Some of you may be interested in this PDF (from a booklet) that was written here in Western Australia. It comes from Maranatha Revival Crusade which was started and continues under Mr. Don Stanton, who for many years operated his preaching and prophecy mission out of India.

This is 38 pages, and is a fairly good and up-to-date analysis of the politcal gang up against Israel and its leaders. Hope that you get something from it.

Link: http://maranathamrc.com/MA44%20jerusalem%20besieged.pdf

Barry

MA#44 – JERUSALEM BESIEGED - APRIL 2010
JERUSALEM
A VERY HEAVY ROCK FOR ALL THE NATIONS
“The message of the word of YHWH concerning Israel. YHWH who stretches out
the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within
him, declares: ‘Look! I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all
the people around. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. And on that day,
when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem a
very heavy rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will be severely
injured’.” (Zechariah 12:2-3)
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Today, Jerusalem, the capital of ancient and modern Israel, is being surrounded by
enemies who are demanding that Israel divide the city, so that the eastern sector can
become the capital of a Palestinian state.
The nations are being motivated by rationalism, and their perceived solutions to the 4000-
year-old conflict between the Ishmaelites and the Israelites.
Long ago God provided a territorial solution. To the descendants of Abraham, through
Isaac and Jacob (Israel), He gave the land of Canaan:
“On that day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I
have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates’.” (Genesis 15:18)
To the descendants of Abraham through Ishmael, He gave the lands of Egypt and most of
the Middle East.
“And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Watch! I will bless him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve
princes, and I will make him into a great nation. But My covenant I will establish
with Isaac.” (Genesis 17:20-21)
The Muslim world has a religious capital - Mecca. And when Muslims in any part of
the world pray, they bow down facing Mecca.
The Jewish world has a religious capital – Jerusalem. Jews pray towards Jerusalem. And
in Jerusalem they pray facing the Western Wall of the Temple Mount.
The word Jerusalem is found in the Hebrew Bible some 800 times. It is not mentioned
even once in the Koran.
YHWH the LORD calls Zion (Jerusalem) His holy mountain, and He says regarding the
nations:
“Why do the nations rage and the people devise a vain thing? The kings of the earth
take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against YHWH and against
His Anointed - His Messiah: ‘Let us break Their chains,’ they say, ‘and throw off
Their fetters!’ He who is seated in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.
Then He rebukes them in His anger and terrifies them in His fury, saying, ‘I, yes, I
have installed My King on Zion, My holy mountain.” (Psalm 2:1-6)
The nations today, however, care little for what God has said. They listen rather to the
voice of expediency and rationalism. Whatever their puny finite minds can concoct, is
what infuses them with rash rhetoric and reckless policies.
The drive of the Arabic-Persian-Turkic nations is more understandable, for it is clear
from their holy book.
But Europe? Of course, Europe is well into a post-Christian era, so that the Bible does not
count for very much there. Australia is in much the same condition.
And what about the USA? Well, the people voted in a president who said the US is no
longer a Christian country, and that “Nobody should be concerned with a few obscure
Bible verses.” Barack Obama is proving to be the most anti-Israel US president since the
creation of the modern Zionist state in 1948.
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HISTORICAL JERUSALEM
Jerusalem was originally a small Jebusite city in the time of Abraham some 4,000 years
ago. It was established as the capital of Israel by King David, over 3,000 years ago. Even
when the land was later occupied by other nations, Jerusalem had a sizable Jewish
population. And it has never been a capital city of any of the nations that captured it.
In the Turkish Ottoman Empire Jerusalem was simply an outpost. In World War 1,
Jerusalem was liberated from the Turks by the British who then administered the land
under a mandate of the League of Nations.
In 1947 the United Nations voted and decided to partition “West Palestine,” and the
resolution called for Jerusalem to be placed under UN administration.
The Arab nations rejected the UN resolution and launched a war against the newly
declared state of Israel in 1948. The Jordanian army drove the Jews out of eastern
Jerusalem - the Old City - the City of David. The Jews held onto the western sectors.
Although the Jordanians controlled most of Samaria-Judea which they called “The West
Bank” for 19 years, there was no attempt to establish an Arab state in the territory, or to
set up a capital in Jerusalem.
1967 - JERUSALEM REUNITED
During the Six-day War of 1967, Jerusalem and the West Bank were liberated from the
Jordanians. Thereafter, Jews began to return to their former neighborhoods in the east,
north and south of Jerusalem, and they have remained there ever since. All areas of
Jerusalem were annexed to Israel, and the united city remains the nation’s capital.
The Palestinian Authority claims that the areas controlled by Jordan for 19 years,
rightfully belong to the Palestinian race and should become a capital of a future Arab
state.
The fact is that there has never been a Palestinian nation, a Palestinian race, a Palestinian
identity, a Palestinian government or currency. In the first half of the 20th century,
anyone living in Palestrina – (Palestine), including the Jews, was called Palestinians. In
those days the Palestine Post was a Jewish newspaper. The Palestine Philharmonic
Orchestra was a totally Jewish orchestra.
The people now called “Palestinians” are a hybrid race, made up of Arabs and Bedouins
from the nations around. Yasser Arafat was, in fact, an Egyptian.
