“Render unto Caesar” – Seismic shifts in post-Nazi Europe

There are between seven and eight major tectonic plates within the bowels of this planet. Held in place by the sustaining power of God, their slightest movement blasts volcanoes into being, throws jagged mountains into the skies, and spins out shuddering earthquakes. The Jewish people’s state strategically sits between two major plates – the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate – a land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa. Some call this area a minor plate, the Arabian. In God’s sight, this is not a minor plate but the very center of the world (Ezekiel 5:5; 38:12).

In the same way as seismic shifts occur when plates realign, so tectonic shifts in the spirit occur when Continental powers realign. Europe has been experiencing physical temblors over the past few year and a half – Sofia, Bulgaria 5.6; Ierápetra, Greece, 5.8; Pirgos near Crete, 6.2; Mormanno (5.5), Medolla (5.8) and Emilia (6.0), all in Italy; near Tromsø Norway (6.2). But certain legal decisions recently taken regarding the Jewish people have led to a realigning of unseen plates – a seismic spiritual shift in the foundations of the European Union.

Outlawing Abraham’s seed

These European shifts have occurred in response to God’s promises over Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. These shifts directly oppose YHVH’s redemptive strategies for world salvation, the judgment of the human race and the restoration of Israel. They strike at the heart of the covenant that God cut in Genesis 12, 15 and 17 with Abraham, the father of all those who have saving faith (Romans 4:16-17). Specifically, the European Union as a group (and individual nations within it) are attempting to reject or make illegal the three divinely established connections between the Jewish people and the Abrahamic Covenant:

The strategic catalyst for these specific efforts is found in the spiritual realm, though of course the ‘genteel’ authors of these legislations are primarily secular or New Age. The fallen angel who tried to get Balaam to prophesy curses over the Jewish people is the same one who seems to be succeeding in bringing Europe under the spiritual ban, and into cursing the seed of Jacob.

A cut below average

There is a move afoot, one with strong momentum, to ban Jewish people from circumcising their male babies in obedience to Genesis 17.

Sweden’s Parliament passed a law in allowing only persons certified by the National Board of Health to circumcise infants, requiring a medical doctor or an anesthesia nurse to accompany the circumciser, and insisting that anesthetic  be administered prior to the operation. Both Swedish Jews and Muslims objected to the law. The World Jewish Congress called this law “the first legal restriction on Jewish religious practice in Europe since the Nazi era.” Those opposed to Jewish circumcision responded, claiming that non-medical circumcision is in violation of the United Nation's Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Norway’s Senterpartiet (2012) proposed a ban on circumcision on males under the age of eighteen.

Finland has had an ambivalent response about male religious circumcision. In 2008, the Finnish government was considering a new law to legalize circumcision if the practitioner is a doctor and if the child consents. Yet in December 2011, Helsinki District Court stated that the Supreme Court's decision does not mean that circumcision is legal for any non-medical reasons. The court referred to the Convention on Human rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe (ratified in Finland in 2010).

Germany has moved back and forth on the subject, with a Cologne regional appellate court ruling in May 2012 that religious circumcision of male children amounts to bodily injury, and is a criminal offense in the area under its jurisdiction. The court applied human rights provisions of the Basic Law, a section of the Civil Code, and some sections of the Criminal Code to non-therapeutic circumcision of male children, in order to come to its ruling.

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Aachen, Heinrich Mussinghoff, said that the ruling was “very surprising” (www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3217/circumcision-germany-austria-switzerland). Hans Ulrich Anke, president of the Church Office of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), said the ruling should be appealed since it didn't “sufficiently” consider the religious significance of the rite (www.ekd.de/english/ekd_press_releases-4792.html). Steffen Seibert, spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that Jewish and Muslim communities will be free to practice circumcision responsibly, and the government would find a way around the local ban in Cologne. The spokesman stated “For everyone in the government it is absolutely clear that we want to have Jewish and Muslim religious life in Germany. Circumcision carried out in a responsible manner must be possible in this country without punishment.”

In July 2012, a group of rabbis, imams, and others said that they view the ruling against circumcision “an affront on our basic religious and human rights.” The joint statement was signed by leaders of groups including Germany’s Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs, the Islamic Center Brussels, the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, the European Jewish Parliament and the European Jewish Association, who met with members of European Parliament from Germany, Finland, Belgium, Italy, and Poland. Meanwhile, the Jewish Hospital of Berlin suspended the practice of male circumcision.

On 19 July 2012, a joint resolution of the CDU/CSU, SPD and FDP factions in the Bundestag requesting the executive branch to draft a law permitting circumcision of boys to be performed without unnecessary pain in accordance with best medical practice carried with a broad majority. The New York Times reported that the German Medical Association “condemned the ruling for potentially putting children at risk by taking the procedure out of the hands of doctors, but it also warned surgeons not to perform circumcisions for religious reasons until legal clarity was established.” The ruling was supported by Deutsche Kinderhilfe, a German child rights organization, which asked for a two-year moratorium to discuss the issue and pointed out that religious circumcision may contravene the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 24.3: “States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children”).

On 12 December 2012, following a series of hearings and consultations, the Bundestag adopted the proposed law explicitly permitting non-therapeutic circumcision to be performed under certain conditions; it is now §1631(d) in the German Civil Code. The vote tally was 434 ayes, 100 noes, and 46 abstentions.

England allows religious circumcision. Yet there are voices being raised which state that “circumcision has long existed as a procedure in need of a justification. We conclude that it is ethically inappropriate to subject children—male or female—to the acknowledged risks of circumcision and contend that there is no compelling legal authority for the common view that male circumcision is lawful” (www.cirp.org/library/legal/UKlaw/fox-thomson2005; www.cirp.org/library/legal/price/#n18).

