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Editor’s note: As we observe – in horror – Hamas’ current bloodthirsty and barbaric terror attack inside Israel, it is vital to stress that it is Barack Obama who empowered the jihad terror group in Gaza – and helped spawn its current mayhem and destruction inside the Jewish state.
Jamie Glazov’s new book, Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America, documents this dark reality. Below, because of the current terrifying circumstances in Israel, Frontpage Editors have deemed it urgent to run a chapter in the book written by Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield, titled How Obama Funded the Murder of Israelis.
Make sure to read the eye-opening chapter and to order Barack Obama’s True Legacy, which contains many more essays on how Obama betrayed and harmed Israel – and America.
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Chapter 6: How Obama Funded the Murder of Israelis.
By Daniel Greenfield
In Jerusalem, 2017 began with a terrorist ramming a truck into Israeli cadets who were getting off the bus. Four of the Israelis, three of them women, were killed, and over a dozen more were injured. Fadi al-Qanbar, the terrorist, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, but his widow was set to receive a lifetime monthly pension of 2,900 Israeli shekels from the Palestinian Authority for his crime.[i] The average salary in the West Bank is 1,720 NIS. Even though the terrorist had allegedly been inspired by ISIS,[ii] the Palestinian Authority media had described him as a “Shahid” or religious martyr for Islam.[iii] Despite this latest act, which demonstrated the linkage between our foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, Islamic terrorism, even terrorism related to ISIS, and the murder of Israelis, the money kept coming. A few weeks after the mass murder of Israelis in Jerusalem, the Obama administration rushed to transfer $221 million in funds to the Palestinian Authority that Republicans had been blocking.[iv]
Hours before President Trump was inaugurated, Secretary of State John Kerry rushed the money to the terrorists. What kind of a difference would that $221 million make? The Palestinian Authority’s Martyrs Fund budget for 2017 allocated $153 million in salaries to terrorists who had been or were imprisoned by Israel and another $190 million to the families of the terrorists.[v] The $221 million amounted to a sizable percentage of the “Pay to Slay” budget that was used to incentivize murders like these. And it paid off. The number of Israelis killed in terrorist attacks increased in 2017.[vi] The number of lone wolf attack plots rose from 400 to 1,100. And the Martyrs Fund was a key mechanism for incentivizing these attacks, assuring surviving terrorists of a generous lifetime income and, in the event of their deaths, giving them the comfort of knowing that no matter what happens, their families will be very well taken care of.
The murders of Jews funded in 2017 included the Sabbath attack on the Salomon family who were celebrating the birth of a new member of the family when an Islamic terrorist burst in with a knife and a Koran, stabbed to death seventy-year-old Yosef Salomon, wounded his wife, Tova Salomon, and murdered Chaya and Elad, Yosef’s son and daughter. “I saw two houses; from one of them I heard voices and from the other I heard laughter. So I decided to get into the one that had laughter,” Omar el-Abed, the terrorist, later explained.[vii] The Israeli Defense Ministry estimated in 2018 that the murderer, who had smiled through the trial, had been paid 12,000 NIS, and would earn as much as 12 million NIS or $3.5 million throughout his life.[viii]
While some argued that United States foreign aid was not meant by the Obama administration for the Martyrs Fund and its “Pay to Slay” program, money is fungible. American foreign aid allowed the Palestinian Authority the financial freedom to invest money into funding the murder of Jews. The connection between foreign aid and violence had already been demonstrated when the rise in murders closely followed the increase in foreign aid from 2001 to 2007.[ix] But the Obama era ushered in a massive increase in assistance to the terrorists running the Palestinian Authority. From an average of $170 million during the Bush years, bilateral assistance hit $400 million in 2008 and by 2009 approached $1 billion. The new annual average became $400 million, but the real price was paid by terror victims.[x] The Trump administration aggressively cut foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, but the damage had already been done. The Israelis who had been killed by “Pay to Slay” terrorists would not be brought back to life, and the years of booming funding had built up the infrastructure of individual “lone wolf” terror. But the Obama administration’s foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority was only part of the terror funding picture. The other half of the terror picture was the PA’s occasional rival and ally, Hamas.
