ISRAEL REPORT
Israel Report – Saturday 13 January 2024
“The Eternity of Israel will not falter”
Editorial
Bowing to cries for a truce with the surrounding Arab nations PM Ariel Sharon relinquised flourishhg Gaza to them after receiving deceptive promises of peace, secuirty and international support.
This catastrophic plan was approved by the Knesset in February 2005 as the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law. It was implemented in August 2005 and completed in September 2005.
Thousands of Jews were uprooted from their homes and businesses and many remain homeless to this day.
In his 2023 Autobiography “Bibi” PM Netanyahu wrote;
“Sharon [Ariel Sharon the PM at the time] was one of Israel’s greatest generals and had led the decisive crossing of the Suez Canal in the Yom Kippur War. But as Prime MInister , he had succumbed to the pressures of the Left when he made his decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip, uproot eight thousand Jews and destroy twenty one Israeli communities in the process”
“The first challenge came from the Bush administration, which insisted in June 2003 that Israel adopt a “Road Map for Peace“, including Israeli withdrawal from key territories”.
It was the match that ignited the wick of events we are witnessing today almost twenty years later.
President George Bush was forced to watch the forced eveacuation of thousands from New Orleans as hurricane Katrina hit the state on the very same day Jews were being driven from Gaza. We doubt he saw any correlation?
After the disengagement, Gazans were left with the opportunity to develop a prosperous mini-state. A “Middle Eastern Singapore” as Shimon Peres once put it. What transpired instead was Hamas’ takeover and more ‘terror.’
As predicted, Iran’s terrorist proxy HAMAS rapidly filled the political vacuum and gradually turned the area into a God-forsaken hell hole of fortifications, tunnels and ammuntion dumps – all made ready for the final push to drive the Jews of Israel out of their land from”the River to the Sea.“
It hasn’t worked out all that well for them so far. Much of their fiefdom has now been reduced to rubble, their leadership decimated and large portions of the populace killed in the crossfire.
It is unstoppable.
Nevertheless, this is the catalyst for the coming regional war foretold by the prophets of old.
Iran, Russia and Turkey will not withhold their reaction much longer and unleash the fury of their largely Islamic proxies upon a beleagured Israel forced to fight on seven or more vital fronts.
The dogs of war have been released, and in the end only the God of Israel will be able to save them – and then only a remnant.
The final sifting has begun, much horror and betrayal lies ahead. Desolations are promised as the Gentile world stands back and welcomes the possible end of a troublesome Jewish nation.
We find ourselves today in the hours just before the fulness of all the seers of God were shown for the end of the age.
However, as Will Durant once wrote; “The rebirth of Israel is a miracle of faith and history,. The book of Samuel says “The eternity of Israel will not falter” . Throughout our journey , including in the tempests and upheavals of modern times , this has held true”.
“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of the heritage? He retaineth not His anger forever, because He delighteh in MERCY. He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us, He will subdue our iniquities, and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham,which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old” [Micah 7;18-20]
“The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him in TRUTH. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear Him: He also will hear their cry, and will SAVE them. The Lord preserveth all them that LOVE Him but all the wicked will He destroy” [Psalm 145; 18-20]
Saudi Kingdom still wants Israeli Normalization Deal after Gaza War …….
Yet only if it leads to the establishment of an Arab Palestinian state, says Saudi ambassador to the UK
Israel and Saudi Arabia were reportedly close to establishing relations with Israel before the October 7 Hamas attack
Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud, told the BBC this week [pictured above] that Saudi Arabia still wants a normalization deal with Israel but that it must be a part of a process that leads to the establishment of an Arab Palestinian state.
“Absolutely, there’s interest, there’s been interest since 1982 and before,” Prince Al Saud said during the BBC radio interview.
“We’ve been at this for a long time, and willing to accept Israel for a long time; it’s a reality that’s there that we have to live with. But we can’t live with Israel without a Palestinian state.”
“The discussions had been going on for quite some time. I’m not at liberty to go into the details of what was discussed, but it was close, there was no question,” adding that “the final endpoint definitely included nothing less than an independent state of Palestine. And while we still – going forward, even after October 7 – believe in normalization, it does not come at the cost of the Palestinian people.”
