Sunday, June 24, 2012


Turkey-Syria tensions rising - Israel News, Ynetnews
 Ankara blames Syria for defaulting on military norms, shooting down its jet without warning. Iran urges both sides to exercise restraint.

BBC News - Turkey calls NATO meeting on warplane downed by Syria
Turkey's foreign minister said the F-4 Phantom was in international airspace when it was shot down...
Turkish news channels are reporting that the wreckage of the jet has been located in Syrian territorial waters at a depth of 1,300m (4,265ft), according the Reuters news agency.





Al Qaeda behind anti-Israel attacks from Gaza, Sinai. Egypt posts elite unit on border
Al Qaeda fighting elements from Libya are spearheading much of the violence against Israel from Sinai and the Gaza Strip since early June.

Saturday, June 23, 2012


 Gaza terrorists fire 22 rockets at Sderot area, hitting school and factory
Gaza-based terrorists fired 22 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, causing damage to a school and factory. The latest attacks bring the total number of rockets and other projectiles fired from the Strip to approximately 150 over the past six days.

IDF strikes Gaza; 1 killed, 6 hurt - Israel News, Ynetnews
Army targets terrorists in Gaza Saturday afternoon, as southern Israel communities continue to face rocket barrages. Sources in Strip say IDF hit motorcyclist.

Turkish president vows action after Syria shoots down fighter jet
 Turkey’s president said Saturday his country will take “necessary,” but unspecified, action against Syria, a day after Damascus said it had brought down a Turkish military plane near the volatile border between the two countries.

Newly-supplied Russian Buk-M2 anti-air missile used to down Turkish warplane: Since the sophisticated weapons were delivered to the Assad regime in recent weeks, it must be assumed that local missile crews had not finished training in their use and would have had to rely on help from their Russian instructors to fire one.

Friday, June 22, 2012

African bank directors: Israel a better model for us than US, EU
This week, in a first-time-ever event, a delegation of central bankers from Africa was in Israel to learn about ways to improve their economies in order to make them safer, more attractive to investors, and more productive. In fact, said Professor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, the director-general of the Central Bank of Uganda, “I can’t think of a better role model for my country to follow than Israel. As far as I’m concerned, Israel provides a far better model for us than the US or Europe.”

 Joel 3:
“At the time of those events,” says the Lord,
    “when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem...

Thursday, June 21, 2012

More on the Iran, Russia, China joint military excercise


Hamas scion turned Israel spy making film on Islam
A Hamas leader's son who spied on the Palestinian Islamist movement for Israel, and then wrote about his exploits while in exile, has turned his sights on the religion of his father.

On a rare visit to Jerusalem, just a short car ride from the family that disowned him in the occupied West Bank, Mosab Hassan Yousef told journalists he was making a film about the Prophet Mohammad that would reveal his "real nature" to Muslims.
Britain and US may offer Assad clemency in bid to break Syrian stalemate
Obama and Cameron warm to the idea after getting a nod of approval from Putin at G-20 meeting in Mexico

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Iran’s nuclear program: When might Israel attack. - Slate Magazine
"Everyone knows that the Iranians are trying to reach nuclear military capability... they are trying to reach a certain redundancy, or what I call the "zone of immunity."
"It means they reach a situation where, through redundancies, neither Israel and probably not even America can do anything surgically to block it. Once Khomeini reaches this kind of situation, he can be practically assured that he [has] crossed the point of no return and will end up more like North Korea or Pakistan, rather than like Iraq or Syria."
 "Then comes the issue of terror. The Iranians are sponsoring terror among the Baluchi tribe in Afghanistan, among the insurgents in Iraq—they are everywhere. They are trying to raise their profile in Cuba, in Nicaragua, and Venezuela, of course. They have a global aspiration, and the world won't be the same place once they turn nuclear. Whoever thinks that it's complicated to deal with Iran right now, as some think tank leaders are writing: Just close your eyes and think what it will mean to deal with these very same issues once Iran turns nuclear as a result of an absence of political will. It will be much more dangerous, much more costly in terms of human lives and financial resources. And it will become nuclear if the world will not be tough enough to stop it."