The Maccabees redux

Barely seventy years after the Nazi war machine was grinding the Jewish people of Europe into powder, strident voices among the nations of Europe are again calling for making Jewish identity and existence illegal in Europe. One hundred and seventy years before the birth of Yeshua, the Greek Seleucid empire attempted a similar strategy spearheaded by Antiochus Epiphanes. This involved making the possession of the Bible illegal, making Sabbath observance illegal, and opening the Jewish people up to pagan and idolatrous worship and lifestyle. One of the most important of these anti-Jewish legal rulings was making circumcision illegal:

Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, and that all should give up their particular customs. All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even from Israel gladly adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the Sabbath. And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land, to forbid burnt-offerings and sacrifices and drink-offerings in the sanctuary, to profane Sabbaths and festivals, to defile the sanctuary and the priests, to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and other unclean animals, and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, so that they would forget the law and change all the ordinances. He added, ‘And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die’ (1 Maccabees 1: 41-50)

In such words he wrote to his whole kingdom. He appointed inspectors over all the people and commanded the towns of Judah to offer sacrifice, town by town. Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land; they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had. Now on the fifteenth day of Kislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt-offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah, and offered incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets. The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire. Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant, or anyone who adhered to the law, was condemned to death by decree of the king. They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns. On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt-offering. In accordance with the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers’ necks. But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food. They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die” (1 Maccabees 1: 51-63); https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1+maccabees+2:46-2:46&version=nrsvae).

“This land ain’t your land”

The God of Israel has invested a lot of time and care in prophesying about the Jewish people’s restoration to their Promised Land, a Last Days event (e.g., Isaiah 11:11; 56:4-8; 59:15-20; 60-62; etc.; Jeremiah 30:18-31:38). He describes in detail machinations of the nations to impede, block, hobble and otherwise destroy this restoration, as well as the ultimate futility in trying to do so (Psalm 2; 83; Jeremiah 30:16; Isaiah 41:11; 60:14; Ezekiel 34; 36; Joel 3:1-2; Zechariah 14:1-2; etc.).

Yet it is with a perversity of spirit that that noble leaders and power brokers of Europe are moving their countries to the lip of the abyss. Even though the God of Israel says that He established the borders of Europe based on His priority relationship with the Jewish people (Deuteronomy 32:8-10), and that Messiah Yeshua will severely judge the nations based on their dividing up of the Land of Israel (Joel 3:1-3), the European Union is high-handedly violating God’s international principles and prophetic warnings.

On June 30 2013 the EU voted on “Guidelines on the eligibility of Israeli entities and their activities in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 for grants, prizes and financial instruments funded by the EU from 2014 onwards” (https://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/47d4e277b48d9d3685256ddc00612265/88584262a0a0e3e485257bad00441464?OpenDocument). Though these guidelines mean to limit financial support to Israel, they actually go further than that. They declare that Israeli institutions and settlement over the Green Line (Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank) are illegal, and that Jews living there are personae non gratae, but that Arabs who live there are the recognized and rightful heirs.

Under “Section A; General Issues” the EU states (and I quote):

The European Union has now gone on the record in a major international forum. It refuses to discern or recognize YHVH’s hand in restoring the Jewish people to their sovereign land, but it financially blesses the PLO (arch-terrorist Arafat’s inheritance) and the PA (led by the Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen, the funder of the Munich Olympics massacres, who received his Holocaust-denying Ph.D. from Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side:_The_Secret_Relationship_Between_Nazism_and_Zionism; www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2531).

“Thus says YHVH, Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears. For your work will be rewarded, declares YHVH, and they will return from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future, declares YHVH, and your children will return to their own borders” (Jeremiah 31:16-17).

Stranger in a strange land

Though the EU does not clearly state it in its “Guidelines” preamble, it assumes that Israel’s control of the ‘territories’ is both illegal and immoral. No such barrier exists to Arab Palestinian settlement in those territories, according to their belief.

It would be helpful to ask if Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel is indeed illegal according to international law.

The first legal document concerning the legality of Jewish settlement in the Promised Land is the San Remo Resolution, held in the Italian town of San Remo on April 25, 1920. The Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers (England, France, Italy) with representatives from Japan, Greece and Belgium (the USA had observer status) decided that the Middle East would be split up into three different mandates. France would administer the Syria mandate (Lebanon and Syria), while England would oversee the Mesopotamia mandate (Iraq, Arabia) and the Palestine mandate.

The Arabs were seen as primarily dwelling in the territories of the first two mandates, while Palestine was seen as becoming primarily a Jewish state. The Resolution states that “the Mandatory will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 8, 1917, by the British Government, and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” (www.cfr.org/israel/san-remo-resolution/p15248).

These concepts and phraseology were taken from the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 (www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Peace/Guide/pages/The%20Balfour%20Declaration.aspx). These words were now incorporated into a League of Nations resolution, and therefore they were clothed in the authority of international law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Remo_conference; www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijS8mFP4I1A#at=39).

International legal expert Jacques Gauthier of Toronto stated at the 90th anniversary celebrations of the Resolution, that the San Remo Conference was a “key defining moment in history.” The Jewish claim was recognized by the world’s powers (adopted by the League of Nations, and signed by 51 countries) – that the Jewish people are recognized by the Great Powers as a people worthy of self-determination, that the Jewish historical connection with the Land known as Palestine was recognized, and that they had a right to re-establish and reconstitute their Jewish historical rights in that Land. Great Britain further swore that they would “use their best endeavours to facilitate” a Jewish national home in Palestine.

