Banqueting with the enemy

“When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are a person of great appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food” (Proverbs 23:1-3)

“Do not eat the bread of a selfish person, or desire his delicacies. For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, ‘Eat and drink!’ But his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your compliments” (Proverbs 23:6-8)

In the days of King Solomon, as Jewish pilgrims ascended the winding road to Jerusalem, they chanted the Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). They reminded themselves of how Israel’s enemies were continually attempting to destroy her, but that the God of Jacob, in His covenant love, foiled evil plans and preserved His Hebrew people.

Those same cruel dynamics from nearly 3,000 years ago have gone through little change, and are thriving and metastasizing, even in our day. Arabs living in Kedar (modern Arabian peninsula; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qedarite; see also Genesis 25:13) were an outstanding biblical example of this murderous anti-Jewish hatred:

These biblical words accurately reflect much of the Jewish people’s painful exile among the nations of the Middle East. Hatred of the seed of Jacob and hatred of making peace with Israel still characterize much of the Islamic and Arabic-speaking world.

The morphing of Qatar

The current repeated attacks against the regathered nation of Israel in our day focus our attention on this biblical teaching. Whether it be the terror state of Qatar, the jihadis of Gazan Hamas, the al Qa’eda spinoffs in Syria or the Shi’ite gangs of Houthi-controlled Yemen, the hatred of Israel, its leaders and its people (whether in Zion or scattered across the world) is now leading the headlines in world media coverage.

For the past while, the terror state of Qatar has occupied a ‘position of honor’ of being at the top of the jihadi anti-Israel list. This newsletter will unpack the ‘roots and shoots’ of the jihadi state of Qatar, its significant role in the bankrolling and spreading of jihadi terrorism, and its seductive role in compromising Western nations (especially the USA) as the House of Al-Thani seeks to destroy the seed of Jacob from off the face of the earth.

From pearl fishing and dates to natural gas super-power

Qatar’s ancient economy revolved around date harvesting, local commercial fishing and pearling in the nearby gulf. This state of affairs continued for millennia until significant oil reserves were discovered in 1939, and petroleum began to be exported from Qatar in 1949.

As recently as the 1980s, diplomats and businessmen described Qatar’s capital city Doha as a barren place with stifling heat: “From a distance, the only discernible building on Doha’s waterfront promenade was the pyramid-shaped Sheraton hotel.”

By 1997, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips began to exploit one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world – estimated at 843 trillion cubic feet (1/10% of the world’s supply). Only Russia (1,688) and Iran (1,200) have greater reserves. Qatar’s IMF per-capita gross domestic product is now $121,605 (fifth highest in the world), compared with the U.S. $89,105 (tenth highest). Today Qatar has a population of 3.1 million, of which 11.6% (0.36 million) are citizens and 88.4% (2.76 million) are expat workers.

The Qatari Royal Family of al-Thani sought out foreign patronage in Washington, and the CIA willingly arranged a coup on February 22, 1971 to cement that profitable financial relationship (as mirrored in the Hollywoodized film ‘Syriana‘ starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Christopher Plummer).

Qatar is a state with a population the size of Plano, Texas, yet it has managed to punch far above its weight on the international scene (David B Roberts, ‘Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City State’ (London: Hurst & Co., 2017), 123-49). It has become the main bankroller and exporter of world terrorism. How did that all happen?

When Brothers gather together

Jihadi Islam lies at the roots of Mohammad’s teachings in the Quran and the Hadith. For the first 300-500 years of its existence, Islam’s governing caliphate was activist, imperialistic and colonialist as it spread its dark gospel by the sword. But after an ebb in these conquests, it was the Ottoman Turks in the 1400’s who would renew the carrying of jihad’s violent torch into Europe, as well as back into into the Middle East once again. In the first part of the 20th century, that Turkish Caliphate collapsed, and new firebrands like Hassan al-Bana (the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood/al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn in 1928), Sayyid Qutb and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj advocated a revolutionary Islamic overthrow of what had become practically secular Islamic regimes, blending Salafist theology with medieval jihadi zealotry from the likes of ibn Taymiyya.

Three events in the second half of the 20th century imported this neo-jihadi movement into Qatar:

In 1961 the Qatari royal family welcomed Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Qatar. Qaradawi (1926-2022), one of the top religious personalities in the Sunni Muslim world, was considered the spiritual and religious leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Hamas, its Gazan Palestinian branch. He has been described by many researchers as the most influential Muslim jurist of the late 20th century. His program on Al-Jazeera TV (al-Sharia wa-l-Ḥayyat – Islamic Law and Life), drew 60 million viewers from around the world on a weekly basis. In the United Kingdom, Qaradawi was a trustee of The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the President of the Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research. Until November 2018 he was also the President of IUMS (the International Union of Islamic Scholars).

In 2005, a former Kuwaiti Minister of Information, Dr. Ahmad al-Rabi', wrote in the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper: “The beginnings of all the religious terrorism that we are witnessing today were in the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology . . . All those who worked with bin Laden and al-Qaeda went out under the mandate of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Qatar – a gracious host to genocidal jihad

Qaradawi’s fatwas (Islamic religious rulings) legalized Hamas suicide bombings against Jews. In 2004, he gave an interview to the BBC justifying Palestinian terror and the killings of Israeli women and children. Qaradawi was a strong supporter of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. He met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a 2013 visit to the Gaza Strip, re-iterating his support both for Hamas and for the elimination of Israel. During a sermon about the Jewish people that aired on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009, he called on Allah  to “kill them, down to the very last one.”

On January 28, 2009, Qaradawi justified the Holocaust as “divine punishment.” “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue—he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the [Muslim] believers.”

In 1999, he was banned from entering the USA, having called for the destruction of America and for the annihilation of the Jews. His home base for decades was situated in Doha, Qatar – only minutes away from the USA’s huge al-Udeid Air Base, where CENTCOM still has its Combined Air Operations Center.

