‘No Israel’ Without Trump?: Mr. President, God Isn’t Looking For A Partner To Share His Glory: “Tell you what, if there wasn’t me, there would be no Israel right now”… Those were the words of President Trump in an interview on Wednesday. Very respectfully, I want to say to the President of the United States: Mr. Trump, you’re wrong. I understand the instinct. He moved the United States embassy to Jerusalem when every expert swore that it would set the Middle East on fire. It didn’t. He tore up a terrible Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran. He recognized the Golan Heights. He brokered the Abraham Accords. He brought the final Israeli hostages out of the Hamas dungeons in Gaza. Trump has been the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House—and I say that with no asterisk. But Israel doesn’t exist because of any man. Not President Trump. Not Prime Minister Netanyahu. Not Ben-Gurion. Not even King David. Israel exists because God says it will. In Genesis, God made an everlasting covenant with the seed of Abraham. How long is everlasting? It’s forever! God isn’t looking for a partner to share His glory. He is looking for servants who understand whose hand—His hand—is really holding up the nation of Israel. President Trump: be the friend and be the fighter. Keep doing what no president before you had the courage, the chutzpah, to do. But when the cameras are on, and you have the temptation to say, “it’s all about me,” give the credit back to the One it really belongs to. ISRAEL IRAN WAR - Special Update with Amir Tsarfati: [30 minutes] This concerns the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is located in the occupied West Bank and is known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque. Smotrich wrote on Telegram that the site will no longer be administered by the local authority in Hebron. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah condemns the decision, which was announced at the same time Smotrich participated in the construction of a new Israeli settlement near the city. The Tomb of the Patriarchs is an important place for Muslims, Jews and Christians alike. Around 40,000 Palestinians and around 200 Israeli settlers live in the surrounding area. https://swedenherald.com/article/israel-takes-control-of-tomb-of-the-patriarchs-in-hebron The term “status quo” as it relates to the Temple Mount is officially obsolete. The facts on the ground are evolving so rapidly that the phrase no longer really applies. When I last penned an Op-ed on this volatile topic a decade ago, the site’s dynamics were entirely different. For years, any shift on the Mount favored only the Arab community, dictated by the heavy-handed oversight of the Jordanian WAQF. Visiting Jews and Christians were subjected to routine intimidation, harassment, and immediate removal by authorities for the “crime” of whispering a prayer. While the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) strictly enforced its laws against uncovering biblical archaeology there, the WAQF was quietly permitted to use heavy machinery to bulldoze through the holy site, a concession made by past Israeli leadership and the Obama administration to placate threats of violence. The turning point began building in 2015 when a Jerusalem court upheld the fundamental right to Jewish prayer on the Mount... In 2018, Jewish worshippers were finally authorized to pray in designated areas... Today, daily prayer quorums (‘minyanim’ in Hebrew) meet openly during morning and afternoon hours on the eastern perimeter behind the Dome of the Rock, complete with authorized prayer sheets and prostration – Jewish rituals not witnessed on the Mount for centuries. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren envisioned a dedicated Jewish prayer space on the Mount. Decades later, the late Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu submitted official blueprints to the Knesset for a Jewish house of prayer in the open northeastern sector, declaring that the Children of Israel could finally enter the permitted areas in holiness and purity according to Jewish law. During the first week of June, just 2 weeks ago, activists for the first time raised Israeli flags at the site, posing publicly in front of the Dome of the Rock. It’s important to note that the true wonder of the Temple Mount lies not just on what was built on the surface, but in what is poised to be revealed below. With over 50 known underground tunnels awaiting safe exploration, the site is a treasure trove where biblical archaeology is actively coming to life. https://israel365news.com/418879/the-temple-mount-status-quo-in-2026-a-brand-new-era/ Has America Turned Its Back on Israel? | MidEast & Beyond: [One hour]
Israel takes control of Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron:
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