By Jonathan Brentner: Like many of you, recent statements by President Donald Trump trouble me. In a well-documented boast, he exclaimed, “Tell you what, if there wasn’t me, there would be no Israel right now.”
It’s clear that God has used the president to aid and defend Israel. I believe that’s why the Lord kept him safe from the assassins’ bullets in 2024. But his claim of responsibility for Israel’s survival not only assigns undue credit to himself, but it also displays ignorance of Bible prophecy.
Let’s first tackle the matter of Israel’s place in the end times. Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White, adheres to a belief whereby the church brings in the golden age of the millennium. This teaching regards Israel’s 1948 reemergence as a nation as a fluke of history; as such, Israel is no different than any other country in the world. The Bible, however, reveals a much different picture of the future where Jesus, not the church, rules for a thousand years over the nations. Scripture also reveals the prominent place of Israel in His worldwide kingdom.
Although God has used Trump to advance His sovereign agenda in regard to Israel, He remains in total control of all that happens to the nation between now and the end of the Tribulation period. His purposes do not rest with any human ruler. Not only that, not even the antichrist with his brief acquisition of great power will be able to stop God’s purposes for the Jewish people.
The president’s usurping of glory due to the Lord is another matter. Trump doesn’t understand his role as God’s instrument in supporting Israel.
It’s clear that God has used the president to aid and defend Israel. I believe that’s why the Lord kept him safe from the assassins’ bullets in 2024. But his claim of responsibility for Israel’s survival not only assigns undue credit to himself, but it also displays ignorance of Bible prophecy.
Let’s first tackle the matter of Israel’s place in the end times. Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White, adheres to a belief whereby the church brings in the golden age of the millennium. This teaching regards Israel’s 1948 reemergence as a nation as a fluke of history; as such, Israel is no different than any other country in the world. The Bible, however, reveals a much different picture of the future where Jesus, not the church, rules for a thousand years over the nations. Scripture also reveals the prominent place of Israel in His worldwide kingdom.
Although God has used Trump to advance His sovereign agenda in regard to Israel, He remains in total control of all that happens to the nation between now and the end of the Tribulation period. His purposes do not rest with any human ruler. Not only that, not even the antichrist with his brief acquisition of great power will be able to stop God’s purposes for the Jewish people.
The president’s usurping of glory due to the Lord is another matter. Trump doesn’t understand his role as God’s instrument in supporting Israel.
Prophecy News Watch
By PNW Staff: For much of the past year, Israel has achieved what many believed was impossible.
It has battered Iran's military infrastructure. It has weakened Hezbollah. It has struck deep into Iranian territory. It has demonstrated intelligence and military capabilities that few nations on earth can match. Even many of Israel's critics would acknowledge that the Jewish state emerged from this conflict having inflicted tremendous damage on its enemies.
And yet, despite all those battlefield victories, Israel now finds itself confronting a strategic paradox.
It may have won the war, only to discover that the peace is far more dangerous.
The emerging U.S.-Iran agreement championed by President Trump has been met with widespread skepticism and outright hostility across much of Israel's political spectrum. Israeli media outlets, opposition leaders, security analysts, and even members of Netanyahu's own coalition have criticized the agreement as one that leaves many of the core threats facing Israel unresolved.
Reports indicate that key issues such as Iran's missile arsenal, support for regional proxy groups, and aspects of its nuclear program may remain outside the scope of the current negotiations.
That is the heart of Israel's dilemma.
It has battered Iran's military infrastructure. It has weakened Hezbollah. It has struck deep into Iranian territory. It has demonstrated intelligence and military capabilities that few nations on earth can match. Even many of Israel's critics would acknowledge that the Jewish state emerged from this conflict having inflicted tremendous damage on its enemies.
And yet, despite all those battlefield victories, Israel now finds itself confronting a strategic paradox.
It may have won the war, only to discover that the peace is far more dangerous.
