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Israel spots “unusual activity” from Iran, readies troops for imminent attack

May 8, 2018 6:27 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

On the heels of Trump’s announcement of the highest level of “powerful” sanctions against Iran and that the Iran nuclear deal is off:

Local authorities in the Israeli-held Golan Heights have been ordered to “unlock and ready [bomb] shelters” in anticipation of an imminent attack.

The first media question asked after Trump’s announcement of the halt of the Iranian deal was “is the world a safer place?”

The clear and common-sense answer to that question is that the world could never be made a safer place by appeasing and kowtowing to enemies of freedom. That appeasement signals weakness to them, and enables them. No one enabled the Islamic Republic of Iran more than Barack Hussein Obama, who pumped billions into the mullahs’ coffers, enabling that rogue nation to step up its activities against Israel and other free countries.

“Israel spots ‘unusual activity’ from Iran and readies troops for imminent ATTACK”, by Joshua Nevett, Daily Star, May 8, 2018:

Local authorities in the Israeli-held Golan Heights have been ordered to “unlock and ready [bomb] shelters” in anticipation of an imminent attack.

“The IDF is ready and prepared for a variety of scenarios and warns that any action against Israel will be answered with a fierce retaliation,” The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

The warning about a potential strike came just moments before US President Donald Trump unveiled his decision to pull of the Iran nuclear deal.

On Monday, Iran’s army chief of staff warned that the regime would respond to any Israeli aggression when the time is right.

“If the enemy casts a covetous eye on our interests or conducts [even] a slight act of aggression, the Islamic Republic will give an appropriate response at an appropriate time,” General Mohammad Bagheri, state media Press TV reported.

Iran has vowed to take revenge on Israel for an airstrike on one of its military bases that killed seven people in April 9.

On Sunday, Israeli defense officials warned that Iran was planning to retaliate for recent deadly airstrikes in Syria.

The IDF said its defence forces in northern Israel have been put into a state of “high preparedness”.

Footage shows troops setting up the Iron Dome, Patriot, and Arrow missile defense systems.

Residents in the Golan Heights have been ordered to listen to security instructions…..

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  1. Ashley says

    May 8, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    Doesn’t sound good…

  2. gravenimage says

    May 8, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    Israel spots “unusual activity” from Iran, readies troops for imminent attack
    ………………….

    I hope Iran does not target Israel–but they have been threatening to wipe her off the map for many years now.

    Keep Israel safe.

    • Jack Holan says

      May 8, 2018 at 9:27 pm

      Kerry only encouraged madness this week. He needs to be arrested! The Mullahs best remember BiBis warning to them! If they bomb Tel Aviv, We will Bomb Terharan. Also, Peres who was considered the Dove Of Doves made an astonishishing remark after the Yom Kippur War. If We had lost the War and been driven into the Sea every Arab Capitol would have been lit on Fire. Draw your own conclusions.

      • kuriakose says

        May 9, 2018 at 12:40 am

        Yes. Israel will exercise the Sampson (Sampson and Delilah) option if under threat of annihilation.

        • carpediadem says

          May 9, 2018 at 1:33 am

          Samson. No “p”. 🙂

      • mortimer says

        May 9, 2018 at 12:47 am

        Agree with Jack. Kerry is comforting and encouraging the enemy. Kerry is another Chamberlain who thinks selling out impresses dictators. It impresses the dictators to feel emboldened.

        Weakness tells the crocodile that it is safe for him to lunge and strike.

      • JM says

        May 9, 2018 at 9:35 am

        John Kerry has been a traitor to the US since his actions during the Vietnam war, when he illegally and privately met with the Viet Cong in Paris. A leopard doesn’t change his spots.

