October 28, 2010
Dear Pastors:
WHBC under Dr. Tom Vineyard’s tutelage just completed our first King James Only Conference which was an exciting conference proving absolutely how the NIV, NAS, NKJV, RSV, NRS, LIV, & NCV all "have perverted the words of the living God..." Jeremiah 23:36! It was one exciting conference with Deacon Mike Miller doing a Power Point Presentation, which was simply "par-excellante" plus the preaching of Dr. Vernon McGee and Dr. Bryan Sharp.
This ole warrior-preacher is still beset by physical difficulties being booted out of bed by pain at 1:27 AM yesterday and 3:30 AM this morning. I live an alliterated outline "Long Days, Little Sleep, Lots of Pain!" But, the LORD is still far better to me and the Bride of my youth than we deserve.
In a few minutes I leave to drive up to our Camp and prepare a Deer Stand, where, the Lord Willing, I shall be taken a young man deer hunting this coming Saturday. More on that later!
Let me give you the Quote of the Week:
"Very few people were true Nazis, but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come."
This was by a man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II!
My question: When will humanity start to learn from the lessons of history? Islam is creeping upon us and is about to completely paralyze the world, but we are 'letting it all happen' until 'they own us'!
Covert War is On?
Iran loses most of its ballistic missile launchers in mysterious blasts. A top-secret Iranian military installation was struck by a triple blast Tues. Oct. 12, the day before Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon. The site held most of the Shehab-3 medium-range missile launchers Iran had stocked for striking US forces in Iraq and Israel in the event of war - some set to deliver triple warheads.
Mob Rules in 'Moderate' Arab State
An angry mob stormed a television station in Kuwait, claiming the station aired a program that criticized the country's ruling family. The attackers were armed with pistols and knives, and beat the station's employees. Ten people were wounded in the attack. (Just imagine what they would have done if the station had expressed support for Israel or criticized terror of Islamic expansionism.)
Then, below is an excellent piece:
Why the Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant?
by Paul E. Marek
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.
Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.
It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march.
It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.
It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.
It is the fanatics, who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.
It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.
It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people.
The peaceful majority is irrelevant.
China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist.
Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery.
Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our posers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
In a few days, in another State, this ole warrior-preacher is going to get to meet Shimon Erem!
Considered by many as the "patriarch" of the L.A. Israeli community, Shimon Erem has been a community activist for over five decades. He holds masters degrees in economics (Columbia) and agriculture (Hebrew University, Jerusalem.)
All we Agriculturists "bond together," as that "kibbutznik" who was Chief of Staff of the IDF when I met him a few years ago!
After serving in the British army in WWII, Erem became involved in clandestine operations to smuggle Jewish refugees into Israel and served as general in the Isreali Defence Forces. After moving to the U.S. in 1970 he conducted strategic research, in part with the Department of Defense and American intelligence agencies.
Active in such organizations as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), former president of Bnei Brith of the Western U.S., and former chair of the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, Erem now spearheads efforts to garner support for Israel among American Christians and to build bridges between the Israeli and Christian communities. His wife Danielle is an 8th-generation Jerusalemite who holds a Doctorate in Law from the French University in Beirut.
Let me delineate for you two questions and Shimon’s answers:
What is your focus these days?
Most of my time is taken up in my activities with the Christian community, the Israel Christian Nexus … it consumes most of my time. We are trying to establish as many churches as possible to support Israel, by first and foremost meeting and talking to their pastors and then the churches themselves.
We have already at this stage have 35 churches supporting Israel in Sacramento, we have 39 churches supporting Israel in Bakersfield, 19 churches supporting Israel only in Simi Valley here, 19 churches in San Diego. So we have quite a few hundred churches that support Israel and we just want to build it up.
We have events in the churches, and speak often to them. It is impossible for us to speak to every church so most of the time it is the collection of churches….we had a big event in Stephan Wise Temple for solidarity – Jews, Christians, rabbis and pastors. We filled up the area with 23000 people .
Are you working also with the Christian schools?
We decided now to start working with the Christian schools after an exceptional great work that Dr. Dan Lieber , son of the formal president of university of Judaism has done with the Catholic Church….he’s done exceptional work with them … we are going to do the same thing with the churches that are affiliated to us.
Outside southern California when I speak to churches in some other places I insist that I want to speak to the teachers to the high schools if they have any. I have done it in Minnesota, I’ve done it in Michigan. I have in each place a volunteer who represents me there and makes the arrangements.
Most of the churches are Lutheran churches in the Midwest, prior to the contact to me were quite apprehensive as well as Israel is concerned…. some of them even hostile…The procedure starts with one-on-one encounter. I meet with one pastor, we speak, and in more than 90 percent of the cases….
[For example,] in Minnesota I met with 13 pastors. Only one I didn’t manage to convert to become a friend of Israel. But 12 of 13 so much so that they called me or my representative and said "if Shimon Erem wants to talk to the church, he is more than welcome, if he wants to talk to our school… he is more than welcome. If they have a radio they invite me to speak on their radio, and then in few cases they have TV stations. After I come and I speak, they get in touch with my representative.
Everywhere it was the same thing
– in Florida, in Michigan, in Texas, in Oklahoma, in Minnesota, they get in touch. They say we would like to have either breakfast, lunch or dinner whenever I’m free … and without exception I had to extend my stay so that I have enough breakfasts lunches or dinners to meet with them. It is very very successful and very gratifying.
When two ole Warriors get together, what do we talk about! Well, let me tell you this, I am looking at something I did early this morning about 4:30 AM on Lessons We Learned from the Japs Bombing Pearl Harbor 69 years ago this Dec. 7th!
These lessons, I am sure, would be something we would discuss!
1st Lesson: The Call "To Arms" was given,
Gen 14:14 "And when Abram heard...he armed his trained servants..." [All quotes from KJV!]
2nd Lesson: A Declaration of War was made, Total Mobilization in Scope!
2Samuel 22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
3rd Lesson: The USA could "pay no attention" to how Dec. 7th wounded us!
Psalms 27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4th Lesson: The USA had to Identify "ALL" our enemies - Japan, Italy, Germany, and the followers of the false ‘god’ ‘allah’ under Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti!
Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5th Lessson: Mobilize all the Friendly Nations the USA could count on for 150% War Effort!
Deut. 23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
6th Lesson: Energize Their and Our "Civilian Societies" for Total Mobilization War!
2Chronicles 25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
7th Lesson: Increasing Number, Arming and Training our Troops!
2Chronicles 20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
8th Lesson: Realization 12/7/41 clearly showed Dangers of Anti-War "America-Firsters" [Joe Kennedy, Anti-Semitic Catholic Father Charles Couglin, Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg,, Socialist Norman Thomas, Liberals like John T. Flynn, Oswald Garrison Villard, and revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes!]
2Chronicles 20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
9th Lesson: Caused the USA to see that we MUST stay Totally Mobilized to the Duration with the Defeat of the Nazi-Facist-Japanese-Mufti Powers! Total Victory Must be the Goal!
2 Chron 19:11 "....Deal courageously, and the Lord will be with the Good!"
10th Lesson: Once Again, as thousands of times in the Past, History’s Lessons were ‘THE JEW’ caused Hitler to provoke Japan & Italy to both go to war in 1935, and by 1940 had allowed the Nazi’s to occupy 6 Democratic countries!
