Helping Hitler

Word came this week that the U.S. is trying to find a legal path to sell F-35s to…Turkey.

Turkey?? Turkey.

The same country helmed by a madman jihadist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As part of the New Reality, even President Trump has praised Erdogan: “I like him, he is my friend and he stayed out of the war with Iran.” He also added that Erdogan is “not a big fan of Israel.”

What’s going on here?

Erdogan has made genocidal statements about Israel, just as thug dictators before him, like Egypt’s Nasser. Erdogan is a straight-up jihadists—in a suit—and he wants Israel dead.

Either Trump has supreme belief in his own negotiating skills, or he is horribly naïve. Who knows? He could be both at the same time.

Also not surprisingly, J.D. Vance is active in looking at ways to more lethally arm Turkey.

As reported by Reuters:

“WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance ​indicated on Wednesday ‌that a review was under way to ​see how the ​United States could sell ⁠Turkey F-35 fighter ​jets given Ankara’s 2019 ​acquisition of Russian S-400 missile defense systems.

“’Pete [Secretary of War Hegseth] and ​the entire team ​are reviewing this right now, ‌because ⁠there are certain things that we have to certify ​have happened … ​in ⁠order to comply with American ​law. The president ​has ⁠asked us to do that,’ Vance ⁠told ​reporters.”

Vance—along with Trump—have made odious, nasty statements about Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel in recent weeks. Look it up. While many of us saw Trump as a critical piece for America’s resurgence and as Israel’s great friend, very recent statements are simply sinister. They portray Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace and both have sought to humiliate him in public.

They are no friends of Israel. Vance never was. As a Catholic, he has zero understanding of biblical worldview, especially in this area.

Why pull up on Iran seconds from victory? Why gush over the killer Erdogan in public? It doesn’t make sense on the surface.

What I think is that Trump has a fatal love for his own business skills. In other words, he’s never wrong. Vance is another thing: an anti-Semite that buddies around with the likes of Jew-haters Tucker Carlson. Also, in order to promote his own new book, he chums with leftists like The View panelists and Megyn Kelly. The latter, just another shameless self-promoter, forms her worldview by the direction of the wind. Now that Jew-hatred is out in the open and popular, they are emboldened.

For many years, Israel has had enemies in the West. Clinton and Obama diplomats. Thomas Friedman of The New York Times. Anthony Lewis at The Washington Post. The list is very long.

Now we must add “conservative” sources. Shocking and painful and grotesque.

Why would an allegedly conservative, Republican White House openly help Israel’s enemies? We’ve discussed secular, human reasons. But the thing back of it is evil itself. Satan has hated Israel since the book of Genesis. This explains the otherwise baffling move toward Islam and terrorism.

Whatever good the administration is doing is negated by its dalliance with Islam. Dancing with Erdogan while sidelining Bibi is vomit-inducing. We know now for sure we cannot rely on a political person or entity. Apart from God, we are on our own. But as Job learned, we can trust Him even in lethal times.

Thank God.

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Catastrophic

David Horovitz of The Times of Israel—I usually take TOI with a grain of salt—has hit it on the head this week. His column, “Trump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran’s aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained,” is spot-on. His assessment of the nonsensical Trump “Iran deal” is coldly realistic and rational, unlike the President’s seeming stamp of approval.

We are just now hearing what the Memorandum of Understanding with Tehran is, and it’s even worse than we feared. The fundamental question is, why would the U.S., coming from a place of clear strength a few months ago, do the exact opposite of what that strong country should do? Agreeing to Iranian demands? That’s like alerting Germany on April 29, 1945 that we would negotiate a settlement with them. In real life, Hitler blew his brains out a day later, understanding the catastrophe he had brought on Germany. Nazi Germany was in ashes.

Worst of all—stupefyingly—Trump has taken in the last 10 days to publicly lambast Benjamin Netanyahu…using the F-word and calling him basically stupid. Worst of all, he uses Arab language to accuse Netanyahu and the IDF of murdering Lebanese civilians. Trump’s contention that Israel blows up buildings full of innocent people is stunning and unconscionable.

Many of us have hoped against hope that the President has some master plan here, some amazing strategy, that will explain all this bizarre behavior.

