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IS ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRAN JUST WEEKS AWAY?

...I would be so glad if Israel and/or the world could find a way to neutralize Iran without violence and bloodshed. But I don’t want to see a Second Holocaust either, and that’s surely what Israel would be facing if Iran gets the Bomb.

I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu believes he is out of other options, and it’s clear to him thus far that the Obama administration is not going to act decisively to prevent Iran from getting the Bomb in time.

There could be numerous detours on the journey in the days and weeks ahead. But unless something dramatic changes quickly, I believe that everyone in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Tehran are on the verge of a massive and imminent war....

Read more: http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/is-israeli-strike-on-iran-just-weeks-away-reading-the-latest-tea-leaves/

15 August 2012 Last updated at 11:42

Israel 'prepared for 30-day war with Iran'

Israel's outgoing home front defence minister says an attack on Iran would likely trigger a month-long conflict that would leave 500 Israelis dead.

Matan Vilnai told the Maariv newspaper that the fighting would be "on several fronts", with hundreds of missiles fired at Israeli towns and cities.

Israel was prepared, he said, though strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities had to be co-ordinated with the US.

Meanwhile, a US blogger has published what he says are Israel's attack plans.

Richard Silverstein told the BBC he had been given an internal briefing memo for Israel's eight-member security cabinet, which outlined what the Israeli military would do to prevent Iran developing nuclear weapons.

Tehran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.

'Israel prepared'

The purported leaked Israeli memo suggests that the military operation would begin with a massive cyber-attack against Iran's infrastructure, followed by a barrage of ballistic missiles launched at its nuclear facilities.

Military command-and-control systems, research and development facilities, and the homes of senior figures in nuclear and missile development would also be targeted.

Only then would manned aircraft be sent in to attack "a short-list of those targets which require further assault".

BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says it is not possible to verify the authenticity of the document, but the proposed mission would be huge and have potentially far-reaching consequences.

Iran's government and military have made it clear that if it is attacked either by Israel or the US, it will respond in kind, either directly or through proxies.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19274866

Bibi’s Secret War Plan
by RICHARD SILVERSTEIN on AUGUST 15, 2012 · 20 COMMENTS
in MIDEAST PEACE

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In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source who received it from an IDF officer. My source, in fact, wrote to me that normally he would not leak this sort of document, but:

“These are not normal times. I’m afraid Bibi and Barak are dead serious.”

The reason they leaked it is to expose the arguments and plans advanced by the Bibi-Barak two-headed warrior. Neither the IDF leaker, my source, nor virtually any senior military or intelligence officer wants this war. While whoever wrote this briefing paper had use of IDF and intelligence data, I don’t believe the IDF wrote it. It feels more likely it came from the shop of national security advisor Yaakov Amridor, a former general, settler true believer and Bibi confidant. It could also have been produced by Defense Minister Barak, another pro-war booster.

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"The Israeli attack will open with a coordinated strike, including an unprecedented cyber-attack which will totally paralyze the Iranian regime and its ability to know what is happening within its borders. The internet, telephones, radio and television, communications satellites, and fiber optic cables leading to and from critical installations—including underground missile bases at Khorramabad and Isfahan—will be taken out of action. The electrical grid throughout Iran will be paralyzed and transformer stations will absorb severe damage from carbon fiber munitions which are finer than a human hair, causing electrical short circuits whose repair requires their complete removal. This would be a Sisyphean task in light of cluster munitions which would be dropped, some time-delayed and some remote-activated through the use of a satellite signal.

A barrage of tens of ballistic missiles would be launched from Israel toward Iran. 300km ballistic missiles would be launched from Israeli submarines in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf. The missiles would not be armed with unconventional warheads [WMD], but rather with high-explosive ordnance equipped with reinforced tips designed specially to penetrate hardened targets.

The missiles will strike their targets—some exploding above ground like those striking the nuclear reactor at Arak–which is intended to produce plutonium and tritium—and the nearby heavy water production facility; the nuclear fuel production facilities at Isfahan and facilities for enriching uranium-hexaflouride. Others would explode under-ground, as at the Fordo facility.

A barrage of hundreds of cruise missiles will pound command and control systems, research and development facilities, and the residences of senior personnel in the nuclear and missile development apparatus. Intelligence gathered over years will be utilized to completely decapitate Iran’s professional and command ranks in these fields.

After the first wave of attacks, which will be timed to the second, the “Blue and White” radar satellite, whose systems enable us to perform an evaluation of the level of damage done to the various targets, will pass over Iran. Only after rapidly decrypting the satellite’s data, will the information be transferred directly to war planes making their way covertly toward Iran. These IAF planes will be armed with electronic warfare gear previously unknown to the wider public, not even revealed to our U.S. ally. This equipment will render Israeli aircraft invisible. Those Israeli war planes which participate in the attack will damage a short-list of targets which require further assault.

Among the targets approved for attack—Shihab 3 and Sejil ballistic missile silos, storage tanks for chemical components of rocket fuel, industrial facilities for producing missile control systems, centrifuge production plants and more."

-While the level of specificity in this document is, in some senses, impressive, in one critical aspect it is deficient. Muhammad Sahimi points out that the current chief of the Revolutionary Guards, when he assumed his position in 2007, deliberately addressed the issue of over-centralization of command and control by dividing the nation into 31 districts. Each of these has its own independent command and control facilities and mechanisms. So Israel wouldn’t be able to knock out a single facility and paralyze the IRG. They’d need to knock out 31 separate sets of facilities–a much harder task.

