The Bible is clear that in the latter days, all nations will turn against Israel. Joel tells us:

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, When I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, And will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” (Joel 3:1–2)

 The time period of this gathering of nations was placed by the prophet Joel after the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem returned. Judah and Jerusalem are what the world refers to as “the occupied territories” or “the West Bank.” This area is referred to by the Bible, and the Jews as Judea and Samaria. These areas were brought back under Israeli control in 1967 following The Six Day War.

Ezekiel pinpoints the location of the contention when the Gogian forces come down:

“After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.” (Ezekiel 38:8)

The Prophet Zechariah also speaks of this gathering of nations:

“Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, And thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; And half of the city shall go forth into captivity, And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.” (Zechariah 14:1–2)

The book of Revelation describes this as the Battle of Armageddon:

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:16)

What we are seeing in the world today is a spirit that is uniting the nations of the world against God’s people of Israel.

There are now a total of 159 UN member states that have recognised a “State of Palestine”.  In addition to this, it should be remembered that the Catholic Church recognised the “state of Palestine” in 2015, as the Pope affirmed in a press conference on Tuesday:

“The Holy See has supported the two-state solution for many years,” the pope recalled, pointing out that the Vatican formally recognized Palestine in 2015 with the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement. “The Holy See recognized the two-state solution some time ago. That is clear: We must seek a path that respects all peoples.”

Asked whether broader international recognition of Palestine might help, he said: “It could help, but right now there is no real willingness to listen on the part of the other side; dialogue is broken.”

There has been a rash of “recognitions of Palestine” over the past week.  

On Sunday, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney was the first to put out a statement unilaterally recognising Palestine.  In his speech at the UN on Monday, Carney stated the following:

Since 1947, it has been the policy of every Canadian government to support a two-state solution for lasting peace in the Middle East. This position envisioned the creation of a sovereign, democratic, and viable State of Palestine building its future in peace and security alongside the State of Israel.

Over many decades, Canada’s commitment to this goal was premised on the expectation that this outcome would be eventually achieved as part of a negotiated settlement. Regrettably, this possibility has been steadily and gravely eroded, including by:

The pervasive threat of Hamas terrorism to Israel and its people, culminating in the heinous terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, and Hamas’ longstanding violent rejection of Israel’s right to exist and a two-state solution.

However, he laid the blame at Israel’s feet for the failure of the peace process, stating:

The accelerated settlement building across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the soaring settler violence against Palestinians.

Actions such as the E1 Settlement Plan and the Israeli government’s contribution to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza….

Remember the issue Joel pointed out – the return of the Jews to Jerusalem and Judea would be what would bring the nations down to Jerusalem to battle. 

He continued,

The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established. It has pursued an unrelenting policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank, which is illegal under international law. Its sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law. It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that ‘there will be no Palestinian state’.

Again – the issue is settling Judah, exactly what the Bible predicted would be the spark. He continued:

It is in this context that Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our full partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.  Canada does so as part of a co-ordinated international effort to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution. While Canada is under no illusions that this recognition is a panacea, this recognition is firmly aligned with the principles of self-determination and fundamental human rights reflected in the United Nations Charter, and the consistent policy of Canada for generations.

Reaction in Canada

Reaction in Canada came swiftly. Ben Mulroney, son of the late Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, has a radio show in Canada. Following Sunday’s announcement, he stated the following.

W we're waking up to a new week where Canada has recognized a new a new colleague in the in the community of nations, and that is the nation of Palestine. Mark Carney started saying that this was gonna happen on August 1, when, he well, let's listen to Mark Carney himself, our prime minister, on August 1 when he laid out what he said were preconditions to the recognition of a Palestinian state: “This intention is predicated on the Palestinian authority's commitment to much needed reforms. Hamas must immediately release all hostages taken in their horrific terrorist attack of October 7, that Hamas must disarm, and that Hamas must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.”

 Preconditions. I I don't know much, but I know that a precondition is a condition that needs to be satisfied prior to what he just said. So you gotta do those three things, Hamas. You have to release all the hostages. You have to disarm. And you have zero role to play in the governance of Gaza and the Palestinian state writ large. I ask in good faith, have any of those preconditions been met? And the answer is, sadly, no. And yet, we have recognized a Palestinian state. Why? I do not know. I genuinely do not know.

