Tag: IDF

Israel Seeks Defense Independence

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently committed Israel to a 350 billion-shekel ($110 billion) investment over the next decade to boost independence in critical arms production. 

The announcement, detailed during a meeting of defense chiefs at Shin Bet headquarters on Dec. 25, came one day after the prime minister, at an Israeli Air Force graduation ceremony, stated that he had approved, along with the defense minister and finance minister, a sum of 350 billion shekels “over the next decade to build an independent Israeli munitions industry. We want to reduce the dependency on any party, including allies.”

This is a great move for Israel, Netanyahu has also stated earlier that the alliance with America is good, but waiting on approval like a vessel state is not what Israel needs in today’s world. I remember the slow walk by the Biden Administration in delivery of weapons that had already been bought by the IDF. Even now with a friendly President in the White House it seems that Israel is like a beggar on a street corner at times. Recently Israel shipped defense weaponry to Germany, also a gas deal with Egypt was also worked out between the two nations. Good for Israel.

Israel is surrounded by enemies in the Middle East and Northern Africa. If you look at a map Israel is the tiny dot in the middle of Islamist who have sworn to destroy them. My fear is that America is turning from its hard commitment of Israel to a more neutral position. That my friends is not good for the US.

Only a nation blessed by Almighty God could find itself capability to repeal a sneak attack and wars on all fronts and come back, in many cases stronger than before. The Bible clearly states that the Jews will come home and make the desert blossom as a rose. It surely has.

As with my nation, I don’t agree with everything that they do, but for Israel and the US this friendship is in our best interest as well as theirs. We may give them aid, but it comes back in investments in our military complex and even more importantly in intelligence from a very fragile and complex region.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! Rh

Ambassador Huckabee: ‘Iran didn’t get the message’

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Interview with Mike Huckabee

December 22, 2025

Source: Israel National News

Iran will never stop trying to make a bomb. Everybody with half a brain knows that. Why Trump and Netanyahu did not go ahead and finish the job, it will take regime change in Iran for anything to be different when it comes to their hatred for Israel and the United States. Mark my words a strike on Iran will have to happen one more time. And let’s hope this time the job is finished, just like the job in Gaza with Hamas should have been finished. Rh

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Iran remains a central national security concern for Washington, stressing that President Donald Trump has been unequivocal in opposing any Iranian path to nuclear weapons, during a wide-ranging interview with the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

Asked whether the US would support further Israeli military action should Iran move to cross nuclear or ballistic missile thresholds, Huckabee emphasized that such decisions are made at the White House level. However, he pointed to the President’s consistent public statements. “He consistently has said Iran is never going to enrich uranium and they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,” Huckabee said, adding that the message has not changed following the recent conflict.

threat beyond Israel and the US, suggesting Tehran may only recently have begun to take US warnings seriously. “Iran, I don’t know that they ever took him seriously until the night that the B-2 bombers went to Fordow,” he said. “I hope they got the message, but apparently they didn’t get the full message because … they appear to be trying to reconstitute and find a new way to dig the hole deeper, secure it more.”

For full article: Israel National News

Preventing not Containing Wars

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The following article is by Alma Research Center. The Alma Research and Education Center is a non-profit organization focused on researching security challenges along Israel’s northern borders with Lebanon and Syria.

This new approach to Israel’s security is working. Act before your enemies can cause damage and death. Israel is becoming more proactive in their security issues, since the Muslim and Arab world loves the cowardly sneak attack. Rh

Following October 7, there has been a shift in Israel’s strategic outlook — from a policy of containment to a proactive, preventative approach: neutralizing threats at an early stage in order to prevent the enemy’s buildup and to avoid a deterioration of the security situation.

This policy is regularly criticized by regional governments, international actors, and foreign media, who portray it as Israeli aggression and reckless behavior.

A return to a containment policy would be a mistake. The policy Israel is implementing today prevents dangerous escalation and contributes to regional stability.

(Alma research center)

Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Rebuild as IDF Finds More Hamas-UNRWA Ties

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11/7/2025 05:46:19 AM Chris Mitchell

This my friends is why there can never be true peace in the Middle East. When one enemy is defeated (at least as far as the woke world will let), immediately another hater of Israel raises its demonic head! It’s Israel against the world. Praying that America never turns her back on Israel. God help us if we do. Rh

JERUSALEM, Israel – Israel has launched its largest attack on Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon since the 2024 ceasefire began. Thursday’s escalation signals Israel’s determination to prevent the Iranian-backed terror group from rebuilding its arsenal of weapons.

The Israel Defense Forces announced they completed a series of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure and weapons facilities. The military claims Iran’s proxy continues to reestablish its terrorist stronghold and poses a clear and present danger to the State of Israel.