There seems also to be an assumption that Iran’s leaders and nuclear specialists live nice domestic lives and that Israeli intelligence knows where they all live and can easily target them. In truth, the most senior Iranian military and scientific figures live clandestine lives and it’s hard for me to believe even the Mossad knows where they are and how to target them.

So it appears that Netanyahu believes he’s fighting Saddam circa 2003. During that war, the Iraqi Revolutionary Guards were centralized and knocking out one C&C center could decapitate the entire military apparatus. But Iran has learned from Saddam’s mistakes. It isn’t fighting the last war as Bibi appears to be. It is preparing for the next one. While Israel may have new tricks up its sleeve that no one in the world has yet seen, if it doesn’t understand the nature of the enemy, its defenses, its structure, etc. then it can’t win.

full: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/

Jonathan Marcus
BBC Diplomatic Correspondent

The text of the purported Israeli cabinet memo is just that, text. There is no document as such and thus it is impossible to verify if it is indeed an Israeli cabinet paper of some kind. But its purpose for Richard Silverstein is clear. He believes it was passed by a serving officer to the politician and then leaked by him precisely to alert the outside world to the scale of Israel's military plan to strike at Iran and thus to reduce the chances of it ever happening.

An unprecedented public debate is under way in Israel on the wisdom of launching an attack against Iran. And this leaked document, whatever its source, and whatever its original purpose, has become an element in that debate.

The document itself is striking in both the scale and scope of the military operation that it proposes. It also employs a range of technologies, many of which we have known that the Israelis are developing, but this document suggests that they are battle-ready and fully operational.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19274866

To see Christians cheering this war with Iran on is so frightening

Nobody is cheering calamity !

We know that these things are coming...ancient prophecy is being fulfilled before our very eyes, and wishing them away or criticizing others because they watch will not be helpful at all in the time before us.

We are commanded by the Lord to know the signs and times in which we live, and to watch and pray. Others here have been prophetically warning about the coming persecution on the saints; this too is a prophecy concerning the days in which we live...the days of the times of Jacob's trouble, and of the Great Tribulation. soon now.

Any war. One that would go nuclear. Would kill off many brothers and sisters. Conceivably abort what the Spirit of God is doing in that region.

Why do you feel that a war in the Middle East would abort what the Spirit of God is doing there? Doesn't sound like the Lord that I know; I would hope contrary to you your statement and say that God can keep His own Spirit alive and well in the midst of calamity ! This is the God I know ! ...else how would anybody get saved at all during the Great Tribulation as per: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+7%3A9&version=ESV

...it comes, are you ready?

This may be of interest to you...

Yesterday my brother from CO called and he asked me if I am hearing anyone talk about a possible Armegeddon about to explode in the Middle-East? He said he has been reading the news a lot and as he recalls the old men years ago would talk about its possibility, so are you hearing anyone say anything like this now?

I said, "Oh, yes! People here on SI talk about it a lot, people in our church do as well!" He was pleased to have this affirmation, that he is not weird for perceiving that something serious is afoot.

This question comes from someone who is not really a serious student of prophecy and whose church believes in amillennialism. I find it amazing that when one who is alert he/she sees this coming.

God bless.

Sadly....I feel another World War is undoubtedly waiting in the wings for us all. Don't know if this particular Scripture could have double meaning and double fulfillment, but here it is:

Isaiah 7:8 states, ".....within 65 years Ephraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people."

1948 plus 65 years is 2013.

If you count 65 years from 1947 when all the documentation for Israel was drawn up and signed....then 2012 could be the year for big trouble.

I hope I'm wrong.

If not...and we do experience a global war very soon, then it behooves all of us to "examine ourselves" and see to it that we truly have pushed thru that very small, camouflaged and narrow gate and are walking on the narrow path with a faith enough to please Him. Pulling away from the popular "Christian" masses ends up being quite lonely as Tozer put it...but it's what God requires of us...to be a peculiar people and set apart. His companionship is the sweet reward we get....right here right now.

"God, glorify Yourself at my expense."

Hey Sis JIG....good thoughts you shared.

I love that principle of double/triple fulfillments of any given prophecy.

The Easterner sees time in circles where certain things/events will repeat. The Western mind just sees time in a long straight line. Maybe that's why the Western church tends to forget the multiple fulfillment idea. Ecclesiastes carries an important secret: If you wanna know the future, then study the past...because it will repeat.

Regarding "The Plan" of taking out the 3 monotheistic religions, I find Revelation's symbol of The Whore riding the Beast to be pretty interesting. Apparently, there comes a day when the beast (bad government as a whole) gets sick and tired of the controlling whore (apostate religion as a whole)...tosses her to the ground and shreds her into pieces....kinda like Jezebel herself got tossed and shredded. I suspect that after they get WW3 that they want, true Christianity will no longer be tolerated.

Hopefully...that will be our finest day...when we are tested and found as solid as The Rock Himself. I've got lots more Faith to practice and avail myself of before that severe day of testing in N.A.

"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him."

It will be a wonderful blessing that we all can "network" thru the Spirit and pray for one another as the testing increases...especially when the Internet goes down.