The Disturbing Numbers Behind America’s Growing Shift Away From Israel

 Nothing ever changes.  Humans just continue to repeat the same patterns.  The grandparents witnessed something and they know it to be true.  They told their kids about it with such sincerity that even though the kids didn’t see it with their own eyes they mostly believe it.  But for the grandkids who come along 50-60-70 years later…”was it really all that bad?  Did it really even happen?  Maybe the bad guys were actually to good guys?”

When General Eisenhower showed up at the concentration camps in Europe and saw the atrocities with his own eyes, he famously said, "Get it all on record now—get the films, get the witnesses—because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say this never happened".

And that’s where we are.  The 20-30 yr olds are watching tik tok to get their news and they see some sharp talking guy on a podcast say, “the Jews are actually the problem!  Look at all the money and power they have!  Maybe Hitler was actually the good guy who God sent to try and rid us of this “synagogue of Satan”?  And they start to believe it!

But most disheartening is that even the Evangelical church is falling away from their belief that God has orchestrated the rebirth of Israel so they can fulfill everything written.

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Polls showing overall disapproval of Israel are nothing new, but the latest AP-NORC survey is different. It paints an even more alarming picture of where Americans now stand on Israel.  

Perhaps the most striking finding is this: 31% of Americans now believe Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Only 20% reject that accusation, while an astonishing 49% say they don't know enough to have an opinion. That means only one in five Americans is willing to definitively say Israel has not committed genocide. 

Think about that. Just a few years ago, accusations of genocide against Israel were largely confined to activist circles. Today, the charge has entered mainstream American opinion.

Even among Jewish Americans, opinion has become fractured. The survey finds 30% of Jewish respondents believe Israel has committed genocide, compared to 49% who reject the charge and 21% who remain unsure. That’s an extraordinary shift in the conversation.

The poll also shows Americans increasingly believe the United States favors Israel too much. Today, 40% of Americans say America is too supportive of Israel, while only 18% believe the U.S. is not supportive enough. Another 37% say current support is about right. 

Compare that with just a few years ago. In August 2023 – before Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre – only 27% thought America was too supportive of Israel. Today it’s 40%. That’s a 13-point increase in less than three years.  

At the same time, sympathy toward the Palestinians has grown. Nearly four in ten Americans (39%) now say the United States is not supportive enough of Palestinians, while only 18% believe America is too supportive of them. 

That represents another significant shift from 2023, when only 30% believed America wasn’t supportive enough of Palestinians.

Here’s the reality and it’s not good news for Israel: public opinion isn’t simply becoming more balanced. It is moving.

Another troubling statistic involves Israel’s military campaign itself. Only 22% of Americans say Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza are justified. Meanwhile, 35% say they are not justified, and an enormous 43% say they don’t know enough to say. 

Contrast that with Israel’s initial response immediately after Oct. 7. There, 43% said Israel’s immediate military response was justified, while only 16% disagreed.  

Even support for a Palestinian state has nudged upward. Today, 24% favor establishing an independent Palestinian state including the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. Only 16% oppose such a state, while a majority – 58% – remain somewhere in the middle, neither supporting nor opposing the idea.  

Another revealing finding involves what Americans consider important. Only 35% describe Israel as an extremely or very important issue personally. Meanwhile, 38% say it is only somewhat important, and 26% say it is not very important or not important at all.  

That means Israel simply isn’t a defining issue for most Americans. For Israel’s supporters, that’s perhaps the most dangerous statistic of all.

My biggest takeaway, however, lies inside Christianity. For decades, one of Israel’s greatest political assets in America hasn’t been a president or a political party. It has been evangelical Christians.

Historically, evangelical Christians have been Israel’s strongest and most reliable supporters. That support has been rooted less in politics than in biblical conviction – beliefs about God’s covenant with Israel, biblical prophecy, and the Jewish roots of Christianity.

While support for Israel has steadily eroded among Democrats, younger Americans, and religiously unaffiliated voters, evangelical Christians largely held the line. 

However, new polling suggests the broader cultural tide is becoming so powerful that even the evangelical movement may not be immune much longer. Younger evangelicals are growing up in an entirely different information environment.

