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Dear Preachers:

With the ‘obamessiah’  garnering Chief Justice Roberts’ switch to the left side on the Obamacare  vote, he certainly is riding high.  What a shame!

But our biggest concerns ought to be over there in the Land of Israel where the ‘obamicans’ are working against the Netanyahu government to protect the 7th Century Jihadist Revivalists in Iran with China and Russia jumping in as part of that protection.

I awoke at 1:00 a.m. this morning.  I am picking up our neighbor, then Kale, 13, Paul’s youngest boy, and taking them fishing.  I read  17 chapters in my Bible, prayed and am now trying to finish these lines before I leave at  4:30 a.m.

From DEBKA:  http://debka.com/?next=/users/library/

A Movable Timetable

Saudis Preparing for US to Strike Iran in October

The last ten days have seen a shift in US President Barack Obama’s negative position on military action against Iran’s nuclear program.

Saudi King Abdullah and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have been informed that Obama is in the process of "reconsideration." His aides amplified this with a couple of ifs: If the state of nuclear diplomacy between the six world powers and Iran remains unchanged - that is, inert; and if the Syrian crisis remains unresolved, the US president will reach a final decision on the use of force against Iran in the first half of October – three and a half months hence.

In private conversations, high-ranking Saudi princes, some connected to military and intelligence circles, were confiding last week to Western and Arab visitors to Riyadh their certainty that, at last, the US and maybe Israel would soon resort to military action against Iran, according to Saudi military and intelligence sources.

"It is already decided," one prince told a visiting European official. But what if President Obama changed his mind? The prince replied: "Anything can happen, of course. But this time we’re sure the American decision to attack is final and we are already making appropriate preparations. The question now isn’t if the Americans will attack Iran, but when," he said.

He was less sure about whether the US operation would take place before or after the US presidential election on November 6.

The pipeline bypassing Hormuz is up and running!

Saudi preparations, ME Muslim sources say, are going forward on two tracks:

1.  The defense of government, military and oil targets. These focus on guarding the two main Saudi oil exporting terminals at Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf coast and Abqaiq on the Red Sea against the contingency of Iranian reprisals for a US attack by missile strikes on the two terminals and raids by Iranian special forces trained in sabotage tactics.

2.  A Saudi counterattack on Iranian targets. Their air, naval and special operations units will stand ready to hit back at strategic targets within Iran if Saudi territory comes under Iranian attack.

Strongly tying in with these preparations was the announcement Wednesday, June 27, by Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammad al-Sharqi, ruler of Fujairah that the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline which bypasses the Strait of Hormuz goes into operation this month.

Fujairah is one of the princedoms making up the seven United Arab Emirates. The UAE has built the pipeline to pump most of its oil exports from the east coast terminals to Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, away from the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint controlled by Tehran.

It has an initial capacity of 1.5mn bpd rising to 1.8mn bpd, which represents the bulk of the UAE's current production of around 2.5mn bpd, Sheikh Hamad said.

A palpable sense of anticipation was also reported this week by intelligence sources among US ground, naval and air forces stationed in the Middle East.

Iran is too rich to be deterred by new sanction!

The die is cast, the Saudis believe, because US and European oil sanctions, presented by Washington as the ultimate weapon for bringing Iran to heel by choking off funding for its nuclear program, have completely missed their aim. Iran is flush with cash and has plenty put by to keep its nuclear projects rolling forward in the face of international penalties.

Internal US administration reports reveal that the soaring oil prices of recent years were a bonanza that filled Tehran’s pockets.

Even after the recent leveling-out of prices, their revenues still stand at "only" four times the August 2002 volume.

Last August, prior to the latest rounds of sanctions, the International Monetary Fund estimated Iran would earn $104 billion from its oil exports in 2012-2013. That figure is four and-a-half times the Islamic republic’s 2002-2003 receipts of $23 billion.

Even if export volumes were to drop by half and prices plummeted to $50 per barrel, Iran’s inflation-adjusted oil earnings would still be higher than they were a decade ago. The Saudis conclude that the failure of sanctions has left only one way open to halt Iran’s momentum toward a nuclear bomb and that is a military offensive.

Will a US-Israel maneuver be a launching-pad against Iran?

The impression of an operation’s imminence was also gained by American Jewish leaders during recent visits to the White House. Obama has been inviting Jewish leaders to visit him in the Oval Office in an effort to stanch the loss of Jewish support and Jewish contributions draining away from his election campaign.

Like the Saudi princes, the Jewish leaders came away with a strong sense that the president had made up his mind to attack Iran.

Israel and the US are set to conduct their largest ever military exercise in October, according to a report published in Israel Monday, June 25, which instantly caught the eye in Tehran and Riyadh.

The maneuver will feature 3,000 American and thousands of Israeli troops, advanced anti-missile defense systems and other measures for countering simultaneous fire from Iran and Syria. The drill will simulate this fire, with tens if not hundreds of rockets and missiles filling the air.

The commander of the 3rd Air Force, Lt.-Gen. Craig A. Franklin, was in Israel to establish a joint planning committee with IDF to coordinate the details of the exercise.

Israel will test its upgraded Arrow 2 defense system, while the US will deploy the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and PAC-3 Patriot air defense platforms.

The drill is codenamed Dress Rehearsal. The Iranians and Saudis are convinced by the name that the exercise will be the opening shot of the attack on Iran in October.

What Brought the Russian President to the Middle East?

Putin Offered to Broker Israel’s Ties with Iran and Turkey - While Not Losing Sight of Oil                                           

Russian President Vladimir Putin took 48 hours off for a Middle East tour. He spent a day and a night - June 25-26 - in Israel before moving on to the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. His initiative caused wide puzzlement. What brought him to the region so soon after assuming the presidency?

