VERY SHORT, BUT VERY SIGNIFICANT
July 11, 2006
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Over the past four years, I hope no one has ever gotten the idea I was ever in favor of a “forced” peace plan, which consisted of the building of a wall and then disengaging from the Palestinians by forcing then inside it. If you will look back, you will discover I have always been in favor of driving all the Palestinians out of all
the land
from Dan to Beersheba, and telling the international community to go fly a kite. However, being a student of how Israel has dealt with the land’s non-Jewish inhabitants, ever since God commanded her to drive them all out, I knew that they would fail to do so once again. And, being a realist, I accepted what was going to be, rather than what should be.
David, Israel’s greatest king, was a hawk. Israel has not had a leader of his statue since Israel became a nation in 1948, nor will they until
the Son of David returns as the Messiah. He will drive the Canaanites out of the land.
Zechariah 14:21 – Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
From now into 2008, you are going to see the fur fly between settlers and the Israeli government. When the government starts trying to oust Jewish settlers from the West Bank, it will be a nightmare for Israelis. I don’t know if the current coalition can hold together to see it through. I suspect they may go along with a “hudna” (cease-fire) arrangement with Hamas in order to direct their main efforts toward disengagement in the West Bank.
Israel needs a cease fire to withdraw from the West Bank, which Hamas and the other terrorist groups could claim as a great victory, and Hamas also needs a cease fire to build up its military might for an internal Jihad against Israel at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
The following article from the Jerusalem Post is a very short one, but it is a very significant one. If Israel had driven out the Palestinians they could have continued to build their settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip till the cows came home, but that was not their choice.
They chose to expand the settlements thinking they could give back about 60 percent of the West Bank. Now they are faced with a problem they created by not taking possession of the West Bank and driving out all the Palestinians. This was an easily predicted disaster. Because Israel would not drive them out when they had the opportunity, caving in to international pressure, Israel is quite likely to be driven
out of the land from Dan to Beersheba at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘70,000 Settlers to be ousted during Realignment’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
July 11, 2006
Kadima MK Otniel Schneller said on Tuesday that at least 70,000 settlers would be evacuated during the realignment operation.
Schneller added that the realignment would last at least three years.
End Jerusalem Post Article
Please take a look at the following Prophecy Update 70C, which we issued more that four years ago, concerning the Jewish Settlements.
Begin Prophecy Update 70C
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 70C
June 3, 2002
JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA
A FACTOR IN OPERATION DEFENSIVE SHIELD
CAUSING ISRAEL TO BEING IN A “FORCED” PEACE
The Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been a national project that began shortly after the war of 1967, in which Israel took the West Bank from the Jordanians and the Gaza Strip from the Egyptians. It has existed as an officially recognized government program for more than 30 years. Its confiscations of land and settlement construction have been real and pursued without letup under every Prime Minister that has held the office since 1967. But since 1993, when you ask a government official about a new settlement suddenly springing up in a new place, he or she will quickly tell you it is not “new,” but rather “old” because it is based on an “old” decision made before 1993, which was the year of the Oslo Peace Accords.
In the past several months the Israelis have set up some 36 to 40 “new” settlements based on “old” decisions. The Washington Post reports that the West Bank landscape is “dotted with more water towers, more electrical generators and more moveable homes inhabited by small clusters of armed Jewish settlers under Israeli army guard.” According to the Washington Post the formal number of designated settlements in the West Bank has stayed at about 120 since the 1993 Oslo Agreement. So the Israeli government officials say: “See, we are not increasing the number of our settlements,” and on paper that is true. But they do not tell you
the 120 have been spreading horizontally like army ants, and that the Israeli population has increased by more than 70,000 in the West Bank since 1993.
Please bear in mind that I am pro-Israel and believe they have every right to do what they are doing. I am simply telling you what is going on in order to show one of the factors involved that leaves Israel no option other than to put a “forced” peace on the Palestinians to protect its settlement citizens, as well as all its citizenry.
A Washington Post article of May 31st stated the following: “Such settlement activity is one of the roots of Palestinian frustration with the peace talks that followed the Oslo Accords, Palestinian analysts say. The creation of settlements required the confiscation of private and communal land and a permanent stationing of Israeli troops to protect settlers from hostile Palestinians, which in turn led to checkpoints and more friction with the Palestinians. Bypass roads built to segregate Israeli and Palestinian travelers also have meant more confiscations and further division of territory set aside for Palestinian rule under the Oslo Agreements. This has helped turn Palestinian controlled areas into an archipelago of unconnected islands.
Since conquering the West Bank, Israel has claimed large tracts for settlements and state land preserves. About 200,000 Israelis live among 2,000,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, in addition to 175,000 who live on the West Bank territory annexed to the Jerusalem municipality after 1967. In the Gaza Strip, a sandy coastal area, 1,000,000 Palestinians are squeezed on about 60 percent of the land, while 3,000 Jewish pioneers have settled on the rest in heavily guarded communities.
Sharon has vowed never to withdraw from any of the West Bank or Gaza Strip settlements, whether close to the Israeli border or deep inside the territories. He has spent the better part of his political career pushing their construction, citing the Jew’s biblical roots in what is now called the West Bank.” I believe his launching of Operation Defensive Shield will finally result in a containment buffer zone very similar to what I drew up and presented diagrammatically in Special Prophecy Update Number 65C. This will allow Israel to keep about 70 percent of her existing settlements outside the buffer zone. And the effectiveness of the buffer zone from internal terrorist attacks will allow all Israel outside the zone to say they have a time of “peace and safety.”
Brian Whitaker in Jerusalem, writing for The Guardian, on May 15th wrote: “Israel has secretly grabbed 42 percent of Palestinian land in the West Bank for illegal settlement activity, according to a new report.
Although the many built-up Jewish settlements cover only 1.7 percent of the West Bank, the Israeli authorities have used a variety of ruses since they occupied the territory in 1967 to assign vast areas of extra land to the settlers. Full details of the seizures have been made public for the first time by the Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem. In theory the documentary evidence has always been open for public inspection, but B’Tselem fought a year-long legal battle to get it released. B’Tselem found that municipal boundaries allocated to the settlements extend far beyond the built-up areas and account for 6.8 percent of the West Bank. BUT LAND ASSIGNED TO SETTLERS’ REGIONAL COUNCILS ADDS A FURTHER 35.1 PERCENT.
In truth, a genu ine last
ing peace cannot come in the Middle East until Christ returns.
The only type of peace that can occur at the present time is the “forced” false peace now being installed by Operation Defensive Shield, which will eventually lead to an external Jihad by many Arab nations from the north assisted by an internal breakout Jihad on the part of the Palestinians living inside the buffer zone.
End Prophecy Update 70C
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