Category: History

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

Posted on by Ray Joseph Cormier

This is not a new work. It is the same work In 1 Kings 22, the prophet Micaiah prophesies the death of King Ahab by initially mockingly agreeing with the king’s 400 officially approved prophets false prophets after he was warned to go along with them, but then describes a heavenly vision where God allows a “lying spirit” in the 400 prophets to deceive Ahab, leading to his fatal, random arrow strike in battle.

Micaiah delivers this truth to the king and his ally King Jehoshaphat of Judah, at the risk of his life, after which he is slapped by a false prophet, struck by the king, and imprisoned until Ahab’s return from battle. However, Ahab does not return, dying in battle as Micaiah foretold.

Factually, that Biblical War was over the King of Israel wanting to get control of the Golan Heights. It took over 1,380 years from the Time of Micaiah until Israel got control of the annexed Golan Heights in the 1967 War.

Micah the Jewish Prophet some 150 years later faced the same risk facing the ruler of Israel declaring: Hearken now to this, you heads of the house of Jacob and you rulers of the house of Israel, who condemn justice and pervert all that is straight. The Major Jewish Prophet Isaiah complements that prophecy in chapter 59: Rebelling and denying the Lord, and drawing away from following our God, speaking oppression and perverseness, sprouting and giving forth from the heart words of falsehood. Justice has turned away backward, and Righteousness stands far off, for TRUTH has stumbled in the street, and EQUITY cannot come.

It it any wonder, when the ‘chosen people of God’ were already on that Path some 2700 years ago, so many People don’t know what is TRUE and what to BELIEVE in OUR Generations.

Continuing in the Spirit of those ancient Prophets, I do what I can living my 82nd year, interacting with these People on X or email. I never get replies and I understand why.

PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL

Herzog @Isaac_Herzog

A painful and difficult morning. Innocent civilians, women, men, and children were brutally murdered and wounded in cold blood on a bus in Jerusalem by vile and evil terrorists. In the face of this barbarity, we saw extraordinary acts of heroism which prevented even further loss of innocent lives. This shocking attack reminds us once again that we are fighting absolute evil. The world must understand what we are up against, and that terror will never defeat us. My heart goes out to the bereaved families, and I pray for the full and swift recovery of the injured.

Ray Joseph Cormier @RayJC_Com

Every man is Righteous in his own eyes. Obviously you can’t see it, but the majority of the World can see women, men, and children are brutally murdered and wounded in cold blood by vile and evil terrorists dropping bombs from the air killing thousands of CHILDREN!

As for the Evil, you’re projecting as you defy the Lord God of the Jews. You speak of righteousness while presiding over the bombing of children.

The world sees the truth: you are not fighting terrorists; you are becoming the terror you claim to oppose. You defy the very God you invoke.

Scripture commands: “Love the stranger as yourself.” (Leviticus 19:34) “Give the stranger an inheritance among you.” (Ezekiel 47:22-23) Yet you subject Palestinians to occupation, apartheid, and now genocide.

You have forgotten that Abraham—a stranger in the land—was promised the whole earth, not a blood-soaked strip taken by force.

Repent. Return to the way of justice before the God of Abraham holds you accountable.

POPE LEO XIV

@Pontifex

To the intercession of the Saints and the Virgin Mary, we entrust our unceasing prayer for peace, especially in the Holy Land and Ukraine, and in every other land blood-stained by war.

To those in power, I repeat: listen to the voice of conscience! The apparent victories achieved with weapons, which sow death and destruction, are in reality defeats and never bring peace or security!

God does not want war, he wants peace, and he strengthens those who are committed to leaving behind the spiral of hatred and taking the path of dialogue.

@RayJC_Com

Which “Holy Land”? The small, blood-soaked strip in the Middle East—or the entire earth, which God calls His footstool? (Isaiah 66:1)

You speak of peace, yet confine holiness to a plot of land fought over for millennia. But Scripture says: “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool.”

If the whole earth is God’s footstool, then all of it is holy—and all of it is meant to become the Promised Land when humanity finally enters God’s rest. But today, “truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter” (Isaiah 59:14).

We see this in Gaza, in Ukraine, in the hypocrisy of leaders who bless weapons while praying for peace. You urge those in power to “listen to conscience.” Yet what conscience remains in empires that sell arms, bankroll genocide, and betray the poor?

