What kinds of dark forces were behind the Hamas invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023?

In an interview between Vlad Savchuk and Jonathan Cahn, the two unlocked the mysteries surrounding the October 7 invasion of Hamas on Israel, and how Cahn’s latest book, “The Dragon’s Prophecy,” details the dark forces behind what happened.

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“I was speaking at the congregation,” Cahn says, “And I’m speaking on the mystery that ordained that there would be an attack on Israel. It would be in the year 2023, it would happen in October of 2023, it would catch Israel by surprise, it would be a calamity, it would happen on a Sabbath day, it would take place on a Hebrew holiday, it would happen on the first Saturday of October of 2023. That is what the mystery ordained. I shared that; the next morning it happened.”

Savchuk points out the critical need for spiritual understanding surrounding these events. He also says that many people struggle with believing that the devil is real and influences our world today. However, when we look at events like this, we can see that there truly is a spiritual force behind it.

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“There is evil in the world, clearly, and there is evil you cannot explain rationally,” Cahn says. “The Bible tells us from the beginning there is an entity that is an angelic entity that is twisted, that inverted against God. In Hebrew he’s called ‘hasatan,’ and we get the word ‘Satan’ from it. It means the opponent, the one who goes against all things. His mission is to destroy the purposes of God, the works of God, to invert them, twist them.”

Savchuk points to the skyrocketing anti-Semitism that has taken place since last October as a sign of a spiritual attack coming against Israel.

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“I would have never thought a year ago that we would see the rise of that in my own time,” Savchuk says. “I mean, everybody remembered Hitler, everybody remembered Holocaust, I thought this will never come back, but because this is spiritual – this is not political – and this is demonic because Satan is against the nation of Israel…”

The physical wars we see raging around Israel are not coincidence, but they are spiritual in nature. Good vs. evil is real, and it is the devil’s mission to destroy whatever he can. However, there is nothing bigger, nothing greater that Jesus Christ. Continue to pray for Israel as they deal with these spiritual challenges.

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Outspoken Christian and quarterback for the Miami Dolphins Tua Tagovailoa suffered another injury resulting in a concussion on Thursday Night Football.

Tagovailoa collided with Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who himself suffered a near-fatal episode on the football field, after diving forward head first in the third quarter. Tagovailoa would not return to the game.

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Calls for prayer rang out from many within both the football and Christian communities for Tagovailoa, who has a history of suffering concussions due to the hard hits he takes on the field.

Worship leader and “Let Us Worship” founder Sean Feucht posted on X in support of Tagovailoa, imploring his followers to lift the quarterback up in prayer.

Praying for my friend @Tua right now.

He’s a true worshipper of Jesus.

May God bring peace, healing and wisdom over his mind and body right now.

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Additionally, many former players in the NFL called for Tagovailoa to retire, saying that the money made playing in the league is not worth the price it will take from his health.

The NFL quarterback has never been shy about sharing his faith, in both victory and defeat.

“I think the best thing about being a believer of Jesus Christ, to me, is that the good Lord up above doesn’t care whether you win a game, whether you lose a game,” Tagovailoa shared after a loss to the Bills in 2023.

“…allowing me this platform, to me, is the thing in the world to be able to profess my faith on something that I firmly believe in, something that’s been foundationally instilled in me at a young age.”

As Tagovailoa begins his recovery from this most recent injury, the community is encouraged to keep him in their thoughts and prayers. Fans, teammates and supporters alike are urged to come together in a spirit of hope and healing for Tagovailoa, wishing him a swift and full recovery. His faith, strength and determination have inspired many, and now, in this challenging moment, he needs the support of those who stand behind him.

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Tomb restoration in Israel is underway in hopes of completing biblical prophecy.

In an video done by The Daily Wire, the media giant was given a tour by Yishai Fleischer, who acts as the international spokesperson for Hebron. The goal is to restore the tombs of King David’s lineage, including the Tomb of Ruth, David’s great-grandmother and Jesse, David’s father.

“So, what did this place look like two or three years ago?” Fleischer asks. “People visited; it was a holy site, people knew about it, but it wasn’t nice. It wasn’t welcoming.”

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The area has been upgraded with amenities and benches for people to go and enjoy the day. There are also markers for the tombs. Restoring this area to attract visitors is part of what Fleischer believes is part of the Isaiah 11:10 prophecy which reads, “In that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner to the peoples. For him shall the nations seek. And his rest shall be glorious.”

