Fake News

In the world of Marxist-style propaganda we now live in, when truth is turned on its head by media and political forces, it should come as no surprise that CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour is bashing Israel again.

Reading from the playbook now used by American evangelical leaders (such as Lynne Hybels of Willow Creek fame), Amanpour, for a recent segment, interviewed two “peace” activists who are virulently anti-Israel.

(Remember, anti-Israel activists in the evangelical world routinely point to their friends in Israel-“Palestine” who are “committed to achieving peace through non-violent means.” Really? Then why is it always Israel’s fault?)

According to a report from CAMERA:

“Amanpour, broadcasting from London, interviewed a pair from the ‘peace’ group – Ms. Shifa al-Qudsi, in Nablus (West Bank), a Palestinian Muslim would-be suicide bomber who was intercepted by Israeli authorities the night before her planned bombing, and Chen Alon, in Tel Aviv, former Israeli military officer ‘turned peace campaigner.’

“Combatants for Peace consists of former Israeli soldiers and former Palestinian combatants (ie. terrorists). Alon and al-Qudsi, representing the group, convey the message that Israel is mainly (if not entirely) responsible for the conflict. Alon expresses contrition for Israel’s role, but shows no concern for fellow Israelis victimized by Palestinian violence. Meanwhile, al-Qudsi adheres to the Palestinian victimization narrative heaping all the blame on Israel.”

A partial transcript is provided in the CAMERA report, and is well worth your time.

This is all a classic leftist tactic. Claim that you are working for peace, while you are really strengthening Israel’s terrorist enemies. I kid you not, this is exactly the type of evil developed and worked by Lenin and Stalin in the Soviet Union. Publicly utter a direct inversion of the truth, and watch the masses believe you.

Amanpour’s father was an Iranian Muslim, and she was raised in Tehran. She is a classic leftist “journalist” peddling the truth as she wants people to understand it. In her play, Israel is always the villain.

Finally…with Trump’s election, it seems that the scales are falling off. People are now waking up to what we’ve been living in for generations. And when the People begin to understand what our Media really are, they will shed them. This has broader implications.

Just as “secular” media are now scrambling to crawl under rocks, so too are religious types feeling the heat.

For several years, beginning in 2011, I investigated the documentary produced by Mart Green, an heir to the Hobby Lobby franchise. Titled “Little Town of Bethlehem,” the film purported to present a balanced view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Three principle interviews propped-up the lie, but all three are anti-Israel. I, along with a few others, exposed this propaganda masquerading as balanced journalism, and the evangelical power player Green refused to speak publicly about the controversial film.

Ironically, I just happened to meet Green three times: once in a hotel lobby and twice in airports. Always cordial (if remote), he smiled when I asked if I could interview him. He told me to get in touch with his office and to email him. I did this many times, including a request to Dr. Billy Wilson, president of Oral Roberts University, who has worked with Empowered21, a Who’s Who of global Pentecostal leaders. Empowered21 also moves in the same circles as those traveled by Green.

Silence.

Not a single time did either man, particularly Green, agree to speak with me. Instead, he went silent and virtually underground. “Little Town of Bethlehem” is still available on the EGM Films website.

Just like secular media do not want to answer uncomfortable questions, so too do evangelical power brokers go silent when their dark schemes are uncovered.

Circumstantial evidence sheds some light on Green’s views of Israel and Jews. His EGM Films also produced “Beyond the Gates of Splendor,” and “End of the Spear,” documentaries of famed Christian missionary Jim Elliot, murdered by the Huaorani people, a tribe in the jungles of Ecuador, in 1956. Elliot’s widow, Elisabeth, was an icon in evangelical circles, having carried on her husband’s work and became a prolific writer and speaker in her own right.

In 1968, Elisabeth Elliot published her account of visiting Israel in the weeks after the Six Day War. I have a copy of this book, In the Furnace of the Lord, and view it to be a hit-piece on Israel. While she appears even-handed in part of the book, she resorts to several anti-Israel propaganda techniques. I attempted to interview Elisabeth Elliot about this book in 2000, but she declined. It is important to note that every “Christian Palestinianist” leader in America has declined my repeated requests for interviews in the past several years. They do not want rank-and-file Christians to connect the dots.

