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We’ll Never Get Over 9/11, Nor Should We

There were two targets, Washington and New York. Washington saw a great military institution attacked, and quickly rebuilt. In Washington people ran barefoot from the White House and the Capitol. But New York saw a world end. New York saw the buildings come down.

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Remembering the day that America forever changed

written by Peggy Noonan

People are discussing the geopolitical implications of 9/11 and how the tragedy changed our country, and most of what’s been said has been worthy and serious. But my thoughts, as we hit the 10th anniversary, are more local and particular. I’m in a New York state of mind.

There were two targets, Washington and New York. Washington saw a great military institution attacked, and quickly rebuilt. In Washington people ran barefoot from the White House and the Capitol. But New York saw a world end. New York saw the buildings come down.

That was the thing. It’s not that the towers were hit—we could have taken that. It’s not the fire, we could have taken that too. They bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and took out five floors, and the next day we were back in business.

It’s that the buildings came down, in front of our eyes. They were there and proud and strong, they were massive, two pillars at the end of the island. And then they groaned to the ground and there was a cloud and when people could finally see they looked back and the buildings weren’t there breaking through the clouds anymore. The buildings were a cloud. The buildings were gone and that was too much to bear because they couldn’t be gone, they couldn’t have fallen. Because no one could knock down those buildings.

And it changed everything. It marked a psychic shift in our town between “safe” and “not safe.” It marked the end of impregnable America and began an age of vulnerability. It marked the end of “we are protected” and the beginning of something else.

When you ask New Yorkers now what they remember, they start with something big—the first news report, the phone call in which someone said, “Turn on the TV.” But then they go to the kind of small thing that when you first saw it you had no idea it would stay in your mind forever. The look on the face of a young Asian woman on Sixth Avenue in the 20s, as she looked upward. The votive candles on the street and the spontaneous shrines that popped up, the pictures of saints. The Xeroxed signs that covered every street pole downtown. A man or a woman in a family picture from a wedding or a birthday or bar mitzvah. “Have you seen Carla? Last seen Tuesday morning in Windows on the World.”

The bus driver as I fumbled in my wallet to find my transit card. “Free rides today,” he mumbled, in a voice on autopilot. The Pompeii-like ash that left a film on everything in town, all the way to the Bronx. The smell of burning plastic that lingered for weeks. A man who worked at Ground Zero told me: “It’s the computers.” They didn’t melt or decompose, and they wouldn’t stop burning. The doctors and nurses who lined up outside St. Vincent’s Hospital with gurneys, thinking thousands would come, and the shock when they didn’t. The spontaneous Dunkirk-like fleet of ferries that took survivors to New Jersey.

The old woman with her grandchild in a stroller. On the stroller she had written a sign in magic marker: “America You Are Not Alone, Mexico Is With You.” She was all by herself in the darkness, on the side of the West Side Highway, as we stood to cheer the workers who were barreling downtown in trucks to begin the dig-out, and to see if they could find someone still alive.

The notes neighbors left under each other’s doors. “Are you OK? Haven’t seen you and just thought I’d make sure all is all right.” The flags in every bodega, on every storefront, in the windows of apartments, up and down the proud facades of Park Avenue. My beautiful cynical town covered in flags, swept by love and protectiveness toward our country.

At first we didn’t know what to call it, so we called it what happened. “Do you believe what happened?” “They think he died in what happened.” It was weeks before we called it 9/11. Sometimes tragedy takes time to find a name.

We were half crazy those days. We were half nuts and didn’t know it. The trauma on Tuesday was followed in the middle of Thursday night by a storm, a howling banshee that shook buildings—thunder like a cannonade, lightning tearing through the sky. And then there were the stories. We kept hearing about guys who dug themselves out of the rubble. We’d hear a guy came out of the rubble and said, “There’s 20 firemen down there in an air pocket,” and we’d all put on the news and it was never true. I will never forget this one: As the first tower went down some guy on the 50th floor grabbed a steel girder that was flying by, and he held on for dear life and it landed on a pile of rubble 30 floors below and he got up, brushed himself off, and walked away. That wasn’t true either. The stories whipped through the town like the wind, and people grabbed onto them.

