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This week, Israel will mark its 76th Independence Day. Usually a day filled with parades and fireworks, the Israeli people will instead buckle down to the grim business of being at war.
Too much of the population is either deployed in the field or may soon be, displaced from their homes near the Gaza border or aware that at any moment rocket alerts could sound for incoming missiles from Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen or Iran. This year, Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day annually observed for the fallen, will overshadow Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day.
Much like America’s Greatest Generation, the men and women who scrappily fought for Israel’s independence using crude weapons and WWII surplus gear are passing out of history. Few now remember a time when Israel did not exist and some have come to take it for granted. While Israeli Air Force jets won’t be doing flyovers for the 76th, the leftist protesters, some backed by foreign interests, will still continue their rallies and riots that only serve to aid Hamas.
And yet Israel did declare a new kind of independence before its latest Yom Ha’atzmaut.
After nearly half a year of pressure campaigns to end the war, the Biden administration followed through by announcing an embargo on offensive weapons to Israel. It’s not the first time. In 1947, the Truman administration had imposed an arms embargo on Israel. Truman, like the current Democrat in the White House, had played a familiar double game, offering diplomatic recognition to Israel and enthusiastic speeches to Jewish voters, even while privately promising Muslims the opposite and making sure that Israel would not have the weapons to defend itself.
When the Republican Party platform declared that it took “pride in the fact that the Republican Party was the first to call for the establishment of a free and independent Jewish Commonwealth” and condemned the “vacillation of the Democrat Administration”, Truman shot back angrily claiming that he supported the Democratic platform and its call for “the revision of the arms embargo to accord to the State of Israel the right of self-defense.” This was a lie.
Truman had supported the arms embargo from the beginning. Three months before the Democrat platform had been adopted, the administration had backed a UN resolution that included an arms embargo. Truman was saying one thing and doing another. Like Biden, Truman had been following political considerations. That was why diplomats had been warned to stay away from making any anti-Israel moves at the United Nations before Election Day.
Even under the arms embargo, Israel survived an invasion by five Muslim nations.
“You just don’t understand. Forty million Arabs are going to push four hundred thousand Jews into the sea. And that’s all there is to it,” Secretary of Defense James Forrestal had predicted.
Three generations later, Israel is still here.
Israel’s 76th Independence Day has come around again. Once again the Jewish State is fighting for its survival against Islamic genocidal violence and a corrupt political class in Washington D.C. It’s relearning the old lesson that presidents say one thing for public consumption and do another. And that independence is not just aspirational, it’s a simple matter of survival.
Biden’s betrayal of Israel was inevitable. The blindness of Israeli leaders to that eventuality, their conviction that if they followed every single guideline from the White House, they would have the support they needed to finish off Hamas in Gaza was a delusional fantasy. Israel’s best bet lay in quickly doing what it needed to do. Everything the Biden administration wanted only slowed down the war effort and doomed the very support that Israel had been counting on.
A day after delivering a speech at the Holocaust Museum about his support for Israel, Biden told CNN that the support was gone. But Truman had pulled a similar trick with a rally at Madison Square Garden when he told New York’s Jewish voters that he was responsible for setting up Israel “as a free and independent political state” even while it was fighting for its survival.
The Truman administration continued backing worthless UN truces (the predecessors of today’s equally duplicitous ceasefires) which allowed the Islamic terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of Hamas) to continue attacking Jewish towns and massacring Jews.
While Truman was telling one thing to Jewish voters in New York City ahead of Election Day, Israel was evacuating children as part of ‘Operation Baby’ from front line communities under siege by terrorists during the latest ‘truce’. In Kibbutz Manara, the children had to be evacuated from the mountaintop in vegetable crates in a scene later recreated in the movie ‘Exodus’.
Manara had to be evacuated again after the Hamas attacks of Oct 7 and it’s estimated that half the homes in the community have been destroyed after Hezbollah Islamic terrorists have shot a rocket every day at the village. The people living there can’t go home. But unlike the Hamas supporters crying in Gaza, you won’t see their faces on the evening news.
After the 1948 election, not only weren’t there any arms sales, but the White House was upset that Israel had begun winning. The Egyptians had not only failed to push the Jews into the sea, but the Jews were now pushing them back into the Sinai.