Mahmoud Abbas was born in Safed, Galilee (Israel), but at the age of 13, he fled with his
parents, and settled in Syria. Like many of the Arabs, they were ordered by the Arab
leaders to temporarily get out of the Jewish areas. They were promised that after the Jews
were wiped out, they would return and take over the whole land. But that never
happened! And they found them-selves as refugees in Jordan, Egyptian-Gaza, Lebanon,
Syria, and the Persian Gulf. Abbas graduated from Damascus University, then went to
Egypt to study law.
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JEWS AND ARABS
Israel is a predominately Jewish nation, and the majority of the first citizens were Jewish
émigrés from Soviet and European nations. After 1948, Jews “returned” to Israel from all
over the world. Today, the majority of Israelis have been born in the land.
The total Israeli citizenship is nearing 7 million; about 6 million are Jews, and one
million are Arabs – mostly descendants of those who remained in the land during the
1948-49 war.
“The Palestinians” are not Israelis. Prior to 1967 they were Arabs living under Jordan and
Egypt. Since 1967 neither Egypt nor Jordan has wanted them! So they now claim to be
an ancient ‘Palestinian’ race. (There is no evidence they descended from the Philistines).
The Palestinians, as people, of course, need to be settled. Several million “refugees”
(which are mostly descendants of original refugees, have long been settled in their host
countries - but they have often been a problem to their hosts.
After 1967, Israel accommodated the Arabs within the liberated territories – Judea,
Samaria, Gaza and E. Jerusalem, and most were doing well. But when the PLO was
formed, it fomented trouble in Israel, as it did also in Jordan and Lebanon.
Gaza, in particular, became a hotbed of terrorism. Israel finally decided to give the Gaza
Strip to the Palestinians there, to administer, and to develop as a prosperous community
in harmony with both Egypt and Israel. But the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt had
created the Hamas movement in Gaza, and its agenda was nothing less than the
destruction of Israel. So instead of prosperity and freedom, Gazans reaped the opposite.
In the West Bank, instead of living in peace and prosperity, radical Palestinians
encouraged countless suicide bombings in Israeli cities, which forced Israel to build
protective barriers and a security wall around the territory.
Although the Palestinian Authority has recognised Israel (because of the Oslo Accord in
1993), the main party in the West Bank, Fatah, like Hamas, still maintains a charter that
calls for Israel to be wiped out.
Basically the Palestinians don’t want to live alongside Israel; and the Arab nations, and
Iran, do not want a Jewish state in the Middle East. And of course, the Jews are not
thrilled to be surrounded by hostile Arabs.
WHY PEACE EFFORTS HAVE FAILED
Numerous Israeli leaders and American presidents, have striven to produce a solution.
George Bush Snr, forced Palestinian and Israeli leaders to sit together after the first Gulf
War. Bill Clinton oversaw the signing of the Oslo Accord in 1993, and the Camp David
talks in 1980, with the hope of producing a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But he also
failed ... because Yasser Arafat would not budge from his demands. Next, George Bush
Jnr, declared that he would bring peace to the Middle East; and his secretary of state,
Condoleezza Rice tried her level best to achieve it – and they also failed.
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Now, the new “messiah” President Barack Obama, along with the international
“Quartet,” is determined to solve the problem – even if it means imposing a US-EU-UNcrafted
remedy upon Israel – and even if that remedy reduces Israel to a mini-state within
the 1967’s indefensible borders. (Understandably, Israel is not willing to accept such a
suicide solution.)
But Obama’s hard line towards Israel has encouraged the Palestinians to take an even
more uncompromising stand - which makes a reasonable solution even more improbable.
There is no “solution,” except world war. Even the Antichrist’s 7-year peace treaty
will not bring “peace” for more than a few months.
War is a solution that no-one wants – no-one except Iran, and the insiders who plan to
impose global governance on the world. And that world government agenda is the
motivation for the powers of darkness to draw all nations up to the Valley of
Jehoshaphat – the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, for battle.
The LORD warns of this through Joel the prophet:
“Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who
live in the land tremble, for the day of YHWH is coming; surely it is near - a day of
darkness and gloom; a day of clouds and gross darkness. As the dawn is spread
over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people coming; there has never
been anything like it, nor will there ever be in the ages to come. A fire consumes
before them, and behind them a flame burns ...
“Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon grow
dark, and the stars no longer shine. YHWH thunders at the head of His army.
Surely His camp is very great, and strong is the One who carries out His word. The
day of YHWH is indeed great and very awesome; who can endure it? …
“Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the
men of war draw near; let them come up to attack! Beat your plowshares into
swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
“Come quickly all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together! Bring
down, O YHWH, Your mighty ones! Let the nations be aroused and come up to the
Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.”
(Joel 2:1-3. 3:10-12)
OBAMA’S FEUD WITH ISRAEL
After he was sworn in as president in Jan 2009, Barack Obama began a courtship with the
Islamic nations, and at the same time distanced himself from Israel. In his first 14
months in office he has visited Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Djibouti, Ghana, Germany,
Afghanistan, and South America, and has even shaken the hand of Hugo Chavez (an
outspoken enemy of the US). But while Obama visited Israel before the elections, he has
since bypassed his “strategic partner.”
Evidently he wants to show the Arab world that far from favouring the Jewish state, he
intends to bring it to its knees.
Obama’s envoy, George Mitchell, has had very little success with the Middle East peace
process over the past year - that is, if we are thinking of a true solution. Mitchell, of
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course, has long been pro-Palestinian, and formerly he was a director in the Council on
Foreign Relations which is pushing for world governance.
