📊 🇮🇱 🇹🇷 Israel Ranks Turkey as Second-Largest Threat

A JPPI survey shows Israelis rank Türkiye as the second-largest threat after Iran, citing defense industry advances and regional operations. The poll also finds 50% favor greater independence from U.S. pressure amid Gaza war fallout

The survey underscores how Türkiye’s operational footprint beyond its own borders has factored into Israeli perceptions. Military engagements and security operations stretching from Syria to Africa were cited as evidence of a wider strategic reach, reinforcing the sense that Türkiye is no longer confined to a narrow defensive role.

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/israel-poll-ranks-turkiye-as-threat-owyqg6jhsva

📖 🌍 ⛓️ Volume and direction of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
from all African to all American regions

This map summarizes and combines the many different paths by which captives left Africa and reached the Americas. While there were strong connections between particular embarkation and disembarkation regions, it was also the case that captives from any of the major regions of Africa could disembark in almost any of the major regions of the Americas. Even captives leaving Southeast Africa, the region most remote from the Americas, could disembark in mainland North America, as well as the Caribbean and South America. The data in this map are based on estimates of the total slave trade rather than documented departures and arrivals.

https://www.slavevoyages.org/blog/-volume-and-direction-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/123

📖 ✝️ 🐑 Many people don’t know that when the Bible says Jesus was laid in a manger, the Greek word for manger is “phatnē” which refers to a feeding trough, and many in Bethlehem were made of stone.

Here’s what’s powerful:
Shepherds in the Bethlehem region were known for raising sacrificial lambs for the Temple. When a lamb was born, it was carefully inspected for blemishes and often placed in a manger or trough to protect it from injury because a damaged lamb could not be offered to God.
So when the Lamb of God entered the world, He was laid in the *very place* where sacrificial lambs were kept.

And who did the angels announce His birth to?
Shepherds. Not kings. Not priests. Shepherds—men who understood sacrifice, blood, purity, and lambs without blemish.

When the angels said, “You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger” (Luke 2:12), it was a sign they would immediately recognize.

This child wasn’t just a baby. He was the final Lamb. The One who would take away the sin of the world. From the moment He was born, Jesus was marked for sacrifice—not by men, but by God.

✨ “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)

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