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The Enemy From Within

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No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. Isa. 54:17

The opening scene of the video “Fighting the Jews”
(Telegram, March 29, 2022)

The majority of the Arab Muslim Israeli citizens are mostly anti-Zionists who usually vote for the Israeli Arab parties which are also anti-Zionists. Some also vote for the two far-left Israeli parties of Meretz and Avoda which support the Arab ideology that Israel should be a nation of all its citizens and not just a Jewish nation. Nine out of ten Arab Muslim Israeli citizens are against Israel being the nation of the Jewish people. Very few vote for the right-wing Zionist parties. Hence, most of the Muslim Arab Israeli citizens are the enemy from within. Of course, not all are terrorists as even in the territories of Judea and Samaria few of the Arabs commit terrorist acts although the majority support the terrorists. The same holds true concerning Israeli Arabs who have Israeli citizenship.

In the Israeli parliament today two parties support the Arab terrorists. They are the Joint Arab party and Ra’am. Even while they officially condemned the last terror attacks, it was just lip service. Iman Udae, the leader of the Joint Arab party, compared the murder of the 5 Israeli citizens in the last terror attack in Bnei-Brak (one was an Arab Christian policeman) to the 51 Palestinian terrorists killed in the course of committing terrors acts since the beginning of the year. How can one compare the murder of innocent civilians with the defensive killing of terrorists? Murder cannot be compared to defensive killing. Udae’s referral to the terrorists as having been murdered actually reveals his opposition to Israel being a Jewish state.

Border Police officers carry the coffin of their comrade Shirel Aboukrat, who was killed in a terror attack in Hadera on March 27, 2022. (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

The enemy from within doesn’t include the Arab Christian citizens who support Israel being a Jewish state. Many even volunteer in the Israeli army. Sadly, in the Brei-Brak attack, one Israeli Arab Christian police officer fought the Palestinian terrorist and was killed while defending with his body other Jewish passersby from being murdered.

The Muslim Arab enemy from within has accumulated a great amount of illegal weapons, thus adding to the mortal danger coming against Israel from outside her borders. What can Israel do to win the fight against the enemy from within? One way is to start an operation of going from house to house to find those who are among them, confiscate their illegal weapons and arrest their owners. That was actually what the Israeli forces did in Judea and Samaria at the height of the suicide bombing terror wave in the early 2000s. Now, when Israel is facing the danger of terror attacks from Arab citizens, the same operation is needed.

Last week, the Muslim wave of violence in Israel claimed the lives of 11 innocent people, with many others physically wounded and emotionally traumatized. Israeli Arab citizens, sympathizers of ISIS, committed two of the three deadly attacks, one in the southern city of Beersheba and the other in the central city of Hadera. News commentators link this wave of terrorism to the summit that took place in the Negev (desert area of southern Israel.) Foreign ministers of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt gathered there early last week to strengthen the Abraham Accord peace initiative that was formed by former President Trump and former PM of Israel, Benyamin Netanyahu. The Palestinians, who opposed that summit, felt that the world was indifferent to their cause.

Although the focus of the summit was the Iranian threat, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and others still wanted to address the Palestinian issue and the “two-state solution,” emphasizing that Israel’s normalization with the moderate Muslim states should not come at the expense of the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

However, as proven in the past, peace with the “Zionist enemy”, as the Palestinians refer to the state of Israel, is not the Arab Muslim’s ultimate goal. If it were so, there would now be peace with Israel.

In fact, Arab Muslims, both in Israel and in Judea and Samaria, resorted to heinous acts of terrorism that killed Jews, a Christian Arab, and a Druze Israeli citizen, as well as two Ukrainian nationalists. Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and East Jerusalem celebrated the murders with cheers, candies, and pastries to honor the “martyrs” who murdered the innocent.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strong government allowed for the quietest security time Israel enjoyed for over a decade. Now, as the Palestinians consider the current Israeli government weak, terror strikes. Similar conditions resulted in great violence that led to the Second Intifada during the terrible days of the Oslo Accords, under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, while peace talks were being held between the Israeli PM and the Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. They armed him and his people with weapons to “maintain peace.” At that time, Israel was willing to make great concessions; still, the worst wave of Palestinian terror broke out.

Now, the current Israeli government promises financial loans to the PA, with the knowledge Abbas is continuing to financially support families of terrorists, even those from Israel. In addition, visits to Jordan, which include guarantees to ease restrictions during Ramadan, such as removing age limits on worshippers, with the knowledge that the youth are the most violent. Finally, the government has remained silent in the face of Blinken’s calls to prevent violence “on both sides” during Ramadan and Passover. Israeli PM Bennett knows very well that there is no comparison between the murderous Arab terrorists and the few Jewish settlers who retaliate by burning a few trees and throwing a few rocks.

Click here to read: about The Danger of the Islamic Month of Ramadan.

Please Pray

  1. Father God, we bring before You the many Muslims who are observing Ramadan and we ask for Your intervention as we pray for their salvation in Yeshua.
  2. In Yeshua’s name we stand against the powers of darkness behind Islam and call in the light of Yeshua to many hearts that seek the truth.
  3. We pray for the Israeli authorities who deal with security to have wisdom and patience. Father God we ask for protection of all security forces.

