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Fallen Syria - Another Fallen Sar of Yishmael!

2012-03-07T12:31:00.001+02:00

Obama brought down Libya the same way he is threatening in Syria...Done Deal.

Syrian tanks bombarded opposition areas in Homs overnight and the Red Cross tried for a sixth day to gain access to Baba Amr, a fallen rebel stronghold where activists have reported bloody reprisals by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
President Barack Obama said it was only a matter of time before Assad left office, describing Syria's turmoil as "heartbreaking and outrageous," but opposed a call by a senior U.S. senator for American military action to force him out.
No independent witnesses have been allowed into Baba Amr since troops retook it on Friday after a four-week siege, increasing concern about the fate of about 4,000 civilians estimated to have remained in the shattered neighborhood.
Local opposition activists said troops and pro-Assad militiamen occupying Baba Amr had killed seven males, including a 10-year-old, from the Berini family with knives. "They were stabbed to death yesterday. Their bodies were dumped in farmland next to Baba Amr," Mohammed al-Homsi told Reuters.
Syria imposes severe media restrictions, making such reports hard to verify, although the United Nations has compiled evidence of abuses it says amount to crimes against humanity.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said an aid convoy destined for Baba Amr had been awaiting permission to enter since Friday. "We have not made it in," the ICRC's Damascus-based spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh said.
The world has found no way to halt a year of bloodshed since many Syrians rose against Assad in what has proved the longest and bloodiest of Arab revolts against entrenched rulers.
At the United Nations, the five permanent Security Council members and Morocco met on Tuesday to discuss a U.S.-drafted resolution urging an end to the Syrian government's crackdown on demonstrators, a text some Western envoys said was too weak.
Russia and China, adamantly opposed to any Libya-style intervention in Syria, have vetoed two previous draft measures that would have condemned Damascus and it is not clear whether the latest one stands any chance of success.
According to a text seen by Reuters, the U.S. draft demands "unhindered humanitarian access" and "condemns the continued widespread, systematic, and gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities."
AMOS'S DELAYED VISIT
Top U.N. humanitarian official Valerie Amos, denied entry to Syria last week, was due there on Wednesday. Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan plans his first visit to Damascus as joint envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League on Saturday.
Diplomacy has yet to brake a conflict likely to have cost more than 10,000 lives: the United Nations said security forces had killed well over 7,500 people and Syria said in December that "terrorists" had killed more than 2,000 security personnel.
Assad, who has promised a multi-party parliamentary election in May, told a visiting Ukrainian lawmaker that the power of any state lay in popular support and that Syrians had proved they would pursue reforms and "confront terrorism backed by foreign sides," the state news agency SANA reported on Wednesday.
Apart from the shelling of the Homs districts of Karm al-Zeitoun, Jub al-Jandali and Deir Baalba, opposition sources said Syrian troops had staged raids in the towns of Qara and Yabroud north of Damascus, and in the northern city of Aleppo.
The White House said Obama was committed to diplomacy to end the violence, saying Washington wanted to isolate Assad, cut off his sources of revenue and encourage unity among his opponents.
"Ultimately this dictator will fall," Obama said, while rejecting a call by Senator John McCain for a U.S.-led effort to protect Syrian civilians with air strikes on Assad's forces.
"For us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake," the president said.
Assad can still count on powerful allies such as Russia and China, as well as others such as Iran, Venezuela and Cuba.
China sent Li Huaxin, its former ambassador in Syria, to Damascus this week and SANA said he had reiterated Beijing's "opposition to interference in Syrian internal affairs."
However, China is bringing workers home from Syria in an apparent attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's rescue of its nationals from Libya due to violence there.
Only about 100 Chinese workers will be left behind to guard work camps and equipment, Commerce Minister Chen Deming said, without saying how many Chinese workers would be repatriated.

Will Obama be the last Yishmaelite Sar (Angelic Leader) to fall in 5772?

Tzfas[er] Torah - Listen To New Angles!

2012-03-06T12:34:00.000+02:00

Click Here To Listen To Parashas Vayechi With Ramban!

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From Exile To Redemption
Shem, Avos, Tribes, Efraim - Menashe
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Yehuda, His Beracha, And Geulah
Ben-Chen (Kabalah)
Embalming?
Gates Of Redemption

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Hashem And His Vineyard
Redemption In Exile
ALL Of Am Yisrael
The Noahide?
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True Torah Scholars
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May Torah of 5772 Merit a Return to Righteousness and a Geulah Shleimah!

Applaud Optimism: Goodbye Iran

2012-03-05T09:59:00.001+02:00

Two things about Israeli's: Ultra Prepared and Ultra Not Stupid

This operation on Iran has had an eternity of preparation - Foolishness is to underestimate Erev Rav - especially on the point of pursuing Pax Judaica - their Ancient Desire and Purpose.

NYDailyNews.com:

Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state.

Those were the historic words of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s administration. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Begin’s death, and his legacy is currently playing out in Israel’s drive to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

The Begin doctrine has been implemented twice in Israel’s history. In June 1981, Israel launched Operation Opera to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor outside Baghdad. In September 2007, Israeli jets launched Operation Orchard, targeting Syria’s secret nuclear facility at al-Kibar.

Unlike Syria and Iraq, the Iranians have multiple nuclear installations scattered across the country, each over 1,000 miles away from Israel. To knock out the six key sites and return home safely would be the greatest challenge the Israeli air force has faced since its founding.

The heavy water reactor at Arak and uranium enrichment facility at Isfahan both sit above ground, making them vulnerable. Similarly, Iran’s nuclear plant at Bushehr is, like Osirak, a wide-open target.

The vast military complex at Parchin, where Iran denied access to International Atomic Energy Agency inspections last month, has more than 100 buildings, many of which lie deep underground. The uranium enrichment complex at Natanz consists of both buried and ground-level buildings.

A second enrichment facility is buried deep into the side of a mountain at Fordo, near the holy city of Qom. Burrowed under 300 feet of rock, the Fordo facility is located in a hardened tunnel.

This would require successive bunker-busting attacks to knock out its operation.

President George W. Bush promised — and President Obama delivered — untold numbers of GBU-28 bunker busters, which can tunnel through concrete before exploding deep underground. President Bush is also rumored to have sold Israel several midair refueling aircraft.

Writing in last month’s daily Die Welt, Hans Rühle, who directed the planning department of the German Defense Ministry from 1982 to 1988, expressed almost supreme confidence that Israel’s air force could obliterate Iran’s main nuclear sites. He believes that with 25 of its 87 F-15 fighter planes and a smaller deployment of F-16 jets, the Israelis could destroy all six of Iran’s key sites.

Israeli jets could fly directly over Jordan and Iraq. In 1981, Jordan chose not to challenge the IAF, and the withdrawal of U.S. forces today effectively leaves Iraq with no air defenses.

They might also approach Iran through Turkey, but its termination of military ties with Israel and preoccupation with the Syrian civil war bode poorly for this option.

Finally, Israeli jets could swoop south and enter Iran through Saudi airspace. WikiLeaks dispatches on the Iranian nuclear threat reveal Saudi King Abdullah’s desire to “cut off the head of the snake.”

Benjamin Netanyahu is not likely to be the first Israeli prime minister to abandon the Begin doctrine. And however the Israelis might get to Iran, more than likely, they can.

— Benjamin Weinthal is a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

What could be the biggest weapon against Emunah in the End of Days is Misinformation.

I believe this article for the first time is telling the truth. The other side does not want people believing victory in Iran is possible...and thus the misinformation.

When Moses fought Amalek, he raised his hands in Emunah...thus for this war we must also have Emunah, and recognize our terrain.

There is so much at stake here, failure is not an option, which is why I believe this war will be the final birthpangs of Moshiach - It's that big.

The main point that separates this war from other wars, is that all the players are here (at astronomical odds) and every prophecy is starting to show.

According to the Ramchal, we are in the last stages of Histaras Panim (Divine Darkness), which means the revelation of Redemption is being sewn.

If this is not the Geulah, then I think a lot of people will join Chazal, when they say, "let Moshiach come and let me not live to see it." - can it get any more complex than now?

Out of Complexity Must Come Novelty.
Is The Gra Correct That 5772 Is The Most Complex Of Times?

Dating Destiny Within Jewish Astrology

2012-03-04T10:44:00.002+02:00

This year we will see the "Venus Transit" - Venus' pass through our vision of the Sun.

The famous Zohar that speaks of the Geulah in "72" seems to describe this passing quite well!
[A flame of Black Fire will be held in the Raqia for 60 days...]

Also "Timewave Zero" suggests our decent into the Novelty of 2012 will begin on the Transit Date.

Did the Mayans base everything around visualizing Venus? Did the Zohar give us an Observation Point?

NationalParksTraveler.com:

An upcoming solar eclipse may attract more attention, but some parks are also planning for visitors who would like to observe an even more unusual celestial event. The Venus Transit on June 5 will be a literal "last chance in your lifetime" occurrence.

Many of us aren't familiar with the term "Venus Transit," so we'll begin with an explanation of what to expect … and why it's so unusual.

A transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the sun and earth. Observers in the northern hemisphere will see Venus appear to move from left to right across the upper half of the Sun at a slight downward angle.

According to experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments." They're so rare, in fact, that only seven such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 and 2004.)

If this is of interest to you, it would pay to mark your calendar for June 5. The next similar occurrence won't roll around until December of 2117!

As we mentioned in yesterday's Traveler, the upcoming solar eclipse on May 20 is getting a lot of attention in parks, primarily because more people are familiar with the term "eclipse"—and that phenomenon is also easier to see, with proper eye protection, without a telescope.

Bryce Canyon National Park, for example, holds an annual astronomy festival, and decided to move this year's event to take advantage of the May 20 solar eclipse. That doesn't mean, however, that the Venus Transit will be overlooked.

Kevin Poe is the "dark ranger" at Bryce Canyon—the park's key contact for programs focusing on the night sky. For 2012, however, both the May 20 solar eclipse and the June 5 Venus Transit offer daytime opportunities to help visitors enjoy and understand unusual natural events visible from the park.

“The Venus Transit is an event that’s several hours long," Poe explained. "Unlike [the May 20 eclipse], which is two hours long, with only five minutes of the annularity where the moon is almost completely in the way, the Venus Transit lasts for a longer time. So for that event, on June 5, we’re just going to make it an open house thing. It won’t be a grand festival, but we’ll let everybody know that they can come to Bryce on June 5 and look through a bunch of telescopes and watch it …as it slowly moves across the face of the Sun.”

Another park with an active astronomy program is Great Basin National Park in Nevada. A spokesperson says the park will have activities all day long leading up to the beginning of the transit at 3:00PM (PDT) on June 5. Participants can learn how astronomers used earlier Venus Transits to calculate the size of the solar system, and try it out for themselves. Special safe solar telescopes to view the transit will be available, along with a chance to build your own solar viewing telescope. Special safe solar viewing glasses will be available for purchase in the park bookstores.

As time for the event draws closer, other parks are expected to schedule similar activities. The National Park Service has created a web page for the event, which notes, "In the hours before sunset, every park in the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands will be able to view most of the transit in the few hours before sunset."

Best views will be in "parks located in the Pacific such as Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and American Samoa," where observers will be able to see the entire event. (On the U. S. mainland, sunset will occur before the transit has finished.) "For serious photographers, the Pacific parks offer an amazing setting to photograph the entire sequence of Venus racing across the face of the Sun."

As is the case for viewing a solar eclipse, getting a safe look at Venus crossing the face of the sun will require some special precautions or equipment, although those items need not be expensive. Another option that won't require anything but a home computer will originate from a unique site located on the island of Hawaii, not far from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

The Mauna Kea Observatory, located at the 13,796-foot summit of Mauna Kea houses the "world's largest observatory for optical, infrared, and submillimeter astronomy." It's the highest point in the Pacific Basin, and normally a reliable spot for clear skies in June. For the Venus Transit, a cooperative effort by NASA, the Sun Earth Day Team and the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy will offer a live 'remote' webcast from Mauna Kea, showing the Venus Transit in its entirety in real time. You'll find more information at this link.

