by Tim Buck | Jan 16, 2025 | Hamas, Joe Biden, President Trump
There’s a New Sheriff in Town!
Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas to release the hostages before his inauguration pays off.
This development comes at a crucial time in prophetic history.
With President Trump about to enter the Whitehouse, the prophetic stage seems to be set for him to fulfill many of the dramatic events necessary to bring us closer to the start of the Tribulation Period.
Trump first to announce agreement on Truth Social
Israel, Hamas Finalize Deal
1/14/25 By Tim Buck
Fotet.org
On the 467th day of the war, Israel and Hamas have finalized a deal to pause the war and release hostages, working closely with U.S., Qatari, and Egyptian mediators.
President-elect Donald J. Trump was the first senior official to announce and confirm the news via social media.
“WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST,” the incoming American Commander-in-Chief announced on Truth Social at noon eastern (7pm Israel time). “THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!”
Senior Israeli officials believe it has been Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas that there will be “ALL HELL TO PAY” for the terrorist organization if all the hostages are not released by the time he takes the oath of office on Monday, Jan. 20.
Israel’s security cabinet is expected to meet today to formally approve the deal.
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon wrote on X, “President Trump deserves all the credit for today’s deal, that will bring us back all remaining hostages. And today’s deal was way more difficult to achieve.”
The deal includes the release of 33 Israeli hostages, including women, children, and the elderly, in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of them terrorists. It may seem like an inequitable deal, and that’s because it is. However, it does show how much Israel values the lives of its citizens.
The ceasefire will begin on Sunday with the first group of hostages set to be released in the first phase.
The first phase will last six weeks, with around 3-4 additional hostages set to be released every week.
During this phase, Israel and Hamas will discuss the details regarding a second phase, with the goal being a final end to the war in Gaza.
While this is a moment for cautious optimism, I am not certain that the entire agreement will ever come to pass.
We must remember that true peace in Jerusalem will only come with the return of the Prince of Peace.
This six-week ceasefire is a temporary respite, but it represents hope for the Israeli families who have suffered tremendous loss.
Please join me in praying for the hostages’ safe return, for the peace of Jerusalem, and for God’s continued protection over Israel.
As we watch these events unfold, remember that God’s promises to Israel are unchanging, and His Word never fails.
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever. – Ps. 125:1-2
by Tim Buck | Jul 31, 2024 | Joe Biden, President Trump
Is God Protecting Trump?
7/30/24 – By Tim Buck
FOTET.ORG
It is I who says of Cyrus,
‘He is My shepherd,
and he will carry out all My desire.’ And he says of Jerusalem,
She will be built, and of the temple, Your foundation will be laid.
Isaiah 44:28
During his first term, leading evangelicals and even Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu compared President Trump to the Persian King Cyrus the Great who greatly blessed Israel.
They argue that Trump may be compared to Cyrus because of his favorable policies for Israel.
Cyrus served as God’s agent by authorizing Jewish exiles in Babylon to return to the Promised Land and to rebuild the temple. Trump’s pro-Israel policies could advance many of the causes of the modern State of Israel.
But will he get the opportunity to accomplish it for a second term?
Over the last month or so I have suggested that possibly neither Donald Trump or Joe Biden would be in office this January. It was mainly just a common sense observation.
Joe Biden had become a political liability, and they were hanging him out to dry. Those in control set him up to debate Trump a full two months before he was even formally nominated—a first.
Contrast that with them keeping him in his basement during the last election cycle.
So they trotted Joe out on stage without him being amped up on anything for the world to see how pitiful he had become. And then they called in the hatchet media and threw him to the wolves. So now Joe is OUT and America is left with an even weaker presidential presence for the next six months leaving us even more vulnerable and in great need of prayer. Who’s running the Whitehouse now? This bazar season of empty leadership in America opens the door even wider for the evil intentions of our enemies.
With former President Donald Trump, they took more drastic action. Everyone will long remember July 13, 2024 and the attempt to assassinate the former President. This didn’t come out of nowhere as they’re all hoping we would believe. The Secret Service allowed a man with a rifle to climb onto a roof with direct line of sight to Trump for some 20 minutes. They even knew two hours earlier he had flown a drone over the rally site.
