Justin Trudeau is considering stepping down amid cabinet turmoil, reports indicate
According to CTV News, a source said that Trudeau is looking at his ‘options’ following the shock resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chyrstia Freeland this morning. To make matters worse for Trudeau, just hours after Freeland’s resignation, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Jagmeet Singh, whose party has been propping up the Liberal minority government, called on the prime minister to resign.

Trump says Türkiye will hold ‘key to Syria,’ hails relationship with Turkish president
US President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he thinks Türkiye “is going to hold the key to Syria” after over five decades of Assad family rule abruptly came to an end this month, hailing his relationship with the Turkish president. Trump said Türkiye is “very smart” as he hailed his personal relationship with his Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Lebanese Druze party leader urges Shi’ites to ‘seek peace with Israel’
While typically one to outwardly support the Iranian regime and its proxies, he seemed to carefully tow the line and called for an embracing of peace with Israel. “I advise the Shi’ites to go to peace with Israel and let’s all live happily,” Wahhab said. The former supporter of Assad was questioned by the show’s host regarding his past alliance with the Syrian leader, to which he responded, “I will kill and make a deal with the devil in order to protect my family if needed.”

Who are the Kurds and what is their relation to Syria?
The Kurdish people are a distinct ethnic group of Iranian origin, with a well-defined identity in the region they have inhabited for over 2,000 years. The Kurds are mentioned in early Greek and Roman sources and have often been involved in the major political upheavals that shaped their region. The Kurds have continued to remain a fairly distinct ethnic group for most of modern history, resisting the pressure to intermarry during various conquests.

Ariel: Third Temple from Heaven is a Christian Concept
Rabbi Ariel insists that Jewish sources teach that the Jews are commanded to build God’s house. He goes on to say that the concept of the Third Temple descending from heaven comes from Christianity and, more specifically, from the New Testament Book of John. Rabbi Ariel assures Segal that the prophesied Third Temple in Jerusalem will be built by men.

Leaders Urge Tougher Anti-Terror Measures Amid U.S.- Israel Coordination and Security Talks
The leadership of the Yesha Council, representing Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, has urged the Israeli Security Cabinet to adopt more assertive measures against terrorism. In a letter sent ahead of the Cabinet’s weekly session, the council emphasized Iran’s efforts to establish Judea and Samaria as a new battleground following Israel’s successful actions against its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.

Trump pledges to get hostages back from Gaza, doesn’t mention ceasefire
President-elect Donald Trump declared that he will help Israel get the hostages back from Gaza, but he made no mention of a ceasefire as a step toward that development “We’re trying to help very strongly in getting the hostages back, as you know, with Israel and the Middle East. We’re working very much on that,” Trump said at a press briefing Monday Trump mentioned ending the war between Russia and Ukraine as a priority but did not discuss a Gaza ceasefire.

Sword linked to Pharaoh of Passover story discovered in Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they believe is a sword linked to the Pharaoh who was famously told by Moses to “Let My People Go” as recounted in the Torah. The 3,200-year-old bronze ceremonial sword bearing the name Ramses II in hieroglyphics was discovered in the remains of an ancient military complex at Tell Al-Abqain.

Israel, Jordan hold secret talks over Assad’s chemical weapons stockpile
Assad’s escape from Syria last week following rebel advances has raised urgent concerns about his abandoned chemical weapons stockpiles potentially falling into terrorist hands. Secret high-level talks between Israel and Jordan have emerged in response to this terrifying threat, according to three Israeli intelligence officials

Seven Recent News Stories Which Point To The Nearness Of Jesus’ Return
Below, I have selected seven news stories from the past year that continue to shout with the message that we live in the last days leading up to the start of the Tribulation period.

IDF downs Houthi missile fired at central Israel from Yemen
Air-raid sirens pealed in the greater Tel Aviv area on Monday afternoon after Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists fired a missile at the Jewish state from Yemen, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed. “Following alerts that were activated a short time ago in central Israel, one missile that was launched from Yemeni territory was intercepted and shot down before it crossed into Israeli territory,” the IDF said.

As Houthi attacks continue, CENTCOM strikes Houthi facility in Sanaa
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US Central Command says it conducted a precision air strike against a Houthi facility in Yemen’s capital. The facility “was a hub for coordinating Houthi operations, such as attacks against US Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.”

