One Cannot Properly Understand The Middle East Mess Apart From The Insight Of Scripture

One Cannot Properly Understand The Middle East Mess Apart From The Insight Of Scripture

Jonathan Brentner

One cannot properly understand the Middle East mess apart from the insight of Scripture, particularly the book of Esther.

Fast forward to today, and we see the same violent hatred for the Jewish people. And just as it was in the days of Esther, the root of the antisemitism that’s raging in our world is spiritual. There’s no sane reason for the attacks against Israel to continue in the light of repeated failures, but they do. All the ceasefires and peace initiatives eventually fail because they ignore the demonic element that drives the hatred of Israel and the Jewish people.

Last week, Barack Obama addressed the Middle East crisis during an interview with Irish journalist and author Susan McKay. In it, the former president resorted to his worn-out moral-equivalence argument. This time he applied it to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, suggesting both sides are equally at fault in the ongoing conflict.

Although he attempted to sound intellectual and bipartisan, he clearly blamed Israel for the continuing strife. While he acknowledged the oppression of the Jewish people during the past two thousand years, the gist of his argument was that it was no excuse for stealing the land from the Palestinians. He put it this way: “That is undeniable. What is also undeniable is that they took land off people, and they were excessive. And those people understandably said: ‘This is injustice, and I want my land back.'”

His Muslim roots were clearly evident in his remarks, as was his ignorance of Scripture and a willful oversight of the events that led to the UN’s recognition of Israel in 1948. He chose to ignore the fact that there was never a Palestinian State in the land that Israel possesses. The “Palestinians” today are a blend of Arabs from the surrounding nations (prior to 1948, Jewish people living in the land were also referred to as “Palestinians”). It was sleight-of-hand antisemitism designed to appear reasonable and fair.

Even more egregious were Obama’s remarks concerning Gaza, in which he described the conflict as reflective of a “cycle of historical grievances.” Really? Someone needs to remind him that Israel gave Gaza back to the Palestinians in 2005, and their self-ruleled directly to the demonic and barbaric slaughter of 1,200 Jews eighteen years later. His abhorrent comments regarding Gaza reflect a willing and total disconnect from reality.

An All Israel News article precisely sums the former president’s failure to disguise his hatred of all things Jewish: “You really have to hand it to Obama, though, because he didn’t just drop the bombshell statement in a willy-nilly manner. He adeptly sought to couch it in the cleverest way possible, which attempted to sound conciliatory but, at the same time, became a forceful condemnation of Israel’s right to defense.“

What we see today is a not-so-secret all-out blitz, waged by “the spiritual forces of evil” (Ephesians 6:11), against Israel and its people. But why now? Why the overt and covert hatred?

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The European Spring Explodes: Riot Updates

The European Spring Explodes as Demonstrators Waving Palestinian Flags Clash with Police, Set Fires in Cities Across Continent

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

The European Spring that RAIR Foundation predicted is violently taking shape. France continues to burn and, in turn, has ignited its European neighbors. Protesters rioted outside Albania’s Ministry of Education this weekend, demanding lower tuition fees, greater state investment in education, and the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. They were also protesting the war in Gaza. Behind it all across Europe are the real instigators… Muslims and communists.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced that more than 1,300 rioters had been arrested on Saturday as Paris became the epicenter of the unrest and was transformed into an armed fortress. 53 police officers were injured.

“Violent individuals have no place in the marches,” the Paris Police Department said in a social media post. “The objective is clear: to prevent troublemakers from joining the procession, and to ensure the safety of the demonstrators.”

HAPPENING NOW: Europe erupts into massive "protests"

Over 110,000 march in Paris, 25,000 in Madrid, 500 soldiers deployed in Milan, and clashes with police in Albania. Students, workers, and pensioners flood the streets.

Nuñez said security forces faced an “extremely high level of violence … with projectiles constantly being thrown and mortar fireworks fired.”

Over 70,000 police were deployed as over 110,000 protesters marched in Paris, according to Just the News. More than 500,000 protested in the streets last weekend, the Associated Press reported.

