From the Global Front in Israel

December 27, 2025 – January 2, 2026

Welcome to 2026!

From the eagle’s nest…

Eagles always build their nests on high places, called aeries. The main reason they do so is for perspective. With a broad scope of the landscape below, they are able to protect their young, hunt for food and warn other eagles with distinct alarm calls.

One goal of this weekly dispatch is to do these same things. Looking back, we not only see what has happened, but also what is developing. We can ask, “What are the trajectories of these events? What do they portend? How can we protect our family of faith? Do we need to warn them?” That’s why…

…the most important part of our weekly review is the section, “Top Stories of the Week.” If you look at nothing else in these dispatches, look at this section.

It is not “old news.” It is looking at events from the perspective of an eagle in its nest, from a watchman in his tower.

This week, for example, we can see the activities of Iran’s arch-enemy, the government of Iran – the government, not its people.

While Iran’s imams are rebuilding their arsenal of missiles, including chemical and biological warheads for those missiles, the people of Iran are in the midst of a week-long protest against their leaders. The Islamist government might collapse. Pray that it does. On the other hand, a cornered carnivore is very, very dangerous.

If in the coming year, Iran is neutralized, there is another carnivore ready to pounce. That carnivore is a member of NATO: Türkiye. Bridging the West and the East, it draws on both in its explicit desire to re-establish the Ottoman Empire, even a global caliphate – a world government.

And it has its eye fixed on Jerusalem. One year ago, on 1 January 2025, there was a rally in Istanbul. This was its promotional poster…

Tomorrow Al-Aqsa. That is, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Türkiye’s president, Tayyip Erdoğan, is leading this charge, expressing nothing less than genocidal intent against the entire Jewish State. But he is getting a bit long in the tooth. Accordingly, he is grooming a successor…