Is there a threat that Americans will lose their freedom due to domestic revolutionaries?

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These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.
In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33 NKJV

According to Israeli/American journalist, Carolyn Glick the answer is, yes.

In an article she published, revolutionaries are willing to use force, as they showed in the summer of 2020 when they burned and looted their way through U.S. cities. But generally speaking, their weapon is not the gun or the jackboot, but demonization and intimidation. And now, with the Biden administration firmly ensconced in power, they move forward with their revolution with the firm backing of the state, and its weapons of repression and criminalization. (And of course, Jews and Israel are always a target.)

Kamala Harris at George Mason

Last month, the revolutionaries and the administration converged before the cameras at a meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and students at George Mason University in Virginia. The Vice President was taking questions after speaking recently at George Mason University. A female student, who identified herself as “Yemeni and Iranian” rose to ask in a childlike voice a “question,” which was actually an opportunity to promote the revolution’s vicious hatred of Jews and America. She sniffed emotionally under her mask and told America’s second-highest elected official that her feelings were hurt when Congress passed a bill for supplemental funding to Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system, and how Israel supposedly commits “ethnic genocide” and therefore should not receive any aid from the United States.

The move, she yowled, “hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide and a displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I’m sure you’re aware of this.” Harris, seemingly nodding in agreement with the student as she spoke, could have (and should have) rebuked the student for lying. That is the standard of honesty to which our leaders should adhere.

Instead, Harris empowered the young bigot. She praised the student without directly commenting on the anti-Israel libel.

“Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed, right? And this is one of the things we’re fighting for in a democracy, right?” Harris declared, which was actually a non sequitur since nobody was “suppressing” the Yemeni-Iranian student for promoting anti-Semitic and anti-American blood libels. On the contrary, the Israel-genocide slur is featured prominently on university campuses and op-ed pages all the time these days.

After Vice President Harris received criticism for actually praising the Israeli-hater student, Harris’s spokesperson emailed a private statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, saying the Vice President “strongly disagrees” with the Israel-bashing student. The spokesperson did not actually state what Harris, “strongly disagrees” with; not even not condemns, just “disagrees” with an opinion that can be debated, like whether or not there was a Holocaust.

By not rebuking the student on the spot, and by not condemning publically the lies that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, Harris didn’t stand for truth.

The truth is that the Palestinian Muslim’s constant war against Israel (terror attacks and missile attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah) is an attempt to annihilate the Jewish state, which the US and other civilized countries should attempt to prevent. By failing to expound upon this truth, VP Harris showed her true two-sided face.

Critical Race Theory – CRT

The second reason Harris may have decided to support the George Mason’s student’s slander of Israel and America is that she most likely approved of what the student was saying. This brings us to what the revolution is about, and to the Biden-Harris administration’s position on its goals.

As Barack Obama said after winning the 2008 presidential election, the purpose of the revolution is to, “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” The doctrine that stands at the heart of the revolution is Critical Race Theory. 

The wrong-think mobs who reign supreme in most U.S. campuses have spread their tentacles to the political realm.

This week, revolutionaries in Arizona hounded moderate Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema in a public bathroom. They chastised and threatened her while she sat in a stall, and as she washed her hands in the sink. Sinema was deemed deserving of bullying in the ladies’ room because she opposes the revolutionaries’ $3.5 trillion social engineering budget for 2022.

CRT researcher, Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute states that Critical Race Theorists believe American institutions, such as the Constitution and legal system, preach freedom and equality, but are mere “camouflages” for naked racial domination. They believe that racism is a constant, universal condition.”

Rufo explains that “critical race theory” reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, replacing the class categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of White and Black. But the basic conclusion is the same: in order to liberate man, society must be fundamentally transformed through moral, economic, and political revolution.”

In early 2020, Rufo exposed the federal government, including government departments and agencies as well as the U.S. armed forces for requiring their employees and servicemen to undergo CRT workshops and seminars. Participants in the seminars are separated by race. White participants are required to acknowledge and disavow their “whiteness,” that is, their inherent racism, and apologize to non-whites and commit themselves to empowering their non-white colleagues at their own expense, since, they were told, as white people, they were inherently oppressors.

Rufo’s revelations caused an uproar. The then President Donald Trump reacted by issuing an executive order banning CRT training from the federal government and the armed forces.

Trump’s executive order was one of the first policies Biden overturned. Biden canceled Trump’s executive order on his first day in office. In the days and months that have followed, his administration has reinstated and expanded CRT indoctrination.

CRT in the Classroom

Since early this year, the center of gravity in the fight against the CRT revolution has moved from the government to the classroom. Rufo and others have exposed how, under the cover of fighting racism, local school boards from coast to coast are transforming K-12 classrooms into CRT indoctrination centers. For example, Kindergarten children are taught that their gender is not fixed, but fluid.

Hardcore communist, anti-American, anti-white, and anti-police indoctrination have abounded across America. For example, fifth-graders in a Philadelphia elementary school were forced to celebrate “Black communism. Kindergarten pupils in Buffalo, New York, we’re taught that “all white people” are racists, and were forced to watch a video of dead black children. They were warned of “racist police and state-sanctioned violence” that placed their lives in constant jeopardy.