Isaiah presents the choice clearly: Either we turn toward the rest of God—a world of justice and sacred belonging—or we face the fire of divine fury: “Behold, the Lord will come with fire… His rebuke with flames of fire.” (Isaiah 66:15) The “apparent victories” of weapons are indeed defeats.

But true peace requires more than prayer—it demands prophetic defiance of the systems of war.

Will you name the Beast? Will you declare that no land is holy until all lands are free? —Ray Joseph Cormier A witness to the whole earth.

VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE

@Mike_Pence

Check Out My New Op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal “President Trump has opened the door to peace in Ukraine through diplomacy. Congress must reinforce his efforts by ensuring the tools of economic pressure are at hand. Passing Senator Graham’s sanctions bill would show Putin that America speaks with one voice and that our entire country stands behind the president as he seeks to end this war.”

@Mike_Pence

Ray Joseph Cormier @RayJC_Com

You have too many SINS of Historical OMISSION about the US WAR with Russia over Ukraine in NATO, so US troops and missiles would be right on Russia’s border. That Russia will not tolerate, like the US would not tolerate Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962.

The 2014 CIA coup in Ukraine is the SIN of omission you refuse to name. This isn’t about freedom; it’s a US proxy war. Americans aren’t that exceptional! Russia justifiably feels the same way about US Troops on Russia’s border. The G-7 and NATO Summit put the World on the Path to Nuclear annihilation. US-NATO-Canadian WAR Propaganda leaves the unthinking & unquestioning population in the DARK they don’t know it.

Apparently with your religion you have eyes to see, but don’t see what is unfolding in TODAY’s Material World is the spirit of this letter unfolding before our eyes:

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (false beliefs about God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam) For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth ($Billionaires, Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs and other IDOLS of the People) and of the whole world, (the majority of the silent Passive Powerless People) to gather them to the BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY. Behold, I come as a thief. (when you least expect it) Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue ARMAGEDDON.

In 2014 the CIA orchestrated the Regime Change of the Democratically Elected, Russian friendly Ukraine government, installing the UN-elected, anti-Russian government that immediately started shelling the majority Russian speaking UKRAINIANS in the East bordering Russia, making this WAR you support with shrinking incomes inevitable.

In 1976, as Americans were celebrating Revolution, I reached an exceptionally high level of visibility at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. As a Canadian, I was called out of the compressed crowd of delirious Republicans in the Lobby of The Crown Centre Hotel for questioning by the US Secret Service. The crowd was looking up to the SS restricted mezzanine expecting the President to be standing there any minute.

The SS Agent led me straight to the President’s podium, questioning me in view of the thousands of Republicans in the Lobby below. The Agent eventually asked me if I was Jesus Christ? Having no illusions about that THEN and NOW, in a nanosecond answered, “NO!” The very next question was, “Who are you then? A Prophet?” Being newly  BORN AGAIN for only 18 months, I was not as definite answering that question. The Secret Service has the long buried record of that 1 night in MY Life.

After the Republicans left town, The Kansas City Times published 2 historical newspaper records on my Time in their city, the 1st on September 13, 1976, with a followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976, this being a brief excerpt from the September 13 record: “He came to town for the Republican National Convention and will stay until the election in November TO DO GOD’S BIDDING: To tell the World, from Kansas City, this country has been found wanting and its days are numbered […] He gestured toward a gleaming church dome. “The gold dome is the symbol of BABYLON,” he said.” […] He wanted to bring to the Public’s attention an “idea being put out subtly and deceptively” by the government that we have to get prepared for a War with Russia.”

The 1976 Kansas City Prophecy: Thirty Months to Destiny – The Fork in the Road of History Because of that history in my CV, when Biden was threatening Russia with Economic War in February 2022, like Trump is threatening CanaDa Today, I went to the OSCE Website DAILY, set up by MINSK I & II to monitor TRUCE VIOLATIONS between the US proxy anti-Russian Ukraine government and the Russian speaking Ukrainians bordering Russia. Violations were reaching up to 2000 a DAY, provoking the Russian SMO to stop it. That I saw with my own eyes. The Ukraine WAR actually started the week BEFORE February 24, 2022.

MIKE POMPEO

Director of the CIA and US Secretary of State in Trump’s 1st term. I interact with Pompeo often, this last time on the 12th. Several times I’ve included this video of him boasting “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”

@mikepompeo

Speech is not violence; violence is violence – just as human beings are not avatars of a political system, they are human beings. Our country needs a return to First Principles – and prayer – to defeat the scourge of political violence. ​

@RayJC_Com @mikepompeo

The Israeli murderous Genocidal massacre of Palestinian women and CHILDREN in Gaza with no defence against US jet fighters, US bombers and bombs, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks and artillery, with 100% support and complicity of the US is POLITICAL VIOLENCE. Christ knows people like you have eyes to see and will not see!