The impression he left behind was that he would not be at all surprised by a US-European-Arab offensive against Syria, or a US-Israeli attack on Iran. But he sounded as though he was feeling his way past those major upsets for a useful role.   

                                                                                                                                           

Hence the odd proposal he made to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when they talked in Jerusalem. Netanyahu was quite bowled over when Putin offered him the use of Moscow as a channel of communication between Jerusalem and Tehran. 

                                                                                                                    

Revealing this, ME sources quote the fairly taciturn Russian president as using two phrases - "I will act as conduit" and "when need be."  

                                                                                                                                                       

Putting these two phrases together, the Israelis followed by the Americans deduced that Putin took into account that a US strike against Iran was approaching, opening up a new field of operation for Moscow.

When one of the Israeli officials present at the Putin-Netanyahu conversation commented that Israelis and Iranians knew exactly what messages were conveyed back and forth by public means, the Russian president remarked drily: "When need be." 

This was interpreted in two ways:

1.  He wanted Israel and, more importantly, Washington to know on which side Moscow stood.  

2.  Israel as advised to think twice before turning down the offer of a Russian channel to Tehran, because in a war, it may find President Putin’s office in the Kremlin to be the only line available for transmitting and receiving secret messages to and from Tehran.    

                                                                      

Intelligence sources say that, since Prime Minister Netanyahu neither rejected nor accepted the Russian offer, and President Putin did not rescind it, it stays on the table and is ready to be activated "if need be."                                                                                                                                                                                         

Russia’s long borders with Muslim lands!   

                                                                                                                             

In another provocative comment Putin said: "We know better than the Americans what is going on in Tehran and in Iran’s nuclear program." He did not elaborate.   

                                                                                        

He not only offered Israel a back channel to Tehran but also touted his services as a broker, more effective than Washington, he claimed, for restoring the old close relationship between Israel and Turkey.        

                                                                                                                                                                            

When he expanded on Syria and the Arab Revolt, he made the following points:   

                                            

1. "Anyone who thinks that what began in Tunis will end in Damascus is mistaken."

This remark was taken to mean that Moscow will not let the US seize control of the entire Middle East coastline from Libya to Syria by bringing the Muslim Brotherhood to power.    

                                                             

2.  Whether or not Syrian President Bashar Assad will fall is no longer interesting because he is obviously heading for a fall. But the way "they" are going is wrong. "It will bring Al Qaeda to Damascus." And that is why Russia is working hand in hand with Turkey for the sake of an orderly transition of power.

(When he talked to Netanyahu, Putin never mentioned "Americans" – only "they.")

3.  Putin referred to the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and its substantial role in the Syrian uprising as "an Islamist flood threatening us all." 

                                                   

Russia is directly affected, he said. It is the world power closest to the Middle East and has the longest border of any superpower with Muslim countries.                                                                                                            

"We are witnessing in action an alliance between the U.S. and the Muslim Brotherhood", said the Russian leader!     

                                                                                                                                                                                    

We’ll help you with Erdogan if you cut us in on your oil stake!

                                                                                            

4.  Regarding Iran’s perception of the Arab Revolt, Putin said that by supporting it, Tehran was simply paying lip service to disguise the fact that it feels threatened.

                                                                                              

5.  He also had a distinctive take on the Six-Power nuclear talks with Iran, in which Russia also took part as one of the six (also the US, France, Britain, China and Germany): He criticized the West as using the wrong approach and language in addressing the Iranians. They are justified in asking the West: Are we sitting together at the negotiating table or are you threatening us (with sanctions)?    

                                   

Because it is impossible to do both at once, Tehran is not willing to talk, he explained.   

                                                 

6.  When the Russian president advocated an Israeli-Turkish rapprochement, he quickly fitted the issue into the context of Israel’s oil and gas strikes in the Mediterranean.

                                                                  

We Russians are ready to help you rebuild your relations with Erdogan, said Putin to Netanyahu, on the basis of a Russian-Israeli-Turkish-Greek-Cypriot partnership in developing those oil and gas fields.

                               

Our only condition is that Gazprom (the Russian energy giant) finance the development of those fields and be awarded the concession for laying the pipelines carrying the gas and oil to Europe.  

                                         

"Don’t wait for the American, British or Dutch oil majors to come to you," he said. "They are too heavily invested in Arab oil. We don’t have that problem."      

                                                                                                         

While some described the Russian leader as relaxed and friendly during his 24 hours in Israel, sources in Jerusalem who heard him speak say the Russian president was terse, extremely decisive and often tough.                                                                                                                                                                                  

Egyptian President-elect Muhammed Morsi won the job by a wafer-thin 800,000 votes , which means he is short of the heft for making himself ruler of the nation in deed and not just in name. 

                                               

To give the job substance, he must tackle the herculean tasks of salvaging a sinking economy, feeding more than 90 million people and restoring the average Egyptian’s sense of security after 16 months of turmoil and uncertainty. He is already being pinned to the wall by the Obama administration, the Supreme Military Council (SCAF) and his own Muslim Brotherhood movement, each angling to clip his wings and manipulate him.

With only a small team of aides at his side, Morsi understands he has little choice for now but to bend agilely in several directions at once and hope to survive. 

                                                                                    

Twenty-four hours after he was acclaimed president, ME sources in Washington report he was confronted with a list of 10 demands from the White House in Washington, which added up to an ultimatum.            