      • b.a. freeman says

        May 9, 2018 at 4:06 pm

        excellent, Jack; it sounds hopeful to me!

        islam needs to be stopped; we are in a war, whether we want it or not. it only takes one party to make a war, and pervert muhammed declared it on our forebears and us 1400 years ago. in WWII, nuclear weapons were used for the first time, and thousands of unarmed civilians died in the blasts, but *many* more thousands had died previously in firebombings of unarmed civilians – by the allies. at first, the allied air forces tried to avoid collateral casualties, but almost immediately lost about 25% of the planes and their crews. if they could not be used to stop the industrial efforts of the germans, then the air forces were essentially worthless, so the decision was made to stop the civilians who staffed the german and japanese war efforts. this decision resulted in firebombings that killed up to 100 000 people in tokyo in march 1945. when one is fighting for one’s life, one is justified in doing almost anything. since the pirate cult started by pervert muhammed has murdered more people than all the 20th century’s dictators put together, lighting up their capital cities in a final attempt to stop them is fully justified in my mind. it is utterly horrifying, but WE DID NOT START THIS, and neither did the jews. they have every right to self-defense, and i am thrilled to learn that mr. peres was not as stupid as i had thought.

    • roger woodhouse says

      May 9, 2018 at 5:17 am

      Iran dare not attack Israel.She would be very foolish to do so.Iran would face being removed off the map if she tried.Thank you Donald.The days of appeasement are over(for the time being)

    • J D S says

      May 9, 2018 at 10:53 am

      If Iran should, even accidentally, is some way, attack Israel I do believe that would be the worst mistake they could ever make and it would probably end Iran as a nation. Israel has the capability of obliterating Iran and make their nation a wasteland so I do hope Iran will not attack Israel many lives would be lost sand further REMEMBER….unlike many other nations, They still have The One True God on their side.

      • Gamaliel says

        May 9, 2018 at 2:53 pm

        I don’t think Israel would use its nuclear option to defend itself. Just in case though Iran will probably use it’s Hezbollah proxy.

        • gravenimage says

          May 9, 2018 at 8:47 pm

          Yes–I doubt that Israel would nuke Iran. They would be too concerned about civilian casualties. Muslims would never care about such things.

  3. FYI says

    May 8, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    Remember this about Israel and its enemies who wish to destroy it:

    At first glance it might seem hopeless

    …David versus Goliath.

    But on closer inspection you might realize this:

    {David + the God of Israel} versus {Goliath + his fake god}

    David prays to the True God,Goliath prays to his false god.
    David wins against impossible odds with the God of Israel’s blessing.
    Goliath’s “prayers” to his fake god are worthless.

    Today the situation might be considered thus:-

    {Israel +the God of Israel} versus {the enemies of Israel + their antisemitic god “allah”}

    So,ask yourself what side is the God of Israel on?Given that allah is NOT the biblical God {of Moses,of Israel}how this will play out is already explained in prophecy….something which neither allah nor muslims understand because you see if they did,they would realize the utter folly of picking a fight with the God of Israel.

    Just as Goliath prayed to his god for David’s destruction you may note the Iranians pray to their “allah” for Israel’s destruction:but allah is NOT the Real Deal{=the God of Israel}

    If you are an observant Jew you should be easily able to read the signs…..

    • SAE says

      May 8, 2018 at 7:05 pm

      Excellent post, FYI
      ..& I say that because I completely agree.
      Heaven help us.

    • Rarely says

      May 8, 2018 at 7:39 pm

      One cannot know the will of the Almighty although He tends to favour those who are prepared.
      I hope Israel is prepared enough.

      • somehistory says

        May 8, 2018 at 9:05 pm

        The Bible says God reveals His will to His servants.

        Read Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.

    • somehistory says

      May 8, 2018 at 9:03 pm

      David even announced to the giant that he was aware of the deadly weapons carried by the giant. And David said he was coming in the Name of the Almighty. He did not mention his weapon, as ti was not what would really win the battle..”the God of the armies of Israel.. This is what Israel’s enemies do not understand.

