Jewish Eschatology is on Target,
Esau’s descendants won’t help Israel,
Because of the fear of Ishmael’s Offspring!
April 11, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt from Arutz Sheva
Germany, EU Cooling Relations with Israel
Nisan 13, 5769, 07 April 09 09:21
By Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Less than a week into the new government’s term, Germany and the European Union are ratcheting up diplomatic pressure on Israel to agree to a “two state” final-status solution in the Land of Israel west of the Jordan.
“In a series of diplomatic barbs,” German magazine Der Spiegel reported Monday, “the German government has expressed its displeasure at the new, right-leaning Israeli government.” Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has put off a planned joint meeting of the cabinets of both countries, for “an undetermined amount of time.” The meeting was initially planned for June.
In a telephone conversation with Binyamin Netanyahu, Merkel assured the Prime Minister that that the meeting would take place, but said a date could not be set before the German government’s summer break. At the same time, she also pressed Netanyahu not to abandon the “two-state solution” which would create an Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has also contributed to the cooling of Germany’s relations with Israel. In his letter of congratulations to, Avigdor Lieberman, Steinmeier did not set any date for
his first meeting with his Israeli counterpart, although this step is customary in such letters.
Steinmeier said Germany expects “constructive engagement” from both the Israeli government and the PA. “We urgently need progress on the path to peace and a fair two-state solution,” he told Neue Presse, a German newspaper.
Meanwhile, the European Union is also considering “diplomatic sanctions” against Israel, the German magazine reported. Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has proposed canceling the planned participation of Israeli diplomats in a number of EU meetings. Asselborn said that “further diplomatic preferential treatment can not happen without conditions.” The new Israeli government, he explained, must “prove through its actions that it will accept a Palestinian state.”
Begin Excerpt from Haaretz
Key Dutch party: Sanctions against Israel if it thwarts peace
By Cnaan Liohshiz, Haaretz Correspondent
April 11, 2008
The Netherlands must impose economic sanctions against Israel if the new government in Jerusalem thwarts the peace process with the Palestinians, the Dutch Labor party said last week.
Members of Labor, which is a member of government as the country’s second largest party, said they intended to write a manifesto on the matter to the foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen, from the centrist ruling CDA party, who is largely seen as a staunch supporter of Israel.
In an interview for Radio 1, Labor’s Martijn van Dam said his party insisted that Verhagen and the European Union take “concrete” action that demands Israel accept Hamas as a partner for dialog. Van Dam also lamented the Netherlands and the European Union’s decision to blacklist Hamas.
Van Dam went on to call Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman “an extremist who is on the brink of racism,” adding: “This is not a government with much prospect for peace.”
Responding to calming statements attributed to Verhagen concerning Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, van Dam said: “The only one who thinks that the positions of the [new] Israeli government will not have any consequences is Maxim Verhagen.”
Discussions on the matter between the cabinet and Labor’s representatives in parliament are expected to continue this week.
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ANALYSIS / Obama saying Israel still bound to two-state solution
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post
Think Again: Esau and Ishmael allied
April 8, 2009
Jonathan Rosenblum , THE JERUSALEM POST
Jewish eschatology contains numerous references to an alliance between Esau (Rome, the West) and his father-in-law Ishmael (Islam) against the Jewish people toward the end of history. Frankly, I’ve always had a hard time imaging such an alliance between clashing civilizations.
Perhaps my mistake lay in imagining a sort of updated Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
What we are witnessing instead today is Western appeasement and submission to Islam. In both the United States and Western Europe an effective double-standard has been carved out for Islam. Scorn for traditional religions and their adherents is fine, even praiseworthy, as long
as it is confined to Judaism or Christianity. But toward Islam, we must show respect.
The lesson that Europeans learned from the Danish cartoons episode was that it is not wise to rile Muslims. Noting Islam’s unlovely propensity for producing adherents eager to kill in its name inevitably triggers murderous riots that prove the point being protested.
Britain’ s recent refu
sal to permit Dutch parliamentarian Geerts Wilder into the country and the criminal prosecution against him in his own country provide a classic example of anticipatory compliance. The fear that showing of Wilder’s movie Fitna, consisting primarily of quotes from the Koran, to a group of British parliamentarians would trigger riots trumped traditional Anglo-Saxon support for freedom of thought and argument.
