When people such as Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, call for decreasing aid to Israel, they are actually sending a message of support to Iran’s mullahs and their proxies, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah. Pictured: Ramaswamy, flanked by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, participates in a televised Republican Party debate on August 23, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

I recently watched and listened to a sermon given by a pastor I respect for his sound Biblical teaching presented a sermon on The Antichrist, America, and Armageddon. In which when he was speaking of where is America in the Bible, in all of this? one of the possible scenarios he mentioned was a great revival in America and America not appearing in the assembling of THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD assembling about 80 miles north of Jerusalem in Har Megiddo, or the Valley of Megiddo in the nations of the world obeying the Antichrist, the false prophet, and Satan’s attempt to remove Israel and all Jews from the face of the earth forever.

Nice thought that there would arise in America such a great massive revival that America somehow steps aside, is not involved is absent from those pages and words in the Bible. I would love to see and live in such an America —  but America is involved up to our lost dead eyeballs in what has been and is transpiring in the world fulfilling every word of Bible prophecy. Look at what passes for a Christian church, Christian doctrine, and a Christian today. Look at what passes for ethics, morality, and living day to day in this nation in great decline as it has turned from God, turned from the true real Jesus of the Bible, totally deleted the Holy Spirit, and has attempted to alter and rewrite the Word of God to suit our sin and evil natures justifying ourselves and thinking we know better, can write a better Bible today than God did in select men indwelt of the Holy Spirit unlike many others ever have in the history of the world.

Objectivity, critical thinking, keen observation, and being as unbiased as possible if even a conservative person considering themselves a patriotic American needs application. A Biblical worldview needs to be employed not the all too common and pervasive worldview setting the Bible aside, having the Bible on a table, a bookshelf, an afterthought and not truly believing its inerrant words, or placing God, Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Bible’s contents above that of nationalism, or loyalty to a place that will one day, sooner than later dissolve, be removed, fade away, and be eternally forgotten.

America is in great decline. Tragically there is no great revival in sight.

America is moving away from God, away from true Christianity, away from being allied with Israel and Jewish people, and gravitating to the enemies of America. Gravitating to Islamic jihadist nations, states, and dictatorial leaders.

Do not be deceived. Read, study, and meditate upon Daniel, Ezekiel, Joel, Isaiah, Zechariah, Revelation, and Matthew 24 to begin with if not already aware, well studied, and fluent, literate in spirit in the words contained therein. Not needing a seminary degree or an IQ of 165. To do this well does not require worldly intelligence, but faith in what is read, belief, and asking the Holy Spirit for illumination and spiritual discernment. Believe, put the time in. pray and faithfully ask for spiritual understanding and wisdom. And the Lord will provide and measure out according to His will abundantly. To understand all that is necessary at this time.

All this is fulfilling Bible prophecy. All of this is revealing God’s eternal plan which unfolds in the daily ebb and flow of human existence and life on this fallen, corrupted, sin-filled world.

Do not err on the side of illusion and delusion, making something up to feel good or have a happy thought rather than having realistic awareness. Or neglecting, hiding away from all of this. Come to terms, with the awareness and reality that desiring, possessing, and holding always within a Biblical perspective, a Biblical worldview is what is most important in this life at all times in every circumstance that arises.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, August 28th, 2023

How U.S. Politicians Empower Anti-American Jihadists and Other Aggressors

American politicians who are calling for decreasing U.S. aid to Israel are apparently unaware of the dangers and challenges Israel has been facing since its establishment in 1948. In recent years, Israel has been facing a new wave of terrorism, funded and orchestrated by Iran’s mullahs and their Palestinian proxies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Israel’s enemies are especially disturbed by the strong bond between Israel and the U.S. They do not want to see the U.S. providing any financial and military aid to Israel because that hinders their plan to murder Jews and annihilate Israel.

When people such as Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, call for decreasing aid to Israel, they are actually sending a message of support to the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies, Hamas and PIJ, as well as the Iran-funded Hezbollah terrorist militia in Lebanon and to nations that would like to see Israel and America “out of the way.”

For Israel’s enemies, statements such as “cutting aid” are a sign that America is about to throw Israel under the bus, paving the way for them to proceed with their plan to destroy Israel.

The timing of Ramaswamy’s call for cutting U.S. aid to Israel could not have been worse. It came at a time when Jews are being murdered by Palestinians on an almost weekly basis. The terrorists are waging their campaign of murder because they want to drive all Jews out of Israel. The terrorists are undoubtedly happy to hear a Republican candidate talk about decreasing aid to Israel. They are hoping Israel will be made weaker. With less U.S. backing, it will be easier to destroy.

