April 2025
Peace in Our Time?
“I will end the war in Ukraine. I will stop the chaos in the Middle East,
and I will prevent World War III from happening.”
- President-elect Donald Trump, Victory rally, Washington DC
"When I speak of peace, they are ready for war."
- Psalm 119:7
"Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth:
I came not to send peace, but the sword."
- The Prince of Peace, Matt. 10:34
At a glance, these declarations pit Trump the peacemaker against Christ the warmonger. Even the Psalmist seems closer to the U.S. president than God: echoing Trump's lament before bellicose globalists intent on thwarting his peaceable plans. So, would Christ thwart him too? Is the "sword"-wielding Prince of Peace anti-peace? Well, it depends what sort of peace is at play.
Before clarifying the paradox of Christ's war and Trump's peace, a few observations about the pros and cons of the latter.
ZDS
The Deal-making real estate magnate always aspired to be a Peace-making President. A genuine desire, it surely deepened after failed covert attempts on his life finally triggered Deep State Plan B: the overt assassination attempts last July and September.
These brushes with death, the result of domestic and foreign bounties on his head, cannot have failed to sear his mind with the Four Last Things; crystallising the abyss twixt peace and war.
Sadly, his godly gratitude for surviving the July 2024 shooting in particular did not elevate his defence of innocent bodies and souls in utero to the very apex of his policy making: viz., as the sina qua non of global peace (so often declared by Pope John Paul II and St Teresa of Calcutta).
Yet neither that nor several other tragic blind spots invalidate his pursuit of peace-making beyond the womb: a righteous agenda that threatens to bring the demonic Agenda 2030 to a grinding halt, and with it all the ill-gotten gains and plans of the globalist oligarchs. Hence the propagandistic stench of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) gushing anew from the oligarchic media. The problem, however, is not just TDS but ZDS: Zionist Derangement Syndrome!
An Achilles' heel regularly forewarned in these pages for ten years, the President's welcome attempt to put Israel back in its uppity box, in order to pursue a ceasefire and peace deal he knows it will neither keep nor honour, must be viewed within the terms of his own generational Zionism and his wealthy Jewish donors.
This contradictory state of affairs — a committed presidential Zionist, whose daughter and son-in-law adhere to an extreme Zionist cult (Chabad-Lubavitch), pursuing peace with a Zionist war machine — sees him simultaneously rebuking Israel and giving them rope, confusing everyone. But not aimlessly.
Flying start that fizzled
As with Ukraine, peace always looked likely to break out in Gaza under the Trump presidency. Initially, all it took was a blunt call made on Trump's behalf to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. The latter typically sought to delay and obstruct the peace talks being mediated in Qatar by Steve Witkoff, Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, until Witkoff phoned Netanyahu and told him (in "salty English", according to a 13 January report by Israeli daily Haaretz) to get his conniving backside to a meeting in Israel pronto — in order to finalise ceasefire negotiations before Witkoff returned to Qatar "to seal the deal."
And so it came to pass.
Despite the official narrative that paints him as the great polariser the response of former TDS 'inmates' revealed the unifying effect of Trump's ability to resolve supposedly intractable problems; crises created and bequeathed to him by every globalist president since Bush Snr. Well-known liberal commentator Jimmy Dore for one, an American comedian and lifelong Democrat voter, tweeted to his vast online audience:
As I predicted many times on my show & elsewhere, Trump likes to do deals and take credit for them. Voting [Kamala] Harris meant more genocide & slaughter of the children in Gaza. Trump provided a chance for peace.
His Envoy Witkoff did not waste time or words & forced a deal THAT ISRAEL DID NOT WANT to end the war.
I didn't endorse Trump because of his rhetoric, but I always held out hope that he would do exactly what he's just done.
Biden/Harris could have gotten this done months & months ago but REFUSED to use any leverage at all to stop it.
All the people who voted Harris voted for slaughtering children, no way around that.
