It apparently never occurred to either the heads of the UN or the EU to consider that if you are a terrorist organization that commits war crimes, you do not get to choose how a war that you started is waged against you. If you do not want a “bloodbath,” do not take hostages, hide them among civilians, try to prevent a rescue, then if they are rescued, profess shock at the fallout that you yourself have teed up. Pictured: Naama Levy, an Israeli woman abducted and taken to Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, when she was 19 years old. She is still being held hostage by Hamas. (Image source: Hamas)

If anyone needs any further assurance, another sign that the days of this world as it has been known are numbered and that number is not large or infinite, all they need do is look to the rhetoric the overwhelming majority of media, governments, and people in general have voiced against Israel and for Hamas, for Islamist jihad, for terrorism.

Antisemitism is at its highest level WORLDWIDE as it was in Nazi Germany alone in the early 1930s. What happened there and then?

Better pay attention and not tie or grow bored with what is taking place in Israel, in the Middle East. For God surely is paying attention and never grows bored. God also is immutable — unchanging. For eternity. The same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. No matter what any individual, group, or government may believe otherwise. That means God’s land is still Israel. God’s city is still Jerusalem. God’s people are still the Jews, according to His covenants, promises, and words given.

And every Gentile who has been saved by their repentance, belief, and faithfulness in the cross, in the shed blood, death, and resurrection of Jesus, truly fully God, truly fully a man while on earth, the Only One, the Only Begotten Son of God needs to get face down, heart upward to heaven in thanks for the Lord’s mercy upon us and bless Israel, bless the Jews, bless that land and its people.

They have endured more slavery, persecution, and derision than any other people on earth. And this has always been from their turning from God and to idols, to the world.

That does not mean God has turned His back on Israel or the Jews.

After the Rapture of the Church it’s going to be all about the Jews, all about Israel for those seven years before the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I think it would greatly benefit folks if they found that book in their home, apartment, car, or wherever called The Holy Bible, dusted it off, and prayed to the Lord faithfully for understanding to be given by the Holy Spirit beyond our finite ability what is God’s will, God’s ways, God’s judgment, God’s promises, and God’s words to each of us. Just having a Holy Bible in one’s home, office, apartment, glovebox, or wherever does not by osmosis be known, absorbed, and lived out.

It takes the DAILY, NIGHTLY effort, desire, and discipline on our part to go to God and have Him speak to us through His Word.

So many always asking, “What is God’s will in my life!?”

Hello! Get the Holy Bible in one’s hands, in one’s eyes, in one’s heart and mind, and come to know.

And Israel, the Jews have NOT been replaced by the modern-day Church. Nor will they be. Be thankful the door of grace and salvation remains open to Gentiles and that by God’s love and mercy, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ we have been grafted onto the branch providing life!

Deny this?

Do you know what thinking like that is like?

Being married, giving a vow, a promise to one, and then abandoning them and committing adultery with another.

Think God is a liar? An unfaithful adulterer?

Better think again.

Think God is unjust, doesn’t know what He’s doing? Become irrelevant? You don’t like His plan and think yours, someone else’s, your nation, your denomination, your pastor’s is better?

Better really think again while He blesses you with your next breath and your next heartbeat…

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Thursday, July 11th, 2024

The Normalization of Terrorism and Jew-Hate

Nine months after the Iranian-orchestrated October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 mostly Israeli civilians, 116 hostages remain in Gaza, including at least 42 whom Israeli officials estimate were murdered by Hamas, after suffering unfathomable mental, physical and sexual abuse.

On June 8, Israel rescued four hostages in a heroic mission, in which Israeli special forces entered the private Gazan homes where four Israeli hostages — three men and one young woman — were held by “ordinary” Gazan civilians, one an Al-Jazeera “journalist.”

What should have been hailed worldwide as an amazing rescue operation that finally brought some hostages back from their daily torture was instead condemned as “disproportionate” — further proof of how normalized Jew-hatred and support for terrorism have become when political and media elites root for terrorist organizations instead of hostages. The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell even called Israel’s rescue operation of people who had been kidnapped a “bloodbath.”

“Reports from Gaza of another massacre of civilians are appalling. We condemn this in the strongest terms,” Borrell said on X. “The bloodbath must end immediately.”

If you do not want a “bloodbath,” do not take hostages, hide them among civilians, try to prevent a rescue, then if they are rescued, profess shock at the fallout that you yourself have teed up.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres voiced his “condemnation” for what he claimed were the deaths of “hundreds of Palestinian civilians” — as usual unquestioningly parroting whatever figures Hamas tossed out.