A month after the election, in which 75% of Jews had voted for him, Truman demanded that Israel immediately withdraw or his administration would “re-examine” its mostly non-existent relations. Truman, who would later claim credit for creating Israel, had done little more than provide de facto (not de jure) recognition to Israel, while still maintaining the arms embargo.
Truman’s move allowed Egypt to control Gaza and turn it over to the Muslim Brotherhood for regular terror raids on Israel. And that led directly to the rise of Hamas and the current war.
It’s also why Truman ought to get more credit for creating Hamas than for creating Israel.
Truman did not actually begin selling weapons to Israel until 1950, well after it had survived the war, and only in order to also be able to sell weapons to its Arab Muslim enemies as part of an agreement with the UK to “maintain a rough balance of power between Israel and the Arab states.“
American Jews have long lived with the comforting “Eddie Jacobson” myth that Truman had intervened on behalf of Israel because of a plea from his longtime friend and business partner. The truth is that the Truman administration had opposed statehood, until Israel had gone ahead and declared it, had opposed any Israeli presence in Jerusalem, and blocked the pathway to victory, until Israel had gone ahead and won not because of Truman, but despite him.
Since then history has repeated itself again and again. And too many Israelis, who used to know better, bought into the silly myth that their country existed because Truman “liked” them. Millions of Jews were murdered in Europe despite all the politicians who claimed to like them, but then did nothing for them. Hundreds of thousands of Jews in Israel held off armies and built a state, not because politicians liked them, but because they fought for their independence.
The Oslo accords, made so that Israel would be liked, brought it to the brink of destruction. If Israel is going to undo that and the entire ‘palestinian’ colonial project, it has a limited time in which to act. Even after Oct 7, it was too consumed with being liked to do what had to be done.
Like America, Israel wants to be liked after Islamic terror attacks, when what it needs is to win.
On the 76th anniversary of its independence, Israel has once again been forced to declare its independence from a White House Democrat who publicly promised support while privately stabbing it in the back. Going into Rafah and finishing off Hamas will be a more meaningful celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day than any flag-waving parades.
Independence is not in the fireworks you shoot off, it’s in taking independent action.
Contrary to popular myth, foreign aid to Israel isn’t proof that Jerusalem controls D.C. but that D.C. controls Jerusalem. What’s often misleadingly described as aid isn’t a big check, it’s an entanglement with the U.S. defense industry that prevents Israel from fighting an extended war without permission. Since the War of Independence and the 1956 Suez Canal War, the priority has been to make sure that Israel won’t be able to unilaterally pursue a military campaign. Once denied weapons, Israel has been given them in exchange for being put on a leash out of D.C.
Oct 7 has become the ultimate test of Israel’s independence. And this Memorial Day and Independence Day will determine whether a nation of nearly 10 million is truly free to do more than mourn its dead, but once again take independent action to protect its living future.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Daniel, nice analysis of foreign aid!
Love the book!!!!!
Daniel Greenfield says
AA, thank you so much. Glad you’re reading Domestic Enemies.
Mo de Profit says
“Going into Rafah and finishing off Hamas will be a more meaningful celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day than any flag-waving parades.”
100% it should have been done on October 8th.
Daniel Greenfield says
indeed
Eva says
I couldn’t agree more.
mj says
Amen, Mr. Greenfield.
Time and place, mind and heart, set the Jewish soul apart…..to be a free nation in our land, land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Israel’s Memorial and Independence days, observed today and tomorrow, are the fourth and fifth days in the Hebrew month of Iyar; and are also the twentieth and twenty first days in the counting of the ‘Omer’, which began the second night of Passover, and will end in another four weeks when the holiday of ‘Weeks’ (‘Shavuot’ in Hebrew), the holiday of God’s giving the Torah to the nation of Israel, will be celebrated.
Yes. We have strayed and put trust in false friends.
May we stray no more.
Daniel Greenfield says
the Omer count is part of the journey from redemption to revelation. Hopefully there will be a revelation by the end of it this year.
Kasandra says
And yesterday, just in time for Israeli Independence Day, Blinked went on Sunday shows to say that the U.S. wants “Israel out of Gaza.”. With friends like these….