                                                                                                                                                       

He was informed that the US desires the democratic process to continue in Egypt. The administration used its influence to make the SCAF move the process along - witness US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call to the Egyptian foreign minister to insist that there must be no delay in releasing election results.          

                                                                                                                                                           

Washington is waiting equally to see how the Egyptian president performs in the following areas:    

                     

U.S. recognition of Morsi predicated on performance!        

                                                                                            

1.  Human rights, namely women’s’ status and minority rights, especially relating to the Christian Copts.

                     

2.  The formation of a broad national unity government representing the country’s active mainstream parties - not just the Muslim Brotherhood.  

                                                                                                             

3.  The new president must act to uphold the 1979 peace treaties between Egypt and Israel. His commitment to honor all treaties signed with foreign governments was not explicit enough.

                    

4.  The Obama administration expects Morsi to make a public gesture reaffirming peace relations with Israel.   

                                                                                                                                                                         

5.  A resolute effort to curb the terrorist elements running wild in Sinai and restore Egyptian control.   

 

6.  It is also expected to put a stop to the rabid anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric suffusing Egyptian media and give up persecuting Western NGOs operating in Egypt. 

                                                  

7.  The crunch comes here: Not until all the above steps are taken, will President Morsi be welcomed in Washington as an official guest. Although President Barack Obama Sunday called him with congratulations Sunday, contrary to reports in the Cairo press, Secretary Clinton does not plan an early visit to Egypt. 

                                                                                                                                                                

"I think we need to let President-elect Morsi get himself inaugurated, pull his government together," she said Thursday.

8.  The $1.5 billion US military and economic aid package to Egypt may be tied to the incoming government’s respect for the peace treaty with Israel and respect for minority and religious rights, a White House source indicated Thursday.

9.  Furthermore, not until the Egyptian president has satisfied Washington on all these scores will the Obama administration use its influence with the World Bank to ease Egypt’s dire liquidity problems and help find the cash to buy food on world markets. That must be the new ruler’s first priority. If Morsi can’t find the money to feed the population, hungry Egyptians will be out on the streets of their cities once again - clamoring this time for his and the Muslim Brotherhood’s removal.

10.  And finally, a threat that would undermine the new president’s power to rule. Until the Obama administration is satisfied with his performance, the US will continue to do business on key matters and US-Egypt relations with the transitional rulers, the military council. And so, Morsi, to all intents and purposes, would continue to be denied US recognition as Egypt’s responsible ruler.  

                            

Morsi finds he is hassled from more than one quarter. Not only the Americans, but his own movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, is knocking at his door with even more pressing demands. He will have to stand up against the MB strongman Khairat al-Shater, who was disqualified as the Brotherhood’s candidate and whom he replaced, if he wants to save Egypt’s post-revolutionary regime from being swamped by Islamists.  

 http://debka.com/weekly/547/                                                                                                                                            

So, Preachers, on the stage of ‘end-time-events-world-wide,’ gathered around Israel is first Iran, then Russia, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria, Hamas in Gaza , the Saudis, and all the Arab countries they can muster to their sides; Germany, France, UK, and other Euro countries, then China, and, finally, the "Obama-non-birth-place-country"--the USA, and whomever else I have left out of the equation.  All of whom are ready to go in and do a number on Israel concerning Iran’s nuclear works.                 

REQUEST:  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, MAY EVERYONE OF YOU WRITE Netanyahu’s ‘backbone’, the Vice Prime Minister, my friend Moshe Ya’alon (myaalon@knesset.gov.il), urging him to use his influence to not wait on the US in dealing with Iran — an October date will only help Obama’s re-election and might seriously endanger Israel.

JIM VINEYARD                               

YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL

P.S.  Almost time to go fishing - 3:39 a.m.!

"Existential Securities"

Dear Pastors:

Current news on the Iranian situation states that the negotiations will carry on through today, rather than end yesterday.  We must continue to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, and encourage the Israelis to do whatever they have to, in order to preserve the "Existential Securities" of the Jewish people.

National Security Council considers plan for Israel strike on Iran

7:55PM BST 23 May 2012

By David Blair, and Thomas Harding

"The National Security Council has discussed a range of possibilities, including how Iran might retaliate by trying to close the Strait of Hormuz.

This vital waterway at the entrance to the Gulf is only 21 miles wide at his narrowest point and serves as the conduit for about 35 per cent of the world's seaborne oil shipments.

The Royal Navy retains a permanent presence in the Gulf, currently led by HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer and one of the most advanced warships in the world.

Whitehall sources confirmed that ministers discussed the range of contingencies when the National Security Council gathered for a routine meeting last Wednesday. However, a source said this was not prompted by any expectation of an imminent Israeli strike on Iran.

The meeting focused on the possibility of a "third party" taking action – which means Israel rather than Britain or America.

But neither London nor the United States has ruled out launching military action against Iran's nuclear facilities if diplomacy and economic pressure fail to resolve the confrontation.

Britain has treaty obligations to defend almost all of the Arab states in the Gulf. "Our hands are pretty much tied if any of the states invokes the agreements saying they need our aid then we will have to turn up," said a Whitehall source.

Since the Libyan campaign last year, the RAF is understood to have updated its plans for joining a possible US-led attack on Iran. Tornado GR4 bombers would lead any assault by flying direct from RAF Marham in East Anglia to the Gulf region to fire their Stormshadow cruise missile at a range of up to 350 miles from any targets in Iran. They would then land at a Gulf state where they would be based for future missions.

Eurofighter Typhoons, whose ground attack technology is less advanced, could be used to provide air defence.

