Islamism: Discerning Friend & Foe

This is an article that will not make sense to those of you who are not Christians or Messianic Jews.  I didn't write it for you, so understand that upfront.  - Donna Diorio
 

Saturday afternoon I witnessed a circular firing squad on Twitter among several of the counter-terrorism writers in the United States. They were attacking an article - actually a response to attacks on himself - by Dr Zhudi Jasser, a Muslim man who speaks the truth about radical Islam on news programs.

Now, I know that many of you dearly love Pamela Geller, but she is chief among those who accuse other counter-terrorism people. Dr. Jasser is just one in a line of CT experts that I know of that Geller has attacked furiously and unfairly. I don't know if she is just a hot head or if it is professional jealousy over those who have been given a much greater platform to speak on the news programs. I think the latter has been the case with 3 TOP names in anti-slamist experts I've watched Geller attack over the years.

The reason that news programs don't use Geller is very likely because she makes a lot of emotional accusations that she can't back up and is certainly seen as a loose cannon. Not to mention what a publicity hound she is. Of course many in the public feed on that kind of thing but not honest news media platforms with any crediblity.

Now I understand that Islam is a dead end street. If the foundations are demonic, which I believe they are, then good fruit cannot be borne from a bad root tree.

HOWEVER, and this is big: Any time you have an honest Muslim like Dr. Jasser willing to take a lead in calling out not only the radical jihadists who commit terror attacks, but also the stealth jihadists of political Islam - those wolves in sheep's clothing seeking to overtake through political strength - then you better support that Muslim and not attack them.

That's exactly what I was seeing in the Twitter war that broke out against Dr. Jasser who was objecting to the Geller characterization of him as a stealth jihadist practicing taqiya on the American public. That is a STUPID accusation and the circular firing squad got it completely wrong. One way I know that is because Dr. Jasser is attacked equally furiously by the political Islamists in this country like CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood associated stealth jihadists. Geller knows that too, which is why it is so baffling that she would try to destroy Jasser's credibility.

We better wake up and realize that if we attack our friends the same way we attack our real enemies that we are doing harm to ourselves and our cause. There are honest Muslims speaking out against radical Islam and political Islam.

If you will remember, Mosad Hassan was not a Christian first and then an informer for the MOSSAD on his father's own HAMAS group. Mosab began as just an honest man seeking justice and recoiling from what he percieved as evil. It didn't matter to him that his own dad was a spiritual founder of Hamas because God was stirring in Mosab to discern good from evil.
If Israel had treated Mosab like some US counterterrorism people are treating Dr. Jasser, do you think that Mosab would have continued to expose the plans of Hamas? No. And we need to give room to Muslims like Mosab and Dr. Jasser to speak and act on their honest assessment of the evil, and also leave the room for the Holy Spirit to call those to the LORD whom He has chosen.

Now I realize that it is often difficult to discern those who are walking in deception in US political Jihad. Our government is filled up with many of those purposefully deceiving and this administration is in particular willfully blind about the true intent of these political Islamists. This administration above all the others in the past don't want to know the truth.

Which is why it is doubly tragic that anti-Islamist counterterrorism experts should attack a true voice Dr. Jasser who has NO TIES to all the stealth jidhad organizations in the U.S. and abroad. If anyone should know better that Jasser's ties are not to those people, it was the people I saw attacking Jasser yesterday on Twitter.

Jesus made two opposing statements that illuminates how to tell the difference between those who are serving the purposes of God and those who are opposing it whether they are opposing openly or not:

Mathew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.

Luke 9:50 Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

We can tell steal-jihadists who claim innocence yet continually work in the public realm to condemn and accuse God's people - Christians and Jews. These are represented in groups like CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups who are political Islam. In the end plan, political Islamists will merge back with their terroristic brothers when they have achieved enough political strength to oppress and dominate.

Those that are within our ranks as Christian and Messianic in faith, those who are dividing the Body rather than gathering the Body together, are those Yeshua was referring to in Matthew 12:30).

Dr. Jasser, like Mosab Hassan before him, (and others!) is to be found in Luke 9:50.
The polarity here is a matter of discernment, and how to assess those who are within our ranks but are merely devisive, or those who are not part of us at all, but do not wage against us. In the first example are the stealth jihadists or political Islam; in the second example is Dr. Zhudi Jasser.

This is the link to the response article by Dr. Jasser that drew out CT news media against Jasser and for Geller. My stand is with Dr. Jasser, as it was with the other CT experts when Geller was attacking them.