They consume news through TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and influencers far more than through churches, Christian television, or traditional ministries. Their worldview is increasingly shaped by images of humanitarian suffering rather than decades of teaching about Israel’s biblical significance or security challenges. 

This poll doesn’t specifically break out younger evangelicals, but it documents a broader cultural movement that inevitably places pressure on every institution – including churches. 

That’s why this moment feels different.

Israel has survived military invasions, terrorist campaigns, and diplomatic crises before but the larger battle today may not be fought primarily in Jerusalem. It may be fought inside American churches. That should concern every single Evangelical Christian in America.

https://allisraelnews.com/the-disturbing-numbers-behind-americas-growing-shift-away-from-israel

U.S. Must Prepare for War With Russia

 Jesus said there will be wars and rumors of war as His return nears.  Here’s an article talking about how USA must prepare for a war with Russia.  

Their war with Ukraine has lingered on and on.  Russia wants a big chunk of Eastern Ukraine and they already possess most of it.  So Ukraine is fighting for its border…because borders matter to countries.

Remember when all the US Liberals virtue signaled by posting Ukrainian flags to their social media and declaring “I stand with Ukraine”?  Those same Liberals don’t want America to defend its border and instead believe illegals should be allowed to walk across our borders, the millions who overstay their visas should NOT be arrested and sent back and their should be nothing done about the millions of women, over the past decade, who book flights to America when they’re 9 months pregnant and deliver their baby on US soil so they can have an “anchor baby”.

Today is America’s 250th birthday and we are so blessed that we got to grow up, have kids, buy houses and live in the greatest nation that God brought forth in 6000 years of human history.  So we celebrate but we also mourn that now the majority of Americans don’t believe God had anything to do with it.  In fact they actually hate the country and believe it should be torn down…and many of them will soon come to power in the next elections.  Lord have mercy.

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While news reports have focused on the Middle East for most of 2026, the war in Ukraine has intensified and its potential for continental spillover increased. Also, there is evidence suggesting the globalists are fomenting escalation. Writers for the Council on Foreign Relations say that America should prepare to join Central and Western Europe in an eventual war against Russia. A Russian spokesperson recently appeared on a popular American podcast saying that, at this rate, the conflict is indeed heading toward another world war.

State-controlled Russian media reported on Friday that a Ukrainian drone attack killed five Russian civilians and injured another 18. These are the latest casualties resulting from weeks of intense strike exchanges between the Russians and Ukrainians. The day before, Russia hit Ukraine’s capital, reportedly killing 27 and injuring dozens of other civilians.

Ukraine has, by all accounts, ratcheted up the pressure on Russia with effective attacks inside the Motherland that have disrupted energy flow, flights, and civilian life in general. The point of the attacks, Ukraine’s leaders have said, is to bring the consequences of the war to the Russian people with the larger goal of making Russia more amenable during negotiations.

For their part, the Russians have grown visibly frustrated. On Monday, the “merchant of death,” arms dealer Viktor Bout, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show in what appears to be a proxy plea by the Russians to U.S. leaders to halt all lingering American support for Ukraine and let this war reach its natural conclusion. That conclusion, in Russia’s view, is Ukraine giving up and agreeing to a deal that officially cedes Eastern Ukraine (most of which the Russians now occupy), and one in which Ukraine agrees not to seek NATO membership or allow foreign armies within its borders.

Russia Still a Threat

The globalists writing in Foreign Affairs, the flagship magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations, appear to be pre-programming Western society with the idea that a U.S. war against Russia is inevitable and necessary. One of the articles in the July/August issue is titled “The Next Russia Threat.” The author is Michael Kofman, a Carnegie Endowment senior fellow. He has also been affiliated with the Center for Naval Analyses, an intelligence arm of the U.S. Department of the Navy; and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, which is administered by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research — a member of the U.S. intelligence community.

Kofman says that even if Russia can’t defeat Ukraine, it “will remain the primary threat in Europe for years to come.” He says this while acknowledging the analysis of sensible people. “There is a sense that Russia’s losses of troops and equipment have left its forces in tatters and that a military incapable of making significant advances in Ukraine can’t possibly threaten Europe,” he writes. (This, by the way, is also the assessment of Washington, that Russia is simply not powerful enough to pose a legitimate threat to the rest of Europe.)

