The Iranian Fangs on Israel’s Northern Border

On March 9, Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Hossein Abdollahian visited Syria, meeting with Bashar Assad. The trip was ostensibly to tour earthquake damage. A few days later, Esmail Ghaani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Qods Force, also visited various sites.

It was at this same time that Hamas political bureau member Khalil al-Haya was also in Syria, noting that even after Hamas left that country in 2013, Iran had continued to supply the PLO with whatever necessary to fight Israel.

These are but just a few examples that we cannot take our eyes off the monster in the region, Iran, the terror state that emerged from, among other things, the utterly failed policies of Jimmy Carter. We’re all still paying for that catastrophe.

Iran has also been providing financial support in Turkey and Syria, no doubt only to seek support from people dependent on outside sources to cope. I don’t think the mullahs actually care about people; they simply want to provide a counterweight to Israel, or to anyone decent. In this way, they are the same as cynical politicians that provide free stuff to people they intend to keep compliant and reliant on the ruling class.

Amir Hossein Abdollahian and Bashar al-Assad held a meeting where they discussed regional and international developments. Abdollahian noted the need to lift the economic sanctions imposed by the West on Syria and condemned Israel’s attacks. He said the “Zionist regime” was trying to deflect public opinion from Israel’s problematic internal situation.

Iran is involved in many things in the Middle East. By the way, even the Saudis—deathly afraid of Tehran—are figuring out ways to accommodate the mullahs. And Iran is also tightening the noose around the “Zionists” in various ways. For example:

“Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council for National Security, arrived in Baghdad for a visit. While there he signed an agreement to secure the Iranian-Iraqi border. The agreement was also signed by Qasim al-Araji, the Iraqi national security advisor, in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shaya al-Sudani. The Iranian media reported that the agreement would lead to the reduction of bilateral tensions and management of unwanted security crises caused by the hostile activities of “anti- revolutionary organizations in Kurdistan.” Meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, Shamkhani said Iran supported a strong, cohesive, united Iraq, and called for the complete removal of every factor creating tension and internal and external crisis in the border region. He also called for joint economic projects, including a railroad between Shalamcheh in western Iran and Basra. The Iraqi prime minister noted his country’s determination to implement agreements signed by the two countries, especially economic agreements, and said signing the security agreement indicated that the leaderships of both countries did not distinguish between the security of the two countries.”

All this comes, mind you, as American diplomats (and the regime in the White House) express outrage at Israel for seeking to roll-back certain aspects of an agreement not to rebuild communities in northern Samaria, after the 2005 pullout from Gaza. In fact, the Biden Regime is not hiding its loathing of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Let us continue to pray that God protects His People in this firestorm of hell unleashed by evil forces in Israel’s neighborhood.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

Funding the Terrorists

U.S. foreign policy is often nothing if not enabling where terrorists are concerned. It’s still a “mystery” that the Bush administration allowed members of the Saudi royal family fly home immediately after 9/11.

For decades, we have propped-up rogue regime after rogue regime. Pumping money into Middle East police states, Ukrainian oligarchs, and Palestinian grifters has compromised our own financial integrity. It has also corroded our moral structure.

Now, a charity operating in Gaza (“Hamas Land”) has come under the scrutiny of Republican Congressman Darrell Issa. According to a report from Caroline Glick, Issa sent a letter to Anthony Blinken and, well:

“On Feb. 27, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding the suspension of a U.S. State Department grant that was awarded to Fares Al Arab for Development and Charity Works in Gaza due to the group’s ties to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organizations.

“The State Department gave Fares Al Arab a $41,213 grant for ‘Developing Palestinian Journalists’ English Skills.’ But as The Washington Free Beacon reported, Fares Al Arab issued a grant ‘to a radio network run by the Islamic Jihad … , honored a self-described journalist who belonged to the PFLP, hosted a press freedom event that featured a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad, and co-led a human rights training course with a convicted terrorist.’”

Issa said that he wanted to know by March 10 why the grant was issued if the terror ties were known, and to give complete rundown of the financials involved.

I think we all know this current rogue regime in Washington will never deign to give those kinds of answers. But I applaud Issa for trying. It is important to keep trying to penetrate the corridors of the Deep State, of which Blinken is a loyal foot soldier.

Glick explains that this whole affair is tightly choreographed. As Glick wrote: “The full expanse of the Biden administration’s policy towards Palestinian terrorists and Israel became clear this week during U.S. Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr’s visit to Israel and Jordan.”

Amr first stopped in Jordan (no real friend of Israel or the U.S.). Ostensibly, he was there to participate in a summit to combat terror, specifically the uptick of murder in Israel by Palestinians. Get this: the end goal here is to train 5,000 (thousand) Palestinian commandos to be deployed in the Territories to “fight” (my quotes) terrorism. Here comes the scary specifics:

“The U.S. proposal would also require Israel to sharply curtail IDF counterterror operations. It foresees the deployment of foreign forces, including U.S. military forces, on the ground. The ostensible purpose of those forces would be to separate Palestinians from Israelis. In practice, such a deployment would pit U.S. and other forces against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians on behalf of the Palestinians.

“Among the many alarming aspects of the U.S. plan is the fact that it ignores completely the direct involvement of Palestinian forces in terrorist attacks. During the course of the Palestinian terror war 20 years ago, U.S.-trained P.A. forces murdered 26 IDF soldiers in 2002 alone. The Palestinians learned how to use cell phones as remote detonation devices from their American trainers. Over the years, they have put that knowledge to use not to fight terror but to kill Israelis in terrorist attacks.

“The P.A., whose forces the U.S. seeks to ‘empower,’ is controlled by the Fatah terror group. P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas is the chairman of Fatah. Fatah terrorists carried out most of the murderous terror attacks in 2021-2022. Several of those attacks were carried out by P.A. security officers.”

These people aren’t to be trusted. Yet the U.S. appears ready to trust them. Why? I think at the root, the current regime in Washington, like that of Barack Obama’s, really seeks to undermine Israel and make her soft and vulnerable for the long-anticipated destruction of the Jewish state.

Israel will survive the latest round of violence, as it always does, and will. But how utterly tragic that death robs Jews of family and friends. All the while, the world aligns itself with the evil one.

The anti-Israel, anti-Jew sentiment in our State Department and White House is a stain on our national history.

Come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com