by NEVE GORDON
Recent raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to defense – they were also about war with Iran.
In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at southern Israel and the Israeli military launched air strikes at targets throughout the Strip.
Within hours, the media fanfare began. Israeli news outlets began glorifying the interception missiles by repeatedly showing images of an Iron Dome battery, often with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak standing in front of the defense system. Reporters continuously emphasized the Iron Dome’s high rate of success in intercepting the short-range rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel. One columnist characterized it as a “system that provides the goods, authentic Israeli brilliance, true pride”, while another columnist stated that this “weekend Israel took its hat off [to salute] Iron Dome”.
Initially, the government and security establishment claimed that “al-Qaisi was assassinated in order to prevent an attack that was in the final stages of preparation”. Two days after Israel carried out the extra-judicial execution, however, the claim that al-Qaisi presented an imminent danger dissipated.
On March 11, Ofer Shelah reported that “even from the statements made yesterday by the Minister of Defense one got the sense that the assassination was not about direct prevention: Barak clearly stated that it is not totally clear what was being planned, from where, and whether the attack had been foiled. From this, it can be assumed that the attack was more about deterrence”.
‘Planned escalation’
As the days passed, several commentators revealed that the assassination had been planned well in advance and that the military had made the necessary preparations, including deployment of the Iron Dome batteries. “A Planned Escalation,” read the title of one article in Yedioth Ahronoth and in the text, the analyst explained that the “IDF had prepared an ambush” for al-Qaisi. Yoav Limor, an “expert on military affairs”, wrote that in essence “al-Qaisi was alive-dead for over a week, and his assassination was delayed until the prime minister completed his diplomatic campaign in Washington, and until after the Purim Holiday and the weather cleared up”. Most analysts intimated that Israel knew that the assassination would lead to an escalation. And this, it almost seems, is what it wanted.
The question, of course, is why?
There are those who totally misunderstood Israel’s goals. Ma’ariv’s top political analyst Ben Kaspit called for an extensive attack against the Strip, portraying the residents of southern Israel as hostages of a “terrorist gang that has infested Gaza… [and] that can spray the whole south with rockets”. In his view Barak had stopped the IDF at the beginning of Operation Cast Lead ostensibly for humanitarian reasons, but fortunately the operation turned out to be successful not least because in its midst “the leaders of Hamas cut their beards and went down to the tunnels”. Kaspit concludes that it is now time to “complete the job”. “We need to understand,” he tells his readers, “that no one will clean Gaza for us… and terror, unfortunately, understands only one language.”
Judy Nir Moses Shalom, the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, is not the most sophisticated thinker either. “I hope,” she wrote on her Facebook page, “that during the cabinet meeting a decision will be reached to enter Gaza and to liquidate all those responsible for the nightmare which the south is undergoing. Enough silence. The time has come to make Gaza’s passive residents suffer like [Israel's southern] residents.” As if this kind of beastly reaction was not enough, she also tweeted to her followers: “Have a good week. I hope that today it will be decided to demolish Gaza if the shooting does not stop. So that they will suffer too.”
Most analysts wittingly or unwittingly intimated, however, that there were other reasons for initiating the current cycle of violence, and justifying a major offensive on Gaza was not one of them.
Message for Iran
The majority of reporters and columnists served as the mouthpiece for the security establishment, calling on the government to allocate more funds to buy additional Iron Domes. Or Heller from Channel Ten is a good example. He asked his audience to “imagine how this cycle would have looked without the success of three Iron Dome batteries… imagine the tanks that would have had to enter Gaza’s mud… a fourth battery is on its way. What about a fifth battery? God is great and the budget is small. It is clear to everyone today that we need more and more Iron Domes.” Ofer Shelah from NRG put it succinctly: “The prime minister must decide unequivocally… that Iron Dome, like other defense mechanisms, is beyond the realm of the budget debate.” Another more reflective reporter pointed out that the Grad rockets “flying from the Strip serve as the best lobbyist for the defense budget”.
The recent attack is, however, not only about allocating more money to the military; it is also about Iran. The media continuously drew a connection between the Islamic jihad, which launched most of the rockets against Israel, and Iran. The IDF spokesperson pointed an accusing finger towards Teheran, claiming that it is transferring weapons and money to the Islamic Jihad. A couple of days later a headline in Yisrael Hayom declared, “Iran is Behind the Jihad’s Rocket Attack”. Hence, another objective was to show the Israeli public that Iran, by means of a proxy, had already begun attacking Israel.
