Isa 6:9-12 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.
Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation, and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
NewsLetter 5860-011 The 1st Year of the 5th Sabbatical Cycle The 29th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle The 18th day of the 3rd month 5860 years after the creation of Adam The 5th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle The Sabbatical Cycle of the Red Heifer, Famine, Captivity & The 2 Witnesses
April 27, 2024
Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah, this is going to be a difficult newsletter to put together and for you to read. But in case some of you have not yet noticed world events, I am going to share a few things with you.
Never Again!
Never again is happening again. You and I are witnessing it in real-time, day by day. I have wondered why the Jews before 1933 never fled Germany. Now I know.
This is not the newsletter to skip over and not read. In it I will show you how to read our article on the Mark of the Beast and the Bismallah. Once you understand these things and then see the nightly news, you will know how close we are to the end and just how terrifying it is going to be. Share this newsletter with your pastors and family and all those you care about. It is way past time to return to Yehovah.
I do hope you are following those things I am posting on telegram. @sightedmoonchannel There is a lot going on and I am not able to share it all in this newsletter.
Torah Portion
Torah Portions
We read through the entire Torah along with the Prophets and the New Testament, once over the course of 3 1/2 years. Or according to the Sabbatical Cycle which means we read it all twice over a 7-year period. This allows us to cover more in-depth rather than being rushed to cover as much as is covered on an annual basis. We allow all to comment and take part in the discussions.
Septennial Torah Portion
If you go to Torah Portion at our archived section, you can then go to the 7th year which is the 7th year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every News Letter. There you can scroll down to the proper date, and see that this Shabbat we could very well be midrashing about:
Genesis 11
Judges 1-2
Psalm 23-24
Matthew 14:22-15:39
We are in the 1st Sabbatical Cycle in 2024-2023. We go through the entire bible twice in a 7 year cycle. This means we cover the entire bible once every 3 1/2 years. It gives us more time to debate and discuss each portion we read.
If you missed last week’s exciting discoveries as we studied that section, you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.
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What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are Wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and I and you are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as Fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
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We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.
Sabbath services begin at 12:30 PM EDT where we will be doing prayers songs and teaching from this hour. Shavuot on Sunday April 20, 2024, we will be meeting at 10 AM Eastern and then again at 1 PM Eastern.
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Wheat Harvest & Wave Sheaf Day April 28, 2024
Wheat Harvest & Wave Sheaf Day April 28, 2024
This picture was posted on April 23, 2024, from the Gaza Strip and shows the straw bales being harvested across Israel, which are now in full swing.
I share this because many of the Kariates and those following them are this Sunday, April 28, 2024, going to keep Wave Sheaf Day, when they are to bring sheaves of barley to the Temple to wave them. The only trouble today is that the barley reseeded itself over a month ago, if not two. Any barley found today is most assuredly not the “FRIST FRUITS.” The wheat has been in the process of being harvested now for a few weeks, as we have shown you by the many pictures we posted in the past newsletters.
Sunday, April 28, 2024, is the day when the Barley, which is to be the first fruit, is to be harvested, according to the timing both Devorah and Yoel reported. The trouble is the barley has already reseeded itself last month and they are already harvesting a large part of the wheat harvest.
Is anybody watching? Does anyone care? Do you think the timing might be off a bit?
There was a reason Yehovah allowed the Holocaust. In the covenant at Mount Sinai, Yehovah promised to protect Israel if they obeyed Him. If they did not obey Him then they would perish.
We are today in 2024, in the exact same situation the Jews were in leading up to 1938. Yet, no one is repenting. No one is asking where Yehovah is and why He allows these things to continue. Where is Yehovah when women are raped just because they are Jewish? Where was Yehovah on October 7, 2023?
When you break the terms of the covenant and do not keep His Feasts at the appropriate times, Yehovah is not obligated to protect you. On the contrary, He is permitted to kill you by the words of the covenant. It is way past the time when we should read our covenant with Yehovah. Even so, there is still time to repent and renew that covenant. It begins by you reading it and then obeying it.
The United States, France, Germany, Russia and Argentina, who had dual nationals taken hostage, did not try to bomb Hamas infrastructure and places where Hamas hid. Instead, they let Israel do it and then accused Israel of destroying the Gaza Strip.
Rather than putting any pressure on Qatar and demonstrating in front of Qatari-owned hotels in France, the United States and elsewhere in Europe, the families of the hostages have been putting pressure on the Israeli government, thereby doing exactly what Hamas would presumably like them to do. They are “working” for Hamas — and against their own interests — in the hope of seeing more hostages released. By their actions the value of the hostages only increases.
The demonstrators are doing what Hamas cannot do by itself: they are dividing Israel so that the unity government loses its strength in the negotiations, as well as any ability to bring the hostages home sooner — a triumph that was successfully accomplished by the IDF, left unfettered.
The hostages are not the Israeli government’s to deliver. They are unfortunately under the total the control of Hamas, Qatar and Iran –which is where the pressure should be applied, not on the government of Israel.
The only way a new Israeli government might negotiate the release of hostages would be by placing Israel’s entire population in incalculable danger. Any new Israeli leader hand-picked and pushed through by the current US administration would most likely be expected to agree to a terrorist Palestinian state next to Israel — meaning that the Israel would not be able to cross its border, if necessary, in “hot pursuit” of terrorists, and that the new state would soon be militarized, officially or not. Even if a new, sovereign Palestinian state were supposedly demilitarized, it would still be free to form alliances with any other entity it liked, including Iran, Al Qaeda or ISIS.
Qatar said it would invest in France 10 billion euros and in exchange France said it would be happy to try to save the terrorist group Hamas…. Everyone wins — except the hostages held by Hamas.
Without the US military base there, Qatar knows that it would be a rich, targetable oil-rig. America, “in exchange,” it seems, agreed to let Hamas continue its terrorist activities support the US quest for a Palestinian state. No remaining hostages were released; perhaps they were not even talked about.
Even though American citizens are among those still held hostage in Gaza, the US appears to have sided with the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups, and their terrorist-supporting patrons, Qatar and Iran.
Even though American citizens are among those still held hostage in Gaza, the US appears to have sided with the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups, and their terrorist-supporting patrons, Qatar and Iran. Pictured: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a citizen of the United States and Israel who is being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, appears, with his left hand amputated, in a Hamas propaganda video published on April 24, 2024.
This is not the first time that Muslims have launched attacks against non-Muslims and taken hostages.
We did not hear the President of the Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, nor Egypt and Jordan, Muslim states that entered into a peace agreement with Israel, condemn Hamas for having taking Israeli, American, Chinese, French, German, Russian, Filipino and Thai hostages.
They could not condemn it: taking captives is authorized by the Qur’an (9:5; 23:1-5; and 70: 30-35), so long as the captives are not Muslims. ISIS accordingly justified transforming Yazidi hostages into sex slaves.
Biden (USA), Cameron (GB), Macron (F), Scholz (D), Harris (IRL), Jakobsdóttir (IS), Sánchez (E), Meloni (IT), Golob (SLO), however, appeared surprised. They and their respective advisors were apparently not aware of that fact.
International customary law, however, forbids the taking of hostages. Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions prohibits the taking of hostages (Geneva Conventions, common Article 3, 1). It is also prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention and is considered a grave breach thereof (Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 34 and Article 147).
“It is generally acknowledged by the international community that the taking of hostages is one of the most vile and reprehensible of acts. This crime violates fundamental individual rights—the right to life, to liberty and to security—that are protected by binding legal instruments such as the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the worldwide level, and the 1969 American Convention on Human Rights and the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on the regional level. The United Nations General Assembly has stated that the taking of hostages is an act which places innocent human lives in danger and violates human dignity.”
The Rome Statute defines “enslavement” in its Article 7(2)(c) :
“Enslavement means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children.
Article 7(1)(c), Crimes against humanity, of the Rome Statute considers enslavement as a crime against humanity:
1. For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
It is not surprising, therefore, that several Muslim states (Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) are not parties to the Rome statute. Qatar voted against it.
The International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (1979) develops international cooperation between states in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention, prosecution and punishment of all acts of taking hostages as manifestations of international terrorism.
State parties of the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (1979), pursuant to its Article 6 – Paragraph 1 must:
“When an alleged offender is present [this includes accomplices] in the territory of a Party, and it is ‘satisfied that the circumstances so warrant’, in accordance with its law, take the person into custody, or take such other measures to enable any criminal or extradition proceedings to be instituted. The limited discretion is common to the conventions, but must be exercised reasonably and in good faith”.
Egypt has been a party to this Convention since October 2, 1981. Egypt did not arrest the Hamas officials who came to Cairo to discuss the hostage deal in February, March and April 2024.
Russia has been a party to this convention since June 11, 1987. It did not arrest the Hamas officials who came to Moscow in October 2024.
Qatar has been a party to this convention since September 11, 2012. It did not arrest Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashaal who are, under Article 1 (b) of the Convention, participants and accomplices of the hostage taking act.
These Hamas leaders are living with family members in Qatar’s capital Doha, in its luxury hotels and villas, at the same time as Qatar hosts a vast American military presence in the Al-Udeid Air Base.
Turkey, a party to this convention since August 15, 1989, also did not arrest any Hamas leaders in Turkey.
Although France has been a party to this convention since June 9, 2000, and the United States since December 7, 1984, neither country requested of Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to arrest the leaders of Hamas living there, who may be accomplices or participants in the hostage-taking act.
