This morning the Zoo was rocked by the news that Israel was under attack from Iran’s proxy, Hamas. I have collated some of the reports below and urge my readers to pray earnestly for God’s time clock – Israel.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

HANNAH NIXON RAISED THE PRESIDENT WHO SAVED ISRAEL

Kelleigh Nelson

No one has ever become poor from giving.  Anne Frank

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. Booker T. Washington

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

In October of 1973, President Nixon was awakened in the middle of the night by a call on his private line from Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir.  She made an anguished plea for American support in the form of armaments.  But Nixon knew acceding to this request would be ignoring the request of the cabinet and the Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.

Israel was under attack on their Holiest Day of the year, Yom Kippur.  History records what Israel was up against.  

The Nixon Foundation writes:

To demonstrate what Israel was up against: 180 Israeli tanks faced over 1400 Syrian tanks; closer to the Suez Canal, a mere 436 Israeli infantry were poised to fight over 80,000 Egyptian soldiers – this even after Israel’s military buildup. The attacks by Egypt and Syria were backed by nine Arab states – as well as one non-Arab state: the Soviet Union.

In 1973, Israel was unprepared when Egypt and Syria both launched massive attacks.

President Nixon saved Israel from devastating attack.  He knew the threat an Arab victory posed, and he also knew that the Soviet Union was providing arms to the Arabs in an attempt to spread their influence throughout the region.

Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to throw occupying Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights. Israel counterattacked and recaptured the Golan Heights.

To rid the region of the communist propaganda and takeover, Nixon knew Israel needed American arms to defeat the Syrians and Egyptians.  Both he and Secretary of State Kissinger wanted to conduct the airlift, but the urgency was there with Nixon.  He said to them, “You get the stuff to Israel. Now. Now!”

The Nixon Administration initiated Operation Nickel Grass, an American airlift to replace all of Israel’s lost munitions. This was huge – planeload after planeload of supplies literally allowed munitions and materiel to seemingly re-spawn for the Israeli counter effort. 567 missions were flown throughout the airlift, dropping over 22,000 tons of supplies. An additional 90,000 tons of materiel were delivered by sea. According to Abraham Rabinovich, “while the American airlift of supplies did not immediately replace Israel’s losses in equipment, it did allow Israel to expend what it did have more freely.”

Nixon’s initiated aerial resupply operation to Israel started on 13 October. Nicknamed NICKEL GRASS, the airlift soon proved the value of maintaining a responsive and efficient military airlift system. For the next 32 days, MAC C-141 and C-5 cargo transports streamed steadily into Lod International Airport at Tel Aviv from onload points throughout the United States carrying urgently needed war materials. 

The war spanned nearly three weeks, from Oct. 6 through Oct. 25, 1973. Most fighting had ended by October 26.  But it was the swift and certain actions of America’s president that gave Israel a fighting chance and allowed her to defeat the enemies who attacked her.  

Israel’s victory came at the cost of heavy casualties, and Israelis criticized the government’s lack of preparedness. In April 1974, Prime Minister Golda Meir (1898-1978), stepped down.

The Rest of the Story

Yes, it does all come back to mothers, and Hannah Nixon was that special mother.  William Ross Wallace wrote these words twenty years before Hannah Nixon was born, “For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.”  Yet, he might well have been talking of President Richard Nixon’s mother.

When Golda Meir’s call came in Nixon remembered his mother’s words.  He said, “I could almost hear my mother’s voice. She would tell me stories and read to me from the Old Testament, the heroes of the Bible. And one afternoon, she said, ‘Richard, someday you’re going to be in a position where you can help save the Jewish people. And when that day comes, you must do everything in your power.’”

Yes, Nixon became God’s angel for Israel when he remembered his mother’s voice from long ago.  

Hamas Attack

The unexpected attack on Israel early on the morning of October 7^th, 2023, is reminiscent of the Yom Kippur attack.  

