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One more difference is found in Eze 38:11. You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’. But, at Armageddon, Israel will have been the object of Anti Christ's anti-semitic campaign. This is very significant if you consider that, today, Israel does not live in peace, does not live in the totality of the land promised by God, and does not live without walls or gates (have you seen pictures of the WB settlements? How about the security wall?). That is the reason many people feel that there's going to be a war BEFORE Gog and Magog, a war that will allow Israel to live in the conditions described by Ezekiel. And that war is the one described in Psalm 83.

Exactly!!! Very well said! Israel has to be in a position where she feels secure enough to take the walls down and in a position where she has something that the people spoken of in Exekiel 38/39 want badly enough to attempt to invade the nation. As we all know, there are enormous gas reserves in Israeli waters, and the Psalm 83 war will probably put to bed the protests by some of her immediate neighbors that the gas actually belongs to them. The Psalm 83 war will most likely bring Israel to the conditions they need to be in for the Ezekiel prophecy to be fulfilled.

I also believe that Islamic rage at the results of the Psalm 83 war will play a big part in their participation in the Ezekiel campaign.