News Update

There is the world before October 7th—and the world after October 7th.

The Hamas massacre of some 1,200 Israelis on that fateful day was a pivot point not just for Israel but for the world. Nations and individuals quickly showed their true colors in the aftermath of the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Across the West, governments very publicly abandoned Israel. False accusations of war crimes and genocide in Gaza became all the rage. Instead of supporting Israel’s efforts to destroy the jihadist barbarians of Hamas, Western so-called “leaders” sought to reward the barbarians by recognizing a Palestinian state.

At the same time, prominent podcasters and social media influencers began spewing venom against Israel and Jews on a daily basis, and an unholy alliance of radical leftists and Islamists took shape. This red-green alliance is now wreaking havoc in the streets of France and across Western Europe.

This mind virus took hold almost immediately after the mass slaughter of Jews on October 7th—and it’s only grown more severe.

While I call it a “mind virus,” it’s really much deeper than that. What we are seeing is an all-out spiritual battle for the very soul of Western civilization.

Wherever there is chaos in the West, the Palestinian flag is always there. We see it flying everywhere among the rioters in France and Italy. We have seen it during violent outbursts here in America and elsewhere over the past three years. It’s become the international symbol of anarchy and Islamo-communism—that unholy red-green alliance that wants to destroy Judeo-Christian Western civilization.

They have momentum, recently announcing that they intend to gather their legions of orcs for major protests across Europe on November 20th.

We are living in a revolutionary moment. Western civilization hangs in the balance. As you look out across the Western world, only two leaders have shown themselves capable of meeting the moment: President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Both men had the moral clarity and the courage to confront the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism—the Iranian regime—while the likes of Emmanuel Macron were hell-bent on appeasing the mad mullahs, despite the very real possibility of nuclear-tipped Iranian missiles reaching Paris, London, and Berlin. Trump and Bibi both saw the gathering Iranian storm and acted—a pair of modern-day Churchills in a sea of Neville Chamberlains.

Trump had some hard truths to deliver this week, imploring Europe to get it together before it’s too late.

“If you want to see what is at stake in this election, just look at what’s happening in France, a once great nation that is being conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists who hate Christianity, and they hate, frankly, the Western civilization itself,” the President warned. “And as we’re seeing in Europe, globalist left-wing politicians have treasonously imported millions and millions of third-world migrants who are totally incompatible with the West, and they are incompatible with Western values. They despise everything about France, and they’re destroying that country. And we’re not going to let that happen to this country.”

“We’ve closed our borders,” he emphasized. “We have the strongest borders in the history of our country. But Europe has to close them for a long time. What they’ve let happen to their countries… they have to get the people out who hate their countries… They’re losing their country. They’re losing Europe. That’s never happening to the United States of America.”

God willing.

But it all depends on common-sense, patriotic Americans, including Christians, getting out to vote on November 3rd—no excuses to stay home when our country is at stake.

Erick Stakelbeck is an author, analyst, and host of “The Watchman” newscast and “Stakelbeck Tonight.” Stakelbeck also serves as the Director of Christians United for Israel’s CUFI Watchman Project.