Israel and World War III - Part 6b, The Player's Motives

Christianity/Judaism

• Adherents: The Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox, Evangelical and Protestant faiths.
• Moral Problems - Individual and Corporate greed, lack of adherence to faith, promiscuity, rampant divorce, low birth rates, widespread torture, empire building and other issues.
• National Players - 
• US - Obama election year push
• Israel, most of Europe
• Motives
• Invasion of sovereign countries/empire building.
• Return of Jesus, Jewish messiah. (Dominionism is one form of this)

RE From July, 2006 -

This also extends the Bush doctrine of "If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.", except this will be converted into a worldwide call against organized religion and eventually be specifically targeted against Judaism and Christendom.

This idea has given way to further invasions as defense is now standardly used as an excuse for offense under the phrase "preemptive war". Indeed this idea has even begun to permeate our law enforcement with such concepts as "pre-crime" .

Muslim

• Adherents - Various sects - Shiite, Sunni, Wahabi, etc.. 
• Moral Problems - Rampant renegade sects, massive infighting, murder
• National Players
• Iran - Ach needs the Iranians to rally to his side, so an attack would actually help his career.
• Syria (Russian allied)
• Lebanon (Hezbollah - Shi'ite)
• Gaza (Hamas is the democratically elected leaders) (A good question will be - Will Egypt want to reconquer Gaza after 43 years of Israeli domination?)
• Iraq - (US allied)
• Egypt - health of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, elections? Who do they view as a bigger issue - Israel or Iran?
• Saudi Arabia (Lightly US allied)- Being squeezed by the US from the south in Yemen, to the north in Iraq. Who do they view as a bigger issue - Israel or Iran?
• Turkey - They have a major weapons contracts with Israel, flotilla incident.
• (Indonesia, areas of Asia)

• Motives
• Return of the 12th  Imam

Please consider the following data:

Turkish police detained about 50 military commanders Monday in a crackdown that once would have been unthinkable, accusing the suspects of planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the Islamic-rooted government.

The detention of 49 senior military officers, according to CNN-Turk television -- including members of the elite class known as "Pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman times -- proved, at the very least, that such officials are no longer untouchable.