Koenig’s Eye View
Report from Jerusalem
Tania and I have been in Israel this week. Our entire time has been spent in Jerusalem. There has been a lot of excitement and joyous celebration due to the Sukkoth celebration (October 16–23) while at the same time northern Israel has been hit with 100 to 150 rockets each day and night all week, including the Haifa area. A drone hit Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea but causing only slight damage to his bedroom window. Netanyahu said publicly Iran was trying to assassinate him and his wife, Sara.
While northern Israel is being hit, Israel continues bombing Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Netanyahu on Wednesday. I would love to have been in that meeting. The Biden administration continues hoping that Israel’s Iran response will not include energy and nuclear sites.
There was a Pentagon leak with Israel’s Iran attack plan, which is believed to have happened from an Iranian working inside the Pentagon. Some of the insiders here in Israel believe that may have set back Israel’s Iran response a few days, but there still seems to be interest in Israel attacking before the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, November 5. I am sure Blinken was trying to stop that.
There was also talk this week about the U.S.-brokered Israel-Saudi normalization talks. Senator Lindsey Graham was hoping to see that agreement completed before the end of the year.
We’ll continue to update events as they transpire at watch.org.
On Sunday afternoon we will attend Ambassador David Freidman’s “One Jewish State” presentation at the Middle East Summit, a new vision for truth-based peace. Below is the schedule:
‘Friendly and productive’ 2.5-hour meeting with Blinken in Jerusalem, Netanyahu says
Report: Israel delays Iran retaliation after US leak
Israel has delayed its retaliation against the Islamic Republic over the October 1 ballistic missile attack, after a Pentagon leak revealed Israeli plans, a British report claimed Thursday.
According to an unnamed intelligence source said to be familiar with Israeli deliberations and quoted by The Times daily, “The leak of the American documents delayed the attack due to the need to change certain strategies and components. There will be a retaliation, but it has taken longer than it was supposed to take.”
Earlier in the week, reports in U.S. media identified the suspected leaker as Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian American whose role as the bureau chief to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s aide for special operations granted her access to highly secret information. These reports were since disputed yet no official information is available on the suspect’s identity.
‘Act of treason,’ Rubio says of leaked US intel on Israel
Up to 1,000 missiles: Iranian officials disclose potential retaliation plans
‘Don’t count on THAAD’ for protection: IRGC issues renewed threats to Israel
Israeli delegation to travel to Qatar on Sunday to restart hostage talks
Blinken meets Saudi leader in bid to ease Israeli conflicts
Before flying to Riyadh to push normalization, Blinken stresses chance to end war
IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel
Will Israel assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei? – opinion
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JINSA is issuing a new Iran Nuclear Tracker that presents regularly updated charts and infographics on the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, including enrichment capacity, uranium stockpiles, and estimated breakout time.
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The Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA) Iran Projectile Tracker presents regularly updated charts and graphs on missiles, rockets, drones, and mortars that Iran and its regional proxies have fired at U.S. personnel, partners, and interests in the Middle East, as well as data for other Iran-linked malign activity. In light of Israel’s Operation Northern Arrows to increase its attacks neutralizing Hezbollah leaders, fighters, and capabilities and Hezbollah’s escalation against Israel, JINSA is releasing a weekly update with the latest information as of October 22 at 1:10 p.m. ET.
- Hezbollah’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) continue to demonstrate the ability to thwart Israeli air defenses. Beyond the strategic effect that even a single UAV could achieve, this points to potential problems in the event of a larger barrage involving a combination of UAVs, missiles, and rockets.
- An October 20 UAV attack that damaged the bedroom window of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea provides further evidence of a vulnerability in Israel’s ability to detect, identify, track, and defeat aerial threats.
- Hezbollah launched three UAVs against Netanyahu’s residence, with Israeli air defenses neutralizing two of them, but the third reached its target.
- The use of three UAVs, with one succeeding, resembled the attack against Binyamina military base on October 14 that killed four IDF soldiers indicates.
- Israel faced a similar problem when it failed to detect a Houthi UAV in July that flew from Yemen over Sudan, southern Egypt, and then struck Tel Aviv from the Mediterranean Sea.
- While Netanyahu and his wife Sara were not at their home at the time of the attack, the attack demonstrated Hezbollah’s capability to inflict damage on the Israeli leader’s residence that could have been much more disastrous. This threat underscores the necessity of Israeli operations to further degrade the terrorist group’s capabilities.
- The combination of Israeli air, ground, and covert operations have severely degraded Hezbollah, its capacity to launch a massive attack against Israel, and its ability to fund its operations. However, it still retains significant firepower.
