Posted on 07/15/2007 9:22:35 PM PDT by epow
The Samson Option Posted: July 14, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Last week, WorldNetDaily reported a stunning admission from a Syrian official. He said that Syria had "learned from the Hezbollah experience last summer and we can have hundreds of missiles hitting Tel Aviv that will overwhelm Israel's anti-missile batteries."
He claimed Syria has "proof" Israel is also readying for a war. "We hear about special Israeli trainings to take Damascus. We see that Israel is re-establishing bases of the Israeli army in the Golan that are unusual and not needed except for war. We believe the Israeli government has an interest in confronting Syria to rehabilitate its image of losing to Hezbollah."
The WorldNetDaily report also says that Damascus believes newly-installed Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a former prime minister, "wants to prove he is a military expert." This information is perfectly in line with the official statements made by both Bashar Assad and Mushen Bilal to several major Arab newspapers.
Furthermore, London's Daily Telegraph reported June 25 that Tehran was establishing a missile defense shield for Syria. Iran is also preparing to ship sophisticated military hardware, including "dozens of medium-range Shahab-3 and Russian-made Scud-C missiles, together with
Syria recently test-fired two Scud-D surface-to-surface missiles that have a range of about 250 miles. This puts virtually all of Israel's population centers within range. Analysts say the planned Iranian arms shipment to Syria may be coordinated with the delivery of advanced Russian fighter jets.
Syria is also known to be producing non-conventional warheads, including those containing V-X gas for delivery via the new longer range and more accurate Scuds. All Israel's cities are within range of these missiles. Most of them can be reached in less than three minutes. Syria is gambling that Israel's performance in the Hezbollah war of June 2006 means that it has seen all Israel has to offer.
Apparently, Bashar Assad now believes Israel can be beaten. Assad is miscalculating. In the event Syria launches a gas attack on Israel, it's a virtual certainty that Damascus would be instantly obliterated by Israeli nuclear weapons.
The thought of being gassed evokes a visceral response among Israel's Holocaust survivors and their descendants that Damascus wildly underestimates. Israel has more than 400 nuclear weapons in hidden silos in various places within its borders, as well as at least two submarines in the Mediterranean that are launch capable. And you can be certain that in the event of a massive WMD attack by the Syrians, Israel will respond in kind.
There are two particular codes used by Israeli Defense Forces when planning worst-case scenario responses. One is called the "Masada Option." Masada was an ancient fortress taken by the Romans following a three-year siege. Just before they were overrun, the defending Jews committed suicide rather than be captured.
The other code term, "The Samson Option," refers to Samson, who said just before he pulled down the house of the Philistines on himself – and them – "Let me die with the Philistines." Judges 16:30 records it this way: "Then Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!' And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life."
That's pretty clear imagery. Israel will not just meekly fade away into destruction. And it certainly won't die alone, even if it has to destroy itself in the process of nuking the Middle East.
I once encountered Ariel Sharon in the Knesset in the late 1970s. I asked him if Israel still had a Masada Option. He boldly announced, "No longer 'Masada Option' – now 'Samson Option.'"
Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir almost used that "Option" in the first days of the Yom Kippur War, when it appeared they were going to be overrun. Dayan gave the code for its use when he told Prime Minister Meir, "Arm the doomsday weapons, the Third Temple is about to fall."
War with Syria threatens to bring all nations of the Middle East into direct conflict with Israel – even the supposedly moderate state of Jordan. Jordan has never recovered from the defeats it suffered at the hands of the Israelis, particularly in 1967, in which it lost both the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Amman plays a cagey game, sitting on the fence, not quite friends with Israel and not quite enemies, but certainly ready to reclaim Jerusalem should the opportunity arise. The words of Zephaniah outline both Amman's history and its future.
"I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Amman, by which they have reproached my people, and made boasts against their border. Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Amman as Gomorrah, even the breeding of weeds, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them." (Zephaniah 2:8-9)
Each of these events is in the future, according to Scripture. In each case, these prophecies remain unfulfilled. But current events suggest that all could be fulfilled to the letter – in an instant of time.
Never in history have any of these events occurred. More than that, at no time in recorded history were any of these things even possible. And never before have all the causative factors been present at the same moment in history.
But today, they are the only logical conclusion if current events continue along their current path. It's a terrifying scenario, but to those who trust that these signs point to the imminent return of Christ for His Church, it is, nonetheless, an exciting time to be alive.
