Friday, April 01, 2011

Anti-Israel pages, on (ironically) Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, are a dime a dozen. But those posts make me wonder if the Middle East unrest today (Libya, Syria, Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, et al) will make its way into Israel? When I look at Ezekiel 38 and Joel 3, it sounds somewhat like it will be unsophisticated, primitive people and armies advancing against Israel in the last days. Do those passages describe a grassroots attack by Arabs and Persians?

Ezekiel 38:
4 I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws to lead you out with your whole army—your horses and charioteers in full armor and a great horde armed with shields and swords.

Joel 3:
9 Say to the nations far and wide:
“Get ready for war!
Call out your best warriors.
Let all your fighting men advance for the attack.
10 Hammer your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
11 Come quickly, all you nations everywhere.
Gather together in the valley.”


Strategy to invade Israel posted on Facebook
"'After the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan intifadas, the time has come for the Palestinian intifada. The first Palestinian intifada was in 1987 and the second in 2000, but the third Palestinian intifada [will commence] on May 15, 2011,' it said, according to MEMRI's documentation.

'It should be noted that, while urging the public to join the mass demonstrations on May 15, the page administrators also hinted at a coming war on the Jews and called on the readers to prepare for martyrdom,' Barkan's report confirmed.

'For example, they posted a well-known hadith, which states that the Day of Judgment will only come after the Muslims fight the Jews and vanquish them: 'The hour [of Judgment] will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.''

Another message on the page states, 'Paradise calls you. I ask everyone to come out on May 15. Do not say 'I can't.' For once [in your life], at least, do something to help the Muslims ... martyrdom calls you.'"

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