The people of Gaza are celebrating.
Joe Biden & the cult that is the Democratic party are lying & taking credit for Trump's peace deal.
Even Israel is acknowledging this is being imposed on them by Trump. The Democrats continue to be corrupt liars who will forever be known as the monsters that funded & enabled a genocide.
Renowned liberal-left investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald informed his 'progressive' subscribers likewise:
I don't care what you think of Trump. I don't care what Trump's motives are or what else he promised Israel, which I'm sure is non-trivial.
Anyone who causes an end to Israel's civilian-destruction in Gaza, has done a good thing, and there's no denying his key role.
Trump himself tweeted:
This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace, negotiate deals to ensure the safety of Americans, and our Allies. I am thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to be reunited with their families and loved ones.
With this deal in place, my National Security team,... will continue to work closely with Israel and our Allies to ensure Gaza NEVER again becomes a terrorist safe-haven. We will continue promoting PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH throughout the region, as we build upon the momentum of this ceasefire to further expand the Historic Abraham Accords. This is only the beginning of great things to come for America, and indeed, the World!
In keeping with his highly successful deal-making strategy to keep everyone guessing, "He fooled us all," wrote geo-political commentator Scott Ritter. "Because we thought he was about pressuring Hamas. But it turns out Trump was about pressuring Israel."
In fact, in his inimitable, deliberately unsettling way, he was pressuring both parties without naming either one, having set the provocative ball rolling by declaring there'd be "hell to pay" if a ceasefire was not reached before his inauguration. This was naturally taken by everyone, not least Mr Netanyahu, to mean hell for Hamas. But consider that Trump made this threat while simultaneously posting on his social media platform a talk by globalist insider Jeffrey Sachs, in which Sachs excoriated the U.S. and Netanyahu for setting the Middle East ablaze with wars, even labelling Bibi a "son of a bitch"!
Smug in the knowledge of Trump's lifelong commitment to Israel, the Israeli Prime Minister ignored the barely muffled Trumpian roar of disapproval. During his subsequent visit to Washington (which he has always depicted, with good reason, as his rubber stamp and plaything), a grinning Netanyahu delighted in the President's apparent green light to continue slaughtering Palestinians. But it was not so much a go-ahead as a reluctant (servile?) acceptance that Israel, as ever, was not planning to respect the deal, as Trump clearly signalled while celebrating his role in forcing through a ceasefire agreement. "That’s not our war, it’s their war. But I’m not confident," he stated ominously.
He might have had total confidence had he simply included as a non-negotiable term for Israel failing to adhere to the ceasefire, immediate cancellation of their massive funding by hapless U.S. taxpayers: i.e., termination of the basic $3.8 billion in military aid that America provides Israel each year, as well the banning of supplementary grants like the additional $8.7 billion approved since 7 October 2023! Since he had neither the will nor the appetite for that essential seismic action, Trump knew the inevitable outcome of the toothless agreement. (Indeed, he rendered it even more redundant by approving a $3 billion weapons transfer to Israel as recently as 28 February, after which, on 4 March, the Israeli army restarted its large-scale bombing of displaced families, killing at least 404 Palestinians, including 174 children and 89 women. "This is only the beginning," cried Bibi.)
Even as his nominated national security team and Israeli officials were portraying the Gaza deal as one which Israel was not planning to respect, Hamas for its part was keen to comply. Although insisting that "the American administration led by Biden, we consider complicit—directly complicit—in the genocide," and despite whatever "side deals they [America and Israel] have done, [which] is their business," Dr. Basem Naim, a member of the Hamas political bureau, also stated: "We are committed to this deal. We will exert the maximum efforts to give this deal a chance to succeed. We are looking for how to prevent the war again, how to protect our people. We will do the best to protect this deal."
Not so the Zionists. On cue, after signing on the dotted line, they barely paused to catch their breath before ramping up Gaza and West Bank bombings and invasions; piling up still more dead bodies, body parts of the maimed, and bodies buried alive.
