THE PSALMS AND THE PALESTINIANS – THE REAL PROPHECTIC INTERPRETATION?

In 1907 a champion of the Zionist cause, Chaim Weizmann (born 1874 in Russia), visited Palestine. This was ten years after the First Zionist Congress was held in Switzerland, where he lived at the time. Weizmann established a company in Jaffer, Palestine, with the financial support of the Frenchman Baron Edmund de Rothschild, who had already poured forty million French florens into establishing thirty Jewish settlements from the 1880s.

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   Psalm 7:

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Save me from all who persecute me, lest they tear me to pieces like a LION …

let my enemy pursue and overtake me, let him trample my life to the earth and lay my honour in the dust (Ps 7:1-2a, 5)

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    The word “Lion” is used very infrequently in the psalms (7:2, 10:9, 17:12, 22:13,31; 34:10; 35:17; 57:4; 58:6; 91:13; 104:21) and it should be carefully noted. JR assumed it to mean the British, and it probably does, but not in a good way. In 1904 Weizmann worked at the University of Manchester, England, under the directorship of Charles Breyfus, a British Jew and Zionist.
 

    By 1910 Weizmann had become a British citizen. A land deal in the Marj Bin Amer region Northern Palestine, when 10,000 dunims (land measurement used in the Ottoman Empire) were purchased, leading to the forced expelling of over 60,000 farmers from their land.

   Psalm 10:

 

His mouth his full of an oath, and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity. He sits and lurks in the secret places of villages, he murders the innocent, his eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless. He secretly lies in wait as a LION in his den. He lies to catch the poor. He catches the poor when he draws them into his net. (Ps 10:7-9)

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   This perfectly describes Weizmann and his plottings.
 

   Between 1909 and 1914 there were 40,000 Jewish immigrants, a greater number than all the Jews in Palestine before 1909. Going against Zionist plans, many immediately left for somewhere better when they saw the stark reality of their new home. This was when Palestine was still under the control of the Ottoman Empire that had kept the peace there for over 400 years (1516 to 1918, to be exact). Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived there, each with their mosques, churches, and synagogues. The megre Jewish population was not enough for the Zionists to enact their grand plans, as the Palestinians greatly outnumbered them.
   The Zionists had endeavoured to cosy up to the Ottomans in the previous century, to talk them into allowing a Zionist homeland, to no avail. What were they to do? Fortunately for them, and in a great moment of happy coincidence, the First World War greatly changed the Holy Land. The Ottoman Empire, that had been around since 1299, quickly collapsed, and the Zionist-controlled British took charge, complete with their innate sense of moral and intellectual superiority. This was made “official” by the British Mandate, and the Jewish immigration programme suddenly greatly increased.
   It was not Brittan's land to take control of, but they did it anyway. They had no legal right, but that didn't matter. They were the new invaders, the new kings, and what they determined became the law, with harshly punisments for not obeying. Many Palestinians were beaten, imprisioned, or even exiled by these British tyrants. The Palestinians were not consulted about any of it. There was no public discussion, no Palestinians leaders met with any British leaders, and no voting process was enacted. It was the lofty sounding British Mandate for Palestine.
   The lions had moved in.
   In 1920 one Herbert Samuel was appointed as the Palestine's first British High Commissioner. The Jewish England-born Samuel (a third-generation Englishman) was from a wealthy family of jewellers, and was a highly influential Zionist.

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    By 1922 Samuel declared many pro-Zionist laws, including Hebrew as an official language. This was not the same Hebrew spoken by the ancient Israelites, but one that modern linguists invented that was “probably” the same. They could have stuck with Yiddish, a Hebrew-German hybird that used the Hebrew alphabet, but it was not to be.
   The lions were getting vicious.