After a stalemate in year-long talks, in 2008, Mahmoud Abbas changed tactics. He now
demands concessions before starting talks again.
After all Barack Obama’s failed foreign initiatives, this “breakthrough” evidently
encouraged him with something positive - something that now looked possible. So he
sent his Vice-President, Joe Biden, to Israel, ostensibly to rebuild ties.
JOE BIDEN’S VISIT TO ISRAEL
Vice President Biden’s visit to Israel in mid-March was supposed to promote Americanmediated
talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel, with a view of
producing a new Palestinian state.
In the beginning, all went well. Biden met with both Israeli President Shimon Peres and
PM Benjamin Netanyahu. During a joint press conference with Netanyahu, Biden praised
Israel for restarting the peace process, and said that America was committed to Israel’s
security.
Netanyahu in turn expressed thanks to the US for its leadership against Iran’s nuclear
weapons program. “I very much appreciate the efforts of President Obama and the
American government to lead the international community to place tough sanctions on
Iran,” he said.
Shortly thereafter, Israel’s Interior Ministry, which is run by the ultra-orthodox,
nationalist party, Shas, made the ill-timed announcement - that it was going ahead with
plans to build 1600 new homes in the Jewish neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo – in the
north-west of Jerusalem.
This announcement was a surprise apparently, to both Biden and Netanyahu. The prime
minister apologised to his guest over the bad timing of the announcement.
BIDEN SIDES UP WITH PALESTINIANS
The man who came to Israel on a charm offensive, could no longer hide the truth about
where the Obama administration’s true sympathies lie. After declaring his undying love
and fidelity to Israel just hours before, Biden switched gears and condemned Israel for
“undermining” prospects for peace.
The next day Mr Biden stood side by side with Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, and
condemned Israel for its decision to continue building in Jerusalem. He also said that the
Palestinians deserve a “viable and contiguous” independent state that is not broken up by
Israeli settlements.
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The day after Biden left his Palestinian partners in Ramallah, the PA honored Dalal
Mughrabi, the leader of the deadliest-ever terrorist attack in Israel, by naming a square in
Ramallah after her.
BIDEN BLIGHTS US-ISRAEL RELATIONS
On Mar 12/10, the washingtontimes.com reported that the fallout from Biden’s 48 hours
in Israel undid a year of effort by the Israeli government to build a foreign policy, and an
understanding with Washington as the bedrock of a coordinated proactive policy on Iran.
But instead of ironing out misunderstandings which have marred relations, the visitor
struck out on his own as America’s would-be Middle East policy overlord.
Biden came to the region with three missions: to sweeten US-Israeli relations, celebrate
the launching of indirect Israel-Palestinian peace talks, and to underscore the
commonality of US-Israeli purpose on Iran. As it happened, he fell down on all three
counts; instead, launching an independent Middle East posture at odds with the White
House’s avowed policies.
Instead of smoothing ruffled feathers in Jerusalem with interviews to the host media, VP
Biden snubbed them all and granted the only interview of his trip to the Arabic Al
Jazeera TV, whose news content is sharply slanted against Israel, US military campaigns,
and the Western war on terror.
By ending his Israel visit with the Al Jazeera interview, Joe Biden showed exactly how
he felt about Israel. And so the worst crisis between the US and Israel since the 1970s
began; and Biden’s visit ended up as a fiasco.
BIDEN’S PRIVATE TALKS NOT SO SWEET
According to debkafile’s sources, “the sweetness and light” conveyed in public
statements was hardly present in the Vice President’s private talks with Israeli leaders.
Netanyahu may have approved the Jerusalem announcement as an indirect comeback for
the way the American visitor was laying down the law on a number of issues of Israeli
concern, chiefly the matter of Iran’s rapid progress toward a nuclear weapon. But the
announcement was certainly a forthright statement on the Interior Ministry’s resistance to
the division of Jerusalem.
The peremptory word (dictatorial demands) was first heard at Biden’s meeting with
President Shimon Peres. There he explicitly warned Israel against venturing to attack
Iran without prior American permission.
Even the oft-repeated American commitment to Israel’s security was delivered with this
notable reservation:
“I can promise the people of Israel that we will confront every security challenge that we
will face,” Biden said. But this statement ruled out any unilateral Israel operation in
its own defence. Forget unilateral action, he was saying: From now on, “we” will make
the decisions about the levels of “security challenge” facing Israel and how to “confront
it.”
Jerusalem was also taken aback by Biden’s assertion that Iran was isolated as never
before. A distorted prism was held up by the Obama administration to justify its
backtracking on painful sanctions for Iran.
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Sanctions had been explicitly promised by the White House to Netanyahu and to
Defence Minister Ehud Barak in return for Israel’s consent to hold back from striking
Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Biden’s visit to Israel, therefore, far from meeting its avowed goal of smoothing over the
differences between the Obama administration and Israel, left Jerusalem more distrustful
than ever.
MEDIA AND POLITICAL BLOWS
Binyamin Netanyahu copped the heat for the crisis that erupted with the approval of new
construction in Ramat Shlomo - a town located in a part of Jerusalem that was restored to
Israel when Jerusalem was reunited after the Six Day War – a reunion the US does not
recognize.
Much of the media criticized the PM for embarrassing Biden, although Netanyahu
insisted he had nothing to do with the timing of the announcement.
