Increasingly Isolated

This comment from the U.S. Secretary of Defense appears to be quite prophetic;

ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Sunday that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East and said U.S. security commitments should enable it to take "risks for peace."   

Panetta, who arrives in Israel on Monday for the first time since becoming Pentagon chief, said he would reaffirm U.S. security commitments to Israel and try to help it improve its increasingly chilly relations with Turkey and Egypt.

"It's pretty clear, at this dramatic time in the Middle East when there have been so many changes, that it is not a good situation for Israel to become increasingly isolated. And that is what has happened," Panetta told reporters on his plane.

See it here;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44751697/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

It's becoming pretty clear that Israel is at the center of the daily news and also pretty clear that she is becoming increasingly isolated.  As the Day of the Lord approaches, could this passage from Zechariah be coming more into focus?

"A day of the Lord is coming whey your plunder will be divided among you.  I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it, the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.  Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city." Zechariah 14:1-2

The nations do seem to be gathering....  May we be witnessing the foreshadowing to the "Time of Jacob's Trouble"?

Lord, we look forward to that day when there will be peace in Jerusalem when Jesus will be seated on the throne.