If you'd like to find out what time the Venus Transit will be visible from your home, a park or any other location in the country, you can use a "Transit computer" provided by the U. S. Naval Observatory. You can enter a city and state and determine the beginning and ending times that the transit will be visible, along with the all-important sunset time. Note that times are given in "Universal Time"; a chart at this link will allow an easy translation into your time zone.

The length of time the transit will be visible before sunset becomes longer the further west you travel in the U. S. In Hilo, Hawaii, the transit will be visible for 6 hours and 34 minutes. The viewing time in San Francisco lasts for 5 hours and 22 minutes, but in the New York City vicinity, it shrinks to 2 hours and 19 minutes.

A bit of trivia connects an earlier Venus Transit with a well-known American composer. John Philip Sousa, who was reported to be very interested in the 1882 transit, wrote his "Venus Transit March" in 1882-83 at the request of The Smithsonian Institution. Despite its name, the march wasn't written specifically in commemoration of the transit itself, but rather to honor Joseph Henry, a highly-regarded American physicist who died in 1878.

If you're interested in night sky and other astronomy-related programs, events and information from national parks around the country, you'll find lots of useful details on the website for Night Sky Parks.

5772 : Instead of this Picture, Will We See a Built Beis Hamikdash on The Temple Mount?
We may not see anything strange - but something tells me that we feel a bit strange.

Seeing Amalek in Reality

2012-03-01T09:48:00.001+02:00

Parshas Zachor

תִּמְחֶה אֶת זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח

Devarim 25:19

"Wipeout Amalek + DON'T FORGET" -Are people forgetting something?

בשם גר''א זכר רב טובך בסגול תחת הזיי''ן כדעת הרד''ק וכן בפרשת זכור את זכר עם סגול

In the name of the Gr'a ''זכר רב טובך'' with the segul [the 3 dot vowel] under the זין like the da'as of the Radak, and thus also Parshas Zachor ''et zecher'' [with the segul].

Interestingly, "זין" means "weapon", fitting for the Mitzvah of Wiping out Amalek!

Chofetz Chaim: Chilchos Arbah Parshios

The laws of the four parshiot - Mishna Brura 685:18

"Be careful to read the words in their tune and their melody when you read parshas Zachor''

"know, that there are those who say [Gr'a], that you need to read "zeicher" Amalek

with a צירי tzeiri and those that say that you need to read ''zecher'' Amalek with a segol

Source: ועל כן מהנכון שהרורא יקרא שניהם לצאת ידי שניהם - Mahril

"Therefore, it is fitting that the reader should read both of them to "go out" by means of both ways" - the emphasis is on "read" and not "say". Sfardim "read" both and say one; Ashkenazim have the minhag to literally read and say both versions aloud. However, the best way to do it, is as the Mishna Brura says: "read". With both ways, have in mind two and vocalize one - thus the entire mind is focused on the mitzvah.

Amalek is classified by the Gr'a as Erev Rav and the Erev Rav Amalek is deemed "baalei machlokes", thus it is of baalei machloket to consider this a "machloket" - this is simply a kavanah of two kavanot. Ironically, if one were to ask, what is the machloket based on, the answer one would find is "I dont know!" (...due to the obscurity of the sourced Vilna Gaon) And if "learned" the response would be, "I forget." (...interestingly enough, many are not taught or even aware of the source being this obscure Vilna Gaon) The irony is, it isn't a machloket at all, it's a kavanah from the Gr'a from the Radak and brought down by the Chofetz Chaim as a tool of weaponry in the kriah to defeat Amalek. Thus to "forget" the source of the machloket is indeed ironic since the mitzvah in the psukim clearly says "you shall not forget!" So when we read Parshas Zachor the ikkar kriah is to vocalize the tzeiri and have in mind the segol at the same time. With this, one is definitely "yotzie" the mitzvah to read both while vocally pronouncing one; two single attempts is an expression and manifestation of sufek; sufek is the gematria of Amalek.

To beg the question: are you yotzie at all? Did you declare war on Amalek? Thus the spiritual war in the mitzvah is brought down by the Radak, the Gr'a, and brought to light by the Chafetz Chaim.

This is the one mitzvah where it would be a Chilul Hashem to find sufek and machloket surrounding it. The objective is and must be understood clearly to wipeout Amalek.

The basis of the Gra is to show that two separate "parts" or ideas can actually be fashioned into one harmonious being as it is said in Navi: "they will become one in my hand". From schism we find the repair of schism. God forbid that Divine Schism should lead to disunity. May the mitzvah of Parshas Zachor weigh heavily in the merit of bringing achdut to Am Yisrael.

May we witness the full wiping out of Amalek and eliminate sufek and baseless machloket this year with the fall of Erev Rav and Amalek...leading us to a Geulah Shleimah speedily in our days of 5772.
Amen.

Erev Rav: Securing Amalekite Exile

2012-02-29T09:51:00.000+02:00

Get Ready To Live With Amalek; Heil Bibi! (Where Zionism Went Wrong)

[ Erev Rav Seeking Eternal Galus China - Tumat Ain Sof]

Bloomberg.com:

Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said deepening trade ties with China could pay off by helping leaders of the world’s second-biggest economy better understand the Jewish state’s policies toward Iran and Syria.

“China is a growing economic power,” Steinitz said today in an interview in Beijing, where he traveled to sign a $300 million financial protocol aimed at boosting trade. “We do hope that if we are able to improve economic ties and connections between Israel and China, it will help us also to explain our positions with regard to the Iranian nuclear threat, with regard to the events in Syria.”

While Israeli exports to China have more than doubled over the last two years, the level is “not enough yet,” Steinitz, 53, said. “It’s far from being enough.”

His push for greater economic ties comes as China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, refuses to support international sanctions over the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. Israel says Iran intends to build atomic weapons and hasn’t ruled out military strikes to prevent it, escalating tensions in a region that holds 54 percent of global oil reserves.

Iran, which says its enrichment of uranium is only for civilian energy purposes, last week refused to let United Nations experts investigate a suspected nuclear-related military base. The risk of a military conflict was highlighted the same day when an Iranian general said his nation would consider pre- emptive action if it is threatened.

Steinitz, a member of the Likud Party, said he leaves diplomatic discussions mainly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman.

China’s UN Veto

The Chinese government joined Russia this month in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution supported by the U.S. and Israel calling on Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to cede power over his crackdown on protests that have killed thousands. China opposes trade restrictions against Iran and said sanctions on its oil exports aren’t “constructive,” state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Jan. 26, citing comments from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Israel and China established full diplomatic relations in 1992. Israel is seeking to boost sales to fast-growing economies such as China and India as Europe struggles with a debt crisis and global trade slows. Exports account for about 40 percent of Israel’s gross domestic product.

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer in October 2010 said the global economy’s “center of gravity” is moving to Asia and that the region will dominate growth in the future. In an interview last week, Fischer said “it’s too early to tell” if the worst of the international economic crisis is over.

Israeli Exports

Israeli exports to China include electrical equipment, precious stones, fertilizers and medical equipment. Chinese exports to Israel include machinery, chemicals, apparel and furniture.

The protocol Steinitz is signing will help exporters of Israeli water technology for agriculture, Israel’s Finance Ministry said in an e-mailed statement on Feb. 27.

Steinitz visited China in May 2010 with Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan to help promote economic ties. Erdan said at the time that Israeli companies have “endless” possibilities to sell technology to China, specifically in the areas of water recycling, desalination and solar power.

Galus China is the dream of an Elitist Rule to turn Judaism into Pax Judaica,

( a period in history marked by the absence of major wars, usually imposed by a predominant nation)

and turning the Land of Israel into the ultimate Socialist Kibbutz-Run State.

The premise is Erev Rav rule from Zion, using Egyptian slavery tactics of the Israeli captives and Jewish leftovers while filling the World with the Tumah of the Orient - making unprecedented levels of Amalek in the World.

-The worst type of Erev Rav are Amalek Proper - "Gra"

Pax Judaica would begin following World War 3 - In Torah terms this is the fall of Armilos, Gog V' Magog, and the advent of Moshiach. (Thank God)

The threat is real, but Galus China / Erev Rav Rule won't happen: as it is an eternal exile, their preparations are also eternal; By the [theoretical] time of Dominion, the World will disintegrate by the seams...and we will welcome the Geulah Shleimah.

Does the World fall apart and stop to take in Shabbos first in 5772?

(Thus averting Amalekite Hell)

We don't need a Kibbutz...

We need the Beis Hamikdash!

Making Of The Nuclear Amalek

2012-02-28T13:25:00.002+02:00

ENERGY In our little Matrix of Society called Olam HaZeh.

"Man is a Small World; The World is a Big Man."

God has and gives you your number!

[...As They try to find and call God's Number]

...Better luck and making more sense to find "Pi."

SmartPlanet.com

You could call it the high-energy physics version of racing to meet a deadline.

CERN, the renown Swiss research lab, plans to shut down its famous $9 billion underground Large Hadron Collider for maintenance next year. Unfortunately, the physicists who are searching for the elusive Higgs boson at the Geneva facility need the device to help them in their hunt.

17-mile drive: The LHC runs under Geneva in a 17-mile long loop.

To increase their chances of spotting the enigmatic subatomic particle before the bosses take away their toy, they’re cranking up the “beam energy” at the collider to 4 trillion electronvolts (TeV). It’s part of “a strategy to optimise LHC running to deliver the maximum possible amount of data in 2012 before the LHC goes into a long shutdown,” a recent CERN press release states.

The Higgs boson, postulated by Emeritus Professor Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, is believed to give mass to matter. Physicists have described it as the capstone to Standard Model of physics, which explains electromagnetism and strong and weak nuclear forces. CERN said last December that it’s close to discovering it. But researchers say that the LHC experiment could also conclude that the Higgs particle does not exist, which would be equally valuable as CERN approaches put up or shut up time on Higgs.

And darn it if CERN doesn’t think that the extra jolt will get them there this year.

“By the time the LHC goes into its first long stop at the end of this year, we will either know that a Higgs particle exists, or have ruled out the existence of a Standard Model Higgs,” says Sergio Bertolucci, CERN’s research director. “Either would be a major advance in our exploration of nature, bringing us closer to understanding how the fundamental particles acquire their mass, and marking the beginning of a new chapter in particle physics.”

Not that they were pussyfooting around before. They’ve been operating at 3.5 trillion electronvolts. An electronvolt, by the way, is a unit of energy, and is not the same thing as a volt, which is a unit of electric potential. But still, we’re talking some serious power consumption.

“When we started operating the LHC for physics in 2010, we chose the lowest safe beam energy consistent with the physics we wanted to,” says Steve Myers, CERN’s director for accelerators and technology. “Two good years of operational experience with beam and many additional measurements made during 2011 give us the confidence to safely move up a notch and thereby extend the physics reach of the experiments before we go into the LHC’s first long shutdown.”.

The LHC will power down in November.

If by some chance 4 trillion electronvolts doesn’t do the trick, then the Higgs scientists can look forward to an even greater boost. When the LHC re-opens in late 2014, it will operate at at 7 trillion electronvolts, or double its 2010 and 2011 level.

I know what the eco warriors are thinking: At all these trillions of electronovolts, how green is the hunt for Higgs? Tree huggers can rest assure that CERN is doing its part to cut its environmental impact. As we reported here last October, CERN and other labs have been comparing notes on how to save energy on large machines like particle colliders, wind tunnels, cryogenics gear and fusion tokamaks.

We have yet to hear back on any of their plans. But for starters, the two-year shutdown might make a difference in the electric bill.

Why is every sector of the World running a mad dash to finish 2012 with a [Big]bang?
How am I supposed to be a 2012 skeptic when all I see is 2012 material?

-Every source of Wisdom points to 5772 as our year; Don't discredit North Korea from joining the party...if the Geulah works Achishena (with haste), it will happen before our very eyes.

Hell in Hebrew is written like, "Seoul."
And any country (I consider Korea one evil entity: Rosh Amalek of the East: Galus China) that learns Talmud, is in God's Plan.