Daniel Greenfield says
Biden’s people are saying more of their actual agenda out loud
David Gin says
“Oct 7 has become the ultimate test of Israel’s independence. And this Memorial Day and Independence Day will determine whether a nation of nearly 10 million is truly free to do more than mourn its dead, but once again take independent action to protect its living future.” Daniel, Amen, Amen, Amen.
roberta says
Biden is uniquely qualified to tell Israel how to run its country.
He has attended synagogue more than most Jews. Ive heard him tell of it many times, and Joe Biden is no liar.
He is the father to our country, a calming voice in the turmoil,
He will do as good a job running Israel as he has our country.
Why wont these Jews just listen and do as he commands?
FJB
Rob A says
Really? Surely you jest!! If Biden ran Israel it would in short order become the world’s largest landfill full of the corpses of just about the entire population of Israeli.
And Biden would high five himself and pat himself of the back in praise of his leadership abilities!
Eva says
After taking 10% from all the bank accounts of the dead.
Tionico says
Missed the last three letters of Roberta’s post, did you now?
Chief Mac says
The US arms embargo did not end in 1950. Eisenhower continued the embargo and it wasn’t until 1962 when Jack Kennedy ended it and forced the Saudis to close their slave markets
Eisenhower force Israel to surrender the Sinai and Gaza to Egypt. It was both parties that are anti-Israel.
Johnson broke all agreements with Israel
Nixon and Kissinger blacked mailed Israel in 1973.
Carter was as anti-semitic as can be.
Reagan did illegal withhold F-16s because of Buchanan and Baker. Those F-16s were promised to stop Israel from developing the Lavi. He then sent US troops to protect the PLO. Hezbollah murdered over 240 Americans all because of Reagan’s stupidity
Daniel Greenfield says
Yes, sadly it’s a long ugly history. Some of it can be blamed on the oil industry’s control over foreign policy. Some of it was a tradition of pandering to Arab Muslims we inherited from the British. Some of it is leftist politics. But it all ends up adding up to the same things.
Chief Mac says
The US State Department came out against the San Remo Treaty in 1920.
Rob A says
Perhaps the Biden administration has forgotten that Israel is a nuclear power. It would be perilous for the nations of the world to paint the Israelis into a corner and left with no other options to defend the Israeli people..
The Israel military has war-gamed the use of nukes and understand what that portends for the entire planet. Mutually assured destruction is not a hypothetical abstraction. Perhaps Biden and his clown posse administration are too dumb, stupid and naive to have considered the matter. and the consequences.
Alas, they’re liberal Marxists/democrats. When has that crowd ever not been dumb, stupid and naive? Certainly not in my life time and I’ve been on the planet for almost seven decades.
Tionico says
The US arms embargo did not end in 1950. Eisenhower continued the embargo and it wasn’t until 1962 when Jack Kennedy ended it and forced the Saudis to close their slave markets
Johnson broke all agreements with Israel
Sure. Once Johnson got Kennedy out of the way he could do that with no opposition.
Kennedy had the right policy mindset toward Israel, VietNam, and Cuba.
Johnson’s bent lay in diametrically opposite directions on all three issues. It only took two or three bullets to get from There to Here. those rounds were fired in Dallas.
WhiteHunter says
Beirut had long been celebrated as “the Paris of the Middle East,” with wide, palmtree-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, and the region’s banking and financial center.
All of that instantly came to an end when Arafat and his 10,000 cutthroats arrived after King Hussein expelled them from Jordan.
Today Beirut remains a dangerous, chaotic ruin, and an international terrorist haven.
I remember, with shame and bewilderment, Reagan’s decision to arrange for and protect Arafat’s safe exit when the Maronite Christian and Israeli forces were on the verge of annihilating them.
Instead, he should have positioned a couple of our nuclear submarines nearby to torpedo the fleeing terrorists’ ships, with Navy fighter jets ready to strafe any floating survivors. That probably would have ended, or at least severely crippled, the terrorist threat.
Reagan–whom I admire to this day–made very few blunders, but that was one of those few, and probably the worst.