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the schoolrooms moved into the homes through Zoom, due to the school shutdowns over the past year and a half, American parents saw the indoctrination first hand. They saw their children’s teachers demonize police and teach them to hate their country, judge people by their skin color, and reject the values at the heart of the American experience. The backlash has been profound.

Over the spring and summer, thousands of concerned parents countrywide began attending school board meetings and demanding that the indoctrination stop and CRT curricula be withdrawn.

Videos of the meetings, the invariably dismissive and hostile responses parents received from school board members, were seen by tens of millions of people. In Virginia, which has been a focal point of the struggle, parents were subjected to arrest for trying to protect their children from CRT.

Recently, the CRT revolutionaries opened their counter-assault on the parents. At a governmental debate in Virginia on September 28, former governor and current Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe said that parents have no right to interfere with school curriculum.

“I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,” he said, adding, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

The next day, the National School Boards Association shot off a letter to Biden asking him to direct his administration to treat the protesting parents as “domestic terrorists.”

And this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo to the FBI Director and federal prosecutors effectively ordering them to fulfill the NSBA’s request.

Garland’s memo was directed at parents, no less than to federal law enforcement officials. And his message was clear: If you object to CRT indoctrination in the classroom, the federal government will treat you like terrorists. You will lose everything. Under the circumstances, how many parents will be willing to continue the fight for their children’s American souls?

Conclusion

This brings us back to the student at George Mason. The anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli lies she propounded to Harris were not her lies. They were the lies she has been taught by the CRT revolutionaries in the classroom. They taught her that the U.S. was born not in liberty, but in slavery, racism, and genocide. She has been taught that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Act were all fig leaves behind which the true venality of America operates and carries out its oppressive, genocidal, and racist machinations. There is no forgiveness for America’s crimes. Only the revolution, which will “fundamentally transform the United States” can fix what is ailing Uncle Sam.

Likewise, the Jewish state, America’s mini-me, can only be redeemed when the “colonialist Jewish settlers” and their “genocidal,” “apartheid” Jewish regime are kicked out of “Palestine.”

Consistent polling data show that between two-thirds and three-quarters of Americans oppose the inclusion of CRT in school curricula. But the revolutionaries don’t care. With the FBI, the U.S. attorneys, the President, and the Vice President on their side, the revolutionaries don’t need the public’s approval. They have the full force of the federal government behind their efforts.

No, Americans are not losing their liberty to invading armies from China or Russia, or even to terrorists from al Qaeda. Those enemies are all sitting on the side, eating popcorn and watching as the combined force of CRT revolutionaries and the federal government trample the rights and freedoms that have defined America since its founding, in favor of “their voice, their perspective, their experience, and their truth.”

Our Response

Who initiated all these lies? It is none other than the father of lies himself, Satan, whose entire existence is to steal, kill and destroy, and is now intent on stealing, killing, and destroying America’s great heritage.

Are Americans losing their freedom? Not if the body of born-again believers, with authority and power endowed from the Holy Spirit stands in the gap in prevailing prayer. Yeshua said that He gave us life, and more abundantly. However, it is a spiritual battle. As it is written in Ephesians 6:12, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against rulers and against principalities and cosmic powers over this present darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. It is critical that the church now take up her spiritual weapons in combat.

Can America prevent her loss of freedom? Yes, if the Church unites in prayer to God, for nothing is impossible with Him. In the name of Yeshua/Jesus, we already have the victory, He has overcome the world. In Him, we are more than conquerors. Hallelujah.

Let us pray fervently, with the power and authority He gave us. Pray for the salvation of America and Israel.

The 10 Days of Awe

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God’s Calendar
The Fall Appointed Days: Part 1

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month…”  Leviticus 23:23-24a


According to God’s calendar (Hebrew), the fall holidays are in the seventh month, and usually according to the Gregorian calendar in either September or October. The fall holidays in 2021 are:

  1. The Memorial Blowing [Day of Trumpets, today’s Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year] (September 7-8)
  2.  The Day of Atonement [Yom Kippur] (September 16)
  3. The Feast of Tabernacles [Sukkot] (September 22-28)

The fall holidays point to the present and future ministry of Yeshua.

We are nearing the end of the month of Elul, the last month on the Jewish calendar that ends on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year’s Eve (Leviticus 23:23-24).
 

Teshuvah

Every year, in the month of Elul, usually in August, Jews enter the season of Teshuva. Teshuva or repentance is returning to Father God (Elohim.) This is a word that indicates a turning back (shuv) to God. This word appears in Genesis 3:19 when the Lord tells Adam, “and to dust you will return (tashuv).”

The season of Teshuvah begins on the first day of Elul and ends 40 days later on the 10th of Tishri at sundown –  the end of Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement.

Teshuva indicates both a turning away from evil and a turning toward what is good, God’s ways. In turning toward God, one dedicates his entire soul to serving Him. Traditionally it is considered to be a time of introspection, when Jews are taking stock of their lives, evaluating their actions, and contemplating what they have accomplished during the previous year, both materially and spiritually.

Each morning for the 40 days of Teshuvah the shofar is blown at the Morning Prayer service to call everyone to repent and return to God. Psalm 27 is recited after each morning and evening service. “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?”

