Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Ever had cancer? Then an operation to remove the cancer to hopefully prevent further harm or even death? If so, when the operation to remove the cancer was performed would you have been satisfied to have the surgeon and the medical team do only part of the job and then say, “Okay, we’re done, good luck!”

Hardly.

Also, in having a cancer growing that wanted nothing more than to kill you would you have been pleased in having a neighbor meddle and begin to dictate to you exactly what you should do even though it wasn’t their body and the cancer wasn’t working to kill them, but the neighbor just couldn’t stop meddling and telling you what you must do.

And you know this neighbor would go ballistic if anyone attempted to meddle with them as they are with you and the cancer you had to deal with.

Enough of the weeping for the people of Gaza and all the compassion sent to the people of Gaza. Care to remember this? If the people of Gaza hadn’t attacked Israel in a heinous, brutal terrorist attack and murdered almost 1,400 people in Israel the people of Gaza would not be dealing with what they are.

And the overwhelming majority of the people of Gaza support Hamas. And support the annihilation of Israel and the killing of Jews. Why the school textbooks in Gaza and the West Bank, funded in large part by the U.N., and thus funded in large part by American taxpayers are rife with illustrations and stories about killing Jews, destroying Isreal, being a martyr and Jews are portrayed as pigs or dogs, as Islam abhors and hates pigs and dogs.

But let’s weep and feel sorry for the people of Gaza, the open enemy of Israel, of Jews, of the West. And let’s villainize Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF, and the Jews.

Who just wanted to live another day in God’s land in peace on October 7th, 2023.

But the people of Gaza — yes, the people of Gaza not merely Hamas — the two cannot be separated as the West does, as all the Western media does — weren’t having any of that peace, and let’s live another day without a lot of bloodshed and pain.

No, they brought what they now have wrought upon themselves by their actions.

And they are the victims?

Really?

Has everyone lost their minds, critical thinking, a grip on reality and the facts? An understanding of who it is that are God’s people, what it is that is God’s land, and who it is that are the enemies of Israel and the Jews?

Who would have a deadly cancer out to kill you that would enter an operation to cut out that cancer — whatever it took to do so — and then halfway through the operation say, “Nah, that’s good enough doc’, thanks all you medical folks, but I’m going to get out of this operating theater, go back to my room and head back home…”

No difference.

Only there is. This is about God’s land, God’s people.

Does that matter to anyone reading this?

Do I like war? Do I like people dying? All the pain and suffering taking place? I would like to see no one die in a war. No more terrorism. But I don’t reside in the pretend fantasy world so many have created and live in. I live in the real world. A place inhabited by wicked, sin-filled, hate-filled evil people at war with God, at war with Jesus, at war with the Holy Spirit, at war with the Holy Bible, at war with the truth of God and God’s people. Be they Jew or transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit to renew, and change the heart and mind of a Gentile that faithfully believes everything about Jesus, obeys the Lord, and makes Him Lord of their life.

Do I like the current war taking place?

Certainly not. But God’s ways and God’s thoughts are not ours. God commanded at one time for Saul and the Israelites to utterly, totally destroy the Amalekites. But Saul disobeyed. And Saul and the Israelites paid a heavy price.

To our thinking, especially in the softened beyond the ability to stand age we live in, to totally destroy living things, people, children, and animals as God commanded is shocking and we recoil from it. But God knew what He was commanding and why He was commanding what He was. If only Saul and the Israelites had obeyed they would have seen and witnessed the purely good and righteous, the purely loving reason God commanded Saul as He did.

We are not to question God, argue with God, or disobey God. We need to cease believing we know better than God.

And the Gazans are the enemy of Israel.

The Gazans brought all that they are now enduring upon themselves. Perhaps they should have paused and thought about the consequences of their action. But, in their great delusion, they are convinced that they have the ability to destroy Israel, to remove all Jews from the Middle East.

Too bad they don’t know or believe the past, present, and future inerrant infallible history given in the Holy Bible. They would endure a lot less suffering, pain, and trouble if they did.

Do not misunderstand — I’m not advocating the utter and total destruction of the people of Gaza, by no means, but the thinking, the reporting, and the actions taken by the U.S. government, by Western governments in this situation are appalling. Hamas and Gazans attack Isreal — oh, that’s right members of Hamas ARE Gazans — and they murder in a ruthless, barbaric manner while also raping women and children, and beheadings, the slaughter was most evil and of the utmost hatred and evil in its execution, and now Israel is the enemy and it’s the poor, poor Gazans?

You’ve got to be kidding!

Only it appears not many are being as lost as they now are.

It isn’t only the Gazans, Islamists that hate Israel and want to see that nation and its people utterly destroyed and removed from the earth.

That hatred, that evil has been reawakened to a worldwide level and is escalating by the day.

Get ahold of a Holy Bible. And, well, actually read it. Discerning well and wisely what is read. And come to learn it’s ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD that hate Israel and want to see Israel and all Jews removed from the face of the earth. And this eventuality brings the Lord Jesus Christ back to this fallen corrupt earth a Second and Final time.

What do you think is going to happen with this rising rage and hatred towards Israel and the Jews? Right here in America. Throughout Europe.  Who’s side are you on? And you’re on one side or the other. Can’t be on both. Can’t declare you are now to be legally called Switzerland — a place that NEVER REALLY WAS OR HAS BEEN NEUTRAL, just another lie told — because every word in the Holy Bible is true. Is being revealed. Is being shown to us daily right before our eyes and ears.

Anyone having a deadly cancer doing everything in its power to kill them wants that deadly cancer removed and to be done with it. To not have it keep reoccurring time and time and time again.

Easy to understand and agree with isn’t it?