We still don’t know how Israel’s intelligence team failed to know the attack was coming.  We do know however, that $6 billion was released to Iran by Biden and that money was most likely used to fund Hamas.  

Israeli’s have been abducted, children kidnapped, and families murdered.  They need the help of the United States who has gained so many innovative developments from Israel.  The U.S.-Israeli alliance now contributes more than ever to American security, as bilateral cooperation to deal with both military and nonmilitary challenges has grown in recent years. 

But this time their own security is in jeopardy and America’s president is silent.  And under the radar the US just approved $75 million aid to Palestine.

I highly suggest you write your congressional representatives and senators and urge them to help Israel.  

And we need to help them now!

BREAKING NEWS…Israel at War………..

Mike Claydon

This morning in Israel , as the final Sabbath of Sukkot dawned, HAMAS attacked Israel on an unprecedented scale. It was a combined ground-air-sea raid by armed para-gliders, vessels and vehicular border incursions.

Footage caught the chaotic scenes as Hamas para-gliders, small boats and armed men in cars entered Israeli territory. Militants were also filmed breaking through Israeli borders on motorcycles and with tractors through the frontier barrier.

In a video address posted on Twitter, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a chilling warning: “We are at war and we will win”.

“Our enemy will pay a price, the type of which it has never known.”

Dozens of Israeli Air Force fighters jets are reportedly attacking Hamas locations in the Gaza Strip as Netanyahu’s forces fight back. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad said its fighters have joined Hamas militants in attacking Israel.

A statement read: “Our cadres stand alongside their brothers in Hamas, shoulder to shoulder, until victory.“

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has authorised mobilisation of military reservists.

Multiple reports have suggested Hamas is actively kidnapping soldiers of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and parading them as captives on military trucks.

In response to the attacks, the IDF has announced a large-scale operation called “Swords of Iron” to defend its citizens.

At least 22 Israelis have died in the attacks so far, but experts fear the true toll may be much higher. Hospitals in south Israel have said they are have treated hundreds of victims, with some in serious condition. Over 550 at the present moment.

In response, the Israeli Emergency Service has issued an urgent appeal for blood donations in the cities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa.

Israel has ordered locals to stay near bomb shelters within their homes and said: “The military declares a state of war alert.”

It comes as…

Hamas forces launched more than 5,000 rockets early this morning into Israeli territory

22 are confirmed to be dead, as hospitals report hundreds of victims, with many in critical condition

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address: “We are at war and we will win. Our enemy will pay a price, the type of which it has never known.”

Reports of Israeli soldiers being kidnapped by Hamas fighters and being paraded around on military vehicles have emerged

Netanyahu has mobilised the country’s army reserves following his declaration of war

Airstrikes have now begun on Gaza in reprisal in what has been dubbed “Operation Swords of Iron.

“None of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand”. [Daniel 12;10]

Denial……Editorial

Ask any reasonably proficient mental health practitioner for an opinion on what is causing so much angst and confusion amongst the populace and you’ll likely hear “Denial”.  Over a long period of time the strategy of denying reality turns into a firm view of how things ought to be and not what they are actually are. This is not an exclusive activity – otherwise sound Christians use this strategy to make their lives more manageable and pleasant also.Finally, though, it often catches up in a blinding revelation brought on by some major event or experience – and all that were seen as stable platforms crumble as the realisation dawns on them that they have been self-deceived.So many today really believe that Trump remains as president, the military are behind him and are plotting a coup that will return him to the presidency along with a secret cabinet which has been working behind the scenes to overthrow the current administration and return a stable and democratic nation to the people.They hold to the notion that the U.S. dollar will always maintain a global hegemony, and that the American empire which has only really been with us for a couple of hundred years or more will continue on into the distant future.Some are further deluded and believe we now live in the biblical millennium and we are charged with bringing peace and security to the world so that the church can be triumphant and ready to present a placid and ecologically redeemed planet to a returning Messiah.