And there were the firemen. They were the heart of it all, the guys who went up the stairs with 50 to 75 pounds of gear and tools on their back. The other people who were there in the towers, they were innocent victims, they went to work that morning and wound up in the middle of a disaster. But the firemen saw the disaster before they went into it, they knew what they were getting into, they made a decision. And a lot of them were scared, you can see it on their faces on the pictures people took in the stairwells. The firemen would be going up one side of the stairs, and the fleeing workers would be going down on the other, right next to them, and they’d call out, “Good luck, son,” and, “Thank you, boys.”

They were tough men from Queens and Brooklyn and Staten Island, and they had families, wives and kids, and they went up those stairs. Captain Terry Hatton of Rescue 1 got as high as the 83rd floor. That’s the last time he was seen.

Three hundred forty-three firemen gave their lives that day. Three hundred forty-three! It was impossible, like everything else.

Many heartbreaking things happened after 9/11 and maybe the worst is that there’s no heroic statue to them, no big marking of what they were and what they gave, at the new World Trade Center memorial.

But New York will never get over what they did. They live in a lot of hearts.

They tell us to get over it, they say to move on, and they mean it well: We can’t bring an air of tragedy into the future. But I will never get over it. To get over it is to get over the guy who stayed behind on a high floor with his friend who was in a wheelchair. To get over it is to get over the woman by herself with the sign in the darkness: “America You Are Not Alone.” To get over it is to get over the guys who ran into the fire and not away from the fire.

You’ve got to be loyal to pain sometimes to be loyal to the glory that came out of it. source – Wall Street Journal/Written by Peggy Noonan

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Hamas Releases An ‘Official Statement’ Denying Raping And Abusing Jewish Victims On October 7th Even Though Video Evidence Proves Otherwise

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Hamas now says ‘We reject the lies of the Zionist occupation about cases of rape, which aim to distort the resistance and cover up the image of its humane and moral dealings with detainees.’

The official statement from Hamas reads ‘We reject the occupation’s lies about cases of rape, which aim to distort the resistance and cover up the image of its humane and moral dealings with detainees. We strongly reject and denounce the alignment of some Western media outlets with the misleading Zionist campaigns that promote unfounded lies and allegations aimed at demonizing the Palestinian resistance, the latest of which is the allegation that resistance members committed “sexual violence” during the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle on October 7.’ Oh, really?

“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.” Zechariah 14:2 (KJB)

Hamas are terrorists, obviously, but like most terrorists they are also cowards. In their deluded thinking, they ‘struck a blow’ against the hated ‘Zionist regime of Israel’, but what they really did was rape young women, abuse old people, and murder mostly civilians who had nothing to do with the IDF. It was 100% a war crime, and now that the videos showing their brutality have been viewed a billion times by the entire world, they don’t want to stand trial for their actions. If it was good enough for Germany in WWII, it’s good enough for you, too. Sic Semper Nazis.

Hamas terrorists are not releasing female hostages so they won’t share ‘what happened to them’ while they raped them

FROM THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: A US official said Monday that Hamas terrorists likely held back on freeing female hostages, leading to the end of a weeklong ceasefire with Israel, because it did not want them to speak publicly about sexual violence.

Israel and Hamas paused fighting in the Gaza Strip as part of a US- and Qatari-brokered deal to free hostages seized by the terrorists during the devastating onslaught in southern Israel on October 7, when 1,200 people were slaughtered and some 240 abducted. Israel on Friday said it was resuming its military campaign as Hamas had not released all kidnapped women, after the Gaza-ruling terror group broke the ceasefire by firing rockets into Israel and failing to provide a list of the Israeli hostages it intended to release.

Under the terms of the truce deal, Hamas was to prioritize the release of children and non-soldier women. Israel says 15 women still held by Hamas meet that designation, as well as two children — Ariel Bibas, 4, and Kfir Bibas, 10 months.

“The fact that they continue to hold women hostages, the fact that they continue to hold children hostages, just the fact that it seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over they’ve been holding hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters in response to a question about growing evidence of Hamas rape and sexual abuse on October 7.

Miller, citing sensitivities in discussing treatment of captives, declined to give details on the treatment of the women.