The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict reported on March 4, 2024:
“Based on the information gathered by the mission team from multiple and independent sources, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attacks in multiple locations across the Gaza periphery, including rape and gang rape, in at least three locations. Across the various locations of the 7 October attacks, the mission team found that several fully naked or partially naked bodies from the waist down were recovered – mostly women – with hands tied and shot multiple times, often in the head. Although circumstantial, such a pattern of undressing and restraining of victims may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence. [Paragraph 12]
At the Nova music festival and its surroundings, there are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple incidents of sexual violence took place with victims being subjected to rape and/or gang rape and then killed or killed while being raped. [Paragraph 13]
With respect to hostages, the mission team found clear and convincing information that some have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence including rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and it also has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing. [Paragraph 17]
The team mission also received clear and convincing information that sexual violence, including rape, sexualized torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment occurred against some women and children during their time in captivity and has reasonable grounds to believe that this violence may be ongoing.” [Paragraph 71]
Based on first-hand accounts of released hostages there are reasonable grounds to believe that female hostages were also subjected to other forms of sexual violence. [Paragraph 72]
To this day, neither US President Joe Biden nor the above-mentioned European leaders have contested that Jewish men, women and children were taken hostage to the Gaza Strip, and that some women, men, boys and girls have been used as “sex slaves” there.
These are world leaders who care so much about international law and must certainly be anxious to prevent the occurrence of such practices on their non-Muslim citizens.
They could all diplomatically ask the governments of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, all the Muslim States:
If the Qur’an and the sharia authorize Muslims to take non-Muslims hostage to serve as sex slaves. And, if so, is the international law that they profess in violation of the Qur’an?
If their respective states condemn the practice of taking non-Muslims hostage for abuse as sex slaves?
And if it is in conformity to international law?
If taking hostages and forcing them to serve as sex slaves are authorized by the Qur’an and the Sharia based on 7th Century practice, then “international customary law” on this subject is not so customary: 1.6 billion Muslims would be authorized to do so. Consequently, all non-Muslims, such as the rest of the world population, could be authorized to take as hostages Muslim women, men, boys and girls to serve as their sex slaves.
Precedents
Taking hostages is hardly new. It was used in 1979 when 52 Americans were taken hostage in the US Embassy in Tehran during 444 days and only released in 1981. In 1990, Saddam Hussein held 100 Europeans. In 2002, 850 people were taken hostage in a Moscow theater by Chechen Muslims and then killed.
Centuries ago, pirates captured merchant ships, took the crews and enslaved them. Some raided the European coasts. Between the years 1500 and 1800 more than a million Muslims were enslaved in Europe and another 2 million Christians suffered the same fate in North Africa and the Middle East.
The United States twice went to war against the Barbary States of Tripoli, Tunis and Algeria, between 1801 and 1805 and again in 1815. The Ottoman eastern Mediterranean was the scene of intense piracy. The second operation ended after a fleet of British and Dutch ships bombarded Algiers and its harbor defenses for nine hours. A treaty was signed in September 1815. The British Consul and 1,083 other Christian slaves were freed and the U.S. ransom money repaid.
In 1786, when the Ambassador of Tripoli in London was asked by a delegation of American Commissioners about “their pretentions to make war upon Nations who had done them no Injury”:
“The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
How the negotiations with Hamas were conducted
Hostages and sex slaves are still being held in Gaza by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Gazan population. In February, after long and difficult negotiations,112 hostages were released. There remain at least another 134 hostages.
This circumstance leads us to examine how the American, the French, the Germans, the Russians and the Argentinians who had nationals (dual) taken as hostages in Gaza negotiated their release.
The United States, France, Germany, Russia and Argentina, who had dual nationals taken hostage, did not try to bomb Hamas infrastructure and places where Hamas hid. Instead, they let Israel do it and then accused Israel of destroying the Gaza Strip.
French President Emmanuel Macron initially asked for a European coalition, similar to the coalition that fought ISIS, then reneged and asked for a permanent ceasefire.
The conditions and payments made for the release of the non-Israeli hostages (from Thailand, Nepal, China, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Philippine, etc.) remain a part of secret diplomacy.
138 of the Israeli hostages also had foreign nationality, including 2 Argentinians, 6 Russians, 12 Americans, 12 Germans and 6 French.
The Argentinian, German, American, French leaders decided to do their own negotiations with Hamas through Qatar. Putin invited Hamas and Islamic Jihad to Moscow and three Russian hostages were thereafter released. Argentina’s President Javier Milei went to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, prayed and cried there.
Coincidence or miracle, the two Argentinians were then rescued by Israelis soldiers in a successful military operation in Rafah.
Israel negotiated the release of some hostages and released Palestinian terrorists in exchange. Since then, Hamas has continued to reject all proposals.
To analyze the negotiation process and the efficiency of the negotiation teams we must try to think (1) what Hamas wants, (2) what Hamas can give to the Israeli government, (3) what the Israeli government wants and (4) what the Israeli government can give in return.
1. What Hamas wants:
a. The destruction of Israel and its Jewish population, or at least driving all Jews out of the Holy Land.
b. To provoke a war of all Muslims against Israel.
c. To divide Israel’s population and the fall of the Israeli government hoping that this will lead the Muslim population of Judea and Samaria and the Muslim states to launch a general war against Israel.
d. The release of terrorist Muslim prisoners held by Israel. Such a release would demonstrate that the Jews are humiliated and that the Hamas did what the Qur’an asks from any Muslim, namely, to humiliate the Jews.
e. To preserve the last Hamas brigades in the Gaza strip.
f. To frighten the Jews that what happened on October 7, 2023 will happen again and again.
g. To reconstitute its terrorist power in Gaza and regain complete control of its population.
h. To release some hostages one after the other over a very long period of time in order to lead the American and the European governments to put pressure on Israel for a cessation of the war and overthrow the present Israeli government and replace it with one that will presumably be more terrorist-friendly.
i. To murder some hostages from time to time and to give some information that bodies of hostages are in certain places, for Israel to find them and to demonstrate to the world and the hostage families that the war was lost.
2. What Hamas can give Israel:
a. Some hostages, by small groups, until the last hostage is released, alive or dead. The process could take years to humiliate the Jews and divide them.
3. What Israel wants:
a. The release of all the hostages
b. The destruction of all the remaining Hamas brigades.
c. Control of the Philadelphi Corridor along Gaza’s border with Egypt.
d. The destruction of all the tunnels there that permitted Hamas, with the complicity of the Bedouin tribes, the Egyptian police and military and the United Nations, to seize all of Hamas’s sophisticated armaments and munitions.
e. To prevent the Hamas from continuing to control the Gaza Strip and be able to repeat the October 7, 2023 pogrom.
4. What Israel can give Hamas:
a. The release of some more Muslim prisoners in exchange of hostages without being humiliated.
b. To permit some Hamas leaders to leave Gaza safely without being humiliated
c. To withdraw the Israeli army from part or all of the Gaza Strip and to permit some people to return to the north of the Gaza Strip.
d. To prevent chaos in the Gaza strip.
Until now, about half the hostages have been released in exchange for some Muslim terrorist prisoners.
Anyone having experience with the strategy of international negotiations will immediately conclude that the manner the Israeli government and the hostage families have conducted themselves raises serious questions.
Rather than putting any pressure on Qatar and demonstrating in front of Qatari-owned hotels in France, the United States and elsewhere in Europe, the families of the hostages have been putting pressure on the Israeli government, thereby doing exactly what Hamas would presumably like them to do. They are “working” for Hamas — and against their own interests — in the hope of seeing more hostages released. By their actions the value of the hostages only increases.
When they put the focus on the Bibas children, the price of their release in Hamas’s eyes only increases. It is not surprising that Hamas did not release them; instead they preferred to release lesser hostages of lesser value.
Families of hostages are now asking the Israeli population to bring down the duly-elected government of Israel supposedly to obtain the release of all the hostages. They do not understand that they are unwittingly “working for” Hamas, who are ready for negotiations over the return of hostages (even dead) to take years.
Some demonstrators in Israel are ready to disrupt the democratic process at almost any cost. The Knesset was elected for a five-year period. The demonstrators are doing what Hamas cannot do by itself: they are dividing Israel so that the unity government loses its strength in the negotiations, as well as any ability to bring the hostages home sooner — a triumph that was successfully accomplished by the IDF, left unfettered.
The hostages are not the Israeli government’s to deliver. They are unfortunately under the total the control of Hamas, Qatar and Iran –which is where the pressure should be applied, not on the government of Israel.
Has the US applied any pressure at all on Qatar, Iran or Hamas? Rather, the US lifted sanctions on Iran and given its regime through grants, hostage exchange ransoms and non-enforcement of oil sanctions “closer to $60 billion.”
The only way a new Israeli government might negotiate the release of hostages would be by placing Israel’s entire population in incalculable danger. Any new Israeli leader hand-picked and pushed through by the current US administration would most likely be expected to agree to a terrorist Palestinian state next to Israel — meaning that the Israel would not be able to cross its border, if necessary, in “hot pursuit” of terrorists, and that the new state would soon be militarized, officially or not. Even if a new, sovereign Palestinian state were supposedly demilitarized, it would still be free to form alliances with any other entity it liked, including Iran, Al Qaeda or ISIS.
Instead of showing unity, Israeli Minister-without-portfolio Benny Gantz went to Washington, where he was apparently invited to bring down Israel’s elected government. Shortly after his visit, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, perhaps imagining that Israel is a subservient vassal of the US, called, in the most insulting way imaginable , for new elections in Israel, in a clear effort to overthrow Israel’s democratically-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.
Some Israelis have been engaging riots to bring down their own government – a triumph of which Hamas could only have dreamed.
To divide Israeli society even further, Israel’s Attorney General and the police did not even attempt to punish the rioters for their blocking of roads and highways.
How the allies of Israel became the allies of Hamas
France
Hamas and Qatar certainly gained something during the negotiations for the release of dual-national hostages. On February 27, 2024, Macron received the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, who came with a large ministerial and business delegation. It was a “state visit” with great pomp.
In turn, Hamas’s great patron, Qatar, which has substantial investments in France, including the Paris Saint-Germain football club, pledged to invest up to ten billion euros in France.
In exchange, France, while repeating its “opposition to an offensive against Rafah” called for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, to prevent Israel from destroying Hamas’s remaining brigades and the tunnels between Egypt and Rafah that have permitted Hamas to increase its military force. Later, with President El-Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan, Macron demanded an immediate ceasefire.