Much of the foreign and Israeli media placed Israel in a bad light for upsetting American
plans to mediate between the PA and Israel for a new Arab state within Israel’s borders.
However, an “editor-at-large” for UPI, which generally reports with less bias than other
news agencies, commented that the “anaemic Middle East ‘peace process’ is beginning to
look like The Fool’s Errand.”
CLINTON REPRIMANDS NETANYAHU
After the initial media and political blows were delivered to Netanyahu, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton gave him a 43-minute telephone tongue lashing, and then followed
that up with an unprecedented and scathing public attack on him.
Clinton told CNN news on March 13: “The announcement of the settlements on the very
day that the vice president was there was insulting.” A State Department spokesman said
that Clinton called Israel’s PM “to make clear that the US considered the announcement
to be a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship and
counter to the spirit of the vice president’s trip.”
White House political advisor David Axelrod then continued the attack by publicly
calling Israel’s Ramat Shlomo announcement an “affront” and an “insult,” surprising
Israeli government officials who expected calmer words. President Obama also was
reportedly deeply upset that the Israeli government would announce plans to build homes
in East Jerusalem -- especially during the visit of his vice president.
“JERUSALEM BUILDING WILL CONTINUE”
On Mar 15, PM Netanyahu switched from apologies to the Obama administration, and
went on the offensive. Buoyed by virtually unanimous Cabinet support, he told Likud
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Knesset Members (MKs) at a party meeting, “Building in Jerusalem and in all other
places will continue in the same way that has been accepted in the last 42 years. The
construction does not harm Arabs.”
In response to a question posed by a strongly nationalistic MK concerning the 10-
month building freeze on new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria, Netanyahu said “the
freeze was a ‘goodwill’ gesture to President Obama, to entice the PA to resume
negotiations. It is ‘binding,’ but will not be extended.”
U.S. DETERMINED TO STOP ISRAEL BUILDING
With the Obama administration apparently not making any effort to tone down the
rhetoric against Netanyahu, American political analysts have commented that the
president may be trying to topple the Israeli government.
The Obama government insists it is not imposing terms on Israel. But in fact, it has been
paving the ground for Israel to stop building in the restored parts of Jerusalem, at least
until a final agreement is made with the PA.
The Arab world, however, is standing firm that there is no ground for negotiations – not
until all their claims to the Old City and Judea-Samaria are met.
TRUE COLOURS
Biden, Clinton and the Obama administration have now shown their true colors to the
Israeli government.
Biden, standing shoulder to shoulder with terrorists, said that Israel needs to play fair!
Next, Clinton’s 43-minute tongue lashing for “embarrassing” Biden; and then Obama’s
hostile White House behaviour to his “close ally.”
All three - Biden, Clinton and Obama - have been severely criticized in the media and
elsewhere for over-reacting, and for what appeared as gross interference in Israeli affairs.
ISRAEL-US TIES IN WORST CRISIS SINCE 1975
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was quoted by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper telling
other Israeli diplomats in a telephone briefing, “Israel’s ties with the United States are in
their worst crisis since 1975 ... a crisis of historic proportions.”
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REPUBLICANS LEAD BACKLASH AGAINST OBAMA
President Obama is behind the public chastising of PM Netanyahu over the housing plan,
according to the New York Times. But his handling of the diplomatic crisis is being
increasingly criticized in the US.
American Jewish and non-Jewish groups have rallied to the side of Israel, charging the
Obama administration with miscalculating widespread Israeli opposition to American
efforts to create a de facto PA claim to parts of Jerusalem.
Republican Party leaders attacked the Obama administration with unusually harsh
language, charging it with an “irresponsible” position against an ally.
“In an effort to ingratiate our country with the Arab world, this administration has
shown a troubling eagerness to undercut our allies and friends,” said the only
Jewish Republican Congressman, Eric Cantor of Virginia. Cantor went so far as to say
that the dispute “jeopardizes America’s national security.”
A leading Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, charged that the Obama
government’s condemnations of “an indispensable ally and friend of the United States …
undermine both our allies and the peace process, while encouraging the enemies of
America and Israel alike. She noted that President Obama has taken “softer approaches”
towards the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Iran.
Senator Sam Brownback’s office stated, “It’s hard to see how spending a weekend
condemning Israel for a zoning decision in its capital city amounts to a positive step
towards peace.”
Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement saying, “The Administration’s
decision to escalate its rhetoric following Joe Biden’s visit to Israel is not merely
irresponsible; it is an affront to the values and foundation of our long-term relationship
with a close friend and ally.”
According to the Republican leader, “The Administration has demonstrated a repeated
pattern since it took office: while it makes concessions to countries acting contrary to US
national interests, it ignores or snubs the commitments, shared values and
sacrifices of many of our country’s best allies.
“If the Administration wants to work toward resolving the conflict in the Middle East, it
should focus its efforts on Iran’s behavior, including its pursuit of nuclear

Maybe you can open this:
http://maranathamrc.com/ma044.htm

Look YHWH will not be mocked by BO or Biden, or anybody who tried to impose human solution.

Watch, they all be fall like leaves from the tree not by human effort but by Our Lord YHWH.

Then my Lord Yeshua will come and drive all the enemies of Israel out of the sight as they found none of them as if they never exist.

My Beloved one Yeshua, come and defends Your People, the apple of Your Eyes, so that people will know who You are and give You praise and worship.
