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Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
V:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
Psalms
122:6 Pray for the peace of
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Rick Allinson
Israel 'prepared' for conflict after Syria alleges
IAF flyover
Source: Jpost
06 September 2007 – Israel is "fully prepared" for the possibility of a conflict in the North, defense officials said late Thursday, after Syria alleged it had fired on a pre-dawn IAF flight over the coastal city of Latakia.
The IDF officially refused to comment on reports from Syria that its air defenses fired on a formation of IAF warplanes that entered Syrian airspace from the Mediterranean.
In addition, fears mounted that Hizbullah would use the escalating tensions along the Golan Heights as an excuse to initiate its own conflict with Israel.
Despite these fears, troops and tanks were not massing in the North, and the top defense brass carried on with their regular schedules, attempting to broadcast an air of "business as usual." The IDF's Northern Command released a statement reassuring northern residents that there was "no cause for concern."
Syrian Vice President Farouk Shara, speaking in Italy, said his country was not interested in being drawn into a war with Israel.
Syrian officials reported Thursday afternoon that at around 1 a.m., four or five IAF aircraft broke the sound barrier and dropped fuel tanks over deserted areas in northern Syria, along its border with Turkey. Witnesses said the incident occurred in the Abyad area.
Comments: This is may not look like an escalation of tensions but as we have seen before in the Middle East, one incident can lead to another and before you know it there is a full blown war taking place. The “Abyad area” in Syria is almost half way across the country in the North. It is just my guess but this is also the shortest route Israel would take if it was going to strike Iran. Israel was most likely probing Syrian air defence and taking a good look to see what kind of response (if any) they would get from Syria in the event they were detected. Most articles are reporting that fuel tanks were dropped from the Israeli aircraft and that as many as 5 aircraft were in the group. Here is a map where the incident took place. Map Look for the plane in Northern Syria and this is the Abyad area as the article mentions. The next few days will be interesting to watch and see if there is any response from Syria. All indications seem to point to some kind of conflict taking place in the Middle East soon. Isa. 17:1 may not be far off.
Isa 17:1 ¶ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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Peres visits Benedict XVI
Source: Haaretz
06
September 2007 –
ROME - Pope Benedict XVI
and President Shimon Peres discussed peace efforts in the Middle
East yesterday, with the Vatican saying the time seemed particularly
favorable for Israelis and Palestinians to work to end decades of
conflict.
Peres renewed an invitation to Benedict to
visit the Holy Land during the meeting at the pontiff's summer
retreat at Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome, a Vatican
statement said
Shortly after the meeting, Benedict
held talks on the Middle East situation with the Saudi foreign
minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal.
It wasn't clear if the timing was a coincidence,
but the meetings, which followed one between the pope and the Syrian
vice president on Wednesday, came amid a flurry of diplomatic
initiatives on the Middle East.
A Vatican statement said the pope and Peres
discussed recent talks between the Israeli and Palestinian
leadership. It said the two expressed hope that both sides would
take advantage of the current international context that seems
particularly favorable, and make any effort to respond to the
expectations of the people, worn down by a crisis that has lasted
for 60 years.
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