Europe is rapidly rearming after decades of post-1945 “security community” building, as the Russia-Ukraine war since 2022 is viewed as an assault on the continental order and has exposed the limits of a defense industry that shrank during the post-Cold War peace dividend.

The author, writing as a Reform Rabbi, argues that the world will not end this century but will be positively transformed toward a Messianic Age foretold by the Prophets of Israel, with societal redemption catalyzed by the Jewish community and supported by parallel figures in Christianity and Islam.

Realization of this vision is said to require voluntary moral adherence across Abrahamic traditions or else arrive through upheaval, and is linked to practical steps such as Jewish-Muslim cooperation on the Temple Mount and reinterpreting “from the river to the sea” as a call for two peaceful states free of hatred.

For five to seven decades after 1945, Europe tried to make war unthinkable through trade, shared institutions and democratic habits. Political scientists even gave the result a name: a “security community,” in Karl Deutsch’s phrase, where states stop imagining war among themselves. Now the continent is rearming fast. The post-Cold War “peace dividend” is gone, and governments from Scandinavia to Poland have reached the same uncomfortable conclusion: The surest way to avoid a continental war is to look ready to fight one. International relations theory has a much older worry about that logic, and it deserves a re-reading of the situation.

The Russia-Ukraine war, which began in 2022, explains most of the shift. European capitals no longer read the conflict as a border dispute. They read it as an attack on the security order the continent has depended on since the 1980’s. The war also has shown what a large conflict consumes. Drones and cyber operations matter, but attrition dominates the fighting: shells, spare parts, long supply lines and a steady supply of soldiers. Europe’s defense industry, allowed to shrink 30 years, can not keep pace.

According to Brown University’s Costs of War research, 4.5 million people have been killed since 2001, most of them in Muslim countries. Over the past quarter-century, 320,405 people have been murdered in Islamic terrorist attacks. Jihadist branches are spreading death in wars that have raged for years in Sudan, Somalia, and Libya. Shiite jihad is wreaking havoc in Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and among the Palestinians. Most of these centers of violence have nothing to do with the U.S.A or Israel.

On May 2, 2012 a Reuters Poll reported that “nearly 15% of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime. “Whether they think it will come to an end through the hands of God, or a natural disaster or a political event, whatever the reason, one in seven thinks the end of the world is coming,” said Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos Global Public Affairs which conducted the poll for Reuters. Among Evangelical Christians three out of four felt we are living in the End Times of Gog and Magog; Ya’juj and Ma’juj.

According to both the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an, since the days of Adam and Eve, many chosen  humans in the distant past have heard the One God speaking to them. These people are titled as Prophets or Messengers in the Abrahamic religions. And the Hebrew Scriptures, the Greek New Testament, and the Arabic Qur’an all agree that in the distant future, in the Era of End of Days-Judgement Day-Qiyamah; there will be a few chosen humans who will express by words and deeds, God’s glory to all humanity. These future Messengers usually have a special name or title like: Messiah son of Joseph, Messiah son of David, and Elijah in Judaism, Jesus’ second coming in Christianity, or the Mahdi in Islam.  

Prophet Muhammad warned of a group of extremists who would emerge, claiming to be more religious than all others but causing........

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