Netanyahu’s Gutsy New Strategy

Germany is rearming. It increasingly sees juicing its military industry as a way to jump-start its languishing economy. Our feature story this morning shows how Germany’s economic minister, Katherina Reiche, is expanding the scope of her position to focus on armaments. She also happens to be the new romantic interest of a man the Trumpet closely watches, former defense minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg.

Benjamin Netanyahu plans to fully occupy Gaza: So say leaks from multiple sources. If this is true, it has to be one of the Israeli prime minister’s gutsiest decisions ever.

Senior official in Netanyahu’s office: The decision has been made—we’re going to occupy Gaza.
—Amit Segal, from Israel’s N12 news

This comes as France, the United Kingdom and Canada are pressuring Netanyahu to wrap up the war in Gaza by threatening to recognize an independent Palestinian state next month. Netanyahu knows that doubling down in this way will bring the world’s hatred down on his head all the more. But if you’re going to stop another October 7, what other option is there?

Segal quoted an anonymous Israeli official saying: “Hamas won’t release more hostages without total surrender, and we won’t surrender. If we don’t act now, the hostages will starve to death and Gaza will remain under Hamas’s control.”

For 22 months, Israel has mostly waged war through limited raids, sending armies after Hamas targets and retreating. Under pressure both from the international community and its own public, it has avoided sending soldiers into areas where Hamas is suspected of keeping hostages. In short, Israel has been trying to squeeze Hamas and manage the conflict rather than seeking total victory.

This strategy hasn’t freed the hostages, it has left Hamas in power, and the world hates Israel anyway. Fail, fail and fail. Time for a new strategy.

In defying the opinion of an irrational world, Benjamin Netanyahu is, as our editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in our most recent print issue, Israel’s “rising lion.”

And yet, though Israel apparently now seeks to finish Hamas off, this will not solve its problem with radical Islam. Biblical prophecy shows that more October 7-like atrocities await. As Mr. Flurry wrote for our November-December 2023 issue, that butchery 22 months ago was actually “A Sign of Worse to Come.”

Americans want Russiagate hoax authors held accountable: If you’re getting your news from ABC, CBS, NBC and other legacy outlets, you’re hearing that United States President Donald Trump is on a witch hunt, arbitrarily persecuting his political enemies. To distract from Trump’s own lawbreaking, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is unjustly accusing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of treason. That has been the mainstream narrative as more and more “Russiagate” documents are being declassified—if they even cover the story at all.

But remarkably, most Americans aren’t buying it.

A new Rasmussen poll shows 65 percent of voters are closely following the new disclosures. A majority, 54 percent, believe Obama officials committed serious crimes by manipulating intelligence to frame Trump as a Kremlin ally, allegedly to cover up Clinton’s misconduct. And 69 percent are demanding accountability “for the survival of our country”—including 59 percent of Democrats. As Miranda Devine wrote:

It’s a demonstration of the impotence of Democrat-allied media, like the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC and CBS, which showered themselves with praise and Pulitzer Prizes for their since-debunked stories about Russiagate and are hoping their audience is willing to be duped again. But like the boy who cried wolf, no one is listening anymore.

Gabbard’s revelations provide welcome exposure of a truth we have known for years: With the Russiagate hoax, as Gerald Flurry wrote in America Under Attack, all roads lead to Barack Obama.

China’s first icebreaker enters the Arctic: The battle for one of the world’s coldest places is heating up. China’s first domestically constructed polar vessel, Xue Long 2, left from Shanghai earlier this summer and crossed into the Arctic Circle on July 22. Designed to break through ice up to five feet thick, the Xue Long has been observed within the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf off Alaska. It is conducting operations in sensitive areas, and more icebreakers are on the way.

To understand the Arctic’s geopolitical importance, you have to look at the world from the top. Then you see that the shortest distance from Eurasia to North America isn’t across the Pacific or the Atlantic, but across the Arctic.

During the Cold War, American, Canadian and Danish military planners knew that any future Soviet nuclear attack on North America would most likely come via missiles flying across the Arctic. So these three nations created the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at Clear Space Force Station in Alaska and Site J near Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Today, China, Russia, the European Union and the U.S. are still jostling for control of this strategic region.

IN OTHER NEWS

Turkey is boosting its control over Syria, reportedly preparing a new security agreement to be signed by the end of the month. Turkey will establish three military bases in Syria and advise and train the Syrian army, anonymous Turkish military sources said. Meanwhile, Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources met with his Azerbaijani counterpart to inaugurate a new pipeline taking gas from Azerbaijan, through Turkey, to Syria. Syria is quickly being tied into Turkey’s military and economic network. This is prophetically significant. “Germany and Turkey are very different countries, with different ideas in a lot of areas—but they are working together, and they are aligned in their thinking on Syria,” Mr. Flurry wrote. Germany is using Turkey to break Syria from Iran and bring it into a pro-European alliance, of which Turkey is a leading member. Learn more in Mr. Flurry’s article “Syria’s Fall: Another Key Prophecy Fulfilled.”

India not responding to Trump’s threats: India is not a formal ally of the U.S., but a close strategic partner. Yet this strategic partnership may now be vulnerable. President Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on India if it did not reduce its reliance on Russian oil—but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi isn’t listening and continues to import oil from Russia. It is a strong indication that India plans to chart a course independent of the U.S., a course that prioritizes its relationship with Russia. Chapter 4 of our booklet Russia and China in Prophecy shows why we believe India will join the rising “kings of the east” power bloc.

Australia to buy warships from Japan: Australia struck its “biggest defense-industry agreement” with Japan, Defense Minister Richard Marles announced today. The $6.5 billion-deal with Mitsubishi will give Australia eleven Mogami-class frigates. This is Japan’s first warship export since before World War II. Despite its pacifist constitution, Japan has grown to become one of the world’s most formidable militaries. Read Jeremiah Jacques’s “Land of the Rising Military Might” to learn why the Trumpet watches Japan’s military ascendance.

The Israeli cabinet voted unanimously to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara yesterday. The Supreme Court may let her keep her job, but this is still a huge blow to one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s major political enemies. Our In Brief by Ezekiel Malone has more details.