Sooner Rather Than Later

But not so fast. “Current trends suggest that Russia will reconstitute its military enough to pose a major threat faster than analysts expected back in 2022,” says Kofman. So America and Europe should start getting ready for a war with Russia. “As the United States and many European states focus on ensuring Ukraine’s success, they must also think beyond this war and begin preparing for the enduring challenge that Russia poses,” he writes. He emphasizes that America needs to be part of this war: “The enduring threat from Moscow is not one that Washington should readily dismiss or simply hand off to Europeans.”

Kofman even games out the opening days of this desired war. Russia “will retain a traditional focus on firepower, including artillery and precision-strike capabilities, while adding a large number of drone formations to the force,” he writes. “NATO forces remain superior overall but have yet to adapt to some of these changes, which could lead to higher losses in the opening days of a future war with Russia.”

Kofman’s basis for saying Russia will pose a threat to Europe sooner rather than later essentially comes down to what the Kremlin is doing to bolster its military capabilities. “Although they have suffered massive losses, Russia’s armed forces have expanded over the course of the war, and the country’s production of key munitions and weapons systems has increased,” he says. “The future Russian military will have more infantry — reversing prior cuts — and more drone formations to provide fire support or conduct precision strikes.”

The Russians have made no secret of their military buildup. But they claim it’s to prepare for a war that Europe wants, not the Russians.

https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/us-must-prepare-for-war-with-russia-says-intel-linked-globalist/

Scientists Claim They Engineered New Life Form

 Why is all this crazy stuff that provokes God seem to be happening in Minnesota?

Last week the Mayor of Minneapolis signed a new law allowing gay bath houses to operate in the city which would allow gay and queer men to show up and have sex with strangers with the blessing of city officials.

Today we read troubling news that some scientists at the University of Minnesota have made a life form that grows, eats and reproduces.

Scientists claim that for the first time in history, they have constructed a synthetic cell that feeds, grows, and replicates — just like a natural one — out of non-living chemical components.

The team from the University of Minnesota says their “SpudCell” is the “first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle,” and can “grow, replicate its genome, divide, and undergo selection and competition across multiple generations.”

The research, which is being hailed as a major breakthrough, could usher in a new biotech era defined by synthetic organisms that can be grown from scratch and programmed to complete specific functions. It’s a futuristic approach that could open many doors for our efforts to solve a wide variety of human problems, from fighting cancer to capturing carbon.

It could also challenge our preconceived notions of what’s considered “life,” while exploring the essential functions of a living cell.

“We’ve replicated in chemistry what only used to be possible in biology: the complete set of behaviors of a cell,” said team lead and University of Minnesota synthetic biologist Kate Adamala in a statement about the work. “It proves that the most fundamental functions of life, like growth and replication, do not need a mysterious magical spark.”

Yet the research is still in its infancy. SpudCell is still primitive, most closely resembling a bacterium. But since it’s built from scratch, the team says it has some key advantages over natural cells.

“I know the full ingredient list of the cell, I know exactly what chemicals, what molecules at what concentrations,” Adamala told CNN. “It is fully defined, which means we can engineer it.”

“We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology,” she added.

Here;  Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce

We don't need God or some "mysterious magical spark" to create life!  We can engineer life in any form we want!  We are masters of the universe!

This news certainly falls into the file of "as it was in the days of Noah".  When is Jesus coming for us so that the burning hail can fall after we are gone?

