Full Speed Ahead Toward a False Peace!
August 24, 2005
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The following extracts from an exclusive report in the Jerusalem Post
by Herb Keinon indicates that the government intends to “strike while the iron is hot” to remove the numerous settlements established without Israeli government approval.
Like many other things in prophecy, it sometimes takes a very long time to get the ball rolling, but it now seems to be happening rapidly in the Middle East.
There will be off again, on again, gone again, Finnigan episodes during the coming months, but it does appear that by 2007 Israel’s security barrier/wall/fence will be in place. The P alestini
ans, with all their terrorist groups, will be enclosed and disengaged within it from the Israelis. To definitely state precisely the year the initial attack outlined in the following Scriptures will occur would be madness on my part.
However, it will definitely occur, and my guesstimate is 2007. It could happen before or after, but I do not think it is some prophetic event scheduled for the distant future.
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.
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.
BEGIN EXTRACTS FROM JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Exclusive: Illegal Settlements are Next
By Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST
August 23, 2005
Israel is likely to begin dismantling unauthorized settlements in the We
st Bank within 90 days of the evacuation of the northern Samaria settlements, a senior government official told The Jerusalem Post.
According to the official, the evacuation of the Gaza settlements has “changed the rules of the game,” both in regard to Israel’s expected reaction to any Palestinian terrorist attacks – which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said would be harsher than in the past – and also in regard to the unauthorized settlements.
The official referred to a “momentum” that had been established over the last few days that the IDF was keen to capitalize upon.
A few months ago, before the Gaza evacuation, dismantling the outposts appeared to some as an almost inconceivable task.
The official said the idea behind removing the outposts that are spread throughout the West Bank now was to “strike while the iron was still hot.”
The unauthorized settlements, of which 24 have been established since Sharon took office in 2001, have been a constant irritant for Israel in its ties with both the US and Europe.
The US, however, stopped publicly pressing Israel about the outposts late last year, deciding instead to focus on ensuring the implementation of the disengagement plan. The Bush administration made it clear to Israeli officials that it was not interested in complicating matters domestically for Sharon at that time.
Sharon promised US President George W.
Bush at the Aqaba summit in June 2003 that Israel would remove the unauthorized outposts.
In April 2004, in his now-famous exchange of letters with Bush, Sharon wrote that he was “fully aware of the responsibilities facing the State
of Israel. These include limitation on the growth of settlements [and] removal of unauthorized outposts.”
One official said Sharon was keen on upholding his commitment because he wanted to ensure that Bush would stand by the assurances he gave Israel in his letter: namely that, in any final status agreement, Israel would retain the major settlement blocs and that there could be no return of Palestinian refugees to pre-1967 Israel.
END EXTRACTS FROM JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
The months to come will find constant haggling between the Israelis and the Palestinians on many issues, but the main five will be:
1. Letting the Palestinians have part of Jerusalem for a capital city.
2. The number of settlements to be evacuated in the West Bank.
3. The right of all Palestinians to return to the West Bank and Gaza.
4. The right to unmonitored air space over the West Bank and Gaza.
5. Unmonitored road between the West Bank and Gaza.