Right Where We Want Them 

American General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller once famously said, when told that the enemy had his forces surrounded, “Great! Now we’ve got them right where we want them.”

Chesty indeed had a chest-full of medals. He understood very well what it takes to defeat a monstrous enemy. His forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War 2 fought magnificently, and won.

In every era, a mere handful of Chestys protect the rest of us. While the cowards, the overwhelming majority, cower.

Today, right now, Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing the UN General Assembly. He is speaking to a mostly-empty hall. At the outset of his speech, most of the immoral lot stood and filed-out. Netanyahu watched them, then launched into a remarkable speech. He castigated the member states for their cowardice. He revealed that many of the heads of state privately thank Israel for fighting on the frontlines against barbarism. He didn’t name them.

He didn’t have to.

France’s Macron, the UK’s Starmer, and Canada’s thoroughly mad Carney are some of these people Netanyahu referred to. He unloaded on the international media.

I want to point out some remarkable, wonderful things, though.

The prime minister of the modern Jewish state first spoke in Hebrew, to the hostages. He said that giant loudspeakers had been put out in Gaza, so that they might hear.

The IDF is coming.

Did you catch that? He spoke in Hebrew.

This is the power and majesty of the Living God, touching His finger to launch a tsunami that will blow-out the enemies of God’s People.

Hebrew!

In your prayers today, thank God for His revelation. Thousands of years ago, He promised/predicted that after a period of long exile, He would bring back the Jewish people to their ancestral land. He has done that. They are still coming home.

The nations rage against Zion.

“It will be a mark of shame on all of you!” Netanyahu thunders at the weaklings that are backing a Palestinian state. This is an historic moment. The Chamberlains and Clintons are wringing their hands, hoping to appease the terrorists by offering Israel.

As Scripture says, they will go down to the pit with Pharaoh.

Netanyahu’s speech will go down as one of the greats of all time. A proud, strong Jewish leader is meeting his enemies head-on (just as he did in combat as a member of the Sayeret Matkal) and facing them, exposing their shame to their faces.

Now more gas has put on the fire, as nations warn Israel not to annex the “West Bank.” Even President Trump this week tragically said he “wouldn’t permit” Israel to formally claim their ancestral homeland.

Shameful.

God is watching. Between the bloodlust driving the establishment of a Palestinian state, and the warnings about Judea-Samaria, the international community—the world—is dooming itself. I think most believe that Israel is going away. They believe the Jewish state will cease to exist.

That will never happen because God said it won’t. The mockers are inches away from their doom. The international community, in its collective madness, expects their ancient enemy, the Jews, to disappear.

But the Jews have them right where they want them. One day, those enemies will go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord of History.

Bibi spoke to the international body today, in Hebrew.

My God in heaven, thank you.

Am Yisrael Chai!

 

The Neighbor as Python

I wish I could write two columns this week, because the anti-Semitism—let’s call it Jew-hatred—among professing Christians has reached alarming levels.

But I’ll save that for next week. This week we’ll discuss the squeeze being put on Israel by long-time two “peace” partners: Egypt and Jordan.

Israel’s miraculous victory in 1967’s Six Day War posed a significant problem for the Arabs of the Middle East. It finally dawned on them that they could not defeat Israel militarily. They had to go the political route. In this way, they succeeded.

A sinister American president, Jimmy Carter, schemed with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, to pry the Sinai away from Israel. Sadat had succeeded General Nasser as Egypt’s strongman. Strategically, Sadat was much smarter. He wanted the Sinai back, lost in ’67. In the intervening 10 years, Israel had developed oil fields and communities there.

Carter and his Arabist advisors, including the State Department, told Israel that the only way to peace was through negotiation. Egypt (not an Arab nation, by the way, but hardcore Muslim) eventually signed a peace treaty forged at Camp David in 1979. Israel’s Menachem Begin agreed.

What emerged was a cold peace, and it has held for nearly a half-century.

