Seducing the dragon

On his award-winning album ‘Slow Train Coming,’ Bob Dylan makes an oblique reference to “fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan.” Dylan describes these people as “big-time negotiators, false healers, . . . masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition.” These terms accurately describe the current political stew of Presidents, Prime Ministers, Supreme Leaders and Secretaries of State who are determined to resolve the unsolvable conflict in the Middle East. As Yeshua said, albeit in a different context: “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God?” (Mark 12:24).

Everlasting hatred

One of the main road-bumps on the highway to ‘Mid-East peace’ is a spiritual factor – the stronghold of demonized hatred which the Scriptures describe as coloring the heart of Esau/Edom:

The spiritual principle involved here is explained by Paul in Ephesians 4, with reference to giving Satan an open door to influence our hearts and lives and to advance his kingdom: “In your anger, do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil a foothold” (Greek – τόπος; a topos; a military base of operations/an opportunity; Ephesians 4:26-27). The deep-seated hatred in Edom’s heart toward his brother Jacob is a major theme of Last Days prophecy:

Everlasting hatred and the hernia stone

Jerusalem’s centrality at the End of Days before Messiah’s return reveals that all the nations are infected with an unusual obsession – a spiritual pandemic. This is the world-wide spread of demonized ‘Edomite hatred’ against the Jewish people:

Today’s superpowers and mighty nations do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God. They are blindly stumbling into a trap set for them by YHVH the Warrior (see Exodus 15:3). The God of Jacob is using His divine hooks – the land of Israel and the Jewish people – to ensnare the nations and bring judgment down upon them (see Ezekiel 38:4-5; Ecclesiastes 9:12-13).

Today the armies of jihad are pursuing a straight-on strategy (let’s call it an ‘Edomite strategy’) of destroying the Jewish people and their state. At the same time, the mighty nations of the world are acting like basketball players, setting up a ‘game-point’ shot against Israel:

Fake news and false peace

While the harsh reality is that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Lebanese Hezbollah, Yemini Houthis, Iraqi Kata’eb Hezbollah and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are virulently committed (on intensely Islamist principles) to not signing any peace agreement with Israel but waging jihad against it until it is completely destroyed, Western powers are publicly declaring that they are near to closing a deal between the murderous jihadi groups Hamas and Hezbollah (on the one hand) and the Jewish state (on the other).

Such deceptions on the part of Israel’s enemies and even on the part of these enemies’ allies are not new. The Scriptures shine a spotlight on this ancient subterfuge, and give YHVH’s perspective on such machinations:

In the days of Jeremiah the prophet, there were some Jewish leaders who were preaching a non-kosher ersatz mixture of Biblical teaching and pagan worship. These false shepherds opposed the message of the true Hebrew prophets. Instead, they falsely prophesied that Israel would face no purifying judgments or exile. Their counterfeit messages declared that an era of ‘justice’ and ‘peace now’ was about to visit the Jewish people. But their false prophecies did not line up with YHVH’s standards or oracles. In our day there are those in Israel who also ‘aspire to the throne’ and espouse similar non-kosher messages:

The dragon cannot be seduced

Those modern superpowers who are taking the lead in getting Israel to commit geo-political suicide, are trying to depict jihadi armies as soldiers of peace and justice. These Western diplomats are trying to force the land and people of Israel into false peace agreements, into ceasefires which violate the words of the prophets and their promises of full Jewish restoration. They will not ultimately succeed in their seductions.

And the dragon who is attempting to seduce all the current actors on this playing field – the jihadi forces, the mighty nations, even the counterfeit peace movements in Israel – he will not succeed in his nefarious schemes either.