Israel is Ground Zero & We really are Charlie

  Post Charlie Hebdo: “Je suis Charlie”
We really are Charlie, we just don’t recognize it yet

 

by Donna Diorio

I am working on an article. Here are some excerpts that I wanted to share after reading a tweet today about how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was mistreated in Paris. It made me so angry, I cannot hold off. 

The French didn't want Netanyahu in the march at all, then tried to stick him in the second row where he was not so visible. They even tried to keep him from traveling to the bus where the national leaders traveled to the march, trying to stick him in bus #2 where all the underlings rode.  Yet they were perfectly comfortable with the participation of Palestinian president Abbas in a unity government with the terrorist group Hamas, and also the Hezballah terrorist group leader.

This tells me all I need to know about whether the French, and some of the other European leaders are really serious about doing something about radical Islam. As long as they refuse to understand that Israel is ground zero of the battle against radical Islam, and that Israel is fighting a defensive war out of necessity to survive, well there is nothing that such international leaders can possibly come up with to protect their own nations. The hypocrisy is so great it has to be a stench in the nostrils of God! I do include the U.S. in that.

Does that mean that we are all doomed? No - for those of us who know better, it means we must keep up the spiritual fight. Israel is the issue that is demonstrating whether the people of each nation is choosing God's side, or making a pact with death.

A few days ago I was listening from the other room when a former military intelligence man, Andrew Peek, was telling Fox News (America's News HQ) that in the early 70's terrorism was not Islamic, but came from other groups.  That is not really true. 

Although Israel was the only target, Islamic terrorism was being established by Yasser Arafat as early as 1958 as he began to form terror cells. By the late 1960's, Arafat's Fatah terrorists were doing guerrilla attacks and terror sky-jackings.  The "Father of Terrorism" was Yasser Arafat.  He was not a particularly religious man but that did not stop him from using radical Islamist doctrines to stir supporters. 

Peek's point was that depending on where you think terrorism has sprung up from will determine how you think it ought to be fixed. Like a great many people, Peek apparently believes that Islamic terrorism is the result of jobless, disaffected youth, who have no hope for opportunity in the world.

Think about this. Yasser Arafat had a long career as a terrorist trying to convince Jews they should just give up on the Israeli homeland. Finally Europe was convinced that if they just reinvented Yasser Arafat calling him a diplomat instead of a terrorist, that they could neutralize terrorism. They were wrong; all they did is multiply terrorism.

It is not poverty that motivates Islamic terrorism and no one is going to cure the problem by handing out rewarding jobs to jihadis.

Many in America think that the U.S. does not have the same problems as Europe because the EU didn't do a good enough job assimilating Muslims as  America has. It's a wrong conclusion because the truth is that the US is about 15 years behind Europe and the UK in being Islamisized.  Too many Muslims in the Western nations don't want assimilation, they want to overtake us.

People in the West have yet to come to grips with that truth, but it doesn't make it any less true. No, not all Muslims are evil or radical, but most of America has not awakened to the facts about Islam. The UK and EU are just beginning to be forced to. Unfortunately, the current US president has accelerated the process by emboldening the Islamists to come out of the proverbial closet.

Unfortunately, human nature has a history of ignoring approaching disaster until it is on the verge of too late. We are seeing this in the Jews being forced to flee France in fear for their lives, as they soon will also flee other European nations like Belgium, and also the UK.

Unfortunately, even though we disdain Neville Chamberlain, at the time he was saying what Brits wanted to hear and Winston Churchill was not. Churchill was shunned - until disaster hit and all of Europe was on the verge of too late. If the US had not entered the fight, it would have been too late for them.

The popular Fox News program The Kelly File asks what we can learn from Israel's fight with terrorism.  My answer is EVERYTHING.  Israel is ground zero of the Islamic terrorism that plagues the world today.  Israel's fight is our fight, yet one of the primary reasons that the nations are plagued with the terrorism threat today is because of their hypocrisy in not backing Israel in years past. 

If the nations had not given legitimization to terrorists like Yasser Arafat, making him out as if he were a world leader instead of the terrorist he was until the day he died, then we could have stopped Islamic terror where it was birthed.

 Instead of backing the victim of terrorism, Israel, we winked and nodded at terrorist acts, calling Israel's defensive of herself the moral equivalent of Islamic terrorism against Israel.  The terrorism that the nations are reaping now, are exactly what they have sown in hypocrisy with Israel. That doesn't make me happy to say, but it is the truth of the matter.