Sentinel reconnaissance aircraft of the RAF are already based in one Gulf state. They could provide "real time" surveillance and eavesdropping on Iranian targets.

A Royal Navy attack submarine has also deployed to the Indian Ocean with an arsenal of Tomahawk cruise missiles that could hit targets 400 miles away.

But any British contribution would be a fraction of the firepower that the US has discreetly amassed in the region over the last year. Six F22 Raptors, the world's most advanced fighters, have been deployed to the Gulf, joining a squadron of up to 18 F15E Strike Eagles, designed for long range bombing raids.

B1 Lancer bombers and an array of surveillance and drone aircraft are already based in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Meanwhile, two American carriers are in the region: USS Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln, which deploy a total of 80 F18 Super Hornets capable of striking more than 200 targets in a single day.

Iran nuclear talks: world powers 'creating difficult atmosphere'

World powers are hindering talks in Baghdad with Iran over its nuclear programme, creating a "difficult atmosphere", according to an Iranian delegate.

Iraqi Government Spokesman Ali Al-Dabagh (L) speaks to the media outside the negotiation room while envoys from Iran and six world powers meet for a second day of talks on easing concerns about Tehran's nuclear programme Photo: EPA

11:28AM BST 24 May 2012

The so-called P5+1 nations – United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany – have pushed Iran for concessions on its uranium enrichment programme, following a 15-month diplomatic freeze and talks in Istanbul last month."What we heard in Istanbul was more interesting ... We believe the reason P5+1 is not able to reach a result is America," the official told Reuters. "(P5+1) came to Baghdad without a clear mandate so we think the atmosphere is difficult."

Iranian media meanwhile said the chances of talks continuing are "very low," with several outlets saying Iran had essentially been handed Israeli demands.

A correspondent with Iran's Al-Alam network reflecting the Iranian delegation's views in Baghdad said the so-called P5+1 – the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany – had to sweeten incentives for Iran to suspend parts of its disputed nuclear programme for talks to go on.

"All depends on whether the other side is ready to adjust their proposals," the reporter said. "But due to the shortage of time, the possibility of coming up with these decisions is very low."

Al-Alam, and the Fars and Mehr news agencies all criticised a P5+1 package of proposals on the issue as essentially echoing demands from Israel – an indication that the assessment was held by Iran's leaders.

"The discourse used in the talks very much resembles ... that used by the Israeli prime minister and defence minister," the Al-Alam correspondent said.

"Remarks from the P5+1 seem to be echoing those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," the Fars news agency said.

"In the Baghdad meeting, the P5+1 team, in particular the United States, is making remarks similar to those of Israeli officials," the Mehr news agency said.

The outlets also suggested that the United States was dominating the P5+1 side and that it was "stonewalling," as Mehr put it.

They speculated that the P5+1 delegations had insufficient authority to modify the proposal they had made.

Israel: do not waver in talks with Iran

Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, has urged world powers not to waver in key nuclear talks with Iran, warning that any failure to halt enrichment could see them obtain weapons.

The fear is that a nuclear-armed Iran would destabilize the already volatile Middle East and sound the death knell for 60 years of international efforts to prevent the spread of atomic weapons, sparking a regional arms race Photo: GETTY

2:46PM BST 23 May 2012

Speaking as Iran and six world powers engaged in talks in Baghdad, the Iraq capital, he said "we must watch out the partial concessions do not allow Iran to avoid a tightening of sanctions."

"Without strengthening the current painful sanctions, Iran will continue towards a nuclear capability," the defence minister told Israel's public radio.

"We must not blink, give up or capitulate until the very last minute," he said.

"If they let them continue, Iran will keep on enriching uranium from 20 per cent to 60 per cent and 90 per cent and they really will get a nuclear weapon. I don't know exactly when but it will happen," he warned.

"Now is the time for the entire world to stop them," said Mr Barak.

The so-called P5+1 grouping of diplomats from permanent UN Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany held a first round of talks with Iran on April 14 in Istanbul.

Iran reportedly made a counter-proposal to the P5+1 group with five items based on "the principles of step-by-step reciprocity". Talks were expected to continue into Thursday.

A day ahead of the second round, UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said his agency was poised to ink a deal with Tehran.

His comments were greeted with deep suspicion by Israel, which sees Iran's willingness to talk as a ploy to win an easing of sanctions and to gain more time for enrichment.

The world powers are hoping to secure Iran's agreement to suspend 20 per cent enrichment and to ship its stockpiles of enriched uranium abroad.

But Israel has poured scorn on the P5+1 talks, with Barak deriding its demands of Tehran as "minimalist" and saying they would never be enough to make Iran halt its nuclear programme.

"If we set the bar too low, there is a danger that they will get most, if not all of what they want, and the Iranian nuclear programme will continue," he said.

Anything less than a demand to stop enriching uranium to 20 per cent and to 3.5 per cent, to remove all enriched uranium outside of the country, and to close down the Fordo plant near the holy city of Qom, was not enough, he said.

"The Iranians are continuing their game of chess in order to achieve nuclear weapons," he said, adding the customary warning: that "all options remain on the table" – a reference to a possible pre-emptive military strike, which Israel has refused to rule out.

Later Wednesday, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated the Israeli warning.

"The sanctions must continue and tighten, alongside international seclusion, support of the opposition and a reliable military option," he wrote on his Twitter account.

"If all this does not help, someone might have to instigate a military move against Iran," he warned, without noting who or how.

Earlier this year, Yaalon – who served as Israel's military chief – warned that no Iranian facility, however reinforced, is immune to Israeli attack.

