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The Enemy From Within

April 7, 2022 By Bella Davidov Leave a Comment

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

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.
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.
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.

The Syrian War: What is it Really About?

December 31, 2018 By Bella Davidov Leave a Comment

The real issue in Syria is the fight between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims.

To understand the complications in the Middle East, we must understand the biggest conflict within the Muslim world: the big divide between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims.

The Sunni-Shi’a conflict started 1,400 years ago, after the death of Mohammed in 632 AD. The prophet died without appointing a successor, which led to an argument among his followers. The argument was about who would be the next leader, whether he should be directly related to Mohammed’s bloodline or not. The Sunni’s believe that the Prophets’ trusted friend and advisor, Abu Bakr was the first rightful leader of Muslims or “caliph”, while Shi’as believe that Mohammed’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali was chosen by Allah to continue the rule. Eventually, both held the title – Abu Bakr first until his death, and after him two other caliphs who were assassinated. Ali became the fourth ruler. After Ali, a massive split occurred over who should rule next and dominate Islam. While Sunni Muslims argued that it should be their interpretation of Islam which follows the Sunnah (ways of Mohammed), Shi’as argued that Ali was the rightful first caliph and only his descendants could claim to be the true leaders of Muslims.

Sunnah is the body of traditional, social, and legal custom and practice of the Islamic community, based on the verbally transmitted record of the teachings, deeds and sayings, silent permissions (or disapprovals) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (kind of Islamic oral law and Halacha, a path, a way, a manner of life). The Quran, the holy book of Islam, and the Sunnah make up the two primary sources of Islamic theology and law of the Islamic prophet that Muslims follow.

The tension is intensified by the Hadith, a narrative in which the prophet Muhammad said, “My Muslim community will be divided into seventy-three sects and all of them will be in the Hellfire except one.” Inevitably both Sunnis and Shias claim to be the one “pure” Islamic sect; hence a Sunni-Shi’a split creating two denominations up until today, wherein each has developed its own unique culture, doctrines, and schools of thought, with a range of moderate to extremist followers in both.

Sunnis are largely focused on the power of their God in the physical world, while Shi’as look more toward the rewards of the afterlife.

*The majority of Muslim people in the world are Sunni.*

The vast majority of the Muslims in the world are Sunni, amounting to as much as 85% of the religion’s adherents. They are spread all over the globe – from Morocco to Indonesia – and make up the dominant religion in North Africa and the Middle East. Only Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Bahrain have a Shi’a majority, although there are also significant Shi’a populations in Yemen, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, and Qatar.

The divide between the Sunni and Shi’a branches of Islam is both ancient and still highly consequential today.

The Kingdom of Bahrain, which is backed by Saudi has long been ruled by the Sunni House of Khalifa, even though there is a Shi’a majority in the population. Many of the insurgent groups in Iraq today– including the Islamic State terror group – are Sunnis.

The current civil war in Yemen has become a sectarian proxy war, with Iran backing the Shi’a Houthi rebels who overthrew the country’s Sunni-dominated government, while a Saudi-led coalition has since intervened to reinstall the Sunni leadership.

Syria, which has a Sunni-majority population, is ruled by President Bashar al-Assad and his family members of the Shi’a Alawite-sect. The fighting that began as an anti-government rebellion has taken on sectarian overtones. That has spilled over to Iraq, which is Shi’a-majority and has a predominantly Shi’a government but is increasingly troubled by Sunni rebels. And the region’s major powers have long pushed sectarian interests, with Shi’a-majority Iran on one side and Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia on the other.