The following month in the Hebrew calendar is Tishrei. The first day of Tishrei is Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpets, Leviticus 23:24.) Rosh Hashanah is also called Yom Hazikaron – Day of Remembrance and Awakening. “Awake you sleepers from your sleep! Raise yourselves you slumberers! Examine your deeds and return unto God in repentance. Abandon your evil ways, your unworthy scheming – every one of you.” (from The Gates of Repentance, a Rosh Hashanah prayer book that cites Maimonides’s “call to awakening”.)

There are ten days from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur. These 10 days are traditionally referred to as the “10 Days of Awe.” These are the most intense days of praying and repenting, leading up to the climax of return, which is Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement. This was a time traditionally believed that Father God would draw His ear close for the prayers of the penitent.

Isaiah 55:6 “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;”

In biblical times, the HaCohen HaGadol (High Priest) would enter into the Holy of Holies in the Holy Temple, only once a year, on Yom Kippur. He would sprinkle blood on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant, as an atonement for the entire nation of Israel.
 

The 10 Days of Awe

According to Jewish tradition, on Yom Teruah (Rosh HaShana,) God’s Book of Life and Death is opened in heaven and remains open for the Ten Days of Awe. They begin with the Day of Judgment. During these ten days of Awe, Jews are prepared to stand before God for judgment, as the book is opened. The names of those who have lived sinless and righteous lives during the past year are inscribed in the Book of Life. It is also believed that the gates of heaven are opened on Rosh Hashanah and closed on Yom Kippur. “Open to me the gates of righteousness. I shall enter through them. I shall give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous will enter through it.” (Psalm 118:19-20, Isaiah 26:2.)

Jews believe that God makes His judgment at this time. However, once Yom Kippur ends at sunset, the book is closed for another year. It was during Yom Kippur, that men would traditionally tear their outer coats as an outward sign of repentance and mourning, and place ashes on their heads. Some would beat their chests violently in a show of repentance and pain, hoping that God would hear their cries of repentance, forgive their sins and inscribe their names in the Book of Life. A common greeting in Israel in those ten days of awe, and especially on Yom Kippur is: “May your name be inscribed in the Book of Life.”

Although this tradition is not biblical, the truth is that God does have a Book of Life. While in the wilderness journey, Israel sinned greatly by constructing and worshiping a golden calf. Moses fulfilled his role as a type and shadow of Messiah Yeshua and interceded for the people of Israel. Exodus 32: 31-33: “Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold. Yet now, if You will forgive their sin, but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” And the Lord said to Moses, “whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.”

In Revelation 20:11-15: “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”

God sees the heart of men and desires true repentance, as He says through the prophet Joel: “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents over disaster.” (Joel 2:12-13)

God called His people back to Him with weeping and fasting. “Submit yourselves therefore to God…Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” James 4:7-8

During the month of Elul, religious Jews blow the Shofar (Rams Horn) once a day also as a reminder to look deep within one’s self to find out what requires repentance. As the year draws to a close, it is the time to get rid of resentments and bitterness, in order to face the New Year with a clean heart.

In the Jewish tradition, Elul is also referred to as the month of mercy and forgiveness. It is the time to renew one’s efforts in prayer, Torah study, and charity, as well as asking forgiveness from one another for any wrongdoings. It is a Jewish tradition that God cannot forgive for sins committed against another person until one first goes to the person he has wronged and obtains forgiveness.

In Judaism the acronym of the letters in the word,
Elul – אלול are being used to express their love to God Elohim, according to the scripture from Song of Songs 6:3:

א – אני, (I am)
ל – לדודי, (for my beloved)
ו – ודודי, (and my beloved)
ל – לי, (is for me)

True Repentance


As Believers, we know that the throne of God is always accessible to us through Yeshua. He is our High Priest. We can approach any time to obtain mercy. Yet, we too can use this time as an opportunity to search our hearts, evaluate our achievements and consider where we may have missed the mark. It is a time we can rid ourselves of resentments, bitterness and disappointments.

We can use this time to sincerely search to see if there is anything in us in need of repentance. We need to recognize sins against others and sins against God and ask for His mercy as we extend mercy to those who have sinned against us, as Yeshua taught us to pray…“and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” (Matthew 6:12.) And “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” 1 John 1:9.

As we take these steps to nullify our debts against others and search our hearts, we can draw closer to God and prepare for a new beginning through a greater dedication to Him and His Word, as well as through thanksgiving for His great love and mercies that endure forever.

“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)

This is a time of opportunity, while Jews and Israelis are more open than ever to hear from God. As they are seeking His mercy and forgiveness, we want to pray fervently to the God of Israel to touch hearts and open eyes to realize that there is forgiveness of sin only through the Blood of the Lamb of God, Yeshua the Messiah, Who takes away the sins of the world.

  • Pray for the Peace (Shalom) of Jerusalem, and for her to fulfill her destiny.
  • Pray that Israel and the Jewish people recognize Messiah Yeshua, as they seek God’s mercy and forgiveness.
  • Pray that the fear of the Lord falls on Israel at this time and that the Nation of Israel humbles herself before the God of Israel.
  • Pray that Israelis and Jews will acknowledge and confess personal and national sins, and repent of their sins.
  • Pray that many Israelis and Jews will embrace His Salvation, Yeshua, and have their names written in His Book of Life.