They knew all this and yet allowed Trump to come on stage…obviously as a sitting duck.
They then, according to Brighteon, allowed the shooter to shoot for 16 seconds before they took him out.
From the best research thus far, there were at least eight shots that were recorded on audio, but possibly only five from the delusional boy they set up to take the wrap.
Initial reports said there were five bullet shell casings on the roof. Later the FBI said there were eight. Of course they did.
The number of bullet casings found on the roof is so important that the now-retired head of Secret Service wouldn’t even give the answer after admitting she knew.
It was a divine miracle that the shooter missed Trump’s skull by a millimeter, as he turned at the exact moment of the shot, but an even bigger miracle that one or two other probable shooters missed him also.
There is reason to suspect that the boy on the roof was demonic if not possessed by Satan himself, similar as to how the devil possessed Judas. I say this because Satan wants to kill and that’s what was in the mind of the shooter. Being that we are living in “the end of the end-times,” and the fact that Trump’s strong, pro-Israel stance has a high possibility of returning him to the Oval Office, this makes him like the devil’s ENEMY #1 on planet earth!
After the first shot that hit Trump, the president went down and was swarmed by secret service agents so the shooter on the roof probably assumed he had successfully killed the president as he remained down and covered by the Secret Service agents. Yet we know that over the next 15 seconds the boy on the roof continued to shoot at least four more rounds into the crowd. For some strange reason he never hit one of the secret service agents surrounding Trump, which grouping would have presented the largest target on the stage, but three of his rounds hit spectators who had come to see the president. Was he possessed enough so that after assuming Trump was dead, he kept randomly shooting in order to kill as many as possible? We’ll never know but it seems that’s what happened. Most likely the shooter died not knowing God spared President Trump’s life.
So it’s safe to conclude that the Lord is protecting Trump, since he protected him from all 8 shots, except for the nick on the ear!
Satan and his minions are obviously not through with trying to get Trump out of the race…the bad guys still have a lot more cards they could play to stay in power. So hang on to your hat over the next six months. We’ve been here before and know how much they want to retain power and how good they can be at stealing an election.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know why God is protecting Trump?
Lens of Prophecy
Looking at it through the lens of Bible prophecy, and in view of the Hamas war with Israel, Trump would be the best leader on earth for handling the troubling waters ahead of the post-Gaza war. Timing is everything!
There is a sizable list of geo-political issues facing Israel and the Middle East, coming just around the corner, and they are all necessary to fall into place correctly for the start of the 7-Year Tribulation. The short list would include the US led Saudi-Israel normalization deal, the expansion of the Abraham Accords, implementing Netanyahu’s NATO-like Abraham Alliance with the Middle East’s pro-Israel nations and the BIG ONE… Mideast Peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Do you remember Trump’s “Deal of the Century” that he proposed during his last term? It was hijacked by COVID-19. The “Deal of the Century” Trump brought forth was a two-state plan that envisioned out-of-the-box solutions with more possibilities for both Israel and the Palestinians than previously conceived. His team worked tirelessly most of his first term on developing the intricate plan.
Back to the question. Is the Lord protecting Trump and allowing him to return again as president in order to lead the nation and the world through all these sticky issues during his second term? What other world leader could do a better job? Is he the LAST TRUMP?
At the moment, with Biden out and Harris in we’re left to wonder, do the bad guys want us to believe that they are in complete disarray and are running in circles so they can spring their next trap? Or are they actually losing their power grip?
Thankfully the Creator God of the Universe is the One in control of everything, not the Deep State, or the devil.
The point is, while the Holy Spirit still resides in people on earth, choosing the president of the US is God’s call, not Satan’s.
Considering how God protected President Trump against all odds in Butler, Pa. on July 13th, it’s reasonable to conclude that now there’s the possibility that Trump could be elected and sworn in this January. Fascinating!
If Trump does get sworn in, the bad guys will, of course, try some or all the same stuff they tried the last time he was seated in power.
But if God does allow Trump back in power, it would also buy us some time to serve the Lord in freedom until our exhilarating departure. (And time for another trip to Israel or two!)
That’s NOT a prediction, just an observation.
