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Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Joel 3:9-11

9/04/06

“Lebanese Security” Is the Pretext for the Naval Babel around Lebanon’s Shores
by DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Report: September 4, 2006, 11:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1208

Close investigation by DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources discloses the extraordinary buildup of European naval and military strength in and around Lebanon’s shores is way out of proportion for the task the European contingents of expanded UNIFIL have undertaken: to create a buffer between Israel and Hizballah.
“Lebanese security” and peacemaking is not the object of the exercise. It is linked to the general anticipation of a military clash between the United States and Israel, on one side, and Iran and possibly Syria on the other…
This expectation has brought together the greatest sea and air armada Europe has ever assembled at any point on earth since World War II: two carriers with 75 fighter-bombers, spy planes and helicopters on their decks; 15 warships of various types – 7 French, 5 Italian, 3-5 German, and five American; thousands of Marines – French, Italian and German, as well as 1,800 US Marines.
It is improbably billed as support for a mere 7,000 European soldiers who are deployed in Lebanon to prevent the dwindling Israeli force of 4-5,000 soldiers and some 15-16,000 Hizballah militiamen from coming to blows as well as for humanitarian odd jobs. A Western military expert remarked to DEBKAfile that the European naval forces cruising off Lebanese shores are roughly ten times as much as the UNIFIL contingents require as cover, especially when UNIFIL’s duties are strictly non-combat. After all, none of the UN contingents will be engaged in disarming Hizballah or blocking the flow of weapons incoming from Syria and Iran.

So, if not for Lebanon, what is this fine array of naval power really there for?

1. The European participants feel the need of a strong naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean to prevent a possible Iranian-US-Israeli war igniting an Iranian long-range Shahab missile attack on Europe;
2. A deterrent to dissuade Syria and Hizballah from opening a second front against American and Israel from their eastern Mediterranean coasts.

Numbers alone do not do justice to the immense operational capabilities and firepower amassed opposite Lebanon.
This vast force’s main weakness, according to DEBKAfile’s military sources, is that it lacks a single unified command. A sudden flare-up in Lebanon, Syria, or Iran could throw the entire force into confusion.
On paper, it has three (or four) commanders:

1. French General Alain Pellegrini is the commander of the expanded UNIFIL ground, naval and air force in Lebanon.
2. The American forces opposite Lebanese shores are under direct US command.
3. Similarly, the NATO fleet will remain under NATO command,
4. Israel’s air and naval units will take their orders from Israeli Navy Headquarters in Haifa and the General Staff in Tel Aviv.

    The naval Babel piling up in the eastern Mediterranean may therefore find itself at cross-purposes when action is needed in an armed conflict. Iran, Syria, and Hizballah could be counting on this weakness as a tactical asset in their favor. http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1208

     Damascus is prophesied to be completely wiped out. Isaiah 17:1-7—The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap…The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria…And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall was lean…At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

     Read the rest of chapter 17 in Isaiah, it prophesies the nations will come as a naval force. God will rebuke the nations for robbing and spoiling Israel. Damascus will be wiped off the face of the map. Israel will headed for a time of famine. When will this happen? At the leading-up to the rapture, the battle of Armageddon. The time is soon! This is the last generation.

     Isaiah 17:12-14—Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise lie the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them….

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