In 2009, Qaradawi was banned from entering the UK due to his support of suicide bombing in Israel. Between the years 2013-2018, he was placed on the Interpol watch list at the request of Egyptian police, which asked to include him and several senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, alleging his co-responsibility for murder and embezzlement.

The Muslim Brotherhood – according to a hearing at the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security on July 11, 2018 – is a militant Islamist organization with affiliates in over 70 countries, including groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US. Though Hamas, the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch, has remained on the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) watchlist since 1997, its mother organization the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn) has not yet been so listed by the US Congress.

Qatar – THE bankroller and supporter of jihad

Bassam Tawil, a Muslim Arab commentator based in the Middle East, shoots straight from the hip, quoting Dr. Udi Levy, a former senior official of Israel’s Mossad spy agency who worked in the department of economic warfare against terrorist organizations:

Former Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir addressed the Council of Foreign Relations on September 26, 2018, speaking very much to the point regarding Qatar’s role in financing and sheltering terrorist organizations, in disseminating hatred, and in destabilizing Islamic regimes in the Gulf states and North Africa. Below is an edited transcript of his 3:58 minute address, found at this link:

When Qatar hid al-Qaeda’s master terrorist from the FBI

The Qatari government has been actively supporting the main jihadi terror groups in the Middle East. These included Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria (earlier ISIS) and later Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Julani’s HTS) in Syria; the Taliban in Afghanistan; al-Qaeda (throughout the Middle East and in the USA); Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank/Judea and Samaria; Hezbollah in Lebanon; al-Shabaab (in Somalia ); Kata’eb Hezbollah (in Iraq), and the Houthis (in Yemen). Qatar offered millions of dollars and security help to overthrow Hosni Mubaraq’s Egyptian government, and in its stead to establish Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood regime. During Morsi’s rule, many murderous attacks were carried out against Egyptian Christian communities and Egypt quickly made diplomatic overtures to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Qatar has backed radical Islamist groups in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, in attempts to overthrow these governments. The groups which Qatar backed during the Syrian Civil War were indistinguishable, in terms of brutality and ideology, from al-Qaeda and ISIS.

A member of Qatar’s Royal Family (Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani) concealed future 9/11 al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM - a Kuwait-born Pakistani national on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list) in Doha from FBI searches in 1996, when they came to arrest him under indictment on charges of terrorism. Al-Thani informed only the Qatari Emir (his relative), and KSM was spirited out of Qatar within hours. Richard Clarke, adviser to two U.S. Presidents, attested to this in his book and in the media. “We had located Khalid Sheikh,” Jack Cloonan, a New York-based senior terrorism investigator for the FBI told ABCNEWS. “We were prepared to fly the plane in and to take him out.” But Cloonan says Mohammed was tipped off shortly after Qatar officials were told of the plan, and he immediately headed for the airport. At that time in 2003, FBI agent Cloonan prophetically stated that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed “is the person who is going to attack the United States.”  September 9/11 proved the sober reality of his words.  KSM was later linked to the April 11, 2002 suicide truck bombing of Tunisia’s Djerba synagogue where at least 19 tourists, mostly Germans, were murdered.

Qatar – world jihad’s long media arm

The media organization with the broadest and most powerful reach for jihad – not only in the Middle East, but also across the planet – is Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV, which also serves as Hamas’s global propaganda arm. Its priority goals involve spreading Muslim Brotherhood propaganda through shaping world perspectives. Its primary emphasis is Islamist jihadi propaganda directed at the broader Arab world, but also at Western university students, poisoning minds through the spread of anti-American and anti-Israel broadcasting.

Al-Jazeera was founded in 1996 by Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa al-Thani. The Lawfare Project characterized that network in a 2020 memo as “one of the most influential Islamist extremist propaganda outlets in the world ... essentially an arm of the Qatari government.” Sheikh al-Qaradawi would broadcast his sermons and his weekly show, ‘The Guidance of Islam,” on al-Jazeera, which he made use of to advocate suicide bombings. Al-Qaradawi praised Qatar for its role in spreading his teachings.

Hitting closer to home: Al-Jazeera TV aired a broadcast – ‘the Prostration of Gratitude’ (‘Sajdat al Shukr’ in Arabic) – live on October 7, 2023. This was live TV, zooming in on Hamas’ top jihadi leaders in Doha, Qatar conducting an Islamic prayer of thanks celebrating the ongoing ‘live’ massacre, rape, torture and kidnapping of Israeli youth by Hamas and Gazan residents – at both the Nova Music Festival and at kibbutzim and towns near Gaza. The atrocities were broadcast in real-time on huge digital screens in the jihadi conference room.

On January 24, 2024, al-Jazeera TV aired an interview with Joseph Massad, a professor at Columbia University, who told the network in Arabic: “[T]he U.S. was -- and still is – a settler colony, that sanctifies white supremacy over the rest of the people. Therefore, there is a kind of fusion between the U.S. and Israel. Israel reminds it of how things were in the United States in the past.”

Iraqi journalist Sufian al-Samarrai, the Chairman of the Baghdad Post and the New Iraq Centre, has said the West is too blind to see what al-Jazeera stands for and how it manipulates and penetrates Western societies. Al-Samarrai stressed “the massive differences in how news is portrayed in AJ English and AJ Arabic. AJ English projects itself as the standard-bearer of global liberalism, promoting democracy, human rights, freedom, and justice for all. It softly markets political Islam as a strategic solution to many of the Middle East’s problems. In addition, it portrays Islamism as a political ideology that can coexist with people and nations of different religions and ethnicities.”

Al-Samarrai continued: AJ Arabic, on the other hand, “is nothing more than a platform of armed political Islamist gangs, and their ferocity and terrorism are promoted as a legitimate resistance.” He added that “Al-Jazeera is waging a systematic psychological war against Arab societies.” The endgame, al-Samarrai claims, is “paving the way to political Islam represented by the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the region.”

