Pakistan Wants to Blot Out the Name of Israel

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday called for “a united military front” to counter Israel, calling Israel “a threat to the entire Muslim world.” His comments came the day after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey established a nato-style mutual defense alliance. Asif specified his opinion wouldn’t change even if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost reelection in October.

“Israel is a product of the Balfour Declaration, which was established in the 1940s as an illegitimate state, and it could pose a direct threat to any of the countries in the region.”
—Khawaja Asif

Nuclear-armed Pakistan has never recognized Israel’s right to exist. Nuclear-armed Turkey has also threatened Israel’s existence. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly said publicly that he believes Jerusalem is rightfully Turkey’s and that he expects war between Turkey and Israel soon.

The new military alliance resembles an end-time bloc of Middle Eastern nations detailed in Psalm 83. It may be the formal start of what will become the “Psalm 83 alliance.”

• The Trumpet has focused on this alliance’s prophesied opposition to Iran. But that isn’t its main purpose. Verses 3-4 read: “They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”

Even if it is concealed by “crafty counsel,” the main goal of the Psalm 83 alliance will be to destroy the people of Israel from human memory. This is the attitude reflected in Pakistan’s comments. Learn more in Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s booklet The King of the South.