   Psalm 22:

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They gape at me with their mouths like a roaring and raging LION. … For dogs have surrounded me, the pack of the wicked has enclosed me … Save me from the LION’S mouth (Ps 22:13a, 16a, 21a)

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    Palestinians were being displaced from their homes in the 10,000s. Not surprisingly, they were angry, and did whatever they could to fight back. In 1929 there were the first mass-protests. The Al-Buraq Uprising saw over a hundred dead on both sides.
   Over in Nazi Germany, the government faced a problem with a worldwide boycott of their goods. This boycott was called for by non other than the Zionists. But an agreement was reached between the Zionists and the German Nazis that allowed German Jews to immigrate to Palestine with their assets. Not a bad deal. It was known as the Haavara (Transfer Agreement), and it was done in 1933.
   But things weren’t progressing so well in Palestine. A man by the name Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam was leading a serious and successful uprising against their British overlords. By 1934 British rule was weakened.

   Psalm 34:

 

The young LIONS lack and suffer hunger (Ps 34:10)

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    The year 1935 saw over 60,000 Jewish immigrants, more than the entire Jewish population of 1917. It was also the year when the British trapped Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam with one of their military units and killed him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Psalm 35:

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How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destructions, my precious life from the LIONS (Ps 35:17)

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    His death inspired many to rise up in his place. Beginning in 1936, with May 16 declared as Palestine Day, a General Strike was called, seeking independence from British rule. The peaceful protest was ignored.
   By 1937 there was martial law, as the British suppressed the Palestinians without mercy. Between 1937 and 1939 an estimated 14% to 17% of the adult male population was either killed, wonded, imprisoned, or exiled. The Zionist-controlled Palestine Police Force who worked with the British in their brutal crackdown, acquired and stockpiled guns. These guns were soon be turned on the Brits.
   Surprisingly, in an attempt to stifle the unrest, the British decided to limit Jewish immigration in 1939 with their White Paper. "Only" 75,000 new immigrants would be allowed for the next five years. This caused the Zionists to regard the British as their enemy. With their Zionist militia groups (designed to be a buffer between the government and “radicals) they began a series of campaigns of terrorism.
The Haganah ("the defense") was formed in 1920 by Jewish British soldiers and used mostly to terrorise Palestinian villages. By the 1930s the majority of settlers joined them. They were not, however, radical enough for the likes of Russian-born Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who with others formed a breakaway group called the Irgun.
Jabotinsky, after being exiled to Europe by the British, worked with Avraham Stern to smuggle both Jews and munitians into Palestine. All was not well with this partnership, as Stern soon became angry that Jabotinsky was willing to work with the British against the Nazis. Stern thought the Nazis would make good allies with the Zionists, and in 1941 wrote a letter to Nazi authorities stationed in Syria stating that if they helped to establish a Jewish State in Palestine then the Irgun would fight alongside them against the British! The unhinged Stern, who described the Jews as a "Master Race" and the Arabs as a "Slave Race" formed a new group in 1940, the Lehi, better known as the Stern Gang.
   Some of the work if the Stern Gang is as follows: Walter Guinness, better known as Lord Moyne, was murdered in 1944, shot in cold blood. 22 July 1946 saw the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, used as the British HQ, killing 91. That was done by the Irgun, led by future PM and Noble Peace Prize winner Menachem Begin, and was the world's first recorded incident of terrorism. The 1st of March 1947 saw the British Officers Club in Jerusalem bombed, killing 16. Three Irgun members caught by the British and were executed. In response, two British sergeants were kidnapped and murdered, and hanged in a field, by order of Begin.
   Despite these acts of terror, the UN proposed a plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (Resolution 181). The Jews, a third of the populaton, would get an outrageous 55% of the land.
   The Zionists used the terrible trajedy of the Holocaust to their full advantage. Shocked and traumatised by the Nazis, European Jews were told that they now had a new home, which was portrayed as their ancestoral spiritual home, despite being a people from Eastern Europe. They were told that they would be safe from their enemies, since their government would protect them. They did not know that the Zionists planned to use them for their goals, as they did the British, for better or for worse. On the 25th of November 1940, the British immigration ship SS Patria was bombed, carrying 1,800 Jewish refugees from Europe fleeing the Nazis. It was a false flag by Haganah, although the Irgun had first tried to attack the ship but failed. They drowned women, children, and elderly, 267 in total, and 172 were injured. The terrorist action was ordered by the future PM Moshe Sharett (by his own admission!) They had the audacity to claim that they didn’t want to cause any casualties with their bombs. Jewish casualties. Not British, not Palestinian, but their own people. Funny, but I would have thought that a good way to avoid casualites would have been in not planting any bombs at all.
   The Zionist terrorist groups next went after Palestinian cities and villages in 1948. A car bomb killed 26 in Jaffa. The Seriramis Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed by the Haganah, killing 20. Thousands of Palestinians were displaced. Both the Stern Gang and Irgun massacred civilians in the village of Dayr Yassin, near Jerusalem. The biggest targets for the Zionists were the cities Jaffa and Hafia. In April, Palestinian resistance in Haifa ended and the city was captured. In May Jaffa was taken after 70,000 fled. The remaining males were forced to clean up the dead and loot houses for the Zionists, before being taken to detention camps.
   In June 1948 what has become known to the Palestinians as the Nakba (the "Catasprophe") began, a so-called “ethnic-cleansing” which is a supposedly nice way of describing genocide. On the 17th of September 1948, a man of peace, Count Folke Bernadotte, representing the UN to try to stop the carnage, was coldly murdered by the Stern Gang (that included furture PM Yitzhak Shamir). He was machine-gunned at point-blank range in his car by one Yehoshua Cohen, who later glady boasted about it. Peace was the last thing wanted by the Zionists.