Raymond in DC says
The first F-16s delivered to Israel were originally intended for Iran, and were ordered by the Shah. Delivery was cancelled after the Islamic Revolution, and another buyer was sought. Israel was happy to buy them, as they needed such an aircraft for its intended strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor. After that operation, Reagan accepted the argument of Baker et.al. that Israel had to be punished for the strike even as Reagan, according to ‘Raid on the Sun’, was otherwise impressed by the operation. So there was an embargo announced and imposed, but “quietly lifted” six months later.
The US certainly prefers its allies remain dependent (and customers). Pressure on Israel to abandon the Lavi (which Israel would have struggled to afford) was a replay of US pressure some years earlier on Canada to abandon its Avro Arrow fighter. Cancelling the Arrow proved devastating to Canada’s nascent aviation industry. In Israel’s case, cancelling the Lavi certainly had an impact, as work on manned aircraft became limited to “special sauce” upgrades to US provided aircraft. It did however develop a world-leading position in UAVs.
Thomas Black says
Truman was influenced by the State Department, and sent a critical letter to Ben-Gurion:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/truman-letter-to-ben-gurion-expresses-displeasure-regarding-territory-refugees
Ben-Gurion and President Chaim Weizmann replied in separate letters.
These communications took place during the Lausanne Conference. The conference was a failure. The Arabs would not meet with the Israelis, and the conference resorted to third-parties shuttling between the two.
Daniel Greenfield says
Which of course did not stop the onus from being placed on the Israelis to compromise even when the Muslim side wouldn’t negotiate.
In short, nothing has changed.
Greg says
Israel has nukes. Joe Bite-Me has Depends. Eff Joe Bite-Me.
Kynarion Hellenis says
I was unaware of Truman’s perfidy. Thank you for this important article.
Daniel Greenfield says
If you think this is bad, let’s talk about what Truman did in China.
Eve R Bieber says
I hope you will write an article about that as well, because there is nothing about it in the mainstream.
Daniel Greenfield says
I have in the past
Gayle Hemp says
What did he do ?
BLSinSC says
I don’t recall ever reading about Truman’s deceit before – THANK YOU!! History may never actually REPEAT itself, but this latest DEMOcrat DECEIT surely rhymes! It’s DISGUSTING and oh so DEMOcratic! How anyone can support a DEMOcrat simply amazes me – are there REALLY that many IGNORANT or CORRUPT people in Our Nation? But then we all saw it – doesn’t really take 81 MILLION – it only takes a few hundred or thousand to manipulate and cheat to make it happen!
Daniel Greenfield says
Truman is the reason we have Communist China. People knew it at the time, it was a major election issue, now mostly forgotten.
Rob A says
Most of the harm the US has done around the world began in earnest with the passage and signing of the 1947 National Security Act. It literally gave the CIA license to meddle in other countries affairs, carry out clandestine thefts, kidnappings and assassinations and overthrow regimes not friendly to the US.
The US government agreed under the cover of law, to turn a blink eye and disavow CIA actions as long as those actions were done outside of the continental US. It’s the impetus for the term “plausible deniability.”
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
It is a good question.
And with no reasonable answer it appears.
Martina Vaslovik says
Well said Daniel, and I’ve been saying the same all over Disqus, Israel needs to finish the job on Hamas and Gaza once and for all. Bibi should tell Biden to go pound sand, and the UN as well. Oct 7 is what land for peace has gotten Israel. And isn’t it quite the spin and twist that when Hamas is losing the war they started with Israel it’s been turned into genocide on Israel’s part by the Left and the Muslims? From where I sit there are no civilians in Gaza, they are all Hamas and Israel needs to just wipe them all out, or Hamas will just rebuild and it will all happen again and again and again… over and over.
Daniel Greenfield says
Thank you. It’s a war. Some wars can be ended with negotiations, but when the other side wants to destroy you, and you’ve spent thirty years negotiating, you either win the war or prepare to die.
Rob A says
To win you have to fight. The Biden admin is in effect asking Israel not to fight their enemies. I’m confident that the Israelis are far more competent than Joe Biden and his cadre of naive sycophants..
Alkflaeda says
No point in negotiating with practitioners of taqiyya anyway – unless you want a repeat of Hudaibiyya.
Eva says
I agree with you on the no civilians in gaza, and with wiping them all out. I’ve been saying it for over a decade now.
