[This is a fascinating article. In here, we see talk of Russia getting stuck into the Middle East. Of course, the USA is well-established there. Can Russia just waltz in? Personally, I can’t see Russia(43)+Iran defeating USA(43)+Israel.

Nevertheless, it is a fascinating scenario.

An Israeli attack on Iran could have serious implications – but whether they would go this far – I don’t know.

Note though, what Clinton & Gore got up to SECRETLY, when people weren’t really watching!? Look at how they helped the Russians, and how they helped prepare the way for the current problem!! Jan]

The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 51 Issue: 12 – Monday, December 12, 2005
————————————————————————–Israel Readying For Gog-Magog?

According to a report in the respected London Sunday Times, Israel’s armed forces were put on alert by Ariel Sharon to prepare for possible strikes against secret uranium nuclear enrichment plants in Iran.

Israel’s intelligence services warned the government that Iran is operating small uranium enrichment facilities in concealed civilian locations around the country.

By way of background, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been beating the drums of war in Israel’s direction, saying in one speech that Israel should be wiped off the map, and in another saying Israel should be relocated to Europe.

Last week, he claimed the Holocaust was a Zionist fiction made up by Jews to win world sympathy after the war. Germany summoned Iran’s ambassador to Berlin for a meeting to ‘clarify’ his remarks.

According to a German foreign ministry spokesman, the meeting was aimed at making clear to the diplomat that Berlin was strongly opposed to Ahmadinejads remarks and regarded them as “completely unacceptable”.

Amadinejad responded by telling the TV channel El Alam that if Germany and Austria had guilty feelings about World War II massacres of Jews, “they were welcome to accommodate the state of Israel on their own soil.”

In addition, Iran has even managed to exasperate the ever-patient Egyptian head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA]. El Baradei, no friend of the United States or US foreign policy, is himself an Egyptian, who began his career in 1964, under the Arab Socialist Nasser.

A Muslim, El-Baradei served in Egypt’s diplomatic service during both of Egypt’s wars against Israel in 1967 and 1973. His anti-Israeli and pro-Islam biases were so pronounced that the United States unsuccessfully lobbied against his re-appointment to a third term at the IAEA.

So when even Mohammed El-Baradei confirmed this week that Iran is only a few months away from having an atomic bomb, Israel began preparing for war with its most dangerous enemy.

Assessment:

Iran’s entire nuclear program is a Russian construct; one that is worth billions of dollars to Russia’s cash-strapped economy.

Iran’s nuclear facilities are crawling with Russian nationals; technicians, scientists, advisors, security and military personnel — and, in many cases, their families. A strike against these facilities would undoubtedly kill many of them, including some of the cream of Russia’s nuclear scientists.

The Russians are unlikely to shrug their shoulders, bury their dead, and head back to Moscow to explain to their investors that Israel blew up all their investments.

Indeed, Moscow only last week signed a $1 billion contract to sell Iran advanced anti-missile systems capable of disrupting smart bomb technology. Moscow is relying on the terms of a secret 1995 agreement called the “Gore-Chernomyrdin Protocol” that Russian officials say permits continued military sales to Iran.

In 1995, as part of the terms of the then-secret deal, Gore effectively promised that the US would look the other way while the Russians armed Iran. The Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol was first disclosed publicly in 2000. The Russians claim Gore promised to help Russia enter the international arms market, but then he reneged on the promise.

The deal was supposed to expire in 1999, but by then, the Russians were far too deeply engaged in their nuclear deals with Iran to worry about expiration dates on secret deals that Al Gore and the Clinton administration wanted to keep under wraps anyway.

So, by 2000, the stage was set for what bears all the necessary elements to fulfill Ezekiel’s prophecy regarding the Gog-Magog War. Let me add, this is the first time in history that all those parts envisioned by Ezekiel were in place.

According to Ezekiel 38:5 the players are Israel, Russia, Iran, Islamic North Africa, together with parts of Meditteranean North Africa.

In that light, it is both fascinating and terrifying to watch Russia being slowly, inexorably drawn into the Middle East conflict, almost against its better judgement.

Driven by Russia’s economic and strategic needs to outflank the West’s perceived drive for global economic dominance,the circumstances make it virtually impossible for Russia to sit it out while Israeli warplanes, backed by the United States, bomb Russian citizens and Russian foreign investments into oblivion.

Ezekiel sets no boundaries as to the length of the Gog Magog War, other than to say it culimates with an all out (and unopposed) invasion of Israel that ends with their destruction ‘against the mountains of Israel’. The destruction is so complete that Ezekiel says it will take the Israelis seven years to decontaminate the area, burn the invader’s weapons and bury its dead.

Ezekiel describes the destruction of Gog-Magog’s invading army this way:

“And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.”

Ezekiel penned his prophecy in the middle of the 5th century BC, one thousand years before Mohammed, two thousand years before Columbus, and twenty-five hundred years before Israel’s restoration.

His prophecy and the forecasts of modern-day secular futurists examining current geo-political trends differ only in that in Ezekiel’s vision, Israel wins.

Whether or not Ezekiel’s scenario will be fulfilled in the immediate aftermath of any Israeli strike on Iran is unclear. It takes time to mount an invasion force, — and America still stands in the way. (Unless it is otherwise taken out of the picture, either by a massive terrorist strike — or perhaps the Rapture? )

What IS clear is that, for the first time in history, the conditions for Ezekiel’s scenario to move forward are exact, down to the tiniest detail.

And we have the Word of Jesus Christ, Who promised, “And when these things BEGIN to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21:28)
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