In 2016, the Obama administration had illegally transferred $1.7 billion to Iran.[xi] The deputy chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed credit for the ransom.[xii] The IRGC is a hub of Islamic terrorism in the region and was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by President Trump.[xiii] “We can always hand it over to someone who can hand it over to the IRGC,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner admitted.[xiv] Meanwhile the Obama administration had even tried to give Iran access to the United States financial system, converting billions into dollars and then euros.[xv] After the $1.7 billion payment, Iran increased its military budget by that same amount.[xvi] It’s been estimated that 65 percent of the military budget goes to the IRGC.[xvii]
And the IRGC funds, trains, and aids a variety of Islamic terrorist groups, including Hamas. That includes the missiles that Hamas has been firing at Israel and that have fallen on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.[xviii] The billions in sanctions relief allowed Iran to increase its investment in conflicts in the region.[xix] In 2017, Hamas announced that it had resumed receiving aid from Iran.[xx] In 2019, Iran boosted aid to Hamas from $70 million a year to $30 million a month.[xxi] Beyond Hamas, Iran also backs Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which was at the center of the latest round of rocket attacks on Israel in the fall of 2019. These rockets were, like Hamas’s rockets, developed with the assistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The extent of Iran’s involvement in Islamic terrorism in Israel can be measured by an admission by Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign affairs adviser to the Supreme Leader of Iran that, “most of the weapons used by the Palestinians came from Iran, or that Iran help[ed] the Palestinians manufacture the weapons themselves.”[xxii]
The Obama administration dramatically boosted aid to the Palestinian Authority. It went on pouring funds into the Palestinian Authority even though the terror network was funding the murder of Jews. It provided $1.7 billion in payments and billions more in sanctions relief to Iran. And Iran was able to use sanctions relief to increase funding to the IRGC, and increase payments to terror groups like Hamas. These numbers are not just abstractions; they translate into Israelis and Americans wounded and killed. The Obama administration was aware of the consequences of the billions it had poured into the Palestinian Authority and Iran. It knew that the money would be used to kill Jews. We will never know exactly how many Americans and Jews were killed because of those billions.
Even when the payments were made in cash, as was the case with the $400 million in foreign currency flown over to Iran, no single bill likely made its way directly into the hands of a terrorist who murdered a Jewish person. But money is fungible. When billions are poured into the infrastructure of terror, that money is blood money. The crimes committed by the terror networks that feed off that infrastructure, at any level of scale from large terror groups like Hamas or Hezbollah to the individual “lone wolf” Islamic terrorist who expects to receive a generous salary from the Palestinian Authority and are on the political conscience of their funders, no matter how indirect they may claim that their contributions are.
The billions of dollars that the Obama administration injected into the infrastructure of terror was used to murder Jews. These people are not abstractions or statistics. They are as real as Chaya Salomon who opened the door at a knock and was stabbed to death by a terrorist. Chaya, a second-grade teacher, ran for help even as she was dying of her wounds.
“Dear student, when I give the report cards at the end of the semester, I am always reminded of another report card, almost like at school,” she had written in a final message to her students. “It is given by our Father in Heaven, Who is everywhere. But instead of the regular subjects and exam grades, He gives grades in the following subjects: friendliness, patience, understanding, love, kindness, responsibility, gratitude, humility. And that other report card is important, even more than any other grade.”[xxiii] Chaya did not have to die. The Obama administration made a decision to keep funding the Palestinian Authority that had been funding the murder of grandfathers and grandmothers, rabbis and second-grade teachers, children and their parents. That decision may have helped lead to Chana’s death.
The report card of the Obama administration reflects not mere statistics. It is marked with blood.
Notes:
[i] Ruthie Blum, “Widow of Terrorist Who Committed Deadly Jerusalem Truck-Ramming Attack to Receive $760 Lifetime Monthly Allowance From Palestinian Authority,” Algemeiner.com, Jan. 11, 2017: https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/11/widow-of-terrorist-who-committed-deadly-jerusalem-truck-ramming-attack-to-receive-760-lifetime-monthly-allowance-from-palestinian-authority/.