Subsequently and perversely, despite Israel's murderous disregard, belligerence, and continued funding by its Washington cash cow, the Zionist President was determined to distance himself from ... Zionism!
He did so via his special envoy to Israel, Adam Boehler, who plainly stated: "We’re the United States. We’re not an agent of Israel. We have specific interests at play" (Times of Israel, 9/3/25).
A shocking statement by Washington's forelocking-tugging standards, it rocked an Israeli establishment used to calling the shots. Boehler doubled down by baldly stating that he wished to "jumpstart negotiations" with Hamas towards a "realistic endgame," while describing their reply as "not a bad first offer," and one in which "the Israelis are positioned to do very well." Hamas proposed "a five- to ten-year truce with Israel, during which the terror group would disarm and forego political power in Gaza", Boehler told Israel’s Kan News.
This LifeSiteNews report of 13 March further documents the commonsensical Trump/Boehler approach to peace vis-à-vis Netanyahu's unwavering commitment to war:
CNN asked Boehler – a Jewish American – what it was like to “sit down with antisemitic murderers” [i.e., Hamas].
He replied his duty was to “sit down with anybody, and that includes a lot of people that I would classify as not-so-good people, to help other Americans.”Boehler explained that “the most productive [approach] is to realize that every piece of a person is a human and to identify with the human elements of those people and then build from there.”
Speaking again to Israel’s Channel 13 news, Boehler dismissed Israeli disapproval of the moves towards peace.
Israeli envoy Ron Dermer was reportedly furious at Boehler’s approach to Hamas.
As the Times of Israel reported, Boehler said “he didn’t ‘really care’ about Dermer’s objections to his direct talks with Hamas, while referring to Palestinian prisoners as ‘hostages’.”
Israeli and pro-Israel sources object to the designation of the thousands of Palestinians held in its prisons as hostages, preferring the term “terrorists.”
Netanyahu, other leading Zionists, and IDF soldiers consistently refer to all Palestinians, even women, children, babies and the elderly, as being “terrorists” needing to be eliminated. Israeli propaganda has constantly used the term “terrorists” for Palestinians to justify its genocidal policies.
Important elaboration
Let us pause briefly to explain the twisted rabbinical source of this bestial 'theology' of dehumanisation and mass murder.
As Patrick Delaney related in a recent 19 March report, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris the notion of expelling all the Palestinians from their land "is as old as modern Zionism and has accompanied its evolution and praxis during the past century." Indeed, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, called for "brutal expulsions"; soon realised in the first Nakba of 1948 when "the Israeli army compelled more than 700,000 Palestinians to flee for their lives abandoning their homes, lands, and livelihoods while barring their return."
Soldiers are programmed to execute such wicked objectives by unhinged rabbis like Eliyahu Mali, who, in March 2024, stated: "The logic of this is very clear: if you don’t kill them, they will attempt to kill you." Lecturing a group of students enrolled in his Jaffa-based academy which combines studies of religious texts with Israeli military service, he went on:
"Today’s terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists. It’s either you or them. And in reality, ‘do not spare any soul’ is based on the doctrine that says, ‘he who comes to kill you in the afternoon, kill him in the morning’” (Babylonian Talmud). And the one who ‘comes to kill you’ here, in the broad sense, is not the person who is 18, 16, 20, 30 years old, the one who pointed his weapon at you, but also the next generation, and also those who give birth to the next generation, because in reality there is no difference.”
As for the elderly and children, the rabbi told his students:
“[T]here is no such thing as an innocent creature..., the elderly man is capable of carrying a rifle and shooting. Therefore, the Torah concept is very clear in the ruling. ... [T]he same thing [for children] and that’s because you can’t be clever with the Torah. When the Torah says, ‘do not spare any soul’ then you must not spare any soul. Today he is a youth and tomorrow he is a fighter. The fighters, or those whom we call saboteurs, who are 18 years old today, were eight years old in the previous war. Therefore, you must not stop [killing]."