Al Saud denied any connection between the October 7 massacre of 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis by the Hamas terror organization and the fact that Saudi Arabia had been close to a normalization deal with Israel.
“The conflict goes back almost 100 years, that is the reason October 7 happened, not because of Saudi Arabia and its normalization talks with Israel”.
When asked whether the kingdom would “withhold” normalization with the Jewish state until an Arab Palestinian state is established, Al Saud replied the agreement was already on hold and claimed that Saudi Arabia was close to normalization before October because the establishment of a Palestinian state had also been “close.”
“We were close to normalization, therefore close to a Palestinian state. One does not come without the other…Palestinians are the key element to this… It is about the survival of both countries going forward.”
During the BBC interview, Al Saud did not state clearly whether Hamas could be a part of a future Palestinian state.
“There’s always room for change if you have optimism and hope, but when there’s a conflict, the first thing you have to recognize is that both sides have lost. And when both sides lose, both sides are then willing to compromise. And if there’s no compromise, there’s no solution.”
The Saudi diplomatic envoy also blamed Israel for its unwillingness to accept the Palestinian Authority as the future government of Gaza, accusing Israel of standing in the way of stabilizing the Gaza Strip.
“Without question, you can’t do it without the Israelis accepting it, so the big stopping point to this is Israel, not everyone else,” Al Saud said.
Blinken Unhinged.…
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken said Tuesday night: “The Palestinian Authority also has a responsibility to reform itself, to improve its governance – issues I plan to raise with President Abbas, among others, when we meet tomorrow.”
For one thing, Abbas is not a president, he is the chairman of a corrupt, defunct, terrorist sector that should never reach the status of a state, or have a president.
Indeed, by promoting Abbas with this honorarium, Blinken is transgressing official US policy that does not recognize Ramallah as the capital of a Palestinian State, and certainly not eastern Jerusalem either.
The PA should reform itself? Improve its governance?
Since its inception in 1994, the PA has done so little to promote the well-being of its residents, they are still dependent on work inside Israel for their livelihood. And when those jobs are no longer available because Israelis fear the real Arab violence, as exhibited on October 7, those PA residents starve.
They subsist on Victory Gardens and raise rabbits for meat. To reform itself, the PA would have to stop plotting to annihilate the Jewish State, which should include stopping the salaries of terrorist prisoners and their families.
And it should remove from its books the law that makes it a capital offence to sell land to Jews. Unless Secretary Blinken also believes that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza should be “judenrein” – free from Jews.
On that count, a reporter asked Blinken Tuesday night: “The Israeli Government is still refusing to transfer the PA’s money, and the Minister of Finance Smotrich said yesterday there are 2 million Nazis in Gaza, and I won’t give money to Nazis, just like the US won’t give money to al-Qaida. I would like to have your comment on that.”
Hapless Blinken responded: “So, first with regard to the Palestinian Authority revenues, these are their revenues. They should have them. They should have them in order to be able to make sure that they can pay their people who are providing essential services, including doing essential work in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority security forces who are playing a very important role in trying to keep peace, security, and stability in the West Bank – something that’s profoundly in Israel’s interest. So, we believe that those revenues should be released to them. Again, their revenues, and being used to do something that’s important to Israel.”
Nothing about the PA’s use of those revenues to pay terrorists, you got that, right? Wait, there’s more;
Blinken next stated: “And when it comes to the future governance of Gaza when the conflict is over, of course, people need to be paid. They need to be able to do the work necessary to administer Gaza, to do the other things that will be critical once the conflict ends.”
Simply put, the Biden administration’s view of Israel’s role, as expressed by Secretary Blinken is simply: “Yours is not to reason why; yours is but to do and die.”
Israeli soldiers on Northern Border dig in and wait as Tensions Mount….
For Israeli troops on the northern border with Lebanon, the government’s strategy of avoiding full-scale war with the Hezbollah troops just a few hundred metres away is embodied in the pages of a 68-year-old training manual.
