Israel Watch

Insidious

American mendacity.

That’s what’s on my mind this week.

After watching Caroline Glick’s video this week about Joe Biden’s sudden hankering to visit Israel, and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s virtual moving to Israel—followed by the next visit from Great Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (we’re a long way from Winston Churchill)—one can only conclude that the West’s intention is to hamstring Israel in its existential war with Hamas.

Our government actually wants to delay and hopefully permanently shelve Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza. At the same time Israel has no choice but to launch such an operation.

This disgusts me. Biden’s illegitimate team, which strengthens its stranglehold on America, actually sat in on an Israeli war cabinet meeting! Unbelievable.

According to Glick, the American regime is placing strings on aid to Israel, including the much-needed munitions and military hardware necessary for a protracted conflict with Hamas and probably Hezbollah.

This is sick. Sicker still is the condition attached that Israel allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. You might think I’m harsh, but my question is: why is the international community concerned about that and not concerned at all about the 1,400 Israelis slaughtered by Hamas?

I’ll tell you what I think: only a tiny percentage of the earth’s population cares about the Jews. Many hate them. It’s where we are.

Tucker Carlson, who has shown himself since October 7 as being not so keen on Israel, interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy, still apparently a Republican candidate for president. The 30is business tycoon showed himself to be an amateur in discussing Israel’s peril.

Carlson asked what he would suggest for a strategy. Incredibly, Ramaswamy said the IDF should kill “100” members of Hamas (“the ones responsible for the murders”), then settle into some kind of internationally backed squishy “plan” to manage Gaza.

Is he out of his mind? Hamas sent 1,000 terrorist murderers into Israel on October 7. What hundred is Ramaswamy talking about? Further, he thinks Israel should make it a priority to severely limit civilian casualties. In essence, he thinks Israel has few options.

Carlson just kept nodding, frowning.

Neither has any clue of the situation in Israel, and frankly, I’m disappointed in Carlson. Interviewing Ramaswamy for his thoughts on strategy for Israel vs. Hamas? Why not just bring on your nephew, or gardener or mechanic and ask their opinion?

Next, broadcaster Hugh Hewitt, whom I stopped listening to in the week following the stolen 2020 election—because he thinks people like me are conspiracy rubes—has interviewed people like General David Petraeus, who also thinks Israel is basically in a no-win situation.

I can’t quite figure out Hewitt; he seems to me to be a Deep Stater, a guy most comfortable with the Washington Establishment (he can’t quit interviewing leftists like Chuck Todd, a know-nothing windbag if there ever was one), but I now wonder if he’s just extremely naïve.

The defeatism in the West, pitted against mendacity of the West (seen most obviously in the Biden team’s loathing of Israel, fortified by the loathing by Canada’s totalitarian Trudeau) is setting the stage for one of the very most fascinating end-times prophecies.

For years I have wondered how in the world Israel could end up alone and friendless, such as outlined in Jeremiah 30:14 and the latter chapters of Zechariah. Now we see.

In the first few days after the Hamas horror show of October 7, several major countries issued statements that sounded very good and supportive of Israel. They said Israel had a right to defend herself, with no restraints.

But they didn’t mean it. They really didn’t. It was statecraft. It was propaganda. It was lies.

It was obvious that after the first Palestinian, or Gaza poodle or pet parakeet was killed as collateral damage from Israeli strikes, the world would turn against Israel and accuse the Jewish state of war crimes. Unreal. Truly we live in the time talked about by Isaiah (5:20).

And so it has. Now, it is true that Israel still has allies such as Hungary and the Marshall Islands, but I am of the opinion that officially, all the superpowers are against her.

This is setting the stage for the moment near the end when we see Jeremiah come to fulfillment. Remember, because governments gaslight their citizens, when Blinken vows that America will always stand with Israel no matter what, what he really means is that the Regime in Washington would stand with Israel for about 45 minutes on October 8. After that, Jewish efforts to survive in Israel are simply beyond the pale. Especially, the American response to Israel’s predicament is insidious. There are Jew-haters all through our government institutions and the occupant of the Oval Office permits pro-Hamas fiends to overtake college campuses, the Senate building, and many other places across the country.

