The Pentagon to Send US Troops to Israel. Iran is the Unspoken Target

See also: US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill

Global Research

January 2, 2012. Jerusalem. In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel.

It took forever to find a second source for confirmation of this story and both relatively mainstream media outlets are in Israel. With one source saying the military deployment and corresponding exercises are to occur in January, the source providing most of the details suggests it will occur later this spring. Calling it not just an “exercise”, but a “deployment”, the Jerusalem Post quotes US Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc, Commander of the US Third Air Force based in Germany. The US Commander visited Israel two weeks ago to confirm details for “the deployment of several thousand American soldiers to Israel.” In an effort to respond to recent Iranian threats and counter-threats, Israel announced the largest ever missile defense exercise in its history. Now, it’s reported that the US military, including the US Navy, will be stationed throughout Israel, also taking part.

While American troops will be stationed in Israel for an unspecified amount of time, Israeli military personnel will be added to EUCOM in Germany. EUCOM stands for United States European Command.

In preparation for anticipated Iranian missile attacks upon Israel, the US is reportedly bringing its THAAD, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, and ship-based Aegis ballistic missile systems to Israel. The US forces will join Israeli missile defense systems like the Patriot and Arrow. The deployment comes with “the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East”.

The Jerusalem Post reports that US Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc was in Israel meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Brig.-Gen Doron Gavish, commander of the Air Defense Division. While there, the US General visited one of Israel’s three ‘Iron Dome’ anti-missile outposts. The Israeli Air Force has announced plans to deploy a fourth Iron Dome system in the coming months. Additional spending increases in the Jewish state will guarantee the manufacture and deployment of three more Iron Dome systems by the end of 2012. The Israelis are hoping to eventually have at least a dozen of the anti-missile systems deployed along its northern and southern borders.

In a show of escalated tensions in the region, Iran test fired two long range missiles today. One, called the Qadar, is a powerful sea-to-shore missile. The other was an advanced surface-to-surface missile called the Nour. According to Iranian state news, the Nour is an ‘advanced radar-evading, target-seeking, guided and controlled missile’. Additionally, the Iranian military reportedly test-fired numerous other short, medium and long-range missiles. Yesterday, Iranian authorities reported that they test-fired the medium-range, surface-to-air, radar-evading Mehrab missile. Today is supposed to be the final day of Iranian naval drills in the Straits of Hormuz.

Iran recently made global headlines when it threatened to blockade the Straits of Hormuz if Europe and the US went ahead with their boycott of Iranian oil and the country’s central bank. One-quarter of the world’s oil passes through that waterway every day. President Obama has announced that a closure of the Straits was unacceptable and vowed to take whatever measures are necessary to keep the vital shipping lane open.

In response to the Iranian missile tests this weekend, French authorities were the first to respond, calling it a, “very bad signal to the international community.”We want to underline that the development by Iran of a missile program is a source of great concern to the international community,”the French Foreign Ministry said in a written statement. Israeli officials suggested the flamboyant Iranian military drills this weekend were a sign that international sanctions on the country were taking a heavy toll and that any additional boycotts, on its banks or oil industry, would be crippling.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the large missile tests showed, “the dire straits of Iran in light of the tightening sanctions around her, including the considerations in the last few days regarding the sanctions of exporting petroleum as well as the possibility of sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank.” While the chances of Iran going through with its threat of closing the Strait of Hormuz are slim, the deployment of thousands of US troops and naval ships to Israel shows the US isn’t taking any chances.

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  1. BlandOatmeal says:
    January 7, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    BlandOatmeal says:
    January 7, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    I just watched Schroeder’s third tape, wherein he explains how the 6 days of creation

    See, that didn't hurt did it?
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    Our World May be a Giant Hologram

    Marcus Chown in New Scientist:

    DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

    For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.