A Vision of The Temple Mount, A Menacing Dragon, And A Season of Increasing Shakings

A Vision of The Temple Mount,
A Menacing Dragon,
And A Season of Increasing Shakings

[NOTICE: In recent Updates we have focused on a threatening surge of unrest and contention which has been steadily increasing on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and in Muslim nations (particularly Jordan) related to Israel's attempts to contain the unrest there. This week we submit for your prayerful consideration what we see to be an extremely timely prophetic Word released this week by Rick Ridings regarding this volatile situation. Rick with his wife Patti are founders and directors of Succat Hallel, a 24/7 house of worship and intercession, which faces the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. -Martin Sarvis, Jerusalem] 

RICK RIDINGS: On 21 October, 2014, during our worship in Succat Hallel, I saw a vision of a huge black dragon that was circling in a menacing manner above the Temple Mount here in Jerusalem. Each time it breathed fire from its mouth, violence was released on the Temple Mount. But I knew this time it was planning something really much larger. Suddenly I saw in the heavens two words: "NOT NOW". Then a huge foot descended from the heavens and pinned the dragon to the ground. Next, the Lord reached down and put shackles on the dragon's feet and imprisoned the dragon in the underground mosque on the southeast corner of the Temple Mount. As I was seeing this in the vision, our worship leader started singing from Psalm 149 about us through high praise putting the kings in chains and the nobles in shackles.

Next, I saw the Lord's hand put a lock on the door to where the dragon was imprisoned, and then put a lock on it with a timer, seeming to indicate it would be released to do something quite "big" in the timing of the Lord, but that now was not the time.

Then the hands of the Lord continued to shake and thresh the Temple Mount in a flat threshing basket, as I had seen in previous visions on 17 June and 14 October. The Lord was tossing the Temple Mount into the air in a way similar to the ancient threshing method of tossing grain into the air, after which the chaff would be blown away by the wind, and the good grain would fall into the threshing basket. I felt the Lord was speaking, "This is still a season in which I am sifting and discerning the hearts of men and nations". I realized He was showing mercy to those who really were searching for truth and righteousness. Even on the Temple Mount, in the midst of the shakings, water came out from between the stones, splashed into the eyes of those Muslims who were sincerely seeking righteousness, and washed away deception, and opened their eyes to Jesus as Messiah, Savior, and Lord. 

Then on 29 October, a Palestinian attempted to assassinate Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who had just given a lecture to a small group in the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, expressing his belief that Jews and Christians should also be allowed to pray on the Temple Mt., and not only Moslems, as is the status quo. Four shots were fired into him at point-blank range. Miraculously, he not only survived, but is recovering. His Palestinian killer was from the neighborhood (Abu Tor) in which we have our 24/7 prayer and worship center, Succat Hallel. He fired back at the police when they tried to capture him, and was killed in the ensuing shootout. Many predicted the next few days would be a time of huge violence and the start of a new "intifada" (uprising) in Jerusalem, similar to what took place in 2000, and was followed by four years of numerous suicide and bus bombings in Jerusalem. We strongly prayed into the words from my Oct 21 vision "Not Now! On Saturday 1 November, great violence was predicted, but rain fell quite heavily in the morning. (News sources even credited the rain with helping to calm down the situation.) That afternoon, in Succat Hallel we were singing over Jerusalem: "His love never fails, never gives up, never runs out on you. It's higher than the mountains that you face, and stronger than the power of the grave." At that exact moment, a huge rainbow appeared, and seemed to be touching the Temple Mount!

Then on 4 November, I had another vision concerning the dragon in which I saw the dragon shrieking, and trying to break out of the dungeon in which it had been imprisoned. I saw a rainbow hammer come down to make the door even more secure. But I saw the dragon was sending frog-like demon spirits from its mouth (similar to what is described in Revelation 16:13). These spirits were going into various terrorist leaders and giving them words to incite to terror. The same spirits were also working through characters on Muslim children's television, inciting them to violence, urging them to "Kill the Jews". I felt the Lord say we were to ask Him as the Judge of the Universe to give a "gag and restraining order" to silence the dragon for this time period. I saw a throne with seven lions down each side, and the Lamb in the middle. As the Lord gave this restraining order, I then saw believing children in the Middle East who were worshipping the Lamb. Then angels began to go to Muslim children and whisper in their ears: "Love the Jews".

In a strong confirmation, I was asked to share at a meeting here in Jerusalem on 6 November with Chuck Pierce. Chuck did not know about the vision I had of the dragon, but said that as he and his team flew into Israel, they saw a sunset that seemed more like glory was arising over Jerusalem, rather than going down. But in the sky above this light they all saw a cloud that looked clearly like a dragon, and had the sense there was a dragon spirit trying to swallow up the glory that was about to be poured out in Jerusalem.

PRAYER POINTS:

1. Proclaim the sovereignty of the Holy One of Israel over His Holy Hill, the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem. Proclaim Ezekiel 43:6,7: "While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple. He said: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever."