The Rapture could happen at any moment before or after the election. But God did say to the Believers that when we see our exit getting close, “comfort one another.”
by Tim Buck | Jun 12, 2024 | Hamas, Israel, Joe Biden
Gantz Resigns Under US Pressure
How Biden Is Using Gantz As His Trojan Horse To Impose US Demands and Insure Israel’s Defeat in Gaza
6/12/24 By Tim Buck
Fotet.org
Israel’s War Cabinet member Benny Gantz resigned under pressure from Biden and Blinken and took his eight-member faction out of the Netanyahu government this past weekend. With his departure, the war cabinet formed last October after he joined forces with Netanyahu will be dissolved.
What precipitated Gantz’s departure? How will his decision affect the trajectory of the war?
Two forces are responsible for Gantz’s move: the Biden administration and the far-left, anti-government political campaigners in Israel popularly known as the Kaplan force. Gantz joined the government in response to U.S. pressure and a call from the far left to undermine the government from within. He is leaving due to pressure from both.
As Politico reported on Thursday, Biden’s main focus these days is political to end the war as quickly as possible. To achieve this goal, he is applying pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to capitulate to Hamas’s demands for a permanent ceasefire.
“The president and his aides are working to make sure Netanyahu is feeling the squeeze from all sides,” the magazine reported.
The report explained that Biden and his team are working not only with international actors but with “Israeli citizens and Netanyahu’s political allies and foes alike.”
The main Israeli citizens in question are the deep-pocketed far-left political campaigners that have been carrying out protests, riots and other direct-action campaigns since 2019 to oust Netanyahu and the political religious right from power. Since Netanyahu returned in December 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken and other senior officials have regularly met with leaders of the Kaplan force in Israel and in Washington.
Although Gantz’s departure is significant, it isn’t a surprise. When he announced his agreement to serve in a national emergency government days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion and slaughter, most Israelis were relieved. At a moment of national peril, Israelis believed it was imperative to abandon the domestic rancor that had characterized life in Israel during the Kaplan force’s 10-month insurrection that preceded Hamas’s invasion.
Unity Government During War
Over its history, Israel has formed a “unity government” during war time.
Netanyahu didn’t need Gantz to form a government. His coalition has a healthy majority of 64 seats. Although a show of unity is what the public yearned for, it was clear from the outset that Gantz’s participation in the government wouldn’t yield a national consensus.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid refused to join the government because he said that he wouldn’t sit in a government with the Religious Zionism Party or the Jewish Strength Party led by Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, respectively. Gantz demanded the establishment of the war cabinet and insisted that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir be barred from participating in its deliberations.
In short, Gantz and the left agreed to share power with Netanyahu but refused to accept the legitimacy of his coalition or voters.
Misunderstood the Political Situation in Israel
Netanyahu brought Gantz into his government after Oct. 7 because he hoped that Gantz’s presence in the war cabinet would diminish U.S. pressure for Israel to end the war without defeating Hamas and without successfully diminishing the strategic threat to the north from Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon.
In the event, Gantz did not deliver the goods. Netanyahu’s government was demonized by the United States, the United Nations, Europe, and the Western and Israeli media as the “most extreme government in Israeli history,” before Gantz joined the government, and it was demonized as the “most extreme government in Israeli history,” by the same forces after Gantz joined the government.
Even worse, pressure has risen to unprecedented heights with Gantz in the government. As Politico reported, in recent months, Biden and his team have been mobilizing all relevant international actors to trap Netanyahu with a “vice grip” that will leave him no option other than to bow to their goal of ending the war without Israeli victory.
To this end, the US administration has directly and indirectly greenlighted an international campaign of delegitimization and demonization of Israel from the United Nations to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court which is unprecedented. The goal of these actions is self-evident: to make Netanyahu and his government end their quest for victory over Hamas and stand down in the face of insufferable Hezbollah assaults on northern Israel.