    • Tricia Stuercke says

      May 8, 2018 at 9:42 pm

      THANK U SO VERY MUCH, FYI ~
      MAY THE 1 TRUE GOD PROTECT HIS TRUE CHILDREN EVERYWHERE! DEEP PRAYERS FOR ALL JEWS & CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND, & CONCENTRATED PRAYER ON ISRAEL NEXT MONDAY FOR NETENYAHU, TRUMP, & ALL OF JERUSALEM ON THE OFFICIAL 70TH ANNIVERSARY! PRAY, TOO, FOR “MUSLIMS” WHO DON’T EVEN REALLY KNOW THEIR “FAITH” & JUST WISH TO LIVE IN PEACE (Good-hearted men, women never allowed to learn or read, & children merely forced to rock back & forth memorizing the words in the Koran but have no real understanding of most of those words or why they’re taught to hate.

      • Jayell says

        May 9, 2018 at 12:57 am

        Seems like the people you’re describing can’t be real muslims if they don’t actually know any of the small print of what they call ‘their faith’. All the ritual and paraphenalia is just a badge of racial/cultural identity which has no other real significance. The trouble is that, by ‘wearing the badge’, they become collaborators and supporters of one of the greatest forces for evil in the world, just like all those nice Germans who put on the uniform and did the Nazi salute on cue because it was the ‘thing to do’ to be a Good German. And all the nice, enlightened, ‘liberal’ people over here who parrot the propaganda from the official pundits and the controlled media because they they’re told it makes them ‘good’, even though an intellectually-challenged myopic baboon could see that they’re being conned into signing their own national/cultural death warrants. It seems that the human race is descended from sheep.

        • roger woodhouse says

          May 9, 2018 at 5:25 am

          True Jayell The British public are susceptical to easy manipulation by the media having been politically neuted these past 40 years.It is going to take a very serious ‘event’to get them out of their stupor.

    • Amnon says

      May 9, 2018 at 3:21 am

      Iran was on the list of regime change according to the year 2000 that the Zionist drew up a plan to cause mayhem in Libya. Iraq. Syria and Iran and Afghanistan. I call this engineered manipulation. Netanyahu is just itching to have a proxy war. False flag. The people are waking up to the corruption of government world wide.

      • gravenimage says

        May 9, 2018 at 8:56 pm

        I see that “Amnon”–a poster I have never seen here before–is ranting about “Zionists” here, and implying that there is no Jihad against Israel.

        Does he have any problem with the horrors of Jihad? Not so you’d notice from this post.

        • somehistory says

          May 9, 2018 at 9:36 pm

          There’s a news report that iran has just launched about 20 missals into the Golan against the IDF stationed there.

          Israel shot some of them down, and the report so far, says, the only injuries are on the Syrian side.

  4. R Russell says

    May 8, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    It is getting closer to the end when YHWH God will reign over all the world.
    I don’t know whether to rejoice at the coming of my Lord, or weep for those who have chosen not to come under His protection.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 8, 2018 at 7:16 pm

      I’m not so sure. There are still *thousands* of languages – especially of the last and the least, the world’s smaller peoples – into which the Bible has never been translated; there are many, many ongoing translation projects, still just under way or not finished.. and *how* can people possibly respond to a message if they’ve never even once heard it in their mother tongue?

      There are lots of people who’ve never even *heard* the gospel; who have never had a *chance*. Don’t you think a merciful God will wait just a while longer, to make it possible for these, too, to hear?

      The gospel must be preached in *all* the world. And *that* certainly has not yet happened, not by a long chalk.

      • somehistory says

        May 8, 2018 at 11:51 pm

        One thing: there are always new humans being born, so there would never be a time when every human would “hear” the good news about Christ and learn enough to make a decision unless…all birth stopped.

        Another thing: God can examine hearts and He can make a decision on life for people who have a heart that would “listen” and wish to serve Him in faith.

        Events and prophecy are coming together. No one can say the “day and hour” but Jesus did give us a “sign” to watch for and told us to “keep awake” so as to be ready for Him to return.

      • Paul Duffany says

        May 9, 2018 at 11:29 am

        We are on the cusp of that day. In my view, the only ones that have not heard the Gospel have chosen to ignore it.
        Whether by peer/cultural pressure or simple rebelliousness the ones that want the Gospel do hear it.
        Consider the electronic delivery of all things to all people and the efforts of evangelical support mechanisms being sent around the world in the Christs name.