    For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

    If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

    The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

    Our world may be a giant hologram
    by Michelle Nevada, Israel Jewish News

    The "Israel" part of of the story is that one of the major theories present here is from the work of an Israeli scientist Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    But, more interestingly for me, I like to look at how science is always reconfirming what our Torah and our Talmud has already said. Many of the things which scientists scoffed at, who dismissed as "fictional" and "fantastic" in the Torah, are turning out to be true representations of how the universe works.

    For example, "String theory," the idea that all things in the universe are connected and logically and mathematically interrelated was already universally understood by people of faith all over the world. We know that there is One Creator who conceived and built the universe, not a random connection of individual elments. We know that everything we do affects every other thing in the universe, this is why life is so important, and why the way we behave and interact with the world must be carefully considered every moment of our lives. Each of us has an indelible effect upon everything in the universe. Wow.

    The theories of evolution also follow Torah's outline--each phase of the process of creation in science following the same recipe that G-d outlines in Bereshit. This is something which has always stood out, for me, when contemplating the Divine Authorship of Torah. It is simply not possible for a mortal author without an understanding of the great diversity of life and without advanced scientific instruments to understand how one life-form is related to another in such depth. This would only be understood by G-d. (I highly recommend the book Genesis and the Big Bang if you want to understand how science and Torah are interrelated in relation to Creation. It is a great read!)

    Things which are seemingly simple in the creation of the universe in Bereshit take on a whole new dimension as scientists discover new knowledge of the universe. For example, in the Creation, G-d seperates divides the darkness from the light. One might understand this simply as the division between day and night, one may also see it is a division between dark matter and visible matter in the universe.

    So, how do I think this newest theory relates to Torah? Well, most religious Jews believe G-d created Torah first, then the universe was designed according to Torah. So, the universe, which is three dimensional, has it's source in the two dimensional Torah.

    Hmmm. I guess this "holographic universe" idea it is another example of science "discovering" something that people of faith have always taken for granted.

    Interesting, no?

    M

    A correct literal reading of the first verse in the torah is: "In the beginning with the Torah G-d created..."!

  2. I just watched Schroeder’s third tape, wherein he explains how the 6 days of creation, when the Theory of Relativity is figured in, come out to about 15.74 billion years of perceived time. Good stuff. I don’t understand the Theory of Relativity, so I can’t say “yea” or “nay”. I will ask my son about it, though, and I expect he will be able to explain it.

  3. OK, Yam. I listened to Schroeder’s second lecture. Most of what he said was old hat; but he did say something that was new to me. He mentioned Schroedinger in connnection with it, but I don’t remember what the connection was (That’s why I don’t care much for videos). He may have come up with this concept, or someone else may have. At any rate, the concept is that reality is not the physical universe but rather mind. In other words, we don’t actually “live” in the physical universe; we live in a world of “mind”; and what we know of as the “physical” universe follows laws, contains life, contains us, etc. because these things exist in the “real” world of “mind”. Materialist science, then, has the cart before the horse: They think that the material universe existed without consciousness, and that consciousness somehow emerged as an aberation of the material. Schroeder says it is more likely the other way around.

    Of course, that sounds Hindu. They believe we live in a world of “maya” or “illusion”. Schroeder does not base his hypothesis on Hinduism, though. He bases it on the fact that as you descend to the submicroscopic level, to the world of fermions and bosons, it becomes apparent that the building blocks of the universe are not “physical” in the sense that we understand such things, but “ideas”. That seems like a bit of a stretch, which perhaps I simply don’t understand. From what I understand, what we think of as “physical” does not have a nature that we normally understand it as having. When using atomic force microscopy, for example, something I am very familiar with, one realises that there is no such thing as “contact” — there is simply an interplay of forces. Your finger doesn’t actually “touch” a table, for instance: The repulsive forces in your finger simply interact with the repulsive forces in the table and ultimately generate an impression in your brain that you interpret as “touch”. The “reality” of touch, then, isn’t in the objects at all, but in your mind: “touch” is an idea.