If that weren’t enough, in keeping with the joint expectations of the Biden administration and the Kaplan force, Gantz has used his presence in the war cabinet not to give a boost to Israel’s war effort but to serve as a drag on that effort. Ceaseless leaks of war cabinet proceedings to the media by Gantz and his partner Gadi Eizenkot have undermined the war effort by demoralizing the public and casting doubt on Israel’s capacity to win. Moreover, Gantz and Eizenkot have effectively served as U.S. proxies in the war cabinet, repeatedly blocking or delaying major planned offensives in keeping with U.S. wishes.
Since Gantz’s presence in the government brought neither national unity nor political stability—or even any international support—his absence is not expected to cause major shocks to Israel’s political stability or international standing. It is also unlikely to achieve the Biden administration’s goal of overthrowing the government or forcing Netanyahu to bow to Biden’s pressure campaign to end the war.
So why is the administration acting as it does? Apparently, it has misunderstood the political situation in Israel. Since the Netanyahu government entered office, the administration has refused to meet with the “extreme members” of his coalition Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. They have refused to speak with Netanyahu voters, opting instead to sanction them and demonize them. While boycotting the majority of Israelis and demonizing their elected representatives, the Biden administration has operated in an echo chamber that hears only the Israeli left, which comprises somewhere between 20% to 30% of Israelis.
The left’s dismal standing is borne out by consistent polling of Israelis since Oct. 7. Those polls have found that 70% of Israelis support Netanyahu’s goal of total victory. A poll this week by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reflected the results of successive polls about support for the so-called “two-state solution,” which requires the establishment of a Palestinian state. Some 69% of Israelis oppose Palestinian statehood—79% of Israeli Jews oppose it.
Blinken has just arrived in Israel and is scheduled to meet with Netanyahu. If experience is a guide, he can be expected to meet with Gantz, Lapid and other left-wing politicians. He will probably also meet again with leaders of the Kaplan force, which is set to stage mass protests in Jerusalem and besiege the Knesset to pressure lawmakers to bring down the government beginning in the middle of the week.
Blinken will be beset by a reality he hadn’t anticipated. Far from destabilizing Israel or increasing pressure on Netanyahu, the secretary of state will find a stable coalition no longer constrained by Gantz’s veto on military action. The political leverage that Blinken and Biden held against Netanyahu will be gone.
Given the political realities on the ground and the actual role Gantz played in the government since joining in October, it is clear that the implications of his departure are twofold. First, the government will be more stable without him than it was with him. And second, without Gantz’s veto, Netanyahu and his ministers will be free to pursue a course to victory in the war.
by Tim Buck | Jun 11, 2024 | Hamas, Israel, Joe Biden
Biden urges Israel to accept his latest Gaza peace deal to scam Israel and the American people and rescue Hamas for another day!
Biden’s Plan To Save Hamas
White House pushes Gaza deal identical to Hamas’ own proposals
6/11/24 By Tim Buck
Fotet.org
After families across Israel had lit their Sabbath candles, returned home from synagogue services and begun their festive meals, President Biden looked at his watch in D.C.
“Just checking, it’s afternoon in Jerusalem,” he said. And then got started on his speech to save Hamas.
There was nothing accidental about the timing of the speech on Friday afternoon at a time when much of America’s political establishment was heading out for the weekend while Israeli Jews were celebrating the Sabbath and many of them were not even using electronic devices.
After celebrating former President Trump’s conviction, Biden announced a new deal under which Hamas would rule Gaza, get billions in U.S. aid and dozens of its terrorists would be released from prison in exchange for every hostage. Or every hostage’s dead body.
Under the terms of Biden’s proposal, Hamas wins and Israel gets back survivors and corpses.
Finally, American taxpayers will be on the hook for an “extensive three- to five-year reconstruction program for Gaza that’s fully backed by the US” that will cost endless billions.
The deal that Biden laid out gives Hamas everything it wanted including staying in power, ending Israeli attempts to eliminate the terror group and all the money it could possibly need. All this rather than an Israeli proposal which is almost the exact same ’ceasefire’ deal that Hamas, Qatar and Egypt had assembled and that Hamas then made a show of accepting a few weeks ago.
All Biden did was brush off the Hamas proposal and then lie and declare that it was the Israeli proposal.
Indeed, a follow-up call with a senior White House official had him admit that, “it’s nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals of only a few weeks ago” and that “what is now in front of everybody is basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”
Again, he repeated, “Hamas has said they’d be prepared to do deal X, and what is now on the table is basically that with some very minor adjustments.”
