JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 161 AUGUST 07,26 - HORMUZ OR STRAIT TO FAMINE AND WANT.
THE
NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES
MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER
IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located
along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting
Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS)
the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN)
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will
scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where
the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT
OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT
BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE
LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them,
(MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them;
(DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my
throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy
from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY
GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS
NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The
500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from
Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration
occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February,
the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and
pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main
Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes
the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of
birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake
Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel)
are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species:
Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors,
and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The
500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late
August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when
the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and
November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key
Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and
steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of
storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in
the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the
spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23
Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I
will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
Trump, ‘exasperated’ with Iran war, bashed Hegseth over
munition shortages – reports-President’s team can’t agree on path
forward, report says, as official warns US risking ‘strategic defeat’;
Trump says talks ‘going well,’ but Iran says it’s only speaking to Oman
By ToI Staff 6 August 2026, 9:15 am
US President Donald Trump
clashed with his defense secretary last week, accusing Pete Hegseth of
misleading the White House about the state of American munitions
stockpiles amid a potential return to major combat operations in Iran,
according to a Wednesday report.The exchange took place at Camp David,
The Washington Post reported, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting.
According to the report, which cited two people familiar with the
exchange, Trump told Hegseth he thought the problem – a shortage of
long-range and interceptor missiles – “had been fixed.”CNN reported
Wednesday that the US military has used up close to 80 percent of its
interceptors for the THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system and
approximately 50% of its Patriot interceptors, leaving the supply of
those munitions “dangerously low.”When confronted about the problem,
Hegseth punted the blame to his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, the Post
report said.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied the
story completely, telling the Post it was: “100% fake news. Literally
never happened. And President Trump has the utmost confidence in
Secretary Hegseth.”Likewise, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said:
“Secretary Hegseth did not mislead anyone about our munitions posture,
and he did not blame Deputy Secretary Feinberg.”“These claims about
depleted stockpiles, internal disagreements, the Secretary’s position on
Iran… are equally fictional,” he said.Trump himself also addressed the
reports on Thursday, insisting the United States has a vast supply of
munitions and threatening those who suggested otherwise with jail
terms.The Republican leader lashed out on his Truth Social platform at
media reports about the dwindling weapons stockpile, saying that the
United States has “massive amounts of ‘munitions’ especially of certain
types,” without giving further detail.“Additionally, large amounts are
being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed. Defense companies
are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s
history,” he said.The Post’s reporting on the Trump-Hegseth exchange
came as NBC News also reported Trump lashed out at his aides last week.
It was not immediately clear whether NBC was referring to the same Camp
David cabinet meeting.Despite public displays of satisfaction with how
the US-Iran war is going, neither Trump nor his top aides are pleased
with the status quo, a US official told the network.His aides also can’t
agree on a path forward, the source continued, adding: “After all this
time, there is no unity.”“The president is exasperated,” a Trump ally
who has spoken with the president in recent weeks told NBC News.“I don’t
think he believed it was going to be this difficult to get the Iranians
to agree to a deal. There was not a real strategy for how long or what
they should do to get to the endpoint,” the Trump ally added.“He did not
intend this to be a long, drawn-out war.”Leavitt denied that Trump lost
his temper. “This is false. The president has a great team whom he
trusts, and everyone on the team knows he’s the final decision-maker,”
she said.The lack of clarity on the administration’s goals for the war —
whether it’s preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, ensuring
the Strait of Hormuz is open, or destroying Iran’s missile and drone
programs — has made planning an endgame difficult, the US official
said.The military has been preparing for a renewed major offensive
without clear guidance, the US official told NBC News.“We have had a
series of tactical victories,” the official said. “But are facing a
strategic defeat without clear policy guidance or a decision about where
this is going.”Parnell told NBC News in a statement that the Defense
Department is “locked and loaded, ready to execute the president’s
directives at a moment’s notice.”“Secretary Hegseth, CENTCOM Commander
Admiral Cooper, and Chairman Caine stand completely aligned and are
united in mission, strategy, and resolve regarding overseas operations
involving Iran,” he added.Trump has repeatedly threatened large-scale
strikes on Iran but then backed off, citing progress in talks. On
Monday, he said the US and Iran were in the midst of talks that could
see the Strait of Hormuz fully reopened.Asked about the talks, Trump
told a Fox affiliate on Wednesday, “I hear they’re doing very
well.”“Iran called me. They didn’t want the biggest attack since World
War II. And we said, ‘Hey, I’d rather do it that way. I’m not looking to
kill people and totally obliterate everything.’ And that’s where we
were headed. And they wanted to negotiate and we’re doing that and it
seems to be working out quite well,” he said.Asked why he thought this
round of negotiations would be different, when previous talks – even
those that led to an agreement – have failed to resolve the conflict,
Trump said: “It may be and it may not be.”Returning to the attack he
called off, the US president said a resumption of fighting “was more
than a threat. We were ready to go, and you know, in life they know when
you’re ready to go and when you’re just bluffing.”“No, we were ready to
go – and we are ready to go, if we have to do that,” he said.Iran said
Wednesday that no talks with the US have been held in recent days, but
that it was finalizing a deal with Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz
that could restore the ceasefire.Officials who were briefed on the
negotiations portrayed the agreement as a temporary solution to the
dispute over the strait, but said it would pave the way for the US and
Iran to resume negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program. The imperative
to thwart Iran’s bid for nuclear weapons was cited by the US and Israel
when launching the war at the end of February.The most recent round of
fighting between the US and Iran, which began about a month ago, has
centered on access to the strait, which Iran has obstructed, and which
was a key pathway for the global supply of oil and gas before the
war.Agencies contributed to this report.