He went on to state:

In in my entire life, I have disagreed vociferously with a number of Canadian government policies. I have never felt so disconnected from a policy that I would literally say, this government does not speak for me. You do not speak for me. This is not what I stand for. This is not a Canada I recognize.

He also brought up the first thing Abbas did to Britain after “recognizing Palestine”:

And let's look at the knock on effects. The immediate knock on effects. Our good friend, Keir Starmer, everyone's favorite, useful idiot in the UK, who was leading this charge, and also recognized the Palestinian state. After the recognition of Palestinian statehood, Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, is demanding 2 trillion pounds in reparations from the UK. That is 3.7 trillion dollars. He claims Britain owes compensation, quote, in accordance with international law for the land it controlled from 1917 to 1948.

What have I said before? When it comes to certain people on that side of the equation, everything will never be enough. Everything will never be enough. You just recognize Palestinian statehood. And the first thing that Mahmoud Abbas does, he doesn't he doesn't subscribe to a single precondition. He doesn't reorganize. He doesn't get rid of the  terrorists within his organization. What's the first thing he does? Demands payment of 2 trillion pounds. Everything will never be enough.

Mulroney also pointed out what Hamas had to say about it:

What did what did Hamas do? What did what did senior Hamas official Ghazi Hammad, say about this? He said the fruits of October 7 are what caused the entire world to open its eyes on the Palestinian issue. Those, Keir Starmer said, this was not a reward for terrorism. Well, you got the terrorist himself who says this is a reward for terrorism.  I'm gonna take…  I don't often take terrorists at their word. I took them at his word right here.

And what did Hamas do to demonstrate any good faith, he finished:

Hours after recognition of statehood, when they were told pre-conditions that did not have to be met, what did what did Hamas terrorists do in the streets of Gaza? On video, for the world to see on social media, they executed three people on the streets. It's up on social media for you to see because they claim that these people were working as collaborators with Israel. Shot them in the heads. Shot them in the heads. These I guess these guys are are gunning to be ambassadors to Canada?  Maybe one of these guys might be ambassador one day. This is shameful. It is bone headed. It is short sighted, and it's a failure of our democratic, values, as well as a long standing seventy year relationship with Israel.

Britain followed suit shortly thereafter with Prime Minister Keir Starmer unilaterally recognising Palestine:

Meanwhile, the man-made humanitarian crisis in Gaza reaches new depths.

The Israeli government’s relentless and increasing bombardment of Gaza… The offensive of recent weeks… The starvation and devastation… Are utterly intolerable.

Tens of thousands have been killed – Including thousands as they tried to collect food and water. This death and destruction horrifies all of us. It must end….

With the actions of Hamas… The Israeli government escalating the conflict… And settlement building being accelerated in the West Bank… The hope of a Two State Solution is fading.

But we cannot let that light go out.

Again, you can see the issue. Israel is squarely blamed for the failure of the peace process, and it is building in the “Westbank” – on the mountains of Israel in Jerusalem and Judea. He finished with recognition:

So today – To revive the hope of peace and a Two State Solution… I state clearly, as Prime Minister of this great country…

That the United Kingdom… Formally recognises the State of Palestine.

We recognised the State of Israel more than 75 years ago as a homeland for the Jewish people.

Today we join over 150 countries who recognise a Palestinian State also.  A pledge to the Palestinian and Israeli people… That there can be a better future.

Like Canada, this decision was made unilaterally — without discussion in the democratically elected parliament.

Reaction in the UK

Kickback to this unilateral move immediately reverberated through Britain:

Nigel Farage, leader of the British Reform Party, weighed in on the discussion of Britain recognizing Palestine in an interview following Starmer’s statement:

 How do you recognise a state if you cannot even identify what its geographical boundaries are?  And how can you recognize a State, when the governing force within it, namely Hamas, is intent on the destruction and death of a country and its people? It is simply a monstrous thing to do.

Now you can criticize Netanyahu, you can criticize Israel, you can do all those things. But, to recognize, to recognize something that has no actual entity, and is in effect run by terrorists, it rewards the abominations of the 7^th of October a couple of years ago. And it does nothing to give peace in the Middle East. And it puts the hostages in an even more dangerous position.  I cannot understand, for the life of me, why Starmer has done it, other than he is frightened of the “left” in British Politics. He is frightened, particularly, of those communities that have come into our country over the past few decades, and who view the world very differently.

