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Syria Preparing for War with Israel
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John Henry
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Jun 16, 2007 04:02 PDT
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Arab Media Reports Syria Making Preparations for War with Israel
By Hana Levi Julian
June 15, 2007
(IsraelNN.com) A Qatari newspaper, Al Watan, reported Friday that Syria
is making concrete preparations for war with Israel, saying that the
Syrian government has removed the Government and State Archives from the
Damascus area. According to the paper, this move indicates preparations
for war.
Syrian parliament member Muhammad Habash confirmed on Al-Jazeera Arabic
world news satellite TV last week that Syria is indeed engaged in active
preparations for a war with Israel. The conflict, said the Syrian MP, is
expected to break out during the summer months.
Officials close to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reported Sunday that their
efforts to begin negotiations with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have
gone unanswered. They also said that Mr. Assad's failure to reply
signaled that his claims of wanting peace were not honest and were meant
to improve his own status in the international community.
Last week, the head of Mossad, Israel's international intelligence
agency, Meir Dagan, warned that Syrian President Assad was putting up a
smoke screen by claiming he wants to open peace talks with the Jewish
State.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has also raised the issue
numerous times. "The IDF is preparing for an escalation on both the
Palestinian and the northern fronts," he said bluntly during a
speech to the IDF Officers Training School earlier in the year.
The IDF held a large-scale exercise ten days ago simulating a Syrian
invasion to Israel's north. Infantry units, tank divisions and the Air
Force took part in the exercise, which took place at the Shizafon IDF
installation, in the southern Negev.
Asked about the exercise by Army Radio, Defense Minister Amir Peretz said
that the IDF was indeed preparing for the possibility of war with Syria,
but said this does not mean that Israel would initiate such a war.
"Our preparedness is not an indication of any decision by either us
or Syria to go to war - these are purely defensive measures," he
said.
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The Lord Jesus said, "... Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but
the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew
24:4-8) The "sorrows" here are like those of a woman when
she about to delivered her child. God told Eve that He would
"greatly multiply [her] sorrow and [her] conception; in sorrow [she
would] bring forth children" (Genesis 3:16). Similarly a
"sign of [Christ's] coming, and of the end of the world"
(Matthew 24:3) will be as a woman's birth pains increase as time for
delivery nears. All five of the things in Matthew 24:4-7 (false
christs, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes) will be simultaneously
increasing as the time of the end draws near. Research shows that
this is in fact occurring in our lifetime.
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