Albania Comes Under Attack

Protesters set dumpsters on fire in Albania. Couch cushions Rama had placed as a symbolic invitation to dialogue with students met the same fate, according to Euronews and the New York Post.

Over 2,500 police officers were deployed in the capital, Tirana. They used water cannons on the rioters.

Albania: Protesters fire streams of firework rockets at riot police in Albania’s capital Tirana.

Belgium Hit by Riots

A similar scene occurred in Brussels, Belgium, where police also used water cannons and tear gas to break up student-made barricades in the streets.

High-end retailers and luxury boutiques were hastily boarded up across Brussels. They were looted and vandalized last week, and people feared it would happen again.

According to the New York Post, demonstrators attempted to set fire to a pile of rental scooters, road signs and bicycles. The police reportedly stopped them.

Cops kicked and hit a protester, according to a witness who spoke with Reuters. The situation called for a lot more than that – only five people were arrested in Brussels. Once again, the riots are being treated with kid gloves, which is a disaster in the making when it comes to Islamic supremacists and communists.

Belgium is now added to the European countries under siege

BREAKING: Thousands now rioting in Belgium. Attacking Belgians, destroying buildings, and accosting police.

Italy Under Siege

More protests exploded in Italy, where thousands marched in the streets. Stores in Naples, Rome, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and Milan boarded up their windows, expecting the same level of looting that occurred in France last week. The protests in Rome, Turin, and Bologna turned violent.

BREAKING: Full-scale riots are breaking out in TURIN, ITALY now, with what appears to be GAS deployed

Europe is on their KNEES. They’re TERRIFYINGLY close to collapse.

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Roman Colosseum and clashed with police at the historic gates. Many were waving Palestinian flags. They were seen cheering and yelling inside the 2,000-year-old arena during the demonstrations in Rome as security forces ejected them.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni put Milan on high alert and deployed 500 soldiers to help the 5,000 police officers on scene, along with drone surveillance, railway station checks and rapid-response units.

The soldiers were not equipped with pepper spray or Tasers, only plastic restraint ties to help arrest rowdy protesters, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said. What a joke.

In Rome, the protesters escalated the violence. They threw bottles and launched fireworks at police. Euronews reported that protesters tore down and defaced street signs.

However, solid on-the-ground reporting of the riots seems hard to find, and what you read in the mainstream media does not even come close to describing the violence engulfing these European cities.

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Over The Past 55 Years The Standard Of Living Of American Workers Has Fallen Much More Than Most People Realize

Over The Past 55 Years The Standard Of Living Of American Workers Has Fallen Much More Than Most People Realize

Michael Snyder

If you go to bed at night worried about money and you get up in the morning still worried about money, you are far from alone. In 2026, financial stress is an inescapable reality for most Americans. There is still a very small segment of the population that is doing really well, but the vast majority of us are just trying to find a way to scrape by from month to month. When you work as hard as you can and it just isn’t enough, it can be absolutely soul crushing. As I discussed last week, 44 percent of Americans struggle to even afford the most basic necessities. We can all feel that the middle class is steadily eroding, and in this article I am going to share some shocking new numbers that absolutely prove that this is happening.

When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was living a middle class lifestyle. Homes were very affordable, nobody had anxiety about paying for healthcare, gasoline was extremely cheap, and grocery prices were not a concern at all.

Beef was so cheap in those days, and we ate like kings.

But now who can afford to eat beef on a regular basis?

Perhaps the wealthy can, but for most of us a simple visit to the grocery store is very painful.

In fact, many Americans now skip meals on a regular basis just to save money.

And a single trip to the hospital can mean financial ruin.

This is what life is like in America today.

Yes, we are making far more money than we once did.

But the purchasing power of our money has declined much faster than our paychecks have risen.

Adam Livingston has shared some numbers that show just how dramatically our standard of living has gone down since the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1971…

The fact that median household income is 9.7 times higher than it was in 1971 sounds like great news.

But the bad news is that the amount of gold that the median household income can buy has dropped by 88 percent since 1971.

If you look at the chart above, you will see that our standard of living has really been going downhill since the year 2000.

Needless to say, those at the bottom of the economic pyramid have been hit the hardest.

