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2006
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Iran
Hints at
August
22
Doomsday
for
Israel
IRAN
PREPARING
APOCALYPTIC
'END OF
TIME'
FOR
ISRAEL
Noted
Middle
Eastern
scholar Bernard
Lewis
warns
that Iran
is
preparing
for an
apocalyptic
"end
of time”
– and
that it
could
come as
soon as August 22.
MAHMOUD
AHMADINEJAD
ON
DEMANDS
REGARDING
IRAN'S
NUCLEAR
PROGRAM
-
POSSIBLE
NUCLEAR
ATTACK
ON
ISRAEL
The
July 28
edition
of
NewsMax’s
Insider
Report
pointed
to the
connection
between
that
date,
when
Iran
leader Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad
said his
country
would
respond
to
Western
demands
regarding
Iran's
nuclear
program,
and a
possible
attack
on
Israel.
ISLAMIC
CALENDAR
FOR
AUGUST
22 COULD
BE
APPROPRIATE
DATE FOR
APOCALYPTIC
ENDING
OF
ISRAEL
AND
WORLD
Now
Lewis,
professor
emeritus
of Near
Eastern
Studies
at
Princeton
, writes
about
that
scenario.
He notes
in the
Wall
Street
Journal
that
this
year,
August
22
corresponds,
in the
Islamic
calendar,
to the
night
when
Muhammad
flew
first to
"the
farthest
mosque”
–
usually
identified
with
Jerusalem
– and
then to
heaven
and
back.
"This
might
well be
deemed
an
appropriate
date for
the
apocalyptic
ending
of
Israel
and
if
necessary
the
world,”
writes
Lewis,
whose
most
recent
book is "From
Babel
to
Dragomans:
Interpreting
the
Middle
East
."
REASONS
WHY
IRANIANS
MIGHT
NOT
WORRY
ABOUT
ISRAELI
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
COUNTERSTRIKE
He
also
points
to an
intriguing
reason
why the
Iranians
might
not fret
at all
about an
Israeli
counterstrike
– even
with
nuclear
weapons.
APOCALYPTIC
WORLDVIEW
OF
IRAN'S
CURRENT
LEADERS
WORKS
AGAINST
THIS
CONCEPT
What
deterred
both
sides
from
using
nuclear
weapons
during
the Cold
War was
the
concept
of MAD,
mutual
assured
destruction.
But the "apocalyptic worldview” of
Iran's current
leaders
works
against
that
concept,
according
to
Lewis.
Ahmadinejad
is a
strong
believer
in the
Shiite
tradition
of a
12th
imam,
the
so-called
"hidden”
Imam
Mahdi
who
Allah
has
miraculously
kept
alive
since
his
disappearance
in 874
A.D.
Shiites
believe
Imam
Mahdi
will
return
at a
time of
great
global
chaos
– and
the Web
site
Zionist.com
states: "Ahmadinejad
sees
himself
as Allah’s
instrument
to pave
the way
for Imam
Mahdi.”
According
to
Lewis,
Ahmadinejad
and his
followers
"clearly believe that this time is now.
NETANYAHU
SAYS:
‘WE
MUST
FINISH
THE
JOB’!
KIRYAT
SHEMONA,
Israel
--
Former
Israeli
Prime
Minister
Benjamin
Netanyahu
found
this
northern
Israeli
city a
ghost
town
today
when he
came to
meet the
residents
officials.
Those
that
stayed
behind
were
few.
They
also
were
defiant
– and
so was
he.
In a
town
meeting
behind
the
heavy
steel
doors
and
reinforced
concrete
of the
city
hall
bomb
shelter,
Netanyahu
came to
reassure
residents
that he
fully
supported
the
government
in the
war in
Lebanon
. He
said as
much
even
though
he
became
leader
of the
opposition
to Prime
Minister
Olmert
following
the
March
2006
election.
One
resident
gave
such
praise
to
Netanyahu
and his
Likud
party
that
Netanyahu
joked
that he
should
run for
parliament.
An
impassioned
woman
blasted
the
government
for
pussy-footing
around
in its
ground
offensive
in
Lebanon
. She
said she
was
ready to
stay
"six
months
in the
shelters"
if that
was
needed
in order
to
finish
off the
Hezbollah
rocket
attacks.
