Enormous Spiritual Warfare Against Trump…….
Bill Koenig
White House Correspondent
23 November 2019
There is enormous spiritual warfare against Trump. Never have we seen anything like the daily attacks on the president.
They started during the 2016 presidential campaign and have not stopped since.
Anyone who watches secular TV commentators speak of the Ukraine hearings knows that the liberal media are the crazy ones.
The media hates Christians and our support of Trump, and they continue to try to embarrass and shame the POTUS in public so that we will pull our support of him.
It isn’t working, which drives them even crazier.
When people come against those God has chosen, it comes back on them. The boomerang effect is at work for those who have attacked Donald Trump over the past three years.
We pray that he can handle the pressure of these enormous attacks. Thankfully, he has Christian [well, some heretics amongst them? Ed] advisors helping him and praying him through these uncharted times.
He has major prayer support in the evangelical circles too. He says things we wish he wouldn’t, but he looks to evangelicals on a regular basis for support during these stressful times.
Additionally, Mike Pompeo’s public statement that the Trump administration does not consider Israeli settlements illegal was enormous.
And as [Jerusalem Post journalist] Caroline Glick wrote; “In his words, the administration’s determination is based on the unique facts, history, and circumstances presented by the establishment of civilian settlements in the West Bank. That is, it is based on the historic ties of the Jewish people to Judea and Samaria. These ties lay at the heart of Jewish history and religion.’”
Plus, standing for Israel disturbs the principalities in the EU, U.N. and the Muslim world, who are going bonkers.
Israel’s Military and Iran’s Al Qods go Face to Face in Syria……23 November 2019
It has become almost personal.
Israel and Iran have embarked on their first direct duel: The Israel Defence Forces, led by the IDF’s Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi, are now pitted directly against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Al Qods Brigades, under Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani.
The Iranian general had set in motion a plan for dragging Israel into a drawn-out war of attrition on multiple fronts, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, whereas the Israeli general had set about cutting short this descent into prolonged, debilitating engagements by forceful assaults on Iranian targets and those of its allies.
These strikes are landed as surprises. Tehran never knows what is coming, when or where.
This week, the IDF and Al Qods traded direct blows in Syria, putting up a road sign for the contest’s new direction.
The hostilities that erupted last week from the Gaza Strip, with 450 rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, countered by devastating IDF bombardments of its military infrastructure, were revealed as the promo of Soleimani’s master plan.
They were also a distraction from Iran’s latest project in Syria.
Reliable military sources can report exclusively that, amid the fury of the IDF-Palestinian clash in Gaza, Israel’s military satellites and spy planes picked up images of advanced construction near the Syrian-Iraqi border town of Abu Kamal of the IRGC’s largest military base outside Iran.
They called it the Imam Ali Military Base. This spacious compound had room for large depots of ballistic missiles, ammunition and assorted drones as well as quarters and services for 3,000 men.
For the first time, Al Qods commando forces were caught on film disembarking from Iranian Air force cargo helicopters to land at training grounds attached to the Imam Ali base.
From Israel, the Islamic Republic was seen to be establishing a formidable military bastion of aggression against the Jewish state on its doorstep.
For Tehran, it was to be a link in its prized corridor through Iraq for consolidating its grip on Syria and Lebanon.
Early Tuesday, Nov.ember 19, Israel’s air force wiped out large sections of this compound, including the missiles piling up there, in one of its broadest bombing raids ever.
The attack homed in on the troop concentrations massed by Al Qods and pro-Iranian Iraqi Shiite militias on both sides of the border – in eastern Syria and western Iraq.
Details of this huge operation are kept a closely guarded secret by the Israeli military, which declines even to correct official Syrian accounts.
However, there are strong clues to its scale in the IDF’s advance preparations. On Sunday November 11, a snap military exercise was announced in northern Israel.
Towns and villages on the borders with Syria and Lebanon were warned in advance to expect sirens for air or rocket attacks and large explosions.
