AMERICA AND ISRAEL IN THE CROSSHAIRS: SPECIAL NOTE ON THE SELF SLAUGHTER OF THE WEST’S TWO SACRED COWS (WITH VIDEO)

THEOLOGY

SCRIPTURE. “I saw the Lord standing at the altar, and He said, ‘SMITE the tops of the pillars until the thresholds tremble, and shatter them on the heads of all of the people; and the remainder of them I will slay with the sword. He who flees of them shall not get away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered …

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom [of ISREAL’S TEN TRIBES] and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,’ says the Lord.” – AMOS 9:1, 8, AMPC

KEY TERM. “SMITE!” ‘Nakah’ [נָכָה]: “A primitive root, ‘To beat, cast forth, clap, wound, kill, slaughter, punish, or slay.’ NOTE: “נָכָה depicts the Act of Striking in all its intensities—from a light blow to lethal force. It therefore covers military defeat, capital punishment, plague, chastisement, accidental injury, and metaphorical wounding of heart or conscience … נָכָה threads throughout Scripture as the ‘Decisive Blow’—sometimes lethal, sometimes corrective, always morally charged. When God Strikes, He vindicates Holiness; when He Himself is struck in the Person of the Son, He vindicates Grace. ‘Together the uses of נָכָה reveal the Severity of Sin, the Certainty of Justice, and the astonishing Mercy secured in the Gospel.’”

QUOTATION. “Don’t misunderstand me. The Terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly Evil. ‘But the astonishing naivety that America as a whole was a pure, innocent “Victim,” so that the world could be neatly divided up into Evil People (particularly Arabs) and Good People (particularly Americans and Israelis), and that the Latter had a responsibility now to Punish the Former, is a large-scale example of what I’m talking about.’

‘Just as it is immature and naive to suggest the mirror image of this view, namely that the ‘Western world’ is guilty in all respects and that all Protestors and Terrorists are therefore completely justified in what they do.’ In the same way, to suggest that all who possess guns should be locked up, or (the American mirror-image of this view) that everyone should carry guns so that good people can shoot bad ones before they can get up to their tricks, is simply: ‘A Failure to think into the depths of what’s going on.’” ― N.T. WRIGHT, Evil and the Justice of God, 2013; edited

“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, ‘Eat and drink,’ yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].” – PROVERBS 23:7, AMPC

COMMENTARY. “The Prophet, in Vision, saw the Lord standing upon the idolatrous Altar at Bethel. ‘Wherever sinners flee from God’s Justice, it will overtake them.’ [Selah]. Those whom God brings to Heaven by His Grace, shall never be cast down; but those who seek to climb thither by vain confidence in themselves, will be cast down and filled with shame. That which makes escape impossible and ruin sure, is, that God will set His eyes upon them for Evil, not for Good.

‘Wretched must those be on whom the Lord looks for Evil, and not for Good. The Lord would scatter [even] the Jews, and visit them with calamities, as the corn is shaken in a sieve. But he would save some from among them.’ The astonishing Preservation of the Jews as a distinct people, seems here foretold. If professors make themselves like the world, God will level them with the world. The sinners who thus flatter themselves, shall find that their profession will ‘not’ protect them.” – MATTHEW HENRY, Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, 6 vols., 1708-1710; edited

II. TEACHING

“For it is the time [destined] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not respect or believe or OBEY the gospel of God?” – 1 PETER 4:17, AMP

Back in the 1960s at the height of the flaming debates in America over the Vietnam War, the then budding Conservative Right had a favorite saying and Narrative:

“America right or wrong! Love it or leave it!”

That saying has overtaken and overwhelmed the entirety of the White Evangelical, MAGA-driven Christian Nationalists, and grown to a level of virulence and violence that is unprecedented in America at least since the Civil War of 150 years ago.

‘That Narrative is both toxic and deadly, since it places one’s Nation above even God.’ Or at least seditiously marries them in Unholy Political Wedlock that God would never condone. Why?