Chaim Weizmann, president of the Zionist Organization and later the first President of the State of Israel, called San Remo the “most momentous political event in the whole history of our movement, and it is, perhaps, no exaggeration to say in the whole history of our people since the Exile.” British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon called the San Remo Resolution the “Magna Carta of the Zionists.”

The San Remo Resolution did not determine precise boundaries at that time. They were to later “be determined by the Principal Allied Powers,” and were not finalized until the Treaty of Sèvres (August 10, 1920; Section VII, Art 94-97) and then finally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922.

The Israel mandate in Palestine

The British Palestine Mandate came about after discussions by the League of Nations at the Conference of London (February 12-24, 1920; https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp).

Article 6 of the Palestine Mandate states, “The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes” (emphases mine).

This Article declares that not only should Jews settle on all the Land (including the West Bank), but that it should be “close settlement” – highly populated and burgeoning with returning Israelites. Reference is even made to the permissibility of using State lands and waste or unused land for specific settlement.

The Levy Report

In July 2012, the Israeli Government’s Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria issued its findings. The Levy Report was headed by former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, and included international law expert and former Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker as well as former Tel Aviv District Court Judge Tchia Shapira. The commission’s task was to “examine the situation of building in Judea and Samaria and to advise the Israeli government accordingly, and to that end had to determine the legal nature of Israel’s presence in the area. Nothing more, nothing less. No hidden political agenda.”

Based on such legal documents as the original League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and Article 80 of the United Nations charter (which preserved the application of the League of Nations Mandate’s stipulations), the commission found that the establishment of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is consistent with international law (www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/The-Levy-Report-A-vital-beginning).

An excellent article has been written by Melanie Phillips, a British op-ed journalist and truth talker – “The baseless hatred of the EU towards Israel” (www.melaniephillips.com/the-baseless-hatred-of-the-eu-towards-israel).

The recent declarations by Secretary of State John Kerry calling Israeli settlements illegal are without foundation. “Like outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Kerry supports Israel and understands its needs, but is a staunch opposer of the settlement enterprise” (“John Kerry: Supports pro-Israel laws, opposes settlements,” Yitzhak Ben-Horin, Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2012).

The basis for what the world calls the ‘peace negotiations’ is a false presumption that Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are illegal and must be uprooted. In a recent article “Livni to meet Kerry amid settlement freeze rumors” (Tovah Lazaroff, Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, May 18, 2013):

“Chief Palestinian Liberation Organization negotiator Saeb Erekat said that he had not been informed of any moves to curb settlement construction. ‘We have not been notified of any changes to Israel’s colonial plans, including ongoing construction in dozens of Israeli settlements in the Occupied State of Palestine, including in and around our occupied capital east Jerusalem,’ Erekat said. Nabil Abu Rdaineh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, responded cautiously to the reports. ‘A freeze in settlement construction within the 1967 borders and especially Jerusalem are the basis of starting any genuine and serious negotiations,’ he said. ‘We must hear Israel state this policy officially.’”

Outlawing Jewish food in Poland

In the 1940’s Poland was chosen by the Nazi Reich as the main location for murdering the Jewish people. By the end of WWII approximately six million had been massacred, half of that number in Poland. The re-establishment of normal Jewish life in Poland after the Holocaust has been a challenging task, but recently even that task has encountered some severe road bumps.

In 2012 the Polish constitutional court outlawed kosher abbatoirs (where kosher meat is slaughtered), and in July 2013 the Polish Sejm (Parliament) overturned a government-backed bill that would have allowed kosher meat to be produced in Poland (“Polish parliament rejects kosher slaughter,” Reuters, July 13, 2013). The bill’s defeat was a political setback for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, after 38 deputies from his own party crossed the floor to the opposition to defeat the bill (www.jta.org/2013/07/16/news-opinion/world/ban-on-kosher-slaughter-stirs-unease-among-polish-jews).

“Populism, superstition and political interests won out,” said Piotr Kadlcik, who heads the Union of Jewish Communities of Poland. “It looks like we've made a full circle and are heading back to what happened in Poland and Germany in the 1930s” (www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4404308,00.html).

At present, kosher slaughter of animals is illegal in five European countries – Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Holland is radically moving in that direction, and the matter is being avidly discussed in Britain.

A pointed editorial from Germany’s English version Algemeiner Journal is worth reading, “Outlawing Kosher Meat and Europe’s Profound Semite-Loathing” (www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/12/outlawing-kosher-meat-and-europe%E2%80%99s-profound-semite-loathing/).

As it was in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes, Israel was forced to eat non-kosher meat. Today Europe is fast becoming a continent which tells Jews what to eat and where to live.

Earthquakes in Basel

On October 18, 1356 the most significant seismological event in Central Europe’s recorded history occurred – a massive earthquake in Basel, which may have been as strong as 7.1 on the Richter scale (https://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/178/1/351.full). A conservative estimate is that at least 300 died in the quake. The town of Basel was totally destroyed (https://support.rms.com/publications/BaselReport_650year_retrospective.pdf).

Basel is a city that has had a history of interaction with the Jewish people. In the 1200’s Jews lived in Basel and Zurich. They helped the Catholic bishops to purchase the Kleinbasel suburb and to construct the Middle Bridge over the Rhine in 1225. Yet in 1348-1349, goaded by demonic fears that Jews were both poisoning the wells and causing the Black Plague, six to seven hundred of the town’s Jewish population were forced into a wooden house on an island on the Rhine and were burned to death. Their children were forcibly baptized. But after the earthquake Jewish people were allowed to return to Basel and help in its rebuilding. Nevertheless, in 1397 they were banished from Basel “for 200 years.”

We have some dear friends in Switzerland who believe that there was a connection between the murder of Basel’s Jews and the earthquake – the judgment of God came upon a European city which despised, rejected and murdered its Jewish citizens, even making their very presence in Basel illegal.