Korea learns Talmud.

Will the Collider hit the Global Haywire button this year?

Prophecy Being Fulfilled!

2012-02-27T08:52:00.001+02:00

The Brewing War Of The End As Told In The Talmud:

Persia vs. Edom

Yoma 10a:R. Joshua b. Levi in the name of Rabbi said: Rome is designed to fall into the hand of Persia, as it was said: Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that He hath taken against Edom; and His purposes that He hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the flock shall drag them away, surely their habitation shall be appalled to them. Rabbah b. ‘Ullah demurred to this: What intimation is there that ‘the last of the flock’ refers to Persia? [Presumably] because Scripture reads: The ram which thou sawest having two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. But say [perhaps] it is Greece, for it is written, And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece? — When R. Habiba b. Surmaki came up, he reported this interpretation before a certain scholar. The latter said: One who does not understand the meaning of the passage asks a question against Rabbi. What does, indeed, ‘the least of the flock’ mean? The youngest of his brethren, for R. Joseph learnt that Tiras is Persia.

Rabbah b. Bar Hana in the name of R. Johanan, on the authority of R. Judah b. Ila'i, said: Rome is designed to fall into the hands of Persia, that may be concluded by inference a minori ad majus: If in the case of the first Sanctuary, which the sons of Shem [Solomon] built and the Chaldeans destroyed, the Chaldeans fell into the hands of the Persians, then how much more should this be so with the second Sanctuary, which the Persians built and the Romans destroyed, that the Romans should fall into the hands of the Persians. Rab said: Persia will fall into the hands of Rome. Thereupon R. Kahana and R. Assi asked of Rab: [Shall] the builders fall into the hands of the destroyers? — He said to them: Yes, it is the decree of the King. Others say: He replied to them: They too are guilty for they destroyed the synagogues. It has also been taught in accord with the above, Persia will fall into the hands of Rome, first because they destroyed the synagogues, and then because it is the King's decree that the builders fall into the hands of the destroyers. Rab also said: The son of David will not come until the wicked kingdom of Rome will have spread [its sway] over the whole world for nine months, as it is said: Therefore will He give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth; then the residue of his brethren shall return with the children of Israel.

This is looking like a/the definite scenario!

The Hill:

When President Obama sits down face-to-face with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week to discuss Iran, he will be staring down the greatest challenge on Israel he’s faced during his presidency.

It is the first time Obama has met Netanyahu since last spring, when the Israeli leader appeared to lecture the president on his country’s history in front of cameras at the White House.

Whatever tensions exist could be exacerbated by the looming crisis that provides a backdrop for the election-year meeting.

Israel believes time is running out for a military strike against Iran that would prevent the Islamic republic from developing nuclear weapons, something Israel sees as an existential threat.
Administration officials acknowledge the Iranian nuclear issue is coming to a head, but U.S. officials have cautioned Israel against a strike that would threaten stability in the Middle East and the global economy.

It’s possible the Obama-Netanyahu meeting next week could determine both countries’ course of actions for Iran.

“The relationship between and Obama and Netanyahu is going to be tested like never before,” said David Makovsky, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It doesn’t have to happen on March 5… but if they don't see eye-to-eye, the prospect of Israel going off on its own dramatically increases.”

Iran has been defiant in the face of economic sanctions, threatening a pre-emptive strike against countries that would attack, moving uranium operations underground and not allowing nuclear inspectors access to a military site.

Both Israel and the United States have said they want stiff economic sanctions imposed on Iran to convince the country not to pursue nuclear weapons.

But the two countries view the threat of a nuclear Iran differently, and Israel has less capability than the United States militarily, analysts say, giving the Israelis a shorter potential window to intervene.

“Israel sees this as a very stabilizing significant event, and Israel also lacks the capacity to be able to deal with it in an effective way with diplomacy or economic measures,” Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, told The Hill.

“The United States sees it as part of a broader counter-proliferation strategy. Certainly it’s well aware of regional risks imposed by Iran… It also has other tools for dealing with it. So, some differences in perspective are inevitable.”

An Israeli strike against Iran has the potential to upend Obama’s presidency — and his reelection campaign.

Iran presents both a real world and political conundrum for Obama, who must balance the threat of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon against the upheaval in the oil market and larger economy that could be a repercussion of a military strike.

“No one’s naïve about what the consequences would be,” said one administration official. “Are we well aware of what would be at stake if a strike occurred? Absolutely.”

A potential Israeli attack risks undermining the U.S. argument for sanctions and pushing Iran to expedite its nuclear production, analysts say.

Senior administration officials maintain the relationship with Israel is “rock solid” and coordination between the two countries is as good as it’s ever been.

And while Obama and Netanyahu do not have a good relationship, one source who has been active in U.S.-Israel relations said personal tensions won’t necessarily harm their ability to work together on Iran.

“It’s not FDR and Churchill,” said the source. “But it doesn’t need to be. The fact that they can disagree is a strength of the relationship.

“Nobody wants a fight here,” the source added. “A fight is in nobody’s interest.”

Obama’s potential Republican opponents have hammered the president on both Iran and Israel.

Mitt Romney said at Wednesday’s presidential debate that Iran would obtain nuclear weapons if Obama is reelected.

“We must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” Romney said. “If they do, the world changes. America will be at risk. And some day, nuclear weaponry will be used. If I am president, that will not happen. If we reelect Barack Obama, it will happen.”

Republicans have also been critical of Obama’s stance toward Israeli negotiations with the Palestinians, after the president called for the 1967 borders to be the starting point for peace negotiations. That led to the chilly meeting between Obama and Netanyahu at the White House last year.

Yehuda Ben Meir, a former Knesset member and senior research fellow at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies, said that relations between Netanyahu and Obama seem to have improved in recent months, particularly when Obama rallied against the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN last year.

Ben Meir said public opinion in Israel is virtually split on whether Israel should attack Iran.

Administration officials stressed that even if Israel goes its own way on Iran, the United States will still support Israel.

“At the end of the day, there’s no closer ally than Israel,” the administration official said. “We’re never going to abandon Israel, that’s unwavering.”

5772 - The Year Of Prophecy

Don't Look Now, But We're Probably There

2012-02-26T12:15:00.002+02:00

The Planning is a foregone conclusion by now...for now its just a test of cunning, patience, and timing; Objective: how, when, where, etc. the winners will pick up the pieces, and glue them back together into a conglomerate operative entity that will govern the World without the luxory of being able to openly call it a NWO.

The World calls it WW3...I call it the fate, destiny, and free will choice of the ruling power called the Erev Rav...Pax Judaica.
(...the 3 largest ruling powers the World ever saw: British - American - Amalek; WW1 - WW2 - WW3)

Haaretz.com:

(By Doron Rosenblum)

None of the people who, correctly, fear an Israeli attack on Iran and the war that would follow have considered the fact that "the next war" is already here. It has been entrenched in our consciousness and that of our leaders so deeply and for so long that most of the tension concerns its timing, not its probability. What was it that Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as saying this week? "The operation is always ready, the orders are always there, and if necessary we can carry it out." He was referring to a war in southern Israel, admittedly, but it's the intention that counts, being mentally prepared for the fact that "the next war" will indeed come - whether by necessity or by choice; if not from the east, then from the south, and if not from the south then from the north.

There are civilizations where the word "war" is uttered with fear and trembling, where it is seen as a total human catastrophe. But not in Israel, where "the next war" goes to sleep with us at night and drinks coffee with us in the morning. Its actualization is almost a mere technicality of how, when and how much.

We have experienced a few brief bursts of awareness during which "the next war" was absent for a few historic moments. There have been times when it was even replaced by a spark of hope for that illusory thing, so despised today, called "peace." But we recovered quickly from these stumbles, thanks to the combined efforts of both parties to the conflict. And when the day was won by the idea that the conflict cannot be solved, only managed, the "next war" resumed its natural role as a permanent fixture in our lives. With little sadness and even an occasional sigh of relief, the fact that we are a war that has a country sank in.

Many good people are once again trusting to the next war - dangerous, insane but "worthwhile" because it will "eliminate the Iranian threat," after which the land will be undisturbed for 40 years. They must be reminded not only of the sad consequences of the previous wars of choice, aimed at "eliminating" putative existential threats, but also of what all Israelis are nearly born knowing: that an "existential threat" of one kind or another has always hung over our heads, whether genuine or existing only in our own, or our leaders', tortured, Holocaust-traumatized consciousness: Ahmed Shukairy of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the "Egyptian despot" Gamal Abdel Nasser; Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and anthrax; PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah; and now, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the apocalypse. Each of them, in turn, like Hitler; each of them, in every generation, rose up to destroy us. Each of them, in turn, was justification for war.

But before plunging "out of necessity" into the next war we should ask: What if there were no Tehran? And were the "Iranian threat" somehow eliminated, would another not spring up immediately to take its place, at least in our consciousness? Also: What did we do prior to the "Iranian threat" besides worrying about the future?

Preventive wars are sometimes necessary - as the Bible says, "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." But as the current Israeli government demonstrates, the very fact of being permanently psychologically prepared for the next war and of accepting the absence of any chance to make peace can themselves blind and atrophy all alternative thinking and all diplomatic skills. Like the native inhabitants of America who did not see the Spanish ships approaching because they had no word for "ship," Israel may no longer be capable of identifying diplomatic options and nonmilitary measures even when they are being blasted into its ears by so many sirens.

May the point of it all be an entrance for Moshiach; a stage to step onto.

in 5772...the Year of Chesed (72).
We Need It.

Purim and Soul Mazal

2012-02-25T20:10:00.004+02:00

Adar is the Month of Mazal - Put Your Soul Into It!

Help Spread The Light Of Torah Into The ZMan Geulah!

Jewish and Noahide Names!
(Converts and Babies Too)

5772!

Chanuka 2.0 - Haredi IDF Taskforce

2012-02-24T13:36:00.000+02:00

Bechina Moshiach Ben Yosef?

Reuters:

(Reuters) - Israel's top court struck down on Tuesday a law designed to encourage ultra-Orthodox Jews to join the military and the workforce, saying it had backfired by "entrenching" their blanket draft exemptions and protracted seminary studies.

The ruling was welcomed by Israel's secular majority but could set off rifts in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative coalition government, which includes powerful religious Jewish parties.

The 2002 "Service Deferral Law" offered the ultra-Orthodox, who make up 10 percent of the population and are often welfare dependant, a choice, upon reaching draft-age, between studying in seminaries or working. The latter option entailed first enlisting in the military, with the possibility of serving in technology units where soldiers can learn a trade.

But by a vote of 6-to-3, the Supreme Court declared that the law, which was subject to review, was unconstitutional and ordered it not be renewed after it Expires in August.

"As time passed it became clear that the law had not realized the objectives that lie at its foundations, and that it in fact entrenched, for the most part, the arrangement of service deferral that had existed prior to its enactment," the court said in a summary of the ruling, citing the low military enlistment of ultra-Orthodox candidates.

"The law was enacted with a hope that it would ignite a societal process which would lead to a situation in which, even without imposing any duty, ultra-Orthodox people would wish to serve, or to perform civil service. However, the hope that accompanied the law was dashed."

The black-coated, ascetic ultra-Orthodox were a fringe sector when Israel's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, exempted them from the armed forces, which championed the mixing of men and women and whose commanders were mostly secular.

GOD, GUNS, GENDER

But the growing cultural and electoral clout of the ultra-Orthodox, many of whom question the authority of the Jewish state, has spread calls among other Israelis for a fairer distribution of national burdens.

Conscription is a core issue, given Israel's constant war footing in a combustible Middle East and the military's traditional role as melting pot for socially disparate Jews.

Sectarian tensions have been stoked by the occasionally aggressive gender segregation practiced by ultra-Orthodox in public places. Some pious mores have taken root within the armed forces, such as ultra-Orthodox soldiers requesting, in the name of sexual propriety, to stay away from compulsory events where women singers perform.