It’s Time! More Calls to Build the Temple

 A red heifer born last month in the hills of the Galilee, sired by imported American semen and born to a black-coated mother, has reignited a coordinated national campaign among Israeli rabbis, breeders, and educators to restore the lost laws of ritual purity to the Jewish people. The campaign arrives at a moment when public appetite for Temple-related preparation appears to be surging: a recent survey found 55 percent of Israeli Jews now support rebuilding the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount, and a report published this week put the number of men enrolled in Temple service training at 150,000, out of a planned 200,000. “This is not a private event or private issue,” declared Yehuda Ben Tzvi, head of programming at the Mikdash Educational Center, in an interview with Joseph Good of Hatikva Ministries. The calf, he announced, is only one piece of a six-point national strategy the organization has spent the past year building, one Ben Tzvi insists must become “a national historical event” rather than the work of a small circle of activists. 

https://israel365news.com/419246/its-time-red-heifer-organization-calls-for-national-temple-movement/

“Humanity has Chosen to Become Idiots”

 As many of you know I’ve worked with high school-age drug addicts for the last decade and had a chance to sit in public school with them.  Minnesota provides a school district, public teachers and the computers and materials to run a high school on our closed campus for the 25 kids in our treatment program.

I’ve personally witnessed how our “passing grade” high school kids of today are about as smart as a 3rd grader of 50 years ago.  They can’t write, they can’t use their heads to do simple math, they cut and paste test questions into another browser on their computer and let AI give them the answer to their multiple choice exam.  They don’t know about 9/11, they don’t know who America got it’s independence from, one asked me what 12+6 was because he forgot his calculator, they’ve been fed a whole boat load of woke ideology like “stolen land”, America is racist, capitalism is bad, etc…

Our forefathers understood that our republic would only work to govern an educated, moral and God-fearing populace.  We are now none of these things.  

And now these cheating, uneducated high school grads go on to college and cheat their way through to get a diploma.  When they get busted they just drop the class.  Read below what happened at Brown University, one of the most elite colleges in America…if it’s happening there just imagine what’s happening at all the lesser colleges around the country.

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Of the 86 students who took the March 5 exam, 40 scored a perfect 100. The class average was 96 whereas in previous years, the average had ranged between 65 and 80—and this exam, by design, was harder than usual. “The beauty of take-home exams used to be that we professors were able to challenge students a little more, just to push them to a higher level,” Serrano said. “The fact that this was a harder exam and this distribution made it absolutely clear that something very unusual had happened.”

Serrano got tipped off by something that was just too smart, he said. “Some answers contained unusual passages that coincided with results obtained after running the questions through ChatGPT,” Serrano said. His graders ran the exam questions through ChatGPT and made a telling discovery: the AI had generated a convoluted argument for a problem that has a much simpler, more elegant proof, and that same convoluted reasoning appeared across dozens of student exams. “This distribution made it clear that something seriously wrong had happened,” he said, calling it “absolutely ridiculous.”

But Seranno said he decided to give his students the benefit of the doubt: He wasn’t going to void the midterm, but told them the final exam would be in person. If the grade distribution didn’t roughly mirror the midterm’s, only the final would count.

When Serrano returned to class after grading, he told his students exactly what he’d found. “If you did this, if you just press a button to ask an AI agent to do this for you, you’re showing to be completely irrelevant. So my question to you is, why are you here? Why are you at a university if you refuse to learn, you refuse to work hard, if you refuse to put in the necessary effort to develop critical thinking?”

“If all you’re doing is just pressing a button to do to have this machine do the work for you, then you think you need a Brown degree for that?”

When asked about the initial reaction from his students, Serrano answered with just one word: “silence.” He suspected the cheaters weren’t even there: “I think most of the cheaters were not in class, frankly.” He closed class that day by reminding the students of the honor code. “You all signed this, right? Sadly, that’s the value of your signature.”

Following his speech, 27 students dropped the course; 22 of those had scored 100 on the take-home.

When the final came around, only 59 showed up for the in-person exam and 19 failed. The class average collapsed to 48 out of 100: by far the lowest final exam average in the course’s history. “The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming,” Serrano said. “When you put together all this information and the distributions of the two exams, it’s absolutely clear.”

After assembling his evidence, Serrano sent it to Brown’s dean of the college and provost. Neither responded initially. After he escalated the case to the university’s Academic Code Committee, he received a note calling the incident “a wake-up call.” The provost, he said, has maintained complete silence to this day.

https://fortune.com/2026/06/29/roberto-serrano-brown-university-massacre-ai-cheating/

Iranian Regime Willing to Say Anything to Survive Trump’s 2nd Term

• We all know that the Iranian Shiite death cult who screams “death to America” at every opportunity, did NOT change their tune one single note.  They are just waiting a few years until Trump is gone and then will run all over the next President 

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  The Iranian regime's strategy is clear: survive the pressure of President Donald J. Trump's second term by any means necessary, secure breathing room through negotiations, and position itself for a far more aggressive posture once his administration is over.