Reservists were called up for the first time through a special application loaded on the phones of combat troops in reserve units.
Large-scale forces were deployed on the Israel-Syrian border on the Golan and air defence batteries placed on alert.
This entire array was put in place - notably, just 48 hours after two large rockets were aimed from the Gaza Strip at the southern Israel town of Beersheba. [pictured above]
An agreed ceasefire on Thursday, Nov.ember14 had slowed Jihad’s main round.
This unexpected volley was designed to keep the IDF’s focused on retaliation for an attack on an important city, and so sucked into an interminable confrontation with the Islamic Jihad in Gaza as per Soleimani’s strategy.
However, the IDF chief had meanwhile turned his attention away from the Gaza front.
His next moves were signalled by a throwaway remark when the Israeli military accepted the Gaza ceasefire: “Now we can concentrate on the northern front,” he said.
The unusual Israeli build-up in the north was observed by the Iranians. Baffled about what was afoot, they resorted to pre-emptive action.
Al Qods units were posted at launching points between Damascus and Quneitra opposite the Israeli Golan, and told to fire four Fateh-111 ballistic missiles into Israel.
With a range of 500km, they could have reached the most densely populated central region. All four were intercepted by Iron Dome defence batteries before they fell.
It was Iran’s first missile attack on Israel since May 2018. It supported Tehran’s oft-repeated threat in recent months to hit back with rockets for every Israeli attack.
This week, both Israel and Iran crossed an unmarked line in the sand.
Until now, Iran largely used proxies like Hizballah and Islamic Jihad for its war on Israel.
Now, Tehran had gone for direct action. Israel reacted without pause.
On Wednesday, November 20, the Israeli Air Force hammered 20 Iranian and Syrian military targets, most in the Damascus region – half of them belonging to Al Qods.
Israeli warplanes raked through a line of Al Qods military positions south of Damascus up to the Syrian Golan.
Six Syrian air defence batteries were knocked out at the same time. A large part of the Iranian/Syrian battle formation facing Israel’s Golan border with Syria was levelled.
An Israeli security source reported the next day that 10-20 people had been killed, most of them Iranians.
Soleimani’s next move is tensely awaited.
Gantz Fails to Oust Netanyahu after Identity Politics Goes Mad – Bibi Indicted…
23 November 2019
On Thursday night, November 21, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a powerful fighting speech sharply rebutted the Attorney General Amihai Mandlblit’s [pictured below] decision two hours earlier to indict him on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of faith.
He accused law enforcement authorities of conducting “a polluted, tendentious inquiry” designed to set him up personally “for removal as prime minister.” Netanyahu vowed he would continue to lead the country unless forced out by a High Court petition.
He accused the police and prosecution systems of years of legal abuse, citing examples.
The people have lost faith in the law enforcement authorities, he said. They deserve a decent, law-abiding system, and he demanded that an external, non-partisan commission of inquiry investigate the investigators and clean up the system.
Mandelblit earlier laid out in a public press conference his reasoning for deciding to indict the prime minister for bribes – the first time in Israeli history - saying he did so with a heavy heart but in full conviction that he was performing his duty.
President Reuven Rivlin blamed both leaders for missing the chance to join hands for a unity government, accusing them of placing personal differences ahead of the national interest.
However, identity politics taken to absurd extremes had taken over and the country appeared to be heading towards yet another election in the months ahead at the end of another mud-slinging campaign.
The law governing the dissolution of the Knesset also sets the date of the next election which, according to law, “shall be no later than five months” from its promulgation.
In those intervening months, Netanyahu remains in office at the head of an interim administration, while the government and Knesset function at half-speed.
Israel’s enemies are watching – the country is now in a sort of dangerous limbo politically – Iran in particular may well now see an opportunity step up its proxy war against the Jewish state – the Mullah’s are facing domestic unrest due to gasoline price-hikes, and a crumbling economy brought on by U.S. sanctions.
