This first story details what we have known for years, i.e., that Egypt's annual war games exercise is always aimed directly at Israel. Egypt only practices to attack one enemy: Israel. Lately, however, Egypt has expanded her effort against the Jewish state by sponsoring terror.

NEWS BRIEF: "MK Steinitz Warns: Egypt is Preparing for Possible War with Israel", By Scott Shiloh, Israel National News, december 28, 2005

"MK Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) says that Egypt’s arms buildup over the past few years has focused on the possibility of future war with Israel. In a radio interview broadcast on Arutz 7’s Hebrew internet site Tuesday night, Shteinitz, a former professor of political science at Haifa University who chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that Egypt has already become a major supporter of terrorism against Israel.

"Shteinitz said that Egypt has been allowing terrorist groups operating out of the Gaza district to smuggle missiles into Gaza. Those groups intend to use the missiles against Israeli targets. In his estimation, 90% of the explosives used by the terrorist groups are brought in from Egypt. Shteinitz explains that it is a mistake for Israel to view Syria as its principle enemy, while neglecting the Egyptian threat, primarily because Israel maintains diplomatic relations with Egypt."

MK Shteinitz then noted that, while Egypt superficially remains loyal to the agreements she signed with Israel, underneath the surface, her leaders are viciously dedicated to Israel's destruction.

"The Egyptians, Shteinitz asserts, have kept to the peace agreements signed in 1978 as far as not engaging Israel in outright conflict. But on other levels, such as economic relations or stopping anti-Israel incitement, Egyptian compliance has been lacking." (Ibid.)

Never forget: Egypt is Israel's most deadly foe. One day soon, she shall prove it -- again -- as she leads the Arabs in one final, desperate attack.

This next article demonstrates the role Iran is playing is this upcoming all-out Regional War.

NEWS BRIEF: "Iran, Hizbullah and Palestinians Gang up for a Second Front against Israel", DEBKAfile Intelligence, December 28, 2005

"The Sharon government an his security advisers have no intention of admitting that Meshaal’s Hamas, assisted by Hizbullah missile experts present in Gaza, are the hands behind the Qassam offensive against southern Israel, even though the crews are put up by a coalition of the Jihad Islami, the Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees. Tehran and the Damascus-based Meshaal keep this coalition well supplied with the projectiles, are working on improving their precision and selecting the targets."

I find this "sudden" Iranian leadership presence in the middle of the Israeli - Palestinian battle to be no surprise. Let us take a quick trip down memory lane, to review Iran's original strategy of defeating the American attack against Iraq. The first step was to allow the Americans to easily take control of Baghdad and then all of Iraq. Quoting from our article, NEWS1910, "HAS IRAN 'IGNITED MANY FIRES' TO SET OFF MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL WAR?" Note the date of this original Jerusalem Post article:

NEWS BRIEF: "Iran Preparing To 'Light Many Fires' To Defeat The Americans", The Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2003

" 'The American Great Satan will never accept an Islamic system. It is coming to Iraq to complete its encirclement of our Islamic Republic before it moves against us. To help the Americans conquer Iraq easily would be suicidal for our revolution.' [Khamenei"s chief foreign policy adviser, former Iranian foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati]. Velayati claims that the US has two aims in the Middle East: preventing the destruction of the 'Zionist entity' and control of Arab oil."

"UNLIKE THE accommodationists who foresee an easy American victory, the confrontationists believe that US involvement in Iraq could become 'the beginning of its end.' He explains:

" 'Iraq is a swamp', Khamenei said in his address to the guards. 'The Great Satan will get caught in that swamp; and that will speed up its inevitable collapse'. In a recent article Velayati spelled out a strategy aimed at 'confronting the Great Satan in a number of fronts.' "

He then spelled out those "number of fronts".

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have exploded beyond the ability of Coalition Forces to defeat them, and the world has witnessed great turmoil in the former Russian Islamic republics. Now, has Iran concluded that 2006 is the year she will "Light Many Fires" against Israel? If this is true, then we should not be surprised to discover that Iran is now leading the combined Hizbullah - Palestinian terror and paramilitary effort against Israel. Toward this end, the DEBKAfile article speaks:

"... the very real decline in Israel’s security situation and deterrent force is becoming harder to deny as time goes by. Israel gained no strategic advantages from its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. If anyone has gained it is the newly emerging terror axis drawn between Tehran, Beirut, Gaza and Ramallah. They drove this point home Tuesday night. That Palestine projectiles flew across two fronts in a single night was no coincidence." (Ibid.)

Tehran (Iran) is most definitely leading the drive to attempt to destroy Israel. Once Israel goes up in flames, Iran believes she will have achieved her final goal of defeating the invading Americans and forcing their withdrawal. However, by picking a fight with Israel -- even if by proxy -- the Iranians may find themselves at the end of Divine Judgment, for Israel is still the "apple of God's eye", her current Illuminist government notwithstanding.

In order to pacify an increasingly-angry Jewish citizenry under the guns of the Palestinians, the IDF announced that they were setting up a "No-Go Zone" in which their forces would fire upon anything that moved.