“This is the father of King David, and this is Ruth, the great-grandmother of King David,” Fleischer says pointing to the tombs. “We read about it in the scroll of Ruth which is only four chapters, but tells the story about how Ruth came from the country of Moab, where Jordan is today, and she joined the Jewish peoplehood.

“People from all over the world come to this spot to fulfill a verse, Isaiah chapter 11 verse 10,” he continues.

Fleischer says that in the last two years they have added the basic amenities needed such as water, electricity, air conditioning, fixing the old synagogue and restoring some of the more ancient structures in this area.

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“We took this ancient site which was totally derelict and broken and [you] never wanted to go inside, nobody ever went inside, and with the help of HaShem, has become an awesome thing,” Fleischer says.

The group has made an entire dining and sitting space from an area that Fleischer says was covered in dirt and dead animals when they discovered it. The 1,500-year-old synagogue has also been re-done with electricity added into it, along with a designated spot to hold the synagogue’s Torah scrolls.

“We’ve made a little spot that was holy, we made it feel holy,” says Fleischer. “That’s what the rebirth of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, that’s what it does. It takes an ancient it’s resurrected.”

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Right now, the restoration of the scribe room is ongoing. Fleischer notes that once this is complete, a scribe will use the space to write down the book of Ruth.

The area is known for artifacts being discovered from the Second Temple period, and Fleischer claims there are “about over a thousand years of visitors” who have believed this area of Hebron has held significant scriptural importance.

“Hebron is all about mothers and fathers. So, even if it’s not the tomb of Ruth actually, it’s the place where we commemorate and celebrate Ruth,” Fleischer says.

The people who ancestrally claim Hebron to be their homeland have been there about three-and-a-half thousand years, Fleischer says.

“We are very ancient people,” says Fleischer. “We’ve been living in this town for over three-and-a-half thousand years, and we have proof from First Temple period and Second Temple period.”

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The United States Secret Service has labeled Jan. 6, 2025, the day the presidential election is certified, as a “National Special Security Event.”

Eric Ranaghan, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s Dignitary Protective Division, said that National Special Security Events are “events of the highest national significance,” according to a press release.

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Ranaghan explained that the Secret Service will design and implement a security plan for the event.

“The U.S. Secret Service, in collaboration with our federal, state, and local partners are committed to developing and implementing a comprehensive and integrated security plan to ensure the safety and security of this event and its participants,” he said.

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The announcement marks the “first time a National Special Security Event designation has been granted for a Certification of Electoral Votes and follows a request made by the DC Mayor to designate this event a National Special Security Event,” the release notes.

An Executive Steering Committee will be formed to design the security plan.

According to Politico, the security designation aims to prevent a “reprise of the riot at the Capitol” in 2021.

This article originally appeared on American Faith, and is reposted with permission.

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The unfolding crisis involving Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, has the potential to define this entire moment in U.S. history.

For instance, while we rightly lay responsibility for the crisis at the feet of establishment politicians like President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we must also acknowledge a much deeper and darker truth about the other culprits, who sadly number in the millions.

In an interview Thursday with Lawrence B. Jones of “Fox & Friends” on Fox News, longtime Springfield resident Diana Daniels described life in the town as “like living in a dystopian nightmare” and declared that “we’ve needed help for several years.”

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Daniels’ “dystopian nightmare” attracted national attention for one of the unlikeliest reasons anyone could have imagined.

According to recent rumors, Haitian migrants in Springfield have allegedly abducted and eaten both geese in the wild and — incredibly — family pets.

Earlier this week, those rumors prompted a slew of memes on the social media platform X. Many of those memes cleverly depicted former President Donald Trump fighting to save the animals.  Predictably, both the rumors and the memes sent liberals into fits of apoplexy.

Then, during Tuesday’s presidential debate, Trump mentioned the pet-eating rumors.

On CNN afterward, establishment mouthpiece Kaitlan Collins tried to shame Ohio’s Republican Sen. J.D. Vance — Trump’s running mate — for what she characterized as false claims on the part of both the former president and his vice-presidential nominee.

Vance expertly replied that journalists should have cared about Springfield’s plight long before the pet-eating rumors and memes materialized.