Render unto Caesar – no more, no less

Messiah Yeshua challenged His generation to render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – in that discussion, it was taxes (Matthew 22:21). The principle He taught applied to more than taxes, as the Apostles explain, “But Peter and John answered and said to them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard’” (Acts 4:19-20).

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“His eyes keep watch on the nations” (Psalm 66:7)

In 1949 the British novelist George Orwell published his novel ‘1984’, a dystopian view of the future. Orwell laid out a nightmarish vision of a totalitarian state which controlled its people’s every action and thought through propaganda, secrecy, constant surveillance and harsh punishment. One of the most famous lines in the book is the slogan “Big Brother is watching you.” At that time the Western world was shocked by the concept that a government could monitor the conversations and communications of its citizens. However, in Communist China, the U.S.S.R. and East Germany there was no great shock; government surveillance there was a daily reality.

News headlines have been made recently over leaks by purported whistleblower Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) consultant. Snowden had previously worked for the CIA (2005-2009) in Switzerland as an IT  security tech, for Dell (2009-2013) in Japan as a private contractor at an NSA Facility, and in 2013 in Hawaii for less than three months as a Booz Allen Hamilton defense contractor inside the NSA, at a SIGINT (signal intelligence) Operations Center.

Snowden disclosed hard evidence about classified intelligence programs carried out by the NSA and the British GCHQ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Headquarters), including new details about worldwide interception of telephone metadata and internet surveillance programs:

ü  MAINWAY – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database;

ü  BOUNDLESS INFORMANT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant)

ü  PRISM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program))

ü  TEMPORA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora)

Snowden's leaks are one of the NSA’s most significant breaches ever. Snowden said his leaks were an effort “to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.” He explained his actions, “I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded” (The Guardian, June 9, 2013).

Sales of Orwell’s centennial edition of 1984 have risen by more than 7,000% on Amazon.com since Snowden’s leaks – from 13,074 on their list to 193 and rising. It seems that people are watching (and reading about) Big Brother.

The NSA is painfully aware that it collects more intelligence that it can actual process or analyze. “‘Sometimes I think we just collect intelligence for the thrill of collecting it, to show how good we are at it,’ said former CIA director Robert Gates. ‘We have the capacity to collect mountains of data that we can never analyze. We just stack it up. Our electronic collection systems appear to produce far more raw intelligence data than our analysts can synthesize and our policymakers can use’ ” (Body of Secrets, James Bamford, Anchor, 2002, p. 520).

Big Brother is still watching you

Snowden’s exposures pull back another curtain on national security and intelligence issues, the foundations of which go back to World War One. A brief historical context may help here.

At the close of World War One the British government compelled American telegraph companies to hand over all cable traffic (including U.S. government communications), in an effort to obtain intelligence on the flow of guns and money to Irish nationalist groups as well as about Communist revolutionary activities. When the U.S. Senate found out, a law was passed by Congress in 1920, making it illegal to intercept diplomatic or telegraphic communications.

During WWII the British Secret Service obtained President Roosevelt’s permission for Sir William Stephenson to set up an illegal wiretap unit in New York City. This unit would spy on Americans who were collaborating with Nazi intelligence. Stephenson simultaneously played a key role in the founding of the CIA, and he was deeply admired by Ian Fleming (the author of the James Bond series) who worked with him in NYC during that time.

As early as 1944 the illegal British wiretap unit also focused on other tasks – collecting intelligence about American Jewish advocates for the establishment of a Jewish state. England was opposed to the establishment of the State of Israel, and used its American connections to impede the Jewish state’s formation. “In file after file, the FBI put the Jews under surveillance and worked with the British to identify those Americans who were supporting Israel, either financially or otherwise” (The Secret War against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People; abbreviated SWATJ; John Loftus and Mark Aarons, St. Martin’s; 1994; p. 185). One example of many such documents is found in the National Archives, “British Intelligence authorities have advised that the above captioned individual … left Palestine for the United States November 21, 1947 … British authorities reported that his address in the United States will probably be in care of …” (SWATJ, p. 185).

After WWII officially ended, President Truman issued a directive on August 15, 1945 (which became Executive Order 9031 on September 28, 1945) abolishing the office and activities of the Office of the Censor (their mandate included supervision of wiretapping). Defense Secretary James Forrestal, no friend of Truman’s, operated behind the President’s back, secretly transferring the wiretapping activities to the Army Security Agency. The ASA continued the bugging under the code  name “Operation Shamrock” until May 26, 1975. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Frank Church called this “probably the largest governmental interception program affecting Americans ever undertaken.” What had started as an operation against Nazis quickly moved to focus on Jews, and then on to an increasing spectrum of Americans.

“And you will be as eyes for us” (Numbers 10:31)

On May 17, 1943 the intelligence agencies of Britain and the United States signed the BRUSA agreement (Britain-USA), merging the sharing of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) of both countries. In 1947 the cooperation was expanded in the UKUSA Agreement, bringing “together under a single umbrella the SIGINT organizations of the Unites States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand” (The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, James Bamford, Penguin, 1982; abbreviated PP; p. 391).

“Under the theory that two ears are better than one, the NSA and GCHQ, through their BRUSA-UKUSA pacts, agreed to share the wealth of each other’s cable intercept programs” (ibid., p. 418). “The UKUSA Agreement … specified the total exchange of SIGINT intelligence between NSA and GCHQ” (Spycatcher, Peter Wright, Viking, 1987; p. 148).

