They make shrewd plans against Your people

Once a year in the month of May, Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers. Called Yom HaZikaron in Hebrew, its official name in English is the Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Hostile Acts. Most Israelis attend a ceremony during that day, standing to attention for two minutes while air raid sirens wail, commemorating the sober sacrifice of those who died defending the Jewish state. As the nation mourns, Psalm 83 is usually read aloud. This psalm of Asaph recounts how Middle Eastern enemies have sought our annihilation for over 3,000 years. The Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad are new names for ancient foes. The names of Edom. Ammon and Moab (Jordan and the West Bank), the Ishmaelites and Hagrites (Egyptian Sinai, Saudi Arabia), Philistines (the region of Gaza), Gebal and Tyre (Lebanon), Assyria (northern Iraq) – all of those countries right now have Israel in their sights, as jihadi terrorists roam the desert sands with visions of murder, torture, rape and kidnap dancing in their heads.

A song, a psalm of Asaph: God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, God, do not be still. For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You have exalted themselves. They make shrewd plans against Your people, and conspire together against Your treasured ones. They have said, “Come, and let’s wipe them out as a nation, so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.” For they have conspired together with one mind; they make a covenant against You: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined them; they have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah (Psalm 83:1-8)

These Middle Eastern enemies, like their fellow-travelers (the rioting students on Western campuses), are wise in their own eyes and see themselves as cunning in their conspiracies. Their cries “to wipe Israel out as a nation, so that its name will be no longer be remembered” have been modernized – morphed – into “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be Jew-free.” The God of Jacob notes that, in attacking the Jewish people and the Jewish state, they are also conspiring together against YHVH the Warrior God (see Exodus 15:3). And the Psalmist calls on the Power of Deep Heaven to “terrify them with Your storm, and fill their faces with dishonor:”

Deal with them as with Midian, as with Sisera and Jabin at the river of Kishon, who were destroyed at En Dor, who became like dung for the ground. Make their nobles like Orev and Ze’ev, and all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna, who said, “Let’s possess for ourselves the pastures of God.” My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that sets the mountains on fire, so pursue them with Your heavy gale, and terrify them with Your storm. Fill their faces with dishonor, so that they will seek Your name, YHVH.
May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, and may they be humiliated and perish, so that they will know that You alone, whose name is YHVH, are the Most-High over all the earth. (Psalm 83:9-18)

The rise of the anti-Semitic kings

The Hebrew Bible grants insight into the motivations of anti-Semitic and genocidal leaders. The infamous Haman passionately desired that every knee bow to him, but Mordecai’s stalwart Jewish refusal drove Haman crazy with murderous hatred: “When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, Haman was filled with rage. But he considered it beneath his dignity to kill Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were. So Haman sought to annihilate all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were found throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus” (Esther 3:5-6).

To be ‘Anti-Jew’ at its spiritual root is also to be ‘anti-Christ.’ That was King David’s perspective in the Second Psalm: “The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against YHVH and against His Anointed” (Psalm 2:2). YHVH answers them: “But as for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain!” (Psalm 2:6). Today’s explosion of anti-Semitism – of anti-Jewish expressions, actions and political machinations – dovetails with the murderous rise of Islamist anti-Jewish-state attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.

Now is not the time to be gazing in the mirror with narcissistic fascination, as the enemies of the God of Jacob are raging against His chosen people. “They said in their heart, ‘Let’s completely subdue them.’ They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land” (Psalm 74:8). The anti-Semitic nations of the world are targeting the Jewish people for destruction – the nation that YHVH call ‘His turtledove:’ “Remember this, YHVH, that the enemy has taunted You, and a foolish people has treated Your name disrespectfully. Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild animal! Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever! Consider the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the places of violence!” (Psalm 74:18-20).

Like mushrooms sprouting after the rain

The blood of Israeli victims of Hamas rape, murder and terror was shed on the earth of Israel’s Western Negev on October 7, 2023. Yet barely 24 hours later, anti-Israel demonstrators gathered across the United States – before the blood of the victims had congealed on the ground. These speakers and marchers celebrated the jihadi massacres, crowing that all Israelis are legitimate military targets; that Palestinians have the right to kill Israelis “by any means necessary;” that Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists are only “freedom fighters;” and that these jihadi atrocities were part of a righteous process of “decolonialization.”

At the end of October 2023, Shai Davidai, Assistant Professor of Management at Columbia University’s (CU) Business School, publicly expressed his perspectives and feelings about the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023. Almost immediately he and his wife Yardenne were attacked by CU staff and students, were shunned and subjected to emailed anti-Jewish attacks and graphics reminiscent of the Nazi publication Der Stürmer. Then, on February 14, 2024, he wrote an article in Tablet magazine about the intense anti-Semitic responses at Columbia. He noted as background that he was a liberal, leftist Israeli, but that these attacks were not directed at his politics but at his identity as a Jew.

“We failed to realize that for many in our ‘progressive’ circle, being a liberal Israeli just wasn’t good enough. Our friends did not have a problem with our politics, they had a problem with our identity . . . Our friends were willing to overlook the fact that we were Jewish Israelis, but only so long as we shut up about it. For many in our ‘enlightened’ circle, our ethnic and national identity was an unfortunate accident, something to apologize for rather than take pride in. We failed to realize that for many, our people’s continued existence was not a high priority.”

On Monday, April 22, 2024 Assistant Professor Davidai was barred from entering the grounds of the university by the administration, though he was a teaching professor in good standing. CU deactivated Davidai’s Columbia ID card, preventing him from accessing the main campus. In an email sent that morning, CU Chief Operating Officer Cass Holloway told Davidai that “to maintain the safety of the Columbia community” and “because of the obvious risk to the safety of students and other members of our community,” he would not be permitted to enter the campus where pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli demonstrators were illegally gathered for violent demonstrations which had lasted for six days at that point. Davidai had advertised that there would be a “peaceful sit in at Columbia’s declared ‘Liberation Zone’” on X/Twitter for Monday morning aimed at “paving a safe space for Jewish & Zionist students on campus & standing up against terrorism.” Columbia decided to continue permitting Hamas-affiliated students to occupy the campus and not to arrest them, but at the same time to forbid Jews defending against anti-Semitism and against anti-Zionism from accessing University property.