Netanyahu said after the ruling that the Service Deferral Law -- which is also known as the "Tal Law" -- could not continue in its current form and that the government would prepare a new law to "bring a more just change to the burden on all sectors of Israeli society."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed providing perks for Israelis who enroll in national service, whether as conscripts or -- in the case of the ultra-0rthodox or Arabs, who are also exempt -- as volunteers.

But there were protests among religious coalition partners.

"I dispute that the Supreme Court has authority to decide what is and is not constitutional," Israel Eichler, a lawmaker with the United Torah Judaism party, said in a radio interview. "They are people who were not elected by the public but were political appointees."

Shas, another party run by rabbis in the coalition, said in a statement that its leader, Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai, was to confer with Netanyahu about the ruling.

Political sources said that the religious ministers were planning to lobby the Supreme Court to back a new arrangement that would replicate, at least in part, the expiring law.

(Writing by Dan Williams)

Israel: The Great Gas Giant

2012-02-23T05:45:00.000+02:00

Is Israel on its way to becomming the next ruling power in the World?

It's Mazal would indicate yes. Israeli attitude would express likewise.

The Moshiach / Erev Rav dynamic looks to have its path paved.

Pax Britannica

Pax Americana

Pax Judaica (Erev Rav-icana)

Notice the obvious similarities between the Great British Empire and that of Israeli Erev Rav reality. (size, goals, "location", etc.)

Nasdaq:

A large pocket of offshore natural gas could shift Eastern Mediterranean geopolitics on its head. As the threat of war looms between Israel and Iran, the newly found gas could add extra friction between the two countries.
Last year, Houston-based Noble Energy discovered vast tracts of natural gas off the coast of Israel and Cyprus. It had been exploring for 13 years.
So far, the find has been a bonanza, especially for energy poor Israel. Noble has found 35 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas. By September, this offshore find could yield as much as 100 million cubic feet of gas a day.
"It is a great advantage for Israel," Dilshod Achilov, assistant professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, said in an interview.
Investors have taken notice: the Tel Aviv 100 Index has gained more than 4 percent so far this year. Shares of Noble Energy have nearly doubled over the past year and are trading around their 52-week high of $105.
Meanwhile, the price of a barrel of oil was $105.95 Wednesday as fears of conflict in the Middle East continued.
For the first time since its founding in 1948, Israel could become self-sufficient in energy and even an exporter. Israelis for years joked that God made a mistake leaving them contemporary Israel as a "promised land" when it was surrounded by oil-rich neighbors like Saudi Arabia.
But now, Israel's government is debating whether or not to set export quotas, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The country of 7 million is also considering setting up a sovereign wealth fund for its citizens.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in his repeated denunciations of Israel has never mentioned this potential competition. Instead, he's focused on Iran's plans to develop nuclear energy, which Israel fears would lead to atomic weapons to threaten its security.
Possible Pipeline to Greece
Jerusalem expects to have an oversupply of natural gas which Israel could use to forge international agreements within the Mediterranean and with energy giants like China and Russia, Haaretz said. Israel now enjoys excellent relations with both countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Cyprus last week to talk about energy. He met with Cyprus's ethnically Greek President. The island nation is planning to build a natural gas treatment plant that would be jointly operated by Noble Energy and Israel's Delek Group.
Last year, Netanyahu flew to Greece for discussions about possible construction of an undersea pipeline. Now that the Athens government has fallen as a result of the euro zone crisis, the status of any tentative deal reached with former Prime Minister George Papandreou remains unclear.
Delek, the Tel Aviv-listed vehicle of Isaac Tshuva, 64, a Libyan-born immigrant to Israel who made his first pile in real estate and later bought New York's Plaza Hotel, is Israel's biggest energy company. Delek has energy investments worldwide. Its prominence has received attention.
"The new findings do not only shift the geo-strategic balance in the region, but also send a major strategic blow to Tehran," said East Tennessee's Achilov.
How?
Iran has the world's largest known natural gas reserves, second only to Russia. As of January 2011, the country was said to have 1,046 tcf of gas, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated.
Iran now exports just a small fraction of that natural gas to Turkey and Armenia via pipeline. If these countries start importing natural gas from Israel, or decide to get in on the gas play themselves, Iran's natural gas exports could become irrelevant.
Israel enjoys excellent trade ties with both Turkey and Armenia.
Huge Undersea Gas Potential
The U.S. Geological Survey in March 2010 published its assessment of the Levant Basin - the region offshore Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus - and determined there is a 95 percent chance at least 50,000 billion cubic feet of natural gas could yet be discovered. The USGS estimates there could be as many as 227,430 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 483 million barrels of oil offshore.
"In bigger context, this may instigate a large-scale regional competition to search for oil and gas in the Eastern Mediterranean as Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria and Turkey, may launch their own search missions," Achilov said. "Iran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, will probably act fast within the Lebanese government to push hard to seek its share of the pie."
Lebanon has technically been at war with Israel since 1948. So in the wake of the Israeli finds, the country could stake a claim to some of the Israel strike. The Israeli gas finds could very well extend into Lebanese territory, but so far Noble Energy has not entered the area for exploration.
Meanwhile, Iran would be shut out of the new gas bonanza. After years of successive sanctions, Tehran hasn't been able to fully develop most of its natural gas resources.
Israel, which imported 40 percent of its energy from Egypt in 2008 and continues to obtain it despite last year's fall of longtime ally President Hosni Mubarak, will become energy independent, East Tennessee's Achilov predicted.
Israel could also sell its new gas to Iran's traditional customers, especially in Asia, like Japan and South Korea, which enjoy excellent relations with the Jewish state.
Still, as with anything in the Middle East, there are wrinkles.
Potential Obstacle to Development
First, history teaches the Eastern Mediterranean is historically earthquake prone. Noble Energy, Delek and other offshore drillers may have to install extra precautions. Israel's very active environmental movement might sue to enjoin drilling on these grounds.
Next, Israel's neighbors in the Levant Basin, Lebanon and the Palestine Authority, might challenge Israel's rights and demand their own share.
Achilov warned that Israel might risk possible conflict with Lebanon.
"In terms of energy politics, Israel will probably compete with Iran indirectly. To be more precise, Israel will have to compete with the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government," Achilov said.
One reason is that Israel discovered gas close to the Lebanese border, triggering conflict over undersea rights. "A possible conflict between Israel or Hezbollah should not be discounted in the near future," the energy expert said.
Indeed, Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006, which saw Hezbollah's rockets fall into Haifa and other cities as Israel Army units invaded parts of southern Lebanon. The Israel gas search had begun before that conflict.
But in general, Achilov said he is unsure that Iran could respond in any direct fashion to stop Israel from exporting natural gas.
In the end, it all comes back to this: good neighbors promote good business.
Israel could be just the alternative needed for other regional exporters to become more agreeable to Western powers, said William Martel, associate professor of International Security Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Western powers could be more enticed to purchase natural gas and oil from a democratic Israel, Martel said, potentially being the catalyst needed for certain regimes in the region to change their tone, or lose business.
"I can only imagine that the competitive pressures will be exacerbated in the region," Martel said.
An energy exporting Israel could actually have a stabilizing effect on the region. That's because customers would buy from a democratic supplier rather than an aggressive or totalitarian regime, the Tufts expert said.
Of course, all bets are off should there be war between Israel and Iran, Martel said.
"If this nuclear issue gets resolved," said Martel, "[The natural gas in years to come] will increase Israel's regional geo-political footprint."

Where will the pieces fall in 5772 after it all comes down?
Pax Judaica vs. Pax Moshiachana: Marketing and Propaganda vs. Light of Torah to the World.

Guard Your Eyes! Amalek: A False Light

2012-02-22T11:56:00.001+02:00

Eyes: The Window to the Soul

Guarding your eyes is one of Torah's "Biggest Deals."

To even be obligated in Shema, one can not be blind.

Are people going spiritually blind today with all of the artifical light - leading to even greater "eye insanities" with the likes of [looking at] Smartphones, etc?

With such emphasis of Tikkun Within the Eyes, is this a sign that we are in the End of Days? If everyone is going "blind," then it is our responsibility to strengthen our eyes, guard our eyes, and find our way back to Torah, its yoke, and its Light.

There is so much opposition for the eyes today - is this one of our final tests?
It seems Amalek wants our eyes glued to everything but Torah [again, smartphones, movies, texting, etc].

This article is just one glimpse of eye conditions of today; it is being realized that this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of medical conditions stemming from eye conditions.
(one example of another eye condition is the inability to metabolize light in the retina - leading to a problem with Circadian Clock issues as well)

It is understood in Torah, that everyone must fix their eyes, thus begging the question to one's self, "what is 'my issue' with 'my eyes?'"
The two remaining questions are: why the eyes and what do we learn from correcting our eyes?

Eyes are major, which is evident today more than ever, for Amalek is going specifically for the eyes when you pinpoint the the point of attack.

The New York Times:

The aging eye filters out blue light, affecting circadian rhythm and health in older adults.

THE INVESTIGATORS

Dr. Martin Mainster and Dr. Patricia Turner, University of Kansas School of Medicine.

For decades, scientists have looked for explanations as to why certain conditions occur with age, among them memory loss, slower reaction time, insomnia and even depression. They have scrupulously investigated such suspects as high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and an inactive lifestyle.

Now a fascinating body of research supports a largely unrecognized culprit: the aging of the eye.

The gradual yellowing of the lens and the narrowing of the pupil that occur with age disturb the body’s circadian rhythm, contributing to a range of health problems, these studies suggest. As the eyes age, less and less sunlight gets through the lens to reach key cells in the retina that regulate the body’s circadian rhythm, its internal clock.

“We believe the effect is huge and that it’s just beginning to be recognized as a problem,” said Dr. Patricia Turner, an ophthalmologist in Leawood, Kan., who with her husband, Dr. Martin Mainster, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Kansas Medical School, has written extensively about the effects of the aging eye on health.

Circadian rhythms are the cyclical hormonal and physiological processes that rally the body in the morning to tackle the day’s demands and slow it down at night, allowing the body to rest and repair. This internal clock relies on light to function properly, and studies have found that people whose circadian rhythms are out of sync, like shift workers, are at greater risk for a number of ailments, including insomnia, heart disease and cancer.

“Evolution has built this beautiful timekeeping mechanism, but the clock is not absolutely perfect and needs to be nudged every day,” said Dr. David Berson, whose lab at Brown University studies how the eye communicates with the brain.

So-called photoreceptive cells in the retina absorb sunlight and transmit messages to a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (S.C.N.), which governs the internal clock. The S.C.N. adjusts the body to the environment by initiating the release of the hormone melatonin in the evening and cortisol in the morning.

Melatonin is thought to have many health-promoting functions, and studies have shown that people with low melatonin secretion, a marker for a dysfunctional S.C.N., have a higher incidence of many illnesses, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

It was not until 2002 that the eye’s role in synchronizing the circadian rhythm became clear. It was always believed that the well-known rods and cones, which provide conscious vision, were the eye’s only photoreceptors. But Dr. Berson’s team discovered that cells in the inner retina, called retinal ganglion cells, also had photoreceptors and that these cells communicated more directly with the brain.

These vital cells, it turns out, are especially responsive to the blue part of the light spectrum. Among other implications, that discovery has raised questions about our exposure to energy-efficient light bulbs and electronic gadgets, which largely emit blue light.

But blue light also is the part of the spectrum filtered by the eye’s aging lens. In a study published in The British Journal of Ophthalmology, Dr. Mainster and Dr. Turner estimated that by age 45, the photoreceptors of the average adult receive just 50 percent of the light needed to fully stimulate the circadian system. By age 55, it dips to 37 percent, and by age 75, to a mere 17 percent.

“Anything that affects the intensity of light or the wavelength can have important consequences for the synchronization of the circadian rhythm, and that can have effects on all types of physiological processes,” Dr. Berson said.

Several studies, most in European countries, have shown that the effects are not just theoretical. One study, published in the journal Experimental Gerontology, compared how quickly exposure to bright light suppresses melatonin in women in their 20s versus in women in their 50s. The amount of blue light that significantly suppressed melatonin in the younger women had absolutely no effect on melatonin in the older women. “What that shows us is that the same amount of light that makes a young person sit up in the morning, feel awake, have better memory retention and be in a better mood has no effect on older people,” Dr. Turner said.