2. Proclaim "Not Now" to the forces of evil trying to stir up something big, like a prolonged violent uprising in Jerusalem, or even a regional war in the Middle East.

3. Pray for much revelation of Jesus on the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, and across the Middle East.

4. Pray for a dying down of the incitement to killing, especially that aimed at children and youth. Pray for a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the children and youth of the Middle East.

5. Pray for mercy upon men and nations whose hearts are being "sifted and threshed" by the events taking place in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount. On January 1, 2014, my wife, Patti, had received a strong word that this was a year of "shifting and sifting". I believe we are still in that season, even here in Jerusalem.

ACTION POINT: Give towards the support of Jewish messianic and Arab believing staff that are helping lead our 24/7 worship and prayer facing the Temple Mount. in Jerusalem. For more information, go to: http://www.succathallel.com/donate/

Thank you for standing with Jerusalem in your prayers during this very strategic season!

Rick Ridings
Jerusalem
9 November, 2014

What were they building in Hamas' West Bank Stronghold Qalqilyah?

Some of you may remember the story we published on April 26, 2011
by a Messianic minister in Alfei Menashe, Uzi Lotan. 
This is Uzi's staggering followup to the previous article:

MOSQUES, MINARETS AND MILITARY TRAINING 
What happens in Israel, doesn't stay in Israel

When I first read in the spring of 2011 what Uzi was telling us about the unwarranted building of mosques and minarets in a town nearby to their own Israeli village in the West Bank, I realized there was a parallel to all the unwarranted mosque building that Islamists have been doing in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European nations - building more and bigger mosques than the population can support should be raising suspicions on intended purposes. 

That's why I added the sub-title, What happens in Israel doesn't stay in Israel.  The battles that Israel has and does face in combating the terrorist Islamist enemy is the forerunner of the battles that the whole of Western civilization is and will engage in to defend ourselves against radical Islamists.

As you will read in Uzi Lotan's post-Gaza war article, we can know even more detail about the parallels, and especially why it is of extreme danger for national security forces to have a 'hands off' approach to known radical-Islamist preaching mosques.  Why? Because those mosques are not just houses of worship but are being used as safe havens and strategic military infrastructure for terrorists.  What as we saw unfold recently in Gaza is not just a Gaza-Hamas phenomenon. 

In just the past week, Israeli newspapers reported that according to captured Hamas men during the Gaza war, there was a plot among Hamas to stage a coup in the Palestinian Authority held West Bank. Hamas planned to attack the PA and take over control of the West Bank as they had Gaza. That is why the reporting by Lotan in 2011, and now again after the discovery of the extensive tunnel network under Gaza, begs the question: 

What were they building in Hamas' West Bank Stronghold of Qalqilyah?

By Uzi Lotan of Beit Hallel

West Bank 7 Sept 2014: Peace and quiet have been restored to Alfei Menashe  At least, on the surface, that seems to be the case, since the agreement to this last ceasefire came into effect 2 weeks ago.

Noise has been everywhere for the past 3 consecutive months! It started with June, the month of Ramadan, with its 24-hour-a-day disturbances. Then followed by 51 days of July-August, with the noise of War - Operation Protective Edge. Fighter jets flying overhead every 1 and a half minutes, then all international flights to Ben Gurion airport, having been re-routed and starting to land right over our home, every 3 and half minutes. Add to this cacophony the war-sirens and booms in the distance, making even the regular calls from the mosques in the 5 villages surrounding us, fade in comparison. Silence could not be found anywhere: even the abundance of birds that usually frequent our garden - seemed to leave us for quieter habitats.

Even though we have some respite, we still need to be watchmen, and therefore we are compelled to relay to you what is happening here, in Samaria (politically known as the West Bank).

Just as Gaza, the Kingdom of Jordan and the Golan Heights, are each one a gateway into Israel, within its current borders, so is Samaria. The main road into Israel, from Samaria, runs between Alfei Menashe and a major Hamas stronghold - the Palestinian city of Qalqilyah. 

On the Subject of Mosques & Tunnels  |  At the beginning of the war, when Israel began to discover the extent of the force that they were facing, Prime Minister Netanyahu rightly announced that we could not give Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority, or we would have 20 more 'Gazas' to contend with.

During 2010, we noticed unusual numbers of mosques being built in Qalqilyah. (Mosques, Minarets and Military Training). We asked you then to pray with us concerning this area. It was later revealed that the building of the mosques, side by side, and with tunnels underneath them, was indeed for jihadist activities, training, weapon-manufacturing and storage facilities.