Luke 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Brethren, we cannot be like the Anti-War "American-Firsters" [Joe Kennedy, Anti-Semitic Catholic Father Charles Couglin, Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg,, Socialist Norman Thomas, Liberals like John T. Flynn, Oswald Garrison Villard, and revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes!]
We are at War with the Ishmaelites. We must keep the Pedal to the Medal in what we do in the future regarding this War!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Letter to Pastors
October 29, 2010
Dear PASTORS:
Things in the Middle East are pointing most definitely to the COMING OF MESSIAH at any time. We could be in the middle of the Great Tribulation period within seconds of my starting to write this email to you. It sure looks as if we are almost to the COMING OF THE LORD !
If all the lists we use come into play, this email will go to 11,000 + Independent Baptist Pastors. Preachers, this could be the most important "email" this ole warrior-preacher has ever sent out. Read it carefully! Disseminate it widely!
Now, let me be specific:
Wednesday, October 13, France's flagship and only aircraft carrier the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle sailed out from its home port of Toulon on a four-month mission, escorted by two frigates, an attack submarine and refueling tanker, under the command of Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Kerignard.
Their mission was officially designated support for the NATO anti-piracy and counter-terror contingents patrolling the Indian Ocean and for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Two days later, the French carrier turned back for urgent repairs to damage, the nature of which the French Navy spokesman declined to specify.
Western naval sources said it was an electrical fault in the ship's propulsion system.
The escort group continued on its way leaving the carrier to catch up later.
Middle East military sources report that this breakdown caused the Charles de Gaulle to miss the boat in the most strategic sense.
It had been scheduled to reach the Arabian Sea Sunday, Oct. 17, on the same day that the USS Abraham Lincoln put in to Manama port, home of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, as agreed in advance between the White House in Washington and the Elyseé Palace in Paris.
The American carrier kept the date, arriving in the Persian Gulf with a Carrier Air Wing CVW-2 of nine squadrons on its decks, to join the USS Harry S. Truman carrier and its marine air strike unit.
What we have definitively learned is that they were carrying each other's replacement parts!
The coordinated build-up around Iran's shores in the second half of October, 2010 was the outcome of a recent discussion inside the White House about whether it would be helpful, or counterproductive, to have President Barak Obama talk more openly about military options.
And not just to talk, but to suit action to words.
Some of the spadework was already in place: In June 8, the US, France and Britain carried out a joint exercise.
US and French fighter-bombers, taking off from the Truman and the de Gaulle, and British fighter-bombers flying in from bases in England, practiced bombing ground targets and providing air support for Marines on ground missions against Iranian targets at the Canjuers training facility near Toulon.
The US and French fighter bombers had their first experience ever of landing on their ally's aircraft carriers for "repairs" in their role of aircraft maimed in combat.
French Rafale M fighter-bombers landed on a US aircraft carrier while US Super Hornet F/A-18E/F warplanes touched down on the French carrier's deck for repairs in its workshop.
This exercise prepared the US and French carriers designated to take part in an attack on Iran to each carry replacement parts for its ally's warplanes.
The goal of the overall US command was to have three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers stationed in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea with a combined total of 160 warplanes on their decks - 120 on the US carriers and 40 on the Charles de Gaulle.
And then we have learned that Egypt joins Strait of Hormuz defenders at big new Fujairah naval base!
Also on October 17, in another part of the Middle East, the start of a unique military exercise slotted two more pieces into the overall architecture of US planning for a possible attack on Iran.
Saudi and Egyptian special forces, marines, armored, missile, air and naval contingents met for the first time in the history of their armed forces for a joint exercise, Tabuk-2.
Its goal was to turn back an Iranian offensive by attacking the attacker.
This maneuver which took place in Egypt's Northern Desert was first disclosed in an email a few days ago. Military sources have since filled in the details.
The scenario they rehearsed started with Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) marines landing on Saudi oil fields and oil ports in the Eastern Provinces.
One Egyptian force was assigned to rush over to augment Saudi resistance to the invaders, while a second standing by in northwest Saudi Arabia would land behind enemy lines on the western Iranian coast and raid the IRGC bases located there.
Then, Middle East military sources further disclose:
1. Tabuk-2 was only the first of a series of joint Saudi-Egyptian war games to strengthen their military cooperation and inculcate patterns of mutual defense.
2. An Egyptian expeditionary force made up of armored, naval, marine, air and commando detachments has scattered among Saudi military bases as a permanent outpost.
It will stand ready for swift action at short notice in line with a strategic Saudi-Egyptian decision to have field units on the ready for instantaneous response to an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia.
3. Egyptian and Saudi intelligence services have unified their Iran desks.
4. The day their war game ended, October 21, a huge new naval base was inaugurated at the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah.
The site is located at a focal point on the eastern coast of the emirate just opposite the Straits of Hormuz with links to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
In addition to the UAE navy, French and Egyptian naval and marine units will be stationed at this base - the first time the French fleet has won a foothold in the Persian Gulf and Egypt's first deployment for a role in defending the strategic oil transport waterway.
The new Fujairah base was inaugurated on the day the two Arab powers ended their war game.
While all this was happening, US-Israeli coordination was being strengthened!
The United States has also substantially bolstered three Combined Task Forces in the region with manpower and equipment.
They are: CTF151 which operates in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin, CTF152 whose area of operation stretches from the northern Persian Gulf to the Strait of Hormuz, and CTF158 which covers the northernmost corner of the Persian Gulf.
Attached to them are large amphibious landing craft with air transports and helicopters on their decks for carrying thousands of commandos and marines into action.
The US and Israel meanwhile conducted a 10-day command post simulation and training exercise called Juniper Falcon 11 on October 11-21, a regular event which this time drilled responses to coordinated missile strikes from Iran, Syria, Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Added to the scenario were Iranian merchant ships at sea shooting missiles and Iranian warplanes taking off from Syrian bases to blitz Israel and American targets in the region.
The exercise tested the level of intelligence and operational coordination between US and Israeli missile interceptor systems and also how well they worked together in potential counter-attacks on missile-launching sites in Iran and its allies, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza.
On October 25, Dennis Ross, Special Assistant to the US President and Senior Director for the Central Region, spoke about the level of strategic cooperation between the United States and Israel in an address to the Florida convention of the Israel lobby AIPAC:
"Frankly, this degree of coordination (between US and Israel) is unprecedented," he commented. "I have participated in these types of discussions for the last 30 years and they have never been as intense or focused, reflecting the serious cooperation that we have today with Israel."
In another comment, Ross said, "Should Iran continue its defiance, despite its growing isolation and the damage to its economy, its leaders should listen carefully to President Obama who has said many times, 'We are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.'"
Ross's remarks amounted to the most explicit threat yet heard from a key Obama administration figure about possible American military action against Iran.
Therefore, our read is that "Iran is Getting Set for War!"
They do this by Mustering Offensive-Defensive Units, and Organizing Proxy Campaigns!
