World leaders call for arms embargo and more
Weekly Israel Briefings
The Dynamic Duo: Trump and Musk – Part 1
Connecting the Dots
Israel Analysis: The media Fifth Column
Stupidocrisy: Ignoring the warnings
Forgetting Even Most-needy Americans – FEMA
Apostasy in the Church: Catastrophic takes
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Israel
PM Netanyahu, French President Macron, on collision course over Lebanon war
In long-shot wartime proposal, Spain and PA push for reprise of 1991 Madrid peace summit
Biden said to claim ’18 out of 19 people who work for Netanyahu are liars’
Kamala Harris surrogate Richard Haass takes shots at Israel from synagogue stage on Yom Kippur
State Department stands by adviser who spoke at pro-Hezbollah rally where Jews were told to ‘Go Back to Poland’
Analysis
Is the West prepared to deal with potential Iranian sabotage of the oil market?
Pentagon issues Federal Directive allowing military to use ‘lethal force’ against Americans as video resurfaces showing Kamala fantasizing about weaponizing DOJ against U.S. citizens
Geoengineering a Psychic Storm
Insight
NATO grapples with Russian airspace violations and defense posturing
EU imposes new sanctions on Iran for missile transfers to Russia
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Connecting the Dots
Israel Analysis
The Media Fifth Column
By Jim Fletcher
At a time when the demonic Biden Regime is threatening Israel yet again(!) by a vow to withhold arms unless the IDF provides more humanitarian assistance to their enemy in Gaza, internal enemies also threaten perhaps the most just war in history.
As if we need to re-cap this: on October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists, including a number of Gaza civilians raped, murdered and kidnapped more than 1,000 Israeli citizens inside Israeli territory. This is undisputed; Hamas videoed and uploaded the satanic attacks.
Yet, Israel is now in the dock of international opinion, once again. It has been said that the world will tolerate weak or dead Jews. They loathe Jews that defend themselves.
Leftist media in Israel are as bad as anywhere else. Advocacy Journalism has replaced real journalism—if it ever existed. Advocates toss aside objectivity and run their narrative. They are literally paid to do this.
What else can be said for this October 15 headline in the Jerusalem Post?
“Israeli gov’t claims it didn’t know about October 7, what’s its excuse for Hezbollah? – editorial”
Unreal.
In the middle of an existential war, when the war cabinet needs every available brain cell to combat jihad devils, the cabinet and the prime minister in particular are assaulted in print by their own journalists. There are people in Israel that hate Benjamin Netanyahu so much, they will harm the country by attacking him in print.
No one on the planet denies that Israel wasn’t ready for the October 7 battle. It’s a bit similar to 1973, when Israel was caught flat-footed on Yom Kippur as Egypt and Syria surprise-attacked.
The opening lines of this editorial deserve the same kind of scrutiny they are heaping on Netanyahu:
“When the state commission of inquiry is established, Lebanon has to take up a massive chunk of it to question how a monster grew here right under our nose.”
Extraordinary. Do the writers believe they would have done a better job? Why didn’t the Post write an op-ed on October 6 warning of the impending attack?
Just as in America, the piece is headlined also by a photo of a dark, brooding Netanyahu in the Knesset. This type of effect (such as the ones depicting Trump screaming in American articles) is intended to place an image in the public’s collective mind. Netanyahu unstable. Unreliable. Slipping.
But make no mistake: God has His man in the chair at precisely the right moment in history.
The British elite that castigated Churchill in the 1930s and even during the war were able to do so from the safety net of freedom he was providing. Same with Israel today.
During World War 2, when FDR asked/demanded that journalists refrain from writing about Allied troop movements or other sensitive military info, they obeyed. The country was at stake. Civilization was at stake.
The political and media spheres are interlinked. This same week, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett began gathering support for the creation of a possible new party in Israel, one of course that would challenge Likud and Netanyahu.
How much more disloyal can you get? During a state of existential war, these people are attempting to further their own careers at the expense of the nation’s survival. Bennett was long thought to be Bibi’s successor, but he couldn’t wait and entered into a political alliance with the loathsome Yair Lapid; each was PM for about 10 minutes before their governments collapsed. And they did so when the corrupt Media were trying to help them.
The people wanted Netanyahu. In a state of war, would you want him in charge, or the rest of the weak field?
The Israeli journalists that are undermining their own country will be judged harshly by history.