Another study, published in The Journal of Biological Rhythms, found that after exposure to blue light, younger subjects had increased alertness, decreased sleepiness and improved mood, whereas older subjects felt none of these effects.

Researchers in Sweden studied patients who had cataract surgery to remove their clouded lenses and implant clear intraocular lenses. They found that the incidence of insomnia and daytime sleepiness was significantly reduced. Another study found improved reaction time after cataract surgery.

“We believe that it will eventually be shown that cataract surgery results in higher levels of melatonin, and those people will be less likely to have health problems like cancer and heart disease,” Dr. Turner said.

That is why Dr. Mainster and Dr. Turner question a practice common in cataract surgery. About one-third of the intraocular lenses implanted worldwide are blue-blocking lenses, intended to reduce the risk of macular degeneration by limiting exposure to potentially damaging light.

But there is no good evidence showing that people who have cataract surgery are at greater risk of macular degeneration. And evidence of the body’s need for blue light is increasing, some experts say.

“You can always wear sunglasses if you’re in a brilliant environment that’s uncomfortable. You can remove those sunglasses for optimal circadian function, but you can’t take out the filters if they’re permanently implanted in your eyes,” Dr. Mainster said.

Because of these light-filtering changes, Dr. Mainster and Dr. Turner believe that with age, people should make an effort to expose themselves to bright sunlight or bright indoor lighting when they cannot get outdoors. Older adults are at particular risk, because they spend more time indoors.

“In modern society, most of the time we live in a controlled environment under artificial lights, which are 1,000 to 10,000 times dimmer than sunlight and the wrong part of the spectrum,” Dr. Turner said.

In their own offices, Dr. Mainster and Dr. Turner have installed skylights and extra fluorescent lights to help offset the aging of their own eyes.

What are we looking at Today?
What is 5772 Showing us?
Will we see Light come from Darkness?

The Rains Will Come In Their Time

2012-02-21T10:10:00.000+02:00

The Kinneret is 13 feet away from being fixed after a record January!

Haaretz.com:

The month of January saw the highest number of rainy days in one month on record in Israel, according figures from the Israel Meteorological Service.

Rain fell on 29 out of 31 days in January, defined by the Meteorological Service as registering at least 0.1 millimeters of rainfall.

After a careful comparison of January statistics from measuring stations across Israel, the Meteorological Service found that in most of the northern part of the country there were at least 26 days of rainfall, compared to the previous record of 25 in January 1947.

In Nahariyya, and in the Galilee region, there were 29 rainy days. This is higher than past records. January 1969 saw 24 days of rainfall, as did February 1992. These years saw some of the highest levels of rainfall since records began.

Measuring stations in Nahariyya and the Galilee registered a new record in the number of rainy days in a row, with rain falling for 27 days in a row, from January 5 to 31. The former record was held by the Druze village of Yarka, where rain fell for 23 days in a row in February and March 1987.

According to Dr Amos Porat of the Meteorological Service, there was 250-250 milimeters of rainfall in the north of Israel, 1.5 to 2 times greater than the multi-year average for rainfall in January.

This was despite the fact that in the central region rainfall was close to the multi-year average, and rainfall in the Negev region was lower than usual for the time of year.

“These figures are interesting in a statistical sense,” said Porat. “But we should not conclude anything regarding climate trends from them.”

The rains have raised the water-level of the Kinneret by 55 centimeters in January. Currently it stands at - 213.11 centimeters, which is 11 centimeters below the Kinneret’s red line.

February has been the rainiest month in recent years, and this year it is likely that , for the first time in almost a decade, February rainfall levels will bring the total rainfall for 2012 above the multi-year average. An dry February, however, would change the balance and lead to a disappointing winter in terms of the precipitation balance.

Storming the Temple Mount! The Final Intifada

2012-02-20T17:36:00.001+02:00

This is an Intifada ready to happen - of Crusade proportions? Some Right-Winger is dying to make this thing ignite; and only now its not Ariel Sharon.

The Zohar says in the final wars, the arena and players involved will be Jerusalem and Yishmael.

With everyone looking to Iran or Syria to start WW3, or even North Korea, maybe its some radical from the Shtachim?

Muslim Propaganda?

The Muslim News:

Dozens of Palestinian residents foiled, on Sunday morning, an attempt by dozens of fundamentalist Israeli settlers to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that the settlers gathered near the Al-Magharba Bridge, that leads to the Al-Magharba Gate, west of the Al-Aqsa mosque, while dozens of Israeli policemen were deployed in the area.

The police allowed the settlers through and prevented all Palestinians, aged 45 of under, from entering the area while on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque, an issue that led to clashes between the Palestinians, and the Israeli soldiers and settlers. Initial Israeli reports stated that three soldiers were mildly wounded.

It is worth mentioning that a number of extremist settler groups recently called for attacking the Al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday “in order to maintain Jewish sovereignty on the temple”, according to the settlers.

The Al-Quds Media Center reported that some extremist settler groups, including extremist members of the “Trustees of the Temple”, called on their followers to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order “to affirm the Jewish control and sovereignty on the mosque” a first step towards “rebuilding the temple”.

Last week, Israeli policemen prevented dozens of settlers from entering the mosque area, especially due to the fact that dozens of Palestinians gathered at the mosque to stop any potential attack.

Meanwhile, Hamas spokesperson, Fawzi Barhoum, stated that the settlers are trying to wage a religious war against the Muslims and the Palestinians, and called for a massive revolution to protect Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestine amidst ongoing attacks by the settlers, and repeated calls for breaking into the mosque.

All Roads of War Lead to Jerusalem In The End
[This would be the straightest path]

The Yetzer HaRa Let Loose

2012-02-19T20:32:00.002+02:00

Oddly, I can relate to this; and not just because I grew up watching "Saved By The Bell."

Do we really need anything more?

Ynet News:

Rabbis of the extreme Eda Haredit faction have waged war against a new technological enemy: Smartphones in general, and Apple products in particular.

Pashkevilim (religious ads) published in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods last weekend, claim the iPod, iPad, Blackberry and iPhone may deteriorate children's education to "bottomless pits".

According to the ads, the rabbis are lashing out at the devices as they allow people to connect to the Internet, which they believe contains "a great amount of destruction".

An Eda Haredit source told Ynet's local portal, Mynet, that the new battle was launched due to the smartphones' growing popularity in the haredi sector.

"We have a problem," he admits. "The different iPhones are no longer just phones, but computers for all intents and purposes, and some of the people have become accustomed to buying them.

"Therefore, we decided to issue ads against their possession, call on the public to avoid using them and warn against the spiritual danger they conceal," he explained.

This isn't the first time Eda Haredit leaders rise up against technological innovations. In the past, they have called on their public not to purchase MP4 and other portable media players.

Faction members even launched an all-out war against stores selling the "forbidden" devices within the Mea Shearim neighborhood.

Israel's Kosher Phone - Keeping People Sane In 5772

The Last Mishna in Sotah: [speaking of the End of Days]

-Men of deeds enfeebled. Men of arm, and tongue prevail

-Nobody examines, and nobody intercedes

-Scholars= School teachers

School teachers= Synagogue attendants

Synagogue attendants= Common people

Common people= Increasingly enfeebled

-Insolence will increase

-Expensiveness will soar

-Vine will yield fruit, but the wine will be costly

-The Government will turn to heresy

-There will be no rebuke

-The House of Meeting will serve immorality

-Galilee will be destroyed. Gavlan desolate

-The frontier people will wander from city to city, and will not be pitied

-Wisdom of scholars will denigrate

-Those who fear sin will be despised

-The truth will be absent

-Young men will humble elders

-Elders will rise before youngsters

-A mans enemies will be the members of his household

-The face of the generation will be the face of a dog

-A son will not be ashamed before his father

Sounds like 5772, No?

The Biblical Cyprus [...not just Biblical Gas]

2012-02-19T04:45:00.003+02:00

Netanyahu is an Israeli
Netanyahu went to Cyprus
Cyprus is Israeli?

Click Here To Read About Cyprus and Biblical Israel!

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s historic trip Thursday to Cyprus – the first by an Israeli prime minister – is being presented by many as a direct result of Israel’s deteriorating relations with Turkey.

Seeking to avoid offending Turkey – which invaded the northern half of Cyprus in 1974 and is hostile to the Greek-allied south – Israel was traditionally wary of cultivating relations with Nicosia. However, Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic AKP party has gradually but steadily moved away from Kemal Ataturk’s secularist policies and Western orientation toward an alignment with Arab neighbors and the terrorist organization Hamas, seemingly as part of an anachronistic obsession with reinstating the old Ottoman Empire.

Israel, in response, began to strengthen its relations with Cyprus and Greece and reconsider its position on the Armenian and Kurdish national movements. This explanation is only partially correct. While the deterioration of relations with Turkey was undoubtedly a catalyst, warming relations with Cyprus are part of a larger reorientation of Israeli foreign policy. Even before May 2010’s Mavi Marmara fiasco, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman had launched a concerted effort to reengage with numerous countries that had fallen out of close relations with Jerusalem.

If since the 1993 Oslo Accords inordinate diplomatic effort was concentrated on the Washington-Ramallah track, under Liberman the Foreign Ministry began to focus more energies on cultivating closer ties with Balkan countries such as Bulgaria, Bosnia and Greece – not principally as a counter-weight to the weakening ties with Ankara, but as a wider change in foreign policy strategy. More effort is also being made to strengthen ties with Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, China and India.

Our fast-developing relations with Cyprus are also fostered by mutual fossil energy interests. The Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority, the country’s national energy company and two Israeli firms – Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration – hold shares in Texas-based Noble Energy, an oil and gas exploration firm. Noble has been leading exploration and exploitation of oil and gas reserves under the Mediterranean Sea in areas delineated in a December 2010 agreement between Jerusalem and Nicosia as part of the two countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones. Tamar, the world’s largest gas find in 2009, and Leviathan, an even bigger gas field, will supply all our domestic needs and provide significant export revenues as well.

Further consolidating the ties between Cypress and Israel has been Turkish belligerence. Ankara, in the name of the Turkish-occupied northern half of Cypress, and Lebanon, backed by the Shi’ite terrorist organization Hezbollah, have laid unjustified claims to the oil and gas findings. On November 23, for instance, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz claimed that Israeli and Cyprian gas and oil explorations in the eastern Mediterranean were illegal and questioned the Exclusive Economic Zones demarcated by the two countries. In September 2011, Erdogan said that Turkey “will take appropriate steps” and “prevent unilateral exploitation by Israel of natural resources of the eastern Mediterranean.”

In mid-September, Turkey sent three naval ships to “protect” a Norwegian boat hired by the Turkish government to conduct gas explorations in the territorial waters of the Republic of Cyprus. And on December 21, 2011, Turkish warships demonstratively shelled the strip of water dividing the Israeli Leviathan and Cyprian Bloc 12 gas fields.

Israel and Cyprus cannot simply cave in to Turkish bullying. Indeed, neither seems to be doing so. Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said Thursday during a press conference with Netanyahu: “I call upon the international community, and especially the European Union, to send a strong message to Turkey that it must stop violating and start respecting international law, especially if it looks forward to becoming a member of the European family.”

And while Netanyahu was silent on Turkish aggression during his Cyprus visit, Israel has deployed drones and unmanned marine vehicles, equipped with night vision devices, radars and multiple launch systems, to protect its drilling platforms. And the cancellation on December 22 of the $90 million sale to the Turkish Air Force of Elbit’s hi-tech surveillance system was interpreted by some as timed to send a signal to Ankara to stop its campaign of harassment in and around Israel’s gas fields.

Under the circumstances it is important that Israel continue to develop strong ties with both Cyprus and Greece. Netanyahu’s unprecedented visit to Cyprus is a integral part of that endeavor.

Cyprus may very well be part of Biblical Israel, and all of a sudden, in the End of Days, it is more relevant than ever!

