The 1930s and 1940s are here, and we know what’s next! I have warned Christians that history will eventually repeat itself and here we are. The question is: “What side of history do we want to be on as it pertains to Israel and the Jews?” In fact, the more important question really is:”Do we want to be on God’s side or not?” I see six signs that we have reached that dangerous point of a repeat of the 1930s and 1940s.
Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, contains a line that has become especially relevant in the political realm. That line is: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” That line perfectly describes the state of Jewish-Muslim geopolitics. A recent event in Italy is a clear message to the world that Muslim terrorists, regardless of which banner they fight under, are incapable of accepting peace on any terms except the complete eradication of the nation of Israel and every Jew living in the Middle East. Here are the details.
Mustafa Barghouti founded and is still an influential leader within a political party called the Palestinian National Initiative Movement. Barghouti and his organization have steadfastly opposed Israel. They are active participants in the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement, and recently called for economic and military sanctions against Israel by the US and EU. More egregious than those activities, however, is Barghouti’s approval of the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel by Muslim terrorists and their barbary toward innocent men, women, and children. He stated at the time that the Muslim terrorists were justified in their rape, murder, beheadings, mutilations, and torture of Israelis because there can never be normal relations with Israel.[1] This information provides needed background to understand the Muslim reaction to Barghouti’s friendly gesture.
During a recent conference in Italy that brought Italian parliamentary factions together, Barghouti was videoed hugging former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami. This simple expression of greeting and friendship caused an immediate uproar among Palestinians and the organizations purported to represent them. Never mind that Ben-Ami is a leftist and proponent of a two-state solution. Barghouti was roundly denounced as a traitor, as having committed a “crime” by embracing a Jew, and as a secret proponent of normalizing relations with Israel.
Why would something that is commonplace around the world in all societies and even among leaders of nations when they gather, cause such angry and hostile rebukes from the Muslim world? The answer is really quite simple. The leaders of the Palestinian organizations have all been clear in their denunciations of Israel. Palestinians and Muslims in other nations train their children from the time they are old enough to walk and talk to hate Jews. Palestinian children are indoctrinated by various fables such as: the ridiculous notion that Israel oppresses Muslims and Arabs, in the illegitimacy of Israel as a nation because they exist on “stolen” land, in the nonsensical and easily rebutted “apartheid” charge, and of the equally nonsensical charge of ethnic cleansing. None of these stables of Palestinian and Muslim myth have any basis in reality. Apparently, truth has no place among the Palestinians.
When an entire population is brainwashed by lies concerning the Jews, is it any wonder that missteps by Palestinian leaders receive such vitriolic responses? The fact is that Barghouti and other leaders of supposed Palestinian advocacy organizations must toe a very well drawn-out line of constant hatred toward Israel and the Jews. Any actions or words that might be observed or construed as conciliatory toward Israel are not tolerated. The only permissible speech concerning Israel and the Jewish people is hateful, vilifying, and demeaning.
Clearly, there can be no negotiations for peace with Palestinian leaders. There can be no two-state solution. There can only be a complete and total victory by Israel over the terror groups that have unanimously vowed to annihilate the nation of Israel. There simply is no room for political optics or posturing for Israel. It must complete the destruction of Hamas, Hezbollah, and every other terrorist organization while sending a message to Iran and other state sponsors of terror that it has the will power to persevere through world opposition in order to secure its existence.
Western governments are well aware of this reality and must not choose to play the game of pacification of the Muslim terrorist groups and their benefactors in Iran. Israel will stand with or without the US and EU. What leaders need to answer today is this: Do you want to be on the side of those fighting for freedom? Or do you want to be on the side of the Muslim and Arab tyrants who oppress their own people? The world is watching for the right response.
Dr. Mike Spaulding
[1] Bassam Tawil, Why Palestinian Leaders Cannot Make Peace With Israel, Gatestone Institute, International Policy Council, July 11, 2024. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20773/palestinian-leaders-cannot-make-peace
Picture Wikipedia. The Arabic and Hebrew say “Peace.”
‘I had to tell him, “Dear brother, fellow man, Jew, before you say anything, I say to you: I acknowledge my guilt and beg you to forgive me and my people for this sin.'”
Martin Niemoller sermon in Erlangen, Germany 1946
Poetry often succinctly captures a moment of time, sometimes an era. The words of a poet can move the heart in ways other literature cannot. Great poets are remembered, and their writing spoken of and written about for long years, decades and centuries afterward. Sometimes poetry is a commentary on culture, pointing out deficiencies and moral failures. Are we at that place where moral failures are dismissed, and the courage of our convictions have withered before the heat of adversity?
Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” It is nearly universally understood today that Santayana’s statement was meant to be a warning to all freedom loving people that we must never allow the moral failures and outrageous behaviors of treasonous, treacherous, evil people to be repeated in our time. Since we lived through atrocities of the past, it is our duty to not allow the same atrocities to overtake us again. Yet that is exactly where we find ourselves today. Let me explain.
In Greek mythology, a story is told about Odysseus, a king of Ithaca. This king is said to have waged war against the city-state of Troy. After an unsuccessful siege of the city, Odysseus conceived the idea of building a huge horse and hiding within its structure many of his best fighters, counting on the Trojans to see the wooden horse as a sign of their victory over the Greeks.
As Odysseus believed, the Trojans pulled the wooden horse inside their city walls, believing it to be a sign from the gods of their victory. At nightfall, the Greeks disembarked their hiding place, opened the gates for their fellow soldiers and the city of Troy fell. History has trumpeted the genius of Odysseus. The Trojans on the other hand, have been seen as gullible and painfully naïve.
“Truth will ultimately prevail where pains are taken to bring it to light.”
George Washington
We are living in unprecedented times. America appears to be imploding. The once strong moral and social fabric of American society has become threadbare and is showing serious signs of tearing apart. How did this happen? How did this happen seemingly “overnight”?
Answering the first question is easy. America is in the position that it is because evil has been allowed to permeate every facet of our government, civic, and social institutions, and has propagandized a critical mass of Americans.