I cannot remember the number of times I have been asked by visitors or online friends what exactly is wrong with the Israelis, who seemingly against all reason continue to capitulate to their enemies’ demands in some vain hope of peace.
First, I would like to remind my Bible-believing readers that this irrational behavior was foretold, and should be expected as we near “the end.”
“Because they lead my people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace…I will spend My wrath against…those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace,” declares the Sovereign LORD. (Ezekiel 13:10, 15-16)
Well, that covers things from a prophetic, spiritual standpoint, but even so, many still want to know what is going on inside the heads of these Israelis, who believe that through politically correct capitulation to Islam they can suddenly bring to an end an existential religious war that has been raging for thousands of years.
I think we can gain a lot of insight into what these seekers of a false peace are thinking by examining the words of Uri Savir, the current director of the Peres (as in Shimon) Center for Peace. Prior to holding that position, Savir joined Yossi Beilin and other ultra-leftists in breaching Israeli law by meeting with Yasser Arafat’s crew in Oslo, Norway and launching the now defunct peace process.
In an opinion piece published in The Jerusalem Post on November 29 of this year, Savir states the following:
“Rather than diplomacy being perceived as the consequence following the use of force, diplomacy should be viewed in its classical form as a mode of peace-making.”
Savir was referring both to Israel’s conflict with the Palestinian Arabs and America’s global war on terror. I will only address the issue as it relates to Israel, but what I have to say certainly applies to both the Israeli and American efforts against the Islamic foe.
Savir’s above recommendation is worrying in that it so closely resembles the appeasement-minded policies of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on the eve of World War II. In his great folly, Chamberlain took Hitler’s peace overtures to be genuine, and opted for diplomacy over victory. Millions paid with their lives for that decision.
The situation here today is a near mirror image. The Palestinian Arabs, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc all talk peace when they are speaking for international consumption. And yet, like Hitler’s Germany, those nations are all preparing their people for Israel’s destruction. A cursory glance at the textbooks used in Palestinian Authority schools reveals that Arab children are being readied to lay down their lives for the cause of eliminating the Jewish state.
Dialogue, peace and co-existence are all noble goals, but to ignore the true intentions of your enemy while pursuing those goals is the kind of thing that only hastens the onset of war. Like Chamberlain,Savir and other leading Israelis are basing their policy of diplomacy on the false assumption that when presented with goodwill gestures and concessions their enemies will respond in kind, rather than leverage the situation to bleed Israel even further.
One would think that Israel would well understand this, having offered and given so much to the Palestinian Arabs over the past decade, while receiving in return nothing but an escalation in violence.
The problem lies in the fact that at least half of Israel still views the so-called “Oslo Accords” as a positive development, a diplomatic victory.
The 1991 Madrid Conference “launched bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority… It may be the time for a second Madrid Conference, serving to launch similar negotiations,” writes Savir.
Actually, the negotiations that were started were between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the world’s former foremost terrorist network, the AlQaeda of its day. And in addition to creating dialogue, this “peace” process provided the PLO with vast supplies of arms and bases from which to operate in the heart of ancient Israel - factors that have directly contributed to the murder and maiming of thousands of Israelis. Difficult to see how this was a desirable development, or one that should be repeated.
These Israelis also mistakenly believe that to the Muslim masses economic rewards are more important than adherence to Islam, which demands that infidel tumors in the heart of formerly Muslim-ruled lands must be removed.
“American and Israeli peace policy should seek a comprehensive package in which Israel would enjoy diplomatic relations with all Arab countries and the Middle East would enjoy regional economic development with open borders for trade…”
You ever wonder why the heir of a construction empire like Osama bin Laden would choose to dwell in caves in Afghanistan and live the life of a terrorist on the run? It’s because for true believers in Islam, adherence to Allah’s dictates are more important than money and comfortable living. This is also demonstrated in the fact that surveys show a large percentage of “Palestinian” homicide bombers were not poor and desolate, but rather hailed from educated middle-class families.
To the purely secular mind that rejects the role of religion and faith in such matters, and assumes that all sides are approaching the problem with the same set of morals and desires - to that mind, all this talk of a “new Middle East” and cooperative regional development sounds perfectly reasonable.
