It’s been a very interesting week in the news. The deception being spread throughout the world has felt especially great. However, I am not discouraged. What we are witnessing is the reality of what the Bible calls “delusions.” Evil is called good, and good is called evil. Those who celebrate wickedness are called compassionate and tolerant, and those who stand for God’s righteousness are labeled as bigoted, uncharitable, and full of hate. Once again, I say that I am not disheartened by this. As a Jew, I know that we will overcome, win, thrive, and prosper until Ezekiel’s prophesied war. And as a believer in the true Messiah, I know that all this deception in the world is an indicator that I should lift up my head to the sky because our redemption is drawing near!
The Starving Gaza Lie is Crumbling
You’ve all seen the pictures. They are heartbreaking. Children who are so emaciated that you can count every one of their bones and not miss a one. To see these innocent ones suffering this way is enough to drive any feeling person to tears. That is why it is so despicable that the media is using these sorrowful children and their grief-stricken parents to sell a vicious, political, antisemitic lie.
Many of the pictures showing suffering children are from other countries, other times, and other wars. Those actually from Gaza typically show children with chronic illnesses that cause them to look as emaciated as they do. When people try to point out the lies of the media, they are shut down. A leaked BBC memo told staff to dismiss Gaza hunger counter-narratives and emphasize Israel’s responsibility for children’s distress.
But the lies are too great and too obvious to be tamped down so easily. On Tuesday, the contemptible New York Times was forced to amend a story about a “severely malnourished” child, admitting there were pre-existing health conditions that caused him to look as emaciated as he did. They also “accidentally” forgot to print a different picture of the suffering child with his healthy, well-fed brother standing right next to him. However, as they made their non-apology, they made sure the readers knew that their reporters were still giving the news “bravely, sensitively, and at great personal risk.” It would have been nice if The Old Gray Lady of media could have included the word “accurately” in that list, but that would have stretched credulity a little too far. By the way, the original article was pictured on their main X page with 55.1 million followers. The non-apology was on their NYTimes Communications page that has only 88.7 thousand followers. Every day, new pictures emerge of children who have been forced to eat sand or inedible leaves just so the media can get a picture of them crying, because tears sell narratives and that’s what counts.
The deceptive narrative of Israel starving Gaza is crumbling. On Sunday, US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson stated that since the war began, Israel has allowed 94,000 truckloads of food into Gaza. That’s enough to feed two million people for two years. If anyone truly is hungry, there is certainly someone to blame. But it’s not Israel. It’s Hamas who has profited $500 million from stolen aid. Once again, the trustworthy New York Times confidently asserts that there is no proof that Hamas steals aid. Yet, a Gazan woman tells how Hamas steals the humanitarian aid and takes it into the tunnels underground. And I don’t know how many videos I’ve posted of Hamas terrorists looting humanitarian trucks and confiscating all the food from on board.
Despite the fact that Israel has no legal obligation to feed the civilians of an enemy, it is doing so as well as it can through the corruption and theft of those same civilians’ leaders. America has stepped up in a huge way through the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) that is filling the gap left by an inept and tainted United Nations. While the UN’s food sits rotting in trucks, the GHF has offered to take up the slack or even drive the trucks in. The UN has refused. The media absolutely hates the GHF because the agency’s tremendous success is harming their narrative, so they are highlighting frauds like supposed whistleblower Anthony Aguilar. A former US special forces soldier and a former contractor who worked assisting the GHF until he was fired for “performance reasons”, Aguilar is seeking his fame and fortune through the news cycle. After begging his contractor to be hired back on, his pleading turned into threats. Now he is going from media outlet to media outlet claiming that the GHF is just a racket and that he saw the IDF committing war crimes. His narratives and evidence have been shown to be demonstrably false, but the media still eats it up. I wonder how long it will be until he signs his book contract.
All this can end simply by Hamas laying down its weapons and leaving. Israel has already established five strong humanitarian zones, and all who have gone to them are being well taken care of. But some European and Middle Eastern governments feel obligated to carry on their antisemitic narrative, so they are airdropping and trucking in their own aid. Unfortunately, most of the airdrops land in unsafe areas and the trucks are all looted by Hamas before they get to their destinations.