After all, whether or not the rumors turn out to be true, the massive influx of Haitian migrants has created all the problems associated with unchecked immigration, including strained resources, suppressed wages and skyrocketing housing costs.

Now, thanks in part to Trump and Vance, Springfield finds itself at the center of a national controversy.

Indeed, exasperated and desperate residents have welcomed the sympathetic attention, which so far has come primarily from independent journalists.

While speaking to Jones, Daniels voiced the same exasperation.

“It’s like living in a dystopian nightmare. You hope you wake up and it’s 2019 again, and then you realize it’s 2024, and it’s the same thing, over and over again, day after day,” she said.

At the same time, however, she expressed gratitude for the sudden attention.

“If it took something like this to get the spotlight flashed on us, then so be it. We’ve needed help for several years, and maybe we’re gonna finally get it,” she said.

Thus far, much of the controversy has focused on the truth or falsehood of the pet-eating rumors.

Meanwhile, in the context of a national election, those rumors have once again highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous border record.

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To understand the full meaning of Daniels’s “dystopian nightmare,” however, one must look beyond policy and peer into human nature.

For instance, Jones observed that Daniels and others have incurred accusations of race-based hatred due to their concerns over the town’s migrant crisis.

Daniels did not deny that those accusations had stung her, but she also did not blame the establishment media.

“Some of those comments are being made by people that I’ve known for many years. And that’s probably the hardest thing to deal with,” she replied.

Of course, she denied the accusations.

“It’s not about color. It’s about culture,” she said.

But that has not prevented city officials from posing as concerned residents’ moral superiors.

“It’s not helpful when our own city government has printed those very comments in city documents — that the challenge Springfield faces is race,” she said.

Then, when Jones asked her who she blamed for the crisis — even prompting her with references to Biden and Harris — Daniels gave a surprising and illuminating answer.

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The problem, she said, came not only from the top down but from the “bottom up.”

“So, how did Springfield get the target put on its back for this many Haitians?” she asked.

Without being able to identify a lone culprit, she simply said the key is to “follow the money.”

What do the accusations of racial hatred and Daniels’s cryptic “follow the money” comment have in common?

In short, each suggests that some of Daniels’s own neighbors have undermined the town from within.

To illustrate, consider conservative Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson’s comments about the COVID pandemic during a May interview.

“In Canada, 30 percent of my neighbors were thrilled that they had the opportunity to inform on their — on the people around them. Thrilled,” Peterson said in a clip posted to X.

“They would have worn for the rest of their life if the payoff would have been they could feel morally superior and inform,” he added.

Have human beings ever succumbed to any temptation so easily as that of pride? And has pride ever taken a more insidious form than when it tempts people to purchase feelings of moral superiority at the bargain price of simply informing on one’s neighbors or denouncing them as racists?

Daniels had it right. Some of her neighbors — not to mention millions of her fellow Americans — would sell out the citizens of Springfield to a foreign army if it meant they could crow about their compassion.

Furthermore, in the Springfield tragedy, pride and interest have united.

In a ghastly article published last week, The New York Times sounded a condescending and elitist tone toward Springfield residents.

But the Times story also inadvertently illustrated what Daniels meant by “follow the money.” Glowing comments about the Haitians came from employers and landlords who profited from lower wages and higher rents.

In sum, to any fair-minded person looking at Springfield from the outside, the true culprits are not the Haitians.

Nor can we pin total blame solely on the admittedly criminal Biden-Harris administration.

Instead, we must acknowledge that Daniels’s neighbors, including employers and landlords as well as city officials, along with millions of her fellow Americans, have effectively conspired to destroy her town because they cannot resist the twin temptations of pride and money.

This article originally appeared on The Western Journal, and is reposted with permission.

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Scandal-Plagued Megachurch Hopes to Leave Horrid Past Behind

Another megachurch, this time The Meeting House, a multi-site church in the Toronto area, has announced a shutting down of sorts amid its former pastor’s sexual misdeeds.

In a recent statement, The Meeting House leadership said the megachurch would close its doors for good, at least under the current name.

For more than two decades, The Meeting House has played an important role in the spiritual journey of thousands of people. At the heart of our church has been a desire to grow communities of Jesus followers who live and share His irreligious message of love and peace.

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The Sun Is Doing Something It Is Not Supposed to Do, and Could Mean Big Trouble

The giant ball of fire that our planet revolves around has been far more active than scientists originally anticipated this year, and that could have very serious implications for all of us in the months ahead.