Such thinking requires a mindset that blocks out stark evidence that in spite of an illusory optimism our planet is spinning toward the final situation so vividly described by the biblical prophets. For America – the glory days are over – and that has to be faced if one is to plan for what is coming and remain mentally stable.   A once great nation is falling apart before our startled eyes, many countries that were her friends have now turned against her – forming a strong bloc that trades without the mighty dollar, and have built militaries that will severely challenge the Pentagon in days already upon us.As hundreds of thousands of unknown and unscreened migrants pour through the porous southern border each and every month, homeless camps spring up in once beautiful and prosperous cities, unpoliced violence and theft rises to epidemic proportions and political leaders break the law with impunity, it doesn’t seem to have dawned on so many that the times have changed, and powerful international forces are bringing about a new and often frightening world.This denial has led to an attitude that America is strong and resilient enough to shrug of this period of time, and regain her past economic rule and reign over the nations – this is a dangerous thought pattern and brings about an general unpreparedness not seen since the days prior to the rise of Hitler and the empire of Japan. It was a slow and steady development this particular mindset. One hundred years ago reality had to be faced.  Money had to be earned by working, banks didn’t lend money to buy homes, and the day to day fight for existence is what most lives entailed from start to finish. You didn’t have the time or energy to reflect on your gender, sexuality, or personal pronouns. Healthy food and adequate shelter was not a right but a hard earned privilege. If you didn’t have work then you had no income.

Then came a system around the mid-sixties that was embraced with gusto – “credit”.  A scramble began to see just how many bank issued credit cards could be jammed into wallets – newly invented housing loan packages available to all-comers were touted as the way to prosperity. you could actually borrow to buy a car, television, caravan, with no effort required, just fill out a form and presto – what you had always dreamed of possessing was suddenly yours!To be sure, over time much misery and heartache ensued as many defaulted and lost everything – yet overall it created the grand illusion of immense prosperity and on a personal level at that. The thought of having to repay these loans was pushed to the back of the mind – and it was now possible to believe that this wealth and luxury was brought about by some actual earning activity.  It wasn’t – so best to be denied and pushed into the days ahead.The outcome of course was the overwhelming indebtedness of each and every person dominated by the dollar powerhouse that was the United States and other Western nations. Herein lay the seeds of the downfall of all of earth’s great empires down the running centuries.  Money printing into oblivion. This is what must now be faced front-on by those clinging to false hopes of a rebuilding of a way of life now being rapidly dissolved. A new global order is being ushered in – dominated by China and Russia, along with their satellites Iran, North Korea, India and many smaller nations now eager to join that coalition to satisfy an enormous appetite for energy and food. It is a new world order – but not the one envisaged by George H.W. Bush  – this aligns best with the biblical prophecies for the geopolitical situation depicted for the days just prior to the return of Jesus Christ. A vista foreign to those who haven’t taken the time to study what God has revealed in His Word?

The West has feasted long enough at the table of a false economy where wealth appeared out of thin air whilst lesser nations strengthened themselves with hardship, poverty, and the realities of life and we now face an enemy ready and prepared for a financial and military battle that looks already won. Time has long passed for unrealistic dreams of how things should be, because those are visibly not as they should be.  God Himself is sifting the nations – moving the pieces on His chessboard to reflect accurately what is now just hours away for the fallen human race. Christians who hold to an unbiblical worldview number in the millions today – and again, the root cause is the perverse denial of those truths so clearly set out in scripture because it simply does not suit our plans and desires. If we are to retain our sanity it is imperative that we discard denial and take up the truths that are now reality – to cast off childish thinking and face the obvious as adults should.  Nothing can be relied upon in the world today other than the one and only Saviour – and that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth and no one else. He who has Him has life, and without Him and His imputed righteousness all is lost.  Time is about up;  “Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you”. [Habakkuk 1;5] 

Many thanks to Kelleigh Nelson and Mike Claydon for their contributions!