(My own counterweight to the Jew haters can be found in my two new books: Zechariah 2, and The God That Answers by Fire. I hope you’ll order copies for yourself and for those in your circle. My aim is to provide powerful proof that the Bible is true and that God not only exists but is in complete control! In these books, you’ll find information not presented anywhere else.)

 

“Unexpected Targets”

In a bitterly negative turn of events, the Trump administration is relying on a couple lightweights to “negotiate” with Iran over the terror state’s nuclear ambitions. Beginning last summer, when Trump forced Israel to stop just short of toppling the Tehran leadership, Iran must have been in disbelief over its good fortune. Think of it this way:

Imagine that right after the death of FDR, new President Harry Truman had sent envoys to Berlin to negotiate a ceasefire with the Nazis. In his delusional state at the time, Hitler did actually believe that some act of providence would turn the tide at the last minute, even as the Americans from the West and Soviets from the East were weeks from linking up. Of course that scenario is absurd. Specifically, why? Because The Allies demanded unconditional surrender. That meant the Nazis and the Empire of Japan were to lay down their arms and be occupied for a number of years, to ensure their warlike ways and crimes against humanity were never repeated.

That worked.

Iran though is another problem. For 47 years, since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has posed a threat to the whole world. Its global terror proxies have murdered thousands of people, and a decade-long war with Iraq killed many more. Iran is ruled by the mullahs and the Ayatollah, religious clerics that are deadly serious about their version of eschatology. This drives their foreign policy!

But when national leaders do not have a biblical worldview—and sadly, America’s do not—flawed models come to dominate. Mistakes are made, obvious mistakes, and the innocent suffer. The truth is, there is no fundamental difference between the policies of the Clinton administration, Obama administration, and Bush administration…and Trump. Back when weaklings like Warren Christopher ran the State Department, tremendous pressure was placed on Israel in standing virtually alone against Iran. Very obvious mistakes were made, so obvious that one has trouble being convinced they weren’t intentional.

We now know that many of our leaders these last decades have been bought off by evil, or blackmailed. The result is that the United States has looked weak. Remember when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright literally chased Yasser Arafat down a hallway because the killer dwarf left “negotiations”? How weak!

Plus, we know that the State Department has been pro-Arab forever.

Now, the heirs to those clowns are Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Two real estate developers from New York City. We now know that Witkoff’s disastrous financial deal a few years ago was covered by friends in Qatar. Kushner’s claim to fame is cobbling together the Abraham Accords. The pair either is clueless about the Middle East, or complicit in maintaining the status quo. I think of this as telling a friend not to run headlong into a train tunnel, even as we see lights fast approaching. The friend briefly stares at you, then sprints into the tunnel and in a few seconds is hamburger meat.

That’s what the West is doing with Iran. The Ayatollah should have been dead last June. And don’t doubt: the Iranians are terrified that the West will wake up and live in reality.

But as it stands now, Trump has sent Witless and Klueless to Oman to “negotiate.” Israel understands what the rest of the West does not: Iran is playing for time. If/when the next U.S. election is stolen, openly friendly administration operatives will be back in charge.

And people will die.

This week, Witkoff met for three hours with Benjamin Netanyahu. And as you might imagine, the adult in the room, the parent, had to level with Witkoff.

“The Iranian regime cannot be trusted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified in a high-level meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday, as he visited Israel ahead of negotiations between the Islamic Republic and Washington that are set to commence in Oman on Friday.

“In statements released after the meeting, the Prime Minister’s Office said, ‘Ahead of Envoy Witkoff’s departure to meet with a representative of Iran, the Prime Minister clarified his position that Iran has proven time and again that its promises cannot be relied upon.’

“The meeting, which lasted over three hours, was described as ‘positive and productive,’ according to i24 News, which added it was also attended by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Defense Minister Israel Katz, Mossad chief David Barnea, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, IDF Intelligence Chief Shlomi Binder, and Air Force Commander Tomer Bar.

“According to the report, Zamir presented Witkoff with an extensive briefing and an in-depth intelligence overview, conveying Israel’s assessment that the regime is stalling for time and has no intention of giving up its nuclear project as part of the negotiations.

“He also noted that, should the regime attack Israel, the IDF would launch an immediate response of ‘extraordinary magnitude’ with strikes on ‘unexpected targets.’ Israeli officials also told Witkoff that there couldn’t be concessions on the issue of the regime’s ballistic missiles, which are also a risk to regional stability, i24 News reported.”

So, as usual, it comes down to Israel dealing with the problem. People often talk about the alleged “3D chess” that Trump plays. Maybe. But if he is, one wonders why he’s playing this chessboard if he could have solved the problem from a position of strength long ago.

I believe the answer is that subversives in our government have long been in place to reign-in any president that might choose to attempt the right thing. Trump has two weaknesses: his own gargantuan ego, and his tendency to trust bad people. It’s incredibly frustrating.

Last summer, we were on the verge of a New Middle East. Today, we are mired in another round of Iran running out the clock. So predictable.

All of it just might force Israel to hit Iran’s “unexpected targets.”

