Cowboys and Indians In The Middle East

There will be a straw that breaks the [Yishmael's] camel's back. This thing is getting more and more tense by the moment; Iron Dome is now in Tzfat. USAToday.com: Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, targeting a convoy believed to contain anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The attack adds a potentially flammable new element to tensions already heightened by Syria's civil war. It was the latest salvo in Israel's long-running effort to disrupt the Shiite militia's quest to build an arsenal capable of defending against Israel's air force and spreading destruction...

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Ethics of The Fathers - Is Damascus Domestic?

This eruption in Syria could literally be at any time. All kinds of questions are being raised: ethics, contingency plans, "whats next", Iran, Jordan, etc. etc. All in all, it seems there is no way out of this for anyone - Bibi's bomb is lit, no matter how abstract his red lines can be drawn - this is was and will always be about the showdown in the Middle East between Israel and her neighbors; the clock ticks towards inevitability. Jpost.com: As news reports are rampant with the possibility of an Israeli or US strike on Syria’s chemical weapons, it is important to recall the law of armed conflict principles which come into play. There...

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Israel In Prophecy: Facing Jordan

Authentic [even a tad radical] Zionism that leans Right claims Israel extends beyond the Jordan. The Left counters with its views as a perfect negative [and opposite extreme]. And nowadays people speak as moderates, while claims of selling out Israel are often heard in the background. But did anyone notice Arab Spring - and happen to take in the last 100+ years of Zionism to form a long view perspective? We may be looking at the closing of one long tekufa in the making that will bring us to Zionism 1.0 as a conclusion, and into 2.0: the Messiah version [and vision of Eretz Yisrael]. When Zionism first became the vehicle of choice...

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The Torah's Last Stand

Keep The Torah You Must Do The Talmud "Chullin" says that a portion of the "Righteous of the Nations of the World" [not to be confused with the "pious" or the Noahides proper - as they are other categories altogether] have taken upon themselves a three - pronged code of conduct into the World that has been given the Blessing of maintaining God's Physical Creation and Dynamic. These three "laws" are the following: No Homosexual "Ketubah" between men Not to sell human flesh in the market To always Honour the Torah As many Drashas / interpretations can be offered to these three to show depth and character, I find it interesting that we may...

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Bring On Damascus

Like a game of domino's: Syria, Iran, Egypt, Americana-goga-bama-Putinism [in the north], Damascus...Beis HaMikdash? YahooNews: Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria's chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah or al-Qaida inspired groups, officials said Sunday. The warning came as the military moved a rocket defense system to a main northern city, and Israel's premier warned of dangers from both Syria and Iran. Israel has long expressed concerns that Syrian President Bashar Assad, clinging to power during a 22-month civil war, could lose control over his chemical weapons.  Vice Prime Minister Silvan...

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The Good 'Ole Bara[c]k Boys!

An American surgical strike on Iran. True? False? Those Bara[c]k's at it again. Jpost.com: The United States has prepared plans for a "surgical" military operation to delay Iran's nuclear program in the event that diplomatic efforts to thwart Tehran's drive for nuclear weapons capability fail, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with The Daily Beast on Friday. Speaking from Switzerland, where he is attending the Davos World Economic Forum, Barak challenged the notion that a military operation against Iran would develop into a "full fledged war the size of the Iraqi war or even the war in Afghanistan." “What...

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Gangnam Style Of The North?

North Korea wants to aim its nukes at America. It always seems that the North Koreans are desperate for an End of days scenario. YahooNews.com: North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "sworn enemy". The announcement by the country's top military body came a day after the U.N. Security Council agreed to a U.S.-backed resolution to censure and sanction North Korea for a rocket launch in December that breached U.N. rules. "We are not disguising the fact that the various...

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Putin: On Gog Like Productions

I'm thinking the following mishigus: [as it has always seemed Putin in a Gog type] Israel wants to hit Iran, and Obama plays funny about it. Is Putin running the whole show behind the curtains? Working with Peres and Obama while essentially handcuffing Bibi. The Gog Magog War seems to be mutating along Putin's lines. [That would explain the strange politics] JPost.com: Russia warned Israel and the West on Wednesday against any military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities but suggested Tehran should be quicker to cooperate over inspections of its nuclear sites. Speaking at his annual news conference, Russian Foreign Minister...

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Rav Ovadiah Speaketh HaEmeth?!

Ovadiah comes out against Bayit Yehudi - and I could not agree more! I find Benet and his cronies to be a bit funny, and I don't think Israel needs to be more moderate. It certainly doesn't need to be more Brooklyn either; Where is the creative influx into Zionism - something throwback-ish to Vilna Gaon Zionism. Something actually Emes?  [as opposed to a new layer of moderate Sheker?] Also, Vilna Gaon/Shir HaShirim 101 - do not touch the Temple Mount [- as opposed to "blowing it up" as Bayit Yehudi wants to say.] The Klal "lo lidchok et haketz" [don't force the end] basically applies to any abrupt force towards the Temple....

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[Reality] Check Please!

Are we finally coming into reality?  New Year = New Matzav?  YahooNews.com: This week started with President Obama Monday demanding lawmakers raise the U.S.’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling, warning Republicans not to insist on spending cuts in return. The same day, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke advocated getting rid of the debt limit altogether. The Washington Post reports in a conversation at the University of Michigan Bernanke said the debt ceiling has only “symbolic value.” And the week ends with lawmakers still careening towards a deadline somewhere between mid-February and late March, when the U.S. will run out...

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Resonance Of Commander Gog

The latest from Obama is hard core sounding like, his mate Bibi and all of the cronies are building up for the revelation of a staged Gog v' Magog setting. Are we in for a political showdown that is due to be pretty near? Haaretz.com: Likud stalwarts and their colleagues in the Israeli media are up in arms on Tuesday in the wake of Jeffrey Goldberg’s report on U.S. President Barack Obama’s critical remarks about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “He’s intervening in our elections,” Bibi champions protest, a complaint which, no pun intended, is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. Obama is the second president...

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