• Iranian Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf -- Tehran's "new rational mind" -- who had just electronically signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Vance, immediately went on television and called for the "liberation of Jerusalem (Quds)."

• Iran's officials are not bound by election cycles; their singular mission is regime preservation to bring "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."

• Even if Iran's new rulers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) temporarily say they will comply with everything in the agreement, they would view any restriction as temporary – and then wait for Trump to leave office.

• Money has already started to flow again before even a single Iranian concession, especially the fake minuet of IAEA inspectors. Iran, in exchange for receiving billions of dollars, gave up precisely nothing – and the hapless US negotiators evidently agreed to that.

• Post-Trump, Iran could impose tolls, "fees," and "protection payments" on ships transiting the Strait, harass shipping, and assert control over this critical chokepoint if no one has the will to stop them -- which is what Iran is probably counting on.

• Why does virtually every commentator keep repeating that the Iranian people must change their regime? If even the mighty United States backs down from the task, why should anyone expect unarmed civilian protesters to do it for them? The regime mowed down more than 40,000 of its own citizens in January alone. That is precisely why the regime must be changed – the sooner the better. So long as the current regime remains in place, especially after being thoroughly enriched, there will be no peace in the Middle East.

• Iran's regime, to secure the economic lifeline it needs, will probably say it agrees to any terms to outlast Trump. At the end of Trump's term, Iran's regime will be poised to reassert dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, extort regional neighbors, crush opposition at home and abroad, and race once again toward nuclear weapons breakout.

• Who then will be willing to take it on?

 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22655/iran-deal-what-happens-after-trump

Worst Heat Wave EVER Hits Europe

Remember!  If it’s the hottest EVER recorded it is humans who caused it.  If it’s the coldest EVER recorded then science will say humans caused it.  Same goes for wettest ever and driest ever.

Bible readers know it’s more evidence of birth pangs and goes along with the huge earthquakes that rattled 5he planet the past few days.  I’m sure scientists would love to pin earthquakes on human activity but so far they haven’t figured out how to do that.

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Scientists have said the heatwave, which began on June 20, was the worst recorded in Europe, and ​the blistering conditions have disrupted power generation, damaged infrastructure and overwhelmed healthcare systems.

The heatwave would have been "virtually ⁠impossible" without human-caused climate change, which has made this week's soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have ​been just two decades ago, according to scientists.

SWELTERING HEAT

Temperatures were forecast to near or top 40 C (104 F) in Germany, Poland ​and Italy, while storms broke out in parts of France, causing further disruption to travel and power supplies.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/france-records-1000-excess-deaths-during-record-breaking-heatwave-2026-06-28/

If We Forget Our Story, We Lose Our Identity

A nation divided against itself will not stand.  Press 2 for Spanish, Muslims want Shariah law to over ride the constitution, most Democrats disagree with the fact that USA was founded by Christians, worship of Jesus is plummeting…how long can this go on?

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 More than two decades ago, in 2004, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington warned in his book "Who Are We?" that America was facing a crisis of identity. He argued that a nation cannot remain united without a common culture, a common history, and a common understanding of itself. Remove those foundations, and a society inevitably fragments into competing tribes, interests, and identities.

Huntington pointed to the Anglo-Protestant Creed as the core of America's unifying identity. He argued that America's political institutions and civic ideals did not arise in a vacuum but were rooted in a culture shaped by Protestant  Christianity. 

If Huntington identified the foundation of America's shared identity, educator E.D. Hirsch explained how that identity was transmitted: through a common biblical literacy that provided Americans with a shared vocabulary, history, and moral framework. Without that shared knowledge, the cultural foundations of national identity inevitably begin to erode.

The Founding Fathers were immersed in biblical imagery. Benjamin Franklin famously proposed a national seal depicting Moses at the Red Sea. The Israelites' exodus taught lessons about liberty, tyranny, divine providence, and national purpose.

