U.S. analysts say rift deepens between Jerusalem, Washington

The tone taken by U.S. President Joe Biden in his latest conversation with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu was strident and unambiguous, signalling the potential of a real rupture between allies, U.S. media reports said Saturday.

“Biden has put Netanyahu on probation,” veteran Mideast negotiator Aaron David Miller told the New York Times. “Biden doesn’t want to fight and has given him a test he can pass, certainly on humanitarian assistance and perhaps on negotiations with Hamas. U.S. red lines have a way of turning pink. The only question is: Does Netanyahu want to fight?”

Michael B. Oren, historian and a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., who knows Biden well, provided a more auspicious reading of the crisis, saying Biden's harsh language — coupled to the universally acknowledge existential importance to the Jewish state of the "special relationship" with the U.S. — provided Netanyahu a much-needed pretext to sideline the demands of far-right hardliners in his government.

“By signaling a potential shift in U.S. policy toward Israel, President Biden provided Prime Minister Netanyahu with the leverage to overcome the right-wing radicals in his government and secure its approval of a major increase in humanitarian aid for Gaza,” he was quoted by the NYT as saying.

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[Batman]

Imagine that? A know-it-all government that actually doesn't know anything about the word deepening a rift between themself and Israel. It's pathetic and scary, but all of this has been foretold and even though they should know better, it's going by the book.

 

[Kaatje]

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Jack Hibbs's comment on Telegram:

BREAKING NEWS:
The United States has just pitted itself against the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This decision by this administration will not end well according to the scriptures.

As of this moment (8:53 p.m. Saturday, April 6th. 2024), the Middle East is on the brink of war. As we pray, view, and listen, remember that God's word to Israel will not fail. Even though Israel's toughest days are yet ahead, eventually, God's word will be fulfilled.

FOREVER REALITY:
Exodus 4:22
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD: 'Israel is My son, My firstborn.

Deuteronomy 7:6
"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Amos 3:2
"You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities."

Isaiah 66:22
"For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me," says the LORD, "So shall your descendants and your name remain.

Zachariah 12:2-3
I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. 3 On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves.

Jeremiah 3:17-18
"At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts. 18 "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.

Jeremiah 31:35-37
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name) 36 "If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever." 37 Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.

Psalm 135:4
For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

(urgently tugging on God's robe, crying and desperately wailing and yelling to remind Him) There are at least ten Christians in each State and Province in the United States and Canada! Please remember your children!
Please, oh please, get us out of here before you execute Your righteous judgment on this wicked country!
I am such a coward! I can't do what's coming! Bring us home! Please!


32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Genesis 18:32, KJV


15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
6 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis 19:15-25, KJV

 

[Margery]

Praying for Israel. It's not a surprise when someone throws someone under the bus that rifts deepen etc etc.

I'm praying for God's hand on Israel to protect them, and for His hand on His people around the world as events unfold.

 

[Andiamo]

To those of you not in the USA. It’s been nice knowing y’all. See you soon, I hope!
(I’m kind of sort of kidding!)

 

[Bethlehem57]

(urgently tugging on God's robe, crying and desperately wailing and yelling to remind Him) There are at least ten Christians in each State and Province in the United States and Canada! Please remember your children!
Please, oh please, get us out of here before you execute Your righteous judgment on this wicked country!
I am such a coward! I can't do what's coming! Bring us home! Please!


32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Genesis 18:32, KJV


15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
6 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis 19:15-25, KJV

Praying that same prayer for us Ghoti! People are so blind to Israel being God’s chosen nation and people! Lord, for the sake of Your children here in the U.S. and Canada, protect us from your wrath at those who hate Your people!