The Fog of War
Every painting in Chronicle of an Unquiet Age documents the defining events, people, and issues that shaped its moment in history. Created in real time as events unfolded, each work serves as both an original oil painting and a historical record, reflecting the belief that the news of today is the history of tomorrow.
TRTA-2023-083 | October 2023 | Oil on Canvas | 33" x 26"
October Surprise? October 7, 2023. Israel is attacked by Hamas Terrorists funded by Iran. Biden just gave $6 billion dollars to Iran in exchange for 5 Americans. Iran is the NUMBER ONE STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM. Israel's Cabinet invokes Article 40 ALEPH officially declaring WAR for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Benjamin Netanyahu Announced "We are at War." In this painting The Fog of War, Hamas terrorists struck in the early morning hours using paragliders to parachute into a "Peace" Music festival killing 260 and kidnapping many others. This surprise attack then began inside Israel killing, raping and kidnapping men women, children and babies. Reports document the burning of children and babies alive. 40 babies were found beheaded in Kfar Aza. More than 1400 Israeli citizens were butchered. More than 230 people have been kidnapped and taken across the border to the tunnels in GAZA. 31 Americans were killed with 14 or more hostages still unaccounted for.
Biden is being called the "Appeasement President" as he tries to support Israel and not upset the Iranian Government pulling America into a larger conflict. Hezbollah is targeting Israel from the north in Lebanon. This is Israel's 9/11 and the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust. Americans are worried "will America be next?" With all the unknown "got aways" her in the states due to Biden's open border policies we can only imagine how many sleeper cells are already here and God knows what they could be plotting. Hamas was funded and trained in Iran and this has been planned for some time. The guns and weapons seized that were used in the attacks could be those left by Biden in Afghanistan. Hamas thanked Iran publicly. Hamas in Hebrew means "violence" and "wrong doing" according to the Bible.
As Israel begins to retaliate and bomb GAZA the Hamas Terrorists threaten to execute the hostages and air the executions live on television if the airstikes continue. Biden's feakless and weak policies have us in one crisis after another. First the horrendous withdrawal from Afghanistan, then "The Kraine", and now a war between Israel and Hamas.
According to Trump " The terror invasion of Israeli territory and the murder of Israeli citizens is an act of savagery that must be and will be crushed and avenged." But wait... Pro Israel and Pro Palestinian and Hamas protests have sprung up across the U.S. and the World.
College Campuses across America are spewing hate for the Jews and Jewish students are frightened. Antisemitism is on the rise. Calls in Australia to "Gas the Jews" was shocking to everyone's souls. Seems we are a World divided."Tipping Point in America and the World" as the title for this year in the series now seems prophetic that it would ring so true today. Pray for Peace. As 2023 draws to a close, global conflict increasingly shaped the American political conversation. The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, debates over military aid, border security concerns, and rising geopolitical tension created a climate in which facts, motives, and outcomes were fiercely contested. The Fog of War reflects that atmosphere of uncertainty.
The Fog of War invokes the confusion that surrounds conflict, where decisions are made with limited clarity and consequences often emerge later. The painting preserves a moment when war abroad and division at home had become tightly intertwined.
