AJCommittee: Judgement Day Upon Us
Yehudit Barsky of the American Jewish Committee writes,
With the international community focused on Iran’s quest to develop nuclear weapons, little attention has been paid to Tehran’s preparations for a possible showdown with America and its allies. For more than a year, Iran has been preparing, together with terror organizations it controls and finances, for a confrontation code-named “Al-Qiyamah,” which is Arabic for “Judgment Day.” Hezbollah’s unprovoked war against Israel may well be the first step in this Iranian-inspired conflict.
Leading this war effort is Brigadier General, Qassam Sulaymani, who heads the Al-Quds “Jerusalem” Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Based in Tehran, the Al-Quds Force is considered responsible for having trained thousands of operatives from Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Now Sulaymani has been tasked with coordinating and providing logistical support to the terror organizations that will execute Iran’s plans for a confrontation.The plan reportedly includes suicide bombing attacks on America and British targets in the Middle East as well as on Arab and Muslim countries allied with the West.
Participants in Iran’s “Judgment Day” plans include Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hezbollah cells in Europe, North America, the Persian Gulf region, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the leaders of Iraq’s insurgency, and the Mahdi Army of Iraq’s Muqtada Al-Sadr. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also have reportedly invited operatives from the Mahdi Army to be trained in Iran and have increased its funding to Al-Sadr to over $20 million.
I have been mentioning the THEL laser system that can shoot down these missiles ans asking what happened to it.
Well guess what wikipedia (I know) says:
“Even though military experts such as the former head of the Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry, Aluf Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, were calling for the implementation of the THEL, the project was discontinued. During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Ben Yisrael, currently the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency, has renewed his calls to implement the THEL against high-trajectory fire.”
It’s official, Israel is ruled by idiots.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/wm1169.cfm
According to the article on the website above the THEL was cancelled because it wasn’t “mobile” enough. Appearently there was a danger that the border with Lebanon might walk away and they could not chase after it.
In the meantime I wonder what percentage of the cost of the current war would have been necessary to fully develop this system.
I thought it was the religion of peace?
HezbAllah’s “unprovoked” attack against Israel? You cannot be serious!
Israel is the only nation on earth that has codified torture of prisoners as legal. The Zionists set up the Middle East’s first terrorist cells (the Irgun and the Stern Gang). Israel pulled off the world’s first airline hijacking. Israel continues to illegally occupy land outside its borders. Israel continues to steal land from Palestinians. Israel continues to forbid IAEA to step foot on its territory.
And Israel is surrounded by hostile neighbors? Give me a break. It’s more like the other way around.
HezbAllah’s “unprovoked” attack against Israel? You cannot be serious!
Israel is the only nation on earth that has codified torture of prisoners as legal. The Zionists set up the Middle East’s first terrorist cells (the Irgun and the Stern Gang). Israel pulled off the world’s first airline hijacking. Israel continues to illegally occupy land outside its borders. Israel continues to steal land from Palestinians. Israel continues to forbid IAEA to step foot on its territory.
And Israel is surrounded by hostile neighbors? Give me a break. It’s more like the other way around.
If my broken Arabic serves me correctly, “Al-Qiyamat” means ‘The Resurrection’ not “Judgment Day” (“Yom Ad-Din”), but either notion smacks of an apocalyptic ‘end of the world.’
It shows the mindset behind Iran’s intentions which is not good news for any of the rest of us who are not even auditioning for the parts of those who are supposed to perish.
With some useful irony to point out – the Arabic “Qiyamah” is related to the Hebrew ‘qayom’ as in ‘David Melekh Yisrael Hai vi-qayom.”
Chris Swift,
The land of Israel was given to the Jews by G-d (as mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible) was settled by Jews throughout history as it is today.
There are no Palestinians. There are Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians.
If the land you call Palestinian is rightfully theirs, why didnt your dear friends in Egypt, Jordan or Lebanon give any of the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights or the West Bank to the “Palestinians” While they “occupied” it between 1948 and 1967?
Also, please provide some legitimate sources for the wild, irresponsible, misinformed and anti-semetic libles you put forth.
has everyone lost their goddamned minds?
You zionists have become sick, deluded fanatics. you will bomb yourselves to signal Jesus’ second coming while your benefactors in the US live to kill the rest of the world with their weapons of mass destruction.
‘unprovoked attack’ indeed.
You shame the memory of the righteous Jews that fought against the Nazis. Sick fucks.
The AJC an organization that fully supported the Iraq war, is full of bull as usual. Hisbollah is not an arm of Iran or Syria.
Yes, Mobius, most everyone seems to have lost their minds.
The current conflicts have our heads spinning.
PEACE IS INEVITABLE!
AHAVAS CHINAM IS THE ONLY WAY!
Formermuslim – If you read your own post, you will see that is irrelative to this current conflict. This star wars weapon of yours is against high-trajectory fire. Israel already has a number of answers to high trajectory fire, ie. Patriots and the Arrow missile system. The problem in this current war is low trajectory fire, and for that there still is no response.
dameocrat? who do you think is paying for, building and supplying those missles? My great aunt tillie,.
My son, my son, you are surrounded by idiots and JEW hATERS.
THIS IS WAR. NOT SOME MAMBY PAMBY BULLSHIT.
Mobius, it does seem like a huge chunk of your readership has gone bonkers. Some remarks are as frightening as one I read on another blog, ‘understanding’ (though not ‘excusing’) how Gibson, under the influence of booze and the Lebanese invasion, could curse ‘Jews.’
Kyle’s Mom — please be careful. The ‘we’re at war’ mantra continues to to be shoved down our throats — here in the US — whenever anyone complains of the destruction of the Constititution. And few have the guts to say — still — that we’re at war because our president lied.
Mobius, would you consider doing a post on the 1996 Clean Break doctrine [ http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm ] ? Considering that the first object of complaint by its chickenhawk signators is against LABOR Zionism, and considering that birth fangs Rice — who, after not smiling, ever, in five years, is looking absolutely ecstatic since the carnage began — is using their term ‘NEW Middle East,’ and considering that Bibi came to meet the Dick Cheney, and Rummy at the World Forum of the American Enterprise Institute, where they most likely discussed the Clean Break plans for perforating the bowels of hell, as soon as a casus belli reared its head, and considering that non-Jews here who oppose what Israel is doing, seem to think that Israel has the US on a leash (and not the inverse, which is actually the case), it might be somewhat useful.
Merliner:
If you’re going to use Torah (not the UN) as proof that the occupied territories are part of Israel, please go back and actually study it.
If I’m not mistaken, there are 613 mitvot that must be followed, in order to have it (if you don’t believe me, check with Moses, in Deuteronomy). These include — but certainly are not limited to –things such as loving your neighbor, maintaining one standard for stranger and citizen, sanctuary, taking care of widows and orphans, no murdering, and helping your enemy to upright his ox, when it has fallen.
“Chose life,” says our greatest prophet.
Josh F – It is relevant because with that weapon those 12.000 katyushas would be nothing more than 4 july fieworks. That’s always relevant.
The “star wars” weapon I mentioned is exactly against the kind of missiles that are landing in Israeli cities right now. The prototype worked, it was tested against katyushas and artillery fire in 2000. But the idiots at the military cancelled it because it wasn’t mobile enough. As if the border with Lebanon was going to run around Israel like Muhammed Ali.