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| Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu |
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 21 November 2018: The military reassessment that commenced following the sudden Gaza ceasefire of a week ago, and DM Avigdor Lieberman's sudden resignation, appears to have been completed by PM Netanyahu and his security cabinet. According to public comments made by Gilad Erdan (MK Likud, Ministry of Public Safety, Strategic Affairs and Minister of Information) Israel intends to very soon invade and re-occupy parts to all of Gaza, and in so doing complete the total destruction of HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and all terrorist infrastructure within the confines of Gaza.
18 November 2018: The immediate crisis to the longevity of the Israeli government has been avoided. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is now also Israeli Defense Minister Netanyahu. There will not be any early elections to form a new government either, elections at this time would be "irresponsible."
Why? Eschatology Today assesses that the incredibly daring IDF Special Operations Forces (SOF) mission into Gaza, which was the lead-in to the fighting of last week, achieved much more than killing a squad of HAMAS militants. The mission was executed based upon special intelligence and the infiltrated team clearly discovered something, very probably a game-changing something. Something which, for the time being at least, is highly classified due to its national security implications for southern and possible most of central Israel.
This critical something would explain the massive response from HAMAS and Islamic Jihad's missile barrage. We know know that new types of missiles made in Iran have been smuggled into Gaza; one or more of them were used last week. These are the short-range Iranian Falagh-1 and Falagh-2 missiles which saw widespread deployment in combat within Syria and Iraq in the past 4 or 5 years. A suspected variant of these missiles, which normally are tipped with high explosive warheads, has been linked to a chemical attack in Ghouta, Syria.
The larger and likely dire implications of what the IDF SOF mission discovered in Gaza can largely be inferred, and in all probability are a likely causation for the acceptance of the crisis-creating ceasefire of last week. The implications, obviously national security implications, are also clearly evident in the address PM/DM Netanyahu made to all of Israel today. The spectre of chemical weapons existing in Gaza for use against Israel would be enough for any government to stop, take a step back from a major incursion to reassess and begin new planning based upon the newly collected intelligence. The recent threats by HAMAS that Tel Aviv will receive its missiles in the next round also takes on new and critical importance. Hence the new title for this SITREP.
14 November 2018: Israel is nearly surrounded on all sides by enemies; only the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea presents a peaceful frontier to the Jewish state.
18 November 2018: The immediate crisis to the longevity of the Israeli government has been avoided. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is now also Israeli Defense Minister Netanyahu. There will not be any early elections to form a new government either, elections at this time would be "irresponsible."
Why? Eschatology Today assesses that the incredibly daring IDF Special Operations Forces (SOF) mission into Gaza, which was the lead-in to the fighting of last week, achieved much more than killing a squad of HAMAS militants. The mission was executed based upon special intelligence and the infiltrated team clearly discovered something, very probably a game-changing something. Something which, for the time being at least, is highly classified due to its national security implications for southern and possible most of central Israel.
This critical something would explain the massive response from HAMAS and Islamic Jihad's missile barrage. We know know that new types of missiles made in Iran have been smuggled into Gaza; one or more of them were used last week. These are the short-range Iranian Falagh-1 and Falagh-2 missiles which saw widespread deployment in combat within Syria and Iraq in the past 4 or 5 years. A suspected variant of these missiles, which normally are tipped with high explosive warheads, has been linked to a chemical attack in Ghouta, Syria.
The larger and likely dire implications of what the IDF SOF mission discovered in Gaza can largely be inferred, and in all probability are a likely causation for the acceptance of the crisis-creating ceasefire of last week. The implications, obviously national security implications, are also clearly evident in the address PM/DM Netanyahu made to all of Israel today. The spectre of chemical weapons existing in Gaza for use against Israel would be enough for any government to stop, take a step back from a major incursion to reassess and begin new planning based upon the newly collected intelligence. The recent threats by HAMAS that Tel Aviv will receive its missiles in the next round also takes on new and critical importance. Hence the new title for this SITREP.
14 November 2018: Israel is nearly surrounded on all sides by enemies; only the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea presents a peaceful frontier to the Jewish state.
This is perhaps the reasoning PM Netanyahu has a globalist policy guiding his leadership at the present time. Netanyahu wants the acceptance of Israel as an equal among the European nations where virulent anti-Israel sentiment is far greater than any other region on the planet save for the Islamic Republic of Iran and its allies. Netanyahu is also dead-set upon achieving a similar acceptance of Israel among the Arab nations of the Arabian peninsula. And he also wants Russia to support Israel's military effort to rid all of Syria of forward deployed Iranian military forces. An uninformed observer might think Bibi Netanyahu is offering himself as a candidate for the role of Moshiach ben Yosef.
Nothing can be permitted to bring Netanyahu's globalist policy to ruins: not the nearly 500 rockets fired from Gaza in the first two days of this week, and not the tens of thousands of Israeli citizens in the southern reaches of the country whom those missiles and other pyrotechnical devices were deliberately selected as living targets to be continually terrorized.
Not even the governing coalition and security cabinet that Netanyahu himself cobbled together can be allowed to continue; as of sunrise today the government itself has been allowed to crumble and commencing with the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. This is how Netanyahu's globalist policy protects the terrorists of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad in Gaza more than it does the Israeli citizens the Prime Minister swore to protect.
Yet, since the LORD God is in complete control, and Israel itself being His inerrant timepiece, these current circumstances must be seen as integral to His inerrant plan for the inevitable redemption of all Israel, possibly even acting as a catalyst moving forward to that day.
Among the final words of Avigdor Lieberman as Israel's Defense Minister were these: "Israel is buying short-term quiet, with the price being severe long-term damage to national security." Eschatology Today agrees, mostly due to the understanding provided by Bible prophecy, and secondly, due to the common sense reality that has been created by the ceasefire with HAMAS and Islamic Jihad. The enemies of Israel have been emboldened which ensures larger more destructive wars will follow in relatively short order.