Reporter Melanie Phillips, in a video interview, reflected on the logic of the decision of the British government:

Well, the whole thing is completely nonsensical. This state doesn’t exist, just because a number of countries, including apparently, the United Kingdom Government, wants it to exist, doesn’t mean it becomes in existence.

Certain conditions have to be met, in terms of international law, they have been met. Anybody with half a brain can see this thing doesn’t exist. And the hapless Lammy, to whom you have just referred, on that interview with Trevor Philips, made a complete idiot of himself, because he actually admitted that just recognising a state of Palestine, he said, “Of course it doesn’t bring it into existence.” Well, if it is not in existence, then what are they recognizing?  Are they recognizing an idea? Are they recognizing a wish?  I mean, the whole thing would be farcical, would be comical were it not so serious. It is, as your viewers have just said, a reward for terrorism.

Hamas has actually said, “Thank you.” It has said, “This is the fruit of October 7^th.” Can you believe this, that Britain’s Labour Government, under Sir Kier Starmer, has delivered to Hamas a reward for the most barbaric, and biggest single atrocity against the Jewish people since the holocaust. What appalling disgrace for a British Prime Minister.  

She continued:

 I think that Starmer himself, he’s obsessed by what he calls “The Two State Solution,” which involves a state of Palestine being created. And he believes that Israel is dragging its feet over this. Well, of course, Israel’s dragging its feet over this. There cannot be a state of Palestine, because the only purpose of such a state, as the Palestinian leadership has said, time and again (often in Arabic, but it is said, time and again), the only purpose is a stage, it is part of what they call a strategy of stages, to destroy Israel.

This whole thing of Palestine recognition, which is now running across the world, in country after country, has been, is part of a wildy successful campaign of demonization, and delegitimization of Israel, going on for many years now, spearheaded by the Palestinian Authority, probably backed by other countries, such as for example Iran, which has the same kind of aim in mind. But certainly, the Palestinian Authority has been going on about this tack for a very long time. In other words, the Palestinian Authority long ago decided that it could not defeat Israel by conventional military means, and probably couldn’t defeat it by terrorism, although it has had a good go of it the whole time, and  every day there are attacks, and thwarted attacks going on.

The Palestinian Authority decided it could achieve its ends through the diplomatic route. It understood there was a weakness in the West: they hate Israel, they don’t like the Jews, and they could play on that. It could play international law, which is regarded in the West as a kind of religion.

Sir Kier Starmer is, above all, a human rights lawyer. And the Palestinian Authority understood they could deploy this. They could deploy it through the UN, which is run by, or is answerable to, countries that want Israel gone. And through the UN, which proports to be the global arbiter of peace and justice, (for goodness sake), it’s the opposite. It is institutionally programmed to Israel’s destruction. And through its satellite agencies, its courts, its whole humanitarian apparatus.

The Palestinian Authority has been using that. Recognition of Palestine is, kind of, a super mega stunt, in order to plant in people’s minds, the idea that there is a state of Palestine, there should be a State of Palestine, and that the only people stopping this worthy endeavour is the State of Israel. But the State of Palestine has one purpose only, genocidal —  to destroy Israel, to exterminate Jews.

That is what Sir Keir Starmer has now put Britain shoulder behind. I am not surprised that the majority of British people, according to a recent opinion poll, said that 90% of the British people think this is the wrong move, at this time, to recognize a state of Palestine without conditions, leaving Hamas in power in Gaza, without a single hostage being returned, removing any leverage there is over Hamas to end the war, to get rid of all its weapons, to disarm, and to restore the hostages to Israel.

It’s removed that leverage, so it is not surprising that the British people, who understand humbug when they see it and have a moral sense, are disgusted by this. That is what Sir Keir Starmer has done.  He thinks he has bought himself out of a problem, I think he is gonna find he has managed to secure a much bigger problem for himself.

The Australian Prime Minister also unilaterally recognised Palestine on Sunday, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned it in his address to the UN Monday:

Right now, Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe. And for this, the Israeli Government must accept its share of responsibility. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. Desperate people, including children, have been denied vital aid. Aid workers have been killed trying to deliver humanitarian assistance, including Australian Zomi Frankcom. And journalists have been killed trying to bring the truth to light.