In short, Qatar said it would invest in France 10 billion euros and in exchange France said it would be happy to try to save the terrorist group Hamas. France will sell some state properties to Qatar and will be able to reimburse a small part of its huge public debt that reached €3 trillion at the beginning of 2023. Everyone wins — except the hostages held by Hamas.
France knows that Qatar finances terrorists and promotes fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood ideology. It is an Islamist ideology invites the Muslims to wage Jihad on all non-Muslims — Jews, Christians, idolaters, polytheists, pantheists, non-believers, Hindus, and Buddhists — but France ignores it.
Germany
Together with his support for Israel, Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with the Emir of Qatar on October 12, 2023 in order to maintain good relations with the emirate. Indeed, an agreement was signed in March 2023 between Qatar and Germany, wherein Qatar committed to supply Germany with up to two million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year for 15 years, beginning in 2026.
Coinciding with this visit, members of Scholz’s ruling coalition criticized plans to import more LNG from Qatar. Four German hostages were released in November 2023. At least Germany did not forget them.
Simple pressure made by the members of the Germany’s ruling coalition induced Qatar to have these four hostages released. Nevertheless, Germany needed more gas from Qatar, so it jumped on the bandwagon, asked for the cessation of the war, opposed any operation in Rafah and suggested the recognition of a Palestinian state — all evidently as a reward for terrorism.
The United States
On March 5, 2024, the US and Qatar announced “several new milestones, including an amendment to the bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement… the two sides emphasized the strategic significance of Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar…. They also discussed future upgrades to the base to increase efficiency and sustainability.”
This agreement extends the US military presence in Qatar for another 10 years. The base can house more than 10,000 troops. Qatar committed billions to upgrade the facilities for the US airmen at the base.
Without the US military base there, Qatar knows that it would be a rich, targetable oil-rig. America, “in exchange,” it seems, agreed to let Hamas continue its terrorist activities support the US quest for a Palestinian state. No remaining hostages were released; perhaps they were not even talked about.
Some weeks before those discussions, the Biden administration asked for the cessation of the war and opposed any operation in Rafah, meaning that Israel would not be able to put an end to the remaining Hamas brigades. The Biden administration asked Israel to stop the ground war without having the hostages released. It issued not-very-veiled threats to Israel that the US would stop sending armaments to Israel even while Israel continued to be attacked by Hezbollah in the north. The US also launched the idea of recognizing a “Palestinian state” and bringing down the Israeli government.
Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken falsely claimed that there was not enough humanitarian aid into Gaza, falsely implied that Israel deliberately inflicts on the Gazan population conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction — not Hamas, which was stealing most of the aid for its own use. According to Article 2(c) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, it looked as if these heads of state were trying to pin a war crime on Israel.
US opposition to Israel entering Rafah was lifted in exchange for a soft Israeli retaliation against Iran for its massive drone and ballistic missile attack on Israel this month.
The hostages are still in the hands of Hamas. Girls and women, men and boys, can continue to be held as sex slaves in Gaza and raped, tortured or murdered.
Even though American citizens are among those still held hostage in Gaza, the US appears to have sided with the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups, and their terrorist-supporting patrons, Qatar and Iran.
In other parts of the world, “More than 365 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith” with many facing genocide. No state so far has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about that. What prevents South Africa from filing a case at the ICJ?
The Islamic Republic of Iran will in all likelihood soon have nuclear bombs. It may well try to use them on Israel, the “Little Satan”. The US administration still pretends that it is not aware that one Iranian nuclear bomb exploding high above the United States would be enough to send the “Big Satan”, America, back to the Middle Ages.
In fairness, the US has been sending Israel truly impressive help but that could be erased by other “priorities” tomorrow.
Muslims in New York, Illinois and Michigan are already calling for “Death to America,” and Biden, who wants their votes, seems to be trying to accommodate them. In the meantime, terrorists-in-waiting have been rioting on American university campuses, with only a few exceptional members of Congress willing to confront them.
“Never Again” has been overtaken, at least for now, by “Death to America”, “Death to Israel”, “Kill them all”.
Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire now” and “end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. But these benign statements hide a far more malignant agenda, the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the end of America as the world’s leading power and the end of democracy and the free market economy. Even if there were a unilateral ceasefire, accompanied by massive humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, many of these protests would continue, because Gaza is merely an excuse for a much wider agenda: to destroy Israel and destroy America.
One never sees a sign calling for a two-state solution or for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. These are not the goals. What is demanded is the end of any Jewish presence in the Middle East. “Death to America,” similarly, means the end of America’s influence and Western values.
Many of the signs call for “revolution.” These are not directed against Israel, but rather against America, American Jews and all other Western democracies.
As in the 1960s, many of these students are being groomed to be the terrorists of the future — in the manner of Kathy Boudin and Bernardine Dohrn back then – and, in the United States, a fifth column, the aim of which is taking down America.
That these useful idiots are young does not make them less dangerous. Young students were instrumental in bringing to power tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot and Mao.
Where are the armed guards escorting Jewish students to class, as there were escorting the threatened Black youths to integrated school in the 1960s in the South?
Universities are failing not only their Jewish students but all their students by refusing to educate them about what behavior is acceptable and what is not.
Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire now” and “end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. But these benign statements hide a far more malignant agenda, the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the end of America as the world’s leading power and the end of democracy and the free market economy. Pictured: Pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protesters outside of Columbia University on April 24, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Thousands of young students – from universities, high schools and even middle schools – are joining in demonstrations, marches and protests against Israel, against the United States and against Jews. Some even are Jews. They are joining Muslim and Arab anti-Zionists, radical anarchist anti-Americans and community organizers who oppose Israel’s right to exist.
Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire now” and “end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. But these benign statements hide a far more malignant agenda, the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the end of America as the world’s leading power and the end of democracy and the free market economy. Even if there were a unilateral ceasefire, accompanied by massive humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, many of these protests would continue, because Gaza is merely an excuse for a much wider agenda: to destroy Israel and destroy America.
During recent protests in New York, there were calls to repeat the barbarity of October 7 “a thousand times.” There were shouts of “We are Hamas”, “Death to America”, “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground”, “Israel go to hell” and “Jews to back to Poland.” The chant of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is pervasive. Free of what? Free of Jews. The goal is to make all of Israel Judenrein – ethnically cleansed of all Jews. One never sees a sign calling for a two-state solution or for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. These are not the goals. What is demanded is the end of any Jewish presence in the Middle East. “Death to America,” similarly, means the end of America’s influence and Western values.
Many of the signs call for “revolution.” These are not directed against Israel, but rather against America, American Jews and all other Western democracies. The war in Gaza, started by Hamas on October 7, has provided the most recent excuse for anarchists, revolutionaries and America-haters to organize and recruit young people, many of whom have no idea what they are marching for or against. They know that many of their professors support the radical agenda. For example, Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad praised the events of October 7, 2023, which included rapes, beheadings, kidnappings, and the murder of 1,200 Israelis. Other professors from many universities encourage student involvement in the protests.
As in the 1960s, many of these students are being groomed to be the terrorists of the future — in the manner of Kathy Boudin and Bernardine Dohrn back then – and, in the United States, a fifth column, the aim of which is taking down America.
For the most part, the groups protesting are comprised of four elements: the first consists of Arab and Muslim haters of Israel and Jews, who see this as an opportunity to call for the end of the nation-state of the Jewish people and the substitution of a Muslim caliphate or a radical Arab state; the second consists of old line radicals, anarchists, communists and America-haters who use any opportunity to seek to essentially overthrow Western democracies; the third are the organizers who stand ready to obtain funding and organizational logistics for well-planned systematic protests; and the fourth are the “useful idiots” who are recruited by the professors, the organizers and others.
Most of these young people have little or no knowledge of the substantive issues. They simply want to be part of current protest movements, which are popular on campuses and among many of their peers. It is this last group that is most troubling, because many of its members are good and decent people who are being led into dangerous territory by their elders. They are even more dangerous than the first three groups, because many of them come from influential backgrounds and may well become future leaders. The other groups tend to include mostly marginalized outsiders.
That these useful idiots are young does not make them less dangerous. Young students were instrumental in bringing to power tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot and Mao. But the fact that they are young and ambitious makes them more amenable to change. And alternative influences.
Some of these student radicals seek to enter professions such as law, medicine, engineering, business and the media. Many of these professions would not look favorably on Hamas supporters, revolutionaries, America-haters and antisemites. That is probably why so many of the current protesters wear masks, to hide their identities and avoid future employers learning about their activities. That is why pro-Israel organizations such as Canary Mission seek to identify these anti-Israel and anti-American protesters. The marketplace is open to all ideas, but in the real world there are consequences for expressing some of them — which these students are not being taught. Where are the armed guards escorting Jewish students to class, as there were escorting the threatened Black youths to integrated school in the 1960s in the South?
There should also be consequences – including arrest and prosecution – for physically intimidating, blocking and harassing Jews or any minorities. Such actions are not protected by the First Amendment, university disciplinary rules, or employers after graduation.
Victims of those illegal actions have rights, too. They must be protected and their rights enforced. Universities are failing not only their Jewish students but all their students by refusing to educate them about what behavior is acceptable and what is not.
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism. He is the Jack Roth Charitable Foundation Fellow at Gatestone Institute, and is also the host of “The Dershow” podcast.
Never Again! - Kristallnacht- Maybe One More Time...
Never Again! – Kristallnacht- Maybe One More Time…
A Wise Man Sees Danger
Have you been watching the news this past week?
I am, and my mouth is wide open in disbelief. This can’t be happening. Yet there it is in full colour on every newscast. Universities across the nation are in league with the Pro-Palestinian radicals. This evil metallity has hijacked our youth.
Pro 27:10Your own friend, and your father’s friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
Pro 27:11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer him who shames me.
Pro 27:12A sensible one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
A primitive root; to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively: – be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, X surely.
Here is the verse again. Are you a wise one, or do you have your head buried in the sand?
Pro 22:3A prudent one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
Yehshua warned us that what they did to Him, they would do to us. Propaganda or false propaganda is running rampant across the nations of the world, and no one is able to stop them.