Netanyahu is securing relations that may very well be the return of Biblical Israel and the beginning of the Lost Tribes return!

(Cyprus is believed to be of Shevet Dan)

Are the Lost Tribes coming back, now that Biblical Israel is coming back to the map?

One of the main tasks of Moshiach Ben Yosef, is returning the borders to Israel.

Now perhaps, more than ever, the missing pieces are coming back together!

Zohar - 5772, the year Moshiach Ben Yosef - Melech HaMoshiach will be revealed - now one step closer! (Israel's Borders coming into focus!)

The Secret Iranian Weapon

2012-02-17T13:24:00.002+02:00

National Geographic News:

In Iran's confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has one undisputed weapon: The ability to block the most important oil transit choke point in the world.

Although military strategists and diplomatic experts have worried about Iran's capability to throw the global economy into chaos for more than three decades, there has been little progress in developing alternative petroleum routes to defuse the power of Iran's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.

Tensions increased last week after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a blunt warning that time was running out for stopping Iran's nuclear program. Iran has claimed that its uranium enrichment facilities are for peaceful energy purposes, not for weaponry. After a visit by United Nations inspectors, and plans for a return visit later this month, Iran's state-run news agency termed the talks "positive and constructive." But Israel signaled that the U.N. diplomatic efforts and an oil embargo led by the United States and Europe were not progressing quickly enough to defuse Iran's nuclear threat. If Iran moved its nuclear facilities into underground Bunkers, Barak said, it could be "too late" to destroy them. Barak's comment raises the fear that Israel might mount a unilateral air strike.

An Artery at Risk

There are hundreds of choke points that constrain the flow of oil around the world, from the Strait of Malacca in the east to the Panama Canal in the west. But none matches the importance of the Strait of Hormuz. In 2011, an average 16 million barrels of oil per day, or 20 percent of the oil traded worldwide, moved by tanker through the 173-mile (280-kilometer) waterway between Iran and Oman that links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the seas beyond.

The strait's narrowest point is 31 miles (50 kilometers) wide, but navigation is even more constrained. Tankers must move on either an outbound or an inbound shipping lane, each of them 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) wide, separated by a buffer zone of the same width. In 2011, about 14 outbound crude oil tankers passed through the conduit daily, with about 77 percent of the cargo headed toward Asia and the Pacific.

A look at history underscores the economic risk that a Hormuz closure represents. The largest oil market disruption ever occurred in August 1990, when Iraq's invasion of Kuwait took 4.3 million barrels per day of oil off the market—about 6.5 percent of world supply. That stoppage caused world oil prices to double (from about $20 to $40 per barrel). But a blockade of Hormuz would cut off nearly four times as much oil as the Kuwait crisis did, disrupting a share of the oil market three times greater. And this unprecedented throttling of supply would come at a time when oil is more than $100 per barrel and the world economy is weak.

In testimony before the U.S. Senate last week, Richard Jones, the career U.S. diplomat who is now deputy executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency downplayed the disruption Iran could cause to oil markets. He said the Hormuz threat to some degree had "already been priced into the market," meaning it is one of the reasons that oil prices already have been so high. "The likelihood of a prolonged stoppage for Hormuz transits is seen as being fairly low," he said.

The Asymmetric Threat

The decade-long Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s marked Iran's last attempt to sabotage shipping through Hormuz. A U.S. guided missile frigate, the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts, nearly sank after hitting an Iranian mine in April 1988, prompting President Ronald Reagan to order a massive and decisive retaliatory attack. Although Iran's naval forces are still seen as outmatched by the U.S. Navy, the Islamic Republic has invested heavily since then in weaponry of "asymmetric warfare." As detailed in a 2008 report by the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, Iran's strategy is built on mobile coastal missile batteries, modern anti-ship missiles mounted on fast-attack craft, midget submarines, modern naval mines, and drone aerial vehicles, and the ability to conceal and deploy its artillery amid the numerous coves, inlets, and islands along its 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of Gulf coastline.

Experts at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies last month released an analysis of the threat to the Strait of Hormuz, including a scenario in which Israel executes a major air strike. The analysts envisioned Iran using its submarines to plant smart bombs in the strait and near the Gulf of Oman. They suggested that oil tankers might also be attacked by honing torpedoes. Such a confrontation, the CSIS analysts said, would likely trigger a limited naval and air war by the United States to open the strait. But it would cause shipping to halt for as much as a week, and the risk premiums and tanker costs for oil shipping would be doubled for two to three weeks more.

Choking oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz also would disable one of the global oil market's most important safety valves. Nearly all of the world's spare capacity to produce oil—about 3.5 million barrels per day—is in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom's implicit pledge to keep oil flowing has been seen as an important lever keeping oil markets in check during the Libyan crisis last year, and the Iraq War of the past decade. Saudi Arabia's ability to make up for any shortfalls in the world oil market would be cut off, since 75 percent of its oil is exported through the Persian Gulf.

Saudi Arabia also can export oil through the 745-mile (1,198-kilometer) east-west Petroline pipeline from Abqaiq to the Red Sea, which is seen as the chief alternative for oil flow in case of a Hormuz closure. But the Petroline has a capacity to handle only 5 million barrels per day of oil, less than a third of what now flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

A novel proposal for beefing up that capacity is to use chemicals known as drag reduction agents (DRAs) to allow the oil to flow more freely through the pipeline. Economist Dagobert Brito at the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, who first proposed such action a decade ago, has estimated that DRAs, plus an upgrade including pumps, impellers, and turbines, could boost the capacity to transport oil by pipeline to the Red Sea to 11 million barrels per day. When he first conducted the analysis, based on the technology of 2000, Brito said he estimated the cost of such upgrades would total about $600 million. Although costs likely have increased since then, he said, there have also been improvements in drag reduction agents that could boost capacity improvement even further.

"You couldn't get enough oil out this way for the long term," said Brito in an interview. "But it would buy time. You wouldn't face as much pressure to act quickly."

But because the Petroline runs through Saudi Arabia, it would be up to the kingdom to weigh such an investment. And the benefits may not outweigh the costs, at least in the short term, since a closure of the Strait of Hormuz would ratchet up the price that Saudi Arabia could command for each barrel of oil it exports through the Red Sea.

The other major alternative to Hormuz is a $3.29 billion, 230-mile (370-kilometer) pipeline that has been under construction for years through the United Arab Emirates. The UAE's oil minister said last month that the nation has nearly completed building the conduit from Habshan near Abu Dhabi's onshore crude production complex to an offshore oil terminal in the emirate of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman. But the Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline's capacity would be 1.5 million barrels per day, or less than one-tenth of the current flow through the Strait of Hormuz. And the project, which has faced repeated delays, will not be operational until May or June.

In fact, some analysts see May or June as a likely timeline for an Israeli attack on Iran, based in part on Barak's signal that his nation would not be able to devote resources to an annual U.S.-Israel military exercise this spring.

That would leave little time to forge any alternative oil routes out of the world's most important petroleum basin, despite three decades of concern over the vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz. "I'm not a prophet or anything," said Brito, "but there's a danger. And we'd be much better off if we had more alternatives than we do at this point."

Read about The Strait of Hormuz in Torah Literature regarding Gog V' Magog!

Hashem has a Secret Weapon too: The Jewish People

If Chanuka was the beginning of The Jewish weapon

The Geulah Shleimah will be 2.0

The gateway to Peace

Shabbat 5772

Israel: Living In A Bad Neighborhood

2012-02-16T09:48:00.000+02:00

Why are Jews always in the Bad Neighborhood? ...And then to ask them to police it too?

JewishJournal.com

What should Israel do about Syria? The short answer is, well, nothing. Or not much. Or not much at this time. That is, if you care to follow the advice of Israeli experts — and we all should keep in mind that the experts’ stock has been in steep decline recently because of the so-called Arab Spring, a development that no expert can truthfully claim to have predicted.

We presented three experts this week with similar questions: Moshe Maoz, professor emeritus of Hebrew University’s Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; Itamar Rabinovich, professor and former president of Tel Aviv University, former ambassador to Washington, and Israel’s former chief negotiator with Syria; professor Eyal Zisser of the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.

[Full transcript, Shmuel Rosner with Moshe Maoz: ‘Assad will fall, but not so quickly’]
In addressing Israel’s relationship to the upheaval in Syria, three main questions need to be asked: Does Israel want Bashar al-Assad’s regime to fall? Should Israel do anything about it? And what should Israel do if and when the regime collapses?

The three scholars we contacted were in agreement on all three questions: 1.) It doesn’t matter what Israel wants. 2.) No, Israel should not intervene. 3.) Wait and see. As Rabinovich framed it: “Speculation upon speculation, hypothesis upon hypothesis, it’s premature to do that.” Israel has to wait to see what happens and not prepare “seven responses for seven potential scenarios.”

Is it better for Israel to have Assad winning the confrontation with the opposition groups?

“Some people think it is,” Maoz said. “We know him, and he’s pragmatic, and we can do business with him, so I suppose some Israelis — even leaders — feel like this.” Zisser, however, believes that “Israel came to the conclusion that it is in the interests of Israel that he should fall.”

So, what should Israel do now?

Israel should “condemn the massacres conducted by the regime,” Zisser said, a point that Maoz also emphasizes. But it can’t do much more. “Israel couldn’t do very much,” Maoz said. “Basically, Israel should not intervene militarily for the time being. I do think Israel should offer some humanitarian help to the refugees, because Syria is a next-door neighbor and it’s good also for PR. Israel has helped Haiti and Indonesia and I don’t know how many other countries, so why not help Syria, the next-door neighbor? Israel cannot do very much, except begin to tell Syrians that whatever happens, we sympathize with the freedom fighters, and, whatever happens, we would like to discuss peaceful relations with the next government, with the next regime in Syria.”

Rabinovich thinks the prospect for Israel “of Syrian refugees” is not “a major issue.”

“It will be natural for Syrian refugees to flow to Arab countries, like Lebanon, Jordan, even Iraq, also Turkey,” he said. Thus, “there is nothing much we can do about the domestic situation in Syria. The last thing the Syrian opposition needs is to be embraced or supported by us — it would undermine their legitimacy. And so, at this point, we should be passive, but attentive.”

Clearly, Israelis are mostly worried about proliferation of Syrian missiles and chemical weapons, should the regime fall.

“We have to be attentive,” Rabinovich said, “because we do not want the Syrians to provide chemical weapons or any other deadly systems to Hezbollah or any other terrorist groups; we do not want al-Qaeda to establish itself in Syria.”

Maoz believes that such developments would be the only pretext to necessitate Israeli intervention. “If heavy weapons, including missiles with chemical warheads, which Syria has, are going to be transferred to Hezbollah, Israel should intervene and destroy [them].”

Maoz and Rabinovich both believe Assad will not survive (Zisser is more cautious), but even if this is true, all three also believe that this eventuality could well take longer than previously assumed. “It may take quite some time,” Rabinovich said.

“The balance of power even now is still in his favor, unfortunately,” Maoz said. “He has the support of the military echelons, most of them are Alawite, but Sunni and Christian Syrians also support him. Many people don’t want chaos, and Christians, for example, are afraid that the Muslim Brotherhood will emerge and then they will be in trouble.”

As to what might happen after Assad falls, it is way too early to judge, the experts agree. “It’s one thing if he’s replaced by an internal coup, the other if there’s a popular rebellion, a third if the country descends into chaos,” Rabinovich said.

Maoz reminded that “a new regime might not be friendly, but it can still be pragmatic.” He believes that “the most powerful military power that will emerge out of the ashes could define the future of Syria. That could be a Sunni military force aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood.”

From the Israeli standpoint, one positive outcome if Assad doesn’t survive could be the weakening of Iran’s influence in the region. “Syria is not a match for Israel — Iran is a match — and there is a possibility that a Muslim Brotherhood state will disconnect past relations with Iran and with Hezbollah, who were supporting Assad, and this is going to be a very good gain for Israel,” Maoz said.

This is kind of irrelevant; Israel no matter what happens will be fighting a war on at least 8-fronts, upon any sort of aggression.

