Hundreds of Thousands of Terrorists Ten Miles Away

Just a few days ago Israeli citizens watched television broadcasts of the return of former exiled Hamas leader Khalen Mashaal’s return to Gaza to commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the founding of the terrorist group.  Literally hundreds of thousands of Hamas members and Arabs living in Gaza assembled to hear Mashaal and Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh shout insults, epithets, and warnings to the nation of Israel.  Even children were dressed in Hama military uniforms.

Now stop thinking like an American and start thinking like a Jew living in southern Israel.  Start thinking about what it would feel like to be watching live TV and seeing hundreds of thousands of your worst enemy being incited to conquer your country and kill you – and they are only ten miles away.  That is not just a nightmare.  That is reality.  Seriously, stop reading for a minute and just try to imagine it.  It is not just a reality, it is a frightening reality.

Mashaal not only said that Hamas will “never recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation,” but that “Jihad and the armed resistance is the only true path to liberation.  We kill the Zionists because they are conquerors and we will continue to kill anyone who takes our land and our holy places.”

Before we discover more of what Mashaal said, let’s review:

·         Gaza was taken from Israel by Egypt in the War of 1948

·         Gaza was taken back by Egypt in the Six Day War in 1967

·         Israel subsequently allow Palestinian refugees (from their own Arab countries) to live in Gaza as a separate entity.

·         Hamas has repeatedly and almost continually wrought terror in the south of Israel.

Okay.  Now that we know that Mashaal is another maniacal Islamic terrorist leader molded in the likeness of Ahmadinejad and Arafat, we can keep his tirades in proper perspective.  Things like, “Liberating Palestine, all of Palestine, is the duty and right and goal of all Arabs and Muslims.”  When he says, “Palestine” he is including Israel.  He went on to say that “From the sea to the (Jordan) river, from north to south, we will not give up any part of Palestine.  It is our country, our right and our homeland.”  That is patently not true, but it is what he believes to be the truth.

Israeli Vice-Premier wrapped up the situation, describing the difference between Mashaal and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas it that the latter wraps his extremist ideology in pretty words.  He is absolutely right.  Israel is not only surrounded enemy countries, but it borders two very large terrorist threats with the PA/PLO in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.

By the way, Hamas thinks that it won the eight-day war a couple of weeks ago, because Israel agreed to a ceasefire rather than invade Gaza.  This is a clear example of the twisted Islamic propaganda machine.  They could not tell the truth if it hit them in the face.

Our friends in Israel need our prayers.  They are in a desperate situation.  Normally it would be described as an impossible situation, but “with God nothing shall be impossible.” (Luke 1:37)

Our prayers can shake the very heavens because our God is Jehovah.  He is the protector of Israel.  People have tried to eradicate the Jews, but that will never happen.  Even if the situation gets worse, and it will, the Protector of Israel will always save them from oppression.  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:6)

Foundational information for this article can be found at the Times of Israel, International Business Times, and Israel National News.

The Locket by Mike Evans

As a young girl, Sarah Batsheva was infatuated with the handsome teenage boy who lived down the street. That teenage boy was Adolf Eichmann. It all seemed innocent and nice until Sarah’s grandmother died, and then nothing was ever the same again.

Set in Europe during World War II, The Locket follows Sarah’s journey from adolescence to adulthood, as she and her family endure the horrors of the Final Solution. Forced from their home into a Vienna ghetto, and later to the Nazi death camps, Sarah watches helplessly as her family and friends are murdered. She is marked for death, too, until Eichmann intervenes. When Sarah rebuffs Eich-mann’s romantic advances, she is arrested and sent to the camps. Can Sarah escape and survive long enough to find justice for the atrocities she was forced to endure? Will evil prevail and consign her to a life of fear and terror? Observe Sarah on her journey from the darkest days of the Holocaust to the day she enters a Jerusalem courtroom to face Adolf Eichmann.

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Living Fear Free by Mike Evans.

So many Believers are too intimidated to show their true emotions for fear of condemnation. The hurt, guilt and shame are too real, which causes people to run from their pain. God does not want you to live as a captive to fear and rejection! There is a remedy.

