"Take the Handcuffs Off of Israel" says Michele Bachmann a former congresswoman, 2012 Presidential Candidate, and outspoken friend of the Jewish State

 

Michele Bachmann’s Advice to the President: ‘Take the Handcuffs Off of Israel’

Over the last 155 days of war against the Iranian regime, we have seen the alliance between Israel and America shine through like never before, with the two nations locked arm in arm against the common threat of the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism. However, simultaneously, the world has also witnessed a contradictory approach by the Trump Administration, one which regularly ties the hands of a Jewish State in the midst of defensive battles on multiple fronts.

Literal, Eternal, And Unconditional: Bible Prophecy Begins and Ends with Israel

Imagine you open to the middle of John Grisham’s latest best-seller. Immediately you face unfamiliar names and locations. To make sense of the story, you flip to the end. But the ending seems more confusing than the middle. You slam the book shut in disgust. Grisham has really lost his touch, you conclude.

Trump’s Iran Trap: Why Every Path Leads to Greater Risk

 

Trump’s Iran Trap: Why Every Path Leads to Greater Risk

Donald Trump may command the world’s most powerful military, but today he faces an enemy that understands something equally powerful: time.

Iran no longer needs to defeat America on the battlefield. It only needs to make every available option so politically, economically and militarily painful that Washington hesitates. If that is Tehran’s strategy, it may already be working.

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How Many Times Are We Going to Play the Exact Same Game?

The same pattern keeps repeating over and over again. U.S. military assets are moved into the Middle East and President Trump threatens to attack Iran harder than ever before. At the end of last week, I told my core supporters that everything was ready for a very large wave of airstrikes. But then as we have seen so many times before, Trump decided not to pull the trigger at the last moment and he claimed that Iran had asked to make a deal. And as we have seen so many times before, the Iranians denied asking for any sort of a deal and insisted that they have not agreed to make any of the concessions that Trump is seeking.

Analysis: Trump challenged by cold reality from top allies

 It's been a humbling few days for Donald Trump, even if the American president is reluctant to acknowledge it.

In a series of setbacks, Trump has faced adversity in matters both large and small; two of which he cares about dearly and one that could determine his and his party's political fate for the remaining two years of his presidential term.

From a flawed attempt to renovate a Washington landmark to questions about his pick to head the justice department to increasingly complicated efforts to end his war in Iran, the president has been handling tricky issues - many of his own making.

Trump's response has been a familiar one. A first term refrain - that the president makes his own reality with "alternative facts" - is still the operative one. He sticks to beliefs even in the face of contravening evidence.

Unlike his first term, however, when many of his most notable conflicts were with dissenters in his own administration, this time around he has butted heads even with those who have proven themselves the most loyal to him.

On Friday, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host and stalwart Trump ally, moved to drop felony destruction of property charges against former Olympian David Hearn, who federal prosecutors had accused of intentionally damaging the Reflecting Pool near the Washington Monument.

"The damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism," she wrote in a 20-page court filing announcing her department's decision. She attributed her decision to prosecute Hearn as the result of misleading information provided by the Department of Interior.

Trump may embrace alternative facts, but the evidence Pirro confronted – what she would have had to defend in court, before a judge and potentially sceptical jury – provided scarce support for her case. And so she abandoned it.

Trump had enthusiastically endorsed the vandalism explanation, however, and he stuck by it. In a Truth Social post on Saturday, he criticised Pirro's decision to drop the case and did so again in comments from the Oval Office on Monday.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjed2q2l0xo

Iran says it is in talks with Oman but not Trump and the US after Trump says negotiations to resume

 Iran says it is negotiating with Oman to reach "an understanding" over a temporary route through the Strait of Hormuz to allow commercial shipping to resume.

The statement came after US President Donald Trump said new talks on ending the war in Iran would begin on Monday - and that he had called off "massive" strikes on the country for this purpose.

Trump did not specify who would take part in the talks. Iran, however, said it was not negotiating with the US - and had no plans to do so.

Tehran's denial appears to have irked the US president, who later wrote on his Truth Social media platform that Iran's leadership was "unbelievably duplicitous".

Speaking to reporters at the White House later, he insisted talks were in fact taking place.

"They're going on right now... this is the last chance for them to sign a good document," he said.

At the weekend, Trump had said the "perimeters" of a deal had been agreed - and would include reopening Hormuz, the vital waterway whose closure by Iran has sent oil prices soaring.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23579jzv08o

'Digital lifeline' - Gaza tech workers give glimpse of possible future

 "I was just in a trough, drowning in uncertainty," says Walaa Volidis, a Palestinian software engineer. "But deep inside, I made a decision: it will not be the end, no matter how hard it gets. I'll keep fighting for my dreams."

Wearing a headset and glued to her laptop, Walaa discusses AI on a video call with her mentor in California's Silicon Valley. The 24-year-old wants to keep her skills up to date.