In the same vein, responding to a question of how Jews in Israel should treat their Arab neighbours, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman penned his appalling rejoinder:
"I don’t believe in Western morality. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)."
Although ensuing public criticism forced him to add that such measures could only be carried out in "self-defence," a Jewish Chabad critic confirmed that Friedman's bloodcurdling call to mass murder was "the standard normal view of a Chabadnik… They just don’t say it in public."
Another rabbi named Ophir Wallas also advocated mass extermination of Palestinians, teaching young aspiring Israeli soldiers in 2018 that, as Jews, in order to take their land, they were permitted to wipe out "all of them."
And then there is prominent Israeli settler Rabbi Dov Lior. Described as the spiritual leader of Israel’s extremist Religious Zionism political coalition that became part of Mr Netanyahu’s government in 2022, during Israel’s invasion of Gaza in 2014, Lior issued a religious ruling that asserted it was morally permissible for Israel to exterminate the entire civilian population by "whatever measures [Israel] deems proper, like blocking supplies or electricity [and bombing] the entire area."
There are endless similar rabbinical 'imprimaturs' for genocide. As Delaney concludes,
"whether it's a rabbi’s obscenely unjust demand that a West Bank town be 'wiped off the face of the earth' in 1988, or a high ranking former Chief Rabbi advising the nation’s prime minster that 'there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians' during a potential military offensive on Gaza in 2007, such violent extremism has fostered unconscionable atrocities in the region for 77 years."
He also provides the following important information which cannot be echoed often enough in countering a Zionist propaganda machine exposed by Haaretz as: "The operation orchestrated by Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry and run by a political campaigning firm," to "spread pro-Israel and Islamophobic content in an attempt to sway global opinion on the war in Gaza":
Due in part to the establishment of pre-military academies (mechinot) like [Rabbi] Mali’s, ... a disproportionate number of combat troops and officers in the Israeli army identify as religious Zionists. Despite only accounting for 12 to 14% of the broader Jewish Israeli population, religious Zionists make up around 40% of graduates from the Israeli army’s infantry schools. This is an approximately 15-fold increase since the early 1990s when this number was only 2.5%, .... It is further reported that 88% of Hesder [Torah and Talmud] graduates serve in combat roles, compared to a 30% national average.
Given the types of training evidently received in these Hesder programs, that soldiers should not “spare any soul,” and “kill men, women and children,” perhaps it should not be surprising when last July forty-five American physicians, surgeons and nurses—who had volunteered in Gaza since October 2023—wrote in a letter addressed to Joe Biden that “every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and chest.”
“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by ‘the world’s best sniper,’” commented one of the letter’s signatories, Dr. Mark Perlmutter. In his testimony he stated that all the disasters he had seen over thirty years and 40 medical mission trips, combined, did not “equal the level of carnage” he saw “against civilians in just my first week in Gaza.”
The North Carolina-based physician further stated that the victims of such carnage are “almost exclusively children.” His testimony includes seeing scores of children “incinerated,” “shredded,” “missing body parts,” and “being crushed by buildings,” with other accounts confirming deaths by starvation.
[...] In reflecting not only on the Israeli leadership’s statements supporting genocidal ends in Gaza and the operations of the Israeli army executing such objectives, but also on the high levels of support for genocide among the nation’s citizens, Jewish Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein reluctantly concluded over a year ago that Israel is “a satanic state.”
"Seething" Israelis
All that said, we now resume the LifeSiteNews report of 13 March, with Trump's special envoy Adam Boehler responding to Israel's fury over his dealing with Hamas:
Boehler suggested that the habitual outrage of Israelis like Ron Dermer was the reason it could not agree to any deal – and underlined the fact that the U.S. has “our own interests” at stake.