Netanyahu
told
NewsMax
in an
exclusive
interview
that he
did not
believe
it would
take
tha"Finish
the job.
That is
the goal
set by
the
government.
It's the
goal
that
everyone
here
supports,"
he said.
Sporadic
mortar
fire hit
the
hills
above
this
empty
city
today,
setting
brush
fires.
On
Sunday,
over one
hundred
rockets
and
mortars
pounded
the city
and its
immediate
surroundings.
An
artillery
battalion
has
camped
two
kilometers
outside
of town
in an
empty
field,
and
pounds
Hezbollah
positions
day and
night.
Hezbollah
rockets
have
landed
within
the
Israelis
artillery
position
over the
past two
weeks,
and have
injured
several
soldiers,
but none
seriously,
NewsMax
learned
today
from
battalion
troops
and
officers.
"Our
ambulance
was hit
by a
katyusha,"
said Dr.
Zev
Wimpfheimer,
the
battalion
doctor.
Wimpfheimer,
who
hails
from
Teaneck
,
N.J.
, came
to
Israel
two
years
ago and
is
nearing
the end
of his
compulsory
18
months
of
military
service
as a
doctor.
At
33, he
is the
oldest
officer
in the
entire
battalion,
besides
the
battalion
commander.
Netanyahu
said
that
Iran
was
waging a
"proxy
war"
against
Israel
and
America
, and
that
Hezbollah
wouldn't
last
"two
days
without
Iran
."
The
following
is an
exclusive
NewsMax
interview,
held
today,
with
former
Israeli
Prime
Minister
Benjamin
Netanyahu:
NewsMax:
What was
the
message
you
brought
here to
Kiryat
Shemona?
Netanyahu:
Finish
the job.
Don't do
half the
job.
Remove
the
threat
by
breaking
Hezbollah's
fighting
ability
and
destroying
the
missile
arsenal.
That is
the goal
set by
the
government.
It's the
goal
that
everyone
here
supports.
You
saw me
meet
somebody
in there
who
said,
"I'm
willing
to stay
in the
shelters
six
months,"
perhaps
not, and
it won't
take
that
long –
but
finish
the job.
That's
the
message.
NewsMax:
Some
people
have
called
this
Iran
's
proxy
war
against
Israel
and
America
. Do
you
agree
with
that?
Netanyahu:
Without
a doubt.
One
hundred
percent.
Hezbollah
doesn't
last two
days
without
Iran
. It
doesn't
last
three
days
without
Syria
.
NewsMax:
What do
you
think
are Iran'sgoals?
Netanyahu:
I think
this is
a
test-fire,
test-firing
of
rockets
into a
Western
country.
Iran
is
committed
to the
destruction
of
Israel
. It
denies
the
Holocaust
while
preparing
a new
Holocaust.
But
Iran
is also
committed
to a
demented
branch
of
Shiism
which
sees an
apocalyptic
war of
millions
of
casualties
in which
Shiism
will
rise and
the West
will go
down.
We
may be
the
first
target,
but
we're
not the
last
target.
The
other
kind of
fanaticism
we
witnessed
60 years
ago,
Nazism,
also
tried to
arm
itself
with
atomic
weapons.
These
mad
militancies
start
with
attacks
on the
Jews,
but they
never
end
there.
And
ultimately
the
target
is our
free
civilization.
NewsMax:
World
War II
started
with the
Spanish
Civil
War. Is
this
like the
Spanish
Civil
War,
testing
out the
weapons,
testing
out the
techniques
and the
tactics?
Netanyahu:
I think
that
radical
Islam
declared
a world
war on
the rest
of the
world a
quarter
of a
century
ago,
with the
victory
of the
Mujahedin
in
Afghanistan
and the
formation
of al-Qaida
and the
establishment
of the
first
radical
Islamic
republic
in
Iran
.
These
are
expressions
already
of that
same
ideology
that has
been
gurgling
forth.
Now
it has
established
two
beachheads:
one in
Gaza
with the
Hamas,
the
other
with
Hezbollah
in the
north.
And the
citizens
of the
world
beware.
What
you see
here is
what
you'll
get
later.
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