But that is the least of her daily challenges as she lives in a tent in central Gaza supporting her displaced parents and four younger siblings. 

"When the war started, I lost everything: my job, my university, even some of my family members. My sisters were injured," Walaa tells me from a co-working space in Deir al-Balah. She says her mental health was "totally destroyed", but she prioritised finding work.

Walaa is one of thousands of young Gazans now pursuing roles in the digital economy. "It's a kind of momentum," she says. "I have my main goal every single day to go to work, to finish my tasks. If you stop or cry about your situation, you will not do anything."

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m1xm8ykk2o

Threat to oil tankers in Middle East worst since start of Iran war, analysts say

 The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region.

The warning comes after a number of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, an alternative waterway that some tankers had been using since Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has denied Donald Trump's claim that it was in talks with the US over reopening the strait, but said it was speaking to Oman about securing the shipping lane. 

"In terms of threat to the trade of crude, we're at the worst period that we've been in since this since this crisis began," said Matthew Wright, an analyst at ship-tracking firm Kpler.

The number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz was just eight on Sunday and 11 on Saturday, compared with more than 100 per day before the war began, according to Kpler.

Before the conflict, about 20% of the world's oil and gas passed through the strait.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrv0dy2e90o

Iran Executes Alleged Mossad Agents Accused of Aiding Israel

 

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Russia says seven killed and 40 injured by Ukrainian drone hitting busy beach

A drone hit a busy beach in southern Russia, killing seven people including three children, local authorities have said.

In social media footage verified by the BBC, a drone can be seen hurtling towards a cliffside before crashing into a fireball on the beach below as tourists look on from the shore and in the water.

The total number of injured reached 40, with 17 people taken to hospital, said the governor of the Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratyev. He accused Ukraine of "a deliberate strike on civilians". Ukraine has not commented. Both sides deny targeting civilians deliberately.

It is unclear what the drone was targeting. Some Ukrainian Telegram channels have claimed it crashed onto the beach as a result of electronic warfare which jammed the drone's signal. Several eyewitnesses were quoted by Russian media as saying gunfire preceded the explosion, indicating that air defences may have tried to shoot the drone down.

The crash occurred on a beach near the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka on the Black Sea. With its warm climate, long beaches and developed tourist infrastructure it is a popular holiday destination for Russians, in particular since sanctions have curtailed international travel for many. Tourists and residents of Arkhipo-Osipovka told local media outlets that no sirens sounded ahead of the drone attack.

"We covered ourselves with sun loungers, and didn't see where it exploded," said one holidaymaker. Another person said that while they did not see the drone hit they could hear "gunfire, like a machine gun" followed by an explosion. "This all happened in front of my children. My child is having a nervous breakdown," said a third.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7kmnyrdn7o

Why Is America Buying Japanese Yen? The Bigger Story Nobody Is Talking About

 Prophecy News Watch 3rd August

Why Is America Buying Japanese Yen? The Bigger Story Nobody Is Talking About A photograph from President Trump's Cabinet meeting revealed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent considering a $5 billion to $10 billion purchase of Japanese yen. That handwritten note points to a much larger concern: Japan holds more than $1 trillion in U.S. debt, and instability in its currency or bond market could affect American mortgage rates, retirement accounts and federal borrowing costs. Is intervention becoming necessary just to keep the global financial system stable? Continue Reading

Canada's Military Just Silenced God: What Happens When A Nation Erases Faith Canada's national anthem still asks God to keep the nation “glorious and free,” yet new military guidance restricts chaplains from using explicitly religious language—including references to God—at official ceremonies. The policy is presented as inclusion, but critics see something deeper: a country distancing itself from the Christian faith that helped shape its institutions and inspired generations who served and died under its flag. Continue Reading

Vladimir Putin's nuclear bombs blessed by Russian Orthodox leader for 'holy war' against Ukraine

 Vladimir Putin has had his nuclear bombs blessed by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Patriarch Kirill declared the Kremlin's nuclear arsenal is evidence of God's "grace and mercy" in a rambling service at a convent near Sarov, the city where Soviet scientists built the country's first atom bomb.

Kirill claimed that God helped the Soviet Union to produce the weapon in 1949 - despite atheism being official state policy at the time.

He attributed the bomb's creation to the prayers of St Seraphim, a Russian mystic who died more than a century before the weapon was developed.

"The creation of this formidable weapon in our country, and in this specific place, was no coincidence; all of this came to pass, in no small measure, through the prayers of our venerable and God-fearing Father Seraphim of Sarov," Kirill said.

He also called nuclear weapons a "shield for the Motherland".

They had stopped Russia's enemies from "destroying" the Soviet Union and "enslaving" its population during the Cold War, he argued.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-nuclear-bombs-blessed-russian-orthodox-leader-holy-war-ukraine 

Trump Claims Iran Deal ‘Imminent’ After Canceling 'Largest Operation Since WWII'

 

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