The emerging U.S.-Iran agreement championed by President Trump has been met with widespread skepticism and outright hostility across much of Israel's political spectrum. Israeli media outlets, opposition leaders, security analysts, and even members of Netanyahu's own coalition have criticized the agreement as one that leaves many of the core threats facing Israel unresolved.
Reports indicate that key issues such as Iran's missile arsenal, support for regional proxy groups, and aspects of its nuclear program may remain outside the scope of the current negotiations.
That is the heart of Israel's dilemma.
Israel 365 News
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: The United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday, with Vice President JD Vance confirming Monday that both he and President Donald Trump digitally signed the MOU alongside Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, formally halting the US-Israeli military campaign launched against Iran on February 28. A formal in-person signing ceremony is scheduled for Friday in Switzerland, with Vance, Ghalibaf, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and senior Trump aides Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner all expected to attend.
The deal, whose full text has not yet been released, is reported to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, lift the US blockade of Iranian ports, and establish a 60-day framework for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Trump, speaking from the G7 summit in Versailles, declared the strait “partially” reopened and promised it would be “completely open” by Friday’s ceremony. Senior US officials clarified, however, that normal shipping traffic could take weeks to resume, as mines must first be cleared.
The MOU also reportedly extends the existing ceasefire to Lebanon, effectively halting Israel’s ongoing operations against Hezbollah. a provision Jerusalem has refused to formally accept. Netanyahu, at his first press conference since March, said Israel does not yet know the final terms of the deal, and insisted that any agreement must be backed by a credible military threat. “With or without an agreement, Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” he declared. “As long as I am prime minister, it will not happen.”
The deal, whose full text has not yet been released, is reported to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, lift the US blockade of Iranian ports, and establish a 60-day framework for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Trump, speaking from the G7 summit in Versailles, declared the strait “partially” reopened and promised it would be “completely open” by Friday’s ceremony. Senior US officials clarified, however, that normal shipping traffic could take weeks to resume, as mines must first be cleared.
The MOU also reportedly extends the existing ceasefire to Lebanon, effectively halting Israel’s ongoing operations against Hezbollah. a provision Jerusalem has refused to formally accept. Netanyahu, at his first press conference since March, said Israel does not yet know the final terms of the deal, and insisted that any agreement must be backed by a credible military threat. “With or without an agreement, Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” he declared. “As long as I am prime minister, it will not happen.”
Geller Report
By Pamela Geller: Jihadi Mayor Zohran Mamdani gutted legal protections for Jewish New Yorkers in his first hours in office, then his administration illegally buried the records that could expose why City Hall did it, who helped shape the decision, and how far its anti-Israel agenda now reaches, a new lawsuit alleges.
The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court by veteran investigative journalist Richard Behar, seeks to force the city and Mamdani to turn over public records tied to Executive Order No. 1, the mayor’s Jan. 1, 2026 order rescinding a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel and ensuing explosion of anti-Jewish bigotry across the U.S.
Adams’ orders created the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, barred city participation in BDS-style discrimination against Israel, protected Israeli investments and economic ties, and directed enhanced NYPD protections for houses of worship.
Mamdani wiped those protections out on day one.
Then, according to court filings, City Hall did all it could to keep the public from knowing why and how Mamdani’s decision was made — including who may have influenced it.
The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court by veteran investigative journalist Richard Behar, seeks to force the city and Mamdani to turn over public records tied to Executive Order No. 1, the mayor’s Jan. 1, 2026 order rescinding a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel and ensuing explosion of anti-Jewish bigotry across the U.S.
Adams’ orders created the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, barred city participation in BDS-style discrimination against Israel, protected Israeli investments and economic ties, and directed enhanced NYPD protections for houses of worship.
Mamdani wiped those protections out on day one.
Then, according to court filings, City Hall did all it could to keep the public from knowing why and how Mamdani’s decision was made — including who may have influenced it.