“The Rifle Department“, first issued in 1956 and hastily reprinted in the wake of the mass mobilization that followed the attack on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen on October 7, teaches soldiers old techniques of static defence, said Lieutenant Colonel Dotan Razili, a home front brigade commander in the north.
“The IDF usually is an attacking force. We take the initiative,” he told reporters in Hanita, one of a string of kibbutzim along the northern border that were evacuated in the days following the October attack and now stand empty.
“We had to teach units how to start defending,” he said, a battered looking copy of the manual in his hand.
The book, one of the Israeli army’s first ever training manuals, teaches soldiers and junior officers more used to modern high tech warfare, classic infantry techniques like how to dig foxholes that can be occupied for weeks at a time.
They will be needed soon.
Red Sea Remains Dangerous After Strikes……
The Houthis have warned the United States and its allies of “a long-term battle that will change the direction of the region and the world.”
Overnight strikes on Yemen led by the United States and the United Kingdom will be met by “punishment or retaliation,” the military spokesperson of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels has said.
The U.S. and U.K., with support from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Bahrain conducted strikes against Houthi facilities in Yemen in retaliation for attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The strikes occurred from air, surface and subsurface platforms, the official said.
The actions targeted Houthi radar systems, drone, ballistic and cruise missile storage and launch sites, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details.
In the meantime, however, the threat to Red Sea shipping from the Houthis — which the group says is in retaliation for Israel’s war in Gaza — shows no sign of abating.
Indeed, one shipping industry source has stated; “We don’t believe that [the strikes] will help short-term.”
“The Houthis have not been impressed by any military action until now,” the same source contended. “Drones and missiles can be shot easily from any place — so we would not think that the strike has hit all weapons. Nobody will return immediately to the Red Sea as it is not proven yet that as of today the passage is safe.”
There are also growing indications that some kind of Houthi response is now imminent, a threat that has been attributed to the group’s senior political leader Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi. [pictured below]
Whether this is a continuation of the anti-shipping campaign, or something else, is unclear for now.
In the last few hours, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), which is managed by the Royal Navy, has relayed reports of a missile having been fired toward a vessel around 90 nautical miles southeast of the Yemeni port of Aden, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea.
According to the same source, the missile came down in the water 400-500 metres away from a ship, which did not report any injuries or damage.
If this is confirmed, it would appear to be the first attack on a vessel in the region since the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Since the strikes, there has been a slew of threats from Houthi officials.
Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political bureau, warned that “Yemen is not an easy military opponent that can be subdued quickly. Rather, it is prepared to engage in a long-term battle that will change the direction of the region and the world.”
Hussein al-Azzi, the Houthi Deputy Foreign Minister issued the following statement on X [Twitter]:
“Our country was subjected to a massive aggressive attack by American and British ships, submarines, and warplanes, and America and Britain will undoubtedly have to prepare to pay a heavy price and bear all the dire consequences of this blatant aggression.”
Developing…..
The Houthis and Prophecy……
Ezekiel chapter 38 says that when these Gog Magog nations—Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya, and Sudan—invade Israel in the end times, there are some nations that are going to sit on the sidelines and issue a kind of lame protest to what’s happening.
Those nations are identified as Sheba, Dedan, and the young lions of Tarshish.
Dedan is likely Saudi Arabia and the other more moderate Arab and Gulf states. The young lions of Tarshish are presumably the nations of Western Europe. Sheba could be part of Saudi Arabia, but it’s probably Yemen.
If that’s true, then something is going to have to happen in Yemen to neutralize these Houthi rebels.
If the Houthis keep making these attacks in the Red Sea, NATO has stated that they are prepared to take them out.
There may be a lot of twists and turns before we get to the end, but Yemen is going to be a much different nation in the end times than they are today, becoming neutral or even on the Israeli side in the Ezekiel 38 war against the Jewish State.
Or no longer able to be a military threat?
Iran-Backed Terrorists Fire Missiles At US Base In Syria.……..
Amid heightened Middle East tensions, Iran-backed militants have targeted the US troops stationed at a base in Conoco gas field in northeast of Syria.