Biden described the Hamas proposal as the “Israeli proposal” and urged Israel to accept it. In reality, he had taken an Israeli counter-proposal, changed crucial elements so that it matched Hamas demands at a time when the Israeli government would not be able to respond and unveiled it to the world while daring Israelis to call him a liar. All to save Islamic terrorists.
Netanyahu poured cold water on the proposal, stating that, “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Israel will continue to insist these conditions are met before a permanent ceasefire is put in place. The notion that Israel will agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a non-starter.”
Israeli Defense Minister Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the country would “not accept Hamas rule” and was fighting to destroy Hamas and liberate the hostages.
Benny Gantz, the third member of the ‘war cabinet’ whom the Biden administration had been relying on to force acceptance of the deal, made no initial statement at all. An anonymous White House official expressed “disappointment” that Gantz hadn’t endorsed the proposal. When he did issue a statement, it was a confusing word salad that praised Biden but stated “the State of Israel stands united in our wish to return the hostages, it is a superior moral obligation that does not diminish our commitment to achieve the war’s objectives”. Gantz resigned over the weekend.
So much for the “Israeli proposal”.
Not a single member of the Israeli government had explicitly gotten behind Biden’s proposal to leave Hamas in power. Neither did they explicitly take on the Biden administration by disavowing it. And the Biden administration is doubling down on forcing Israelis to accept the proposal and save Hamas.
Had this really been an Israeli proposal, it would not have been announced on the Sabbath, and would have been featured at a press conference in Israel. Instead it was met with uncomfortable silence and awkward statements in Jerusalem. The pressure campaign out of D.C. on specific Israeli government officials made it all too clear whose “proposal” this really was.
This is a proposal by Hamas and its allies, Egypt and Qatar, along with Hamas allies in the Biden administration who are fighting to keep it alive, that Biden is imposing on Israel.
It’s a proposal to allow Hamas to cash out hostages and their bodies in exchange for victory.
While the Biden administration demanded that the Israeli government endorse his proposal, there were no such expectations of Hamas.
The White House on a follow-up call claimed that Hamas “just got this last night” and that he was “not going to respond to public statements made by some Hamas officials here and there. They know what’s in the deal. They know it’s nearly identical to what they put on the table.”
The White House official announced that the administration will ignore Hamas promises to go on waging terror as part of a cover-up to push the Hamas proposal to save the terror group.
He also explicitly rejected the Israeli expectation Hamas would be destroyed.
Introducing his proposal, Biden claimed that it “would bring about a better ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power” and then laid out a deal with Hamas that would keep the Islamic terror group in power. Having begun his speech with a lie, he kept on lying all through the rest of it.
But Biden assured Israelis that they don’t have to worry. “The people of Israel should know they can make this offer without any further risk to their own security because they’ve devastated Hamas forces over the past eight months. At this point, Hamas no longer is capable of carrying out another October 7th.”
Getting to that “point” took 8 months of fighting and over 600 Israeli soldiers killed in action.
How long will it take Hamas to rearm and rebuild especially once Biden’s proposed “major reconstruction plan for Gaza” moves billions of dollars into the terror zone? Months? Years?
And how many people will die in the next terror attack enabled and financed by Biden?
Biden’s assurances are just worthless.
But Biden promised Israelis that “Egypt and Qatar have assured me and they are continuing to work to ensure that Hamas doesn’t do that.” Qatar is a state sponsor of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups while Egypt was caught red-handed propping up Hamas at the Rafah border.
These state sponsors of terrorism will “police” the terrorists. And Biden will “police” Israel.
Biden’s deal is “nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals”, it saves the Islamic terrorist group just as it’s on the brink of destruction, and commits America to financing its reconstruction.
It’s not a deal to end a war, but to save and finance Hamas so it can begin the next war.
by Tim Buck | May 27, 2024 | Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, Nations
Israel and the Middle East
5/27/24 By Tim Buck
Fotet.org
Since the onset of Israel’s operations in Rafah, the IDF has uncovered more than 700 terror tunnel shafts belonging to Hamas – and over 50 tunnels that funnel into Egypt to the south. As you’re likely aware of by now, Israel’s decision to enter Rafah in a move to end Hamas and free the remaining hostages was not met with approval by a host of the international community. In fact, the IDF only made the decision to reveal its findings regarding the tunnels in Rafah for the benefit of the discussion in the Hague and the international justification for the action in Rafah.
