17 March 2025,17 Adar, 5785.
Contents:
1. Turkey harms Nato cooperation with Israel.
2. Israelis now have less guns!
3. Why the US military is restoring WWII-era airfields.
4. Genocidal Intentions of Hamas.
5. Biblical Promise. THE REMNANT OF JACOB.
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1. Turkey harms Nato cooperation with Israel.
Turkey as a Nato member has blocked Nato cooperation with Israel.
This has seriously up set geo-strategic considerations and changed the balance of power.
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2. Israelis now have less guns! (information supplied by "Yedidyah").
Due to pressure from politically=correct organizations, womens groups and others the number of gun permits etc to Israeli citizens has now been limited.
Security personnel are given less access to guns, and not allowed to take guns home. IDF soldiers are not always allowed to take guns with them when going on leave, etc.
This was a factor in the recent disaster.
Recent HAMAS attacks caught whole units (especially those of girl soldiers) without arms.
Nothing has been done (as far as we know) to rectify this situation.
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3. Why the US military is restoring WWII-era airfields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PVwt01b6fs
China now has the capability of firing rockets at bases that previously were too distant.
It is therefore necessary to spread planes and resources over wider areas and not keep them all in one place.
WW2 bases that previously were disused are now being renovated.
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4. Genocidal Intentions of Hamas
Wikipedia
EXTRACTS ABOUT hAMAS
Hamas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian militants attacked Israel killing nearly 1,200 Israelis, about two thirds of them civilians. Approximately 250 Israeli civilians and soldiers were taken back to the Gaza Strip, with the aim of securing the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel (as part of a prisoner swap). Hamas said its attack was in response to Israel's continued occupation, blockade of Gaza, and settlements expansion, as well as alleged threats to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the plight of Palestinians.There are also reports of sexual violence by Hamas militants, allegations that Hamas has denied [but which have been confirmed]. Israel responded by invading the Gaza Strip, killing over 70,000 Palestinians, 59.1% of them women, children and the elderly according to a peer-reviewed study in The Lancet (figures now in doubt).
Allegations of antisemitism
The 1988 Hamas charter proclaims that jihad against Jews is required until Judgement Day. The "governing" 1988 charter of Hamas was said, in 2018, to "openly dedicate(s) Hamas to genocide against the Jewish people", referring to the Hamas 1988 charter, article 7. More authors have characterized the violent language against all Jews in the original Hamas charter as genocidal, incitement to genocide, or antisemitic. The charter attributes collective responsibility to Jews, not just Israelis, for various global issues, including both World Wars.
The American Interest magazine wrote that the charter "echoes" Nazi propaganda in claiming that Jews profited during World War II. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, has compared statements in the 1988 charter with those that appear in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Hamas has called for the annihilation of Israel, and has stated that to be necessary for creating a pan-Islamic empire.
On the other hand, Hamas's 2017 charter removed the anti-Semitic language, saying that their struggle is against Zionism and not Jews, while also advancing goals for a Palestinian state which are seen by many as being consistent with a two-state solution.
1988-1992 (first charter)
In its early days, Hamas functioned as a social-religious charity center. Its members armed themselves for the ongoing resistance against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and in August 1988 published their first charter in which Hamas stated that "Israel" should be "eliminated" through a "clash with the enemies", a "struggle against Zionism" and "conflict with Israel".: preamble, art. 14, 15, 32 They wrote that 'Palestine', that is all of the territory that belonged to the British Mandate for Palestine (that is, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea), should be "liberated" from "Zionism"[126]: art. 14 and transformed into an Islamic Waqf (Islamic charitable endowment) in which "followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety".: art. 6, 11 Practically speaking, Hamas is and was at war with Israel's army (later also attacking Israeli civilians) since the spring of 1989, initially as part of the First Intifada, a general protest movement that gradually turned more riotous and violent.
Summary of the 1988 charter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter
Article 7 describes Hamas as "one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders" and claims continuity with the followers of the religious and nationalist hero Izz ad-Din al-Qassam from the Great Arab Revolt as well as the Palestinian combatants of the First Arab-Israeli War. It ends with Sahih al-Bukhari's hadith Muslim 2922, suggesting that the Day of Judgment would not come until the Muslims fight and kill the Jews.
The Preamble to the 1988 Charter stated: Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam invalidates it, just as it invalidated others before it .It emphasizes the importance of jihad for the Palestinian question, adding that "initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."[47]
The Charter adds that "renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion [of Islam]".
The 1988 Charter draws heavily on quotations from the hadith and Qur'an and builds an argument that Jews deserve God's/Allah's enmity and wrath because they received the Scriptures but violated its sacred texts, rejected the signs of Allah, and slew their own prophets. The introduction of the charter identifies Hamas's struggle as a continuation of "Our [long and dangerous] struggle with the Jews".
Article Seven of the Charter concludes with a quotation from a hadith:
The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews.
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5. Biblical Promise. THE REMNANT OF JACOB.
Micah 5:
8 THE REMNANT OF JACOB
WILL BE AMONG THE NATIONS,
AMONG MANY PEOPLES
LIKE A LION AMONG THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST,
LIKE A YOUNG LION AMONG FLOCKS OF SHEEP,
WHICH, IF HE PASSES THROUGH,
TRAMPLES DOWN AND TEARS,
AND THERE IS NONE TO RESCUE.
9 YOUR HAND WILL BE LIFTED UP AGAINST YOUR ADVERSARIES,
AND ALL YOUR ENEMIES WILL BE CUT OFF.