Some Israeli journalists who travelled to Qatar to report on the soccer World Cup were harassed and verbally abused by Arabs from several countries. What is disturbing is that a large portion of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians — and who continue to benefit from unconditional U.S. financial aid. Pictured: A promotional mural for the soccer World Cup on a building in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

If the chants of “U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.”  [while “Death to America, death to Israel!” is chanted daily in other places] can stop long enough along with the continual infatuated gaze into the mirror and those wearing their red MAGA hats indoors could take them off for a few minutes, those still rabid and lost in their support for Donald Trump, still idolizing Trump even when as every historical tyrant, despot and dictator has espoused — the rule of law, the foundations of the nation need to be altered, adjusted or out and out removed to install them as leader as he recently proclaims sections of the foundational document, the U.S. Constitution need to be removed so he can be installed as Dictator-in-Chief and Despot Supreme going against everything that all these nationalistic, so-called patriotic politically obsessed say they believe in, revealing their belief in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Bible is not really present within them. How about allowing some objectivity, critical thinking, and rational thought to enter — along with those professing to be Christians to come to their senses realizing the priority in their lives here on earth are not elections, nationalism, or America, that to be indeed truly a Christian one forsakes the ways of this corrupted world to follow Jesus as a disciple [if not clear on what that means take some time to learn, please, your eternity is dependent upon knowing such matters] let’s get geopolitically Biblical if that is what it takes to garner attention away from the mirror and upon where it could otherwise be directed.

Want nothing but a steady diet of politics and nationalism dear Christian? Well, then do not sidestep nor omit the geopolitical, historical, and BIBLICAL FACT that Israel and Jerusalem are the most critical and important physical places on earth. Not America. Nowhere else. Israel is God’s chosen Holy Land and Jerusalem is His chosen Holy City.

It’s more than just a tourist destination for well-heeled professed Christians who can afford a two-week stay to visit the either genuine or supposed holy sites.

And your and my tax dollars are going to those who hate Israel and Jews, always have, always will — there will never be any real peace no matter who may say otherwise or how it may appear for a span of years — and those are two facts to absorb, come to know.

No man, no worldly government, no politician, no election, no political party, no group of men or women, and no nation on earth is going to save the world nor bring peace to the Middle East. Oh, it may appear so. For a bit. Can we begin to stretch our minds and views a bit like melted mozzarella cheese atop a pizza, or stretching dough? Looking at two things — the historical timeline and the Holy Bible. To gain real world knowledge, real life knowledge.

If anyone desires to get the REAL story, the REAL NEWS, to be truly IN THE KNOW as to politics, world events, current events, history and the REAL DEAL regarding information do not ever go to what is erroneously called social media, or broadcast news or even the overwhelming majority of print news.

Do not be lulled, misled, deceived, or sucked into the continual and ever-increasing in speed and volume vortex of darkness and lies of this world.

Go to the Holy Bible. Go to God’s inerrant infallible living and active Word.

The only true, direct, bold, unbiased, and accurate source of news and information on earth.

Oh, and it also includes an eternal life story for those willing to submit, believe, hear, abide in, and trust faithfully about the person of Jesus Christ. Fully truly God while also fully truly man. That may be difficult for the finite human mind to comprehend but the faithful know and easily believe. Do not allow Satan to whisper in the heart and ear distorting matters, confusing matters — lying. Each person either hears, listens in part, and then believes forsaking the world and turning to God as their Father, turning to Jesus as their Lord, Lord of their life, and Saviour and Friend, turning to the Holy Spirit as their Comforter and Helper through this fleeting life, turning to the Holy Bible for instruction, guidance, and their DAILY NEWS. Truly wise, eternally saved by the free gift of grace offered by God  — or they turn to the lies of the devil forsaking the truth. Thinking themselves wise they become fools. The eternally lost

Every person does this. With the overwhelming majority refusing the truth and loving the lies and darkness of Satan vainly, foolishly believing they are the well-informed, educated, sophisticated and enlightened ones.

Ahh, irony.