Psa 27:11Teach me Your way, O Jehovah, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
Psa 27:12Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.
Psa 27:13I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.
Psa 22:12Many bulls have circled around Me; strong bulls Of Bashan have surrounded Me.
Psa 22:13They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.
Psa 22:14I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.
Psa 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws;
Psa 22:16and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.
Psa 22:17I can count all My bones; they look and stare at Me.
Psa 22:18They divide My garments among them and cast lots for My clothing.
Psa 22:19But You, O Jehovah, be not far from Me; O My strength, hurry to help Me!
Psa 22:20Deliver My soul from the sword, My only one from the dog’s hand.
Psa 22:21Save Me from the lion’s mouth; from the wild oxen’s horns. You have answered Me.
Psa 22:22I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise You.
Psa 22:23You who fear Jehovah, praise Him; all of you, the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him all the seed of Israel.
Even though many of us can quote voluminous scriptures and even though some can understand prophetic messages from our Bible, the nagging question I have had for some time was why did so many of the Jews in Europe not flee. Why did they not escape when they had the chance? But most of all where was Yehovah?
Read these words of Hillel Fuld on X
Dear European Jews in the 30s,
I owe you an apology. For the last 40 years, I’ve accused you of being blind, and quite frankly, stupid!
I’ve said it thousands of times.
“Why didn’t they get out? How did they not see the writing on the wall? Were they that comfortable and assimilated that they really believed it’d be ok? And even if they believed that, when Germany started legislating against Jews, how was THAT not enough of a sign to get out??”
For years, I thought you were weak. I thought you were led to the gas chambers like sheep to the slaughter.
For years, I thought that your mistakes could never be repeated again. I thought we, the Jewish nation, would surely see the writing on the wall.
I said Never Again and deep down, I thought it would never happen again, because WE, the Jewish people would never let it happen again.
“We are not as weak as they were”, I told myself.
And now I have to say, I’m sorry. I didn’t understand you until about a month or two ago when I realized that I was wrong about you.
More precisely, I was wrong about us.
It could happen again. The Jewish people WOULD let it happen again. We ARE letting it happen again.
Antisemites in the United States congress? Yep.
Pop starts declaring their love for Hitler? Uh huh
Banning Jews from entering educational institutions? Sadly that happened too.
Jews being assaulted and beaten in the streets? Yep, so that’s now a thing.
Mass antisemitic marches across America? We are there…
Jews women being raped and murdered just because they are a Jew? Can’t believe I’m saying this but yea, that too.
So, my European ancestors, and I’m talking to you, Grandma, I’m sorry. You weren’t weak and we aren’t strong.
We are letting them do it to us again and we are again not reading the writing on the wall.
I always believed that if I, we experienced what you experienced, we’d get the hell out immediately.
I was wrong. My brothers and sisters are continuing to be sitting ducks waiting for the next attack, the next vandalism of a synagogue, the next hate crime, the next blood thirsty antisemitic march, the next murder.
It’s 2024 and we haven’t learned the lesson that Germany was not our home. Poland was not our home. Austria was not our home.
Today, America is not our home. South Africa is not our home. The UK is not our home. Australia is not our home.
We only have one home and that is Israel. Is everything perfect in Israel? 100% not. But in Israel, your people protect you and if God forbid bad things happen, and they happen, (you don’t have to tell me, my brother was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist), your government, your army, your people will retaliate and ensure it never happens again.
No one is protecting you at Harvard. Or MIT. Or Columbia. You’re on your own there and this isn’t going to end well.
So, my European ancestors, I’m sorry I judged you. You weren’t weak. You weren’t blind. You weren’t dumb.
You were Jews who refused to internalize that other nations don’t behave like us and just because we’d never try to annihilate a nation doesn’t mean they won’t.
To my brothers and sisters in 2024, please, I beg of you, internalize the lesson of history. It’s happening right before your eyes. Don’t wait till it’s too late.
Leave. Get out. Come home.
We are waiting for you with open hours. You worry about us in Israel? I get it. That’s kind. But here, our fate is in our hands (And Hashem’s) and we know what we need to do.
No one there has your back. We have your back here.
So come home. Help us help you.
Allow us to welcome you at Ben Gurion Airport with chants of Am Yisrael Chai instead of staying there to hear chants of Globalize the Intifada and From the River to the Sea.
This is your home and we want you here with us. We need you here with us.
If you won’t come home for you, come home for us. We love you and want you here safe in our embrace.
Come home. It will be the best thing you ever did!
We are waiting. I am waiting!
And here we are, on April 27, 2024, looking at world events and seeing the brown shirts of Hitler’s dreams, wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh (the black and white scarf) and screaming from the river to the sea, meaning the complete genocide of Israel and the Jewish people. Not only have the public protests been growing stronger in every major city around the world, but now, as of April 25, every major Ivy League university across the USA is having massive protests and encampments and preventing any Jewish students from going to classes at said universities.
Before I go on, let me share the 1290-day teaching we have been showing you again.
From the time Prime Minister Netanyahu declared a lockdown because of COVID on March 25, 2020, until Passover April 8-9, 2020, was two weeks. And until the end of Unleavened Bread was three weeks. Using this timeline as a model, counting the 1290 days from the time the daily prayers were stopped, we arrive on October 6, with the statue of Buddha being set on this Friday. It was the start of Shemini Atzeret. On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked, slaughtering 1400 Israelis. The last day of Unleavened Bread in 2020 also just so happened to be 1290 days before Israel invaded Gaza on October 27, 2023, in retaliation for this slaughter. And this war is still going on.
Because of this we are now seeing the prophecy of Zechariah being fulfilled. It is not yet complete, but it is only preparing for this time.
Zec 12:1The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
Zec 12:2Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:3And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples. All who lift it shall be slashed, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
Those are the events of 2020 and how they were related to the Holy Days in both 2020 and then 1290 days later in 2023.
We have also been recording and telling you about the 2nd, 3rd and 4th times Prime Minister Netanyahu locked down Israel in 2020 and how 1290 days later led us to our time now and what we are seeing.
Second & Third Lockdown
Netanyahu declared a lockdown on September 18, the day before Rosh Hashanah on September 19. When we count from September 18, 2020, the 1290-day count brings us to March 31, 2024. The next day, April 1, 2024, Israel killed the two generals and five high-ranking officers next to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus.
September 28, 2020, was Yom Kippur in Israel. 1290 days later, you are on April 11, 2024, when Eid, the Muslim 40 days of fasting, ends. Tensions at this time were running very high, expecting an attack from Iran on Israel.
On September 25, 2020, Prime Minister Netanyahu again reiterated the lockdown, which occurred just two days before Yom Kippur that year and seven days before Sukkot on October 2 and Shemini Atzeret on October 9, 2020.
Counting the 1290 days from each of these dates brings us to April 8, 2024, when the Solar Eclipse took place across the USA. We mentioned Yom Kippeur above, so now, let’s look at Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret. The September 25, 2020, lockdown also affected the daily prayers during these two feast dates.
Counting the 1290 days from the start of Sukkot on October 2, 2020, brings us to April 14, 2024. This was the date the Iranians launched a barrage of more than 120 ballistic missiles, 170 drones and more than 30 cruise missiles against Israel, of which most were intercepted.
When we now count from the date of Shemini Atzeret or the 8th Day Feast on October 9, 2020, we come to April 22, 2024, which was the Jewish Passover this year. Israel had already carried out its attack against Iran on April 19, 2024. What we did not notice until we looked back again was that the university protests began on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, and have grown across the USA since that date.
Here are some more dates to consider. Some in our group began to tell me about the 1335 days and that they also started on March 25, 2020. I did not agree with them but we said we would watch and see. Then, 48 days after the October 7 attack, the first hostage agreement took shape, meaning some sort of agreement took place in the days preceding. Was it the 45 days? I do not know. A total of 24 hostages were returned to Israel – 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino.
Let us now look at those dates that will be 45 days after the dates we have listed in 2024. Counting from March 31, 2024, brings us to May 14, 2024. From April 8, 2024, 45 days later is May 23, 2024, and from April 22, 2024, which is Passover for the Jews this year, 45 days later brings us to June 6, 2024, with their Shavuot on June 9, depending on which calendar you use. We will be watching these dates to see what transpires. Will the hostages be set free during this time?
The 4th Lockdown
We also have a 4th lockdown that Netanyahu declared on December 27, 2020. 1290 days later brings us to July 8, 2024. The 1335-day count brings us to August 22, 2024. I will be keeping Sukkot starting on August 20, 2024. We can only watch and see what transpires, but what we have seen so far has a pattern to it counting from each Holy Day in 2020 when the prayers were stop due to COVID, to our time in 2023 and 2024.
The University Protests
As we just showed you, the university rebellions (Calling it what it is) began on April 17, 2024. Our youth, who have paid tens of thousands to be at these top-of-the-line places of learning, have now been sucked into a philosophy that is going to continue to grow and, at first, seek to kill off all the Jews. Then those of us who keep the Torah, then the Christians, then the women liberty people and LGBT useful idiots.
These universities have allowed this infestation to take place because most of the top universities have accepted billions of dollars from Qatar. Read the article about Qatar that we included this week. Understand that this oil-rich nation is also home to one of the key US air bases in the Middle East. They spend billions to get into these universities, and then, because of the money, the universities defend their views to the detriment of all others. So much for free speech.
The fruits of this investment are now paying huge dividends. All these “smart people” have been brainwashed into accepting the mark of the beast, and they have no clue what they are doing or why they are marching. Are some of these zombies your children or grandchildren? You had better have sitdown talk with them ASAP, if not sooner.
You are witnessing the blessing that was given to Isaac come to pass before you.
Gen 27:30And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Gen 27:31And he also had made tasty meat and brought to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game so that your soul may bless me.
Gen 27:32And his father Isaac said to him, Who areyou? And he said, I am your son, your first-born, Esau.
Gen 27:33And Isaac trembled with a great trembling, and said, Who then was the one who has hunted deer and brought to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed!
Gen 27:34And when Esau heard the voice of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, me also, O my father!
