Israeli warplanes flew over the divided Golan Sunday, Nov. 4, in a show of strength and as a deterrent against the Syrian civil war seeping across the border, DEBKAfile’s military and Western intelligence sources report. In Paris, President Francois Hollande vowed Sunday that “France would oppose with all its strength any bid to destabilize Lebanon. Lebanon must be protected.”
He spoke regardless of the 5,000 Lebanese Shiite Hizballah fighters who have poured into Syria from their Beqaa Valley stronghold of al-Harmel to fight Bashar Assad’s war. Our sources reveal that these Lebanese fighters have now advanced 50-60 kilometers deep into southwestern Syria, up to the outskirts of the embattled town of Homs.On the Golan, further to the east, Israel’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz visited the IDF contingent stationed there to reinforce the message broadcast by the IAF.
Hizballah is now openly flaunting the presence of its regular troops in Syria. They are armed with heavy artillery and Chinese WS-1 multiple-launch rocket systems made in Iran. These “Katyushas,” shoot 302mm rockets at targets up to 100 kilometers away and can operate in the rugged mountain terrain of Lebanon, Syria and Israel and in harsh weather conditions, including snow.
Hizballah is now openly flaunting the presence of its regular troops in Syria. They are armed with heavy artillery and Chinese WS-1 multiple-launch rocket systems made in Iran. These “Katyushas,” shoot 302mm rockets at targets up to 100 kilometers away and can operate in the rugged mountain terrain of Lebanon, Syria and Israel and in harsh weather conditions, including snow.
Hizballah fighters are reported by our sources to have already used this weapon with deadly effect in a battle with Syrian rebels over the town of Quseir opposite the Lebanese Beqaa Valley. It ended in Hizbalah’s capture of the town.Coordination is tight: Hizballah forces on the ground get in touch with Iranian command headquarters in Beirut and Damascus to call up Syrian helicopters for air cover.
This information presented above confirms what we already knew: Hezbollah serves as a proxy to Iran and they are directly under the commend of Iran. When the prophetic wars begin, this will be an important factor.
A recent annual military exercise that Russia held, called Kavkaz-2012, or Caucasus-2012, apparently assumed that Russian battalions would be going up against U.S. Marines who had landed on a Black Sea coast
Without saying which coast, analysts believe such a likely scenario would have been Georgia, which until recently had frigid relations with Moscow and was the subject of a Russian invasion in 2008.
Why is Georgia so important to the land of MaGog (aka Russia)? Don't forget - in the prophetic battle described in Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-MaGog and their allies will attack from the 'far north'. Georgis is a necessary corridor for such an invasion.
According to regional sources, Russian President Vladimir Putin had visited a military training exercise at the training ground Rayevsky near the port city of Novorossiysk.
The military was simulating an attack from U.S. Marines who had presumed to have landed at a Russian Black Sea port. The exercise had the simulated Marine force penetrate deep into Russian territory with armor and air support to take over possible natural gas and oil pipeline terminals, and even one of the many residences Putin has at his disposal.
At the end of the exercise, sources say, the Russians succeeded in defeating the simulated U.S. Marine force with their traditional conventional force of aircraft, tanks, helicopters and anti-aircraft missiles.
Putin, who was on hand for the exercise, reportedly was impressed with the exercise and presented medals to the troops who defeated the simulated Marine invasion, telling the battalions to “keep their powder dry.”
Sources day that Kavkaz-2012 then continued in the North Caucasus without any observers, raising alarms in Georgia that such an exercise could threaten the stability and security of Georgia and the entire region.
Georgian officials have reason to be concerned, since it was a similar exercise in July 2008 – Kavkaz-2008 – that was used by the Russians to stage troops and launch an invasion a month later in August 2008. Putin now admits that such an invasion had been planned since 2006.
Moscow is to increase its annual defense spending by 59 percent by 2015 as it attempts to modernize its military – while the United States looks to ways to downside in the face of major spending cuts...
Increased spending reflects the latest in Russia’s military doctrine that is meant to address its security strategy and what it defines as threats to the homeland. Among the five points outlined by then-Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev – called the Medvedev Doctrine – Russian defense doctrine calls for protecting its citizens “wherever they may be.”
One element in redefining its regional and global outlook is Russia’s new doctrine in not accepting the monopoly the United States has over the global system. This also includes not accepting the Western alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to barge in on its regional area of influence.