Next, a link was drawn between Iron Dome’s success and the perceived Iranian threat. Ynet cited a military general who stated that the escalation is about Gaza today, “but I am not sure that this is the scenario for which I am preparing the fighters. There are threats from the north and threats from further away”. A columnist noted that Iron Dome’s effectiveness “helped demonstrate to everyone that the Israeli home front enjoys a relatively good defense today… Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran will have to reconsider their strategy of missile terrorism…”
Indeed, many analysts emphasized that only a handful of Israelis had been injured, but none fatally. The fighting, they accordingly claimed, produced relatively little pressure on the home front. Alon Ben David from Channel Ten summed up this perspective when he wrote: “There is no doubt that Iron Dome alongside the population’s exemplary behavior prevented casualties on the Israeli side and enabled Israel to come out of this cycle – I would say – with a sense of satisfaction. Twenty-two [combatants] were killed on the other side, and another three or four civilians; we have zero losses… under these conditions we can conduct a monitored [fray] that we initiate…”
Zvi Barel from Haaretz was one of the lone critical voices, providing readers some insight into Israel’s real objectives. He exposed the logic behind the Iron Dome’s glorification, claiming that it helps Netanyahu “sell” the planned attack against Iran: “After Iron Dome demonstrated its 95 per cent effectiveness, there is no better proof to Israeli citizens that they will not suffer serious damage following an assault against Iran. Escalation in Gaza is good for Israel, meaning for those who support attacking Iran”.
In a slightly different context and using Netanyahu’s duck allegory, Haaretz’s editor-in-chief Aluf Benn wrote, “what looks like a preparation for war, acts like a preparation for war, and quacks like a preparation for war, is a preparation for war, and not just a ‘bluff’ or a diversion tactic”.
The title Tsar is derived from the Latin word for emperor, Caesar. In comparison to the corresponding Latin word "imperator", the Byzantine Greek term basileus was used differently depending on whether it was in a contemporary political context and in a historical or Biblical context. In the history of the Greek language, the word had originally meant something like "potentate", it had gradually approached the meaning of "king" in the Hellenistic Period, and it came to designate "emperor" after the inception in the Roman Empire. As a consequence, Byzantine sources continued to call the Biblical and ancient kings "basileus", even when that word had come to mean "emperor" when referring to contemporary monarchs (while it was never applied to Western European kings, whose title was transliterated from Latin "rex" as ῥήξ, or to other monarchs, for whom designations such as ἄρχων "leader", "chieftain" were used.)
These are not going to be honest elections we must relent, "said Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, as he voted in Moscow. “Honest elections should be our constant motto for years to come.” This statement coming out of the mouth of the man who lead Russia into a New World Order during the time of former U.S. president Ronald Regan. What we are witnessing here with a statement such as that is hypocrisy in its highest form.
Because of his fraudulent re-election, what the world is looking at in the form of Putin is the supreme Czar of Russia, another puppet of the Global elitists as they go about setting up their insidious New World Order.
The only serious contenders in the race for the presidency were actually far worse than what he is, if that could ever be possible at all. In second place was Gennady Zyuganov, the head of the Communist Party, who received 17% of the vote. In third place was Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the anti-Semitic, fascist, ultranationalist, who received 7% of the vote. Accordingly, as these were not the type of men who would tow the party line and do as they were told it is quite easy to see why the Illuminati would have put Putin back into place.
In addition, some have been suggesting for a number of years that there is a very strong possibility that Putin could be the Antichrist. There is still one thing that we need to look at with that being the man in question, and what he is going to do from now on and what he has done in the past. That is going to be the only litmus test to determine if indeed Putin is the Antichrist. Alternatively, is this is just more fanciful thinking by those who have been brainwashed into thinking that he may be. As with everything concerned with the Bible Prophecies, no one really knows just how they are going to pan out until they actually eventuate.
Here is a slight whiff of paranoia; it may be a good idea to reconsider which search engine you favour? Google is not going to be able to monitor which websites the Internet user visits, but is also going to keep a record of the sites visited to be able to retrieve that information later on.
