Here are five of the most important news stories this week, as well as relevant links to the full articles and videos here on theTrumpet.com.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Unsurprising Revelation

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a captured Iranian “atomic archive” of nuclear weapons information showing just how close Iran is to creating weapons of mass destruction.

According to The Israel Project, there were four key takeaways from Netanyahu’s speech: “Iran lied about having a nuclear weapons program, it continued to expand its knowledge of nuclear weapons work after the deal, it failed to come clean about its past work in 2015, and the deal is based on lies.”

This revelation corroborates what Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in “Negotiating Human Survival”: “Though many don’t realize it yet, the Western world—and especially America—has been humiliated through this deal. … No words will stop this king of terror because he believes he has a religious duty to bring upon the world a nuclear cataclysm so his messiah can return.”

The Indirect Iran-Israel War Has Become More Direct

The Iranian regime is “now sufficiently emboldened as to directly attack Israel,” wrote David Horovitz for the Times of Israel. This followed startling revelation from the Israel Defense Forces that when Israel’s Apache attack helicopter downed an Iranian drone that had penetrated Israeli airspace from Syria back in February, it hadn’t thwarted a mere reconnaissance mission—it had “thwarted an attack.”

“This is the first time we saw Iran do something against Israel—not by proxy,” a senior Israeli military official told New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “This opened a new period.”

China Buying Control of the Caribbean

On May 1, a financial adviser to the Dominican Republic announced that the country was shifting its policy on Taiwan to consider it a province of China. Beijing reportedly offered the Dominican Republic a $3.1 billion package of investments and loans in exchange for the Caribbean nation severing ties with Taiwan.

Understanding why China wants the Dominican Republic for the short term is simple enough. Understanding China’s long-term strategy requires us to look deeper. That’s because Bible prophecy discusses an economic siege on the United States that will be greatly enabled by Chinese investment on America’s doorstep.

Is Europe’s Border Force About to Become Its Army?

The European Commission wants to dramatically expand the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, according to initial budget proposals released May 2.

The Continent’s border force is currently 1,500 strong, but the budget proposals for 2021 to 2027 will increase the force to 10,000 by 2027.

Europe is on track to have a 10,000-armed force it can deploy anywhere within its borders, even without the target nation’s approval. It’s on track to develop the apparently invincible army that’s described in Revelation 13:4.

Drug Cartels Murder Politicians

Mexico is suffering its bloodiest election campaign in history: Over 80 political candidates have already been assassinated in the lead-up to Mexico’s federal and local elections, which are scheduled for July 1.

According to an analysis released by Etellekt, 90 percent of the violence has occurred against politicians running for state or municipal offices, with 66 percent of the assassinations occurring in the well-known drug trafficking states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz and the state of Mexico.

Drug cartel violence is turning Mexico into a failed state, and it is not limited to the nations south of the Rio Grande. U.S. law enforcement officials estimate that Mexican cartels have infiltrated more than 3,000 U.S. cities.

This is threatening to plunge the entire North American continent into an unprecedented epidemic of violence.

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