There may not be another opportunity quite like this for them to fulfil their dream of annihilating the ‘Little Satan’??
Keep a close watch on the tumultuous events unfolding in the region! And keep looking up!
US Edges Past Russia in Race for New Bases in North Syria………..
23 November 2019
The US race against Russia for fresh military footholds in northern Syria is gaining further momentum.
As we reported last week, the US military deployment in the region [north and east Syria] continues to swell with the further intake of US soldiers.
They were seen last week taking up additional positions in Qamishli, Jazira, Deir ez-Zour, Shaddadi, Derik and Hasaka, where they are hooking up with SDF and YPG units.
This week, the influx of US troops into North Syria was building up into a veritable race with Russian forces for control of Kurdish towns and sites in the region and a dominant presence on its main highways.
The Americans are strides ahead of the Russians at present, reliable sources report, bolstered by the near availability of a wide range of US military forces in the region.
A 5,000-strong US troop reserve is available in Iraq, should CENTCOM, which is responsible for the Syrian front, decide that more reinforcements are needed.
They may be also drawn from the US contingents maintained in Jordan, Israel or any of the Gulf emirates.
The US build-up is also making good use of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and its backbone, the Kurdish SDF militia.
By contrast, Russian military strength in the region is confined to a troop presence in Syria of no more than 3,000 combatants, backed mainly by a modest fleet of Su-35E superior fighter planes. [pictured above]
That’s about all the military muscle Moscow can raise in the near neighbourhood.
Should the Russian high command need reinforcements for Syria, they would have to come from Russian deployments massed around the Black Sea, Crimea or the South Caucasus.
Moscow would then have to cope with a major surge in the budget earmarked for Syria, estimated at present as roughly $250m per year, which Moscow is already hard pressed to cover.
The Russians have therefore turned to Syrian units and civilian mercenaries for extra strength, although their capabilities are not up to much.
They are furthermore scattered thinly in small detachments of 50-60 men each across wide stretches of terrain in the North.
This wide distribution boosts the costs of maintenance, logistics and regular supplies of food, fuel and equipment, way past the comparative overheads of large concentrations in one place.
Undeterred, the Russian command at the Khmeimim Air Base near Latakia this week carried on with the project of setting up a new air base at Qamishli airport in northern Syria, after clinching a deal with the Kurdish proprietors for a 49-year lease on the property.
On Sunday, Nov.ember 11, Russian forces were seen on the move at Qamishli airport:
• A convoy of 50 military trucks carried 300 Russian personnel to the new base. Part were combat troops assigned to the site’s defence; others belonged to the Russian Air Force Engineering units.
• M-35 and Mi-8 attack helicopters [pictured below] arrived.
• Pantsir-S air defence systems. Batteries were ranged around the new airfield.
The deployment of these formidable air defence weapons points to Moscow harbouring plans for Qamishli beyond the usefulness of a small local air base.
Moscow appears to be preparing to challenge US and Israel’s air force command over the Syrian-Iraqi border region and Iran’s dominant military presence there.
The US military reacted fast to counter the Russian move.
On Monday, November 16, a large contingent of US troops was transferred from northern Iraq to boost the American Himo military base in the rural Qamishli sub-district.
US engineering units escorted by soldiers entered the Syrian town of Amuda and went to work for setting up a new American base.
Amuda is situated in the Kurdish Hashaka Governorate of north-west Syria near the border with Turkey.
In the course of the Syrian civil war, it came under the civil control of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and the military control of the Syrian army.
It lies west of Qamishli, just 25 kilometres (see map above), and far from Syria’s oilfields at Deir ez-Zour.
A US military presence in Amuda does however bring it close to the borders with Turkey and Iraq and boosts US control of Syria’s northern border with the KRG, the Kurdish semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq.
After Riots, Khamenei in Cleft Stick: Talk to US or Step up Aggression?………..