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states boycott Qatar

Between June 5-6, 2017, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates announced a boycott of Qatar, calling that country to “sever all ties to terrorist organizations, specifically the Muslim Brotherhood,” to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, to shut down al-Jazeera and its affiliate stations, and to curb ties with Iran. A 13-point list of demands was sent, aimed at dismantling Qatar’s two-decade-old support for jihadi groups and revolutionary forces attempting to overthrow the Gulf monarchies.

At that time, POTUS Donald Trump had some strong words to say about Qatar:

On 6 June, 2017, Trump tweeted: “During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!” He also tweeted: “Good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all references were pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!”

On June 21, 2017, Trump told a rally in Iowa: “We cannot let these incredibly rich nations fund radical Islamic terror or terrorism of any kind. We cannot let it happen. Cannot let it happen.”

This Arab Gulf boycott lasted four years, though the root causes behind it are still very much alive and well in the Middle East.

Qatar – the largest funder of US universities

Qatar has contributed $5.1 billion to US academic institutions since 1986, more than any other country in the world (see ‘Networks of Hate: Qatari Paymasters, Soft Power and the Manipulation of Democracy’). This ‘soft power’ funding has been used to radicalize students in the US and to catalyze the recent upsurge in anti-Israeli protests at a number of prominent American universities. Part of Qatar’s funding is used to support foreigners studying in the US on student visas, some of whom are suspected by US authorities of inciting hatred of Israel.

Here are three articles giving specific examples of this Qatari strategy:

Lies, betrayal and double-dealing

Qatar is the world’s largest funder and equipper of jihadi terror. Yet, just as King Solomon said in Proverbs, “This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wrong’” (Proverbs 30:20).

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on September 25, 2014, Qatar’s Emir al-Thani blithely stated that his state does not consider jihadi terrorism to be terrorism, but to be a kosher expression of Islamic faith:

At the opening of the 20th century, Britian made promises to both the House of ibn-Saud and to the Hashemite dynasty, promising to each group a decisive hegemony over the Islamic jewel of Mecca. In the end, the jihadi warriors of ibn Saud defeated the Bedouin armies of the Hashemites, and Arabia found itself with a new name – Saudi Arabia. At that time, Britain was pulling strings across the entire Middle East, and ended up controlling puppet regimes in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc. But within a space of thirty years, these acquisitions of the Crown were mostly swept away, replaced by the ‘friendly’ bear-hug of Uncle Sam. 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).

The USA’s realpolitik has compromised American believability in Middle Eastern arenas. Qatar hosts the US CENTCOM and the Middle East’s largest US airbase at al-Udeid, while simultaneously hosting the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian jihadi cadres of Hamas at Doha’s Four Seasons Hotel. America is prepared to tolerate the cognitive dissonance that comes along with its own vital strategic interests – which include access to landing strips for its B-2 and B-52 bombers; an unlimited supply of natural gas; and backdoor/front-door channels to top international jihadi generals.

Qatar – World Cup slavery and ‘Qatargate’

According to the British newspaper The Guardian of December 14, 2014, Qatar’s royal family “runs a sharia state, where homosexuality is punishable by death, women are severely restricted in their liberties and foreign workers are treated like indentured laborers, stripped of their rights and forced to work in highly dangerous conditions,”

More than 91% of Qatar’s population are foreign workers. They are controlled by an abusive sponsorship system which gives employers almost complete control over their workers. Qatar has not opened an investigation regarding the deaths of masses of foreign workers – between hundreds to thousands, according to estimates – as part of the 2022 World Cup. Here are five articles unpacking this subject:

In December 2022, Belgian authorities uncovered the bribery of Members of the European Parliament by Qatar, and attempts to influence EU legislation and policies in the European Parliament. European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili lied for Qatar in exchange for millions in cash to boost the country’s image in the face of criticism over letting it host the 2022 FIFA World Cup: “I alone said that Qatar is a front-runner in labor rights, abolishing kafala [Islamist removal of workers’ protections], introducing minimum wage.” Politico reported on the leaked files, dubbed ‘the Qatargate Files’ in December 2023: “The actions recorded in the documents include some with a significant impact on the workings of the European Union – such as scheming to kill off six parliamentary resolutions condemning Qatar’s human rights record, and working to deliver a visa-free travel deal between Doha and the EU.”

Qatar plays a false ‘hostage mediation’ role while subsidizing Hamas’ October 7 attacks

Qatar continues to be the main funder of Hamas, subsidizing its arms purchases, training and operating costs, and granting a protective base to that jihadi organization in Doha’s luxury hotels. As far as October 7, 2023 is concerned, the hands may be the hands of Hamas, but the voice is the voice of Qatar.

Qatar has been playing a duplicitous double-game with the USA – energizing Hamas while simultaneously posturing itself as a neutral third-party desperately wanting to free the Israeli hostages. Nearly every Western country involved here is playing along, shedding copious crocodile clear while they appeal to tainted righteousness. One example of many is from Axios on August 15, 2024:

On Thursday March 10, 2022 former POTUS Joe Biden officially designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally, and in January 2024, quietly extended an agreement with Qatar that extends the US military presence in the terror-supporting Gulf state for another 10 years. Qaradawi, Hamas and CENTCOM – strange bedfellows indeed!

‘All is quiet on the Western Front’

Here are some recent quotes from American and Qatari leaders which reveal stunning political hypocrisy, as well as the urgent need for prayer:

POTUS Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address insists on dividing up the Land of Israel: “As we look to the future, the only real solution to the situation is a two-state solution over time. And I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel . . . But there is no other path that guarantees Israel’s security and democracy. There is no other path that guarantees that Palestinians can live in peace with peace and dignity. And there is no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its neighbors – including Saudi Arabia.”