Gen 27:35And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.
Gen 27:36And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
Gen 27:37And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold! I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given him for servants. And with grain and wine I have supported him. And what shall I do now to you, my son?
Gen 27:38And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Gen 27:39And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold! Your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven from above.
Gen 27:40And by your sword you shall live, and shall serve your brother. And it shall be when you shall have the dominion, you shall break his yoke from off your neck.
Gen 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.
Gen 27:42And these words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you.
We are also told in the prophecy to Daniel about this fourth empire.
Daniel Interprets the Dream
Dan 2:31You, O king, were seeing. And, behold! A great image! That great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you. And its form was dreadful.
Dan 2:32This image’s head was of fine gold; his breast and his arms were of silver; his belly and his thighs were of bronze;
Dan 2:33his legs were of iron; his feet were part of iron and part of clay.
Dan 2:34You watched until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon its feet which were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.
Dan 2:35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken to pieces together. And they became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Dan 2:36This is the dream. And we will tell its meaning before the king.
Dan 2:37You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Dan 2:38And wherever the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens live, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.
Dan 2:39And after you shall arise another kingdom lower than you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.
Dan 2:40And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron. Since iron crushes and smashes all things; and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter.
Dan 2:41And as to that which you saw: the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay and part of iron; the kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
Dan 2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.
Dan 2:43And as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the seed of men. But they shall not cling to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Dan 2:44And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other peoples, but it shall crush and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Dan 2:45Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it crushes the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall occur after this. And the dream is certain, and its meaning is sure.
Islam does not mix with any society it has migrated to. Instead, they seek out ways to conquer it, just as the white horse of Revelation 6 tells you. The
Rev 6:1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures like a sound of thunder, saying, Come and see.
Rev 6:2And I saw. And behold a white horse! And he sitting on it had a bow. And a crown was given to him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer.
This white horse is Islam, and the horse that comes with it is the red horse.
Rev 6:3And when He had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, Come and see.
Rev 6:4And another, a red horse, went out. And power was given to him sitting on it, to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. And there was given to him a great sword.
The third horse is famine, and this is the same curse that we have been warning you about in Leviticus 26 for this 5th Sabbatical Cycle.
Rev 6:5And when He had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I looked, and lo, a black horse. And he sitting on it had a balance in his hand.
Rev 6:6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius. And do not hurt the oil and the wine.
Lev 26:25And I will bring a sword on you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you are gathered inside your cities, I will send the plague among you. And you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Lev 26:26When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.
Lev 26:27And if you will not for all of this listen to Me, but will walk contrary to Me,
Lev 26:28then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Lev 26:29And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.
The fourth horse is death by sword, famine and beasts. One-quarter of the earth’s population is about to die.
Rev 6:7And when He had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, Come and see.
Rev 6:8And I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him sitting on it was Death, and Hell followed with him. And authority was given to them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and by the beasts of the earth.
And during all of this time when Esau is ruling, the Saints will be persecuted and killed. You are now witnessing the beginning stages, the Kristallnacht that is going to lead into the horrors that are coming at the end of this age.
Rev 6:9And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.
Rev 6:10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
Rev 6:11And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they were ) should have their number made complete.
We are now in the 120th Jubilee since the creation of Adam. This is the final Jubilee cycle before the 7th millennium begins in 2045. All end-time prophecies must be completed before the 7th Millennium of rest, again before 2045. But unless those days were cut short, no flesh would remain alive.
Because of the prophecy in Luke, which tells us as it was in the days of Noah and of Lot, which matches up with the 3rd and 4th years of the 5th Sabbatical cycle, which also just so happens to have the day of Atonement matches up with the year 2033 when we compare the Fall Holy Days within this final Jubilee Cycle.
What all of that means is that the final 10 years or the final 10 days of Awe that we celebrate each year began in 2024 and finish when Satan is locked away on the Day of Yom Kippur in 2033.
We have been saying the same thing since 2005. We only had to refine it slightly once the event took place, such as 2020 being the midst of the week, or the Jubilee Cycle, and the count of the 1290 days.
Right now, you are watching the beginning of the Ten Toes government grow in strength around the world.
In Exodus Israel had to experience the first three plagues before they were set apart by Yehovah and saved from the remaining seven.
Rev 8:6And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Rev 8:7The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth. And the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
Rev 8:8And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood.
Rev 8:9And the third part of the creatures in the sea, those having souls, died; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.
Rev 8:10And the third angel sounded, and a great star burning like a lamp fell from the heaven, and it fell on the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of waters.
Rev 8:11And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and a third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
When we look at the first plague of water turning to blood, this was an attack by Yehovah on the god of the Nile, Hapi. He also has another name: Apis, the bull god after whom the Israelites made the golden calf.
Turning the Nile to blood today would be likened to the rivers and lakes around the world drying up and becoming stagnant. We saw this from 2018 to 2022 when major rivers dried up around the world. Now this year is projected to be the hottest year on record ever.
The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood
Exo 7:14And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh’s heart ishardened. He refuses to let the people go.
Exo 7:15You go to Pharaoh in the morning. Lo, he goes out to the water. And you shall stand by the river’s brink until he comes. And you shall take in your hand the rod which was turned to a snake.
Exo 7:16And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let My people go so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. And, behold, until now you would not hear.
Exo 7:17Thus says Jehovah, In this you shall know that I am Jehovah. Behold! I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
Exo 7:18And the fish in the river shall die, and the river shall stink. And the Egyptians shall hate to drink of the water of the river.
Exo 7:19And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their canals, and upon their pools, and upon every reservoir of their waters, that they may become blood. And blood shall be throughout all the land of Egypt, both in wooden and in stone vessels.
Exo 7:20And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the waters in the river were turned to blood.
Exo 7:21And the fish in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
The second plague of frogs is another attack by Yehovah on one of Egypt’s other gods, Heqet, the god of fertility and resurrection. As we just shared with you about the 2nd trumpet being a great nation taken over by a sea of people, this 2nd plague could be in the form of those not being resurrected but of those who are dying. The four horsemen are going cause one-quarter of the earth’s population to die.
The Second Plague: Frogs
Exo 8:1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him: Thus says Jehovah, Let my people go so that they may serve Me.
Exo 8:2And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I amgoing to strike all your borders with frogs.
Exo 8:3And the river shall bring forth frogs plentifully, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and upon your bed, and into the house of your servants, and upon your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.
Exo 8:4And the frogs shall come upon you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.
Exo 8:5And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:6And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
The plague of Gnats is directed at the third god of Egypt. This is the god of the earth, Geb, the husband of Heget, also known as Apis or Hapi. To this third plague, I am looking at the third trumpet and a great star striking the earth, causing the water to become poison to men. When we look at what happened after Moses crossed the Red Sea, the people and or the waters were bitter, just like this star wormwood is going to make the waters bitter. The only cure then as now is to Obey the Torah. The tree Moses threw into the waters represented the Torah. Once it was upon the waters, they became sweet. Once the Torah was over the people they stopped being bitter.
The Third Plague: Gnats
Exo 8:16And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:17And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth. And it became lice in man and in beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:18And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they could not. So there were lice upon man and upon beast.
Exo 8:19And the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.
With each of these trumpet plagues coming once per year, starting in 2024, the Two Witnesses will be on the world scene in 2026 by the time the fourth trumpet is sounded. From this time onwards, there will be no rain anywhere on earth. It is from this time on that those who are Yehovah’s and obey His voice will be protected from the remaining curses and plagues.
You do need to know these two articles, which you are forewarned about.
Many people and church groups are stating they stand with Israel and then wave the Israeli flag. How many of them and how many of you will stand with Yehovah when the next Kristallnacht takes place? When you will be required to convert or die. Will you be found amongst those in the fifth seal under the altar ready to be given your white robes of Righteousness, or will you be found to have given in and taken the mark of the Beast to save your skin?
Just before Kristallnacht in November 1938, everyone denied the restrictions that were being made into laws one after another in Germany. I have included the whole article in this newsletter so you can see step by step how it took place then, leading up to the Holocaust gas chambers, which began in 1941.
The Final Solution
It is not known when Hitler formed the intention of the “final solution of the Jewish question” on the scale of the European continent. The conference in Wannsee on January 20, 1942 considered only the details of the undertaking: the methods for organizing the deportation and ensuring the cooperation of the civilian administration. Overall, the plans called for the murder of 11 million Jews living in Germany, the occupied territory, the states opposed to the Third Reich, and the allied and neutral countries.
The first killing center set up in occupied Polish lands was the camp at Chełmno on the Ner; Jews brought in from the ghettos in the Wartheland were being killed there from December 1941. Three more camps, somewhat larger, were opened at Bełżec, Sobibor, and Treblinka (in what was known as “Aktion Reinhard”) somewhat later, between March and July 1942.
In Auschwitz, the murdering of prisoners in gas chambers began even earlier, when 575 sick and disabled prisoners were sent to their deaths at the euthanasia center in Germany at the end of June 1941. At the beginning of September, the SS used Zyklon B gas in the cellars of block 11 to kill about 600 Soviet POWs and another group of patients from the camp hospital. Soviet POWs and Jews brought from Upper Silesia were killed in the gas chamber in crematorium I over the following months. It was probably at the end of March or in April 1942 that the Germans began killing sick prisoners and Jews in a provisional gas chamber in Birkenau (the so-called “little red house”). The tempo of atrocities increased in June and July 1942, with transports of Jews sent to Auschwitz being subjected to systematic “selections” during which SS doctors sentenced people classified as unfit for labor to death.
At the same time, the Germans set about liquidating the ghettos in occupied Poland. July 22, 1942, when the deportation of Jews from Warsaw to the death camp in Treblinka began, is regarded as a symbolic date. A decided majority of the Polish Jews were killed in a little over half a year, after which the SS began liquidating the Aktion Reinhard camps. However, the last great death camp—Auschwitz—remained in existence until the beginning of 1945. It was mainly Jews from Western and Southern Europe, from the liquidated labor camps, and the ghettos in Sosnowiec and Łódź, who died in the gas chambers there.
