EASTWARD by Joel Bainerman

THIS WAR STARTED IN LEBANON, BUT WILL SOON MOVE EASTWARD, INTO SYRIA AND THEN IRAN

The Israeli Public has been duped
We are not at war with Hezbullah
We are at war with Iran

copyright (c) 2006 by Mr. Joel Bainerman

Written by Mr. Bainerman on Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Bible Says: "And at the time of the End, the King of the South will clash with him [King of the North], and the King of the North will storm over him [King of the South] with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships, and he will come into his lands and inundate and pass".
[Daniel 11:40]

The Sages Comment: When our Redemption draws near -- Rashi [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, TROYES, FRANCE, 1040-1105 C.E.]. This is a war between the Christians and the Muslims -- Rabbi Isaiah da Trani [TRANI, ITALY, 1200-1260 C.E.]. The King of the North will come into the lands belonging to the King of the South -- Metzudat David [Rabbeinu David ben Reb Aryeh Leib Altschul, PRAGUE, end 1600s C.E.]

The King of Persia: "Rabbi Yitzhak stated, the year in which the Mashiach (King Messiah) comes, all the kingdoms of the world are at war with each other. The King OF PERSIA attacks the King of ARABIA, and the King of ARABIA goes to ARAM to take council from them, and the King of PERSIA retaliates and destroys the whole world. All of the nations are confounded in fear. And ISRAEL is in panic and trembling, and says, 'Where shall we flee to and where shall we go?' And HaShem (G-d) says to them, 'My children, fear not. All that I have done, I have done for your sake alone. Why are you panicked? Fear not. The time of your Redemption has come'".
[Yalkut Shimoni, Isaiah, Remez 499 -- Yalkut Shimoni is a collection of ancient midrashim on the Tanach/Bible compiled by Rabbi Shimon haDarshan, FRANKFURT, 1200s C.E.]

Excerpt: "This war has two co-directors, the UNITED STATES and IRAN. We are sided with the UNITED STATES; Hezbollah with IRAN. The aim (although not publicly stated) of the UNITED STATES is to widen the war -- so that they will have the pretext to attack IRAN. That is why the White House is in no rush to implement a cease fire. Or why ISRAEL was allowed to destroy LEBANON's infrastructure without a peep from the UNITED STATES government....This war started in LEBANON -- but will soon move eastward -- into Alawite SYRIA and then Shi'ite IRAN. That is the goal of those who are micro-managing this event (oh, I know, I learned in history class at college that wars are not planned and concocted, they just happen because world leaders are naive and do not understand threats until it is too late). The only problem is that ISRAEL is being set up to pay the price as the sub-contractor for the UNITED STATES military. When the UNITED STATES gets its chance to attack IRAN -- the reason the White House will give is, "we had no choice -- IRAN attacked ISRAEL -- our closest ally, through its proxy, Hezbollah, and we had no other choice other than to defend ISRAEL against IRAN -- the country which sponsors the terrorism that led to the kidnapping of the two Israeli solders which created the conflict in the first place".

ZICHRON YA'AKOV, Kingdom of David and Solomon, United Israelite Kingdom of Judah and Joseph, Yom Chamishi, 2 Av, 5766 (Thursday, July 27, 2006), Root & Branch Information Services [www.rb.org.il]:

The Israeli public has been duped. We are not at war with Hezbullah. We are at war with IRAN.

Why do I say that?

Well for starters, both the UNITED STATES and ISRAEL say so. They claim (and rightly so) that Shi'ite Hezbollah is a proxy for Alawite SYRIA and Shi'ite IRAN. While some Israelis take this as political justification for ISRAEL's cause -- the conclusions to be drawn from this are for more relevant.

What if, just what if, the soldiers in the bunkers in south LEBANON are not Hezbullah fighters -- as we have been told. But Iranian soldiers? Units of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. That would certainly account for the stiff resistance ISRAEL is confronting.

The Israeli public were fooled into thinking this war would end quickly because of the belief in the overwhelming superiority of the Israeli soldiers over those of Hezbullah. But what if ISRAEL is not fighting Hezbullah -- but in fact -- a very well trained unit (s) of IRAN's elite Revolutionary Guard?

Preposterous?