The West and Israel, widely considered the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear power, suspect Iran is using its nuclear programme to build atomic weapons, charges that Tehran denies."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9285455/National-Security-Council-considers-plan-for-Israel-strike-on-Iran.html

I don’t know any more than you do at this present time. But, am being faithful to keep an eye on the Middle East and Events coming rapidly down the pike there.

JIM VINEYARD

YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL

JAV:rar

VICE PRIME MINISTER MOSHE ‘BOOGIE’ YA’ALON RE-ELECTION

Dear Friend,

Attached below, you will find an e-mail from Anat Tal, VPM ‘Boogie’s’ Chief of Staff.  As you know, the Lord has made a connection between myself, the Christians, the Jews, and the current Vice Prime Minister.

This week I had a long conversation with Anat concerning many issues pertaining to Boogie’s re-election campaign. Today or tomorrow I am going to try to make phone appointments for Boogie and Anat to discuss their needs with former U.S. Senator Don Nickles (R- OK, 1981-2005); during which time, the only black Republican in the Senate or House was J. C. Watts, who served with Newt Gingrich who recently dropped out of the Republican Presidential race.

Last evening I signed a check for a $1,000.00 donation to Moshe Ya’alon’s re-election campaign.  Psalms 15:4 says it is a "...sweareth to his own hurt..." sacrifice on the part of my wife and I.  We don’t really have the money.  But, as Dr. Max Price said earlier this week, "You cannot out give God."  I have never donated to a political race in Israel so it’s a first for me.  Anat’s below e-mail tells you how to make a contribution.

For you Christian Brethren [and ladies] who could join me in doing this, let me say that I think we are close to the coming of our MESSIAH!  If that will be the case, just think of how it will be to watch our investments in Israel during the Seven Year Great Tribulation!  And see what our giving will be to the sorting of itself out!   Genesis 12:3's "blessings" will also kick in for your sacrifice - be it $50, $100, $200, $300, $400, $500, $750 or $1,000.

For you,  our "Jewish Cousins", let me say this, Israel is your everlastingly covenanted country. Had Boogie occupied the position he now does, I don’t think the Road Map Peace Plan would have given away the 21 communities of the Gush Katif or the 4 in the Shomron.  And, since I know you Jews "control the world’s monies" [just listen to the liberal dems], turn loose of the maximum [$2850] and send it to Boogie’s re-election.  Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

For this ole poor boy from the panhandle of God’s Texas, a nothing, a nobody, these are exciting days. Although my 72nd year of living has been harder upon me than any of the previous years,  it has been, by far, the most exciting of any of the years I have lived by being allowed to get involved in all the matters I have relative to the Jews.  (I will finish my 72nd year on May 19th.)  My friend, Lt. Col. Eyal Rozen, Israel’s Army Military Attaché,’ is working on an appointment  for me to come May 17th and speak to a group of Jews in D.C.

PRAISE THE LORD!

JIM VINEYARD

A HELL-DESERVING SINNER, YET ONE "WHOSE SINS ARE BLOOD-COVERED."

Letter from  Anat:

Dear Friends,

This past term has been a very busy one for Vice Prime Minister Moshe (Boogie) Yaalon.As the Minister for Strategic Affairs and a Member of the inner Cabinet, the "Octet", he has been involved in the most pressing security matters. This has been Minister Yaalon's first political experience after a lifelong civil service in the military, filling key positions such as the head of the military intelligence, OC central command and finally the 17th IDF Chief of Staff. His career has placed him in the center of policy making for the last two decades. His experience has been instrumental in shaping his concept of world politics. On Feb 2009 Minister Yaalon was elected as a member of Knesset in the Likud Party and later as the Minister for Strategic Affairs. During his term as a Minister he initiated a number of key issues pertaining to current challenges facing the State of Israel. For Example-

1. Building Partnerships and Synergies in Countering the Assault on Israel's Legitimacy-

                                                                                                                      
In light of the orchestrated assault on the legitimacy of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the Ministry for Strategic Affairs led, coordinated and mobilized all collective resources to meet this challenge. Under Minister Yaalon, the Ministry initiated a program of action through coordinating cooperation with the main Jewish organizations around the world and other relevant government offices.

2. Initiating the "Culture of Peace and Incitement Index"-

The Index considers four main issues (explicit incitement to violence,

encouraging an atmosphere of violence and terrorism, incitement to hatred and
demonization and the failure to prepare people for positive processes) and has been constantly updated and presented in various forums in order to influence the Palestinian Authority to stop incitement to, and educate for, violence. The purpose of the index is to change the approach by the Palestinian Authority and receive their formal recognition of the State of Israel as the State of the Jewish People.

3. Leading the Israeli Strategy in the issue of the Iran-

The Iranian nuclear threat is the biggest challenge facing Israel and the free world today. By working closely with the PM and contributing to his efforts to draw world leader's attention to the Iranian threat, Minister Yaalon perceives this as the most pressing issue on his agenda. The key role that he has played in this issue of national and global security has contributed to the success of exposing this danger as a top priority receiving immediate attention by the west, led by the USA.


4. Supporting the PM in the issue of Settlements-

Working in collaboration with Minister Benny Begin, VPM Yaalon was responsible for attending to challenges and difficulties rising from Israel's settlement policy.