[ii] Dan Diker, “Understanding Israel’s Assessment of ISIS-Inspired Terrorism.” The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 12, 2017: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Understanding-Israels-assessment-of-ISIS-inspired-terrorism-478163.
[iii] Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik. “PA: Terrorist Who Killed Four in Truck Ramming Attack Died for Allah: PMW Analysis.” Palestinian Media Watch, Jan. 10, 2017: https://palwatch.org/page/11467.
[iv] Matthew Lee, “US Sent $221 Million to Palestinians in Obama’s Last Hours,” Associated Press, Jan. 23, 2017: https://apnews.com/b8446cbf5b504b1abaf49eb0d646367b/US-sent-$221-million-to-Palestinians-in-Obama’s-last-hours.
[v] Lieber, Dov. “PA Payments to Prisoners, ‘Martyr’ Families Now Equal Half Its Foreign Budgetary Aid.” The Times of Israel, July 31, 2017: https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-payments-to-prisoners-martyr-families-now-equal-half-its-foreign-aid/.
[vi] Anna Ahronheim, “2017 Numbers: Terrorists Slayed 20 Israelis, 3,617 Palestinians Arrested,” The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 7, 2018: https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Terrorists-killed-20-Israelis-in-2017–533008.
[vii] David Israel, “Terrorist Who Murdered Salomon Family: I Picked a House with Sounds of Laughter,” The Jewish Press, Oct. 4, 2018: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority/terrorist-who-murdered-salomon-family-i-picked-a-house-with-sounds-of-laughter/2018/10/04/.
[viii] “Defense Ministry: Terrorists Will Get NIS 10 Million Each from PA,” The Times of Israel, May 6, 2018: https://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-ministry-terrorists-will-get-nis-10-million-each-from-pa/.
[ix] Steven Stotsky, “Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?” Middle East Forum, 2008: https://www.meforum.org/1926/does-foreign-aid-fuel-palestinian-violence/.
[x] “U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians,” Congressional Research Service, Mar. 18, 2016: https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20160318_RS22967_2711096fe48c81141d951aaab19d3bcca0e7fe71.pdf.
[xi] Adam Kredo, “Obama Admin Provided Iranian Terror Orgs With $37.4M in Cash,” Washington Free Beacon, Sept. 13, 2016: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-obama-admin-provided-iranian-terror-orgs-37–4-million-cash/.
[xii] Saeed Ghasseminejad, “Iranian Officials: Obama-Era Prisoner Release Was ‘Ransom,’” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Oct. 24, 2018: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2017/03/03/iranian-officials-obama-era-prisoner-release-was-ransom/.
[xiii] “Statement from the President on the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” The White House, The United States Government, Apr. 8, 2019: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-designation-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-foreign-terrorist-organization/.
[xiv] Pete Kasperowicz, “State Department Can’t Say Who in Iran Got Another $1.3 Billion,” Washington Examiner, Aug. 22, 2016: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-cant-say-who-in-iran-got-another-13-billion.
[xv] “The Obama Administration Secretly Sought to Give Iran Access to the US Financial System,” Associated Press, June 6, 2018: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/the-obama-administration-secretly-sought-to-give-iran-access-to-the-us-financial-system.html.
[xvi] Eli Lake, “U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding Iran’s Military Expansion,” Bloomberg.com, June 9, 2016: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016–06–09/u-s-taxpayers-are-funding-iran-s-military-expansion.
[xvii] Adam Kredo, “Obama Admin Provided Iranian Terror Orgs With $37.4M in Cash,” Washington Free Beacon, Sept. 13, 2016: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-obama-admin-provided-iranian-terror-orgs-37–4-million-cash/.
[xviii] Sen. Ashish Kumar. “Iran Admits Giving Hamas Technology for Missiles,” The Washington Times, Nov. 21, 2012: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/21/iran-admits-giving-hamas-technology-for-missiles/.
[xix] Carol E. Lee and Jay Solomon. “A Tally of Iran Sanctions Relief Includes More Than $10 Billion in Cash, Gold,” The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2016: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tally-of-iran-sanctions-relief-includes-more-than-10-billion-in-cash-gold-1483112751.