(The late Elisabeth Elliot was a member of the Episcopal Church, a mainline denomination that would at the very least not consider the specialness of the Jews and Israel in biblical history to be significant.)

It is no accident that Green felt an affinity with Elliot, and I am certain that their association at least in part fed his anti-Israel agenda.

I’m glad that “the People” are waking up to the profound bias that exists in Media and Religion, and the CNNs of the world are passing from the scene.

Here’s to a new era.

ISIS in the House

As the Israelis battle arson fires set by Palestinians, the first official engagement between ISIS terrorists and the IDF occurred. A terrorism report was more clinical in its description, but rest assured, ISIS was vaporized in the exchange:

“In the southern Golan Heights, the first incident of its kind occurred this week between an IDF force and operatives of the Shuhada al-Yarmouk Brigade affiliated with ISIS. ISIS operatives opened fire at an IDF force. An Israeli aircraft attacked their vehicle and four operatives were killed. In addition, an Israeli aircraft

attacked a facility used by ISIS in the southern Golan Heights.”

How foolish are the enemies of the Jewish people.

Further detail of the ISIS incident was provided in a November 29 report:

“In the early morning hours of November 27, 2016, an incident occurred between

an IDF force and a force of the Shuhada al-Yarmouk Brigade, affiliated with ISIS.

According to Israeli and Arab media, ISIS operatives opened fire at an IDF force setting an ambush. The operatives used a heavy machine gun placed on a van, several hundred kilometers away from the border. The IDF forces returned fire.

“The IDF had no casualties. This is the first incident of its kind between an IDF force

and operatives affiliated with ISIS who control the southern Golan Heights. Up

till now, those operatives refrained from engaging the IDF. During the incident, an Israeli aircraft attacked the vehicle and the operatives who fired from it. Syrian media reported that four operatives of the Khaled bin Al-Walid Army were killed

as a result of the attack. In addition, an Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked an ISIS facility in the southern Syrian Golan Heights, in response to the shooting (IDF spokesman, November 27, 2016). The facility which was attacked had served UNDOF, the UN force maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Syria.

However, it has been deserted and nowadays it serves ISIS operatives for training.

According to the IDF spokesman, ISIS operatives used that facility to establish their

presence in the vicinity of the border and for attacking the IDF force.”

ISIS has been operating in the Sinai Peninsula as well, but is sandwiched between Egypt and Israel, and is being pummeled. The terror group has also lost 56 percent of its territory in Iraq and 28 percent in Syria. I expect them to disappear altogether as the Trump Administration progresses.

An interesting thing is going on internationally, as geopolitics shift after eight years of corrosive, Marxist policies of Obama. Israel now has “friends,” several of whom sent help to fight the arson fires. I also suspect many nations both remember Israel’s doing same for them after natural disasters, and as they scramble to find expert help in combatting terrorism in their own countries. Nobody does this better than Israel.

As I often like to say, geopolitics can change on a dime, and upend all our “prophecy” projections. Only one month ago, no one could have imagined where we are now. America and Israel will officially become close once again, etc.

We must always keep our eyes on Scripture. We do not know the exact timing of the great last days prophecies, so we must honestly admit that the status quo might be maintained yet for decades, or it can be permanently altered next week. We just don’t know.

What we do know from looking at Scripture is that one day, Israel will lose all her human friends. And, it is important to note that while Democrats have suffered historic losses in the recent election in America, they and their leader Obama have always kept the eyes on their prize: the next two generations.

The fact is, a “progressive” political agenda—one rooted in Marxism—continues to chug up the mountain. In other words, my “concern” is not for the immediate future, but 20 years down the road. Currently, scores of “evangelical” youth voted for Hillary Clinton or the fringe candidates, Gary (“What’s Aleppo?”) Johnson and Jill Stein. In human terms, that is profoundly disturbing.

So long as God remains on His throne, He will continue to make the IDF a source of supernatural strength, and we can rest in that! Israel has and is winning miraculous victories against her enemies.