 

 

 

 

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    The Haganah, Irgun, and Stern Gang merged with the newly formed Israeli Defense Forced, the IDF, in 1948. In 1949 over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes. Over 13,000 were killed and 30,000 wounded by the IDF. Villages were cleared out in a preplanned system of traumatising the residents by randomly chosing several children and shooting them in front of everyone. The Zionists had detailed lists, prepared years in advance, of everything of value in each village and town belonging to the Palestinians, and in 1949 they took for themselves what they wanted, with no one to stop them.
   In May of 1949 Israel was admitted into the UN, regardless of their numerous terrorist actions, sytematic war crimes, and genocide operations. Land for the Palestines was reduced to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and West Jerusalem, but the Zionists desperately wanted all of Jerusalem.
   In 1953 Israeli special forces Unit 101, commanded by future PM Ariel Sharon, blew up 45 homes, killing 69 civilians. This was condemned by the UN Security Council, and yet Israel remained a member of the UN.
   1954 saw the Lavon Affair, an incident that almost made the world take notice of what the Israli government was really up to. An Israeli Military Intelligence (AMAN) sleeper cell in Egypt was activated and ordered to bomb civilian buildings in Egypt. The agents were caught by the understandably angry Egyptians and put on trial. Two agents were executed. Israeli minister of defense Pinhas Lavon took all the blame, and the rest of the government claimed to know nothing. To stop any worldwide outrage, Israeli and American media falsely covered the Egyptian trial and portrayed it as anti-Jewish and comparable to the Nazi Holocaust. Who pushed this comparison? PM Moshe Sharett, the man who had ordered the terrorist attack on the SS Patria back in 1940.

   Psalm 54:

 

For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors have sought after my life, they have not set God before them. (Ps 54:3)

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    In February 1955 Israelis went into Gaza seeking revenge, and murdered 39 Egyptians.

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    Psalm 55:

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Destruction is in its midst, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets. (Ps 55:11)

