LASTING PEACE WITHOUT DEFENSIBLE BORDERS ISN’T POSSIBLE
A BIBLICALLY PROPHESIED WAR MUST COME TO MIDDLE EAST,
I AGREE WITH IDF GENERAL STAFF CHIEF BENNY GANTZ AND
EXCERPT 2 – WAR ISN’T AS LIKELY TO BEGIN BEFORE 2013
AS IT IS TO BEGIN AT A POINT BETWEEN 2013 AND 2015
EXCERPT 1 SHOWS IMPOSSIBILITY OF LASTING PEACE!
June 22, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
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.
SAY – LEGO – To lay, lay together, to collect; then, to lay before, relate – It refers to the purport or sentiment of what is said and the connection of the words in the sentence or oration; in reference to the Scripture it denotes the statement of the Scriptures – Bullinger’s Critical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament
There are eight Greek words translated in the New Testament as “SAY.” Over the last 37 years I have come to believe the “SAY” in I Thessalonians 5:3 does not mean “they” are saying “we have” Peace and safety,” but are saying with great sentiment they greatly desire it as they cry out for it. The cry for peace in Israel has grown to a shrill worldwide volume since 1948.
And now, internal uprisings in Egypt and in Jordan are threatening to end their wobbling peace treaties with Israel, such that the cry saying “Peace and safety” has reached its highest historical pitch across an unstable planet.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
June 22, 2011
About the Defensible Borders Initiative
The Defensible Borders Initiative of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is the culmination of efforts by some of Israel’s leading military strategists, diplomats, international jurists, and parliamentarians to raise the international profile of Israel’s longstanding and internationally-sanctioned rights and requirements for secure and recognized boundaries.
This monograph is the first step in a much broader international effort that was launched on October 19, 2004, with a conference on Defensible Borders held jointly by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
The participants in the Defensible Borders Initiative have long recognized that the far-reaching concessions Israel has been prepared to make for peace have resulted in an unfortunate irony. The majority of the international community has forgotten what had been axiomatic after Israel vanquished six attacking armies in the Six-Day War of 1967.
UN Security Council Resolution 242 of November 22, 1967, granted Israel an international legal and moral mandate to retain territory in the disputed West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to establish defensible borders that could protect the country’s citizens and vital interests from further external attacks.
Ironically, this consensus was undermined by a sustained campaign of delegitimization of Israel’s international rights by the Palestinian leadership and Arab countries during and after the Oslo peace process. The Defensible Borders Initiative is a response to this campaign that led to highly politicized analyses of Israel’s international legal rights in many foreign government circles and the mass media.
A central aim of this report is to restore more intellectually rigorous analysis to the ongoing discussion over Israel’s future borders.
The broader Defensible Borders Initiative will involve briefings, seminars, and additional published reports that will expand upon Israel’s defense needs, national security requirements, and legal rights in the ongoing debate over the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process.
While it is still uncertain whether terrorism and tyranny will continue to prevail in the Middle East or whether freedom and democracy will take root, defensible borders will remain a vital safeguard for Israel’s future survival.
Dan Diker, Project Director, Defensible Borders Initiative;
Senior Policy Analyst, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Begin Excerpt 2 from THE JERUSALEM POST
Gantz on drill: I don’ t foresee us en
tering a conflict soon
By YAAKOV KATZ, HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF
06/22/2011 12:00
IDF chief discusses civil defense exercise “Turning Point 5” on Wednesday, says “this is neither the first one nor the last
one.”
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz surveyed the nationwide civil defense exercise, “Turning Point 5,” from Nazereth Illit on Wednesday.
“The drill has just begun,” he said, continuing, “This is neither the first one nor the last one. Nor is it a special drill. It is important to continue to train in order to be prepared.”
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Regarding the chances of a conflict erupting on the northern border with Lebanon and Syria or along the Gazan border in the south, Gantz stated, “I don’t foresee us entering a conflict any time soon. But reality is uncertain, and has the ability to change from one situation to another in a matter of hours. It is important to continue to train properly. Lessons will be learned from this exercise and we will continue it next year.”
IDF Home Front Commander Maj.-Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, who replaced Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan as head of the IDF Home Front Command last week, said that the IDF was conducting the drills in order to “prepare civilians for life-threatening scenarios.”
Also speaking about the drill on Wednesday, former head of IDF intelligence Amos Yadlin warned that the missiles being aimed at Israel today are not only targeted towards peripheral communities such as Sderot and Kiryat Shmona, but rather that “they are being aimed at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.”
Army Radio quoted Yadlin as saying “these missiles will not disappear, even if a peace agreement with the Palestinians is signed.”
An air raid siren sounded throughout the country on Wednesday as part of the exercise. The first siren was heard at 11 in the morning, with an additional siren scheduled for 7 in the evening.
The IDF Home Front Command decided to add an extra siren in the evening to enable families to practice their responses to missile attacks while at home together – not only in the mornings when people are either at work or in school.
The security cabinet met in an underground bunker in an undisclosed location in the Judean Hills on Wednesday as part of the drill. The bunker is meant for the prime minister and his cabinet in case of a missile attack.
Their special “emergency” meeting was scheduled for 8:30 a.m., and the ministers were asked not to bring any advisers or aides.
The Knesset also took part in the exercise on Wednesday, stopping a plenum discussion for ten minutes and evacuating to the building’s bomb shelter.
Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin said of the parliamentarians that they “see special importance that the Knesset take part in this exercise, not just as citizens of the state but rather because we are threatened and a target of attack.”
Meanwhile, on Tuesday – as part of the same war drill – dozens of the country’s spokespeople from a variety of governmental and security bodies simulated how they are to act in time of mass missile attacks.
Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i, who took part in the exercise, emphasized the importance of carrying out public diplomacy during times of war, saying that today the battle in the media is no less important than that at the front.
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