[xx] “New Hamas Leader Says It Is Getting Aid Again from Iran,” Associated Press, Aug. 29, 2017: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/new-hamas-leader-says-it-is-getting-aid-again-from-iran.html.
[xxi] Michael Bachner, “Iran Said Increasing Hamas Funding to $30m per Month, Wants Intel on Israel.” The Times of Israel, Aug. 5, 2019: https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-agrees-to-increase-hamas-funding-to-30-million-per-month-report. /
[xxii] “Iran Provided Most of Hamas’ Weapons,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aug. 31, 2014: https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Iran/SupportTerror/Pages/Iran-provided-most-of-Hamas-weapons-31-Aug-2014.aspx.
[xxiii] “Chaya Salomon.” One Family: https://www.onefamilytogether.org/chaya-salomon/.
Obama is one slippery character. In constant dripping with so much sincerity, he’s
able to slither out of one’s mental grasp of his evil intentions until it is too late.
He did that with race relations in America under the guise of trying to set right
racial injustice towards Blacks – until the races began to be at each others throats
and wind up embroiled in today’s officially-sanctioned anti-White racist nightmare.
He’s done that with Islam – starting off with extending an unwarranted olive branch
to the Muslim world in his very first interview as President with Al-Arabiya news
network. Anything in future detrimental to America was underplayed in the
mainstream media – the slow release of Guantanamo terrorists, the traitorous
Muslim soldier Bergdorf exchange, Obama’s lies in his United Nation speech
about the Benghazi Muslim attack, his total support of Muslim Brotherhood
affiliated Egyptian President Morsi – and so on.
Until today the world finds itself observing the monumental slaughter of
Israelis on their own soil by the Muslim terrorists Hamas – who have been
financially supported through Iran via the authoritative financial backup of
Barack Hussein Obama.
Evil incarnate – evil we can see in human form, dripping with sincerity and
well-meaning charm – as the flames meant to engulf the world are ignited
in Israel.
and becoming a multi-millionaire to boot.
He selfishly tried to take credit for the shooting of Osama. ISIS screamed they would take revenge. Now he and Biden opened our border almost 3-years ago with some 150 terrorists having crossed, – that our gov knows about. There is some probability there is more not know about. The leftist media here regularly publishes locations of the multiple mansions of both O and B. So, should revenge still be one the minds of those ISIS dudes, Martha’s Vineyard might have an illegal alien visit they did not count on. The same goes for the garage of that ‘vette parked by those boxes removed illegally by senator and then vp JB.
In a little noticed release today or yesterday some U.S. government agency admitted that there have been 1.5 million “gotaways” have also gotten into the U.S. under Biden. Also under Biden “immigrants” from Venezuela have been fast-tracked to work permits and more permanent status. Hezbollah’s center for operations in this hemisphere is in Venezuela. But I’m sure none of then are among our new Venezuelan “guests.”
obama is one of the worst antisemits and he supports this situation. He should be impeached and he and his wife should be executed because they are murderers and traitors
JOHN BRENNAN, OBAMA’S MUSLIM AND COMMUNIST CIA HEAD, was surely supposed to conduct operations around the world AGAINST all enemies but he, AND OBAMA, were instead aiding and abetting their Communist Comrades and Muslim Brothers! The proof is long! LOOK AT THE WORLD NOW!
LOOK AT THE USA NOW! Millions brainwashed to follow Communists and promoted by the Democrats and Media. Black Lives Matter, admitted Marxists/Communists. Protests led by ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and in the shadows, the main one, The Communist Party USA. All have thousands of good-sounding Fronts. The War on Columbus, soon to be against The White Invaders, THANKSGIVING, LED BY THEREDNATION.ORG. Read their mission statement. Started here in Albuquerque, now international. All city/state offices: “Closed for Indigenous People’s Day.” THEY WANT REVOLUTION! FOLLOWED BY MILLIONS!
OBAMA IS THE ROOT OF THE ALL THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS, TO HIM, A MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! He is creating the conditions for the Downfall of the United States. He wants be a hero to BILLIONS and only hated by MILLIONS! It’s his ego and destiny!