If the next war in the Persian Gulf and Middle East plays out according to the Iranian scenario, Revolutionary Guards elite units will hit back at enemy troop landings by sea or air, by taking the war to US Middle East bases, Mediterranean shores, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The paucity of Iranian fighting men and size of country would make defense a tall order for Tehran, say Middle East military experts.
The IRGC's regular strength is just 150,000 fighting men - rising to 200,000 when war reserves are fully mobilized.
This is nowhere near being up to the combined task of defending the country while striking the enemy outside its borders.
The Iranian general staff has addressed this predicament by assigning some 15,000 troops of the IRGC's crack Special Forces, Navy and Air Force units to striking targets in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, while leaving an army of roughly one million soldiers to deal with enemy assaults and invasion.
That number too is far too small to defend all 1,648,195 square kilometers (636,372 square miles) of Iran, which is the 18th largest country in the world in terms of area, with a population of more than 75 million and coastlines on three seas, the Persian Gulf-Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea and the Caspian Sea.
To make up for that deficiency, Iran has for the past eighteen months been building and training special local forces for defending the capital Tehran, other key cities, its nuclear installations and other strategic and military centers.
They will also bear the brunt of putting down minority uprisings by Kurds, Arabs or Baluchis and curbing their efforts to sever main transportation arteries by sabotage and terror.
These scratch armies, yielding around 140,000 semi-trained fighting men, have been molded out of the Basij volunteer militia and local police departments.
The Basij, which numbers about 90,000 volunteers (The Iranians claim there are more than 10 million!) was until recently no more than a poorly equipped local militia of enthusiastic thugs at the beck and call of the regime.
Iranian tacticians have managed to hammer them into five armored Basij divisions equipped with tanks, artillery and short-range anti-aircraft weapons, whose task it is to destroy any enemy forces landing on their patch.
Iran's police force has undergone a similar transformation.
It now resembles a paramilitary force more than an arm of law enforcement.
Its single Police Unit 110 for rapid response in urban areas has been replicated in many parts of the country and trained for combating local guerilla fighters and invading foreign troops in their areas of control.
All in all, intelligence sources estimate that Iran could field in the early stages of a war 900,000 to a million fighting men - the professionally-trained 600,000-strong army and IRGC troops and the semi-trained units making up their numbers.
This army would be far from homogenous, lacking a unified central command, with uneven combat skills, low-grade weaponry and only very basic communications equipment.
The units assigned with repelling invaders will have little-to-no air support or helicopters for striking ground targets because almost the entire ageing air force, including attack helicopters, must be reserved for the big battle of the Persian Gulf against US, Saudi and emirate forces.
In addition we can tell you that there is Heavy Iranian reliance on allies for proxy offensives!
Given these grave tactical deficiencies, Tehran would be heavily dependent in any conflict in the foreseeable future, on "second" and "third fronts" fought by allies and surrogates - the Syrian Army of around 500,000 troops, Hizballah's fighting militia of 45,000 and the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, which together could muster 17,000-20,000 men under arms.
They would be charged with carrying forward Iran's military doctrine of taking the war into enemy territory.
Iran's proxy army is made up of two main elements:
1. Commando forces trained for missions inside Israel!
The two most professional forces under Iran's remote control are the 15,000-strong Syrian airborne commandos and Hizballah's 4,000 special forces - most of whose officers and men underwent specialist IRGC and Al Qods Brigades training in Iran.
According to Tehran's war plans, while helicopters dropped Syrian commandos over target areas in Israel, flying in low to evade Israeli radar, Hizballah's ground troops would drive across the Lebanese-Israeli border and head for sectors inside Israel pre-designated for capture with the aid of the local Israel-Arab populace, while also striking Israel Defense Forces facilities and severing Israeli transport routes in their respective areas.
The involvement of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers has deepened throughout the Hizballah chain of command.
Tehran has appointed Revolutionary Guards Gen. Hossein Mahadavi overall commander of the war front against Israel in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
He is permanently seated in Beirut with a staff of dozens of Iranian specialists who advise Hizballah on intelligence and weapons systems.
While Syrian and Hizballah troops attack northern Israel, armed Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist squads would smash their way into southern Israel and attack IDF soldiers and civilians, focusing on the coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod.
They would make use of the hundreds of tunnels burrowed under the Gaza border fence in deference to the North Korean doctrine of infiltration and operation behind enemy lines, and also try and land by sea.
Iranian war planners foresee simultaneous battles flaring up in many parts of their country, especially around nuclear installations and important military facilities.
They are keen to replicate this scenario inside Israel which is far too small to withstand such strategy.
Evidence has been building in the past six months of Syrian and Iranian marine units - the latter already present in Syria - simulating sea landings from the Mediterranean at various points on the Israeli coast where major naval bases, oil refineries and power stations would present ready infrastructure targets for destruction.
2. A sustained missile strike on Israel
Tehran plans its first knee-jerk response to a US or Israeli attack to be a concentrated four-directional missile blitz on Israel and has amply armed its proxies for that task.
Not only would Iranian missiles cover the distance, but Syria would let loose from the north, Hizballah from the northwest, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the south.
They have all been supplied with enough intermediate-range missiles and rockets to pound every inch of Israeli territory. [An Israeli General showed me plainly a few months ago Bint Jbail, where 40,000 + of these sophisticated missiles are stored in underground bunkers.]
Syrian and Hizballah arsenals were recently swelled by large consignments of the new-model Fateh-110 missiles, which have a range of 220-250 kilometers, while the two Palestinian groups in Gaza have been furnished with a growing supply of improved Fajr-5 missiles whose 80-kilometer range takes them as far as Tel Aviv.
Iran has also smuggled into Gaza enough anti-aircraft missiles of different types with launchers housed underground and operated by remote control to affect Israel's aerial tactics against terrorists operating out of Gaza.
Middle East military sources report the Israeli Air Force has just discontinued the use of helicopters for surveillance and other tasks over the Gaza Strip and border areas in Israel lest they are shot down from Gaza. I have not be able to verify if this report is in fact, true.
However, last week, an Iranian anti-aircraft missile fired by an Islamic Jihad squad managed to bring down an Israeli UAV over the northern Gaza Strip.
Large Israeli ground forces with tanks rushed across to the crash site to remove every fragment of the drone before the scraps could be collected by Palestinians and sent on to Iran or Hizballah for analysis.
The missile blitz Tehran has planned would be coordinated by a joint command set up in Damascus last June by Iran, Syria, Hizballah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
This command center also divided Israel into sectors for coordinated targeting adjusted to the types of missiles in the hands of the participants and ongoing events in the various war zones, including Iran.
Now, in addition to all this I see "Israel lining up its defenses!"
Tuesday, October 26, I have been informed that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, drilled a simulated strike on the building by two of Hamas' Grad missiles during a plenary session, necessitating the transfer of deliberations to another location in Jerusalem.
That exercise, which took place three days after the conclusion of the US-Israeli joint missile defense maneuver Juniper Falcon 11, indicates Israel is fully aware that every part of the country is now exposed to Iranian or surrogate missiles.
That maneuver led straight into the biggest exercise the Israeli Air force has ever staged to practice the widely-varied combat, defense and support functions this arm will have to perform against a synchronized Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah-Palestinian assault.