The dragon who deceives the world cannot be seduced. But he can be defeated:

The one who deceives the nations about Messiah, His message and His people – that dragon will be thrown into the abyss, shut up and sealed there for a thousand years:

After this Millennial Jerusalem reign of Messiah Yeshua, the dragon who deceives the nations will be briefly released, but then will be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, to be tormented day and night forever and ever:

Breaking the deception and establishing the True Kingdom

As we watch demonic deception and satanic anti-Semitism increase and spread like wildfire across the face of the globe, we draw strength, knowing with full certainty that the deceiver and all the mighty nations which follow him will be crushed, but that Messiah Yeshua will reign over the entire planet from Jerusalem, the Jewish capital, and all nations will embrace the fullness of His reign:

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Pulling the strings in the Middle East

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and a so-called ‘faith-healer’ during the period of Tsarist Russia’s disintegration. Today, the name ‘Rasputin’ is synonymous with someone who exerts great and insidious influence as a ‘power behind the throne.’ People think of a Rasputin as a Machiavellian manipulator or a puppet master – one who controls governments, bending their political decisions to his own malevolent will.

In the roomful of mirrors known as the Middle East, there are many countries led by aspiring Rasputins, each one seeking to hornswoggle and hoodwink his neighbors. Most of today’s players are attempting to pull the strings on each other, all the while not realizing that they are being exploited and possibly out-maneuvered by the very parties they themselves are trying to unscrupulously manipulate. Here are two out of many recent examples which touch on modern Middle Eastern dynamics:

A deeper analysis of these activities is found in ‘The Secret War against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People’ (John Loftus and Mark Aarons, St. Mark’s Griffin, 1997).

Who is pulling whose strings today?

The answer to this question is multi-faceted, and involves many countries:

Saudi Arabia – The Saudi rulers (mostly secular and profligate in lifestyle) need to walk carefully, trying not to offend their religious scholars, the ulema. Saudi leaders pull the strings, encouraging the ulema to spread jihad in Afghanistan, in Central Asia, in the West, etc. – just not in Saudi Arabia. Were jihadis allowed free rein in Mecca and Medina, mujahidin zealots would have long ago chopped off the heads of most of Saudi Arabia’s leaders. This explains why 15 of the nineteen  9/11 jihadis were Saudi citizens, and why much of the funding and organization for them came from royal Saudi sources. At the same time, the Saudis pull America’s strings, pressuring it to force Israel to withdraw from Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem (including the Temple Mount).

Qatar – This Islamist state has stepped up to the plate, funding jihadi Muslim Brotherhood groups like Hamas (as does Saudi Arabia), while trying to overthrow the Saudi state and Egypt. Qatar insists on pulling US strings, declaring itself to be an honest mediator between Hamas and Israel, while hosting Hamas’ main theological leaders and terrorists. Qatar hosts America’s biggest US Air Force base al-Udeid in Doha, while simultaneously hosting al-Jazeera TV, the most virulent anti-American and anti-Israeli media source reaching the Western world. A lot of strings are being pulled here at the same time!

Iran – The US supports Iran in many ways, allowing many billions to flow into her coffers – money which is immediately fungible for terrorist support and nuclear weapons development. Iran is the world’s premier funder and protector of jihadi terror. The US pulls strings by supporting Iran, in order to strike fear into the heart of Iran’s arch-enemy Saudi Arabia. America is using Iran to act as a counter-balance against Saudi Arabia. US-Iran connections threaten Saudi security and potentially weaken its confidence. America hopes that this will make the Saudis more amenable to follow American goals in the Arabian Gulf.

But then Saudi Arabia turns around and pulls US strings, warming up to China (America’s mortal enemy), and threatening to step out from under the US protective umbrella. In the same way, Israel is threatened by America’s support for Iran and Saudi Arabia. Those moves pull Israel’s strings in an attempt to to ‘keep the Jewish state in line’ as it deals with daily threats to its existence in the Middle East.

There are many more such interactions, but our newsletters are too small a medium to adequately explore the entire subject here.

Serpentine craftiness in the Middle East

The ‘accuser of the brethren’ is often known by his Hebrew name ‘Satan’ (literally, ‘the one who accuses’). The craftiness of the enemy, his cunning and subtlety – these are accurately reflected in jihadi terror tactics. The Jewish people have had over 100 years of dealing with such attacks, from the massacres of 1834 and 1929 in Hebron, Safed and Jerusalem, to the massacres of Jews surrounding the time of the birth of the State of Israel. Modern incarnations of this evil include the PLO’s bloody murders of Jewish civilians, athletes and tourists; Hamas’ kidnapping, rape and murder of Israeli farmers, students and rock-concert goers; Hezbollah and Iranian missile and rocket attacks against Israeli civilians; etc.

