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ISRAEL:
A MIRACLE NATION

“This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD Almighty is his name: ‘Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,’ declares the LORD, ‘will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.’”

—JEHOVAH, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB²³¹

“We shall never call for or accept a negotiated peace. We shall only accept war—Jihad—the holy war. We have resolved to drench the lands of Palestine and Arabia with the blood of the infidels or to accept martyrdom for the glory of Allah.”

—ABDUL AZIZ IBN SAUD (Founder of Saudi Arabia)

THE MIRACLE OF ISRAEL’S SURVIVAL

The original birth and founding of the nation of Israel was a miracle. Its deliverance from Egyptian bondage was a miracle. Its restoration from the Babylonian/Persian captivity was a miracle. Its rebirth in June 1948 was a miracle.

Its continued survival through four all-out wars—1948-49, 1956, 1967, and 1973, all of which were launched by the combined might of Islam for the express purpose of annihilating Israel and its people—is a miracle. Do you begin to see a pattern here?

It has been a colossal miracle that the race of Israel has survived. It is equally as great a miracle that the modern state of Israel has survived. Many people have tried to explain the miracle of Israel’s modern survival in purely natural terms—but frankly, it takes more faith than I’ve got to explain it that way.

The Muslims say that it’s because Israel has been furnished with so many modern weapons by the U.S. But the Soviet Union, France, China, and so on, have also furnished the Muslims with modern weapons. The Muslim forces always outnumbered the Israelis at least 4 to 1. They have had more modern tanks, aircraft, missiles, and artillery.

It is certainly not because Israelis are individually more courageous. Arab-Muslim soldiers are as brave as any in the world. Militarily speaking, there is only one advantage that stands out for the Israelis; they fight more with their reason than with their emotions. And they fight more as a unit than do the Muslims.

EXAMPLES OF MODERN MIRACLES

1967 Six Day War

An Israeli friend of mine was a young flight leader in the Israeli Air Force during the 1967 Six Day War. He related to me the extremely difficult battle plan they had to execute at the beginning of the war.

They had to coordinate multiple flights of fighter-bombers so that they all arrived on target at the same time. If timing and navigation were off, the whole war could have been a disaster. Israel’s outgunned and outnumbered forces had to seize air supremacy at the very beginning to have any chance at all.

Multiple flights of jet fighters screamed toward multiple targets from multiple directions at supersonic speed. The planes flew so low that some were taking in spray from the ocean and others were just above the sand dunes. They had to maintain absolute radio silence, so no timing coordination or course corrections with each other were possible.

This is my friend’s account:

I glanced out of the cockpit to glimpse the Nile River streak by underneath. I pulled up lightly to get over a bridge. I was flying so low that I nearly hit the mast of an Egyptian fishing boat. Just three hours before, I was on my honeymoon. A helicopter picked me up off the roof of the hotel. I still remember waving goodbye to my beautiful new bride as she stood on the hotel roof in her negligee.

I went over the battle plan in my mind. The great pyramids of Egypt flashed by off my starboard wing. I looked over my shoulder—all the young pilots were in tight formation behind me. I glanced at my airspeed indicator—Mach .85. I reminded myself, “Must keep just under the sound barrier so as not to set off alarms.” We were counting on the populace thinking we were Egyptian fighters on maneuvers. “One thing for sure,” I thought, “at this speed and low altitude, they will never be able to identify the planes. We are gone before they know we are there.”

I checked my watch again. “Will we all arrive at the same time?” I wondered. “Will one of the squadrons hit a base early and alert the other bases to launch their fighters?” We had timed the strike to hit just after the Egyptians early morning patrols. “They would be having morning tea about now,” I thought.

“Oops! There is my landmark.” I instinctively pulled the stick back hard and went into a vertical climb to line up for attack. “Are we on time? Where are the other squadrons?” I rolled my fighter so that I could see. To my amazement, the other two attack units that had come in from different directions were all climbing in the vertical staring back at me. “Amazing! We had all arrived at the same precise moment.”

I pulled over the top and rolled into a screaming dive right down the center of Egypt’s main fighter base just outside of Cairo. There before me was the pride of the Egyptian Air Force parked in neat rows on the airport tarmac. I lined up and delivered my two 500 kg bombs. Three MIG 21s exploded in fireballs. I whipped my plane around in a tight turn for another pass. My little Mirage fighter’s delta wings dug in hard against the g-forces. A large Tupelov bomber filled my gunsight. I fired a quick burst from my two 30 mm canons and it exploded in flames. In minutes, every aircraft on the Egyptian base was destroyed. The Egyptian base was in such chaos that not one shot had been fired at us.

