Fooling on the Golan

As we try and recover from the President hosting the new Syrian dictator—in the Oval Office—we turn our attention now to Israel’s northern border, specifically the Golan Heights.

For 19 years after statehood, Israel fended off attacks, including mortar and artillery fire aimed at the Galilee. Syria controlled the Heights and it seemed that these attacks would never end. The satanic hatred for Jews had infected the Syrians, too, from the birth of their own country. Like Lebanon, Syria could have been—could be—a paradise, an oasis in the Middle East. Natural beauty all the way to archaeology and tourism should be a boon for the country, but like all Muslim-tainted ME states, the priority of murdering Jews has taken precedence.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa was hosted and praised by President Trump last week. He was very, very, very recently on a wanted list, with a $10 million bounty on his head. Now, following the exact script Yasser Arafat and the PLO did 35 years ago, he got a shave, shower, and new suit to be propped up as a statesman. You know how it went with Uncle Yasser.

For his part, al-Sharaa is no dummy. He knew he was a dead man walking but then jumped at the bizarre America lifeline. Now he is pledging all sorts of good things, including being a partner in fighting terrorists in the Middle East! Wow.

According to a report:

“Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemned on Friday an event hosted by Syria’s new Culture Ministry, which appeared to celebrate Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

“’The President of Syria al-Julani [Ahmed al-Shara’a] talks about a ‘new Syria,’ yet his Ministry of Culture invites the public to a national party celebrating the October 7 massacre – the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust (celebrated as ‘The Flood of al-Aqsa’),’ the ministry wrote on X. ‘Anyone who celebrates a massacre seeks more massacres, not change.’”

Question: What is the Trump Administration thinking? Very specifically, what is Trump thinking?

If the end goal here is to promote peace through economic opportunities for Arabs (and other jihadists, such as the Egyptians and Iranians), that dud sank like a rock the first time it was tried. Successive American administrations have tried this non-starter. All their urbane diplomats and political operatives (the Clinton Gang was particularly good at bloviating and mucking things up) tried for decades to dangle money rewards in front of the Arabs. Billions (trillions?) of our money has been spent on this money pit.

And here we are trying it again, headed by the biggest dealmaker of them all.

Do any of us honestly think that al-Sharaa didn’t know about the Oct. 7 celebration? Of course he knows. It’s part of his government.

It’s outrageous.

Trump sort of behind the scenes gave al-Sharaa a list of demands (think: homework) and a six-month trial period to play ball. My prediction: the trial period will be extended and by the time it would have any potential teeth in it, the President will be aboard the helicopter on his way to retirement at Mara Lago. Then al-Sharaa will either work closely with the next American president, or manipulate him, for the real game: getting rid of the Jews.

Word has also come, of course, that Washington is going to demand that Israel pull back to the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, which adjoins the Golan Heights. For decades, hawks like Benjamin Netanyahu have insisted Israel will never give back the Golan. Even the first Trump team recognized Israeli sovereignty over the vital barrier.

But we know how Washington lies.

The overall goal of the Arabs for at least 60 years has been to shrink Israel and then move in for the kill. Getting skull-crushed in two consecutive epic wars convinced the less-deranged of them, like Anwar Sadat, to take it by warm, sweet diplomatic means. He got that in the return of the Sinai Peninsula by 1981, a few weeks before a Muslim Brotherhood hit team blew him away at a military parade.

We are all preoccupied with Gog-Magog, etc., but I suggest you watch the Golan Heights and the new Sheriff Andy Taylor in Syria, who is really Murder, Inc.

That’s an emerging battle front in the War on Truth.

 

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Judea and Samaria

 The satanic—literally—attacks on Israel have reached warp speed. Israel claims that they are fighting an eight-front war, including the lethal propaganda war. For 30 years, Benjamin Netanyahu has said this is a “Battle for Truth.”

It certainly is.