The op-ed reveals early on the real animus toward Netanyahu:
“One thing it is not is impenetrable, nor prone to fractures. This was displayed on a societal level – a near split – during the campaign to advance judicial reform legislation, a campaign the government pursued in earnest when it came to power in 2022.”
Netanyahu, before the war, was attempting to oversee an overhaul of the country’s judicial system. His enemies paint that as the workings of a dictator (even though they rarely criticize real dictators), claiming he is only trying to stall or dismantle the court cases against him. But in fact, the Israeli system is similar to the American judicial system: shot-through with leftists. We are seeing this play out in real time in America, with political prisoners like Steve Bannon and, potentially, Trump himself.
So even in a time of war, Israeli journalism tries to destroy the Churchill in their midst.
Madness.
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Stupidocrisy: Ignoring the warnings
By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst
WASH—Oct 16—KIN–In recent weeks, there have been a lot of conspiracy theories abounding across social media and among friends. We have heard that because there are lithium deposits, the government created the Helene hurricane damage so it can seize the land for a proposed mining operation. Also, there is a theory that the Biden-Harris Administration caused the hurricane to go through key Republican areas of middle America so as to influence the election. The fact is, people will believe what they want to believe and it is more difficult to convince someone of the truth than a lie that they want to believe is true. But hear this: God is in control of the weather and is it not feasible that these disasters are clear warnings?
While it’s not proven that government can create hurricanes and direct their paths with secret weather machines and cloud seeding, it is proven that political parties will go to great lengths to keep or attain power. Put aside for a moment the theory of government weather control and look at the aftermath. The presidential election is less than a month away. Areas hit the hardest hold a lot of Republican votes. What is in control of the party in power is the response to recovery. In many cases, people have given up having the government assist in recovery. They are doing it themselves. Will they be able to vote? Not if the infrastructure is so impaired that people cannot get to the polls. The Biden-Harris Federal Emergency Management Administration—FEMA–has a lot of power in determining the pace of recovery.
There have been various accounts of how the government, along with billionaire investors and World Economic Forum members like Blackrock, directed the path of Helene through North Carolina so they could take control of the lithium deposits. This theory was so widespread that even the mainstream news media picked up on it. But pump the brakes just a second. It may be true that these corporations, investors and perhaps even the government want to get their greedy hands on the lithium deposits against property owners’ will. However, if the government wanted that land it doesn’t have to create a natural disaster to seize it. There are hundreds of thousands of private property owners who can attest to the government’s power of eminent domain.
So let me get to the point. Under Biden-Harris, the US has sent billions of your tax dollars to terrorist entities like Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Authority and more—BILLIONS. They can call it humanitarian aid or whatever—it goes to the terrorists. When these current storms hit, Biden-Harris was trying to bribe Israel to a ceasefire by offering diplomatic protection and weapons. Additionally, Biden-Harris was trying to negotiate a two-state solution with Israel’s enemies. America is inextricably tied to Israel. It is written of Israel in Genesis 12:3, “I will bless them that bless you and curse him that curses you.” How many times has God sent natural, political or financial disasters as warnings? We have a choice to change leadership soon. To ignore that choice is, say it with me, Stupidocrisy.
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Forgetting even most-needy Americans – FEMA
By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst
WASH—Oct 15—KIN–Nearly 20 years ago (August 2005), President George W. Bush was torn apart by his Democrat detractors and the news media for what was considered a “delayed response” to help people impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The criticism was relentless. As the story unfolded, however, the Democrat mayor of New Orleans delayed emergency evacuations that cost the lives of hundreds of people and he failed to have a flood plan, leaving people without food, water or security. Looting and anarchy were featured on the evening news as well as the stories of those impacted by the failed response. In retrospect, US News wrote a story about how the Katrina response was the undoing of Bush. Fast forward to today…
The media is essentially giving Joe Biden a pass, but criticism from Republicans in an election year is drawing attention to one of the most blundered recoveries in modern times in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Helene moved right up through a conservative cross-section of America, devastating mountainous areas in unusual fashion. In the aftermath, Biden-Harris Administration officials had varying accounts as to why the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) was slow to respond in recovery efforts. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on October 2, “We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what is imminent.” But a DHS inspector general report found that FEMA was sitting on $7 billion.
