Bridge of Grace

Across the world, many people celebrated the Christmas holiday, viewed as one of the most important holidays in the Christian faith.  Yet while much of the world celebrated, others would be mourning loved ones murdered in terrorist attacks.  On Dec. 03rd, 2023, ISIS militants bombed a Catholic Advent service in the gymnasium of Mindanao State University in the Southern-Philippine City of Marawi.  The blast, caused by a grenade or IED thrown into the assembly of worshippers killed four people and wounded an additional 42 ( Link to Video ).  Some suspect that this was in response to the Filipino military successfully carrying out an operation that eliminated 11 ISIS militants the previous week.   This region is no stranger to this kind of violence.  In May of 2017 a battle erupted in Marawi after ISIS militants seized control of portions of the city.  After a five-month battle, the Philippine Army finally defeated the ISIS terrorists and regained control of the city.  Sadly, what happene

Egyptian Muslim activist Dalia Ziada is a founder of the Liberal Democracy Institute in Egypt and a vocal opponent of Hamas.  In a recent interview, Ms. Ziada confessed that the initial reports by the Arab media simply portrayed the Oct. 7th attacks as a border clash between IDF troops and Hamas militants.  However, a few days later, Ms. Ziada had the opportunity to view the actual footage of the massacre that was released and was horrified by the images and videos that she witnessed.  Upon realizing the truth Ms. Ziada went onto social media and began publishing about what happened and accused the Arab media & their leaders of lying about the attack.  Dalia issued strong criticism of the Hamas attack and voiced support of Israel's actions to remove Hamas from power in Gaza.  She soon faced strong backlash from the Egyptian community that is largely in favor of Hamas actions against Israel and was forced to go into hiding.   What was Ms. Ziada's sin that led her to go into

Gazans Attempting to Flee to Egypt Many have criticized Israel's actions as inhumane and that far too many innocent Palestinian civilians are dying in the crossfire of their war against Hamas.  However, if the neighboring Arab nations truly care about the well-being of the Palestinians of Gaza, then why don't they let them in?  There are 20 other Arab nations in the Middle East, so why don't these nations let these people enter and allow them to go back once the conflict is over?  Hamas deliberately uses the civilians of Gaza as human shields, the whole world knows this.  These civilians would be out of the danger zone and the war would end much sooner with far less loss of life if neighboring Egypt would open their doors and allow the civilians of Gaza to enter and get out of harms way.   So what's preventing these Arab nations from allowing them in?  Well, history shows that many of these nations are in truth, not too fond of the Palestinians.  After Israel took over

As the truth of the Oct. 7th attack becomes more open and survivors start coming forward, accounts of mass-rape of hundreds of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists.  Captured terrorists and survivors testified that hundreds of women were gangraped at gunpoint.  Survivors and first responders further stated that after the massacre, the bodies of hundreds of young women were found in shredded clothes and in some cases, completely naked.  Many of these women were found with broken legs, broken pelvises, with bullet wounds in their breasts & vaginas, and underwear drenched in blood.  Some of the women's bodies were so badly mutilated that it was impossible to conduct a forensic investigation of their bodies.   Yodi Saadon, a 39-year-old who survived the Supernova Peace Festival Massacre by hiding beneath a dead body underneath the stage testified that while he was hiding he witnessed 8-10 Hamas militants gang-raping and beating a young woman who begged for them "Stop it, what you

Einsatzgruppen D Commander Otto Ohlendorf In the aftermath of World War II, numerous Nazi War Criminals were brought to trial for their crimes against humanity during the war.  Among those brought to trial were members of the infamous Einsatzgruppen, the death squads personally selected by Hitler to carry out the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and other "Enemies of the Reich" as the Nazi War machine stormed their way into the Soviet Union in June of 1941.  These death squads immediately began their gruesome work, killing thousands of men, women, & children without distinction.  As the horrors of the Final Solution became exposed to the world, the Fight for Justice began.   Numerous Nazi War Criminals were brought to justice for decades, among them was the leader of Einsatzgruppen D, Otto Ohlendorf.  Otto was put on trial along with 22 other members of the Einsatzgruppen from 1947-1948.  During the trial, Otto was accused of being personally responsible for the

When Hamas defector Mosab Hassan Yousef was imprisoned in Israel for 16 months for plotting a terrorist attack he personally witnessed Hamas militants within the prison torturing and killing hundreds of suspected collaborators.  This has not changed.  In a Refugee Camp near the town of Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestinian militants executed two accused collaborators.  There was no trial, no due process.   Mob Cheering the Execution After their execution their bodies were beaten by a mob who dragged their bodies through the streets and then strung up their corpses on an electric tower while crowds surrounded the tower and cheered.  The local militant group that executed the accused collaborators are affiliated with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of the Fatah Party that dominates the PA.  In their statement to the public the militant group expressed no regrets, stating "We did not wrong them, they wrong themselves."  Even one of the family members of one of th

Former Neo-Nazi TJ Leyden detailed in his book "From Hate to Hope" how Neo-Nazi skinheads like himself targeted children for recruitment.  During his time in the Marines, he grew to understand the tactics used to break down and indoctrinate people, and he used this tactics to indoctrinate vulnerable youth into the Skinhead movement.  He would even sneak into schools to single out such children and pass out fliers, convincing them that their movement was the answer, the truth.  He knew the art of patience and gradual grooming, and within 18 months, he could succeed in turning a vulnerable youth into a full-fledged skinhead.  Terrorists are no strangers to the tactic of recruiting and indoctrinating youth.  In videos from Gaza we continually see young children with toy guns and military uniform, being trained in combat drills and instilled with hatred of Jews.  Nobody knows this reality better then Mosab Hasan Yousef, who found the strength to turn against the hatful indoctrina

Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh The attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 07, 2023 ignited a full-scale war between Israel and the terrorist group that has held Gaza in an iron grip for over 15 years.  However, we must be reminded that there are other conflicts raging across the world, and some of these conflicts are at the point turning into genocide.  The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is one such conflict.  In September of this year, Azerbaijan launched a full-scale attack, taking over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that has been disputed between the two nations since the early 1990's.   The first war over the region was waged from 1988-1994 and ended with Armenia taking control of much of the disputed territory.  However, in Sept. of 2020 Azerbaijan attacked with a better equipped and better trained army, taking over much of the territory that they had lost in 1994.  Three years later, Azerbaijan successfully took over the entire territory, leading over 100,0