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    The Suez War took place in Ocober 1956, with the backing of the UK. It was a full-scale Israeli invasion designed to take all the land up to the Suez Canal. It was only pressure from both the USA and the USSR that convinced the Israelis to stand down. The IDF still managed to perform massacres of Palestinians in over 450 villages in Gaza after the stand down order.
   5 June 1967 the Six Day War saw Israel occupy the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Syria’s Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai. The UN Resolution 242 called for Israel to withdraw from those territories.
   On June 8 the Israelis conducted another false flag operation. With full knowledge of President Johnson’s White House, the USS Liberty was brutally attacked off the coast of Egypt by both Israeli fighter jets and torpedos. The defenceless technical research vessel saw 34 of the crew killed and 171 wounded. No other ship in American naval history had as many purple hearts awarded to its crew, and all were immediately sworn to secrecy so the American public could be kept in the dark. The Israelis wanted the Egyptians blamed for the attack to bring America into its war. The Israeli plan failed, since the ship needed to be sunk and all hands lost, so no one could tell the truth. An American ship had been attacked by an ally, and the coverup continues to this day.
   17 March 1969, Golda Meir became PM. This person was famosly quoted as saying, “There is no such thing as a Palestinian people ... It is not as though we came and threw them out and took their country. THEY DID NOT EXIST.” This wretched woman also said, “Every morning I wish to wake up and not find a single Palestinian child alive.”

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    Psalm 69:

 

Those who hate me without a reason, are more than the hairs of my head. My enemies are mighty who would destroy me. (Ps 69:4a)

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    The 6th of October 1973 saw the Yom Kippur War, when the Israelis were (apparently) caught by surprise by an Arab coalition attack. UN Resolution 338 called for a ceasefire, and for Israel to withdraw from the territories it took in 1967.

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    Psalm 73:

 

Their eyes bulge with abundance, they have more than the heart could wish. They scoff and speak wickedly, they speak loftily concerning oppression. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue parades through the earth (Ps 73:7-9)

 

   The Zionists are perfectly summed up by Psalm 73. They claim to be following God, and boast that they are his people, but it is a false claim, they only want to take their neighbours’ land.
   In 1974 the Arab League recognised the PLO as the sole legitimate representative body of the Palestinian people, who were not consulted. Whoever led the PLO became the leader for the Palestinians, but there was no voting conducted to see if the PLO was the choice of the people. This politically ineffective and niave group was quickly labelled as terrorists, and thus any military action conducted against Palestinians by the Israelis was portrayed as self-defence.
   In 1982 the IDF invaded Lebanon and beseiged Beruit under the pretext of attacking the PLO, and somehow failed to capture of kill any of them. The PLO agreed to leave Lebanon, and a ceasefire ensued, but that only led to the second phase of their plan. Using a militant so-called Christian organisation known as the Phalangist, the IDF oversaw a brutal massacre of 5,000 defenseless men, women, and children of the Beruit's Sabra neighbourhood and the Shatila refugee camp. The manner of it was beyond most people's comprehension. The majority were killed by being hacked to pieces with knives and axes. The man who gave the order was the Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. The UN actually spoke up against it, accusing Israel of "direct involvement", Sharon was blamed by an Israeli judicial commission, saying he was "personally responsible," which caused him to resign. That did not stop him becoming PM in 2001.
   The world began to see Zionist Israel for what it really is.
 

   Psalm 82:

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How long will you judge the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? (Ps 82:2)

 

   Hamas was founded in 1987, and discreetly supported by the Israelis to undermine the PLO. December of 1987 saw the beginging of the First Intifada, as the people on the street finally had enough. By the end of 1996 this politically uncontrolled uprising had caused the deaths of 1,422 Palestinians, and over 175 Israelis.

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The Intifada, or uprising, began in December 1987. One year later there had been 432 deaths; 46,000 injured people; 33 Palestinians expelled; 5,000 subjected to administrative detention, no charges, no trial, a minimum of six months imprisonment; at least 2,000 curfew days, more than 1,000 olive and fruit trees uprooted, 560 buildings, the majority of them homes, demolished. All West Bank schools were closed in the spring of 1988 and had not been allowed to re-open by the end of that year; schools throughout the Gaza Strip had all been forcibly closed for long periods; Press offices and newspapers had been closed; there had been more than 150 prolonged sieges of towns, villages and refugee camps. The attrition just went on and on." (David Yallop, To the Ends of the Earth, p281)

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   Psalm 88 is very bleak. The entire psalm could be quoted here to reflect the mood of the people. In 1988 the PLO accepted UN Resolution 242 and 338, recognising the State of Israel, betraying the Palestian people. The PLO, claiming to represent them, recognised their Zionist oppressors, who refused to recognise Palestine in return.
 