We hear about the really big fields of engagement: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis. But our beloved Judea and Samaria, what the world calls the “West Bank,” is just as big. In fact, the terror goblins in the biblical heartland have ramped-up their efforts even as the IDF works 24/7 to contain them. We sometimes forget that the Jews living on the mountains of Israel are the real frontlines.

Terror nests are entrenched in Israel. Jenin. Bethlehem (doesn’t that break your heart?). Tulkarm.

An sick cartoon in the Arab press shows Judea and Samaria as a bloated blood bag feeding a line to the Gaza Strip—depicted as an arm receiving a transfusion. These demented images make one wonder if the Arabs of the region are in some way vampires. They glory in death and violence. Regular Israelis are the target.

We must always remember that God is always in control, however. As I’ve said, all this is really one big faith-building moment. From a report this week:

“Hamas’ ambition was to turn Judea and Samaria into an arena for terrorism as part of the campaign to destroy Israel which began with the October 7, 2023 attack and massacre. However, the counterterrorism actions taken by the Israeli security forces, which included the detention and elimination of thousands of wanted persons and terrorist operatives and the seizure of weapons prevented a wave of terrorism from Judea and Samaria.”

So the One Who Doesn’t Slumber or Sleep is keeping His People. The IDF is an instrument of His power.

The terror trifecta right now in that area is Iran, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

“Iran also continues its central role in efforts to turn Judea and Samaria into an active terrorist arena against Israel. A shipment of weapons from Iran was intercepted, which included powerful explosive charges and explosive-carrying drones; Qods Force operatives in Lebanon who were involved in the smuggling routes of weapons were eliminated.

“In ITIC assessment, after the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian terrorist organizations, with Iranian assistance, will direct a significant portion of their activity to Judea and Samaria to justify their existence by continuing the ‘resistance.’ The terrorist organizations will also try to exploit the return of the Palestinian issue to the global stage and the regional and international involvement in the Gaza Strip within the framework of the ceasefire to create pressure on Israel, provoking attacks which could escalate Israel’s response in Judea and Samaria. Moreover, the return of hundreds of terrorist operatives from Israeli jails to Judea and Samaria will intensify the activity of the terrorist organizations, which will exploit the knowledge and experience of the released prisoners and the cooperative networks they built in prison.”

What an absolute tragedy. The devil has infected these people with supernatural hatred of Jews. We know the basic history of this. Jihad was in the minds of the Palestinian Arabs a hundred years ago. The violence against Jews in Jerusalem in 1929 and 1937 predated pogroms in Europe just ahead of World War 2. Surrounded and attacked in 1948, Israel responded robustly, ushering-in the Israel Defense Forces. A succession of wars were directly linked by constant terror raids. And so it continues today.

As always, there is a prophetic element to this. In a very interesting way. When that demon Yahya Sinwar hatched his scheme for Oct. 7, he “viewed Judea and Samaria as a central arena in the ‘decisive’ campaign against Israel, as revealed in Hamas documents brought back from the Gaza Strip by IDF forces during the war in the Gaza Strip.”

So here we have an arch-terrorist viewing all this in apocalyptic terms. We know that Islam has its own twisted eschatology, as they seek to bring back the Mahdi, their sick version of a “messiah” who would come to redeem Islam. That’s what is really back of all this: a fervent view that they are bringing about a hellscape of history’s conclusion. It’s why these forces cannot be entirely exterminated. We are simply in a holding operation until the Real Messiah comes.

Israel after Oct. 7 took the initiative, concentrated in northern Samaria, in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm, and in the al-Far’a refugee camp in the Tubas area (northeast of Jerusalem). This kept the terrorists at bay—historically they constantly fail in their bids to eliminate Israel, but that’s part of the insanity. Israel’s magnificent fighting forces are God’s instrument in these last days.

There is joy and peace in knowing that God has told us ahead of time that we don’t have to give in to fear. We know how it ends and it is astonishing watching all this unfold! Judea and Samaria have been a battleground for millennia.

And…this is where it will all end. Armageddon is coming to this place.

After that…eternity.

Praise be to God.

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