Residents of Syrian Golan villages, rebels transfer Assad weapons to IDF – report
Syrian villagers and rebels near the buffer zone are handing over Assad’s former weapons cache—including chemical warfare materials—to the IDF, marking a significant shift in regional dynamics.
IDF soldiers told N12 that they found several weapons filled with chemical warfare material. “You can see cheap grenades that were filled with chemical material, and they need to add a mechanism to activate them,” the soldiers explained. “There are boxes full of grenades with chemical materials that cause irritation and should not be touched directly.”

Israeli coalition agrees on firing AG, Ben-Gvir says
The leaders of Israel’s governing coalition have reached “broad agreement” on firing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Sunday.

Israel weighs response to Yemen as escalating Houthi attacks test its patience
Houthis continue attacks even as other fronts have quieted, warning, ‘What’s coming will be worse’; millions of Israelis forced into shelters once again, while officials in Jerusalem vow, ‘We will not show restraint’

As Trump’s Election Brings Peace Back To The Table, Is The Stage Being Set For The Ultimate ‘Man With A Plan’?
In the wake of the election of President Trump, the astounding movement toward peace that we are seeing on multiple fronts is nothing short of amazing. Peace seems to be in the air. Even as Donald Trump holds the position of president-elect, peace overtures are pouring in all over the world. The momentum for peace across our globe is not only stunning, it is prophetically significant.

Before-and-after satellite images show Agalega after Cyclone Chidos direct hit
Tropical Cyclone Chido made landfall on the island pair of Agalega in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, as a category 4 equivalent cyclone — the strongest cyclone to hit the island since 1983.

Tropical Cyclone Chido ‘Spares nothing’ in Mayotte, thousands feared dead
Tropical Cyclone Chido, the strongest storm to impact Mayotte in 90 years, struck the island on Saturday, December 14, 2024, claiming at least 21 lives, injuring over 830 people, and leaving one-third of the island’s 320,000 residents homeless. Authorities fear the death toll could rise to several hundred or even thousands as the full extent of the devastation becomes clear.

Severe dust storms hit Iraq and Iran 
Severe dust storms swept across Iraq and Iran on Saturday, December 14, 2024, injuring at least 65 people and prompting officials to close schools and cancel flights. In Iran, the storm was described as one of the worst in recent years.

Kroger Starts Selling Abortion Pills at Deep Discounts, Just $7 to Kill a Baby
Pharmacies at the second-largest grocery chain in the U.S. as well as the nation’s second-largest wholesale business, are now dispensing abortion drugs, according to reports this week. The news of the expanded availability of the drug comes despite intense controversy surrounding the health risks that chemical abortion poses to women, with widespread reports of severe medical complications — including death — resulting from the pills.

“Kill and Harvest.” Patients are Being Euthanized to Harvest Their Organs
In the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, people who want euthanasia can become organ donors. (A recent report in Spain showed that 13 percent of those euthanized donated organs.) Let’s call it “kill and harvest,” a policy heartily approved by our ever more crassly utilitarian medical establishment.

Warning: Imam Siraj Wahhaj Boasts About Islamic Takeover of New York City at Terror-Linked ICNA 2024 Conference 
Imam Siraj Wahhaj’s speech at the ICNA 2024 conference exposes a deliberate and foreign-funded strategy to replace Western institutions and values with Islamic dominance, enabled by government complacency and taxpayer dollars, posing a direct threat to America’s survival.

Saudi Psychiatrist Exposes Germany’s Active Operation: Welcoming Jihadis to Islamize the West While Crushing Ex-Muslim Refugees 
Western governments are not merely betraying genuine refugees—they are weaponizing mass migration to silence dissent, empower Sharia oppression, and destabilize their own nations from within.

Demand At Food Banks Has Soared To Record Levels All Over The United States 
Why is demand at food banks all over the country higher than it has ever been before? The media keeps insisting that economic conditions are just fine, but it has become quite obvious to everyone that this is not true. In particular, the rising cost of living has been absolutely crushing households from coast to coast. In the old days, most of the people that would show up at food banks were unemployed. But now food banks are serving large numbers of people that actually do have jobs but that don’t make enough to pay for all of the basics. The ranks of the “working poor” are growing very rapidly, and this is creating an unprecedented crisis all over America.

