Global SITREP B5-18: Gaza

17 May 2018: This approximately 3-minute long MEMRI video should be everything Israel requires to know fully that there is only one solution to the problem facing the nation. 

These other one dozen plus MEMRI video's are also well known to the government in Jerusalem, as well as the governments in Washington, Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Athens, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, et cetera, et cetera. Name the country and the government of that country knows full well that HAMAS can never be negotiated with into accepting Israel and comitting to live in peace beside her. 

Isaiah 11:14 foretells of the day coming very soon when Israel will have a day of reckoning with these jihadists in Gaza and the others plotting in Jordan.

Minor skirmishing with airstrikes and tank fire against HAMAS targets continues through 22 May 2018. Additional updating of this SITREP will occur when the IDF moves enmasse against the terrorists in Gaza as Isaiah's prophecy foretells.

IDF Merkava tanks maneuvering for assault on HAMAS and Islamic Jihad.

29 May 2018: Early this morning HAMAS attacked the towns of southern Israel with a barrage of at least 30 rockets or mortar shells, possibly more. PM Netanyahu tweeted that "dozens" of rounds had been fired. Israeli media are reporting both types of ordnance as being fired from Gaza. There are no known casualties in Israel; at least none have been reported as of 6 AM EDT.  

PM Netanyahu promptly convened the Security Cabinet in an extraordinary session, thereafter promising that the IDF "will respond with great force" and that "Israel will exact a heavy price" in response to the rocket fire intended to harm Israel.  The IAF is currently striking targets in central Gaza as this update is being posted. The comments section below will contain any critical updates which occur today.

UPDATE 15 July 2018: We've all read the reports, so we all know that the 29 May update above remains the current situation 45 days later and the fulfillment of Isaiah 11:14 is closer now than it was at the end of May 2018.  Do not be surprised if the literal fulfillment commences within the next few days.

Global SITREP A4-16: IDF Northern Front Exercise

IDF UH-60 Blackhawk in Northern Front Exercise (IDF photo)

21 January 2016: The IDF has conducted a two-week long warfighting exercise along the entire length of the border with Lebanon and Syria. The objective of the exercise was to train up land, sea and airborne elements of the IDF for a protracted, simultaneous war against Hezbollah and Islamist elements operating in both Lebanon and Syria.

Head of the Northern Command Gen. Aviv Kochavi, right, speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, center, alongside head of the Operations Directorate Gen. Nitsan Alon, during a military exercise on January 20, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)

Northern Command General Aviv Kochavi recapped the scope of the simulated warfighting as encompassing vast maneuvers, substantial firepower and offensive, high efficiency strikes on thousands of targets, including residential areas being exploited by the terrorist forces. Concurrent with this exercise the IDF has deployed mechanized artillery in many locations opposite Gaza.

In this activity we can see major elements of the prophetic pre-70th Week wars being actively readied in advance by the IDF, and which are currently missing only the Sinai and Jordanian sectors in the full-scope of the Psalm 83 scenario. As with most military pre-war planning, first contact with the enemy usually requires the implementation of additional ad hoc vignettes into the overall war plan. The IDF has proven itself extremely adept in this regard in the past, and as is evident in the prophetic narrative on these coming wars.

Global SITREP E5-15: Jihad in Southern California and the game of 'Fantasy Islam'

7 December 2015: I've held off posting about one very important aspect of this Islamic atrocity, and that is the role a brethren in Christ had in it. As you are probably aware by now 52-year old Messianic Jew (he accepted Christ as Messiah in 2013), Nicholas Thalasinos (seen above with his 41-year old wife Jennifer), was a fellow restaurant inspector with Islamic terrorist Saeed Rizwan Farooq for San Bernardino County. That's about the only thing Nicholas and Saeed had in common, other than their occasional discussions on politics and especially religion. It was something about religion which was said between the two at the Christmas party which set off the Islamic terrorist couple of Saeed and his wife Tashfeen on their murderous rampage last Wednesday. That is what it is, and it is now history, our brother has gone to be with our Lord forever and Saeed to eternal damnation.

