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As Ariel Sharon clings to life and Israel's government is forced into a limbo-like state until they can figure out what to do, the Palestinians are making preparations for the final phase of Yasser Arafat's Phased Plan For the Destruction of Israel.

According to most mainstream Middle East analysts, PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has lost control of the Palestinian Authority and the PA is in political free-fall.

Abbas's orders to the security forces are routinely ignored. His policy directives fail to echo through the PA bureaucracy. Even his threats to resign do not cause a ripple.

Abbas has done nothing to impose law and order. PA security forces have failed to take any action against groups aligned with the ruling Fatah movement. The forces have refused to crack down on the Islamic opposition as Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunners maintain missile strikes on Israel. In many cases, PA security officers help Hamas and Jihad in attacks against Israel and Palestinians.

Last week, about 100 PA officers stormed the Rafah border terminal along the Egyptian border in a move that prompted the flight of about 70 European Union monitors.

The officers took over the terminal to stop a rival Fatah faction from fleeing Gaza to Egypt. Earlier, the Fatah faction attacked a police station in Gaza City and an officer was killed.

This week, all eleven major Palestinian terror groups including Fatah and Hamas, announced they would no longer be bound by a so-called "lull" in violence declared in February 2005.

The military wing of Islamic Jihad reported an attempt to manufacture anti-aircraft missiles. A Jihad spokesman said the missiles were designed to strike Israeli fixed-wing and helicopters in the Gaza Strip.

Fatah-sponsored Popular Resistance Committee has reportedly obtained maps of Israel army bases north of the Gaza Strip. It's military wing, Nasser Salah Eddin Brigades, is planning to carry out attacks deep inside Israel.

There are new reports that Palestinian terrorists are being trained in Syria, Lebanon and Iran before being smuggled back into the Gaza Strip. Weapons experts have undergone training in camps run by Iran and Hezbollah before sneaking back into Gaza to await orders.

In 1974, 12th Session of the Palestinian National Council adopted what is commonly known as the Phased Plan for the Destruction of Israel. In 1993, arguing against the Oslo Accords, Benjamin Netanyahu ticked off the three phases, warning that Oslo was Phase One.

Arafat's Phased Plan, adopted by the PLO, remember, in 1974, reads thusly:

1. Through the "armed struggle" (i.e., terrorism), to establish an "independent combatant national authority" over any territory that is "liberated" from Israeli rule. (Article 2)

2. To continue the struggle against Israel, using the territory of the national authority as a base of operations. (Article 4)

3. To provoke an all-out war in which Israel's Arab neighbors destroy it entirely ("liberate all Palestinian territory"). (Article 8)

Hindsight proves Netanyahu was absolutely correct in his assessment of Palestinian intentions when pursuing the Oslo Agreement.

Arafat followed the Phased Plan to the letter, using the 1989-1993 terrorist intifada to force Israel into accepting the establishment of the Palestinian Authority ("independent combatant national authority") to govern the land surrendered by Israel in the 'land for peace' agreement hammered out at Oslo.

Arafat died before he could personally bring the plan to Phase 3, but he left his most trusted lieutenants in charge, and they are keeping the faith.

(Both Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Queria are signatories to the 1974 Phased Plan, as well as co-founders of Fatah and the PLO with Yasser Arafat)

Sharon's condition and what it means to their personal visions of the peace process has also paralyzed the various members of the Quartet.

Conditions are ripe for Phase Three. Both the United States and Israel are preparing for possible pre-emptive air strikes against Iran's nuclear sites before they become operational.

Russia, one of the members of the Quartet is also Iran's nuclear patron. Any strike against Iran would also be a military strike against Russian interests.

Such a strike would also likely kill a number of Russian nationals working at the target sites. Any airstrike against Iran would trigger a massive Islamic response, particularly from Syria, who legitimately fears it would be next.

A Persian-language Islamic daily hinted in August that Iran has Iranian terrorist cells in place inside the United States as well as in Gaza;

"This country's military and intelligence agencies must pay serious attention to such statements, and the country's ability to take preemptive actions against any aggression by its enemies must be improved, " reported Siyasat-e Ruz.

“One of the most important defensive means for the Islamic Republic of Iran is the reinforcement of resistance cells in other countries, especially coordination with such cells within the territory of the United States, that may be used for rapid and strong responses at critical moments. Regarding new policies made by strategic research centers of the Islamic system, IT SEEMS THE WAY IS BEING PAVED TO TAKE THIS MEASURE.” (Emphasis mine)

There is an old Chinese curse that says, "May you live in interesting times."

The Apostle Paul was more direct: "This know also, that in the last days PERILOUS times shall come." (2nd Timothy 3:1)

Let's summarize, shall we? Israel is paralyzed by Sharon's stroke. It has a caretaker government that by law can govern for only 100 days. Since Iran will have by then passed the 'point of no return' the decision to launch rests in the hands of a temporary, caretaker government in the throes of an election.

The United States is paralyzed by the Red State/Blue State Civil War. It is unimaginable that the administration could get Congressional authorization for a secret airstrike against Iran before March.

Iran, soon to be a nuclear power, has secret agents inside both Israel and the United States. They are trained as both combatants and saboteurs.

One of the alleged 'partners' in the Quartet for Peace is in the cross-hairs of any Israeli, US, or NATO attack on Iranian nuclear sites.

The Palestinians are preparing to launch an all out war against Israel, timed to coincide with Israel's elections, (and Iran's date with destiny), together with tactical and military aid supplied by Iran, Syria and Lebanon.

And every single detail was outlined by the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, two thousand, five hundred years in advance.

Barring some kind of political miracle or direct Divine intervention, it is hard to imagine more perilous times that those facing our world as we go forward into this sixth year of the 21st century.

"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." (Romans 13:11)

Excerpted from the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest, Volume 52 Issue 9

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