Truly, the stage is being set for all these prophecies to be fulfilled. I kept telling myself we had more time.

I am sickened by Washington. I am sickened by the betrayals of Israel. I am most sickened by the anti-Semitic filth I’ve seen from professing Christians in the past two weeks. It’s one thing to read and believe the prophetic scriptures. It’s quite another to live through them.

All the while, as Israel is being pushed more toward true peril, we know that God has them (and us) on exactly the timetable He wants and set from time immemorial. I take comfort in that. I know He will rescue His People, and vanquish their enemies.

Let us pray.

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Northern Exposure

Of all the threats to Israel these days (and there are many!), perhaps the most troublesome is the continual efforts by Hezbollah to foment violence.

The terror group’s ultimate aim of course is to defeat Israel. I insist on maintaining that, from the Bible, this won’t happen. But it doesn’t mean harassment and violence isn’t a problem for Jews living in their ancient land.

When the PLO lurched into Lebanon in the 1970s, after being expelled from Jordan by King Hussein in 1970, Arafat’s terror group began a long, slow slide into strife in the region. Even after Israel smashed the PLO during its invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Hezbollah later emerged and continues to this day as a terrorist organization funded by Iran. In 2006, a major war emerged between Hezbollah and Israel; it wasn’t prosecuted as well as it could have been from the Israelis. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seemed to be in over his head.

Over the years, Hezbollah has stockpiled an enormous supply of rockets, all aimed at Israel’s breadbasket, in the great fertile plain that leads to Tel Aviv.

In a report from Israel, we can glean some interesting tidbits from the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. An Iranian news channel interviewed Wafiq Safa, head of Hezbollah’s “liason and coordination unit.” Safa said that he didn’t know if a major conflict was imminent, but he did cite Israel’s internal struggles, both political and religious. It’s clear Hezbollah is monitoring all this closely.

Interestingly, Hezbollah is trying to curry favor all over Lebanon, even reaching out to the Sunni population in the north. However, those people, weary of the thugs, are rejecting the overtures. Good for them.

For the moment, there are plenty of small conflicts. This week, a Lebanese tractor operator crossed over into Israeli territory and ruined an earthen mound the IDF had built. It then crossed back.

Now, here is the true “bombshell” news: Najib Mikati, Lebanon’s interim prime minister, has said that a peace agreement with Israel could come about through negotiations with the Arab League. As has been stated, this is unprecedented. This comes at the same time the Saudis are willing to talk, as well.

Lebanon’s government has been destabilized (not big surprise; the terrorists have created these conditions for 40 years). European and Arab countries willing to provide aid are losing patience with the Lebanese. Two weeks ago, there was a shooting at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

It is troubling that the Lebanese army is building a road parallel to the Blue Line border, too close to IDF installations to be comfortable in Israel. This is in the Shebba Farms area, long a contentious spot for both countries. Lebanon is keen on seeing Israel’s imposing Merkava tanks leave the area. (I saw these gargantuan tanks during my May trip to Israel.)

 

As you might expect, various Palestinian terror groups have installed themselves in the conflict. The coordinating force is Fatah, but a particularly radical Islamist group, Usbat al-Ansar, is spreading evil ideology in the region. This of course is the foundation of all the violence in the Middle East the past two generations: stoking of violence and incitement, hatred for Jews and even rival Islamist groups.

You must remember that the community of Arab clans in the region operate little differently from those 1,000 years ago. Western powers that involved themselves in the region due to oil supplies, have never taken the steps to put down these Hatfield-and-McCoys conflicts.

The result is long-term radicalism, whether it’s Usbat al-Ansar in Lebanon, or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the issue is complex. It is made moreso because there is an unwillingness on the part of nations and diplomats to forcing the terrorists to stand down.

In the meantime, a lot of innocent people on both sides continue to suffer.

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