Fluctuations in solar activity affect our climate more than anything else does, and we also tend to see more earthquakes when solar activity is at elevated levels. The current solar cycle is supposed to reach a peak at some point during the next 12 months, but so far there are no signs that solar activity is slowing down. In fact, the average number of sunspots that we witnessed last month was the highest that we have seen since 2001.

The average number of sunspots reached 215.5 in August, according to the Solar Influences Data Analysis Center at the Royal Observatory in Belgium. It’s the highest number since . 2001, according to . July’s total was 196.5. Last month, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a preliminary statement that solar activity is at its highest since March 2001.

Pastor Learns Fate After Being Arrested for Preaching in Seattle

A new consent order has vindicated a Seattle pastor who was previously arrested for preaching.

Pastor Matthew Meinecke was arrested twice in 2022 after his Bible reading “triggered hostile reactions from activists,” First Liberty Institute explained.

Antifa activists took the pastor’s Bible, ripped out its pages, pushed him down, and took one of his shoes. When Meinekce refused to leave upon the police’s request, he was arrested.

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A new consent order has vindicated a Seattle pastor who was previously arrested for preaching.

Pastor Matthew Meinecke was arrested twice in 2022 after his Bible reading “triggered hostile reactions from activists,” First Liberty Institute explained.

Antifa activists took the pastor’s Bible, ripped out its pages, pushed him down, and took one of his shoes. When Meinekce refused to leave upon the police’s request, he was arrested.

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Two days after this event, a similar incident occurred during Seattle’s PrideFest. Meinecke was again arrested after he refused to leave.

The legal group described the consent order as a “complete victory for the pastor.”

The judge, Barbara J. Rothstein, granted Meinecke “permanent injunctive relief from the unconstitutional police policy, compensatory damages for the wrongful arrests, and nominal damages for the constitutional violations, along with reasonable attorney fees and expenses,” First Liberty Institute noted.

Nate Kellum, senior counsel for the legal organization, said in a statement that the order is “only fitting.”

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“The government should never silence the speech of a citizen just because an audience dislikes what it’s hearing,” Kellum said. “Pastor Meinecke is thrilled to put this case behind him and get back to sharing the gospel on the streets of Seattle.”

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In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that restrictions on the pastor’s speech were “content-based heckler’s vetoes, where officers curbed his speech once the audience’s hostile reaction manifested.” As a result of the restrictions, Meineke “established irreparable harm because a loss of First Amendment freedoms constitutes an irreparable injury, and the balance of equities and public interest favors Meinecke.”

The consent order from Sept. 10 mirrored the April decision, First Liberty noted.

This article originally appeared on American Faith, and is reposted with permission.

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Pastor Billy Crone, a Christian author and speaker, has raised concerns about what he describes as the “transhumanist plan for humanity,” linking current technological advancements to biblical prophecy.

Speaking with Gary Stearman of Prophecy Watchers, Crone warned that the global elite, led by figures like Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, are pushing humanity toward a future of genetic manipulation and digital control that aligns with the “system of the Beast” revealed in the book of Revelation.

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Crone argues that the so-called “Great Reset” has both economic and human dimensions, with the latter being the most dangerous.

“These guys don’t want just an economic reset,” he said. “They want a human reset… They want to turn humanity into a planet of non-humans.” He contends that modern technologies, such as gene editing and mRNA therapies, are being used to manipulate human biology, paving the way for a post-human species.

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“If Hitler had these technologies, he would have gone crazy,” Crone stated, drawing parallels between today’s scientific capabilities and the Nazi eugenics programs.

Crone believes this push for genetic manipulation and digital control is tied to a prophetic agenda. He cites Matthew 24:37, where Jesus warns that the time of His return will resemble “the days of Noah.”

According to Crone, this prophecy refers to a period of extreme moral and genetic corruption, similar to what he sees unfolding today. “In the days of Noah, it wasn’t just sin that grieved God’s heart; it was the genetic corruption,” Crone said. “God hit a restart button on humanity… Now, we are seeing this same scenario playing out.”

