Isaiah 17
17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
17:14
And behold at eveningtide * * trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10517
“Final war” between Muslims, West- Ahmadinejad
1/21/2006 1:01:00 AM GMT
(REUTERS PHOTO) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with journalists in Tehran
Speaking to HAMAS leaders in Damascus, the new Iranian President MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD said on Friday that the Middle East conflict has become “the locus of the final war” between Muslims and the West, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reported.
On the second day of his two-day visit to Syria, NEJAD told HAMAS leaders, “Today, victory in Palestine has become a matter of life and death for the Islamic world and for Global Arrogance (the West),”urging the Palestinians to reject the so-called Israel’s WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA STRIP.
“Some point to the withdrawal of the occupiers from parts of Palestine, but this event has already been greatly detrimental to Muslims”, AHMADINEJAD stressed.
“If the occupiers stay on even one inch of Palestinian soil, the goal of Palestine will not be realised”, Ahmadinejad told HAMAS leaders, who included Khalid Mash’al, the head of the group’s political bureau.
“We must not let our guard down now for even one moment against the enemies’ plots. Belittling the goal of Palestine is a great plot that the enemies are after”, he said.
During his meeting with Syrian economic officials, the Iranian President called on all Islamic states to make use of their economic potentials to "cut the hand of the enemies," IRNA reported.
"We (can only blame) ourselves for promoting the economies of the enemies and letting them impose pressure on us whenever they wish," AHMADINEJAD said.
"Just three percent of global trade is accounted for by trade among Islamic countries. Islamic states are main importers from non-Islamic countries," he said with regret.
"Today, a big economic war is underway. The political war is obvious to all but there is an economic war that goes on undetected," he said.