In an interview with Tucker Carlson on March 7, 2025, Qatar’s Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani stated that peace is a fundamental principle for Qatar, and therefore, the country works to promote peace in the region and for its allies. According to him, “peace has enemies,” and Qatar’s adversaries (i.e., a heavy-handed hint about Israel) harm the region and its allies, including the United States.

In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump concluded a successful visit to the Arabian Peninsula, including the Emirate of Qatar (May 14-15). At the end of the visit, Trump announced a series of economic achievements, centered around the signing of a mutual trade agreement worth $1.2 trillion, along with economic deals totaling $243.5 billion. These include, among other things, Qatar’s purchase of Boeing aircraft and General Electric aircraft engines for Qatar Airways.

In an official statement on May 16, 2025, following President Trump’s visit, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that “the State of Qatar and the United States of America work closely to address global and regional challenges.” According to Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “President Trump recognized Qatar’s continued efforts in supporting regional peace and praised its contributions as a frontline partner in global counterterrorism, violent extremism and a critical contributor to crisis diplomacy.”

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 09.09.25 04:20 PM EST “This morning, the Trump Administration was notified by the United States Military that Israel was attacking Hamas which, very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the Capital of Qatar . . . Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals . . .  I view Qatar as a strong Ally and friend of the U.S., and feel very badly about the location of the attack . . . I believe this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for PEACE. I also spoke to the Emir and Prime Minister of Qatar, and thanked them for their support and friendship to our Country. I assured them that such a thing will not happen again on their soil. I have directed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to finalize the Defense Cooperation Agreement with Qatar. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Fox New Reporter at Morristown Airport, Morris County, NJ at 18:40 ET: : “What is your message to Netanyahu about strikes on Qatar?” Trump: “My message is: they [i.e., Israel] have to be very careful. They have to do something about Hamas. But Qatar has been a great ally to the US. A lot of people don’t know that. I told the Emir – a wonderful person actually – I said ‘You need better public relations. Because you don’t really get the public relations.’ I mean, people talk of it so badly, and they shouldn’t be. Qatar’s been a very great ally. So – Israel and everybody else: we have to be careful. When we attack people, we have to be careful”

A comment here: when Seal Team Six of the US Navy DEVGRU took out Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, they did not ask that Islamic state for prior permission. When a US Reaper drone took out master terrorist Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, or when a US car-bomb in Damascus’ posh Kafar Sousah suburb removed Imad Mughniyeh from further jihadi activities, the US did not ask for prior Iraqi or Syrian permission. Nevertheless, the Western world cheered American boldness and righteous justice. When Israel recently attempted to take out Hamas’ entire terror leadership (ensconced safely in Doha under Qatari protection and financing), it was the Jewish state state’s right to do so, for terrorists have no safe haven. Pray that Western leadership will find the gumption and courage to stand wholeheartedly with its tur allies in such situations.

New York, New York

Qatar’s role in bailing out Trump envoy and New York real estate maven Steve Witkoff with hundreds of millions of dollars in a collapsing real estate deal, casts a shadow of potential ethical compromise over Trump foreign-policy team’s ability, as they attempt to objectively evaluate Qatar’s role in Middle East processes.

Zohran Mamdani is an anti-Israeli Socialist who is also the Democratic Party’s candidate in the upcoming mayoral race in New York City. Qatar has funded the film career of arthouse filmmaker and documentarian Mira Nair, Mamdani’s Israel-bashing mother,  investing tens of millions of dollars over the years in propping up her career.

On October 7, 2023, the State of Qatar’s Media & Communication Department accused Israel as being “solely responsible for the ongoing escalation” and being in “flagrant violation of international law” – all this while Qatar-funded Hamas jihadis were raping and torturing young men and women to death, executing kibbutz parents in front of their children, emptying sub-machine guns and throwing grenades into bomb shelters where Holocaust survivors and their families had taken shelter:

The State of Qatar expresses its deep concern over the developments in Gaza Strip and calls on all parties to de-escalate, and exercise maximum restraint.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs holds Israel solely responsible for the ongoing escalation due to its ongoing violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli police.

The Ministry stresses the need for the international community to act urgently to compel Israel to stop its flagrant violations of international law, respect the resolutions of international legitimacy and the historical rights of the Palestinian people, and to prevent these events from being used as a pretext to ignite a new asymmetric war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates the firm position of the State of Qatar regarding the justice of the Palestinian cause, and the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

One day before this op-ed, on Wednesday September 17 al-Khulaifi met in The Hague with the president of the ICC, Judge Tomoko Akane, to pursue “every available legal and diplomatic avenue to ensure accountability for those responsible for Israel’s attack on Qatar.” An unnamed Qatari official stated at that time that Israel’s attack on Hamas terrorists hiding out in Qatar was “unlawful,” adding it “constitutes grave violations of international humanitarian law.”

On September 18, 2025, nine days after Israel had unsuccessfully attempted to remove Hamas’s top leadership who were hiding out in the Qatari capital of Doha, Qatar’s minister of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, attacked Israel in a Washington Post op-ed. He gaslighted the Jewish state, charging them falsely with very same terrorist activities that Qatar has been supporting over the past three decades through their terror-proxy Hamas:

In light of Qatar’s stunning reserves of natural gas, perhaps al-Khulaifi’s hypocritical attack could be renamed ‘natural gas-lighting’…

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A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE VEIL - Rachel Boskey

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12)

From my place in the Land

There is a unique vantage point living here and being bonded to the destiny of the Jewish people. From this place, I seek to communicate.

Some haters of Zion are already accusing the Jewish people and Israel of the murder of Charlie Kirk.  This is another lie from the father of lies.

Kirk is loved and honored by many Israelis and Jews of all streams, political persuasions and walks of life. In the last four days, influencers and people on the Israeli street have expressed their love and support for Charlie Kirk – whether they agreed with his positions or not.  Jewish people know a friend when they see one, and their radar is often very accurate.

There are more factors to consider.

