CategoryIsrael and the Middle East

Israel Desk – March 2023

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Arab media around the Middle East now say it is time to pressure Israel, while it is vulnerable due to internal strife. The Syrian newspaper Al Watan which is affiliated with President Assad’s regime, wrote that “dozens of soldiers have announced that they will not participate in military training,” and added that “the legal amendments are dismantling the Israeli occupation army.” Israel’s...

Are we living in the last days?

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DEUTSCH (not available) FRANÇAIS Română (not available) español 简体中文 (not available) 繁體中文 (not available) മലയാളം (not available) shqip According to the Bible there will be a period of time in which events will take place fulfilling prophecies concerning ‘the last days’ of this age.  Most people choose to scoff and mock at this idea, but that is also prophesied in 2 Peter 3.3-13: ‘Scoffers...

From our Israel Desk – February 2023

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Iran planning to kill Jews in the Diaspora Iran plans to kill Jews in the diaspora The Jewish Chronicle (17 February) carried an article with the headline ‘Iran mapping Jews in diaspora for kill squads.  Iran has been “mapping” the Jewish diaspora for an assassination campaign that will be triggered if Israel attacks its nuclear facilities, a Jewish woman who met Ayatollah Khamenei has told...

Babylon and Jerusalem

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Here’s Babylon, here’s Jerusalem. What do we know about Babylon? Where is Babylon? Here’s a map which shows you where Jerusalem is. Babylon is in today’s Iraq. Sometimes the country is known as ‘Mesopotamia’, which means the country of the two rivers: the river Euphrates and the river Tigris which flow down into the Persian Gulf and which were the seat of an...

Israel and Iran: what’s usually left unsaid

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Recently, the Israeli Defence Force and the U.S Central Command launched exercise Juniper Oak, a massive joint military exercise which, according to recent reports, involves bombing targets set up in the Negev Desert, that’s, in the south of Israel, to simulate Iranian nuclear sites. A total of 1,100 Israeli Soldiers with 6,400 U.S soldiers took part with aircraft including B-52 heavy...

Signs of the Times – November 2022

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Whither bound COP? Some 40,000 attendees have travelled to Sharm el-Sheikh on Egypt’s Sinai coast for the UN’s COP 27 Climate Change Conference.  This includes over 100 world leaders as well as leaders in business and other sectors. In conjunction with the UN event, a group of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders are seeking a faith-based solution to the ecological crisis by promoting...

Israel Election – Netanyahu Wins

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20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her. 22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe to those...

Israel, Middle East – Prophecy for our times

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Will someone come up with a solution to this problem, offering peace and safety, bringing a guarantee such as a peace treaty? If so, would he be hailed as a great world leader? Israel Politics Let’s just come on to Israel because Israel was also mentioned in the speech which Guterres gave at the U.N General Assembly. He said, “In Israel and Palestine, cycles of violence under the occupation...

From our Israel Desk – Sep 2022

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The Queen never visited Israel Not because she did not want to but because the Foreign Office prohibited such a visit. In a moving speech, Lord Polak paid tribute to the Queen in the House of Lords – but levelled searing criticism at the Foreign Office for preventing her from visiting Israel. The Tory peer, who was director of Conservative Friends of Israel for more than 25 years, criticised the...

From our Israel Desk – August 2022

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Israel’s success against Islamic Jihad Israel’s 66-hour campaign targeting the military leadership of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) was a major success on multiple levels. The first was military: Israel succeeded in taking out the entire PIJ command structure, rapidly achieved its military objectives, striking over 170 strategic targets with limited collateral damage, and then quickly brokered...