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The Jerusalem Post
Source: Benjamin Netanyahu used maps to persuade Donald Trump Israel shouldn't leave Syria
Hey Watchmen,
This one's telling, my friends. Netanyahu didn't argue policy with Trump — he pulled out maps. He showed him the terrain, the borders, the buffer zones between Israel and Syria that have kept the wolf a little further from the door. And this is exactly the picture we've been tracking: Damascus doesn't move on its own anymore, Turkey moves it. Erdogan has said for years he won't let Syria's borders be breached, and everybody dealing with that region — Trump included — knows Ankara is the hand behind the curtain there. So when Israel says "we can't leave," they're not just talking about Syrian territory. They're talking about not handing Turkey a longer reach right up against their own fence.
Scripture doesn't leave nations to just drift into these arrangements by accident. "He removeth kings, and setteth up kings" (Daniel 2:21) — no wait, friends, I already gave you that one. Let me give you this instead: Isaiah 10:7 tells us that even when a hostile power thinks it's simply advancing its own ambitions, "he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so." Nations posture and maneuver, but Elohim is bending the whole board toward His own purposes for Israel and for the nations. Turkey postures. Syria postures. Even Washington postures. But none of it moves outside His hand.
So watch this Syria conversation closely — every map Netanyahu unrolls in that room is a piece of a much bigger picture unfolding right on schedule. Stay alert, stay in the Word, and stay ready — the hour is later than the headlines let on.
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