But he said that the United States had “no reason to doubt” reports of sexual violence by Hamas. “There is very little that I would put beyond Hamas when it comes to its treatment of civilians and particularly its treatment of women,” Miller said. READ MORE

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

Please continue to pray for us, and for wisdom for me especially, as we continue taking steps to print the NTEB branded King James Bible for our free Bible and Bibles Behind Bars program. It is exciting and intimidating at the same time. If the Lord has prospered your financially, we ask you to donate to help us continue to send out free Bibles at this level, and even higher than we are at the moment. It takes a lot of prayer, and a lot of resources to do all this. Praise the Lord we are doing it, all of us together, labouring in the Lord’s harvest field. TO THE FIGHT!!!

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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Hamas Is A Vile, Degenerate Terrorist Organization Yet They Seem To Have The Support Of The United Nations And Global Media Who’ve Sided Against The Jews

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The first hostage release by Hamas has confirmed some very telling facts about the terrorists: 1) They’re ruthless liars; 2) they’ll victimize anyone they can, and 3) they think they can get America to break with Israel.

Think about this. Hundreds of “radicalized” kids rampaged through the halls of a Queens high school this week for nearly two hours after they discovered a teacher had attended a pro-Israel rally — forcing the terrified educator to hide in a locked office as the teen mob tried to push its way into her classroom. The mayhem at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica unfolded shortly after 11 a.m. Monday in what students called a pre-planned protest over the teacher’s Facebook profile photo showing her at a pro-Israel rally on Queens Oct. 9 holding a poster saying, “I stand with Israel.” All because a lone teacher, on her own time, attended a pro-Israel event. Hatred for the Jews seems to be reaching a boiling point, what comes next?

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.” Jeremiah 16:16 (KJB)

Israel was attacked on the morning of October 7th, on the morning of October 8th the first of hundreds of pro-Hamas rallies were launched. 1,200+ people brutally raped, kidnapped, beaten, shot and murdered in cold blood and global sympathy for the Jews didn’t even last 24 hours. Yesterday, the first of the hostages taken by Palestinian terror group Hamas were released, yet not a single American. What does that tell you? That Hamas is playing the US like a fiddle, daring them to do something, anything. Biden has no response other than wishfully hoping they’ll be released soon. Hamas has so thoroughly embedded themselves within the Palestinian people that separation be the two has ceased to exist. Americas are being held hostage by Hamas yet the bulk of the anger is directed at the Jews and Israel. Does that make any sense to you? It does if you know your King James Bible.

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We’ve started watching the Ken Burns documentary called ‘The US and the Holocaust’ on Prime, it’s excellent and highly recommend it. But be prepared, when you watch it you will learn how America was largely indifferent to the plight of the Jews in WWII, and turned a blind eye to their slaughter. Is history preparing to repeat itself? The Bible says absolutely yes to that question, and the time of Jacob’s trouble with its great Tribulation will be worse than anything Hitler ever aspired to. What we are watching now is a lost world preparing themselves to receive Antichrist who will make antisemitism the hallmark of his 7-year reign. As for me and my house, we will stand with the Jews, stand with Israel and pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Where do you stand, Christian?

First hostage release brings fresh proof that Hamas must be destroyed

FROM THE NY POST: One of those released Friday was Hannah Katzir, 77 — a woman whom Palestinian Islamic Jihad (the No. 2 terror group based in Gaza) repeatedly announced days ago was killed by an Israeli airstrike. That is, PIJ reported her as dead for pure propaganda purposes — to make the world think the Israeli government was killing hostages.

The lie had at least two purposes — to increase divisions with Israel, and to tar Israel’s global image (the strike really must be “indiscriminate” if they’re killing their own people, you were supposed to think).

Fine: It’s no surprise that terrorists lie — but US and world media keep giving Hamas’ claims equal footing with anything Israel’s government says, even when it comes to such long-established and widely reported facts as the way Hamas had major terror bases around and even in the al-Shifa hospital.

The UN and its groups tweet incessantly about the plight of the Palestinians, and never a word about the slaughter of the Jews? Why is that? You know.

Also freed were 10 Thai nationals and one citizen of the Philippines — farmworkers who’d been swept up by the terrorists amid the Oct. 7 atrocities. That is: The raiders grabbed with zero discrimination — anyone in Israel was a target, even people who plainly weren’t Israelis or Jews.

Again, not news: After all, those killed on Oct. 7 also included Arab Muslims, and Hamas and PIJ also treat ordinary Gazans as their cattle — looting foreign and humanitarian aid for the cause, firing on civilians who try to flee rather than serve as human shields, etc.