Professor Davidai tweeted later that day: “Earlier today @ Columbia University refused to let me onto campus. Why? Because they cannot protect my safety as a Jewish professor. This is 1938.” Davidai later added:

“I didn’t think something like this could happen in 2024. What has been happening here in recent days did not happen overnight. It was built over half a year in which they called for attacking Jews, encouraging an intifada, calling for violence; but no one was willing to address it There is a process of brainwashing here with doctrine. Like how lawyers, doctors, and journalists in Germany suddenly supported the extermination of Jews and Hitler. We’re talking about students and faculty who underwent a brainwashing process. This is indeed a similar process to what happened in Germany, but it is more accelerated due to social media and because the universities have given it their seal of approval . . . [Most Jewish CU students] already started leaving campus between Saturday and Sunday; they were simply afraid and fled. They were afraid for their lives, just like that. Most of them don’t want to return to campus . . . There are currently people on campus holding signs saying ‘We support Hamas rockets, the Al-Qassam Brigades, here is your next target’ with an arrow pointing at Jewish students . . . As long as we have Hamas-supporting lecturers on campus, the situation will not change. The worst is yet to come.”

Gaza in Manhattan

At 04:00 on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 on the East Butler Lawn at Columbia University in Manhattan, approximately 70 protestors hoisted banners reading ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ and ‘Liberated Zone’ (an antifa anarchist term more common to West Coast violent riots) and proceeded to set up tents. ‘Revolutionary’ activities were offered to participants, including a ‘teach-in’ and a film screening.

On that same Wednesday night, demonstrators were filmed calling for Hamas to “kill another [IDF] soldier now.”

Then, on Friday night, April 19, 2024, demonstrators chanted (also filmed on video): “[Izz ad-Din] al-Qassam [Brigades – Hamas jihadi terror group], make us proud, take another soldier out,” and “We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground. Go Hamas, we love you. We support your rockets too.”

On Saturday night, April 20, 2024, a leader of the Palestine Solidarity Working Group proclaimed: “Let it be known that it was the al-Aqsa Flood [October 7 jihadi pogrom by Hamas on Israeli kibbutzim] that put the global intifada back on the table again. And it is the sacrificial spirit of the Palestinian freedom fighters that will guide every struggle on every corner of the earth to victory. How far are we willing to go in losing all of the trappings of a respectable life, the material spoils that we have been taught to value as individuals? Remember that militancy breeds Resistance. Thousands upon thousands of students around the world have been moved to rebel because of your militancy!”

Also, on Saturday night April 20, 2024, a pro-Hamas demonstrator stood in front of a group a Jewish students who were singing ‘Hatikvah’ (Israel’s national anthem) while waving US and Israeli flags. This pro-Hamas demonstrator carried a sign (with an arrow pointing at the Jews present) with the words written on that sign, “Al-Qasam’s next targets.” ‘Izz ad-Din al-Qassam’ is the full name of the Hamas jihadi terrorist organization who raped and murdered Israelis on October 7, 2023.

Noah Miller, a Jewish CU student, spoke by Zoom from his parents’ house in Houston: “[The protesters] got what they wanted. The campus is ‘Judenrein’ [Nazi word meaning ‘Jew-free’] now. It’s occupied territory. It’s so funny they call it a ‘de-occupation’, or ‘liberated zone’, but Jews are not allowed.”

Between April 21-24, 2024, videos taken inside the CU encampment have shown students chanting “Zionists not allowed here” and “Go back to Poland,” accompanied by calls for “10,000 October 7ths” (the date of Hamas’ mass rape-slaughter-kidnapping of Israelis). A CU student who would only use her first name out of concern for her own personal safety, Sabrina, said this: “There are students wearing yellow vests with their keffiyehs, and if they see someone engaging with someone outside the encampment, they pull them away and say, ‘You’re not allowed to talk to them.’ They say things like, ‘Kill all the Jews,’ and, ‘We want one Arab state.’ What people don’t realize is the campus has become a hotbed for radical antisemitism. It’s like the Hitler Youth. They say things like, ‘A Zionist has entered the camp.’ They view us as an entity that can be eradicated. I feel a lot more scared now than I was after October 7.”

An Instagram video taken April 23, 2024 at CU shows a poster of terror-chief Secretary-General Ahmad Sa’adat of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (the Marxist-Leninist PLO/PFLP is designated as a terror organization by the US, the EU and Canada) in the background, while anti-Israel activists sing, “Oh Hamas, our beloved, strike, strike Tel Aviv.” Flags and activists of this terror organization have appeared at various campus take-overs in the past few weeks, including in Evanston, Illinois; at the speaker’s stage at Pittsburgh‘s University of Pennsylvania; at Rutger’s University, New Jersey; University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Yale; MIT; NYU, etc. The PFLP is well-known for outrages such as the 2014 attack on a Jerusalem synagogue (where attackers armed with meat cleavers killed four rabbis, three of them Israeli Americans); participation in the October 7 Hamas massacres, etc. For a more comprehensive timeline and description of their terrorist attacks, see: https://www.gov.il/en/pages/background-on-the-pflp-17-oct-2001.

On May 7, 2024, Eyal Yakoby, a senior studying Political Science at U of Penn, took to social media, testifying that he was an eyewitness to local protesters at the U of Penn chanting “We don’t want no Zionists here”; “Kill the Zionists;” “Zios get f****d”; “Hitler Youth,” and “Hitler’s children.”

Two weeks before Columbia University exploded in anti-Israel pro-Hamas rioting, Charlotte Kates (international coordinator of Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – which advocates the releasing of jailed PFLP terrorists, and often shares PFLP terror communiques) and her husband Khaled Barakat (a senior member of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine/PFLP) presented a two-hour tirade to Columbia University’s hardest-core anti-Israel activists – members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Group (CUADG). The seminar was titled ‘Resistance 101‘ – a revealing name, as the Arabic term for Hamas is Harakat al-Muqawima al-Islamiyya, translated into English as ‘The Islamic Resistance Movement.’

