ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER SEEKS RUSSIA’S HELP AGAINST IRAN
BY DAVID CLOUD
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
(Friday Church News Notes, September 1, 2017, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - In his meeting with Vladimir Putin on August 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Russia’s help in resisting Iran’s growing influence. Netanyahu told Putin that Iran’s growing presence in Syria is deeply concerning because it has vowed Israel’s destruction.
Netanyahu said, “Mr.President, with joint efforts we are defeating Islamic State,
and this is a very important thing, but the bad thing is that where the defeated
Islamic State group vanishes, Iran is stepping in. We cannot forget for a
single minute that Iran threatens every day to annihilate Israel. It
arms terrorist organizations, it sponsors and initiates terror”
(“Netanyahu to Putin: Iran Seeks to ‘Annihilate Israel,’” Israel Today,
Aug. 24, 2017). Netanyahu needs to read his Hebrew Bible more
carefully. Russia will lead a military alliance against Israel in the
battle of Gog and Magog described in Ezekiel 38-39. Ezekiel
tells us exactly where this Gog lives, and that is in the “north parts”
relative to Israel (Eze. 38:6, 15; 39:2). Netanyahu does well to see
Iran as a threat, as Iran (the biblical Persia) is listed as one of
Gog’s associates (Eze. 38:4-7). Russia has a long history of
anti-Semitism, stemming back to ancient times. The Czars stirred up
programs against the Jews by spreading lies about them. In 1984, the
U.S. ambassador dealing with human rights under the Helsinki Accords
said, “Berlin was once the world capital of anti-Semitism; I am afraid
that today it is Moscow.” Russia has been arming Israel’s enemies since
the early 1950s. When Israel entered the Sinai Peninsula in 1956 to
force Egypt to allow free movement for its ships, Russia threatened her
with annihilation (Moshe Dayan, Diary of the Sinai Campaign,
1966, p. 185). Russia armed Syria and Egypt for the 1973 Yom Kippur War
with some of its most advanced weapons systems and provided Soviet
technicians to help operate the equipment (Jerry Asher, Duel for the Golan,
Kindle location 520). By the early 1970s, 15,000 Soviet military
experts were shaping the Egyptian armed forces into a modern army
(Abraham Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War,
Kindle Loc 255). Russia supplied Israel’s enemies with fighter jets,
tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft missile batteries, and portable
anti-tank weapons. Russia airlifted 15,000 tons of armaments to Syria
and Egypt during the war. Russia is also providing Iran with nuclear
technology and high-tech armaments. In September 2008, Israel’s
ambassador to the United States, Sallai Meridor, warned that Russian
arms sales to Iran and Syria are “destabilizing and dangerous for
Israel” (“Israel Irked by Iran-Russia Military Ties,” PressTV.ir, Sept.
13, 2008). “Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince
of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part
of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring
thee upon the mountains of Israel” (Ezekiel 39:1-2).