“Then God spoke all these words: ‘I am the Lord your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. YOU SHALL NO OTHER GODS BEFORE OR BESIDE ME. You shall not make yourself any graven image [to worship it] or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; You shall not bow down yourself to them or serve them;

For I the Lord your God am a JEALOUS GOD [‘Qannah,’ קַנָּ֔א-‘ardent, protective zeal’], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing mercy and steadfast love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.’” – EXODUS 20:1-6,AMPC

TWO SACRED COWS. “‘Sacred Cow’ is an idiom, a figurative reference to cattle in religion and mythology. A Sacred Cow therefore is: ‘Especially, Unreasonably Above any Criticism Whatsoever’” – EDITORS, Wikipedia, Sep. 27, 2025;edited

Fair Warning: As a mixed race Hispanic-Jewish-Welchman, I am about to step into the thorniest possible waters imaginable. I will likely offend pretty much everyone, but mostly Two Political Camps: ‘Political Zionists’ and ‘Christian Nationalists.’ DK: As distinct from who I consider to be “Theological Zionists,” who believe: Israel as ‘The Apple of God’s Eye’ has an unassailable, Divine Right to the Land’ (cf. Genesis 12:1-3; Deuteronomy 32:10).

Note: That said, the DARK ALLIANCE Israel has formed with America is now corrupted by two corrupt leaders: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. The effect of which is to ‘Temporarily Suspend’ God’s Covenant with Isreal and ‘Withdraw Favor’ from America.

Both Nations are willfully become: TWIN SACRED COWS, ‘Culturally’ rendered as completely immune from any criticism for any reason whatsoever. But now without any ‘Divine’ cover whatsoever.

Selah.

The crushing Complexity and Irony here is that I am led to bring Critique to a Nation that has absorbed ANTISEMITIC HATRED for as long as the Jews have been a people. One summary report for example put it this way:

“‘This year, International Holocaust Remembrance Day comes at a time when Antisemitism is surging worldwide.’ From the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia to a Jewish woman murdered at a peace rally in Colorado, to two Israeli embassy employees gunned down on the street in Washington, violent attacks on Jews keep happening.” – ARI ODZER, “Holocaust Remembrance Day Comes as Worldwide Antisemitism Surges,” NBC Miami, Jan. 27, 2026; edited

With all this in mind, now prayerfully consider the following THREE THEOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS I am wedded to as a Follower of Jesus Christ with deep Jewish (Sephardim) Roots.

THE LAND. “Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives and your father’s house, to THE LAND [‘Erets,’ הָאָ֖רֶץ-‘land or territory under God’s dominion’] that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others]. And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves].’” – GENESIS 12:1-3, AMPC
THE PERSECUTION. “And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he PERSECUTED [‘Diókó ἐδίωξεν-‘victimize, oppress’] the woman who had given birth to the male Child. But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time and times and half a time (three and one-half years), away from the presence of the serpent (Satan). Then out of his mouth the serpent spouted forth water like a flood after the woman, that she might be carried off with the torrent. But the earth came to the rescue of the woman, and the ground opened its mouth and swallowed up the stream of water which the dragon had spouted from his mouth.” – REVELATION 12:13-16, AMP
GOD’S RIGHTEOUSESS. “He who walks RIGHTEOUSLY [‘Tsedaqah,’ צְדָק֔וֹת–‘blameless, integrity’] and speaks uprightly who despises gain from fraud and from oppression, who shakes his hand free from the taking of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes to avoid looking upon evil. [Such a man] will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; water for him will be sure. Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; [your eyes] will behold a land of wide distances that stretches afar.” – ISAIAH 33:15-17, AMPC

THE BETRAYAL. ‘I have been astonished in all the wrong ways at the ‘Sycophancy of this ‘NEW ISRAEL’ toward Donald Trump’s ‘NEW AMERICA’ since he first rose to power in 2016.’ And that astonishment has turned some 10 years later to an agonized disgust as I see the virtual ‘WORSHIP OF TRUMP as an Abomination!

III. TWO NATIONS ADRIFT

The more I watch this Unholy Partnership between American President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I become more intensely alarmed at what this means to Faithful Christians and Jews alike. An AI Overview sums it up well for me (ret. Feb. 6, 2026; edited).

“Based on recent reports from early 2025 and early 2026, the Relationship between Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been characterized by intense Political Alignment, with Trump taking direct actions to protect Netanyahu from international legal consequences regarding allegations of war crimes and domestic corruption trials. ‘Critics and some analysts have described this Alliance as a “Criminal Alliance,” or a Partnership of Leaders facing similar legal challenges, aimed at obstructing International Justice.’”

