I find it very interesting and very telling that the overwhelming majority of Americans are unaware of what Donald Trump means to most Israelis. Israelis in a much greater percentage nationwide were supporting Donald Trump for American president than the overwhelming majority of American voters who elected him the next president.

I do not believe most Americans, including most professed American Christians, have a clue as to the role that Donald Trump has played and is yet to play in Israel’s present and future.

Most don’t pay attention to anything outside of America, for crying out loud, they don’t pay much attention to anything not taking place in their little sphere. Let’s be honest, shall we? Of course, when most, if paying any attention at all, do so via American so-called broadcast news on TV, or social media only see a tiny sliver of information. It’s like trying to understand what’s taking place outside when standing inside a structure and looking through a small crack in a wall.

More Israelis wanted Donald Trump to be the American president than Americans wanted him to be. Percentage-wise.

Oh, do not misunderstand. I voted for Mr. Trump. He was the only choice. I am very happy to see the election outcome nationwide. It is a mandate. It is a landslide victory. It is beyond the ability to question who won. No matter the degree of supposed cheating by the opposition.

Donald Trump is the best thing to happen for Israel. That is one of the reasons I voted for him. That reason didn’t appear on any of the questionnaires pollsters in America were asking voters, but that is one of the many reasons I voted for Mr. Trump. He demonstrates the greatest Biblical values, the greatest American values of the opposition who was the most anti-Israel anti-America candidate to be in a national election for president in American history.

God is in control. God’s people came through. Prayer. Repentance. Fasting. And God heard, had mercy, and showed us His great love and mercy towards us and is healing our land. And providing the best American president for Israel.

Do not think it’s all and only political though. Interesting article appeared in an Israeli publication this morning;

Midrash Hints that Trump Will Return Glory to Western World by Building Third Temple

President Donald Trump could be a key piece in clearing the way for the Third Temple to be built. As some surmised, myself included, that the acceleration of evil and the unfolding of Bible prophecy might be slowed with a Donald Trump win, and that evil would speed up greatly with a Harris win, God may have raised Donald Trump up to be America’s leader, as God raises up and brings down every world leader, all are ordained by God, but in so doing God is providing a time of peace and prosperity, of safety for Israel that will occur prior to the Gog/Magog war, and also in this timeframe is it possible Mr. Trump will have a role in paving the way for the building of the Third Temple? Which will usher in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy?

If a born again, faithful, obedient disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ this could mean that the Rapture of the Church is very close at hand. The Lord is coming to gather us to Himself before the appearance of the Antichrist and his false prophet and the beginning of the seven-year Great Tribulation which ends with the Second Coming of Jesus to the world. 

If not born again? Not faithful to Jesus, to the God of the Holy Bible? A child of disobedience, a pagan, worshiping self, other gods, having idols, and walking in darkness? Unbelieving? Well, now is not the time to dawdle. To procrastinate. To continue gambling with your eternity.

Things are happening quickly. Faster than ever before.

Things are changing in this world. As never before.

It’s time.

It’s time for the faithful to truly live out that faith daily as truly a light unto this dark and evil-filled world.

It’s time for the unfaithful to Jesus, unfaithful to God, the heathen, the pagan, the lost who imagine themselves doing just fine, not in need of a Savior, placing their limited misguided faith in themselves, in various men and women, in hollow dead philosophies and ideologies of men and women to snap out of their stupor. Seek the Light. Seek the Lord. Turn to Jesus. Repent. Confess your sin. Repent and humble yourself before the Lord Jesus Christ.

As many in Israel are doing. Another fact most in America are clueless about.

Oy vey people! Let’s begin to pay better attention, shall we? There’s no time to be distracted. Otherwise occupied. Unprepared. Ill-equipped. And if one of the minority paying attention please be a watchmen and a watchwomen on the wall for others. Speak up. Speak out. Be bold for the Lord, the Word of God, and the times in which we live, for we were made for such a time as this.

Read on…

Oh, and here’s an idea. Just saying — on occasion, click on a link in any RELATED area of any posting here on ACP. Open and watch a video. Or two. They, the articles and videos, are all here for a reason. Threads woven into a fabric. Thank you.

Ken Pullen, Monday, November 11th, 2024

Israel dodges a bullet

Israel Prepares To Hold It’s Breath As It Waits For Trump Administration

Donald Trump is far from perfect. But at this moment, his election feels like deliverance.

November 7, 2024

By Melanie Phillips

Reprinted from JNS — Jewish News Syndicate

A nightmare has been averted, both for Israel and the West.

With the stunning re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, Israel has dodged a virtual bullet just as Trump himself was saved this summer from a projectile that came within an inch of assassinating him.

Israelis had been bracing themselves in dread for a Kamala Harris victory. This would have been the fourth administration in which former President Barack Obama, many of whose officials subsequently served the Biden administration and whose worldview has remained dominant within it, was pulling the strings of an anti-Israel, anti-West and anti-white agenda.

There were grave fears that Harris would have thrown Israel to the wolves at the United Nations, cut off arms supplies during the desperate war the Jewish state is fighting for its survival and activated more vindictive sanctions against Israelis, of whose attitudes to sovereignty over the land the Democrats disapprove.

Instead, America will have a president who in his first term was the greatest supporter of Israel ever to have occupied the White House. He will take a far tougher stance towards Iran; he won’t try to prevent Israel from achieving total victory over Hamas and Hezbollah; he will take a very dim view of the United Nations over its support for Hamas; he may sanction the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice in The Hague over their persecution of Israel; and he is likely to defund the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, whose very existence delegitimizes Israel and that works hand in glove with Hamas.

