When Diplomacy Really Is Lunacy :: by Jan Markell

The Bible is clear that in the last days things won’t make sense! Evil will be called good and good will be called evil. Dark will be light and sweet will be bitter. Self and money will be the primary gods. The real heart of mankind is going to be revealed in the last days. Look out! Scary. It’s going to be ugly, self-centered and just plain evil.

Like the evil of America sending 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt on the taxpayer dollar. That’s a one-two insanity punch. First, we send the real bad guys our best planes and then you and I are billed! Egypt’s President Morsi is a blatant dictator of the worst kind. He’s a Muslim Brotherhood guy, who has received a ton of favors from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s closest aid, Huma Abedin, has ties to the Brotherhood, and thus, ties to this dealer in all things dark.

The foreign aid deal was signed in 2010 when Morsi’s U.S.-friendly predecessor Mubarek was in charge. So, does that make things more kosher? I don’t think so. Besides, Egypt already has 200 of the aircraft andEgypt has no enemies presently. Who would attack her? It’s a good-old-boys club over there with Egypt the prophesied “King of the South.”

Egypt is about to have more F-16s from America than Israel has.

Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood has proceeded to remake Egypt into an Islamist state at a blistering pace. He’s not on America’s side and he for sure isn’t on Israel’s side. He has called the Jews apes, pigs, and bloodsuckers for starters. That doesn’t sound like a Middle East broker — rather, a power player with a chip on his shoulder and evil intent.

He is famous for this touching statement: “Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred.”

Yet our White House and State Department are determined to arm him to the hilt! As I said, our times don’t make sense. Arming Morsi is about as productive as sending Syria’s Bashar Assad some additional chemicals for his chemical arsenal.

Here’s what the Morsi administration guarantees:

1) War with Israel.

2) Further destabilizing the Middle East.

3) Causing blockades of the Suez Canal and using that geographical hot spot as a sort of bargaining chip with friends and enemies.

4) Joining forces with the Islamic Republic of Iran to totally destabilize the region and double the threat against Israel.

5) Furthering the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood that sees a global caliphate with the Islamic flag above every other flag in the world.

6) Continuing to arm Hamas so they can chip away at Israel.

7) Continuing the slaughter of Egypt’s own people who now realize Morsi’s promises of glory days coming to Egypt were a big lie.

Why on earth do this White House and State Department want to arm this Islamic stronghold that is not even a friend let alone an ally? Morsi’s Egypt is an outfit that would not think twice about obliterating Israel. They want the Islamic flag flying over the White House. Yes, some of our nation’s leaders love Islam far more than Christianity but that is not a full explanation of this insanity.

Author and commentator Bill Salus writes, “It’s important to note that within six years after Egypt gained its independence in 1922, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded by Egyptian Hassan al-Banna in March of 1928 as an Islamist religious and political movement. Hassan al-Banna was an acknowledged admirer of Adolph Hitler and frequently corresponded with him. During the 1930s the Muslim Brotherhood became a secretive arm of Nazi Intelligence. The Third Reich intended to develop the Muslim Brotherhood into a Nazi army inside of Egypt.

He concludes,”On October 26, 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood was suspected in the assassination attempt of Egyptian president Gamal Abd al-Nasser. This justifiably began a period of repression of the Muslim Brotherhood by the Nasser government. Then on October 6, 1981, Nasser’s successor, Anwar Sadat was assassinated, and the Muslim Brotherhood was strongly implicated with his death. But now, with Nasser, Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak out of the Egyptian presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood can finally attempt to attain their goals to implement Sharia law in Egypt, and to form a new United Arab States with Jerusalem as its capital city, through Egypt’s new president Mohammed Morsi.”

The stakes are high and America is playing with matches. America could be a key player in lighting the whole region aflame by arming the “King of the South,” Egypt. And as Islam expert Andrew McCarthy says, “When you ‘partner’ with Islamists, you are abetting the global jihad, not opposing it. When you arm Islamists, you become a willing participant in your own undoing.”

It’s last days’ madness and if we didn’t know that glorious days are ahead fellowshipping with loved ones at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we could collectively scream over the lunacy of modern-day diplomacy. Unspeakably evil men and women plot and scheme to cause maximum harm all in the name of good diplomatic relations! Only in the end-times.