Who can stand against You My Mighty Prince who will defeat all the enemies of Israel, who will grant what YHWH has promised to Abraham, to Ishack, to Yacov, arise my King let the whole world know that Your Word will stand forever even the earth and heaven could pass away and all the voice of humans will pass away like winds and found nothing in it.

Your Blessing upon Your People Israel and salvation and security and peace upon Israel and Yerushalayim. By Your love You defeat all the enemies of Israel put the entire world to wonder of how You Mighty King of Israel has defended Israel and humiliated the power of darkness to none. For You alone will act and restore Israel put the flesh heart in her so she will long for You and then her sickness be healed and her curse be lifted up from her and she will be the most gorgeous one as before. She will be no more death but alive and alive for You my Prince Yeshua who is the real King of Israel forever.
In Yeshua's Mighty name, the True Defender of Israel, I pray. Amen.

MA44 Jerusalem Besieged

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SNC

joyful susan

MA#44 – JERUSALEM BESIEGED - APRIL 2010
JERUSALEM
A VERY HEAVY ROCK FOR ALL THE NATIONS
“The message of the word of YHWH concerning Israel. YHWH who stretches out
the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within
him, declares: ‘Look! I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all
the people around. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. And on that day,
when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem a
very heavy rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will be severely
injured’.” (Zechariah 12:2-3)
1
Today, Jerusalem, the capital of ancient and modern Israel, is being surrounded by
enemies who are demanding that Israel divide the city, so that the eastern sector can
become the capital of a Palestinian state.
The nations are being motivated by rationalism, and their perceived solutions to the 4000-
year-old conflict between the Ishmaelites and the Israelites.
Long ago God provided a territorial solution. To the descendants of Abraham, through
Isaac and Jacob (Israel), He gave the land of Canaan:
“On that day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I
have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates’.” (Genesis 15:1
To the descendants of Abraham through Ishmael, He gave the lands of Egypt and most of
the Middle East.
“And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Watch! I will bless him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve
princes, and I will make him into a great nation. But My covenant I will establish
with Isaac.” (Genesis 17:20-21)
The Muslim world has a religious capital - Mecca. And when Muslims in any part of
the world pray, they bow down facing Mecca.
The Jewish world has a religious capital – Jerusalem. Jews pray towards Jerusalem. And
in Jerusalem they pray facing the Western Wall of the Temple Mount.
The word Jerusalem is found in the Hebrew Bible some 800 times. It is not mentioned
even once in the Koran.
YHWH the LORD calls Zion (Jerusalem) His holy mountain, and He says regarding the
nations:
“Why do the nations rage and the people devise a vain thing? The kings of the earth
take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against YHWH and against
His Anointed - His Messiah: ‘Let us break Their chains,’ they say, ‘and throw off
Their fetters!’ He who is seated in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.
Then He rebukes them in His anger and terrifies them in His fury, saying, ‘I, yes, I
have installed My King on Zion, My holy mountain.” (Psalm 2:1-6)
The nations today, however, care little for what God has said. They listen rather to the
voice of expediency and rationalism. Whatever their puny finite minds can concoct, is
what infuses them with rash rhetoric and reckless policies.
The drive of the Arabic-Persian-Turkic nations is more understandable, for it is clear
from their holy book.
But Europe? Of course, Europe is well into a post-Christian era, so that the Bible does not
count for very much there. Australia is in much the same condition.
And what about the USA? Well, the people voted in a president who said the US is no
longer a Christian country, and that “Nobody should be concerned with a few obscure
Bible verses.” Barack Obama is proving to be the most anti-Israel US president since the
creation of the modern Zionist state in 1948.
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HISTORICAL JERUSALEM
Jerusalem was originally a small Jebusite city in the time of Abraham some 4,000 years
ago. It was established as the capital of Israel by King David, over 3,000 years ago. Even
when the land was later occupied by other nations, Jerusalem had a sizable Jewish
population. And it has never been a capital city of any of the nations that captured it.
In the Turkish Ottoman Empire Jerusalem was simply an outpost. In World War 1,
Jerusalem was liberated from the Turks by the British who then administered the land
under a mandate of the League of Nations.
In 1947 the United Nations voted and decided to partition “West Palestine,” and the
resolution called for Jerusalem to be placed under UN administration.
The Arab nations rejected the UN resolution and launched a war against the newly
declared state of Israel in 1948. The Jordanian army drove the Jews out of eastern
Jerusalem - the Old City - the City of David. The Jews held onto the western sectors.
Although the Jordanians controlled most of Samaria-Judea which they called “The West
Bank” for 19 years, there was no attempt to establish an Arab state in the territory, or to
set up a capital in Jerusalem.
1967 - JERUSALEM REUNITED
During the Six-day War of 1967, Jerusalem and the West Bank were liberated from the
Jordanians. Thereafter, Jews began to return to their former neighborhoods in the east,
north and south of Jerusalem, and they have remained there ever since. All areas of
Jerusalem were annexed to Israel, and the united city remains the nation’s capital.
The Palestinian Authority claims that the areas controlled by Jordan for 19 years,
rightfully belong to the Palestinian race and should become a capital of a future Arab
state.
The fact is that there has never been a Palestinian nation, a Palestinian race, a Palestinian
identity, a Palestinian government or currency. In the first half of the 20th century,
anyone living in Palestrina – (Palestine), including the Jews, was called Palestinians. In
those days the Palestine Post was a Jewish newspaper. The Palestine Philharmonic
Orchestra was a totally Jewish orchestra.