Come the Day of the Lord…

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, December 6th, 2022

U.S. Funds Arabs Who Want to Destroy Israel

• What is disturbing is that a large portion of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians.
• What is even more disturbing is that the hate against Israel is coming from Arabs who continue to benefit from unconditional U.S. financial aid.
• The Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, continues to spearhead the Arab campaign of incitement and delegitimization against Israel. In addition to the incendiary rhetoric, the Palestinian Authority does not hide its vehement opposition to any kind of peace with Israel.
• In its latest tirade against Israel, Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction claimed that the Israeli counter-terrorism measures, designed to save the lives of Jews and Arabs alike, are acts of “terrorism and war crimes.” According to the logic of the Palestinian Authority, a terror attack against Israel is legitimate and the perpetrator is a hero and martyr, but an Israeli action to stop terrorism is illegitimate.
• This is the same Palestinian Authority that maintains good relations with the Biden administration, which recently decided to upgrade U.S. relations with Abbas and his associates…
• [T]he allegation that Israel is committing “war crimes” can be seen as a direct call to Palestinians to engage in violence against Israelis. The “war crimes” libel is also intended for Western audiences as part of the campaign to delegitimize Israel and pave the way for prosecuting its leaders before international courts.
• It is worth noting that since April 2021, the U.S. has provided more than half a billion dollars in assistance for the Palestinians.
• If the U.S. thinks that showering money and concessions on the Palestinian leaders will lessen the tension, you heard it here first: this approach definitely will not work. All that will happen is that the hostilities will increase so that the bribes will increase. Giving hard, concrete gifts in exchange for soft promises is inevitably doomed from the start.
• The reason for referring Zaidan to be investigated was because he had announced that he was willing to lecture at an Israeli university. He is also suspected of having expressed support for establishing relations between Egyptian and Israeli intellectuals.
• Egypt has enjoyed the benefit of more than $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid since the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979.
• Again, it is worth noting that this incitement against Israel is being spread despite the ongoing massive U.S. financial aid to Jordan.
• One way to counter this campaign of hate and to encourage peace is for the U.S. to make its aid conditional on ending (or at least reducing) the rhetoric of hate. So far, however, it is clear that the U.S. has no intention of demanding anything in return for its money.
• For the time being, then, many Arabs will continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. while continuing actively to seek the destruction of Israel and being financially rewarded for it.

Some Israeli journalists who travelled to Qatar to report on the soccer World Cup were harassed and verbally abused by Arabs from several countries. The journalists were told that Israel has no right to exist and that most Arabs are opposed to any form of normalization with Israelis.

The hostile reception that the Israeli Jewish journalists received in Qatar — a wealthy emirate that has for many years embraced radical Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood organization — did not surprise those who are familiar with the ongoing massive incitement against Israel in some of the Arab countries.

What is disturbing is that a large portion of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians. The two Arab countries have peace treaties with Israel, while the Palestinian Authority signed in 1993 the Oslo Accord with Israel.

What is even more disturbing is that the hate against Israel is coming from Arabs who continue to benefit from unconditional U.S. financial aid.

It is worth noting that since April 2021, the U.S. has provided more than half a billion dollars in assistance to the Palestinians.

If the U.S. thinks that showering money and concessions on the Palestinian leaders will lessen the tension, you heard it here first: this approach definitely will not work. All that will happen is that the hostilities will increase so that the bribes will increase. Giving hard, concrete gifts in exchange for soft promises is inevitably doomed from the start.

The peace treaties and the Oslo Accords, as well as U.S. financial aid, have not stopped the Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians from pursuing their campaigns to spread hate against Israel and Jews.

The message these Arabs are sending to their people is that “Normalization with Israel is a crime and a form of treason.” Another message is that “Israel has no right to exist, and all Arabs and Muslims should be engaged in a jihad (holy war) to eliminate it.”

It is because of such messages that the Arab fans attending the World Cup in Qatar displayed such a large degree of hostility when they found out about the presence of Israeli Jewish journalists in the Gulf state.

The journalists are now saying that they were not aware of the extent of hostility toward Israel in the Arab world. That is likely because these journalists do not understand Arabic or else chose to ignore the messages that were being transmitted to the Arabs for decades through mosques, political leaders and the media in the Arab world.

The Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, continues to spearhead the Arab campaign of incitement and delegitimization against Israel. In addition to the incendiary rhetoric, the Palestinian Authority does not hide its vehement opposition to any kind of peace with Israel.

In its latest tirade against Israel, Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction claimed that Israeli counter-terrorism measures, designed to save the lives of Jews and Arabs alike, are acts of “terrorism and war crimes.” According to the logic of the Palestinian Authority, a terror attack against Israel is legitimate and the perpetrator is a hero and martyr, but an Israeli action to stop terrorism is illegitimate.