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Palestinian Hamas fires 4 Qassams at Ashkelon

DEBKAfile June 19, 2012, 8:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The missiles exploded on open ground. Hamas said the attack Tuesday was retaliation for “Palestinian deaths at IDF hands.” Monday, six Palestinian terrorists died or were killed in the course of attacks on Israeli targets on both sides of the Gaza-Israel border. Following the Hamas notice, Israeli locations around the Gaza Strip went on elevated alert, their population advised to keep close to protected areas. Overnight, the Israeli air force hit a group of Palestinians planting explosives on the border opposite Kissufim.

Luke 21:

34 “Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware, 35 like a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth. 36 Keep alert at all times. And pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man.”



Syria, Iran, Russia and China plan joint war games, Iranian news agency reports:
Largest joint exercise in Mideast history, reportedly involving troops, tanks, planes and even Russian nuclear subs, set to take place within a month along Syrian coast.

'Iran, Russia, China, Syria plan massive war game in the Mediterranean - JPost
Over 90,000 troops from 4 countries due to participate in Middle East's largest ever war game, according to Iranian media.

  
This news is originating from an Iranian news agency, so I wouldn't put too much credibility behind it. Regardless, the next world war is well under way in my opinion.

Joel 3:
At the time of those events,” says the Lord,
    “when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather the armies of the world
    into the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will judge them
    for harming my people, my special possession,
for scattering my people among the nations,
    and for dividing up my land.


 
Muslim Brotherhood warns Egypt's generals | World news | guardian.co.uk
Islamic group claims victory in elections and threatens to flood streets if military continues to 'rebuild old regime'

Monday, June 18, 2012

Russia prepares to send warships to Syria - FT.com

Russia prepares to send warships to Syria
Russia has announced it is readying two warships to sail to Syria to protect Russian citizens, in a sign that it is taking precautions against a worsening of the security situation there.
World powers start nuclear talks with Iran
Six powers seek concessions over nuclear work; no breakthrough expected in Moscow; new sanctions loom
Egypt military to hand over power by end of June - World - CBC News: Muslim Brotherhood claims its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, beat Ahmed Shafiq in presidential run-off
IDF tanks move closer to Egypt border - Israel News, Ynetnews: Military issues unusual order, deploys Armored force closer to border following terror attack on civilian crews building fence
Militants open fire on Israeli civilians after crossing border from Egypt | World news | guardian.co.uk: Militants have crossed from Egypt's Sinai peninsula into southern Israel and opened fire on civilians building a border security fence, defence officials say. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two assailants died in a gun battle with Israeli troops responding to the attack.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

This is where we're going


Russia flies anti-air, anti-ship missiles to Assad as its fleet heads to Tartus

Russia is, in a word, supplying Bashar Assad, his regime and his army, with the very weapons they may need for warding off Western and Arab air efforts to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, while at the same time enabling him to repel seaborne assaults by his foes from the Mediterranean.

The Russians are not trying to conceal their military intervention in Syria in support of the Assad regime.


Joel 3:
 “At the time of those events,” says the Lord,
    “when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem (Israel independence declared May 14, 1948)
2 I will gather the armies of the world
    into the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will judge them
    for harming my people, my special possession,
for scattering my people among the nations,
    and for dividing up my land.
3 They threw dice to decide which of my people
    would be their slaves.
They traded boys to obtain prostitutes
    and sold girls for enough wine to get drunk.
4 “What do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and you cities of Philistia? Are you trying to take revenge on me? If you are, then watch out! I will strike swiftly and pay you back for everything you have done. 5 You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples. 6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, so they could take them far from their homeland.
7 “But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the people of Arabia, a nation far away. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
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.”
And now, O Lord, call out your warriors!
12 “Let the nations be called to arms.
    Let them march to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I, the Lord, will sit
    to pronounce judgment on them all.