18 US SENATORS AND PRIME MINISTER CARNEY

To: mark.carney@parl.gc.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca; Steven.Guilbeault@parl.gc.ca; Greg.Fergus@parl.gc.ca
Sent: Thursday, September 11th 2025, 11:37
Subject: TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET AND EQUITY CANNOT ENTER
To: Senator_Kennedy@Kennedy.senate.gov; Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov; senator_ossoff@ossoff.senate.gov; mike@rounds.senate.gov; elizabeth_warren@warren.senate.gov; senator@cotton.senate.gov; correspondence_reply@durbin.senate.gov; info_sanders@sanders.senate.gov; SenatorHawley@hawley.senate.gov; Hirono.outgoing.mail@hirono.senate.gov; Senator@cortezmasto.senate.gov; senator@klobuchar.senate.gov; senator@Gillibrand.senate.gov; Senator@Thune.senate.gov; Senator@Schumer.senate.gov; senator_warner@warner.senate.gov; ChaplainOffice@mail.house.goSent: Tuesday, September 9th 2025, 12:35
Senators, 

This is my reply to your colleague Senator Tillis on X this morning. This is the State of The World I see unfolding as a Watcher from CanaDa.

Senator Thom Tillis @SenThomTillis Sep 7

President Trump met with Putin 3 weeks ago. Since then, Putin met with his fellow authoritarians to conspire against the US. Then he returned to Moscow to authorize the largest air strike on Ukraine since the start of his illegal invasion. It’s time to stop this liar and murderer. 

Senator Tillis, you call Putin a liar and murderer? Look in the mirror. The US & NATO provoked this war by expanding eastward after promising Gorbachev they wouldn’t. That’s the original lie. This war is a direct result of American arrogance and broken promises. 

You’re repeating the same reckless brinkmanship that nearly ended the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy wisely chose diplomacy over annihilation, but today’s warmongers—like you—would rather risk nuclear war than admit their policy failures. 

Kennedy’s warning echoes through time: “Nuclear powers must avert confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.” You are pushing Russia toward that exact choice. This isn’t strategy; it’s a death wish. 

You serve the same spirit that killed Kennedy when he sought peace with the Soviets. Now, you align with the “unclean spirits” of Revelation 16:13-16—the spirits of devils gathering the kings of the earth, you included, for Armageddon. 

Your hypocrisy is staggering. You condemn Russia for violating international law while supporting US-Israeli strikes on Iran. You fuel genocide in Gaza while pretending to care about peace in Ukraine. You are a servant of the Beast, not the Constitution. 

Repent, Senator. Step back from the brink. Choose diplomacy over destruction, truth over tribalism. The world is watching, and God is judging. 12:15 PM · Sep 9, 2025

TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET AND EQUITY CANNOT ENTER

Peace, RayJC

The Price of Truth: Fear, Freedom, and the Divine Deliverance

The path of the watchman has always been fraught with peril. From Micaiah to Christ himself, speaking unvarnished truth to those who wield earthly power has often come at the risk of life and freedom. This ancient reality echoes violently in our modern halls of power, where fear has become a more potent silencer than any decree.

Today, after the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, we see both Republican and Democratic politicians gripped by a palpable fear for their lives. The threat of public violence, born of a deeply divided and inflamed populace, holds them in a silent bondage. They fear stepping out, speaking up, or challenging the narratives that benefit their parties, lest they become the next target in a world where the streets are no longer safe for truth-tellers. This fear, ultimately, is a fear of death itself—a bondage that has paralyzed those meant to lead.

But Christ came to set the captives free. He declared, “If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). And again, the Apostle Paul reminds us that through Christ, we are delivered from “all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery” (Hebrews 2:15). It is this divine freedom that breaks the chains of earthly fear. It is the conviction that there is a truth greater than any political agenda, a power higher than any human institution, that liberates the prophet to speak without compromise.

The picture above was published by The Ottawa Citizen a few days before this report of me being violently ejecting from the Visitors Gallery on the 1st Day of TV in the Canadian Parliament October 17, 1977.