In a different post, Adam Livingston also pointed out that the federal minimum wage has lost about 95 percent of its value since 1971 when measured in gold

Nobody can survive on the federal minimum wage today.

$7.25 times 40 hours a week is just $290.

And that is before taxes.

Nobody can afford rent, utilities, food and healthcare on such an income.

In fact, much of the country cannot afford rent, utilities, food and healthcare at this stage.

For 46-year-old Cindy Banda, just keeping the house, providing the basics for her kids and paying for her cancer treatment has become a seemingly impossible task…

Even if you have a decent job, trying to survive in this harsh economic environment is exceedingly difficult.

And now decent jobs are disappearing all around us.

31-year-old Lissette Ramos has submitted hundreds of job applications over the past year, and she still can’t find anything…

Gone is the daily office commute. Now, after tending to her cats in the morning, Ramos heads straight to her desk to check the daily job alerts. She spends four to eight hours scouring sites like LinkedIn, Indeed and HiringCafe, customizing her resume for positions that fit her qualifications. At 5 p.m., she feeds her cats, goes for a walk to get in her 10,000 steps and returns home to lift weights before settling in for the evening.

Yet one year and hundreds of applications later, she is still stuck in a job search catch-22 – overqualified for entry-level work yet sidelined for junior and mid-level roles.

I feel so bad for those that are out of work right now.

Most resumes get discarded by AI hiring screeners before they are ever seen by a human…

New technology has made applying for a job easier than ever, flooding recruiters with resumes and creating massive bottlenecks. What’s more, these AI hiring screeners can filter out and reject candidates so employers often don’t see their application.

Rutgers public policy professor Carl Van Horn, who has studied unemployment trends for 40 years, frequently hears from applicants who submit hundreds of resumes without a single human reply. Omit the right keywords and “they’ve put their resume into the abyss,” he said.

If you don’t have personal connections, searching for a job can be so daunting.

Unfortunately, more good jobs are being eliminated with each passing day.

For example, American Express just announced that they will be cutting thousands of jobs…

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Is It Time For Another Worldwide Civilizational Collapse?

Is It Time For Another Worldwide Civilizational Collapse?

 Robert Arvay

In 1200 B.C., worldwide civilization fell into ruin. That is only partially an overstatement. The Americas and Asia were on a separate path, but the Mediterranean complex of civilizations, the "known world," was all but destroyed. It was laying the foundation of Western Civilization, which is the modern worldwide standard for science, technology, human rights, and self-government - and critically, an enduring monotheistic society.

The Bronze Age collapse took about a century, but that is sudden in terms of history. Before 1300 B.C. there was a network of prosperous, stable kingdoms. Then, shortly thereafter, everything went wrong at once. Volcanoes and invasions were the headline causes, but numerous other factors came into play. The result was the destruction of mighty empires. Thriving cities fell into ruin. Trade routes were cut. Barbarians massacred entire populations.

Recovery took centuries, but here we are, enjoying yet another golden age of worldwide prosperity. Yes, there are dark spots and open sores in the picture, but day to day, most people awaken to indoor plumbing and controlled temperatures. They enjoy breakfast, and they thrive within family, career, and comfort.

It could all come crashing down in a lifetime or less.

In the 1980s, cultural revolutionaries chanted, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has got to go." If no one took them seriously at the time, we do now, because they are getting their wish.

Witness Europe. The aforementioned modern worldwide standard for science, etc. is being eroded. Invaders who once were repelled at the walls have now been invited in through the gates, and given food, shelter, medical care, and freedom. In return, they plunder, rape, and murder their benefactors. The revolution continues.

All of this was not only eminently predictable, but actually predicted. Hungary and Poland sounded the warning loud and clear, as did classic liberals throughout Europe and the anglosphere. Today, those two nations are the safest and most stable countries in Europe, yet they are excoriated by the others for practicing the very policies that make them the shining examples of what the continent could be. The lepers are screaming at the healthy, "Be like us!"

Is a reversal of the currently unfolding self-destruction possible? Yes, but the bandage must be painfully ripped off. Mass deportation, previously unthinkable to the leftist mind, is now being seriously discussed as a necessity. Painful solutions, however, are not something ignorant populations accept, or even understand.