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

U.S.-Israel tensions boil over as Washington welcomes Netanyahu rival for talks

Gantz’s visit irks prime minister as cease-fire talk intensifies over Gaza carnage

Monday, March 4, 2024

By Ben Wolfgang

Reprinted from The Washington Times

Tensions between the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government neared the boiling point Monday as Biden administration officials ramped up public pressure on the Jewish state over “intolerable” humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip while embracing one of Mr. Netanyahu’s most popular political rivals.

In what seems to be a politically calculated move, Vice President Kamala Harris and other key administration officials met with Israeli official Benny Gantz. Mr. Netanyahu’s team downplayed the visit and rejected any suggestion that Mr. Gantz represented the prime minister.

The centrist Mr. Gantz, who joined the prime minister’s “war cabinet” after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, is widely viewed as one of Mr. Netanyahu’s chief political threats. Some recent polls show him to be more popular among Israelis than Mr. Netanyahu.

Mr. Gantz’s rogue trip to the U.S. threatens to undermine Mr. Netanyahu’s already fragile government, which is facing rapidly growing criticism over its handling of the war against Hamas in Gaza.

In the U.S., the meetings seem to signal that the Biden administration is eager to work with Israeli officials other than Mr. Netanyahu. By most accounts, the prime minister has a frosty relationship with President Biden and has rapidly fallen out of favor in liberal circles because of scenes of civilian suffering in Gaza and Israel’s unwillingness to provide clear end dates for its war.

Upon arriving in Washington, Mr. Gantz seemed to relish a chance to speak directly with top administration officials while dealing a public relations blow to Mr. Netanyahu.

“With friends, one must always speak openly, and that’s what we will do,” Mr. Gantz, a former Israeli defense minister and commanding general of Israel’s military, told reporters as he entered the White House, according to English-language media translations of his remarks, which were in Hebrew.

Mr. Gantz was also expected to meet with White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and top congressional leaders during his stay in Washington. Administration officials were expected to privately press Mr. Gantz to pursue a cease-fire deal with Hamas and to take steps to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza.

Mr. Netanyahu was furious over Mr. Gantz’s visit, according to Israeli media. Citing a source close to Mr. Netanyahu, The Times of Israel reported that the Israeli leader informed Mr. Gantz that “the State of Israel only has one prime minister.” It appeared to be a warning against attempts to strike informal agreements with the White House behind Mr. Netanyahu’s back.

Mr. Netanyahu’s relationship with the Biden administration has deteriorated. The prime minister’s office denied media reports that Mr. Biden refused to take a phone call from Mr. Netanyahu last week. The office called the reports “fake news.”

Tensions between the two sides are clear. Mr. Biden, long a staunch supporter of Israel as a senator and as vice president, last month called Israel’s conduct of its military campaign in the Gaza Strip “over the top,” even as the U.S. stressed that the Jewish state has the right to defend itself after the horrific Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7.

Ms. Harris on Sunday offered the administration’s strongest rebuke to date of Israel’s handling of the situation in Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the crossfire between Israel and Hamas militants, according to some estimates, and where scores of civilians lack access to medicine, food, water and shelter.

“People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane. And our common humanity compels us to act,” she said during a speech in Selma, Alabama. “And the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. They must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites and convoys are not targeted. And they must work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza so more food, water and fuel can reach those in need.”

Israel maintains that Hamas is to blame for the suffering. It says the Palestinian terrorist group routinely uses schools, hospitals and civilians as shields for its war against the Jewish state.

Increasing the pressure

With Mr. Gantz on American soil, the administration tried to drive home its message.

“The situation is simply intolerable” in Gaza, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.

The U.S. has begun airdrops to deliver badly needed supplies to the Palestinian people, and Israel has allowed more aid to flow into the enclave. Mr. Miller said the amount of aid is “significantly below” the levels needed to avert a widespread famine.

The administration is pressing for a deal that would facilitate the release of an estimated 100 hostages still held by Hamas in exchange for a six-week pause in the fighting, allowing for more humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza. Israel is open to such a deal, but Hamas seems to be insisting on a much longer pause to the fighting, perhaps even a permanent end.

Hamas representatives met Monday with Egyptian mediators in Cairo for another round of cease-fire negotiations, though Israel declined to send officials to the talks.

Ms. Harris said now is the time to secure a deal.

“We’re in a window of time right now where we can actually get a hostage deal done. We all want this conflict to end as soon as possible, and how it does matters,” she told reporters.

The White House offered few details of the Harris-Gantz meeting. It mainly stuck to known talking points while acknowledging that the Netanyahu government had taken a “constructive approach” to negotiations.

Ms. Harris “expressed her deep concern about the humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the recent horrific tragedy around an aid convoy in northern Gaza,” the White House account said.

The vice president “discussed the urgency of achieving a hostage deal and welcomed Israel’s constructive approach to the hostage talks,” according to the readout.

The U.S. put pressure on Israel from other directions on Monday. Amid violence between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, special envoy Amos Hochstein visited Beirut in an effort to cool tensions.

The American diplomat warned that an Israel-Hezbollah war would not be “containable,” echoing the administration’s long-standing fear that Israel’s fight against Hamas in Gaza could eventually explode into a much wider Middle East war.

“The United States remains committed to advancing lasting security solutions achieved through [the] diplomatic process,” Mr. Hochstein said after meeting with Lebanese officials.

Meanwhile, Israeli rescuers said a foreign worker was killed and several others wounded by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon. The Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people, including two in serious condition.

Since the Israel–Hamas war began, more than 215 Hezbollah fighters and nearly 40 civilians were killed on the Lebanese side. In Israel, nine soldiers and 10 civilians were killed in attacks, according to The Associated Press.

• This article is based in part on wire service reports.