General Onno Eichelsheim, Chief of Defense of the Dutch Armed Forces, said that Israel, “in its operation to rescue the hostages,” had used “disproportionate force to achieve its objectives.” The comment drew immediate criticism from Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom. Wilders, on X, called the comments “incomprehensible, inappropriate, incorrect.”

As is usual for Hamas, which uses its civilians as human shields, the rescued Israeli hostages had been held in family homes in high-rise buildings in a densely populated part of Gaza. It apparently never occurred to either the heads of the U.N. or the EU to consider that if you are a terrorist organization that commits war crimes, you do not get to choose how a war that you started is waged against you.

There were even some who suggested that Israel should be put on trial for rescuing its own citizens. “The international criminal court should investigate Israel’s hostage rescue raid,” wrote former executive director of Human Rights Watch and currently visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, Kenneth Roth, reportedly the owner of an “immoral anti-Israel obsession.”

There were also “questions about its necessity,” Roth added. Oh, so, according to him, it is not “necessary” to rescue Jews who are being raped, starved and tortured for nearly a year. Good to know. Estimates are that a third of the 120 hostages who remain in Gaza are no longer even alive.

BBC news asked with a straight face if, to spare the lives of the Gazan “civilians” who were keeping the hostages locked up in their homes, Israel had given prior warning before launching its rescue operation. The Israeli spokesman, also keeping a straight face, politely answered that a warning might have endangered the hostages and made the rescue more difficult.

The irony of all this seems completely lost on the political and media elites, who kept insisting that the Israeli rescue operation was somehow immoral. By condemning Israel’s rescue operation, they suggest that massacring and kidnapping 240 people is moral, and an act that should not require a military response.

Meanwhile, the hostages that have returned to Israel — those who were freed in an agreement with Hamas and those that were rescued — spoke of starvation, beatings, rape, slavery and unfathomable torture. In contravention of the Geneva conventions, Hamas has refused to allow the Red Cross to check on the welfare of the hostages. One can imagine why.

To this day, there seems little-to-no interest in the fate or condition of the hostages still in Gaza. Instead, there is denial that the October 7 atrocities even took place, compared to an almost obsessive regard for the safety of, and humanitarian aid for Gazans. When the U.N. is unable to deliver the aid, Israel, not the U.N., is blamed.

Meanwhile, the main condition set by Hamas, Iran and Qatar to free the hostages — apart from releasing an infinite number of terrorists, whom they get to choose, from Israeli prisons — has been a “permanent ceasefire” and “permanent Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.” The new purported Hamas agreement to a ceasefire apparently comes with “a major hurdle: The Iran-backed terror group is now demanding ‘written guarantees’ that mediators will continue to negotiate a permanent truce, once the first phase of the plan goes into effect, the Hamas rep said.”

Essentially, this demand means that Hamas and its handlers, Iran and Qatar, would like to start wars and then have someone else stop them when they do not like how they are going.

The U.N., with main inciter-in-chief Guterres at the helm, has made it clear that Israel deserved the slaughter and had it coming, The October 7 massacres “did not happen in a vacuum,” he said, thereby justifying them.

The Red Cross, which has not sought to gain access to the hostages since their abduction, presumably could not care less about their fate, and are being sued for neglect by families of the abducted.

The Hamas murders, rapes, burning alive of babies and abductions – all the reasons why Israel was forced to go to war with Hamas to begin with — have retreated into the background. The October 7 atrocities have been squeezed into a small parenthesis, left largely unmentioned for months by mainstream media outlets and Western elites. What seems to matter instead to those who set the political and media agendas is to use the Hamas war once again to demonize the Jews as the world’s most inhuman people for wanting to live peacefully on their historical land without daily massacres from Iran and its proxies — Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and the Houthis — which apparently plan to encircle them in a “Ring of Fire” — “six fronts of aggression against Israel” — as part of Iran’s attempt at hegemony in the Middle East.

“Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” said Ghazi Hamad, a leading Hamas terrorist, in an interview with Lebanese TV channel LBC.

“We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force. We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight.”

Recently, a former senior member of the PFLP, Khaled Barakat, wrote in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, “The extinction of the Zionist project is only a matter of time thanks to armed struggle, Jihad in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen.”

Western elites seem happy to assist them in that fight.

Robert Williams is a researcher based in the United States.