Further complicating the response was Vice President Kamala Harris saying in an October 3 speech, “And the federal relief and assistance that we have been providing has included FEMA providing $750 for folks who need immediate needs being met, such as food, baby formula, and the like. And you can apply now.” Her tone-deaf remark was taken as if that’s what the government was providing and left people wondering how they can apply when there is no infrastructure through which to apply. Her heroic announcement stirred anger and her campaign, the White House and the news media had to “clarify” what she meant. She also got into a word salad fail with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, claiming he was motivated by politics not the needs of the people. Even Joe Biden stepped in and said the governor was doing a great job. Bad Kamala.
Biden-Harris remade FEMA to advance a radical illegal immigration policy. This, they deny profusely, but FEMA itself says on its website “For Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will provide $640.9 million of available funds to enable non-federal entities to off-set allowable costs incurred for services associated with noncitizen migrant arrivals in their communities.” In addition, the State Department announced October 2 it was giving $157 million to Lebanon for “new and existing needs of internally displaced persons and refugee populations.” Plenty for illegals and humanitarian aid to terrorist organizations. But to Americans? Victims of Helene are finding first-hand, government cannot be trusted. Their anthem may well be Psalm 20:7, “Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.”
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Apostasy in the Church
Catastrophic takes
By Jim Fletcher
As I “like” to analyze, the ant-Israel forces within the Church are perhaps the most disheartening of the apostate subjects. And when I hear of a lion of the faith falling in this regard, it is outright disturbing. R.C. Sproul is such a leader.
Tweeted this week, we see some of the roots to Replacement Theology, and from a beloved scholarly figure:
“This was published 25 years ago and like the tiny ember that set the forest ablaze, Replacement Theo is now burning wildly in churches worldwide just as the Bible prophesied that Israel would be hated by the whole world then the end would come.”
The tweet referenced a quote from R.C. Sproul:
The New Israel?
“We’re not dispensationalists here….We believe that the church is essentially Israel. We believe that the answer to, ‘What about the Jews?’ is, ‘Here we are.’ We deny that the church is God’s ‘plan B.’ We deny that we are living in God’s redemptive parenthesis. There, we are again one people. In His holy and heavenly temple there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, pre-mil nor post-mil. There, we are all together, the Israel of God, princes with God, and the ekklesia of God, the set apart ones.”
Sproul wrote that in the spring of 1999. He died seven years ago, but remains very popular among the Reformed crowd.
Reformed scholars and clergy often are very good about theology and doctrine. For example, they are usually excellent in interpreting Genesis. Origins, they are staunchly scriptural.
This I think is a holdover from some of the great biblical scholars of the last two centuries, including Robert Dick Wilson, Oswald Allis, J. Gresham Machen, and Cornelius Van Til. I sometimes get in trouble with dispensationalists by quoting these men favorably—because they were not dispensationalists—but they were superb in many ways. Still, they had not really penetrated evangelicalism as a whole. Not the SBC, AG, etc.
That has changed in the last 20 years. Reformed theology, in my view, has taken over the Southern Baptist Convention.
And that has affected eschatology in a big way. Israel is out, Replacement Theology is in. You must also understand that proponents of Replacement Theology will tell you they aren’t proponents of Replacement Theology. They will either outright deny it, or use a different term. The term itself is apt, and that’s their problem. It too accurately defines them.
Sproul was comfortable believing the Church is the “New Israel.” Supersessionism is another term to describe it.
It is astounding that a biblical scholar would claim to be a Jew. And here we are talking about very basic concepts. Don’t get wrapped-up in doctorate-level scholarship. Anyone can read the Bible and understand the special role for the Jews and Israel. And can understand what an ethnic Jew is. It is astounding that a modern scholar could say that ancient Israel has no connection to the modern state of Israel. Only a mind and heart that don’t like Jews would conceive of such a thing.
Here is the biggest problem for Supersessionists: how do you explain the existence of the state of Israel?
Why are the Jews reconstituted in their ancestral land? Are they an “accident” of history? That’s the lame view given by some.
Wilson is an example of a scholar not afflicted by bias. Although he died before Israel was established in 1948, the Princeton legend understood the attacks on the Old Testament. For example, many scholars were trying to claim more than one author for Isaiah. Why? In order to get rid of prophecy! They reasoned that if they could claim a later, anonymous editor had recorded a “prophecy,” they could fool people, when in fact said prophecy was just history written after the fact. Does that make sense? Wilson would have none of it.
