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Just a brief reminder, Church Militant is on the ground in Rome bringing you every bit of what you need to know about the synod each day. Our Rome correspondent, Jules Gomes, reviews the day's happenings on Church Militant's rome dispatch, hosted here in Detroit by our own Brad Eli every weekday.

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Now, war. War in the Middle East.

No matter where you fall, even if you don't have an opinion one way or the other on the decades-long Israeli–Palestinian conflict, there is something larger to consider here. The military-industrial complex, first identified by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as he left office (and later termed "the Swamp" by Trump) — that crowd loves war. They profit from it.

But with the commies largely in control of the swamp these days, there is an even further dynamic, far worse than before. When the wars used to be about just profit, that was bad enough. But now, it has taken on an entirely different skew. It's not just about financial profit, but ideological profit as well. In recent decades, the communist Democrats have allied against Israel (again, whatever your position on that question is, is beside the point).

They have decided, by their reckoning, that they can kill two birds with one stone here. The entire commie Democrat machinery (for ideological reasons) has lined up against Israel. The likes of AOC, Tlaib, Omar, and the rest of the socialist "squad" are the mouthpieces, but they enjoy broad support within their party.

And the Democrats, among whose stronger support at the polls is from Jewish voters, pose a conundrum for people: Why would they be so popular among Jewish voters yet be so anti-Israel? Here's a possible way to turn that around: It's not so much anti-Israel as it is pro-Palestinian, which, for the most part, is Muslim, which means anti-Christian.

While Christians don't especially fare well under Muslim rule or Jewish rule, the Jews just bomb them to intimidate Palestinian authorities, looking on them as mere collateral damage; they don't have terror groups beheading them and parading them around on social media.

The Dems back the largely more extreme Muslim forces of the Middle East precisely because of their hatred for the Christian West. And that is the overlap, the point where they form alliances with them, and, in the case of Israel, they are on the wrong side for the commie Dems.

When you toss in the horrible theology of evangelical Protestantism that modern-day Israel is precursor to the second coming — it's not — the atheist commies see a target-rich environment. Remember Obama, hater all of things American and Western civilization, handed the Iranians billions in cash, only to have Trump come along and cut it off. And that doesnt even include his complicit support for ISIS (remember them?).

Now that commie Biden is in control, the money started flowing again and geopolitical experts are saying that some chunk of that money flowed to Hamas so they could arm and equip for this latest and most devastating attack as well as future ones. It's interesting to note here that the Biden White House over the weekend posted a "we must refrain from retaliation" message thinly veiled at Israel. Biden took it down after heated criticism.

It's funny, you know: He doesn't have that "please refrain" message for Ukraine, when Russia attacked them. That's because Russia doesn't play in his (and his Hunter-friendly, Ukraine-proxy commie/globalism sandbox). So Russia is automatically the bad guy for that reason, and to Biden and his communist party, that's the only reason that matters.

And the major commie-allied media will fall right into line, reporting according to the party talking points. Over the weekend, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation issued a memo to employees saying do not refer to the terrorist organization Hamas as a "terrorist organization." All the money that flows out of D.C. to "allies" around the world seems to flow only to allies intent on destroying the republic and ultimately Western civilization.

Talk about "follow the money."