The Great Seven Year Intifada Security Barrier!
( Intifada, Intefada, Intafada, or Intifadah)
People have asked me several times how to spell Intifada. You will be happy to know all four of the spellings above are correct.
The article from Ha’aretz by Aluf Ben, which follows the preamble and
Scriptures, is encouraging on the determination of Israel to complete the new fence this year.
A lot of Israelis have been waiting for a long time for completion of this fence.
At the end of September 2000, the Palestinians started a campaign of violence against Israel that resulted in the murder of 1,148 people, most of them civilians, in acts of terror committed inside Israel.
It was very easy for terrorists to pass from the West Bank to Israel because there were no natural or man-made obstacles to stop them. The terror acts mounted until Israel saw 139 people murdered in one month, in March 2002. The public pressed the government to build a barrier between Israelis and Palestinians, and although the government didn’t want to do it, out of concern that any line on the ground would have a political meaning in future negotiations, it was forced by public opinion to build the fence.
That security barrier/wall/fence is scheduled to finally be finished by the end of 2006, according to the article from Ha’aretz, which follows. However, I think it is more likely to be finished in 2007. I have waited for the delayed security barrier to be finished since 2000, and have been extremely anxious for its completion, because I believe it will mark the time when Israel finally begins to have a mindset of “peace and safety.” How long that mindset will be in place before the Arab Jihad attack occurs, I cannot say. That is the reason I have been guesstimating it to happen between 2008 and 2012.
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.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God,
that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Jeremiah 30:7 – 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.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
I do not believe the attack against Israel by 10 Arab nations will occur until American troops are withdrawn from Iraq, which would insure that attack would surely fail, and is the main reason I have chosen the time frame 2008 to 2012 as the most likely time for the attack against Israel to occur. In the last two operations the United States conducted against Iraq, the logistical problem of getting our troops over there and in place was the most difficult part of the two conflicts.
There simply won’t be time to get them back over there when the lightning Jihad is launched. Once our troops have been withdrawn, it will eventually be followed by a Jihad of 10 nations against Israel.
Begin Ha’aretz Article
Olmert: Separation Fence to be Completed by End of Year
By Aluf Benn
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday told settlers the State of Israel intends to complete the construction of the separation fence around the West Bank within several months.
“By the end of the year we plan to finish the security fence,” Olmert said
during a visit to the West Bank settlement town of Ariel.
During his visit to Ariel Olmert made a pledge to designate the settler town and its environs a part of Israel proper: “Ladies and gentlemen, I want to be clear on this, the Ariel block will be an inseparable part of the state of Israel under any situation.”
Official sources said he wished to bring a “message of conciliation” to the settlers, and a commitment to the settlement blocs. Olmert was also expected to call on West Bank settlers to join his “internal dialogue” on fixing a border between Israel and the Palestinians.
Olmert was scheduled to inaugurate a new water pipe to the town, which will pass near the new Highway 5 route, replacing the existing pipe in the Palestinian village of Bidia.
The pipe’s inauguration will illustrate Olmert’s intention to continue investing state funds in the infrastructure of the settlement blocs slated to be annexed to Israel.
The event comes two weeks after Olmert promised that “in the next few years Israel will not invest in construction and development of infrastructure beyond the Green Line.”
In weekend interviews with the media, Olmert presented his plan to withdraw from most West Bank territories to a new border that would surround the large settlement blocs – Ariel, Ma’aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion, and Jerusalem’s Old City and adjacent neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. He also spoke of evacuating the settlements that remain outside the separation fence.
Sources in Kadima’s campaign staff have already said that Olmert intends to make a course correction to the right after his statements regarding the pullout. The visit in Ariel is supposed to illustrate his commitment to the settlement blocs, and to show that keeping
them in Israel is at the center of his political plan.
Channel 2 television reported Monday that construction work had begun on the new police headquarters in the E-1 zone between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim. The plan is to build a large neighborhood in this area. The U.S. objects to its construction for fear of obstructing the territorial contiguity of the future Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved building the police headquarters in E-1 last August, and the U.S. did not voice an objection.
“Beginning the construction had nothing to do with Olmert, it was on the basis of an old plan,” a Jerusalem source said.
Olmert said in the weekend interviews that the neighborhood in E-1 will be built to create an Israeli territorial contiguity from Jerusalem to Ma’aleh Adumim. If there is no continuity, he said, Ma’aleh Adumim would be an island or an enclave.
End Ha’aretz Article
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