The Muddle East

Losing Hearts and Minds

Since his Republican majority vanished in the mid-term elections, president Bush has, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly suddenly decided to shift gears on Israel by going back to his fathers pals like Brent Scrowcroft who was national security advisor to three former republican presidents, is also a key figure behind the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. James Baker is serving as the undesignated new Secretary of State for a mostly ignored by Muslims, Condi Rice.

The West is losing the upper hand in the region that will soon be dominated by Iran, Syria and Russia, now joined together to defeat Israel and America. The cards are stacking-up against America's best allies Israel, and Britain, who's security is threatened by their enemies now surrounding them. If the U.S. leaves Israel to its own defenses, the world may not survive.

International Herald Tribune takes notice of Europe's quiet integration Most Western European nations are tightening their immigration laws while fretting over free speech in cartoons, plays and print. All the while, right-wing xenophobic parties are on the rise across the Continent. One year after riots set French housing projects ablaze, Europe appears to be shifting sharply to the right.

Since the international community's pressure on Israel to open up a broad pathway for its avowed enemies to use in building up armaments, the threat of a Middle East conflagration has grown exponentially. The last president who sided with Palestinians over Israel was Bill Clinton during the Oslo peace talks. Those talks blew up when Yasser Arafat launched his pre-planned Intifada against Israel despite being offered nearly everything he asked for.

In the same manner, these current moves by the "international community" are creating an unsustainable security situation in the Middle East for America and her allies. Diplomacy is now being used as a wedge for Iran's nuclear program to buy more time for completion, which will prove all this effort was a waste of time, as Iran prevails.

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The UN/EU world agenda, via U.S. presidents
In 1995, then-President Bill Clinton signed Presidential Directives 13 and 25. At the time they were secret documents, but now it is all public history in the Library of Congress. These directives essentially put loopholes all through the Constitution to allow U.S. soldiers to be under the control of UN generals. Article II, Section 2, of the United States Constitution says the president, as commander in chief, is to be over all the Army and Navy. What Bill Clinton did -- and which is currently still in place -- is both illegal and unconstitutional."

Another example that would be shocking is world heritage sites. The Statue of Liberty, Yellowstone National Park, the Great Smoky Mountains, the Liberty Bell, Mt. Vernon are all under control of the United Nations.

Fueling America's Demise
Look for oil prices to skyrocket as Iran starts their so-called Oil Bourse by abandoning the Dollar for the Euro instead. Venezueala may follow Iran's lead as Hugo Chavez has also vowed to bring down the American Empire. China announced in mid November that it would seek to diversify its foreign exchange currency holdings away from the U.S. dollar. China recently has crossed the threshold of holding $1 trillion in U.S. dollar foreign-exchange reserves, surpassing Japan as the largest holder in the world.

Al-Qaida in Iraq on denounced Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey, calling it part of a "crusader campaign" against Islam.Al-Qaida in Iraq issued its statement on an Islamic militant Web site.

"The pope's visit, in fact, is to consolidate the crusader campaign against the lands of Islam after the failure of the crusader leaders . . . and an attempt to extinguish the burning ember of Islam inside our Turkish brothers," it said.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced that it supports the Alliance of Civilizations initiative, co-chaired by Turkey and Spain.

Meanwhile, NATO leaders also invited Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday to begin negotiations for eventual membership in the military alliance, but urged Serbia and Bosnia to fully cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal.

Russia is now a partner with Iran for world dominance. The handshake between president's Putin and Ahmadinejad was a scary picture especially for energy security markets. President Putin and his pal Bashar Assad in Syria are now having people murdered who try to expose them. See: Putin's Enemies Have a Nasty Habit: Dying

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Another player in the region against Israel is Syria, controlled by Iran who is controlled by Russia. Syria wants Lebanon back and have Hezbollah rearming themselves for another war in Lebanon which could lead to what the world is fears will be the biggest war of all. The assassination of Pierre Gemayel has brought Lebanon the closest it has been to civil war since the Taif Accords were implemented in 1990.

So the questions to be asked and answered are, is America making this happen or is it buying into Iran's goal to bring about global chaos for Islamic domination in a desperate search to get itself out of Iraq? Is Russia conducting the middle east to its own advantage for taking over global governance and energy dominance if America fails its mission?

The answers center around the Israeli/Palestinian issue currently being worked on by the U.S., European Union and the United Nations to bring about a peaceful solution, which will likely not last for long, if it happens at all.

As it says in the Bible, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it” (Zech. 12: 2-3).

"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that its desolation is at hand." Luke 21:20

So, with the world on the verge of dividing Israel, in a feeble attempt to bring about peace and security, we can expect bigger trouble to come in the near future.

Labels: EU, Iraq War, Islam, Israel, Jim Baker, Last Days, Losing, Trials, UN

posted by F. Scott Melgin @ 8:29 PM