“I don’t really care about that that much – no offence to Dermer,” Boehler said. “If it was a big deal every time Dermer got a little bit upset … Ron might have a lot of big deals every day. … However, we also have our own interests in the US … those interactions [with Hamas] can speed things up.”
The Trump admin has been talking to Hamas “since day one.” A “seething” Netanyahu government responded by leaking reports in the press in an attempt to sabotage the direct peace talks.
“Ynet news site reported that Israel had leaked news of the secret talks in an effort to scuttle them. ‘The fact that the Americans opened a direct channel with Hamas, even without Qatari mediation, is a real drama,’ a senior Israeli security source [said].”
Why would Israel do this? It is a response to a sense of betrayal – as Trump is alleged to have sabotaged Netanyahu’s plans to resume the war in Gaza. Netanyahu only found out “after the fact,” according to an Israeli source.
[For now] Israel is far more concerned by what it regards as a setback in the green light that Trump gave Israel to ‘open the gates of hell’ and crush Hamas. ‘Instead of war, they are giving Hamas another two months of quiet,’ a senior Israeli political source [said]. ‘It’s a bit of a disruption of all the plans. It’s a radical change in policy. How can we work like that?’
It seems that Israel will not be doing much work of its own at all. As Israel’s Channel 13 reported, “There is anger at Washington’s behaviour in negotiations and that Netanyahu will not be able to oppose Trump.”
Quoting “senior Israeli officials,” its report went on, “There is an attempt to conduct negotiations over our heads, and there is no major room for manoeuvre. If Trump reaches an agreement with Hamas, it will be difficult for Netanyahu to refuse this, and the Americans know this.”
LifeSiteNews co-founder Steve Jalsevac commented that:
This explosive report reveals that Trump is making dramatic moves to honour his promise to end the useless, costly wars that the United States has become involved in – in this case, the massively U.S.-assisted genocidal war by Israel against Palestinians. Trump has been stating one thing in public and doing the exact opposite behind the scenes, which appears to indicate he is well aware of the near total international condemnation of Israel’s extremely disruptive actions in the Middle East.
Donald vis-à-vis Bibi
What to make of all these dizzying mixed messages and the sudden, albeit instantly redundant, "ceasefire"? If nothing else they at least happily underline the non-ideological nature of the Zionism that Trump unfortunately inherited from his father. Unlike his presidential predecessors he wants everyone to prosper. He therefore has no truck with anyone promoting war and death. Israel included. As a serial winner hailing from the ferocious high-stakes milieu of New York real estate he also dislikes "losers."
Therefore, on the one hand, the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children over the past 18 months will have moved his heart (even if he, like most world leaders, publicly skirts that colossal elephant in the room). For, fundamentally, Donald Trump is a compassionate soul; as anyone apprised of his unheralded private acts of charity and great generosity (to his employees and friends as well as to strangers) would acknowledge.
On the other hand, as a businessman forever focused on the bottom line, the almighty waste of billions of US dollars on Netanyahu's failure to achieve his war aims will have also vexed him greatly. So, in Trump's eyes, Bibi is a "loser." Even by the prime minister's own boastful standards. Last June, for example, in the U.S Congress where the Zionist Yes-men gave him fifty-seven standing
ovations(!), Mr Netanyahu effectively flouted his failure:
"The war in Gaza could end tomorrow if Hamas surrenders, disarms and returns all the hostages. But if they don't, Israel will fight until we destroy Hamas' military capabilities and its rule in Gaza and bring all our hostages home. That's what total victory means, and we will settle for nothing less."
As if speaking to Bibi's typically deceitful depiction of events, during a livestream panel discussion celebrating the initial historic ceasefire, Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada stated:
Trump and his people know that for the past year, Netanyahu is the one who has been sabotaging these deals. We said at the beginning of this genocide that it could be stopped with one phone call from the President of the United States.
