No Jews Allowed at Major Soccer Match
No Jews Allowed at Major Soccer Match
Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is not a major focus for most English-language news outlets. Here, we watch him closely, as he matches closely the Bible’s prophecies of a soon-coming strong German leader.
He also looks like a has-been. He’s been out of politics for more than a decade and routinely professes no desire to return.
Yet his star power remains. Stern published an interview with him yesterday, discussing his views on how the mainstream-right Christian Union parties should work with the far left and far right. It caused a national firestorm.
Our main story explains the controversy. I just want to make a more basic point: This guy still matters. Keep watching him. He’s been out of politics for a while, but many in Germany still pay attention to him.
This prophetic focus is why we watch his statements so closely. It’s why another of our stories today details his warning that Germany is “already living in a state of war.”
Every week, Europe’s leadership void is exposed more deeply. We still believe Guttenberg is likely the prophesied outcome of that void.
No Jews allowed at major soccer match: Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will be banned from watching their team play Aston Villa in Birmingham next month, local police announced today. Police said it was because they couldn’t police the expected protests. Local politicians openly celebrated that their mobs had successfully excluded Jews from a major sporting event.
- Local Member of Parliament Ayoub Khan said that banning Maccabi Tel Aviv would “send a strong signal to a nation that is responsible for a genocide.”
- Zarah Sultana, M.P. for neighboring Coventry, posted that, next, football bodies “must ban all Israeli teams. We cannot have normalization with genocide and apartheid.”
- Another M.P., Iqbal Mohammed, thanked the police for refusing to let “Israeli hooligans and terrorists run riot in our country.”
Israel is obviously not genocidal, an apartheid regime, nor a terrorist state. None of these M.P.s have spoken out against China for imprisoning a couple million Muslims in concentration camps and using them as slave labor.
Britain has imported thousands of anti-Semites through mass Muslim migration. They’re in the government, and even the police are intimidated by their threats of violence.
In this case, they may have gone too far. Prime Minister Keir Starmer posted, “This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate anti-Semitism on our streets. The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation.” The police will be under a lot of pressure to allow the Jews to attend.
Amsterdam demonstrated the same problem last year when mobs hunted down Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. These are sobering reminders that we are repeating the history that led to World War ii. This rising Jew-hatred is a powerful indicator that we are living in dangerous times.
Guttenberg: We are at war. Germany is already in a state of war, former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said in recent interviews.
- In a podcast on Wednesday, he interviewed Lt. Gen. von Sandrart to discuss the threat posed by Russia, nato’s responsiveness and Germany’s defense readiness. Guttenberg warned that a possible hybrid war may have already begun in the form of cyberattacks. The two men discussed what would happen if the situation further escalated and how long before Germany may find itself in a hot war.
- Last week, he sounded a similar warning in an interview with Gabor Steingart: “I believe we are already living in a state of war.” He noted that wars are hybrid and “no longer bound by geographical borders.”
As defense minister in 2009, Guttenberg was the first to call the mission of Germany’s soldiers in Afghanistan a war. He is now claiming that Germany itself is now at war. His continuing appeals for Germany to take on a stronger militaristic mindset make him a man to watch. The Bible prophesies that Germany will get a militaristic leader. Guttenberg may be that man.
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