He doesn’t.

What I think we are seeing is a now-consummate politician, one coldly pragmatic and who will disrespect a genuine ally if he gets what he wants. But what does he want?

I will concede that Trump knows more than we do. He likely knows how genuinely difficult it was going to be to remove the regime in Iran. Internal polls show that at best, only half of Iranians don’t identify with the regime. That’s 45 million people. Like the Soviet system, Islam has been implanted in Iran for a half-century. Trump also knows that Iran can still manipulate the global economy. The Iranian people were not able to push the mullahs from power. That is a fact.

But all this makes it clear we did not have a solid strategy to begin with. Hundreds of millions of dollars in munitions were apparently wasted. Some have estimated that Iran still is only days from 11 working nuclear bombs. Which makes our bombing of their facilities…what? A wasted effort?

It’s hard to know. It would be difficult to cite even one power from world history that bungled a sure victory more than we have. And, like many bosses, Trump refuses blame for mistakes. He dumps that on underlings. Like a boss.

Trump has now publicly demanded that Israel no longer operate in Lebanon. In other words, he had personally negotiated a plan that has no Israeli input, even as the Jewish state is fighting several existential wars. Is he mad?

I think Trump’s vast ego is his biggest weakness. He really does fall for the thing Arabs are good at: false praise. Gifts. His discernment goes out the window when he is praised. He thirsts for it. Trump needs and demands praise. It causes him to make bad decisions. Now that our enemies know this, I don’t see a way back from it.

For him to tell the world that he makes decisions for Israel…it’s grotesque and mind-boggling. He has gone from being Israel’s best friend ever in the White House to being somewhere in Obama territory. That he says with a straight face that his plan is superior to Obama’s is almost unbelievable.

Horovitz writes:

“In the US president’s reality-challenged view, Israel is an ingrate and a warmonger, while Iran’s mass-murdering leaders are ‘very rational.’ They are indeed all too rational, and he, clearly, is not.”

All us MAGA folk must admit that this statement is exactly correct.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are historically bad negotiators and diplomats. That’s saying something, with our past littered with the likes of Warren Christopher and Dennis Ross. All our past diplomats were horrible on Middle East policy. George W. Bush had Condi Rice—a Russia expert—advancing Middle East policy. She was atrocious.

Horovitz also notes:

“According to a draft text obtained by The Times of Israel, CNN and Bloomberg on Wednesday, the 14-point MOU potentially grants the regime hundreds of billions of dollars — which it will doubtless utilize to help keep its restive population in line, to massively fund Hezbollah, Hamas and its other terrorist proxies, and to spend as needed on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. (The White House said later Wednesday, without elaboration, that the draft text ‘does not reflect the language of the actual MOU.’)”

I very frankly do not trust what my government is telling me.

And what of Trump’s recent claim that we control the Strait of Hormuz?

We clearly did not, at any time. Iran has leveraged their mines, drones, and speedboats to hamstring us. Incredibly!

I am sure of a few things, though. Israel will not yield her control over her fate to fickle “friends.” Israel will do what it takes to stay upright.

I also believe, like many Bible prophecy enthusiasts, that all this is pointing to the sobering prophecies in Jeremiah and Zechariah telling us Israel will end up alone. Here, God tells us “All your lovers will leave you.”

All.

This must be so in order to bring mankind to a place of not being able to deny God anymore. Because of our profound stupidity, we have to learn painful lessons.

I also have to ask, where are President Trump’s “spiritual advisors” on this? Paula White? Robert Jeffress (who loves photo-ops so long as Trump is popular. Not so much 2021-24)? Is Jack Graham in his ear about the terrible current policy?

Evidently Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth think this deal is putrid. They’ve barely been seen, while our lightweight VP spouts horrible history knowledge and assurances that Iran is really terrific.

All in all, we are “led” by mediocre politicians.

And this puts more of the focus on the fact that all of us are alone apart from God. I pray the President gets real spiritual discernment before it’s too late (he just turned 80, with lavish birthday parties and perks).

We are hurtling toward profound, iconic moments. We are getting to see them. God has gifted us that.

The ride is bumpy, but let’s be thankful God granted us this front-row seat to history.

Maranatha!

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