Syria's Tehran envoy: We're at war with Tel Aviv

Speaking in conference held in Iranian capital, Hamed Hassan says Syria is 'at war with the axis of evil whose centers are in Tel Aviv and Washington'

"Syria is at war with the axis of evil whose centers are in Tel Aviv and in Washington," Syria's Ambassador to Iran Hamed Hassan said Monday.

Speaking at a Tehran conference titled "Syria – the First Line of Resistance," Hassan blamed the United States and Israel for backing opposition forces trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, and announced that several other nations, such as Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, have joined forces with the West.
"Many terrorists infiltrate Syria via the Turkish border," Iran's Fars news agency quoted him as saying. He also warned that Ankara's policies were threatening Syria's security.

Hassan argued that the Syrian regime has fallen prey to a plot against both Damascus and the Syrian people, "Because Syria has always opposed America and the Zionists," he said, referring to the regime's support of the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups.

As for al-Qaeda, "They are one of Islam's biggest enemies," he said.

He reiterated Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari's claim, made to the UN Security Council on Saturday, that Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia were "harboring, funding and arming the armed terrorist groups."


"Turkey has established within its territory military operations centers that are run by the intelligence services of Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar," Ja'afari wrote in a letter to the UNSC.

Ja'afari urged the UN to interfere on Syria's behalf.   Ynet

Rabbi Wolfson: Disaster, Redemption May be Near

Rav Moshe Wolfson of Brooklyn has held an emergency gathering in his community and called upon the members to be strong in Torah and prayer so that the Jewish people will survive the time of tension with Iran.
The rabbi noted that the Torah sages predicted that Persia, now called Iran, would one day destroy the world, in the times immediately preceding the Redemption.

Rav Wolfson is known as a hassidic "mashpi'a" – literally, an influencer – a title that refers to rabbis who do not head a hassidic dynasty (chatzer) but have influence outside their own communities.

"Our Sages of Blessed Memory say that Persia will destroy the entire world and the Jews will be in a difficult situation," he told his followers. "Why are we quiet? Where is the awakening? Why is everyone apathetic? Why is everyone busy with silly and unimportant things? Do we not hear the alarm? Do we not know that we must break open the gates of Heaven and ask for mercy from G-d?"

"In the coming weeks we face a total war in Iran, Israel, Europe and the U.S. And the nation of Israel in its entirety must prepare spiritually. The Rambam says that it is a mitzvah to pray in difficult times, and if one does not pray, one is being cruel, and it causes the situation to get worse, G-d forbid."

The rabbi compared Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the evil Haman from the Scroll of Esther, who wanted to kill all of the Jews. If Israel attacks Iran before it achieves nuclear weapons, there will be a world war, he said.

"There is no need to panic," he added. "We believe that G-d will perform miracles for us, it is possible that the time of Redemption (geula) has come and we must prepare for Redemption. Since the Holocaust, G-d has done great miracles for the Jews, especially in the Land of Israel, that hosts most of the world's Jews. And the Torah world receives unnatural help from Heavens. We can see that G-d wants to perform miracles for us and we must prepare for redemption."

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Beautiful Israel

This is what we saw during our short vacation up north, Galil and Golan.