Headed for a Hudna False Peace in Israel!
February 28, 2007
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I have been waiting for a false peace to arrive on the scene in Israel for almost 40 years.
While there has been, and will continue to be, “many a slip betwixt the cup an the lip,” I do believe it is finally on the immediate horizon in Israel.
Since the last century, beginning in the 1970’s, I have believed the most likely time frame for the prophesied false peace to arrive in Israel would fall in a 2003 to 2012 time frame. By 2002 events made it apparent that it was unlikely to happen in the early part of that window, and I shifted it to the latter portion.
I have been guesstimating for some time that false peace, followed by a vicious Jihad from the north, would occur at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. I see nothing on the horizon to make me change my mind. The peoples, nations, immorality, hatred, geographical area, political elements, military plans, positioning of the necessary weaponry, and all of the other essential ingredients are in place, just as the Scriptures indicated they would be in the last days
Five things are happening in the Middle East that are encouraging me to believe a false peace will arrive in the 2008 to 2012 time frame: (1) The Quartet (US, EU, UN, and Russia) is weakening on their demands that Hamas recognize the existence of Israel as a state, renounce terror, and honor past agreements between the PA and Israel, as a prerequi site
to beginning peace talks with Israel, (2) The Israeli Government seems to be yielding to US pressure behind the scenes to negotiate with the PA, (3) The real leader of Hamas, Damascus based Mashaal, has promised Russia that Hamas will stop the rocket attacks against Israel, (4) Hamas is desperate to get the billions flowing again into PA coffers where they can get their hands on it, and (5) Hamas wants a hudna (false peace truce) to have the time to build up their forces in Gaza and the West Bank, in order to be a part of a great Jihad attack against Israel when they break the hudna to join the 10 Arab nation war led by Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Hizbullah.
Please take the time to read the following two Jerusalem Post articles from which the four following paragraph quotes were extracted.
Two Paragraph Quote from Article 1
“[The Quartet has demanded that any new Palestinian government recognize Israel’s right to exist, which Hamas has failed
to do.
However, since the power-sharing deal worked out this month, there has appeared to be a softening in the stance of some EU countries toward Hamas.]”
Two Paragraph Quote from Article 2
“[The fact that the Islamic leaders have agreed to a long-term hudna, provided
that a Palestinian state is created within the 1967 armistice lines, shows that the vast majority of Palestinians, Arab countries, the US and the international community are all in agreement about the two-state solution.
WHAT IS missing now is for the Israelis to agree to begin talks on how to accomplish this goal. Bush did declare it to be one that his administration was hoping to accomplish.
]”
Begin Jerusalem Post Article Number 1
Mashaal promises that Hamas will end rocket attacks
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 27, 2007
Hamas leader in exile Khaled Mashaal has promised that it will end missile attacks and other violence against Israel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.
“Hamas should use its authority to stop violence including missile attacks against Mashaal. “We received confirmation that such steps will be taken,” Lavrov said.
Earlier, Mashaal said that the group is not ready to recognize Israel, which has been a key demand of international peace negotiators.
“First of all, Israel has to end its occupation of Palestinian territory and put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people,” Khaled Mashaal said when asked about recognition of Israel during a news conference at the close of a trip to Russia.
“When Israel does that, the Palestinian people will make their position clear,” Mashaal said.
Russia – the most pro
-Hamas member of the so-called Quartet of Middle East peace brokers, which includes Russia, the EU, the United Nations and the United States – will work for international support of the Palestinian Authority power-sharing arrangement and for the lifting of Lavrov said earlier Tuesday.
Russia favors the agreement between Hamas and the Fatah group to share power because it shows “wisdom, reason and responsibility before the Palestinian people,” Lavrov said before a meeting with Mashaal.
“We are pushing for all members of the international community to support this process and make it irreversible, including efforts to lift the blockade,” Lavrov added.
Millions of dollars in crucial foreign aid were cut off after Hamas, which the European Union, United States and others consider a terrorist group, gained control of the Cabinet and the legislature in January 2006 elections.
The Quartet has demanded that any new Palestinian government recognize Israel’s right to exist, which Hamas has failed to do.
However, since the power-sharing deal worked out this month, there has appeared to be a softening in the stance of some EU countries toward Hamas.
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post Article Number 2
Support the Mecca agreement
Daoud Kuttab, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 26, 2007
It gives me pleasure, but at the same time it is kind of sad, to see the Israelis and the Americans squirming. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has flip-flopped from stating that his government neither supported nor opposed the Mecca agreement to trying to bypass US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by going directly to her boss to insist on the boycott of the yet-to-be-established Palestinian national unity government.
The Mecca agreement represents a clear shift in Hamas’s alignment, from the Iranian-Syria axis to the Saudi side. In response, however, US diplomats complain that this agreement “complicates things.”
This is a shameful position.
It is a shame for a superpower to say that the outcome of a democratic election – isn’t that supposed to be Bush’s legacy? – and a deal for
Palestinian unity aimed at ending internal Palestinian bloodletting and saving lives “complicates things.”
It is shameful that the Americans are demanding of Palestinians what they have not demanded of the Lebanese, Saudis or even of the Iraqi regime operating under US occupation.
Washington has not demanded that sovereign Arab countries recognize Israel. But it is demanding that a government that is not sovereign recognize the very state that is occupying its land – a state whose borders have yet to be determined.
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas interlocutors understood the international community’s insistence that new governments honor the agreements of previous governments, and this has happened.
So the issue of what to do with
the upcoming national unity government should not even have come up in tripartite meeting.
Rice, Olmert and Abbas had agreed weeks earlier to meet in order to kick-start direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. All the elements for these negotiations had been in place for some time.
Ever since the death of Yasser Arafat,
the Israelis have dragged their feet in agreeing on the resumption of permanent status talks.
The Mecca agreements strongly support Abbas in his mission to deal with the Israelis.
The Hamas-Fatah agreement clearly identifies the PLO as the party entrusted to continue negotiations.
The fact that the Islamic leaders have agreed to a long-term hudna, provided that a Palestinian state is created within the 1967 armistice lines, shows that the vast majority of Palestinians, Arab countries, the US and the international community are all in agreement about the two-state solution.
WHAT IS missing now is for the Israelis to agree to begin talks on how to accomplish this goal. Bush did declare it to be one that his administration was hoping to accomplish.
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