Front Page Magazine
By Daniel Greenfield: Marxism is basically a template that you can plug anything into. The more identities you invent, the more things you plug into the formula, and create more intersectionality. The results can be completely ridiculous, but ridiculous is a perception and once the narrative sets in, leftists are very good at making ridiculous things, like destroying civilization, believing that women don’t exist and terrorists are the victims seem right, and their opposites appear absurd.
So yes, Fat Studies is a very stupid concept that you can currently find at Harvard and many other colleges. And like most forms of Marxism, it’s lunacy, but it’s just following the completely bonkers template of mixing together ‘Nazis’, ‘Slavery’ and ‘Hatred of Jews and Love of Hamas’ to create the ‘Latest Thing‘.
So yes, Fat Studies is a very stupid concept that you can currently find at Harvard and many other colleges. And like most forms of Marxism, it’s lunacy, but it’s just following the completely bonkers template of mixing together ‘Nazis’, ‘Slavery’ and ‘Hatred of Jews and Love of Hamas’ to create the ‘Latest Thing‘.
White people were blamed for creating the notion that “whites are thin” as a way of oppressing black people. Medicine was described as another culprit: there is no such thing, we were told, as a “healthy diet.” Instead, “a healthy diet is what you like to eat.” Further, children were described as having an innate ability to sense how much food and what kind of food they need....if you think this is crazy, it’s just getting started with the claim that viewing morbid obesity negatively was invented by the Nazis. And apparently the Jews.
Leo Hohmann’s Newsletter
By Leo Hohmann: If you want to understand why America is in decline, why freedom is evaporating, and why I am pessimistic that the slow erosion of the American spirit is unlikely reverse itself anytime soon, just look at New York City.
This cesspool of technocratic tyranny continues to boil while the frogs inside are not even close to realizing that the heat is about to cook the life out of them.
When the New York Knicks last week won their first NBA championship since 1973, New Yorkers of all political stripes took to the streets to celebrate. Some rioted, turning over vehicles and setting fire to public property.
A basketball game was all it took to spark an organic, unified uprising that made the world take notice. Watch local news report below
This cesspool of technocratic tyranny continues to boil while the frogs inside are not even close to realizing that the heat is about to cook the life out of them.
When the New York Knicks last week won their first NBA championship since 1973, New Yorkers of all political stripes took to the streets to celebrate. Some rioted, turning over vehicles and setting fire to public property.
A basketball game was all it took to spark an organic, unified uprising that made the world take notice. Watch local news report below
All Israel News / Press
Harbinger’s Daily: In a speech to fellow South Carolina Republicans on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said, “If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us.”
“To people in my party: I’m tired of this crap,” Graham said, referencing the fact that criticism of Israel has become more commonplace among conservatives.
“Israel is our friend,” he continued. “They’re the most reliable friend we have in the Mideast. They’re a democracy, surrounded by people who would cut their throats if they could. This is not a hard choice if you’re an American.”
Graham went on to say that siding with Israel “is not a hard choice if you’re a Christian.”
“A word of warning: If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us. And we’re not gonna let that happen.”
He also praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his consistent support of Israel.
“To people in my party: I’m tired of this crap,” Graham said, referencing the fact that criticism of Israel has become more commonplace among conservatives.
“Israel is our friend,” he continued. “They’re the most reliable friend we have in the Mideast. They’re a democracy, surrounded by people who would cut their throats if they could. This is not a hard choice if you’re an American.”
Graham went on to say that siding with Israel “is not a hard choice if you’re a Christian.”
“A word of warning: If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us. And we’re not gonna let that happen.”
He also praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his consistent support of Israel.
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The Watchman News Cast
Iran Boasts Of Victory Over U.S. & Israel; Turkey Threatens To Seize Jerusalem
Erick Stakelbeck: Erick Stakelbeck breaks down the newly announced U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, detailing the cease fire, Strait of Hormuz reopening, and 60-day negotiation window. Middle East expert Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins to warn that the deal may reward Iran with billions in sanctions relief while leaving its missile program and terror proxies untouched.