Not surprisingly, liberals who loathe Israel and who have been having a meltdown over Trump’s victory flew to their keyboards to issue dark warnings that he was a danger to the world through his reckless disdain for international law and human rights.

The immediate danger for Israel, however, is far from over. Trump won’t become president until January, and over the next two months the lame-duck Biden-Harris administration can do it harm. Israel hasn’t forgotten that in 2016, outgoing president Obama vindictively threw the Jewish state under the bus at the United Nations by refusing to veto a Security Council resolution declaring Israeli presence in the disputed territories illegal.

There are also fears that Iran will choose to launch its long-threatened “retaliatory” missile attack on Israel during this interregnum since it won’t be able much longer to rely on the Biden administration to constrain Israel’s response in turn.

For Israel, neutralizing the Iranian threat remains an urgent and absolute imperative. Even if the regime stays its hand and doesn’t mount another immediate attack, it remains in a state of active war against Israel and the Jewish people.

Its proxy Hezbollah is still firing rockets from Lebanon at the Jewish state, including salvos on Wednesday that killed a teenager in northern Israel and hit an empty parking lot at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Above all, the Iranian regime is racing towards the point at which it can deploy nuclear weapons. Given all this—and the fact that U.S. intelligence has detected Iranian plots to assassinate Trump—Israel hopes that the new president will lend crucial American assistance to destroy Iran’s nuclear program once and for all.

But Trump faces an Iranian problem far closer to home. The Biden administration, which is suspected of having leaked Israeli war plans to the Iranian regime, is riddled with Obama-era pro-Iran and anti-Israel activists.

These include at least one official, Ariane Tabatabai, who was recruited as an Iranian agent of influence by the Obama-Biden former point man on Iran, Robert Malley, who is now under FBI investigation for  reportedly misusing classified information.

Trump must now finally rid his administration of Obama-legacy plants. Just as Netanyahu has been dismantling the Iranian Shia axis in the Middle East, so Trump must now dismantle the Obama axis in the Beltway.

However, America’s cultural crisis is far deeper and wider than this. As is illustrated by the appalling tsunami of antisemitism, there has been a widespread collapse of rational thinking across a wide range of issues, including the hysteria over Trump’s election.

The idea that a political leader should be judged in the round and assessed on the basis of his deeds both good and bad—or that a bad candidate might be preferred to an even worse one—simply doesn’t seem to apply in Trump’s case. Many, if not most, liberals see no good in him whatever—and see no bad in Kamala Harris or the Democrats.

This leads them to a strange inversion in which they accuse their opponents of behavior of which their own side is guilty.

In The Guardian, commentator Martin Kettle, who denounced American voters for doing a “terrible and unforgivable thing this week” in electing Trump, also wrote this: “For decades, the U.S. has been the free world’s essential and reliable nation. Not any more. It could even one day become them against us.”

Israelis might well rub their eyes at this. For America has stopped being the free world’s “essential and reliable nation.”

Under both Obama and Biden, it has renounced this role and refused to fight the West’s enemies. The United States ignominiously fled Afghanistan, abandoning it to the return of the Taliban and signaling disastrously that America was no longer prepared to defend the West, thus emboldening Russia, China and Iran.

The Obama and Biden administrations groveled to Iran, negotiated the 2015 nuclear deal that would have legitimized Iranian nuclear weapons after only a few years’ delay and refused to respond with more than a token slap on the wrist to hundreds of Iranian attacks on American assets.

During the Iranian proxy war against Israel following the Oct. 7 pogrom, Washington has put Israel under enormous pressure to surrender, causing the war to be protracted and Israeli troops to be needlessly killed. For Israel, under the Biden administration, America has indeed become “them against us.”

Liberals invert facts like these because they can never allow anything to upset the narrative that defines them in their own eyes as moral and decent—such as that Israel is the rogue actor in the Middle East, or Trump is a fascist—even though the opposite is the case.

Psychologists have a term for this. They call it “projection,” and it is a mental disorder.

Most liberals who told themselves and the world that Harris was on course for an overwhelming victory refuse to acknowledge any reasonable cause for the public to vote for Trump in such huge numbers, such as the cost of living, crime or a collapse of border controls.

This capacity for self-delusion is what characterizes the modern liberal. They will find any number of excuses to justify their own belief system based on a fantasy universe that requires them to lie to themselves to maintain the illusion.

In this presidential election, the American people once again rose up in protest against an entire elite class to reclaim their nation and its culture from those who would destroy it. This was an astonishing, country-wide insurrection against a decadent cultural establishment.

Nevertheless, some 68 million people voted for a candidate who couldn’t string a coherent sentence together—a failing they refused to acknowledge because they were locked into their cartoonish fantasy world in which they painted her opponent as a menace to humanity.

Before Trump had even claimed victory, some of these were threatening to pull the same rolling coup stunt with which they had hounded him in his first term. Would they have as much traction this time? Will Trump be more or less indisciplined and impulsive as president than he was in his first term?

We don’t know. But for the traumatized people of Israel—still under murderous fire from rocket barrages and yet enduring the venomous hostility of much of the so-called civilized world—the election of Donald Trump has punctured their existential loneliness.

Trump is far from perfect. But at this moment, his election feels like deliverance.

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Reader’s note: Melanie Phillips is a brilliant, gifted, conservative Jewish journalist, broadcaster, and author who is an atheist. That doesn’t mean we can’t glean excellent information and insights from her observations and writing. It just means we need to pray that she allows her dead heart towards God to go from darkness and pending eternal damnation to awakening to the Truth, the Light, and Life, the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashich, while our Good and Great God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel and the Jews, THEE One True God blesses her with breath and a beating heart.

Ken Pullen, Monday, November 11th, 2024

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster, and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir, Guardian Angel, has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, The Legacy, in 2018. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com.