The people now called “Palestinians” are a hybrid race, made up of Arabs and Bedouins
from the nations around. Yasser Arafat was, in fact, an Egyptian.
Mahmoud Abbas was born in Safed, Galilee (Israel), but at the age of 13, he fled with his
parents, and settled in Syria. Like many of the Arabs, they were ordered by the Arab
leaders to temporarily get out of the Jewish areas. They were promised that after the Jews
were wiped out, they would return and take over the whole land. But that never
happened! And they found them-selves as refugees in Jordan, Egyptian-Gaza, Lebanon,
Syria, and the Persian Gulf. Abbas graduated from Damascus University, then went to
Egypt to study law.
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JEWS AND ARABS
Israel is a predominately Jewish nation, and the majority of the first citizens were Jewish
émigrés from Soviet and European nations. After 1948, Jews “returned” to Israel from all
over the world. Today, the majority of Israelis have been born in the land.
The total Israeli citizenship is nearing 7 million; about 6 million are Jews, and one
million are Arabs – mostly descendants of those who remained in the land during the
1948-49 war.
“The Palestinians” are not Israelis. Prior to 1967 they were Arabs living under Jordan and
Egypt. Since 1967 neither Egypt nor Jordan has wanted them! So they now claim to be
an ancient ‘Palestinian’ race. (There is no evidence they descended from the Philistines).
The Palestinians, as people, of course, need to be settled. Several million “refugees”
(which are mostly descendants of original refugees, have long been settled in their host
countries - but they have often been a problem to their hosts.
After 1967, Israel accommodated the Arabs within the liberated territories – Judea,
Samaria, Gaza and E. Jerusalem, and most were doing well. But when the PLO was
formed, it fomented trouble in Israel, as it did also in Jordan and Lebanon.
Gaza, in particular, became a hotbed of terrorism. Israel finally decided to give the Gaza
Strip to the Palestinians there, to administer, and to develop as a prosperous community
in harmony with both Egypt and Israel. But the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt had
created the Hamas movement in Gaza, and its agenda was nothing less than the
destruction of Israel. So instead of prosperity and freedom, Gazans reaped the opposite.
In the West Bank, instead of living in peace and prosperity, radical Palestinians
encouraged countless suicide bombings in Israeli cities, which forced Israel to build
protective barriers and a security wall around the territory.
Although the Palestinian Authority has recognised Israel (because of the Oslo Accord in
1993), the main party in the West Bank, Fatah, like Hamas, still maintains a charter that
calls for Israel to be wiped out.
Basically the Palestinians don’t want to live alongside Israel; and the Arab nations, and
Iran, do not want a Jewish state in the Middle East. And of course, the Jews are not
thrilled to be surrounded by hostile Arabs.
WHY PEACE EFFORTS HAVE FAILED
Numerous Israeli leaders and American presidents, have striven to produce a solution.
George Bush Snr, forced Palestinian and Israeli leaders to sit together after the first Gulf
War. Bill Clinton oversaw the signing of the Oslo Accord in 1993, and the Camp David
talks in 1980, with the hope of producing a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But he also
failed ... because Yasser Arafat would not budge from his demands. Next, George Bush
Jnr, declared that he would bring peace to the Middle East; and his secretary of state,
Condoleezza Rice tried her level best to achieve it – and they also failed.
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Now, the new “messiah” President Barack Obama, along with the international
“Quartet,” is determined to solve the problem – even if it means imposing a US-EU-UNcrafted
remedy upon Israel – and even if that remedy reduces Israel to a mini-state within
the 1967’s indefensible borders. (Understandably, Israel is not willing to accept such a
suicide solution.)
But Obama’s hard line towards Israel has encouraged the Palestinians to take an even
more uncompromising stand - which makes a reasonable solution even more improbable.
There is no “solution,” except world war. Even the Antichrist’s 7-year peace treaty
will not bring “peace” for more than a few months.
War is a solution that no-one wants – no-one except Iran, and the insiders who plan to
impose global governance on the world. And that world government agenda is the
motivation for the powers of darkness to draw all nations up to the Valley of
Jehoshaphat – the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, for battle.
The LORD warns of this through Joel the prophet:
“Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who
live in the land tremble, for the day of YHWH is coming; surely it is near - a day of
darkness and gloom; a day of clouds and gross darkness. As the dawn is spread
over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people coming; there has never
been anything like it, nor will there ever be in the ages to come. A fire consumes
before them, and behind them a flame burns ...
“Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon grow
dark, and the stars no longer shine. YHWH thunders at the head of His army.
Surely His camp is very great, and strong is the One who carries out His word. The
day of YHWH is indeed great and very awesome; who can endure it? …
“Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the
men of war draw near; let them come up to attack! Beat your plowshares into
swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
“Come quickly all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together! Bring
down, O YHWH, Your mighty ones! Let the nations be aroused and come up to the
Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.”
(Joel 2:1-3. 3:10-12)
OBAMA’S FEUD WITH ISRAEL
After he was sworn in as president in Jan 2009, Barack Obama began a courtship with the
Islamic nations, and at the same time distanced himself from Israel. In his first 14
months in office he has visited Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Djibouti, Ghana, Germany,
Afghanistan, and South America, and has even shaken the hand of Hugo Chavez (an
outspoken enemy of the US). But while Obama visited Israel before the elections, he has
since bypassed his “strategic partner.”