    That is probably the sort of thing Schroeder was getting at. Ultimately, the foundation blocks of the universe can be EXPRESSED as mathematical concepts — which is why I went into the discussion of the “word” being a mathematical sequence (Every word I am typing, by the way, is being transmitted to you as a mathematical sequence of ones and zeroes). The “word of God”, then, can be considered a mathematical sequence. Who “wrote” or “writes” that sequence? God does. Who is God? Perhaps some form of “mind”. Who are we? Some form of “mind”. What are my finger and the table? Some form of mind.

    There comes a point, when one wonders where all this discussion is actually useful (and most of our readers have probably come to the point long ago that they decided it isn’t). Since the world is content to spend tens of billions of dollars it can ill afford, in pursuit of a “materialist” explanation of the universe, though, perhaps understanding the above would be useful as a money-saving measure.

    I’ll leave you at that. Thank you for the video. Shalom shalom 🙂

  4. “AntiChrist”? Why are Jews talking about this? Aren’t we supposed to be waiting for our own equivalent to “Christ”, first?

    NO!!

  5. That Israel and the U.S. are holding a big joint anti-missile exercise has been widely reported, and is not merely the province of right-wing anti-Israel sources. To what exent this involves deployment of ‘thousands’ of U.S. military personnel to Israel, I do not know.

    I am certain that the objective of these, from the Obama administration’s point of view, is to head off unilateral Israeli action.

    I submit that there is NO WAY Obama is going to hit Iran. The only way he orders force against Iran is in the event of a massive Iranian provocation aimed at the U.S., such as a direct attack on an aircraft carrier. Even then, I would not expect a comperehensive U.S. response.

    D-file is full of crap, always were.

    “AntiChrist”? Why are Jews talking about this? Aren’t we supposed to be waiting for our own equivalent to “Christ”, first?

  7. Report: Israel could take out Iran’s nuclear infrastructure ‘in two days’

    Israel could destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure with
    three combat air squadrons, a report said.

    A report by a leading aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the
    Israel Air Force could destroy most of Iran’s infrastructure in two days.
    The report by Yoaz Hendel, a senior adviser to Netanyahu, said air strikes

    “The Israeli Air Force is capable of striking the necessary targets with two to three full squadrons of fighter-bombers with escorts to shoot down enemy aircraft,” the report titled “Iran’s Nukes and Israel’s Dilemma,” said. “However, most of the escorts will require refueling to strike the necessary targets in Iran. In addition, the Israelis can make use of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles from their Dolphin-class submarines.”

    The report, published by the Philadelphia-based Middle East Quarterly, was the first by a senior Israeli government official. The publication said Hendel wrote his report before his recent appointment by the prime minister.

    Hendel, a military historian, asserted that Israel was expected to target at least five main Iranian nuclear facilities. He cited the Bushehr light-water reactor facility, heavy-water plant in Arak, uranium conversion plant in Isfahan, the uranium enrichment facility in Qom and the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz.

    “Military planners may also feel compelled to attack Teheran’s centrifuge fabrication sites since their destruction would hamper the
    efforts to reestablish its nuclear program,” the report, released in late December 2011, said. “However, it is believed that the Iranians have
    dispersed some centrifuges to underground sites not declared to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency]. It is by no means clear that Israeli intelligence has a full accounting of where they are.”

    Hendel stressed that Iran has already fortified most of its nuclear facilities. He said Natanz was mostly underground and surrounded by
    Russian-origin TOR-M1 air defense batteries. Qom, designed to accommodate 3,000 centrifuges, has been built into a mountain.

    “The Israelis may also choose to bomb Iranian radar stations and air bases in order to knock out Teheran’s ability to defend its skies,
    particularly if multiple waves are required,” the report said.

    Hendel said the Israel Air Force deploys an arsenal of munitions, including the U.S.-origin GBU-27 and GBU-28 laser-guided bunker-buster
    bombs that could penetrate Iranian nuclear facilities. He said the Air Force was training for deep strike missions since at least 2009 that
    included air and rapid ground refueling.