Sadly, the bodies of more Israeli hostages were uncovered by the IDF in Rafah. The three bodies belonged to Yitzhak Gelernter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk. They expect more to be found. It’s worth noting that the Rafah situation could and likely will have negative ramifications regarding the relationship between Israel and Egypt.
Tragically, the Hague is maintaining its hypocrisy and ignorance when it comes to the survival of the Jewish state as it sympathizes with terrorists in Gaza. Apparently, the burning, raping, kidnapping, and slaughtering of over 1,200 Jews isn’t enough justification for what Israel is doing in Rafah, not to mention the fact that overwhelming evidence shows that Hamas oppresses its own people.
At this stage, over 800,000 Gazans have been evacuated from Rafah. 277 IDF soldiers have died since the ground operation in Gaza began.
Operations are continuing to take place in other locations throughout the Gaza Strip as well. A lot of military operations are becoming the norm in the area of Jabalia where the IDF has eliminated well over 200 terrorists so far. Dozens of others have been arrested for interrogation. The IDF claims this has been one of the most violent wartime locations so far. Not only are they operating in Gaza – they’re pursuing Hamas terrorists everywhere. Last week, the IDF also killed a senior member of Hamas near the Lebanon-Syria border and they’re also continuously active in Judea & Samaria (the West Bank).
Iran
Not only did Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi die in a helicopter crash this last weekend, but a number of other high-ranking Iranian officials were killed as well. From the perspective of the naive international community, Iran just suffered a massive blow. However, ask the common Iranian citizen, and you’ll experience a different story.
Raisi and others like him were and are passionate about terror, death, and oppression. This is why numerous Iranian citizens could be seen celebrating his death across social media following the crash. Don’t let the corrupt leadership and radical ayatollahs confuse you. They don’t represent the worldview and mindset of the vast majority of Iranians. To make matters worse, the US offered its condolences to Iran, accompanying several other countries.
Since the death of Raisi, Vice President Muhammad Mokhber has become the president of Iran until the next election cycle.
On another note, following Iran’s massive missile attack on Israel several weeks ago, the Islamic Republic has now vowed to join any future war that takes place between Israel and Hezbollah. We sure do live in prophetic times.
Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) continues to carry out strikes in various places in both Lebanon and Syria as tension with Hezbollah increases in the region. While the tension in this region has been ever-present for quite some time, the consistency of military confrontations is increasing. Moreover, targeted attacks are becoming all the more prominent, which was seen as recent as last Friday when a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in a vehicle attack about 40km from the border with Israel. However, the rockets keep coming from the north, as Israel – in a single strike from Hezbollah – had approximately 75 rockets fired into the region of the Golan and Galilee, most of which were intercepted.
Another key target that was eliminated by the IAF was the commander of the rocket unit of Hezbollah. This took place in the coastal sector in Lebanon. His name was Qasem Skalawi. In addition to conducting multiple strikes in Southern Lebanon & Syria, the IAF has also remained busy intercepting a host of rockets, drones, and other aerial threats coming from their enemies to the north.
The Houthis & Yemen
It’s business as usual for the Houthis, as the Iranian-funded terror proxy in the Arabian Gulf continues to muster up chaos in the region. Most recently – aside from its periodic projectile launches towards Israel – the terror group hit an oil tanker in the Red Sea that was moving oil from Russia to China.
The International Community
Slovenia and other European countries – namely, Ireland, Norway, and Spain – have vowed to formally recognize a Palestinian state in the weeks ahead and they’re encouraging other countries to do the same. Now do you understand the spiritual blindness of the days in which we’re living? Over 1,200 innocent Israelis are murdered in cold blood and Europe believes if you butcher the Jews, you deserve to get a state!
