Day: June 11, 2024
Panic in Paris as Macron’s ‘Suicidal’ Snap Election Paves Way for Populist Right to Take Power
From breitbart.com
The French establishment and the far left have descended into full-blown panic over the possibility of the populist right taking control over the levers of power following the unprecedented move by President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call for a snap election in the wake of his disastrous defeat to the National Rally in the European Parliament elections.
President Macron dissolved the French parliament mid-term on Sunday, the first President to do so for decades and the first time it has been done in response to an election defeat. The bold move on Sunday evening came after his Rennaissance party won just 14.7 per cent of the vote for the European Parliament elections, compared to 31.5 per cent for the populist right-wing National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN) of former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
The move has sparked widespread panic, with thousands of leftists taking to the streets of Paris, Marseilles and Montpellier on Monday, calling for a revival of the failed NUPES leftist coalition while chanting: “Everyone hates fascists” and “Paris, Paris, Antifa”. The protests in Paris continued into the evening as leftist radicals clashed with police.
The gamble for Mr Macron, which is being described as “suicidal” by his allies according to Le Figaro, hopes to once again mobilise the public against the spectre of the supposed “far-right”, shut down the momentum for the National Rally, and reinvigorate the mandate for the rest of his second and final term in the Élysée Palace. However, by acquiescing to the demands of RN president Jordan Bardella for a snap election, Macron has opened the door to the distinct possibility of the populist party taking control over the French legislature for the first time in history.
Should the National Rally secure an absolute majority of 289 seats in the Assembly, Macron would be presented with two options; either resign from office or appoint Jordan Bardella to the Hôtel Matignon as his next prime minister and form a “cohabitation” government. If RN wins the most seats but does not achieve an absolute majority, it will then have the opportunity to form a coalition with other parties who agree to back Bardella. However, other parties could also try to block the National Rally and band together behind a “consensus” PM candidate. Failing that, the parliament would become gridlocked with Macron unable to call for new elections until next year.
Many in Paris have questioned why Macron would open himself up to such a risk, with prominent former bureaucrat Maxime Tandonnet saying: “This dissolution seems to open a fatal door into the unknown. What happens if the RN wins an absolute majority? Is the president ready to govern with a prime minister from this party?”
It has also been noted, that while Macron was already governing from a minority position after having lost his majority in the National Assembly in 2022 which sparked some political turmoil, the functioning of the government had continued, with legislation on even contentious subjects such as immigration being passed. The situation is novel in modern French history, with presidents only dissolving parliament on three previous occasions, none of which were prompted by an election result as in the case of Macron.
The first two instances of snap legislative elections were called by war-time leader and then-President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 and 1968 during moments of political crisis, the first coming following a no-confidence vote against de Gaulle over his push towards having the public directly vote for president and the second coming in the wake of months of anti-capitalist worker and student strikes which ground the country to a halt in May of 1968. In both instances, General de Gaulle prevailed at the ballot box, however, he ultimately resigned in 1969 and died the following year.
The next case came in 1997 when then-President Jaques Chirac dissolved the National Assembly for early legislative elections in a bid to bolster his majority and to wrongfoot his leftist opponents. The gamble for Chirac failed to pay off, with the public largely seeing through the clear political manoeuvring. It marked the first time since 1877 that a French president lost a legislative election that he called and the centre-right Chiraq was forced into a “cohabitation” government in which socialist Lionel Jospin became his prime minister.
Like Chirac, Macron appears to be betting on a divided left to cement his grip on power. Lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Benjamin Morel said if the left remains fractured — as it has on issues such as Israel in recent months — this would potentially open up traditionally leftist constituencies to being won by Macron’s allies.
Furthermore, if a fractured left fails to be represented in the second round of voting, it could encourage tactical voting from leftists to block a National Rally majority, Morel said. Finally, the academic said that Macron would likely seek to convince centre-right Les Republicains or the centre-left to form an alliance to secure a majority for his government.
“But that’s a lot of ‘ifs’, betting on the suicide of the left, and would by definition lead to a majority of supporters who are difficult to control and unstable. However, this is the best scenario for the President of the Republic,” Morel said.