    In all, Israel might have to attack as many as 60 targets in Iran. The report, citing Israeli electronic warfare capabilities, envisioned few
    aircraft losses and cited possible attack routes, including flying over Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

    “The difficulties also depend on the precise goal of the air strike, the report said. “A short-term, financially costly degradation of Iran’s
    nuclear program can be achieved in one wave of attacks, but Israeli defense analysts have estimated that a decisive blow could require hitting as many as 60 different targets with return sorties lasting up to two days.”

    The analysis marked the latest effort by Israel to enhance deterrence against Iran. Middle East Quarterly said Hendel’s report reflected his
    personal view, but diplomats said the study was released in coordination with the Israeli government.

    Hendel also envisions that Israel would target Iran’s energy sector in an attempt to prevent a massive counter-attack. He said Iran was likely to use both Hizbullah and Syria in any war with Israel.

    “The Israelis will ultimately have to choose between launching an attack likely to spark a large-scale regional conflict and allowing Iran to go
    nuclear with dire long-term implications,” the report said. “Notwithstanding some disagreement about the immediacy of the threat and possible
    repercussions, the large majority of Israelis favor military action over living with the ubiquitous threat of nuclear annihilation.” could be augmented by naval operations.

  9. He made 2 obvious mistakes in this fabrication. Israel doesn’t use the worthless Patriot anti missile system.Yet he said it was part of Israel’s current missile defense system . It was replaced by the Arrow 1, years ago.

    The Israel Air Force has taken delivery of an upgraded
    U.S. missile defense battery.

    The Israel Missile Defense Association has reported that the Air Force
    took delivery of a new Patriot battery supplied by the United States. The
    non-profit association, which promotes missile defense, said the PAC battery
    would enhance Israel’s Arrow-2 system. “The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] has now taken delivery of a new Patriot battery, the first step in a planned upgrade of Israel’s older Patriot batteries,” the association said in late December. “The upgrade will help make the missile system an effective supplement to Arrow-2, as it takes its place in Israel’s deployed, layered active missile defense architecture.”

    IMDA did not identify the new missile defense battery. But industry sources said the battery was a PAC-2 upgraded to PAC-3 configuration in a project known as Guided Enhanced Missile plus.

  11. I said tha much of what is on all three links is in agreement with you and that you were probably aware of much but then I also said that there were things that I am sure that you were not aware of, that I am sure you will find interesting whether you agree or not. Those things are on the next two links. I learned a lot maybe you will as well. I was hoping your innate curiosity would lead you to view them and then comment with your opinion.

    That’s all.

  12. The author is a crackpot antisemite who clearly is fabricating this story. He made 2 obvious mistakes in this fabrication. Israel doesn’t use the worthless Patriot anti missile system.Yet he said it was part of Israel’s current missile defense system . It was replaced by the Arrow 1, years ago. He said Israel doesn’t control its’ missile defense system as it is “integrated” with a US system. This is totally false. All 3 levels : Iron Dome, Magic Wand, and Arrow 2 (which will be replaced this year by Arrow 3 )are not part of any US system. The premise of the fictional tale is the Israel government has allowed “integration” of it’s missile defense i.e. allowing US control of the system to stop the only method Iran can deliver nuclear ,biological or chemical weapons to Israel. This is totally absurd. The US only supplied the majority of the funding but all of the technology is the products of several Israeli defense contractors. So Israel would have to teach US military personnel how to operate it. That clearly doesn’t sound like the Arrow system is under exclusive US control or joint control. The US wants to purchase Iron Dome

  14. OK, Yam. I just listened to the first part of the Schroeder link. What he says agrees entirely with what I said about all the various structural types emerging in parallel from unicellular eukaryotes. That’s what he’s talking about, I believe, by a “simultaneous creation episode”. I don’t know what problem you were having with what I said. Maybe you could direct me more specifically.