United States
Unfortunately, like a reckless wave, the US administration has been all over the place regarding its position on the Israel-Hamas War. In public, team Biden voices support for Israel but behind the scenes the administration is anti-Semitic and possessing a deep dislike for Netanyahu and most often stands in the way of what Israel needs to do. Furthermore, it has become common for the Biden Administration to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his every move to eliminate Hamas. And when there’s an opportunity for the US to side with Israel, there are always strings attached.
Such is the case with the ongoing situation between Israel and the ICC. From various sources, Israel has information confirming that the US administration gave a green light to the ICC to move forward with asking for an arrest warrant against Hamas and Israeli leaders as if they are equal. If that’s not enough, the US administration is conducting talks with Iran in Oman where both sides agree that Netanyahu must be removed. The Biden administration is causing internal chaos and outside attacks on its best ally in the Middle East. Insane!
Wait on the Lord
Patience, endurance, and perseverance are virtues believers must have in this ever-changing and morally self-destructive world.
Isaiah 40:31 – “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
by Tim Buck | May 15, 2024 | America, Hamas, Israel, Joe Biden
Israel Declares Independence
From Biden
Israel is fighting for its survival against Islamic genocidal violence and a corrupt political class in Washington DC
5/15/24 By Daniel Greenfield
Edited by Tim Buck
Fotet.org
Yesterday, Israel marked its 76th Independence Day. Usually a day filled with parades and fireworks, the Israeli people will instead buckle down to the grim business of being at war.
Too much of the population is either deployed in the field or may soon be, displaced from their homes near the Gaza border or aware that at any moment rocket alerts could sound for incoming missiles from Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen or Iran.
This year, Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day annually observed for the fallen, will overshadow Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day.
Much like America’s Greatest Generation, the men and women who scrappily fought for Israel’s independence using crude weapons and WWII surplus gear are passing out of history.
Few now remember a time when Israel did not exist and some have come to take it for granted. While Israeli Air Force jets won’t be doing flyovers for the 76th, the leftist protesters, some backed by foreign interests, will still continue their rallies and riots that only serve to aid Hamas.
And yet Israel did declare a new kind of independence before its latest Yom Ha’atzmaut.
After nearly half a year of pressure campaigns to end the war, the Biden administration followed through by announcing an embargo on offensive weapons to Israel. It’s not the first time.
In 1947, the Truman administration had imposed an arms embargo on Israel. Truman, like the current Democrat in the White House, had played a familiar double game, offering diplomatic recognition to Israel and enthusiastic speeches to Jewish voters, even while privately promising Muslims the opposite and making sure that Israel would not have the weapons to defend itself.
When the Republican Party platform declared that it took “pride in the fact that the Republican Party was the first to call for the establishment of a free and independent Jewish Commonwealth” and condemned the “vacillation of the Democrat Administration”, Truman shot back angrily claiming that he supported
the Democratic platform and its call for “the revision of the arms embargo to accord to the State of Israel the right of self-defense.” This was a lie.
Truman had supported the arms embargo from the beginning. Three months before the Democrat platform had been adopted, the administration had backed a UN resolution that included an arms embargo.
Truman was saying one thing and doing another. Like Biden, Truman had been following political considerations.
That was why diplomats had been warned to stay away from making any anti-Israel moves at the United Nations before Election Day.
Even under the arms embargo, Israel survived an invasion by five Muslim nations.
“You just don’t understand. Forty million Arabs are going to push four hundred thousand Jews into the sea. And that’s all there is to it,” Secretary of Defense James Forrestal had predicted.
Three generations later, Israel is still here.
Israel’s 76th Independence Day has come around again. Once again the Jewish State is fighting for its survival against Islamic genocidal violence and a corrupt political class in Washington D.C.
It’s relearning the old lesson that presidents say one thing for public consumption and do another. And that independence is not just aspirational, it’s a simple matter of survival.
Biden’s betrayal of Israel was inevitable. The blindness of Israeli leaders to that eventuality, their conviction that if they followed every single guideline from the White House, they would have the support they needed to finish off Hamas in Gaza was a delusional fantasy.
Israel’s best bet lay in quickly doing what it needed to do. Everything the Biden administration wanted only slowed down the war effort and doomed the very support that Israel had been counting on.