Kates stated at that meeting: “There is nothing wrong with being a fighter in Hamas” and “These are the people who are on the front lines defending Palestine and fighting for its liberation.” She praised Hamas’ October 7 terror massacre for showing “the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism.” Her husband, a senior PFLP terrorist, lauded airplane hijackings as “one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance has engaged in.” Kates’ comments were made just off-campus from Columbia University, at a meeting of the Columbia University student group CUADG, a recognized bona fide student organization. One month later, that same group would spearhead the student putsch,

In addition to Kates and Barakat, the Sunday event featured Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani, who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” Instagram removed Within Our Lifetime’s account in February 2024 and Meta did the same in March 2024, after Kiswani used it to endorse Hamas’ jihadi attack on Israel, and to advocate for “whatever means necessary it takes” to topple Israel. The three speakers at the Columbia-related conference routinely praised Hamas and Hezbollah, advocated for armed resistance against Israel, and encouraged attendees to “be of service … to the resistance movements that are on the front lines fighting Zionism.”

‘Resistance 101’ was originally scheduled to take place at Columbia’s Barnard College, the university’s all-female undergraduate school. The Columbia University Apartheid Divest Group (CUADG) student organizers said they were forced to “change rooms” at the last moment after a Ph.D. student lodged a complaint to the university. The organizers added that the change was “part of a long line of Columbia’s long line of repression.” The event was moved to Columbia’s Q House, an “LGBTQ+ special interest community at Columbia University”. A CUADG internal email, addressed to “comrades,” stated that “this location change is due to Columbia University continuing to repress Palestinian students and the allies of the Palestinian struggle for liberation on campus.”

A few minutes after her wedding, anti-Israeli Within Our Lifetime (WOL) leader Nerdeen Kiswani headed straight over to the pro-Hamas/anti-Israel ‘liberated zone’ of Columbia campus and entered the supposedly locked down campus without a Columbia student ID. She was filmed stirring up her revolutionary followers with a fiery message, as per this tweet (also posted by Students for Justice in Palestine Columbia on YouTube). Another video posted by Palestinian Youth Movement NYC shows the demonstrators chanting, “Zionism will fall, brick by brick, wall by wall, Israel will fall” and declared “US imperialists, number one terrorists.” Uptown 4 Palestine published videos of these on-site activists proclaiming in Arabic: “From the water to the water (a reference to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea), Palestine is Arab!”

Why are the peoples plotting in vain?

A tremendous amount of organizational planning and financing went into the recent outbreak of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Nazi-like demonstrations on American college campuses. Within a week of the Columbia outbreak, at least 43 states witnessed anti-Israeli and pro-Hamas demonstrations, and the partial take-overs of 261 campuses. Over 90 university student organizations voted to ‘cut ties’ with Israel.

In his thoroughly researched May 6, 2024 article ‘The People Setting America on Fire: An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests’, Park MacDougald cuts to the chase:

Have America’s college students suddenly converted en masse to anarcho-communist-jihadism? Not quite . . . Students are not the only, and perhaps not even the most important, faction active in the campus protests. As in the ‘mostly peaceful’ Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020, ‘outside agitators’ – professional radicals and organizers, black bloc antifa thugs, Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, and Palestinian and Islamist radicals – have played a central role in organizing and escalating the campus protests, just as they have organized and escalated the wider anti-Israel protest campaign that began almost immediately after Oct. 7. This largely decentralized network of agitators is, in turn, politically and financially supported by a vast web of progressive nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and dark-money groups ultimately backed by big-money donors aligned with the Democratic Party. The first hint that the protests are not entirely organic is their striking resemblance to previous rounds of organized far-left agitation, from the ‘uprising’ of summer 2020 to the rolling antifa vs. Proud Boys brawls of 2016-17. The creation of ‘liberated’ or ‘autonomous’ zones on campus, for instance, is a hallmark of anarchist organizing familiar from Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and New York’s City Hall Autonomous Zone four summers ago. Familiar, too, is the governance of these zones, with masked security details prohibiting filming from outsiders and directing reporters to trained media representatives. During clashes with police or with counter-protesters, students and their allies have deployed classic “bloc” tactics, covering their faces and dressing in matching outfits to promote anonymity, linking arms to interfere with police attempts to conduct arrests, and attempting ‘de-arrests’ – i.e., the coordinated swarming of police officers – to rescue apprehended comrades. At Yale, student activists doxed the police officers sent to clear them out of the encampment – another harassment tactic frequently deployed by antifa.

These resemblances are no accident. All of these tactics require a degree of instruction and training. Footage from Columbia showed the professional ‘protest consultant’ Lisa Fithian, a veteran of Occupy, BLM, Standing Rock, and Stop Cop City, teaching students at Columbia how to barricade themselves into Hamilton Hall. Recent video from inside the protest encampment at UCLA, meanwhile, showed masked men leading a hand-to-hand combat training.

“What you’re seeing is a real witches’ brew of revolutionary content interacting on campuses,” says Kyle Shideler, the director for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and an expert on far-left domestic extremism. “On the left-wing side, you have a broad variety of revolutionary leftists, who serve as rent-a-mobs, providing the warm bodies for whatever the leftist cause of the day is. And on the other side you have the Islamist and Palestinian networks: American Muslims for Palestine and their subsidiary Students for Justice in Palestine, CAIR, the Palestinian Youth Movement. We’re seeing a real mixture of different kinds of radical foment, and it’s all being activated at the same time.”

There is no one decision-maker; rather, decentralized ‘affinity’ groups work together toward a shared goal, coordinating out in the open via social media and Google Docs. This can create an impression of centralized planning. Shideler cites the matching tents that have cropped up on a number of campuses, prompting speculation that some shadowy entity is buying them en masse. “People keep pointing out, They all have the same tent!,” he says. “Well, yeah, it’s because the organizers told them to buy a tent, and sent around a Google Doc with a link to that specific tent on Amazon. So they all went out and bought the same tent.”