Algorithmic Analyst says
It isn’t just using civilians as human shields that is a war crime.
Dressing enemy combatants and terrorists and spies in civilian clothes is also a war crime. Noone mentions that for some reason. Traditionally they were liable to be shot on the spot with no trial.
Çâşëğ says
Another masterpiece from Daniel. The reality is the western world especially Anglo-Saxons, never wanted a Jewish state. Case in point is Skyes-Picot which excluded the word Jewish. in the entire text. Then came not so Jew friendly Churchill who illegally gave 78% of mandate to an outsider Saudi clan, The Hashemites. From the outset the western world decided never allow The Jews to have total victory over their enemies.
And it is continuing to this day.
BTW Truman recognition of Israel is due to cold war competition and nothing else. He knew USSR was ready to embrace The Jewish state. Hence he had to do it first. .
Daniel Greenfield says
The British wanted the Hashemites as their clients running the Middle East. Hilariously the only Hashemites left standing are running Jordan and they’re propped up by Israel.
Obviously though the British government did not actually want an independent Jewish State. It wanted a region to exploit.
Truman recognized Israel to win New York. Wallace was running aggressively on a platform of supporting Israel. He ended up winning a lot of Jewish votes. Truman felt pressure to counter him. CIA estimates were that Israel would be destroyed so recognizing Israel was a political move to pitch to Jewish voters while expecting that the country would be gone in a year or two.
Tionico says
The US arms embargo did not end in 1950. Eisenhower continued the embargo and it wasn’t until 1962 when Jack Kennedy ended it and forced the Saudis to close their slave markets
Johnson broke all agreements with Israel
Sure. Once Johnson got Kennedy out of the way he could do that with no opposition.
Kennedy had the right policy mindset toward Israel, VietNam, and Cuba.
Johnson’s bent lay in diametrically opposite directions on all three issues. It only took two or three bullets to get from There to Here. those rounds were fired in Dallas.
Tionico says
amusing how those scrappy Jews simply refused to bide by Truman’s rules and hopes. Here they are, decades laer, still scrapping and sill standing.
KenPF says
At least Democrats are consistent. Once the party of slavery and Jim Crow, they still are. Once the party of anti-semitism, they still are. Once no friend or ally to Israel … the more things change etc.
“Disgust” doesn’t come close to being an adequate word for what Biden et al are doing to Israel now. It wasn’t enough to arm twist them into softening the war approach from the beginning, or to accuse them of war crimes without examples or evidence, or enforce a new arms embargo in violation of our own laws; now they are withholding intelligence about the whereabouts and welfare of Israeli (including 5 Americans) hostages and leaking that they would be more forthcoming if only Israel would give up on the war against Hamas. That’s not arm twisting … that’s blackmail.
In short, whatever disgust and contempt we have for the Democratic Party,
…. it will never come close to being enough.
Kelleigh Nelson says
You forget that Nixon answered the call from Golda Meir in 1973.
In October of 1973, President Nixon was awakened in the middle of the night by a call on his private line from Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir. She made an anguished plea for American support in the form of armaments. But Nixon knew acceding to this request would be ignoring the request of the cabinet and the Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
You can read the whole story here:
MuggsSpongedice says
Nixon had Henry Kissinger as Sec of State who was not a self-loathing Jew and supported Israel.
Kasandra says
Nevertheless, his position in ’73 was that the U.S. should “Let Israel bleed” to make it more amenable to a negotiated settlement with Egypt. What finally led the Egyptians and Israelis to the negotiating table was Carter’s attempt to bring the USSR into the Middle East which was so disturbing to Sadat he flew to Jerusalem to provide an opening for negotiations directly between the parties and keep the USSR out. And then came Obama and they were right back in.
Newsel says
Not only arms withheld, but also critical intelligence on hostage locations reportedly withheld by Biden and his administration. Never knew the history re Truman and Israel. Thx for the info. Makes the majority Jewish vote for the Dems a mystery. As the saying goes, fool me once .. etc..
DetroitOtaku says
Jews voted overwhelmingly for FDR even though he sent that boat back and was an open antisemite.
