U.S. President George W. Bush tried to get the world’s most powerful leaders to sign a document condemning Iran (and its puppet Syria) for causing the current Middle East conflict between Israel and the two terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas. The whole world knows that Iran is the primary sponsor of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. But Russia, China and other nations said there was no evidence to support such a view at this point!

There are years and years of mounting evidence that Iran sponsors these terrorist organizations and that it is the number-one nation sponsoring terrorism today.

The evidence that Iran is causing this crisis is overwhelming. To say there is no evidence supporting this view is laughable—if the fate of the world weren’t at stake!

“The situation took a sharp turn when Tehran and Damascus made the decision to enter the fray” (Stratfor, July 12). This intelligence organization and most of the other good ones clearly see who is behind Hamas and Hezbollah.

If we are going to solve the Middle East problem, we must start by facing reality.

The people in Israel need to know who their enemies are. The only two friends they have at present are their fellow terrorist fighters, America and Britain.

We need to understand why this is so.

President Bush has been aggressive, but he is also having trouble facing reality in some areas. Stratfor says, “Washington also does not want Israeli actions to jeopardize its negotiations with Tehran over Iraq while the political process is at its breaking point.” America doesn’t want to “jeopardize its negotiations with Tehran over Iraq.” How pathetic. Those negotiations are the same kind Prime Minister Chamberlain of Britain had with Hitler in the 1930s just before World War ii exploded!

America lacks the will to confront Iran, the head of the terrorist-sponsoring snake—just as Chamberlain lacked the will to confront Hitler. It takes more than negotiations or words to stop a Hitler or an Ahmadinejad, Iran’s leader.

You can’t negotiate with people who are trying to kill you. You either destroy them or they will eventually destroy you.

Prime Minister Chamberlain thought that his surrendering land and people to Hitler would bring “peace with honor.” It did just the opposite. The world exploded in war, Britain lost its honor, and the West came dangerously close to losing the war.

We never learn the important lessons from history. Mankind refuses to be taught. We keep making the same mistakes over and over. Even the brutal violence and wars of history teach us for only a short span of time.

I believe we are about to see the little nation called Israel show a dangerous lack of will with the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Israel’s air attacks have been successful. But its goal is to obliterate the Hezbollah terrorists. It can’t do that without uprooting the terrorists with ground troops.

The Jews have a broken will. America and Britain have the same prophesied disease (Leviticus 26:19). The cause is our “immoral and decadent” way of life, as the terrorists keep telling us. And in this area they are right!

So don’t be surprised if the Jews show a lack of will and fail to remove the Hezbollah terrorists. That will mean victory for the terrorists and Iran.

The terrorist-fighting nations lack the will to win the war.

Here are two statements that illustrate the difference between the radical Islamists and the Middle East Jews (emphasis mine throughout).

After the PA’s parliament approved the Hamas government on March 28, a Palestinian Authority legislator said, “The Koran is our constitution, Muhammed is our prophet, jihad is our path and dying as martyrs for the sake of Allah is our biggest wish!”

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated in June 2005, to the Israel Policy Forum in New York, “We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous,we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies.”

That translates into “we are too tired and weak to survive as a nation”!

Abundant evidence is stacking up to show Israel’s policy of concessions and retreat have made its enemies that much bolder and more capable. Michael Freund, formerly a deputy director in the prime minister’s office under Benjamin Netanyahu, stated plainly: “The audacity of the terrorists, and their willingness to attack Israeli forces head-on, is a direct result of the weakness that has characterized Israeli policy in recent years.”

Freund explained: “In May 2000, Israel pulled out of Lebanon like a thief in the night, and in August 2005, Israel fled Gaza in broad daylight. Preferring to buy short-term quiet at the expense of long-term strategic interests, Israel ended up paying a heavy price. These actions effectively put terrorists on notice that violence works, and that they have little to lose, and much to gain, by continuing to attack the Jewish state. …

“[W]hatever happens, let one thing finally be clear: In the long run, the wages of weakness are far more costly than the price of standing firm.”

The Jews lack the will to win. The radical Arabs see this dangerous weakness and are brimming with the will to win! Like sharks who smell the blood in the water, they are moving in for the kill.

A couple years ago, the United Nations issued a resolution to disarm Hezbollah. But the UN is too weak or doesn’t want to enforce it. Instead it consistently attacks the Jewish victim! What a hopeless and evil organization.

Israel now finds itself at war on two fronts against Islamist terrorists. “If Israel is having difficulty in deterring Hamas in Gaza, and certainly if it is unable to bring the crisis to a conclusion, indeed Hezbollah is a much more sophisticated and experienced rival than its Palestinian counterpart” (Haaretz, July 12).

Ultimately, the unleashing of Hezbollah represents an Iranian act of war. Tehran has made clear its intentions to eliminate Israel and secure Jerusalem. Whether these recent moves are the opening overtures to a larger offensive remains to be seen. Even if they are not, they have shown just how quickly Iran can pressure Israel into survival mode.

At some point, one can be sure that it will open a third front on Jerusalem itself.

Bible prophecy reveals that one half of Jerusalem is about to fall to the Islamists—that half already inhabited by Arabs (Zechariah 14:2-3). That could easily happen this year. The mind-dazzling solution lies in the last part of that prophecy.

Years ago, U.S.News & World Report said the world needs “a strong hand from someplace” to save us. That strong hand is about to appear, but not before this world has suffered as never before.

Many in this world are losing hope. But there is infinite hope if we only know where to look. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News said, “I don’t see a way out” of the Middle East crisis—a hopeless scenario. He and other commentators, like Newt Gingrich, believe we are already in World War iii. They see Iran pushing the Middle East and the world toward a nuclear war.

They are right, but there is much more to the equation than they see. (Request our free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy.)

Add to that bad news this alarming reality: Russia and China are very cozy with the terrorist-sponsoring nations. That means they are not friends with those nations fighting terrorism.

However, our leaders in America, Britain and the Jewish nation in the Middle East don’t know what this means. We are entering into what the Bible calls the times of the Gentiles (Luke 21:20-24).

Christianity doesn’t know that the little nation called Israel is really biblical Judah (“Jew” is a shortened version of “Judah,” which was only one of the 12 tribes of Israel anciently). These prophecies are aimed mainly at America and the British peoples, which are also a part of biblical Israel. (Request a free copy of our book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.)

During the past few hundred years, it has been the times of biblical Israel. Now we are ready to plunge into the times of the Gentiles. That means the Gentiles will be the powerful, conquering nations, and people on this Earth are going to suffer more than any time in man’s history.

The irony of the Middle East crisis is that Iran—the king of terror—is going to be conquered by a far greater power rising in Europe. We have been prophesying of this event for over 50 years. (Request our booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.) That European power is going to clash with that “strong hand from someplace”—and lose.

Human warfare is about to end forever. Peace, joy and abundance is going to fill this Earth very soon—probably in less than a decade!