France Will Recognize Palestine, Rise in Anti-Semitism, Conflict Between Thailand and Cambodia

I’ve written about the stunning numbers of migrants arriving into the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. In our main story today, Callum Wood adds a new country to the list: Australia. In the first five months of this year, its population grew 2 percent due to migration. This is causing problems across the country.

Why have all these nations adopted such obviously self-destructive policies? Our main story delves into that too, revealing the lose-lose situation the English-speaking world has gotten itself into.

France will recognize Palestine as an independent state at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Emmanuel Macron announced yesterday. He promised to do it in June, but he didn’t follow through. This time, he sent a formal letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, making it more difficult for him to back down—not that that has stopped the French before. Macron said this recognition would be “consistent with [France’s] historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Macron’s decision “rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became.” He also stated: “A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launchpad to annihilate Israel—not to live in peace beside it. Let’s be clear: The Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel. They seek a state instead of Israel.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also condemned the announcement, saying the “reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda and sets back peace.”

In Britain, a majority of members of Parliament on the Foreign Affairs Committee declared today that Britain should follow suit. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer opposes unilateral recognition. But his party could push him to change his mind.

“Jerusalem is a powder keg, loaded with nuclear potential!” writes Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry. “No city on Earth is so fraught with international tension as Jerusalem!”

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near,” Jesus Christ warned (Luke 21:20; New King James Version). Other Bible scriptures reveal these to be European armies entering the Holy Land under the guise of peacekeepers. Europe’s involvement in the Palestinian peace process is deeply prophetic. To learn more, read Mr. Flurry’s free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy.

Meanwhile, the world is becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. We’re getting a good look at what it was like in the 1930s, when hating Jews was socially acceptable. On July 17, a group of Israelis at a kosher London restaurant were attacked by a woman shouting “Free Palestine!” Last Friday, prominent British-Jewish broadcaster Vanessa Feltz described how somebody chased her through a Tube station with a megaphone, shouting, “Fascist, Zionist scum!” On Tuesday, Israeli cruise ship passengers were prevented from disembarking on the Greek island of Syros by a pro-Palestinian protest, forcing the ship to reroute to Cyprus. The next day, several Israeli teenagers were attacked by a large group of pro-Palestinian thugs, some armed with knives, on the Greek island of Rhodes. Wednesday evening, some 50 French-Jewish students returning from a summer camp in Spain were forcibly removed from their flight after singing in Hebrew. (The Spanish airline Vueling disputes this and says the crowd was being disruptive and unruly.)

Over the last 24 hours, every time I’ve turned on my car radio, the BBC has been broadcasting pro-Palestinian propaganda, claiming Israel is deliberately starving Gazan children to death. As Melanie Phillips wrote: “It is Hamas that has been deliberately killing hundreds of Gazans to prevent them from gaining food from the American-Israeli-run aid points, because it’s been through stealing this aid for its own use that Hamas has remained in power.” Her article has some great insights:

How can we explain this astounding descent from rationality into the sewers of lethal propaganda? How can it be that in Britain, factual evidence about the Gaza war is met with incredulity, “Zionist” has become a term of abuse, and anti-Semitism is now regarded as little more than a device for Jews to sanitize the “crimes” of Israel?

There are many reasons, including ideology, ignorance and wishful thinking. There is also the widespread belief that the UN and humanitarian-rights establishment, which have the status of a secular religion, act with perfect integrity and are incapable of lying or doing evil.

But there are far darker impulses at work—the deep desire to prove that the Jews are bad, that they have a unique and destructive power over world events, that they can never be victims.

That’s why the acute threats to the world posed by Russia, China or Iran, the terrible atrocities against the Druze in Syria or the Christians in Africa, the famine and starvation in Sudan—all are dwarfed in the West by its overwhelming, unhinged, vicious obsession with tiny Israel, the focus of a civilizational disorder that is dragging down not the Jewish state but the West itself.

You need to understand the spiritual reality of today’s world to fully understand those “darker impulses,” something I explain in my article “Truth and Lies About Anti-Semitism.”

Thailand and Cambodia are just about at war. At least 16 people have died as we reach the second day of fighting. The two countries have disputed their border for decades. In May, a Cambodian solder died from gunfire. More recently, a Thai solder lost a leg due to a landmine. Thailand accuses Cambodia of recently mining the border; Cambodia denies it. Both sides accuse the other of firing the first shots yesterday.

Cambodia fired rockets from truck-mounted launchers, while Thailand used an F-16 to bomb Cambodia.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet,” Jesus Christ told His disciples (Matthew 24:6). This would be the long-term condition of mankind.

We don’t expect this war to spiral out of control. Bible prophecy shows that the major powers of Asia will unite to oppose the English-speaking world and Europe. Mankind does not know the way to peace, so expect many conflicts to flare up beyond the major ones prophesied in your Bible. But in that same prophecy, Jesus Christ promised to return and put an end to all wars.

IN OTHER NEWS

Alina Habba is back as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, despite the judiciary pushing her out. President Donald Trump appointed her as first assistant U.S. attorney, meaning she is currently the acting U.S. attorney to fill the vacant position. However, there will likely be another court case over the precise wording of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and whether or not Habba is eligible for appointment. The back-and-forth between Mr. Trump and federal judges continues. But what could the U.S. accomplish if so much time and effort wasn’t bogged down in fights over everything the president does?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was forced to back down on his new anti-corruption bill yesterday. He wanted more government control over the two anti-corruption authorities—arguing that they were infiltrated by Russian secret services and used against Ukraine. It’s plausible, but so is the case his opponents are making: Corrupt government officials wanted to get anti-corruption investigators off their backs. It comes as Zelenskyy’s popularity in Ukraine is falling. Division in Ukraine and loss of trust in its leaders could bring a Russian victory in the war.

Syria is being drawn into an important Middle Eastern alliance. Its interim government asked Turkey to help defend it on Wednesday after Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus and government-linked militia attacked Druze in southern Syria. “As long as our brotherly country, Syria, requests it, Turkey will continue to stand firmly by its side,” a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling party said. He also stated: “The heroic Turkish armed forces will fulfill this both to assist our Syrian brothers and to prevent instability there, which is vital for Turkey’s national security.” On the same day, Saudi Arabia’s investment minister traveled to Damascus with 130 businessmen to sign deals worth over $4 billion at an investment conference. Saudi Arabia and Turkey are pillar members of an alliance prophesied in Psalm 83. Based on this prophecy, Mr. Flurry forecast Syria would join this alliance. “This is not something we can take lightly. This is world news told to you ahead of time! Just watch—keep track of this,” he wrote. You can learn more in his article “Syria’s Fall: Another Key Prophecy Fulfilled.”

After Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its parliamentary majority Sunday, China’s Foreign Ministry said Beijing desires closer collaboration with Tokyo. Our In Brief has more on this prophetic story.