The veil lifted slightly

When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I sensed that the veil to the unseen realm was lifted slightly, making it possible to see a bit more clearly into the world of the spirit. Like after a nuclear blast, a shock wave of power opened the door into another dimension or spiritual perspective.

Kirk spoke from the Bible to people everywhere. At the same time he spoke into the unseen realm of the spirit, using spiritual weapons to take down spiritual strongholds.

Mid-heaven thrones

An old prophetic friend who is now with the Lord once said that if anyone exposes the nefarious work of specific spiritual principalities, there can be real-time repercussions.  Kirk did speak boldly, and he paid the ultimate price. 

How I first heard of Charlie Kirk

I first became aware of Kirk in 2021.  At that time, his words gave me courage to stand up against the propagandistic onslaught of ‘Big Pharma’ – the huge conglomerate which wields great influence and control over much of this world’s populace.  My understanding is that this principality (referred to in Greek as φαρμακείᾳ or ‘pharmakeia’, and in English as ‘sorcery’), has outed itself more clearly for all to see, over the past five years.

Kirk spoke fearlessly against the coercion employed by this powerful spiritual force, which manipulated the behavior of entire societies, forced obedience to sloppy medical dictates, caused massive harm physically and psychologically, wrought destruction and death, and at the same time reaped enormous monetary profit.

But Kirk's stand on these issues was not the motivation behind the murderer’s actions.

One of my heroes

Kirk became one of my heroes, and he is also a hero to many in Israel. Those who have discerned the ‘pharma fraud,’ are praising him and posting clips of Kirk speaking up against it.  Many here appreciate and honor him for this stance.

Sadly, this ‘pharmakeia’ has deeply insinuated itself into our civilization and existence, and its influence is still nearly imperceptible and invisible to many — like not seeing the forest for the trees.  Along these lines, Dr Naomi Wolf wrote a superb article about a significant interview she once had with Kirk.  She writes of the love of the truth that she and Charlie Kirk shared.  Her words resonate and are worth reading (https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/a-flash-of-light).

Spiritual forces

There are other spiritual forces that Kirk addressed.  Some of these were operating through those who wanted to take Kirk’s life.  

Decades ago, our old prophetic friend referred to abortion, homosexuality and the spiritual battle against Israel and the Jews. The three ‘big issues’ which, if exposed and addressed, would generate significant blowback. 

Some of these ‘big issues’

Everywhere Kirk went, he embraced people with kindness. At the same time he did not compromise on the clear teaching of scripture.

The spiritual powers catalyzing child-sacrifice and sexual perversion do not like being challenged.

News travels fast. It has now become clear that Kirk’s alleged murderer had embraced moral and sexual perversion which carry in their wake demonic fellow-travelers. Their innumerable diabolic tentacles reach into the darkest corners of human existence.

Those principalities cannot tolerate the likes of a Charlie Kirk.  And so, they saw to his silencing.

Preaching just like John

Kirk regularly preached the Gospel, and through him many came to faith in the Messiah.  He said the ‘courage of his faith’ was the most important element of his life. This also made him a target.  The preaching of sin, righteousness and judgment makes the demons rage.

Probably many who heard Kirk did not immediately repent and turn away from sin.  Yet it’s quite clear to see the respect for and embrace of Charlie Kirk across the globe, as well as here in Israel.  I am so reminded of John the Baptist.  Like a magnet, people flocked to him and wanted to bask in his charisma.  Those who loved him, truly loved him.

Not all who loved Kirk agreed with him, but many acknowledged the clear-thinking authority that he had.

The haters

Those who hated him, hated him with a passion.  John the Baptist confronted Herod over his unlawful taking of his brother’s wife. Kirk spoke against sexual sin just like John the Baptist did. They both paid with their lives.  

Herod eventually had John beheaded.  I saw a report about Charlie Kirk’s death, about whether he suffered pain or was aware of what happened to him when he was shot in the neck. The severing of the jugular vein and carotid artery leads to nearly instantaneous death.  The brain doesn’t have the chance to register the pain. 

Charlie Kirk took it in the neck, in a way very similar to John the Baptist.

John the Baptist was a beacon of truth in the midst of a faithless and twisted generation.  So too was Charlie Kirk.  The ‘love grown cold’ of our times is seen in the perversity of some of the depraved and mocking responses to Kirk’s death.  This too is a sign. 

But there’s more to the story and this next part is more challenging to write.

Israel is the hot button for earthly and unseen powers

Charlie Kirk openly, courageously, passionately loved and defended Israel the people and Israel the land.

In many conversations and on many platforms, Kirk showcased the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Covenant Scriptures, laying a solid foundation for his message about God’s covenant love for Israel. 

In the last few years, Kirk spoke to Jewish people outside of the Land of Israel, and warned them to be prepared to defend themselves if they are threatened and attacked.  He told them to be ready – that this is the time of the hunters (Jeremiah 16:16). 

Kirk also unflinchingly proclaimed the Jewish people’s right to militarily defend themselves in their own land. 

Kirk visited Israel numerous times.  He declared during one of those visits that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 was a big mistake with deadly repercussions.

October 7 2023

After the murderous pogrom of October 7 2023, Kirk was interviewed.  He spoke openly that the unfolding of events of that horrific day didn’t make sense to him.  He was puzzled about why the defense and intelligence forces of Israel didn’t manage to stop the massacres.

In this, too, I am greatly moved by Charlie Kirk’s love of the truth and by his fearless desire to know the truth and to take a stand upon the truth.

Just like Kirk’s unwavering stand on every issue I have mentioned in this letter, so here too Kirk went after the truth.  

A recent poll of Israelis showed that 42% of the Israeli public believe that some kind of betrayal took place (https://youtu.be/_CtlzTePASM) before and leading up to October 7 2023 – on the part of intelligence and military leadership.