In conclusion, to summaries some of the issues VPM Moshe Yaalon gave his

personal attention to, during his active period in office in his capacity as the Minister for Strategic Affairs. In the future he wishes to continue to serve in a key position that will enable him to influence Israel's policy in matters of both world security and domestic challenges facing the country.
In light of the approaching primary elections to the Likud party we have opened a Bank account for VPM Yaalon's campaign. If you are interested and would like to make a contribution, please note below the current details of his account-Moshe (Boogie) Yaalon- The Likud Primary Elections Bank number 12 (Hapoalim), branch number  507, account number 208307.If you are sending the money by check, please write down this address: Anat Tal, 83 Hatamar St, Kefar Bin Nun, 99780.
Donations could also be sent by credit or a bank transfer. If you've decided to wire the money please make sure that all of your personal details are written down (Full name, address) and if possible please mention that this is indeed a private account.

Please note-

1. The Maximum sum for  donation is 2,850$ or 11,100 Shekels

2. The donation may only come out of a private account.

3. Please note the donation may only be given to a maximum of three
candidates. If you have decided to donate money to more candidates than allowed- you're money will be returned to you. For further inquiries you are welcome to contact me either by this email or my mobile number. Thank you for your support and looking forward to yet another fruitful term.

Anat Tal
PA to Minister Moshe Yaalon
972-50-3044157　

Letter to Pastors - February 17, 2012

February 17, 2012

 

 

Dear Pastors:

　

A mood of jubilation or even euphoria settled on White House backrooms in recent days. The US President Barack Obama’s staff quietly celebrated what his minions called "his success" in averting a military showdown over Iran’s nuclear program by dint of a judicious blend of sanctions and diplomatic maneuvers, and persuading Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that negotiations were his best option.

I’m not gleeful about this, because my memory points out how Neville Chamberlain said, "We shall have peace in our day," on the eve of 60 million people about to die.

Washington sources disclose that in private conversations, the presidential staff refer to the Iranian leader’s acceptance as a priority of two reciprocal principles, although no confirmation of this has come from Iranian sources:

Those principles are reported as:

1. The stoppage of all work on Iran’s military nuclear program and uranium enrichment from the moment negotiations begin; and

2. The United States to match progress in the talks with the staged easing of sanctions, which will be lifted completely upon a successful outcome.

President Obama is convinced that through their secret channel of communications Tehran came to realize that the process of dialogue must culminate in its acceptance of five conclusions:

A. Development of Iran’s nuclear program must stop where it stands today;

B. Uranium enrichment will be discontinued at the current 20 percent grade level and not advance to the 90 percent grade for making nuclear bombs;

C. Iran must dismantle all facilities and labs engaged in developing nuclear bombs and warheads as well as its program for producing ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads;

D. Iran will open all these facilities to inspection by International Atomic Energy Agency monitors. They must be allowed to interview the scientific staff employed in Iran’s military nuclear program, including its hitherto invisible director, Mohsen Fakrizadeh, who rules over the 600 scientists, engineers and technicians believed by US intelligence to be the core staff of the program.

E. Iran must cut off its collaborative nuclear and missile ties with North Korea and undertake to abstain from transferring nuclear technology to other parties in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Now, here my friend, is the great big "Obama-Rub," if you will:  If Tehran commits to and executes these five steps, the US will see to it that all sanctions against the Islamic Republic are lifted and it is restored to the international community as a respected member.

 

Washington will provide assistance for the rebuilding of the Iranian economy, starting with multi-billion projects for modernizing its run-down oil industry.

 

　

The White House is optimistic about the negotiations starting in days – although nothing is decided yet about its venue and whether the team of five permanent Security Council members (the US, Britain, France, Russia, China) plus Germany again take the seats they occupied opposite Iranian negotiators in the last round of talks.

This optimism accounted for the almost bored response from the US administration to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s televised boasts of nuclear achievements Wednesday, Feb. 15, namely the domestic production of 20 percent enriched uranium nuclear fuel rods and the 3,000 state-of-the-art high-speed IR4 centrifuges added to the Natanz enrichment facility.

"Our view on this is that it’s not terribly new and it’s not terribly impressive," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

 

US officials dismissed Iran’s bragging as hype for preparing the Iranian people and Muslim public for the onset of nuclear negotiations with the world powers by showing them that Tehran embraced diplomacy from a position of strength.

There is no confirmation in Washington that the Iranians have moved on to "the fourth generation" of home-made centrifuges with a higher speed and production capacity at Natanz, as claimed. They are still working on the advanced P4 machines and, apart from a few experimental models, are nowhere near ready to set up a production line for turning out these centrifuges in thousands or even hundreds.

Thursday, Feb. 16, the White House breathed a sigh of relief when Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in a radio interview followed Washington’s line in downplaying Iran’s display of "achievements".

 

He pointed out that since Tehran was still facing problems with the second generation centrifuge, P2, it was too early to believe a fourth generation was already functioning.

 

But the part of the Barack interview that was music to ears in Washington was this comment:

 

"Although Iran is making progress in its nuclear program, it still has not reached the point of no return."

My friend, retired Major General Joseph Doriel has conveyed to me, strongly, in days gone past, that he doesn't trust in Ehud Barak’s actions!

 

The White house took this as a welcome declaration of intent meaning that, in consideration of the imminent start of negotiations with Iran, Israel would give diplomacy a chance and not rock the boat by launching a sudden military strike against its nuclear facilities.

 

ME sources note that Obama and his top advisers, including intelligence and military chiefs, have been fretting for months about a possible Israeli attack on Iran without prior warning.

 

During their long phone conversation on Jan. 12, the US president tried to extract a promise from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to refrain from offensive action against Iran while future talks were in progress.

 

Netanyahu withheld this commitment.

Washington is not sure if Barack spoke off his own bat to force Netanyahu to follow his lead, or if the two leaders were playing "good cop, bad cop."