The jihadi terrorists who initiate these atrocities are also pulling strings – American, Israeli and UN strings. Jihadi threats to bring murderous Islamist attacks against Western Europe, Russia, North and South America – these threats pull Western strings. Western diplomats are led down a path of deception, believing that such attacks will stop if Israel can be pressured to collapse and surrender significant portions of its Promised Land to jihadi demands. Unfortunately, time and time again jihadi attacks have led Westerners to surrender to Islamist diktats. Throw in the threat of an Arab oil embargo (think 1973-74), and it has proved rather easy to manipulate the West. Hamas and their fellow travelers are old hands at this, smoothly adept at insidiously shaping Western hearts, Western anti-Israel resolutions, anti-Israel embargo pressures and anti-Israel student riots.

One outstanding example of this was seen in a recent media headline, stating that the US is “trying to remove obstacles to a hostage deal” (between Israel and Hamas). This misleading headline should actually read “The West is trying to crush Israeli objections to Western pressure, as the West tries to force Israel to cave into jihadi terror tactics.” This bending of reality is quite common – actually, most of the news coming out of the Middle East fits in exactly to this type of pro-jihadi propaganda.

Jihad is not a low-grade fever which can be blithely ignored by paying a hefty ransom to its perpetrators. To resist jihad does not mean that that the planet must immediately enter into World War III. But, unfortunately, most Western media only presents the ‘Hamas-Mafia option’ (to paraphrase U2’s Bono): “Just give us what we want, and no one gets hurt!” The jihadi world is pulling the strings, manipulating Western (and even some Israeli) fears, trying to force all resistance to jihad to come to a shuddering halt.

100 IAF fighter jets have not decisively removed the jihadi threat

On Sunday morning August 25, 2024, ten minutes before Hezbollah was about to unleash a massive 6,000+ rocket attack on northern and central Israel, an Israel Air Force (IAF) mailed fist of over 100 fighter jets and bombers carried out a preemptive strike against 270 targets in Lebanon – thousands of Hezbollah rockets and launchers – with barely ten minutes to spare. This was an amazing military, intelligence and technological feat, and it will go down as a military operation to be studied and imitated in days to come.

Yet the threat from Hezbollah is not over by a long shot.  Their forces possess upwards of 140,000 rockets and missiles, many with GPS guidance. They have an unknown number of Iranian-manufactured drones. Were they to fire these weapons at Israel, there would undoubtedly be painful Israeli civilian casualties, significant infrastructure damage – and, immediately after that, apocalyptic damage to Beirut’s international airport, Lebanon’s national water-pumping system, electrical power and internet grids.

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“You will devise an evil plan against the land of unwalled villages” (Ezekiel 37:10-11)

I was awakened early this morning, at 0400. I came downstairs to sit in my armchair and to think about the day ahead. At 04:40 am I began to hear the skies above me being torn by many Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets and bombers. Something was up. I opened my cell phone to wait and see what would pop up on the news.

Within 20 minutes information began to leak out: Hezbollah had planned a surprise attack on Israel (using 6,000 of its 150,000 available missiles and rockets) which was to be triggered at 05:00 hours – at 5:00 am Israeli time. The targets of these jihadi weapons (according to the New York Times) included the HQ of Signals Intelligence Unit 8200 (equivalent to the NSA); the HQ of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (equivalent to the CIA); Ben-Gurion Airport (equivalent to JFK in New York), and other strategic sites.

But at this critical moment, Israeli Military Intelligence was properly working. One hundred IAF jets rose up and, in an intensely coordinated preemptive bombing attack between 04:50 am and 05:00 am, destroyed approximately 6,000 Hezbollah long-range precision rockets and missiles as well as their launchers. This preemptive attack was fully coordinated with the US Department of Defense.

Had Hezbollah’s surprise attack succeeded, a full-blown war would be in full throttle. Beirut’s airport, water-pumping system, electrical power and internet grids would probably be lying in smoking ruins on the Lebanese coast.

Hezbollah fired over 320 rockets and drones at civilian areas in Israel, in response to the IAF’s preemptive strike.

But this round of hostilities is not the end of the process here. It is merely the opening shot of a cunningly crafted Iranian gambit in the Lebanese theater.