Is Annexation the Answer?
It might be. Hamas doesn’t care about people; they care about land. They want to keep what they have and take over the land that belongs to Israel. Israel is now prepared to say, “We’re probably just going to flip that equation around and annex your land back to us.” This is a huge thing, because the annexation of land can only be annulled by a supermajority of parliamentary votes. It is unlikely that the needed 80 vote level could be reached in the Knesset. US President Trump has already given his nod of approval.
Prior to 2005, there were quite a few beautiful Jewish settlements in Gaza. The areas were prosperous, the Gazans were employed, and life was better. But then the settlements were forcibly shut down, the Jewish presence and economic benefit was removed, and the Gazans were left with nothing to do except sit around and think about ways to destroy Israel. Those musings came to fruition on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. That attack is the catalyst that is needed for Israel to begin annexation. Land taken in war belongs to the victor. Hamas started a war to take Israel’s land; Israel will end it by taking Hamas’s land.
Western Europe is on the opposite side of annexation. They, instead, want a two-state solution. This is asinine, because not even the Palestinians want a two-state solution. They want just one state to exist – theirs. But President Macron of France is saying that his country will recognize a Palestinian state. Now, British Prime Minister Starmer says that if there isn’t peace by September, the UK will recognize a British state. Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to Starmer, saying, “Starmer rewards the monstrous terror of Hamas and punishes its victims.” I think the UK just needs to recognize that we stopped listening to anything they say 77 years ago with the end of the British Mandate.
In a move possibly to celebrate my great tour across his country, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has stated that if the Palestinian Authority meets certain conditions and promises to hold an election in 2026, his great nation will join the UK, France, and others in recognizing a Palestinian state. Oy, couldn’t he have just sent me a box of chocolates? All joking aside, this one makes me especially disappointed. I’m not at all surprised, but I have met so many people on this tour who are saddened by what they’ve seen the government of this beautiful land turn into. I pray for Canada and all my dear friends here. I’m afraid the times are just going to get rougher.
That being said, it’s not difficult to see the bigger picture of what is happening with these western nations and Gaza. Just as God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, leading him to make a mistake that changed world history, western countries announcing their intention to recognize a Palestinian state are being used by God to harden the heart of Hamas. This euphoria is leading Hamas to reject all deals, thereby hastening its own demise.
In a crazy twist that can only happen in the Middle East, while Europe is appeasing Hamas, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have all signed a statement calling for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza. Also, for the very first time, the entire Arab League has condemned the October 7 attack and called on Hamas to release all hostages and lay down its arms. That, my friends, is a relational turnaround that is torn right out of the pages of Ezekiel 38.
Lebanon and Syria are Still Hezbollahing and Jihading
Because of Hezbollah’s continuing activity, Israel is maintaining its strategy of targeted eliminations and airstrikes of military structures in Lebanon. The IDF now believes that its gains since the ceasefire was enacted could eventually lead to Hezbollah fully disarming. Meanwhile, across the border in Syria, their bougie new president is still playing his clandestine terrorist games against the Druze. As a result, Tuesday saw the Israeli Air Force eliminated 40 jihadi terrorists in a strike on the suburbs of Suwayda. There are also unconfirmed reports that Israel is transferring large quantities of weapons to the Druze in that same area. President al-Sharaa needs to make a decision soon whether he is going to back down or face the full wrath of a Druze population fighting for its life along with a fully armed IDF committed to letting the Druze live.
Huge Earthquake in Kamchatka
Wednesday saw the fifth strongest earthquake in recorded history rattle the east coast of Russia. Designated a whopping 8.8 on the Richter scale, the temblor was both long in duration and shallow in depth. Thankfully, the site of the quake was offshore which protected to an extent the already sparsely populated area. Of greater concern was the tsunami that raced east across the Pacific Ocean. Japan, Hawaii, the US west coast, and many smaller islands in-between held their collective breath, while many who live near water hopped in their cars to escape to higher ground. Thankfully, while there were some structures damaged and some unfortunate whales were swept onshore, there were no fatalities from what could have been a major disaster.