THE WEST’S astounding passivity in the face of Iran’s racing nuclear program is the most consequential form of appeasement. In three months in office, the Obama administration’s sole initiative on the Iranian front has been a video from President Barack Obama full of paeans to the great Persian culture, for which he received mostly spittle in return.
By contrast, the administration has been hyperactive on the Palestinian-Israeli front. The president’s first foreign policy initiative was to appoint a special Mideast envoy, who has already visited the region several times. The president and his secretary of state constantly stress the urgency of the “two-state solution” and the unsustainability of the status quo. The Arab-Israeli conflict, we keep hearing from Washington, holds the key to all Middle East conundrums.
That inversion of priorities makes no logical sense. The possession of nuclear weapons by an ideologically expansionist power sitting atop or adjacent to a large percentage of the world’s oil supply and serving as a patron of terrorist groups around the world would permanently change the world in ways too painful to contemplate. Sunni leaders know this and repeatedly told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Iran constitutes a far bigger threat to regional stability than Israel.
On the other hand, an imposed “two-state solution” would change little in the Middle East. Arab countries would continue to be plagued by high rates of illiteracy, second-class citizenship for women, lack of scientific or technological training, and the absence of civil liberties even in the unlikely event of peace with the Palestinians.
The only consequence of such a “solution,” particularly if it left Israel uninhabitable after a Hamas takeover of the West Bank, would be to strengthen the narrative of Islamic ascendancy and whet the jihadist appetite.
Few propositions are so easily refuted as the centrality of
the Arab-Israeli conflict to the multiple deformations in the Arab world. Not one of the major bloodlettings in the region is remotely attributable to Israel: the Iraq-Iran War, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and its aftermath, civil wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria, the slaughter of 20,000 Syrian citizens in Homa.
Finally, resolute Western action with respect to Iran might actually achieve something. Iran’s economy is highly vulnerable, particularly with oil prices low. Yet rather than exploit Iran’s economic weakness and lack of petroleum refining capacity, major European firms have signed billion dollar deals to lessen that vulnerability by helping Iran develop its refining capacity.
But there is scant hope of progress on the Palestinian front, particularly if peace, not just signed agreements, is the goal. “Moderate” Muhammad Dahlan, carefully cultivated by the United States for more than a decade, now admits that Fatah has never recognized Israel’s right to exist. Hamas, for its part, repeats over and over aga in that it will never recognize Israel
in any borders. The Palestinian Authority continues to honor as heroes perpetrators of massacres of Jewish civilians. Billions of dollars of international aid continues to go to maintaining multiple security forces and feathering the nests of Palestinian officials rather than building a decent society. And from an Israeli point of view, as long as rockets continue to fall from every area from which we withdraw, there is no chance of further withdrawals.
WESTERN SUBMISSION and passivity are only part of the story. Ever larger segments of elite and left-wing Western opinion have signed on to Hamas’s exterminationist agenda. Comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany are so commonplace in European discourse that they no longer even shock. Oliphant’s cartoon of a jackbooted Israel has now brought this obscenity to the mainstream American press.
Operation Cast Lead is said to have brought Israel’s international standing to a new nadir. Responding to their accusers, Israelis ask: What other country in the world would have tolerated three years of rockets shot from across the border at its civilian population? How would you have brought those missiles to a halt in a more “gentle” fashion than Israel has? Why are you obsessed with the deaths of 300 civilians in Gaza brought about by the policies of their duly elected leaders (think of the civilian population of Germany under Hitler), but so oblivious to the killings of hundreds of thousands of black Muslims in Sudan?
Very good questions to be sure, and not ones to which there are any answers.
But their effectiveness depends on the assumption that the one being asked accepts Israel’s right to exist at all. Europeans view our very presence in this place as the last vestige of Western colonialism.
On a tour of US college campuses, The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh found more support for Hamas among non-Muslim professors and students than exists in Ramallah. “We should not be surprised,” he wrote, “if the next generation of jihadists comes… from university campuses across the United States.”
The noose, then, is tightening around Israel’s neck as a result of both Western submission and acquiescence to raging Islam. All this was predicted long ago.
What can we do? We have just experienced again the Seder night – leil shimurim.
One explanation of the language of shmira is to anticipate and look forward to something. On the Seder night, God not only guards us, He looks forward and anticipates His final redemption of the Jewish people from the clutches of Esau and Ishmael.
All He awaits is some sign from us of our own eager anticipation.
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