An Ottawa Court placed me on Probation for 1 year for a dozen charges of ‘shouting, causing a disturbance’ speaking to growing crowds on the Sparks Street Mall. The Police always stopped my speech even though the lunch time crowd on the Sparks Street Mall wanted to hear.

Not 1 standard Probation Condition was checked off. Typed in at the bottom of the form were these explicit words, “not to attend on the Sparks Street Mall or any other Street in Ottawa for the purpose of SPEAKING OR SHOUTING. I was sent to jail for the 1st Time in my Life for breach of that Probation.

In protest, I walked along the Sparks Street Mall with a sandwich-board sign wearing the gag over my mouth all Day long. I couldn’t move very far before a crowd about 6 deep gathered around me all day long, half of them having regular cameras long before phone cameras, taking pictures.

As the earth turned and the shade of the sun moved, I didn’t know who and when the Ottawa Citizen photographer was in that crowd taking the picture? It’s remarkable at the instant shot, the shade of the sun off my nose formed a perfect line between light and darkness. In the darkness is FEAR OF THE TRUTH and in the Light is EAR THE TRUTH.

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, Hebrews 2:4

Will you, too, speak truth to power? Will you sigh and groan over the abominations done in our name? The time for silence is over. The watchman must speak.”

TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET AND EQUITY CANNOT ENTER

Posted on by Ray Joseph Cormier

The title of this article is not just a phrase; it is a diagnosis of our age. Truth has fallen in our digital public squares, trampled by algorithms and political agendas. Justice, unable to even get in the door, stands barred by the sins of historical omission. The question is not if we will face this reality, but how we got here. Truth is not merely contested in our age—it is facedown in the mud of the digital square, trampled by the crowd. And justice? She stands barred at the door, unable to enter. This is not a political crisis. It is a spiritual diagnosis from an ancient text: ‘Truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter’ (Isaiah 59:14). How did we get here? The answer lies in an unholy trinity of deception—one as old as religion itself.

Our world is facing an Unholy Trinity of Deception, a spiritual sickness that mirrors the “three unclean spirits” described in Revelation 16″13-16. These are the pillars of fallen truth that hold up a system of power and vanity. With TRUTH fallen in the Street, is it any wonder, some 2700 years after Isaiah, People Today just don’t know what to believe?

The first anti-Christ was not a man of chaos, but a man of zealotry—Saul of Tarsus. He was a Pharisee who knew every word of scripture but missed the living Messiah standing before him. His sin was the omission of the Spirit for the Letter; his “truth” was a weapon to condemn, not to liberate. He became the archetype of an institution that kills prophets and then builds tombs for them.

This is the ultimate sin of historical omission—honouring a dead past while persecuting the living truth. We see this today in the political and media establishments that venerate “democracy” and a “rules-based order” as sacred concepts, while omitting the bloody history of how that order was built and maintained.

If the Four Horsemen bring conquest, war, famine, and death, the Fifth Horseman justifies their ride. He doesn’t carry a sword; he carries a microphone. Once called the ‘Fifth Estate,’ the mainstream media has become a Fifth Column—a traitor to truth within the gates. Its weapon? Not fake news, but omitted news. It hides the 2014 coup in Ukraine, the eight years of bombing in Donbas, and NATO’s broken promises. This isn’t bias; it is betrayal.

Its primary weapon is not the lie of fake news, but the lie of omitted news. It practices systemic, ideological omission by burying the critical context that would expose the truth:

  • The 2014 CIA-backed coup in Ukraine that provoked this war.
  • The 8 years of shelling in Donbas that preceded the Russian intervention.
  • NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, a direct violation of promises made decades ago.

This is not a news crisis. We are facing an exorcism, where the spirit of propaganda manufactures consent for war and hides historical truth to serve the empire. The Fifth Horseman doesn’t carry a sword; he carries a microphone.

When truth is fallen in the street, equity is barred at the door. This is not a metaphor; it is a spiritual and mechanical reality. The tragic reality is that humans cannot thrive when they are isolated, for as the scriptures say, “It is not good that man is alone; I shall make him a helpmate opposite him.” This truth, which experts and amateurs alike are confirming, is as real today as it was 6,000 years ago. Medical science confirms the Genesis creation story of the male and female in the man, with the XY chromosome, while the woman has only the X. The attack on this fundamental truth is a direct assault on the very image of God.

This is why we see the bitter fruits of disconnection and division. The US Christian Nationalism that persecutes the trans and gay community creates an atmosphere of fear that leads to tragedies like the Minneapolis shooting. The hypocrisy is clear: politicians who claim to be “pro-life” in one breath will, in the next, divert humanitarian aid from agencies like USAID to fund more weapons and tax cuts for billionaires. They have not “saved money”; they have defunded hope.

