Jim Bakker Show

After 40 years of basic peace and relative quiet in the Golan Heights of Israel, contention arises after Israel strikes a military camp and weapons storehouse near Damascus where advanced Iranian weapons were being transported from Syria to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.

The Golan borders Lebanon to the north, a demilitarized zone to the east bordering Syria and Jordan to the south. I have looked down on the peaceful farmland in Israel from the Heights and been as far north as what they use to call “the good fence,” the Lebanese border. People who lived in Lebanon would be allowed to travel across this border to work in Israel and use Israeli hospitals, etc. (more…)

What began as a peaceful protest in Damascus became a dangerous demonstration and a political uprising. Terror groups started flowing into Syria and turned the conflict into an armed struggle and a civil war. Now we see a regional war with more than 70,000 deaths.

Hezbollah out of Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Russia and now Israel are physically involved in this war. Turkey and Jordan have taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees as the conflict has reached across many borders and the U.S. considers becoming more deeply involved. (more…)

A series of massive explosions illuminated the dark sky over Damascus early Sunday, igniting renewed claims that Israel has launched attacks into the war-torn country. (more…)

Syria responded angrily to the overnight air strikes on military targets that it accused Israel of carrying out, warning that the attack “opens the door to all possibilities.” (more…)

Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

As Syria’s two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran’s confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program, people were woken in the Syrian capital by explosions that shook the ground like an earthquake and sent pillars of flame high into the night sky.

“Night turned into day,” one man told Reuters from his home at Hameh, near one of the targets, the Jamraya military base.

Source: Reuters - Israel strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms

Civilians and security personnel are among the dead after a terrorist bombing in Syria’s capital.

The bombing comes one day after Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived a car bomb attack in Damascus. (more…)

The Syrian Army was able to take control of a town in Damascus by killing at least 80 people including women and children.

The army captured Jdaidet al-Fadl after five days of intensive shelling and fighting. The state news agency said the troops inflicted “heavy losses upon terrorists” in the town but observer groups said that most of the dead were women and children, not rebel fighters. (more…)

All non-essential international staff of the United Nations security forces are being pulled out because of the escalating violence in Damascus.

Syrian Al Qaeda forces fighting near the Jordanian border crossing has caused Jordan to close that border station for the first time in the two-year Syrian civil war. The crossing is an important access road for passengers and was the main transit route for hundreds of trucks, daily carrying goods to Turkey from the Gulf before the Syrian conflict erupted. (more…)

No matter which way Israel turns, war raises its ugly head of conflict. If Hezbollah begins to use the advanced Damascus weapons against Israel because of a long-threatened strike on the nuclear sites in Iran, Israel will also retaliate against Hezbollah troops in Lebanon. A U.N. monitored ceasefire has largely held there since 2006 when Hezbollah rained down more than 4,000 rockets on northern Israel from out of Lebanon. (more…)

The Syrian war is focused on Damascus. The capital city of Syria is the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and is now fighting for its existence. The minority regime of President Bashar Assad has now concentrated his elite and most loyal troops to defend Damascus and the rebel Islamic forces intensify their assault against the ancient capital as it becomes a ruinous heap. (more…)