The air exercise continues through the end of the week.
On the diplomatic front, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley Tuesday night accused Syria of continuing to "steer weapons to Hizballah militants in Lebanon in an attempt to exert control over its neighbor."
In Paris, Israeli sources leaked word to the French newspaper Le Figaro that Hizballah is running three logistics units whose specialty is weapons transport:
Unit 108, based in Damascus, is responsible for trucking arms and ammunition supplies inside Syria to storage depots in Aleppo, Homs and Tartous.
Unit 112 delivers war materiel to Hizballah's caches in Lebanon and ammo to its Bekaa Valley facilities.
Unit 100 organizes the travels of Hizballah fighters and Iranian experts between Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Iran via Damascus airport.
Now, Brethren, we should be on our knees praying, ‘EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS!’ And, we should be praying FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM [Psalms 122:6,] remembering the teaching of Joel 3:2, which the Bride of my Youth and I read early, early this morning, for us! It was a tad before 4AM, I think when we read the following: " I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land."
The valley of Jehoshaphat my friend, is exactly where the Battle of Armageddon will be fought. There, those nations, like the USA under George W. And Condi, and their Road Map to Peace plan, which parted [divided] up, what God Almighty, the Lord God of the Hebrews, calls "my land," in Joel 3:2, will be gathered, and then God Almighty will Judge them [plead means judge.]
Amen and Amen!!!!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Dear PASTORS:
Things in the Middle East are pointing most definitely to the COMING OF MESSIAH at any time. We could be in the middle of the Great Tribulation period within seconds of my starting to write this email to you. It sure looks as if we are almost to the COMING OF THE LORD !
If all the lists we use come into play, this email will go to 11,000 + Independent Baptist Pastors. Preachers, this could be the most important "email" this ole warrior-preacher has ever sent out. Read it carefully! Disseminate it widely!
Now, let me be specific:
Wednesday, October 13, France's flagship and only aircraft carrier the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle sailed out from its home port of Toulon on a four-month mission, escorted by two frigates, an attack submarine and refueling tanker, under the command of Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Kerignard.
Their mission was officially designated support for the NATO anti-piracy and counter-terror contingents patrolling the Indian Ocean and for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Two days later, the French carrier turned back for urgent repairs to damage, the nature of which the French Navy spokesman declined to specify.
Western naval sources said it was an electrical fault in the ship's propulsion system.
The escort group continued on its way leaving the carrier to catch up later.
Middle East military sources report that this breakdown caused the Charles de Gaulle to miss the boat in the most strategic sense.
It had been scheduled to reach the Arabian Sea Sunday, Oct. 17, on the same day that the USS Abraham Lincoln put in to Manama port, home of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, as agreed in advance between the White House in Washington and the Elyseé Palace in Paris.
The American carrier kept the date, arriving in the Persian Gulf with a Carrier Air Wing CVW-2 of nine squadrons on its decks, to join the USS Harry S. Truman carrier and its marine air strike unit.
What we have definitively learned is that they were carrying each other's replacement parts!
The coordinated build-up around Iran's shores in the second half of October, 2010 was the outcome of a recent discussion inside the White House about whether it would be helpful, or counterproductive, to have President Barak Obama talk more openly about military options.
And not just to talk, but to suit action to words.
Some of the spadework was already in place: In June 8, the US, France and Britain carried out a joint exercise.
US and French fighter-bombers, taking off from the Truman and the de Gaulle, and British fighter-bombers flying in from bases in England, practiced bombing ground targets and providing air support for Marines on ground missions against Iranian targets at the Canjuers training facility near Toulon.
The US and French fighter bombers had their first experience ever of landing on their ally's aircraft carriers for "repairs" in their role of aircraft maimed in combat.
French Rafale M fighter-bombers landed on a US aircraft carrier while US Super Hornet F/A-18E/F warplanes touched down on the French carrier's deck for repairs in its workshop.
This exercise prepared the US and French carriers designated to take part in an attack on Iran to each carry replacement parts for its ally's warplanes.
The goal of the overall US command was to have three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers stationed in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea with a combined total of 160 warplanes on their decks - 120 on the US carriers and 40 on the Charles de Gaulle.
And then we have learned that Egypt joins Strait of Hormuz defenders at big new Fujairah naval base!
Also on October 17, in another part of the Middle East, the start of a unique military exercise slotted two more pieces into the overall architecture of US planning for a possible attack on Iran.
Saudi and Egyptian special forces, marines, armored, missile, air and naval contingents met for the first time in the history of their armed forces for a joint exercise, Tabuk-2.
Its goal was to turn back an Iranian offensive by attacking the attacker.
This maneuver which took place in Egypt's Northern Desert was first disclosed in an email a few days ago. Military sources have since filled in the details.
The scenario they rehearsed started with Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) marines landing on Saudi oil fields and oil ports in the Eastern Provinces.
One Egyptian force was assigned to rush over to augment Saudi resistance to the invaders, while a second standing by in northwest Saudi Arabia would land behind enemy lines on the western Iranian coast and raid the IRGC bases located there.
Then, Middle East military sources further disclose:
1. Tabuk-2 was only the first of a series of joint Saudi-Egyptian war games to strengthen their military cooperation and inculcate patterns of mutual defense.
2. An Egyptian expeditionary force made up of armored, naval, marine, air and commando detachments has scattered among Saudi military bases as a permanent outpost.
It will stand ready for swift action at short notice in line with a strategic Saudi-Egyptian decision to have field units on the ready for instantaneous response to an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia.
3. Egyptian and Saudi intelligence services have unified their Iran desks.
4. The day their war game ended, October 21, a huge new naval base was inaugurated at the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah.
The site is located at a focal point on the eastern coast of the emirate just opposite the Straits of Hormuz with links to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
In addition to the UAE navy, French and Egyptian naval and marine units will be stationed at this base - the first time the French fleet has won a foothold in the Persian Gulf and Egypt's first deployment for a role in defending the strategic oil transport waterway.
The new Fujairah base was inaugurated on the day the two Arab powers ended their war game.
While all this was happening, US-Israeli coordination was being strengthened!
The United States has also substantially bolstered three Combined Task Forces in the region with manpower and equipment.
They are: CTF151 which operates in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin, CTF152 whose area of operation stretches from the northern Persian Gulf to the Strait of Hormuz, and CTF158 which covers the northernmost corner of the Persian Gulf.
Attached to them are large amphibious landing craft with air transports and helicopters on their decks for carrying thousands of commandos and marines into action.
The US and Israel meanwhile conducted a 10-day command post simulation and training exercise called Juniper Falcon 11 on October 11-21, a regular event which this time drilled responses to coordinated missile strikes from Iran, Syria, Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Added to the scenario were Iranian merchant ships at sea shooting missiles and Iranian warplanes taking off from Syrian bases to blitz Israel and American targets in the region.
The exercise tested the level of intelligence and operational coordination between US and Israeli missile interceptor systems and also how well they worked together in potential counter-attacks on missile-launching sites in Iran and its allies, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza.
