Week in Review: Abbas’s True Colors, China’s Propaganda, Iran’s Espionage, Hawaiians’ Confessionals, and Much More

• Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is viewed as a moderate, a legitimate leader of a future Palestinian state. But in a speech this past week he once again revealed his true colors by denying Israel’s history in the Middle East.
• Cambodia’s leader was a strong opponent of the regime of Pol Pot and has been a strong critic of China for its part in supporting him—but recently he has done a dramatic about-face, a sign of China’s growing power.
• German police raided several locations that were conducting surveillance on targets in their country—apparently on orders from Iran’s secret service.
• A false alert warning of an incoming missile attack has many people in Hawaii rethinking their lives. There’s a lesson here about human nature and our tendency to put off hard questions until times of crisis.
• We’ll also talk about Italy approving a military mission into North Africa, an assassination in Kosovo that could reignite violence in the Balkans, more evidence of authoritarianism in the Philippines, and more.

Links

• Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian General Council Speech
• “Archaeology Thunders: Behold Your God!”
• “Israel’s Deadly ‘Wound’” from Jerusalem in Prophecy
• Cambodia Rewrites Chinese History
• “What Are the Times of the Gentiles?”
• Chinese Propaganda
• “The Communist Infiltration of America Was Prophesied” from He Was Right
• Iran’s Espionage
• “Why the Trumpet Watches Iran and Europe Heading for a Clash of Civilizations”
• Kosovo Assassination
• Germany’s Conquest of the Balkans
• Authoritarianism in the Philippines
• “King Me”
• Hawaiians’ Confessionals
• “Only Nuclear Bombs Bring Repentance” from Zechariah: The Sign of Christ’s Return