Understanding the NEW Israeli Government

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Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
And because lawlessness will abound,
the love of many will grow cold.
But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 24:11-13 NKJV

In the last election on March 23, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party won the most seats (30) but together with his right-wing allies, THIS was not enough to form a coalition. Consequently, the mandate to try to form a government went to Lapid.

Yesterday, Lapid announced he had the Knesset’s confidence to swear in a government, thus potentially unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett agreed to join Lapid and would be the first to serve as Prime Minister in a rotation deal. Ra’am, the kingmaker Arab party, signed on the bloc at the last moment.

Hence, the so-called “change coalition”, which is based on left-wing parties as well as some right-wing factions and lawmakers that parted ways with Netanyahu, have – at least on paper – enough votes in the Knesset to win a plenum vote that would end the premiership of Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister of more than 12 consecutive years on top of another three years in the 1990s.

But Netanyahu still has about a week to convince enough MKs (Parliament Members) in the “change coalition” to vote against it, thus preventing a swearing-in. As the saying goes: “it’s not over until it’s over.”

Understanding the New Want-to-be Israeli Government

When the children of Israel left slavery in Egypt to become a nation and enter and possess the Promised Land, they had two types of leaders. There was “prophetically-inspired Moses” who was loving but stern, following God’s lead in what the people of Israel needed and not what they wanted. And there was “Aaron,” A people-pleaser who listened to the desires of the people of Israel and fulfilled them by making the Golden Calf.

Today, Naftali Bennett, the head of Yamina is neither of the above.
Bennett has little public support and no legitimacy to serve as prime minister (he wasn’t voted in by the majority of the people.) In the last election, he got only 7 seats compared to Netanyahu who got 30 seats.
Nonetheless, he has convinced himself that he is a figure of historic Biblical proportions.

Bennett claims that everything he does is for the sake of “My People”. This is the recurring theme of his social media posts and interviews:
“When I see “my people” suffering because of leadership failures, I cannot stand idly by; I love my people; My people are hurt, and I will dedicate my whole life to healing the wound.” These statements are a justification for his lies and betrayal.

According to Bennett, not only is the Likud, under the leadership of PM Netanyahu, the only reason behind all that ails the people of Israel, but everything will be “fixed” only once he becomes PM.

The Yamina leader may soon become a Prime Minister with little public support (as we said, 7 seats he received from mostly right-wing voters). His voters are now remorseful and feel betrayed as they believed his platform of not sitting in government with the anti-Zionist Arab representatives. “His people” – the people of Israel – have become irrelevant and are ignored (the majority of Israelis are right-wing and voted for Netanyahu.)

To form a government, a party leader usually needs the support of a 61-seat majority in the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and a vote of confidence. When no one party has a majority, a coalition is built with smaller parties, sometimes from opposite sides of the spectrum.

Currently, the anti-Netanyahu bloc, composed of small mostly left-wing parties, appears to have the edge. Some small parties were originally right in ideology but are acting like the left, although some right-wing MKs in the bloc may eventually defect back to the right block.
As of now, there is

  1. Center-left: Yesh Atid with17 seats (its leader Lapid will be next PM in rotation after Bennett,);
  2. Center-left: Blue-white with 8 seats; Yamina (originally Right) with 7 seats;
  3. Israel Beiteinu: – lost their Right identity, mainly anti-Bibi – with 7 seats;
  4. Labor: Left with 7 seats;
  5. New Hope: – Right in ideology but mainly anti-bibi with 6 seats; and
  6. Meretz: – Extreme left – with 6 seats.

These parties total 58 seats and they are claiming to be able to form the 61 seat government.

Yet, to pass any legislature, Bennett’s government would need the support of Ra’am, the anti-Zionist, left Arab Muslim party.Read more about Ra’am in this article.

How did these parties ever come together?

The new prospective (“Mish-Mash”) coalition’s diverse members share little in common apart from the desire to end the 12-year run of Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader of right-wing administrations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Yamina leader Naftali Bennett’s decision to partner with the Left to form a so-called “change government” would spell disaster for Israel and was a form of betrayal of the Right.

He addressed Bennett directly: “Naftali, your values are not even light-weight; not a single person would have voted for you had they known what you were planning to do (join the Left and the anti-Zionist Arabs).”

Naphtali Bennett shrewdly hid his true intentions while preparing for this moment when he revealed, by his actions that his party “Yamina” is Yamina In name only (Yamina means “to the right” in Hebrew.) Bennett has abandoned his right-wing ideology and is going to the left instead.

Apart from a handful of Yamina supporters, the vast majority of those who are backing Bennett and his latest moves are supporters of Labor, Meretz, and Yesh Atid. The left-wing parties will be happy to see him as Prime Minister, allowing them to have major offices in the new government, especially Labor and Meretz who hardly passed in the last elections.

On Sunday, for the first time, Bennett ripped off his mask and told everyone the truth, including the journalists and media people who followed him. As of now, it seems that most members of his small party will follow him, unless at the last minute some may have a bit of value or ideology left in them to leave. Here is an account of one of them:
“I did everything I could in recent months so that the Yamina Knesset list would garner a significant number of votes in the elections and Naftali Bennett would be Israel’s Prime Minister. I believed in him, his integrity, and his love for Israel and Zionism, and I supported him with all my might… Yet this is not the path. He said loudly and clearly: “I won’t be Prime Minister with 10 mandates. That [is] not moral, and it’s not democratic” (Amichai Chikli, an MK as part of the Yamina faction.