Police in China Test Indestructible Ball Shaped Robot That Can “Identify And Chase Suspects
Move over, BB-8: police in China are now testing a ball-shaped robot that “can identify and chase suspects” for the first time. The spherical police robot in Wenzhou, China, features cameras, flashing lights, and a self-stabilizing design, according to the South China Morning Post. Equipped with tools like tear gas, it supports law enforcement and “cannot be smashed.”

New Theory: NJ Drone Sightings May Be “Nuclear Sniffers” Following Elevated NYC Radiation Levels 
The founder of an aerospace company specializing in military-grade drones published a video on the Chinese social media platform TikTok, sharing his thoughts on the mystery drone sightings in New Jersey. His expert opinion is alarming, leaving many wishing that Paul Krugman’s theory about an alien invasion was true instead.

 

Turkey says 7,600 Syrians crossed its border to return home since fall of Assad
One week after the abrupt collapse of president Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the hands of a lightning offensive launched by Islamist-led rebels, Syrians are struggling to rebuild a nation crippled by years of war and economic hardship.

Israel decides to close its embassy in Ireland due to ‘antisemitic actions, rhetoric’
“The actions and antisemitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state, along with double standards. Ireland has crossed every red line in its relations with Israel.

New Jersey Police Break With FBI: Disagree ‘No Known Threat’ From Drones
The Warren County Police Chiefs Association has challenged the FBI’s assertion that there is “no known threat” associated with multiple drone sightings in New Jersey. The mystery drones have been spotted over various locations over the Garden State, including near the Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. military facility, and over President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster. The sightings have sparked fears about security, particularly regarding potential interference with commercial air traffic.

IDF promises Syrian Druze villages protection, if not annexation
Following a viral video of Druze communities in Syria calling for annexation by Israel, IDF officers have assured Druze village leaders of their ability to provide security and protection, while clarifying that there are no plans to annex territory in Syria. The viral video showed a Druze speaker calling on local leaders to support annexation to Israel,

Isaiah vs. The Two-State Solution: A Biblical Vision for Israeli Power
The leaders of Syria’s Druze community in al-Hader just did something unthinkable: they asked to join Israel. Yes, you read that correctly. Facing the threat of radical Islamic forces at their doorstep, these Druze leaders decided that Israeli sovereignty was their only hope for survival. “They might take our women, might take our daughters… might take our houses,” they warned. The choice was clear: face destruction or seek protection under Israeli rule. This development demolishes the Western elite’s favorite narrative about Israel being a pariah state that oppresses minorities. Even as the UN condemns Israel for “occupation,” actual Middle Eastern minorities are requesting to live under Israeli protection.

Netanyahu talks hostage deal, Syria turmoil with Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke overnight Saturday with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, according to Hebrew-language media. The two leaders reportedly discussed a potential hostages-for-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group, the fall of the Assad regime to Islamist fighters in Syria and the Iranian nuclear threat. Last week, Trump made it clear that while he hopes for an end to the war in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem must secure a decisive victory. “I want [Netanyahu] to end it, but you have to have a victory,” Trump stated.

‘No accident’: Ted Cruz claims US carriers avoid Israel skies
For over 14 months, major American carriers have remained conspicuously absent from Israel’s skies despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah and military gains against Hamas. One U.S. lawmaker who will soon take up the position of chairman on the Senate’s Transportation Committee believes it’s intentional. “The Biden-Harris administration was lax in pursuing why some airlines will not fly to Israel,”

98th Division ‘preparing for upcoming missions’ after completing operations in Lebanon
Since the ceasefire agreement came into effect, the division’s troops have continued to operate in southern Lebanon, while adhering to the terms of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon. The troops have been operating in order to prevent Hezbollah from regrouping, as well as locating weapons and terrorist infrastructure, removing threats to the State of Israel and its citizens. The soldiers are currently preparing for upcoming missions. Additional IDF troops are continuing to operate in the area.