But it is that mind that has chosen to live in blindness. It is that mind that has forgotten that without God’s Word, without His divine appointment, Israel simply does not exist at all.
Fortunately, there is a sizable remnant in Israel that has its eyes open, that is living according to and standing firmly upon the divine promises made to their people. It is time we work to strengthen their hands, rather than stand idly by as they are ripped from their homes by short-sighted leaders who offer nothing but a false peace.
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16 comments so far ↓
1 Rodney in Oregon // Dec 18, 2006 at 8:13 pm
It is my opinion that Israel should stop giving up land that God himself gave them to the Palestinians.
I pray that they see the error of there way and stop.
I also pray that the United Nations gets shut down for being so anti semetic toward Isreal.
God Bless and Shalom
2 Jacob // Dec 18, 2006 at 8:44 pm
I have to say that, the more I read your posts the more I think your are some sort of extremist. How can you day that peace is not worth striving for? and how can you compare the Palestinians to the Nazis? I think your need to realize that the truth is that no matter what you do Israel will never stop having arab neighbors and if it continues to attack every one of them Israel will never be safe.
I cant see why you keep making the PLO seem like a Islamist terrorist group, it’s aims have always been political. I agree that recently since Hamas was elected Islam and politics are begining to mix, but Hamas’ victory at the polls is a result Israel’s shuning of Fatah and unilateral actions (Apartheid wall, land confiscations, etc)
I think its safe to say that Israel under Sharon was not the left leaning dove your making it out to be, after all he was held responsible for the massacre at Sabra and Shatila and dismissed as defence minister due to his war crimes. Not to mention tha he was the father of the illegal settlements that displaced hundres of thousands of people.
Hamas is as radical as he was and the Likud currently is, but do you really think that by continuing the current level of violence and agression a solution to this crisis will ever emerge?
What do you think the solution is? To wipe out all of the Arab neighbors of Israel and take claim of what you say God gave you, the land from the Nile to the Euphrates?
Peace with out pre-conditions is the only way out this spiral of violence.
3 onthewalls // Dec 18, 2006 at 8:47 pm
In human terms - the solution is for the Arabs to publicly accept Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. For the Arabs to accept the right of the Jews to reestablish their ancient state and stop wandering the planet as a stateless people.
They have never done this, and this is the reason there was not peace from day one.
4 Jacob // Dec 18, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Fatah and Abbas have done that and were doing that before Hamas was elected yet he was still not seen as a suitable partner for peace, but I agree with you that Isreal should be recognized.
The borders that need to be reestablished are the 1967 borders which has been demanded by UN resolution 242 which as you may know is consider International Law and Israel should obey as a member of the UN and the international community.
You con’t pick and choose which laws you obey.
5 Ryan // Dec 18, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Fatah and Abbas paid lip service to recognizing Israel, but never fulfilled their decade-old obligation to curb terrorism against Israel and disarm groups like Hamas.
Actually, you are wrong about your second point. Israel can in fact choose whether or not to adhere to UN Resolution 242, since it was passed under Chapter VI of the UN Charter, meaning it is a non-binding recommendation, NOT a law.
Additionally, you should note that 242 calls on Israel to withdraw from “territories” captured in 1967, not from “the territories.”
According to the US and British ambassadors who drafted the resolution, the exclusion of the article “the” was intentional and has meaning. They never intended Israel to surrender all of the land it captured in that war, as doing so would pose a further security threat to the nation.
So, in reality, Israel has already fully complied with 242 by withdrawing from the entire Sinai Peninsula and handing over control of the lands containing some 98% of the Palestinian population to the Palestinian Authority.
6 R. DURSKY // Dec 18, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Islam is nothing but satanism. Don’t give Satan any credit for anything, He is real and he will use you and destroy you through his subtal ways. Wake up and recognize who you are dealing with. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords is our leader, hear Him! He has forwarned us in His word. Hear Him!