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You have laid me down in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. (Ps 88:6)

 

    Next came the Gulf War, 2 August 1990 to 28 February 1991, gleefully orchestrated by the Bush Whitehouse, set up as its patsy their former CIA ally Sadam Hussain and the nation of Iraq. First came Operation Desert Shied, followed by the shorter Operation Desert Storm. With heavy dollops of propaganda, the US arranged an unprecidented meeting of 42 nations, following Bush’s revealing “New World Order” speech on 11 September 1990. The world was told that the US Patriot missle defence system protected Israel from Iraq’s Scud missles, and the supposed threat of chemicle warfare. The US knew Hussain had such weapons becuase they sold them to him. The reality was that no Patriot missle hit any Scud missile, but why let the story get spoiled by a little truth?

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You will not be afraid of the terror by night, now the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor the destruction that lays waste at noon. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the reward of the wicked. (Ps 91:5-8)

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   The above quoted verses were so compellingly accurate of the Gulf War that even Time magazine quoted it in a major article about the war.

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You will tread on the LION and the cobra, you will trample underfoot the YOUNG LION and the SERPENT. (Ps 91:13)

 

   Is the “Young Lion” representing the USA? It's obvious what the Serpent is.

   David Yallop wrote in 1993: "In Israel both before and after this time in Gaza I observed an arrogance and a belligerence that stalked the land. In the Gaza Strip and the West Bank I witnessed a very unusual humility. In Israel there had been continual talk of a 'final solution' that called for even more murderous violence and ultimately forced removal of all Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip." (To the Ends of the Earth, p 273)
   1993, the Oslo Accord I, Clinton-Rabin-Arafat’s group-hug photo-op, meant to achieve peace within five years, Arafat ceeded control to Israel over "Palestinians" and recognised Israel, but Palestine was not recognised in return. It was a familiar patern. PM Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by fanatical followers of Greater Land of Israel in 1995.
   September of 2000 saw the Second Intifada began with peaceful protests. This resulted in Israel reoccupying Palestinian cities in the West Bank, while construction began on a 700km-long wall in Jerusalem.
   Psalm 102 is another bleak psalm. A massive wall was being constructed, complete with barbed-wire and watch-towers, designed to keep the Palestinians locked up together in the world’s largest prison. The free western world, pretending to represent justice and morality, ignored it.

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Do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble. ... hear the groaning of the prisoner ... (Ps 102:2, 20)

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   In 2005 the Israelis conducted a "disengagement" from Gaza. Jewish settlers in Gaza were ordered to leave while the army maintained strict control. After not winning the 2006 election, Hamas decided, perhaps because they felt that 44% of the vote was enough, to take over Gaza by violent force in 2007. That was the last election held in Palestine. Hamas are a dictatorship and do not represent Palestinians. Again, this played into the hands of the Zionist Israelis. In June Israel claimed that Hamas were a terrorist organisation and to counter it they began their illegal blockade of Gaza.
   The following years saw numerous operations in Gaza, with apparently masculine names such as Operation Cast Lead on 27 December 2008. Over 23 days, 1,400 unarmed were Palestianians killed, including over 300 children.
   In 2010 A few boats of peace activists, calling themselves the Freedom Flotilla, carrying humanitarian supplies for the Palestinians, made it through the Israeli blockade. The IDF claimed them to be terrorists, and the ship Madleen to be full of mercenaries, and they killed ten unarmed people. 12 November 2012 saw Operation Pillar of Defence, 8 days. 87 Palestianian civilians were killed, including 35 children. 8 July 2014, Israel launched its biggest assault on Gaza since 1967. Operation Protective Edge lasted 50 days. 1,462 Palestianian civilians were killed, including almost 500 children. Half a million were displaced.
 

   And now we come to psalms that were significant not only to Palestine but the entire world.