In fact, it is a mistake both to view the campus protests as a ‘student’ movement and to regard the outsiders as ‘infiltrators’ or somehow separate from the movement. Rather, student activists have been working together with outsiders, with whom they are linked via overlapping activist networks and nationwide organizations. The ‘student’ revolts, in turn, exist on a continuum with the broader anti-Israel protest movement.

He who pays the piper calls the tune

This ‘spontaneous movement’ which reached 45 states and over 260 campuses in less than one week relied heavily on the funding of progressive donors and nonprofits connected to the upper reaches of the Democratic party. Take the epicenter of the nationwide protest movement, Columbia University. According to reporting in the New York Post, the epicenter of the nationwide protest movement – the Columbia encampment – was basically by three groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Within Our Lifetime (WOL). JVP Action have received at least $650,000 from various branches of George Soros’ philanthropic empire since 2017, $441,510 from the Kaphan Foundation (founded by early Amazon employee Sheldon Kaphan), and $340,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. SJP is an outgrowth of the Islamist networks dissolved during the U.S. government’s prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) for doing fundraising for Hamas. SJP in turn is a subsidiary of an organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

The Tides Foundation, the grant-making arm of Tides Nexus, is one of largest progressive dark-money networks in the country, controlling upward of a billion in assets. Its list of major donors is an all-star cast of left-wing billionaires and foundations, including Soros, Peter Buffett and his NoVo Foundation, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the New Venture Fund, controlled by another Democratic dark-money powerhouse, Eric Kessler’s Arabella Advisors (also here and here). A prominent leader in WOL (Abdullah Akl) is connected to MPower Change, led by Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour (also here and here). This group is under the financial sponsorship of NEO Philanthropy which, along with its sister NEO Philanthropy Action Fund, have received more than $37 million from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2021, as well as substantial funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation (here and here), and the Tides Foundation (here, here and here).

More detail is available at the following links: Park MacDougald’s excellent May 6, 2024 article ‘The People Setting America on Fire: An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests’; at Isabel Vincent’s April 26, 2024 article in the New York Post: ‘George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests’; and at https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/who-are-primary-groups-behind-us-anti-israel-rallies.

The French-Qatari Connection

Gene Hackman acted in the classic film ‘The French Connection.’ The plot involved a pair of NYPD detectives who stumbled onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles. Smuggling of a different kind has been going on in America, and it involves Qatar, the main supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas’ spiritual godparents) and the main propagator of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist agenda in America,

“In July 2019 at the Department of Justice (DOJ), in Washington, D.C., Dr. Charles Asher Small, the ISGAP [Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy] Director, presented the findings of an ISGAP research project started in 2012, entitled “Follow the Money”. The ongoing research project examines illicit funding of United States universities by foreign governments, foundations and corporations that adhere to and promote anti-democratic and antisemitic ideologies, with connections to terrorism and terror financing. The project revealed, for the first time, the existence of substantial Middle Eastern funding (primarily from Qatar) to US universities that had not been reported to the Department of Education, as required by law. In fact, ISGAP’s research uncovered billions of dollars of unreported funds, which, in turn, led to the launch of a federal government investigation in 2019. As part of its continued research, ISGAP has uncovered and established that the foreign donations from Qatar, especially, have had a substantial impact on fomenting growing levels of antisemitic discourse and campus politics at US universities, as well as growing support for anti-democratic values within these institutions of higher education.”

Egyptian-American scholar and analyst Raymond Ibrahim notes that Qatar routinely spends USD $405 million annually to support activities at six American universities that also maintain branches in Doha, Qatar's capital. Since 2007 Qatar has given or contracted more than $5.6 billion to 61 American schools, including Ivy Leagues such as Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and Stanford University, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Qatar has also doled out more than $243 million on lobbying efforts in the United States since 2015, with more than $16 million spent in 2023 alone. “The money, experts and lawmakers say, has enabled Qatar to have outsized influence in American politics and academia, efforts they say have mainstreamed anti-Israel propaganda and silenced criticism about Doha’s longstanding ties to Hamas, the Iranian regime, and other terror groups.” Hamas’s “three top leaders alone are worth a staggering total of $11 billion and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar,” according to the New York Post.

Qatar uses its influence to disseminate classical Islamist jihadi ideology, following the same streams that both Osama bin Laden and Hamas espoused. The failure of US policy in the Middle East stems from the fact that many of the present advisers to the US government are graduates of this corrupted academic system. As witnessed over the past few months, rioting American students have been set on fire by a poisonous mixture of left-wing revolution, Islamist jihadi propaganda and demonic influence.

Lisa Ashley, Director of the Charles Malik Institute at the Philos Project, notes in her May 10. 2024 article in the Times of Israel: “Given Qatar’s close ties to Iran and Hamas, turning the American youth against Israel and the Jewish state could help them undermine the historic alliance between the US and Israel, endangering the security of the Jewish state and opening doors for Iran’s expansion.”

Palestinian terror, American campus riots and the Chinese dragon

The Communist-ruled People’s Republic of China (CCP – Chinese Communist Party) is deeply involved in supporting and guiding both anti-Israel protests in the US, and anti-US government civil disturbances. China’s commitment to Marxist-Leninist world revolution has not slackened, and it moves quickly and strategically as it plays chess against the world. The Rutgers University-based Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) released a report on Monday, May 13, 2024, throwing a spotlight on China’s involvement in three areas: anti-Israel activities, US campus unrest and the catalyzing of anti-government social unrest in America: “The NCRI finds that the increase in direct action, targeting infrastructure and public places, is in part driven by organizations connected to CCP foreign influence effort. While nominally focusing on Israel, the current protests can be better understood as a well-funded initiative driving a revolutionary, anti-government and anti-capitalist agenda, with the leading organizations serving as versatile tools for foreign entities hostile to the US.”