Analysis-As Iran chokes
off Hormuz, Gulf turns its back on strait to look at new energy
routes-New pipelines are being created and old ones are being restored
to transport oil and gas to the Red Sea and Mediterranean. But Tehran
won’t let that happen without a fight By Lazar Berman-6 August 2026,
5:13 pm
Though US, Israeli, and European diplomatic efforts have
focused for years on limiting Iran’s nuclear program, the Strait of
Hormuz has lately become the center of gravity of the on-again,
off-again war between the US and Iran.Early in the US-Israeli campaign
against Iran, Tehran closed the strait, choking off about a fifth of
global oil supplies. The move has driven up energy prices around the
world, including in the United States.With midterm elections approaching
and fearing that voters will abandon Trump’s Republican party at the
ballot box if prices for fuel and other goods remain high, the US
president has made Hormuz a priority, trying to pry it open with
diplomacy, threats and periodic military strikes.For Iran, which has
proven itself able to withstand all three while keeping the strait
bottled up, Hormuz appears to be the perfect lever, letting it put
pressure on Trump to extract valuable concessions and possibly turning
the waterway into a regime-sustaining revenue stream.That is certainly
the case in the short term, but Iran’s domination of Hormuz has also
triggered a process that will sap the maritime passage of its importance
to world trade, turning it from an asset for the regime into a
liability.Recognizing the need for alternative routes that don’t run the
risk of being blocked by Iran, the region’s oil and gas producers that
depend on the Strait of Hormuz are already hard at work developing
infrastructure that will allow them to bypass the chokepoint.The result
might not only deprive Iran of the ability to shackle global energy
supplies, but could also help transform oil-poor Israel into an
important player in one of the world’s most important markets.A rush to
the west-Though most Middle Eastern oil and gas heads eastward to Asia,
Gulf countries are focusing on first moving oil westward and away from
Iran.And they are moving fast.According to a Goldman Sachs analysis,
more than 45 percent of Persian Gulf oil exports will be insulated from
threats to the Strait of Hormuz by the end of next year.That number is
expected to rise above 60% by the end of 2028.The United Arab Emirates
is at the center of that effort.A close Israeli ally that was hit by
Iran more than any other country during the 2026 war, the UAE was one of
the top producers in OPEC before it exited the oil cartel in May,
saying it wanted to increase exports.Crude oil pipelines bypassing
Hormuz. AFP Infographic with map showing existing and planned pipelines
that provide long-term export routes for crude oil, bypassing the Strait
of Hormuz pic.twitter.com/00yQlcbbCt Advertisement — AFP News Agency
(@AFP) August 3, 2026-To get all of that oil to world markets, Abu Dhabi
said in May that it would accelerate construction of a new oil pipeline
to double its export capacity through Fujairah by 2027.Unlike its other
ports, Fujairah sits entirely on the Gulf of Oman, not the Persian
Gulf, and ships traveling to and from its ports don’t need to enter the
Strait of Hormuz at all.The new conduit will expand the capacity of the
Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline, which can carry up to 1.8 million barrels
per day from its inland Habshan oil field to Fujairah.The Abu Dhabi
National Oil Company has also announced a bid process for a liquefied
natural gas facility in Fujairah.“Abu Dhabi is accelerating work on a
second pipeline to Fujairah which will connect with the emirate’s
offshore fields, as the existing pipeline, which opened in 2012, is
linked to the onshore fields only,” explained Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
of Rice University’s Baker Institute.Currently, ships exporting Emirati
gas must travel from its sole terminal at Das Island, which is inside
the Persian Gulf.The UAE was already working on expanding its
liquefaction and export capacity, Ulrichsen pointed out, but in 2023 had
opted to locate a new facility at Ruwais, on its Persian Gulf coast,
rather than in Fujairah, to better complement existing facilities
there.The Saudis, under attack from Iran and increasingly from its
Houthis allies in Yemen, are responding to the Hormuz closures by
expanding their East-West Pipeline to the Red Sea.Riyadh has diverted
more than 70% of its normal daily crude exports to the Red Sea port of
Yanbu, helping to keep down global oil prices. However, the pipeline and
terminals at Yanbu have limited capacity, are vulnerable to attack, and
exports out of the Red Sea via the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the fastest
way to travel to the east, are being blocked by the Houthis.The US is
trying to help Iraq shift its oil exports away from the Persian Gulf and
toward the Mediterranean as well.In July, the State Department said it
was backing efforts by Iraq and Syria to revive the Kirkuk-Baniyas
pipeline, which has been mostly out of service since suffering damage
during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Washington helped broker the
agreement and is encouraging US companies like Chevron to play a leading
role.There are implications for other Gulf countries as well.Oman,
which borders Saudi Arabia and the UAE and opens onto the Arabian Sea,
“becomes increasingly valuable as an alternative export platform,” said
Karen Young of the Middle East Institute.However, Kuwait and Qatar, with
their entire coasts inside the Persian Gulf, “remain among the most
exposed producers because of their continued dependence on Gulf shipping
lanes,” Young said.Israel at the hub-The shift away from Hormuz could
position Israel as a key hub in the emerging energy map.Some plans
envision pipelines reaching Mediterranean ports in Syria or even in
Turkey, which would add many hundreds of miles to any project.Syria
remains unstable, and the government only controls parts of the
country.“The Saudis, Turks, President Trump and his envoy Tom Barrack
may favor Syrian strongman [President Ahmad al-] Sharaa, but who knows
if he’ll still be leader over that fractured country by the time a
pipeline is built,” cautioned Michael Makovsky, president and CEO of the
Jewish Institute for National Security of America.The 2023 India-Middle
East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, plan, on the other hand, sees
Haifa as a main port.“Israel is the most stable country in the region,
best able to protect its pipelines and ports, and most likely to respect
commercial contracts,” said Makovsky.“The Saudis in particular appear
to be looking at Syria as a potential gateway to the Mediterranean,”
said Ulrichsen. “There may be opportunities for the UAE and Israel to
deepen connections but if Saudi Arabia is not on board, due both to
tensions over normalization with Israel and geopolitical issues with the
UAE, the lack of a direct land-based corridor access may prove
difficult to surmount.”Encouragingly, Israel recognizes the strategic
potential emerging in the wake of Iran’s threats to Hormuz.“The IMEC
infrastructure corridor, first proposed several years ago, has taken on
renewed strategic importance,” said Energy Minister Eli Cohen’s office
after he spoke with his Greek counterpart on Wednesday. “The Gulf states
and Israel are connected by a continuous land corridor, making the
construction of infrastructure linking them to Europe through Israel
relatively straightforward.”“Iran’s primary strategic asset in the
recent war — the Strait of Hormuz — could become largely irrelevant
within a few years, with Israel emerging as a major beneficiary,” said
Cohen’s office.Meanwhile, there is precedent for Israel to play a part
in alternatives when trade routes are blocked. When Houthis hampered
shipping through the Suez Canal in 2024, freight and logistics firms
switched to alternative overland routes, trucking goods from the Far
East to the Mediterranean via the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and
Israel.Iranian threat won’t disappear-Despite the potential to weaken
Iran and deepen Israel’s ties to Arab countries, many obstacles
remain.Turkey is actively trying to sideline Israel in any regional
infrastructure network.In June, Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed landmark
agreements for a new rail line connecting the countries via Syria and
Jordan, aiming to extend it in the future to Oman to serve as an
overland trade route, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, the Suez Canal and
the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.Ankara boasted that the project, which would
revive and expand the Ottomans’ short-lived Hejaz railway from over a
century ago, would reduce Israel’s regional influence. Various
commentators say the development will sideline the Jewish state’s
attempts to set up railway trade routes from East Asia to Europe passing
through the country.The Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline, meanwhile, will take
years to build.Saudi Arabia’s shift to the Red Sea is being hamstrung by
Yemen’s Houthis, who are part of Iran’s regional proxy network. On July
20, the Houthis declared a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia, and
on Wednesday, the rebels claimed to have attacked yet another Saudi oil
tanker off Yanbu.Saudi tankers seem to be choosing to sail around the
entire African continent rather than risk transiting the Bab el-Mandeb
Strait, which skirts Yemen, to reach the Arabian Sea and beyond.And Iran
isn’t likely to sit idly by as Middle Eastern gas and oil flows away
from the chokepoints it can control.“The Iranian leadership is bent on
pursuing a vision of regional order based upon coercion and submission
and this is likely to continue,” said Ulrichsen.Pipelines, terminals and
other energy facilities are notoriously vulnerable to sabotage or armed
attack, and may be targeted by Iran or its various regional
proxies.“Any new pipeline is vulnerable just as the old ones have been,”
Young said. “Iran will likely target routes and infrastructure as they
have done in the past.”Facilities in Iraq and Syria are especially at
risk, with government control in those countries patchy.Jordan, and
especially Israel, though, are harder targets for Iran and its proxies,
which could give them a long-sought foothold in the lucrative oil
trade.“It certainly best serves US interests for pipelines to go through
our close allies Jordan and Israel,” Makovsky noted, “augmenting those
countries’ financial and strategic positions.”
