This is what Cutting Edge has been reporting on since 2000. Sharon may be planning to annihilate the Palestinians, fulfilling Obediah 18. I'll post that article below this one. What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip A Warning from Israel By URI DAVIS, ILAN PAPPE, and TAMAR YARON We feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may come during and after evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel in 1967, in the event that the evacuation is implemented. We held back on getting this statement published and circulated, seeking additional feedback from our peers. The publication in Ha'aretz (22 June 2005) quoting statements by General (Reserves) Eival Giladi, the head of the Coordination and Strategy team of the Prime Minister's Office, motivated us not to delay publication and circulation any further. Confirming our worst fears, General (Res.) Eival Giladi went on record in print and on television to the effect that "Israel will act in a very resolute manner in order to prevent terror attacks and [militant] fire while the disengagement is being implemented" and that "If pinpoint response proves insufficient, we may have to use weaponry that causes major collateral damage, including helicopters and planes, with mounting danger to surrounding people." We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees. The scenario could be similar to what has already happened in the past - a tactic that Ariel Sharon has used many times in his military career - i.e., utilizing provocation in order to launch massive attacks. Following this pattern, we believe that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz are considering to utilize provocation for vicious attacks in the near future on the approximately one and a half million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip: a possible combination of intensified state terror and mass killing. The Israeli army is not likely to risk the kind of casualties to its soldiers that would be involved in employing ground troops on a large scale in the Gaza Strip. With General Dan Halutz as Chief of Staff they don't need to. It was General Dan Halutz, in his capacity as Commander of the Israeli Air Force, who authorized the bombing of a civilian Gaza City quarter with a bomb weighing one ton, and then went on record as saying that he sleeps well and that the only thing he feels when dropping a bomb is a slight bump of the aircraft. The initiators of this alarm have been active for many decades in the defence of human rights inside the State of Israel and beyond. We do not have the academic evidence to support our feeling, but given past behavior, ideological leanings and current media spin initiated by the Israeli government and military, we believe that the designs of the State of Israel are clear, and we submit that our educated intuition with matters pertaining to the defence of human rights has been more often correct than otherwise. Article Here's the article from Cutting Edge Obadiah, verse 18, which forms the basis for this article.  "The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau shall be stubble; they shall kindle them and burn them and consume them , and there shall be no more survivor of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken it." [Verse 18] This prophecy states that the nation of Israel [the combined houses of Jacob and Joseph] shall have some kind of a fire build up within them that will suddenly explode outward to consume the House of Esau in 100% annihilation. Since a weapon of fire does not travel outward from its source too far, we can assume that this House of Esau must be living in close proximity to Israel at the moment of this conflagration. But, the major question is, "who is the House of Esau today"? A number of years ago, I emailed the Israeli Embassy to ask who the modern-day descendents were of the House of Esau, if indeed there were any. A couple days later, I received an email back from a rabbi, who told me that the Palestinians were the modern-day descendents of the House of Esau! These Palestinians lived in both Edom, a province of Jordan, and within Israel under the leadership of Yassir Arafat! GOD'S JUDGMENT -- GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS USING ISRAEL AS THE MEANS This prophecy means that the Palestinians are going to "burn like stubble", are going to be "consumed" and "kindled", by a weapon of fire exploding out of Israel. This is the prophecy, and it means what it says! Now that I had the proper understanding as to what this prophecy meant in this time period in which it will finally occur, I had several questions, which I will list and then go back to discuss each of them. 1. What kind of weapon could Israel possibly possess which would annihilate 100% of a population, and do so with fire? 2. If God's judgment of 100% annihilation is to be carried out by Israel -- as Obadiah 18 states -- what kind of action would be necessary to carry out such a population genocide, while protecting Jewish citizens? 3. What might be the final event that would signal that this genocide is about to begin? Now, that we have gotten the relevant questions on the table, let us examine them in more detail.   Here's the rest of the article from Cutting Edge   Linda VeghRapture Watch Forum