Isaiah 17:1
An oracle concerning Damascus: "See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins."
We could see that Old Testament prophcy fulfilled in the very near future if Syria fires poison gas warheads into Israeli cities. Tehran would probably be leveled too since Iran has been supplying Hassan with weapons to use against Israel, including missles and poison gas.
Arabs got a false sense of hope from last summer's conflict. What they're failing to take into consideration is that Israel, like the U.S., fights far differently against actual nations with traditional armed forces than she does against terrorist orgs that fight in the shadows and hide behind women and children. Far differently. Looks like the Arabs need yet another reminder....
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“But today, they are the only logical conclusion if current events continue along their current path. It’s a terrifying scenario, but to those who trust that these signs point to the imminent return of Christ for His Church, it is, nonetheless, an exciting time to be alive.”
I find this statement to be highly offensive, given the context!
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Have I missed something here? Isn’t the US Israel’s ally? We are aren’t we? If we are, does Syria really want to push this envelope?
Is this the same Hal Lindsey of “Late Great Planet Earth” fame?
Sooner, rather than later, Syria and Iran are going to have to step into the nightmare they have created.
As conditions worsen in thier own countries, they have ratcheted up the rhetoric, time and time again. Soon, they will have nothing left to fool the people with, and MUST make the move, if for nothing other than to save thier own skins.
This could be the time that Damascus is turned into a heap of ruin. It makes no difference what kind of missiles the Arabs have. God goes before Israel, and He is NOT going to let Israel be destroyed.
The only reason the war in June last year didn't kick butt like they have done in the past is because Israel has a weak leader and he let it happen. He's trying to fight the same kind of PC war that Bush is. Had Bush done the "Shock and Awe" that was planned, those missiles would have pounded Iraq so bad, NONE of the Arab nations would have ever challenged us again. They would be fearful of our power. You can't worry about civilian deaths. It's war. People die. Do what you have to do to win, and do it quick. Crush your enemy into the ground. IF Israel has to nuke them, then it's because they started it.
I agree. If God allows Israel to be totally destroyed his promises can't be trusted and we have no real hope of salvation.
But he does keep his promises, and Israel will be ruling over a large portion of the planet long after Islam and all of it's deceived demon worshiping followers have been wiped off the face of the earth. It's all in the book.
Total Agreement!
And ditto here............
epow: Israel will be ruling over a large portion of the planet long after Islam and all of it's deceived demon worshiping followers have been wiped off the face of the earth. It's all in the book.
It was in The Book last summer, too. By your logic, a weak Israeli leader can overrule The Book... and well, Israel still has the same lame guy in the helm. What if the muzzies from Tehran and Damascus strike tomorrow?
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You should read some history. Think Titus.
Israel has been gone more than it has been.
But he does keep his promises, and Israel will be ruling over a large portion of the planet long after Islam and all of it's deceived demon worshiping followers have been wiped off the face of the earth. It's all in the book.
Not just any book, but Elohim's Book. b'shem Yah'shuaAmen !
Every single battle Israel fights is not in "The Book." It does; however, say that Damascus will "lie in a heap of ruin." Perhaps the reason behind the 'war' last year was to give Syria and the other players false hope that Israel is now weak, and could finally be destroyed, when, in fact, God was just setting them up for the time referred to in the Bible where Damascus will be reduced to a heap of ruin? THAT is very possible.
As far as Olmert is concerned, he is weak. He's trying to fight a war with no civilian causalities. One where he will win the hearts and minds of cold blooded killers. It WON'T work. He's in the process of releasing 250 terrorists from Israeli jails now too. A stupid move that means they will be back on the front line trying to kill Israelis. The main difference between the war last summer and the war now is that last summer they were fighting a terrorist organization. IF they have to fight Syria, they will be fighting a country. THAT is a huge difference. They won't hold back.
Yes, we guess that Israel has nuclear weapons.
U.S. Air Force: Israel has 400 nukes, building naval force
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710830/posts
A guess of my own from study says that it’s very likely that Israel also has something far more powerful.
[...some sincerity there but none to follow.]
But Israel’s weapons are of no consequence to the rest of us in the nations. Everyone knows that all of the western culture nations are friends of Israel, just as Rome was and is.
Jewish friends, don’t let friends be fooled by missionaries.
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