In Bamford’s ground-breaking book about the NSA, he notes that “it is possible for GCHQ to monitor the necessary domestic or foreign circuits of interest and pass them on to NSA through the UKUSA Agreement. Once they were received, NSA could process the communications through its own computers and analysts targeting and watch-listing Americans with impunity… That such action is far from improbable can be seen by the way NSA processed its domestic civil disturbance watch lists.” According to a still classified Justice Department investigation into illegal NSA surveillance, “MINARET intelligence [ed., a wiretapping operation targeting American citizens]… was obtained incidentally in the course of NSA’s communications and the receipt of GCHQ-acquired …cable traffic SHAMROCK)” (ibid., pp. 468-69).

To put in simply, from the day that BRUSA and UKUSA were signed, Britain and USA have been able to “spy on each other’s citizens, without search warrants, by establishing ‘listening posts’ on each other’s territory” (SWATJ, p. 188). “Among the most critical elements of cooperation between the two nations, especially with regards to the United States, was the right to establish listening ports on each other’s territory” (PP; pp. 401-3). “Here is how the game is played. The British liaison officer at Fort Meade types the target list of ‘suspects’ into the American computer. The NSA computer sorts through its wiretaps and gives the British officer the recording of any American citizen he wants. Since it is technically a British target of surveillance, no American warrant is necessary. The British officer then simply hands the results over to his American liaison officer… Of course, the Americans provide the same service to the British in return… This …arrangement disguises the most massive, and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus in the world” (SWATJ, p. 190).

“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, watching the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3)

The NSA is not the only intelligence agency involved in spying. For example, in 1969 the KGB residency in NYC (codenamed Operation PRESSING) “succeeded in concealing remote-controlled radio transmitters in UN offices used by the chairman of the Security Council … Simultaneously, Operation KRAB … succeeded in bugging the secretariat of the UN secretary-general, U Thant (codenamed BROD)” (The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Basic Books, 1999, p. 344). So protestations by countries like France and Germany about the long reach of the NSA are somewhat hypocritical. The SIGINT agencies of these countries have long been aware of the NSA’s abilities and activities.

These facts remind us that intelligence is a necessary foot-solder in a very real cloak and dagger war. There are real enemies on the other side, and they also make use of SIGINT against us. There are also very real casualties in this war. We should not question the strategic importance of intelligence. It is the scope and directed use of that intelligence which is being considered.

Everyone who is patriotic understands that defending one’s country means that the enemies of one’s country may need to be weakened, impeded or perhaps even removed. The majority of Westerners have agreed that Nazism, Communism or jihadi Islamism all have the potential to present clear and present dangers to the security of Western countries. The goal of intelligence agencies is to defend their country by gaining accurate, timely and meaningful intelligence.

Years ago the late Senator Frank Church spoke serious words about the two-edged sword of NSA’s SIGINT technology:

“At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge of this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology… I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return” (PP; pp. 477).

More than Meade’s the eye

Most of the books written about American intelligence wiretaps against U.S. citizens without a warrant, have focused on operations against leftists, draft resisters and Black radical groups. The Snowden exposé has now opened the door even wider – we all have to struggle with the fact that SIGINT wiretaps are targeting the entire world.

“Our sources, who include a former special agent of the FBI, a former liaison to the NAS, several former NSA officials and employees, a number of former consultants to both American and British intelligence on communications security, and several former officers of the U.S. Army Security Agency, make one point very clearly: For the last fifty years, virtually every Jewish citizen, organization, and charity in the world has been the victim of electronic surveillance by Great Britain, with the knowing and willing assistance of the intelligence services of the United States… It has been the most continuous criminal violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Bill of Rights. Jews are not the only ethnic group to be wiretapped at their homes or jobs, although… they are the most frequent targets” ((SWATJ, p. 182).

According to these abovementioned sources, both the FBI and NSA facilities have what are called ‘Jew rooms,’ “from which all American Jews are banned, regardless of their proven loyalty or devotion to country …. The ‘Jew room’ is where the United States and Britain spy on Israel and on anyone who supports Israel” (SWATJ, pp., 193-94). Retired NSA agent Bruce Brill (worked at NSA’s Fort Meade facility 1971-74 in U.S. Army Security) substantiated the existence of these rooms (as well as U.S. higher echelon’s anti-Jewish bias) in a Jerusalem Post article called “One Man’s Agony After The Fact,” October 23, 1992; reprinted at www.jonathanpollard.org/2004/061304.htm).

“The traditional antagonism of the US State Department toward Israel is mirrored in the US intelligence community. For example, US intelligence can pinpoint every new housing unit set up in Judea or Samaria, yet could lose a Scud-laden vessel bound from North Korea to Iran on the open seas. The Hebrew language, too was the only one used at the Agency for overt spying, with Hebrew linguists told to declare they were ‘Special Arabic’ linguists. While working at the Agency as an Arabic and ‘Special Arabic’ traffic analyst in the early 1970s, I learned of the planned October 6, 1973, invasion of Israel by Syria and Egypt - 30 hours before the US notified Israel. Upper-echelon Agency personnel knew of the planned attack hours, if not days, prior to that. Not passing this vital information along in time resulted in the unnecessary death and maiming of thousands of young Israelis. The US intelligence community’s anti-Israel policy has until now been successfully kept secret, even at the Agency itself, since the ‘need to know’ rule governing such policies is strictly applied only to select non-Jews. It was, therefore, quite by accident that I discovered the existence of chambers at NSA that are off-limits to Jews, US citizens with the highest security clearances, simply because they are Jews. Clearly, efforts toward Israel’s demise are made here. These Agency inner sancta are so totally immune from any monitoring, that such unconstitutional goings on continue freely.”

Though the fact of these rooms may not be considered earthshaking news to many people, it does reveal that intelligence agency guidelines are not exactly the same as biblical guidelines.