On April 24, 2024, the US Congress’ Committee on Ways and Means sent a letter to the IRS expressing “growing concern surrounding the influence of America’s foreign adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party (‘CCP’), on U.S.-based tax-exempt organizations . . . Look no further than the activities of tech mogul Roy Singham who owns and operates a complex network of American-based, tax-exempt nonprofits that, according to The New York Times, ‘defends China and pushes its propaganda’ . . . These political activities include those believed or intended to influence Americans about the political or public interests, policies, or relations of a foreign government . . . Such connections to suspicious activity involving tax-exempt organizations and propaganda do not end there. The People’s Forum, another 501(c)(3) organization funded by Mr. Singham, was recently at the center of a series of massive antisemitic events in the wake of the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. These events, which featured protestors brandishing antisemitic images and antisemitic chants like, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” were only a few in a series of hateful, propaganda fueled events supported by The People’s Forum.” The Committee on Ways and Means published a hearing chock-full of facts, laying out the historical connections between Hamas and such organizations as the Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association for Palestine, Kind Hearts for Charitable Development, and American Muslims for Palestine.

On October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’ October 7 slaughter, rape, torture and kidnapping of Israeli civilians, a statement was issued and co-signed by American groups including Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), People’s Forum, Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), al-Awda (here and here), and ANSWER COALITION that explained: “We mobilize in the belly of the beast because we understand that we have a unique role to play in combating material support for Zionism, and weakening the handmaiden of US global imperialism.”

On November 9, 2023, ‘Shut It Down for Palestine Day’ was sponsored by (among others) Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Jewish Voices for Peace, CODEPINK, People’s Forum, etc.

On January 15, 2024, Manolo De Los Santos, Executive Director of the People’s Forum, spoke clearly of his end-goal: the destruction of Israel and the US, and the defeat of capitalism: “When we defeat Israel and the U.S. Empire, we will actually have been able to know how to dismantle capitalism here in the United States!”

In Michael Starr’s insightful article in the Jerusalem Post on May 15, 2024, ‘China-linked network funding key anti-Israel protest groups in US – report’, he reveals that “three convenors of the ‘Shut it Down For Palestine’ coalition, Answer Coalition, The People's Forum, and the International Peoples' Assembly are linked by a complicated web of financial, personal, personnel, and ideological ties to CCP associates Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, according to NCRI.” An August 5, 2023, New York Times investigation described Singham as a known “socialist benefactor of far-left causes” and tracked the funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to Singham-linked groups engaging in pro-China progressive advocacy. The Free Press in November claimed that the Forum received 20 million dollars from 2017 and 2022 from Singham funneled through the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund. The People's Forum, which has been involved in major protest actions in New York City, such as the May 15. 2024 Nakba Day Manhattan Bridge closure and the April 15, 2024 economic blockades, admitted in a 2021 social media post that “Marxist comrade” Singham funded the organization. CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin at the time praised Singham for his support of the Forum.

This same information revealing Chinese infiltration and manipulation of Americans in order to turn the populace against the Jewish people, the Jewish state and even against America itself, is not new, as the following articles from 2023 and 2024 show:

On August 9, 2023, Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice investigate and block Singham’s Chinese and anti-Israel connections.

A November 16, 2023 article in the New York Post (‘Meet the American millionaire Marxists funding anti-Israel rallies’) uncovers CCP-related Neville Roy Singham as a prime supporter of anti-Israel demonstrations.

A November 19, 2023 article from India reveal’s Singham’s pro-Chinese propaganda efforts against the government and country of India through the People’s Forum, targeting Indian businesses and fostering anti-capitalist sentiments in the country.

A May 3, 2024 article titled ‘Meet Neville Roy Singham, the Chinese/Marxist Millionaire Sowing Seeds of Chaos in American Society’ notes: “Singham and his affiliated groups, which have supported pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ, and pro-TikTok causes, have done so exclusively in America – not China. This, Schweizer says, is a clear component of the nation’s ‘disintegration warfare’ against the U.S., an attempt to erode Americans’ moral fiber.”

On May 16, 2024 House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) pointed out during Thursday’s ‘Washington Watch with Tony Perkins’: The Chinese “have engaged in creating spy centers all across America, not just at our public universities. By the way, China, we have learned, is funding anonymously a lot of our most liberal research universities, the ones which just so happen to be having all the campus protests against Israel.”

How should we then pray?

Pray for revelation to be given to the world about how anti-Semitism is poisoning its leaders, its students and its population – bring the curse of Genesis 12:3 on many

Pray for revelation to be given to the USA about how a blended attack of Islam and the Left are poisoning and dividing that nation

Pray for the physical rescue of the approximately 129 Israeli hostages (including babies) kidnapped by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and PFLP/PLO. At this moment some hostages are being tortured, raped and starved (this based on testimonies of recently released hostages). Sadly, many of these hostages are dead; Hamas is holding on to the corpses of Israeli citizens in cold storage to be used by them as bargaining chips

Pray for Hamas’ cruel terror dictatorship in Gaza to be decisively shattered and for all chains broken off the Palestinians living there, and for Iran’s role in jihadi deception, dissimulation and anti-Semitism to be exposed and opposed by world leaders

Pray that Israel’s leadership be granted justice, clarity, moral courage, discernment and divine strategies in utterly destroying the jihadi threat in all of its aspects, and for minimal loss of life for Israel’s defense forces and for those Gazans who are truly innocent

Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth

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

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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Saul and Herod – sic transit gloria mundi

An ancient Latin proverb – Sic transit gloria mundi – can be translated as follows: ‘So does worldly glory pass away.’ Two kings – Saul and Herod – were greatly lauded in their time, yet they were ultimately remembered for less than godly actions.

“Saul, a young and handsome man, and there was not a more handsome man than he among the sons of Israel. From his shoulders and up he was taller than any of the people!” (1 Samuel 9:2)

The Sages say: “One who has not seen Herod’s [Temple] building has never seen a beautiful building in his life” (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 4a)

Both kings were known for diplomatic doublespeak and backstabbing. These transgressions are as old as Adam’s sins, and it is a fact that kings and generals have engaged in these sordid deeds for thousands of years. In our day, presidents and diplomats do the same. What wisdom can be gained from the Bible on this matter?

