Israel Report Weekly - Saturday 11 June 2022
Does God Keep His Promises?
11 June 2022
In 1867, author Mark Twain [a.k.a. Samuel Clemens] visited Palestine. He subsequently wrote to his son; “Many are Israel's forsaken places, and great is the desecration. The more sacred the place, the greater the devastation it has suffered. Jerusalem is the most desolate place of all.”
From 132AD until 1948 the land lay largely desolate as the Jews wandered the world without a homeland.
Yet, the God of Israel had promised the Jew a final return to the land of their forefathers.
Circa 710BC God spoke to the prophet Jeremiah a message to His people exiled in Babylon saying;
"For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it".
Along with this promise came a warning. Before this could occur Israel had yet a 7 year future period of horror ahead culminating in the return of their true Messiah.
"Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it".
"Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid".
"For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you".
Only this generation in all of human history saw the faithfulness of God in the physical and final restoration of the nation of Israel after two exiles - 70 years in Babylon, and over 2000 years of global diaspora until 1948 AD.
Now she sits as one of the wealthiest nations, with her language, currency and customs restored, to the chagrin of much of the world.
The nation has minerals, oil, gas, and her many enemies are today eyeing her with malice and envy.
Trouble lies just ahead...and all the nations are in place for this time to begin - and practically all the conditions for the coming tyranny are now in evidence.
Yes, God does keep ALL His promises, and we now live in the days of their fulfilment.
Make haste to be reconciled with Him who alone saves to the uttermost.
Iran Turns off U.N. Surveillance Cameras at Nuclear Site......
June10, 2022
Iran has said it has begun removing all 27 surveillance cameras at its nuclear sites and also begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief Rafael Gross announced on Thursday.
He spoke after the IAEA board of governors voted to criticize Tehran for failing to answer the UN watchdog’s question re the presence of uranium particles at three undeclared sites.
The cameras were installed under Iran’s 2015 nuclear accord with six world nations.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran initially removed two cameras surveying an “online enrichment monitor” installed by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor uranium enrichment, according to Iran’s Press TV. .
Iran’s move comes after a snag in its negotiations with world powers over resurrecting the 2015 nuclear deal, which placed limits on the country’s enrichment of uranium.
Russia is one of the signatories to the 2015 deal, and its war on Ukraine has further complicated the nuclear talks.
World powers censured Iran this week over advances in its nuclear program, which is expected to further escalate tensions.
The United States, Britain, Germany and France submitted a resolution to the I.A.E.A’s board of governors at its quarterly meeting criticizing Iran for failing to fully address the nuclear agency’s questions over traces of uranium detected at locations that have not been declared nuclear sites.
The resolution, which was opposed by Russia and China, passed on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said that Iran was close to having a “significant quantity” of enriched uranium, meaning enough to make a nuclear weapon.
“It’s a matter of just a few weeks,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, the U.N. agency’s director general, told its board of governors on Monday.
France, Germany and Britain said in a statement to the nuclear watchdog’s board on Tuesday that they were “deeply concerned” about Iran’s nuclear advances, warning that the country was further reducing the breakout time — or the time it would take to make a quick leap toward manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
They said this was engendering distrust over Iran’s intentions.
Those expressions of concern led up to Iran’s announcement on Wednesday.
Israel makes Dramatic Upgrades to Military Plans to Attack Iran...
11 June 2022.
In face of Iran’s continued development of a nuclear capability, the Israeli Air Force has developed a new capability to be able to fly its F-35 stealth fighter jets from Israel to the Islamic Republic without requiring mid-air refuelling.
The development is a boost to IAF capabilities and comes as the Israeli military has upped its preparations for a future strike against Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
In addition, the IAF recently integrated a new one-ton bomb into the arsenal of weapons used by the F-35s (known in the IAF as the “Adir”) that can be carried inside the plane’s internal weapons compartment without jeopardizing its stealth radar signature.
The bomb – made by Rafael Advanced Weapons Systems - is said to be autonomous and protected against jamming and electronic warfare systems.
The bomb was recently used in a series of IAF tests, the results of which were presented to Defence Minister Benny Gantz.
The IAF has held four large-scale drills simulating attacks against Iran over the last month.
The first drill included confronting Iranian radar and detection systems, like those which protect its nuclear installations.
The second included simulating long-range combat flights – in this case to destinations in Europe.