And here we are, 4 years later, and we are asking you to pray with us once again, for this same area for this terrorist use has been confirmed once more by the testimonies of Hamas militants that were captured by the IDF, during this Operation.  [Source: Israel Today, 28 Aug 2014 - Testimonies of Captured Hamas Militants] 

Next to the town of Qalqilyah, which is a Hamas stronghold, the landscape has been changing during the past 18 months, and even much faster these past 6 months.

On various news bulletins, we have heard that when building the tunnels, they first cover them with loose sand, and then several loads of topsoil. For the past 12 months there has been fervent activity taking place with earth moving equipment, and bulldozers clearing areas, dumping enormous amounts of soil, and finally moving hundreds and hundreds of mature, fully-grown trees onto the property, ready for sale. This is taking place next to existing nurseries, and is overlooking the main Israeli highway that runs from north to south across the country.

Do we have tunnels much closer to home?  Our answer is: yes!  We believe that the Holy Spirit has alerted us to pray, and to encourage others to pray, that what is hidden will be uncovered.

As the IDF continually patrols this area, we have no doubt that they are aware of what is going on, on the ground, and underground.  Yet, the IDF is the natural army, and we are the spiritual army. Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but it is against the powers and principalities of this dark world. (Ephesians 6:12) 

Iran - a Peace Loving Nation indeed  |  In its recent series of negotiations with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), Teheran claimed that all of its huge nuclear projects are for "peaceful purposes only". Yet, at the same time, it issued a further threat to our area in the form of proclamations that it will arm the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria with missiles, and it intends doing so before the next war. The former Tehran defense adviser has said that Tel Aviv and Haifa will be much easier to hit from Judea and Samaria, as the distance is much shorter than from Gaza, therefore only short-range missiles will be required.  [Sources:  Times of Israel staff 30 July 2014 - Iran will arm West bank with missiles;  Times of Israel staff 25 Aug 2014 - Iran will arm Palestinians; Israel Today, 31 Aug 2014 - Iran arming Palestinians before next war]

If Iran is able to arm the West Bank with short range missiles (as stated in the above links), and there are tunnels right here, 8 kilometers from Kfar Sabba, a major Israeli city, this could mean mass destruction.

More Threats & Ultimatums  |  On Wednesday September 3rd, the Palestinian Authority (PA) issued an ultimatum for Israel's withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, enabling an independent Palestinian state, on the pre-1967 borders, to be established within 3 years.

Again, the PA is threatening to take Israel to the international Criminal Court if its ultimatum is not met. This has come precisely at a time when Israel is more convinced than ever of the danger of such a move.  [Source: Israel today, 3 Sept 2014 - Israel believes Palestinian ultimatum is dangerous]

Fragmentation & Division?  |  In the Middle East - situations and statements can change on a daily basis. , Only 4 days after Abbas' ultimatum to Israel, he made another speech, and this time only stated that he was losing patience with Israel, but seriously threatened to break partnership with Hamas. He added that there could only be one source of authority ruling over the Palestinians, and their future state, and that if there is to be war, Hamas has no right to call for it.

"If Hamas won't accept a Palestinian State with one government, one law, and one weapon - then there won't be any partnership between us," said Abbas. "This is our condition, and we won't back away from it."

The Palestinian Authority seem to be determined to eradicate Hamas from Judea and Samaria. However, Hamas has called on its operatives not to co-operate with the investigations of the PA security forces, and has condemned the escalation in the amount of summons and arrests being issued by the PA to their men in the West Bank, which they claim is without reason.  [Source: Ynet, 7 Sept 2014 - Abbas Threatens to break partnership with Hamas]

The Spread of the ISIS Cancer  |  On Friday September 5th, the Shabach, which is the Israeli Internal Security (like FBI in the USA) announced that they have arrested 10 Israeli Arab Citizens, that are affiliated to ISIS.

Although we have not heard of any Palestinian citizens being arrested for being affiliated with ISIS, declarations have been made and there have been ISIS flags flown on the Temple Mount, and in some areas of Judea and Samaria, where there have been frequent riots against Israel. Please pray with us that all those affiliated with ISIS will be swiftly apprehended and completely uprooted from within our nation, as well as from the areas controlled by the Palestinian authority.

Samaria - in Biblical Context  |  As we read God's word, there is no doubt that He loves this mountainous area of Samaria, and He has a definite plan. We also know that His timing and ours are not the same, but until He notifies us of His change of plan, we need to continue to intercede and be watchmen.

Ezekiel 36:1-8:  `O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD...The enemy said of you, "Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession... they ravaged and hounded you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and slander, therefore...in my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations... I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.....I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn. `But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home.'