This letter will not address this issue.  But I commend Charlie Kirk.  He was well aware of and spoke of the polarization and virtual civil war-like division inside of Israel during the many months before the October 2023 massacres.  I believe that Kirk’s love of truth and his love of Israel led him to rightly question what actually transpired.

Whodunit

All evidence regarding Kirk’s assassination points to serious social divisions within America. I personally believe that Kirk’s murder was spawned by dark demonic forces which are manipulating domestic ideologies and movements within the USA. 

Jerusalem and the End Times

Israel is being sifted and tested. She is in the birth canal which will lead to her national salvation, when “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26).

During a short period of time, Israel will – under pressure and in desperation – accept the leadership of a false messiah. This option too will fail.

In the End Times, the nation of Israel will be alone and isolated. The nations will not be there to help her. Even now they are well on the way to turning against the Jewish state.  Many of us knew that this would one day happen.

Finally, Messiah Yeshua will come to Israel's aid at the climax of this present age.

Alone and not alone

Often, I hear Israelis say on media platforms and in person, “Oh yes, the ‘evangelicals,’ they’re our friends!”  And that is true: we Israelis do have some friends. Not everyone hates us. 

We who know the Lord and His Word are called to align ourselves with His eternal purposes for the Jewish people.

Charlie Kirk held fast to the Lord and to His Word, to the moral standards laid out within those pages, to the Good News of Messiah Yeshua and to God’s covenant love for Israel and the Jewish people.

May Charlie’s tribe increase!

How shall we then pray?

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,

Rachel Boskey

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Jewish restoration you can believe in

The Jewish people’s stubborn refusal (as Bob Dylan says in ‘Neighborhood Bully’) “to lay down and die when his door is kicked in” is offensive to the nations. Consider how the world has responded to the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2025 – shockingly, it has been with a tsunami of violent and jihadi-inspired anti-Semitism, blowing across the face of this planet like dust in the wind.

Just a few days ago, on Friday September 12, the United Nations General Assembly voted 142-10 in favor of what is being called the ‘New York Declaration’, committing itself to taking “tangible, time-bound and irreversible steps” towards “the implementation of the two-State solution” – in other words, the division of the biblical land of Israel.

An important question needs to be raised: What does it mean to believe in the restoration of the Jewish people to their Promised Land? What does that restoration process look like? How will the nations respond as the God of Israel brings that restoration to fruition?

The reality of restoration

Bible-believers know that YHVH the God of Jacob is righteous and true, and that everything that He does is just and good. Yet at the same time, some of us haven’t thought through the ramifications of God’s mandate to Joshua and King David when He commanded them to conquer the Land of Canaan. What do we think about that mandate? Would we have saluted the Captain of the Lord’s host, and stood proudly shoulder to shoulder alongside the armies of Israel – even if it meant the elimination of the Canaanites and the destruction of Ai and Jericho?:

Tel Aviv, si! Tulkarem, non!

Most of us accept that God gave a biblical mandate to Joshua, but some of us are not sure that  God’s promised mandate concerning the rest of the Promised Land is still valid. What are we to think about the areas that the world refuses to recognize as part of Israel’s divine patrimony – like East Jerusalem, biblical Judea and Samaria, Gaza, the Golan up to the Euphrates River, central and northern Jordan, etc.?

Most of the world is comfortable accepting the fact that Tel Aviv is a thriving Jewish metropolis. But is God’s promise limited just to Tel Aviv and not also to Tulkarem (situated in what the world calls ‘the West Bank’), which for all intents and purposes is controlled by the jihadi terror gangs Hamas and Islamic Jihad? Is the world at peace with Israel living in Haifa, but opposed to Jewish sovereignty over Hebron (at present a Hamas stronghold, though biblically the very first capital city of the Jewish people under King David; see 2 Samuel 2:11)? Is the Israeli city of Netanya kosher for Jews to live in, but not Nablus (known in the Bible as Shechem, where Joshua gathered all the leaders of Israel to make a covenant there with YHVH; see Joshua 24:1-15). Is Rishon L’Tziyon somehow more of the ‘Promised Land’ than Ramallah? Should Gedera be considered more part of the Holy Land than Gaza (see Joshua 15:47)?

It seems that for much of the Western world, God’s promise to Israel of Jewish control over the entire Promised Land is a biblical fairy tale – romantic Sunday School fluff. The world recognizes the borders of Israel as being only what Israel’s fledgling army managed to hold onto at the close of the 1948 War of Independence.

But from YVVH’s perspective, restoration is a process: it may have begun with Tel Aviv but it will see its zenith with full Jewish possession of the entire Land promised to Abraham:

The battle-cry of today’s anti-Israel rioters – ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ – is actually a satanic counterfeit of the God of Jacob’s prophetic promise to the sons and daughters of Israel. Caveat spectator – let the watcher be aware!

 

‘Woke’ but asleep at the wheel

‘Political correctness’ will expand like yeast throughout the world until it will finally be burnt up at the advent of Messiah Yeshua to Jerusalem. Those who pride themselves today in being ‘woke’ (while coming against His restoration of the Jewish people to their Promised Land) are actually simultaneously both ‘woke’ and asleep.

A word of exhortation to Bible-believers: it is not enough to acknowledge that there once was a demonic Prince of Persia (see Daniel 10:10, 13) but at the same time to avert our eyes from the Prince of Iran’s Shiite plans to carry out a Second Holocaust against the people of Jacob. It is not adequate to simply cluck our tongues disparagingly about Saudi terrorist Usama bin Laden’s 9/11 while warmly shaking hands with Syrian jihadi al-Julani and the Qatari princes who bankroll the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, HTS and the Taliban. It is not sufficient to condemn the anti-Semitic Hitler of Nazi times, while justifying his spiritual fellow-travelers and camaradas in America like ‘the Squad’, Mamdani, Ivy League campus rioters, Students for Justice in Palestine, and talking heads like Candace and Tucker. It really is time to wake up.