Not only that, when the same result could have been achieved with Wireless Broadband, the Australian government is in the process of spending a massive 50 billion dollars for a National Broadband Network supposedly to achieve higher Internet download speeds? A small box will be fitted to the side of the house of those with the NBN (and that includes everyone who has the Internet) so that the websites can not only be monitored, but can also be blocked without the permission of the Internet user. That fact in itself equates to total control of the Internet, which means that Australia is going to be the first country, apart from China, that is going to be subjective to this type power over the Internet user.
All of this is going on even before we mention smart meters. Once a smart meter is fitted to the side of the house the electricity supply to a house is going to be subjective to the on and off control of a central operator.
There is also a new and insidious Carbon Tax now being forced upon the consumer, which in itself is going to skyrocket electricity prices through the roof and deliberately destroy whatever manufacturing we have left in this country. So welcome to the New World Order.
Even though all of the above equates to nothing more than doom and gloom there is more bad news yet to follow. We now also have the infrastructure and technology in place for the Mark of the Beast. Accordingly, the mark is now being introduced through Mobile Phones with the camera facility on the rear of the phones being able to scan the microchip implant for the transference of payment for goods and services, and yet there are still some who are suggesting the end times is but yet hundreds of years into the future?
If ever there was a time right throughout the course of history when we needed the Lord to return it is right now more than any other time? God bless all.
Part 1
Quote: Former Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy will be re-appointed European Union President this week and be given the task of chairing regular eurozone summits, diplomats in Brussels said yesterday. The decisions are to be announced on the first of a two-day summit tomorrow, EU sources said. Van Rompuy’s two-and-a-half year mandate expires at the end of May. His role, which was created by the Lisbon Treaty – the EU’s new rulebook – is to chair and prepare leaders’ meetings and represent the bloc in meetings with other nations. Over the past two years, as Europe was plunged into its debt crisis, he has also informally chaired eurozone-only summit meetings. The fiscal compact, a budget discipline treaty approved in January and due to be signed at this week’s EU summit, has institutionalized that role by creating the position of ‘President of the Euro Summit’. End of quote: There were a few points that the late and great Barry Smith had said during the course of his lifetime's ministry that have hold particular relevance to the information presented above. One of those points was that the Antichrist would be appointed as the head of the Common Market, or the EU as it is known as on this day, as its president,. Of course, that has happened because the EU effectively now does have a president in the form of Herman Van Rompuy. Although it seems in the eyes of some Van Rompuy is not what they thought he was going to be. The likes of Nigel Farage has described him as having all the appearance of a damp rag and the charisma of a bank clerk, not that there is anything at all wrong with bank clerks. Barry Smith had also said that once Antichrist made his appearance good and decent people would put their complete trust in him and hand everything over to him, including their very souls. That also has just happened because of the bailout packages the EU has been subjective to of late.
Part 2
Remember also that we are told the Antichrist achieves his kingdom by flattery (or sweet-talk) and intrigue, meaning that the Antichrist is a trickster and a master of deception. If there is anyone out there who can decipher some of the statements that Van Rompuy comes out with then you are better than what I am. Both of those descriptions, describe Van Rompuy to a tee, and as that is the instance of the matter, events are falling right into place for the fulfilment of the remainder of the Bible prophecies. That is true particularly in the light of recent developments where Van Rompuys current tenure as EU president has extended for a further two and a half year term. Consequently, what we have now seen as a direct result of that extension is the promotion of Van Rompuy from the president of the Council of Ministers to the President of the Euro Summits. (See the aforementioned) Accordingly, it now looks like there will be more and more power given over to him as he moves further and further down to track to take over the running of the EU, lock stock and barrel. It now seems likely that his authority is going to reach such a degree of power that he will be announced as the president of the EU very shortly. What that means is that he will act with all the authority of the president of the United States without there ever actually having been a time when he had been subjective to the whims and fancies of the voters within the EU. There is a distinct difference though, while the president of the United States is nothing more than a figurehead who simply reads out prepared speeches, Van Rompuy will hold ultimate control over every individual within the sphere of the EU from the cradle to the grave as its unrivalled dictator. Just as the word of God has described what the circumstances would be like in these last days. Alternatively, is what I have said above really nothing much more than pure conjecture with the likelihood of anything mentioned above ever happening within the interim future as extremely remote as ever. With everything else mentioned here all that we are able to do it just wait and see how all of this eventually pans out in the end. God bless all.
by NEVE GORDON
