It would appear that Sharon and the Israeli Defense Force are more prepared to execute the withdrawal than the protestors are to block it. Protestors are threatening to block roads and streets all throughout Israel, at least twice a week. Organizers hope to so tie up local police forces that the forced evacuation will be hampered.

NEWS BRIEF: "Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to 'Post': Pullout should only take two weeks", The Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2005

"Though disengagement is 'a major undertaking for Israel' and a 'very painful' one, it will likely take no longer than two weeks to carry out from start to finish, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said over the weekend. 'I think it will take no more than two weeks. I think that it shouldn't take more than two weeks', he said ... The intention, rather, was to 'focus on the short period starting on the 17th [of August] and carry out [disengagement] as fast as possible'."

This revelation must have shocked anti-disengagement people, because government rhetoric, as dutifully reported by Mass Media, has always told the story that the forced evacuation would take months and would be such a major drain on the IDF and local police that officials had doubts it could all be done. Now, just weeks before the really official evacuations are to begin, Vice Prime Minister Olmert tells the truth: the pullout should be accomplished in two weeks. You can forgive the Jewish settlers if they feel a little bit betrayed. With limited resources and untrained leadership, the foes of evacuation do not stand a chance to stop the vaunted IDF from removing all Jews from the Gaza Strip and selected West Bank settlements.

Since the Security Barrier is as much a key to separating the Jewish population from the Palestinian as the Forced Evacuation, we should not be too surprised to see news concerning this barrier. News was swirling from both sides.

NEWS BRIEF: "Sharon´s Cabinet: Fence to Divide Jerusalem: Will leave Prime Minister Ariel Sharon open to charges that he has gone back on his promise never to divide the capital", Israel National News, July 11, 2005

"The Sharon-led Cabinet Sunday approved dividing Jerusalem physically. The security fence will put 55,000 Jerusalem Arabs outside of the barrier but there will be free passage. The cabinet did not explain why it is allowing the fence to cut through the united capital within Jerusalem's borders .... It also will leave Prime Minister Ariel Sharon open to charges that he has gone back on his promise never to divide the capital."

Once again, that old-time war general, Ariel Sharon, has double crossed his genuinely Conservative supporters. After years of assuring them that he would never, ever allow Jerusalem to be divided, he has now publicized his plans to do just that. After years of repeating the Conservative mantra that Jerusalem was eternally Israel's and was totally off the negotiating table, Sharon abruptly turns 180 degrees as he divides Jerusalem!

Can matters get any worse? Yes, they can, and they are about to. Prophecy tells us that the situation will get so bad that Israel's Archangel, Michael, shall have to "stand up" to defend Israel (Daniel 12:1)

The security barrier in this area is planned to have gates, through which the average Palestinian can daily pass so they can work, go to school and obtain special services not available in their area. Listen:

"... one effect of the cabinet decision will be to leave '55,000 residents, on the West Bank side, while including the largest Jewish West Bank settlement, Ma'aleh Adumim with close to 30,000 people, on the Jerusalem side' ... Arabs are incensed at the decision, which will require more than 3,000 school children to pass through the fence to go back and forth to school. Amir Chesin, a former Arab affairs adviser for the city of Jerusalem, insisted that the plan will not be implemented. 'I don't know if I should laugh or cry. I don't see thousands and thousands going through these checkpoints to go to school', he said."

The Sharon government is placing far greater emphasis on the completion of the security barrier than most people realize. Now that he has turned over responsibility to the IDF and has told the generals they face no budget restrictions, work will proceed very rapidly. We do not know if the completion of the security barrier will be at roughly the same time as the completion of the forced evacuation.

If the two projects are completed at roughly the same time, Israel will be ready to go to war earlier rather than later.

The Palestinians were infuriated by the Cabinet decision to divide Jerusalem with the barrier, even though that decision gave them part of the "eternal city".

NEWS BRIEF: "Palestinian Chairman Abbas sharply raps Israel’s Jerusalem defense barrier decision", DEBKAfile Intelligence, July 10, 2005

"Sunday, July 10, the Israeli government set a September deadline for finishing the long-stalled security fence designed to protect Jerusalem from terrorist attack. The finalized route leaves 55,000 Arab Jerusalem residents with Israeli ID on the other side, including Palestinians living in the Shuafat refugee camp. Twelve crossing points will be cut in the barrier to allow their transit back and forth. The Palestinian Authority chairman warns that the route could bring Palestinian-Israeli relations to an end and will serve neither peace nor Israeli security."

The Palestinians want their state, they want Jerusalem as their capitol, and they want Israel finally destroyed, but key leaders realize the trap into which they are being led, and are trying every device which they can conceive to stop this Oslo Peace Accord in its tracks. Almost daily, Kassam terror rockets and/or mortar shell bombardments strike Israeli targets.

As the next story indicates, suicide bombers are on the attack. However, Israel, the United States, and the Crown of England are really calling the shots, and their Forced Withdrawal plan will not be deterred.

As if to place a dramatic explanation point on the fury of the Palestinians at being thrown behind a huge security barrier, a Palestinian suicide bomber struck at a Jewish civilian target, a shopping center.

NEWS BRIEF: "Palestinian suicide bomber kills 2 in Israel" International Herald Tribune, July 13, 2005

"NETANYA, Israel A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday evening at a busy intersection outside a shopping mall in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya, killing himself and at least two others, and wounding 30 people, according to the Israeli police and rescue workers. Israel said the attack would not derail the planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which is set for next month. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman said Israel was prepared to act against those responsible if the Palestinian Authority did not.

" ''We are not going to stop the disengagement',' Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Sharon, said in reference to the Gaza pullout. ''But we are going to stop terrorism.'' The attack marked the second suicide bombing since the Israelis and Palestinians declared a truce in February. Overall violence has been down sharply since then, but there are still almost daily shootings and clashes."

How are we so sure the Palestinians know this plan will result in their annihilation, a genocide, an ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians? Nearly three years ago, we posted an article in which a Jewish professor claimed that Sharon's planned separation of populations would result in the "ethnic cleansing" of all Palestinians. We encourage you to take a moment to read this article.

NEWS1625 -- "Jewish Professor Accuses Sharon Government Of Planning 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Arabs In Israel"

Prophetic events are getting close to exploding. Are you spiritually prepared?