Are the “Settlements” Illegal?

We’ve heard this one for years, haven’t we? The Left has repeated this assertion—that Israeli communities in the “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) are illegal according to international law.

As if their malevolent meddling hasn’t done enough damage to Israel’s existential war against Hamas, the Biden Regime is now turning another knife in the Jewish state by claiming that upwards of a million Jews are “illegals”! This from a corrupt gang of criminals that have allowed nine million true illegals to invade our country in the last three years.

Again, it is unconscionable that the Regime is doing this in the middle of a hot war that Israel must win. Threats to withhold needed munitions, constant demands for a ceasefire (IE, a Hamas win), and threats of an unprecedented U.S. resolution against Israel in the UN—all this unleashed at the worst possible moment.

Biden is evil, always has been. But we all know Obama’s goons are in charge.

On the other side, one of my favorite people to have emerged for Israel the last several years is former ambassador David Friedman. He was with President Trump in 2018 when the U.S. embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump was the only president that didn’t lie by breaking his campaign pledge. It was a momentous event. Friedman proved to be a stalwart defender of Israel and a superb friend of the U.S.

Recently, a reporter for Axios, Barak Ravid, posted on X:

“BREAKING: Blinken overturns ‘Pompeo Doctrine’ and says Israeli settlements in the West Bank are ‘inconsistent with international law. The move comes a day after Israel announces thousands of new housing units in the settlements.”

Blinken of course refers to U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, himself Jewish. It proves that one can betray one’s own tribe.

As I’ve discussed before, Israel deciding to build more communities in their ancient heartland is too much for the devils in Washington. Mind you, this was always the view of equally sinister operatives in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes. But the time had not yet come to publicly betray Israel. Friedman had a classic reply on February 23:

“Blinken is 100% wrong. I researched this for over a year with many State Department lawyers. There is nothing illegal about Jews living in their biblical homeland. Indeed, Undersecretary of State Eugene Rostow, also the Dean of the Yale Law School (who negotiated UNSCR 242), stated that Israel has the best legal claim to Judea and Samaria. For Blinken to announce this in the middle of a war and when the Jewish Sabbath already has begun in Israel is unconscionable.”

By the way, I have always despised the label “settlements” that the Left came up with to demonize Israel. “Settlements” sounds illegitimate and aggressive on the part of the Jews.

And remember something else: Obama wants America to look weak. He worked on that during his two grotesque terms. Remember the downgrade in the U.S. credit rating? Remember pandering to Iran? So now we have “President” Biden appearing to be mentally impaired, and looking like a physical wreck that stumbles, ambles, and wanders. That’s why I say I’m not sure Biden is truly this way. Maybe he is, but the effect is going to be the same per Obama: push the vegetable out there every day not only to weaken America, but also to let Israel know: Washington ain’t with ya, anymore.

Then we have Elizabeth Warren, the chronic liar in the Senate, roasting Israel this week over the the trampling of dozens at an aid site in Gaza. She actually accused the IDF of shooting Palestinians! What a demon.

So official U.S. policy is using the military, media, and diplomacy to harm Israel.

God is watching. May He return soon to set things right.

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The Traitorous UN

It’s long been known that the United Nations overall is a bankrupt unit of morally questionable countries. Routine bizarre decisions like putting terror states on the Security Council makes one wonder if they are stupid and complicit, or just complicit.

No more is the grotesque nature of this body more evident than in the open sewer known as Gaza. For decades, the lethal threat coming from Hamasland has been ignored by the UN, which had kicked the problem down the road. One wonders just how much withering pressure the George Bush White House put on Ariel Sharon to turn over Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, which promptly lost it to the barbaric terror group Hamas.

Now we learn that UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) has actually helped Hamas slaughter Jews.

During the October 7 massacres, according to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, 12 UNRWA employees have been identified as having “actively participated” in the slaughters. Included in this numbers are teachers at UNRWA schools!

“In addition to these 12 workers, we have significant indications based on intelligence, that over 30 UNRWA workers participated in the massacre, facilitated the taking of hostages, looted and stole from Israeli communities and more.” Gallant states. He added the agency “lost legitimacy and can no longer function as a UN body.”

Because of these new revelations, the IDF will no longer allow humanitarian relief to be passed off to UNRWA.

From the Times of Israel:

“According to Gallant, of the 13,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza, at least 12% are affiliated with the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups. ‘1468 workers are known to be active in Hamas and PIJ. 185 UNRWA workers are active in the military branches of Hamas and 51 are active in the PIJ military branch,’ he says.”

These numbers are mind-boggling.

Thankfully, even as the international community continues not to care about Jews and Israel, the IDF will not participate in moving Palestinian refugees from Rafah to Egypt. It was also disclosed this week that the Egyptians are building a new and massive border wall with Gaza; they don’t want this riff-raff, either. Egypt has worked for decades to keep jihadist rabble from taking over its country. Remember, it was Muslim Brotherhood terrorists that assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981. Since then, the spiritual children of the MB have murdered many in the region.

Gallant is aware of the tense political situation:

“’The State of Israel has no intention of evacuating Palestinian civilians to Egypt. We respect and value our peace agreement with Egypt, which is a cornerstone of stability in the region as well as an important partner,’ he says. Gallant says the IDF and defense establishment are ‘thoroughly planning future operations in Rafah, which is a significant Hamas stronghold.’

“’There were 24 [Hamas] battalions in Gaza, we have dismantled 18 of them. Now, Rafah is the next Hamas center of gravity,’ Gallant says. He says that ‘the IDF takes extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties, and is operating in accordance with international law.’”

Israel is preparing to soon launch a final ground operation in Rafah, the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip. Having shattered Hamas to this point, Israel will finish-off the rats, including the Hamas brain-trust, if one can use that term.

Every day now, we are assaulted with life-altering news stories. It is difficult not to become disoriented. We must maintain our focus on God’s Word alone, if we are to maintain our sanity.

I know what God’s Word promises for the Jewish people: Israel will survive. Keep your mind on that. Pray for the hostages, pray for the IDF, and pray that we will all stand fast for the duration.

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