ISRAEL REPORT
It’s great to have my friend Mike Claydon back and publishing, after his recent spell in hospital. This Israel Report is another watershed edition, explaining just what time it is, measured by God’s time piece – Israel. This monkey perceives it is very close to the end of the Time of the Gentiles Luke 21:24 b.
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Chugley
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He Gave Them Over…..
Editorial
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse: Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them overto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not proper; Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them”. [Romans 1; 18, 19. 20, 21, 21, 24, 25, 26, 31 32]The texts above vividly reveal God’s wrathful judgement of abandonment of a nation or nations which is irreversible once declared. The Western nations have abandoned God, thrown Him out of their lives, and now He is returning the favour. Romans chapter 1 remains the most vivid explanation for what is occurring globally in our day. What does it mean to have a reprobate mind? Morally depraved; unprincipled . rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation. It is a serious and eternally dangerous state of mind. It is now blatantly obvious that God is presently at work turning humanity over to their evil desires. It is simply the restraining of God’s Grace.A certain and deepening insanity has overtaken the minds of millions, if not billions of people – truth is supressed as never before, everything that proves divine creation and order is being torn down, overturned and trampled underfoot. The judgement of abandonment has progressive outcomes – firstly sexual immorality, society becomes generally pornographic, then it is turned over to degrading passions, vile desires, moral chaos and confusion, all celebrated by an enthusiastic and proud population and media. When you see all these aberrations in play and applauded you know that the judgement of abandonment is in operation.Men can become women, they can give birth, hundreds of genders now apparently exist, homosexuality and lesbianism is celebrated, the United nations are actively promoting paedophilia, under the guise of health protection foetuses and newborns are murdered in and out of the womb, the list of unimaginable abominations is now endless.The nations engulfed in this horror show are greatly weakened….they lose all direction, their protection is lifted and they no longer see or understand the dangers that lie ahead. No preparations are made for the future, infrastructure begins to crumble, their cities become a living hell, and an already dangerous planet becomes violent and unmanageable.They are in fact headed for defeat and destruction. Are we able to see our situation? Well, some are, but they are few. It takes a very brave person who wishes to remain within society yet dares to speak against the current culture because they will be cancelled, vilified, and cast out.Is there any hope? Yes, but it is now never to be found in our civilisation – that is simply in its final death throes. Wars, famine, and tyranny now lie just ahead. Our creator has turned us over to our foolish desires, abandoned us and given mankind what they so deserve- a reprobate mind.The only hope, [there is no other], is the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ – He has not, and never will, abandon His elect. His kingdom is not of this rapidly dying world, His reign is to be one of righteousness, purity, and peace. This is anathema to the reprobate mind.There is little time left before the gates allowing admission to that divine realm will close. Call out to Him who saves eternally while the drawbridge remains down.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. [Psalm 2;12]
US arms warplanes in Mid-East with bunker buster bombs vs Iran, Syria …….
The US military has put 250-pound precision-guided Bunker Busting Bombs for the first time in the Middle East on its warplanes. This disclosure comes a day after CENTCOM head General Michael “Erik” Kurilla toured Israeli bases on Friday, April 28.
Pentagon officials disclosed that the GBU-39/B bunker busters would be placed on the A-10-Thunderbolt assault planes deployed in the region earlier this month, as a deterrent to Iran. US warplanes are now equipped to strike the Iran-backed Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq that are constantly attacking US forces.
Each A-10 warplane can carry 16 GBU bombs. The US Middle East Air Force chief General Alexis Grynkewich said: “The A-10s are highly effective at some of the things we need to do.” In fact, these warplanes are relatively slow and out-dated although their targeting capacity is effective and precise.
According to the general, the new A-10 squadron represents a 50% increase in the number of attack aircraft in the region. The upgrade will give the Warthogs more firepower than F-15 jet fighters.
Washington has, moreover, also deployed to the Gulf the USS Florida nuclear submarine which carries 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
As recently as Thursday, Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized a tanker bound for Texas, although Tehran claimed that the tanker rammed one of its vessels and then fled. This was the fifth such incident in recent months. Washington accused Tehran of a breach of international law and demanded the tanker’s release without delay.
On Friday, Iran stepped up its diplomatic assault by sending its foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, to Beirut.
While touring the Lebanese-Israel border, he said, “Positive developments in the region will lead to the collapse of the Zionist entity,” adding, “Zionists understand only strength.” The minister said Iran continues to “support the resistance in the face of the Zionist enemy.”