 

The divine punishment of Gaza

The God of Israel’s restoration of the Jewish people to the Promised Land is an ongoing process, one that has not yet crested. Time for another question: What should Israel do in the meantime regarding jihadi forces who will stop at nothing to destroy the Jewish people and their restoration (both physically to the Land and spiritually to Messiah Yeshua)? Is Israel allowed to pro-actively defend itself from these modern incarnations of the Hitler-spirit? Do the Scriptures offer any guidance here? Let’s first consider God’s historical perspectives on the region of Gaza.

The prophet Amos states that the God of Israel will bring divine punishment against Gaza for its murderous and destructive acts against the Jewish people. Those acts have been demonstrated throughout biblical history, and once again were brutally carried out on October 7, 2023:  “This is what YHVH says: ‘For three offenses of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, because they led into exile an entire population to turn them over to Edom. So I will send fire on the wall of Gaza and it will consume her citadels.’” (Amos 1:6-8)

The Hebrew prophet Zephaniah seconds that prophetic sentiment: “For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will become a desolation … Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of YHVH is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines! And I will eliminate you so that there will be no inhabitant. So the seacoast will become grazing places, with pastures for shepherds and folds for flocks. And the coast will be for the remnant of the House of Judah. They will drive sheep to pasture on it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening. For YHVH their God will care for them and restore their fortunes” (Zephaniah 2:4-7)

Zechariah adds his Last Days words of judgment to the mix: “Behold, …Gaza too will writhe in great pain …Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, … O daughter of Jerusalem!” (Zechariah 9:5,9)

The words of these prophets reveal God’s continuing perspective regarding those enemies who still seek Israel’s destruction through rape, pillage, murder and kidnapping – from their terror bases on Gaza’s shoreline. The God of Jacob has no moral qualms about calling for Gaza’s punishment and even its elimination, as seen above. These dynamics are part of the prophetic record of what is coming down the pike.

Isaiah’s Last Days vision for some of the countries neighboring Israel includes Gaza and the breadth of the country of Jordan:

These Hebrew prophecies are not religious gobbledygook. They are up-to-the-minute highly relevant forecasts, more accurate than any modern media outlet.

The forces of Amalek

“And Moses built an altar and named it ‘YHVH is My Banner.’ And he said, ‘Because YHVH has sworn, YHVH will have war against Amalek from generation to generation’” (Exodus 17:15-16).

In Jewish religious literature, Amalek is a symbol of the Jewish people’s mortal enemies. The murderous forces now confronting Israel – Iran, Yemenite Houthis, Iraqi Shi’ite Hezbollah, Syrian ISIS and HTS, Lebanese Hezbollah, Gazan and West Bank Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Egyptian jihadi movements, Muslim Brotherhood offshoots and even plants within the Egyptian government – all of these could be classified as ‘Amalek’-like in their goals and spiritual origins.

Recent ‘Amalek’ attacks (including drones, hypersonic missiles, rockets, IEDs, snipers, etc.) have led to strong Israeli counter-responses. Some media commentators in the Arab world are using a Hebrew phrase to describe Israel’s reactions – ‘baal habayit hishtage’ah’ – ‘the owner of the house has gone crazy.’ In simpler terms, Israel is ‘mad as hell [about Amalek] and is not going to take this anymore,’ to quote Paddy Chayefsky’s Howard Beale in the movie ‘Network’.

 

The ‘strong horse’

Another helpful Middle Eastern term (in Arabic, this time) which can unpack more understanding here is ‘the strong horse.’

Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, served for 25 years in IDF military intelligence specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse and mass media, Islamic groups and Israeli Arabs. An expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups, his take is worth reading: “Given Islam’s pervasive entrenchment in Palestinian society (and for that matter in all Middle Eastern societies) – the acceptance of Israel’s existence by Muslims communities, both within Israel and abroad, will only be feasible upon their realization of the Jewish state’s overwhelming strength and invincibility. Only a powerful, well organized, highly determined and militarily invincible Israel can stand a chance of surviving in its violent and merciless neighborhood.”

This is ‘the strong horse’ principle. In mid-November 2001, Osama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, discussing the September 11th terrorist attacks: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse. This is [the] only goal . . . following the doctrine of Muhammad.” Bin Laden saw Islam as the strong horse, and Christian America as the weak one.

Journalist Lee Smith based the name of his book ‘The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations’ on Osama bin Laden’s above-mentioned quote. Smith states that strength or “violence is central to the politics, society, and culture of the Arabic-speaking Middle East, and that Arab politics is driven by the ‘strong horse’ principle.” He adds that “Bin Ladenism is not drawn from the extremist fringe but represents the political and social norm [of the Arabic-speaking Middle East].”  According to T. Edward Donselm (writing in the Arab Studies Quarterly), Smith sees a revived modern Islamism as an effort to employ the fourteen-hundred-year old political institution of jihad as a tool to restore Sunni Islam to the supremacism it enjoyed in Islam’s first century.

Daniel Pipes (director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University) also applies Bin Laden’s ‘strong horse’ principle to Israel’s role in the Middle East. Israel serves as ‘a proxy strong horse’ for both the United States and the Saudi-Egyptian bloc in the latter’s Cold War rivalry with Iran’s bloc. Pipes outlines the policies of non-Arab actors in the Arab world: unless they are forceful and show true staying power, they lose. “Being nice – say, withdrawing unilaterally from southern Lebanon and Gaza – leads to inevitable failure.  More broadly, when the U.S. government flinches, others (e.g., the Iranian leadership) have an opportunity to ‘force their own order on the region.’”

Walid Jumblatt, revered Lebanese Druze leader, once spoke to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in 2007, warning U.S. policymakers as to the nature of the Assad regime. “Let nobody be fooled that the [Syrian] killing machine will stop,” he said. Given the absence of effective sanctions against the regime, Jumblatt offered his own recommendation as to a practicable course of action, opining, “If you could send some car bombs to Damascus, why not?” Jumblatt was suggesting that Washington sending car bombs to Damascus was the best way to get its message across and to signal its understanding of Arab ways.