As we turned and streaked across the Sinai for home, I thought, “What a way to enter a war. Less than four hours ago, I held my bride in my arms. Now I have just completed the first mission of a desperate war that will determine the survival of Israel.”

My friend had not yet learned how great a victory the Israeli Air force had just completed. Virtually the entire combined air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria were destroyed on the first day. Every airfield was hit at approximately the same time. Reconnaissance photos showed that at every airfield in Egypt, almost every warplane had been hit dead center. The absolute necessity of achieving air superiority was accomplished.

In six days the outnumbered Israeli Defense Forces destroyed the best of the combined Muslim armies of the Middle East.

There are some who would say this happened because of superior training. My friend believed that played a part—but he also believed that Israel’s God must have been with them.

1973 Yom Kippur War

I interviewed a tank commander from the crack Golani Brigade about what happened in the first hours of the Yom Kippur war on the Golan Heights.

On October 6 1973, all Israeli soldiers that could be spared were home on leave for Israel’s holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur. Only a bare minimum force was on duty. Suddenly, at dawn, the entire Syrian border erupted with artillery fire. Fourteen hundred top-of-the-line Soviet-built tanks charged forward. Another one thousand tanks were in reserve. The Syrians had a new anti-tank missile that wreaked havoc with the Israel’s tanks.

The Israeli Air Force streaked in low to attack the Syrian ground forces, trying to stop the onslaught. Baruch watched in horror as plane after plane was blown out of the sky. The Soviets had designed a new Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) for intercepting low-flying planes. Israel had no countermeasures for it. This same missile wreaked havoc with the Israeli Air Force both in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights.

By noon, the Golani tank force had been cut to pieces. Baruch²³² commanded the last three remaining tanks. They took up position at a critical crossroad for a fight to the death. They knew that they were all that stood between the Syrian army and Galilee. The thriving city of Tiberius lay helpless in the path of the Syrian juggernaut. Syrians are infamous for their barbaric treatment of Israeli prisoners—Baruch shuttered at the thought.

When the Syrian commander could see only three tanks blocking his way, “He said it’s too easy—this must be a trap.” So he ordered his forces to stop for lunch while they analyzed the situation. He reasoned the Israelis were for all purposes already beaten.

During the lunch break, reinforcements were able to rush to the front and furiously beat the Syrian forces. By a miracle of God, they got no further into Israel—though the fighting continued to be horrific. The tough Israeli tank commander, who had not been religious, attributed this whole episode to God’s protective care over Israel.

The final victory in the Yom Kippur War was actually a greater miracle than the 1967 Six Day War, but the cost in lives and weapons was horrific.

ISRAEL ALMOST DEFEATED

The Yom Kippur war was not like the Six Day War or any of the previous wars with the Muslims. This time the Arab armies scored unprecedented and stunning initial victories. Israeli casualties were the highest yet seen. Hardened and confident combat units were so outnumbered and outflanked they were fleeing in disarray. Israel lost more than five hundred tanks and forty-nine aircraft in the first three days alone.

I interviewed Randy Cunningham, who was America’s leading Vietnam ace at the time. He told me that he was one of the pilots in our Mediterranean fleet that shuttled aircraft from U.S. carriers to Israel to replace their heavy losses. He said that as soon as he landed, the Israelis started refueling and arming the plane while painting a Star of David over the U.S. insignia. That’s how critical the situation was.

In the Sinai, the modernized Egyptian forces used new missiles and electronic defenses to blast their way to the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. Israeli counterattacks by three tank divisions were repelled.

THE NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST THAT “ALMOST WAS”

Early on October 8, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan called Golda Meir and said, “This is the end of the Third Temple. The situation is desperate—everything is lost. We must withdraw. Arm the ‘doomsday weapons,’ I am initiating the ‘Samson Option.’”²³³

The Samson Option is a continuously practiced plan that will be put into action if the Muslim forces overrun Israel. If the plan is put into action, every Arab capitol will be vaporized in a thermonuclear mushroom cloud. Only now, ballistic missiles launched from land and submarines will deliver most of the warheads. Aircraft will be held in reserve for back-up strikes if needed.

