INVITING THE PA WOLF IN
TO A HENHOUSE PASSOVER MEAL!
THE LATEST FOREIGN POLICY BLUNDER,
INSPIRED BY OUR STATE DEPARTMENT RICE!
April 5, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
If I thought there was the slightest chance that removal of checkpoints
would do any good, then I would not be critical of the continual effort of our State Department to apply pressure on Israel to do it. After these many years of making “good will” gestures to the Palestinians in hopes it would produce at least a small decline in terrorism, our policy makers have learned nothing. The Palestinians do not look upon “good will” gestures as such, but as a sign of weakness by their sworn enemies. I regret that is the case, but they respond only to exercises of strength against them. And I wish I could say that if we let Israel apply pressure rather than good will gestures, then peace would finally come between the Israelis and Palestinians, but alas, I cannot. Nothing can stop the fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy, and only the horror of God’s judgment, on both Jews and Gentiles, awaits the Middle East and the rest of this planet God created long ago.
However, I do say this, if we would let the Israelis protect themselves by an “eye for an eye,” and a “tooth for a tooth,” they would have a lot less death inflicted on them by rockets and suicide bombers, than if we kept making them open the door to the henhouse by “good will” gestures.
However, no matter what we do, the following Scriptures will soon come to fruition, and the warning to Israelis by Isaiah will be fulfilled over a three and one half year period prior to Armageddon. Unfortunately, contrary to popular belief, the saved along with the rest of the Gentiles will be here on the same planet when it when this warning begins to be fulfilled.
Isaiah 25:7-12 – And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
[8] He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. [9] And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. [10] For in this mountain shall the hand of
the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. [11] And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. [12] And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 26:19-21 – Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. [20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21] For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain.
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.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Ten Checkpoints Removed as Goodwill, PA and Rice Not Satisfied
29 Adar Bet 5768, 05 April 08 07:41
by Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) The IDF, on orders from the Olmert government, removed 10 manned checkpoints in the Binyamin region and Samaria Thursday evening. The roadblocks were taken down near Ramallah, Shechem, Tal Karem and Kalkilya.
Officials explained that the roadblocks were removed as part of a series of “goodwill gestures” to the Palestinian Authority.
Ostensibly under US pressure, Israel recently agreed to remove dozens of checkpoints and roadblocks in Judea and Samaria in order to make travel easier for local Arabs. In return, the PA said it would try to stop terrorism.
Daily attacks continue on roads in Judea and Samaria – Jewish resident say as a result of previous decision to remove roadblocks and open up bypass roads to PA Arabs.
The IDF reports daily findings of weapons and explosives at security checkpoints across Judea and Samaria as well.
Goodwill Not Accepted
A Palestinian Authority official quoted in Yediot Acharonot Froday accused IDF officials of fabricating reports regarding the removal of the checkpoints. “The number of checkpoints the IDF removed is zero,” the man claimed.
“The Israelis are raising the bar of lies and fraud.” In the eyes of the Fatah-run PA, Israel has made no significant changes in the past several months, he added.
Other PA sources confirmed that two major checkpoints around Jericho were removed and that several dirt roadblocks were flattened and abandoned as well.
The manned dirt roadblocks generally are located between particularly hostile villages and major roads used by Jewish motorists. Residents of the villages use alternate routes, such as driving to the nearest major PA city and getting on a highway from there.
The dirt mounds were conceived as a way of preventing attackers in Israeli-controlled Area B from fleeing after an attack to PA-controlled Area A territory – as defined in the Oslo Accords.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not praise the move. She instead called for the removal of 50 such roadblocks and said General William Fraser, whose job is to monitor the implementation of the Road Map plan, would “follow up on the specifics and will make certain that in fact there are 50 and that they are going to be removed.”
During the press conference in Jerusalem, Rice said that “General William Fraser will be following up on the specifics and will be making certain that in fact that are 50 [roadblocks] and that they are being removed, that in fact they have some impact on the access and movement.”
More Goodwill Gestures
Other unilateral Israeli moves to assist the constituency-lacking Fatah include the authorization of up to 8,000 new homes for a new PA Arab settlement in the Binyamin region; providing Fatah with armored vehicles from Russia; the deployment of PA police despite their involvement in recent fatal attacks; the removal of the Rimonim security checkpoint and the upgrading of facilities at other checkpoints, such as Hawara, south of Shechem.
Terrorist attacks have continued unabated.
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