Ehud Olmert has come clean about what will be the true outcome of his “convergence” plan, and it doesn’t look promising for Israel in the long term.
Now remember, all during the election campaign Olmert vowed he would unilaterally set Israel’s FINAL borders by 2010, and that by doing so in the way he intended those borders would be set according to the best interests of the Jewish state.
Like Sharon before him, it seems Olmert was just full of empty promises.
In an interview with Time Magazine this week, the fill-in leader appeared to be creating a political escape hatch before even trying to implement his stated policies or fulfill his promises.
The borders Olmert draws “will be very very close to what may be the final borderlines… the lines I want to draw are very close to the lines that I believe will become the political borders.
A far cry from his previous emphatic statements that Israel would, through him, take its destiny in its own hands and do what is best for its citizens.
Anyone with any amount of sense knows that not one single nation involved in the “peace” process is going to endorse Olmert’s borders if the “Palestinians” don’t first. And no one with any sense expects that they will.
The only borders the US and Europe – the major power brokers behind negotiations – would even think about backing even without Arab consent would be the pre-1967 borders. A full Israeli withdrawal from all Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
All Olmert’s plan is going to accomplish is to divest Israel of any leverage it currently possesses before final negotiations even begin, and, more dangerously, signal a clear lack of conviction in the Jews’ biblical, historical and legal rights to any of this land.
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24 comments so far ↓
1 beth // Apr 11, 2006 at 5:53 am
We are praying for Israel every day,that Yahweh Will protect,and heal his people
2 Linda // Apr 11, 2006 at 6:53 am
Cause of judgement = dividing the land.
Joel 3:2
3 geneford@sbcglobal.net // Apr 11, 2006 at 9:41 am
Linda’s verse, Joel 3:2, is a powerful verse that every politician & Israeli citizen should consider before giving away anymore of Yaweh’s land. It is impossible to escape judgment for those who take that route, i.e.Rabin, Sharon, Barak, etc.
4 David // Apr 11, 2006 at 9:51 am
Israel will stand with the purposes of the Holy One of Israel or suffer greater consequences. Defending all the land given to it will be difficult, but not as difficult as giving up more land and drawing the terrorists in closer to Israel and allowing them to cause greater damage to Israel.
5 Adina Kutnicki // Apr 11, 2006 at 10:24 am
What Olmert is doing is very clear – he is capitulating in the face of war, and he is agreeing with our enemies that the Jews do not have a claim to the land of Israel.
A disaster in the making for time immemorial if he is not stopped.
6 Stan L Bowman Jr // Apr 11, 2006 at 11:11 am
Ill go one step furthur on Joel 3.2.
THATS WHY WW3 STARTS BECAUSE ISRAELS (GODS GIFT TO ISRAEL) NO ONE ELSES LAND IS PARTED.
7 Doris J. Snyder/djsnyder@bwwonline.com // Apr 11, 2006 at 11:46 am
It sounds bad..like the politicians o other countries, Israeli politicians frequently mess up. They all have blind spots. We can only send our prayers that G-d continues to watch over Israel, and in the end, it’s enemies will be defeated.
8 roald.oye@combitel.no // Apr 11, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Politically there is no solution to your problems with the Palestinians and their ultimate demands. I just wonder when God will give you, his people, a helping hand, and what his prerequisitions will be before fullfilling his landpromises.
Roald Øye, Norway
9 garry // Apr 11, 2006 at 5:08 pm
It appears that the current regime in Israel may have close relatives in the palestinian government, i.e., do what is best for the Muslims and to hell with the Israelis!
10 John // Apr 11, 2006 at 6:57 pm
It is evident in the Scriptures that in the end time a “leader” (Anti-Christ) will come into power and settle the dispute between these two partys and give them what they seemingly want- Land for the Palestinians, and for the Jewish people ultimately a Temple ON the Temple Mount, aside from the “peace and safty.”
I think anyone who has truly studied the Old Testament -KNOWS- who the Holy Land belongs to! And KNOWS it’s more then the sliver they have today! Amen?
11 bixbydigger21@yahoo.com // Apr 11, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Three chptrs.in the book of Zephaniah gives the awnsures to this problem.The battle will be fought for them by Messiah Jesus and his angles.All the Jews will have to do is walk into the land and claim it.
12 skiffy0@cs.com // Apr 12, 2006 at 4:47 am
The L-rd our G-d hasn’t forgotten Israel, and He will not forget her!
The nations in the greatest amount of danger
are the ones who are insisting on brokering a peace between Israel and the Muslim world.
“Jere 8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace”
Read Ezekiel Chapters 37, 38, 39 and 40+
The L-rd will deliver Israel! The stage is
set while puny man stalks the land in arrogance and pride, but they contend with
G-d and not man. “Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
After this issue has been settled, the Temple
will be rebuit.