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He further warns that the technology-driven human reset is closely linked to the mark of the Beast prophesied in Revelation. “They want to biometrically tie people into a digital economy,” Crone said. “This is the Great Reset… and it has everything to do with Bible prophecy.” Crone argues that the elites, whom he claims see themselves as “the new gods of the planet,” are attempting to recreate humanity in their image, in clear defiance and rejection of God’s image.

For Crone, the urgency is clear: Christians must be aware of these developments and understand their spiritual implications. “This is a spiritual battle,” he said. “We need to be equipped… because the days of Noah are being repeated before our very eyes.”

Crone’s message is a stark reminder of a dangerous intersection between technology and prophecy, urging Christians to remain vigilant and spiritually prepared for what he believes is an imminent fulfillment of biblical warnings.

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A woman of faith is working to see one of the most heinous sites in the world shut down.

Laila Mickelwait is the founder of Traffickinghub, which seeks to gain justice against the evils of the major pornography websites, such as PornHub.

One their site, Traffickinghub states that their purpose is for “shutting down Pornhub and holding its executives accountable for enabling, distributing and profiting from rape, child abuse, sex trafficking and criminal image based sexual abuse.”

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Mickelwait’s faith is one of the key factors behind her desire to see survivors of sex trafficking and abuse receive justice.

“I do have a strong faith and belief in God,” Mickelwait told the Christian Post. “My spiritual side has played an important role in keeping me grounded and helping me to just keep going forward.”

As a mother, Mickelwait can’t imagine the horror of what it would be like to find out that your child has been trafficked or assaulted, with horrific videos and images of them posted online. While Mickelwait has cared about children for years, having her own has given her a fresh perspective as she helps those stuck in the porn industry.

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“…it really took it to another level when I thought about the fact that these children who have been exploited could be my children in a few years because the things that were happening to them could happen to anyone’s child in the digital age,” Mickelwait told the Christian Post.

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In a world that has become desensitized and glued to pornography, we cannot forget that there are real people, including minors, who have been affected by the plague of this addictive and dark form of technology. It is Jesus’ heart and desire that the captives may be set free. Pornography hurts everyone involved; those who watch it, those who produce it, those who are trafficked for it and society at-large. This is a plague we must combat in the Spirit and pray that a generation be set free from pornography.

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The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, who has stated he was “happy” that Gazans “broke the siege” on Oct. 7, recently said that he believes 40-50 Muslims could be elected to the United States Congress within 10 years.

In a sermon at an Islamic center in Texas last month, Awad said that Muslims should coordinate to defend Islam in the public sphere, stating that Muslims “must dedicate professional resources to inform the public systematically about this faith.”

“Brothers and sisters, Islam deserves more from us,” Awad said. “Islam deserves a scientific approach to inform the public about Islam.”

Arguing that “Hollywood has produced over 1,000 movies scientifically designed to portray [Muslims] as the villain,” Awad called upon Muslims “to be as scientific. The Muslim community today is not scientific in designing its future.”

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He argued that “if we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history. The next year we will have another 4,000.”

He continued: “Fifteen years from now, the Muslim community will have 50,000, an army of these people.”

“They will design our image, they will protect the truth and the news, most likely many of these people will run for public office and they will become lawmakers…We can have, in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress, in the U.S. Congress,” Awad claimed.

The CAIR executive previously made headlines with his comments regarding the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and attack on Israel’s southern Gaza border communities.

“The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7th,” Awad said in a convention last November, just a month after the terror attack.

“And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land, that they were not allowed to walk in,” Awad added.

He further characterized the massacre of Israeli men, women and children as self-defense – a right he said Gaza has, but Israel does not.

“And yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense.”

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After widespread backlash, including from the Biden administration, Awad issued a statement saying his views were taken out of context.

“Targeting civilians is never an acceptable means” of self-defense, Awad said, and that he has “again and again condemned the violence against Israeli civilians on Oct. 7th and past Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians.”

Awad claimed he was celebrating “the average Palestinians who briefly walked out of Gaza and set foot on their ethnically cleansed land in a symbolic act of defiance against the blockade.”

His statement did not condemn Hamas attacks on military targets, however.

In 1994, Awad said he was “in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization].”

The CAIR website defended Awad by stating the comment “was made in March 1994, before CAIR was formed,” that “Hamas did not commit its first suicide bombing until October 1994,” and that “Awad and CAIR have consistently denounced violence by Hamas.”

This article originally appeared on ALL ISRAEL NEWS, and is reposted with permission.

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