Lee Smith’s ‘strong horse’ paradigm helps us to comprehend the Arab cult of death, honor killings, terrorist attacks, despotism and warfare. The strong-horse principle may strike Westerners as ineffably crude, but it is a cold reality that outsiders must recognize, take into account, and respond to if they are to influence events in the Middle East.

In the Hebrew Scriptures, the God of Jacob uses the poetic figure of a strong war horse when describing His gifts to and calling on the Jewish nation: “For YHVH of armies has visited His flock, the House of Judah, and will make them like His majestic horse in battle” (Zechariah 10:3).

But the Jewish people are not only YHVH’s strong horse; they are also His lion cub (Genesis 49:8-9): “As for you, Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons shall bow down to you. Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who dares to stir him up?” It is instructive to consider how the IDF’s latest war against Hamas in Gaza has taken its name from Balaam’s pro-Zion prophetic word: “Behold, a people rises like a lion, and like a lion it raises itself. It will not lie down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of those slain” (Numbers 23:24).

For the present time, the best and most realistic posture for the Jewish people to take in the Middle East is to be both the strong horse and the roaring lion – until the time when the Arab world bows the knee before YHVH, the God of the armies of Israel.

How shall we then pray?

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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‘How the mighty have fallen’ – but why?

One day before September 11, 2025, Charlie Kirk had just begun participating in an interactive debate at Utah Valley University in Orem (near Provo). The event was taking place at a terraced outdoor amphitheater on Wednesday early afternoon, surrounded by university buildings and near the campus food court. Approximately 3,000 people attended the event. Kirk was considered “the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system” (according to Dennis Prager) and “great, and even legendary, [who] understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America” better than anyone (according to POTUS Trump).

According to Deseret News reporter Emma Pitts, the first question asked of Kirk at the debate was if he knew how many mass shooters were transgender. Kirk picked up an available microphone and said, “Too many.” As Kirk was picking up the microphone to answer a second on the same subject, a bullet fired by a sniper positioned on top of the Losee Center, 200 to 300 yards away, struck him on the neck, hitting his jugular vein. Grainy security footage showed the shooter lying down while taking his shot, and then running away immediately after firing. Kirk was taken by personal vehicle to Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The ’why’ – according to commentators

House Speaker Mike Johnson warned that America’s ‘toxic’ politics are fueling violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: “We have to call out political violence. There are deranged people in society, and if they are encouraged along this way, they will do dangerous things.”

Former President George W. Bush urged Americans to reject violence and embrace civility: “Today, a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views.”

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox declared: “I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination.”

Ben Shapiro noted: “The 1960s and 1970s were a time of tremendous change in American history, and of tremendous violence. Political assassinations became commonplace; bombings and terror attacks were excused by a variety of supposedly great intellectuals. And eventually, America rejected all of it. Now, we’re watching the same ugly picture reappear . . .  And the wave of violence, a wave already breaking on the shoreline, appears as though it is only the beginning. But it feels as though a tsunami is coming … And what comes next could be far more devastating even than what we have seen thus far. That tsunami, if left unchecked, will wash away this entire republic.”

Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, 31, saying “once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era.”

An elegy to Charlie Kirk

Rev. Franklin Graham, one of the nation’s most prominent Christian voices, told Fox News Digital that “America is mourning the loss of Charlie Kirk. Our hearts break for his wife and family. He loved this country, loved God, and loved his family. He was a gifted and courageous communicator of truth. Even more importantly, Charlie Kirk was a passionate follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Charlie Kirk’s rock-solid values – his ‘why?’ – in his own words

A video of Kirk shows him being asked how he would want to be remembered. Kirk pauses and then answers directly: “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life.” Kirk’s unapologetic faith in Messiah Yeshua was always at the forefront of everything he did and said, as seen in this interview.

Charlie Kirk’s warnings to America

Kirk once stated: “If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas, not run away from them or try and silence them.”

Charlie Kirk sounded an alarm on many occasions regarding the threat to America coming from a synthesis of Islamism, Marxism and woke-ism:

Just under one month ago, on August 12 2025, Kirk stated:

Israelis deeply honor Kirk for his heart for the Jewish people and their state

PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated: “Kirk was murdered for speaking truth and defending freedom. He fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization. We lost an incredible human being. His boundless pride in America and his valiant belief in free speech will leave a lasting impact. Rest in peace.”

Yair Netanyahu (the PM’s son) writes:

Dennis Prager, renowned American conservative talk-show host, writer and commentator, adds:

Charlie Kirk’s prophetic comments regarding the spreading of assassination culture

On April 8, 2025, five months ago, Charlie Kirk posted on his X feed, warning America of something he called ‘assassination culture.’ The spread of this murderous sickness, he pointed out, is virulent on the left, and it is the natural outgrowth of a left-wing protest culture (something I was raised on by my Communist parents) tolerating violence for decades.

Charlie Kirk’s (and his wife Erika’s) love for America, its Jewish-Christian biblical-moral foundations, their unswerving commitment to the God of Jacob’s perspective on the sanctity of human life and divinely-gifted gender identity, and their unshakable loyalty and love for the Jewish people and their Promised Homeland – these two are heroes of the faith.

On September 10, 2025, the day Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered, he made one last post on his Twitter account, referring to the horrific murder of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee from the Ukraine who had fled the war there in search of safety and opportunity in the USA. Zarutska was seated alone on a Charlotte, North Carolina light-rail train when she was stabbed three times without warning (including once in the jugular) by Decarlos Brown Jr. The fatal wound caused her to bleed out and die on the train. Kirk, shaken by the brutality, posted the image of Iryna in his final post, with six words: “America will never be the same.”

 

How should we then pray?

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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