This comes alongside the continued illegal expansion of settlements on the West Bank - and an increase in settler violence.

Threats to annex parts of Palestine - and permanently displace the Palestinian people. Such conduct risks putting a two-state solution beyond reach.

That is where the current road will take us.  Which is why we must choose a different path. We must break this cycle of violence and build something better.

Yesterday, Australia recognised the State of Palestine.

Again, the issue is the settlement of Judea. Just as the Bible pointed out.

 Reaction in Australia

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was interviewed about the recognition, and this is an excerpt from the interview:

It is a complete reversal of a policy position that had been held on a bipartisan basis for many, many decades. There'd been a great history of that in standing with Israel, and, this government has taken the complete opposite path, and I'm just full of disappointment and sadness about it.

Now the current opposition is saying they would overturn this in government, and that's relevant in this case because no matter how long it takes them to return to government, there won't be a Palestinian state by them, will there? This is a meaningless gesture. The United Nations Security Council won't won't admit a state of Palestine. It doesn't exist in any real sense, and it won't.

Well, it's fantasy diplomacy. I mean, this is, you know, appeasing various interests in domestic constituencies and more broadly….

It doesn’t actually advance the things that need to be addressed. They sort of want to skip to the end and just recognize the State. Well, at the same time, what state? How will that state function? Can it deliver health services, education services? Can it deliver the internal security, let alone the external security? What guarantees  are there for its neighbors, in particular Israel, that the events of what occurred on October 7, the worst, massacre of Israelis since the Holocaust, would never happen again?

Again, Australia’s recognition was unilateral and did not go through the democratically elected parliament.  Australia’s opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has stated that if she forms a government, they would withdraw recognition of Palestine. 

Macron of France, leading the Summit on Monday with Saudi Arabia stated:

As we speak, Israel is still expanding its military operations in Gaza with the stated goal of destroying Hamas. However, it is the lives of the hundreds of thousands of displaced, wounded, starving and traumatized people that continue to be destroyed – regardless of the fact that Hamas has been weakened considerably and that negotiations for a lasting ceasefire remain the surest way of securing the hostages’ release….

The time has come. That is why, true to my country’s historic commitment in the Middle East, for peace between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people, I declare that France today recognizes the State of Palestine.

Trump was not present at Monday’s hate festival. He addressed the UN on Tuesday and spoke of the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state:

 " As everyone knows, I have also been deeply engaged in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza, we have to get that done, have to get it done. Unfortunately, Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace, and we can't forget October 7th, can we?

Now, as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th, even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire instead of giving to Hamas and giving so much because they've taken so much, they have taken so much, this could have been solved so long ago, but instead of giving in to Hamas ransom demands, those who want peace should be united with one message, release the hostages now. Just release the hostages now. Thank you.

As we have got to come together, and we will come together, got to get it done, we have to stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to stop it. We have to get it done. We have to negotiate, immediately, have to negotiate peace. We got to get the hostages back. We want all 20 back. We don't want two and four. As you know, I got, along with Steve Witkoff and others that helped us, Marco Rubio, we got most of them back. We were involved in all of them, but I always said, the last 20 are going to be the hardest, and that's exactly what happened. We have to get them back now. We don't want to get back two and then another two and then one, and then three and have this process. No, we want them all back.

And we want the actually 38 dead bodies back too. Those parents came to me and they want them back, and they want them back very quickly and very badly, as though they were alive. They want them. They want them every bit as much as if their son or daughter were alive.

There is Trump, leader of the elder young lion nation, pointing out the complete foolishness of the nations that have recognised the terrorist state of Palestine. The hostages are still being held, and until they are released it makes no sense to cave into the demands of terrorists. 

On Friday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, took the podium in New York.  Netanyahu was the first scheduled speaker, and as he took the podium, the bulk of the delegates filed out of the hall in a visible show of demonstration, fully knowing he was the first speaker. Netanyahu’s speech was the longest of those given in the UN. We will pull a few excerpts from it that are well worth taking the time to listen to:

He began by decrying the world for forgetting the events of October 7^th:

Ladies and gentlemen, much of the world no longer remembers October 7, but we remember. Israel remembers October 7.