Will Hezbollah step back from the brink? Will Israel move to decisively throttle her military enemies who have been trying to put a chokehold on the Jewish state since 1982? Will the 40,000 or so American troops positioned on destroyers, frigates and aircraft carriers from Mediterranean waters to the Persian Gulf be either an effective deterrent or attack force, restraining Iran’s jihadi terror tentacles from wreaking damage on the Jewish state? This ‘state-in-the-process-of-restoration’ is what Ezekiel’s Last Days vision described in chapters 38 and 39 – the lead-in to the War of Gog and Magog.

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When God parachuted Abraham into the Promised Land

In the very first chapters of the Bible, YHVH the God of Israel plucks Abraham out his father’s community and ‘parachuted’ him into the Promised Land. When he arrived in that land, he found various peoples living there:

Taking a Gallup Poll from Canaanites and Philistines

If modern mainstream media had been around in the days of Abraham, reporters might well have gone out to take a survey as to how the Canaanites or Philistines felt about Abraham’s arrival. But to the Canaanites, Abraham’s ‘stealth’ appearance in that land would have felt like an insignificant event. Nevertheless, history was being decisively changed with each and every step that Abraham’s sandaled feet took, according to the declaration of YHVH: “Arise, walk about in the land through its length and width – for I will give it to you” (Genesis 13:17).

Four hundred years later, Israel invaded and conquered the Promised Land, obeying the express command of YHVH (see Deuteronomy 6:10-14). It can be safely assumed that Goliath’s people would not have supported Israel’s entrance into the territories promised to them in the Abrahamic Covenant (see Genesis 15:17-19).

The Great People-Mover

The Hebrew prophet speaks the very thoughts of YHVH in Amos 9:7-8 when he describes the God of Jacob as the ‘Great People-Mover’:

Although the Jewish people may sometimes feel that they are currently stuck in the Exile somewhere – whether Egypt, Babylon, Europe or America – the God of Jacob reminds us that He is the One who rescued Israel from Egypt in the days of Moses. And He moved us in the days of Joshua back into the Land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

YHVH has moved other peoples around the Middle East as well. The Arameans of Damascus had been moved by YHVH from Kir (located somewhere between Armenia, Iraq and Iran), while the Greek-speaking Philistines had been moved by the God of Jacob from Caphtor (possibly Crete or Cyprus) towards Gaza, where they conquered the Avim (a people living in Gaza prior to the Philistine conquest) and established a five-city confederacy or pentapolis (Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron).

But the God of Jacob emphasizes a huge distinction here: Israel’s destiny will not be the same as that of the other peoples He moves around. YHVH declares that He will eventually judge every nation and eliminate every sinful kingdom, but that He will never eliminate the Jewish people even if their hearts temporarily turn away from Him. God will judge Israel; He will even exile Israel; but He will never remove Israel from being His beloved and chosen priority nation. As Hosea 11:7-10 declares:

 

People-moving can be an unpopular move

 

In our day, the world opposes the return of the Jewish people to their Promised Land – just as Canaanites or Philistines back in the day opposed the return of Jacob’s people to the Promised Land. At that time Israel was led by the sword of Moses, Joshua and Samuel, or by the strength of Samson:

 

 

Opposing the Return to Zion

The original Zionists had dreams and visions of a Jewish return to Zion – to the plains of Sharon, to the Valley of Jezreel, to the hills of Galilee and Samaria, and to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The empires which occupied God’s land –

First, the Ottoman Empire Turkey in the 19th century and then the Britain Empire in the early 20th century – opposed full Jewish return. In the second half of the 20th century, America, the European Union and the Arab League opposed the Jewish people’s full return to the Promised Land.

Today many nations forbid the Jewish people from settling in Gaza, East Jerusalem, or the Jewish heartland in Judea and Samaria. But they stress how generous they are in allowing Jewish people to settle in Tel Aviv or West Jerusalem. In doing so, they ignore and violate God’s prophetic promises that He will return His people to the entire Land of Israel. And today’s world empires are trying to whittle away major territories of the Promised Land, endeavoring to establish Judenrein enclaves where jihadi terrorists plot Israel’s destruction.

