Israel Today is reporting that “security sources in Israel estimate that Iran and Hezbollah have delayed their attack due to their fear of a fierce and comprehensive Israeli retaliation. The government has approved not only a rapid shift to offensive strikes if Iran attacks, but also preemptive attacks against Iran and Hezbollah if intelligence shows a clear and imminent threat.” The fact that the IDF has not yet made a preemptive strike suggests that Iran could be getting cold feet.

On the other hand, oil storage tanks in Iran on the border with Afghanistan are burning out of control. Is this connected?

Army Radio is reporting that IDF reinforcements have been sent to Israeli towns and villages along the “seam line” or “Green Line” that separates Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”) from Israel’s heavily-populated coastal plain region following intelligence reports that Palestinian terrorist forces have been instructed by Iran and Hamas to carry out large-scale infiltrations and raids on Israeli towns in the Sharon region.

In the last hour, large IDF forces raided Jenin. Armored military vehicles unexpectedly crossed “the path of Palestinian private vehicles”, shot at electrical transformers and raised drones into the air. They also scattered fake minus million dollars bills with Haniyeh’s face on them, perhaps as a warning to money launderers funding terrorism.

Such a long road my people have traveled! From the lone couple from Mesopotamia, a visionary and his childless wife. The miracle baby, and the ultimate test of God. The rise of the twelve tribes, the long years of Egyptian slavery, the forty years of desert wandering and then the Promised Land! The Temples, built and then destroyed, the Romans, the Greeks, the long, hate and violence-filled centuries of exile and expulsions from Spain and England. And then, the Holocaust.

And in our own lifetimes, miraculously, the joy of building, creating, and defending our own land, Judea, birthplace of the Jews. Our forever home.

That I am now sitting here contemplating the reality of being in the crosshairs of a consortium of some of the worst human beings who ever lived – worthless, ignorant, savage, bestial people with endless hatred, endless wealth, uncountable deadly weapons, and absolutely no respect for human life – is a travesty for all mankind.

If our enemies succeed, then I, my children, grandchildren and even great grandchildren will face untold dangers.

But we are not the only ones who are in mortal danger. Every human being on earth who ever dreamed of a better life is also in the crosshairs. Because if we capitulate, if these evil savages succeed, then no one, anywhere, will have a life left worth living. The rioters in Great Britain whom Keir Starmer would like you to believe are scum, are simply the native people of that land who are beginning to understand just that.

If the “woke” supporters who back our enemies have their way, all of mankind will be entering a new Dark Age, where hate-filled, primitive barbarians hold sway, creating the rules that will successfully end all progress. Centuries of knowledge that do not align with their backward worldview will be threatened, eroded, perverted, buried and forgotten. All the arts will be banned. All women will be stripped of any rights they have gained over the centuries, sent back into the darkness of the veil as sex slaves to abusive masters.

Am I afraid? I would be a fool not to worry. But I have faith. We are the Chosen People of the God of Israel living in the land He promised us.

Do you believe the Creator of the Universe, the author of the Five Books of Moses, wants the world our enemies envision? Would He really help such evil succeed in replacing His people in His holy land?

The timing, before Iran’s nuclear bomb is a fait accompli, is fortunate. I have no doubt Israel has long had plans on the back burner to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Perhaps what we are experiencing now is simply the prelude to just that.

I certainly hope so.

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