        We must remember that this is not home; that Jesus came to free us from sin and perhaps as important, the fear of death.
        This is key, since we are just visitors to this plane and will return home once our individual commissions are complete.
        Therefore, there is no significant loss in Gods eyes, and should not be so significant in our eyes as to become an atrocity. After all we just go home where we belong.

        As a Christian, I say laugh with those that laugh, cry with those that cry and look forward to the loving embrace of our King.

        As for addressing the conflict with IRAN, remember that David distilled the engagement to a black and white contest. Its my God against your god.

        Always put God first and as they say: “When God walks before us, who can stand against us.”

        America stands by as a shield for Israel and I am proud of that as a Christian.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          May 10, 2018 at 4:33 am

          This planet – and the rest of the visible universe within which it sits – is God’s good creation, and I don’t think He intends to throw it away like a used kleenex. (Romans 8).

          When we affirm the Incarnation and the Resurrection – and for that matter, the Parousia, the Restoration of All Things – we are affirming a view of creation that sees it not as something to which we should be indifferent – “we’re just passin’ through, on our way to something better”, but as our *fellow-servant* that will be, one day, healed and transfigured right along with *us*. The Psalms, when they speak of God coming to judge the world, speak of all of creation – the mountains, the rivers, the living creatures – crying out with *joy*.

      • R Russell says

        May 9, 2018 at 5:16 pm

        dumbledoresarmy
        I read somewhere fairly recently that there are still 4000 unreached people groups still to hear about Jesus and his love.
        That isn’t very many.
        Also, looking at your argument, what about those who never heard at all whether their descendants have or have not heard? Millions have died over the centuries without hearing the Gospel. Some of us will have to give an account about that………..However, the judge of all the Earth will do what is right.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 8, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    Let those among us who are observant Jews recite the Tehillim – the Psalms. 83 and 121 spring immediately to mind. And perhaps one may pray that Psalm 7:14-16 may turn out to be applicable to Islamic Iran.. and the rest of the assembled mohammedan Jewhaters whether Shiite … or Sunni.

    And let those of us who are practising Christians *join* with our Jewish elder siblings, and pray likewise… let us *also* take out the Psalms, and recite, with intent.

    And on a practical level let those of us who are not Americans all press our governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem, lining up next to the US embassy. Imagine if Australia.. Canada… New Zealand/ Aotearoa…**India**… Philippines… Thailand… the Czech Republic.. *Poland*… *Germany*… **Hungary** … were ALL to move within the next six months and set up shop in … undivided Jerusalem. Preferably in the Old City, just to underline the point that we regard the *whole* of Jerusalem as sovereign territory of the House of Israel and that we are no longer going to pander to, flatter, appease or enable Muslim imperialism.

    • Tricia Stuercke says

      May 8, 2018 at 10:00 pm

      As a Christian, 1 whose gone straight to the Psalms every time my 23 & 19 yr old sons have needed guidance throughout their lives in tragically-sin-filled American “culture”, but blessedly (Conservative) Catholic Christian schooling, now college (the Traditional Original Judeo-Christian teachings, morals, principals), I will be WITH YOU in PRAYER, as I posted minutes ago before reading your beautiful post! So grateful for your wise words!

  6. Ashley says

    May 8, 2018 at 7:47 pm

    Well, well, well…

    http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-statement-on-trump-iran-deal-decision-2018-5

    • gravenimage says

      May 8, 2018 at 7:54 pm

      No surprise here, Ashley. Obama hoped that this sick nuke deal with Iran would be a key part of his “legacy”.

      • Rarely says

        May 8, 2018 at 7:56 pm

        One way or the other it will be.

