Israel’s Danger Zone

Almost inconceivably, Jared Kushner last week sat with Hamas devils in Egypt, “negotiating.” As Benjamin Netanyahu rightly pointed out directly to the President’s son-in-law, that was giving legitimacy to the demons that raped and murdered Israelis on Oct. 7.

Disgusting.

Every day, the madness continues. The hardest part to wrap one’s mind around is that this isn’t the Obama or Biden regimes doing this. It is that of Donald Trump. If a “conservative” Republican group can’t maintain loyalty to our best ally, who will? Almost all the President’s advisors are hapless. Iran is somehow winning public approval. Hezbollah rebuilds. Turkey emerges as more of a threat. (Although days ago, Israeli jets hit targets in Syria, no doubt rattling the menacing Erdogan.)

Israel continues to have to navigate dangerous waters full of both overt enemies and “friends.” If it isn’t the meddling, incompetent Kushner & Friends, it’s Middle East enemies. Including and especially politicians.

On August 15, a Hezbollah explosive UAV struck an IDF force operating on the Ali al-Taher Ridge in the security zone in south Lebanon, wounding an officer and two soldiers. The IDF reported the attack was a violation of the ceasefire agreement and responded with a wave of attacks on Hezbollah targets, including in areas north of the Litani River. In a strike in the Ansar area, Ali Samir al-Hajj Hassan, a battalion commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Unit and other operatives who were involved in advancing terrorist attack plans against IDF forces were eliminated. The IDF confirmed that members of Hassan’s family were also hit in the attack. They were not targets but had been used as human shields.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the IDF attacks, claiming they were undermining efforts to stabilize the south.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated his commitment to negotiations with Israel, which he said were making progress and were preferable to continued war. But these two leaders are at best butting heads. And none of them have the courage to really defy Hezbollah.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the continued Israeli incursions and land-clearing and demolition efforts by the IDF.

A Hezbollah explosive UAV struck an IDF force operating in the Ali al-Taher Ridge area, wounding three IDF soldiers. In response the IDF attacked Hezbollah targets, including north of the Litani River. Israel has also made it clear it will not tolerate a Turkish presence. For some time, the devil Erdogan has tried to push a presence in Syria. Given that Donald Trump helped install new Syrian “President” Ahmed al-Sharaa last year, and his own troops chant death to Israel.

I recently watched an interview with the peerless Victor Davis Hanson, and he made a compelling case that our action in Iran isn’t the weak response it now appears to be, however, on the surface, America’s disrespect publicly to Israel is a problem.

Kushner and Steve Witkoff are disasters. Literally, my county judge here in the Ozarks would be vastly better negotiating with Hamas. Because he wouldn’t.

Amid all this, Benjamin Netanyahu is forced to fight for his political career by mediocre and talentless media and rivals. In a sane world, Yair Lapid would not be allowed to run for office. What a clown. Netanyahu at 120 would be better than those that threaten his reign in Israel. Overall since 1996, he is responsible for the blocking of a “Palestinian” state. Israel is safer—right now—than she would be if someone else were running things from Tel Aviv.

Israel is in the danger zone, but only humanly speaking. In her divine destiny, the Jewish state is safe and for all time.

Praise the Lord.

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The Cobra and the Ants

I saw a short video this week. A cobra rose up and struck like lightning a mound of ants. In some sense, you think the deadly snake is more powerful. His entire body is a lethal strike.

Yet the ants cover him and the snake is dead within seconds. It was an extraordinary sight.

It is very much like Israel and her enemies.

In addition to the direct military threats, Israel is confronted by a tsunami of anti-Semitism unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Perhaps it’s just the internet, but Jew-hatred is rolling across the landscape. “Explodiing” is an appropriate term.

I would argue that we’ve crossed over into a very dangerous place: we are no longer able to reach people with the truth and facts and common sense.

For example, in America, we are way past mounting a defense to deal with Jew-haters. As I’ve written exhaustively, our churches have been infected with leftist thought and anti-Jewish doctrine for well over 150 years. Remember, the Unitarian influences on the Colonies, coupled with bad theology from Germany caused serious problems.

It’s astonishing how many pastors and seminaries were in contrast to the simple, Scriptural promises to the Jews. Charles Spurgeon famously “predicted” that they would return to their Land and claim it as a sovereign entity. But this was not a popular view in Europe.

Our own celebrity pastors now preach in such a soft manner they cannot be called legitimate, biblical pastors.

Only a handful nationally still teach a biblical view of Israel. These include David Jeremiah.

What stands in opposition to the bad teaching?

Scripture.

The biblical narrative is that the Jews will first return physically to the Land, then God will look after their spiritual transformation. This is all through the Bible. Some argue that this isn’t really found in the New Testament, but that is the so-called Argument from Silence. Meaning, if something isn’t mentioned elsewhere, then it must not be true. This is absurd and sophomoric.

But it is also true that these things are prophetic. As we steam toward the end, Israel will be increasingly alone. Unpleasant to see, but necessary according to God’s Word. We are right where we are supposed to be on the timeline.

So to the world, the cobra seems unbeatable. The world trembles.

And then the Swarm.

Israel is wired to defeat her enemies, or rather, her God will defeat them as they watch and participate. Things aren’t as they seem. We who believe have a mandate to hang on. As Band of Brothers hero Richard Winters said to his men: “Hang tough!”

We will.

As more fall off the Love Israel wagon, we cling to it. The serpent was destined from old to fail. So he shall. God will swarm him in the end and end him.