ROOTS OF DISORDER. To drill down to the core nature of the Corruption of this Alliance, we travel some familiar ground but with different connections – and more dire consequences. I take this analysis from Jewish journalist DAVID ISSACHAROFF writing for Haaretz (Aug. 26, 2024; edited) in a piece titled, “Trump’s Unholy Alliance with Israel’s Supremacists.”

For the record, Issacharoff is is an editor and writer at Haaretz English edition. He studied political science and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2024, he is a visiting fellow at Der Spiegel through the International Journalists’ Program (IJP).

Here are his MAIN POINTS.

OPEN. “Israel’s Jewish Supremacists are counting hard on Donald Trump [in the then upcoming November 2024 Presidential Election]. The increasingly unhinged Ex-President might not be far off when he boasts, ‘I have done more for Israel than any president.’ ‘But for which Israel?’”

FORCE. “A self-proclaimed ‘Master of Deals,’ all Trump did was hand Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel a blank check to intensify its Occupation of the West Bank, solidifying the Prime Minister’s legacy of subjugating the Palestinians and leaving them with the grim choice of Submission or Resistance [as with Trump’s later rollout of the, “Comply or Die” Command to ICE Agents]. We all saw how that ended on October 7.”

BLOOD. “In a new attack ad aired Monday, Trump blamed Hamas’ October 7 Massacre on Joe Biden’s Middle East policy…The ad on X featured an image of Trump with Netanyahu, and wrapped up with Trump threatening, ‘When I’m back in the White House, our enemies will know: If you spill a drop of American blood, we will spill a gallon of yours.’ Gallons of blood in the Middle East? Israel’s Far Right is paying close attention.”

FUTURE. “The next presidential term could be the most consequential in Israel’s history. ‘Will the United States, with its Western Allies, guide Israel and Palestine toward a Diplomatic Solution, or will it allow Israel to Resettle Gaza and Fight on multiple fronts, all in the name of a VISION of Jewish [and American] Supremacy that is becoming official Israeli Policy?’”

ASKED & ANSWERED. “As of Early February 2026, the Gaza Strip is experiencing a profound, ongoing Humanitarian Catastrophe, with destruction and casualties from the war initiated in October 2023 continuing despite a declared Ceasefire [71,000 killed, 17,000 children] The situation is described as an ‘Apocalyptic Wasteland,’ with widespread, persistent violence, including airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire, particularly around contested areas. Reports indicate that over 71,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.” – AI Overview, ret. Feb. 6, 2026; edited

SUPREMACIST NARRATIVE. “The belief that a certain group of people is Superior to, and should have Authority over, all others. The presumed Superior Group can be defined by various characteristics, including Age, Sex, Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Language, Social Class, Ideology, Nationality, Culture, Generation, or any other Human Attribute.” – Wikipedia, Jan. 19, 2026; edited

ARYAN NARRATIVE. “A Pseudoscientific Historical Race Concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a Racial Grouping. The terminology derives from the historical usage of ‘ARYAN,’ [CAUCASIAN], used by modern Indo-Iranians as an epithet of ‘Noble.’Anthropological, Historical and Archeological evidence does not support the validity of this Concept.” – Wikipedia, Feb. 2, 2026; edited

DOMINION NARRATIVE. “‘Dominion Theology,’ also known as ‘Dominionism,’ is a group of Christian Political Ideologies that seek to institute a Nation governed by Christians based on their understandings of Biblical Law. Prominent adherents of those ideologies include Calvinist Christian Reconstructionism, Charismatic and Pentecostal Kingdom Now Theology, and the New Apostolic Reformation [e.g., Lance Wallnau’s Seven Mountain Mandate]. The label is primarily applied to groups of Christians in the United States.” – Wikipedia, Jan. 31, 2026; edited

THE RESULT. ‘Remarkably and undeniably, BOTH NATIONS, against all that is in the Jewish Tanakh, and the Christian Bible, America and Israel have submitted themselves to the Rule of ANTICHRIST, the False Messiah described in Scripture’ (cf. Daniel 7:24-27; Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12; 1 John 2:18-22; Revelation 13:1-10).

