Gaza: The Countdown Continues...

[Alex]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you some extracts from a commentary appearing in a national newspaper today in Britain, written by Kevin Toolis, an expert on terrorism.

WHY WE SHOULD ALL FEAR THE CIVIL WAR IN GAZA

Chaos has come again to the Palestinians. The prospects for peace in the Middle East, it seems, have never been worse.

In a savage bout of bloodletting, Hamas has overthrown its secular Fatah rivals, who are loyal to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.

A state of emergency has been declared and the Palestinian Government of National Unity has been dissolved.

Civil war has flared up with Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah declaring war on Hamas in the West Bank. No one knows what is going to happen next.

One thing is clear. Gaza is now under the military control of one of the most feared militant Islamic organisations on the planet.

And that means Hamas's victory there is not just an obscure squabble between Palestinian clans.

It is part of the clash of civilisation and could even be a marker for all of us on the road to a Middle East nuclear showdown. It marks a rise in the strength and morale of Islamic militants and their extremist sympathisers in the UK.

...Hamas is committed to the destruction of the state of Israel, and its fighters have carried out scores of suicide bombings on Israeli buses.

Predictably it has declared a new era of "Islamic rule" in Gaza....Many Palestinians fear they are about to be ruled by an Iranian-style theocracy...

Hamas's victory in Gaza is also a victory for the hard-liners of the Iranian regime in Tehran, and a defeat for the United States and its allies.

For three years, Iran has been smuggling arms to Hamas through a network of tunnels under the southern Gaza-Egypt border. Hamas has also used this covert arms supply to launch a rocket war against nearby towns in Southern Israel.

In the bigger picture, what happens in Gaza is part of the wider, undeclared war between Iran and Israel and the US.

Iran's President Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". And despite Iranian claims that it's developing nuclear technology only for peaceful purposes, many believe it intends to build a bomb.

In the Israeli military establishment there are many who believe Iran wants the nuclear bomb for one reason - to attack Israel.

And a number of Israel's generals believe Iran must be attacked before it has built a bomb.

The countdown to an Israeli attack on Iran is already ticking even though the consequences are almost incalculable.

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"You are going to hear of wars and reports of wars; see that YOU are not terrified. For these things must take place, but the end is not yet." - Jesus Christ.

Yes, the countdown continues towards this world's end, and how privileged we are to begin to understand the meaning behind world events. The Future Judgment view continues to become ever more feasible, and the prophetic pattern is coming alive, to assist us in keeping spiritually awake, awaiting for the arrival of our Master.

Brotherly affection to all, Alex.

[watchman]

Sounds like typical Anglo propaganda. For one thing, Hamas is not viewed as a terrorist organization in Palestine. They are patriots and freedom fighters.

The U.S. says they want to spread democracy around the world. Well, guess what? Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people to represent them in Parliment. Obviously, democracy backfired on the Anglo-American-Zionist clique.

Secondly, the Iranian president never said Israel ought to be wiped from the map. That was an intentional mistranslation by the Western media that has been used to demonize Iran.

The problems in the Middle East could easily be settled if the United States played even handedly. But that's not what they want. The neo-cons are determined to blow up the Middle East and take over Iran's vast oil field and then go after Russia and China. To achieve that goal they are creating destabilizations throughout the region in order to incite and inflame Islamic passions as a pretext for military intervention.

[Jinnvisible]

I think that the US millitary will be able to subdue the Arabian middle East, I don`t think that the Arab contries will be able to stand up to the might of the US war machine.

I don`t think that the U.S. will survive it though as it presently exists. I think it will destroy The USA`s self determination. The ensuing chaos will serve to faciliitate the acceedance of power from the US to the UN. (Perhaps bus stopping along the way to the North American Alliance in the same way that Europe may be headed toward a superstate). That will be when many patriots wake up from their American dream.

[Nambo]

I think that the US millitary will be able to subdue the Arabian middle East, I don`t think that the Arab contries will be able to stand up to the might of the US war machine.