    • Tricia Stuercke says

      May 8, 2018 at 10:15 pm

      Thanks, Ashley! Gee, OBAMA didn’t address HIS ILLEGAL THEFT OF $150 BILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS HE HAD BROUGHT BY UNMARKED PLANE IN THE DARK OF NIGHT TO THE IRANIANS LINKED TO HIS “DEAL” WITH THEM? HE MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN…I’M SURE THAT’S IT…HE’LL SURELY ADDRESS THAT TOMORROW, RIGHT?

      • texstud91 says

        May 8, 2018 at 11:41 pm

        actually it was money already owed them. not taxpayers money but obama did send most of these unfrozen assets by plane at night on pallets in large denominations.

        • Robert Spencer says

          May 9, 2018 at 5:30 am

          It was not money owed to the mullahs. It was money owed to the Shah’s regime. There was no justification for sending it to the mullahs. That’s why it hadn’t been sent to them by Obama’s predecessors back to Carter.

        • gravenimage says

          May 9, 2018 at 9:05 pm

          Exactly, Mr. Spencer.

  7. RonaldB says

    May 8, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    In 1953, a secular but socialist government in Iran was overthrown by a CIA directed and sponsored coup which installed the Shah. In 1979, the US government withdrew support of the Shah and the Iranian Islamic government took power. In 2003, the US overthrew and murdered (no other word) Saddam Hussein, throwing what had been a rabidly anti-Iranian Iraq completely into the Iranian sphere of influence. In 2015 (roughly) the CIA sponsored Islamic rebels to institute a civil war in Syria, bringing in Iran as a prime sponsor and ally of the Syrian government.

    Now we are urged to give military support to Israel against the Iranian military.

    Nothing like a little hair o’ the dog that bit us.

    In truth, Israel is capable of dealing with Iranian threats to Israel, and should be left to do so. Perhaps that would involve cutting a deal with Iran that Israel never would have considered if the US were acting as a military guarantor of Israeli foreign interests. Actually, even from Israel’s perspective, I think Israel is better off making its own deals with the Iranian regime, rather than depending on a lurching US policy.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 9, 2018 at 3:22 am

      No infidel person, organisation or nation should *bother* even *attempting* to make ‘deals’ with Muslim persons, organisations or states. All such ‘deals’, ‘treaties’, peace processing, etc and so forth, are a deadly snare and a delusion.. a complete and utter waste of time. You’d think after 1400 years that infidel persons and nations would have ‘got the memo’… but it appears they have not, alas. It’s time we *did*.

      Because all such deals – given the Muslim doctrines of deception, given the permanent injunction to wage war against the dar al harb, given the concept of hudna and the permanent example of the Treaty of Hudaybiyya – cannot be trusted by the non-Muslim partner. Ever. Ever. Ever. They are written on toilet paper in disappearing ink. They are *worthless*.

      The ummah respects force, unapologetically wielded.

      So long as an infidel entity is strong, and refuses to be conned by Muslim lies, and keeps Muslims at arms’ length, that infidel entity should survive. If it allows Muslims to infiltrate and subvert, if it listens to their nonseense-and-lies, if it gets entangled with them, then it is in trouble. Or will be, sooner or later.

      • Fordstar7 says

        May 9, 2018 at 11:59 am

        Nice to know someone understands the impossibility of ever having any honesty in dealing with any muslim faction.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2018 at 9:16 pm

      RonaldB, how can youy think Israel can make a good deal with Muslims who are screaming “Death to Israel”? You have been here at Jihad Watch a long time–you can’t be this naive.

  8. Rarely says

    May 8, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    There’s also Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and Lebanon to consider.

  9. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 8, 2018 at 8:13 pm

    Fascist evil zionist state knows that attacking Iran means random destruction. They are cowards afraid of even their shadows. They are just playing empty rhetorics. wicked idiots!!

    • gravenimage says

      May 8, 2018 at 8:18 pm

      Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed is conflating Israel fearing an attack from Iran with their attacking Iran. Classic projection.

    • Ashley says

      May 8, 2018 at 8:20 pm

      SCAT you cockroach!

