I know Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has put his “convergence” plan on the back burner for now, but that doesn’t mean he has forgotten about it or doesn’t plan to still implement it. After all, he and his colleagues insisted during the election campaign that Israel has no other hope but to surrender Arab-dominated Judea and Samaria.
But even if Olmert and his buddies were right in asserting that holding the cradle of Jewish civilization poses a demographic threat to the modern Jewish state (and they are not), the more immediate threat of having all Israel covered by short-range enemy rocket fire should raise some giant red flags.
Imagine all of northern Israel to the Jezreel Valley under attack from Hizb’allah’s 10,000 rockets, the populous central region taking fire from Samaria, Jerusalem being bombarded by Judea-based rocket cells, and Beersheva, Ashkelon and the south suffering a barrage of Gaza-launched missiles. After last month’s Lebanon war, that scenario must be viewed as realistic. And if it does happen, it will completely shut this nation down. No business, no commerce, no air travel, no tourism, etc. The desolation that existed in northern Israel from July 12 to August 14 of this summer would extend to every border of the Jewish state.
The demographic threat is a theory, an assumption. The rockets are a very real and proven threat.
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14 comments so far ↓
1 Russell Creager // Sep 3, 2006 at 5:20 pm
do not give up 1 inch of gods land –if you have to go to war remember god is on your side –and dont worry about Irans nukes -its gonna happen anyway Ezk. 39–jalso Isa. 17-vs. 1could be next–i pray for the peace of jerusalem.
2 kim segar // Sep 3, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Soon enough they will do the Sampson Act…and G-d says they will never move the Jews off His Holy Hill. How anyone cannot love Israel and the Jews who have blessed the world is more than I can ever understand. And , I know Israael will win this last war too, as the King of the Jews will fight it for them in the end…G-d Bless Israel forever….
3 Nathan // Sep 3, 2006 at 10:39 pm
The Arabs desire for war will result in the same conclusion that it has always resulted in…Arab defeat. Israel should never give one inch in the West Bank or Gaza. What should happen is the made up Palestinians should go back to their homes in Jordan and Egypt and give up this myth that Israel owes them something. A myth that was created in June of 1967. When Arabs flooded the Gaza and West Bank to help attack Israel. I am tired of debating the obvious and clear history of the region with Arabs on YouTube, and the JPost. What the reality is today is if Arabs would have spent their money on homes, schools, and government buildings they might have actually made a state for themselves. But their 12th century mindset proves to much for them. So now they live in an endless row of tents in a strip of land that never belong to them in the first place.
4 baerbel carstens // Sep 4, 2006 at 2:53 am
I totally agree with number 3,Nathans comment…How can the world and Israels leaders be so blind,thinking they going to have peace for giving G-ds land away??? My heart is with Israel and i do pray for the peace of Yerushalayim.May the Prince of Peace,the Messiah ,come quickly,only he can bring the real peace. baerbel
5 Dahg Melek // Sep 4, 2006 at 7:22 am
Nathan, there are no long rows lof tents. The so called refugee camps are actually large town and cities. The so called refugees live in houses that many Jewish Israelies would love to live in. They have modern facilities, shoping centers, transportation and of course plenty of money to purchase arms as proven by the numerous caches found in Lebanon and Gaza. 10k rockets not to mention RPGs, automatic weapons and amo, would buy a lot of humanitarian needs, pay salaries and feed the poor.
6 Samuel // Sep 4, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Give Olmert and the others who think like him, to the Arabs and keep the land.
7 Cousin Zadok // Sep 4, 2006 at 10:35 pm
How the world is blind. Yet this blindness extends even to Israel’s leadership. But the day is coming when the King of kings will fight with Israel against their enemies, on that day when all Israel say “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord”
8 Turner // Sep 6, 2006 at 12:36 am
God Bless Isreal, all of her land, and all her people. God Bless all the rest of us, whom are blind to what is happening in the world today. Pray for Isreal. Pray for peace. Pray that the Lord come quickly.
9 Charles Wesley // Sep 6, 2006 at 1:39 am
Israel is not going anywhere, soon they will be building the temple of GOD. They may be occupied by Russia To keep the lid on the use of weapons of mass destruction. I believe this is revealed by Ezekiel 38 and 39.
10 David Chamberlain // Sep 6, 2006 at 4:54 pm
It is more important for Israel to stand with the God of Israel and to seek to accomplish what the God of Israel seeks to accomplish by making the land of Israel the Jewish state that was intended when the land was promised to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Giving it away will not accomplish the intended purposes and will not provide the favor of the God of Israel that Israel needs.
11 Charles Wesley // Sep 9, 2006 at 1:04 am
Israel had better start trusting the LORD because the US may not be able to help them. The radicals know something that is giving them a lot of confidence against the most powerful military nation that exist today. We are also the most vulnerable country in the world also. The Russians have misplaced 100 suitcase neutron bombs since the fall of the Soviet Union. It was said that Osama was in possession of 43 of them. This bomb does not explode like an atom bomb, nor is there a mushroom cloud. It does emit lethal neutron radiation that kills up to a 1500 ft. radius. These devices are very hard to detect ,can be carried in a knapsack or purse and placed anywhere. The effects could be unthinkable. The Radicals says America will be gone soon.
What do they know?
12 peter // Sep 12, 2006 at 2:35 pm
DEATH to Israel - not to those who fight for piece. Israel is an illegal land. Like the turks who ivaded Cyprus.
13 Charles Wesley // Sep 12, 2006 at 10:50 pm
You have just passed jugment on your self. How can such a small country in the midst of a desert waste land be of so much importance that you are willing to end the life of every one you know to spite the Jews. I say this because the world could end up in a nuclear war over this thing. Once it starts no one will be able to stop it. Yet, those Islamic (idiots) are going to start it. Im for targeting Iran first if we are hit.
14 L Steel // Sep 19, 2007 at 8:34 am
Jeremiah Chapter 23 and chapter33, promises David , a melek to sit on the throne. Not a democracy full of arab members who dont want Judea to exist. Until a Melek sits on the throne, they will not be in the will of
G-D!!
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