Nevertheless, the God of Israel’s words in Genesis 12:3 apply to all mankind, even to intelligence analysts: “Those who bless you I will bless, and the one who scorns/derides/ treats you with contempt or as unimportant (ed., the Hebrew word meqalelecha has these shades of meaning), him I will curse.”

“Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see” (Luke 10:23)

Only the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob knows everything. Only He has the wisdom to fully understand all the information He knows. Only He possesses the justice and compassion to respond fairly, purely and with love. Only He is worthy of our ultimate respect, our thankfulness, our praise and our obedience. His strategies, His prophetic plans, His prophetic words – these are the things we can depend on, hope for, and lay down our lives to see them come to pass.

“But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which YHVH your God cares; the eyes of YHVH your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year” (Deuteronomy 11:11-12).

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do!

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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When the Middle Eastern pot boils over

The Middle East is a violently boiling cauldron. So many changes are happening so quickly, and the media does not grasp the complexity and intractability of the present situation.  What follows is a brief summation of the current state of affairs, and scriptural guidelines on how to pray for each country.

Syria – the history

At present over 100,000 people have been murdered in the civil war raging across Syria, many of these unarmed civilians including women and children. Syria has been a dictatorship since time immemorial. Its population is a mix of Arab Sunni Moslems (60%), Arab Alawite Islam with Shi’ite roots (12%),  Kurdish Sunni Moslems (9%), Arab Greek Orthodox Christian (9%), Armenian Christian (4%), Arab Druze (3%), Arab Isma’eli Moslem (2%), and 1% made up of other minorities like Turkmen, Circassian, Assyrian and Jewish. For background on the biblical and historical perspective in Syria, see “Shakings, Weighings and Divisions: Syria, Annapolis and the Return of YHVH - Part One – Syria”; October 13, 2007 at www.davidstent.org under “words.”

Military dictatorship ruled Syria (and much of the Middle East after WWII), which eventually ended up as Socialist Ba’ath governments (espousing Arab nationalism, socialism and secularism). A military officer named Hafez al-Assad (from the quasi-heretical Alawite Islamic stream) became Commander of the Air Force in 1963, and then after a military coup in 1966 became Minister of Defense. In another coup in 1970 he became Prime Minister, and in 1971 became President. He attacked Israel in 1973’s Yom Kippur War, forced Lebanon into a practical annexation in 1976, supported and trained international terror groups, carried out assassinations of Lebanon’s Prime Ministers in 1982 and 2005, and oversaw the murder of between 25,000 – 40,000 Syrians in 1982 in Hama in an attempt to crush the Muslim Brotherhood. At that time the President’s brother Rifa’at al-Assad declared that the Syrian government was prepared to “sacrifice a million martyrs” (over a tenth of Syria's population at that time) in order to stamp out “the nation's enemies.” For more background on Hama, see “Shattering the gates of Damascus (Amos 1:5)” August 7, 2012 at www.davidstent.org under “words.”

Assad died of a heart attack in 2000 and was succeeded as President by his son, Bashar al-Assad. Hafez al-Assad was considered by his supporters as a champion of secularism, women's rights and Syrian nationalism. His critics have accused him of being an authoritarian dictator, a leader of a personality cult, a sponsor of terrorism and a perpetrator of multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad. Christians in Syria (considered a minority group) nevertheless felt a measure of protection from Assad’s government.

Syria – the players

The civil war places Assad’s government forces on one side, and a Islamist green rainbow of warriors on the other side.

The Muslim Brotherhood organization, a jihadi Islamist group whose strategy involves coups and/or election-based takeovers of secular Arab dictatorships, has successfully risen to exercise power in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, and Gaza. One of its main leaders Youssef Qaradawi operates out of Saudi Arabia. Its networks are active in Jordan and Syria. For more background, see “Hurtling Through The Fog of War: A Messianic Perspective On The New Hamastan” February 4, 2006, at www.davidstent.org under “words.” The Muslim Brotherhood has been waiting patiently in Syria since Hama, looking for the right time for a coup, a revolution or an election which would bring them to power. Street demonstrations in 2012 afforded them that opportunity, and it was quickly snatched up.

Yet at the same time, al-Qa’eda proxies, spillovers and franchises stepped into the abyss, attempting to achieve their version of jihad on the backs of the Muslim Brothers. These include Jabhat Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Fatah al-Islam and Jordanian Salafi-jihadis.( www.understandingwar.org/report/jihad-syria). These proxies have the same long-term goals as does the Muslim Brotherhood, but their short-term strategies are more radical.

The Syrian opposition (or National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_opposition) involves many different streams, including: Syrian National Council, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Coalition of Secular and Democratic Syrians, the Damascus Declaration, the Syrian Democratic People's Party, the Supreme Council of the Syrian Revolution, the Assyrian Democratic Organization, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, the Free Syrian Army and Higher Military Council, the Liwaa al-Umma, the Syrian Liberation Army, the Syrian Liberation Front, the National Salvation Front in Syria, etc.

These groups are not as strictly organized or supplied as the regular Syrian Army. As a result, there is a war of attrition going on, with many civilian casualties caused by Assad’s warplanes bombing cities, Assad’s artillery shelling civilian areas, and limited use of chemical warfare by Assad’s army. Rebel forces are chipping away at resupply routes, and command and control centers. They are being gradually armed with heavier and more advanced weapons. The balance of power tips back and forth with every new day.

At the same time, a state of anarchy is happening among the rebels, with Salafi and jihadi forces massacring Shi’ites and Christians (beheading Orthodox priests, torturing Protestant believers etc.), executing Muslims they suspect of being not fully Salafi and Islamic, etc.