13 Swing the sickle,
    for the harvest is ripe.
Come, tread the grapes,
    for the winepress is full.
The storage vats are overflowing
    with the wickedness of these people.”
14 Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision.
    There the day of the Lord will soon arrive.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
    and the stars will no longer shine.
16 The Lord’s voice will roar from Zion
    and thunder from Jerusalem,
    and the heavens and the earth will shake.
But the Lord will be a refuge for his people,
    a strong fortress for the people of Israel.

The world's armies are gathering (of all places) on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, just north of Israel. Divine inspiration aside, it would otherwise be very strange to imagine the entire world's attention drawn to these shores even 100 years ago, but now with Israel re-established in 1948 (Joel 3:1) it's a whole different story and the rest of Joel chapter 3 is forming before our eyes. Soon this war will swing down on Israel. The scapegoat for the entire region. Only this time Israel will not be dispersed and will once and for all be victorious with Jesus Christ as her king, and it's to the winepress of God's wrath for the rest of them.



 Israel Considering Preemptive Strikes Against Syria
Barak confirmed that Israel is closely monitoring events on the ground in Syria and could be forced to take action if a variety of advanced conventional and unconventional weapons fall into the wrong hands.

Saturday, June 16, 2012




Former U.S. Attorney: Leaks Are 'Outrageous': The White House has engaged in “outrageous” leaking in an obvious attempt to enhance President Obama’s re-election efforts, Joe diGenova, the former U.S. Attorney in Washington, tells Newsmax.

Ahmadinejad to retire from politics | The Times of Israel


Ahmadinejad to retire from politics | The Times of Israel: Iranian president says he will finish his term in 2013 and return to academia

Treason cloaked as religion

Group advocating global Islamic caliphate to hold meet in Chicago area
In line with its advocacy of radical political change for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, Hizb Al-Tahrir’s branch in Bangladesh this year urged Bangladeshi military officers to overthrow the country’s secular government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and accused her of “collaboration in the War against Islam by America,”


Hmmm, who else is from Chicago? I've heard of 'freedom of speech', but America's fiercest enemy is using it to overthrow freedom and promote hatred from within. Tragic that Westerners are sound asleep while this is creeping in (and that's probably the biggest understatement I've made in years).


US military intervention in Syria – “Not if but when”: As the violence in Syria continued to go from bad to worse in scope and intensity, US official sources had this to say Saturday, June 16, about planned US military operations in the war-torn country:

“The intervention will happen. It is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when.’”

Didn't I just label a post "When? (at this point not "if")? WWIII on the way.

Evidence mounts that ‘ghost killers’ taking orders from Damascus - The Globe and Mail

Evidence mounts that ‘ghost killers’ taking orders from Damascus - The Globe and Mail: “If Assad falls, Syria will explode,” Mr. Balanche said.

Rocket remnants found in south Israel - Israel News, Ynetnews

Rocket remnants found in south Israel - Israel News, Ynetnews: Initial probe suggests the rocket was fired from the Sinai Peninsula, and may be linked to the presidential elections in Egypt, which kicked off Saturday morning. Another possibility is that the rocket was fired from Jordan.

Senators urge Obama to set conditions in Iran talks - Israel News, Ynetnews

Senators urge Obama to set conditions in Iran talks - Israel News, Ynetnews: "On the other hand, if the sessions in Moscow produce no substantive agreement, we urge you to reevaluate the utility of further talks at this time and instead focus on significantly increasing the pressure on the Iranian government through sanctions and making clear that a credible military option exist," they wrote, adding that "as you have rightly noted, 'the window for diplomacy is closing.' Iran’s leaders must realize that you mean precisely that."

Friday, June 15, 2012

Big powers move in on Syria: Russian troops for Tartus. US forces ready to go
A contingent of Russian special forces is on its way to Syria to guard the Russian navy’s deep-water port at the Syria’s Mediterranean coastal town of Tartus, Pentagon officials informed US NBC TV Friday, June 15. They are coming by ship. According to debkafile’s sources, the contingent is made up of naval marines and is due to land in Syria in the coming hours.