A day after delivering a speech at the Holocaust Museum about his support for Israel, Biden told CNN
that the support was gone.
But Truman had pulled a similar trick with a rally at Madison Square Garden when he told New York’s Jewish voters that he was responsible for setting up Israel “as a free and independent political state” even while it was fighting for its survival.
The Truman administration continued backing worthless UN truces (the predecessors of today’s equally duplicitous ceasefires) which allowed the Islamic terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of Hamas) to continue attacking Jewish towns and massacring Jews.
While Truman was telling one thing to Jewish voters in New York City ahead of Election Day, Israel was evacuating children as part of ‘Operation Baby’ from front line communities under siege by terrorists during the latest ‘truce’. In Kibbutz Manara, the children had to be evacuated from the mountaintop in vegetable crates in a scene later recreated in the movie ‘Exodus’.
Manara had to be evacuated again after the Hamas attacks of Oct 7 and it’s estimated that half the homes in the community have been destroyed after Hezbollah Islamic terrorists have shot a rocket every day at the village. The people living there can’t go home. But unlike the Hamas supporters crying in Gaza, you won’t see their faces on the evening news.
After the 1948 election, not only weren’t there any arms sales, but the White House was upset that Israel had begun winning. The Egyptians had not only failed to push the Jews into the sea, but the Jews were now pushing them back into the Sinai.
A month after the election, in which 75% of Jews had voted for him, Truman demanded that Israel immediately withdraw or his administration would “re-examine” its mostly non-existent relations.
Truman, who would later claim credit for creating Israel, had done little more than provide de facto (not de jure) recognition to Israel, while still maintaining the arms embargo.
Truman’s move allowed Egypt to control Gaza and turn it over to the Muslim Brotherhood for regular terror raids on Israel. And that led directly to the rise of Hamas and the current war.
It’s also why Truman ought to get more credit for creating Hamas than for creating Israel.
Truman did not actually begin selling weapons to Israel until 1950, well after it had survived the war, and only in order to also be able to sell weapons to its Arab Muslim enemies as part of an agreement with the UK to “maintain a rough balance of power between Israel and the Arab states.“
American Jews have long lived with the comforting “Eddie Jacobson” myth that Truman had intervened on behalf of Israel because of a plea from his longtime friend and business partner.
The truth is that the Truman administration had opposed statehood, until Israel had gone ahead and declared it, had opposed any Israeli presence in Jerusalem, and blocked the pathway to victory, until Israel had gone ahead and won not because of Truman, but despite him.
Since then history has repeated itself again and again. And too many Israelis, who used to know better, bought into the silly myth that their country existed because Truman “liked” them.
Millions of Jews were murdered in Europe despite all the politicians who claimed to like them, but then did nothing for them. Hundreds of thousands of Jews in Israel held off armies and built a state, not because politicians liked them, but because they fought for their independence.
The Oslo Accords, made so that Israel would be liked, brought it to the brink of destruction. If Israel is going to undo that and the entire ‘palestinian’ colonial project, it has a limited time in which to act. Even after Oct 7, it was too consumed with being liked to do what had to be done.
Like America, Israel wants to be liked after Islamic terror attacks, when what it needs is to win.
On the 76th anniversary of its independence, Israel has once again been forced to declare its independence from a White House Democrat who publicly promised support while privately stabbing it in the back. Going into Rafah and finishing off Hamas will be a more meaningful celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day than any flag-waving parades.
Independence is not in the fireworks you shoot off, it’s in taking independent action.
Contrary to popular myth, foreign aid to Israel isn’t proof that Jerusalem controls D.C. but that D.C. controls Jerusalem. What’s often misleadingly described as aid isn’t a big check, it’s an entanglement with the U.S. defense industry that prevents Israel from fighting an extended war without permission.
Since the War of Independence and the 1956 Suez Canal War, the priority has been to make sure that Israel won’t be able to unilaterally pursue a military campaign. Once denied weapons, Israel has been given them in exchange for being put on a leash out of D.C.
Oct 7 has become the ultimate test of Israel’s independence. And this Memorial Day and Independence Day will determine whether a nation of nearly 10 million is truly free to do more than mourn its dead, but once again take independent action to protect its living future.
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