Amir-Abdollahian [pictured above centre]said Nasrallah assured him that “the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance [to Israel] are in their best condition ever,” according to Iranian media reports.
He said the two also discussed the recent Iranian-Saudi deal to restore diplomatic ties, and its effect on the region.
This Iranian trip to Israel-Lebanon border is part of a larger symbolic threat.
This is not the first time that Iran has sought to send key parts of its axis to threaten Israel. In 2017, a pro-Iran militia leader from Iraq, Qais Khazali, travelled to Lebanon to also stand on the Israeli border and threaten Israel. This was when Iran was trying to threaten Israel using Iraqi militias such as Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq.
US General McKenzie: Israel and US have lost their air force edge to Iran’s kamikaze drones ……
Within a decade, Iran has managed to wipe out the regional air superiority Israel and the United States long enjoyed, says former US Central Command chief, Gen. (ret.) Kenneth McKenzie. [pictured above]
He assigned this success to Tehran’s focus in the past decade on building a vast fleet of suicide UAVs and massive arsenals of long-range missiles and short and medium range ballistic missiles.
In the general’s view, the danger these forces represent to the countries of the Middle East does not fall short of a nuclear threat and may even surpass it, since there are limits to the use of nuclear weapons, but not to drones and missiles.
In the event of a war, the general said, Iran can use its drones to wipe out part or all of its adversary’s radar, thereby disarming its air defences. This would clear the way to follow up with a ballistic missile offensive.
General McKenzie maintains that the US and its senior ally Israel are both lagging behind in developing defence systems for coping with Iran’s UAVs. Their most immediate task today is to create an integrated regional and air and missile defence system.
This was made possible, he said, by a correct decision by President Joe Biden two years ago to move Israel and its military to the framework of Central Command. However, it does not change the fact that the air forces of the US and Israel have forfeited the edge they once held over Iran, largely because of the might the drones and missiles Iran would now wield in any battlefield.
General McKenzie likened the impact of a sizeable drone force in a war arena to large air force bombers.
Iran has therefore managed to beat the embargo on the sale of modern long-range warplanes and filled the gap in its air might with long-range drone bombers. The Iranians are moreover constantly upgrading their drones’ operational capabilities by using the Ukraine war as a testing ground for the UAVs they have supplied to the Russian air force.
Iran Arms Russia……
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iran, over the past six months, has supplied Russia with some “300,000 artillery shells and a million rounds of ammunition.” Russian cargo ships are taking these materials by way of the Caspian Sea and Russia is using them for its war against Ukraine. That’s a pretty massive military supply from Iran to Russia, over just a six-month span.
Of course, it comes on the heels of persistent reports that Russia has received hundreds, if not 1000s, of these suicide drones from Iran. They’re mass-produced inside Iran, packed with explosives, and are flown into the target.
Russia has used these with great and deadly effect in Ukraine, in places like Kyiv, attacking civilians with these Iranian-made drones to the point where Iran plans to open a drone factory in Russia, east of Moscow, very soon, where they will mass produce.
Meanwhile Russia is reportedly supplying more up-to-date fighter jets to Iran; the Iranian Air Force is severely out-dated. Additionally, Russia could look to provide Iran with nuclear know–how.
The alliance has become so close, and Russia is now, to an extent, reliant on Iran, not only for weaponry, but for support in the diplomatic arena as well, just as Russia is cleaving closer to China on that end, too.
This is a very complex position for Israel right now. It is an existential threat in the form of Iran and Hezbollah at Israel’s North-eastern border in Syria. Iran is attempting to transmit precision-guided missiles into the hands of Hezbollah, which would be used to strike Israel in a very deadly fashion.
This is a red line for Israel. They’re not going to allow it. That’s why freedom of movement in Syria is crucial for Israel.
If Russia suddenly says, “the game’s over; we’re not going to allow it anymore,” then if and when that happens it becomes a very precarious position for Israel—that’s one reason Israel has sought to not anger Russia when it comes to Ukraine.
Iran’s President Raisi to visit Syria, sign strategic economic deal next week………….
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi [R above] is expected to visit Syria next week, according to a senior regional source close to Damascus.
The visit would be the first by an Iranian president since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. With military help and economic support from both Iran and Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was able to turn the tide of the conflict and regain control of most of his country.