      • Rarely says

        May 8, 2018 at 8:43 pm

        No, no. We need him here to remind us of the insanity that his type brings to the table — an untenable religious doctrine, ignorant, mad dog-type rage, irrational prejudice, unbridled hatred, etc.., etc. & etc. He is the very personification of intolerance.

        • Ashley says

          May 8, 2018 at 8:54 pm

          +1

          But he sure gets on my last nerve, Rarely.

        • Sam says

          May 9, 2018 at 8:51 am

          Ibrahim is a troll but agreed we need more Islamic BS and liberal garbage to confirm their way of seeing the world.

        • gravenimage says

          May 9, 2018 at 9:20 pm

          Yes–this vicious Muslim reveals just how the sick Muslim mindset works.

    • Wellington says

      May 8, 2018 at 9:00 pm

      The cowards, Ibrahim, are those who hide behind women and children and target other peoples’ women and children. No one does this “better” than Muslims. Here they’re #1.

      • Salah says

        May 8, 2018 at 9:45 pm

        To Wellington,

        Here’s something worth reading if you’re still interested in the “resignation” of Pope Benedict 16th.
        It’s not a short essay though, but I find it profoundly instructive.

        https://www.barnhardt.biz/2018/05/08/the-bergoglian-antipapacy-how-it-happened-and-how-to-fix-it/

    • Bobby says

      May 9, 2018 at 8:03 am

      Can’t you read?.”FIERCE RETALIATION”.They will fight back.And now what are you cowardly bastards with big mouths going to do …run them over?Rape them?The west wont help you..Death to America and Israel?ha ha ha Their coming for you!

    • R Russell says

      May 9, 2018 at 5:22 pm

      Ibrahim,
      I take it you are Shia and not Sunni?
      Does that mean you, like the Iranians are wanting increasing worldwide violence with the extermination of the Jews to bring in the Shia Mahdi?
      I’m still waiting on your evidence as to why I should believe the Bible has been corrupted.
      The Bible Jesus loves you very much.

      • gravenimage says

        May 9, 2018 at 9:25 pm

        He says he’s Sunni–but he loves to see any Muslims threatening Infidels–especially Jews.

        • R Russell says

          May 10, 2018 at 5:56 am

          gravenimage
          Perhaps he has been influenced by Erdogan, who as head of the OIC asked all Muslims to lay aside their differences and join together against Israel.
          So sad.
          I was brought up in a family who hated most people. They hated those who were ‘different’. They usually were able to find a difference so they could hate.
          It is most unpleasant living in that atmosphere. I was never like my family – I was just made differently. I suffered for refusing to hate.
          When my children were old enough my parents tried to influence them to hate, knowing I refused to teach them to hate. It led to many rows and on one occasion going home early because they would not stop trying to teach my children to hate the other.
          I can only imagine the amount of tension Ibrahim must be in. Hate takes so much out of a person’s health.
          When he gets to know and experience the love the Bible Jesus has for him, then the transformation will alter his character so much he will want to love others.
          I hope he sees this as a positive thing. His God, Allah only loves Muslims and hates non Muslims. YHWH God loves everyone – Ibrahim included – just as he is. But he loves him too much to leave him as he is. When Ibrahim experiences YHWH God’s love he will realise it is so much better than anything he has known to date.

  10. Ashley says

    May 8, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    I need to read up on this mess. I don’t follow international affairs, especially regarding the Middle East, as much as I should.

    I’m not a religious woman (I identify as atheist) but I have always had a strong respect and affinity for Israel.

    I am now burning a 24 hour vigil floating wick with Israel in my thoughts…

    • gravenimage says

      May 8, 2018 at 9:04 pm

      +1

    • b.a. freeman says

      May 9, 2018 at 9:29 pm

      Ashley, U should read up on islam to get a basic grounding in how to figure out the middle east.