According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Iranian proxy forces fired more than six missiles on the base in northern Deir ez-Zor (Deir Ezzor) countryside, where smoke plumes were seen rising from the targeted site.
US forces in the region are in a state of high alert in anticipation of attacks by Iran-aligned forces after the US and UK conducted airstrikes on Houthis in Yemen, another Iranian proxy, in the early hours of Friday local time in response to the group’s repeated attacks on Red Sea shipping.
According to reliable SOHR sources, some of the missiles hit civilian facilities in Al-Azbah village near the gas field, causing material damage.
The war monitor said that it has documented 88 attacks carried out by Iranian-backed militias on Coalition bases in different areas across Syria since October 19, less than two weeks after Islamist militia Hamas invaded Israel.
Iran denies involvement in the October 7 attack but almost all its proxies have intensified attacks on US and Israeli targets in the region as well as commercial vessels at their reach.
WEF Prepares for 54th Annual Meeting…….
After 54 years of gathering, the World Economic Forum has greatly influenced the direction of the world. Now, people from all walks of life are seemingly rejecting their top-down, technocratic vision for the future.
On Monday January 15th, the World Economic Forum will begin their 54th Annual Meeting as hundreds of heads of government, representatives of international organizations, civil society “leaders”, so-called experts, and media outlets gather in Davos, Switzerland.
The WEF has announced the theme of their 54th annual meeting: Rebuilding Trust.
Interestingly, this is the same theme they used in 2021. They may not be up to the task?
It’s no surprise that the WEF continues their focus on building trust after they have become enemy number one of millions of people around the world since 2020.
The WEF says the meeting will “restore collective agency” and reinforce the “principles of transparency, consistency and accountability” among world leaders. Yeah, right.
Expected attendees of the WEF 2024 gathering include Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State; Jake Sullivan, US National Security Adviser, as well as representatives from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Some of the presidents and heads of state include Li Qiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China; Emmanuel Macron, [above] President of France; Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission; Javier Milei, recently elected President of Argentina; Han Duck-soo, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea; Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain; Viola Amherd, President of the Swiss Confederation 2024; and the totally corrupted Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine.
Other globalist representatives include Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Ajay S. Banga, President of the World Bank Group, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization; Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, [below] Director-General of the World Health Organization, and the designer of an interantional health treaty that will, if implemented by demnented politicians around the globe, enslave us all to a medical tyranny yet seen in global history.
In the last 2 years, the WEF has promoted the idea of a “polycrisis”, claiming that the world is now contending with multiple crises, including alleged pandemics, climate crises, multiple wars, and economic downturns.
For 2024, the WEF is warning that “even as we turn our attention to new crises, the old ones persist”.
Always an organization to create new terms or seemingly predict the next trauma inflicted upon the world, the WEF continues by asking if 2024 will “be a period of ‘permacrisis’?”
“At a time when global challenges require urgent solutions, innovative public-private collaboration is necessary to convert ideas into action,” said Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum.
“The Forum provides the structure for developing research, alliances and frameworks that promote mission-driven cooperation throughout the year. Next week’s Annual Meeting will serve as an accelerator of that cooperation, deepening connections between leaders and between initiatives.”
The meeting is organized around four areas, Achieving Security and Cooperation in a Fractured World; Creating Growth and Jobs for a New Era; Artificial Intelligence as a Driving Force for the Economy and Society; and a Long-Term Strategy for Climate, Nature and Energy.
The WEF says they will focus on answering questions like how they can achieve a “carbon-neutral and nature-positive world by 2050” while also providing “affordable, secure and inclusive access to energy, food and water”.
The WEF is also focused on how to balance these “trade-offs” while achieving “social consensus”.
To translate from globalist-speak — this means they know that the masses of the world will have to suffer to achieve their vision of a Great Reset, and they are working to figure out how to convince the public so they can achieve “social consensus”.
That’s the challenge! Will dozing humanity awake in time to close down these arrogant elites or will they snore on until they awake in legaslative shackles that cannot be removed?? We’ll have to wait and see…but not for too long?
WORLD NEWS BRIEFING – with Tom Hughes and Greg Denham – 11 January 2024
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Editor; Mike Claydon
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