The Bible shaped how Americans understood freedom, law, covenant, human dignity, and self-government. Even those who were not orthodox 

But what happens when that biblical literacy disappears?

A nation that forgets its story loses its identity. And when a people lose their identity, they become fragmented. That is precisely what Huntington warned about. Americans increasingly identify themselves by race, class, political ideology, or special interest rather than by a common national story.

The consequences of this loss of historical memory extend beyond America's understanding of itself. They also affect America's understanding of one of the most important sources of its cultural inheritance: the Jewish people and the biblical story of Israel.

America's affinity for the Jewish people did not begin with the modern State of Israel. For generations, Americans viewed Jewish history through the lens of Scripture and found in Israel's story lessons about liberty, covenant, and national purpose.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=10134

Massive Earthquakes Hit Venezuela

There will be earthquakes in various places…

Venezuela was hit by 2 yesterday that collapsed buildings resulting in possibly thousands dead.

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 Our planet is starting to shake like crazy, and a lot of people out there are really beginning to freak out. On Wednesday alone, California was hit by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake, Japan was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, and Venezuela was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake and a magnitude 7.5 earthquake. The second quake was the most powerful quake that Venezuela has experienced in more than a century. Dozens of aftershocks have already been recorded, and there is no way to count the number of structures that have collapsed. So much damage has been done that the situation on the ground is being compared to a “horror movie”, and it is being reported that tens of thousands of people are potentially missing…

Over 188 people have been reported dead and as many as 41,000 are missing following the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday, according to government and USGS counts.

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the south American country around 160 km (100 miles) west of Caracas, and less than a minute one with a magnitude of 7.5 followed, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), which estimated total deaths to be in the thousands.

Hundreds of people in Venezuela were trapped under rubble and many more still unaccounted for on Thursday after two powerful earthquakes wreaked havoc in and around the capital Caracas, setting off powerful aftershocks and leaving thousands homeless.

The official death toll will inevitably go much higher as more dead bodies are pulled out of the rubble.

https://endoftheamericandream.com/the-enormous-earthquakes-that-we-are-experiencing-now-are-nothing-compared-to-what-is-in-our-future/#google_vignette

Jewish Rabbinical Court Says, “America is Making Huge Mistake”

 Here is more evidence that some of Trump’s biggest supporters are wondering what the heck he was thinking when he negotiated this peace deal with Iran.  The Sanhedrin are saying that America is making one of the biggest miscalculations in its history.

We probably don’t need to remind you that Trump said that Israel wouldn’t exist without him…words that could put him, and America, in a direct confrontation with God.

Keep praying.  We are in a spiritual battle and it’s currently raging.

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On 7 Tammuz 5786, June 23, 2026, the nascent Sanhedrin, the Jewish court reconstituted in Israel after a 1,600-year absence, issued a formal ruling addressed to the American people, warning that the US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed in Switzerland is built on illusion and places the United States in existential danger. The court opened its declaration with the ancient Aramaic legal formula bemutav beit dina ke-ḥada havina — “we were convened together as a single court” — a phrase that signals the ruling carries the full weight of a properly constituted rabbinic tribunal. The message: America is making one of the greatest strategic miscalculations in its history.

President Trump and Iran declared they had reached an initial agreement intended to end more than three months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The deal, signed in Switzerland, was described by Trump as complete: “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” The initial pact, a memorandum of understanding, starts with reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point for nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply. The deal on the table includes Iran’s commitment to halt enrichment and dismantle its nuclear sites, but the length of any pause remains a point of disagreement; the United States is reportedly pushing for twenty years while Iran reportedly will not go above ten. Iran’s state news agency made Iran’s position plain: it would negotiate on the nuclear issue solely within the framework of its “fundamental principles” and would not give up enrichment.

The Sanhedrin is unimpressed.

A Civilization Built on Imagination

The court’s statement opens with an unusual cultural analysis. Every civilization, it argues, has a single defining characteristic. The Greeks prized man; the Romans, power; the Germans, intellect; the Indians, spirituality; the French, sexuality. Americans, says the Sanhedrin, are defined by imagination — and it was imagination that gave the world Disneyland, Disney World, and Star Wars. The court does not mean this as a compliment. It means that the same faculty that generates great entertainment also drives American foreign policy, and that in the arena of geopolitics, fantasy kills.