On October 25, Dennis Ross, Special Assistant to the US President and Senior Director for the Central Region, spoke about the level of strategic cooperation between the United States and Israel in an address to the Florida convention of the Israel lobby AIPAC:
"Frankly, this degree of coordination (between US and Israel) is unprecedented," he commented. "I have participated in these types of discussions for the last 30 years and they have never been as intense or focused, reflecting the serious cooperation that we have today with Israel."
In another comment, Ross said, "Should Iran continue its defiance, despite its growing isolation and the damage to its economy, its leaders should listen carefully to President Obama who has said many times, 'We are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.'"
Ross's remarks amounted to the most explicit threat yet heard from a key Obama administration figure about possible American military action against Iran.
Therefore, our read is that "Iran is Getting Set for War!"
They do this by Mustering Offensive-Defensive Units, and Organizing Proxy Campaigns!
If the next war in the Persian Gulf and Middle East plays out according to the Iranian scenario, Revolutionary Guards elite units will hit back at enemy troop landings by sea or air, by taking the war to US Middle East bases, Mediterranean shores, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The paucity of Iranian fighting men and size of country would make defense a tall order for Tehran, say Middle East military experts.
The IRGC's regular strength is just 150,000 fighting men - rising to 200,000 when war reserves are fully mobilized.
This is nowhere near being up to the combined task of defending the country while striking the enemy outside its borders.
The Iranian general staff has addressed this predicament by assigning some 15,000 troops of the IRGC's crack Special Forces, Navy and Air Force units to striking targets in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, while leaving an army of roughly one million soldiers to deal with enemy assaults and invasion.
That number too is far too small to defend all 1,648,195 square kilometers (636,372 square miles) of Iran, which is the 18th largest country in the world in terms of area, with a population of more than 75 million and coastlines on three seas, the Persian Gulf-Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea and the Caspian Sea.
To make up for that deficiency, Iran has for the past eighteen months been building and training special local forces for defending the capital Tehran, other key cities, its nuclear installations and other strategic and military centers.
They will also bear the brunt of putting down minority uprisings by Kurds, Arabs or Baluchis and curbing their efforts to sever main transportation arteries by sabotage and terror.
These scratch armies, yielding around 140,000 semi-trained fighting men, have been molded out of the Basij volunteer militia and local police departments.
The Basij, which numbers about 90,000 volunteers (The Iranians claim there are more than 10 million!) was until recently no more than a poorly equipped local militia of enthusiastic thugs at the beck and call of the regime.
Iranian tacticians have managed to hammer them into five armored Basij divisions equipped with tanks, artillery and short-range anti-aircraft weapons, whose task it is to destroy any enemy forces landing on their patch.
Iran's police force has undergone a similar transformation.
It now resembles a paramilitary force more than an arm of law enforcement.
Its single Police Unit 110 for rapid response in urban areas has been replicated in many parts of the country and trained for combating local guerilla fighters and invading foreign troops in their areas of control.
All in all, intelligence sources estimate that Iran could field in the early stages of a war 900,000 to a million fighting men - the professionally-trained 600,000-strong army and IRGC troops and the semi-trained units making up their numbers.
This army would be far from homogenous, lacking a unified central command, with uneven combat skills, low-grade weaponry and only very basic communications equipment.
The units assigned with repelling invaders will have little-to-no air support or helicopters for striking ground targets because almost the entire ageing air force, including attack helicopters, must be reserved for the big battle of the Persian Gulf against US, Saudi and emirate forces.
In addition we can tell you that there is Heavy Iranian reliance on allies for proxy offensives!
Given these grave tactical deficiencies, Tehran would be heavily dependent in any conflict in the foreseeable future, on "second" and "third fronts" fought by allies and surrogates - the Syrian Army of around 500,000 troops, Hizballah's fighting militia of 45,000 and the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, which together could muster 17,000-20,000 men under arms.
They would be charged with carrying forward Iran's military doctrine of taking the war into enemy territory.
Iran's proxy army is made up of two main elements:
1. Commando forces trained for missions inside Israel!
The two most professional forces under Iran's remote control are the 15,000-strong Syrian airborne commandos and Hizballah's 4,000 special forces - most of whose officers and men underwent specialist IRGC and Al Qods Brigades training in Iran.
According to Tehran's war plans, while helicopters dropped Syrian commandos over target areas in Israel, flying in low to evade Israeli radar, Hizballah's ground troops would drive across the Lebanese-Israeli border and head for sectors inside Israel pre-designated for capture with the aid of the local Israel-Arab populace, while also striking Israel Defense Forces facilities and severing Israeli transport routes in their respective areas.
The involvement of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers has deepened throughout the Hizballah chain of command.
Tehran has appointed Revolutionary Guards Gen. Hossein Mahadavi overall commander of the war front against Israel in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
He is permanently seated in Beirut with a staff of dozens of Iranian specialists who advise Hizballah on intelligence and weapons systems.
While Syrian and Hizballah troops attack northern Israel, armed Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist squads would smash their way into southern Israel and attack IDF soldiers and civilians, focusing on the coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod.
They would make use of the hundreds of tunnels burrowed under the Gaza border fence in deference to the North Korean doctrine of infiltration and operation behind enemy lines, and also try and land by sea.
Iranian war planners foresee simultaneous battles flaring up in many parts of their country, especially around nuclear installations and important military facilities.
They are keen to replicate this scenario inside Israel which is far too small to withstand such strategy.
Evidence has been building in the past six months of Syrian and Iranian marine units - the latter already present in Syria - simulating sea landings from the Mediterranean at various points on the Israeli coast where major naval bases, oil refineries and power stations would present ready infrastructure targets for destruction.
2. A sustained missile strike on Israel
Tehran plans its first knee-jerk response to a US or Israeli attack to be a concentrated four-directional missile blitz on Israel and has amply armed its proxies for that task.
Not only would Iranian missiles cover the distance, but Syria would let loose from the north, Hizballah from the northwest, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the south.
They have all been supplied with enough intermediate-range missiles and rockets to pound every inch of Israeli territory. [An Israeli General showed me plainly a few months ago Bint Jbail, where 40,000 + of these sophisticated missiles are stored in underground bunkers.]
Syrian and Hizballah arsenals were recently swelled by large consignments of the new-model Fateh-110 missiles, which have a range of 220-250 kilometers, while the two Palestinian groups in Gaza have been furnished with a growing supply of improved Fajr-5 missiles whose 80-kilometer range takes them as far as Tel Aviv.
Iran has also smuggled into Gaza enough anti-aircraft missiles of different types with launchers housed underground and operated by remote control to affect Israel's aerial tactics against terrorists operating out of Gaza.
Middle East military sources report the Israeli Air Force has just discontinued the use of helicopters for surveillance and other tasks over the Gaza Strip and border areas in Israel lest they are shot down from Gaza. I have not be able to verify if this report is in fact, true.
However, last week, an Iranian anti-aircraft missile fired by an Islamic Jihad squad managed to bring down an Israeli UAV over the northern Gaza Strip.
Large Israeli ground forces with tanks rushed across to the crash site to remove every fragment of the drone before the scraps could be collected by Palestinians and sent on to Iran or Hizballah for analysis.
The missile blitz Tehran has planned would be coordinated by a joint command set up in Damascus last June by Iran, Syria, Hizballah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
This command center also divided Israel into sectors for coordinated targeting adjusted to the types of missiles in the hands of the participants and ongoing events in the various war zones, including Iran.