This time around, the final solution will be performed by Islam on a worldwide scale.
Negotiating with Pharaoh, who represented Satan at that time, will be the Two Witnesses who are seeking to save the remnant of Israel who are being hunted and killed during these next six years or until the end of this 5th Sabbatical Cycle, 2030. Satan will allow them all to come back to the land of Israel, where the plan will be to slaughter them all then. But they escape to Moab for the final 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation.
But maybe your like the Jews before 1938 in Germany denying what your seeing on the news or what I am warning you about here.
Byline: Erez Tadmor on X
A strange spectacle is now taking place on campuses in the USA: hundreds of thousands of people who see themselves as individuals, as rational and fighting for progress and the values of the Enlightenment, have become a blind, law-breaking and violent crowd in the service of a jihadist ideology and a genocidal terrorist organization.
What the h..ll is going on here?
After all, this is not about the fringes of society. These are not unemployed and drunk military veterans in the midst of a global economic crisis like in Germany in the 1930s. These are also not the Diplorbelz from the anti-Semitic wing of the extreme right in the USA.
This strange mass psychosis gripped the crème de la crème of the Western elite most of all.
Those who lead this sick hatred are professors of political science, sociology and law;
The arena in which the play takes place is the campuses of the Ivy League universities that fly on their banner “diversity, equality and inclusion”;
And the money, organization and power come from countless “progressive” left organizations.
The average Israeli watches what is happening and asks himself: How is it possible that enlightened, rational and liberal people have completely lost the ability to distinguish between good and bad and between truth and falsehood?
How is it possible that such educated people succumbed to such inferior propaganda?
How is it possible that human rights organizations have become subcontractors of a genocidal movement like Hamas?
very weird.
But is it really that strange?
Should we as Israelis be surprised that people who consider themselves to be the progressive and rational elite of a Western country, have succumbed to inferior propaganda and turned into violent street gangs that wreak havoc and crush the foundations of society?
You understand where I’m going right?
I’m sorry to break the news to some of you, but what happened here in the year before October 7, and what is happening now on campuses in the USA, is exactly, exactly, you are a phenomenon: mass psychosis.
And those who succumbed to this mass psychosis and allow themselves to cross any red line are more or less the same social factors and forces: “the progressive, enlightened and liberal elite”.
The claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is no more unfounded than the claim that Netanyahu and his opponent Levin tried to turn Israel into a dark dictatorship.
The claim that Israel is the embodiment of evil on earth is no more disproven than the claim that the right-religious coalition is the embodiment of evil on the land of Zion.
And the claim that Israel is an apartheid state is no more unfounded than the claim that Rothman and Litzman planned to turn the childhood of the secular public into slaves.
These are also the poor propaganda vanities that bought them a strike among those who see themselves as the most sophisticated elements in society.
And it’s not just the surrender to propaganda nonsense that is similar. The practice and worship of the victims of psychosis are also almost exactly the same. The activists of the progressive left in the USA are sure that they are fighting for everything that is good and right and moral, so they allow themselves to cross red lines, just like our Kaplanists were sure that the contract was broken, and therefore they are allowed to incite resistance, block roads and criticize elected officials from the right.
So is what is happening now in the US really so strange?
And what can and should we learn from this?
Kristallnacht 1938
Kristallnacht 1938
Kristallnacht (German pronunciation:[kʁɪsˈtalnaχt]ⓘ lit. ’crystal night’) or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (German: Novemberpogrome, pronounced[noˈvɛm.bɐ.poˌɡʁoːmə]ⓘ),[1][2][3] was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party‘s Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening.[4] The euphemistic name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath[5] by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.
Jewish homes, hospitals and schools were ransacked as attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.[6] Rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland.[7] Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed,[8][9] and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.[10] British historian Martin Gilbert wrote that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and the accounts from foreign journalists working in Germany drew worldwide attention.[6]The Times of London observed on 11 November 1938: “No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenceless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.”[11]
Estimates of fatalities caused by the attacks have varied. Early reports estimated that 91 Jews had been murdered.[a] Modern analysis of German scholarly sources puts the figure much higher; when deaths from post-arrest maltreatment and subsequent suicides are included, the death toll reaches the hundreds, with Richard J. Evans estimating 638 deaths by suicide.[12][13] Historians view Kristallnacht as a prelude to the Final Solution and the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust.[14]
Early Nazi persecutions
In the 1920s, most German Jews were fully integrated into the country’s society as citizens. They served in the army and navy and contributed to every field of German business, science and culture.[15] Conditions for German Jews began to worsen after the appointment of Adolf Hitler (the Austrian-born leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, and the Enabling Act (implemented 23 March 1933) which enabled the assumption of power by Hitler after the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933.[16][17] From its inception, Hitler’s regime moved quickly to introduce anti-Jewish policies. Nazi propaganda alienated the 500,000 Jews living in Germany, who accounted for only 0.86% of the overall population, and framed them as an enemy responsible for Germany’s defeat in the First World War and for its subsequent economic disasters, such as the 1920s hyperinflation and the subsequent Great Depression.[18] Beginning in 1933, the German government enacted a series of anti-Jewish laws restricting the rights of German Jews to earn a living, to enjoy full citizenship and to gain education, including the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of 7 April 1933, which forbade Jews to work in the civil service.[19] The subsequent 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited Jews from marrying non-Jewish Germans.
These laws resulted in the exclusion and alienation of Jews from German social and political life.[20] Many sought asylum abroad; hundreds of thousands emigrated, but as Chaim Weizmann wrote in 1936, “The world seemed to be divided into two parts—those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter.”[21] The international Évian Conference on 6 July 1938 addressed the issue of Jewish and Romani immigration to other countries. By the time the conference took place, more than 250,000 Jews had fled Germany and Austria, which had been annexed by Germany in March 1938; more than 300,000 German and Austrian Jews continued to seek refuge and asylum from oppression. As the number of Jews and Romani wanting to leave increased, the restrictions against them grew, with many countries tightening their rules for admission. By 1938, Germany “had entered a new radical phase in anti-Semitic activity”.[22] Some historians believe that the Nazi government had been contemplating a planned outbreak of violence against the Jews and were waiting for an appropriate provocation; there is evidence of this planning dating back to 1937.[23] In a 1997 interview, the German historian Hans Mommsen claimed that a major motive for the pogrom was the desire of the Gauleiters of the NSDAP to seize Jewish property and businesses.[24] Mommsen stated:
The need for money by the party organization stemmed from the fact that Franz Xaver Schwarz, the party treasurer, kept the local and regional organizations of the party short of money. In the fall of 1938, the increased pressure on Jewish property nourished the party’s ambition, especially since Hjalmar Schacht had been ousted as Reich minister for economics. This, however, was only one aspect of the origin of the November 1938 pogrom. The Polish government threatened to extradite all Jews who were Polish citizens but would stay in Germany, thus creating a burden of responsibility on the German side. The immediate reaction by the Gestapo was to push the Polish Jews—16,000 persons—over the borderline, but this measure failed due to the stubbornness of the Polish customs officers. The loss of prestige as a result of this abortive operation called for some sort of compensation. Thus, the overreaction to Herschel Grynszpan’s attempt against the diplomat Ernst vom Rath came into being and led to the November pogrom. The background of the pogrom was signified by a sharp cleavage of interests between the different agencies of party and state. While the Nazi party was interested in improving its financial strength on the regional and local level by taking over Jewish property, Hermann Göring, in charge of the Four-Year Plan, hoped to acquire access to foreign currency in order to pay for the import of urgently-needed raw material. Heydrich and Himmler were interested in fostering Jewish emigration.[24]
The Zionist leadership in the British Mandate of Palestine wrote in February 1938 that according to “a very reliable private source—one which can be traced back to the highest echelons of the SS leadership”, there was “an intention to carry out a genuine and dramatic pogrom in Germany on a large scale in the near future”.[25]
Polish Jews expelled from Germany in late October 1938
In August 1938, German authorities announced that residence permits for foreigners were being canceled and would have to be renewed.[citation needed] This included German-born Jews of foreign citizenship. Poland stated that it would renounce citizenship rights of Polish Jews living abroad for at least five years after the end of October, effectively making them stateless.[26] In the so-called “Polenaktion“, more than 12,000 Polish Jews, among them the philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and future literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki were expelled from Germany on 28 October 1938, on Hitler’s orders. They were ordered to leave their homes in a single night and were allowed only one suitcase per person to carry their belongings. As the Jews were taken away, their remaining possessions were seized as loot both by Nazi authorities and by neighbors.[citation needed]
The deportees were taken from their homes to railway stations and were put on trains to the Polish border, where Polish border guards sent them back into Germany. This stalemate continued for days in the pouring rain, with the Jews marching without food or shelter between the borders.[27] Four thousand were granted entry into Poland, but the remaining 8,000 were forced to stay at the border. They waited there in harsh conditions to be allowed to enter Poland. A British newspaper told its readers that hundreds “are reported to be lying about, penniless and deserted, in little villages along the frontier near where they had been driven out by the Gestapo and left.”[28] Conditions in the refugee camps “were so bad that some actually tried to escape back into Germany and were shot”, recalled a British woman who was sent to help those who had been expelled.[29]
Among those expelled was the family of Sendel and Riva Grynszpan, Polish Jews who had emigrated to Germany in 1911 and settled in Hanover, Germany. At the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, Sendel Grynszpan recounted the events of their deportation from Hanover on the night of 27 October 1938: “Then they took us in police trucks, in prisoners’ lorries, about 20 men in each truck, and they took us to the railway station. The streets were full of people shouting: ‘Juden Raus! Auf Nach Palästina!‘” (“Jews out, out to Palestine!”).[30] Their seventeen-year-old son Herschel was living in Paris with an uncle.[14] Herschel received a postcard from his family from the Polish border, describing the family’s expulsion: “No one told us what was up, but we realized this was going to be the end … We haven’t a penny. Could you send us something?”[31] He received the postcard on 3 November 1938.