When? (at this point not "if")


Is an attack on Iran inevitable? | GlobalPost
"As things are, I think the chance is 100 percent," an Israeli intelligence officer told GlobalPost, referring to a possible strike. "But we don't know who will attack, or when."

Gog & Magog in slo' mo'. Everyone has plenty of warning of what is happening.

Thursday, June 14, 2012


The President & The Prophet: Obama’s Unusual Encounter with Eric Metaxas - By Mark Joseph - The Corner - National Review Online
By the time he wrapped up his speech with a rendition of Amazing Grace, one got the feeling that this was a modern-day, and perhaps more humorous version, of what Old Testament prophets regularly did to Kings of Israel: deliver brutally honest messages from Yahweh with little regard for their personal safety. Only this time, there were no beheadings, only the difficult-to-watch spectacle of seeing a president forced to uncomfortably read a speech which had just been shredded to pieces by a man who couldn’t possibly have known what was coming.

Egg on Face

US Intel corrects Clinton: Russia is not sending Assad new helicopters
DEBKAfile June 14, 2012, 8:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a bid to cool the escalating war of words between the US and Russia and their two top foreign executives Hillary Clinton and Sergey Lavrov, US intelligence circles put the record straight on their mutual charges: They contradicted Clinton’s accusation that Russia was sending attack helicopters to Assad for use against civilians; Moscow was only returning damaged choppers after repairs, they reported, going on to admit American arms were being supplied to Syrian rebels through third countries in the Gulf – spelled out by our military sources as anti-tank missiles via Qatar and the UAE - as first disclosed by DEBKAfile on May 21.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012


Russia Defends Arms Sale to Syria, Blasts US:
Russia on Wednesday defended its sale of arms to Syria and stepped up the rhetoric by accusing the United States of providing weapons to the Syrian rebels.

Russia defends arms sales to Syria - FT.com
Moscow forcefully rejected on Wednesday Hillary Clinton’s accusation that Russia was supplying Syria with helicopter gunships that could be used against civilians.
Italy hit by market fears of contagion from Spain
Markets, he noted, are no longer differentiating fiscally-stronger Italy from Spain, `'which is a sign that panic has set in.”


US: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters
The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and warned that the Arab country's 15-month conflict could become even deadlier.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

RUSSIAN WARNING SHOTS AS SYRIAN CONFLICT THREATENS TO DEGENERATE INTO WORLD WAR
 Washington must be pretending not to have noticed that the Russia of Vladimir Putin is not that of Boris Yeltsin. After being assured of Chinese support, Moscow literally fired two warning shots in the direction of Washington. The continuing violations of international law by NATO and the GCC threaten to unleash a global conflict.
Ahmadinejad wounded but wily in final year
“Ahmadinejad does not want to fade away,” said Sadegh Zibakalam, a Tehran University political science professor. “Considering his personality and character, it will be hard for him to leave the stage.”
 
Israel ‘to evacuate Tel Aviv’ in event of missile attack
Israel will evacuate the entire population of Tel Aviv if it is hit by missiles, particularly if they have unconventional warheads, the commander in charge of Israel’s central region told AFP.

Monday, June 11, 2012

'If he could, Assad would do to us what he's doing to his own people'
IDF Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh warns Syrian missiles "can reach any point in Israel and therefore we must remain vigilant" • Syria is believed to possess the world's largest stockpile of chemical weapons, including some of the deadliest chemical agents known, such as sarin and the nerve agent VX. Their chemical agents have already been integrated in warheads mounted on advanced Scud missiles.



DEBKAfile is calling it
The battle against the LBL Beast of Islam is expanding




Obama speeds up limited air strike, no-fly zones preparations for Syria:
US President Barack Obama has ordered the US Navy and Air Force to accelerate preparations for a limited air offensive against the Assad regime and the imposition of no-fly zones over Syria.