As our Founders understood, evils will be suffered while they are sufferable, but eventually, they become neither tolerable nor tolerated. What happens when the evils are so deeply embedded that removing them is not merely painful, but destructive of the institutions of power?

Embedded they are. Western Europe, which was once the bastion of all that is valuable in a free society, has fallen into a state of what can only be called terminal madness - a state in which the cure is deemed to be the disease, and vice versa.

Worse yet, Canada and Australia, legendary allies and partners of the United States, are falling headlong into the same mire. Mires, almost by definition, only get worse, pulling their victims ever downward the more they struggle to extricate themselves. Canada will soon discover this, courtesy of its new friends in Communist China.

In the 1940s, European civilization was on the brink of final collapse. The economies of Italy and Germany had become so distressed that brutal dictatorships were installed as a solution, bringing ever more ruin. Will history repeat itself?

There is hope. Bronze was never the best metal; iron is better, but iron is more difficult to forge than the copper-tin alloy of bronze. Only when the supplies of tin were cut off were the metalsmiths forced to resort to the more abundant, and stronger, elemental iron. It had been there all along, available the whole time. (Does this give greater meaning to the word irony?)

By analogy, multiculturalism is the weak alloy of various, incompatible cultures. The values of Western civilization are the iron - difficult to practice but superior values to which we must return. Europe can survive, but it will have to be dragged, kicking and screaming (and worse) the whole way.

Viva Hungary. Viva Poland.

Former UK Prime Minister Listed As 'Core Participant' In Grooming Gang Inquiry

Former UK Prime Minister Listed As 'Core Participant' In Grooming Gang Inquiry

Robert Spencer 

The Muslim grooming gang scandal in Britain just keeps getting larger and more bizarre. Hundreds of thousands of British girls were victimized, and to add insult to injury, British police and other officials often turned a blind eye to their suffering, with their eyes more on political calculations than on the well-being of the people they were supposed to be protecting and serving. In the latest in a long series of strange turns of events, a former British prime minister has been named as a "core participant" in upcoming inquiries.

It's not actually hard to imagine that the complicity in this ever-spiraling scandal goes right to the top. The lives of as many as 250,000 British girls were destroyed at the hands of these gangs, and it's hard to imagine being able to commit crimes on that scale without drawing the attention of reasonably competent authorities. And so GB News reported Thursday that "Sir Keir Starmer will be summoned to give evidence to the national grooming gangs inquiry." The far-left Starmer, who was prime minister from July 2024 to July 2026, "has been listed as a core participant. The inquiry will commence its National Accountability Hearings in London in December and January."

There is a great deal for the inquiry to look into. In the city of Rotherham, where 1,400 girls became victims of the Muslim rape gangs, a report that Rotherham Borough Council commissioned stated that "children as young as 11" were "raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated." Children were "doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone."

The report noted, meanwhile, that Rotherham police were not at all inclined to rush to the aid of the victims. Instead, they "regarded many child victims with contempt." This was because when they looked at them, they saw professional and possibly even personal ruin. "Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so." Staff members spoke about how hard it was to deal with matters that were "taboo," and so they ended up "ignoring a politically inconvenient truth" as they believed that dealing with it could harm "community cohesion." And, of course, there was the ever-present "fear of being thought racist."

Keir Starmer may have had the same fear. For five years, as the Muslim rape gangs marauded all over the country, from 2008 to 2013, Starmer was director of public prosecutions. In those five years, the future prime minister had many chances to prosecute rape gang members, and yet he did not do so. Nor did he become any kind of spokesman for the victims in the intervening years.

As far back as 2014, just days after the Rotherham report was released, journalist Sean Thomas wrote in the Telegraph, in an article that has since been removed: "We don't need to rehearse the facts. We've all read them, and reeled away in horror. The interesting question is how and why would any country allow the racialised gang-rape of its own daughters?"

Then Thomas answered his own question: "Why? Because too many in that country, especially on the Left, most especially in the Labour Party, despise their own ordinary people: the white working classes."

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