PROOF HALF ON
EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH) (DO
NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER GONNA
HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR
RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES
IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY
TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH
FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER
JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the
bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or
peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels
land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the
future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq
west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe
23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN
THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are
the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war
or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE.
LUKE 19:40
40 And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”
Rome
talks end early; US cites 'events on the ground'-Two reservists killed,
four seriously wounded by IED blast in south Lebanon; IDF strikes
Hezbollah in response-Initial probe indicates explosive detonated when
troops entered building in Majdal Zoun; Lebanon reports 1 killed, 12
others hurt as IDF responds to ‘blatant violation’ of ceasefire By
Emanuel Fabian,Jacob Magid and Agencies 5 August 2026, 10:15 pm
The
Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday morning that two reservist
soldiers were killed, and four were seriously wounded after being hit by
an explosive device in the southern Lebanon town of Majdal Zoun a day
earlier. The deadly attack prompted the military to resume strikes on
Wednesday against Hezbollah, as talks on expanding the truce between the
two countries were said to hit a bump in the road in Rome.The slain
troops were named as: Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, a company
commander from Nokdim; and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Tamir Vaknin, 33, from
Eilat. Both served in the 55th Paratroopers Brigade’s 2855th
Battalion.According to an initial IDF probe, at around noon on
Wednesday, troops of the reserve brigade entered a building in Majdal
Zoun, during efforts to demolish Hezbollah infrastructure. As they
entered, an explosion occurred, killing and injuring the forces.It was
not immediately clear when the explosive device had been planted and how
it was detonated on the forces.The wounded troops were taken to a
hospital and their families were notified, the army added.The
announcement came after the IDF hit Hezbollah targets in southern
Lebanon on Wednesday following the blast, which it called a “blatant
violation” of the tenuous ceasefire.A short while before launching the
“precise strikes” — the first since August 1 — the IDF issued the first
evacuation warning for an area of southern Lebanon in weeks, and called
for residents of Mansouri to evacuate at least one kilometer north of
the village.“In light of the Hezbollah terror organization’s violation
of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is compelled to operate against it
with force,” said Lt. Col. Ella Waweya, the IDF’s Arabic-language
spokeswoman.“Anyone located near Hezbollah operatives, facilities, or
weapons is putting their life at risk!” she added.One person was killed
and 11 wounded in an Israeli strike on Tebnine, southern Lebanon,
Lebanese media reports. The area is separate from where the IDF issued
an evacuation notice earlier. pic.twitter.com/bPIjVK7wiS — Open Source
Intel (@Osint613) August 5, 2026-The Lebanese health ministry said one
person was killed and 12 others were wounded in the strike, which it
said targeted Tebnine, located about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from
Mansouri.The state-run National News Agency said that the strike hit a
prayer room in the town’s cemetery.There was no immediate information on
the identity of the dead.Later Wednesday, the military said that an
interceptor missile was fired at a target, which was later revealed to
have been fired by Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon. There
were no injuries in the incident, which was under further investigation,
the IDF added.Lebanese civilians had returned to Mansouri, which is
located around 10 kilometers north of Israel, during the ceasefire under
the protection of the Lebanese army, which also set up a roadblock in
the area in violation of the agreements, according to the IDF.The town’s
municipality told residents on June 22 that they could return, but
asked them to avoid the part of the town that fell within Israel’s
so-called “security zone” in southern Lebanon.Mansouri has been
subjected to several Israeli strikes and artillery shelling in recent
weeks despite the June 26 ceasefire, and the IDF said the village was
evacuated for residents’ safety, as military operations were still
taking place there.The UN’s humanitarian agency said on Tuesday that
more than 800,000 people displaced by fighting in Lebanon had begun
heading back home following the recent lull in violence, though more
than 360,000 remained displaced.Israel said to accuse Beirut of leaking
false information-Meanwhile, in Rome, talks between Israel and Lebanon
ended several hours early, though there were several conflicting reports
as to the cause.Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter
accused the Lebanese delegation of repeatedly leaking false information
to Lebanese media, an Israeli source told The Times of Israel.Because of
the leaks, Leiter asked the US mediators to suspend the talks before
their scheduled conclusion, the source said, while clarifying that talks
were still slated to pick back up on Thursday.A US State Department
official later confirmed that the talks had ended early, but said this
was due to “events on the ground,” apparently referring to the Israeli
strikes.The US State Department official nevertheless downplayed the
development, stressing that talks would reconvene Thursday as
planned.“Discussions focused on a range of political and military issues
and were extremely productive. The technical teams made progress on
determining key details on implementation of the Trilateral Framework,”
the State Department official said.The goal of this week’s talks was to
establish working groups on six issues: maritime borders, land borders,
evaluating the pilot zones where the Lebanese army has replaced the IDF,
disarming Hezbollah, stopping the flow of Iranian money into Lebanon,
and stepping up reconstruction efforts in southern Lebanon.The direct
Washington-backed negotiations are the seventh round since Hezbollah
drew Lebanon into a wider Middle East war in March by firing rockets at
Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali
Khamenei.Israel responded with heavy airstrikes and a ground invasion
that Lebanon says has killed more than 4,300 people, although the figure
doesn’t differentiate between combatants and civilians.Israel said late
last month it had killed at least 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including
hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force.