Evidently he wants to show the Arab world that far from favouring the Jewish state, he
intends to bring it to its knees.
Obama’s envoy, George Mitchell, has had very little success with the Middle East peace
process over the past year - that is, if we are thinking of a true solution. Mitchell, of
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course, has long been pro-Palestinian, and formerly he was a director in the Council on
Foreign Relations which is pushing for world governance.
After a stalemate in year-long talks, in 2008, Mahmoud Abbas changed tactics. He now
demands concessions before starting talks again.
After all Barack Obama’s failed foreign initiatives, this “breakthrough” evidently
encouraged him with something positive - something that now looked possible. So he
sent his Vice-President, Joe Biden, to Israel, ostensibly to rebuild ties.
JOE BIDEN’S VISIT TO ISRAEL
Vice President Biden’s visit to Israel in mid-March was supposed to promote Americanmediated
talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel, with a view of
producing a new Palestinian state.
In the beginning, all went well. Biden met with both Israeli President Shimon Peres and
PM Benjamin Netanyahu. During a joint press conference with Netanyahu, Biden praised
Israel for restarting the peace process, and said that America was committed to Israel’s
security.
Netanyahu in turn expressed thanks to the US for its leadership against Iran’s nuclear
weapons program. “I very much appreciate the efforts of President Obama and the
American government to lead the international community to place tough sanctions on
Iran,” he said.
Shortly thereafter, Israel’s Interior Ministry, which is run by the ultra-orthodox,
nationalist party, Shas, made the ill-timed announcement - that it was going ahead with
plans to build 1600 new homes in the Jewish neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo – in the
north-west of Jerusalem.
This announcement was a surprise apparently, to both Biden and Netanyahu. The prime
minister apologised to his guest over the bad timing of the announcement.
BIDEN SIDES UP WITH PALESTINIANS
The man who came to Israel on a charm offensive, could no longer hide the truth about
where the Obama administration’s true sympathies lie. After declaring his undying love
and fidelity to Israel just hours before, Biden switched gears and condemned Israel for
“undermining” prospects for peace.
The next day Mr Biden stood side by side with Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, and
condemned Israel for its decision to continue building in Jerusalem. He also said that the
Palestinians deserve a “viable and contiguous” independent state that is not broken up by
Israeli settlements.
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The day after Biden left his Palestinian partners in Ramallah, the PA honored Dalal
Mughrabi, the leader of the deadliest-ever terrorist attack in Israel, by naming a square in
Ramallah after her.
BIDEN BLIGHTS US-ISRAEL RELATIONS
On Mar 12/10, the washingtontimes.com reported that the fallout from Biden’s 48 hours
in Israel undid a year of effort by the Israeli government to build a foreign policy, and an
understanding with Washington as the bedrock of a coordinated proactive policy on Iran.
But instead of ironing out misunderstandings which have marred relations, the visitor
struck out on his own as America’s would-be Middle East policy overlord.
Biden came to the region with three missions: to sweeten US-Israeli relations, celebrate
the launching of indirect Israel-Palestinian peace talks, and to underscore the
commonality of US-Israeli purpose on Iran. As it happened, he fell down on all three
counts; instead, launching an independent Middle East posture at odds with the White
House’s avowed policies.
Instead of smoothing ruffled feathers in Jerusalem with interviews to the host media, VP
Biden snubbed them all and granted the only interview of his trip to the Arabic Al
Jazeera TV, whose news content is sharply slanted against Israel, US military campaigns,
and the Western war on terror.
By ending his Israel visit with the Al Jazeera interview, Joe Biden showed exactly how
he felt about Israel. And so the worst crisis between the US and Israel since the 1970s
began; and Biden’s visit ended up as a fiasco.
BIDEN’S PRIVATE TALKS NOT SO SWEET
According to debkafile’s sources, “the sweetness and light” conveyed in public
statements was hardly present in the Vice President’s private talks with Israeli leaders.
Netanyahu may have approved the Jerusalem announcement as an indirect comeback for
the way the American visitor was laying down the law on a number of issues of Israeli
concern, chiefly the matter of Iran’s rapid progress toward a nuclear weapon. But the
announcement was certainly a forthright statement on the Interior Ministry’s resistance to
the division of Jerusalem.
The peremptory word (dictatorial demands) was first heard at Biden’s meeting with
President Shimon Peres. There he explicitly warned Israel against venturing to attack
Iran without prior American permission.
Even the oft-repeated American commitment to Israel’s security was delivered with this
notable reservation:
“I can promise the people of Israel that we will confront every security challenge that we
will face,” Biden said. But this statement ruled out any unilateral Israel operation in
its own defence. Forget unilateral action, he was saying: From now on, “we” will make
the decisions about the levels of “security challenge” facing Israel and how to “confront
it.”
Jerusalem was also taken aback by Biden’s assertion that Iran was isolated as never
before. A distorted prism was held up by the Obama administration to justify its
backtracking on painful sanctions for Iran.
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Sanctions had been explicitly promised by the White House to Netanyahu and to
Defence Minister Ehud Barak in return for Israel’s consent to hold back from striking
Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Biden’s visit to Israel, therefore, far from meeting its avowed goal of smoothing over the
differences between the Obama administration and Israel, left Jerusalem more distrustful
than ever.