“If we believe in predictive prophecy, the whole of the book of Isaiah may confidently by attributed to him.” —Robert Dick Wilson, “The Influence of Daniel,” July, 1923, The Princeton Theological Review, Volume XXI, No. 3
Here is one of the most beautiful thoughts I’ve ever seen expressed:
“And when the children of Israel had been carried away to the rich plains of Babylon, so beautiful, so vast, was it as a Greek patriot to the Athens of his dreams, or a Scotsman to his ‘ain countrie?’ Not thus. But they wept when ‘they remembered Zion.’ Not thus does the Catholic pilgrim sing when he treads the streets of papal Rome and stands in awe beneath the dome of St. Peter’s. Not thus does the Arab Hadji pray when he bows within the sacred precincts of the Kaaba. But thus has every Jew throughout the ages, the record of whose thoughts and feelings has been preserved to us; and thus does every child of Abraham, according to the promise, feel — that not to Babylon, the golden city, the mother of science and arts and commerce and of idolatry and harlotries and sorceries, do we look for the springs of our religion and the hope of our salvation, but to Jerusalem, the golden, the city of the great King.”
This Wilson wrote in his masterwork, A Scientific Investigation of The Old Testament.
He got it. In spades. Too bad Sproul didn’t.
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Israel
PM Netanyahu, French President Macron, on collision course over Lebanon war
October 15, 2024
Source: All Israel News
Netanyahu told Macron Israel will not accept a unilateral ceasefire in Lebanon that will allow for Hezbollah’s threat to persist
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron blasted each other’s remarks over Lebanon in statements made both publicly and privately. The two leaders spoke over the phone on Tuesday, less than two weeks after Macron has called for an arms embargo on Israel – to which Netanyahu replied: “Shame.”
Netanyahu told Macron that he opposes a unilateral ceasefire in Lebanon which would not change the security situation in the north, his office said in a statement.
For the full article: All Israel News
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In long-shot wartime proposal, Spain and PA push for reprise of 1991 Madrid peace summit
October 15, 2024
Source: All Israel News
Pledging to meet by end of year, both players seek relevance as the Gaza conflict rages on; but experts say that with neither Israeli nor US participation, prospects are poor
MADRID — On a two-day official visit to Madrid last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas secured Spain’s commitment to host a bilateral Spanish-PA summit by year’s end.
Abbas was seeking the support of key Spanish leaders, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and King Felipe VI, in mediating future Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that would mirror collaborative peace efforts held in the Spanish capital three decades ago.
For the full article: All Israel News
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Biden said to claim ’18 out of 19 people who work for Netanyahu are liars’
October 16, 2024
Source: The Times of Israel
Journalist and author Bob Woodward, whose new book, “War,” has already made headlines, goes further in depicting the breakdown of trust between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden over the past year.
Snippets from the book have already reported that in private Biden referred to Netanyahu as a “f*****g liar” and called him a “son of a b***h” and “a bad f*****g guy.”
Asked about such comments in conversation with the Washington Post, Woodward says that Biden went further in conversations with his “close aides,” saying that “’18 of the 19 people who work for Netanyahu are liars.’ Total distrust.”
For the full article: The Times of Israel
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Kamala Harris surrogate Richard Haass takes shots at Israel from synagogue stage on Yom Kippur
October 15, 2024
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
‘Israel could and should have gone about this operation in a more discriminating way,’ Haass said of the Jewish state’s response to Oct. 7 Hamas attacks
Richard Haass, one of the top foreign policy pundits backing Kamala Harris, slammed Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, arguing that the Jewish state “should have gone about this operation in a far more discriminating way” and that the Israeli government “has not made it a priority” to secure the release of the remaining hostages.
For the full article: The Washington Free Beacon
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State Department stands by adviser who spoke at pro-Hezbollah rally where Jews were told to ‘Go Back to Poland’
October 15, 2024
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud spoke at rally that broke out in ‘Death to Israel’ chants
The State Department is standing by an adviser to the federal agency who spoke at an anti-Israel rally that saw chants of “Death to Israel,” praise for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and calls for Jews to be returned “back to Poland.”
For the full article: The Washington Free Beacon
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Analysis
Is the West prepared to deal with potential Iranian sabotage of the oil market?
October 14, 2024
Source: Oil Price
- The Israel-Hamas war could cause significant disruptions to the global oil market, similar to the 1973 Oil Crisis.