Jeremiah’s consolation

The prophet Jeremiah in his chapter 31 waxes rhapsodic over Israel’s full return to the Promised Land. The sword of the enemy in the land of the enemy will not block YHVH’s great restoration of the Jewish people to the fullness of their homeland:

“But YHVH hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen (Exodus 9:12)”

YHVH hardened Pharaoh’s heart in the days of Moses. The greatest empire in the world watched as its firstborn sons’ bodies corroded in the harsh Egyptian sun, and as the corpses of its top military charioteers were washed up onto the shoreline of the Red Sea. In our day, the superpowers and the jihadi terrorists of the world are arrogantly violating God’s divine principles regarding the inviolability of the Promised Land or the divine protection overshadowing the Jewish people. These solemn truths are scorned and belittled by the nations, who are about to receive the crushing hand of YHVH’s judgment. The global plans of the nations and their anti-Israel strategies will soon receive their divine come-uppance.

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Peace, insanity and the same results

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The brilliant physicist Albert Einstein is credited with speaking these words, but the proverb was actually penned by civil rights campaigner Rita Mae Brown in 1983.

This maxim applies to the nations of the world, as they attempt to establish a quicksilver pseudo-peace in the Middle East. It also applies to strong political forces in Israel’s opposition who are attempting to re-establish a terror-controlled Gaza, ruled by a jihadi bouillabaisse  comprised of both Hamas and the PLO. The metallic chaff of mainstream media news serves as a cheerleader for this march of death, jamming clear thinking on this development for most people. These broadcasters valiantly press on, presenting their end-game scenarios which include:

International news headlines hammer home these points day and night. Incessant reportage homes in with laser-like intensity on the politically correct narrative: presenting Hamas as pursuers of peace who truly desire ceasefire and return of the Israeli hostages (those 35 or so who are still alive, or the 100 or so Israeli corpses in Hamas tunnels and caves). TV and news outlets consistently portray Israel as an evil and stubborn people led by wicked and deceptive rulers, who are perversely holding out for unrealistic and counter-productive demands.

The openly declared jihadi strategies of Hamas and the PLO – that they will never recognize the Jewish state or allow it to survive – are uncomfortable deal-breakers, revealing the total bankruptcy of Western political  ‘peace plans.’  But these deadly declarations of the terror masters are deftly swept under the carpet, blithely dismissed by diplomats like Vedant Patel, the US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesman, who stated on August 13, 2024:

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy

An oft-quoted proverb ascribed to Middle Eastern origins states that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This saying is also known in Latin as “Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei” (‘my friend – the enemy of my enemy’). The closest Arabic equivalent is found in Nahj al-balāgha (‘the path of eloquence’), an eleventh-century collection of more than two-hundred sermons, nearly eighty letters, and almost five-hundred sayings attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 661 AD). Ali was the fourth Rashidun caliph (who ruled between 656 and 661 AD). He was also the first Shia imam, and the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. His collection has served as an ideological basis for Islamic governance, especially for Shi’ite Muslims. Here is the pertinent quote from that book:

This proverb helps us to understand what is going on in the purported ‘peace discussions’ in Doha, Qatar. The three catalyzers of this ‘Doha Summit’ are POTUS Biden, the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Qatar is Egypt’s mortal enemy, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood (Jamāʿat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn) carried out the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar es-Sadat on October 6, 1981. They forced the resignation of Sadat’s successor Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011, replacing him with Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi.

Morsi (the Muslim Brotherhood President) received strong support from Qatar, a long-time financier of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar declared that it would provide Egypt with US$2 billion, while private Qatari investors from Qatar pledged US$10 billion to strengthen Egyptian infrastructure. The Brotherhood uses the Arabic honorific ‘sheikh’ to refer to Osama bin Laden, and has never condemned the 9/11 jihadi terror attacks. But they have condemned the killing of Bin Laden, stating: “The whole world, and especially the Muslims, have lived with a fierce media campaign to brand Islam as terrorism and describe the Muslims as violent by blaming the September 11th incident on al-Qaeda.”