Analysis-Abdul
El-Sayed’s Michigan primary win is a watershed moment for anti-Israel
Democrats-Progressive in key swing state takes a step closer to the US
Senate, after tens of millions of dollars spent by AIPAC, marking a huge
victory for opponents of Israel in the party By Ben Sales 6 August
2026, 3:59 am
When progressive Abdul El-Sayed declared victory on
Wednesday against his moderate opponent, US Representative Haley
Stevens, he was celebrating a win in a hard-fought Democratic Senate
primary battle in Michigan.But he was also cheering on behalf of a much
larger cause: The ascendant anti-Israel movement in the Democratic
Party.El-Sayed isn’t the first pro-Palestinian activist to win a major
race. But more than any single candidate, his success demonstrates that
the party is taking a sharp turn on Israel, and that it’s doing so
quickly.El-Sayed is hardly the first anti-Israel candidate to hoist the
Democratic Party’s banner. Zohran Mamdani, who has called
pro-Palestinian activism the “core” of his politics, is the mayor of
America’s biggest city. A string of anti-Israel candidates have won
Democratic primaries in recent months. Several more already serve in
Congress.But in numerous ways, this is a bigger deal than all of those —
even if El-Sayed doesn’t win the general election in November. In many
senses, in fact, it’s anti-Israel activists’ biggest victory so far —
and the biggest defeat for pro-Israel activists, including the
pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.Putting a staunch opponent of Israel at the door
of the Senate-For one thing, this is a race for the Senate — not for a
House district, and not for a city hall. Every US House member is just
one of 435, serving a two-year term. They tend to run the ideological
gamut and include not a few people with fringe beliefs.And Mamdani, for
all his power and influence, has no direct role in American foreign
policy. He and his critics talk about Israel often, but it’s always
refracted through the lens of issues within New York’s city limits, like
whether he’s going to march in the pro-Israel parade, or whether he can
arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or whether his public
condemnations of Israel have anything to do with the rise in antisemitic
incidents on his watch.Senators are more prestigious and influential
than representatives, serving in a body of just 100 and elected to
six-year terms that span presidential elections. The Senate votes on
treaties, and it approves or strikes down defense budgets. Senators also
have a history of direct involvement in American foreign policy. Look
no further than the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, who was
known for globetrotting, and for his outspoken support for Ukraine and
Israel.Speaking against Israel’s Jewish character-Now, Michigan
Democrats have nominated someone for that role who is a vocal critic not
just of Israeli policy, not just of the leading US pro-Israel lobby,
but of Israel’s character as a Jewish state.He was asked last month by
CNN whether it’s possible to be both Zionist and progressive. His
answer? “Every definition of a Jewish state ends up in some articulation
of illiberal values, every single one.” He also said that money is the
only reason Democrats who “believe in human rights” would support
Israel. (Elsewhere, he has spoken in favor of Jewish
“self-determination.”)-He has consistently decried US aid to Israel. And
he has campaigned with Hasan Piker, the outspoken anti-Israel streamer
who recently blamed Israel, without evidence, for instigating the recent
crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, and who has praised Hezbollah
while calling Hamas 1,000 times better than Israel.El-Sayed has framed
much of his campaign around domestic concerns. But if he is elected, his
foreign policy views will get a prominent platform.Right now, the
senator considered by many to be the chamber’s loudest critic of Israel
is Vermont’s Bernie Sanders. But Sanders is a Jew who has defended
Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, and who once lived on an Israeli
kibbutz. Sanders endorsed El-Sayed, and if El-Sayed wins, he will become
the Senate’s biggest opponent of Israel.A boost from swing state
Democrats-The second reason why his primary win is significant is that
it occurred in a large swing state that has been under the American
political spotlight for more than a decade. Other staunch opponents of
Israel who have won House primaries recently — Darializa Avila Chevalier
in New York, for example, or Melat Kiros in Colorado — have done so in
solidly blue districts that have long been seen as progressive
strongholds.Michigan is deeply purple. It has voted for the winner of
the presidential election five times straight, and its races have been
tightly fought for the past few cycles. The Senate election in November,
pitting El-Sayed against Republican Representative Mike Rogers, is
considered a nail-biter. El-Sayed’s win showed that his brand of
anti-Israel politics plays among Democrats not just in liberal bastions
like New York City and Denver, but in a politically diverse battleground
state.A stark defeat for AIPAC-El-Sayed’s victory is also a painful
defeat for AIPAC, which once commanded broad loyalty among Democrats but
now has lost a race where it spent record amounts to defeat an
anti-Israel candidate.The lobby spent an unprecedented $30 million or so
on behalf of Stevens, part of more than $60 million in spending by
outside groups that gave Stevens a nine-to-one financial advantage over
El-Sayed. Graham Platner, the former disgraced Democratic Senate nominee
in Maine, was also a vocal critic of Israel and accused it of genocide,
but did not attract nearly the same amount of spending from AIPAC.It
didn’t help — and El-Sayed made it the centerpiece of his campaign,
posting online about AIPAC frequently, decrying its influence and once
calling Stevens “a suit with a large AIPAC bank account” who couldn’t
“string together two coherent sentences.”Some voices said El-Sayed’s
focus on AIPAC smacked of antisemitism. In the closing days of the
campaign, Stevens, who is not Jewish, posted online to her opponent,
“everyone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems
on Jewish Americans.”She meant it as an attack. But ironically, all of
the AIPAC spending may have turned some voters toward El-Sayed. National
polls show most Democrats have an unfavorable view of Israel. And a
poll last month found that about half of Michigan Democrats have an
unfavorable view of AIPAC, as opposed to just 12% who view it
favorably.Will Jews vote for El-Sayed? El-Sayed has also been accused of
antisemitism for his response to the March attack by a Lebanese
American man on a Detroit-area synagogue, which he condemned before
adding that “hurt people do hurt people, and the circumstances happening
6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here.” The remark
was a reference to Israel’s war in Lebanon, and drew concerns that he
was excusing or equivocating about the attack.He has pushed back
repeatedly on accusations of antisemitism. Speaking on Wednesday, he
spoke about experiences he had going to synagogue or attending a
Passover Seder (where, in an awkward turn of phrase, he recalled being
able to “break bread”).“To all of my sisters and brothers of the Jewish
faith, or any faith, or no faith at all, my commitment to Jewish safety
is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters,”
he said.A chunk of Michigan Jews will likely be persuaded by that
commitment. Jews have historically voted for Democrats in large numbers,
political polarization remains at a fever pitch in the US, and Jewish
Democrats in a swing state may not be willing to abandon their party’s
nominee in a crucial election where control of the Senate is at stake,
regardless of how they feel about the nominee’s Israel policy.In any
case, however, the AIPAC discourse almost certainly isn’t over. On
Wednesday, as it licked its wounds from the primary defeat, the lobby
said its “members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr.
El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November.”
