Donald Trump won the vote of 31 states in this month’s United States presidential elections. A lot of people from Alaska to Florida wanted him back. But one state in particular is especially excited for a new Trump administration. Upon Trump’s victory, its residents put up massive congratulatory billboards in its major cities. News anchors started dancing impromptu on-air. The state’s residents are excited.

This “state” is the State of Israel.

During President Trump’s first term, he was very kind to Israel. He recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the Golan Heights as sovereign Israel territory. He brokered peace agreements between Israel and four Arab states. He withdrew the U.S. from Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, replacing it with a “maximum pressure” policy of sanctions and other methods.

But then Joe Biden reversed all that. When he took office, he allowed Iran to advance much closer to developing a nuclear bomb. The Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and ensuing war with Hamas happened under Biden’s watch. Since last year, Biden has pressured Israel to stand down in its war against Iran even as Iran seeks Israel’s destruction. He has effectively criminalized Israel’s presence in the disputed territories of the West Bank.

Many Israelis are desperate for change in Washington. To many, Trump not only represents change, he represents a new golden age on the horizon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Trump on his victory. On X the day after the election, he said it was “history’s greatest comeback” and that Trump’s return to the White House “offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.”

Trump isn’t president yet. But even before entering the White House, he has already given a lot of indications that Netanyahu’s claims will be vindicated.

Open Season on Hamas

One early indication came during Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu while campaigning in July. “I did encourage him to get this [war] over with,” Trump told media after the meeting. “You want to get it over with fast. Have victory, get your victory, and get it over with. It has to stop, the killing has to stop.”

One of Trump’s stated goals is to end the global chaos we are seeing in places like Ukraine and Mexico. Many Americans are tired of being involved in the rest of the world’s problems. They hope President Trump will force leaders like Netanyahu to finish their wars.

“Get your victory, and get it over with” sounds like a green light to go in and finish off Hamas once and for all. Mr. Trump has also said he wants Netanyahu to finish the war before the presidential inauguration in January. That is a short timetable. But finishing off Hamas on a short timetable has always been Netanyahu’s goal. Trump is apparently fine with Israel taking more muscular actions to defeat Hamas quicker.

But what happens if Trump comes back into office and the war isn’t finished? Hamas has so far refused every ceasefire deal Israel has proposed for about a year. There are still scores of hostages, including Americans, held in Gaza.

In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Trump said, “We want our hostages back. And they better be back before I assume office, or [Hamas] will be paying a very big price.” What that “very big price” is remains to be seen. Even with everything Israel has been throwing at it, Hamas still doesn’t see the need to surrender. But Trump has shown himself willing to take risks if it means protecting American interests. Showing a terrorist group that they cannot kidnap Americans with impunity is definitely in American interests.

Trump sent Israel an even stronger signal on November 12 when he nominated Mike Huckabee as U.S. ambassador to Israel. The former governor of Arkansas and Baptist minister is a staunch supporter of Israel who favors Israel annexing the West Bank. In a 2017 speech, Huckabee said Israel “already owns” the land and has “title deed” to control it.

On November 11, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that Trump’s election meant Israel could proceed with annexing the West Bank. Netanyahu has yet to comment, and this may be mere bluster from his firebrand minister. Yet that Trump would announce his appointment of somebody like Huckabee as ambassador the day after suggests he may support such a move.

What About Iran?

Even before Trump’s election, Iran was giving signals it wants to dial down its proxy war against Israel. But a second Trump administration presents unparalleled pressure. Trump’s foreign policy during his first term saw the U.S. leave Barack Obama’s generous nuclear deal, a “maximum pressure” sanctions policy and the assassination of Iranian super general Qassem Suleimani. There is every indication that Trump will continue this kind of foreign policy. In an interview with cnn, Brian Hook, a former diplomat under Trump rumored to be helping with the presidential transition, suggested the maximum pressure campaign would start again.

But now, Iran has been caught multiple times trying to assassinate Trump. Contracting hitmen is not the best way to reset relations with the world’s most powerful country.

Iranian anxieties over Trump manifested themselves the day after Trump’s election. The Iranian rial fell to an all-time low of 700,000 to the dollar. The fact that Iran has yet to respond to Israel’s October 26 counterattack shows, at the least, Iran is behaving very cautiously.

Trump hasn’t been inaugurated yet, but it looks like he has a mind to put Iran in its place—and it looks like Iran knows this.

A Resurgence Coming?

“Trump adopted an entirely new approach to peacemaking,” Netanyahu wrote in his autobiography. “Despite bumps in the road, our years together were the best ever for the Israeli-American alliance, strengthening security and bringing four historic peace accords to Israel and the Middle East. They showed the world that great things happen when an American president and an Israeli prime minister work in tandem, with no daylight between them. We proved conclusively that if you pursue peace through strength, you get both.”

Netanyahu, as he wrote, had his bumps in the road with Trump. But the two are natural allies. They come from similar backgrounds, fighting for the good of their countries while being attacked by the political left from multiple fronts. Both clearly recognize the threat posed by Iran and radical Islam, and both want to push back against this threat.

When Trump worked together with Netanyahu, both the U.S. and Israel experienced a geopolitical resurgence. In his first term Trump was relatively inexperienced and struggling to fend off political attacks at home. Today, Trump knows the game better. He knows who his friends and enemies are. He knows what he can accomplish as leader of the free world.

Trump’s first term was a golden age for Israel-U.S. relations. This time around, at least in the short term, we can expect an even stronger relationship.

The Trumpet expects this because of a passage in 2 Kings 14. Verses 26-27 discuss a time when the ancient nation of Israel was under “bitter affliction,” to the point where an enemy almost “blotted out the name of Israel from under heaven.” It states that, had God not intervened by sending a human king to save Israel, the nation would have been done for.

As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains in his free book America Under Attack, this is actually a prophecy for today. Today, the name of Israel is on more than just the nation in the Middle East called “Israel.” The events of 2 Kings 14 actually feature on the United States (see here for more information). Specifically, they relate to a time of severe trouble for America—out of which God saves the nation. He does so through a man paralleled by the ancient King Jeroboam ii. The Trumpet identifies this man as Donald Trump.

But the prophecy doesn’t only concern America.

Verse 28 includes a detail of what this end-time Jeroboam would do: “Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?”

“2 Kings 14:28 states that Jeroboam recovered Damascus and Hamath,” Mr. Flurry wrote in America Under Attack. “The Soncino commentary states that Damascus was once ruled by King David, and that the king of Hamath paid tribute to David and became part of his son Solomon’s kingdom (2 Samuel 8:9-10; 1 Kings 8:65). So the indication is that Jeroboam reclaimed something to help Judah,” meaning the State of Israel today.

Mr. Flurry continued, “From the time of Joe Biden’s inauguration, I predicted that we would have more Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel because of the change in leadership. That is exactly what began to happen. Anybody should be able to recognize why! … It appears Mr. Trump may have to recover some of Judah’s freedom.”

Trump isn’t even in office yet, and we already feel rumblings of a coming resurgence for the State of Israel. This resurgence will be temporary. But for the short term at least, get ready for an Israeli resurgence.

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