Posted on 02/18/2008 10:01:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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"The cancerous growth Israel will soon disappear," Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Muhammad Ali Jafari wrote to Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the FARS news agency reported Monday.
In a letter of condolence following last week's assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, Jafari said: "I am convinced that with every passing day Hizbullah's might is increasing and in the near future, we will witness the disappearance of this cancerous growth Israel by means of the Hizbullah fighters' radiation [therapy]."
In the letter, in which Jafari consoled Nasrallah over the death of the "martyr," he continued: "There's no doubt that the death of this loyal fighter will strengthen the resolve of all revolutionary Muslims and fighters in the struggle against the Zionist regime, particularly the resolve of those who fought by this martyr's side."
Mughniyeh was considered to be closely affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards and the al-Quds Brigades. Together, the two organizations trained Hizbullah fighters in Lebanon and Iran and planned terror attacks the world over.
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti newspaper A-Rai quoted officials close to Hizbullah as saying that the group would not rush to avenge Mughniyeh's death, but that it intended to target Israeli figures of a similar rank to the terrorist, who was the group's chief of staff.
The newspaper noted that after the killing of former Hizbullah head Abbas Musawi, the organization retaliated years later against Israeli and Jewish targets in Buenos Aires.
Slain Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh.
Photo: AP
A-Rai also reported that Mughniyeh had prepared a list of Israeli assassination targets following the Second Lebanon War, when Israel announced its intention to assassinate Nasrallah.
Also predicting a future attack, the editor of the Hizbullah-affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper, Ibrahim al-Amin, said that it was clear Israel was behind Mughniyeh's assassination and that there was an ongoing investigation to determine who had joined the US and Israel in its war against the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.
Amin, who is considered a close associate of the group, said that anyone who is interested should join the battle for Israel's destruction and that the tools used in the campaign would be different to those used in the past.
He said that Israel should "expect a painful and rational response from an unexpected direction, since the enemy broke all the rules."
Threats from Iran and the Muslim world are nothing new. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel multiple times.
Speaking in late January, he repeated his warning. "The lifetime of criminals and invaders [Israel] is over," Iranian state media reported Ahmadinejad as saying while discussing Israeli-Palestinian conflicts in the Gaza Strip. "Powerful hands of Palestinians and regional nations will hit the last blow of destruction against the criminals."
Contradicting Amin and the others blaming Israel for Mughniyeh's death, US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said on Sunday that internal Hizbullah groups or Syria may be to blame for the killing of the top Hizbullah commander in Damascus.
McConnell said he considered the threat of retaliation for the assassination to be primarily against Israel. But he said US intelligence officials were keeping a close watch and taking any necessary action to protect the United States, as Mughniyeh was "responsible for more deaths of Americans and Israelis than any other terrorist, with the exception of Osama bin Laden."
"It is a serious threat," McConnell said. "There's some evidence that it may have been internal Hizbullah. It may have been Syria.
"We don't know yet, and we're trying to sort that out."
On Sunday night, a special forum convened in Jerusalem to discuss the threat by Hizbullah to perpetrate attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
The forum included Cabinet Secretary Oved Yehezkel and Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski, as well as senior Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry officials.
Iran is wrong. Israel will not disappear.
Chaos = Mahdi
I know that Israel has submarines. Do they also have Nuke tipped missils aboard them?
Mutually assured destruction?
Radiation [therapy]? These people need to go. Israel needs to act.
A glass parking lot would be an improvement.
Then the world would blame the US and Pres. Bush.
...look up!
watching & waiting.
The usual bloviation and bs from Jafari
Gosh, that's nice, Iran.
Funny...we've heard these threats before and I haven't lost any sleep over it yet. I don't think anybody around here has. ;-)
Thanks Ernest.
Iran ayatollah drops dead during election speech
Iran Focus | Feb 17, 2008 | Staff
Posted on 02/17/2008 4:58:56 PM EST by forkinsocket
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The poisonous myth of ‘Israeli apartheid’
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Posted on 02/18/2008 2:28:53 PM EST by PRePublic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972363/posts
"With Iran, Obama will pursue intensified diplomacy and be prepared to talk directly with Iran."
That is in line with their belief, that it is Iran’s responsibility to begin nuclear confrontation. According to the Koran, they win this conflict. Accoring to Ezekial 38, the winner is Isreal. I believe the bible version.
A Revelations pic/reference no doubt of the False Prophet and the Parrot. Correct?
Nah, that’s just the evil Jafar from Disney’s ‘Aladdin’.
“Accoring to Ezekial 38, the winner is Isreal. I believe the bible version.”
Make that “was Israel,” since that prophecy was fulfilled in the 7th century B.C. (unless people really think the modern state of Israel will be invaded by men on horseback and brandishing swords to loot Israel’s livestock, that is):
Ezekiel 38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.
“Accoring to Ezekial 38, the winner is Isreal. I believe the bible version.”
Make that “was Israel,” since that prophecy was fulfilled in the 7th century B.C. (unless people really think the modern state of Israel will be invaded by men on horseback and brandishing swords to loot Israel’s livestock, that is):
Ezekiel 38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.
Video is red-x today.
My belief is that this prophecy has not been fulfilled. Prophets like Ezekial, Isaiah, John, Daniel often tried to put in writing what they saw in terms that made sense to their timeframe. When you read the bible, Isaiah for example seemed to witness an alien craft ascending into the sky with the prophet Elijah as describing it as a chariot of fire, circled with multiple rings. The apostle John was more specific, stating he saw what looked like horses drawn up for battle and the color of them was hyancith blue (silver) and heads and tails like snakes that do harm. He was attempting to describe modern warfare. If you want to check out a modern day prophet, that is accurate and not using his prophetic knowledge for financial gain then check out Ray Alguiera www.prophecy.org. Want the gift of prophecy for yourself? Pray for it, develop a relationship with Christ and you’ll have it. I have this gifting and the Lord used it to convince me He is real as I was a doubting Thomas for many, many years.
You should know that prophecy is statistical probability based on septillions of variables which include genetics and predetermined behavior, simple things like the weather for example, effects of gravity etc the environment which influences human decision making in other words. The rest is up to the free will of man, although the outcome of something for mankind for something better is always predetermined by God.
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