Ireland’s
new state jet said to struggle to land in fog, after Israeli system
rejected-Falcon 6X allegedly lacks Elbit’s low-visibility equipment
after procurement officials decided signing with the Israeli defense
firm was ‘a step too far’By ToI Staff 4 August 2026, 9:26 pm
A
new Irish government jet may struggle to land in bad weather because it
was ordered without key navigation equipment from an Israeli firm,
according to a report Tuesday by the Irish outlet The Journal.The 53
million euro (61 million USD) Dassault Falcon 6X aircraft would normally
include Elbit’s FalconEye low-visibility system, a system of cameras
and sensors that gives pilots additional information amid fog or
darkness.In August 2024, Ireland said it would no longer award Israeli
companies defense contracts, citing an advisory opinion from the
International Court of Justice against Israeli settlements in the West
Bank.The report noted that Ireland recently inducted four new
helicopters and a maritime patrol aircraft that include systems made by
Elbit and other Israeli firms. However, in this case Ireland would have
had to enter a written agreement with the Israeli company in order to
have the system included, and “procurement officials determined this was
a step too far.”The Irish defense department has not confirmed or
denied the absence of the system, but has said “there are no current
limits on the operational capability of the aircraft.”However, The
Journal cited pilots as saying the lack of the FalconEye does limit
pilots’ options for landing in foggy weather.“Enhanced vision systems
use a number of infra-red and other light spectrum cameras whose imagery
is projected onto heads-up display screens in the cockpit to provide
unparalleled situational awareness, allowing pilots to see at night and
through the most inclement weather conditions,” Kevin Phipps, a former
Irish Air Corps pilot and now an airline pilot, told the Journal.“The
operational benefit of this system is the ability to land in fog when
other aircraft would have to divert to another airport,” he
said.According to the report, the aircraft, which was delivered in
December, is intended to be used both for transporting senior government
officials and as a long-distance air ambulance under certain
circumstances.The Journal said that it made a Freedom of Information Act
request for information regarding any additional projects that have
been restricted or forgone due to Israeli ties, but the Irish Defense
Ministry responded saying they had no relevant documents to
share.Ireland has been among the most outspoken critics of Israel’s
military campaign against terror groups in Gaza in the wake of the
deadly October 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel that
triggered the war. It recognized a Palestinian state in 2024.Soon after,
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar ordered the closure of the Israeli
embassy in Dublin, blaming Ireland’s “extreme anti-Israel policies.”Last
month, Ireland’s parliament approved legislation banning imports of
goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Jewish areas of East
Jerusalem.In June, Dublin banned far-right National Security Minister
Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the
country, slamming their behavior toward pro-Palestinian activists.Dublin
has also long pushed for a review of the European Union’s EU-Israel
Association Agreement, a cooperation deal signed in 1995 that forms the
basis for trade ties with Israel.
Student kills at least 6 in
shooting at high school in Thailand-Shooter kills his grandparents
before going to school, dies in hospital after shooting; authorities say
they believe he took the gun from a member of his family By TIAN
MACLEOD JI Today, 11:37 am
NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — A student
shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing
at least six people and wounding several others, police said.The
shooting happened at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi
province northwest of the national capital, Royal Thai Police
spokesperson Trairong Piwpan told The Associated Press.A witness told
reporters that students hid inside a classroom while they heard gunshots
from another building before police officers knocked on the door and
cleared a way for them to leave the building.About an hour after the
shooting, people stood outside the school comforting one another, and
police and first responders walked around inside the school.Authorities
gave conflicting information on the casualties that could not
immediately be reconciled.Trairong told news broadcaster Channel 3 the
shooter was hospitalized in serious condition and later died. 15 others
were injured, with two in critical condition. He said three teachers and
three students were killed.Health Minister Pattana Promphat said 22
people were injured, with nine in critical condition. Some were injured
from causes such as falls, and it wasn’t clear how many were shot.Deputy
Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee told reporters at the scene that
five teachers died and that the shooter killed his two grandparents at
home before going to the school.Trairong said the motive was still being
investigated. He said the gun was believed to have been taken from a
member of the student’s family.Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul
offered his condolences and said he had ordered relevant officials to
take care of the victims.In February, a 17-year-old stole a gun from
police and opened fire at a public high school in southern Thailand,
briefly taking people hostage in a two-hour attack that killed one
person and injured two others.In 2023, a 14-year-old boy was accused of a
shooting at a major Bangkok shopping mall.
'We hope it's
temporary but we're not going to whitewash it'At Israel Festival, show
goes on without international acts amid war, isolation-Organizers of
annual event grapple with unofficial cultural boycott as global talent,
usually a prominent part of the program, shuns Israel in wake of Oct.
7-By Jessica Steinberg-Today, 10:24 am-AUG 7,26
As the Israel
Festival continues with two more weeks of performances in Jerusalem and
elsewhere around the country, the annual arts event once known as a
showcase for global performers is proceeding this year without a single
international act.With artists the world over participating in an
unofficial boycott of Israel since Hamas launched the Gaza war, festival
organizers have found it increasingly difficult to bring anyone to
Israel.“The basis of the festival hasn’t changed, but the way of
carrying it out has,” said Ori Vaknin, a native Jerusalemite who
recently took over as festival CEO.This year’s opening event, “Held by a
String,” a free aerial performance that took place on July 28 above
Jerusalem’s Guy Ben Hinnom Valley, seemed to embody the festival
organizers’ ongoing frustration.The spectacle was initially to be
performed by a French cooperative of tightrope walkers who got cold feet
when they realized the political pressures they might experience by
coming to Israel.Instead, said Vaknin, they helped the festival find an
alternative group of Jerusalem colleagues who could perform a similar
tightrope act.In the end, 7,500 people streamed into the valley to watch
the 20-minute performance, which was accompanied by the Jerusalem East
and West Orchestra and the Jerusalem Youth Choir.“That’s why you keep
doing this,” said Vaknin. “There’s that moment when you open the event,
and the art touches you, and you say, ‘This is why I do this.'”Since the
deadly October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught and the years of continuous
conflict that have followed, the Israel Festival has been repeatedly
forced to adjust to events beyond its control. This includes shifting
dates and production challenges caused by successive rounds of fighting —
most recently this year’s war with Iran.“We’ve become experts in
cancelling and rescheduling,” said Vaknin. “There’s noise around us all
the time, and the saying ‘the show must go on’ has never been more
relevant. It’s all there, the lack of certainty, not knowing how many
tickets you’ll sell, but you keep on going.”In an attempt to explain
these complications to audiences, this year’s Israel Festival roster
includes a brief, unusual tour called “Temporarily Removed,” a 20-minute
walk through the winding corridors and backstage spaces, discussing
which performers didn’t make it to the festival this year.During one of
these tours, artistic director Michal Vaknin (no relation to Ori Vaknin)
led the way backstage behind the Sherover Theater as she described a
trilogy about sexual trauma by Brazilian playwright Carolina Bianchi
that was supposed to be performed at the 2024 Israel Festival.“It’s one
of the most maddening and powerful things I’ve ever seen,” said Vaknin,
as a large-screen TV played several minutes of the show.Vaknin then read
part of the ongoing correspondence between her, Bianchi and Bianchi’s
agent.“We will arrive one day, we will arrive,” wrote Bianchi and her
agent. “It is not the time, but we will arrive one day.”For years, the
international performances were a major component of the festival
program, and their absence feels sudden and jarring, said Michal
Vaknin.“We hope that it has disappeared temporarily, but we don’t know
for how long,” she said, “and there’s also a desire not to whitewash it
and act as if it doesn’t exist.”While most Israel Festival events are
still held in Jerusalem, the festival has expanded in recent years to
northern and southern Israel, the two regions most deeply affected by
the October 7 Hamas atrocities and the ensuing wars in Gaza and Lebanon,
with several events held in each area every year.“It was an instinctive
move,” said Ori Vaknin, “even though we needed extra funding to make it
happen. We believe in it.”This year, those expanded events include
former hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen singing songs he composed in his head
during a year and a half of Hamas captivity, performed on the lawn of
Kibbutz Nir Oz, his former home.There will be two events in the north — a
contemporary dance program at Kibbutz Kfar Blum and a performance by
singer Dikla in Nahariya — although it took time to figure out which
cities could host events when the north was still being bombarded by
Hezbollah a month and a half ago.And while it is increasingly difficult
to convince performers from abroad to come to Israel — whether
individual members of an ensemble refuse, or an entire cast — both
organizers say they will continue to dialogue with their colleagues
abroad in conferences and at panels despite the inherent
challenges.“Even the name Israel Festival, people think it’s a national
event, and we have to explain that we’re in Jerusalem, we’re an
independent cultural institution that just happens to have that name,”
said Ori Vaknin. “You have to talk about it all the time, and be patient
— there is no other way.”