The stockpiles of chemical weapons in Assad’s warehouses are mostly aimed at Israel, though they could also be targeted at Jordan and Lebanon if need be. Surrounding countries (especially Israel and Jordan, with the US shadow hanging over Jordan’s shoulder) – as well as Special Operations Forces from Western countries – have their fingers on the trigger, waiting and watching to see if the tripwire snaps and operations to seize chemical weapons becomes necessary.

Iran openly activated Hezbollah forces recently in order to bolster its influence over the western Middle East.  Hezbollah in Lebanon is a strategic partner of Assad’s Alawite regime, and they have lost over 500 fighters on Syrian soil in an attempt to prop Assad up from collapse.

The “Great Game,” that strategic war between the West and the Saudi-led block (on the one hand), and Russia, Iran and China (on the other) is heating up.

Egypt

Egypt has been convulsing in birth pangs for at least two years now. For more background, see “Riots on the Highway to Egypt” January 31, 2011; and “You say you want a revolution” - February 12, 2011, at www.davidstent.org under “words.”

The military dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak was dislodged by street demonstrations and US State Department pressure. At first the demonstrators became the darlings of the news media, and the moniker “Arab Spring” was coined, replete with visions of sugar-plums and Twitter hash tags. Within a very brief time indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood hijacked the ‘revolution’ and established itself as the new Pharaoh in Egypt. While corruption was a significant factor in Mubarak’s Egypt (and in the rest of the Middle East), the accession of President Morsi’s Brotherhood did not alter the socioeconomic situation. The economy actually got worse, as Islamists moved into offices of power and influence, and Western investors balked at pouring in good money after bad.

Persecution of Coptic and Protestant Christians has increased (riots, arson, murder), and recently Shi’ites were massacred in Cairo while at worship. The safety of women on the streets and in public squares has become highly dangerous. The Muslim Brotherhood has been pushing to ratify an Islamist constitution, one which would disenfranchise secular Egyptians, Christians and women.

In June and July 2013 crowds have taken to the streets in a bizarre parallel to the anti-Mubarak crowds of 2011. Now they are calling for Morsi to step down, accusing him of being an American and Zionist agent. Flags of the USA and Israel are being burned in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, as well as posters of President Morsi. The largest demonstration known to mankind took place on Sunday June 30, with over a million Egyptians protesting the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist reign.

Jordan

In 1922 the eastern bank of the Jordan river was established as a British puppet state, and then again in 1946 as a fully sovereign Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (today known as Jordan). King Abdullah (a descendant of the Hashemite dynasty and related to Mohammed) lost out on ruling Mecca to the Ibn Saud family, but the British set him up as king in this territory. For years under British tutelage, Jordan gradually moved to rest under the American umbrella (as did the new country of Saudi Arabia!).

The Hashemite dynasty is not native to the country of Jordan, and a majority of the population is descended from Arabs hailing from west of the Jordan river (commonly known as Palestinians). As a result, a simmering Muslim Brotherhood movement arose, intent on wresting Jordan away from the Hashemites, and on establishing an Islamist Caliphate in that country. Only a strong and wily intelligence service keeps Jordan alive.

The Syrian spillover has resulted in refugees flooding into northern Jordan – approximately 420,000 at latest count. Social and economic instability has resulted, and Jordan’s leadership (as well as those of Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq) are focusing fitfully on developments.

The USA has recently conducted Operation Eager Lion in Jordan, depositing Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries, F-16 fighter jets, Special Operations Forces and other boots on the ground. Syria, Russia, Iran and China have protested America’s presence. Similar American military groups have established themselves on Turkey’s border with Syria. Jordan’s leadership is concerned at how Syrian developments might lead to unrest and violence on Jordanian soil (as once happened in 1970, when Syria invaded Jordan and the USA asked Israel to threaten Syrian forces with Israeli tanks; www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-55/25.pdf ; www.aisisraelstudies.org/papers/Rubinovitz2009b.pdf).

Lebanon

Lebanon was severely weakened after the PLO failed to overthrow King Hussein, when the King subsequently drove the PLO out of his country into Syria and Lebanon (the Black September season in 1970). The arrival of a substantial Sunni terrorist contingent in Lebanon weakened the tenuous balance between Maronite Christian, Druze, Shi’ite and Sunni, and led to the civil war of 1975-82 wherein over 100,000 Lebanese were killed. Israel’s invasion in 1982 resulted in the PLO been driven out and re-establishing itself in Tunis.

Into this vacuum moved Syria and Iran. The latter strengthened the Shi’ites in Lebanon, and the al-Amal movement gave way to a Khomeini-like jihadi organization known as Hezbollah (the party of Allah). This movement gradually became the main player in Lebanon, taking most of its orders from Iran’s mullahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran). The attacks on US and French Marines bases in Lebanon were engineered by Hezbollah, as well as similar attacks on the Israeli army, and attacks on Jewish organizations in Argentina, The Hezbollah network is one of the strongest present-day terror networks in the world, with many sleeper cells in Western countries. Most of its armaments come from Iran and through Syria.

Hezbollah has kept its Shi’ite warriors under wraps when it comes to action in Syria, but events there have prompted Iran to “call in the mortgage” and send Sheikh Nasrallah’s fighters into the thick of Syria’s front lines. This has catalyzed a strident negative reaction from Sunni leaders in Saudi Arabia, in Gaza’s Hamastan, in Egypt and among Lebanese Sunnis, Druze and Christians. Fighting has drifted back and forth across the Syrian-Lebanese border.

A fuse has been lit in Lebanon, and Hezbollah’s power base is experiencing tremors. The previous Lebanese civil war (1975-82) might end up being child’s play compared to what may be coming around the bend. And in many instances in the Middle East, the tradition is, “When things get bad, blame Israel!”