SEIZING VICTORY OUT OF DEFEAT

The Muslim leaders realized after the Yom Kippur War that another strategy had to be adopted. The leaders surmised that Israel had to be weakened by reducing its borders to an indefensible size. Only then could they overwhelm the hated “Zionist entity” and annihilate it.

The Muslim world also realized that they had to work toward matching both Israel’s nuclear arsenal and missile delivery systems. They wanted to become able to attack with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction—chemical and biological as well as nuclear. So missile development, along with nuclear development, became top priority for nations like Pakistan, Iraq, Libya—and now Iran and Syria.

New Kind of War

In the meantime, Israel is facing a new kind of threat that is potentially more dangerous than the military threats of the past. The Arab world has succeeded in framing the debate over the Middle East as a struggle between “the downtrodden Palestinians” and the powerful, heavily armed Israelis. Somehow they have convinced the world that Israel, with six million citizens, is bullying the Muslim nations of the Middle East, which have some two hundred and forty million citizens. The Islamic world has also covered over the fact that there are over a billion Muslims worldwide that are sympathetic to the “Palestinian” cause.

The new weapons of conquest are carefully crafted propaganda slogans like, “Land for peace!” “The legitimate rights of the Palestinians!” “End the Israeli aggression!” “End the ‘occupation’ of Palestinian land!”

These familiar pieces of propaganda have been all too readily taken up and spread by a Western media that have little concern for the facts of history in this region.

The shocking tragedy is that some Israelis, like the late Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Perez, played along with these myths, even they knew they were not true. They led Israelis, who were understandably tired of war, along with them into the folly of the Oslo Agreement. They decided that peace, no matter the risks, was worth a try.

More and more Israelis are willing to be deceived into turning over lands in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan Heights to the Palestinians in exchange for their “promises of peace.” The vast number of recent Jewish immigrants does not have the same awareness of the dangers facing Israel from her neighbors as the Sabras (native-born Israelis) who have fought through most of the previous wars.

The Oslo Agreement set up a suicidal process that could lead to the destruction of Israel, according to independent objective military and intelligence experts.

Minimum Territory for Survival

Back in 1967, when the level of military technology and sophistication available to the Arab states was much lower than now, a Pentagon study found that Israel, at a minimum, needed control of the Golan Heights, the land east of Jerusalem to Jordan River, the central West Bank territory of the Jordan River, and part of the Sinai, including Sharm e-Sheikh.

More recently, intelligence expert Joseph de Courcy concluded, “The absolute minimum territory Israel requires to deter war is the territory it is controlling today.”²³⁴ This conclusion was drawn from an extensive report made by two prestigious military think tanks.

THE PUSH TOWARD THE “SAMSON OPTION”

In the late 1970s, Israel agreed to give up the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for a peace treaty. Many military and intelligence experts agree that further land concessions would leave Israel with indefensible borders and no effective conventional deterrent against attack.

Notice the emphasis on the word conventional. This is because Israel still has its non-conventional form of deterrence—nuclear weapons. And as we saw in Moshe Dayan’s statement to Golda Meir, with these they have already formed a last-resort-battle-plan known as the “Samson Option.” With the totally indefensible borders into which they are now being pushed, Israel would be quickly forced into launching the Samson Option. Is this really what Western leaders want?

There is within our State Department an appalling ignorance of the true situation in this volatile area. The current American president, Barack Obama, whom I believe is at heart a Muslim, seems to believe that the only way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian problem is to force Israel to give into all of the Palestinian demands without even face-to-face negotiations. This thinking willfully ignores that Palestinian leaders are among the most vicious terrorists the world has ever seen. They refuse to renounce their charters, which call for the annihilation of Israel, much less recognize Israel as a state that has a right to exist. They will recognize Israel only as “the Jewish entity.”

Israel’s Hard Choice

Israelis live in the toughest neighborhood in the world. They have no other option but to stay tough and hold on to defensible borders. The citizens of Israel are weary of war, weary of seeing their sons and daughters killed in the prime of their youth. Understandably, there has developed an almost “peace at any price” mentality in many. But Israelis have basically one option, stay tough and fight or pack up and get out of the Middle East. This may sound harsh, but the facts are harsh and clear. Any sign of weakness or lack of resolve only encourages the Muslims to move toward destroying them. This is their irreversible goal. It is a fact that is not going to change, not even by “Obama charm offensives.”

Islam Will Never Accept Israel

The present territorial concessions Israel is being pressured into making have absolutely no chance of appeasing the Muslims. History shows clearly that Israel will never be small enough to satisfy the Muslims. Their real quarrel with Israel has never been about its size, but about its existence on what they believe is sacred Muslim land.