Today’s average Americans find themselves overwhelmed and anxious in a world of economic and political uncertainty.   With a collapsed economy, corporate banks that are going bankrupt, a mortgage meltdown, a housing crash, Wall Street and auto industry bailouts, high unemployment, and a deflated dollar, many wonder where our nation is headed. Every day, we see global media outlets unveiling the turbulence in the Middle East. Conflicts with Israel and her neighboring enemies, riots in Syria, and a clash over the Suez Canal are causing oil prices to skyrocket.  We see those things, not to mention international trepidation because Iran is intent on manufacturing a nuclear weapon. Nations, fearing a potential World War III, are stricken with apprehension. 

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Kiss the Son

Never in my lifetime have I seen such global hostility against one democratic nation as is happening right now with the nation of Israel.

Only the words of a Jerusalem king could describe this scene: “Why do the heathen rage, And the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying “Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure: “Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree…” (Psalm 2:1-7a).

Recently, the eyes of the world were focused on Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas who proclaimed, "One day…the Palestinian flag [will fly] over Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine!” Seventy-two hours earlier, the UN General Assembly had approved the resolution giving the PA status as a non-member observer state. One hundred thirty-eight nations voted in favor, nine voted against the move, and forty-one abstained. The nine dissenters joining the US and Israel were the Czech Republic, Canada, Panama, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau.
The Holy Grail of understanding on this subject is that Israel strongly stood up to Abbas and the PA, letting them know that if their attempt to circumvent a mutual peace process was successful, Israel would resume her plan to build in Jerusalem. The PA knew this well in advance of its move in the UN. This move affords the Palestinians access to the International Criminal Court in The Hague where their leaders could file frivolous lawsuits against Israel for a variety of supposedly reckless and malicious issues. Among the possibilities would be charges against Israeli soldiers for “war crimes” committed during the 2008-2009 war in Gaza, as well as Israel’s settlement projects in her reclaimed territory.

The real story is not to be found with the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations having awarded non-member observer status, nor is it in Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to build new settlements on land near Jerusalem; the real story is in a conspiracy hatched in hell by the PA, the EU, the UN and the US against one man: Benjamin Netanyahu. He is likely to be Israel’s thirty-third prime minister when the election ends this coming January 2013.

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have never missed the opportunity presented by a crisis. There is no doubt in my mind, as a personal friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu for thirty-one years, and the person who recommended him for a political appointment to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, that this is what happened.

They were presented with an opportune crisis. The Europeans despise Mr. Netanyahu and have been waiting for an opportunity to pit the entire world against him in an attempt to convince the Israelis to throw him under the bus. The prime minister cannot afford to take on the whole world.
This is not the first time such theatrical acts of hypocrisy have played out on the world stage. During the Lebanon War, Menachem Begin had the PLO terrorist organization by the throat and countries of the world opposed him in order to save Yasser Arafat and his cronies.

As his host, I had met with Mr. Begin at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City just before he met with President Ronald Reagan. The president had been ill-advised by the liberal State Department against Mr. Begin. He had been told that the Israeli prime minister could not be reasoned with and had a “ghetto” mentality. His advisors added that Mr. Begin was a stubborn Jew whose brain had been baked during the Holocaust.

Fortunately for the prime minister, he was able to overcome those malicious lies during a fifteen minute meeting with the president. On my advice, he addressed Mr. Reagan, “Mr. President, you and I both believe in God. You and I have both faced death. You and I both believe God has a great plan for our lives and our countries. Mr. President, would you pray today that God’s will would be done in our meeting?”

President Reagan was so moved by the prime minister’s humility that he wept as he prayed. Prime Minister Begin’s senior advisor Reuven Hecht called me from the White House to tell me what had happened in that meeting.

The global conspiracy against Benjamin Netanyahu is even greater than that compared with Menachem Begin.

President Obama knows how vulnerable Prime Minister Netanyahu will be during the upcoming election. He also knows that Netanyahu will not bow or bend to the president’s Liberal Left ideological policies, and therefore, the only option is to isolate and undermine the prime minister. This is precisely what Clinton attempted to do during his presidency.