I don`t think that the U.S. will survive it though as it presently exists. I think it will destroy The USA`s self determination. The ensuing chaos will serve to faciliitate the acceedance of power from the US to the UN. (Perhaps bus stopping along the way to the North American Alliance in the same way that Europe may be headed toward a superstate). That will be when many patriots wake up from their American dream.[/b]

I think the bus will stop at a North American Alliance anyway, I had only seen this mentioned on so called "conspiracy sites", but here http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2006/pr100406.htm is presidential candidate Ron Paul opposing such a thing.

Here in the UK, we are also galloping along to a One World Government via continental "Superstates" http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/10248/...27terrorists%27 (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/10248/Opponents%2Bof%2BEU%2Btreaty%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bbein g%2B%27terrorists%27)

I also read that Ron Paul wants to take away control of Americas monetary system from the private bankers who own the Federal Reserve.
Probably not a wise move in view of what happened to JFK when he tried that one.
Or it could push them into creating the monetary collapse such as the one they instigated to create the Fed in the first place

I read that "Today the national debt is approximately $7.9 trillion, and growing by over a billion a day.", goodness, amagine the mischief you could create with that kind of money!

[Jeshurun]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but speaking of the North American Union, I saw a video on YouTube that showed a CNN clip with Lou Dobbs reporting on the "Security and Prosperity Partnership". The date was 11/29/06. Funny how this story hasn't been seen or heard since, that I know of.

Here's the transcript:

When Mexican president Vicente Fox leaves office this week and Felipe Calderon takes his place, President Bush will be the last of the so-called three amigos. Bush, Fox, and, of course, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin were the originators of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership, which critics call nothing more than a North American union. It means open borders, commerce of all costs, and, by the way, without the approval of either American voters or the U.S. Congress.

Christine Romans reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Waco, Texas, 2005. Under these three men, the Security and Prosperity Partnership was born. An effort, the governments say, to harmonize regulation and increase cooperation between three very different countries.

The Mexican president in Cancun this spring...

VICENTE FOX, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We need to elevate the competitiveness of our economies.

ROMANS: And a new Canadian prime minister joining the discussions as this North American partnership barrels ahead, with departments and ministries of all three governments working quickly to integrate North America by 2010. The official progress report boasting, "Implementation is on track."

And now Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, widely expected to keep the progress moving. Critics, though, say there's too little transparency and no congressional oversight.

TOM FITTON, JUDICIAL WATCH: There's nothing wrong with neighboring governments talking to each other, synchronizing their watches to make sure they're all on the same page in the cases of emergency or on trade issues or even on the flows of goods and people. But if policies are being made that the American people might oppose, or that are contrary to the law, especially as it relates to immigration, you know, they're doing something a bit more nefarious.

ROMANS: He points to SPP documents urging the free flow of goods and people across borders and a wish list from business interests that borders remain open during a flu pandemic. Worse, critics say foreign policy elites are promoting a European-style union, erasing borders between the three countries and eventually moving to a single North American currency called the amaro (ph).

A Commerce Department spokesman, however, denies this -- "There is absolutely no plan for a common currency."

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ROMANS: Speculation about that erupted again this week after some in the Canadian business contingent included a list of their long-term goals for the SPP. But people involved with the partnership between the three countries are very quick to distance themselves, Lou, from that very, very unpopular idea.

DOBBS: The fact is -- and everyone watching you and that report tonight -- for any American to think that it is acceptable for the president of the United States and this executive department of his government, his administration, our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a dialogue and a debate and a -- and a public voice from the people of this country is absolutely unconscionable.

ROMANS: The defense of those folks who are saying that they're involved with the SPP is that they're not doing anything that would require congressional approval or voter approval. They're just harmonizing the regulations between the three countries.

DOBBS: What they're doing is creating a brave new world, an Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant. And I think we've had a sampling of what's going to happen to people who do that in the future.

I can't imagine this standing. But then again, I couldn't imagine its beginning nor the fact that it's gotten this far.