The Implications: ‘The complete Destruction of both Nations (in their present forms) and the World Order more generally.’ That is where we are headed, beloved. And astonishingly: ‘83% of Jews and 83% of White American Christians support Trump, as of January 2026.’

Jewish journalist and podcaster PAUL MENDLOWITZ put it this way in his recent commentary titled, “Just What the Jews Needed: Another False Messiah-Donald Trump” (Times of Israel, Jan. 25, 2026; edited). Mendlowitz is a graduate of Queens College & New York University Summa Cum Laude with advanced degrees in Economics & Business, Psychology & the Social Sciences, and received a Doctor of Theology from Talmudical Seminary in New York City.

“‘Donald Trump is not the Messiah. He is not even close!’ And the more Jews insist on treating him like one, the more we repeat the oldest mistake in Jewish history—placing our faith in men who demand worship instead of accountability. Just what the Jews needed? No. ‘What we need is the courage to say NO!—To false saviors, to political idolatry, and to the cheap thrill of power without conscience.’ Redemption will not come from a billionaire strongman. It never has. It never will. The Torah warned us. History confirmed it. The only question is whether we remember in time.”

IV. LAST THOUGHTS

“‘YOU ARE DYING. I see in you all the characteristic Stigma of Decay.’ I can prove to you that your great wealth and your great poverty, your Capitalism and your Socialism, your Wars and your Revolutions, your Atheism and your Pessimism and your Cynicism, your Immorality, your broken-down marriages, your birth control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains—I can prove to you that those were characteristic marks of the Dying Ages of Ancient States—Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome.” ― OSWALD SPENGLER, The Decline of the West, 1918; edited

Beloved friends, both Jewish and Christian (and still undecided!), this is not the first time that America or Isreal have drifted from the Truth of God. Good heavens! That ought to be so self-evident by now that it hardly needs to be written. But we have behaved for the last ten years and more as if the two were, as I worded it earlier:

“SACRED COWS!” Therefore, what better segue than to turn to a piece by a Indian-Muslim writer named ADNAN KAHN, titled, “The Death of the West’s Sacred Cows” (The Geopolity, July 16, 2025; edited). My reason for selecting this author: Since the rise of Donald Trump, I have found fewer and fewer untwisted Christian writers.

Selah.

Though I do not agree with all that Mr. Kahn writes, I do believe it is a largely necessary ‘Slap in the Western Face of America and Isreal,’ that have both succumbed to their own Supremacist Narratives. So, brace yourselves for some deep and painful surgical exposure of some very hard realities we must all face, if we claim to be anything remotely resembling a Christian-Values based Moral Order.

Note: And no, what follows is not a Change of Worldview for this writer as now a convert to the Democrat Party, now Pro-Hamas, nor a rejection of my Christian Commitment. Indeed, beloved, it is the result of shucking off as many cultural contaminations in the last ten years in an effort to Return to True Christianity.

OPEN. “For decades, the West stood as the Torchbearer of [Classical] Liberal values—Championing Free speech, Human Rights, Democracy, International Law, and a Rules-based Global Order. Its SACRED COWS—those Foundational Beliefs rarely questioned and fervently defended—defined its ‘Global Identity and Soft Power.’ After emerging victorious from the Cold War, the West, led by the United States, became the world’s undisputed Superpower. But today, not even three decades later, many of these once-revered Principles lie slaughtered. ‘Not by external invasion, not by ideological competitors, but by the Contradictions and Hypocrisies of the West itself. From Gaza to TikTok, from universities to courtrooms, the West has slaughtered its own Sacred Cows.’” [DK: Importantly, both the Extreme Left and the Extreme Right have caused the Social Slaughter!].

FREE SPEECH. Freedom of Speech is a Principle that supports the freedom of an individual to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The Right to Freedom of Speech was recognised as a Human Right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Human Rights Law [to say nothing of the United States Constitution’s First Amendment]. But today, Freedom of Speech, once the Cornerstone of Western Liberalism, has come under unprecedented assault. Across the US and Europe, voices critical of Israel [or President Trump]—whether academic, artistic, or activist—are being systematically silenced. Journalists fired, scientists dismissed, celebrities cancelled, students deported.’ Entire careers have been destroyed over a tweet or a placard.”