We noted in our August/September 2024 editorial that, seeking to placate his radical Zionist coalition members with nothing less than a bloody military settlement, Netanyahu did indeed refuse to negotiate the release of Israeli captives offered by Hamas at the outset, leading to the deaths of many of them. In this regard, Abunimah also recalled apropos the hostages [his emphases]:
[Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar said that [certain of] these people could go back on October 8th [2023]. If Israel wanted, they could've taken all of these humanitarian people, in the humanitarian release, they could've taken them all back on October 8th. They could've done that, and they didn't. They could've taken them all in November if they would've extended the November pause for a week, and allowed [Hamas co-founder] Hassan [Yousef] to find those people. They didn't do that. And as a result, many died, many were killed by the Israelis.
This is not to diminish in the slightest the brutality and barbarism of Hamas in countering the Zionists. It simply underlines the serial mendacity and cruelty of the self-righteous Bibi and his comrades; forever crying poor even as they ethnically cleanse Gaza unto genocide, while even sacrificing their own people (like Hamas) when it suits them to unleash their "Hannibal Directive."
Modus operandi
When all is said and done, the moral of the story is: don't second-guess Trump in 'deal-making mode.' In other words, ignore breathlessly biased press headlines, especially during horrendously complicated deals like those required to hose down the hot wars ignited by his predecessors on behalf of the Military Industrial Complex. To anticipate his moves is a fool's errand because Trump routinely disorients and alarms stakeholders and onlookers alike with provocative actions, talk and posturing, all geared to unsettling negotiating partners. It certainly seems to have undone Mr. Netanyahu, who, despite breaking the Gaza ceasefire to continue the slaughter, has lost much of his Zionist swagger.
"For years, people have been saying that Netanyahu is the sum of all his fears; it turns out that Trump scares him even more, perhaps justifiably so," writes renowned Haaretz journalist Gideon Levi.
A self-described "patriotic Israeli" who calls the construction of settlements on private Palestinian land "the most criminal enterprise in [Israel's] history," Levi also expresses shame over the plight of Palestinians in Gaza under Israeli blockade, and supports unilateral withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories without concessions. His equally objective personal evaluation of the American President is therefore worthy of note.
"Trump," he observes, "is not an admirer of Israel or Netanyahu. He acts out of a tangled web of interests, focusing on positioning the U.S. within the rapidly changing global strategic picture, as well as looking after his personal status and prestige."
Fair enough. In the end, however, when all the controlled confusion and chaos is said and done, the Trump modus operandi usually works a treat: not just for Trump but all concerned parties.
It can, however, backfire spectacularly, as with Canada.
A huge miscalculation among so many successes in the first 100 days of his second presidency, his imposition of tariffs and fantasising aloud about Canada as the 51st state has not only triggered TDS-afflicted Canadians with dark visions of an American military invasion, but also played into the hands of the elites; gifting Agenda 2030 Green-scamster Mark Carney, the latest unelected globalist placeman, all the public sympathy previously directed to the conservative Pierre Poilevre.
Should Poilevre lose the late-April snap election shrewdly called by Carney on the basis of this sea change in public opinion, he and his partners in crime (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, BlackRock, China, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Big Pharma, International Bank of Settlements, Schwab, et. al.) will surely seal Canada's slavish fate; already pushed to the precipice by globalist puppet Trudeau. In which case they may rightly deride Trump for scoring one of the greatest own goals in political history.
Zionist-Deranged Administration
Unfortunately, in the same foot-shooting fashion, while reading the riot act to Israel Trump has handed the Trump-deranged media his Zionist-deranged Administration — personified by Secretary of State Marco Rubio — on a platter.
A pro-life Catholic (in the flawed JD Vance pro-abortion pill mould), throughout Ash Wednesday Rubio sported a large ashen cross on his forehead for the world to see. Yet he betrays this brave and admirable witness by doubling as a zealous, oxymoronic Christian Zionist!