How well I know this as I was staying in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington and covering the event during Netanyahu’s visit. Meetings were cancelled; attempts to humiliate the prime minister transpired; and ultimately, at his weakest moment, In 1999, Clinton sent some of his people including James Carville to Israel to help overthrow Netanyahu by supporting the liberal candidate, Ehud Barack.

President Obama is aware that he cannot compete with Mr.Netanyahu. He has tried for four years, and when the two met face-to-face in the Oval Office in May 2011, Benjamin Netanyahu lectured the president on Jewish history. Then the prime minister turned directly to his base in the US—Congress—where he received twenty-nine standing ovations during his address.

Truthfully, the Palestinians knew Benjamin Netanyahu would move forward with building settlements on E1; the president knew he would take this step, as did the EU and the UN. That is what those entities wanted, and five European countries including France, Great Britain, and Sweden have threatened to recall their ambassadors from Jerusalem. The Liberal Left in the US is currently shopping for a new prime minister—someone they believe will be a partner in peace, and will divide Jerusalem and rip Judea and Samaria from the Jewish people.

Again, a prophet in Israel and the most famous leader of the nation described this day in Psalm 2:
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.”

by Mike Evans

Dr. Mike Evans is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His latest novel, The Locket, tells the story of a young girl, a neighbor of Adolf Eichmann, who is caught in the horror of the Holocaust.   For more on that title, go here.

Pearl Harbor’s Jewish American Heros

Remember Pearl Harbor

 When you look down the barrel of your gun

Remember all the damage

That those Japanese planes have done!

 

“December 7th, 1941,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “is a day that shall live in infamy.”

Pearl Harbor was, without a doubt, the most horrific wake-up call this nation had even seen.  And, it certainly served as rallying point, calling an entire nation to arms.  America needed all of her sons to combat the yellow horde in the Pacific, and they all responded – - including those of Jewish descent!

The contribution of Jewish-Americans during WW II was massive – and sacrificial.  In all, 11,000 American Jewish servicemen gave their lives.  Furthermore, a goodly number of Jewish scientists played a major role in developing the atom bomb, which saved millions of American lives by preventing a land invasion of Japan being necessary.

Not only did Jewish-Americans serve, they distinguished themselves as well:  Three were awarded the Medal of Honor; 157 received the Distinguished Service Medal, and more than 1600 the Silver Star.  Chaplain Alexander Goode was one of the “Four Chaplains” who gave up their life jackets and “went down with the ship” when the Dorchester, a U.S. Army troopship, was sunk by a German U Boat in “torpedo alley” a 100 miles of the coast off Greenland in February of 1943.

The bravery and dedication of Jewish soldiers in WW II was not limited to the United States, however.  Nearly 3,000 British Jewish servicemen and women were killed; 200,000 Soviet Jewish servicemen were killed; 30,000 Polish Jews lost their lives in the campaign to stem the tide of the German invasion in 1939 and virtually every other of the Allied Armies had Jewish servicemen who served gallantly and honored both their countries, themselves, and their Jewish heritage.

It is no wonder that, with a legacy like this, the IDF is one of the premier fighting forces in the world today.  From the time of Saul and David to Moshe Dayan, the bravery and dedication of the Jewish soldier has never been doubted and has never been more needed than it is today!

Remember to pray for the Jewish American hero’s and for the peace of Jerusalem.

A Pack of Matches and a Pack of Lies

There are 5 million Jews living in Israel.  The entire population of Israel is a mere 62% of the population of New York. That’s New York City.

The Arab population in the Middle East is 500 million. That is 60% more people than the population of the entire United States.

Five million people surround by 50 million people. As Larry Miller describes it, the Arab world is like a football field and Israel is like a pack of matches in the middle. Do you have the picture? Let’s add some meaning to it. The Arab people are trying to convince the world that, if Israel would give them just one half of the pack of matches, everything will be hunky-dory and everyone will be friends. Despite the fact that Iranian President Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, and despite the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas want to drive Israel into the sea, the world appears to be buying into the Arab-Islamic propaganda.

“Give us half the pack of matches and we’ll be your Best Friends Forever.” How blind are these people? Or is it that the lie is so absurd that they think it must be true.