When artificial intelligence hides
under a different name, it usually happens in one of three ways:
software rebranding (like malware hiding as productivity apps),
generative AI adopting common human names ("ghost names"), or automated
bots posing as real people on social media.How AI Disguises ItselfFake
Apps and Malware: Malicious software or tool suites sometimes use valid
digital signatures and professional titles to mask automated or
malicious AI scripts.Social Media Bots: Automated accounts use realistic
human names and stolen profile photos to blend into online communities
and spread content.Ghost Names in Text: Large language models naturally
output statistically common names (like Marcus Chen or Elena Vasquez)
when inventing fictional people, making them look like real independent
sources.Unlabeled AI Art: Digital images generated by machines are
posted online under fake human artist credits to gain trust or
engagement.If you are worried about a specific app, message, or profile
being fake, tell me where you saw it or what it is asking you to do so I
can help you check it.
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/i/evilai.html
https://www.opentext.com/media/ebook/enterprise-artificial-intelligence-building-trusted-ai-with-secure-data-ebook-en.pdf
What AI Has Changed More in Two Years Than in the Previous TenBY Vickychaudhary-AUG 7,26
Most
developers already know AI has transformed coding. But there’s a
difference between knowing it intellectually and experiencing it while
building products every day.The job of a software engineer has changed
dramatically.After spending several days working almost exclusively with
AI coding agents, I realized I wasn’t just using new tools rather I was
working with an entirely different mindset. This isn’t another “AI will
replace developers” article.It’s an attempt to describe how software
development feels different today compared to just a few years ago, what
skills matter more now, and where I think we’re heading.1. The
Definition of Engineering Productivity Has Changed-Not long ago, a
developer could spend weeks implementing a relatively small feature in a
large production codebase. That made sense because understanding the
codebase, writing the implementation, testing it, and navigating
internal processes consumed most of the effort.Today, capable AI agents
can often understand a surprisingly large codebase and implement many of
these tasks in hours instead of weeks. The implication isn’t that
engineering has become trivial. It’s that the amount of output one
engineer can produce has increased dramatically.Organizations are fully
adapting to this reality, over time they’ll likely realize they can move
faster with much smaller teams.2. Developers Are Becoming Managers of
AI AgentsA few years ago, my workflow looked like this: Open the editor,
Write code, Debug, Repeat. Today it looks very different. Instead of
writing everything myself, I often have multiple AI agents working in
parallel:One configuring infrastructure-Another building backend
APIs-Another implementing frontend components-Another writing tests.My
role is becoming less about typing code and more about:Giving clear
instructions-Providing context-Reviewing outputs-Connecting different
pieces together-Validating the final system-Instead of writing every
line myself, I’m coordinating a team of digital collaborators.3. AI
Makes You Faster — But Also Lazier-There’s an uncomfortable downside to
all of this. The better AI becomes, the less incentive we have to deeply
understand what’s happening underneath. If an agent can solve the
problem, it’s tempting to move on instead of asking:Why did this work?
What tradeoffs were made?Could this fail in production? What assumptions
did the model make? This creates a real risk. Companies still interview
engineers on fundamentals. They still expect developers to reason about
systems when something breaks. If AI does all your learning for you,
you’ll eventually hit a ceiling where you can build impressive projects
but struggle to explain how they actually work. AI can accelerate
implementation, It shouldn’t replace understanding.4. High Agency
Matters More Than Ever-One phrase that’s become increasingly common is
high agency. In the AI era, it means something very practical: Give
someone a problem, they gather context independently, they figure out a
solution, uses AI effectively, and then deliver results without constant
guidance.As AI reduces the cost of implementation, the bottleneck
shifts toward ownership and decision-making. People who can
independently move projects forward become dramatically more valuable
than people who simply execute assigned tasks.5. Programming Languages
Are Becoming an Abstraction-Assembly gave way to C language, which gave
ways to higher-level languages. And now, AI is becoming another
abstraction layer above those languages.We now regularly building things
in languages we are not deeply familiar with because AI handles most
syntax, boilerplate, and implementation details. That doesn’t mean
programming languages are disappearing. It means syntax matters less
than outcomes. The important question is no longer:Can you write this
function perfectly from memory? It’s becoming: Can you design, validate,
and ship reliable systems? 6. Domain Knowledge Is Becoming the Real
Competitive Advantage-AI has dramatically lowered the cost of
implementation. It hasn’t lowered the value of expertise. Someone with
years of experience in any of(cloud, security, product, databases, etc)
still has a major advantage. AI can generate code. It cannot instantly
replace years of intuition developed through real production experience.
