The Hand of God

Ronny L. Jackson, the physician who had been Trump’s doctor in the White House and is now treating him for the bullet wound to his ear, noted that “The bullet passed coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head.” This happened because Trump turned his head at the very moment the bullet was fired. Many see this as the hand of God, including President Trump himself, who has repeatedly and publicly declared that “It was God alone” who saved him.

Astonishingly, just one week later, another extraordinary event occurred: the sudden and dramatic reversal of fortune between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Biden.

Since at least last March, the Biden administration has been plotting and openly calling for the ouster of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu[1]. It has been surmised that the Biden administration was attempting to carry out this soft coup by encouraging and financing, directly or indirectly, the increasingly strident and sometimes violent anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel.  They also hoped to co-opt alternative Israeli politicians, including opposition leader Beni Ganz and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Such direct interference in Israel’s democracy is unprecedented between two allied democracies.

As part of his campaign to delegitimize the Israeli Prime Minister, President Biden initially refused to meet with Netanyahu during his visit to the United States to address a joint session of Congress. Then Biden suddenly reversed course and sought a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister as Biden now needed Netanyahu to shore up his public image rather than the other way around. However, by the time they met on July 22nd, it was Biden, not Netanyahu, who was forced to resign from his bid for reelection following a back-room coup engineered by his own party.

Biden now stands as a lame-duck president, widely acknowledged as a figurehead not fully in charge of his own administration. Despite Biden’s failed attempt to oust the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu met with him out of courtesy. Nonetheless, it is unlikely that either Netanyahu or his political rivals will heed Biden’s advice on how Israel should defend, or not defend, herself in her war for survival. It is conceivable that President Biden might ignore the anti-Israel advice of his own advisors, now that they have they have stabbed him in the back.

So, President Trump, who did more for Israel than any other U.S. President, miraculously survives an assassination attempt, and it is the would-be assassin who lies dead. The Biden administration’s attempt to remove Prime Minister Netanyahu from power failed, while it is Biden who has been ousted by his own party. Gaza lies in ruins, while the nation of Israel lives.

Many will not see the connection between these events, and others will ascribe it to coincidence, but I am reminded of the words of the prophet Isaiah: “Make plans, and they will be shattered; scheme, and it shall come to naught, for God is with us.” (Isaiah 8:10)

[1] Schumer Demonstrates Why Israel cannot Rely on the Democrats