Now, in addition to all this I see "Israel lining up its defenses!"
Tuesday, October 26, I have been informed that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, drilled a simulated strike on the building by two of Hamas' Grad missiles during a plenary session, necessitating the transfer of deliberations to another location in Jerusalem.
That exercise, which took place three days after the conclusion of the US-Israeli joint missile defense maneuver Juniper Falcon 11, indicates Israel is fully aware that every part of the country is now exposed to Iranian or surrogate missiles.
That maneuver led straight into the biggest exercise the Israeli Air force has ever staged to practice the widely-varied combat, defense and support functions this arm will have to perform against a synchronized Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah-Palestinian assault.
The air exercise continues through the end of the week.
On the diplomatic front, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley Tuesday night accused Syria of continuing to "steer weapons to Hizballah militants in Lebanon in an attempt to exert control over its neighbor."
In Paris, Israeli sources leaked word to the French newspaper Le Figaro that Hizballah is running three logistics units whose specialty is weapons transport:
Unit 108, based in Damascus, is responsible for trucking arms and ammunition supplies inside Syria to storage depots in Aleppo, Homs and Tartous.
Unit 112 delivers war materiel to Hizballah's caches in Lebanon and ammo to its Bekaa Valley facilities.
Unit 100 organizes the travels of Hizballah fighters and Iranian experts between Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Iran via Damascus airport.
Now, Brethren, we should be on our knees praying, ‘EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS!’ And, we should be praying FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM [Psalms 122:6,] remembering the teaching of Joel 3:2, which the Bride of my Youth and I read early, early this morning, for us! It was a tad before 4AM, I think when we read the following: " I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land."
The valley of Jehoshaphat my friend, is exactly where the Battle of Armageddon will be fought. There, those nations, like the USA under George W. And Condi, and their Road Map to Peace plan, which parted [divided] up, what God Almighty, the Lord God of the Hebrews, calls "my land," in Joel 3:2, will be gathered, and then God Almighty will Judge them [plead means judge.]
Amen and Amen!!!!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Monday, October 25, 2010
Letter to Mister James Lankford
October 2, 2010
Dear James:
Attached please find "JEWISH NAQBA" sent to me by my good friend and Independence War Veteran Joseph Doriel.
His sister Shulamith was beheaded by those "loving Muslims" you favor! That occurred in June 1948. I can send you the Web Site of her memorial there in Ashkelon if you'd like. Those "loving Muslims" mounted her head on a bayonet and paraded through the streets of "then" Ashkelon.
James, if you think CAIR, and, or, the part of Islam which follows the Qur'an literally, as I believe the ole KJV literally, will give we "poor, dumb" okies any other deal than "beheading" or throat slitting, then, James, you didn't study Isamic 101 as I have!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Dear James:
Attached please find "JEWISH NAQBA" sent to me by my good friend and Independence War Veteran Joseph Doriel.
His sister Shulamith was beheaded by those "loving Muslims" you favor! That occurred in June 1948. I can send you the Web Site of her memorial there in Ashkelon if you'd like. Those "loving Muslims" mounted her head on a bayonet and paraded through the streets of "then" Ashkelon.
James, if you think CAIR, and, or, the part of Islam which follows the Qur'an literally, as I believe the ole KJV literally, will give we "poor, dumb" okies any other deal than "beheading" or throat slitting, then, James, you didn't study Isamic 101 as I have!
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Letter to Bob Dani, "Islam Does Not Like Christians"
October 24, 2010
Bob Dani:
I saw Cindy at Church this morning. She was excited "still" about Bob Macy’s endorsement, which is very good.
If your "red-headed" [there-religious-freedom-is-an-American-right] [and, or, what they may do in it doesn’t matter either] "to-be" Congressman, James Lankford, is coachable or teachable, as you say, you might have read the below facts.
"Islam Does Not Like Christians"
by Elad Benari
Jewish Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein was reconfirmed this week as Vice President of Italy’s Foreign Affairs Committee. In addition, she was also appointed an official consultant on Israel and the international Jewish communities by Italian Foreign Minister Frattini.
Earlier this week, Nirenstein commented on Christian leaders who criticize Israel yet ignore violence by Arabs. She pointed out that "Islam does not like Eastern Christians: it has forced them to flee and now they account for only 6% of the population in the Mideast", and added that the only country where the number of Christians has grown is Israel, where 163,000 Christians live today, a number which is expected to grow to 187,000 by the year 2020.
"In Muslim countries, on the other hand, Christians are on the wane, but the 50 churches present in the Holy Land seem not to notice. They prefer to dump on Israel, where they enjoy full freedom of worship and expression," said Nirenstein.
Commenting on the Vatican Synod about Middle East taking place in Rome these days, Nirenstein pointed out a document "written in a tone of theological excommunication towards the State of Israel," which was signed by the Custodian of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who later denied involvement, saying that "no church in the Holy Land had signed the document."
Nirenstein pointed out, however, that the names of top-level signers are clearly visible on the document which is available on the internet. The document speaks in the name of "us Christian Palestinians," and says that "the military occupation is a sin against God and against man".
It excommunicates Christian supporters of Israel, takes sides against the very presence of Israel, likens the defensive barrier that has blocked 98% of terrorism to apartheid, attacks the communities in Judea and Samaria and essentially cancels the existence of the Jewish state.
The document goes so far as to legitimize terrorism when it talks about the "thousands of prisoners who languish in Israeli jails" which are "part of the society around us".
"Resistance to the evil of occupation is a Christian's right and duty," says the document.
"In the final draft of the appeal which will be voted on Friday, the Synod is once again offering the Catholic Church as the guarantor of freedom of religious and personal freedom for all religions," wrote Nirenstein.
"But if there are no sanctions against what Christians suffer in Islamic countries and if they continue to blame the Jews who have nothing to do with it all, how do they think they will be able—morally and practically—to sustain this?"
Other comments made by Nirenstein this past week addressed remarks made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that Germany's multicultural approach to immigration "has failed, utterly failed," and that in the future, immigrants should be expected to integrate into German culture.
[The Red Head, if he is a Congressman, will see the same "multicultural approach to immigration utterly failing here, as in Germany.]
"The point is that certain cultures very often have no intention of mixing in with ours, despite our actions and best intentions," said Nirenstein in response.
"Paris has become a city in which more than 200,000 people live in families where polygamy is common practice.
In Italy 30,000 women have been subjected to genital mutilation and Islamic courts—ninety-odd in London alone—inflict sentences that are inconceivable."
[Ask your red-head if this "genital mutilation" practiced in the name of Islamic "Freedom Of Religion" is what he wants for the females in the 5th Congressional District of Oklahoma?"]
She pointed out that despite the fact that immigrants should have freedom of rights because of democracy, "they have other rules, not the ones of democracy.
In Germany, Chancellor Merkel’s homeland, a Berlin lawyer was beaten along with her Muslim client who wanted a divorce; she was also attacked in the subway and was forced to close her practice.
Again in Germany, Mozart’s opera, Idomeneo, was cancelled following Islamic threats.