However, the problem with this that I am having now is the way media of the Left is portraying one of the bride of Christ. The New York Daily News published a truly ignorant report by a Linda Stasi in which she personally impugns Nicholas Thalasinos as "a hate-filled bigot" who was just as responsible (i.e. not an innocent victim) for the San Bernardino murders and grievous bullet wounds as the two Islamic jihadists firing their assault weapons. She implies that Nicholas deserved to be murdered in cold blood by a Muslim jihadist. This Daily News reporter is truly in a world-class of ignorant buffoons because she also exhibits a mind-numbing lack of understanding about why Islamic jihadists kill innocent people. For a New Yorker such a mindset is unfathomable, unless you're a card-carrying leftist of diminished mental acuity. Linda Stasi outs herself as being over-the-top hate-filled towards anyone who is conservative in their political views, pro-Second Amendment, anti-abortion and against Islamic jihadism be it the Sunni or Shi'a variety of jihadism. Linda Stasi, I have been informed, also possesses a deep seated desire for the NRA to be declared a terrorist organization.  There are times when the truly ignorant and hate-filled Leftists among us do merit being popped upside their empty head, even if they happen to be female.

5 December 2015: We now all know a great deal more about what occurred in the terrorist assault in San Bernardino, but we don't know everything. The are a great many details which are being withheld from public knowledge. The biggest and most in-our-face clue as to what the information is that authorities are not talking about is found in the fact identifying this attack as a terrorist act was not as forthcoming as it should have been. Why? Because our Government would not and will not allow corporate media to do so. 

Even now, more than 72 hours after-the-fact, one can watch television, listen to radio or read print media about the known details of this "act of terrorism" and not get a definitive and true identification of it as Islamic terrorism. The closest any of them will come is to refer to this as "radical Islamic terror." However, that description is deceptive because there is nothing "radical" about Islamic terror. Such extreme violence and cold-blooded murder as occurred in San Bernardino this week is an absolutely consistent, 100% pure, direct doctrinal dictate from the Quran for the pure adherents of Islam. This Quranic doctrinal dictate for Muslim purists, known formerly as Islamic fundamentalists, to engage in violence is specific in how they are to treat apostate Muslims, Christians and Jews or any other non-Islamic creed followed by human beings on this planet. This is the ultimate truth about Islam that our government has refused to acknowledge for many decades.

If one looks at historical U.S. government records one will see that after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing the FBI still describes that act of war as "Global Terrorism" and "Middle Eastern terrorism." None of perpetrators has ever been identified as an Islamic terrorist. Look back at the acts of war that occurred on September 11, 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. which indiscriminately murdered 3,000 people. None of the Muslim men involved has ever been identified as an "Islamic terrorist." Al Qaeda itself has never been identified as an "Islamic terrorist" organization, and the FBI's own Top 10 Most Wanted Terrorist website refuses to identify any of those individuals as "Islamic terrorists." 

After 9/11 our president and elected representatives declared war on a tactic (The Global War on Terrorism or the antiseptic GWOT) instead of a firmly identified enemy and its ideology: Islam. Moreover, our government is utterly loathe to refer to the newest terror group by its proper Arabic name, Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, but instead find it absolutely preferable to use the totally antiseptic ISIS or ISIL. Why? Because the Islamic terrorists of CAIR and ISNA, a/k/a the Salafist Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a/k/a HAMAS, find the proper Arabic name objectionable, and therefore so do the dhimmi's in the American government.
  
Our government's abject refusal to refer to any of these acts of war or their perpetrators as Islamic terrorism or Muslim terrorists is a complete and continuing white-wash of the issue before us. The bottom line in all of this is that the reluctant admission that the San Bernardino massacre was just plain "terrorism" is due to a direct link to ISIS being incontrovertibly established. According to our government's policy ISIS (and Al Qaeda, among others) are known simply as perverters of Islam. This allows the government to continue the fantastic charade that Islam is a 'religion of peace,' and therefore the San Bernardino massacre has nothing to do with Islam. This is a deadly game that must be referred to as "Fantasy Islam" for it has nothing to do with reality in this 21st century.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters, I have just laid out for you in factual detail why even more horrific acts of blood-curdling Islamic carnage than we have endured since 1993 will soon occur again in our cities and rural towns. Our government, paid for by our tax dollars, is hell bent to continue its game of Fantasy Islam to the great detriment of us and our progeny. So help us God.

