US Intel: Tehran pushes Hizballah hard to attack Israel

Western intelligence and Persian Gulf sources report that on August 30, Hizballah put its forces on a state of war alert and issued a partial call-up of reservists. According to debkafile's military sources, Hizballah appears to be preparing a major attack on Israel straight after the ceremonial start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington Thursday Sept. 2. A second target date is the Jewish New Year festival starting on Sept. 8. The pressure from Tehran for the Lebanese Shiite terrorists to strike Israel has intensified in the wake of the example the Palestinian Hamas gave Tuesday night Aug. 31 in the drive-by murder of four Israeli civilians on a road near Hebron.
A large-scale attack appears to be in the works judging by the heavy influx of armed Hizballah units to southern Lebanon in the last few days. Our military sources report that they include special units trained especially for deep-strike incursions into northern Israel in response to Israeli counter-attacks.
The Iranian al Qods commander of Tehran's networks and surrogates in Iraq, the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority has spent the last ten days in Damascus. He arrived there on August 19 in the party of Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) chief and stayed on after his boss left the Syrian capital, apparently assigned to oversee an important terrorist or military operation against Israel.
^{Psalm 83
1} O God, do not keep silent;
       be not quiet, O God, be not still.
 ² See how your enemies are astir,
       how your foes rear their heads.
 ³ With cunning they conspire against your people;
       they plot against those you cherish.
 ⁴ "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
       that the name of Israel be remembered no more."
 ⁵ With one mind they plot together;
       they form an alliance against you-
 ⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
       of Moab and the Hagrites,
 ⁷ Gebal, ^[a] Ammon and Amalek,
       Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
 ⁸ Even Assyria has joined them
       to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
       Selah

Isaiah 17: 1-3

An Oracle Against Damascus

 ¹An oracle concerning Damascus.
   Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
   and will become a heap of ruins.
²The cities of Aroer are deserted;
   they will be for flocks,
   which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
³The fortress will disappear from Ephraim,
   and the kingdom from Damascus;