By pure luck, the editor-in-chief of Die Welt, Roger Köppel, blocked the hand of a young Muslim who was about to stab him in his office.
In Germany, England and France, it is no longer possible to trace the "missing girls" who become slaves following arranged marriages.
[Would the red head want that "no-trace-possible" for 5th District young ladies also?]
Giulio Meotti writes that, in Stockholm, the latest fashion is a T-shirt worn by young Muslim on which is written: ‘In 2030 we will take over’. Just some incidents.
"When we are faced by a culture like that of Islam, there are forms of irreducibility that run up against legal and moral issues with a whole range of subtleties," continued Nirenstein.
"For us, ‘immigration’ is a sacred term, filled of a sense of guilt, of generosity, of religion and liberal or left-wing overtones.
But democracy is also a sacred term, our most important conquest: the masses of immigrants that do not share our democratic values put it in danger.
And while we think that allowing immigration is a duty of democracy, we don’t understand that we are putting it at stake.
Perhaps Chancellor Merkel—democratic German, pro-Europe, middle-class, complex-ridden and shy as every cultured German is—has succeeded in posing the question."
Earlier this month, Nirenstein organized a mass rally-demonstration entitled "For the truth, for Israel" which was held in Rome. 63 speeches were made by personalities, politicians, intellectuals, artists and journalists from all over Europe during the rally which was billed as "the first European, bipartisan event aimed at restoring the truth regarding Israel, putting an end to the barrage of lies that are hurled at Israel every day and to the double standard used by the media and international organizations." According to estimates, 3,000 people attended the rally.
Tell your red-headed "would-be" 5th District Congressional Candidate, James Lankford, that the above letter will go, if all the lists work as other Pastors tell me they do, to over 11,000 Independent Baptist Pastors in America and around the world! [On occasions I have had Rabbi’s in Israel tell me they believe that at least 100,000 Jews in Israel read some of my letters. I DON’T KNOW IF THATS SO OR NOT! But, I’d much rather be a "yedid and chaver" to a JEW, based on Gen 12:3, than to be the "Wild-Ass" [Pere’ Adam] Ishmaelite of Gen 16:12.]
I remain, sincerely and gratefully, your dutiful friend and obedient servant,
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Bob Dani:
I saw Cindy at Church this morning. She was excited "still" about Bob Macy’s endorsement, which is very good.
If your "red-headed" [there-religious-freedom-is-an-American-right] [and, or, what they may do in it doesn’t matter either] "to-be" Congressman, James Lankford, is coachable or teachable, as you say, you might have read the below facts.
"Islam Does Not Like Christians"
by Elad Benari
Jewish Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein was reconfirmed this week as Vice President of Italy’s Foreign Affairs Committee. In addition, she was also appointed an official consultant on Israel and the international Jewish communities by Italian Foreign Minister Frattini.
Earlier this week, Nirenstein commented on Christian leaders who criticize Israel yet ignore violence by Arabs. She pointed out that "Islam does not like Eastern Christians: it has forced them to flee and now they account for only 6% of the population in the Mideast", and added that the only country where the number of Christians has grown is Israel, where 163,000 Christians live today, a number which is expected to grow to 187,000 by the year 2020.
"In Muslim countries, on the other hand, Christians are on the wane, but the 50 churches present in the Holy Land seem not to notice. They prefer to dump on Israel, where they enjoy full freedom of worship and expression," said Nirenstein.
Commenting on the Vatican Synod about Middle East taking place in Rome these days, Nirenstein pointed out a document "written in a tone of theological excommunication towards the State of Israel," which was signed by the Custodian of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who later denied involvement, saying that "no church in the Holy Land had signed the document."
Nirenstein pointed out, however, that the names of top-level signers are clearly visible on the document which is available on the internet. The document speaks in the name of "us Christian Palestinians," and says that "the military occupation is a sin against God and against man".
It excommunicates Christian supporters of Israel, takes sides against the very presence of Israel, likens the defensive barrier that has blocked 98% of terrorism to apartheid, attacks the communities in Judea and Samaria and essentially cancels the existence of the Jewish state.
The document goes so far as to legitimize terrorism when it talks about the "thousands of prisoners who languish in Israeli jails" which are "part of the society around us".
"Resistance to the evil of occupation is a Christian's right and duty," says the document.
"In the final draft of the appeal which will be voted on Friday, the Synod is once again offering the Catholic Church as the guarantor of freedom of religious and personal freedom for all religions," wrote Nirenstein.
"But if there are no sanctions against what Christians suffer in Islamic countries and if they continue to blame the Jews who have nothing to do with it all, how do they think they will be able—morally and practically—to sustain this?"
Other comments made by Nirenstein this past week addressed remarks made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that Germany's multicultural approach to immigration "has failed, utterly failed," and that in the future, immigrants should be expected to integrate into German culture.
[The Red Head, if he is a Congressman, will see the same "multicultural approach to immigration utterly failing here, as in Germany.]
"The point is that certain cultures very often have no intention of mixing in with ours, despite our actions and best intentions," said Nirenstein in response.
"Paris has become a city in which more than 200,000 people live in families where polygamy is common practice.
In Italy 30,000 women have been subjected to genital mutilation and Islamic courts—ninety-odd in London alone—inflict sentences that are inconceivable."
[Ask your red-head if this "genital mutilation" practiced in the name of Islamic "Freedom Of Religion" is what he wants for the females in the 5th Congressional District of Oklahoma?"]
She pointed out that despite the fact that immigrants should have freedom of rights because of democracy, "they have other rules, not the ones of democracy.
In Germany, Chancellor Merkel’s homeland, a Berlin lawyer was beaten along with her Muslim client who wanted a divorce; she was also attacked in the subway and was forced to close her practice.
Again in Germany, Mozart’s opera, Idomeneo, was cancelled following Islamic threats.
By pure luck, the editor-in-chief of Die Welt, Roger Köppel, blocked the hand of a young Muslim who was about to stab him in his office.
In Germany, England and France, it is no longer possible to trace the "missing girls" who become slaves following arranged marriages.
[Would the red head want that "no-trace-possible" for 5th District young ladies also?]
Giulio Meotti writes that, in Stockholm, the latest fashion is a T-shirt worn by young Muslim on which is written: ‘In 2030 we will take over’. Just some incidents.
"When we are faced by a culture like that of Islam, there are forms of irreducibility that run up against legal and moral issues with a whole range of subtleties," continued Nirenstein.
"For us, ‘immigration’ is a sacred term, filled of a sense of guilt, of generosity, of religion and liberal or left-wing overtones.
But democracy is also a sacred term, our most important conquest: the masses of immigrants that do not share our democratic values put it in danger.
And while we think that allowing immigration is a duty of democracy, we don’t understand that we are putting it at stake.
Perhaps Chancellor Merkel—democratic German, pro-Europe, middle-class, complex-ridden and shy as every cultured German is—has succeeded in posing the question."
Earlier this month, Nirenstein organized a mass rally-demonstration entitled "For the truth, for Israel" which was held in Rome. 63 speeches were made by personalities, politicians, intellectuals, artists and journalists from all over Europe during the rally which was billed as "the first European, bipartisan event aimed at restoring the truth regarding Israel, putting an end to the barrage of lies that are hurled at Israel every day and to the double standard used by the media and international organizations." According to estimates, 3,000 people attended the rally.
