MIDDLE EAST MILITARY BUILD-UP PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 26 July 2010 10:45
Israel's (LARGEST EVER) annual national home front exercise began last Sunday, as Hizballah plays up fears in Lebanon that the drill means a conflict might loom with its southern neighbour. The exercise, "Turning Point 4", was due to last five days and to be carried out in all parts of the country. The first three day’s drill involved the Israel Defense Forces' various command centers, the police, emergency services, ministries and other government offices. The exercise was then broadened on Wednesday to include civilians, with a siren sounded at 11am throughout the country. Civilians will have to seek cover in shelters or other secure areas. (Haartez)

HEZBULLAH RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF SYRIAN MISSILES.
"Recent transfers are only the tip of the iceberg". Hizbullah has received hundreds of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Syria that are capable of targeting Tel Aviv and causing extensive damage to Israel in the event of a future war with the Iranian-backed Shi'ite guerrilla groups, it was recently revealed. Meanwhile, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of Military Intelligence's Research Division, told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday that Syria was unquestionably transferring long-range rockets to Hizbullah, and that the recent reported transfers were just "the tip of the iceberg." (Jerusalem Post )
US INTEL: 5000 HIZBALLAH FIGHTERS TRAINING TO SEIZE GALILEE TOWNS.

On the strength of solid US intelligence gathered over months on detailed war plans, Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas have drawn up plans to send five Hizballah brigades sweeping across the border to seize five sectors of Galilee, while also organizing a massive Israeli-Arab uprising against the Jewish state. Hamas would open a second front in the south and in the east. Syria is expected to step in at some stage (DEBKAfile)

ALL THREE ARMIES ARE PRACTICING WAR SCENARIOS.
Symptoms of approaching war proliferate around Israel, Syria and the Lebanese Hizballah this week. After Israel called up its reservists for a major war game, Hizballah accelerated the building of new fortifications in Lebanon... (DEBKAfile)
US BEGINS MASSIVE AIR-SEA-MARINE BUILDUP IN MIDDLE EAST.

A US Carrier Strike Group headed by the Harry S. Truman sails out of Norfolk, Virginia Friday, May 21, as the first element of a new American military buildup in the Middle East which It will reach peak level of four-to-five aircraft carriers, most stationed opposite Iranian shores, in late July.

And perhaps the most revealing of signs for this seemingly inevitable conflict is from former US Major General Paul E. Vallely who warns of a chemical attack against Israel this summer including chemically armed SCUD missiles with a 450 km range… preemptive strikes on air fields, and a wave of tunnel attacks that cross from Lebanon into Israel. (DEBKAfile 5/13/2010). 

The pressure on Israel seems daunting, but remember the words of Jeremiah: “He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd”.  (Jer. 21v10).  There is also the wonderful consolation of the Lord: “no weapon that is forged against you will prevail”.  (Is. 54v17).  Continue, therefore, in your prayers for the peace of Jerusalem and God’s protection over all in Israel.  (Ed.)