- Iran may retaliate through oil embargoes or attacks on key oil facilities, which could severely impact global oil supplies and prices.
- China’s influence has so far prevented a full-scale oil embargo, as it prioritizes its economic recovery and stable relations with the West.
As with the Russia-Ukraine War, a key component of the Israel-Hamas War (and the underlying conflict between Israel and Hamas’s sponsor, Iran) is oil. The question of how core European countries are to keep their economies going if Russian oil and gas flows are fully sanctioned has long threatened to derail the West’s response to increased Russian aggression in Europe, as analysed in full in my latest book on the new global oil market order. The question of whether Iran’s response to increased Western and Israeli actions against it and its terrorist proxies will include operations directly targeted at the global oil sector threatens chaos in the oil market of a sort not seen since at least the 1973/74 Oil Crisis.
For the full article: Oil Price
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Pentagon issues Federal Directive allowing military to use ‘lethal force’ against Americans as video resurfaces showing Kamala fantasizing about weaponizing DOJ against U.S. citizens
October 13, 2024
Source: LeoHohmann.com
A video clip has resurfaced from May of 2019 in which Kamala Harris fantasizes about weaponizing the DOJ against speech the government doesn’t like, and the platforms that allow it.
In the meantime, one month before a tense presidential election, the U.S. Department of Defense has authorized U.S. military “defense intelligence components” to use “lethal force” against American citizens if requested by state or local law enforcement in an emergency situation. More on this in a minute, but first let’s get to the May 2019 video showing Kamala Harris unleashing her inner dictator.
Speaking at the annual NAACP ‘Fight for Freedom Fund’ dinner in Detroit, Harris threatened: “We will put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice. We will double the civil rights division, and direct Law Enforcement to counter this extremism.”
For the full article: LeoHohmann.com
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Geoengineering a Psychic Storm
October 14, 2024
Source: Singularlty Weekly
Geoengineering is real and it’s a horrible idea. Civilian and military scientists have been attempting to control the weather for many decades. Anyone who’s just now discovering that is understandably shocked and probably disoriented. Hucksters rely on this effect. A mind that’s just been opened is easily duped.
“He who controls the weather,” Lyndon B. Johnson famously proclaimed, “will control the world!” No one remembers anything these days, though. When they do, it’s usually in the form of selectively edited quotes like this—cited as “proof” the government has long been capable of godlike weather control—which will occasionally resurface to stir a memetic storm.
After two decades, I’ve yet to see convincing evidence that any cabal has full control over the weather, whether it be heat waves or hurricanes. Cloud-seeding scientists have a hard enough time making it rain. However, there is ample evidence that shady actors are manipulating the noosphere—a.k.a. the realm of human culture—especially the interconnected sphere of our digitized minds.
For the full article: Singularlty Weekly
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Insight
NATO grapples with Russian airspace violations and defense posturing
October 15, 2024
Source: Oil Price
- NATO defense ministers meet with Indo-Pacific partners for the first time, signaling a focus on countering China’s influence.
- Ukraine’s defense minister will appeal for more military aid, particularly air defense and long-range missiles, amidst a discouraging situation on the front lines.
- Internal NATO discussions will cover contentious issues like responding to Russian airspace violations and pre-positioning defense equipment, as well as the selection of a new deputy secretary-general.
NATO’s defense ministers (and possibly a few leaders) will meet on October 17-18 in what will be new Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s first proper meeting as the head of the organization. It’s also the first time the defense ministers of the military alliance’s four “Indo-Pacific partners” — Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea — join for a session with their 32 NATO counterparts.
For the full article: Oil Price
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EU imposes new sanctions on Iran for missile transfers to Russia
October 15, 2024
Source: Oil Price
- The EU has imposed sanctions on seven Iranian individuals and seven entities, including Iran Air, for their involvement in the transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia.
- The sanctions include asset freezes, travel bans, and a prohibition on providing funds or economic resources to those listed.
- The EU’s relations with Iran have deteriorated further due to Iran’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and other factors.
Foreign ministers from the European Union have approved new sanctions against seven individuals and seven entities linked to Iran after Kyiv’s Western allies accused Tehran of sending ballistic missiles to Russia to aid in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions, reported in an exclusive by Radio Farda last week, target companies and individuals accused of being involved in the transfer of the weapons to Russia, including the country’s flagship carrier Iran Air, as well as airlines Saha Airlines and Mahan Air.
For the full article: Oil Price