Daniel Greenfield says
The St. Louis
MuggsSpongedice says
Truman did that? Wow. What a schmuck! Schmuck Shoomer a self loathing Jew and coward as well as nazzi nasty nutzie PeeLousy’s chief flying monkey suck FJB wanger because FJB is sucking the wangers of the deep state and Obama and the Clintons and Bush’s push them away to get on their knees to suck the deep state wangers. It’s disgusting. YHVH is very clear on how the world will treat Israel and the Hebrew people as well as claiming Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior but being antisemitic resolves in Heaven that they actually hate Jesus because they are antisemitic and Jesus was and is Semitic . They don’t understand Bible prophesy, though they wave the Bible. All this is ushering in the antichrist who will temporarily solve the world’s strife and forgive loans and those Christian sects that believe they are going to be raptured with Jesus’s second coming will be here for the antichrist and proclaim that SOB antichrist as Jesus. Deception has never been so great in this information era. Very few in proportion to global population and USA population are aware of what’s at hand. Israel itself will fall for the antichrist as the devil will set himself up in Jerusalem at the temple being built. Paganism rules this world. satanic rituals from on high is funding this for the political whores like Truman to Bite-Me.
Domenic Pepe says
The Biden administration and democrat party betrayal of Israel and Jews goes much deeper than people realize.
There really may be a “Grand Plan” to convert Israel into an enemy of America, while converting Iran and Islam into an ally.
The reason for this Israel stab in the back policy of Biden and the democrat is actually quite simple to understand.
The Islamic world population is about 1.3 billion.
The Jewish Israeli population is about 9 million.
Israel is the only Jewish country in the world.
There are 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world.
The OPEC Muslim countries, i.e. autocratic Islamic “Royal” families in the middle east, control vast oil wealth and occupy the chokepoint of the world’s oil energy supply.
This is the only real source of Islamic power and influence. Otherwise Islam and Islamic countries are cesspools. of depravity psychopathology violence hate and murder.
But this Islamic power and influence far exceed that of Israel, excepting Israel’s arsenal of about 300 nuclear weapons, which no one believes Israel would ever use even in a situation of ultimate self defense and survival.
Therefore, if America’s priority is going to be access to big money, big oil, big population, big power and big influence, then the morally corrupt logical but evil and depraved selection for an ally would be the Islamic swine,
not Israel.
I believe that Biden and his administration and the democrat party have made their choice for depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Hamas, Iran, and the morally corrupt treacherous Islamic “Royal” families.
What a moral travesty for America. What a disgrace.
What morally corrupt scum the democrat party has become.
The Grand Plan and Scheme of Biden and the democrat party is to ultimately make Israel into an enemy of America, and Islam and the depraved Islamic world into its ally.
That is the democrat Grand Strategy.
It absolutely must be thwarted and stopped.
America and US citizens must never ally themselves with depraved psychopathic murderous violent berserk intolerant hate-filled Freedom suppressing and Truth denying morally corrupt Islam.
America’s leaders must protect America and US citizens
from the 1400 year scourge of depraved murderous hate-filled Islam.
Kasandra says
And besides that the Dems have no principles and the higher you get in The Party the fewer you can find among those that once may have had some. It’s the pursuit and maintenance of their power all the way down.
MuggsSpongedice says
Only President Trump who is a true man of YHVH can deliver us and stave off the Biblical prophesy to the antichrist we are deadheaded to. If President Trump is not back in the White House in 2025 we are screwed! No time to prepare. When President Trump is in the White House he is now well seasoned on the enemies at the gates. And the demonic activity of more false accusations, more fucking fake impeachments and violent antifa and jihad demonstrations as well as attacks by the unvetted illegal aliens pouring into Joe FU Bite-me’s wide open borders will be popping up like wackamole. The globalists that only want power and control and not for the good of humanity put Joe Briben up because he is 100% corrupt whore of the deep state globalists. What nation in the history of earth ever had a open border? Only one. the USA since Joe Briben! Open border is a no brainer to what that can do to a nation!
Sword of The Spirit says
Israel fought and won wars for thousands of years befor the USA existed. They don’t need us to win. Why? Becuase God is not going to let them be destroyed. Israel will be invaded and taken but not destroyed. Why? Read this; Deuteronomy 7.
“When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: 3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son”………….”For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
“The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them”.