Come, Lord Jesus, and rule!

Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace :: by Jan Markell

We are nearing the second anniversary of a terrible event — the killing of many members of the Fogel family in Israel by Palestinian terrorists. The intruders were unmerciful, going from room to room in their act of evil, thankfully overlooking two small children. A third was out for the evening but had to return to the scene.

Subsequently, after their capture, the two terrorists expressed no remorse for their actions, saying that had they known that two other children had been sleeping in the Fogel home at the time, they would have murdered them as well.

Many Palestinians reacted with sheer joy to news of the massacre, handing out sweets in the streets of Rafah to passersby as though their team had just won the World Cup. And a poll taken shortly afterwards found that a whopping 32% of Palestinians said they supported this despicable act of murder.

But let’s be frank: All of these folks are in need of the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. And while Newt Gingrich’s history of the Palestinians as an “invented people” is more right than wrong, no Bible-believing Christian wants to see them suffer as they are, although it is at the hands of their own leadership and not the Israelis.

Enter Wheaton College’s Gary Burge and Christianity Today magazine. Recently Christianity Today, the prominent evangelical journal that has been leaning Left for years, spotlighted the, “Top 5 Books on Israel & Palestine,” as asserted by Gary Burge.

Burge is a crusader for trying to shift evangelicals away from their typically pro-Israel stance. All five books naturally tout a pro-Palestinian perspective to varying degrees. It would have been right and honorable to feature a pro-Israel book as well but that likely found no favor. Should the magazine be titled Christianity Astray with it’s Left-leaning agenda of the last 20 years?

Let’s consider two of the featured books:

On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend by Timothy Weber, explains “why America and its evangelical communities are so ardently pro-Israel.” He is not even subtle. The fact that evangelicals stand with Israel has apocalyptic overtones! It smacks of Armageddon! It would be nice if Burge and Christianity Today would insert that evangelicals are Israel’s ONLY friend. The torment of the Jewish state by the Obama administration has just begun. And that will truly lead to the real, biblical Armageddon!

Another book reviewed is Colin Chapman’s Whose Promised Land? The Continuing Crisis over Israel and Palestine. Chapman parrots the new party line claiming that Islamic Fundamentalism is a carbon copy of Jewish Fundamentalism, blaming the Jews, yet again, for everything.

He says, “I have to say that I think I can understand what motivates a person to be a suicide bomber. If my situation were intolerable and couldn’t get any worse, and if my religious teachers told me that by blowing myself up and killing some of the enemy in the process I would be guaranteed instant access to Paradise, I might think seriously about going down that road.”

Thanks to Gary Burge’s leadership, Wheaton is headed down the same rocky road that my alma mater is, Bethel University. I attended their seminar in September with the most visible pro-Palestinian advocate, Lynne Hybels, making tragic false claims about the “ongoing Middle East conflict.”

Mark Tooley of the Institute for Religion and Democracy says, “Burge’s book selection for Christianity Today asserts his overall narrative of Israel as an imperialist intrusion on indigenous Palestinians, for which America and especially America’s pro-Israel evangelicals are especially culpable. By telling stories of victimhood by Palestinians, especially the tiny Christian minority, Burge hopes to influence evangelicals towards neutrality or, better yet, pro-Palestinian advocacy.”

Tooley concludes, “Burge and fellow Evangelical Left anti-Israel crusaders, of course, assume that Israeli intransigence is the primary blockage to peace. But what if Israel unilaterally withdrew to its pre-1967 borders, abandoned Jerusalem, and allowed an unlimited right of return for all Palestinians claiming descent from original Palestinian residents in what is now Israel? Would these unilateral concessions completely appease most Palestinians? Or would they not feed thirsts for even greater victory, to include the eradication of Israel as a Jewish nation?”

And none of these outfits or individuals, not Gary Burge, Wheaton College, Bethel University, Colin Chapman, Timothy Weber, Lynn Hybels, orChristianity Today, wants to reference the Fogel family. That is my point. Only the “brutality” of the Israelis is on their mind. The blame game in the Middle East drama always has their villains out of sync. They’re usually Jews and evangelical Christians.

The Palestinians do not wish to live in peace with Israel. They have had ample opportunity to do so, but have rejected every offer, even the most generous.

It’s time for their defenders to do a reality check.