The terrorists and others have, even more, long been seeking to end US “hegemony” in the Middle East. They consider the U.S. an enemy of Arabs and Muslims and dictators everyplace. Ending U.S. aid to Israel would not just be the first step toward undermining Israel, it would also be the first step to ending U.S. influence in the Middle East — the way then U.S. President Barack Obama’s abandoned Syria — the best gift the U.S. could ever give to Iran, Russia, China, Turkey, Qatar, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Algeria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia and on and on.

Ramaswamy probably does not know that the terrorists and their families are proud of their attacks against Israel. He and other Americans who are seeking to cut U.S. aid to Israel are, sadly, dupes serving not only the enemies of Israel but the enemies of freedom and the United States. Freedom is what terrifies every despot the most, and it is this freedom that the United States promises and protects.

The terrorists who want to destroy Israel also want to destroy the United States — for supporting exactly those freedoms both countries embrace, and which their detractors falsify as “biased.”

If Ramaswamy wants to learn about the Palestinian campaign to murder Jews and eliminate Israel, he does not even need to look at how Palestinians rejoice and pass out sweets over the murder of innocent civilians. He only has to see how the Palestinian Authority, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, incentivizes the Palestinians’ “Pay to Slay” program by rewarding the families of those who murder Jews with more than $300 million a year (see also here, here, here and here). According to NGO Monitor:

“Instead of prioritizing social programs and economic development, the PA rewards and encourages this violence, spending more than $300 million a year incentivizing murder. This “pay to slay” policy, funded by the U.N., EU, and many governments, rewards those who commit violence (including children) with cash payments. The greater the crime and the more victims injured or killed, the more money received. This campaign targeting children begins from birth and continues throughout childhood and the teenage years. It takes place through state media, schools (including those run by UNRWA), youth groups and centers, and sporting and cultural events in both the West Bank and Gaza.”

Right after the arrest of two Palestinian terrorists, Mohammed and Saqer al-Shanteer, cousins who shot to death Batsheva Nigri, 42, a preschool teacher and mother of three, in front of her daughter last week, Mohammed al-Shanteer’s father gave an interview to the Palestinian Quds News Network, saying:

“According to our faith and religion, we consider this [shooting attack] a Jihad operation, and we are proud of it. All fathers wish they had a son like mine, Mohammed, and a nephew like mine, Saqer. We are proud of our sons. We are not ashamed of them.”

This father is not the first Palestinian parent to express pride in the involvement of his family in terrorist attacks against Jewish civilians or soldiers. According to the family, the murder of Nigri is an “act of Jihad” (holy war) that brings pride not only to the family, but to all Muslims.

The goal of the Jihad is not just to murder Jews, but to drive them out of their only homeland, Israel. Muslims, by contrast, enjoy more than 20 countries that are officially Islamic, as well as 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Moments before the terrorists were arrested, while Israeli soldiers were surrounding their house, their family quickly documented them in a video. “Allahu Akbar! [Allah is the greatest]… Victory for Islam… Those who came to arrest me [Israelis] will be defeated, God willing! They will be expelled from this blessed land,” Mohammed al-Shanteer says in front of his weeping mother, who replies with the Islamic battle cry, “Allahu Akbar!”

The video has been widely shared on social media, where many Palestinians have voiced support for the terrorist and his family. In some posts, al-Shanteer is hailed as a “hero” and likened to a lion.

Al-Shanteer’s father is right: the campaign of terrorism is part of a Jihad against Israel that aims not to end the “occupation,” but to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. As the Kuwaiti-Palestinian academic Sami Al-Arian openly stated on Al Jazeera on July 30: “[T]he Palestinian cause is not about creating a [Palestinian] state… [our] greatest strategic goal is to dismantle the State of Israel… ”

Al-Shanteer’s family does not live in a refugee camp or an impoverished neighborhood, but in a modern building constructed from reinforced concrete clad in Jerusalem stone, consisting of at least five apartments.

Al-Shanteer is not poor or uneducated. In fact, he is an interior designer and civil engineer. He did not set out to murder Jews because he was destitute or needed a job. He admits that he decided to murder Jews in the hope of expelling them from their homeland. For this, his father believes that all fathers should be envious of him because his son murdered a Jewish woman.

Not a single Palestinian has condemned the murder.

The video of the father boasting of the murder of the Jewish woman has been largely ignored by mainstream media in the West. Apparently Western journalists do not want to show that many Palestinians are proud of murdering Jews.

Many journalists prefer to maintain the Palestinian fantasy image of peaceful and non-violent people engaged in a so-called popular resistance against Israel. Western journalists who choose to ignore his remarks are hiding the truth from their readers about Palestinian support for, and endorsement of, terrorism.

Similarly, U.S. politicians who ignore the threats facing Israel are empowering the jihadists, their masters in Iran, and dictators worldwide whose nightmare is America.

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.