This is the same Palestinian Authority that maintains good relations with the Biden administration, which recently decided to upgrade U.S. relations with Abbas and his associates in the West Bank.

Reacting to the Israeli security crackdown on terrorists in the West Bank, Abbas’s Fatah faction said:

“The Tel Aviv government continues its criminal policies every day, benefiting from the silence of world governments, the inaction of the American administration, the insistence of some Arabs on normalization, and the weakness of the international system.”

What does one learn from this statement?

First, the term “Tel Aviv government” suggests that the Palestinians do not recognize any part of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Palestinian leadership claims that it wants to make only east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. Yet, the statement shows that the Palestinians believe Israel has no right even to west Jerusalem, and its capital should be Tel Aviv.

Second, the allegation that Israel is committing “war crimes” can be seen as a direct call to Palestinians to engage in violence against Israelis. The “war crimes” libel is also intended for Western audiences as part of the campaign to delegitimize Israel and pave the way for prosecuting its leaders before international courts.

Third, the statement by the ruling Fatah faction, also headed by Mahmoud Abbas, clearly states that the Palestinians are opposed to normalization between Israel and the Arab countries. Fatah accuses some Arab countries of “insisting” on normalizing their ties with Israel. This allegation should be seen as a direct call to Arabs to revolt against their leaders for choosing to make peace with Israel and seeking security and economic cooperation with it.

The anti-normalization campaigns in Egypt and Jordan are as strong as the Palestinian incitement against Israel.

Last week, the General Syndicate of the Egyptian Writers’ Union referred writers Youssef Zaidan, Ala’ Al-Aswany and Mona Prince to be investigated on charges of “normalization with Israel.” The syndicate threatened, if they are found guilty, to expel them from its ranks.

The reason for referring Zaidan to be investigated was because he had announced that he was willing to lecture at an Israeli university. He is also suspected of having expressed support for establishing relations between Egyptian and Israeli intellectuals.

Prince is accused of promoting normalization with Israel because she appeared in pictures with the Israeli ambassador to Egypt.

Al-Aswany is facing dismissal from the Egyptian Writer’s Union after being accused of giving an interview to the Israeli media.

In the past, the Egyptian Writers’ Union expelled the prominent writer Ali Salem for allegedly supporting normalization with Israel.

Egypt has enjoyed the benefit of more than $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid since the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979.

In Jordan, hardly a week passes without a demonstration or rally against normalization with Israel.

Again, it is worth noting that this incitement against Israel is being spread despite the ongoing massive U.S. financial aid to Jordan. On November 27, Jordan received another U.S. grant to support the kingdom’s budget: $845 million. The grant comes as part of the U.S. economic assistance program to the Jordanian government, as part of the third memorandum of understanding signed by Jordan and the U.S. for 2018-2022.

The enemies of Israel and the U.S. are celebrating the mistreatment of the Israeli journalists during the World Cup in Qatar. The enemies of peace are thrilled that many Arabs seized the opportunity of the World Cup to express their hatred for Israel and desire to see it replaced with an Iranian-backed Islamist terror state.

Palestinian writer Charhabil Al-Ghareeb, in an article published by Al-Mayadeen, the mouthpiece of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror militia, wrote:

“What happened in the World Cup in Qatar this year constitutes a new slap in the face to ‘Israel’, which has been exploiting any event to find popular acceptance in the Arab and Islamic circles… The World Cup constituted a golden opportunity for the Arabs to voice their opposition to normalization with ‘Israel’ and block its attempt to appear as a natural entity in the region.”

These scenes of hatred displayed on the streets of Qatar against Israeli Jews should serve as a wake-up call to all those who have long been turning a blind eye to the anti-Israel incitement in the Arab world. Sadly, the hostility toward the journalists also serves as a reminder that there are many people in the Arab world who have still not come to terms with the legitimate presence of the State of Israel.

One way to counter this campaign of hate and to encourage peace is for the U.S. to make its financial aid conditional on ending the rhetoric of hate. So far, however, it is clear that the U.S. has no intention of demanding anything in return for its money.

For the time being, then, many Arabs will continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. while continuing actively to seek the destruction of Israel and being financially rewarded for it.

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