      muhammed was a warlord, keeping 20% of all booty for himself (“booty” is the word that the pious muslims who translated islamic scriptures into english used). one of his wives was captured in a raid, after which her father, brother, and husband were rounded up and beheaded; muhammed “married” her the same day. when somebody caught allah making a revelation that contradicted an earlier revelation, he revealed to muhammed that what he reveals last is either similar or better (quran 2:106); thus, the ulema (islamic scholars and clergy) have decided that the medina revelations, all violent, abrogate the earlier, more peaceful mecca revelations. the quran is *not* the totality of islamic scripture; is is *only* the words of allah, and the surahs (chapters) are arranged roughly from longest to shortest, rather than chronologically. to get the context, one must read the traditions, or short descriptions of things muhammed did. these are called ahadith (singular hadith), and sunnis, about 93% of all muslims, use the hadith collections of sahih (“reliable”) al-bukhari and sahih muslim, along with 4 other sahih hadith collections, as traditions. the early hadith collections were also put together into a biography of muhammed, called the sira (specifically, the “sirat rasul allah” of ibn ishaq, as preserved in recensions by ibn hisham and al-tabari. only by looking at *all* of these sources can U learn about islam. finally, since islam has a legal system as well as a religious system for living, one must also know sharia (law); a good source for that is “the reliance of the traveler,” a classic legal text from the 14th century, which is still widely used, and was most recently translated in the 1990s.

      once U learn about islam, U will understand a lot more of what goes on, and why, in the middle east. good luck!

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 10, 2018 at 4:27 am

      All you need to know about ‘the middle east’ – or, rather, all 57 OIC member countries – is… that they are dominated by Islam. Islam – ‘Submission’ is what Churchill called it in the 1890s – “the religion of blood and war”. Its goal is to wage total war unendingly until all of planet earth is subjected to a global sharia despotism – a ‘caliphate’ – and all human beings on earth are either Muslims, or near-slave despised and abused dhimmis, or… dead. (See Quran 9.29, which puts Islam’s final goal in a nutshell).

      Islam inculcates in its followers an all or nothing, zero sum game, victor-and-vanquished mentality. It is an ur-fascism; William Palgrave in the 19th century said its ‘theology ‘ was “a pantheism of Force”. Its founding texts – and the example of Mohammed – promote the use of deceit in conjunction with the use of violence; thus, suspicion and aggression are the ‘atmospherics’ of Islam, affecting and infecting its adherents. Ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in ‘Infidel’ and “Nomad’, discusses this mindset.

      The reason why the ‘peace process’ between Israel and the so-called ‘palestinians’ is a waste of time, is because mohammedans are not supposed to do deals with non-Muslims, unless temporisingly and temporarily.. and they are free to break those deals the moment they feel strong enough to go in for the kill. (This also explains the waste-of-time that is any ‘peace processing’ between India and Islamic Pakistan, or between the Thais and the jihadis in their south, or between the Filipinos and the jihadis in *their* south…).

  11. Isabella says

    May 8, 2018 at 8:38 pm

    Islam is such a cancer. Nothing good comes out of it. The civilized world will finally wake up. It is a matter of time. Seriously.

    • Grizzly says

      May 9, 2018 at 4:26 am

      And you’re beginning to hear the rumblings of people waking up. The only question is, will it be in time & will it be enough?

  12. Older Canadian says

    May 8, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    Hunch. Iran is threatening, but will not follow through. A bully never does when there is a good chance they will get severely hurt. But the joy and the power they feel when they make their threats, makes their life worth living so the bully will continue on until …………

  13. Battle says

    May 8, 2018 at 10:55 pm

    Excuse me please. The gospel was available before World War I. The gospel was not available before World War Ii. Enough facts stated. My apologies.

  14. Battle says

    May 8, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    Correction “was available before World War II.”

  15. Clive Stephen Delmonte says

    May 8, 2018 at 11:54 pm

    If there are Satanists, they are in Teheran and they are frantically spreading their hate everywhere they can. Trump’s recent move is a good start to tackling this hate but evidently it is first, single step along a very rocky road aimed at curtailing this sad and wretched Iranian regime. Perhaps this struggle will be shortened by the Iranian people throwing out their hated and illegitimate tyrants.