World’s most advanced spy plane arrives at Nevatim airbase
The Oron is manned by air patrolmen and intelligence officers who, using advanced information extraction systems, can send information in real time to all IDF intelligence bodies. The Oron is operated by the 122nd Squadron, the IAF’s intelligence squadron, along with the Shavit and Eitam aircraft.

Israel Katz: New Syrian leaders ‘pretending’ to be moderate, pose danger to Israel
Katz stated, “Israel must be capable of defending itself using its own power, from any and all threats. The immediate threats to the State have not disappeared, and the recent developments in Syria have increased the severity of the threat.” He said this is true “despite the moderate vision which the Syrian rebel leaders are presenting.”

Cabinet convenes to discussions West Bank, hostage deal
The Security Cabinet is set to convey on Sunday at the IDF Central Command to discuss the recent surge in terror incidents in the West Bank, and the potential hostage deal to release 100 hostages who have been held in Gaza by Hamas for 436 days.

What has HHS withheld on the COVID-19 vax? Sen. Ron Johnson is about to find out
“Your agencies’ lack of transparency is unacceptable,” Johnson tells three Biden administration officials in the letter. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., puts federal health agencies on notice that he plans to subpoena unredacted records withheld by the Biden administration on potential adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. “It appears that even in the waning days of the Biden administration, your agencies will remain defiant in providing the public with complete information about the COVID-19 vaccines,”

For Palestinians, Syria is a closing door and an opening window
Although Syria had the chance to play a pivotal role in the region, it focused on fighting the Palestinians a lot more than the effort it made to fight Israel, the occupier of the Palestinian people. Ask any Palestinian about the Syrian regime under the father and later his son, and he will immediately tell you it never shot a bullet at Israel after the 1973 October War.

Syria’s new patron? Turkey offers to train new military, claims it ‘paved the way’ for Assad’s bloodless toppling
Since the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, Turkey has spearheaded efforts to establish relations with the new government, led by forces of the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group. After Turkey reopened its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, one of the first to do so after the rebel groups entered the city a week ago, Turkey’s Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said on Sunday that his country would offer to train the new security forces of Syria “if requested to do so.”

Chido Strikes Mozambique after catastrophic landfall in Mayotte 
December 15, 2024, after devastating the island of Agalega and leaving at least 14 people dead as it moved directly over Mayotte.

Severe to Extreme Heatwave Warnings in all states and territories except Tasmania, Australia
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued Severe to Extreme Heatwave Warnings for parts of all states and territories except Tasmania on December 14, 2024. The conditions are forecast to persist until December 17 with temperatures expected to remain elevated before a cooling trend begins on December 18.

Rare Scotts Valley Tornado injuries 5, overturns vehicles in shopping district, California 
A rare tornado touched down in Santa Cruz County’s Scotts Valley, Northern California on Saturday, December 14, 2024, causing 5 injuries and significant damage, including flipped cars, downed power lines, and uprooted trees. This event was part of a larger weather system that also led to San Francisco’s first-ever Tornado Warning.

Mystery ‘orbs’ appear to hover over  Minnesota sky
Following recent reports of drones hovering over New York and New Jersey, mysterious glowing orbs have this week been seen moving in the skies above Minnesota.

Notice of Extreme Concern sent to 10 European heads of government demanding covid mRNA “vaccines” be immediately halted 
The UK has joined nine other countries in the NORTH Group who are writing to the Prime Ministers of their countries to express extreme concern about the safety and quality of covid mRNA vaccines, citing excessive levels of residual DNA found in samples from Australia, France, Germany, Canada, and the USA.

European Committee gives green light to use self-replicating vaccines on citizens of EU countries
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended marketing authorization for Kostaive, a self-replicating mRNA (“saRNA”) injection developed by Arcturus Therapeutics. The final decision for regulatory approval now rests with the European Commission. The European Commission must reject authorization for these dangerous saRNA (replicon) vaccines.

UK’s euthanasia bill is England and Wales’ real-life Quietus program
The British House of Commons recently voted in favor of a bill allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales to seek help to end their own life. For Christopher Scalia, this sparked a comparison to P.D. James’s dystopian novel ‘The Children of Men.’ In the novel, a government-sponsored program called the Quietus organizes mass suicide ceremonies for people over 60. It describes the potential for abuse and manipulation of such programs.