He is right. The premiership should express massive -+ public support we didn’t earn.

Every decision he makes as Prime Minister will require the de facto approval of the Yesh Atid party (that is on rotation bases co-partner in premiership), a party that is three times as large as Yamina but shares none of its founding principles [platform]- neither questions of the relationship between the legislative and judicial authorities or questions of policy or public security.

There is no real agreement on issues concerning the State of Israel’s DNA either (Zionism). Yesh Atid identifies with President Reuven Rivlin’s talk of a “collection of tribes” and opposes the nation-state law (the State of Israel’s definition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people). Yamina, on the other hand, supports it, accusing PM Netanyahu of spreading fake news about him, Bennett said:

“Bibi’s spin is an absolute lie. These are my principles for the next government:

  1. Lapid will not be prime minister. I am a man of the Right, as are a majority of the voters (even though they gave Netanyahu 30 and Lapid 17).
  2. The next government that will be established will be a right-wing government that cares [about its voters].”

In retrospect, it turns out the spin was Yamina’s (Bennett): allowing, on a rotation basis, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will be prime minister (after Bennett’s 2 years), and although a majority of Yamina’s voters are members of the Right, the government that will be a Left, Center-left government, with the addition of a few “fig leaves” from the Right. (Bennett’s Party) Yamina broke a majority of its promises to voters, through the gross violation of the most basic of democratic codes: Tell the truth to voters and make an honest effort to meet your commitments to them.

Now for the significance of the decision to establish a left-wing government – from a societal standpoint, this is in no way a “unity” government, but rather a government that excludes over a million right-wing voters.

Now that Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked (his second in command ) two self-proclaimed “leaders”) who started as ideological Right-wing (hence the name Yamina, “to the right”) defected from their home base to form a leftist government supported by anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian Arab parties, what could be the national consequences of their move?

The Danger from Outside

The ministers in this new government who support the Biden administration’s Middle East policies will hold an absolute majority.

Iran. The Biden administration’s commitment to returning the US to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran leads only in one direction. Biden’s Iran policy guarantees that Iran will achieve its goals of developing A nuclear arsenal by 2030, after receiving billions of dollars in cash payments in the form of sanctions relief and new lines of credit. This will aid the Khomeinist regime’s ambition to deepen its control over Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, to expand its war against Saudi Arabia while compelling the Gulf States and maybe even Jordan to surrender. After that, it will target Egypt and the Sisi government in order to replace it with Muslim Brotherhood leadership. Unfortunately, unlike the former Trump and Netanyahu governments, the Left-wing west, including the US and the new Israeli government is too naïve to see or understand the above scenario and even support it.

The leftist government that Bennett and Shaked are about to form will not be able to oppose Biden’s policies because most of its cabinet ministers support those policies.

The Abraham Accords. And this spells the demise of the Abraham Accords. The rationale behind those peace deals was faith in Israel’s willingness to confront Iran even in defiance of the US. Once that is gone, the Abraham Accords will not be able to survive.

The Biblical Heartland – Judea and Samaria. As far as the territories in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, the leftist government that Bennett and Shaked are now forming will allow for the Palestinian Authority’s complete seizure of Area C (area controlled by Israel,) which the Palestinians have undertaken with funding by left-wing international organizations, endangering Israel’s strategic interests and imperiling its communities. Most of the members of a mostly left government will object to any steps to secure Israel’s rights and strategic interests in the territories. Not only are they themselves ideologically committed to undermining Israel’s rights in Judea and Samaria, but they also will never dare to defy the Biden administration, which supports Palestinian control over the area. Israeli PM Netanyahu could have stood against Biden as he stood firm against Obama.

Hamas and Gaza. Under the leftist government, Hamas will rebuild its military capabilities in a matter of months. With the economic and political support from the Biden administration, the EU, and the UN, Hamas will be able to import all the building materials and other products it requires without limitations. Here too, a majority of the cabinet members support the US plan to “rebuild Gaza” for “humanitarian” reasons, unaware of Hamas’ strategy to use these materials to rebuild its underground “Metro” of tunnels to infiltrate Israel to kill Israeli citizens and/or kidnap Israeli soldiers.

The Danger From Within

In the international arena, the establishment of a left-wing government that includes those who side with the International Criminal Court will be yet another blow to the nationalist-conservative parties. We can expect to see victorious rejoicing in [Biden’s] Washington, Ramallah, the Gaza Strip, and above all else, Iran. (They will be happy to see strong right-wing Netanyahu go.)

The new government can be formed only with the support of the anti-Zionist Muslim Arab party Ra’am, which has expressed the desire for Israel to be a nation of all its citizens and not only a state of the Jews. [Please check our blog about the Nation State law in Israel.]

When it comes to the balance of power between the legislative and judicial branches, the State Attorney’s Office and the judicial branch will be handed a victory. The justices of the Supreme Court (mostly left-wing) and attorneys in the Attorney General’s office and state prosecution, WHOSE aim is to have complete power over the Knesset and Government offices, supported by a large majority of ministers in the leftist government now being formed, will be able to exercise unchallenged authority over all aspects of public life. The chance of restoring the powers of Israel’s elected leaders and returning sovereignty to the people will be gone the minute this government is sworn into office.