White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby stated in the past few days that “Qatar and Egypt are, in turn, mediating with Hamas.” The Hamas terror group has refused to formally attend the summit, but says it will be negotiating through Qatari and Egyptian mediators. Deep-rooted duplicity and hypocrisy are reflected by Egypt, Qatar and the USA here, as they push Israel to step away from crushing jihadi terrorist Hamas and move toward dividing the Land of Israel:

U.S. National Security Spokesperson John Kirby said: “This is vital work. Remaining obstacles can be overcome, and we must bring this process to a close. We need to see the hostages released, relief for Palestinian civilians in Gaza, security for Israel and lower tensions in the region, and we need to see those things as soon as possible.”

Kirby stated that CIA director Bill Burns and White House Mideast czar Brett McGurk are currently meeting with representatives from Israel, Qatar and Egypt. In a joint statement from the triumvirate of POTUS Biden, Qatari Emir al-Thani and Egyptian President al-Sisi, it was stated: “It is time, immediately, to put an end to the long-standing suffering of the people of the Gaza Strip . . .  It is time to finalize a ceasefire agreement.”

The Israeli delegation

Israel has given in to American pressure, sending a delegation comprising Mossad chief David Barnea and Shin Bet (Israeli FBI) head Ronen Bar. Accompanying them are IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon and senior Netanyahu adviser Ophir Falk. Iran and Hamas are manipulating the entire process: Iran hints that it may delay its seven-pronged attack on Israel for a few days if a ‘Doha deal’ can be achieved. The US State Department indicates that such a deal can be obtained if Israel pulls out of Gaza and allows Palestinian terror groups to take over. Hamas refuses to officially attend the Doha Summit, acting as ‘the strong horse’ in this Middle Eastern race, and using its recalcitrance as a bargaining chip.

Hamas’s clearly stated short-term conditions and long-term goals include: the total destruction of the state of Israel and the annihilation of the Jewish people (as per its 1987-88 Charter); the full withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza and a complete and unconditional Israeli ceasefire; the total release of all Hamas terrorists jailed by Israel; the total and unfettered return of Hamas to all areas in Gaza now held by the IDF; free passage for weapons into Gaza from Egypt and from the Mediterranean Sea; the return of only 33 of all the Israeli hostages (Hamas prefers to return mostly corpses, but perhaps some living hostages as well).

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License to kill

Ian Fleming, former operative for the British Naval Intelligence, created a fictional British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent named James Bond – known by the code number ‘007.’ Bond’s code number identified him as having been granted a license by Her Majesty’s government to initiate the use of legal force in the pursuit of his intelligence objectives.

According to classic Islamic sources in the Quran and the Hadith, jihad warriors look forward to constant battle and death until they conquer the world for Islam: “The believers . . . fight in his cause, so they kill (others) and are killed” (Sahih al-Bukhari 51:1).  “I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. Therefore, strike off their heads and strike off every one of their fingertips . . . Strike terror (into the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies” (Quran, Surah 8:12, 60).

Classic Islamic teaching considers it a matter of course that mujahidin (jihadi warriors) will, in the pursuit of their Muslim objectives of world conquest, be involved in killing and being killed. This is part of the challenge and romance of jihad.

There is a popular Arabic proverb than throws some needed Middle-Eastern light on current events: “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’).  The jihadi terrorists of Gaza’s Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have made it their profession to murder, rape, torture and kidnap Jews and Israelis for forty years, targeting civilians (including women and children) with horrendous atrocities. Yet when the IDF or Mossad bring terminal justice to these murderers, the terror groups’ spokesmen ‘cry, run to the judge and try to sue Israel,’

In recent days, two top jihadi masterminds have met their well-deserved demise. Hezbollah’s chief of staff Fuad Shukr was assassinated on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 7:40 pm in the Beirut Shi’ite stronghold of Dahiya, in a targeted elimination acknowledged by Israel, Shukr was Hezbollah’s most senior commander, and second in command to arch-terrorist Hassan Nasrallah. He was directly responsible for the Hezbollah rocket attack on Saturday July 27, which murdered 12 Israeli Arab Druze schoolchildren playing soccer on a football pitch in Majdal Shams at the foothills of Mount Hermon. Shukr had also been deeply involved in the mass murder car bombing of 241 US Marines and 58 French paratroopers on October 23, 1983 at the US Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut.