That’s why domain expertise is becoming even more valuable. The
implementation gap is shrinking, but the judgment gap is not.7. The
Hardest Challenge for New Engineers-This creates a difficult dilemma. If
you ignore AI and write everything manually, you’ll probably move too
slowly compared to your peers. If you rely entirely on AI, your learning
may stall. Neither extreme seems sustainable. The best approach is
probably separating your work into two modes:Implementation mode: Use AI
aggressively to build products quickly.Learning mode: Slow
down.Understand why things work. Read generated code. Study
architecture. Experiment without AI occasionally. You need both speed
and understanding.8. AI Changes Hiring Economics-One argument I hear
frequently is: “Why spend money on AI when you could just hire another
engineer?”But that comparison is becoming less straightforward. If AI
allows one engineer to produce the output of several, companies will
naturally optimize around that. The economics increasingly favor:Smaller
teams-higher leverage-better tooling-faster iteration-That doesn’t
necessarily mean fewer opportunities. It means expectations will
change.Where Junior Engineers Still Have an Opportunity-Despite all of
this, I don’t think the future is pessimistic. In fact, there may be an
opportunity for newer engineers. Many experienced developers are still
adapting to AI-native workflows. Meanwhile, newer developers are often
far more comfortable collaborating with AI from day one.We’re also
beginning to see the emergence of AI-native codebases. These are
projects designed from the beginning with AI collaboration in mind
having workflows optimized for AI agents. Instead of treating AI as an
assistant, these systems treat AI as an expected participant in
development.I suspect more companies will move in this direction over
the next few years.Our Biggest Takeaway-The biggest realization wasn’t
that AI writes code. We already knew that. The realization was that the
role of the engineer is shifting. Less typing. More thinking. Less
implementation. More orchestration. Less memorizing syntax. More
understanding systems.We’re moving from being programmers to becoming
architects, reviewers, coordinators, and decision-makers, while AI
increasingly handles the mechanical parts of software development. There
are still open questions.How should beginners learn? How much should we
rely on AI? How do we preserve deep technical understanding? I don’t
think anyone has definitive answers yet. But one thing feels
increasingly clear which is that the future of software engineering
won’t belong to the people who refuse AI. It will belong to the people
who learn how to work with it effectively while continuing to develop
the judgment that AI still lacks.
Are We Using AI, or Is AI Using Us? Leena Jilain-AUG7,26
Think
about the last time you didn’t know something. Did you search for it on
Google, read through a few websites, ask someone who knew more than
you, or did you immediately open an AI tool and type in your question?
For a growing number of us, the answer is probably AI.Not too long ago,
“Google it” was almost the universal response whenever we didn’t know
something. We searched for answers, opened different websites, watched
tutorials, read discussions, compared information, and eventually
figured things out. Today, that habit is changing. Whether we need help
with an assignment, an email, a coding error, a presentation, a
decision, or even a simple everyday question, many of us now go directly
to AI.And honestly, it makes sense. Why spend an hour searching when an
AI tool can give you an answer in seconds? Why read several articles
when AI can summarize them? Why spend hours debugging a piece of code
when AI might identify and fix the problem in two or three minutes? AI
has made our lives easier in ways that would have seemed unbelievable
just a few years ago. But there is another side to all this convenience
that deserves our attention.What happens when we become so used to
getting answers that we slowly stop learning how to find them ourselves?
From “Google It” to “Ask AI”Before generative AI became part of
everyday life, searching for information usually required some effort.
Google could point us in the right direction, but we still had to do the
work. We had to open websites, decide which sources looked trustworthy,
compare different explanations, ignore irrelevant information, and
eventually decide which answer made the most sense.AI changes that
experience significantly. Instead of showing us where we might find an
answer, it can often provide a complete answer directly. That makes
things incredibly fast and convenient, but it can also remove part of
the thinking process.The traditional search process could be frustrating
and time-consuming, but those frustrating minutes were often where the
real learning happened. While searching through different sources,
comparing answers, trying different solutions, and deciding what
actually made sense, we were actively thinking and building our
understanding. With AI, much of that process can easily disappear. We
ask a question, receive an answer within seconds, copy what we need,
paste it, and move on. It is certainly faster, but when this becomes our
normal approach to every problem, we may save time without gaining the
knowledge or experience that would help us solve a similar problem
independently next time.That is where the conversation about AI becomes
more complicated. Efficiency is valuable, but efficiency and learning
are not always the same thing.Ask a Developer Who Coded Before
Generative AI-Software development is probably one of the easiest places
to see this change.Before generative AI tools became common, developers
often relied on Google, official documentation, GitHub discussions,
technical blogs, and platforms such as Stack Overflow when they
encountered an unfamiliar error.A single bug could sometimes take hours
to solve. You might copy the error message into Google, open several
Stack Overflow discussions, read multiple answers, check the
documentation, try one solution, discover that it did not work, change
something else, and search again. Eventually, after enough trial and
error, you would find the actual cause.It could be extremely
frustrating, especially when a small bug consumed half your day.But
after finally fixing it, you usually remembered something.You understood
what caused the problem, which approaches failed, why the final
solution worked, and where to look if something similar happened again.
The next time you encountered the same or a related error, you were
often able to recognize it much faster.The struggle itself became part
of the learning process.Today, the experience can look completely
different. A developer gets an error, copies it into an AI tool, shares
the relevant code, and asks for a fix. Within seconds, AI can explain
the issue and generate corrected code. Two or three minutes later, the
application may be running again.That is an incredible improvement in
productivity. There is nothing wrong with using AI to debug code faster.
The problem appears when we stop at the point where the code starts
working.If we read the explanation, compare the original and corrected
code, understand why the error occurred, and learn how to recognize it
in the future, AI has helped us learn faster. But if we simply copy the
generated code, paste it into the project, see that the error
disappeared, and immediately move on, we may not have learned much at
all.When the same problem appears again, our first instinct may simply
be to copy and paste it into AI again.That is the difference between
using AI to accelerate learning and using AI to avoid learning.This
Isn’t Just a Coding Problem-It would be easy to assume that this is
mainly an issue for developers, but the same pattern is appearing almost
everywhere.Students can generate assignment answers without fully
understanding the topic. Employees can generate emails without thinking
about how to communicate the message themselves. Someone preparing a
presentation can ask AI to create the entire structure instead of
organizing their own ideas. Writers can generate content before
developing their own perspective. Even everyday decisions can be handed
over to an AI assistant.None of these uses is automatically bad. AI can
be extremely helpful in all of these situations. The concern begins when
“Ask AI” becomes our automatic first response whenever we are uncertain
about something.There is a difference between asking AI to help us
understand something and asking AI to remove the need for us to
understand it.That difference might become increasingly important as AI
becomes more deeply integrated into everyday life.A Meme That Feels a
Little Too Real-I once came across a funny Facebook video that captured
this idea surprisingly well. In the video, a customer walks into a shop
and the shop owner asks a completely normal question: “What do you want,
sir?”Instead of simply answering, the customer takes out his phone and
asks ChatGPT what he should say because the shop owner has asked him
what he wants. He then responds using the answer ChatGPT gives
him.Obviously, it is a meme. It is exaggerated for comedy, and most
people are not actually asking AI how to answer a shopkeeper.But the
reason the video is funny is also the reason it is worth thinking about:
the behaviour does not feel completely impossible anymore.The meme
reflects something that is already happening in a less extreme way. We
increasingly use AI to decide what to write, how to reply, how to
explain something, what to choose, what to create, and how to respond to
situations.The concern is not that Gen Z will suddenly forget how to
talk to a shopkeeper. The bigger question is whether we are slowly
becoming uncomfortable doing things without digital assistance.When AI
becomes our first response to every small moment of uncertainty, the
issue is no longer just productivity. It becomes a question of
independence.When Does Assistance Become Dependence? Using AI is not the
problem. The more important question is what part of the process we are
handing over to it.Consider two students working on the same difficult
topic. One asks AI to explain the concept in simpler language, compares
the explanation with lecture materials, asks follow-up questions, and
eventually explains the concept using their own understanding. Another
student pastes the assignment question into AI, copies the generated
answer, submits it, and moves on.Both students used AI, but they did not
use it in the same way.One used AI to support the learning process. The
other used AI to replace it.The same distinction applies in
professional environments. A developer can ask AI to explain why an
error happened rather than simply requesting corrected code. A designer
can use AI to explore different directions while still developing the
final concept. A writer can use AI to challenge and improve an idea
rather than allowing it to replace their own voice. A researcher can use
AI to organize information while still checking the original
sources.The important question is not simply whether we use AI. It is
whether AI is helping us think or helping us avoid thinking.The Hidden
Cost of Convenience-Humans naturally prefer easier and faster solutions.