Tell your red-headed "would-be" 5th District Congressional Candidate, James Lankford, that the above letter will go, if all the lists work as other Pastors tell me they do, to over 11,000 Independent Baptist Pastors in America and around the world! [On occasions I have had Rabbi’s in Israel tell me they believe that at least 100,000 Jews in Israel read some of my letters. I DON’T KNOW IF THATS SO OR NOT! But, I’d much rather be a "yedid and chaver" to a JEW, based on Gen 12:3, than to be the "Wild-Ass" [Pere’ Adam] Ishmaelite of Gen 16:12.]
I remain, sincerely and gratefully, your dutiful friend and obedient servant,
JIM VINEYARD
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Article: The Real Middle East Linkage
October 22, 2010
Dear Pastors:
My "Independence War Vet" and friend, Joseph Doriel, who was bombing Fallujah, Iraq, the last day of his Israeli Ind. War, sent me the below.
As usual, Joseph always sends such timely Intel.
JAV
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
The Real Middle East Linkage
Evelyn Gordon - 10.18.2010 - 9:03 AM
Barack Obama’s administration is a big fan of “linkage” — the theory that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would, in his words, “change the strategic landscape of the Middle East” and “help us deal with terrorist organizations in the region.” And actually, he’s half right: America’s handling of this conflict does affect the Middle East’s strategic landscape. But the link, as newly declassified documents from the Vietnam War make clear, isn’t what Obama thinks it is. And therefore, his policies are making war more likely, not less.Obama believes Palestinian suffering is a top Muslim concern that contributes greatly to radicalizing Muslim extremists. Thus, if America forced Israel to capitulate to Palestinian demands, not only would Muslims like America better, but all the Muslim world’s other problems would be easier to solve, because a key source of radicalization would be gone.That version of linkage is clearly delusional. Just consider last month’s deadly bombing by Sunni extremists of a Shiite march in Pakistan. The march was one of several nationwide to “observe Al Quds Day, an annual protest to express solidarity with Palestinians and condemn Israel.” Yet solidarity with the Palestinians evidently ranks so low on the Muslim agenda that Sunnis and Shiites couldn’t suspend their mutual bloodletting for one day to unite around this issue. So how would a Palestinian state ease this Sunni-Shiite divide?But as the Vietnam documents show, linkage does exist. When the 1973 Yom Kippur War erupted, forcing then-secretary of state Henry Kissinger to spend months brokering cease-fire agreements between Israel, Syria, and Egypt, the Vietnam War still raged. So after one of Kissinger’s trips to the region, then-ambassador to Saigon Graham Martin asked him “about the connection between what was happening in the Middle East and Vietnam.” Kissinger replied:It hurt us with the Arabs. [Syrian President Hafez] Assad said in his talks with me, “You look what you’ve done to Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Portugal, etc.” … Assad said, “Therefore if you look at this, you will give up Israel, and so [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat should simply not give in.”In short, it wasn’t American support for Israel that hurt America with the Arabs, but the Arabs’ conviction that this support would prove ephemeral, as it had with other American allies. The more convinced the Arabs were that America would ultimately abandon its allies, the less reason they saw to compromise, the more inflexible their positions became, and the more they preferred alliances with America’s enemies instead (in this case, the Soviet Union).The same dynamic is evident today. Obama’s avowed goal of putting “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel, coupled with his downgrading of other traditional American allies in favor of longtime enemies, has convinced Palestinians that if they hold out, America will eventually abandon Israel, too. And why compromise now if they could have it all later? Hence the flurry of new demands, like no negotiations without a settlement freeze, that they never posed before.It seems some things never change. Today, too, the real link between Israel and the broader Middle Eastern strategic landscape remains America’s credibility as an ally.*** If you know anyone who might be interested in seeing my blogs, please feel free to pass them on with a note that anyone who would like to subscribe regularly should contact me at eviegordon@gmail.com.
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Dear Pastors:
My "Independence War Vet" and friend, Joseph Doriel, who was bombing Fallujah, Iraq, the last day of his Israeli Ind. War, sent me the below.
As usual, Joseph always sends such timely Intel.
JAV
YEDIDIM OF ISRAEL
The Real Middle East Linkage
Evelyn Gordon - 10.18.2010 - 9:03 AM
Barack Obama’s administration is a big fan of “linkage” — the theory that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would, in his words, “change the strategic landscape of the Middle East” and “help us deal with terrorist organizations in the region.” And actually, he’s half right: America’s handling of this conflict does affect the Middle East’s strategic landscape. But the link, as newly declassified documents from the Vietnam War make clear, isn’t what Obama thinks it is. And therefore, his policies are making war more likely, not less.Obama believes Palestinian suffering is a top Muslim concern that contributes greatly to radicalizing Muslim extremists. Thus, if America forced Israel to capitulate to Palestinian demands, not only would Muslims like America better, but all the Muslim world’s other problems would be easier to solve, because a key source of radicalization would be gone.That version of linkage is clearly delusional. Just consider last month’s deadly bombing by Sunni extremists of a Shiite march in Pakistan. The march was one of several nationwide to “observe Al Quds Day, an annual protest to express solidarity with Palestinians and condemn Israel.” Yet solidarity with the Palestinians evidently ranks so low on the Muslim agenda that Sunnis and Shiites couldn’t suspend their mutual bloodletting for one day to unite around this issue. So how would a Palestinian state ease this Sunni-Shiite divide?But as the Vietnam documents show, linkage does exist. When the 1973 Yom Kippur War erupted, forcing then-secretary of state Henry Kissinger to spend months brokering cease-fire agreements between Israel, Syria, and Egypt, the Vietnam War still raged. So after one of Kissinger’s trips to the region, then-ambassador to Saigon Graham Martin asked him “about the connection between what was happening in the Middle East and Vietnam.” Kissinger replied:It hurt us with the Arabs. [Syrian President Hafez] Assad said in his talks with me, “You look what you’ve done to Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Portugal, etc.” … Assad said, “Therefore if you look at this, you will give up Israel, and so [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat should simply not give in.”In short, it wasn’t American support for Israel that hurt America with the Arabs, but the Arabs’ conviction that this support would prove ephemeral, as it had with other American allies. The more convinced the Arabs were that America would ultimately abandon its allies, the less reason they saw to compromise, the more inflexible their positions became, and the more they preferred alliances with America’s enemies instead (in this case, the Soviet Union).The same dynamic is evident today. Obama’s avowed goal of putting “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel, coupled with his downgrading of other traditional American allies in favor of longtime enemies, has convinced Palestinians that if they hold out, America will eventually abandon Israel, too. And why compromise now if they could have it all later? Hence the flurry of new demands, like no negotiations without a settlement freeze, that they never posed before.It seems some things never change. Today, too, the real link between Israel and the broader Middle Eastern strategic landscape remains America’s credibility as an ally.*** If you know anyone who might be interested in seeing my blogs, please feel free to pass them on with a note that anyone who would like to subscribe regularly should contact me at eviegordon@gmail.com.
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