Forever genuflecting to Israeli ringmasters, after bombing Yemen Rubio declared: "We will hold the Houthis accountable to protect our people"; a self-identification at once absurd and truly repulsive given the war crimes still in full swing under Mr. Netanyahu — who, to repeat once more, does not speak for vast numbers of Jews. These disassociate themselves totally from Bibi and his fascistic cult, having escaped the matrix of coercion and brainwashing that keeps the Jewish diaspora in a debilitating state of fear and victimhood (see "Zionism Unleashed", June/July & Aug-Sept 2024). Free at last, Jewish 'escapees' never refer to Zionists as "our people" in the manner of sorely misled and servile Christians.
Before the divided loyalty personified by Rubio, which aims to Make Israel Great Again no matter the cost in Palestinian blood and American treasure, the usual troubling questions arise:
What 'goods' might the Israel Lobby have on Rubio and his like-minded brethren (Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth et. al.)? After all, Rubio's nomination for Secretary of State received a tell-all 99-0 confirmation vote by a U.S. Senate tightly controlled by venal and venereal Zionist means.
Or, if not bribery and blackmail, what material support by way of campaign funds (à la Trump) or other in-kind incentives does the Lobby offer each of them for marching in Zionist lockstep and parroting indefensible talking points? Scripted and laser-focussed on the crimes of Hamas, their choreographed lines take a wide berth around far greater Israeli crimes, while falsely conflating the global Islamic strife we all deplore with Palestine's unique and fearful predicament — the Zionist cause and effect of which long suffering is ever notable by its absence from the script.
And finally: how many more Palestinian women and children must be added to the tens of thousands already blown to smithereens or buried alive by Israeli bombs, before the scales fall from the eyes of 'Christian Zionists' and they summon the courage to break free from the web of lies endlessly spun by their Israeli handlers?
One yearns for that glorious day: when, like so many Jews, the U.S. political class and their Western counterparts finally awaken to the stench of death and endless mounds of rubble that now define Gaza, and recognise the cost of their all too eager instrumentalisation. As well as the crushing realisation of their complicity in genocide, they will also then experience a deep additional shame: namely, that all the time they were not funding allies at all, but ideologues; souless creatures who know only how to take, subvert, corrupt and kill (to include their mass murder of the USS Liberty crew in 1967), and never to give in return.
"What has Israel ever done for America? Nothing," states former CIA officer and Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, Phil Giraldi. "It's taken a lot of our money, and spent it. It's used a lot of our weapons to kill Muslims. Apart from that I can't think of too much that Israel has ever done for us."
Until Presidents, Senators and Congressmen also voice this manifest truth on behalf of taxpayers, and shut off Israel's multi-billion dollar U.S. spigot accordingly, White House Administrations left and right will continue funding cataclysmic Zionist wars and proxy wars — a perverse and futile strategy for peace if ever there was.
The peace of believers
As for Christ's war, which concluded with the eternal Victory of his Cross and Resurrection, Eusebius of Caesaria, a bishop, theologian and historian who straddled the third and fourth centuries, treats it as neatly as anyone:
Jesus came “to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace by the blood of his cross” (Col 1:20). But if this is true, how are we to understand what the Saviour himself says in the Gospel: “Do not think I have come to bring peace upon the earth”? (…) Can peace not gain peace? (…)
When he sent his Son, God’s plan was to save us. And the mission he was to fulfil was to establish peace in heaven and on earth. So why is there no peace? It is because of the weakness of those who have not been able to receive the brightness of the true light (cf. Jn 1:9-10). Christ proclaims peace; this is what the apostle Paul also says: “He himself is our peace” (Eph 2:14). But he refers only to the peace of those who believe and receive it.
A certain daughter has believed but her father has remained unbelieving (…): “What has a believer in common with an unbeliever?” (2 Cor 6:15). A son becomes a believer, the father remains doubtful (…): where peace is proclaimed, division enters in (…): “I proclaim peace, yes, but the earth does not receive it.” This was not the intention of the sower who awaited the fruit of the earth.