Why Negotiating with Terrorist Regimes Such as Hamas and Iran Is a Terrible Idea

by Khaled Abu Toameh - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22670/negotiating-with-terrorist-regimes

Needed: Unconditional Surrender, as After World War II. The Trump Administration is making a big mistake by engaging in negotiations with Hamas — as well as Iran.

Instead of weakening the Iran-backed terrorist group and its sponsors, these negotiations legitimize them as political actors and, for Hamas, only strengthen their standing among Palestinians; and for Iran’s rulers, among countries that might have been hoping to move toward the West.

Reports that senior US officials have been holding direct meetings with Hamas representatives come at a troubling time. The reports surfaced only days after Hamas successfully crushed anti-Hamas uprising in the Gaza Strip on June 26, thereby demonstrating that the terrorist group remains firmly in control and has no intention of surrendering power.

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Our Stability in Perilous Times

Jonathan Brentner - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

I’m not sure how they do it; I know I couldn’t. During the past several years, I have listened as both pastors and believers plan years, even decades, in advance, seemingly oblivious to the dark clouds that threaten to crush all such dreams in the very near future.

The problem is not with the planning or the setting of goals, but with the underlying belief that the next event on God’s prophetic calendar is Jesus’ far distant return to wrap up human history and inaugurate the eternal state. There’s no thought of the Lord’s intervention in their lifetime either to take them home to glory, or to intervene in a world in the throes of lawlessness, corruption, and violence driven by the “reprobate” mindset that Paul so well describes for us in Romans 1:28-32.

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