Another Move toward False Peace – Shimon Peres – “We have to get rid of the Territories!”
July 19, 2007
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I have kept up with the role of Shimon Peres in the framework of the Israeli society for some 40 years. I have been a person whose viewpoint has always been that of a hawk, to the extent I am convinced the only way to deal with the Palestinians, and the entire Middle East collection of terrorists, is by force, not dialogue. Among all those who have formed the historical path of concession toward the enemies of Israel, none of them belong in the same league as President Peres. Although I do not agree with his approach to bringing in peace to the Middle East, I have the utmost admiration and respect for this man, in that he has had the same consistent goal throughout his political life – To being peace to his trouble land. I say that, realizing the only sort of “Peace and Safety” he could ever attain for his people would be false and brief in character. It would also be a definite indicator of a disaster following it, of a magnitude such as the world has never known. Please allow me to summarize this paragraph – There is no leader in Israel who is more capable of bringing in a false, temporary peace through concessions to Israel’s enemies, than Shimon Peres.
But, regardless of how the brief respite of false peace comes in, and who is associated with it occurring, it will be followed by the sequence of events laid out in the following Scriptures.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Romans 9:27-29 – Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: [28] For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
[29] And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Romans 11:25-28 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. [28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
Jeremiah 30:7-11 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
[8] For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: [9] But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David
their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
[10] Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. [11] For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘Peres will take on diplomatic roles’
Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST
July 15, 2007
It is obvious to the Foreign Ministry, officials there said Sunday, that President Shimon Peres will take on various diplomatic roles. According to one ministry source, this has been the case over the last 15 years, regardless of which position Peres has held.
“Peres is a one-man foreign ministry,” the official said, adding that this was not necessarily a bad thing. “This has been the situation for some time, and we are used to it.”
The official said Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had largely been pushed out of the “loop” by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, so she will not necessarily feel any of her authority whittled away by Peres.
Livni said in a television interview after Peres’s swearing-in ceremony that she welcomed Peres as president, and in fact was one of the first to push forward the idea earlier in the year, against those who warned that he would chip away at her authority.
“If anyone is likely to feel Peres’s presence, it is Olmert,” one Foreign Ministry official said. “He is the one dealing with the diplomacy that Peres is interested in. But Olmert backed him consistently, and Peres owes Olmert a debt. There is no reason for Peres to do
anything against Olmert’s interests.”
On the contrary, the official said Olmert could use Peres and his elevated stature in the world to push forward his own diplomatic agenda.
National Union MK Zvi Hendel accused Peres of starting his presidency on the wrong foot by telling The Associated Press on Sunday that Israel would have to give up land.
“Even before entering his job, he is doing everything to divide the nation into sectors and playing into the hands of his friends, the murderers of the PLO,” Hendel said. “At a time when bombs continue to explode, he says we have to grant the murderers an additional prize by uprooting settlements in Judea and Samaria. I pity him and I hope he doesn’t think the presidency gives him immunity.”
In an interview with The Associated Press prior to his inauguration, Peres said peace with the Palestinians would require Israel to withdraw from significant pieces of the West Bank. “We have to get rid of the territories,” he said, insisting that this was the majority view in Israel today.
He said he would use the presidency to “encourage” the government to take steps for peace, offer advice to the nation’s leaders and “speak to the people. “In public life, you don’t use swords, you use words,” he said. ” You talk to people, you have dialogue.
That’s what I’m going to do.
I don’t have any force but the force of my conviction,” he said.
Although his vision of a “new Middle East” never materialized, Peres has not given up on it. Throughout his interview with The Associated Press, he refused to dwell on the past, insisting on discussing future projects like ending global warming and poverty, and making vague references to “the cosmos” and improving the world for youth.
Peres said he would be willing to meet a president of Iran if it would advance the cause of peace, but not the current leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly called for Israel’s elimination. Peres noted the long history of ties between Jewish and Persian leaders from Biblical times and until Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
One Foreign Ministry official said that Peres – who is expected to travel widely as president, just as he did in his previous positions – would actually increase the work for the ministry. He will be accompanied in all his visits abroad by the local Israeli ambassador, and will need the staff work of the ministry.
Beyond the narrow interests of the ministry, the official said, there was no questioning Peres’s ability to explain Israel’s position abroad, as well as the value of his wide popularity overseas.
Olmert was full of praise for Peres at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, saying that if academic research would be done into the characteristics needed by the president of Israel, Peres would be the model.
“This is a big day for the State of Israel. It is an important day for our public life,” Olmert said. “It is possible to say he is one of the most prominent people in the world; there is respect for him that radiates on Israel as well. It is an honor for Israel that Shimon Peres is its president.”
One senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office, when asked if there was concern that Peres would chart an independent foreign policy, said Olmert and Peres would work
in close coordination. Israel, the official said, “cannot ask for a better ambassador.”
Gil Hoffman contributed to this report.
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