If one approach takes two hours and another takes five minutes,
choosing the five-minute option seems completely reasonable.That is
exactly why AI is so valuable.However, some of the friction AI removes
was also helping us develop useful skills.Searching for information
taught us how to research. Comparing different sources taught us how to
judge credibility. Debugging taught developers how systems behave.
Writing from scratch taught us how to organize our thoughts. Making
mistakes taught us how to improve. Difficult conversations taught us how
to communicate. Making small decisions independently helped us become
more confident in our own judgment.AI can reduce the effort required for
all of these things, which can be extremely beneficial. But we should
be careful not to confuse removing unnecessary work with removing
necessary thinking.Not every difficult part of a task is wasted time.
Sometimes the difficult part is exactly where the learning happens.AI Is
Also Influencing What We Choose-Generative AI is only one part of the
bigger picture. Algorithms have already been shaping our online
experiences for years.TikTok decides which video appears next. Instagram
decides which posts are likely to keep us engaged. Spotify recommends
music based on our listening habits. Netflix suggests what we might want
to watch, and online stores predict which products are most likely to
interest us.These systems learn from what we click, watch, skip, search
for, like, share, and spend time looking at. Over time, they become
increasingly good at predicting what will capture our attention.We still
make our own choices, but algorithms increasingly influence which
choices are placed in front of us.That does not mean technology is
secretly controlling every decision we make. It simply means that
digital awareness is becoming increasingly important. Understanding how
technology influences our attention may become just as important as
knowing how to use the technology itself.What Happens to Creativity? AI
can now generate articles, images, logos, presentations, captions,
business ideas, video concepts, and code within seconds. For creative
work, this can be incredibly useful.But creativity has never been only
about producing something quickly. Creativity develops through
experience, curiosity, experimentation, mistakes, conversations,
cultural influences, unexpected connections, and even bad ideas.
Sometimes the twenty minutes spent staring at a blank page before
finally finding an idea are part of the creative process.If every
difficult creative moment immediately becomes “AI, give me an idea,” we
may occasionally skip the exact moment when our own idea would have
appeared.A healthier approach might be to use AI after we have started
thinking rather than before. Instead of always asking, “Create this for
me,” we could ask, “Here is what I have created. What am I missing?” or
“Can you give me another perspective on this?”That keeps AI involved
while allowing the human to remain at the centre of the creative
process.Critical Thinking May Be the Most Important AI Skill-There is a
lot of discussion about learning how to write better AI prompts.
Prompting is certainly useful, but another skill may become even more
valuable: knowing when an AI-generated answer is wrong.AI can produce
responses that look polished, professional, and convincing while still
containing incorrect or incomplete information. Someone who understands
the subject can question the answer, notice inconsistencies, and verify
important claims.Someone who depends entirely on AI may not know enough
to recognize the mistake.That is why critical thinking does not become
less important in the AI era. It becomes more important.Knowing how to
use AI will be valuable, but knowing how to question it, verify it, and
make independent decisions will be even more important.The future may
not belong simply to people who know how to use AI. It may belong to
people who know how to think while using it.So, Where Does That Leave
Us?None of this is an argument for abandoning AI. AI can help us learn
faster, work more efficiently, automate repetitive tasks, explore new
ideas, improve communication, and solve problems that previously
consumed hours.The goal should not necessarily be to use AI less. The
goal should be to use it more consciously.Every once in a while, it may
be worth asking ourselves what we are actually handing over to the tool.
Do we understand why the answer is correct? Could we explain the
solution ourselves? Are we automating repetitive work, or are we
avoiding the thinking required to understand the task? If AI disappeared
tomorrow, could we still do this ourselves? For a developer, there is a
major difference between asking AI, “Fix this error,” and asking,
“Explain why this error happened, guide me through fixing it, and help
me understand how I can recognize it next time.”Both approaches might
solve the bug in a few minutes, but only one is designed to make the
developer better prepared for the next problem.And the same principle
applies far beyond coding.AI Isn’t Going to Wait for Us-AI technology is
developing incredibly quickly. Models are becoming more capable,
context windows are growing, and AI is being integrated into browsers,
phones, classrooms, workplaces, development environments, search
engines, and creative software.Technology is not going to slow down
while we figure out what a healthy relationship with it should look
like.That means staying in control of that relationship is partly our
responsibility.Interestingly, that responsibility may be easiest to
forget when AI is working perfectly. When AI saves us three hours, we
naturally focus on the three hours we saved. We rarely stop to think
about what we might have learned during those three hours.That does not
mean we should intentionally make tasks more difficult or refuse tools
that make us productive. It simply means we should understand the
difference between saving time and skipping growth.The Future Should
Still Be Human-Led-AI can search faster, process enormous amounts of
information, generate ideas, write code, summarize documents, suggest
responses, and help us make decisions.But speed has never been the only
measure of intelligence.There is still enormous value in being able to
think through a problem, question an answer, communicate naturally,
develop an original idea, make a decision, learn from mistakes, and
solve something without immediately outsourcing the entire thinking
process.The best future is probably not humans vs AI. It is also not a
future where humans refuse to use AI.It is a future where we know how to
work with AI without becoming helpless without it.For now, we are still
the ones using AI. Whether that remains true may have less to do with
how intelligent AI becomes and more to do with the habits we build
around it.We should use AI. We should let it save us time, automate
repetitive work, help us understand difficult concepts, and show us
possibilities we may not have considered.But we should be careful not to
let “Ask AI” completely replace “Let me think.”Because perhaps the most
important question in the AI era is not simply:“What can AI do for
us?”It is:“What should we never stop doing for ourselves?”