This is going to be (if it happens AT all) the most radical and weakest government Israel has ever known.

A Little History

In 1990, in rotation with Yitzhak Shamir (right-wing) Shimon Peres (left-wing) secured the signatures of 61 MKs to set up a government with himself as PM. At a celebratory Knesset session, convened to swear in the new government, two members who had promised to back Peres failed to show up. Mr. Peres announced his intention to make peace negotiations with Palestinians his new government’s top priority. The defectors opposed a government that depended on Arab members of parliament for support, and also rejected the return of occupied land in exchange for peace. Peres failed to get the needed 61 MKs to form a coalition, so the Right remained in power for another two years.

We hope and pray that it will happen again, with one difference. Back then, it was Peres and the Left who were subverting the Right. Today, it’s Naftali Bennett, from the Right who is willing to hand over power to the Left.

Israel is at war, and it’s over Jerusalem!

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But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today…The LORD will fight for you…” Exodus 14:13-14
 
“He [the Lord your God] will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,” Psalm 91:4-5

We greet you in the wonderful name of Yeshua the Prince of Peace. Our hearts grieve again as there is fighting and many innocent people suffer.

As we write, report, and ask for prayer requests, we want to emphasize that our hearts are filled with compassion for the suffering people on both sides. Knowing that God loves all people and wants them to be saved.

As followers of the Messiah who believe the Bible is truly the Word of God, we are aware of the Spiritual Warfare against God’s plan in Israel and around the world.

As Israeli Jews and Messianic, we (Simcha and Bella) are very much aware that there is some prejudice against Arabs in predominantly Jewish Israel. This does not justify the violent and murderous attacks against innocent Jewish people. We see how it is clearly instigated by an evil spirit from the enemy satan, who uses people who are deceived by the spirit of Islam.

The Bible shows us the big picture, including the past and future, which help us to realize that these last attacks are part of the opposition to God’s plan, where Israel has a very central part. The enemies of Israel are the enemies of the Lord, God of Israel, King of the universe.

The War Goes On

Saturday marks the sixth consecutive day of rocket fire from Gaza directed at Israeli population centers. Attacks began Monday evening with a missile Hamas launched at the Jerusalem area following days of clashes in the city between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.

That initial attack has been followed by ongoing, nearly continuous, intense rocket fire into the center and south of Israel. Even as far as Elot near Eilat (the farthest city in south Israel). To date, 6 Israelis have been killed and dozens have been wounded

The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) is bombing Hamas targets in Gaza, careful to avoid civilian structures and populations as much as possible. Nonetheless, at least 132 Gazans have been killed, including many Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists. Missile launching sites and Hamas headquarters have been destroyed. Ironically, some Palestinian civilians, including children were killed in Gaza as a result of many failed Hamas rockets fired at Israel.

Israel gives advance warning to the residents of buildings Hamas is using for terrorist activities that are the targets of airstrikes, so the people who are not involved can evacuate the premises and their lives are spared.

Hamas Targets Civilians

Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians in most of the cities, firing long-range missiles and also short-range rockets at nearby (to Gaza) towns and villages.

Their ideology is for the “Liberation” of Jerusalem. That was the goal of the first missile they fired as Israel was celebrating Jerusalem Day in honor of the unification of Jerusalem which followed Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. “We fired 100 rockets at Tel Aviv and other cities and are prepared to fire more,” said a leader of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad group, referring to the Tuesday night’s barrages on the center of Israel. “We will continue our struggle and not back down. Gaza is the sword of Jerusalem.”

To win this round, Israel must destroy the infrastructure and enemy manpower in Gaza, but also must realize that it is a fight for Jerusalem. Israel must be more forceful than ever before. The world will most certainly blame Israel even though Hamas started this round and (as of Saturday night) has fired so nearly 3,000 missiles at innocent civilians.

The calamity that the IDF can bring upon the enemy will traumatize whatever leadership is left, unfortunately along with the residents of Gaza and Judea and Samaria, and the Arab citizens and residents of Israel.

When Should Israel Stop Targeted Bombing?

Many Israelis don’t want the military operations in Gaza to stop until all objectives are achieved.

Concerning Jerusalem, Israel must implement measures that change the status quo on the Temple Mount providing access for the Jews. Israeli sovereignty needs to be accepted.

It would help if parts of the Gaza Strip, preferably its northern section, reverted to Israeli hands. IDF commanders must be assertive. This is war. Hamas leadership in Gaza and Palestinian Authority in the West Bank must endure the consequences of their actions.

The question remains: will the IDF continue to fight until the end? Israeli PM Netanyahu has promised: “It will take a little while longer, but with a large number of strikes, both defensive and attacking, we will attain our goal – that of restoring calm to the State of Israel.”