Finally, note that no US citizens were released: The terrorists clearly intend to hang on to their American captives as long as possible, as leverage over Washington.

Without a doubt, Hamas and PIJ see Biden administration support for Israel as soft: They want it to make Israel agree to a “permanent” cease-fire, or at least to greatly extend this one so they can resupply as much as possible from all the humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza.

So they want as many as possible American families besieging the White House on behalf of their loved ones.

If the cease-fire ends with Americans still held hostage, we guarantee the terrorists will soon claim the Israelis have killed one of them — and if that doesn’t work, they’ll kill an innocent themselves to produce the “proof.”

All of which goes to the central fact of this war: Hamas (and PIJ) must be eradicated, or the words “never again” have no meaning left. READ MORE

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

Please continue to pray for us, and for wisdom for me especially, as we continue taking steps to print the NTEB branded King James Bible for our free Bible and Bibles Behind Bars program. It is exciting and intimidating at the same time. If the Lord has prospered your financially, we ask you to donate to help us continue to send out free Bibles at this level, and even higher than we are at the moment. It takes a lot of prayer, and a lot of resources to do all this. Praise the Lord we are doing it, all of us together, labouring in the Lord’s harvest field. TO THE FIGHT!!!

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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Attempted Terror Attack, Possibly Islamic, At Rainbow Bridge Checkpoint On The US And Canadian Border Was Part Of A Larger Effort To Kill Civilians

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Terrified witnesses have described the moment a vehicle zoomed into a checkpoint at the US-Canada border and burst into flames.

Reuters is reporting that ‘Buffalo Niagara International Airport was closed to departing and arriving international flights on Wednesday as authorities continued to investigate a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge connecting the United States and Canada at Niagara Falls, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on their website.’ The Daily Mail UK says ‘Witnesses and law enforcement officials say the vehicle hurtled down the wrong lane from Canada towards the US at 100mph then went airborne before exploding in front of a second checkpoint. ‘ If any of this information needs to be updated or corrected, we will make those changes as this breaking story develops.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man‘s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Genesis 16:12 (KJB)

Terror attacks like this one were quite common during the first two terms of Barack Obama, and here just past the midpoint of his third term, we find ourselves inching back to that once again. This year, the first post-pandemic Thanksgiving, we are seeing record numbers of people driving and flying to celebrate the holiday. Pray that the terrorists have not picked this time to show their support for Hamas and the Palestinians.

Rainbow Bridge explosion witness says car turned into ball of flames as it ‘flew into air’ after speeding toward border

FROM THE SUN US: The FBI Terror Squad is investigating the explosion on Rainbow Bridge near Niagara Falls that left the two passengers dead. Mike Guenther, a visitor from Ontario, was walking near the bridge when he saw the speeding vehicle rush toward the border and swerve before it hit a fence.

The tourist said he watched the car “flying up in the air” before it erupted into a fireball that left smoke everywhere, he told NBC affiliate WGRZ.

Just ten minutes later, law enforcement had flooded the scene, according to the witness.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. The fire was so high up in the air,” Guenther said. “My only concern was I hope nobody else got hurt.”

Guenther said the car, which looked like a Chrysler 300, was tearing so quickly across the road that it would have instantly killed anyone in its path. The City of Niagara Falls said the car was trying to enter the US from Canada.

Investigators did not find a device in the vehicle after an initial sweep, sources told the outlet. It’s unclear if an explosive device was ever inside the car. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement that State Police are working with an FBI Terrorism Task Force to investigate the incident.

“I have been briefed on the situation that occurred at the Rainbow Bridge in Buffalo. “At my direction, the New York State Police is actively working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to monitor all points of entry to New York. READ MORE

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

Please continue to pray for us, and for wisdom for me especially, as we continue taking steps to print the NTEB branded King James Bible for our free Bible and Bibles Behind Bars program. It is exciting and intimidating at the same time. If the Lord has prospered your financially, we ask you to donate to help us continue to send out free Bibles at this level, and even higher than we are at the moment. It takes a lot of prayer, and a lot of resources to do all this. Praise the Lord we are doing it, all of us together, labouring in the Lord’s harvest field. TO THE FIGHT!!!

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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