Standing Up to Evil

Israel’s present circumstances are instructive for us as individuals.

Have you ever been in an intense relationship—romantic, your job, a longtime friend—and you realized you were being manipulated and pressured and perhaps even blackmailed?

We all have.

Sometimes we give in, such as if you’re in an abusive relationship, and you apologize for things you didn’t do, or you agree to an arrangement that is not just. All to placate someone.

That just feeds the monster.

Other times, though, the bully finds that he is opposite someone that won’t buckle. Even when the pressure continues unabated for an extended period of time. You look them in the eye and simply say, No.

That’s when the pressure goes away and peaceful sleep comes at night.

This is the situation the Jewish state finds herself in right now.

For weeks now, withering pressure from “allies” and enemies has threatened Israel’s just war against the Hamas demons. Very similar to the Kitchen Sink agenda Donald Trump’s enemies have, Israel has been threatened and cajoled and defamed. The goal has been to let Hamas escape, thus winning the war.

In historic ways, the international community has pummeled the Israelis, thus proving Isaiah 5:20 as a prophecy meant for our time.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

But Israel has stood firm. Even internal, domestic pressures from soulless politicians, and the emotional pleas from the families of hostages…all have failed to deter Israel from finally entering Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas.

As we speak, the IDF is systematically finishing-off Hamas.

I will be blunt: the United States government apparatus right now is evil. They are enemies of truth and freedom. Providing cover for beasts that rape, burn, and torture Israeli citizens, the Biden[Obama] Regime will one day face the Ultimate Judge.

Still, the IDF marches on. According to the Jerusalem Post:

“Tziad al-Din al-Sharfa, the deputy commander of National Security in the Gaza Strip was killed when Air Force fighter jets attacked on Thursday in the center of the Gaza Strip.”

“Additionally, earlier this week, the terrorist Yusuf al-Shobaki was attacked and killed in the city of Gaza. He served as an operative in the Industrial Equipment Department of Hamas’ production headquarters.”

In Rafah right now, the IDF is closing-in on Sinwar and the top five Hamas commanders. The last four battalions are being dismantled and destroyed. At the same time, in the north, war gets closer with Hezbollah.

But have you noticed that on the battlefield, Israel is making astonishing gains? There is only one elite military in the Middle East and it marches under the Star of David.

For the longest, supporters of Israel have fretted over Hezbollah’s capabilities, primarily because of the huge stockpile of missiles and rockets aimed at Israel’s breadbasket. Yet Israeli’s precision strikes for years have set the terrorists back. I have no doubt that while Hezbollah is responsible for the displacement of tens of thousands of Israeli citizens from the north, victory will belong to Israel. They are capable of fighting on multiple fronts.

This past week Hezbollah continued its escalation and claimed responsibility for 68 attacks on military and civilian targets in northern Israel, including the aerial detection and warning system surveillance blimp. The attacks killed an Israeli civilian and wounded 12 IDF soldiers. Hezbollah fired “Jihad Mughnieh” heavy rockets for the first time and for the first time, launched S-5 air-to-surface rockets from a UAV. In response, Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked Hezbollah military facilities in south Lebanon and the Lebanon Valley and carried out targeted attacks on field commanders of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.

Remember how the world told Israel what they couldn’t accomplish in Gaza? This was all bluff. Despite fighting with both arms and legs tied behind their backs by immoral international players, Israel has demolished Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It’s brilliance will be studied for generations.

In reality—and this is a lesson for us as individuals—the enemy is the one that is desperate and cornered. Bluffing and huffing, he hopes against hope that the Just will fold. Don’t let that happen. If you resist, you will win. And when it’s life and death, all the sweeter.

The good guys will win.

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History Repeats Itself

I was reading this week about Israel’s founding in 1948. I posted a piece about it on my Patreon site. In Sir Martin Gilbert’s masterful work, Israel, he provides rich detail about the Jewish state’s modern history. I was struck by how similar 1948 is to 2024 and the interference of the Biden Regime. Really. I was not really aware that American perspectives on the Arab-Israeli conflict have not changed at all in 75 years. And they have been consistent.

In 1967, with Egypt breathing down Israel’s neck, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson urged Israel’s Levi Eshkol to stand down and not attack first. LBJ promised Israel could count on America.

Israel knew that they couldn’t. In fact, LBJ is among history’s most foul liars. Not only did Israel ignore him, they preempted the Arab armies surrounding them, and you know the rest.

The Six-Day War. Total victory. The return of their ancestral land.

Ahead of Israel’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion sent Golda Meir on a secret mission to Transjordan to gauge where King Abdullah was in his view of war. The surrounding Arab states had promised to invade Israel if they went ahead with their plans for statehood. Abdullah represented the closest thing the Arabs presented as sane and reasonable. In fact, a few years later, Abdullah was apparently prepared to recognize Israel and sign a treaty. Of course, jihadists murdered him on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was a tragic failure to normalize relations.

And guess what? In the weeks leading up to May 14, the U.S. was pushing… a three-month ceasefire!

The days and hours became so tense and tight that no one knew what was going to happen. Military estimates were that Israel had, at best, a 50/50 chance of staving off a shattering defeat. They had very few tanks and a couple of planes. From Gilbert’s work:

“With Yadin and Galili on their way back to Haganah headquarters, Ben-Gurion, as chairman of the Provisional Council, called for a decision by a show of hands on the United States proposal for a cease-fire. By six votes to four, the proposal was rejected. It was then agreed that statehood would be established on the following Friday afternoon, in two days’ time.”

Wow.

This is what I think is going to happen this time, too. The demonic pressure on Israel—America telling them how to fight their war and demanding ridiculous ceasefires—is simply the wrong way to go.

And sure enough, in only the last couple of days, Israel has uncovered the horrors in Rafah everyone knew were there. Three Israelis kidnapped on October 7 are now known to have been murdered then. For more than seven months, as their families hoped against hope, those three people have been decomposing in a hellhole made by Hamas. And also this week, five IDF soldiers were killed in a friendly fire incident. That incident wouldn’t have happened if Biden hadn’t pressured Israel. Their blood is on his hands. In the next life, he’ll be accountable.

Think of it. Every time their “great ally” America promises this and that, Israel knows they are alone. A good rule of thumb is, if patterns are present, if precedents are set, don’t trust anyone. If Israel had relied on the U.S. advice several times since World War 2, they wouldn’t be here now. During World War 2, FDR refused to send even one plane to bomb the tracks leading to Auschwitz.

The U.S. government is not Israel’s friend.

Israel right now is operating all through Gaza. In Rafah, they have cut off Hamas finally from the outside world. No more re-armament, no more supplies to wage war. More Hamas terrorists are being killed every day. The IDF has reduced the number of rocket launchers from 20,000 to a handful. And in the north, Hezbollah heats things up, but I have a conviction that all the doomsday talk of overwhelming Hezbollah rockets will turn back on the terrorists. It’s happened so many times before, stretching back to antiquity. God fights for His people.

He will now, too.

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