7 Charles Wesley // Dec 19, 2006 at 1:01 am
Jacob they gave back Gaza and look what those idiots are doing now . Should we move them closer so they can hit Jerusalem ? There will be no peace until the antichrist brings it . And you won’t like that for sure . It will be a bad time for Islam .
8 Marcel // Dec 19, 2006 at 2:44 am
Ryan,
Great wisdom and insight into the mind of men without God’s wisdom to light their way.
This ‘process was written about also in Isaiah 28
The last verse of this chapter lets us understand what this evil plan of the nations to destroy Israel by peace will bring to their own house.
The covenant with death is Israel’s no peace process,the Road Map ,2 state solution.
The only fruit produced from this false peace process are death and destruction,and yet Israel
continues down this path full speed.
All of Israel’s desperate acts for peace apart from God produces not one kilogram of peace.
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation,
A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
Whoever believes will not act hastily.
Also I will make justice the measuring line,
And righteousness the plummet;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.
19 As often as it goes out it will take you;
For morning by morning it will pass over,
And by day and by night;
It will be a terror just to understand the report.”
For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon–
That He may do His work, His awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.
Now therefore, do not be mockers,
Lest your bonds be made strong;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts,
A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
Isaiah 28
9 Charles Wesley // Dec 19, 2006 at 4:44 am
Gods resolution #001 will be adhered to . It will super-cede all man made resolutions . All else is the vanity of man . Although it is very interesting to see the events of the end times being fulfilled .
10 Ben Plonie // Dec 19, 2006 at 6:07 am
Everything you say Jacob is exactly backwards, and is at least a two way street. The way to peace is for the Arabs to utterly lose their false hope of destroying Israel the nation and Israel the land, and to exercise their Right of Return to their ancestral homelands in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan etc. I dpn’t say Jordan because that is the portion of Jewish Palestine needed to reach the Euphrates. Go pester and lecture the Arabs to give up their dreams and goals for the sake of peace before any more blood is needlessly spilled.
11 Victor Passenheim // Dec 19, 2006 at 7:14 am
Jacob,
Check out the following movie, Relentless : the struggle for peace in the Middle East:
http://www.honestreporting.com/relentless/new_version/
However, I’m not sure you like to deal in facts. After all, almost everything you’ve said so far are lies without a shred based on facts.
12 Victor Passenheim // Dec 19, 2006 at 7:22 am
Post #10,
Well said, Ben!
13 Charles Wesley // Dec 31, 2006 at 2:52 am
I see now that Bush is flip flopping on the most important decision that he can make . He is going to bring America to it’s knees single-handed . I don’t think Baker has any religious convictions that would endear him to Israel . I feel that the dark days are begining wherein we have spoken . May God be with you Israel .
14 DD // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Dovid Weiss is needed now as a voice of moderation and reason for the Jewish people.
I dont know whether or not Zionism is right or wrong..but here is a Jew, whose parents were killed by the Nazi’s coming out and saying that Zionism is the reason for the continued bloodshed.
That Zionism is not congruent with the tORAH, ANY THOUGHTS?
15 Charles Wesley // Jan 12, 2007 at 3:44 am
DD ,
If you haven’t noticed the new testament is the recorded manifestation of the great promise from the Torah . Jesus was promised from the time of Abraham . All through the Old Testament the promised Messiah was told about . Isaiah described Jesus as a Lamb that was bruised for our iniquities and sufferings as they were to happen at Calvary .
It could only be that God did blind the Jews until the time of the Gentiles is full or the keepers of the word (Jews) would have seen the truth and not have fulfilled the prophesy . In the New Testament , God
re-affirms His unrepentant commitment to his chosen people of Israel the Jew . The Torah was the beginning , the coming of Christ the end with the New Testament describing the coming of the Lord and his word to this world .
16 Eztyon // Jul 31, 2007 at 7:29 am
DD,
You must not have read the Torah… Zionism is based on the Promises in the Torah such as the covenant made with Abraham that cannot be broken. If you do not believe in God that is your problem. God has made a perpetual covenant to Abraham and his descendent’s. God will finish what He has started. I recommend one thing for all of us… do not be in opposition of God’s covenants or promises that will stand forever.
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