On the morning of Monday, 7 November 1938, he purchased a revolver and a box of bullets, then went to the German embassy and asked to see an embassy official. After he was taken to the office of Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath, Grynszpan fired five bullets at Vom Rath, two of which hit him in the abdomen. Vom Rath was a professional diplomat with the Foreign Office who expressed anti-Nazi sympathies, largely based on the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews and was under Gestapo investigation for being politically unreliable.[32] However, he also argued that the anti-Semitic laws were “necessary” to allow the Volksgemeinschaft to flourish.[33]
Grynszpan made no attempt to escape the French police and freely confessed to the shooting. In his pocket, he carried a postcard to his parents with the message, “May God forgive me … I must protest so that the whole world hears my protest, and that I will do.” It is widely assumed that the assassination was politically motivated, but historian Hans-Jürgen Döscher says the shooting may have been the result of a homosexual love affair gone wrong, and that Grynszpan and vom Rath had become intimate after they met in Le Boeuf sur le Toit, which was a popular meeting place for gay men at the time.[34]
The next day, the German government retaliated, barring Jewish children from German state elementary schools, indefinitely suspending Jewish cultural activities, and putting a halt to the publication of Jewish newspapers and magazines, including the three national German Jewish newspapers. A newspaper in Britain described the last move, which cut off the Jewish populace from their leaders, as “intended to disrupt the Jewish community and rob it of the last frail ties which hold it together.”[18] Their rights as citizens had been stripped.[35] One of the first legal measures issued was an order by Heinrich Himmler, commander of all German police, forbidding Jews to possess any weapons whatsoever and imposing a penalty of twenty years’ confinement in a concentration camp upon every Jew found in possession of a weapon hereafter.[36]
Ernst vom Rath died of his wounds on 9 November 1938. Word of his death reached Hitler that evening while he was with several key members of the Nazi party at a dinner commemorating the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. After intense discussions, Hitler left the assembly abruptly without giving his usual address. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered the speech, in his place, and said that “the Führer has decided that… demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered.”[37] The chief party judge Walter Buch later stated that the message was clear; with these words, Goebbels had commanded the party leaders to organize a pogrom.[38]
Some leading party officials disagreed with Goebbels’ actions, fearing the diplomatic crisis it would provoke. Heinrich Himmler wrote, “I suppose that it is Goebbels’s megalomania…and stupidity which is responsible for starting this operation now, in a particularly difficult diplomatic situation.”[39] The Israeli historian Saul Friedländer believes that Goebbels had personal reasons for wanting to bring about Kristallnacht. Goebbels had recently suffered humiliation for the ineffectiveness of his propaganda campaign during the Sudeten crisis, and was in some disgrace over an affair with a Czech actress, Lída Baarová. Goebbels needed a chance to improve his standing in the eyes of Hitler. At 1:20 a.m. on 10 November 1938, Reinhard Heydrich sent an urgent secret telegram to the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo) and the Sturmabteilung (SA), containing instructions regarding the riots. This included guidelines for the protection of foreigners and non-Jewish businesses and property. Police were instructed not to interfere with the riots unless the guidelines were violated. Police were also instructed to seize Jewish archives from synagogues and community offices, and to arrest and detain “healthy male Jews, who are not too old”, for eventual transfer to (labor) concentration camps.[40]Heinrich Müller, in a message to SA and SS commanders, stated the “most extreme measures” were to be taken against Jewish people.[41]
Beginning on November 9, the SA and Hitler Youth shattered the windows of about 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses, hence the name Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), and looted their goods.[42][7] Jewish homes were ransacked all throughout Germany. Although violence against Jews had not been explicitly condoned by the authorities, there were cases of Jews being beaten or assaulted. Following the violence, police departments recorded a large number of suicides and rapes.[7]
The rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland.[7] Over 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms,[43] many Jewish cemeteries, more than 7,000 Jewish shops, and 29 department stores were damaged, and in many cases destroyed. More than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps; primarily Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.[44]
The synagogues, some centuries old, were also victims of considerable violence and vandalism, with the tactics the Stormtroopers practiced on these and other sacred sites described as “approaching the ghoulish” by the United States Consul in Leipzig. Tombstones were uprooted and graves violated. Fires were lit, and prayer books, scrolls, artwork and philosophy texts were thrown upon them, and precious buildings were either burned or smashed until unrecognizable. Eric Lucas recalls the destruction of the synagogue that a tiny Jewish community had constructed in a small village only twelve years earlier:
It did not take long before the first heavy grey stones came tumbling down, and the children of the village amused themselves as they flung stones into the many colored windows. When the first rays of a cold and pale November sun penetrated the heavy dark clouds, the little synagogue was but a heap of stone, broken glass and smashed-up woodwork.[45]
The Daily Telegraph correspondent, Hugh Greene, wrote of events in Berlin:
Mob law ruled in Berlin throughout the afternoon and evening and hordes of hooligans indulged in an orgy of destruction. I have seen several anti-Jewish outbreaks in Germany during the last five years, but never anything as nauseating as this. Racial hatred and hysteria seemed to have taken complete hold of otherwise decent people. I saw fashionably dressed women clapping their hands and screaming with glee, while respectable middle-class mothers held up their babies to see the ‘fun’.[46]
Many Berliners were, however, deeply ashamed of the pogrom, and some took great personal risks to offer help to their beleaguered Jewish neighbors. The son of a US consular official heard the janitor of his block cry: “They must have emptied the insane asylums and penitentiaries to find people who’d do things like that!”[47]
KOLD briefly reported on a 2008 remembrance meeting at a local Jewish congregation. According to eyewitness Esther Harris: “They ripped up the belongings, the books, knocked over furniture, shouted obscenities”.[48] Historian Gerhard Weinberg is quoted as saying:
Houses of worship burned down, vandalized, in every community in the country where people either participate or watch.[48]
A ruined synagogue in Munich after Kristallnacht A ruined synagogue in Eisenach after Kristallnacht
The former German KaiserWilhelm II commented “For the first time, I am ashamed to be German.”[49]
Göring, who was in favor of expropriating the property of the Jews rather than destroying it as had happened in the pogrom, directly complained to Sicherheitspolizei Chief Heydrich immediately after the events: “I’d rather you had done in two-hundred Jews than destroy so many valuable assets!” (“Mir wäre lieber gewesen, ihr hättet 200 Juden erschlagen und hättet nicht solche Werte vernichtet!”).[50] Göring met with other members of the Nazi leadership on 12 November to plan the next steps after the riot, setting the stage for formal government action. In the transcript of the meeting, Göring said,
I have received a letter written on the Führer‘s orders requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, coordinated and solved one way or another… I should not want to leave any doubt, gentlemen, as to the aim of today’s meeting. We have not come together merely to talk again, but to make decisions, and I implore competent agencies to take all measures for the elimination of the Jew from the German economy, and to submit them to me.[51]
The persecution and economic damage inflicted upon German Jews continued after the pogrom, even as their places of business were ransacked. They were forced to pay Judenvermögensabgabe, a collective fine or “atonement contribution” of one billion Reichsmarks for the murder of vom Rath (equivalent to 4 billion 2021 € or 7 billion in 2020 USD), which was levied by the compulsory acquisition of 20% of all Jewish property by the state. Six million Reichsmarks of insurance payments for property damage due to the Jewish community were instead paid to the Reich government as “damages to the German Nation”. Jews were required to pay for the cost of all damages caused by the pogrom to their residences and businesses.[52][53][54]
The number of emigrating Jews surged, as those who were able to left the country. In the ten months following Kristallnacht, more than 115,000 Jews emigrated from the Reich.[55] The majority went to other European countries, the United States or Mandatory Palestine, though at least 14,000 made it to Shanghai, China. As part of government policy, the Nazis seized houses, shops, and other property the émigrés left behind. Many of the destroyed remains of Jewish property plundered during Kristallnacht were dumped near Brandenburg. In October 2008, this dumpsite was discovered by Yaron Svoray, an investigative journalist. The site, the size of four football fields, contained an extensive array of personal and ceremonial items looted during the riots against Jewish property and places of worship on the night of 9 November 1938. It is believed the goods were brought by rail to the outskirts of the village and dumped on designated land. Among the items found were glass bottles engraved with the Star of David, mezuzot, painted window sills, and the armrests of chairs found in synagogues, in addition to an ornamental swastika.[56]
England offered to sponsor 10,000 Jewish Children to leave Germany:
David Ben-Gurion:“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”[57]
The reaction of non-Jewish Germans to Kristallnacht was varied. Many spectators gathered on the scenes, most of them in silence. The local fire departments confined themselves to prevent the flames from spreading to neighboring buildings. In Berlin, police Lieutenant Otto Bellgardt barred SA troopers from setting the New Synagogue on fire, earning his superior officer a verbal reprimand from the commissioner.[58]
Portrait of Paul Ehrlich, damaged on Kristallnacht, then restored by a German neighbor
The British historian Martin Gilbert believes that “many non-Jews resented the round-up”,[59] his opinion being supported by German witness Dr. Arthur Flehinger who recalls seeing “people crying while watching from behind their curtains”.[60] Rolf Dessauers recalls how a neighbor came forward and restored a portrait of Paul Ehrlich that had been “slashed to ribbons” by the Sturmabteilung. “He wanted it to be known that not all Germans supported Kristallnacht.”[61]
The extent of the damage done on Kristallnacht was so great that many Germans are said to have expressed their disapproval of it, and to have described it as senseless.[62] There was however no personal comment or even acknowledgment from the German leader Adolf Hitler himself about Kristallnacht.[63]
In an article released for publication on the evening of 11 November, Goebbels ascribed the events of Kristallnacht to the “healthy instincts” of the German people. He went on to explain: “The German people are anti-Semitic. It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race.”[64] Less than 24 hours after Kristallnacht, Adolf Hitler made a one-hour long speech in front of a group of journalists where he completely ignored the recent events on everyone’s mind. According to Eugene Davidson the reason for this was that Hitler wished to avoid being directly connected to an event that he was aware that many of those present condemned, regardless of Goebbels’s unconvincing explanation that Kristallnacht was caused by popular wrath.[63] Goebbels met the foreign press in the afternoon of 11 November and said that the burning of synagogues and damage to Jewish owned property had been “spontaneous manifestations of indignation against the murder of Herr Vom Rath by the young Jew Grynsban [sic]”.[65]