This ideological cruelty is also at the heart of the genocide in Gaza. With US bombs and financing, tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian children and infants are being murdered. This is a profound lack of equity. Every US-Israeli bomb and bullet does not eliminate the opposition; it recruits more civilians to join the legitimate struggle for their national aspirations. When a message of hate and violence is given a platform, it breeds more hatred and violence.

The US Dollar is not merely money; it is the image of a system that makes truth a commodity and equity an impossibility.

The path forward is not easy, but it begins with repentance (metanoia), a change of mind that forces us to see the omitted history. It is a path walked by a remnant—those who refuse to let the truth stay fallen. They are the ones who, like the faithful in Ezekiel’s vision, “sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed.”

“We stand now between two paths:
— The path of Saul: zealotry without compassion, truth without justice.
— The path of Paul: eyes opened by grace, turned toward the true Christ outside the system.

The remnants are those who, like Ezekiel’s witnesses, ‘sigh and groan over all the abominations’ (Ezekiel 9:4). They lift truth from the street. They hold the door open for justice.

Will you stand with them?
Repent of omission.
Speak what others hide.
Refuse the mark of the Beast.

The night is far spent; the day is at hand.

This is not theory for me. In 1976, I stood in Kansas City and declared America ‘found wanting.’ In 2025, I see that verdict unfolding in Gaza, in Ukraine, and on the streets of our cities. The writing is on the wall.

PEOPLE

Posted on by Ray Joseph Cormier

It’s rare that I re-post articles from other writers to my blog, but the circumstances of the Times demand these poems of Diane Engelhardt gain more exposure. 

This 1st one is about a fundamental Truth. The Masses of Ordinary People have the real Power as WE THE PEOPLE, to change this increasingly corrupt and violent World, not the small minority of the rich and powerful at the top of the Economic-Social-Power Pyramid System.

As for ‘The Children of Gaza,’ every ordinary person with a Conscience and a sense of our COMMON HUMANITY in this COMMON ERA of Christ should raise their voices so those those at the Top of the so called ‘International Community’ in their isolated towers to get some Moral Integrity, and stop the Israeli Genocide in Gaza – IMMEDIATELY. Especially in the US being 100% COMPLICIT enabling it.

Over 153 Nations on Earth have recognized a Palestinian State. It’s an empty gesture of Action. It doesn’t stop the murderous massacre Israel brings to defenceless women and children in Gaza.

If Trump had the Morality and Will, he could order Israel to STOP IMMEDIATELY but he doesn’t, and won’t until the American People raise their voices so loud, he can’t ignore it!

For those who remember Trump’s reference to “American Carnage” in his 1st Inaugural speech, watching from CanaDa, there’s no doubt he’s letting it happen in Gaza with US F-35s, US bombers and bombs, US bullets, and Apache Attack Helicopters, money, and Diplomatic support, Vetoing every UN censure of Israel for it’s Genocide in Gaza!

ORDINARY PEOPLE

It’s not kings, presidents, prime ministers,
governors, mayors and politicians
that will make the world a better place
for future generations; 
it is ordinary people doing the hard work
and daily heavy lifting, ordinary people moving things
step by step in the right direction.

It’s not generals, commanders, soldiers
and national guards that will fight
for freedom, peace and democracy; 
it is ordinary people taking their battles
to the streets and social media, 
ordinary people practising
non-violent civil disobedience
on the front lines.

It’s not bankers, investors, executives
and multinational corporations that will keep
the economy running and put an end
to poverty, hunger and suffering;
it is ordinary people spending, giving,
donating and helping out;
ordinary people investing
their time, energy and money
in worthy causes.

It’s not the courts, judges, lawyers, 
lawmakers and the police that will uphold
the law and see that justice is done; 
it is ordinary people speaking out 
against what’s wrong, and standing up 
for what’s right, fair and just,
ordinary people never giving up,
and never backing down.

It’s not scientists, academics, experts,
technicians and engineers that will solve
the climate crisis and avert global chaos
and environmental disaster; 
it is ordinary people sharing resources, 
joining hands, and digging in, 
ordinary people bearing responsibility,
taking initiative, and building community.