When a king becomes an enemy

David son of Jesse was a humble youth, a shepherd by trade. Yet divine providence transformed him into Saul’s worship leader and armor bearer (1 Samuel 16). He was the teenaged Hebrew hero who cut off Goliath’s head (1 Samuel 17). Though King Saul initially loved David greatly (1 Samuel 16:21), his heart became fearful, suspicious and finally murderously angry toward the son of Jesse. Saul morphed into David’s mortal enemy (1 Samuel 18:8-16, 29). But outwardly, Saul concealed his deadly intentions toward David, praising and honoring him in public while planning his destruction (see 1 Samuel 18:11, 21-25; 19:29-11, 15). When Michal (David’s wife) felt that her own life was in danger due to her father’s threats, she lied to King Saul, taking her father’s narrative and upending it. In front of her father Saul, she falsely accusing her husband David of wanting to put her to death.

Saul’s subsequent strategy was to have David arrested at the public New Moon celebration (1 Samuel 20:24-33). David’s presence at the feast was assumed, as it would been accepted governmental protocol (1 Samuel 20:5). King Saul was planning to turn this party occasion into a ‘mafioso hit’ against his ‘enemy.’ But thanks be to God, Davis had his own ‘inside sources’ in Saul’s court – none other than Jonathan, Saul’s son. Forewarned is forearmed: Saul’s diplomatic doublespeak and backstabbing came to naught, and David escaped from the snare of the fowler (Psalm 124:7)

“We have come to worship Him”

Deceptive plots and betrayal were very much part of the Christmas story in Matthew 2:

Now after Yeshua was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him . . . Then Herod secretly called for the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him” . . . Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of YHVH appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him” . . . Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent men and killed all the boys who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.

Matthew presents us with dramatic inside-information in his portrayal of the arrival of the magi. On one hand, the magi wanted “to come and worship Him.” On the other hand, Herod crafted his diplomatic doublespeak in exactly the same terms: “Report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”

Herod the Great made use of diplomatic deception and HUMINT (human intelligence sources) to further his murderous designs – but the God of Jacob thwarted him at every step.

Isaiah’s words reveal the principle here: “Utzu etza v’tufar; dabru davar v’lo yakum, ki IMMANUEL [im anu El]!” – “Take counsel together, but it shall come to naught. Speak out the plot, but it shall not stand! For God is with us!” (Isaiah 8:10).

The American writer Isaac Goldberg once said, “Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way” (in ‘The Reflex,’ October 1927). Joseph Stalin put it succinctly: “A diplomat’s words must contradict his deeds – otherwise what sort of a diplomat is he? Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron” (Joseph Stalin, ‘Elections in Petersburg,’ 1913).

It is commonplace for kings and presidents, secretaries of state and of defense, to declare as truth, the opposite of what is really happening. World leaders are old hands at turning truth on its head, at ‘calling white black’ – all in pursuit of their geopolitical goals. In the boxing ring of today’s Middle East, one should not be surprised to see such superpower manipulations and distortions in abundance

Collapsing the pillars

Prior to Barak Obama’s presidency, America’s traditional Middle Eastern security architecture was built on two main geographical pillars – the oil-rich Arab states in the Arabian Gulf (primarily Saudi Arabia), and the eastern Mediterranean allies of Egypt and Israel. During his first term in office, POTUS Obama took concrete steps to pull down the first of those two pillars.

On June 4, 2009 Obama gave a speech (titled ‘A New Beginning’) in the Main Reception Hall of Cairo University, hosted by the doyen of Islamic universities al-Azhar. Ten members of Jama’at al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, (the Muslim Brotherhood or Society of Muslim Brothers – an Islamist underground organization dedicated to re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate world empire and shari’a law through jihadi revolution, who were also mortal enemies of Egypt’s then-President Mubarak) were specially invited to the gathering by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, at President Obama’s request.

Within two years of this speech, the White House had withdrawn its support for President Mubarak – a move which in turn injected steroids into the Arab Spring riots throughout the Islamic world. The State Department warmly congratulated and helped to usher in Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt – a group in league with the terror group Hamas. The first pillar of the traditional US security order which was struck was the country of Egypt.

In his Cairo speech, Obama apologized for past American mistakes, and promised to listen to and consult with Islamic leaders rather than issue edicts. “America does not presume to know what is best for everyone,” he stated. The POTUS suggested to no longer focus on disagreements and conflicts but to move toward cooperation on common goals, based on “mutual respect and interest.” He stated that it was his administration’s goal to engage in direct dialogue with Iran on issues other than nuclear ones, and said that America was now bringing a willingness “to move forward without preconditions” – without Iran suspending its nuclear program. Obama made no mention whatsoever of sanctions or military options against Iran, and publicly recognized Iran’s right to civilian nuclear capabilities. The POTUS spoke of the need for all nations of the Middle East to join the nonproliferation treaty – a very clear deal-breaker for Israel.

Obama’s second term focused on strengthening (‘re-aligning’) US relationships with the Islamic Republic of Iran while weakening partnerships with Saudi Arabia and Israel. A nuclear deal was signed – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – legalizing the jihadi nuclear weapons program. The second pillar of the traditional US security order which was struck concerned the weakening of Saudi Arabia and the strengthening of a fast-developing nuclear Iran.

The second stage of weakening the traditional US security order’s first pillar involves weakening Israel. This came about on Friday December 23, 2016, when the US State Department abstained on a Security Council vote, allowing the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. This resolution described the heartland of Israel as “Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.” The resolution defined Israel’s settlement activity as constituting a “flagrant violation” of international law and that it has “no legal validity.” It declared that Israel is in violation of international law when it controls Solomon’s and David’s Jerusalem, or Abraham’s tomb in Hebron, and many other historic Jewish holy sites. It defined the Jewish return to portions of the Promised Land as illegal – the very areas where the Patriarchs shepherded their sheep as Palestinian land. It passed in a 14–0 vote: four members with United Nations Security Council veto power (China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom) voted for the resolution, while the United States abstained. This anti-Israel resolution passed as a result of US State Department collusion.