We need to reiterate that Samaria in Hebrew is Shomron, and it has the same root as the Hebrew word "shomer" - this means the guard, or keeper.  We are the spiritual gatekeepers on the seam line, from Samaria into Israel, and we literally pass the Hamas stronghold each day, as we enter through the gateway.

There are many in Israel that have been called to intercession for this nation.  God gives us each different assignments.  We have been placed here, as watchmen, on the hill, overlooking this area as an eagle watches from the sky.  Would you pray with us, that everything that is hidden, will be brought to light ? 

Donna Diorio:  Can you see the parallels that I see to strategies we need to heed from the Israeli experience in dealing with radical Islam?  I hope so because it may make a major difference in how we all fare in the ongoing war against Islamists.

Christians Backing the Demonic Claim

I'm thinking about the outbreaks of severe anti-semitism in places like France, Britain, Ukraine and the growing threat that is even showing its ugly head in the great refuge of the United States of America. This should not surprise us since the apostle John said that even in the time he lived that there were many antichrists whereby we knew it was the last days, so for certain there many more evident today.

You may say, Wait a minute! John was talking about antichrists not anti-semites! Same difference. Why do you think anti-semites hate Jews? Because Jesus came from and is coming back to them.

Right now we are seeing another wave of Jews scattered throughout the nations being driven by hatred back to the Land of God, the land they were led by God to in the first place, and the land that God is going to make His last stand against evil.

When I say last stand, I'm not saying that like there is any question who will come out the Victor in the dispute over the land of Israel, and over that Holy Mountain where God placed His name, and thus His ownership, long ago. The prophets all spoke about God's "holy mountain" and the future of it. Islam may be making a claim on it now, but when Yeshua the Messiah of Israel rises up to take His throne there, Islamists will not be able to hold onto it.

That's why they fight so hard now - the demons will try to kill as many Jews as possible saying, If I can't have it, I will make sure you can't either. That is where we are today, but where are Christians standing in that matter? Too many are backing the demonic claim. Israel is not yet all saved, but the promise of God is toward them.

Wake up Christianity, or you in your blindness will choose to fight with the hounds of hell.

God's Holy Mountain is not just an invisible "spiritual Zion" but a solid physical, geographical reality just as the prophets indicated, like Zechariah 8: "Thus says the LORD; I am returned to 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."

You can't spiritualize away the specific location that God has marked as His. The Dome of the Rock may stand there now, but it is strictly temporary.  Islam and the antichrists that support Islamists are the reason that God Himself will make His ownership of that mountain unquestionable.

(Not the unsaved rabbis of various temple mount movements - but Yeshua will make the final ownership claim of that mountain.)

Many Americans don't think that American Jews will flee to Israel like they are now fleeing from other nations, but it is coming. The antichrist spirits in America have certainly joined forces with the God-haters of Islam. Together they are already waging a covert war on Christians in the US, and the wave of anti-semitism-disguised-as-anti-Zionism is becoming more and more bold here.

Last week a famous British anti-semite, George Galloway, a member of the British Parliament, declared the northern city of Bradford an "Israel free zone". His remarks - which are under police investigation - came out of pro-Gaza (pro-Hamas) demonstrations much like the ones we've been seeing here in the U.S.  Ours are not yet as violent as theirs.

Don't assume that the USA is immune to becoming an anti-semitic, hate-spewing crowd like we are seeing from European nations. Not when a rabbi is shot dead in the streets of Miami just two blocks from a synagogue that just had hate speech written on its walls - including the word Hamas.

Hatred is driving Jews back to God's land that is surrounded by seething hatred from demonized Islamists who cannot stand the superior claim that Jews have to the Land and to that Holy Mountain of God.

You will notice that the war in Islamist states is not just against Jews, it is also against Christians. Our country has tried to build relationship with Islamic states for strategic economic reasons, and have been trying to bring them into the modern world. That has meant a willingness to turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of Christians in some Islamist nations. That goes back much farther than Barack Obama, unfortunately, but under Obama the abuse and murder of Christians in Islamist nations has increased exponentially. It is at a blood-lusting frenzy right now in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Nigeria.

Even here in the United States, as the antichrist spirits continue to rise among the God-haters on the Left, Christians are seeing the beginning swell of antichrist persecution. Remember in Nazi Germany the persecution began in restriction and regulations, and wearing an instant identification so citizens could avoid contact with Jews.

We better remember that we are fighting for our own freedom while we are also standing up for Israel's right to exist. The hatred of Christianity is ultimately tied in with the hatred of Israel - Jews are the Saturday people and Christians are the Sunday people that Islamists are intent to deal with.