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Never Trust a Terrorist

As Israel continues managing its almost 80-year conflict with the Arabs, it becomes clear that Hezbollah in Lebanon will not give up its duplicitous behavior. As they seek to sabotage the ceasefire agreement with Israel, hammered out in the fall of 2024, Hezbollah wants primarily to remain viable. Just as their devilish brothers in Gaza hope to merely survive.

Most of the noise is coming from Gaza. Much is also coming from the Iranian front, as the world waits to see if President Trump will actually put teeth into his latest “threats” to Tehran.

The issue in Lebanon is disarmament of the terror group Hezbollah. Those devils, along with the PLO, have destabilized Lebanon for the last 40 years. It should be noted that Yasser Arafat and the PLO ruined that beautiful country in the 1970s. Beirut should be a tourist destination, but instead a state of war has existed for decades. Israel has cleaned-out much of the terror nests in the south, south of the Litani River.

It is the north that remains volatile. One frustrating detail remains active: Western diplomacy is keeping the conflict going. It has always been this way, stretch back at least to the 1960s. As we are seeing in the Gaza Strip, Western weakness and foot-dragging is keeping the terrorists on oxygen. They should have been uprooted and destroyed long ago, but no dice.

The witless American diplomats and White House operatives insist on doing the opposite of bringing about peace and safety. Remember, it has been Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle that have kept the killing going. We do have a serious upgrade in Marco Rubio at State (light years ahead of clowns like Warren Christopher and John Kerry). However, other slots are lagging, particularly with the always-problematic “Middle East envoy.” With Steve Witkoff, we are in as bad a spot as we were with Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk and the other line of mediocre and morally weak players.

Rubio can’t do it all on his own.

Israel wants Hezbollah disarmed permanently, obviously. Before they even think about withdrawing from the buffer zone—the same basic line they held in the 1980s—a serious degrading of Hezbollah must take place. Predictably, traitors like France’s Emmanuel Macron are still mucking it up by hosting terrorists for “talks.”

A fascinating report notes the following:

“The IDF continued attacking Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon and the Beqa’a Valley to enforce the November 2024 ceasefire agreement and prevent the organization’s renewed military build-up. In south Lebanon and the Beqa’a Valley the forces attacked crossings on the Lebanon-Syria border used to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah, weapons depots and a facility of the Radwan Force. In addition, four Hezbollah operatives were eliminated, including the head of a weapons-smuggling network.”

Amid all this is the ridiculous diplomatic push. A coalition committee overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire continues to embarrass us all.

“The future of the committee overseeing implementation of the ceasefire agreement remains uncertain. Given reports of American and Israeli attempts to shift the focus to the political level with direct talks between Israel and Lebanon and hold meetings at a United States base in Miami, the Lebanese government made it clear it was not prepared to make changes. The head of Lebanon’s civilian delegation to the talks said if he received a mandate from the Lebanese leadership to conduct political talks with Israel, he wanted them held in Tel Aviv.”

Interesting. They want talks on Israeli soil.

Continuing with the predictability of this overall mediocrity is the insertion of Qatar into the proceedings. The Muslim Brotherhood-friendly country—very friendly with the Trump administration and in particular businessmen Witkoff and Jared Kushner—has insisted it will rebuild three destroyed villages in south Lebanon…with help from an American company.

This past week the IDF continued attacking Hezbollah targets to enforce the November 2024 ceasefire agreement and prevent Hezbollah from a renewed military buildup. The forces attacked four crossings on the Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons for Hezbollah, weapons depots above and below ground, a structure at a Radwan Force camp and other terrorist facilities in south Lebanon and the Beqa’a Valley. Four Hezbollah terrorist operatives were eliminated, including a liaison in the village of Yanouh, the head of a weapons-smuggling network and an artillery commander. The Lebanese ministry of health reported four killed and 26 wounded in IDF attacks (al-Nashra, January 20–26, 2026).

At the Davos summit this past week, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that he is committed to rebuilding the country, and he even claimed that for the first time since 1969, Lebanon was “exercising full operational control” south of the Litani River.

And don’t think the clerics have stopped their incitement.

“In his Friday sermon, Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan accused the Lebanese state of abandoning the south, the Beqa’a Valley and the Dahiyeh al-Janoubia, and claimed a systematic move was underway to weaken and possibly harm the Shi’ite community, with establishment backing or indifference. He criticized demands for a state monopoly on weapons north of the Litani River, arguing that such measures served an ‘American-Zionist project’ whose objective was neutralizing Lebanon’s power factors and leaving it exposed. He noted the role of the state in protecting its citizens and sovereignty and warned against continued official silence in the face of what he claimed was an ongoing war against the Shi’ite community and the areas in which it lived.”

As with Iran, we hope historic opportunities will be taken to de-fang the murderers. It should be obvious to all thinking people that this is the only way to a cold peace as we have seen with Egypt and Jordan. Short of eliminating the snake in Tehran, and the snakes in other Middle East countries, we are just pushing the next outright conflict a few blocks down the street.

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(My own counterweight to the Jew haters can be found in my two new books: Zechariah 2, and The God That Answers by Fire. I hope you’ll order copies for yourself and for those in your circle. My aim is to provide powerful proof that the Bible is true and that God not only exists but is in complete control! In these books, you’ll find information not presented anywhere else.)