 

But Thursday night, speaking from Nicosia, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put a large spoke in the Barack wheel and raised blood pressures in Washington.

 

He said sanctions imposed on Iran are important but so far "haven't worked." … the Iranian president's guided tour of centrifuges at Tehran research reactor on Wednesday was proof that sanctions have not properly crippled Iran's efforts to develop nuclear capabilities."

 

Iran, he said, "has been exposed as being the most irresponsible power on earth today. The one that exports terror with abandon is murdering people and breaking all the rules. This regime was born taking over an embassy (the US embassy in 1979) and is now attacking diplomats far and wide,"

"For such a regime to have nuclear weapons is something of enormous concern for the United States and for Israel," he said.

 

The Iranian nuclear issue was swept up by a rush of events Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 15 and 16, toward its next station, resumed negotiations.

 

A letter expressing Tehran’s readiness to discuss a return to the negotiating table was received by the European Union foreign policy executive Catherine Ashton in belated response to her offer of October 2011. It was delivered the day after the Islamic Republic paraded what it called "major nuclear successes."

It was only on Tuesday, Feb. 14, that Dennis Ross, special adviser to President Barack Obama on the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia from 2009 to 2011, wrote an article in the New York Times entitled: "Iran Is Ready to Talk."

 

This seasoned diplomat would not have gone out on a limb without being sure of this fact. And indeed he was proven correct a day later.

 

While on the face of it, the news is sensational, it is hardly a breakthrough:

 

Iran never objected to sitting down and talking - so long as its representatives had the stage for sounding off on Tehran’s side of the controversy. Iranians tend to be unresponsive when it comes to answering questions troubling world powers about their nuclear activities and dodge around compromise proposals.

Only last month, Tehran, while nodding to diplomacy in principle, typically never answered Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s proposal for a new "step by step" model for nuclear talks, or Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s feeler on behalf of the Obama administration to find out whether Ankara or Tehran would be an acceptable venue.

The most intriguing aspect of the Ross article is the glimpse it provides into the inner workings of the US president’s policy-making machinery and its reasons for believing that diplomacy with Iran would pay off.

Some of the elements in Ross’s article are debatable - for instance, the assertion that "Today, Iran is more isolated than ever. The regional balance of power is shifting against Tehran, in no small part because of its ongoing support for the beleaguered government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria," he writes.

"The Assad regime is failing, and in time, Iran will lose its only state ally in the Arab world and its conduit for arming the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon."

 

ME analysts question the proposition that Iran is isolated when it has the support of China, Russia and India, as well as a measure of sympathy from Turkey.

 

As for Assad, there were indications this week that he has managed to stabilize his grip on government.

Barring, unexpected changes, he looks like holding out until the end of the year or beyond.

Ross goes on to say: "Gone is the fear of Iranian intimidation, as the Saudis demonstrated by immediately promising to fill the gap and meet Europe’s needs when the European Union announced its decision to boycott the purchase of Iran’s oil. Even after Iran denounced the Saudi move as a hostile act, the Saudis did not back off."

Ross - and apparently Obama too - appear to have missed the figures released this week showing that Iran’s crude oil exports to India rose to 550,000 barrels a day in January, up 37.5 percent from December 2011

 

But it is not just India; China and North Korea are also continuing to buy huge quantities of oil from Iran, while, like India they are placing their private banking systems at the disposal of the Iranian Central Bank, to bypass US and European sanctions.

In total, these three countries purchase more than 65 percent of Iran’s total oil output.

 

Even America’s close friend, Turkey, is not playing along with the embargo on Iranian oil.

 

Responding to strong US insistence, a Turkish delegation traveled to Saudi Arabia last Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10-11, to look into the possibility of replacing Iranian oil. Washington assured them they would get a cheaper price and better terms from the Saudis.

Four days later, after politely going through the motions to please Washington, Ankara announced officially that its regular purchases from Iran would continue as before and Turkey would not buy Saudi oil.

 

Tehran therefore has no difficulty in finding buyers for 80 percent of its exported oil. It is therefore hard to credit Ross’s assertion that "Iranian oil is being stored in tankers as Iran’s buyers demand discounts to purchase it."

Certainly many purchasers and speculators are trying to capitalize on Western sanctions to get better deals in their business with Iran. But with the cooperation of Russian, Chinese, Indian and Turkish financial systems, Tehran will soon improve its bargaining position.

　

That most of the countries continuing to do business with Iran are not paying in dollars, is presented by Ross as a major American accomplishment which is emptying Iran’s US currency stocks.

This is not the case for two reasons:

1. The dollar is hurt as much as Iran;

2. Over the past four years, Iran has reduced its dollar purchases by 80 percent and switched to gold or Russian and Asian currencies as well as expanding its barter trade.

He ends the article with the conclusion: "The Obama administration has now created a situation in which diplomacy has a chance to succeed. It remains an open question whether it will. The next few months will determine whether it succeeds…"

 

But Dennis Ross and the White House need not wait months to see how diplomacy fares; they received Iran’s answer this week.

 

Tuesday, Feb. 14, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was dispatched through the Straits of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, its second crossing through the vital waterway since its first on Jan. 23

 

But this time, it was trailed by a menacing flotilla of an explosives-laden speedboat, warships with missiles poised openly on launch pads, a surveillance aircraft, a home-made drone and assault helicopters.

 

Iran’s crude show of muscle in the face of American military might told Washington that Tehran was not afraid of a military showdown.

The next day, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a theatrical show of inserting 20-percent enriched uranium fuel rods into the Tehran Research Reactor, shortly after Iran State TV announced the cutoff of oil exports to six European Union countries.

