Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

Issachar firmly believes we need to know and understand the times; it helps facilitate our obedience to Christ’s command to ‘watch and pray’ (Matthew 26:41; Ephesians 6:18). The greatest global focal point is where the Biblical story began and culminates: The Middle East. Here are a few things to watch … and pray … in 2022. Abraham Accords: Negotiated by the Trump Administration and signed in October 2020, the accords were immensely historic: four Arab countries (United Arab Emirates [UAE], Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco) made peace with Israel. This is the first time peace accords have been ratified by Israel and an Arab country since the peace treaty signed with Jordan in 1994. Morocco reputedly also has a military pact with the Jewish state. What to watch? Will the accords stay strong despite the change of administrations in the USA and Israel? With an emboldened Iran, we predict ‘Yes.’   Afghanistan: Any objective observer will admit that the American and Allied withdrawal from A...

AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO WATCH & PRAY Afghanistan maybe half-way around the world - and seemingly on another planet - but the fact is that it matters. Since 2001 it has been a prime focal point of the western world. Responsible citizens need to know what’s happening and then respond accordingly.   After twenty years of war, engagement, and ‘nation-building,’ America and its NATO allies withdrew from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021. We were told that now is the time. Intelligence agencies said it would take eighteen months for Kabul to fall to the Taliban. Only in July 2021, Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Afghan security forces had the capacity to sufficiently defend themselves. They were US/NATO-trained, possessed eighty billions of dollars worth of high quality US weaponry, and inherited two air bases in Bagram and Kandahar. Joe Biden said that the Afghan army had 300,000 troops, highly armed, versus 75,000 Taliban. ’ There is going to b...

  Afghanistan maybe half-way around the world - and seemingly in another planet - the fact is that it matters. Responsible citizens needs to know and then respond accordingly. After twenty years of war, engagement, and ‘nation-building,’ America and its allies are withdrawing from Afghanistan. We were told that now is the time. Intelligence agencies said it would take eighteen months for Kabul to fall to the Taliban. Only in July 2021, Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Afghan security forces had the capacity to sufficiently defend themselves. They had twenty years of training and tens of billions of dollars worth of high quality US weaponry. They had two air bases in Bagram and Kandahar. Joe Biden said that the Afghan army had 300,000 troops, armed with high quality US equipment versus 75,000 Taliban. ’ There is going to be no circumstance in which you are going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afg...