Finally, President Obama has stated that ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States. However, Islam is an existential threat to the United States and President Obama will never admit it nor act decisively against this threat. 

3 December 2015: The first fairly solid intel I received at 6:32 PM EST on the massacre that occurred in San Bernardino, California was that law enforcement knew the identity** of at least one of the three AR-15-armed jihadists, but will not release that information until they were captured or deceased. (**How did the first police responders know this information? Wounded survivors of the assault told them who it was that had burst in to open fire on them.) The principle name that  was overheard several times in monitored law enforcement radio chatter as the manhunt for three active shooter suspects was in full swing was (phonetically) "Farooq Saeed." All three active shooter suspects are believed to be devout Muslims, two are males, the third a female spouse. 

The female has since been identified as Tashfeen Malik. The second male jihadist name has not been released, but he is believed to be the brother of "Farooq Saeed." One of these jihadists was reportedly listed on a federal terrorism watch list. "Farook Rizwan Saeed" (image above) is known to have recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia. There is much more that is known, but is not being publicly divulged at present due to an ongoing and widespread investigation. The jihadist link is becoming clearer; the time spent in preparation for heavily-armed jihad (acquisition of assault rifles, ammunition and the mass manufacture of IEDs), tactical training and planning is also being developed.

The 3 December 2015 cover page of the New York Post. The cover on the right is the original, first edition; the one of the left is the second printing edition. Fantasy Islam by definition, an obfuscation of the truth.

Global SITREP D3-14: Islamic Jihadists Want Peace With Israel?

18 August, 2014: If you read the vast majority of Israeli newspapers this morning they are treating nearly 8 million Israelis as if they were turnips freshly fallen off of a farm truck. How so? By reporting that the islamic jihadists of Gaza are saying that even if the current ceasefire collapses without an agreement being reached in the Cairo negotiations they have lost the will to engage Israel in any more warfare (jihad).  In case no one notices, such statements are diametrically opposed to everything Islamic, and thus the Qur'an.  Islam cannot exist without a state of permanent warfare (jihad) against all other things non-Islamic. Period.

Think about it. Would it be possible for HAMAS to abide by the most basic tenets of its raison d'etre, it's foundational charter, without engaging in warfare (jihad) to liberate all of "Palestine" from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from Lebanon to Egypt from the Jews who have created a modern state on that same land? 

No, it would not be possible. If any of this disinformation in today's Israeli media were truthful then there would be no reason for HAMAS, or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Fatah, or the PLO, or the PFLP-GC to even exist. Were any of this abject nonsense being reported in the Israeli media this morning accurate then all of these islamic terrorist organizations would declare themselves disbanded; they would immediately recognize Israel's right to exist; declaring their unconditional acceptance of the so-called two-state solution and achieve a permanent peace agreement by sun-rise on Tuesday, 19 August 2014.

More importantly, is there anything that I have just written here which is consistent with Bible prophecy for these last days? If you said "no," then you are correct and you understand the basics about what Israel has to overcome in order to achieve the type of peace, safety and secuirty the prophet Ezekiel has foretold will exist for Israel and its people when the last pre-70th Week military engagement involving Israel occurs in the near future.

20/21 August 2014: Well, now that Israel's egg-faced government, and unfortunately its people, have been rocketed and blasted back into the reality of islamic jihadism a la HAMAS, PIJ, Fatah and the rest of Gaza's terrorists, what might be Israel's next move? Another round of Cairo negotiations for another worthless hudna (ceasefire) for the terrorists to use to their full military advantage? Or will the only other viable course of action to achieve the demilitarization of Gaza, and of Sinai for that matter, be brought to execution in the next few hours or days? If the current government of Israel has one scintilla of common sense, the forcible demilitarization of Gaza (i.e. full scale war) will be the course of action chosen, and the current IDF military tactic of "mowing the grass" in Gaza will fall by the wayside as it has failed to achieve its objectives.

