Christ First Forum

Iran and Israel play cat and mouse

March 10, 2010

Asia Times Online reports: “Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.

Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences between the two countries could lead to vortex of violence capable of sucking the entire region into a new war.

‘Diplomacy and sanctions are not going to work with Iran. Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is a messianic ideologue. He is a follower of the extremist Shi'ite cleric Mesach Yazdi, who even the late Ayatollah [Ruhollah] Khomeini rejected as too extreme,’ says senior policy advisor Dan Diker from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

‘Iran has been threatening Israel with destruction for a long time and this language needs to be taken seriously,’ Diker told Inter Press Service.

‘Furthermore, the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed recently what Israel has been saying for 15 years and that is the Iranian regime is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons,’ Diker added.

The Israeli media have reported that Syria, considered an Iranian proxy, has been transferring advanced weapons, of the type which it dared not to hand over before, to the Shi'ite resistance organization Hezbollah in Lebanon.

A senior researcher for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, that Syria had crossed a red line.

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a conservative and pro-Israeli think-tank, reported, ‘Syria may have delivered to Hezbollah Russian-made shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles - the Igla-S [SA-24 by its North Atlantic Treaty Organization code] which could pose a threat to the Israeli Air Force's [IAF's] F-16 fighters.’

The IDF has further warned that since the second Israel-Lebanon war in 2006 Hezbollah has engaged in extensive activity, focusing on a military build-up in the south of Lebanon…”


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Tells it pretty much like it is. It may very well start with a small, border skirmish, with the potential to escalate into the prophecied war of Psalms 83, which I think will soon lead to the fulfillment of Isaiah 17.

Iranian Ahmadinejad is truly a messianic ideologue.

No one can deal with him except for God...

The whole world is sitting by while they build more and more of their weaponery...