Until this week. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, a military strongman that became Egypt’s leader after a coup against Muslim Brotherhood monster Mohamed Morsi in 2013, El-Sisi took over. For the most part, he has been more reasonable than his MB political foe, has now felt comfortable enough—aided greatly by an increasingly vicious international community—to bare his fangs. This week, according to The Jerusalem Post:

“Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi referred to Israel as an ‘enemy’ during his closing speech at the Arab-Islamic summit in Doha earlier this week.

“Head of the Egyptian State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, commented in a Tuesday TV interview that ‘The last time the word ‘enemy’ was used by Egypt’s top official, or by any state official, was before ‘then-president Anwar Sadat visited Israel and spoke at the Knesset in 1977.’”

An enemy. This is a dangerous escalation by Egypt.

Next, Jordan has fomented more violence.

“A Jordanian truck driver who was driving humanitarian aid is a suspect in the terrorist attack. Two Israeli soldiers were killed, according to reports. One terrorist was killed. An investigation was under way to determine if there were accomplices.

“The terrorist attack at the Allenby crossing on Thursday illustrates the increasing concerns Israeli officials have about threats from the Kingdom of Jordan over the past several years. The attack was very similar to one last September.

“There are three border crossings with Jordan: one in Eilat, one at Allenby Bridge near the Dead Sea, and one near Beit She’an in the North.

“The Allenby crossing is important for trucks and other items entering the West Bank. It is also a main crossing for Palestinians and some foreign nationals.”

Jordan and Israel have had an uneven relationship since the founding of the state of Israel. King Abdullah, in 1951, was reportedly prepared to recognize Israel. For that, he was assassinated on the Temple Mount, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He was the grandfather of the present King Abdullah.

For years, King Hussein of Jordan had a shall we say interesting relationship with Israel. The Jewish state protected Hussein many times, with Israeli intelligence thwarting coup attempts by the PLO. In 1970, the thoroughly violent PLO under the direction of Yasser Arafat, was kicked out of Jordan by Hussein.

It is not widely known that a few months before the Yom Kippur War, Hussein flew his own helicopter to the Negev and met with IDF officers. He warned them that Egypt and Syria were planning a surprise attack. For reasons unknown, Israel did not heed the warning.

When Hussein died, his son took over. That cold peace has basically held, the one negotiated by Hussein in 1994. In 1997, A Jordanian soldier, Ahmad Daqamseh, opened fire on a group of Israeli schoolgirls from the Fuerst School in Beit Shemesh who were on a field trip to the Island of Peace in Naharayim.

At the time, The Washington Post’s columnist hack Anthony Lewis wrote about the attack. After acknowledging it in the first paragraph, he spent the next 13 paragraphs blaming Benjamin Netanyahu. In the intervening years, King Abdullah has barely concealed his contempt for Israel. His wife, Queen Rania,  is a Kuwaiti-born “Palestinian.” This duo has done what they could to delegitimize Israel. The Jordanians are not Israel’s friend. An attack this week hearkens back to the 1997 murders.

“’A security source reported that the terrorist who carried out the attack at the Allenby crossing is a Jordanian citizen hired by the Jordanian army to transport an aid truck from Jordan to the Gaza Strip,’ Ynet reported. ‘The terrorist began shooting upon his arrival at the crossing, before the truck underwent the required inspection.’

“Last September, three Israelis were killed in a similar attack. The terrorist was a Jordanian citizen.

“In April 2024, a Jordanian member of Parliament was arrested trying to smuggle weapons through the Allenby crossing.

“’Authorities said they found 12 machine guns and 270 other types of firearms, according to unverified video on Israeli social media,’ the BBC reported at the time.”

The Arab Python is seeking to curl around Israel.

The Muslim Nation in the Middle East has no intention of living in peace with the Jewish state.

The snake is still doing his evil in this sad old world.

We continue to pray fervently for the return of the Messiah.

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