For their part, the muslims will have to begin asking themselves, "Where was allah's protection of Mohammed Deif's wife and infant son? Where is his protection of us all as we wage jihad against the infidel Jews he has told us to kill wherever we find them? Why do the rocks not cry out as promised by the words of the prophet in the holy qur'an,' here is a Jew, come and kill him? Surely allah wills it?'" In this war the muslims will come to realize they have worshiped, enslaved, and murdered all over the world, on an industrial scale, the will of a false god. Or they will die hopelessly destined to eternal fires of hell for they have denied the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living and Eternal God of Israel. And know this, the innocent infant son of terrorist Mohammed Deif is in the loving arms of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And in Israel, the lesson thus far appears to have gone unlearned. There are many in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv who think this war is the product of one man, Mohammed Deif, the commander of HAMAS' Al-Qassam Brigades; that the continuation of this war will end with his own death and the deaths of his sub-commanders. These Israelis are ignorant, secularist dreamers. These are Israelis who do not comprehend that jihad against Israel is a qur'anic directive; that islamists regard the land of Israel no differently than they regard the land of Andalucia (the southern part of the modern NATO member nation we know as the Kingdom of Spain). Islamists do not want to live side by side with Israel in peace; they want Israel to cease to exist (Psalm 83:4)! These Israelis currently have more regard for the al-taqiyya doctrine (lies, deceit, illusion) of the islamists than they do for the prophetic words of the God of their fathers. This is why this war began in 1948 and continues in fits and spurts to this day.

Israel, for the most part still in disbelief, does not yet realize the spiritual basis of why they have been brought back from the four corners of the earth diaspora into Eretz Israel. It is the same reason why the LORD God had them wander in the wilderness for decades after the exodus from Egypt: disobedience and disbelief. They have been brought back into Eretz Israel to take possession of the land the LORD God has given to them, not trade it for worthless treaties with godless barbarians. And here is where I believe ancient history will repeat itself for Israel but on an infinitely more compressed time scale. Now I believe the time is right for the appearance of one whom the religious Jews expect -- Moshiach ben Joseph. See Obadiah 1. Through the coming trials Israel will learn to walk in faith and have full trust in what God has promised to them, and then will the Lord pour out His Spirit upon them.

As for the current war, as long as it continues there remains the possibility that it will morph into the final series of battles against those enemies surrounding Israel as prophesied by Asaph, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Obadiah and a host of others.

ISRAEL BREAKS OPEN ITS STRATEGIC WEAPONS LOCKER

Israel has brought a new weapon onto the battlefield, and although it is a part of the "mowing the grass" tactic, it is also an escalation demonstrating far more precision in which blades of grass Israel's leadership want to cut off at below root level. The weapon now being introduced to HAMAS is the GBU-28, a laser-guided bunker busting bomb that is 18.5 feet long (5.6m) and weighing 5,000 lbs (2,267kg). It makes very big and deep smoking holes of HAMAS underground command and control (C2) centers. The GBU-28 has ben used to devastating effect in Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq. And now in Gaza.

Israel's GBU-28 - Killing Terrorists in the Holes Where They Hide

The GBU-28 has almost certainly been delivered on target by Israel's recently upgraded fleet of F-15I Ra'am multi-mission strike aircraft. Taking out deeply buried targets in Gaza with this weapon is live fire practice for similar targets that Israel has not forgotten about in Iran. There will be payback with interest for all of the Iranian missiles fired against Israel's civilians by their Gaza proxies. Fair warning.

Update: It now seems fairly evident that the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (a/k/a the al-Mukhabarat), working closely with Israel's Shin Bet clandestine service, provided the extremely critical and time-sensitive HUMINT (HUman INTelligence) which allowed IAF to strike with their other precision bunker buster ordnance that took out significant members of HAMAS senior terrorist leadership (Raed Attar, Abu Shmala and Muhamad Barhoum) early this morning. That weapon was the 2,000 lb U.S.-made BLU-109/B. Five of these bunker busters were delivered on-target by the IAF F-16I Sufa strike aircraft.