Russia is expected to concentrate its modernization efforts in command and control structures and the ability to project its conventional forces within its regional area of influence, designed primarily to project Russia itself while relying more on its nuclear arsenal to thwart attempts to gain influence by other countries.
Israeli forces in the north of the country were placed on high alert over the weekend after three Syrian tanks briefly cross into the demilitarized zone that separates Syria from the Golan Heights.
Israel lodged a complaint with the UN observer force that patrols the demilitarized zone, but on a visit to the area on Sunday, Israeli army chief Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz warned that "the Syrian affair could turn into our affair."
The IDF division stationed in the northern Golan "is ready for any moment in which the shooting will change direction and will be turned on us," an Israeli army spokesman was quoted as saying by The Jerusalem Post.In fact, Israel has already been hit by Syrian projectiles since the start of its neighbor's civil war. In late September, a missile and several mortar shells were fired into the Israeli Golan.
Israel remains concerned that either side in the Syrian conflict could at any time try to draw Israel into the fighting for its own political and military gain. Should that happen, there is little doubt Lebanon's Hizballah terrorist militia would enter the fray and launch its missile arsenal at northern Israel.
A senior Palestinian Authority negotiator has told WND that if President Obama secures another four years in office, he will use his second term to target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the main party to blame for the collapse of Mideast peace talks.
The negotiator further claimed that Obama quietly pledged to the Palestinians a campaign at the United Nations to renew U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for a Palestinian state to be established in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem.
The negotiator further said Obama had promised the PA that the establishment of a Palestinian state will be one of the main priorities for a second term.
“We were told that the negotiations for a Palestinian state will be a main goal for Obama,” said the negotiator. “Netanyahu will be declared the main person responsible for the collapse of the peace process.”
The claims come as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was blasted by the rival Hamas group yesterday for his statements to the Israeli media last week calling for a Palestinian state in what is known as the 1967 borders – the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem.
Hamas has stated the “liberation” of the entire land of Israel is their goal.
Senior Hamas figure Ismail Haniyeh called Abbas’ remarks “extremely dangerous,” alleging they contradict longstanding Palestinian territorial goals.
Hamas, allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, already controls the Gaza Strip.
If you thought the War on Coal and various other job dampening EPA initiatives over the past few years were bad, apparently that was only a skirmish compared to what’s in store after this Tuesday. At the Examiner, Conn Carroll has the inside scoop on how Santa’s little elves at Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency have been very busy lately. But you might not care for the presents they have in mind for us all.
President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.
More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.
Carroll goes on to speculate that the mad dash is a result of panic at the agency over the possibility that Obama may lose the election. They would, in that case, have to rush out a bunch of regulations which, “would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.”
If that’s what America chooses on Tuesday, then that’s what they’ll get. Higher gas, heating and energy prices, less jobs in an energy industry which can’t meet the demands place on them by the EPA, and everything that comes with it. But, as H.L. Mencken said, we all get the government we deserve.
A Regulations for 2013: Numerous Obama EPA Rules Placed on Hold Until After the Election Spell Doom For Jobs and Economic Growth”, it lists and describes new rules concocted over the past year ranging from additional restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, tougher water guidelines and tightening of the ozone standard. Taken together, they will further drive up pump prices, impose construction bans on local communities, and cripple oil, natural gas and coal production.
As the Washington Post notes, the report puts a spotlight back on the Obama EPA which has earned a “reputation for Abuse”, serving as a stark reminder that “President Obama has presided over a green team administration that works every day to “crucify” oil and gas companies and make sure that “…if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem.”
Two interesting foreign polls have been released regarding the election between Obama and Romney. Only 22% of Israelis favor Obama while over 80% of Europeans favor Obama. Obviously, Israelis have had four years to see the inner Obama, which not only is hostile to the Jewish State but clearly in affinity with Moslem/Arab goals. They understand that Obama’s antipathy goes beyond his poor relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu to the very idea of Zionism itself: a robust Jewish state with an undivided Jerusalem and a sovereignty to make its own defense decisions without dangerous counter pressure from Obama.
And, naturally, the Europeans, who have never missed an opportunity to pressure and vilify Israel, and have maintained a decades-long appeasement of a multitude of Moslem demands, prefer Barack Obama.