- The IDF estimates that it has killed roughly 1,200 Hezbollah terrorists since the start of the ground offensive on October 1 and over 2,000 Hezbollah terrorists since the war began. The IDF indicated that its air and ground operations had killed “seven [Hezbollah] brigade commanders, 21 battalion commanders, and 24 company commanders.”
- IDF Commander of Northern Command Ori Gordin noted on October 21 that “most of the [Hezbollah] brigade commanders have already been eliminated for the third time, and Hezbollah’s command structure has been severely damaged.”
- Due to the combination of Hezbollah fire and IDF operations, the IDF estimates that Hezbollah only has roughly 30% of its pre-war arsenal. However, Israeli strikes have primarily destroyed Hezbollah’s imprecise short- and medium-range rockets, and the terrorist group still maintains a large arsenal of more destructive and precise missiles.
- Israel has also expanded its operations to targeting the financial networks throughout Lebanon that Hezbollah uses to fund its terrorist activities. This included multiple strikes on October 20 against multiple facilities operated by the Al-Qard Al-Hasan (AQAH) bank and IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari revealing that the terrorist organization is hiding $500 million in gold and cash in a bunker under Beirut’s Al-Sahel Hospital.
- The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned AQAH in 2007 for its role “as a cover to manage [Hezbollah’s] financial activities” to “gain access to the international financial system.”
- The Iran-backed terrorist group would likely struggle to launch the 6,000 projectiles per day that Israel had feared it would face in a major conflict because of its diminished arsenal, capability to launch projectiles, leadership disorder, and communications breakdowns.
- Yet, the current escalation favors Israel, with Hezbollah attacks combined with Israeli strikes rapidly depleting the terrorist group’s arsenal and, therefore, its ability to serve as a second-strike deterrent against Israeli action targeting Iran.
- Hezbollah is currently trying to regroup, and it is not clear whether its decision not to increase its fire further shows a lack of capability or a desire to preserve some capabilities.
- However, Israel has not been targeting Hezbollah at its maximum capacity, likely due to a shortage of munitions after heavy fire over the past year and delays, as well as threats of delays, for arms transfers from the United States. Instead of promoting de-escalation, restraining Israeli operations and delaying arms transfers elongates the war by forcing Israel to degrade Hezbollah over a lengthier timeframe.
- Israel reportedly sent a ceasefire proposal to U.S. officials that included allowing the IDF to pursue “active enforcement” to make sure that Hezbollah does not rearm itself or return fighters to the border area, which would prevent a deal from reversing the important gains that Israel has made. The proposal also recognizes the failures of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to ensure Hezbollah disarms.
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin indicated on October 21 that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) air defense battery that the United States deployed to Israel was now “in place.” As Israel prepares to respond to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on October 1 and in anticipation of a possible Iranian counterattack, the U.S. deployment of its most advanced U.S. ballistic missile air defense platform bolsters its air defenses and signals U.S. support for defending Israel.
- The deployment adds another battery capable of firing interceptors and also surges interceptors to Israel amid a reported air defense interceptor shortage due to the heavy fire targeting Israel over the past year.
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The Dynamic Duo: Trump and Musk – Part 2
By William Koenig with Emily Jourdan
Part 2
Masked Agendas
The very stale and world-bending WEF agenda consisting of AI, climate change and organizational transformation shines the spotlight on an additional layer of lies and propaganda. To get globalism done, they mask their the takeover of private corporations here in the U.S. by calling it “organizational transformation” in order to blindside the world with a power that they’ve already amassed with no safety net (AI), no proof (climate change) and no permission (public domain)―just greed, lies and cancellation of proven scientific truths (Climate Crisis Is a Lie).
In exchange for money and power, these arrogant WEF elites and their political patsies across the U.S. continue dismantling the American way of life. Their media arm attacks Trump as evil when in fact he exemplifies the very principles that make our nation powerful: freedom, independence and bravery. Meanwhile the uniparty puppets are bulldozing the true strength of our nation: our middle class, our rule of law, our efficient systems, our military, our Judeo-Christian heritage and our meritocratic values so that their elite benefactors can continue forcing big government and power-to-the-party values, touting themselves and the lawmakers responsible as “moderates.”
These people in Congress are not moderates. They are dictators in a well-orchestrated puppet show. They do not want American citizens to have freedom and independence or to be brave. Proof of their anti-American values is glaring in both their gross fiscal negligence and in the unending parade of violent illegal alien criminals allowed to enter our nation unimpeded (1000s of Violent Criminals).
The post-COVID-19 uniparty in this country has allowed massive entitlement spending and erected committees who order the imprisonment of American patriots, most of whom have not committed a crime. Both wreak of Marxism in which people who oppose the party line are imprisoned to instill fear while others who should not benefit at all are provided with entitlements in order to drain the system of economic resources meant for U.S. citizens (Overwhelming the System).
