World Medical Association calls for a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza

The World Medical Association has called for a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution was initiated by the British Medical Association. Dr Lujain AlQodmani, the Kuwaiti president of the WMA, declared that: “WMA is demanding a bilateral, negotiated, and sustainable ceasefire in order to protect all civilians, secure the release and safe passage of all

The role of whistleblowers in uncovering medical scandals

Doctors can be socialized to cooperate in morally despicable evil, says bioethicist May 9, 2024 – Michael Cook Bioethicist Carl Elliott seems to relish stirring up fellow bioethicists and the medical profession. In his latest book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, he examines the role of whistleblowers in uncovering

What will Putin do next as president of Russia?

The Times, March 17, 2024 Event The dictator has secured a new six-year term in the Russian election. How will it affect the war in Ukraine, China and relations with the US? Armed with the world’s biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons and surrounded by sycophantic officials who portray him as the living embodiment of Russian

World Watch for the second half of February

We must be fully aware that God has a Plan with the world. He requires the watchman when he sees the sword coming that he shall blow the trumpet to warn the people so that God will not hold the watchman accountable for the blood. These weeks we continued to see the war concerning Jerusalem

Netanyahu rejects international pressure for Palestinian state

Reuters, February 16, 2024 Event Israel will not be pressured into accepting a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, following a Washington Post report that Israel’s main ally the United States was moving plans to establish a Palestinian state. “Israel categorically rejects international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians,” said

No peace possible without Palestinian state, says Jordanian King

Israel National News, February 13, 2024 Event Jordanian King Abdullah II called for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza and for creating a horizon for the establishment of a Palestinian state during a press conference on Tuesday, together with U.S. President Joe Biden. In some of his most inflammatory comments since the start

Weekly World Watch for the first part of February 2024

Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, at the beginning of February, embarked on his fifth tour of the Middle East full of hope. But during Netanyahu’s press conference on the night of Blinken’s departure he rejected Hamas’s ceasefire proposals and vowed to attack Rafah. The ceasefire talks were dead. Israel remains intent on totally

Some events to look at from a Christian point of view for January 2024

We would like to remind our readers that our brother Andy Walton’s views on the facts unfolding in Gaza are different from ours. We are looking at what the current government of the non-believing Netanyahu has been doing for several years in Israel to exclude Palestinians, such as by building the wall, but also how,

US vetoes UN ceasefire resolution for Israel-Gaza conflict

The Times December 9, 2023: The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, with Britain abstaining on the vote. The other 13 members of the council backed the motion proposed by the United Arab Emirates. The US and the UK, along

How Evangelicals betray Christians in the Holy Land

Palestinian Christians have been disappearing from the Holy Land for decades, even though this region is where Christianity began. So what’s going on? Dena Takruri goes to Bethlehem to ask the Palestinian Christians who remain. She only speaks to Trinitarian Christians, of which she finds the Roman Catholics and the Lutheran Church.  For many Christians,