  17. This is just more interference on the part of the US in Israel’s struggles to defend itself. The US is there to enforce a Palestinian state and further render the IDF impotent as a military force in the region. US troops in Israel are just more ghetto police. This is not just the US, but NATO. If it had been NATO right away, it would have caused alarm right away. The US comes first, then NATO.

  18. 8. The only Antichrists to make appearances so far, are…

    You forgot to name ME!!!!
    The links I was referring to were these, because they relate to our sub discussion on Darwin and the Bible from both a scientific pov as well as a Jewish pov. Much of the information I am sure you are aware of but much I am equally sure you aren’t. It was what I am sure you aren’t that I wanted to get your reaction, but alas you are so arrogant and dogmatic that even after considerable prodding you refused to even look, and still haven’t.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X8uKwwEfLE&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-LzTO-xdg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=curzJhIqukg&feature=autoplay&list=SPC6D637DD4C6880E2&lf=list_related&playnext=3

  19. Yamit,

    I LOOKED AT your link, out of courtesy. Pretty verbose, and culminating in yet another end-times prophecy. I don’t think we need much of that anymore. You can pretty much follow the day’s events, blow-for-blow, and check them against the original Biblical text. Of course, one must know the entire Bible and enough history to put it into context. If a person hasn’t bothered to get that under one’s hat, commentaries are just more confusing jibberish.

    You won’t have to deal with prophecies much this year, though. Just keep your ear alert for the air-raid siren.

    There’s a lot of saber-rattling going on, especially on DEBKA, for whom this is their stock in trade. In brief, here’s what I see happening, without recourse to prophecies:

    1. There are two conflicts, one in Syria and one in the Persian Gulf. They are interconnected because of Iranian involvement with Assad and with Hizbullah. Turkey is also caught in the middle. It is a huge oil importer from Iran, and hates Israel as much as the Iranians do; but it’s gotten caught up in the NATOrabian adventure in Syria.

    2. The US, for some peculiar reason I don’t understand, seems more interested in Syria than in the Gulf. I think that’s why the Iranians are trying to provoke a conflict in the Gulf to catch Obama off balance.

    3. Israel is a bunch of ignorant assholes. They wouldn’t act in their own self-interest, if every country in the UN tried to force them to.

    4. Things could change at the drop of a hat. Erdogan may have a terminal illness, and there’s a conflict between the ayatollahs and Achmadinejad. Turkey really wants to be allied with Iran and not the US, so I expect some sort of flip at any time. NATO has so much invested in Turkey, this could severely cramp their plans.

    5. Assad has threatened to attack Israel, as has Turkey; and of course, Turkey may also attack Assad. Things could get dicey fast.

    6. Iraq is already flying apart at the seams. Since the US want to stay out of it, the only players left are Iran and Turkey.

    7. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are practically side shows, compared to Iran and Turkey. Putting aside the commentaries and looking only at history, Turkey and Iran are the main players in Ezekiel 38. That’s the main reference for this phase of things, which are by no means the final battle.

    8. The only Antichrists to make appearances so far, are (1) Jordanian King Abdullah’s son, of whom it is proclaimed by the Salafists that he will ascend in 2024, and (2) Achmadinejad’s Rasputin, who claims to be in communication with the Fifth Imam. I never expected AntiChrist to be a Muslim, and expect him to be connected, instead, with the ruler of NATO (cf Daniel and Revelation). NATO seems to be doing its darndest lately, though, to join forces with the Arab League; so maybe they will co-opt one another. Whoever he turns out to be, I agree with the Salafists that he probably won’t appear for some time. Iran and Turkey, in that order, appear to be the immediate threats.

    9. I don’t trust Obama one bit. If Israel knew what is good for them, they should start lobbing missiles at Iran on their own, and let Obama pick up the pieces. Obama will bend over backwards, to force Israel to sit back and take Iranian, Syrian and Turkish incoming while the Americans seem to be handling the situation. Because of this, I wish the latter all the worst. Am Yisrael chai!