If the use of government entitlements via printed money continues to grow, our nation will be bankrupted by a financial “spoon feeding” of government over God. Unlike God, however, the government cannot sustain humans or give them spiritual hope. Only God can do that. God loves His children with grace, truth and love. He is the ultimate provider and creator, who gives believers free will to make choices. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15 KJV).
The globalists know that. They also know that the only way their one-world order can prevail over the American people is to replace our Judeo-Christian belief system with one that depends on government as God. Donald J. Trump and MAGA are the only two things standing in the way of that plan. That is why they vilify Trump, who has before and will again represent the voice of the American people over the voices of these elitist pigs and their patsies who want to bankrupt American both financially and spiritually.
Trump wants all of us to have the free will that God provides. His government is not seeking to rule over you or to sell you down a globalist river of centralized global socialism. Trump is defender of the Constitution and a smaller and truly representative government that benefits the hard-working masses. A true American, Trump favors policies that help our country better itself economically in order to Make America Great Again (Tariffs) rather than those which foster social dysfunction and crush the will of the people trying to work hard and live lifestyles that honor God, not government. “Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye” (Acts 4:19 KJV).
The One-World Order Is Not a Joke
The World Economic Forum agenda is the purveyor of government to the extreme―a globalized socialist economy. Sounds lovely when they sell it as they do under the guise of equity, sustainability and the “common good.” The problem is that there is no differential value placed on individual effort, which translates to the quintessential opposite of the free markets, free will, individual wealth and sky-is-the-limit options offered by America’s constitutional representative republic under God.
Suffice it to say that Donald Trump’s MAGA and the WEF’s global socialism are polar opposites. MAGA brings prosperity to our nation as a whole and to all our citizens with limited government, domestic production and small-business tax breaks to bolster the middle class―while globalism is big government deciding and distributing everything for “the common good,” which really means for the good of a few.
The globalists deny that their Great Reset is anything but an “opportunity” created by COVID-19 (WEF Evil Lurks), but when you see it proven that COVID-19 was a lie in that it was produced in a lab after all (Origin: Lab), that the vaccine wasn’t really a vaccine (Flu Shot) and that the jabs are harmful to humans (Jabs Harmful), where does that leave us?
Donald Trump has quipped that he left a heck of a life as a private citizen to serve the American people and this country, a sense of duty that has, in fact, left him dodging bullets allowed to pass by a never-before-incompetent secret service who somehow chose to take chances and ignore warnings (He Doesn’t Give Up). All this is while the WEF elites, bored in their godless existence, feel compelled to build a centralized world economy, crowning themselves as the ten kings from Revelation.
A giant monument to self and earthly achievement, this tower of Babel is consummated by the desire to control the rest of us. In fact, the whole plot demonstrates the trickle-down theory of economics in which the participation of any good “moderate” puppet politician in D.C. can earn big by signing on to the uniparty voting brigade if seeking to maintain status quo for his or her own personal power, self-importance and pocketbook.
The entire system that advocates for globalism sits atop a bubble of “misinformation,” which is a further testament to the evil behind their scheme. It is a scheme that requires destruction of what is in order to force the complete and total control that they want. The future of globalism is based on the lies that include climate change (Climate Change a Lie), AI (AI Is Dangerous and Propagates Lies) and the thin veil of Marxism that calls for “organizational transformation” (ESG Leads to Failure), whereby the employees, the state, or global central control just takes over private enterprise based on malleable metrics that seek to prove arbitrary indiscretions at best.
These evil, greedy, power-mongering people are the WEF’s finest. They are CEOs, famous people and heads of state who meet annually in the elitist ski resort town of Davos, Switzerland, and rack up a bill for hookers in one weekend (High-Dollar Hired Help) (Davos in the Dark) that surpasses the annual budgets of most American families. A quick look on the stages of the WEF and at the attendance list each year reveals that this is about power and money.
The elites are not interested in helping anyone but themselves. Their talk of safety, security and sustainability are really more about giving the plebians some social justice to sink their teeth into as they duke it out at the lower levels. The whole scenario is based on lies that begin with climate change and end with a sick desire to control the planet and all the people in it (Globalist 15-Minute Prison Cities), because lies are their only way to achieve such a horrendously tyrannical plot.
MAGA Extremism or American Capitalism?
MAGA extremism is really just American capitalism, and both are the mortal enemies of globalism. WEF diehards and founders like Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, George Soros and Bill Gates are just as evil as the organization itself. Having enlisted people like Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton, who form a de facto globalist web in high places, fuels the fire seeking to bring our country down. Hillary was set to take over after Barack’s reign of terror ended, but Trump surprised the world.
Once Trump beat Hillary in 2016, the WEF’s globalism took a back seat to Trump’s MAGA. As the Trump term wore on, the globalists must have felt desperate to douse the flames of the peaceful and prosperous economic perfection of his presidency, and quickly. They could not allow Trump to continue making the United States great, strong, wealthy and happy with its achievements as the world’s superpower.
