Christian Merchants of Death
Defense stocks rallied after Pres. Trump signed a $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia which was the “biggest single arms deal” in US’ history. The State Department’s Human Rights Report made no secret of Saudi Arabia’s numerous human rights abuses, saying, “The most important human rights problems reported included citizens’ lack of the ability […]
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Israel becomes a spoil
Israel is embarking on its largest-ever infrastructure project with the development of the huge Leviathan offshore gas field in the Mediterranean. The development of Leviathan, which is scheduled to take about three years, constitutes both the largest energy project and financial investment in Israel in the country’s history. Developers of Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field committed […]
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Turkey will leave N.A.T.O.
Since the coup attempt that killed 270 people Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned a democracy into his autocracy. The purges in Turkey now makes the McCarthy era during the 1950’s look like a picnic. A total of 2740 judges and prosecutors have been detained while 4,897 State employees were fired, and 76,567 State […]
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US support of Israel withdrawn
Today the UN Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements. Applause broke out in the 15-member Security Council’s chambers after the vote on the measure, which passed 14 to 0, with the United States ambassador, Samantha Power, raising her hand as the lone abstention. It broke with 36 years of accepted US Policy. Israel’s ambassador, […]
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The Pope and Palestine
The U.N. turns 70 years old this year. The State of Israel was created by UN Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947. Called the partition plan, Israel accepted the deal, but the Arab governments rejected it and went to war against Israel. It would have created an independent Palestinian state on 52 percent of historic […]
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Russia, Turkey and Palestine
President Vladimir Putin opened Moscow’s new grand mosque on Sept 23rd – Yom Kippur . The new mosque, which can accommodate 10,000 people, is the largest in Europe. Islam is the second largest religion in Russia after Orthodox Christianity, making up around 15 percent of the population. Putin was joined at the ceremony by Turkish […]
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Israel – Czech Republic 1938.
On the 65th anniversary of the UN resolution that created Israel by partitioning British-mandate Palestine into Israeli and Palestinian states, the UN voted 138 to 9, recognizing the State of Palestine as a “non-member observer State.” The Czech Republic was the only European country to vote against the measure. She had learned from her past and […]
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Middle East – Russian gains.
In the face of America decline and her loss of strength and reliability, Russia is emerging: ● as a vocal defender of Christianity against Muslim persecution around the world; ● as a plausible peacemaker in the Middle East, with far better relationships with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria than America has today; ● as […]
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Middle East – America’s losses.
At present none of the strong actors in the Middle East look to the United States for guidance any longer. This includes Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan and Afghanistan. The waste and failure of two wars in the Middle East has convinced the USA to withdraw. As Rwanda taught the […]
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Palestinian Vote in the U.N.
Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations vote by Nov. 29, 2012 on whether to admit Palestine as a non-member state. Palestinian Authority President Abbas said he would submit the bid on Nov. 29 –on the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. vote calling for two states, one Jewish and one Arab, in Palestine. The […]
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A State of Palestine
Mahmoud Abbas, who was 12 years old when the U.N. voted in 1947 to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Abbas’ predecessors, the Palestinian leaders of that earlier generation, rejected the partition plan, which envisaged a state on 44 per cent of the land. So yesterday Friday Sept 23rd, the Palestinian […]
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Israels new found wealth.
The Torah states that Israel would “suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.” (Deut 32:13) That Zebulun and Issachar “shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.” (Deut 33:19) And that Asher would “dip his foot in oil.” (Duet 33:24) The recent […]
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