On Wednesday July 31, 2024 at approximately 2 am, a bomb concealed two months previously in a diplomatic suite of a high-security Islamic Revolutionary Guards Neshat guesthouse in the affluent suburbs of North Tehran exploded, sending Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas’ Politburo chief) and his bodyguard on their way to a divine encounter. Haniyeh was one of the two top leaders in Hamas, the other being Yahya Sinwar who is holed up in Hamas tunnels somewhere in the Khan Yunis area of Gaza. Haniyeh was in Tehran for the swearing-in of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian. In the guesthouse another master terrorist was housed in a room adjoining Haniyeh’s – Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh. He was unharmed. Iran’s supreme Shi’ite Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (who was staying barely 150 meters away at the time) was also unharmed. Israel has not claimed responsibility for this hit on Haniyeh.

Coming out of the shadows

The Book of Daniel describes a high-level demonic principality casting its dark shadow over Iran. In Daniel’s day this fallen angel was called ‘the Prince of Persia’ (see Daniel 10:13, 20). The Prince of Persia was the nefarious force pulling the strings of Haman’s genocidal heart, attempting to destroy all the Jewish people living in the vast Persian Empire. Today it is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and their Supreme Leaders who have stepped up to the plate in a modern attempt to complete that devilish assignment.

Similar to James Bond, the secret agent in the shadows, Iran has mostly refrained from open confrontation with Israel, preferring to exert a gradual chokehold on the Jewish state through proxy terrorist puppets. These include Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Kata’eb Hezbollah in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and other forces in Syria. Israel and Iran have been waging a cat-and-mouse campaign over the years, but as of April 13, 2024 the gloves have come off and the clash is now open.

The October 7 Hamas pogrom into Israel was Iran’s way of communicating to Israel and the United States that Iran would oppose any rapprochement with Saudi Arabia, and was threatening escalation if such moves increased. Israel’s response to the tightening Iranian chokehold involved both a concerted campaign to annihilate Hamas as well as a war of attrition against Lebanese Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel. Over 80,000 Israelis have had to abandon their homes in the North of Israel due to Hezbollah rocket attacks, and 28 Israelis have been murdered by these attacks. America has exerted much pressure on Israel not to respond and remove the Hezbollah threat, at the cost of continuing and increasing Israeli casualties. The resent assassinations of top-level jihadi leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas reveal that the Jewish state is ready for face-to-face confrontation with its mortal enemies – enemies who are not beating around the bush in their clear declarations and actions to destroy Israel. 

Preparing for the clash

Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei announced three days of national mourning on Wednesday July 31, 2024: “The criminal and terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest in our house and made us bereaved . . .  It also prepared the ground for a harsh punishment for itself . . . We consider it our duty to avenge his blood in this bitter and difficult incident that happened in the territory of the Islamic Republic.”

It is assumed that Iran will attack Israel with significant waves of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic rockets in a strike similar to its April 13, 2024 attack – but with greater intensity. It is also assumed that Iran’s proxies and puppets in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon will all join in, believing that they also have a ‘license to kill,’ It should be noted that no country or body has taken responsibility for the assassination of Haniyeh, though it is understood that Haniyeh and Hamas are operating as Iranian agents, and Iran is lashing out in a Middle Eastern attempt to show itself as the ‘strong horse’ and the neighborhood bully.

He hits, he cries, he runs to the lawyer

On the same day as Hamas’ Haniyeh moved on, Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saied Iravani asked the United Nations to condemn and punish Israel for eliminating one of the world’s prime terrorist threats:

During a phone call with Iranian diplomats, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres affirmed to the Iranian Foreign Minister that Iran holds the ‘inherent right to self-defense’ in response to violations of its national security and territorial integrity.

Iranian negotiations with the USA regarding how to attack Israel

Prior to Iran’s attacks on American soldiers in Iraq (January 2020) and against Israeli military bases on April 13, 2024, the US coordinated the extent and target locations of Iran’s attacks with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leadership. It is to be assumed that such negotiations are ongoing at this time, probably through Swiss and Qatari mediators, regarding Iran’s soon-coming attack on the Jewish state.

The Iranian strike is about to happen

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