GAZAN STARVATION. “Starvation as a Method of Warfare was supposedly consigned to history—outlawed in the wake of two World Wars and enshrined as a War Crime. Yet, in Gaza, Israel has openly declared and enacted a ‘Siege Strategy,’ denying food, water, and electricity to civilians. Israeli officials immediately after the events of October 7th, made public statements expressing their aim to deprive civilians in Gaza of food, water, and fuel. The Israeli Defense Minister at the time, Yoav Gallant ordered “A complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.’ Amid the War in which tens of thousands of civilians have been killed by more direct means, Israel’s Serial Blockade of Gaza for long got little global media coverage. Western leaders argued: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself.’”

INTERNATIONAL LAW. “The West has long used International Law as a weapon against foes—be it African dictators or Russian generals. But when these same laws are applied to Israel, the West turns hostile. Arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court for Israeli leaders triggered threats, sanctions, and even intimidation of ICC officials’ families by US lawmakers…In the case of Israel, we are witnessing the Death Knell of this Sacred Cow as Israel faces little consequences for its repeated breaches of UN resolutions, the ICC’s provisional measures, and the Geneva Conventions on occupation and treatment of civilians. Senior US senator Lindsey Graham let the cat out of the bag, after the ICC issued warrants for Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. He arrogantly explained: ‘The Rome Statute doesn’t apply to Israel, or the United States, or France, or Germany, or Great Britain, because it wasn’t conceived to come after us.”’

CONSTRUCTING EMPIRE. “In a moment of comic absurdity, US officials announced two contradictory Visa Policies: One banning Foreign Nationals who criticise Israel, and the other banning those who censor American speech. Many Empires throughout history declined when its leaders came to the point of doing things which made little sense and were often contradictory. Such actions usually do not stop the inevitable and in fact make things worse. Glasnost and Perestroika were attempts by the USSR to stop the decline and malaise, but they only made things worse. The US has recently just had its Glasnost and Perestroika moment.”

FINAL NAIL. “‘The Myth of a Global Rules-Based Order has been Shattered.’ Whether in Ukraine or Gaza, the West applies its own rules selectively. Courts are sanctioned, journalists silenced, and laws rewritten in real-time to shield allies and punish adversaries. The West’s Sacred Cows—once symbols of Moral Superiority—have been Slaughtered by the very hands that raised them. Free speech, Protest, Law, Order, Justice—all hollowed out to serve Political Expediency.”

CONCLUSION. “‘The West’s Sacred Cows were not slain by a rival ideology, nor toppled in a new Cold War, nor overwhelmed by an Ascendant Civilisation. Ironically, their demise came not from abroad but from WITHIN.’ Despite emerging triumphant from the Cold War and facing no serious ideological contender, the West—led by an increasingly Hubristic US—is now drowning in its own Contradictions. Its once-vaunted Economic Model has birthed obscene inequality, concentrating wealth in the hands of a Global Elite. Its Military Dominance lies discredited in the wreckage of Iraq and the retreat from Afghanistan. The Democratic Ideals it once evangelised now ring hollow amid Political Dysfunction, declining trust, and a cultural landscape consumed by identity fractures and woke culture. ‘In the End, the West did not need an Enemy to destroy its Sacred Cows. It butchered them itself.’”

CODA. “Brothers and sisters, together follow my example and observe those who live by the pattern we gave you. For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who live as enemies of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation], whose fate is destruction, whose god is their belly [their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity], and whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things.

But [we are DIFFERENT because] our citizenship is in heaven. And from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the Savior, the Lord subject everything to Himself, will [not only] transform [but completely refashion] our earthly bodies so that they will be like His glorious resurrected body.” – PHILLIPPIANS 3:17-21, AMP

‘Beloved: NO ONE is above the Law, neither Divine nor Human! Words that we used to believe and act upon but have now forgotten them. Thus, the Present Departure of both America and Israel from Biblical Norms of Moral Conduct:

‘In the Spirit of Antichrist.’

To remind us all of the timeless words of ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN and the Collapse of Russia into Marxism: “Men have forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.”

Selah.

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