But the conclusion is relevant: after Israel (Erev Rav) would win the war (in a hypothetical world of which there would be no Moshiach), they would implement the NWO - Police State - Guardian of Middle Eastern Resources policies onto the World.

Thank God its just a bluff, and through evil, Hashem will bring salvation...this is the pulse of the Sitra Achra: to think and believe it is in charge and actually has a fighting chance.

Eventually, the war will happen, whether its taking out Assad, hitting Iran, cleaning out Gaza, etc...and then we will probably see the opinions that speak of "3-minute wars" taking place, proving the words of the prophets, and making Daniel a reality. I never thought it would come to this scenario (in particular of dates), but the Zohar warns of final wars with Ishmael too, so I suppose this is the vehicle that will bring Moshiach...

"It will be a time of trouble for Yaakov, and from it you will be saved." - Perhaps it could and still would if it could come another way; From the beginning of Time, and to the conquest of Eretz Yisrael, War has been the vehicle that the World endorses for change.

They dont call it Gog V' Magog for nothing; and 5772 is poetry in motion for those who believe in what has been handed down to us from those who came before us -

"Let The Moshiach Come, And Let Me Not Be Alive To See Him"

Erev Rav, Amalek, ...Where's Moshiach?

2012-02-15T04:13:00.001+02:00

IDF (Israeli Defense Forces)

ology.com News:

Fictional Scenario ; This Is Why We Need To Daven!

Some day in the very near future, Americans will awake to a terrifying scenario:

Overnight, elements of the Israeli Air Force conducted surgical strikes in Iran to neutralize their nuclear activities. Simultaneously, Israel conducted raids into Southern Lebanon and Gaza to limit the retaliatory capability of Iranian surrogates Hezbollah and Hamas.

Iran responded to the attacks immediately by closing and mining the straits of Hormuz and launching missile strikes into Iraq, Kuwait and at U.S. carrier groups in the region. Unconfirmed reports have surfaced that a “suicide submarine” has exploded alongside the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and the crew members are fighting to save the ship.

America activated its NATO allies and conducted preliminary retaliatory strikes into Iran, targeting the Islamic Republic’s government and Revolutionary Guards Corps bases.

Russia and China moved immediately to condemn the Israeli attack and the U.S. support that made it possible. Meanwhile, Iran has activated its cells around the globe and bombs have already gone off at multiple American and Israeli diplomatic and military installations in Europe and Asia.

Global markets collapse and crude oil prices spike exponentially – by the open of the markets in New York City, gasoline approaches an average of $6 per gallon. Saudi authorities release millions of barrels of crude to stabilize oil prices and are themselves targeted by Iranian surface-to-surface missiles. With Saudi oil fields ablaze, crude spikes and the Euro drops to all-time lows against the Dollar which is itself in free fall.

These are the first hours of the war with Iran.

The world is moving uncomfortably close to a scenario that closely mirrors what could be considered the worst case scenario for intervention into Iran’s rapid nuclearization – a unilateral Israeli strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities. Iran announced that it will make a major announcement regarding its nuclear program tomorrow – many suspect that Iran will tout its mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle and its ability to produce sanctioned nuclear materials domestically.

As a possible means of heading off an imminent attack by Israel on Iranian nuclear facilities, U.S. defense officials have been consistently providing to the press a narrow timeline for Israeli action – sooner rather than later is the order of the day.

If Israel is allowed to conduct this intervention on its own, less than a year after the Arab Spring effectively has done away with the peace hashed out by Sadat and Begin in the 1978 Camp David Accords, the consequences for the Middle East will be dramatic and unpredictable. What is certain is that the “Arab Street” will be consumed white hot with a passion and desire for revenge against the West and the newly revolutionary governments in North Africa and the Middle East may well oblige.

Over a decade, the world’s Western leaders allowed this crisis to grow; punting the consequences of strong action until they simply ran out of field. They sowed the wind and now they reap the whirlwind.

It Looks Like The End, Feels Like The End, Smells Like The End, ...

5772 Reasons To Believe

[I'd hate to have to have "5786" reasons to believe in the Keitz - What would that look like?]

Shhhhh, It's A Secret!

2012-02-14T04:29:00.003+02:00

Newsweek on Haaretz.com

Mossad head Tamir Pardo's visit to Washington around two weeks ago was meant to evaluate how the United States would react if Israel decided to attack Iran's nuclear facilities on its own, Newsweek magazine reports this week.

A senior American official quoted in the story said that Pardo had come to Washington to "check the pulse" of the Obama administration and to ascertain the degree to which Washington opposes an Israeli strike.

According to the report, Pardo posed a number of questions during his talks with senior administration officials, including: What military preparations are being made with regard to Iran? Is America willing to attack Iran? What would be the significance of Israel doing so on its own?

Pardo's visit was exposed last month by Haaretz after top U.S. officials, during a public hearing in the Senate, mentioned having met him earlier that week in Washington. The Senate hearing was broadcast live on American television.

Israel has also asked President Barak Obama several times for guarantees that if sanctions against Iran do not work, the United States would attack its nuclear facilities, but to date the administration has made no such commitment, the report said.

According to the report, Obama's refusal to offer these assurances was what led Israel to formulate its current position - refusing to promise restraint in anything regarding Iran or to necessarily inform the United States of a pending attack in advance.

The Newsweek story states that during the second half of 2011, Israel stopped sharing its plans regarding Iran with Washington. Between July and October, the report said, U.S. officials were in "a black hole" with regard to Israel's activities.

The reason, the article says, was Israel's anger over Obama's speech in May 2011 in which he called on Israel to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians based on the 1967 lines.

But the Americans played the withholding game as well. Senior U.S. defense officials quoted by Newsweek said there were disagreements between Israel and the United States over the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. The Americans took pains to make sure that intelligence information they were passing to Israel could not be used to plan assassinations, which are against U.S. law.

"We were always careful about what we said to the Israelis, and they knew why," a Defense Department official told Newsweek. "We hid things like satellite photographs and other types of intelligence."

Though America refused to take part in these attacks, it did act against nuclear facilities, sometimes alone and sometimes with Israel, the report said.

The report also revealed that when Obama took office in 2009, senior U.S. intelligence officials feared that he was about to stop all clandestine activity against Iran so as not to derail his efforts to engage Tehran in a dialogue. At issue were actions aimed at slowing Iran's nuclear progress, such as supplying defective parts to the uranium enrichment stations, introducing viruses to Iranian computer systems, and more.

Shortly after he assumed office, Obama met with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Cartwright and CIA Deputy Director Stephen Kappas, who both asked Obama permission to continue the covert activities. In the end, the president decided to allow the secret activities to continue parallel to the dialogue attempt, in an effort to buy time for diplomacy to work.

The next and final war will be very short - namely because of the Israelis.

After the missile war with Lebanon / Hizbollah in 2006 and Gaza in 2008, Israel is set to the tee. If you give the Israelis that much time to prepare, while showing your entire hand in the process, Israel will exploit you over time.

The 6-Day War was of the same mochin (and it is believed we are just at the other end of that war today, waiting for its official outcome; based on the players and Land involved), this war will be called the 6 Hour War. With the planning involved, propaganda machine running, and a cunning - itchy trigger finger locked and loaded, this war should be the mother of all wars, as Saddam Hussein predicted it would be, when this current edition took place after the advent of 9/11 (which Rav Kaduri said it was the beginning of Gog V' Magog based on current events and mesora of the Gra).

This '67 / '12 war dynamic fits the Midrash, that Geulah will come, and then disappear for 45 years, and then be revelaed again; hence 1967-2012=45 year process.

The only questions is, why do the Erev Rav and their Islamic Amalek Brethren seek to seize the
moment so urgently now in 5772?

5772.1967.revisited and completed.

The Good News Or The Bad News?

2012-02-13T06:25:00.001+02:00

The Telegraph:

It is the front line of Israel’s deepening conflict with Iran, and beneath the snow-capped peaks of Mount Hermon the final preparations are taking shape for a conflict that promises to change the landscape of the modern Middle East.
On one side, amid the foothills of southern Lebanon, is Hizbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia militia that is busily stockpiling thousands of missiles in readiness for the next round of hostilities against its sworn enemy, Israel.
On the other side stand the men and women of Israel’s armed forces, the defenders of the Jewish state who are working on their own plans to defeat the Tehran-controlled militia that is committed to Israel’s destruction.
The last time these two combatants clashed was in the summer of 2006, when Israel launched a full-scale onslaught against Hizbollah after it kidnapped two Israeli soldiers while they were patrolling the south Lebanon border. The Second Lebanon War, as it is known in Israel, lasted for 33 days and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,200 people. But it ended inconclusively with Hizbollah largely intact and Ehud Olmert, the hawkish Israeli prime minister who ordered the offensive, hounded from office over his handling of the conflict.
Today, though, there is a steely determination within Israel’s high command to finish the job once and for all and eradicate the threat Hizbollah poses to Israel’s security – as I discovered this week when I visited the Israeli-Lebanese border.
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At Bravo 30, the Israeli defensive position where Hizbollah staged its audacious ambush back in 2006, I found pieces of twisted metal marking the spot where a jeep was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Hizbollah militants concealed on a nearby hill. Not far from where I stood, the black flag of Hizbollah was clearly visible on the roof of a house in a Shia village on the other side of the border. At points, the distance between these indomitable foes is so close that from an Israeli army position it is possible to hear Hizbollah fighters calling to each other.
For the moment, an uneasy truce is observed under the watchful presence of the 13,000-strong UN force that was deployed to southern Lebanon to keep the peace after the 2006 conflict. But the calm would immediately be shattered if, as seems increasingly likely, Israel becomes involved in a military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear programme.
All week, senior Israeli military and intelligence officials attending the annual Herziliya Conference on global security in Tel Aviv have been fending off questions from foreign journalists trying to discover whether Israel is about to launch unilateral air strikes to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The most convincing answer I heard – from a senior officer serving with the Israeli Defence Force – was that, while all the preparations for an Israeli strike have been completed, the final decision on whether to attack has yet to be taken by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the defence minister.
Their decision rests predominantly on how Iran responds to the latest round of sanctions imposed by the US and the EU. If Iran agrees to freeze its nuclear programme, military action may be averted. But no one in Israel is prepared to allow Iran to continue building an atom bomb. Unless Iran comes to its senses, the consensus at Herziliya is that Israel will attack before the year is out. At that point, all hell will break loose along the northern border, as Iran retaliates by ordering Hizbollah to bombard Israeli towns and cities.
During the 2006 conflict, Hizbollah had about 10,000 Iranian-made rockets, most of them short-range missiles that threatened only residential areas in northern Israel. But it is estimated that Hizbollah now has more than 40,000 missiles, many with a range of up to 200 miles – enough for an attack on Tel Aviv.
In addition, the Israelis have seen a marked change in Hizbollah’s tactics. “In the past, Hizbollah fighters always wore uniforms, so they were easy to identify,” an infantry officer told me. “But now they dress as civilians so it is far harder for us to tell them apart. The next war will be an urban war.”
While Hizbollah’s primary objective will be to inflict as much damage as possible on Israel’s main population centres, the Israelis make no secret of their desire to eradicate Hizbollah’s military infrastructure, something they failed to do in 2006. During the last conflict, Israel was forced to agree to a ceasefire because of the international outcry over its air raids against Lebanese targets, such as Beirut airport. Next time, though, the Israelis are determined not to end the conflict until Hizbollah is completely destroyed as a fighting force.
“This time, the war is going to last for as long as it takes to destroy Hizbollah,” said an Israeli officer. “We will not make the same mistake of allowing them to escape.”
The only problem with this uncompromising approach, however, is the impact it will have on the rest of the region. The new Islamic government in Egypt is unlikely to stay on the sidelines while Israel tries to pummel Muslims into submission. Nor will the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Hizbollah, stand idly by as it did in 2006. Going to war with Israel is certainly one way for Assad to end anti-government protests in that it would rally the country behind him.
Consequently, a conflict that began as a border skirmish between Israel and Hizbollah could become an all-out war between Tel Aviv and its Arab neighbours, with all the catastrophic implications that would have for both the region’s Jews and Arabs.