But the European sentiment goes way beyond the issue of Israel. It has to do with socialism and appeasement itself. Europeans believe in socialism, so much so that after World War II England cast out Winston Churchill, the man of non-appeasement who saved them from Nazism, because they wanted to institute socialism, a philosophy opposed bitterly by Churchill. Modern-day France was founded on Rousseau socialism, and Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium have lived by it.
One would think their decline and near bankruptcy would alert them to the mammoth deficiencies and dead-end of socialism. But human nature being what it is -- its proclivity to opt for guarantees however meager over great rewards not guaranteed minus personal effort -- people often choose the easy way out: socialism and mediocrity. It is the battle within man as to which instinct shall prevail: laziness and envy or initiative and optimism.
For Europeans, Mitt Romney is as strange and distant as was Ronald Reagan: a proponent of free enterprise, liberty, strong defense and the willingness to use that power instead of appeasing and sitting by while staff and soldiers are murdered. Romney and Reagan represent a morality foreign to Europeans who long ago discarded the Judeo-Christian ethos in favor of the amorality of socialism and cultural leftism.
This is a long and fascinating article and probably the best summary of the mysteries involving Benghazi written thus far. The entire article is definitely worthwhile. Below are just a few quotes:
Full disclosure of the Benghazi situation would expose an agenda that would surprise many Americans and answer a lot of questions about what’s really going on in the world, even offering explanations for such issues as Obama’s low-bow to the Saudi Royals to the exposure of a plan for the global power structure. It’s that big and that revealing, and that important.
There’s a real-life game of Risk being played by Obama and the major powers of the world, and Americans are involved in the game by default. Much like the actual Parker Brothers game of military strategy and world domination, Benghazi acts like a snapshot in time of the players, exposing the armies and their positions on the board. In those terms, it shows that Benghazi was a skirmish of significant import, and reveals the agenda and strategy of a number of players.
In this real world game of Risk, Obama appears to be following the instructions of a super secret mission card. The “Benghazi mission” was to facilitate the destabilization of Syria at the hands of “freedom fighters,” overthrowing Assad and the installation of a sympathetic Muslim Brotherhood backed regime. The installation of such a regime is of critical importance here for reasons that will become obvious later.
At this point, however, it is no secret that the rag-tag groups of rebels or freedom fighters are no match for Assad’s military. They are disorganized and ill equipped to depose Assad. Also, Assad, under the guidance and support of Russia, had so far escaped the full wrath of NATO for his part in putting down the various attempts to oust him from power. And the game clock was running out.
The anti-Assad rebels were in need of assistance in the form of weapons, training, military coordination and discipline. At the behest of Saudi Arabia (a player with no army pieces in this game), Mr. Obama agreed to step in to provide material and manpower, but he had a dilemma; he could not do so openly, with the full knowledge and consent of the U.S. Congress as they would never approve of such an operation (think Iran-Contra in terms of strategy, but with a much different intent).
The operation, therefore, had to be conducted under the radar. Mr. Obama could not be directly linked to this agenda, so the exports of weapons had to have some cover and provide some distance between Obama and the boots on the ground in Syria. This is where alliances were formed, and obfuscation reigned supreme.
As we were in Libya under the pretext of securing caches of weapons and arms left after Qadafi, Obama sent U.S. Ambassador Stevens to take charge of the logistics. Stevens was selected as he had vast experience and contacts on all sides in the Middle East. He was the perfect “go-to” guy for all sides.
As we begin to remove the layers of obfuscation, we can see that Obama is actually doing the “heavy lifting” for Saudi Arabia and the advancement of the Muslim Brotherhood agenda. For anyone doubting this assertion, simply follow the money. Where did the money originate for the boat shipments of arms? At its most basic level, who filled the gas tanks?
Here we go, just as suspected.
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"Developing…Israeli Report Says Valerie Jarrett Is Leading Secret Talks With Iran"
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"Shock Report: Valerie Jarrett Leading Secret Talks With Iran"
And thanks to YNetNews, we may now know who the administration’s designated voice is: Obama confidante and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. From the article:
"A Chicago lawyer is the key player behind the secret talks between the US and Iran, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. A close friend of Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett is assisting the US government communicate behind the scenes with the representatives of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Jarret, who was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz, is a senior advisor to US President Barack Obama."
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shock-report-valerie-jarrett-leading-secret-talks-with-iran/