  16. Infidel says

    May 9, 2018 at 12:14 am

    Imagine a world where Islamic powers were holding the military advantage over the USA and its allies.. HOW SCARY… It would sure have been war.. because islam believes in TERROR when weaker than the infidel and OUTRIGHT WAR when stronger than the infidel.. This has been their history throughout. And we need to pay them back the same way too..

  17. Westman says

    May 9, 2018 at 1:03 am

    “If the enemy casts a covetous eye on our interests…” Israel being covetous of Iran? What grand delusion the Mullahs possess! Who would be covetous of the nation the Mullahs have ruined and turned into the enemy of Mecca?

    The clock is ticking down to the moment of truth for the Ayatollah and his thugs. He will either put his boasting into action or be overthrown.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 10, 2018 at 4:20 am

      The muslims, in accusing Israel of being ‘covetous’ of Iran, are … projecting, as always.

      Because it is Muslims who in their malignant narcissism and total megalomania believe themselves to be the true and rightful rulers – slave-lords – of the whole of planet earth; they believe the bodies, souls and property of every other human on earth rightfully belongs to their lordly superior selves, and that they must wage jihad until they have gobbled it all up for themselves… er… ‘allah’.

  18. Matthieu Baudin says

    May 9, 2018 at 1:50 am

    The Golan Heights have proven to be an invaluable buffer against determined Jihad aggression. Numerous nations facing militant Jihad encroachment could learn from Israel’s experience and establish buffer zones across their border in the neighbouring territory of a Jihad fomenting state.

  19. Grrrrr... says

    May 9, 2018 at 2:13 am

    Sorry, but do you really consider the Daily Star to be a reputable source?
    Well, I don’t.

  20. Jay says

    May 9, 2018 at 5:27 am

    If this war ends with Israel occupying Syria and setting up a secularist client government, that would be a good thing.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2018 at 9:27 pm

      Jay, Israel would be no more able to set up a secular government in Syria than the US has been in Afghanistan or Iraq. Muslims do not want civilized government.

      • b.a. freeman says

        May 9, 2018 at 9:37 pm

        excellent point, graven; islam is a pirate cult, and muslims are the gang-bangers. the only way to govern a nation of gang-bangers is to outlaw the gang, shoot a few of the leading thugs, and put a bunch more into prison. as U pointed out, though, there are very few civilized people (mostly non-muslim, or secret muslim apostates, but of whom are endangered species in muslim nations) who are available to run the government; unless one wishes to occupy the area for centuries, one had best set up a client state with few requirements other than islam be outlawed. nobody has the cajones to do that, though, so it’s best not to get involved; just blockade the cesspool.

  21. JM says

    May 9, 2018 at 9:43 am

    Israel has up to 400 nuclear warheads, making it the world’s third largest arsenal. Iran has no nuclear weapons for now. Israel could wipe Iran off the map if it wanted to, it refrains from doing so, as it wants peace.

    Now imagine Iran with 400 nuclear warheads and Israel with none. You don’t need to be Nostradamus to forecast what would happen.

    “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”
    – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2018 at 9:34 pm

      Spot on, JM.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 10, 2018 at 4:18 am

      Exactly. And that is what all the Useful Idiots in our media and elsewhere absolutely refuse to see.

  22. Arthur says

    May 9, 2018 at 11:58 am

    Does anyone doubt that the $1.5 billion plus that Barack Hussein Obama flew over to the Islamic Republic of Iran wasn’t used to purchase nukes from North Korea? And they no longer need any longer range ballistic missiles to carry a nuke payload to an Israeli city. Iran is now on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Iran has anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of fighters in Syria ready to enter through the Golan into Israel’s Jezreel’s Valley past Megiddo to Haifa. Both Syria and Lebanon where Hezbollah operates now are practically proxies to Iran. There has been no other better time for Iran to attack. So then attack they will.

  23. Marco says

    May 9, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    Prayers for Israel??

    • SAE says

      May 9, 2018 at 9:58 pm

      Amen.

  24. Marco says

    May 9, 2018 at 8:38 pm

    I agree but it will never happen

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