Category: Current events

Failure in talks, no surprise

““This failure was predictable,” Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, said in a statement. “Israel has already warned that the Iranians are exploiting the talks in order to play for time while making additional progress in enriching uranium for an atomic bomb.” He added, “The time has come for the world to take a more assertive stand and make it unequivocally clear to the Iranians that the negotiations games have run their course.”

Full NYT story here.

2 cents: What we have been told is the O will not exercise military options against the Iranian government’s nuclear manufacturing before the Iranian election. So that means at minimum an additional 10 weeks of time, work, production and improvements in nuclear production by Iran. Then considering O is bent thinking diplomacy will actually succeed in this matter even more additional time of nuclear production. Considering from what is shared in this article their appears to be at least an additional level of sanctions yet to be placed on Iran so one could safely assume at least another six to eight weeks.

So it appears more of the same till around July.

Wasn’t Einstein’s definition of insanity something like doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

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Something to keep an eye on

I have not seen any mention in the MS news circuits here in the USA.

The possible implications are very important from a Bible prophecy perspective.

The story is at Debka.

Somehow and at sometime things get to such a level/mix that Israel signs a treaty and the muslim nations will actually honor it for a period of time. Prophetically it is told that Israel will sign a treaty with someone that has a duration of seven years and it is believed by most that this is (the treaty) the foundation to their finally being able to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. The Bible clearly tells the reader that sacrifices resume in Jerusalem and the temple is built.  What follows is known as the tribulation period and the Great tribulation begins at the mid-point of the seven year treaty when the Assyrian/anti-christ/idol shepherd breaks the treaty with Israel and sets himself up as God by sitting in the temple’s holy of holies.

So…..

If your interested,  Daniel 9:20-27, 11:21-12:13; Matthew 24:15; Luke 21:20.

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Another week goes by

Hizballah has got hold of chemical weapons

For the first time in many years, voices in the US administration were criticizing the Israeli defense forces for under-reacting and, in this case, also underestimating the chemical weapons threat emanating from Syria and neglecting to pursue counter-measures. This is what visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak heard when he met US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon Tuesday, March 5, as the new defense secretary’s first foreign visitor.
DEBKAfile’s military and Washington sources disclose that Barak was berated for “inadequate and cursory” military preparations which failed to take into account that a chemical attack on Israel would make it necessary for the IDF to enter Syria – most likely for an offensive operation coordinated against the common threat with the Turkish and Jordanian armies.  The rest of the story here

 

Joint task force

A new US-led contingency headquarters for joint US, IsraelU, Jordanian and Turkish operations will go into action inside Syria if any or all these allies should come under chemical or biological attack. Agreement to establish this headquarters was finalized at the talks US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel held with visiting Israeli defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Pentagon Tuesday, March 5.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hagel spoke of a chemical war in Syria in terms of an imminent and realistic eventuality. Washington expected the Syrian rebels close to al Qaeda to initiate this type of warfare and the Syria army to fight back in kind. Such an exchange could quickly spill over the Syrian borders to its neighbors, it was likewise predicted. Rest of the story here.

 

Egypt

When visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry sat one-on-one with Egyptian President Morsi in Cairo, Sunday, March 3, he talked at length about Egypt’s calamitous economic straits, relations with Israel, democratization and essential reforms. He had hoped to find the Egyptian president amenable to getting to grips with his country’s fast approaching bankruptcy. In the event, Morsi nodded politely but, DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report, he was far more preoccupied with pushing forward the three-point plan he and the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme leader Mohammed Badie have begun implementing. Details here

 

Iran

The continuing saga of “I will huff and puff and blow your house down” is here. Meanwhile Iran continues to march closer and closer to their ultimate goal.

 

2 cents:

What does the above stories reflect? The absence of actual leadership as well as the protection of the USA and its allies.

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True colors

As I alluded to before in at least one post here and in many conversations with people on the subject matter of a nuclear Iran, it appears what I thought the CES would actually do is quite possibly going to become a reality.

Today’s article in DEBKA reveals that O’s administration is going to back Khamenei’s fatwa on nuclear weapons by bringing it to the UN. Impact? Exactly what I feared: Israel must come clean about its nuclear program and eventually rid themselves of unilateral ownership of such weapons. This then will shift the Iranian nuclear matter and spotlight onto pressure on the country of Israel. This of course will provide the valuable time needed for Iran to work on realizing its true nuclear aspirations. Why else work with North Korea on detonating nuclear weapons if your program’s aspirations are purely medicine and civil?

 

 

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