As I've stated many, many times on this blog, this is where the battle against the Islamic LBL beast of Daniel 7 and Revelation 13:2 is going. Ushering the end of this age...

Revelation 16 [with my comments]:
13
Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon [satan], out of the mouth of the [LBL] beast [of Daniel 7 and Revelation 13:2] and out of the mouth of the false prophet [Who's the most popular false prophet out there? Answer: Mohammad and his 1.3 billion deceived followers]. 14They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

15"Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed."
16Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.




Sunday, June 10, 2012


PM blames 'axis of evil' for Syria massacres
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the ongoing massacre of Syrian civilians by President Bashar Assad, blaming the violence on the Axis of Evil: Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.
DEBKAfile: Chemical warfare feared raising its head in the Syrian civil war


A look at Israel's mass evacuation plan - Israel News, Ynetnews: Ministers to discuss plan for evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Israelis to Eilat, Arava area in case of missile attack

Saturday, June 09, 2012

Iranian lawmaker says Parchin to remain off-limits to IAEA inspectors
Comments come as nuclear negotiator says Iran will participate in new round of talks
 
Muslim Cleric: Jerusalem to be Capital of Egypt
“Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca or Medina. It shall be Jerusalem with God’s will. Our chants shall be: ‘millions of martyrs will march towards Jerusalem,’”

Iranian general: Our finger on war trigger: With Western pressure growing on Bashar Assad over the latest massacres of defenseless women and children in Syria, Iranian officials again are warning the world against any action against the Middle East dictator.

Letters show 6 world powers, Iran, remain split on nuke issues | Fox News: Letters between Iran and the EU show Iran and six world powers far apart ahead of talks on reducing concerns about Tehran's nuclear agenda.
PA to pursue non-member state status at UN?
"Yes, 45 years later, Israel may have proven that it is the strongest army in the region, but is it safer? Are its prospects for the future more promising? It does not seem so,"

Israel's prospects have never been brighter and have nothing to do with swapping land for peace with the mythical Palestinians.

Jeremiah 30:

The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, 
2 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Write down for the record everything I have said to you, Jeremiah. 3 For the time is coming when I will restore the fortunes of my people of Israel and Judah. I will bring them home to this land that I gave to their ancestors, and they will possess it again. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
4 This is the message the Lord gave concerning Israel and Judah. 5 This is what the Lord says:
“I hear cries of fear;
    there is terror and no peace.
6 Now let me ask you a question:
    Do men give birth to babies?
Then why do they stand there, ashen-faced,
    hands pressed against their sides
    like a woman in labor?
7 In all history there has never been such a time of terror.
    It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel.
    Yet in the end they will be saved!
8 For in that day,”
    says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
“I will break the yoke from their necks
    and snap their chains.
Foreigners will no longer be their masters.
9     For my people will serve the Lord their God
and their king descended from David—
    the king I will raise up for them.
10 “So do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant;
    do not be dismayed, Israel,”
    says the Lord.
“For I will bring you home again from distant lands,
    and your children will return from their exile.
Israel will return to a life of peace and quiet,
    and no one will terrorize them.

Friday, June 08, 2012

UN nuclear watchdog, Iran fail to reach deal on probe - Israel News, Ynetnews: IAEA official says talks aimed at restoring probe into Iran's atom bomb research have failed; 'Iran is not negotiating in good faith,' Western diplomat says
Iran on verge of disaster - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
Iran's economic future never looked grimmer. It currently suffers from a huge deficit, wide-ranging unemployment, a worthless currency, reckless inflation, and young people who only want to flee the isolated state.

Thursday, June 07, 2012

The British Muslim who went from bullying for Palestine to crying at the Western Wall | The Times of Israel
The turning point for Hafeez occurred when he came across Alan Dershowitz’s “The Case for Israel” in a bookshop.