The other drills included defensive measures against cyber weapons and electronic warfare systems, means that could be used by Iran to undermine an Israeli military operation.
PM Bennett threatens Iran
News of the progress in military preparedness came just a day after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that Israel’s Iran strategy has changed in the last year, and it is “acting against the head... and not just its arms, as we had in recent years.”
During the recent military maneuvers, the IAF also drilled cooperation between fifth-generation fighter jets like the F-35 and fourth-generation jets like Israel’s older model F15s and F-16s.
The planes practiced sharing intelligence, missions and more.
“Iran’s surface-to-air missile systems and radars are crowded and they are not the only challenge,” a defence official said. “We need to be able to attack targets that are significant and the attack needs to be able to cause extensive damage. There are multiple targets in Iran at different ranges.”
Israeli security gets a grip on Arab Palestinian terror invasion of cities...
10 June 2022
Nine weeks after 19 Israelis were murdered in a spate of Arab Palestinian terror attacks on major cities, the IDF, the Shin Bet security service and the Border Guards police have cut short the deadly wave of violence that hit Tel Aviv, Hadera, Bnei Brak, Beersheba and Elad.
For now, at least. In nightly raids of terrorist bastions and havens in the Palestinian towns and refugee camps of Judea and Samaria, embattled Israeli forces detained scores of suspects in the face of gunfire and flying explosives.
At one point, the armed clashes became fierce enough for the IDF to consider using armed helicopters in the fray.
The forces also commandeered large caches of weapons and cash to sustain the level of attacks and bring in new cells.
Neither the military nor any other participants in the operation have offered details of the tactics used to quell the terror outbreak. Substantial and precise force were obviously used, fed by pinpointed intelligence.
For the second time this week, Israeli jets reportedly strike Damascus.....
10 June 2022
For the second time this week, Israeli jets allegedly targeted sites south of the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday 10 June, a Syrian military official told a state media outlet.
Syrian air defences reportedly intercepted most of the missiles, but the attack caused one civilian injury and some material damage, the official added.
On Tuesday, meanwhile, Israeli warplanes reportedly struck an Iranian weapons depot near Damascus, causing massive damage to the area.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli strikes targeted sites in the suburb of al-Kiswah, south of Damascus, and near the Damascus International Airport, southeast of the city.
One of the targets was a building in the heart of Damascus, believed to house weapons Iran had smuggled into the country, other outlets reported.
The Syrian Capital Voice website said the strike was carried out in a single wave, resulting in the complete destruction of the building.
However, the opposition-affiliated Halab Today TV said a warehouse near the Damascus airport was also hit.
There were conflicting reports on casualties, with most suggesting at least five pro-Iranian militia members had been killed and at least six other people injured.
Israeli sources said that the target was most likely a facility linked to Iran's efforts to assist Hezbollah – its largest proxy in the Middle East, which is based in neighboring Lebanon – in its efforts to develop precision-guided missiles.
Putin ominously: Peter the Great fought Sweden for 21 years!......
June 11, 2022
Russian President Vladimir drew an ominous analogy to himself and his Ukraine aggression with his latest comment. “Peter the Great waged the great northern war for 21 years,” he said during a visit to a memorial exhibition for the 18rh century czar on Thursday, June 9.
Further clarifying the similarity to the 1725-1682 war, he added “It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, taking something from them. He did not take anything from them, he returned what was Russia’s.”
Driving the message home, Putin went on to say: “Apparently it is also our lot to return what is Russia’s and strengthen the country. And we proceed from the fact that these basic values form the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in solving the tasks that we face.”
Sweden’s former prime minister Carl Bildt took Putin’s comment as “the recipe for years of wars” in Europe.
Putin started out by defining Russia’s Ukraine expedition on February 24 as a “military operation” against a “new-Nazi regime.”
His latest comment reveals a far more ambitious, wide-ranging and dangerous purpose that threatens to terminate the comparative peace to which post-WWII Europe had been dedicated.
Putin the Great sounds prepared to wage long-running armed conflicts – all for the purpose of recovering once-occupied Russian territory and claiming lands with Russian-speaking populations.
The lands coming under those headings include Belarus, Caucasian and Central Asian nations and parts of the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Moldova.
World News Briefing - with Tom Hughes and Don Perkins....06 June 2022