On October 7, Hamas carried out the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. They slaughtered 1,200 innocent people, including over 40 Americans and foreign nationals from dozens of countries represented here. They beheaded men. They raped women. They burnt babies alive. They burnt babies alive in front of their parents. What monsters. And these monsters took the more than 250 people hostage. And those included holocaust survivors, grandmothers, grandmothers, and their grandchildren. Who takes hostage grandmothers and grandchildren? Hamas does. So far, we've brought home 207 of these hostages, but 48 still remain in the dungeons of Gaza. 20 of them are alive, starved, tortured, deprived of any daylight, deprived of humanity.

Netanyahu then named each of the living hostages, and addressed them from the podium at the UN:

I want to speak from this forum directly to those hostages through loudspeakers. I've surrounded Gaza with massive loudspeakers connected to this microphone in the hope that our dear hostages will hear my message. And I'll say it first in Hebrew and then in English.

Our brave heroes. This is prime minister Netanyahu speaking to you live from the United Nations. We have not forgotten you, not even for a second. The people of Israel are with you. We will not falter and we will not rest until we bring all of you home.

 He then appealed to the remaining members of Hamas:

Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to special efforts by Israeli intelligence, my words are now also being carried. They're streamed live to the cell phones of Gazans. So to the remaining Hamas leaders and to the jailers of our hostages, I now say, lay down your arms. Let my people go. Free the hostages, all of them, the whole 48. Free the hostages now. If you do, you will live. If you don't, Israel will hunt you down.

He thanked President Trump for the support Israel has received in the past year, and the message America sent by bombing Iran. Then he turned to the other world leaders:

But regrettably, many leaders who are represented in this hall, they send a very different message. Sure. In the days immediately following October 7, many of them supported Israel, but that support quickly evaporated when Israel did what any self-respecting nation would do in the wake of such a savage attack. We fought back.

Yet over time, many world leaders buckled. They buckled under the pressure of a biased media, radical Islamist constituencies, and anti Semitic mobs. There's a familiar saying, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Well, for many countries here, when the going got tough, you caved. And here's the shameful result of that collapse. For much of the past two years, Israel has had to fight a seven-front war against barbarism, with many of your nations opposing us. Astoundedly, as we fight the terrorists who murdered many of your citizens, you are fighting us. You condemn us. You embargo us, and you wage political and legal warfares called lawfare against us. I say to the representatives of those nations, this is not an indictment of Israel. It's an indictment of you. It's an indictment of weak-kneed leaders who appease evil rather than support a nation whose brave soldiers guard you from the barbarians at the gate. They're already penetrating your gates. When will you learn? You can't appease your way out of jihad, and you won't escape the Islamist storm by sacrificing Israel. To overcome that storm, you have to stand with Israel. But that's not what you're doing. As the prophets of Israel foretold in the bible, you've turned good into evil and evil into good.

He spent a fair amount of time analysing the world’s response to Hamas verses its response to Israel summing it up:

So the truth has been turned on its head. Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation whose charter calls for the murder of all Jews on the planet, this genocidal organization is given a pass. It's barely mentioned. While Israel, which does everything it can to get civilians out of harm's way, Israel is put in the dock. What a joke.

Finally, he turned his attention the recognition by world leaders of the Palestinian state:

This week, the leaders of France, Britain, Australia, Canada, and other countries unconditionally recognized a Palestinian state. They did so after the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7, horrors praised on that day by nearly 90% of the Palestinian population. Let me say that again. Nearly 90% of Palestinians supported the attack on October 7. It's not supported only. They celebrated. They danced on the rooftops. They threw candies. That's woes both in Gaza and in Judea Samaria, the West Bank as you call it. And it's just the way they celebrated another horror, 9-11. They danced on the rooftops. They cheered. They threw candy.

You know what message the leaders who recognized the Palestinian this state this week sent to the Palestinians? It's a very clear message. Murdering Jews pays off.

Well, I have a message for these leaders. When the most savage terrorists on Earth are effusively praising your decision, you didn't do something right. You did something wrong, horribly wrong. Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere. It will be a mark of shame on all of you. But but but wait a minute, mister prime minister, they tell me. Wait a minute. We believe in a two state solution where the Jewish state of Israel will live side by side in peace with the Palestinian state.