DSA is small but nutty as they come. UP TO SIXTY DEMOCRATS/CONGRESS ARE IN DSA! (Youtube). Look at the real groups: ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the MAIN GROUP, THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA WHICH HAS SIDED WITH EVERY ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL! They then start FRONT groups like BDS, Muslim Student Associations at Universities, Students for a Free Palestine, and then send operatives to Israel and Gaza to organize and incite! Judith LeBlanc, member of CPUSA since 1974, started the U.S. to Gaza flotillas trying to break the Israeli blockade. She also goes to terrorist havens to teach…. ready for it…. CLIMAGE CHANGE! LeBlanc, a Caddo Indian from Oklahoma, was the main lobbyist for DEB HAALAND, the pendeja running Interior. LOOK THEM UP! LEBLANC is really heading the agency since Haaland is incompetent! LeBlanc and Medea Benjamin, of Code Pink, also aided Iraqi terrorists, Iran proxies, with cash in Fallujah which our soldiers liberated will many being killed!
THEY ARE ALL CHEERING.
Thank you for your informative comment as well as Annie 45’s. We need to know these things.
Good info.
Also, the fact that the jug-eared bitch was an acolyte under Saul Alinsky shows what trash he is.
The pure evil & hatred that Alinsky had for America cannot be overstated (which is why Hillary, another acolyte, denied public to her grad thesis on Alinsky for so long.)
Both B. Hussein & Hillary hate America more than they hate each other.
DSA may be small and nutty. They also live in delusion and, therefore, are dangerous.
Glaringly obvious is why the media is so quiet right now about the $83B in military equipment, supplies, cash that was forfeited upon the rapid, unannounced US withdrawal from Berghram air base in Afghanistan…most likely left for hezbollah to use for an evil occasion just as this current one against Israel?
Obama’s, and, now, Biden’s, constant hostility towards Israel and its leadership, combined with their simultaneous funding, coddling of and kowtowing towards Fatah, Hamas and the Iranian regime, have undeniably emboldened Israel’s enemies.
Decades of the vile, feckless and morally bankrupt Dhimmi-crats’ overt hostility towards Israel and their undue deference granted to Arab Muslim “Palestinians’ ” contrived and fallacious propaganda mythologies of alleged victimhood at the hands of Israeli Jews, have created a climate in which terrorism visited upon Israel is given alleged moral legitimacy by the American and European Left. “Resistance isn’t terrorism,” and all of that nonsensical and offensive agitprop.
Further, the intrinsic and immutable pathologies of the supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent and hate-filled ideology of “Submission,” and, its animating effect on the the behavior of this wretched ideology’s most fanatical adherents, are ignored and/or downplayed, by European, Leftist dhimmis, and, American Dhimmi-crats.
Marlene Urban
10/10/23
What do you want/expect from a Muslim. I don’t believe he was born in America, I believe the Muslims put him into Government to do the damage he has done. It is like yeast—-the right ingredients and it spreads.
God forgive us
well said. I agree with you 100%.
We, directly or via the UN, have been keeping terrorism alive. Arabs states have also funded the terror culture.
(1) We have to stop funding this. (2) One has to punish the family to engage the Arab honor/shame dynamic. With severe crimes, like terrorism, the family must be expelled (to Syria/Libya) & lose everything.
all the muslims should be sent to muslim countries and never come back. They are not humans so they must go their sub humans countries
Obama is at the core of Islamic evil in North America. When Biden is tried, found guilty and executed (and never mind that his supporters will say he shouldn’t be tried because he’s “senile”. Just remember when it all comes out in the wash that they said he’s perfectly fine.), that Obama should meet a similar fate at the gallows or a firing squad. Obama is, after all, the puppet master.
I wouldn’t mind seeing him & Michelle hanging upside down from rafters, like El Duce & his mistress in Italy circa 1945.
Note the lack of any comments of sympathy from Obama the first president who hated the uniqueness of America and was a progressive anti Semite who was hostile to Israel
DO A SEARCH FOR BARACK OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS.
IT WAS A SAUDIS BILLIONAIRE WHO PAID FOR OBAMA’S HARVARD EDUCATION.
WHY???
OBVIOUSLY MOST KNOW THAT OBAMA AND GEORGE SOROS ARE DIRECTING TRAFFIC IN THE BIDEN REGIME.