The court then lays out its indictment of the Iranian regime, point by point. It notes that Iran has murdered more than 50,000 of its own citizens since the Islamic Revolution, executed at least 1,639 people in 2025 alone, a 68 percent increase over 2024, with an average of roughly four hangings per day, including 48 women. UN experts described the pace as “industrial scale” that “defies all accepted standards of human rights protection.” The regime has invested hundreds of billions in ballistic missiles and a nuclear program, and as of May 2025 possessed over 400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent purity. It has poured hundreds of billions more into proxy forces — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis — specifically to export terror. At every mass assembly its leadership chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

https://israel365news.com/419094/sanhedrin-to-america-the-iran-deal-is-a-fantasy-and-it-will-cost-you-everything/

What Happens When Bible Literacy Disappears From America?

 Clearly, America was founded by God fearing, followers of Christ, and the world has benefited greatly by God blessing this nation.  Bible reading was included in most public schools and 125 out of the first 130 colleges in America were founded on Christian principles.

But what happens when few know their Bibles?  What happens when we don’t have a shared world view or even a shared language?

Sadly, America is about to find out.  We believe the rapture of the church will be the final downfall of America and will explain why Israel is “all alone” at the end and God fights for her.

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More than two decades ago, in 2004, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington warned in his book “Who Are We?” that America was facing a crisis of identity. He argued that a nation cannot remain united without a common culture, a common history, and a common understanding of itself. Remove those foundations, and a society inevitably fragments into competing tribes, interests, and identities.

Huntington pointed to the Anglo-Protestant Creed as the core of America’s unifying identity. He argued that America’s political institutions and civic ideals did not arise in a vacuum but were rooted in a culture shaped by Protestant Christianity. If Huntington identified the foundation of America’s shared identity, educator E.D. Hirsch explained how that identity was transmitted: through a common biblical literacy that provided Americans with a shared vocabulary, history, and moral framework. Without that shared knowledge, the cultural foundations of national identity inevitably begin to erode.

The Founding Fathers were immersed in biblical imagery. Benjamin Franklin famously proposed a national seal depicting Moses at the Red Sea. The Israelites’ exodus taught lessons about liberty, tyranny, divine providence, and national purpose.

The Bible shaped how Americans understood freedom, law, covenant, human dignity, and self-government. Even those who were not orthodox Christians were influenced by the biblical worldview that permeated colonial America.

But what happens when that biblical literacy disappears?

A nation that forgets its story loses its identity. And when a people lose their identity, they become fragmented. That is precisely what Huntington warned about. Americans increasingly identify themselves by race, class, political ideology, or special interest rather than by a common national story.

The consequences of this loss of historical memory extend beyond America’s understanding of itself. They also affect America’s understanding of one of the most important sources of its cultural inheritance: the Jewish people and the biblical story of Israel.

America’s affinity for the Jewish people did not begin with the modern State of Israel. For generations, Americans viewed Jewish history through the lens of Scripture and found in Israel’s story lessons about liberty, covenant, and national purpose.

As biblical literacy declines, Israel is increasingly viewed only through a contemporary political lens, ignoring its biblical and historical foundations. Meanwhile, anti-Semitism has risen across America and the West. Certainly, anti-Semitism has many causes. Yet it is difficult to ignore the connection between a society that no longer understands the Bible and one that increasingly misunderstands the Jewish people whose history fills its pages.

The rise of anti-Semitism and the weakening of support for Israel did not occur overnight. The ground was prepared over decades as biblical literacy declined, historical memory faded, and Americans became disconnected from the sources that once helped them understand both their own identity and the identity of the Jewish people.

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, we have an opportunity not merely to commemorate our history but to recover it. We can rediscover the biblical foundations that shaped our nation and strengthen the shared identity Huntington warned was slipping away.

The Bible is not merely a religious text but one of the foundational documents of American civilization. To understand America, one must understand the Bible. And when that understanding is lost, we lose not only part of our history but part of our identity.

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