 

Tehran’s version of successful diplomacy clearly has little in common with the way it is perceived in Washington.

Iran had a weak American President to deal with when they took our Embassy employees 33 years ago. Iran has a weak American President to deal with in the "Muslim-Marxist-Socialist" who now occupies the White House.

For the sake of the "existential security" of the people of Israel, may God Almighty grant Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the grace to continue to put large spokes in the Barak wheel and, also, but more importantly, in my opinion, to continue to raise blood pressures in Washington among the "obamessiah’s minions."

 

　

JIM VINEYARD

YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL

Letter to Pastors - February 16, 2012

February 16, 2012

 

Dear Pastors:

 

Earlier today I was privileged to speak to Oklahoma Baptist College Chapel, in which I preached on the subject, "ADVICE FROM AN OLD MAN."  I spoke from 2Ti 4:6:  "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.  7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:"

 

To "Finish the Course," I espoused for them:

I. As soon as you get up every day, put your hand up into the Hand of God, and let him guide you through the day. I gave them the quote from England’s King George VI at Christmastime in 1939 when it looked as if the Nazis would succeed in swamping the free world.

II. Be accountable to someone in your daily Bible reading. I told how my wife and I read the Scriptures together, and how today we read I Corinthians chapters 12, 13, & 14.

III. Find and do the Will of God with your life.  Like Winston Churchill stated at the time of the 2^nd World War, all I had to offer God when HE called me in January 1967 was blood, toil, tears and sweat.

IV. Die to Self.  1Co 15:31:  "I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If I don’t keep my "ole self" dead every day, all day long, then I can expect to have trouble in that day."

V. Just Be Faithful.  1Co 4:2:  "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful."

 

The time of my departure may be close at hand. I have so many things "physically" going against me. I don’t know! But I do know HE who is already "in tomorrow" and I have my hand in his hand.

 

Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

 

In these last days of "finishing my course" the LORD has given me the privilege of getting squarely into the corner of the JEWS in their struggles against the "wild-donkey-replacement-doctrine-reject-Ishmaelites" our politically correct press calls "Palestinians."  Like Newt Gingrich has said, they are an "invented people." They have no culture. They have no language.

 

During the years 2000 to 2007, the so-called "Palestinians" wrought great acts of terror upon the Jews in Israel, killing 1,218 Jews and maiming 8,431 Jews. On February 22, 2004, Dr. Max Price, Dr. Cliff Hearron and I were in the King David Hotel when Jerusalem Bus 14A was blown up. We were at the scene of the Bus Bombing at about 9:30 AM. I shall never forget the devastation of the scene. Here is the story:

Eight people were killed and more than 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, by a suicide bomber who detonated himself on a No. 14A Jerusalem bus shortly after 8:30 on Sunday morning near the capital's Liberty Bell Park.

The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Muhammad Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area.

Police believe the bomber got on to the bus in the Talpiot industrial area. Two security guards who boarded the bus failed to identify the terrorist seated with the explosive device concealed in his lap. The bomber apparently decided to chance being discovered in order to wait for the bus to fill with passengers, so as to increase the number of casualties.

When we arrived at the scene of carnage, the first responders had gotten all the wounded and all the dead off that Green Bus. They were taking off body parts and in general cleaning up the wreckage therein. The smell of death hung heavily in the air. The stench of burned flesh was very stinging to my nostrils. As those first responders went through the wreckage, you would hear a cell phone start to ring. They would dig through the wreckage hastily. Being old I don’t remember what they did when they would get to the cell phone. I just don’t remember. But I do know that those cell phones ringing were relatives calling to check on someone who normally rode Bus 14A.

 

I shall never forget the letter which was in the paper, Yediot Ahronot, on Monday, February 23, 2004.

"YOU ARE JUDGING AND I AM BURYING MY HUSBAND"
(Article by Fanny Haim, Yediot Ahronot, Feb 23, 2004, p. A1)

"Today, in The Hague, you will sit in judgment. Today, I will bury my husband, my heart - which has been cut in two.

I will no longer receive this right. But today, you can see to it that other Israeli families will merit this basic thing - to raise a happy family, to get up in the morning without bereavement, without gravestones, and without cemeteries. Today, as you begin your deliberations with open eyes, think, just for a moment, about the ordinary people behind this bloody conflict. Think for a moment about the golden heart of my husband Yehuda, and about our young son, Avner. Maybe you can explain to him - he's only 10-years-old - why in God's Name he doesn't have a father any more.

True, the politics are far from me, but now as the pain is far too close to me, I think that I have acquired, with integrity and with tears, the right to appeal to you and say: If there had been a fence all along the length of the state, then maybe I, just like you, could kiss my husband this evening. Do not judge my country; do not restrain it from preventing additional people from becoming victims. Today, I am burying my husband; don't you bury justice.

 

That fence, by the way, Preacher Friends, has lowered the "wild-donkey-replacement-doctrine-Ishmaelite" terror rate down to much lower success levels for the Ishmaelites. I say, in 2012, THANK GOD FOR THE FENCE!

 

Pastor, this Iranian Nuclear Thing is going to worsen greatly in the next few months. We need to be letting all our Nationally Elected Representatives — US Senators and Congresspersons — know exactly where we stand as Bible Believers behind the nation of Israel doing whatever they have to do to preserve the "existential security" of the Jews in Israel.

 

May the Lord God of the Hebrews bless you richly as you consider the words of your humble servant this Thursday Evening, 8 years minus 6 days, before the anniversary of the Bus Bombing described for you above in Jerusalem February 22, 2004.

　

　

JIM VINEYARD

YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL