GOD’S TIMECLOCK IS TICKING LOUDLY
God’s time clock Israel, is fulfilling prophecies at warp speed. Thanks again to Mike Claydon for keeping us up to date with indications from the Apple of God’s eye. Subscription to the Israel Report is free of charge, contact details appear at the bottom of the post.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
A Promised land……
Author Ari Shavit writes in his book “My Promised Land”; “Zionist migration to Palestine had all the defining characteristics of a colonialist enterprise, except that Zionists did not seek to conquer. The character of Zionist migration differs from that of refugees only in that Zionist Jews could not live safely among other peoples: They could not migrate to Palestine and join Palestinian society—Jewish history makes that clear—so they needed to carve a place of their own. Their intention was not to displace or conquer, though—only to survive.
The brutal events that took place in what was then Palestine, between April and August 1936 pushed Zionism from a state of utopian bliss to a state of dystopian conflict. Zionism began peacefully, but as the Jewish population rose, its accomplishment and power grew with it. The Arab backlash was inevitable.
By the late 1930’s Arab Palestinians no longer tolerated Zionists. Both groups’ actions during this time defined their relationship for the next century.
As Arab Palestinian nationalism was asserting itself and demanding that Jewish immigration stop immediately, it was now impossible to ignore the Arabs living in the land, impossible to ignore the fact that the Arabs reviled the Zionist enterprise. The Jewish national liberation movement had to acknowledge that it was facing an Arab liberation movement that wished to disgorge the Jews from the shores they had settled on.
Israel was founded on socialist ideals that have eroded with time. The first settlers were utopian communists, but their society morphed into Bolshevik-style socialism, state socialism, state capitalism, and then free-market capitalism as dictated by the perceived needs of the country”
Many Christians today see Israel as being a safe haven fulfilling biblical prophecy as she became a nation once again in 1948. Yet many decades before that European anti-Semitism had driven thousands of Jews to Palestinian shores in a bid to find a secure homeland.
Many well educated professional men gathered their families and uprooted their comfortable middle class lives for a life in a rather unforgiving land and forged what was the beginnings of a society and a nation such as Israel is today. It wasn’t just an overnight event with thousands arriving in commercial airliners, it was a long and hazardous and uncomfortable journey – with very little in the way of amenities to welcome them.
There was much violence and both Jews and Arabs lost their lives in horrendous ways – and in spite of the turmoil and chaos that often erupted a democratic Jewish homeland arose in our day – and now Israel stands as one of the most powerful military, economic, and formidable nations on earth.
It wasn’t an easy path – which International Holocaust Day observed this past week attests, and as any competent bible student knows – even more tumultuous events await in the near future. Many of the early settlers were secular Zionists, and today’s population are mostly no more observant than they were. They were drawn there by a force they did not recognise.
However, the God of Israel had other plans, plans that had already been revealed but largely went unheeded. He had promised millennia ago that eventually the He would regather this ancient and chosen people – back to the land that was promised to Abraham – and to finally, after much distress, greet their coming and long absent Messiah.
“I will strengthen the house of Judah,And I will save the house of Joseph.I will bring them back, Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside; For I am the Lord their God, And I will hear them. I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them; And they shall increase as they once increased”. [Zechariah 10;7-8]
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness”. [Zechariah 8-1-2]
How remarkable it is that we are alive to witness these promises spring to life – what a blessed generation we are – living in the days that prophets, rabbis, sages and scholars longed to see. We now stand with all the signs in place for the Time of Jacob’s Trouble to commence – and as horrifying as that is – it also signals the nearness of the Church’s final moment here on earth.
Jerusalem Synagogue Killing Spree Leaves Seven Dead, Three Injured……….
Netanyahu: ‘I call on citizens not to take the law into their own hands, for that we have an army and police’At least seven people were killed and another three injured in a terror attack at a synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Friday evening. The terrorist was identified as Alkam Khairi from east Jerusalem and it was reported that he had no known terror connections prior to the attack. The 21-year-old opened fire at people leaving the Ateret Avraham synagogue after Friday night prayers. After entering and attacking the people in the synagogue, the shooter reportedly started chasing after people who were trying to escape. He then attempted to flee the scene by car and fired in the direction of Israel Police officers. The officers fired back and killed him. One of the attendants of the synagogue who witnessed the attack said that the police didn’t arrive at the scene for 20 minutes after the initial shots were fired, as they didn’t believe the callers and thought the noise came from shots being fired in the air in nearby east Jerusalem neighbourhoods. A police spokesperson, however, said that the terrorist was caught within five minutes of receiving the first call. MDA paramedics provided treatment at the scene of the attack. United Hatzalah said that they provided treatment for dozens in a state of shock on location. First responders pronounced five victims dead on arriving on the scene, including four men aged 60, 50, 25 and 20 and one 60-year-old woman Five wounded were evacuated to the Hadassah-University Medical Centres Mount Scopus and Shaare Zedek. Of them, a 30-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman arrived in critical condition and were pronounced dead at the hospital, a 15-year-old boy was in moderate to serious condition, a 24-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were in moderate condition. IDF Chief of Staff Halevi ordered the reinforcement of the Judea and Samaria Division of the IDF, and to prepare for possible escalation scenarios in the region after a situation assessment led by Prime Minister Netanyahu. IDF forces arrested the terrorist’s parents and surrounded his house in the neighbourhood of A-Tur in east Jerusalem hours after the attack. “This was one of the worst attacks we have known in recent years, our hearts go out to the families of the wounded and dead. We have assessed the situation and decided on some immediate actions, we will act decisively and calmly,” Netanyahu said in a statement in the Jerusalem Police headquarters hours after the attack. “The security political cabinet will convene tomorrow at the end of Shabbat. I call on citizens not to take the law into their own hands, for that we have an army and police who receive instructions from the cabinet,” Netanyahu said.
