This Week In The News
Current Events
by Norbert Link
We begin with the upheaval caused by Trump’s “peace plan” between Russia and Ukraine; continue with increasing and strong demands for a European army; illegal actions and false accusations by the American government; and absolutely despicable ICE conduct.
Please view our new StandingWatch program, titled, “Killing of Fishermen—Must Illegal Orders Be Obeyed?”
We speak on America’s invasion of Mexico and the more than fragile relationship between Trump and New York’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. We also quote an article trying to explain Trump’s irate behavior by suggesting that he is suffering from dementia.
We address the failed attempt of the new U.S. ambassador to Poland to absolve Poland of the Holocaust; Trump’s desire to interfere in European migration policy; and Canada’s push for euthanasia.
Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.
Editorial
Be Thankful for the Good News Being Proclaimed
In our latest StandingWatch program, titled, Killing of Fishermen—Must Illegal Orders Be Obeyed?, we discussed that six Democratic lawmakers urged service members to defy illegal orders and President Trump’s reaction. He called them traitors and described their conduct as seditious behavior at the highest level, advocating their arrest and death.
Subsequently, it was reported that the FBI requested “interviews” with them. A law professor who teaches national-security law described this as “a frivolous investigation meant to suppress speech” (The Wall Street Journal, November 25). Especially, the “investigation” of Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy pilot and astronaut, potentially facing a military tribunal to be court-martialed, has been roundly condemned by many observers.
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What can this year’s Thanksgiving Festival teach us?
What do we know about the history of Thanksgiving Day? Is this Festival an occasion that true Christians can participate in? What do we read in general about true thankfulness to God for His physical blessings, even in difficult times, and how can Thanksgiving Day contribute to this attitude of thankfulness?
In our free booklet, “Is That In the Bible? Man’s Holidays and God’s Holy Days,” we say the following about “Thanksgiving Day”:
“The first observance of the Thanksgiving Festival in America occurred in early November or December of 1621… when the Governor of Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, appointed a three-day feast. That observance was established to show gratitude to the Almighty as that difficult year drew to an end and the harvest was plentiful. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America’s first Thanksgiving Festival…
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