The rise of the Palestinian Authority under the control of Mahmoud Abbas has made the West Bank and Gaza a political pawn for the Islamic Arabs to use to drive Israel out of the region. They are using them as a half a pack of match’s worth of peace promises that are contrary to everything they believe and desire.

The Hamas Charter of 1988 cites that it is a derivative of the Muslim Brotherhood and says that “There is no solution for the Palestinian except through Jihad,” and “Jerusalem will exist and continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.”

The Muslim Brotherhood is spending a great deal of time and effort trying to portray itself as paternalistic and peaceful.  It recently submitted a new Charter of Conduct for the MB in Europe. In order to defend Islam from charges that it is inherently violent & terroristic, the Brotherhood deceives the public about the nature of Jihad. This is necessary . . . if the connection between Islam and violence is to be denied, Jihad must be explained away. The Brotherhood defends Jihad. It does so usually in one of two ways, sometimes employing both deceptions. First, the Brotherhood claims that Jihad has little or no connection to violence and warfare and is instead akin to various forms of inner struggle or self-improvement. Second, the Brotherhood suggests that Jihad is a form of “freedom fighting”, even comparing Jihad to the American Revolution.”

Does it take an illustration of a pack of matches to expose the pack of lies of the Arab Muslim nations is handing out to the world? Reasoning doesn’t seem to work. Or will it take the Lord God Almighty destroying the 500 million attacking His five million. Israel has faced these odds before – many times. And the Lord Mighty in Battle has won the victory and brought glory to His name. Pray with us that He will not bring embarrassment upon His children or upon Himself, but that he will defend them by the word of His mouth. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:6)

Source information for this story may be found at the Global MB Report and Target of Opportunity

The UN’s Dirty Little Secret

No one is really surprised at the outcome of the vote at the UN General Assembly today, confirming “observer state” status for the Palestinian Authority.  The official vote was 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions.  CBS News called the PA’s quest for statehood “an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis.”  Don’t count on that happening any time soon.
 
US Ambassador Susan Rice, fresh off the Benghazi hot seat, called the vote an “unfortunate and counterproductive resolution.”  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech “defamatory and venomous . . . full of mendacious propaganda.”  Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, said, “For as long as President Abbas prefers symbolism over reality, as long as he prefers to travel to New York for UN resolutions rather that travel to Jerusalem for genuine dialogue, any hope of peace is out of reach.”

But something else went on today in the background while the spotlight was on Abbas.  It’s the kind of thing that exposes the UN for what it really is.

The Palestinian Authority, the UN Division for Palestinian Rights and other UN officials denied access to the General Assembly Hall to Jewish students in order to pack the hall with Palestinian supporters.  Despicable as that is, in and of itself, for the supposedly unbiased body of seekers of equality and peace in the world, the little conspiracy runs even deeper.

The 23 students, who are part of an education program sponsored by the Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni community, had already been given permission and passes to attend the session at the invitation of the UN-accredited Touro Institute on Human Right and the Holocaust.  Yesterday, after the passes had already been printed, Wolfgang Grieger, Director of the UN Division for Palestinian Rights wrote a letter to the UN Pass Office, requesting that access be denied to the Jewish group, falsely claiming that they were part of an NGO that was not authorized to attend.

The UN website specifically advertized the session as open to NGOs.

Director Geiger, not expecting the matter to go public, backpedalled like a unicyclist running from a bear, claiming that his request was because the group had been disruptive in the past, which was also not true – and was not even implied in his letter.

By the way, Geiger requested – and received – 100 passes which were given to Palestinian supporters.  Where did Geiger learn his politics?  Chicago?

Friends, this world is an unfriendly place, especially if you are a Jew.  I am not a Jew, but God has blessed me with a heart for His special, chosen people.  I pray for the nation of Israel, for the Jewish people, and the peace of Jerusalem daily because I am convinced that is what the Lord wants us to do. (Psalm 122:6)  Would you join me in praying for Israel and the peace of Jerusalem?  “Lord, may Israel not fear, for you are with her; may she be not dismayed, for you are her God.  Strengthen her and help her; uphold her with your righteous right hand.”  (Isaiah41:10)

Source material for this article is found at CBS News, Israel National News, and Breitbart.