The new public security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir also arrived on the scene.
He said that he would review the restrictions on civilian possession of arms in high-risk places, after a Neve Yaacov resident complained bitterly that he had witnessed the shooting helpless to stop it because he was unarmed. .
Celebratory fireworks burst through the sky over Palestinian neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem and candy was passed around.
Herzog addresses EU Parliament to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day……….
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday addressed the European Parliament to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Herzog delivered the main speech at a special session attended by lawmakers and Shoah survivors.
“The Holocaust was not born in a vacuum. We must never forget that the Nazi death machine would not have succeeded in realizing its nightmarish vision had it not met soil fertilized with Jew-hatred, which is as old as time itself.
“The stereotypical depiction of Jews had struck roots through Europe for centuries and generations, before the rise of Nazism. Nazi ideology intensified traditional anti-Semitism, and primordial fears fanned the flames of hatred,” said Herzog.
Israeli jets strike Hamas target in Gaza – Response to Triple Rocket Fire ………..
Before dawn on Thursday, Israeli fighter jets struck a Hamas underground rocket production site, in reprisal for Arab Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza.
Of the three rockets fired, the army spokesman said one was intercepted, one landed and a third fell short inside Gaza.
No casualties or damage was reported on the Israeli side of the border.
Defence minister Yoav Galant confirmed Israeli policy of holding Hamas responsible for any violence emanating from the Gaza Strip, even though the Islamic Jihad may have been responsible for the latest rocket attack – most likely in revenge for the IDF’s Wednesday operation in Jenin that smashed a terrorist cell, killing 9 Arab Palestinians in the fire-fight..
World War Likely as West sends Kyiv 200 heavy tanks, and 1,000 Iranian Missiles for Moscow ………….
The US and Germany have dropped their longstanding denial of tanks for Ukraine. On January 25, the Biden administration announced the consignment of two M-1 Abrams tanks brigades and a unit of “recovery vehicles” for repairing tanks.
Berlin bowed to intense international pressure and announced it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 A6 tanks to the battlefield and also approved shipments by allied European states. Washington then pledged to send 31 American-made M1 Abrams to Ukraine, ending months of refusal.
Both offers come soon after Britain committed 14 Challenger 2 tanks to the war effort.
In Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was now ready to make available to the Ukraine forces the same number of hitherto withheld Leopard 2 tanks. Germany also lifted its veto on those tanks being released to Ukraine by the allied armies using them – Spain, Sweden, Norway and Holland.
Furthermore the British government assigned a supply of its heavy Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv, alongside France’s offer of light AMX 10-RC tanks to the same recipient.
In response, Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential bureau said: “A few hundred tanks for our tank crews… That is going to become a real punching fist of democracy.” [Ukraine is hardly democratic?]
However, speaking from Mocow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov remarked, “Technologically, this is a failed plan. This is an overestimation of the potential that this will add to the Ukrainian army,” He warned: “These tanks will burn like all the rest. They are just very expensive.”
Russia’s ambassador to Berlin, Sergei Nechaev, denounced Germany’s decision as a repudiation of its historic commitment to Germany in the light of its war crimes against Russia in WWII. “This extreme and dangerous decision takes the conflict to a new level,” he said.
It most certainly does!
Chief of US armed forces General Mark Milley, unenthusiastic about the benefit the tanks will contribute to Ukraine’s war effort, said, “I still maintain that from this year, it would be very, very difficult to mililtarily eject Russian forces from every inch of Russian-occupied Ukraine,” he warned.
Russia is meanwhile running its own arms build–up.
This week, Moscow cut a deal with Tehran for the substantial supply of Iranian ballistic missiles to the Russian army. Informed sources estimate the deal as covering 1,000 Fatteh 110 Zolfaghar ballistic missiles.
Both sides are therefore busy massively building up their armaments and military resources in preparation for the spring offensive [or earlier before the snow melt?]
Moscow has promised to launch when that snow melts, planning to wrest success from 11 dragging months of its military operation in Ukraine. Kyiv is gearing up for a counter-offensive. Both believe that a turning-point is at hand.
Russia responded Thursday for the first time regarding the decision by President Biden to send Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, accusing it of “direct involvement in the conflict”.
The German Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock [pictured above] has actually come out and bluntly said: “We are at war with Russia”.
Iran continues spinning……
The Iranian revolutionaries plod into the fifth month of their uprising against the regime with little tangible help from the outside world.
To date, more than 500 Iranian revolutionaries have been killed by regime forces directed by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. More than 18,000 have been arrested.
So too, unfettered by restrictions on its nuclear activities enacted under the long-abandoned 2015 nuclear deal, the ayatollahs continue spinning their advanced centrifuges and stockpiling enriched uranium.
After providing Russia with drones that have caused mass death and destruction of property in Ukraine, Iran is waiting in anticipation of advanced Russian fighter craft, which will enable Tehran to modernize its conventional forces for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
CIA chief on Secret Visit to Israel meets Mossad Chief ……
CIA chief William Burns’ visit to Israel in the past week was disclosed on Friday. According to official sources, Burns also called on PM Binyamin Netanyahu.
He arrived in the footsteps of US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due next week. Burns also stopped over in Cairo for talks with President Abdel-Fatteh El Sisi, part of the latest swing US security officials are making in the wake of Middle East tensions.
Two weeks ago, the CIA chief was in Kyiv for a look at Ukraine’s coming military steps against Russia’s invading forces.
WORLD NEWS BRIEFING…with Tom Hughes and Jeff Kinley ….26 January 2023
Israel ReportEditor; Mike Claydonisraelreport@mail.com
“None of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand”. [Daniel 12;10]