In 1938, just after Kristallnacht, the psychologist Michael Müller-Claudius interviewed 41 randomly selected Nazi Party members on their attitudes towards racial persecution. Of the interviewed party-members 63% expressed extreme indignation against it, while only 5% expressed approval of racial persecution, the rest being noncommittal.[66] A study conducted in 1933 had then shown that 33% of Nazi Party members held no racial prejudice while 13% supported persecution. Sarah Ann Gordon sees two possible reasons for this difference. First, by 1938 large numbers of Germans had joined the Nazi Party for pragmatic reasons rather than ideology thus diluting the percentage of rabid antisemites; second, the Kristallnacht could have caused party members to reject antisemitism that had been acceptable to them in abstract terms but which they could not support when they saw it concretely enacted.[67] During the events of Kristallnacht, several Gauleiter and deputy Gauleiters had refused orders to enact the Kristallnacht, and many leaders of the SA and of the Hitler Youth also openly refused party orders, while expressing disgust.[68] Some Nazis helped Jews during the Kristallnacht.[68]
After 1945 some synagogues were restored. This one in Berlin features a plaque, reading “Never forget”, a common expression around Berlin
As it was aware that the German public did not support the Kristallnacht, the propaganda ministry directed the German press to portray opponents of racial persecution as disloyal.[69] The press was also under orders to downplay the Kristallnacht, describing general events at the local level only, with prohibition against depictions of individual events.[70] In 1939 this was extended to a prohibition on reporting any anti-Jewish measures.[71]
The U.S. ambassador to Germany reported:
In view of this being a totalitarian state a surprising characteristic of the situation here is the intensity and scope among German citizens of condemnation of the recent happenings against Jews.[72]
To the consternation of the Nazis, the Kristallnacht affected public opinion counter to their desires, the peak of opposition against the Nazi racial policies was reached just then, when according to almost all accounts the vast majority of Germans rejected the violence perpetrated against the Jews.[73] Verbal complaints grew rapidly in numbers, and for example, the Düsseldorf branch of the Gestapo reported a sharp decline in anti-Semitic attitudes among the population.[74]
There are many indications of Protestant and Catholic disapproval of racial persecution; for example, anti-Nazi Protestants adopted the Barmen Declaration in 1934, and the Catholic church had already distributed pastoral letters critical of Nazi racial ideology, and the Nazi regime expected to encounter organised resistance from it following Kristallnacht.[75] The Catholic leadership however, just as the various Protestant churches, refrained from responding with organised action.[75]
Martin Sasse, Nazi Party member and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, leading member of the Nazi German Christians, one of the schismatic factions of German Protestantism, published a compendium of Martin Luther‘s writings shortly after the Kristallnacht; Sasse “applauded the burning of the synagogues” and the coincidence of the day, writing in the introduction, “On 10 November 1938, on Luther’s birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany.” The German people, he urged, ought to heed these words “of the greatest anti-Semite of his time, the warner of his people against the Jews.”[76]Diarmaid MacCulloch argued that Luther’s 1543 pamphlet, On the Jews and Their Lies was a “blueprint” for the Kristallnacht.[77]
British Jews protest against immigration restrictions to Palestine after Kristallnacht, November 1938
Kristallnacht sparked international outrage. According to Volker Ullrich, “…a line had been crossed: Germany had left the community of civilised nations.”[78] It discredited pro-Nazi movements in Europe and North America, leading to a sharp decline in their support. Many newspapers condemned Kristallnacht, with some of them comparing it to the murderous pogroms incited by Imperial Russia during the 1880s. The United States recalled its ambassador (but it did not break off diplomatic relations) while other governments severed diplomatic relations with Germany in protest. The British government approved the Kindertransport program for refugee children.
Kristallnacht marked a turning point in relations between Nazi Germany and the rest of the world. The brutality of the pogrom, and the Nazi government’s deliberate policy of encouraging the violence once it had begun, laid bare the repressive nature and widespread anti-Semitism entrenched in Germany. World opinion thus turned sharply against the Nazi regime, with some politicians calling for war. On 6 December 1938, William Cooper, an Aboriginal Australian, led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League on a march through Melbourne to the German Consulate to deliver a petition which condemned the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany”. German officials refused to accept the tendered document.[79]
After the end of World War II, there were hundreds of trials over Kristallnacht. The trials were conducted exclusively by German and Austrian courts; the Allied occupation authorities did not have jurisdiction since none of the victims were Allied nationals.[82]
Kristallnacht changed the nature of Nazi Germany’s persecution of the Jews from economic, political, and social exclusion to physical violence, including beatings, incarceration, and murder; the event is often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust. In this view, it is not only described as a pogrom, it is also described as a critical stage within a process in which each step becomes the seed of the next step.[83] An account cited that Hitler’s green light for Kristallnacht was made with the belief that it would help him realize his ambition of getting rid of the Jews in Germany.[83] Prior to this large-scale and organized violence against the Jews, the Nazi’s primary objective was to eject them from Germany, leaving their wealth behind.[83] In the words of historian Max Rein in 1988, “Kristallnacht came…and everything was changed.”[84]
While November 1938 predated the overt articulation of “the Final Solution“, it foreshadowed the genocide to come. Around the time of Kristallnacht, the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps called for a “destruction by swords and flames.” At a conference on the day after the pogrom, Hermann Göring said: “The Jewish problem will reach its solution if, in anytime soon, we will be drawn into war beyond our border—then it is obvious that we will have to manage a final account with the Jews.”[18]
Kristallnacht was also instrumental in changing global public opinion. In the United States, for instance, it was this specific incident that came to symbolize Nazism, forging the association between National Socialism and evil.[85]
Five decades later, 9 November‘s association with the anniversary of Kristallnacht, as well as the earlier Beer Hall Putsch, was cited as the main reason as to why Schicksalstag, the day the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, was not turned into a new German national holiday; a different day was chosen (3 October 1990, German reunification).[citation needed]
The avant-garde guitarist Gary Lucas‘s 1988 composition “Verklärte Kristallnacht”, which juxtaposes what would become the Israeli national anthem ten years after Kristallnacht, “Hatikvah“, with phrases from the German national anthem “Deutschland Über Alles” amid wild electronic shrieks and noise, is intended to be a sonic representation of the horrors of Kristallnacht. It was premiered at the 1988 Berlin Jazz Festival and received rave reviews. (The title is a reference to Arnold Schoenberg‘s 1899 work “Verklärte Nacht” that presaged his pioneering work on atonal music; Schoenberg was an Austrian Jew who would move to the United States to escape the Nazis).[86]
Kristallnacht was the inspiration for the 1993 album Kristallnacht by the composer John Zorn. The German power metal band Masterplan‘s debut album, Masterplan (2003), features an anti-Nazi song entitled “Crystal Night” as the fourth track. The German band BAP published a song titled “Kristallnaach” in their Colognedialect, dealing with the emotions engendered by the Kristallnacht.[88]
Kristallnacht was the inspiration for the 1988 composition Mayn Yngele by the composer Frederic Rzewski, of which he says: “I began writing this piece in November 1988, on the 50th anniversary of the Kristallnacht … My piece is a reflection on that vanished part of Jewish tradition which so strongly colors, by its absence, the culture of our time”.[89]
In 2014, the Wall Street Journal published a letter from billionaire Thomas Perkins that compared the “progressive war on the American one percent” of wealthiest Americans and the Occupy movement‘s “demonization of the rich” to the Kristallnacht and antisemitism in Nazi Germany.[90] The letter was widely criticized and condemned in The Atlantic,[91]The Independent,[92] among bloggers, Twitter users, and “his own colleagues in Silicon Valley“.[93] Perkins subsequently apologized for making the comparisons with Nazi Germany, but otherwise stood by his letter, saying, “In the Nazi era it was racial demonization, now it’s class demonization.”[93]
Kristallnacht has been referenced both explicitly and implicitly in countless cases of vandalism of Jewish property including the toppling of gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in suburban St. Louis, Missouri,[94] and the two 2017 vandalisms of the New England Holocaust Memorial, as the memorial’s founder Steve Ross discusses in his book, From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation.[95] The Sri Lankan Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera also used the term to describe the violence in 2019 against Muslims by Sinhalese nationalists.[96]
On 9 November 2022, KFC app users in Germany were sent a message reading “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken.” KFC issued an apology approximately an hour later, blaming the original message on an “error in our system”.[99]
There are not enough words. You must watch this video. Everything we haver shared in this Newsletter shows the ignorance of the universities and those leading the protests. You must share this video. Those protesting will become the next victims of Hamas.
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Mike 🙂
on 30/04/2024 at 12:11 pm
Indeed, I think that we are seeing history repeat itself. One video that should be included in this week’s newsletter is Netanyahu’s speech on April 24 (their calculated Passover date) comparing what is going on in the United States to events in Nazi Germany prior to World War 2:
Undoubtedly, we are all seeming to understanding the timing of what is happening, but it is still so shocking that it taking us a bit to really recognize it (see the “Abomination Counts” section as well as my 1290-day calculations in the comments section at the bottom of this recent newsletter: https://sightedmoon.com/what-does-silaged-wheat-mean/).
Indeed, I think that we are seeing history repeat itself. One video that should be included in this week’s newsletter is Netanyahu’s speech on April 24 (their calculated Passover date) comparing what is going on in the United States to events in Nazi Germany prior to World War 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2T7DQzsUDE
Undoubtedly, we are all seeming to understanding the timing of what is happening, but it is still so shocking that it taking us a bit to really recognize it (see the “Abomination Counts” section as well as my 1290-day calculations in the comments section at the bottom of this recent newsletter: https://sightedmoon.com/what-does-silaged-wheat-mean/).