How Washington turned prophecy into policy and faith into firepower.
© Kevork’s Newsletter
When Donald Trump landed in Israel and declared the dawn of a
"new Middle East," he was announcing the merger of theology and geopolitics — a sacred business deal between heaven and the military-industrial complex.Before Trump's arrival, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were seen praying at the Western Wall, with cameras perfectly positioned and choreography that seemed divine. And behind them, the billboards read:
"Cyrus the Great is alive." The message couldn't be clearer: Donald Trump, savior of modern Israel, the Cyrus of our times. The man who moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, and according to his own words, did it all as a "favor" to his donors.
If politics is theater, this was the apocalypse performed live.In Trump's speech, he bragged that he had given Israel the "best weapons in history," and that Israel "used them well." Used them well, as in,
turned Gaza into a lunar landscape. It's not every day you see a superpower boast about the performance of its weapons on civilians, but then again, Washington has always had a unique relationship with irony.
It is the same moral inversion we've seen for decades: wars branded as "self-defense," siege as "security," starvation as "strategy."
When the United States wages war, it calls it freedom. When Israel flattens cities, it calls it peace. And when people resist, it's terrorism. The lexicon of empire is a language of deception.But this time, there is something deeper and almost eschatological. Trump's "new Middle East" is not just a geopolitical project; it's a theological one. The alliance between American evangelicals and Israeli Zionists is a marriage of apocalypses.
Each believes it's helping to fulfill prophecy. One is waiting for the Messiah, the other is waiting for the Second Coming. They just forgot to ask what happens in between.
Comment: Carney is a con. Some cons are pros...but not this one.