Winston Churchill identifies Gog and Magog
Winston Churchill anticipated a coming cold war between Russia and the Western Anglo-American alliance (Israel had not as yet been created) that would dominate world politics for decades to come. He did so when he presented his Sinews of Peace, (the Iron Curtain Speech), at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946 in which he declared: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent”. We note that the term iron curtain bears an uncanny resemblance to Dhul Qarnain’s iron barrier.
On November the 9th 1951, Winston Churchill made another speech at the Lord Mayor of London's Banquet at the Guildhall, marking the occasion of the restoration of the effigies of Gog and Magog to their traditional places of honour in the west end of the Guildhall in the City of London. They had been removed during the Blitz to prevent them from being damaged. Earlier figures had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The present pair were carved by Richard Saunders in 1708. Churchill identified Gog and Magog as the two world powers then dominating the world, i.e., the Anglo-American alliance on the one hand and Russia on the other:
"It seems that they (i.e. Gog and Magog) represent none too badly the present state of world politics. World politics, like the history of Gog and Magog, are very confused and much disputed. Still, I think there is room for both of them. On the one side is Gog, and on the other is Magog. But be careful, my Lord Mayor, when you put them back, to keep them from colliding with each other; for if that happens, both Gog and Magog would be smashed to pieces and we should all have to begin all over again and begin from the bottom of the pit." (Source: The Times, London, 10 November 1951)
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