If Obama (and Biden) was to drop dead tomorrow it would be cause for celebration.
The article doesn’t mention the Obama administration’s facilitation of Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. That convenience certainly saved Iran a lot of money to divert to other endeavors.
I eventually resolved my puzzlement about Obama when I realized that he actively insulted such democracies as the UK and Israel, while he actively courted the brutal regimes of Cuba and Iran. The key is that he believes it is a noble duty of authoritarian governments to transform their people and countries, but considers democracies to be stagnated by the less enlightened motives of their own citizens.
The War Crimes of Obama when’s the Trial?
OBAMA HAS SPOKEN. Sounds like Michael or someone close to Obama, Holder, Rice, hey, maybe an Iranian, Valerie Jarrett, is going to run for President.
“All Americans should be horrified and outraged by the brazen terrorist attacks on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civilians,” Obama began.
“We grieve for those who died, pray for the safe return of those who’ve been held hostage, and stand squarely alongside our ally, Israel, as it dismantles Hamas,” he added.
His statement also called for peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people.
“As we support Israel’s right to defend itself against terror, we must keep striving for a just and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
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PEACE, to Communists like Obama, is the destruction of the enemy. He was a product the KGB’s World Peace Council as millions of Americans were too! He hated Netanyahu as do most Americans. Over a MILLION MUSLIMS live in Israel. How many Jews live in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, etc… ? There will never be peace in the region as long as AMERICAN COMMUNISTS/DEMOCRATS ARE INVOLVED! So many Americans, including those who took an Oath to the Constitution, would side with THE ENEMY! THAT MAKES “THE ENEMY WITHIN!”
People had hoped that President Obama would be a uniter, but instead he was a divider. He went to the Turkish Parliament and then to Cairo Egypt on June 4, 2009 and addressed the Muslim world directly, talking about how great Islam was and made one misstep after another to actually bring peace to Israel, the Muslim world, or the West. This was to appease Islam and pressure Israel. He as President wouldn’t even entertain or have a formal press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He snuck Netanyahu into the White House through the kitchen, leaving him unannounced and then went up and had dinner alone with his family.
No respect was shown to Israel’s Prime Minister then, and of course in reality, its not shown now by the Biden administration because of the harmful policies toward Israel. God blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse Israel…..where does that leave the United States and other nations who plot her demise and allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.? God’s word is truth and God never breaks his promises.
As the world ”churns”, I know the hand of God is on Israel. Because ISRAEL is the only Nation that God formed for a homeland of the Jewish people! God keeps His promises even if they are sometime ”thousands of year a bit late as formed in the eyes of man….but to the Lord God A THOUSAND YEARS IS BUT A ”DAY” TIME WAS CREATED FOR MAN, NOT FOR GOD! As a believer in God’s promises, so be it as America has declined in FAITH so has GOD declared that ”as was in the days of NOAH….drinking and merry making….forgetting the LORD GOD WHO BROUGHT THEM OUT OF SLAVERY IN EGYPT….the earth was destroyed by RAIN…next time by ”FIRE!” A NEW JerUSAlem, The Shining City Reagan spoke of so eloquently! If GOD did not spare his own Son to be punished and lay down his own life at the cruel hands of ROME, how more so did he set forth a plan to REDEEM mankind of his sinful deeds in life by rejecting the worlds values of a wasted life and be able to receive the gift of eternal life through the shed blood of the crucified one. Jesus Christ felt every persecution laid upon Him. ”How shall we escape so great a SALVLATION!” ACCEPT GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION THRU THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE! ”FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO TAKE YOUR AND MY PLACE TO THE ROMAN CROSS, YET…AS HE SAID. THE WOULD RISE UP ON THE THIRD DAY….DEATH ON THE CROSS WAS ”HELL” BEYOND COMPARISON TO THE FORGIVENSS OF SIN BY GOD TO EXTEND THE ETERNAL PROMISE TO THOSE WHO WOULD … BELIEVE AND RECEIVE GOD’S FORGIVENESS FOR EVER AND EVER, AND EVER~LIFE CHANGED BECAUSE OF HIM.~!