Saying PA “MUST” is NOT saying Hamas “WILL!”
February 24, 2007
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been playing the role of Peter Cottontail, hopping down the European Union bunny trail, crying out “Don’t throw the PA in the Briar Patch” – start sending us welfare money again, without Hamas officially meeting the three demands of the Quartet’s Peace Plan requirements. The only problem with meeting his request is that most of the money would go into the pockets of the majority PA party Hamas, and would be used to kill non-believers.
Although Abbas is better than Arafat, he does possess the same problem Arafat faced, and he does have one of his characteristics – He cannot control the other terrorist groups, and he does speak out of both sides of his mouth. There are many things in the Middle East situation that can have several different outcomes, and to say that one or the other is an absolutely certainty would be foolish. But there is one thing I say with absolutely certainty – It is absolutely impossibly to have anything other than a false peace between Israel and the PA, and any such peace will be followed by a great war in the Middle East.
The following Scriptures have always been God’s advice to his children, but if there ever was a time when we should heed them, it is NOW, as we see the day approaching.
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.
Hebrews 10:21-25 – And having an high priest over the house of God; [22] Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
[23] Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) [24] And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: [25] Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, AS YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
I Peter 2:4,5 – To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, [5] Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:21 – Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Begin Jerusalem Post article
Abbas: PA must recognize Israel and forswear violence
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 23, 2007
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the EU agreed Friday that the incoming Palestinian national unity government MUST recognize Israel’s right to exist and forswear violence.
At a press conference with EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana, Abbas sought to reassure international donors by saying, “We remain committed to the two-state solution, the recognition of Israel, renouncing violence and terror” and to adhere to existing agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.
Abbas was in Brussels after meeting earlier in the day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. He was seeking support for a resumption of direct international aid to the Palestinian government that was halted last summer after Hamas, which seeks Israel’ s de
struction, won parliamentary elections.
Merkel, whose country now holds the rotating EU presidency, said in Berlin that the power-sharing deal between Abbas’ Fatah faction and the militantly Islamic Hamas was positive because it stopped recent fighting between the two that cost some 130 lives.
“It is good that the bloodletting, especially in Gaza, has been stopped but there is a difficult stretch in front of us,” Merkel said after meeting with Abbas.
In Brussels, Abbas said that “the most important thing is to give Palestinians and Israelis new hope …that peace and stability is possible.”
In a nod to key demands of the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators, the US, the UN, Russia and the European Union, he agreed that the incoming unity government must recognize Israel’s right to exist, renounce violence and accept past peace deals.
However, a Fatah-Hamas agreement negotiated in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, says the new government must “respect” previous accords and makes no reference to recognizing Israel or renouncing violence.
Solana told reporters the EU continued to insist on the Quartet demands and was awaiting the formation of a national unity government before taking any decision on resuming direct aid.
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