Iran: Defend Palestinians

[Christina]

TEHRAN, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader issued a religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday, ordering them to defend Palestinians in Gaza against Israeli attacks "in any way possible", state television reported.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also declared Monday a day of public mourning in Iran after Israel killed more than 280 Palestinians in two days of air strikes on Gaza."All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world's pious people are obliged to defend the defenceless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible," Khamenei said."Whoever is killed in this legitimate defence, is considered a martyr," he said in a statement.A religious decree is an official statement by a ranking religious leader that commands Muslims to carry out its message. While there is no religious and legal force behind it, Khamenei is respected by many Iranian and non-Iranian Shi'ites.Iran refuses to recognise Israel, which accuses Tehran of supplying Hamas Islamists with weapons. Iran denies the claim, saying it only provides moral support to the group.Israeli leaders said their campaign was a response to almost daily rocket and mortar fire by Gaza militants that intensified after Hamas ended a six-month ceasefire a week ago.Khamenei criticised some Arab governments for their lack of response towards the Israeli raids."The even greater catastrophe is the encouraging silence of some Arab governments who claim to be Islamic," he said, also accusing the West of being indifferent to the killing of Palestinians.Khamenei, Iran's most powerful authority, urged Muslim countries to punish Israeli leaders."The officials of this regime ... should be tried and punished for this crime by Islamic governments." Khamenei's remarks were interpreted by some oil traders as a hint that Iran was calling on oil-producing Arab countries to disrupt energy shipments to Israel.The West accuses Iran of covertly trying to build nuclear bomb, a charge rejected by Tehran.But Israel's insistence that the Islamic state must not be allowed to develop atomic weapons has fuelled speculation that the Jewish state, widely assumed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, could mount its own pre-emptive strike.Various protests were held in Tehran on Sunday, including one by Iranian lawmakers chanting "Death to Israel".Iran is ready to receive Palestinians wounded in the raids, foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said.Tehran denounced Israel's attacks as "unforgivable" on Saturday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the raids showed Israel's "weakness". (Writing by Zahra Hosseinian; Editing by Giles Elgood)

 

[tim_from_pa]

Yeah I heard this on the news. Of course they would say something like this if they do not believe Israel has a right to even exist. They live in glass houses and throw the first stone (thinking its justified) and then cry to the world when their world shatters. Yeah, those are "martyrs" all right. Like people who turn their lives into a soap opera and create their own problems to get pity. But the word of God says:And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. These promises as we know were passed to Isaac, then Jacob, then the 12 tribes of Jacob (Israel) with Joseph being the dominant one population and nation-wise. Obviously they don't know that. Want to know something scarier? Many so-called Christians don't believe in this promise, either, and define "Israel" as anyone and anything else but the Jews (the physical seed of Abraham), and by extension, the lost tribes. In a sense, that's just as bad as firing on Israel.

 

[Christina]

Im with you Tim nice post

 

[DeBPrpht]

Greetings Ya'll, The unsettling part about it, is that with two "nuclear powers" pulling troops & placing them on their common border >> India & Pakistan...........plus the Islamic world now drawing to a "false sense of unity" over Gaza & Israel,......then throw in the world economy, the quakes over the past weekend at Yellowstone Park,.................can one sense that The Tribulation / Time of Jacob's Trouble is at our door, if not "kicking it down"? Where in the public eye are THE MINISTERS WHO ARE TRULY PREACHING THE WRITTEN WORD OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL,.............instaed of "Peace, prosperity, & safety"????Shalom

 

[HammerStone]

Luke 21:20
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
I think this is what this conflict is leading to. I know we can say that this has been going on for decades now, but this flare up is one of the strongest yet as far as operations against Palestine. The understanding is working out how this will unfurl, as this is only part of it all...Daniel 8:25
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Daniel 11:24
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.