Their Plan B was COVID-19. It came on like a well-organized conference on the black plague and handily demonized Trump as well as instilled fear in the average American with chaos and social media censorship front and center. The globalists had our attention and were once again able to accelerate their plans for world tyranny with lies under a different name: “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
For over two years the “plandemic” mandates based on these lies (Fauci COVID Coverup) locked us all up in our homes and caused all sorts of ancillary problems. The real reason for COVID-19 (Senator Scott Video) was causing weakness where there had always been strength. Biden’s step-up and overextension of entitlement expenditures that fostered social engineering and other bizarre sociosexual-agendas-turned-budget-line-items eventually caused inflation, interest rate hikes, bank failures and other issues that have collectively damaged our nation on multiple levels.
COVID-19 triggered a trifecta of fiscal irresponsibility, unavoidable consequences and crisis fatigue in response to a “plandemic” that Gates actually warned us about and Klaus Schwab conveniently used to push the Great Reset. This scheme afforded globalists the complex, multilevel chaos they needed to crush Trump and jump-start the final destruction of America’s capitalist system, her Judeo-Christian heritage and her worldwide hegemony in order to provide “equity” for our planet. What is clear is that neither our American values under God―not government―nor our free-market economy and meritocratic standards are compatible with globalist “equity.”
That explains why the annihilation of Trump has deep roots in globalism. Trump is a fan of America and the American people. His surprise election over Hillary Clinton―uniparty globalist puppet politician extraordinaire―halted efforts to destroy American hegemony in favor of a global economy. With Trump in the White House, his MAGA plan to reinvent domestic production then made him and the United States of America fresh symbols of intertwined success and strength―the exact opposite of a one-world order under “the Great Reset” and subsequent global socialism of WEF fame.
The WEF’s plan of a globalist victory demands the fall of the United States in order to take her resources and destroy her light under God as a beacon of strength, peace, hope, freedom and prosperity for the rest of the world. Only an America in a catatonic state of chaos and weakness would allow the anti-meritocratic, socially extreme polar-opposite goals of globalism to take root in this country. To that end, the globalists and their paid puppets in Congress created an enemy. That enemy is “MAGA extremism,” and it was created out of thin air to give a name to “anything not supporting a global economy.”
“MAGA extremism” has no meaning on its own. It doesn’t exist. MAGA is not extreme, but its role as a derogatory misnomer for what is better known as American capitalism is doing a great job of giving a bad name to Trump, to policies that consider America first (as they should) and to the free-market economic system that has made our nation not only great for Americans but also the great provider for the world’s poor for almost 250 years.
Indeed, American capitalism has done a lot of good. It thrives under God with small government, lower regulation and burgeoning private enterprise―whereas globalism, or worldwide global socialism, means centralized digital control that will lock up everyone on the planet and throw away the key for way longer than COVID-19 did. Globalism is the exact opposite of the American capitalist system. Trump provides the perfect smokescreen that the globalists need for their targeted smear campaigns that vilify an enemy named Donald J. Trump to make themselves and globalism look good. The only problem is that Trump is not the real enemy.
The real enemy of the global one-world order is America the beautiful, land of the free and the brave. Donald J. Trump just happened to “mistakenly” land in the White House in 2016, putting him in the way of the globalists’ final moves toward a centralized global economy. Though the globalists, their political patsies and their media arm continue to attack Trump, he has prevented globalism from happening. He is even willing to come back to the White House again to make sure it goes away forever, even if he might be assassinated in the process. That level of bravery and dedication is what MAGA is all about.
Trump is the most admirably populist president of our time and a profoundly successful businessman atop a free-market capitalist system. His business acumen and personal success are undisputable. It is that same dedication Trump brings to governing America. His success and resulting U.S. peace and prosperity have forced the globalists and their desperate one-world-order agenda to frame Trump as a “dictator” and an “extremist” with matching accusations that paint American values as “selfish,” “racist” and “supremacist” in order to make the stark and unappealing reality of globalist equity, reverse racism, anti-meritocracy and centralized global tyranny look good.
Globalism is not good. It is the opposite of everything America values from God on down the line. Those in favor, who believe the leftist sociosexual agenda is for them, do not understand that the globalists are using these base agendas to crush not only Trump but also freedom, America, Americans and all of humanity across the globe in order to award power to the elite few. These elites are forcing a thing called globalism in the name of security, safety or sustainability when their real intent is to make a global socialism sound good, forming a smokescreen that allows the global elites to triumph over God’s people―an unmistakable Tower of Babel, a monument to self, greed and power. “Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough. . . . They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter” (Isaiah 56:11 KJV).