Afghanistan

The original American invasion of Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom, October 7, 2001) was meant to drive out al-Qa’eda and its minders the Taliban, allowing the country to become a Western-oriented democracy. Though al-Qa’eda was scattered as a result, it went underground in Afghanistan and Pakistan, morphing into a loosely knit diaspora community from Indonesia to Yemen. The British and Russians were not able to crush the Afghanis during their military sojourns in that country, and the US forces have not been able to get more brilliant results. President Hamid Karzai is a leader tainted by typical Afghani corruptions, while US diplomats negotiate with the Taliban behind Karzai’s back as US forces prepare for a staggered retreat from Afghanistan.

The Islamist world sees Afghanistan as the anvil upon which Western “Christian” forces are beaten, while in the West many leaders are running full speed away from defining themselves, their countries and their morality as Christian.

Iraq

The Kingdom of Iraq was created by British statesmen in 1932, which functioned as a British puppet until 1958, when a Ba’athist coup established the Republic of Iraq. The dictator Saddam Hussein ruled with an iron hand from 1979-2003, when he was deposed by US military forces.

Iraq is made up of a Shi’ite majority (65%), a substantial Sunni minority (34%), and a one percentage point of minorities, including Armenians, Chechens, Circassians, Egyptians, Palestinians, and Shabaks.  The ethnic distribution is as follows: Iraqi Arabs (75%), Kurds (17%), Turkmen (3%), Assyrians (2%) and Persians (2%). This religious and ethnic mix guarantees that Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurd will always be fighting each other for control. The fracturing of Iraq into separate countries does not look like a feasible option in these days of energy-based political decisions.

As the US walks out the Iraqi door and slowly disengages from the country once called Mesopotamia, explosions are accompanying her at every corner. Al-Qa’eda in Iraq has moved delicately into the vacuum, while Sunni and Shi’ite employ IEDs to fragment civilians and worshippers on both sides of the Islamic divide.

Iran

The Western orientation of the Shah of Iran could not paper over his corruption and cruelty. The rise of a bloodthirsty and demonized Shi’ite Islamist Republic under the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 led to the rebirth of ancient Persia as a Middle Eastern force to be reckoned with. The export of Shi’ite jihad to Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Emirates, Central Asia, Iraq and Lebanon altered the Islamist jihadi equation in the world. Iran’s persecution of Jews, Bahai’s, Christians, Communists and secular Iranians has led to a dictatorship internationally recognized for its cruelty and zeal against its own citizens.

Iran’s spread of international terrorism through its Revolutionary Guards Pasdaran movement is the most outstanding example of its kind. Iran’s fanatic fervor in obtaining nuclear weapons, while threatening Israel’s with total destruction, has created deep fear among the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, and any other country within reach of Iran’s cold and bony arm. The world’s attention is fixed on Iran’s race to nuclear holocaust, yet shows callow spinelessness in confronting these ambitions. The parallels between the world’s indifference to Hitler in the 1930’s and the world’s indifference to Iran in our day must be drawn and considered.

Hamastan and PA

As a result of Western pressure on Israel, the PLO terror organization was allowed to return to Gaza and the mountains of Israel. More pressure from the US and EU led to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon unilaterally disengaging from Gaza. The gap was quickly filled by the local Muslim Brotherhood branch (Hamas) coming to power in January 2006, with President Jimmy Carter as an international observer during the voting. Knee-capping, torture and assassination of PLO/Palestinian Authority personnel was the order of the day, and soon Gaza became an armed camp with missiles aimed at Israel. Two main clashes with Israel have occurred (2009 and 2012), while scores of Qassam rockets and mortars have slammed into Israeli cities, kibbutzim and moshavim before and after each war. Over 10,138 rockets have been fired at Israel during this period, as well as 4,890 mortar shells (www.idfblog.com/facts-figures/rocket-attacks-toward-israel/; www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hamas-qassam.htm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel).

Gaza has become an Islamist region, with shari’a law in effect. Unaccompanied women and mixed couples displaying any physical affection are in severe danger. Christian workers have been martyred, while foreigners have been kidnapped and held for ransom. Israeli cities, towns and villages are attacked from time to time by rocket and missile fire. Smuggling tunnels bring weapons in and terror teams out. The Sinai peninsula has become a terror hotbed, and rockets have been fired from the south into the Israeli city of Eilat, often overshooting their mark and hitting the Jordanian city of Aqaba. Terrorists attempt to tunnel into Israel on a regular basis.

Gaza’s Hamas leadership oversee an Islamist Palestinian “state.” Yet the Palestinian Authority in what is called the West Bank oversee another quasi-state. Under their watchful eye, terror squads belonging to the PA (Tanzim, al-Aqsa) as well as Islamic Jihad groups and Hamas operatives – all plan and attempt to execute terror attacks and the planting of IED’s against Israeli civilian targets. Only Israel’s Shabak (General Security Services) , the IDF and the anti-terror barriers stand in the way of bloody casualties.

The world would like to see peace break out in this area, yet turns a blind eye to all of the above – active support of terrorism, refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, wanting descendants of Arab refugees to settle in Israel and not in PA areas (thus overrunning and destroying the Jewish state), etc.

Two Palestinian-ruled geographical entities exist. Both are attempting to destroy Israelis. Why exactly is there great fanfare about a peace process?

Israel

The nation of Israel sits like a pontoon bridge on a lake of hungry sharks, surrounded on all sides by the most unfriendly of neighbors. As the pot boils over in one country after another, and as the world turns two blind eyes away from the threats facing this country, we believe that the God-breathed prayers of believers in Yeshua worldwide make all the difference in the world.

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do!

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

Donations can be sent to:

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