It’s not writers, philosophers, musicians, 
artists and intellectuals that will answer
difficult questions and deliver the truth; 
it is ordinary people daring to embark 
upon a long journey fraught
with loneliness, darkness and peril;
ordinary people travelling onward
without a road map, yet fearlessly
staying the course. 

It’s not priests, ministers, imams, 
rabbis and gurus that will save our souls
and lead humanity on the path
toward grace and redemption; 
it is ordinary people with love
in their hearts and abiding faith 
in all that’s good and true,
everyday ordinary people 
who will bring about
a bright new day.
https://dianeengelhardt.substack.com/p/ordinary-people

A CHILD IN GAZA

If I were a child in Gaza,
(if I am not already dead and wrapped
in a white blood-stained shroud
with my name written in black marker),
I would have only one arm or one leg
or no legs and no crutches,
no wheelchair, no prosthesis, 
so that my father (if I still have a father)
would have to carry me in his arms
or on his bent back like a donkey.
I would have no medicine to relieve my pain
or stop my stumps, my wounds, my burns
from bleeding, weeping and festering
and my poor mother (if I still have a mother)
would try to comfort me with her kisses,
her tears and her prayers.

If I were a child in Gaza,
I would cry for bread my mother or father
cannot give me and my brothers and sisters
(if I still have brothers and sisters).
I would sip unclean water and every salty trickle
would burn my throat and come out,
thin and putrid, into my pants or diaper.
I could not take a bath or a shower
or wash in warm, soapy water.
I would be dirty, cold and scared,
homeless.

If I were a child in Gaza,
I would have no toys to play with
and no school to attend with my friends,
(if I still have friends).
And I would always be seeking, 
not a playground or a beach in the sun, 
but a safe place (if there are still safe places)
where I would crouch and hide 
from the bombs, the bullets, the soldiers. 
I would tremble and cry and cling
to someone in my family
(if I still have a family to protect me),
and I would want the blasts, the explosions,
the screams, the noise, the terror to stop,
now and forever.

If I were a child in Gaza,
I would be afraid to go to sleep
(if I have a bed, a mat, a plastic bag
to lie on and a blanket to cover me)
and I would be afraid to wake up.
Sleep would come only when my eyes
(if I still have eyes), were too heavy,
too sore, too blurry to stay open.
But I would not know the difference
between each fierce, dark night and 
every endless day.

If I were a child in Gaza,
I would look up at the sky 
and wish that I could fly like a bird
high above the clouds and far, far away
where nothing could harm or catch me.
And when one day this hell on earth is over,
I will fly back to my people
and the place where I was born,
and there we will rebuild, 
insh’Allah, and stay.

https://dianeengelhardt.substack.com/p/if-i-were-a-child-in-gaza

Jews in Nazi Germany concentration camps. Picture taken from Holocaust Museum

As for the kings and politicians, I wanted to insert this image right after “It’s not kings, presidents, prime ministers, governors, mayors and politicians that will make the world a better place for future generations” but I couldn’t find the way to do it.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty […] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Revelation 16:13-16

I just came across this video Today, August 3 at 12:45pm ET. It’s a long video, some 85 minutes, interviewing a just retired Officer in the US Military. He was sought out and hired 4 Security for the 4 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites for the 1.5 Million Gazans.

GHF was chosen by Israel/US, to replace the 400 United Nations distribution sites in Gaza since the Israeli siege of Gaza started after the 1st Palestinian Democratic Election in 2006 Hamas won fair and square, and certified by all external election monitors, including Jimmy Carter.

US/Israel would no longer be able to claim Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. They told Fatah President Abbas to dissolve the Palestinian Legislature so Hamas could not form the Legitimate, Democratically Elected Palestinian government having won the majority of seats.

Abbas is still there as the Israeli proxy police force to keep the Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank “QUIET” about Israel’s serial violations of International Law with impunity because the US led “International Community” ( CanaDa and the nominally Christian Europeans Nations with the money and power) does nothing about it.

Gaza is not much bigger North to South in total area than Philadelphia. Israel banned the UN from Gaza, and Israel bars Foreign Journalists from entering Gaza so the World see the Truth and Reality of this Israeli Engineered horrific situation of Human degradation we see in Gaza.

This ex US Military Officer and Christian, no matter how much the money, could not betray his Christian Values and keep silent about the atrocities he saw with the GHF and quit. I believe his report and I suspect most people who watch it will believe him too! What can We the People do?

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE Speaks Out

“If my ordeal exposed authoritarianism and put a spotlight on the suffering in Gaza, I’m happy to do it again and again.”