There are opinions that the Final War may take 3 minutes...It will be the longest 3 minutes in the history of the World.
The World is becoming more and more complex every day, and time is getting condensed. The only answer and way out is through Novelty.

(An example of Novelty and Complexity is the internet; through complex foundations, Novelty bursts through [innovations based on complexity])

An all out Middle eastern riot with Israeli weaponry of mass destruction will be a crash course to Novelty: WWII 2.0 = WWIII!

( much like the '50's that followed the Shoa, the World was complex in evil, and a new way of life and modernity was born...only this time it will be an eternal lesson learned; the Chafetz Chaim said WW2 was the beginning of what we are seeing today [70 yrs. predicted of Gog V' Magog])

...And the World became eternally Novel (at rest and at peace) in the fulfillment of the Zohar's prediction of '72?

And we have seen only a fraction of complexity in 5772...

Reality Can Bomb Too

2012-02-12T20:45:00.000+02:00

Palm Beach Post News:

The specter of a military attack by Israel against Iranian nuclear installations is the latest nightmare scenario to spike tensions in the Middle East.

A Jan. 29 New York Times Magazine article by an Israeli journalist quoted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other Israeli military and intelligence officials on the looming possibility of Israel bombing Iran's clandestine nuclear enrichment facilities. While Iran insists the work is energy-related, Israel and international inspectors suspect the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons.

Not all those Israelis interviewed favored airstrikes, but the article concluded that such an attack would occur in 2012. Its publication has provoked intense speculation by professional Middle East-watchers in South Florida.

In the article, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's vice prime minister, said bombing Iran was a last option, but he aligned himself with Israeli hawks.

"One way or another, Iran's nuclear program must be stopped,' he was quoted as saying. "It is a matter of months before the Iranians will be able to attain military nuclear capability. It is up to the international community to confront the regime, but nevertheless Israel has to be ready to defend itself. And we are prepared to defend ourselves in any way and anywhere that we see fit.'

If attacked, Iran would retaliate against Israel and its principal ally, the U.S., Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei implied this month when addressing new U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.

"In response to threats of oil embargo and war, we have our own threats to impose at the right time," Khamenei said .

Any discussion of Israeli -U.S. relations with Iran opens a hornets' nest of issues: Israel's tensions with Iran, but also with its other neighbors in the region; Iran's Shiite Muslim majority and the friction with its Sunni Muslim neighbors; Iran's ruling ayatollahs and their fears of regime change engineered by the West, in particular the U.S.; and the crucial interests of China and Russia in the region.

Elections are due in the U.S., Israel and Iran in the next two years and hawkish rhetoric is rumbling in all three countries.

'Nightmare for Israel'

Florida Atlantic University Middle East expert Robert Rabil visualized a worst-case scenario .

"Israel is the only country in the region currently with nuclear weapons capacity," he said. "By Iran developing nuclear weapons, that could change the entire political equation. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan would follow - the domino effect. The Israeli establishment isn't sure as to the timing and consequences of what could happen. This is a nightmare for Israel."

Iran's missiles cannot reach U.S. shores, but they can reach U.S. targets in the region.

"If Israel bombs, Iranian missiles would fly," Rabil said. "We have troops in the Persian Gulf within range of those missiles. We are trying to get out of Afghanistan and (Iran) could cause troubles for us there. And they will smuggle more missiles to Hezbollah and create much more trouble for Israel. They could create problems throughout the Gulf. The flow of oil could be affected and the world economy could tank."

FAU professor of international law Jeffrey Morton agreed the U.S. would be targeted. "If it happens we should batten down the hatches everywhere that is reachable by Iran," he said, although he wasn't sure Iran is developing a weapon or that bombs will fly.

For the moment, Israel appears to have opted for covert action against Iran. At least five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated or died in mysterious circumstances since 2007. Computer worms have infected Iranian technology and other acts of sabotage delayed Iran's projects. The Iranians blame the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.

Reportedly, some Israeli leaders want to stick to that strategy and not bomb Iran.

"What the military is concerned about is the day after a strike," Rabil said. "You have no way of stopping the retaliation that will come, not on your own terms. Terrorism will be employed. Not knowing what is going to happen next, that is the danger."

Hostile neighborhood

Even Israelis favoring an airstrike don't think that would end Iran's nuclear ambitions, only delay them.

"The only way to end those ambitions would be full-fledged invasion and occupation, a regime change," said Russell Lucas, a Florida International University professor of international relations. Such an invasion is apparently not on either the Israeli or U.S. agenda.

Morton suggested two possible reasons for the recent Israeli public statements.

"Maybe they are preparing their own people and the world for military action," he said. "But maybe they are talking about an increased likelihood of war to get Iran to slow down. It's a way to get third parties involved. One frustration for Israel is, whenever the world starts talking about Iran, something happens to cause a distraction. This puts it back on the front burner."

When Israel bombed nuclear reactors in Iraq in 1981, and Syria in 2007, it issued no obvious prior warning as it has this time. "They are advertising this because they really don't want to do this," said Ira Sheskin, a Middle East expert at the University of Miami.

But if Israelis are trying to involve the world community, how can diplomats convince Iran not to develop a weapon? Iran has the same key reason Israel has for wanting those weapons.

"Iran, like Israel, sees itself as being surrounded by enemies," said Lucas. "It has a number of neighbors it has had hostile relations with."

Until recent events in Iraq, Iran and Syria were the only countries in the region run by Shiite Muslims. Iran's relations with its Sunni neighbors are so bad, some of them are more hostile to Iran than to Israel, Sheskin said.

"The Saudis never said, 'Because Israel has nuclear weapons we need them,' " he said. "Now the Saudis are saying if Iran gets them, they will need them too. That's a Sunni-Shiite thing."

Iran weighing interests

It's also no secret that the West would like to see the end of a regime run by the ayatollahs.

"Iran is bordered by Afghanistan on one side and Iraq on the other and they are both places where lots of American troops have been recently," Sheskin said. "I can see why Iran might get nervous, although there is no reason to believe American troops would go into Iran."

The Islamic regime in Iran consolidated its power in 1979 by taking U.S. hostages and confronting President Jimmy Carter's administration. With unrest growing in the country, especially among its youth, the ayatollahs may use the issue of nuclear weapons to try to unify the nation, Lucas said.

"They can play the 'rally round the flag' card," he said. "In that case, lowering tensions with Israel would not serve their interests."

The rising tensions also occur in the midst of the worldwide economic recovery. "You don't want a war now that will send gas prices through the roof," said Lucas.

China, the largest buyer of Iranian oil, is particularly vulnerable.

"For China it is extremely important to have stability and an uninterrupted flow of oil," said Rabil. "I think probably the Chinese don't want to see a nuclear Iran. They have said recently that they are thinking of turning more to other countries for oil. So certain messages are being sent."

The hopes almost everywhere are that pragmatic heads will prevail and that no momentary event triggers war.

"This threat could become a self-fulfilling prophecy," Rabil said. "That's why I'm extremely worried."

"It will be a time of trouble for Yaakov, and from it he will be saved" - Zohar

Zohar and 5772 - The Year Of A Possible Geulah

Israel Will Figure It Out

2012-02-12T14:37:00.001+02:00

IsraCast Link:

"Israel's Dagan vs. Iran's Ahmadinejad"

Meir Dagan: 'Israel Air Force Is Capable Of Knocking Out Iran's Nuclear Weapons Sites But The Cost May Be Intolerable'
'According To Defense Minister Barak's Assessment, Israel Should Attack Iran Immediately'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 'World Will Soon Witness Great Iranian Nuclear Achievements...We Will Never Give Up Our Nuclear Enrichment Program'

The Israeli-Iranian war of words continues in more ways than one. In Israel, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan again crossed swords with Defense Minister Ehud Barak over attacking Iran. Meanwhile in Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised major nuclear achievements in the coming days while vowing that Iran would never give up its uranium enrichment project ... IDF intelligence believes that Iran has enriched enough low grade uranium to produce four A-bombs.
'I have full confidence the Israel Air Force can knock out Iran's nuclear weapons facilities but the cost to Israel may be intolerable'. That is the assessment of former Mossad director Meir Dagan, who resigned a year ago and promptly called on the Israeli government not to launch a unilateral strike on Iranian nuclear targets. Interviewed on Channel 2 TV, Dagan contended that the U.S. and the EU were fully aware of Iran's grand design to exert control over the Gulf and 60% of the world's oil reserves. Therefore the West would not acquiesce in the Iranians getting their hands on A-bombs to implement their goal.

Although Dagan has not been in the Israeli intelligence loop since his retirement, he was confident there was still time to give the sanctions a chance. But what of U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's latest estimate that Iran might get a nuclear weapon 'within twelve months or less'? In fact, on retiring Dagan had estimated the Iranians would not acquire an A-bomb until 2015. Nonetheless, Dagan argued that Israel should not adopt the role of 'camp leader' against Iran - that should be left to the U.S. In his view, when you start a war you don't know how it will end and Israel could wind up in the midst of a regional conflagration. (On this score, IDF intelligence chief Gen. Aviv Kochavi has recently disclosed that Israel is now surrounded by 200,000 rockets and missiles). Dagan's bottom line - the option of a unilateral strike should be Israel's last option and launched only after all other avenues had failed.

Apparently referring to Dagan's position, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said: 'Those who say wait until later may then find that it is too late to act'. (This recalls a statement by U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who once referred to Iran's nuclear weapons development by saying: 'We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud!') Barak and IDF Intelligence Branch have warned that Iran is trying to gain 'immunity' by secretly developing nuclear weapons believing that no one would then dare to take them on.

Dagan said: 'I don't agree with Barak that a military strike is now the preferred option because his conclusion is that Israel should attack immediately. I say there is still time to decide at a later date. Our red lines are at different places'. The former Mossad chief, an IDF combat general also renowned for his audacity, expressed total confidence in the Israel Air Force saying it would carry out the mission successfully whenever the order might be given. When asked whether it was indeed Israeli threats to strike Iran that had finally startled the U.S. and EU into adopting stiffer sanctions, Dagan did not believe this was the case. The international community has vital interests in the Gulf and would have acted anyway. For his part, Dagan declared that he had never divulged any secret Israeli information but felt it essential that Israel conduct a public debate over what to do about the Iranian nuclear threat.

Meanwhile in Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was promising some dramatic developments to tens of thousands of Iranians who celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Khomeini revolution. He declared: 'The world will witness some major nuclear achievements by Iran in the coming days'. Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would never give up its uranium enrichment program. (This is the key element in producing nuclear weapons because it produces the fissile material to create the nuclear chain reaction and which is considered to be the most complex process in building an A-bomb. By already producing 20% enriched uranium, Iran has proven it has the scientific capability to upgrade to 90% that is required to produced nuclear weapons, the decision is solely political).

The guest of honor at the rally was none other than the Palestinian Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniya who pledged that Hamas would never recognize Israel. He is the new found partner of Palestinian West Bank President Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called moderate, who also refuses to recognize the Jewish state.

The Jews will have to do what Jews have always done: figure it out.

If we are in the End of Days, and we are getting more and more complex, then the Novelty will have to be an innovasion such that it is "Something New Under The Sun!"

The only problem is: That - something - new is Moshiach, and the people at war are Erev Rav - so go figure that one out!

...And it is said, not by Wisdom alone, but by the intrinsic "Sechel" of Moshiach - by which he will become Great.

Soul Mazal And Live With Tamar Yonah INR 3.0

2012-02-10T07:42:00.001+02:00

The Secrets of Tu B' Shevat Live With Tamar Yonah on Israel National Radio

Click Here To Listen Or Download The Radio Broadcast!

Very interesting link by Shirat Devorah about the Iran situation sent in by Rav Fish:

Click Here To Learn About Straights Of Hormuz And Gog Magog Predicted Almost 500 Years Ago!

And one writer from Israel makes common sense out of the Iranian issue:

Click Here To Read From Hirsh Goodman And His Views On Iran!

Shabbt Shalom!