23 November 2019
As the clamour of protest began to fade on the streets of 100 Iranian cities, including Tehran the capital, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needed to make up his mind on what next.
For four days, Iranians vented their fury over the government’s decision of November 15 to slash petrol quotas for cars and boost fuel prices by 50%.
More than 120 people were reported killed in the crackdown.
By Thursday, officials, claiming calm was restored, partly reconnected the internet after shutting it down to stifle the unrest.
The Islamic regime in Tehran was evidently breathing a sigh of relief, after Iran’s security forces, Lebanon’s Hizballah and Iraq’s Shiite militias had managed to damp down the fires of unrest in all three countries by a strategy they defined as “a combination of soft and hard force” against the protesters.
The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) cracked the whip over all three centres of disaffection.
As far as Khamenei is concerned, and his main props of power, the clergy and the IRGC, the fuel riots and the violent popular demonstrations in Iran and the Shiite communities in Lebanon and Iraq were not spontaneous, but deliberately contrived by the secret services of the United States, Britain, Israel and Saudi Arabia
With the worst of the unrest behind him, Khamenei must decide what next for his country. The options before him are:
1. To use the success of the Islamic regime and its partners in suppressing the outbreaks as leverage for opening negotiations with the Trump administration from a position of strength.
2. To step up aggression on American and allied interests in the Middle East.
Judging by a former precedent, Khamenei may decide to go back to the table with the US, after all.
In 2009, while the bloody riots sweeping Iran over a fraudulent presidential election were still active, the regime accepted a deal for sending 1,200 kgs of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing into fuel for the Tehran scientific research reactor.
At this point, Khamenei is well placed for a decision on whether to halt or slow down Iran’s phased withdrawal from clause after clause of the nuclear accord signed with six world powers in 2015.
He could gain ground by offering to de-activate the underground uranium enrichment plant at Fordow or the heavy water reactor at Arak.
Iran’s de facto ruler may also be swayed by President Donald Trump’s difficulties on the principle that it is easier to drive a hard bargain for concessions with a US president at a low point than with one who is riding high.
On the other hand, given his conviction that the CIA was behind the unrest, Khamenei’s urge for revenge may kick in and take the form of punishment for US interests or allies before sitting down for talks.
This may also partly explain the recent rise in Iran’s aggressive actions against Israel.
Furthermore, Tehran will feel obliged to hit back for the Trump administration’s decision to pump up the flow of US forces to Saudi Arabia, including fighter squadrons and air defense batteries, to the 3,000-troop level.
One of Khamenei’s standing goals is the reduction of US troops in the Gulf lands around his country.
And so, if he goes for the second option, he may prefer to act as soon as feasible.
Despite decades of sanctions, Iran has succeeded in developing its missile arsenal, which is larger than that of any other Middle Eastern country including Israel, a Pentagon study said Tuesday.
"Iran has an extensive missile development program, and the size and sophistication of its missile force continues to grow despite decades of counter-proliferation efforts aimed at curbing its advancement," the Defence Intelligence Agency said.
King Abdullah of Jordan said on Friday that Israel must implement Two State Solution to be considered part of Middle East………..
23 November 2019
King Abdullah said that Israel is not a part of the Middle East, and will not be
considered as part of the Middle East, until they finally decide to give into international pressure and divide their land for the Arab Palestinians.
We refer to this demonic nonsense as the Two State Solution.
The irony of course being that the phoney “Arab” Palestinians are actually Jordanians who are pretending to be Palestinians in order to get rid of Israel.
The rabbit hole goes very deep. Will Israel divide the land? Joel says they will, and it will be a major reason for the Battle of Armageddon.
Israel has been back in the land for over 71 years now, and as you can see, their Muslim neighbours in no way accept them as a sovereign state until and unless they give into their demands and give up huge pieces of the land of Israel including Jerusalem, of course.
And this is the way it's going to go all the way up to the start of the time of Jacob's trouble. Count on it.
Editor; Mike Claydon
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