Consider this news report filed by Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily on Monday, July 24, 2006:

Report: Iranian soldiers join Hizbullah in fighting

Lebanese sources say Revolutionary Guard units aiding Hizbullah against the Jewish state, report bodies of dead Iranian soldiers transferred to TEHRAN via SYRIA. The bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers who were killed by the Israeli army in LEBANON have been transported to SYRIA and flown to TEHRAN, senior Lebanese political sources told WorldNetDaily (W.N.D.). The information was confirmed by Israeli and Egyptian security officials. W.N.D. reported earlier this month that Israeli security officials said they have "concrete information" hundreds of Iranian soldiers stationed at Hizbullah positions in LEBANON have aided in efforts to fire missiles into the Jewish state. The Israeli officials said Iranian guards directed the firing two weeks ago of a radar-guided C802 missile that hit an Israeli navy vessel off the coast of LEBANON, killing four soldiers. ISRAEL says IRAN acquired the missile from CHINA. The officials said the Iranian soldiers' duties include keeping custody of long-range missiles within Hizbullah's arsenal, including Zalzal rockets which are said to have a range of 125 miles, placing TEL AVIV within firing range.

ISRAEL has long maintained that Iranian Revolutionary Guard units have travelled regularly to south LEBANON to help train local Hizbullah fighters in terrorist tactics and to fortify Hizbullah positions along ISRAEL's northern border. At times, Revolutionary Guard soldiers could be seen operating openly at Hizbullah outposts in plain view from the Israeli side, military officials say.

Take notice that everyone in the Arab world -- including the Israeli military -- seems to agree that units of IRAN's Revolutionary Guard are aiding in this way. Is it possible that they are not just aiding the war effort on behalf of Hezbullah -- but actually running it? If they are teaching/directing the Hezbullah soldiers how to fire the missiles -- then is there really anything more than a semantic difference in these two statements? If so, then Nasrallah is not in charge of the enemy's defences -- IRAN is. If so, that is not what the Israeli public thinks.

For more answers to this question, please read Akiva Eldar's article, How we fell into the Iranian trap.

Certainly the Iranian government has a good reason to wage a war on ISRAEL. They want to destroy ISRAEL -- as they have stated many times. The problem is that the Israeli public passes much of this religious rhetoric off as delusional propaganda. However, maybe the Iranian leadership is not delusional -- and they have a plan to do just that, which they do not announce on their national T.V.?

Could it be that IRAN planned and initiated a war with ISRAEL via its proxy (puppet) in LEBANON -- in order to fight back against the UNITED STATES (via ISRAEL) because of the UNITED STATES's attempts to bring down the current regime in IRAN? Not that IRAN needs another reason to harm ISRAEL -- but it certainly is part of the official story as told on C.N.N. and Fox.

It certainly makes more sense than suggesting that the reason why ISRAEL is at war in LEBANON is because the Israeli government "got mad as hell -- and were not longer going to put up with these nasty Hezbullah guys -- and teach them a lesson once and for all", which is the way the Israeli media is telling the story. Because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped -- Olmert and Peretz decided to "get tough" with Hezbollah -- and told the Israeli public, "don't worry, we will disarm them, kill them all, destroy all their weapons -- and then you can go back to your summer vacation and not worry about anything. Trust us to do the right thing. Just hang in there a little longer".

Well, it is a little longer, and after doing just that -- many Israelis are totally perplexed as to what comes next. They trusted (!) their own government. The problem was that their government knows a lot more about the story than they are willing to tell.

This war has two co-directors, the UNITED STATES and IRAN. We are sided with the UNITED STATES; Hezbollah with IRAN. The aim (although not publicly stated) of the UNITED STATES is to widen the war -- so that they will have the pretext to attack IRAN. That is why the White House is in no rush to implement a cease fire. Or why ISRAEL was allowed to destroy LEBANON's infrastructure without a peep from the UNITED STATES government.

When Rice says things like, "what is the point of cease fire if it does not hold?" and "peace must be sustainable" you know that there is something else going on behind the scenes that the public is not being told. You aim for a cease fire because it beats further death and destruction. Only when the UNITED STATES's secret aims are understood can we better understand the actions of American leaders.

This war started in LEBANON -- but will soon move eastward -- into Alawite SYRIA and then Shi'ite IRAN. That is the goal of those who are micro-managing this event (oh, I know, I learned in history class at college that wars are not planned and concocted, they just happen because world leaders are naive and do not understand threats until it is too late).

The only problem is that ISRAEL is being set up to pay the price as the sub-contractor for the UNITED STATES military.

When the UNITED STATES gets its chance to attack IRAN -- the reason the White House will give is, "we had no choice -- IRAN attacked ISRAEL -- our closest ally, through its proxy, Hezbollah, and we had no other choice other than to defend ISRAEL against IRAN -- the country which sponsors the terrorism that led to the kidnapping of the two Israeli solders which created the conflict in the first place".

I wish I was wrong.
You decide if I am.

Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov from Zichron Ya'akov

Mr. Joel Bainerman

www.joelbainerman.com

Joel Bainerman is a writer on Israeli and Middle East affairs
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