In fact, the Muslim nations really don’t care about the so-called “legitimate rights of the Palestinians.” If that were so, Jordan and Egypt would have created a Palestinian state when they controlled the very territory they are now seeking to force Israel to give away for a state. They would have long ago helped the Palestinians out of the horrible refugee camps. No, it’s the destruction of the Jewish state Muslims are seeking, and Palestinians have simply been used as pawns for achieving that goal.

As I have repeatedly pointed out, this is a blood feud that dates back to the tents of Abraham. That blood feud became an integral part of Islam. The ancient hatred against Israel is now sanctified and nourished by the Koran and the Muslim religion.

Allah’s Honor

The devout Muslim believes that annihilating Israel and removing its occupation of Jerusalem has become nothing less than an issue of “removing an insult to Allah’s honor.”

“The rebirth of the Jewish state right in the midst of the Arab countries is a direct contradiction of Islamic teaching,” explains author Elishua Davidson. “Has not Allah finished with the Jewish people?” And if Allah has predetermined all things, how is it possible that a Jewish state should have come into existence once again?”²³⁵

Before his death, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set Iran on a course of Islamic Fundamentalism from which the government has not deviated. Muslim fundamentalists are determined to do Allah’s will and destroy Israel—thus and proving to the world that the creation of the Jewish state was merely a historical anomaly. Iran is primarily responsible for the worldwide revival of Islamic Fundamentalism. And the so-called “moderate” leaders that have followed the ayatollah haven’t changed the original direction of Khomeini’s revolution one iota.

TREATY FROM HELL

Despite the continuing “friendship” between Russian leaders Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev with Presidents Bush and Obama, binding agreements between Iran and Russia continue to grow.

The “Treaty from Hell” was formed and put into action in February 1991 under the code name “the Grand Design.” Russia was rightly terrified of Iran spreading the Islamic fundamentalist revolution into the five former Soviet Union republics that are all Muslim. The small state of Chechnya has demonstrated to the Russians how enormous a threat the five larger Muslim republics could pose if controlled by hostile Islamic fundamentalists.

So an exchange was worked out. Iran promised neither to encourage fundamentalism or hostility toward Russia in these states, nor to interfere with Russian “internal attempts” to put down Islamic terrorism whenever it appeared (including Chechnya). In exchange, Russia agreed to the following:

Provide plants, equipment, and expert personnel for the development of nuclear power suitable for conversion to warheads

Support Iranian development of long-range missile delivery systems

Fight alongside Iran against the West in the event of an attack by Western forces

In keeping with this agreement, in late February 1991, 278 of Russia’s best nuclear and missile scientists and technicians moved to Isfahan, Iran, and began helping Iran become a nuclear power.

As of the writing of this book in November 2010, it appears that the Russians achieved their mission. According to many intelligence sources, Iran could be only months from producing one or two nuclear bombs. We know that they have successfully tested a missile capable of accurately delivering a warhead on target more than sixteen hundred miles away. And they are pushing to build ICBMs that can reach the United States. As a result, Russia and Iran (Persia) have moved into the precise roles that Ezekiel chapters 38-39 predicted they would in the “Last Days” power alignments.

Israel in the Crosshairs

All of Israel is now in Iranian missile range—and parts of Europe are in range as well. As I said, Iran is determined to develop missiles that can hit the continental United States. When that happens, we are really in trouble. A fundamental part of the Iranian conceived “Grand Design strategy” is to checkmate the U.S. from coming to Israel’s aid while the combined Muslim nations destroy it.

In April 1991, an intelligence source shared information with me concerning the Iranian “Grand Design” plan. I could not reveal these things until they became public knowledge.

For the next two years after this, I observed the amazingly accurate British-based Intelligence Digest warning about these secret alliances between Russia and Iran. The Digest revealed that because Russia recognized it couldn’t compete with the economic power of the West, it linked itself with the Third World, where it can be the leader. This meant that Moscow had to make alliances with radical Muslim powers on the basis of Russian economic assistance in return for world-class military weapons and co-belligerence toward the West. The Digest confirmed the information about Russia’s fear of Iran spreading Islamic Fundamentalism being the reason for these alliances. The Digest said outright that this meant the “Russians would be compelled to fight alongside the Muslims in the next major Arab-Israeli war.”