It has also been suggested Macron believes he is setting a trap for RN, and by essentially handing them the Parliament now and playing a long game to the next French Presidential elections in 2027. This plan working relies, of course, on Le Pen’s populists being as incompetent as Macron appears to believe they are, and RN embarrassing themselves once in power and giving him a boost for the Presidential election.
On the other hand, if anti-Macron leftists and the National Rally secure enough seats to form an absolute majority, they could push forward a motion de censure (vote of no confidence) in Macron and potentially topple his government.
On Monday, both the hard left and the populist right began attempts to solidify their coalitions, with 350 prominent left-wing political figures writing in Le Monde that only a “union of leftists and environmentalists can counter” the rise of the “far-right”. Following the leftist protests in Paris, the leaders of the Socialist Party, La France Insoumise (LFI), Les Écologists, and the French Communist Party announced that they would form an election pact dubbed the “new popular front”.
Meanwhile, RN leaders Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen met with Marion Maréchal, Le Pen’s disaffected niece and vice president of the Éric Zemmour-led anti-mass migration Reconquête party in the hopes of brokering a right-wing election pact.
“This is a historic moment that we are experiencing, we have the historic opportunity for the French to build a majority,” said Maréchal following the talks in Paris, adding; “I stretched out the hand to Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, and I thank them for having accepted.”
However, the recently elected Reconquête MEP said that Monday was just the “first stage of the discussion” and that a “certain number of conditions were set” by Bardella and Le Pen, so therefore “it’s time to discuss it with Éric Zemmour”.
Bardella, the 28-year-old “rock star” leader of the party, who led the European Parliament election campaign and will be the face of the snap election campaign in France, said that he has also reached out to the centre-right Les Republicains to potentially form an alliance to take power from Macron, saying “this opportunity is historic”.
GOD IS IN FULL CONTROL!
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Attacks on Northern Israel: First Sign of Messiah and Gog and Magog
DISCLAIMER:
Brethren – I must preface this piece with some truths that we as God’s remnant should know. The source of this article is ‘Israeli’ and not Messianic. Also, the source of most of this piece comes from the Talmud. We as Christians should know that the Talmud is not the ‘inspired’ Word of God – it does not come from the Old Testament. They quote from the OT at times, but mostly these are the words of men.
The Talmud consists of writings through the ages from Rabbis and Sages. They have always believed to this day that God was imparting truth directly to them. These writings from the Talmud are sacred to the Chabad (Hasidic) community.
The Ultra-Orthodox (Hasidim or Lubavitcher) followed the most famous Rabbi (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) who died on June 12, 1994.
Many in the Lubavitcher community hold a firm belief that Rabbi Schneerson could very well be who they believe is their Messiah, and of whom they are waiting.
He will deceive the world. At the beginning of the final 3-1/2 years he will sit in the temple declaring himself to be above all that is called god.
Many Christians do not understand that Jews who are waiting for Messiah do not believe that he is God in the flesh. They look to him as a savior, but not a spiritual one. After all the centuries of persecution and death – Israel sees Antichrist as the one who finally saves Israel from a hostile world.
So, when he announces that he is indeed ‘God’ this is when the eyes of all of Israel will be opened to the truth of YESHUA as Messiah and GOD!
From israel365news.com
On Monday, Red Alert sirens sounded across northern Israel, including the Haifa region. Several Hezbollah rockets were successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome system, but debris from the interceptions endangered residents in Acre and Haifa.
As the IDF nears completion of its objectives in Rafah, the focus of Israel’s multi-front war shifts northward. While Hezbollah began attacking Israel in cooperation with Hamas on Oct. 8, rocket attacks have been intensifying as the war continues. The attacks have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. Waves of drone and rocket attacks launched by Hezbollah targeting the Misgav Am area struck northern Israel on Sunday, sparking massive brush fires in the Golan. One drone impacted in an open area in the Jezreel Valley, near Nazareth, marking the deepest penetration of the war to date, landing 24 miles inside Israel. The IDF launched an Iron Dome missile that failed to intercept the drone.
The IDF is responding with airstrikes and artillery targeting military targets in Lebanon.
When considering the war breaking out in northern Israel, a section of the Talmud describing the days preceding Messiah comes to mind.
