Posted on 01/28/2008 10:29:33 AM PST by forkinsocket
Like the Jedi Knights in Star Wars, much of Israel's safety depends on an absurdly small number of daring pilots and their jet planes. The Israel Air Force has managed to use that capacity with amazing skill and daring, as it showed last September when a dozen fighter bombers and support aircraft jammed Syria's Russian-supplied air defenses and destroyed a secret nuclear facility on the Euphrates river --- not far from Iran. The nature of that target has still not been revealed, but it must have been important enough to risk triggering a missile attack from Syria. That means the target was believed to be very important: most likely a joint Iranian-Syrian-North Korean nuclear facility.
In a very odd move, the Syrians are now rebuilding that mysterious concrete cube in exactly the same location --- even though the whole world knows about it now. Why should they spend vast amounts of money doing that, if it would only become another fat target?
One possibility is that it's a trap for IAF jets. Surround the concrete cube with enough new Russian anti-aircraft missiles, back it up with radars based on Russian ships that just happen to be doing the biggest naval exercise in years right now in the Mediterranean, and provoke another attack by announcing another nuclear breakthrough. It could be a baited ambush.
The whole thing smells like an Ahmadi-Nejad shell game, with Russian help: put your nuclear materials under a dozen different giant concrete shelters, and dare the enemy to attack all of them, without knowing which one has nuke materials. All of the sites would be heavily defended with state-of-the-art Russian anti-aircraft missiles. Not just one trap for attacking aircraft, but a dozen or more.
Ahmadi-Nejad constantly uses the most provocative language possible. He's a known Revolutionary Guard fanatic from the Khomeini days, when a million people were killed in the Iran-Iraq war, some of them in blind suicide charges across minefields. A'jad sounds like a religious nut, but he's shrewd enough to use even his martyrdom complex to intimidate and provoke his enemies.
So there could be method in his madness. He may be deliberately trying to draw Israel and the US into a long and costly conflict, relying on domestic political pressure to force a humiliating retreat, just as Hezbollah did in last summer's Lebanon war. As a side benefit, he may expect his own domestic opponents to be forced to rally around him. Since he is running for re-election in the rigged Mullahcracy, war can only benefit him.
John Bolton just talked about the Iran threat at a conference in Israel. Said Bolton:
"... the pre-emptive use of force ... has to come before they get the (nuclear) weapon. ... in the next year the use of force by the United States is highly unlikely ... That increases the pressure on Israel ... if it feels Iran is on the verge of acquiring (nuclear) capability, it brings the decision point home to use force." (emphasis added) "A senior Israeli security official said in reaction that 'one should listen very closely to what Bolton has to say.'"
Do you need more of a hint?
Soon we may see the most dangerous confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Ahmadi-Nejad and the Khomeinist regime have been preparing this for thirty years. They've had plenty of time to choregraph the moves.
If Israel is compelled to act while the United States is paralyzed by our obstructionist Left, Ahmadi-Nejad may finally see his chance. All of his actions in office suggest that he is trying to force Israel and the West into a corner where he thinks he can win. Defeating the formidable Israel military is his biggest chance to become the celebrated star of the Middle East.
And collected the standard $50 fee for a dinner speech.
Iran will never be able to destroy Israel.
1 "Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of [a] Meshech and Tubal. 2 I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. 3 Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. 4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. 5 You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. 6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.
7 " 'I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the LORD am the Holy One in Israel. 8 It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the day I have spoken of.
9 " 'Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. 10 They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
11 " 'On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east toward [b] the Sea. [c] It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog. [d]
12 " 'For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
14 " 'Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search. 15 As they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 (Also a town called Hamonah [e] will be there.) And so they will cleanse the land.'
17 "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: 'Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan. 19 At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,' declares the Sovereign LORD.
21 "I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay upon them. 22 From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God. 23 And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.
25 "Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now bring Jacob back from captivity [f] and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. 26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. 27 When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations. 28 Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD."
You’re knocking Bolton? What does that mean?
Too clever by half...
Take that, Hollywood!
Bolton has, sadly, been right on target on many issues involving Middle East politics. I very much respect his opionion, it’s not as tainted as so much coming out of Washington is.
Never is a long long time.
I think there’s something to this. He doesn’t have anywhere near 100% support among the Iranian people, but if the United States went to war with Iran, that support would increase dramatically. He’s the type, like Hitler, to thrive on war and make hay out of targeting a common enemy, common to him and the Iranian people.
We cant just send in a couple of droids to take care of this?
It was a Nuke facility, Syria went and bulldozed it away before the UN can get in and look it over.
Amad-runt-nut-job may indeed be setting a trap, but One a lot bigger than him (in more ways than one) outlined very clearly in His Book the final fate of Israel and those that try to harm her and those that love her and pray for her. As they used to say when I was a kid, Amad-nut-runt-job is cruisin’ for a brusin’ and he may get it from Someone a lot bigger than Israel and the USA. BAM!
Rebuilding that site is just asking for Israel or the US to bomb it again. It must be a bait.
“In a very odd move, the Syrians are now rebuilding that mysterious concrete cube in exactly the same location...”
Well boys, looks like it’s time for another flyover, only this time leave a bigger hole in the ground.
Israel needs to dump Olmert, get a real Israeli in charge, and come down on their enemies like stink on bleep and commence to hurt them real bad!
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