The Digest continued, “Since the break up of the Soviet Union this service has consistently argued that Russia²³⁶ will eventually return to its traditional role of heading up an anti-Western, predominantly Islamic, Third-World alliance.

“The motivating forces are various and complex, but of primary importance is its need to appease Iran. Only by making a strategic alliance with Iran, in which Moscow backs Tehran’s southerly ambitions (i.e., the conquest against Saudi Arabia and Israel), can Russia ensure its own interests in Central Asia. . . . We now have further information on the Russian-Iranian relationship—this time from sources in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia is, of course, one of the countries most threatened by a Russian-Iranian strategic alliance. This information was confirmed on 26 July (1993) by a report in the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat. According to this report, Russia and Iran are in the final stages of putting together a ‘nuclear cooperation treaty’ under the terms of which Moscow will build two nuclear power plants, train nuclear technicians, and set up a nuclear research facility in Isfahan.”²³⁷

Today, that work has been basically completed. Iran will soon have a nuclear arsenal. It’s only a matter of time, unless Israel takes matters into its own hands and attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities. Israel cannot count upon the “do nothing but talk” Western powers headed by President Barack Hussein Obama.

THE AHMADINEJAD FACTOR

A factor that most Western leaders are failing to take seriously is the Shi’ite prophesy believed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Their beliefs enormously increases, the danger of allowing Iran to get nuclear weapons. It puts all that I have previously said into an entirely new dimension.

President Ahmadinejad has publicly telegraphed his intentions many times recently. He has boasted on many occasions that “Israel will soon be wiped off the map.” Like Western leaders’ attitude toward Hitler before World War II, no one believes Ahmadinejad really means this threat. But I believe him. This is why he has defied the UN and all Western attempts to stop his headlong race to get nuclear weapons. He believes Allah has chosen him to play the key role in starting a global war that will cause the Muslim messiah called the Mahdi to return.

HELP FROM AN IRANIAN REPUBLICAN GUARD

One of the most effective CIA agents the United States ever tasked to spy on Iran is Reza Kahlili, a former member of the Republican Guards. He is no longer active with the CIA since he left Iran, but he risked his life to warn the United States about the danger posed by the prophetic beliefs of the Iranian leadership. What he says is so important that I am going to quote him extensively.

Ken Timmerman, writing for Newsmax, filed the following report:

Kahlili warned that the consequences of misunderstanding the ideology of Iran’s clerical rulers could be disastrous.

“The ruling clerics, the fanatics right now in power, truly believe in the return of the last Messiah, the Shiites’ 12 th imam, the imam Mahdi,” he said.

“This is not a joke. This is not a story. This is not something in comic books. They are counting the days for the reappearance.”

“Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei both believe that their actions can hasten the return of the 12 th imam.

“They believe that if they detonate nuclear bombs over Israel and the Persian Gulf, bringing horror and a breakdown in the global economy, this will result in the Imam Mahdi coming out of a whale riding a white horse, killing the rest of us,” Kahlili said.

“Our problem is that we are trying to evaluate Iran and its leaders for the past thirty years through a rational mind, because we are used to rationality here.

“Western leaders think they can find economic pressure points and incentives that will compel the Iranian regime to change its behavior, even though this approach has failed time and time again,” he said.

“Our problem is that we cannot think outside the box.”

“If Iran’s Islamic leaders are allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, “they will take the whole world hostage,” Kahlili warned.²³⁸

To all of us who know Bible prophecy, these events have a familiar ring to them. Ezekiel predicts that a power from “the extreme north” of Israel in the “last days” will arm and lead a confederacy of nations against Israel and Western forces. The nations that Ezekiel names as allies of Russia are all Muslim today—and the first on the list is Persia, or Iran.²³⁹

WAKE UP TO THE “QURAYSH STRATEGY”

As noted before, Mohammad made a ten-year peace treaty with the forces of Mecca. Within a year, he had gathered enough strength to attack, which he did, ignoring the “peace treaty,” annihilating the Quraysh tribe that was the custodian of Mecca, and taking over the city. This deception became known in Muslim history as the “Quraysh model” strategy. Yasser Arafat explained in a South African mosque that his signing of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accord was according to the “Quraysh model:”

