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(WND)—The Hanukkah terror attack in Sydney, Australia, leaving at least 12 dead and dozens wounded this weekend is bringing renewed focus on calls to “globalize the intifada” with more anti-Semitic attacks.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement Sunday, saying: “The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration.
“Antisemitism has no place in this world. Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia.”
Meanwhile, Ellie Cohanim, former U.S. deputy envoy to combat anti-Semitism, told Fox News: “This what globalize the intifada means. We are all witnessing what, for two years, have been allowed to run rampant by too many governments around the world, in particular the Australian government which has really allowed anti-Semitism to fester on its soil.
“And the end result is exactly what we’re seeing today which is a terror attack on Jews celebrating the holiday of Hanukkah and so many civilians left dead in a mass-casualty event. All of this could be avoided if the Australian government had made it loud and clear from the outset immediately after the October 7th attack on Israel which is that it’s not open season on the Jews. Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated. That they won’t allow intifada to be globalized onto Australian soil.
This is what “Globalize the Intifada” looks like. My reaction to Bondi Beach, Australia terror attack as Jews celebrated Hanukkah. On @foxandfriends, footage soon: pic.twitter.com/dKzGnlsGUy
— Ellie Cohanim (@EllieCohanim) December 14, 2025
“And it’s incredibly important for our viewers to understand that when for all these leftists governments for the last two years, the Biden administration, the United States, when they allow these calls for jihad to spread, when they demonize Israel and Jews all around the world, this is end result is that Jewish blood gets spilled.
“And I want to say that I am grateful to Secretary Rubio for his immediate statement that he put out in sympathy with the local Australian community in condemning this terror attack. I hope that Secretary Rubio will have a tough phone call with his Australian counterpart demanding changes in the government’s policies there to now hold the terror groups on their soil accountable and to now have policies instituted that actually protect their local Jewish community.”
This is what globalize the intifada actually looks like for the stupid, moronic American college kids out there. https://t.co/idSieiCPSl
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 14, 2025
Cohanim explained: “The entire point is to make it impossible for Jews to be Jewish, to celebrate our holidays, to celebrate Judaism. Something similar happened in the United States in California this weekend where a Jewish home that was decorated for Hanukkah just like many people will decorate homes for Christmas, that house was shot up with 20 bullets. So it’s really important for all of us here in the United States to understand that again these calls for globalizing the intifada, the demonization of Israel and Jews has led to the point where I know that there are Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremonies all across America tonight and the next eight days and people are going to be scared.
“Your Jewish neighbors are going to be really worried about whether there will be copycat attacks, whether we can continue to be Jewish publicly, whether we can celebrate our holidays publicly. And so that’s why it’s incredibly important for all of our government officials to be clear-sighted and to be loud right now about the fact that they do stand with Jewish community, that we will not tolerate anti-Semitism anywhere in the world, and the Jewish Americans who for sure are really scared about whether they can be publicly Jewish in Australia, in California and New York.”
DOESN’T EVEN MENTION THAT IT WAS A JEWISH EVENT
What a shameful disgrace!
PM Albanese avoids even mentioning that it was the Jewish community targetted and Jews shot. pic.twitter.com/ZOC0MGwlSZ
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) December 14, 2025
She blamed mass migration of Muslims across the world for the recent attacks.
“People are indoctrinated from birth to hate Jews and often to hate Christians,” Cohanim said. “Ultimately what happens is that you’re importing into your own shores people with hateful ideologies.”
“The trend lines are not good and only getting worse,” she added. The Trump administration is taking really strong actions to just combat anti-Semitism.”
“Every society that allows anti-Semitism to flourish eventually self-destructs.
“And it is in our own self interest to take every aggressive action … to stop the anti-Semitism that has been allowed to flourish since Oct. 7 on their shores.”
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