MuggsSpongedice says
In Old Testament Bible, supernatural help from Heaven saved the Hebrews time and time again. This is not going to stop. It is prophesised the world’s hand will be against Israel as it’s prophesised Ishmael, the bastard son of Abraham’s hand will be against all men. And look what we have. They call USA the big satan and Israel the little satan while they, the jihadists are the real satan!! Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” (NIV) And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. (KJV)
jcr says
This Christian stands 100% with Israel.
Islam IS NOT a “Religion of Peace.” I do not even consider it a religion. It is an intolerant, totalitarian political movement.
Our Phoney USA dem politicians tire me. Vocal support for Israel. Then undercutting them at every opportunity, Israel is a far better ally than Ukraine. But as always, follow the money.
MAGA for the USA and Israel!
MuggsSpongedice says
those politicians following the sheep are not following YHVH’s Will!
Cassandra says
Now Israel must build its own planes etc and not rely on any nation of Esau. That will be true independence. If I was younger I would volunteer as a covert agent to do what we used to do in order to get rid of sewage, like these Nazi ngos that are as vicious as the left wing regimes of the west.
Kasandra says
Well they did (the Lavi) and then the U.S. persuaded them give it up and crippled the Israeli aircraft industry like they did to Canada when the U.S. got it to cancel the Arrow.
AZCOWBOY says
Or how Kennedy screwed the British by cancelling the Blue Steel stand-off bomb so that the Brits had to buy Polaris subs from us.
Vitaly Vovnoboy says
Rafiah will be liberated, Hamas will be destroyed, and we will rebuild our towns in the western Negev (called “Gaza Strip” by our enemies same as Rome called Judea the “Palestine”). And I hope american people will send Baiden gang out of power. In God we trust!
AZCOWBOY says
Napalm works wonders on cockroaches, and if the Jew-hating clown doesn’t want to send the same kind of bombs he sends to Zelenskyy to target Russian civilians, then it should be napalm used on Rafah.
Or the bomb.
Johnny Dammitson says
Sadly, my father is one of those Jewish Americans who bought into the Eddy Jacobson story hook, line and sinker for most of his life (as did I before I read this article). It’s truly a contradiction because whenever I visit my father, he’s obsessed with watching any coverage of the Israeli War against Hamas, always saying the Lord’s prayer every night for Israel to be protected, and curses out any of the pro-Hamas protesters.
It’s really a moral quandary for me. Should I tell my father the truth about the Eddy Jacobson myth, thereby shattering a long held belief he’s had for most of the seventy-seven years of his life? Or should I just not say anything and let him live the remaining years of his life in ignorant bliss? I feel like if I tell him the truth, it’ll turn him into a shell of a man and that he will never be able to recover from it.
Laurence Jarvik says
Who gave Israel weapons in 1948? Stalin, through Czechoslovakia. Let that sink in…
Kevin T Kilty says
Mr. Greenfield,
You are an excellent writer and fearless truth teller. I come here regularly and find so much good sense espoused by your superd crew. Keep up these good efforts.
I recently read Michael Oren’s Six Day War and was surprised to learn about the same duplicity among American politicians, Johnson in particular, in May and June 1967. Now I learn the “Eddie Jacobson Myth” is just a myth!
Hannah says
If Israel is really going to declare true independence this time, it needs to start setting conditions for sharing all those resources that America has been enjoying based on the supposed ‘ironclad friendship’.
The stuff being shared goes way beyond just buying American weapons. And other countries are taking advantage as well, without feeling obligated to back Israel politically.
There’s cybersecurity tech, medical innovations, counter-terrorism intel and training, improvements made to US weaponry, disaster-response experience, all that human expertise running foreign high-tech companies based in Israel, water-recycling tech (including WaterGen which makes pure water literally from thin air!) — not to mention the huge natural gas fields which are saving Europe’s butt in the winter.
In short, they (we) need to start thinking of Israeli interests. Like a normal country.
No more attempts to buy love. Everything Blue-And-White should have a price tag that buys Israel influence in the global arena. Real influence, not empty words.
And in the case of the USA’s latest arm-twisting attempt, withholding crucial intel unless the ‘great friend and ally’ does what the deep state wants…. TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME ALSO.