The late Faisal Husseini, Arafat’s Jerusalem representative, confirmed that “Quraysh Model” was indeed the strategy behind the Oslo Accords. Husseini was a very cultured and sophisticated man. He was considered the “most moderate” of all the Palestinians. Yet shortly before his death on May 31, 2001, he expressed his true feelings in an interview with the popular Egyptian newspaper el Arav. Husseini said: “We must distinguish the strategies and long-term goals from the political-phased goals which we are compelled to accept due to international pressures.” But the “ultimate goal is the liberation of all of historical Palestine.” Explicitly he said: “Oslo has to be viewed as a Trojan Horse.” He even added and clarified that it is the obligation of all the Palestinian forces and factions to see the Oslo Accords as “temporary” steps, as “gradual” goals, because in this way, “We are setting an ambush for the Israelis and cheating them.”²⁴⁰

The United Nations, the European Union, and the current U.S. government are pushing Israel to grant the Palestinians a state. This despite the fact that the multiple terrorist organizations within the Palestinian territories will not even halt terrorist attacks long enough for the Palestinian state to be negotiated and granted.

For many years I have predicted that the United States will be neutralized as a major power. That appears to be taking place now via the unprecedented economic problems hitting the U.S. President Barack Obama’s socialist ideas are accelerating the catastrophe. After America’s fall, a great leader will suddenly rise out of the old Roman culture and people, and he will be miraculously healed from a fatal wound. He will quickly take over the ten strongest nations of the EU and make Rome his seat of power. He will then negotiate the final “peace treaty” between the Muslims and Israel. It is the signing of this treaty that begins a seven-year count down that will climax with the greatest war of all times, ending with the Second Coming of Christ.

IT IS ALL PREDICTED

As incredible as it may sound to some readers, the precise scenario of how this will all finally end was predicted over two thousand years ago. And events happening today are fitting into the forecasted pattern. But the timing for all of these things to happen is not quiet ready.

THE “WORM” THAT SLOWED A HOLOCAUST

While writing this section, there was one thing that kept bothering me. The time is not yet right for the Russian-Iranian confederacy to launch the predicted war I just outlined. And then came the announcement that a cyber attack was secretly launched against Iran’s nuclear facilities a few months ago.

The Iranian government announced that they had arrested dozens of “cyberspies” in the wake of the discovery of what has been called the “Stuxnet,” computer worm-virus. “Stuxnet” differs from the typical computer infections that normally target computers or servers. The Stuxnet worm breaks into the types of computers that control industrial machinery—things like pumps and motors and valves and alarms.

Stuxnet could, in theory, shut off safety systems at a nuclear plant and allow materials to overheat. It could contaminate water treatment plants. Or open pipeline valves. Or even cause explosions. According to the internet security giant Symantec, “Stuxnet can potentially control or alter how the system operates. A previous historic example includes a reported case of stolen code that impacted a pipeline. Code was secretly ‘Trojanized’ to function properly and only some time after installation instruct the host system to increase the pipeline’s pressure beyond its capacity. This resulted in a three kiloton explosion, about 1/5 the size of the Hiroshima bomb.”

Stuxnet has been found lurking in systems manufactured by the German electronics conglomerate Siemans Systems in India, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

Stuxnet is able to recognize a specific facility’s command and control network. Once it does, it copies the data and transfers it to an outside system before destroying the local network. But it’s apparently not designed primarily for espionage. Stuxnet was designed specifically for sabotage. The Stuxnet attack proves that Iran’s entire industrial infrastructure is vulnerable to attack. Indeed, “whoever” did this has demonstrated that it’s capable of melting down Iran’s entire cyber-command infrastructure. So the war that most thought would never happen may have already been won—at least for the moment.

IRAN’S OTHER BIG PROBLEM

Another development in the aftermath of the discovery of “Stuxnet” may be even more damaging to Iran’s nuclear weapons program than the “worm.”

The Iranian Security Service announced that the infection could not have come from the outside via the Internet. The infected computers were never connected to the Internet. They were closely guarded and only connected to local infrastructure command circuits. No one outside of trusted Iranian workers was allowed near the computers—with the exception of the resident Russian nuclear scientists and specialists. The Iranian security agents say that the only way the “worm” could have been intro duced is by someone using a small flash drive to manually download the virus-worm into each of the separate systems.

So when the Iranian agents began detaining Russian scientists and specialists for interrogation, and then arresting some, the Russians began packing up their families and leaving the country. This is a catastrophe for the Iranians at this stage of their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They need the expertise of the Russians more now than ever.

Furthermore, this could potentially cause a serious rift between Iran and Russia.

However all of this was orchestrated, I see the hand of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob sovereignly protecting His people in an impossible situation.

How all this ends is the subject of the next chapter.