The unfolding scenario strongly suggests a section of the Talmud describing the period before the Messiah. The Talmud (Sotah 49b, Sanhedrin 97a) describes the “times of the approaching of the Messiah” (ikv’ta d’meshicha), which Rashi explains is “after the exile ends but before the arrival of the Messiah.” Many conditions seem to be appearing around the world; however, this article will focus on those that seem to relate specifically to the war in northern Israel.
The Talmud states, “..the Galilee shall be destroyed, and the Gavlan will be desolate, and the men of the border shall go round from city to city to seek charity, but they will find no mercy.”
As the Talmud describes, Hezbollah rockets have ignited massive brush fires in the north of Israel. Also, as described, about 80,000 residents from northern Israel have been made homeless due to the hostility.
Commentaries explain that the “Gavlan” is the Bashan. In the Bible (Numbers 21:33–35; Deuteronomy 3:1–7), the Bashan was given to half of the tribe of Menashe. It is in the northeast, including the Golan, parts of Syria, and northern Jordan.
Indeed, the pre-Messiah War of Gog and Magog is prophesied to come from the north.
Therefore prophesy, O mortal, and say to Gog: Thus said Hashem: Surely, on that day, when My people Yisrael are living secure, you will take note, and you will come from your home in the farthest north, you and many peoples with you—all of them mounted on horses, a vast horde, a mighty army.
Ezekiel 38: 14-15
In 2015, the Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Mishkoltz sect of Hasidic Jews spoke about the appearance of the Gog and Magog War in current events.
“There will continue to be uprisings worldwide, the Rebbe predicted. “And everything is for Israel’s benefit!
“My heart tells me,” concluded the Rebbe, “that God is having mercy on the nation of Israel and despite what the prophets have prophesied – that the Gog Magog War needs to be within Jerusalem- nevertheless God sweetened this, and He is currently making it in Syria.”
The ongoing civil war in Syria began in 2011 and has killed over 600,000, more than half of them civilians.
“The proof is that it is brought down by the Sages (Sifri Devarim 1) that the gates of Jerusalem are destined to reach Damascus. If that is the case, instead of the war being in Jerusalem with the inhabitants of Israel suffering from it, God widened Jerusalem until Damascus so that the great war would be there – as we currently see that Russia entered with powerful forces into Syria and even China made it known that it is going there – which apparently will cause a Third World War with the US and its neighbors and tremendous bloodshed until they destroy and annihilate each other.”
“Remaining for us now is the task to be united among ourselves and to be careful to stay away from arguments and Leshon Hara because the Mashiah is already here and hears everything,” the Rebbe concluded. source (emphasis added)
GOD PLEASE HELP ISRAEL AND JEWS EVERYWHERE TO KNOW THAT THEIR MASHIACH ALREADY CAME AND HIS NAME IS YESHUA!
I AM SO GLAD THAT THE COUPLE WHO SHARED YESHUA WITH ME, DID NOT PASS ME BY BECAUSE I AM A JEW!!
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THIS SAYS IT ALL: Hamas Chief ‘Sinwar’ in Correspondence Says Civilian Losses are a ‘Necessary Sacrifice’
The people of Gaza have always been sacrificed by Hamas. Yet they continue to support these devils and gladly act as human shields.
From I24news.TV
Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in correspondence with his compatriots and mediators has expressed an opinion that the civilian losses in the Strip during the Israel-Hamas war are a “necessary sacrifice” for the Palestinian cause, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), familiar to the letters.
“We have the Israelis right where we want them,” the article cited Sinwar’s recent message to Hamas officials seeking to broker an agreement with Qatari and Egyptian officials.
In a letter to the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, after three of his adult sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike, Sinwar wrote that their deaths and those of other Palestinians “will inject life into the veins of this nation, and bring it to its glory and honor.”
He cited civilian casualties in the national liberation conflicts in places like Algeria, where hundreds of thousands of people died fighting for independence from France.
Another quote refers to talks made by Hamas’ political leadership in December, discussing a plan for post-war Gaza and possible reconciliation with other Palestinian factions, without consulting Sinwar. In a letter sent to the terrorist group leaders, he called these attempts “shameful and outrageous.”
Golda Meir said:
“We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us…”
She also said this:
“Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.”