“I told myself that I would read his arguments, easily refute them, and that would be that,” he says. But refutation of Dershowitz’s arguments proved to be rather difficult for Hafeez.
Israel court clears the deportation of South Sudan migrants

The bulk of some 60,000 Africans who have crossed into Israel through its porous desert border with Egypt are from Sudan, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation that does not recognize the Jewish state, and from war-ravaged Eritrea.

The rightist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees in the migrants a big economic and demographic threat to Israel's already ethnically strained population of 7.8 million.
Putin: We support 'peaceful' Iranian nuke program
 At regional summit in China, Russian president tells Iranian counterpart Ahmadinejad he supports drive for atomic energy.

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Report: Indications Point to New Iran Nuclear Facility
  • Evidence points to new secret Iran centrifuge plant.
  • Defiance of IAEA increases fear Iran developing nuclear arms.
  • Iran trying to cover evidence at secret Parchin site.

Great article - Israel: Why History Matters
...when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, dismissing the past as if it were a minor irritant at best, irrelevant at worst, won't work.
 15 Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. 16 To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume.

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Malachi 4
  “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” 2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. 3 You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.

Preparations for the war to end all wars


Netanyahu, Merkel defend sale of German-supplied submarines to Israel
The magazine also said that Israel was arming submarines provided and largely financed by Germany with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles with the knowledge of the German government.

Germany has already supplied Israel with three Dolphin-class submarines in question and another three are to be delivered by 2017.





Is Iran Building a Third Enrichment Plant?
Thus, under Iran’s interpretation of its safeguards obligations, Iran can essentially finish construction of a gas centrifuge plant before notifying the IAEA of its existence. Iran is trying to assert that is has a right to build a centrifuge plant in secret...

Iran risks that any site subsequently discovered being built in secret will be viewed as a threat, increasing the risks of military confrontation.


 Iran: Our nukes proof of Islamic power
What Tehran really says when world's not listening






Obama’s air-sea blockade plan for Iran delays Israeli strike. Hormuz at stake?
US President Barack Obama has again persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to hold off attacking Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months by promising a new set of severe sanctions against Iran.

Monday, June 04, 2012

Israel fitting nuclear arms on German-supplied subs: report - Yahoo!
Israel is arming submarines supplied and largely financed by Germany with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, influential German news weekly Der Spiegel reports in its issue to be published on Monday.
Syria's Assad likens bloody crackdown to surgery | CTV News
"When a surgeon in an operating room ... cuts and cleans and amputates, and the wound bleeds, do we say to him your hands are stained with blood?" Assad said in a televised speech to parliament. "Or do we thank him for saving the patient?"

Assad insisted the revolt was the work of foreign-backed extremists -- not reformers seeking change.

Saturday, June 02, 2012

Head of World Bank warns Europe is heading for 'danger zone' on bleakest day for global economy this year
Robert Zoellick: 'Far from clear leaders ready for impending catastrophe'
Jpost | Iran threatens to target US bases if attacked
Senior Iranian military commander warns that missiles could reach all parts of Israel, Press TV reports.

Iran official hints Dimona reactor may be targeted -Ynetnews
Khamenei's military adviser says Iran will act 'smartly' if attacked by Israel or US 'proportional to any damage that they inflict on us'
Fars News Agency :: One Million People to Flee Israel in Case of Iran's Reprisal for Israeli Attack
The Iranian Supreme Leader's top military aide dismissed the possibility of a US or Israeli military move against Iran as "weak", and stressed that Iran's crushing reprisal for an Israeli attack will force one million Israelis to flee in the first one or two weeks of the conflict.

Friday, June 01, 2012


Soldier killed in Gaza clash; IDF takes out Jihad terrorist
Golani Staff-Sergeant Netanel Moshiashvili, 21, from Ashkelon, was killed Friday in a clash with a Palestinian terrorist, near Kissufim.


The Islamic Jihad initially said that it was one of its operatives who infiltrated Israel, but later recanted the statement. The terrorist's mission is believed to have been the abduction of an IDF soldier.