russian companies and scientists provided technology and expertise for missile integration and assembly.
German intelligence has assessed that Iran has acquired technology from Russian submarine-launched missiles.
So, the sitrep for 2006 looks something like this. Iran may be planning an all out religious war against Israel and the West, with the more or less complete support of the Arab Middle East, and supplied and supported by Russian weapons and technology. Standing in opposition is the United States and NATO.
Ezekiel forecast a similar sitrep: Gog-Magog, together with Persia (Iran) and the rest of the Islamic world, (Libya, Put, Cush, etc.) will launch an all out invasion of Israel, while the Western world (Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish) do little apart from offer weak diplomatic objections.
"And when these things BEGIN to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28)
It appears that we are well past the 'beginning'. Keep looking up!
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