Dogfights

As the world descends farther into the pit of madness, it becomes harder and harder to wrest anything good from the evil leaders spread across the globe. If a political candidate is committed to restoring American jobs by emphasizing drilling for oil, he is harassed by the Media, political hacks, and—most critically—left-leaning evangelical leaders like Russell Moore. Each gain is exhausting. Constant vigilance is required in order to hold the Left at bay.

In such cases, we are reminded that too often, others who meant it for evil have too much control over our lives.

It’s the same in Israel. Following the meddling, mendacious Middle East policies of the Marxist Barack Obama, his illegitimate heir, Joe Biden, is doing the same thing to Israel. Meddling in Israeli politics is nothing new. Bill Clinton did it 30 years ago, sending emissaries to set up camp during campaigns for prime minister, with the aim of undermining Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama did the same thing, actively committing money and manpower to try and influence elections in the Jewish state.

Biden is doing the same thing now, and a key sentence in a recent Jerusalem Post report highlights this extraordinary evil.

“Various reports since Netanyahu’s election victory claim the former prime minister is mindful of US concerns over the potential appointments of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir as ministers in his government.”

What we are talking about here is the negotiations taking place between Netanyahu and coalition partners, attempting to cobble together a majority in the Knesset. A best-case scenario is that the government will hold 64 seats. Itamar Ben-Gvir is the new “prince,” a powerful right-wing partner that seems to be to the right of the Likud. Ben-Gvir, head of Otzma Yehudit, wanted to partner with the Religious Zionist Party headed by MK Bezalel Smotrich. Now that is in question, I think primarily because Netanyahu is feeling heat from Washington; Smotrich is a bridge too far for them, because he is a committed Zionist.

The Religious Zionist Party wants the Defense portfolio.

According to the Post:

“Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu should appoint politicians that the US government can work with to the roles of defense minister and public security minister, President Joe Biden’s administration told the incoming Israeli prime minister according to a Ynet report on Tuesday morning.

“The US claims that it is a security issue, and is not seeking to interfere in local politics. In order for the security cooperation between Israel and the US to succeed Israel needs to carefully consider to will be appointed to those positions, the Biden administration told Netanyahu, according to the Ynet report.

“Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich has been lobbying for the defense portfolio, and Oztmah Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir has been seeking the position of Public Security Minister.”

It is a lie that this is a security issue. What is meant by that, officially, coming from the U.S.’s corrupt State Department, is that right-wingers like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are too tough on the Palestinians.

They should be tough. For 30 years, the Palestinian terror network has murdered and maimed thousands of Israelis. As always, my personal priority is the safety and security of the Jews. Everyone else is way down the priority list.

The regime in Washington is evil.

“Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are widely considered controversial political figures, the latter having been condemned by the US for attendance at a rabbi Meir Kahane memorial.

“’Celebrating the legacy of a terrorist organization is abhorrent – there is no other word for it,’ State Department’s spokesperson Ned Price said on Thursday.”

That’s rich, coming from the Democrats, who greenlit anything the serial killer Yasser Arafat wanted to do. Make no mistake, Democrat leadership in Washington does not like Israel, and Jewish deaths are not a tragedy to them. So Price’s words are Soviet-style propaganda.

(Kahane, a fierce Zionist and one-time Knesset member, was deemed a terrorist by globalists. He was assassinated in 1990 by an Egyptian.)

I don’t think anytime soon the globalists will stop meddling in Israeli affairs. I hope Netanyahu will resist Washington’s clumsy-but-problematic attempts at interfering in Israeli politics.

As always, let us pray to the Lord that He will continue thwarting the plans of the wicked. Especially those against His people.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

The Sickness

I recently watched two programs, one a theatrical film, that exemplify the weird, millennia-long sickness of humanity: Jew-hatred.

The first was a Netflix program about German attitudes toward the Holocaust and Nazi philosophy. The emphasis was on former SS officers and enlisted men that were still alive in Germany not many years ago. You’ve seen this type of thing: interviews of old men in their homes or at an outside café; they reminisce about the terrible days of their youth.

In the case of the SS (the wholly evil, elite contingent of fighters that specialized in the extermination of Europe’s Jewish population), 90-year-old men spoke pretty openly about their involvement…until it came time to really accept responsibility. Then and only then, to a man, they fell back on that old lie: “I was only following orders.”

Some denied the heinous crimes took place at all. A couple of the men appeared to come clean and acknowledge the epic horror they took part in. But in the end, they either denied that they knew what was going on in the camps, or they claimed not to have participated in it. But these men were camp guards, frontline troops, etc.! They knew exactly what was happening. So did local residents. You see, since the war, most Germans have claimed that they didn’t know what was happening.

In the most poignant moment, one SS member agreed to meet German youth at the villa actually used in early 1942 to plan the Holocaust, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. I will give this one man credit: he passionately argued that what was done was wrong and that it had stained the German people. He spoke from experience.

What did the youth do? Most fidgeted and look either annoyed or indifferent. Several pushed back! They actually told this old SS man that they didn’t feel guilty for what had happened. But let’s make the distinction: obviously they weren’t alive during World War 2. However, they weren’t even willing to accept the fact that the Holocaust forever left a dark stain on Germany. They were arrogant.

Much of this is explained by the famous passage from 2 Timothy 3. The fact is, much of the world has gone cold. No love, no empathy, no remorse for sin.

It is why Israel continues to be besieged by the international community. Recently, a German institute planned an event in Tel Aviv, but the presentation was to claim that the Holocaust was no different from the Palestinian “Nakba,” the “terrible persecution of Arabs” after Israel’s founding. The comparison is grotesque, of course. Under pressure, the group cancelled the event, but the fact that it was a go at all is deeply disturbing.

The film that I saw, 1974’s “The Odessa File,” featured Jon Voight as a German freelance journalist in 1963, who discovers that a Nazi war criminal is operating in the open in Hamburg. When he catches up with the former SS camp commandment, the villain does what they all do: I didn’t participate in the murders, the numbers were inflated, etc.

The world has hated the Jews from the beginning. Remember Abraham’s troubles with the kings in his neighborhood? The mayhem continues to this day.

We must see all this for what it is, though: Endgame. If German youth don’t care about murdered Jews, if Palestinians continue to murder Jews in their ancestral homeland, if Jews are even feeling unsafe in America, the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord cannot be far off.

Let us continue to stand with the Jews no matter what. And to pray fervently for the return of our Lord.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com