A reliable regional source on Friday warned that a warming of ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran – as well as a thaw in Arab states’ isolation of Damascus – paved the way for the visit. According to the Syrian daily al-Watan, Raisi’s trip will last two days and be capped by a string of agreements, particularly on economic cooperation.
Iran has previously provided lines of credit to Damascus and imports phosphate from Syrian mines The profound brutality that Syrian President Bashar Assad exhibited toward demonstrators during the 12 years since the eruption of the Arab Spring led him to be shunned by most of his Arab neighbours.
Arab efforts to reintegrate Assad’s Syria back into the fold of Arab states have gained significant momentum for several years and are getting closer to fulfilment. All major U.S. Arab allies, with Qatar’s notable exception, have been steadily moving away from the U.S. stance and toward acceptance of Assad’s victory in the civil war.
It is important for the U.S. and Israel to view the reintegration of Syria as the likely outcome of current geopolitical shifts despite their wishes and thus to start calculating the opportunities and challenges that may emerge from such a new reality. Abhorrent as it may sound, Assad won.
DeSantis in Israel: ‘There’s never been a Palestinian Arab entity…………’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Thursday to strengthen his state’s ability to combat anti-Semitism and emphasized that there has never been an Arab Palestinian state in the Land of Israel or elsewhere.
The Republican politician was in Israel, where he keynoted the Celebrate the Faces of Israel event, a project of the Jerusalem Post and the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
The governor said that the historic biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria should be viewed as “disputed territory,” as the Trump administration referred to it, and not as “occupied territory,” as much of the international community labels it.
“It’s disputed territory. Okay, you had a [U.N.] Partition Plan and ’48. Israel obviously declared independence, they were willing to accept that partition. The Arabs rejected the partition, they went to a war rather than accept partition,” DeSantis said at the conference.
“Those are the most historic Jewish lands there are going back thousands and thousands of years. There’s never been a Palestinian Arab entity,” he continued.
Massive pro-legal reform demonstration in Jerusalem…….
Government and right-wing supporters streamed to Jerusalem Thursday night to challenge the nearly three months of anti-judicial reform protest rallies staged against the government’s judicial reform program. An estimated 600,000 demonstrators were a mixed bag in terms of community, age, religious affiliation and politics and hailed from all over the country.
Their main slogan addressed to the Netanyahu government, which is engaged in negotiations with the anti-reform opposition for a compromise formula, was “Don’t be scared to go through with the reform”.
Xi urges negotiations in first call to Ukraine president …….
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday conducted a first phone call to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the Russian invasion.
After what he called their “long and meaningful” conversation, Zelenskyy said a Ukrainian ambassador would be appointed to Beijing.. President Xi told the Ukrainian leader that “talks and negotiation” were the “only way out” of the war, according to Chinese state media.
This significant development was an initiative by French President Emmanuel Macron and the EU leader Ursula von der Leyen, who added that Xi was interested in meeting Zelensky.
China recently took a hand in resolving another international conflict by brokering rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Russian Warplanes Are ‘Trying to Dogfight’ US Jets Over Syria, General Says……….
“Don’t take the bait,” the region’s top Air Force general warns pilots.
Russian warplanes are flying increasingly close to American fighter jets in the skies over Syria “like they’re trying to dogfight,” the top U.S. Air Force general in the region said.
Since March 1, Russian pilots have acted in hostile ways that have U.S. military leaders concerned about the possibilities for miscalculation and escalation.
The Russians have been “increasingly bellicose in how they’re approaching us,” Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, who leads Air Forces Central Command, said in an interview. “They’re manoeuvring aggressively against us when our protocols would say we’re supposed to stay… several miles apart and just monitor each other.”
Largest Satanic Gathering Ever…..
The Satanic Temple expects its second annual convention – SatanCon 2023 – held in Boston this weekend, and dedicated to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu — to be the largest gathering of Satanists ever.
The Satanic Temple, headquartered in Salem, is organizing the sold-out SatanCon at Marriott Copley Place April 28-30; it promises to bring a line-up of panels, entertainment, and a “Satanic Marketplace.”
Their actions nationally include delivering reproductive health services in New Mexico and organizing after school Satan clubs. Locally, the organization is suing the city of Boston and Mayor Michelle Wu over her denial as a city councillor to allow the Satanic Temple to deliver the opening prayer customary before city council meetings
WORLD NEWS BRIEFING – with Tom Hughes and Dennis Swick- 27 April 2023
Israel Report Editor; Mike Claydonisraelreport@mail.com
“None of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand”. [Daniel 12;10]