Before the attack, the IDF issued an evacuation warning to the Lebanese, a measure to prevent civilian casualties since the weapons facilities are in the midst of populated areas.

Israel’s Knesset received a briefing reportedly warning that Hezbollah, with help from Iran, is rebuilding its military strength faster than Israeli strikes can stop it. The setback Israel dealt Hezbollah in the 2023-24 campaign is fading, the military believes, and Hezbollah is smuggling weapons through Syria and by sea, and it is also producing its own arms.

The IDF says its attacks on Thursday are “just a preview” of what is to come if the Lebanese army doesn’t fully disarm Hezbollah.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the bombings, but said that negotiations are the only way to end the near-daily Israeli attacks on his country.

The U.S.is pressuring the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah, as well. However, in an open letter, Hezbollah pledged to resist any attempts to take its weapons, and it criticized Aoun for considering any negotiations with Israel.

One member of a Lebanese Christian party stated, “Hezbollah insists on dragging us into another destructive war. It is unacceptable for a minority held hostage to dictate the fate of the free majority.”

Meanwhile, the IDF released documents showing evidence of an incestuous relationship between Hamas and UNRWA, the United Nations agency for the Palestinians. It uncovered details of Hamas operatives employed by UNRWA and documents revealing Hamas’s use of UNRWA facilities.

Israel’s military uncovered lists of UNRWA employees side by side with Hamas operatives, where the same individuals held both civilian and military IDs.

It’s just the latest evidence showing how the U.N. agency and Hamas worked together in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA is funded by many European nations, Australia, and Canada, among others. 

Mamdani comments on IDF ‘antisemitism,’ ADL chief says – JNS.org

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Mamdani comments on IDF ‘antisemitism,’ ADL chief says – JNS.org
— Read on www.jns.org/mamdani-comments-on-idf-antisemitism-adl-chief-says/

Never in my wildest imaginations would I have thought New York City, site of the Twin Towers terror attack would even be thinking about a vote for this Islamist Mamdani. New Your how you have fallen, may your eyes be opened to what you are about to do. The Jewish community must vote against this evil. Rh.

Game Changer

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Wow the Prophetic Times we live in today are unbelieving. Event after event Below is a great article on Prophecy News Watch. Israel went deep into Qatar to flex their muscle against their enemies. Interestingly one reason Hezbollah agreed to disarm was their fear of the their leadership being assassinated. Cutting the head off the snake. (Side note) Hamas leadership lives in luxury while the soldiers live in squander and fear, promising 70 virgins. Wonder how that’s working out for them now!!

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=8752

Trump said to give Israel green light for strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar

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Interesting development in the Middle East, Israel strikes inside Qatar targeting Hamas leadership. Unprecedented in modern times. Of course Jew haters are screaming loudly, let’s see what, if any is the fallout. This could be a defying moment in the Middle East. We will have to wait and see. I stand with Israel.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-said-to-give-israel-green-light-for-strike-on-hamas-leadership-in-qatar/

Editor of State Linked Qatari Newspaper praises Hamas

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Hostage Taking

(Update on an article posted 2 days ago.). This is why we must be careful about doing business with Qatar or any other Muslim country. This is why I have been troubled by the cozying up to Qatar by both Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff.  Not the same values. Rh

“If success is not achieved this time in capturing Zionist soldiers,” Al-Sharq’s Jaber al-Harmi tweeted on Aug. 20, “then the second, third, and fourth attempts” will “add new rats to the tally.”

Aug. 28, 2025 / JNS)

The editor-in-chief of a Qatari daily that maintains close ties to Doha’s ruling family last week hailed attempts by the Hamas terror group to kidnap Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the Gaza Strip.

“If success is not achieved this time in capturing Zionist soldiers,” Al-Sharq‘s Jaber al-Harmi tweeted on Aug. 20, “then the second, third and fourth attempts will succeed, Inshallah, by adding new rats to the tally held by the heroes of [Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam] Brigades.”

Al-Harmi posted just hours after Hamas terrorists attempted to kidnap Israeli soldiers in Gaza, praising the ambush as a “qualitative operation” and lauding the perpetrators as “heroes.”

“Blessed be the hands of the heroes,” he wrote, adding: “And may the hands of the vile criminal outcasts be paralyzed.”

The post was subsequently deleted or removed from the X platform.

Over the course of the 22-month war between Israel and Hamas, al-Harmi has called for “harvesting the heads” of Israelis and praised slain Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar.

Qatar has served as the key mediator in hostage talks between Israel and Hamas, alongside Egypt and the United States. (Jerusalem News Service)