The hatred of the only people on earth who were ever singled out by God as a nation to stand before Him, should be a big clue to the reality of our spiritual kinship, because we are individuals who have been singled out by God to become a holy nation before Him. Our Individual singling out cannot erase their national singling out.

We are in this battle to the finish which is why it is important to choose our side wisely in the battle between demonic hatred of Israel and Jews.

When Some of the Wounded IDF Soldiers Open Up

As a wounded soldier himself, sustaining quite a severe injury at the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Uzi Lotan knows very well that it is a very hard and lengthy process before a soldier is ready to open up and start talking about hard, war-experiences. Keeping quiet is simply a sure and safe emotional-defense mechanism, which no veteran willingly lays down for fear of breaking down without it.

It took two years and a series of pentothal shots - truth serum - before Uzi was ready to open up slightly. Truth serum is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive medications, used to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise.  As a matter of fact, even now, over 40 years after the war, at the age of 64, Uzi sometimes comes up with "new stuff" he never told anyone before!

The reason why we are telling you all this is because some of the wounded IDF soldiers being treated in Israeli hospitals, for injuries sustained while fighting in Gaza, have started opening-up and talking.  They are telling the media in Israel of horrific, terrible things they have encountered in the past five days, since entering into Gaza. 

Uzi notes, "The basic quotes were taken from listening to injured soldiers on The Voice of Israel Channel 2 (BET) RADIO Stations – all in Hebrew, of course.  The date of the interviews on Reshet Bet: 22 July 2014, midday.

"This is essentially the account of the interviews, as I wrote them down, while listening.  As you may understand from the comments above, this very much relates to my personal testimony and hard experiences of war. I wanted to draw the audience’s attention to the magnitude of the trauma, which caused these soldiers to start off-loading so quickly."

The bitterest and toughest battles apparently took place in a suburb of Gaza called Shja'iya. The fact that some of them are indeed talking, is either a sign indicating that they are naturally-open characters, or more likely, that the trauma they experienced was of an enormous magnitude that if they won't talk, they'll explode! Uzi believes that the latter reason is the valid reason.

The Gazan Human Shields  |  And this is what the soldiers are telling:

"We went into Shuja'iya, to discover and destroy the Hamas' terrorist tunnels. We discovered there an entire underground-city, with multi-shaft, wide tunnels, with Wi-Fi & air-conditioning systems, concrete walls, and stocked to the ceiling with weapons and explosives. Some of the tunnels are so wide, that they can ride back and forwards on Vespa type scooters..."

"And then came the worst! The Hamas 'fighters' started sending towards us 13- and 14-year-old Palestinian children, running at us, wearing explosive-laden suicide-bomber belts! Those children were death-trapped, and became human-bombs, by their community's adults!

"We were trained to fight adult-soldiers or any other skilled adults, enabling us to defend our families and countrymen. But this? We had no other option but, in self-defense, to shoot them at as far a range from us as we could, before the 'responsible-adult' that sent them used his mobile-phone to detonate the belts, and kill us".

One of the injured soldiers ended up by saying: "I do not know if I'll ever be able to sleep again: the pictures of those poor children, killed by my gun, will probably never leave me!"

Let us conclude with the sad words of one of Israel's past Prime Ministers, the late Mrs. Golda Meir:  "We may be able to forgive the Arabs for the killing of our children. We cannot however forgive them, for forcing us to kill theirs! Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us!".

Israeli Messianic Leader: The expected sacrifice has begun....

An Update on the War from Israeli Messianic Leader
Eddie Santoro of the Ahavat Yeshua Congregation

Sunday July 20th 2014

Israel awoke this morning to the 13th day of the Gaza War. In the distance, the explosions of the ongoing battle can be heard. And on the TV screens, pictures of the terrible cost of this war that has been forced upon us are broadcast continually.

The expected sacrifice has begun. Five young men have died. Each with a life and a future. Each with families and loved ones. Each with a destiny that could have blessed many. And each with a part to play in the building of this nation. Today, their loved ones are mourning, those destinies have been cut off and the part that each might have played in building this nation is forever gone.

In a few hours, the funerals will begin as Israel honors those who have fallen in battle. Sadly, this has always been a part of our nation's history. Each Passover we recite; “In every generation there have been those who have risen up against us.” Today it is Hamas, yesterday it was Hezbollah in Lebanon, a few generations ago, it was Germany. We have never initiated these battles. We have never done anything to deserve them. And yet, even while we bury our dead, we continue to pray that the God of peace would bring peace to all Israel.