MEDIA AND POLITICAL BLOWS
Binyamin Netanyahu copped the heat for the crisis that erupted with the approval of new
construction in Ramat Shlomo - a town located in a part of Jerusalem that was restored to
Israel when Jerusalem was reunited after the Six Day War – a reunion the US does not
recognize.
Much of the media criticized the PM for embarrassing Biden, although Netanyahu
insisted he had nothing to do with the timing of the announcement.
Much of the foreign and Israeli media placed Israel in a bad light for upsetting American
plans to mediate between the PA and Israel for a new Arab state within Israel’s borders.
However, an “editor-at-large” for UPI, which generally reports with less bias than other
news agencies, commented that the “anaemic Middle East ‘peace process’ is beginning to
look like The Fool’s Errand.”
CLINTON REPRIMANDS NETANYAHU
After the initial media and political blows were delivered to Netanyahu, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton gave him a 43-minute telephone tongue lashing, and then followed
that up with an unprecedented and scathing public attack on him.
Clinton told CNN news on March 13: “The announcement of the settlements on the very
day that the vice president was there was insulting.” A State Department spokesman said
that Clinton called Israel’s PM “to make clear that the US considered the announcement
to be a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship and
counter to the spirit of the vice president’s trip.”
White House political advisor David Axelrod then continued the attack by publicly
calling Israel’s Ramat Shlomo announcement an “affront” and an “insult,” surprising
Israeli government officials who expected calmer words. President Obama also was
reportedly deeply upset that the Israeli government would announce plans to build homes
in East Jerusalem -- especially during the visit of his vice president.
“JERUSALEM BUILDING WILL CONTINUE”
On Mar 15, PM Netanyahu switched from apologies to the Obama administration, and
went on the offensive. Buoyed by virtually unanimous Cabinet support, he told Likud
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Knesset Members (MKs) at a party meeting, “Building in Jerusalem and in all other
places will continue in the same way that has been accepted in the last 42 years. The
construction does not harm Arabs.”
In response to a question posed by a strongly nationalistic MK concerning the 10-
month building freeze on new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria, Netanyahu said “the
freeze was a ‘goodwill’ gesture to President Obama, to entice the PA to resume
negotiations. It is ‘binding,’ but will not be extended.”
U.S. DETERMINED TO STOP ISRAEL BUILDING
With the Obama administration apparently not making any effort to tone down the
rhetoric against Netanyahu, American political analysts have commented that the
president may be trying to topple the Israeli government.
The Obama government insists it is not imposing terms on Israel. But in fact, it has been
paving the ground for Israel to stop building in the restored parts of Jerusalem, at least
until a final agreement is made with the PA.
The Arab world, however, is standing firm that there is no ground for negotiations – not
until all their claims to the Old City and Judea-Samaria are met.
TRUE COLOURS
Biden, Clinton and the Obama administration have now shown their true colors to the
Israeli government.
Biden, standing shoulder to shoulder with terrorists, said that Israel needs to play fair!
Next, Clinton’s 43-minute tongue lashing for “embarrassing” Biden; and then Obama’s
hostile White House behaviour to his “close ally.”
All three - Biden, Clinton and Obama - have been severely criticized in the media and
elsewhere for over-reacting, and for what appeared as gross interference in Israeli affairs.
ISRAEL-US TIES IN WORST CRISIS SINCE 1975
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was quoted by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper telling
other Israeli diplomats in a telephone briefing, “Israel’s ties with the United States are in
their worst crisis since 1975 ... a crisis of historic proportions.”
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REPUBLICANS LEAD BACKLASH AGAINST OBAMA
President Obama is behind the public chastising of PM Netanyahu over the housing plan,
according to the New York Times. But his handling of the diplomatic crisis is being
increasingly criticized in the US.
American Jewish and non-Jewish groups have rallied to the side of Israel, charging the
Obama administration with miscalculating widespread Israeli opposition to American
efforts to create a de facto PA claim to parts of Jerusalem.
Republican Party leaders attacked the Obama administration with unusually harsh
language, charging it with an “irresponsible” position against an ally.
“In an effort to ingratiate our country with the Arab world, this administration has
shown a troubling eagerness to undercut our allies and friends,” said the only
Jewish Republican Congressman, Eric Cantor of Virginia. Cantor went so far as to say
that the dispute “jeopardizes America’s national security.”
A leading Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, charged that the Obama
government’s condemnations of “an indispensable ally and friend of the United States …
undermine both our allies and the peace process, while encouraging the enemies of
America and Israel alike. She noted that President Obama has taken “softer approaches”
towards the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Iran.
Senator Sam Brownback’s office stated, “It’s hard to see how spending a weekend
condemning Israel for a zoning decision in its capital city amounts to a positive step
towards peace.”
Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement saying, “The Administration’s
decision to escalate its rhetoric following Joe Biden’s visit to Israel is not merely
irresponsible; it is an affront to the values and foundation of our long-term relationship
with a close friend and ally.”
According to the Republican leader, “The Administration has demonstrated a repeated
pattern since it took office: while it makes concessions to countries acting contrary to US
national interests, it ignores or snubs the commitments, shared values and
sacrifices of many of our country’s best allies.
“If the Administration wants to work toward resolving the conflict in the Middle East, it
should focus its efforts on Iran’s behavior, including its pursuit of nuclear