13 antiishmael@yahoo.com // Apr 12, 2006 at 7:19 am
Me thinks the Abrahamic Covenant is going to come into play with the tinkering of the borders of Israel. The United States and Israel along with the Arab nitwits are going to be suffering at the hands of an angry God. God gave the land of Israel to the Jews, and man has no right to give or divide the land.
14 Doug Watkins // Apr 12, 2006 at 8:29 pm
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15 krtills@aol.com // Apr 13, 2006 at 11:31 pm
I have a question and I am sure many would know the answer to this. In this article, it mentions that Olmer’s pre election talks were empty promises. What does this really mean? In the dictionary would this really mean liar, schemer, deceiver. when one makes an empty promise with preconcieved ideas anyway, this person is doing this deliberately. How is it that President Bush is going to oversee this in 2008, before he leaves office. what is the purpose of this?
16 Joseph // Apr 14, 2006 at 8:32 am
As in the days of Moses, we wait and pray for God’s deliverance of His people! God’s ways are not man’s ways. God’s time is not ours. We wait, but we must pray, always for Israel and for His true believers in Christ.
17 David // Apr 15, 2006 at 3:56 am
Doug Watkins’ stupid, racist remarks above, have no basis in reality. Fortunately the truth is more powerful than the lies of smallminded bigots.
18 xxxx // Apr 24, 2006 at 8:28 am
My solution is to keep the West Bank and relocate the Arabs living there to the Gaza strip finding them housing and monitarily compensating them.
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21 The Truth Will Out // May 16, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I have never before read such racist and anti-islamic comments in my life. For Israel to become a true Jewish state and to secure its borders you are condoning the genocide of thousands of muslims.
A ‘jewish state’ is a zionist concept, and Palestine should remain a shared land for jews,muslims and christians alike. One day people will see that the real terrorist threat in the world today comes from the racist zionist ideology.
22 The Truth Will Out // May 16, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I have never before read such racist and anti-islamic comments in my life. For Israel to become a true Jewish state and to secure its borders you are condoning the genocide of thousands of muslims.
A ‘jewish state’ is a zionist concept, and Palestine should remain a shared land for jews,muslims and christians alike. One day people will see that the real terrorist threat in the world today comes from the racist zionist ideology.
23 ben // Jun 14, 2006 at 4:28 pm
o yes i forgot! anything jews or israel does is considered racist or anti-islamic and eveyone jumps to believe the arabs in their claims which is the most “politically correct” thing to do. I mean putting up a fence to pre3vent suciide bombers coming in is obviosuly racist (arabs and jews live both sides of the fence but 100′s of sucidie bombers have been stopped by the fence; not a wall). I agree that hte deaths of hundreds of arabs is disgusting. but whose fault is that? the arabs use their children and wives as human bodyshields in their disgusitng “hero” ideology.
ISrael is not an expansionist empire nor a Nazi-like country like the arab states where jews, bahai’s christians are most of the time not allowed to live in certain areas with their human rights severly restircted. how many jews have been hanged in iran accused of being spies that the media goes unreported about? how many chiristans were murdered by the iraqi government? HOW MANY CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH SUICIDE BOMBERS HAVE THEIR BEEN?
24 Magde // Jul 17, 2006 at 7:33 am
FOR TRUTH WILL OUT
You need to read the Old Testament, then you will understand better what is going on. This situation started in Genesis with Sarai and Abram.
Sarai couldn’t conceive, she asked Abram to have a child with her hand-maid Haggar. Haggar conceived, and Ishmael was born. This caused jelousy between Sarai and Haggar because of the closeness that Abram showed to her and the baby. Because of the hostility that Haggar endure under Sarai she decided to flee, go away with her baby.then the angel of the Lord found her on the road and asked her to go back promissing her if she submitt to her mistress Sarai the angel of the Lord was going to watch after her and Isaac. In the meantime Sarai asked the Lord bless her with child, the Lord open up her womb then she conceived Isaac. This is where all started with the palestinian and Israel.
There has never been per say a Palestinian country, or nation. No one can pin point exactly in any map where is their land, because there has never existed. Now, why the 22 Arab countries have not offered a place for this people to live, and form a nation since they are their own blood, they are muslim, and the same race? Why they demand Israel to do it???????? Because they don’t want peace, and they want the total extermination of Israel as a nation, and the Jews as a race. That is not going to happen, not in this life, not in the one to come!! The Bible is very enfatically and clear about the outcome of this situation. And God himself has stablished the boundaries, and borders of Israel. So, no matter what anyone says or do, God is not going to change His mind. This too shall pass but, His word will endure for ever. I am standing with Israel, and my prayers are with them, and all God’s people. God bless Israel, and his people, God’s people.
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