Date: October 30, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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Look to Crosstalk each Friday when you want to get caught up on news items where they’re presented and discussed from a Christian perspective. Here are some highlights from this week’s program:
–Israel faces a political stalemate following Tuesday’s national elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition falling short of a parliamentary majority despite his party emerging as the nation’s largest political faction.
–Israel’s Central Election Committee chair has ordered the Shin Bet security agency to investigate allegations that foreign interests, potentially including Qatar and Turkey, funneled money into Israel to influence Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, triggering a political confrontation over the legitimacy of the vote.
–Communist revolutionaries, socialist activists and pro-Palestinian agitators from a network of 106 organizations are preparing to stage a carefully choreographed spectacle of global unrest today at ports from Oakland, California, all the way to India, as they protest Israel and capitalist barbarism.
–The IDF announced Sunday it had killed two terrorists in associated airstrikes in the Gaza Strip last week, accusing them of transferring millions of shekels from Iran and Turkey to Hamas’ military wing throughout the war.
–The Israeli Knesset approved the second and third readings of a bill to prosecute the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre.
–Iran issued a desperate call for unity among Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani authorities despite its proxy attack on Saudi Arabia.
–Iran is preparing to disrupt the U.S. mid-term elections after attempting to interfere in Israel’s vote.
–The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East briefed President Trump yesterday at the White House about potential military operations against Iran.
–President Trump will attend two back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa to back mid-term Republican candidates.
–Plymouth, Minnesota, has a U.S. Post Office that is inside an Islamic mosque.
–When called to testify at a Pinellas County (Florida) board meeting, a woman wearing a burqa started playing a recording of the Islamic call to prayer. Jim provided audio of the incident.
–An Islamic scholar in Chicago claims it’s America that’s the cancer. Jim provided audio of the scholar’s comments.
–Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, who’s running to be a U.S. senator, does not want to talk about the Muslim Brotherhood. In an interview with Brett Bair of Fox News, El-Sayed awkwardly talked over Bair when asked about his 2012 letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