 

   Psalm 120:

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Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. (Ps 120:2)

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   In 2020, to recap what everyone should already know, most of the leaders of the world, aside from a few rouge states (whose leaders soon mysteriously died) agreed to follow the identical script about an alledged killer viruses. The world must shut down, they said, for two weeks. Face masks, enforced isolation for healthy people, and the new term “social distance”, became the norm. There was not sashred of medical evidence behind any of it. That their own statistics about this disease showed that the death rate was an inexplicable 0.0000001% didn't seem to matter at all. We should all still be terrified of it. Such a percentage is virtually identical to a 0% death rate. In other words, it's non-lethal to everyone. But don't worry, the experts are here to save us, and woe to anyone who dared to question them.

     
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Next came the pre-planned solution to the terrible virus, complete with hysterical over-the-top media coverage, the magical vaccine, along with instant vilification of anyone who thought to question its safety. This one defied all other known vaccinces in that it only took a few months to complete its creation, foegoing any of the usual longterm trials (“Operation Warp Speed,” from the the showy yet clueless President Trump, done at “the speed of science” according to a totally foolish representaive of Pfizer). There indeed were animal trials conducted, they assured us, while neglecting to add that all of the animals died from it. Every person who took the shot was to be part of the actual long-term trial. The fact that such medical coerecian is illegal under the Nurmeberg Code of 1947 seemed to escape everyone’s attention.
   Then came Big Lie Number Three, that you only need one vaccine shot to make everyone safe and we can go back to our normal life. If the vaccine is taken by everyone then we can beat this disease, they said. The truth was that there will never be an end to the required shots (rebranded as “boosters”) and your previous normal life is gone forever. It’s almost like they planned it.
   There has never been a bigger fear-mongering lie given to the people of the world, all at the same time, and the world was easily suckered into believing it thanks to corrupt politicians and monkey-see-monkey-read-teleprompter media actors masquerading as journalists.
   Remarkably, Palestine was one of the few places in the world where the Big Lie was rejected. "Vaccine hesitancy", as they called it, was widespread, with a reported 94% saying no. The Israelis, however, became one of the most "spiked" people in the world, with some receiving at least ten shots.
After 2020 the Palestinians were again forced to face IDF terror. May 2021 saw yet another invasion, lasting 11 days. 260 Palestianian civilians were killed, including 67 children. In 2022 there were three days of Israeli airplane attack, killing at least 49 Palestianian civilians, including 17 children.

   And then there was 7 October 2023. The Hamas attack Israelis at the Nova music festival, during a curious and unprecedented lack in the Israelis ultra-secrurity system. This was followed by a fevourish IDF invasion of Gaza and outright genocide. The Israelis were portrayed as the victims, yet again, and this justified their campaign of systematic murder of Palestinians and the further destruction and theft of their land. This became the first genocide to be openly broadcast throughout the world. Anyone who voiced even moderate disapproval of the repulsively shocking images was quickly censored under the worn-out accusation of "Anti-Semitism".
 

   Psalm 123:

 

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. Our soul us exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ease with the contempt of the proud. (Psalm 123:3-4)

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   In 2024 there was a false-flag attack by the use of pagers and other devices, aimed at Hezbollah in Lebanon, followed by an ill-judged IDF ground invasion of Lebanon. All of Psalm 124 tells of the Lord protecting his people when they are attacked. It may not seem it, with the attempted genocide of the Palestinians, either in Gaza or in Lebanon, but they will survive because the Lord is on their side.
 

   Psalm 124 (in its entirety):

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If the LORD was not on our side, let Israel now say,
If the LORD was not on our side when men rose up against us,
then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath was kindled against us
then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul
then our soul would have gone over the swollen waters.
Blessed be the LORD who has not give us as prey to their teeth.
Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers, the snare is broken and we have escaped.
Our help is in the name of the LORD who made heaven and earth. (Ps 124:1-8)
 

   As for the near future? Have a read the next psalms and decide for yourself. The ones after that, however, cast an entirely different light on the Holy Land and the rest of the world.