Front Line Reports
Tunnel Destruction  |  Over the years, Hamas has built a large number of tunnels, many of them originating from under private homes and exiting into Israel. The purpose of these tunnels is to give Hamas terrorists access into Israel so that they can carry out terrorist attacks and kidnap soldiers and civilians. The destruction of these tunnels is the first goal of the ground action in Gaza. As of this morning, fifteen of them have been destroyed. Yesterday 2 soldiers were killed when terrorists exited one of these hidden tunnels within Israel and fired on an army vehicle patrolling the area.

Last night the government authorized a broadening of the offensive, as the IDF looks towards the cities of Gaza, where most of Hamas' weapons are hidden. The placement of these weapons under hospitals, schools and other civilian locations in the midst of crowded neighborhoods is not only a flagrant violation of international law but a sinister part of the enemy's strategy to ensure that there will be many civilian casualties. Hamas willingly sacrifices its innocent people to ensure that world opinion turns against Israel.

It would be far safer and easier for Israel to destroy these weapons from the air but this nation's commitment to minimize civilian casualties necessitates the entry of Israeli troops into these incredibly crowded locations. In contrast to Hamas, Israel will put its soldiers in harm's way to save Palestinian lives. How strange modern warfare is!

During the night, large numbers of additional infantry and tanks have entered into Gaza in preparation for this next phase of the battle.

To date, fifteen soldiers have been wounded with two in serious condition. [At the time of this posting, Israel has since reported 13 IDF soldiers killed overnight from the Golani Brigade]

Attacks Against Israel's Population Centers  |  The number of rocket attacks against Israel decreased by 30% yesterday, a measure of progress against Hamas.

Yesterday, a Hamas missile fell on a Bedouin family killing the father and seriously wounding a young child. This casualty highlights the obvious truth that every missile that is fired into Israel is aimed at civilians.

Numerous homes and apartments have been damaged by the ongoing barrage of rockets on Israel's population centers but miraculously the cost in human life has been remarkably low. Israel has called up over 50,000 reservists to active duty. That is the equilavent of the US calling up 3,000,000 reservists to serve in the army!

World Opinion  |  London, Paris, Holland, Chile, Turkey, Egypt and the United States is a short list of the nations that are being shaken by demonstrations against Israel's actions in this current war. And even more ominous is the overwhelming hatred of Jews that is being expressed in many of these demonstrations. In Paris, the cry rang out in the night air: “Kill the Jews”. From Turkey comes the accusation that “Israel is worse than Hitler”. In London, a Jewish man fled for his life as an angry mob chased him because he is a Jew. (Click on picture to see video of riots in Paris.)

Yeshua said that in the Last Days men would call evil good and good evil. One of the hallmarks of these demonstrations is the inability of people to rightly discern truth. Israel did not commit aggression in the current war. It started when Hamas began to indiscriminately fire missiles into Israel's cities. Hamas is the aggressor. Israel is the victim. Hamas is openly and publicly committed to the destruction of Israel. Israel has repeatedly called for peace and coexistence. If the world loved truth, then demonstrations would be against Hamas, not Israel. The willingness of people to gather against Israel and ignore the incomprehensible evil that is being lived out on the global stage today, only highlights that the spirit of antisemitism is alive and thriving in today's world.

The violent demonstrations in Europe's democracies are particularly frightening as these were the very nations that fought and sacrificed so much against the forces of evil in the Second World War. The popularity of hating Jews and Israel in these nations and the complete absence of any demonstration of support for Israel is symptomatic of the Islamization of many of these nations. Their populations will soon discover that human rights, democracy and Islam do not coexist.

As Israel commits its soldiers to the battle, the determination of this nation is only increasing. We understand that the struggle will be hard, the cost high. Already Israel's important tourist industry has taken a significant turn downward. (If you are one of those who is considering canceling your soon trip to Israel, I encourage you to please come. Your presence is a great encouragement to the people) The financial cost of this war is huge and the price that we are paying in human life and suffering is immeasurable. As difficult as it is, there is no choice. May God have mercy.

We are deeply grateful for your love and support. Together we will see the goodness of God victorious on the earth.

Prayer Points  |  This is a critical moment and we ask you to please join us in prayer.

    Thousands of Israeli men are in danger as they do battle in the Gaza Strip. Pray for God's protection on each one of them.
    Pray for the families of those who lost loved ones in the current battle
    Pray that God would raise up voices of truth to counter the anti-Israel dialogue that is so prevalent.
    Pray for wisdom for Israel's leaders.
    Pray that the Palestinian people would begin to see how they are being exploited by their leaders.
    Pray for the knowledge of Yeshua to be manifest in the hearts of many, both Jews and Palestinians during this war. 

We send you our love from Zion