There's only one problem with that. The Palestinians, they don't believe in this solution. They never have. They don't want a state next to Israel. They want a Palestinian state instead of Israel. And that's why every time they were offered a Palestinian state, but were required to end the conflict with Israel and recognize the Jewish state every time. Over the decades, they turned it down. And that is why every time they were given territory, they used it to attack us.

In fact, they effectively had a Palestinian state in Gaza. So what did they do with that state? Peace? Coexistence? No. They attacked us time and time again, totally unprovoked. They fired rockets into our cities. They murdered our children. They turned Gaza into a terror base from which they committed the October 7th massacre.

So here's the uncomfortable truth. The persistent Palestinian rejection of a Jewish state in any boundary is what has driven this conflict for over a century, it is still driving it. It's not the absence of a Palestinian state. It's the presence and existence of a Jewish state, And I find it amazing, amazing that the foreign chancelleries and the ministries and all those who pontificate about this, and the leaders, how can they not see this basic truth when it is repeated again and again and again ad nauseam?

He turned the conversation back to October 7^th and pointed out the insanity of giving a state to those who perpetrated such crimes:

These are the people you wanna give a state to. What you're doing is giving the ultimate reward to intolerant fanatics who perpetrated and supported the October seventh massacre. Giving the Palestinians a state one mile from Jerusalem after October 7 is like giving Al Qaeda a state one mile from New York City after September 11. This is sheer madness. It's insane, and we won't do it.

So here's another message to those Western leaders. Israel will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats. We will not commit national suicide because you don't have the guts to face down a hostile media and anti Semitic mobs demanding Israel's blood.

And I want you to grasp something else, which is also distorted in the media. I say this not only in my name or the name of my government, but on behalf of all the people of Israel. Last year, there was a vote in the Knesset, our parliament, whether or not to oppose the imposition of a Palestinian state. You wanna guess what the results were? Out of a 120 members of our parliament, 99 voted against and only nine supported. That's over 90%. It's not a fringe group. It's not, the prime minister who himself is extreme or he's held hostage by extreme, parties to his right. It's over 90% of Israelis. My opposition to a Palestinian state is not simply my policies or my government's policy. It's the policy of the state and people of the state of Israel.

Western leaders may have buckled under the pressure, And I guarantee you one thing, Israel won't.

Netanyahu ended with a reminder of the resurrection of the nation of Israel and what that means to the world :

The rise of Israel did not mean that the attempts to destroy us would end. It meant that we could fight back against those attempts, and that is exactly what Israel has done since October 7. Our sons and daughters fought like lions. Our brave soldiers donned their uniforms and rushed into battle. They were armed with the dreams of the 100 generations of Jews who came before them. The dream of living as a free people in the land of Israel, our beloved homeland for more than three thousand years. The dreams of living in our own independent state. The dream of having an army to defend ourselves. And the dream of being a light onto the nations, a beacon of progress, ingenuity, innovation for the benefit of all humanity. On October 7, the enemies of Israel tried to extinguish that light.

Two years later, the resolve of Israel and the strength of Israel burned brighter than ever. With God's help, that strength and that resolve would lead us to a speedy victory and to a brilliant future of prosperity and peace.

Israel stands more or less alone at the moment. However, the angelic host is working with them to bring about the kingdom of God.

The words of  Micah come to mind:

“Now also many nations are gathered against thee, That say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, Neither understand they his counsel: For he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: For I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: And thou shalt beat in pieces many people: And I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, And their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.” (Micah 4:11–13)

As the world turns on Israel, including nations like Britain, Canada and Australia, a resounding message to Jews everywhere is clear. It is time to come home to Israel, and remember the words of Isaiah:

“And it shall come to pass in that day, That the Lord shall set his hand again the second time To recover the remnant of his people, Which shall be left, from Assyria, And from Egypt, and from Pathros, And from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.” (Isaiah 11:11–12)

The dispersed are the diaspora, a remnant of which is still scattered to the four corners of the earth, including Canada, Britain, Australia and the United States, and are to be brought home. Perhaps the hostility being experienced is a nudge from the Father to say, “It is time to come back to the land.”

For the Bible in the News, this has been Jonathan Bowen joining you.