Jerusalem is a Red Line for Hamas

On Thursday morning, thousands of Muslim worshipers arrived at the Temple Mount at the conclusion of the Ramadan holy month. Some of those in attendance expressed support for Hamas and called for the Gaza Strip to “stand strong” in the face of the IDF operation there. Posters in support of Hamas leaders said: “Jerusalem is a red line.” One of those Muslim worshipers wore a shirt that read: “We are all Gaza, Jerusalem will rise.” The leader of a Jewish organization in favor of Israel’s control of the Temple Mount said to the press: “The time has come to fight this Operation Guardian of the Walls in Jerusalem.”

Last week, Hamas activists in Jerusalem proved they control the Temple Mount and East Jerusalem Streets. Israel must fight this terrorist organization in Jerusalem.

Many Israelis believe that a great opportunity exists now. With the proper response, Israel will win, and not just on the battlefield.

Along with Hamas – whose ideology is to take back Jerusalem and all of “Palestine” (the land of Israel) – the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and the P.A. (Palestinian Authority) pose a danger to Israel’s existence as the sole Jewish nation.

Consider the anti-Zionist rhetoric of the traditional Israeli Arab leaders, who take advantage of Israel being a democracy and openly call Israel a racist Jewish state, an apartheid colonialist state, and the IDF soldiers terrorists. (Click more here read more about the Cause of the Current War.)

What About The Riots?

Today radical fundamentalist Arab Muslims, who are Israeli citizens, are burning streets in the mixed Israeli cities (cities with large populations of both Jews and Arabs) destroying hospital emergency rooms, and burning synagogues to the ground.

Israel HAS BEEN forced to evacuate Jews AS the rampaging mobs, fueled by Hamas propaganda, ARE MAKING EFFORTS to lynch Jewish residents. Cars were stopped on the highways and the Jewish passengers were beaten by Arab lynch mobs. Presently there is a curfew in one of the mixed cities.

In Jerusalem, riots have now continued for a month, leaving many Jews injured.

Jerusalem Day Parade – Canceled

For the first time since 1967, Israel canceled its Jerusalem Day celebratory flag march and the government has barred Jews from entering the Temple Mount.

Israel backed down and postponed a court hearing on the eviction of Arab squatters from houses in which they have lived for 50 years while refusing to pay rent to the Jews who have held the deed to the land for a century. This contributes to the international assertions Jewish land deeds are less valid than others and the presence of Jews in the city they made holy is an “illegal” act, as U.S. Democratic politicians have said. Click here for more details on the subject.

Is This War About Jerusalem?

Hamas has made clear that this war is about Jerusalem. Israel permitted the eroding of the Status Quo in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount has become, in essence, a sovereign and entirely independent Muslim mini-territory.

Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount has been forfeited as no Israeli authority or police can enter without encountering violence, provoking an international crisis and threats of international intervention. Will Israel win this war, not just militarily but also ideologically? Victory is defined by strategy and perception, not only by power.

According to Hamas, victory is all about Jerusalem. Hamas understands that the city and the holy sites are at the heart of the Jewish people, and that is why every one of its thousands of missiles into Israel is linked to the control over the Temple Mount. Hamas aims to become the leader of the Muslim world in the “holy struggle to free Jerusalem” from the “Zionist enemy.”

Wicked Friends of Hamas

With the support of Turkey – which declared willingness to send troops to help fight the Jews in Jerusalem – Jordan, and of course Iran, they fight against any non-Muslim control of the holiest place of the Jews in united Jerusalem — the Temple Mount. Gaza is no longer the target, but Jerusalem, along with the heartland of the Holy Land, the hills of Judea and Samaria, including cities holy to Judaism such as Hebron, Shiloh, and Mount Eval as well as Christian holy sites like the Old City of Jerusalem, Golgotha (Calvary) the Garden Tomb and Bethlehem. 

Israel must establish her presence on the Temple Mount. Some publically suggest an arrangement to share the area, which is big enough for the two faiths to have their places of worship, side by side.

Jordan has been dominating the Waqf (the Muslim religious trust that administers the Mount) with key allies but has proven incapable of keeping the status quo, permitting the Arab riots to continue on the grounds of the Temple Mount. A settlement might involve rearranging or replacing the character of the current Waqf and turning over its authority to a committee that is managed by another Arab country at peace with Israel, like the UAE or Bahrain. Hamas must lose its control over the Muslim agenda concerning Jerusalem.

Many Israeli Jews demand rights to a permanent presence for a place of worship on the Temple Mount, and for Israel to reassert control with a police presence there.

Israel is at war, and it’s over Jerusalem!

Please pray with us:

  • In 2017, Israel even yielded its control of access to the Temple Mount, removing metal detectors installed after Islamists brought weapons into the complex to attack and kill Jews. In order to avoid conflict, primarily with Jordan, Israel also relented from installing cameras to monitor visitors to the Temple Mount complex (to avoid unwelcomed visitors).

Israel is at a crossroads realizing the crisis will continue if it doesn’t make the right choices. All wars and choices have a price Israel has to pay. The battle defining this crisis, and labeled by Israel; “Defenders of the Walls” (no doubt meaning Jerusalem) is spiritual, and Israel’s victory must come on the Mountains of Jerusalem and not only from demolishing the terrorist’s tunnels in Gaza. 

Please Pray with us:

  1. That innocent lives will be spared in the fighting
  2. That God through this turmoil will draw people on both sides to Himself.
  3. For Born Again Believers to be filed with the Spirit and shine God’s light during this time of darkness.