Grinding the foundations to powder

When Donald Trump became POTUS, he reversed Obama’s ‘realignment’ and restored America’s traditional security framework. Trump’s first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia. He backed Egyptian President a-Sisi’s overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government, and moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem. He acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the Jordan Valley, and large areas of the West Bank. He unveiled the Abraham Accords – agreements normalizing relationships between Israel and the United Arab Republic/Bahrain under an American umbrella. This agreement sidelined the traditional Palestinian role as spoilers and deal-breakers, as well as marginalized their zealous Iranian sponsor.

But when POTUS Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office, he immediately began to dismantle POTUS Trump’s policies, restoring the Obama faction’s goal (see the staff list appointed by Obama involved in pushing forward these items) of undoing the traditional US framework in the Middle East. Not surprisingly, the Biden administration put the Palestinians (Hamas and PLO/PA) back at the center of their Middle Eastern strategies. This is the context into which Iran stepped on October 7, 2023, having planned and then supervised the Hamas jihadi atrocities carried out on Israeli civilian kibbutzim next to Gaza. These horrors froze any movement toward increasing cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, while shaking the Jewish state to its core.

The insightful American investigative reporter and Middle East specialist, Lee Smith, draws some sober cutting-edge conclusions:

Team Biden’s moves “are best understood in the context of a revolutionary program of domestic initiatives that aim to reconstitute American society on a new basis, and which in turn require the outright rejection of the country’s history and culture, its existing social arrangements, and constitutional order. The current regime has weaponized the security state . . . Its political and cultural manifesto is a program for remaking America, whether through social pressure, or censorship, or bureaucratic fiat, or threats of violence, or actual violence. Among other devices to transform America, the Biden administration has opened the border to at least 7 million illegal aliens (and counting), many from places in the Middle East where Hamas is revered . . . It’s not the traditional U.S.-led order in the Middle East that the revisionist faction, Obama’s faction, is most determined to dismantle but rather the existing order in the U.S. And it’s not Israel that it’s most keen to grind into dust, but America. For the party that Obama remade in his image to triumph at home, the Palestinians must win.”

Bankers, Nazis and Billionaires

During WWII, the cream of American, British and German industries, companies and banks were deeply involved in supporting and enabling the Nazi death machine. These sobering facts are unknown to the majority of today’s citizens in the West. The leaders in question and their followers have never come clean about being both accessories to murder and enablers of genocide against the Jewish people. Three books shed light on these demonically energized schemes:

The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People (by John Loftus & Mark Aarons)

Unholy Trinity: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets (by Mark Aarons & John Loftus)

Trading with the Enemy: An exposé of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949 (by Charles Higham)

Similar genocidal strategies exist in our day, concealed in diplomatic doublespeak and aimed at backstabbing America’s allies in the Middle East – most importantly the Jewish people. Significant Western leaders are cooperating with and strengthening jihadi anti-Israel organizations while simultaneously declaring that they are aiding Israel in fighting against Islamist terror. Once again, history seems to be repeating itself.

Former Israeli National Security Council director General (Res.) Giora Eiland commented (in a Hebrew interview) on May 1, 2024 that “the day is coming when the connection between the White House and the Islamist organizations will become common knowledge.”

The Big Lie – proclaiming falsehoods as truth

The German term ‘große Lüge’ (the big lie) refers to a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth when used primarily as a political propaganda technique. Adolf Hitler used the term in his 1925 book ‘Mein Kampf’ (‘My struggle’) to describe how ordinary people could be induced to believe a colossal lie, based on the fact that they would find it hard to believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” The OSS (pre-cursor to the CIA) drew up a psychological profile of Hitler during WWII and discussed how he used ‘the big lie’ dynamic: “His primary rules were . . . people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

In Mein Kampf, volume I, chapter ten, Hitler stated his principle – “that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.:

How is world media presenting the Hamas-Israel war? A careful examination reveals that the talking points used by CNN, NBC, ABC, SKY NEWS, BBC, etc., come straight from the Hamas propaganda playbook – the jihadi ‘big lie.’

Hamas has turned truth on its head as part of its manipulation of world media. This is a deliberate military strategy, one which is unfortunately being parroted by POTUS Biden, his State Department and his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The ‘große Lüge’ did not only work for Hitler and Goebbels; it is working for jihadi Hamas and those with whom it partners. Here are some examples:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists committed atrocities and genocidal murder on unarmed Israeli babies, children, teenagers, women and senior citizens. But within a week, world media began to claim that it is the Israeli Defense Forces which are the ones guilty of genocide. This brings to memory the black humor joke, where the arsonist accuses the fireman of starting fires.

Hamas screams out its anti-Semitic calls for slaughter of the Jews, both in demonstrations in Gaza and across the world. Within a few days, American universities (heavily funded by Hamas’ main bankroller Qatar) echo these murder-chants, while also accusing Jews and Evangelicals of Islamophobia. Anti-Jewish riots break out across America and across the world. But within a day or two, President Biden responds to these violent anti-Jewish riots by proclaiming that he is against anti-Semitism AND Islamophobia AND attacks on Muslims and Arabs – even though the riots, physical attacks and calls for slaughter are directed only against American Jews.

In every clash between Hamas and Israel over the years, it has been patently obvious that Hamas grossly inflates the number of its casualties; denies that its jihadi fighters are killed, instead describing all casualties as innocent women and children. Hamas conceals the fact that Gazans are killed in significant numbers by misfired Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets in Gaza. In the past two weeks, casualty figures of Gazans were downgraded by thousands. Even though Hamas trumpets its desire to wage jihad and to die in that battle, it simultaneously curries world sympathy by appealing to its own inflated casualty statistics – even though it was the party that started this war on October 7. POTUS Biden and other world leaders blithely quote Hamas casualty figures as gospel truth, accusing Israel of genocide and of deliberately targeting Gazan civilians. Western media and politicians are doing their job so well as agents of Hamas, that many jihadis could actually ‘take the night off’ and retire to their six-star luxury hotels in Doha, Qatar.

Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israeli civilians and kidnapped approximately 250 others on October 7, 2023, subjecting them to rape, torture, starvation and sub-human imprisonment. But within a week, while refusing to release any hostages, the Hamas propaganda machine began to bang the drum to the world’s media, crying that it is actually the Gazans who are suffering from hunger. World media (including POTUS Biden) began to hammer this point incessantly, sidestepping the Israeli hostages still suffering torture, rape and starvation. World media and the POTUS continue to yell at Israel, insisting that they feed the starving Gazans. But there is no food shortage in Gaza, though Hamas does confiscate all humanitarian aid entering the area and then sells it at inflated prices to locals, most of who support Hamas’ terror activities and participate in them. Hamas’ behavior is typical in the Middle East, as a famous Arabic proverb reveals: “Darabani wa baka, wa sabaqani wa eshtaka” (“First he hits me. Then he starts to cry. Finally he runs ahead of me to the judge and sues me”).

Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, yet the world media continues to insinuate that the Gazans are innocents who have been unjustly attacked, and that Hamas is only responding to and resisting evil Israeli attacks.

World media, the US State Department, the UN and EU etc., declare that Gaza belongs to Palestinian Arabs and not to the Jewish people. This is a satanic counterfeit of Joshua 15:20-47, where YHVH promises Gaza as the tribal inheritance of Judah.

“Many times they have attacked me from my youth up,” let Israel say. “Many times they have attacked me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowmen plowed upon my back; they lengthened their furrows. YHVH is righteous! He has cut up the ropes of the wicked. May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! May they be like grass upon the housetops which withers before it grows up – with which the harvester does not fill his hand, or the binder of sheaves his arms. Nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of YHVH be upon you; We bless you in the name of YHVH!” (Psalm 129).

Bullying King David

As the pace of events speed up in the world, they are also speeding up in the Middle East. A recent detailed article by Dr. Guy Millière, Professor at the University of Paris, titled ‘The Betrayal of Israel by the US Administration is Almost Complete,’ is worth the read. Fourteen separate examples of recent adversarial actions by the US administration are listed in this article.

Negotiating with Hitler

Western powers (led by the US State Department) are pushing strongly for negotiations between Israel and the jihadi terror group Hamas. At no time after 9/11 did the US negotiate with Osama bin Laden or with al Qa’eda. Instead of forcing Israel to negotiate with Hitler – or his spiritual descendants Hamas and Islamic Jihad – the US and other Western countries should be resolutely backing Israel’s efforts to remove these jihadi terror groups from the soil of Gaza, Judea and Samaria. These are the geographical regions which the Bible declares to be the Jewish people’s promised inheritance, and their inheritance alone.

Watch out! YHVH’s got a gun!

YHVH is the God of Joshua. Moses declares that “YHVH is a warrior! YHVH is His name!” (Exodus 15:3). And Yeshua is not only the Messiah; He is also the Righteous Warrior: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse – and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war!” (Revelation 19:11).

When the nations of the world come up against the God of Jacob, there is a power encounter – a clash. The battle is joined, and it involves both spiritual and physical warfare. And that war usually revolves around the Jewish people and their land, though the nations are mostly blind to YHVH’s perspectives:

“Therefore all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And those who plunder you will become plunder, and all who plunder you I will turn into plunder. For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds, declares YHVH, because they have called you an outcast, saying: ‘It is Zion; no one cares for her’” (Jeremiah 30:16-17)

In our modern secular world, many find it hard to grasp that the God of Joshua is watching over His Jewish nation. Military strategists compare their own country’s munitions and platforms to those of the enemy, but they rarely take into consideration YHVH’s active involvement in protecting the people of Israel. Here are four biblical principles that can enlighten our considerations:

God declares to Abraham: “Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore. And your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies!” (Genesis 22:17)

Moses declares to Israel: “Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand” (Leviticus 26:7)

Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said, “Rise up, YHVH! And may Your enemies be scattered, and those who hate You flee from Your presence” (Numbers 10:35)

Moses prophesied over Jacob: “Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by YHVH, the Shield of your help, and He who is the Sword of your majesty! So your enemies will cringe before you, and you will trample on their high places” (Deuteronomy 33:29)

The Hebrew Scriptures teach us that God trains the Jewish people how to destroy our enemies, and then He accompanies us as we go out to battle against our foes:

King David declares: “Blessed be YHVH, my Rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle” (Psalm 144:1)

“When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them. For YHVH your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you!” (Deuteronomy 20:1)

He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and wrapped Himself with zeal as a cloak – according to their deeds, so will He repay: wrath to His adversaries, retribution to His enemies . . . To the coastlands He will deal retribution. A Redeemer will come to Zion, declares YHVH (Isaiah 59 :16-20)

This amazing spiritual and biblical dynamic is lost on most of modern superpowers’ brilliant military and diplomatic minds. Instead, the opposite is assumed to be true: it’s not that God gives His strategic orders to Israel, but that the White House gives orders to Israel. Based on recent news reports, the US State Department insists that the Jewish state needs an OK from the White House before it is allowed to join battle against its mortal enemies. The US State Department has declared time and again in recent days that the IDF needs American permission to finish off Hamas. The State Department, the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff tell Israel that all aspects of the Jewish state’s battle plans and maneuvers against its enemies need to be micro-managed by Washington, the ‘responsible adult’ in this dynamic. Like a high-school student facing a detention, Israel needs to humbly and obediently sign on the dotted line of the detention slip which has been handed to it.

America’s perspectives are heavily influenced by the upcoming US elections. The Democrats desperately need to win the Arab and Islamic vote in key states like Michigan. As a result, they are bending over backwards to make decisions which will not offend Islamist sensitivities at home or in the Middle East. The result is a US foreign policy crazily careening in ways that are harmful and destructive both to Israel’s short-term victory and long-term survival.