Trump’s Plans for Gaza, No European Soldiers for Ukraine, Hiking Ban in Nova Scotia

President Trump announced that he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rudolph Giuliani. It’s another epic turnaround for a man who was hailed around the world as a hero after 9/11, before narrowly avoiding jail because of the way he stood by Donald Trump and continued investigating allegations of election fraud. The award shows how dramatically America has changed since that low point.

But we must not be too quick to move on. How did the radical left become so powerful that they could humiliate Giuliani, a man who once had a shot at becoming president? “People do not realize just how close the United States of America came to total collapse,” wrote Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry in our latest print issue. His article “Barack Obama Exposed for Treason” shows the critical lessons we need to learn from this dark time.

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Donald Trump is serious about taking over Gaza, the Washington Post reported Saturday. It received a leaked 38-page report circulating through the Trump administration on what the plans for Gaza are:

• The U.S. would govern Gaza for 10 years through the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (great) Trust. This would be an expansion of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (ghf), a private initiative that aims to feed Gazans without empowering Hamas.
• Gazans who leave would be given $5,000 cash, four years of rent and a year’s worth of food.
• great would fund Gaza’s reconstruction with billions of public and private funds.
• Gaza would be part of a new economic zone, with free trade links to the European Union.
• The program envisions “mega projects,” with names like the “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,” the “Gaza Trump Riviera,” the “mbs Ring” (named after the acronym for Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed) and the “mbz Central Highway” (after the United Arab Emirates’ Mohammed bin Zayed).
• Western private security contractors, local police and potential peacekeepers would keep law and order.
• By year 10, great’s annual revenue is expected to be over $4.5 billion.

These are bold, ambitious, and likely unrealistic plans. But President Trump has fleshed them out so much that he seems to be genuinely committed.

Will America stay committed to Gaza for a decade? That’s very unlikely. If America gets involved but backs out, it could create an opening for someone else.

Psalm 83:1-8 prophesy that Gaza (under the name “the Philistines”) would join a German-led alliance that includes Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other moderate Arab states. For years, Gaza was part of Iran’s proxy empire of terrorist states. But because of Psalm 83, Gerald Flurry forecast in the previous edition of his booklet The King of the South: “There may soon be some significant power shifts in Gaza.”

great could play a huge role in bringing Gaza over to the German camp. Keep watching as this development unfolds.

Germany continues to keep European soldiers out of Ukraine with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius quickly smacking down European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s call for “precise plans” for European military deployment to Ukraine. Pistorius said such discussions were “completely wrong.”

“Apart from the fact that the European Union has no jurisdiction or competence whatsoever when it comes to the deployment of troops—regardless of for whom or for what—I would be very cautious about confirming or commenting on such considerations in any way,” he said.

Earlier in the year, then Chancellor Olaf Scholz shut down a similar French proposal, saying: “I am even a little irritated by these debates, I want to say that quite frankly.”

The year before, Germany shut down a different French proposal to send long-range missiles. “Why is Germany continually saying what Russia wants to hear?” asked Mr. Flurry at the time. “Why is it withholding critical weaponry? Why is it putting brakes on other countries’ efforts to help Ukraine?” Many commentators were mystified by the way Germany was thwarting European bargaining efforts by taking key threats off the table.

“What [French President] Macron and these commentators do not understand is Germany’s long history of cooperation with Russia,” Mr. Flurry wrote. “This has resumed in recent years.”

“Germany today is working together with Russia against America and Britain,” he warned. “But France fails to see how devious these plans are! It is blind to where its relationship with Germany is leading!”

Germany is using Ukraine as a proving ground to understand modern weaponry. So it’s willing to send some weapons there, especially drones. But German leaders respond aggressively when European figures step too far.

France doesn’t understand what Germany is doing, but you can. “France’s Deadly Ignorance About Germany” reveals Germany’s hidden strategy and how France and Germany will be caught up in it.

If you go down to the woods in Nova Scotia, you better go alone: If anyone goes with you, he could report you to the government, landing you a $25,000 fine. Early last month, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston banned the public from hiking in the woods, even on private land, due to wildfires.

Understandably, the order has provoked a backlash. Under English common law, citizens are not feudal vassals. The government does not own all the land, graciously allowing the public to use it.

Yet government bureaucrats chafe under the restrictions the English system of government puts them under. They used covid-19 to tell people what they can and cannot do in their own homes. No Englishman’s home was his castle—no Canadian’s forest his own backyard.

After governments around the world grabbed unheard-of powers during the covid pandemic, I wrote:

My fear isn’t that we’ll be under house arrest for the rest of our lives. I don’t think the freedoms taken during this crisis will ever fully be restored, but some of them will. But it will be far easier for the government to take our freedom in the future.

We’ve already shown that we don’t really care. That we won’t fight to defend our freedom. … A taboo has been broken, and politicians everywhere will learn the lesson that freedom is easy to take.

In a world were roughly a million people rot in jail as political prisoners, the government forbidding you from taking a walk isn’t the greatest abuse of power. But it’s proof that freedom is a fragile thing, still under assault.

“We have been protected in America for a couple hundred years because we are recipients of the blessings God promised,” writes Mr. Flurry in America Under Attack. “We have not experienced the turmoil that many other nations have. … As a result, our people have kind of settled into an unreality about what is really happening around us. They don’t understand how deadly dangerous it is!” That applies just as well to England and Canada.

He warned that “government tyranny is routine in human history. Let’s not be naive and think something like that could never happen here.”

Ultimately it is sin, breaking of God’s law, that is enabling a rapid slide into tyranny. That slide is hard to turn around—but the first step is repentance.

IN OTHER NEWS

A landslide in Sudan killed over a thousand people, the Sudan Liberation Movement-Army, a local rebel group, claims. The United Nations estimates at least 370 people are dead in Sudan’s Darfur region. Our free booklet Why ‘Natural’ Disasters? examines crises like this from a biblical perspective.

Belgium will recognize a Palestinian state later this month, as well as place sanctions on Israel, its foreign minister announced today. This follows France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia all making similar announcements. Our article from last month “Ready for a ‘State of Palestine’” puts these announcements in context.

Greta Thunberg boards another flotilla heading to Gaza. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to send her to jail. Minor celebrities around the world continue the flotillas to try to demonize Israel.

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler will not seek reelection next year after 34 years of representing Manhattan in the House of Representatives. The 78-year-old cited the need for a “generational change” as the reason for calling it quits and also suggested watching Joe Biden’s decline was a factor. We don’t yet know who will replace Nadler, but the rise of Zohran Mamdani in New York politics suggests a new generation of even-more-radical politicians. Former U.S. President Barack Obama subscribed to the late Saul Alinsky’s political theories, believing that radical revolutionaries should hide their radicalism. But post-Obama Democrats are increasingly flaunting their radicalism as they seek to overthrow the system.