What we witness today is Israeli leaders making constant concessions to U.S. administrations, the State Department, the so-called Quartet, and the deceitful leader of the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, like his mentor and predecessor, the arch-terrorist Yasir Arafat, is interested only in taking whatever he can from the foolish Israelis and giving absolutely nothing in return. As a Muslim he is not permitted to make peace with non-Muslims. Yet so many liberal Jews and non-Jews remain infuriatingly blind to these simple facts.
Israeli leaders must look to their own people’s biblical history. They must see again the nature of their enemies as spelled out in crystal-clear clarity through the words of the prophet Jeremiah: “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble.”
The premise of the failed Oslo accords was for Israelis to accept that their ancestral lands can be given away to implacable enemies in order to make those enemies peaceful and for Israel to accept whatever would be left of the Jewish state. Well, it most certainly did not work in Gaza and it will most assuredly not work in Judea and Samaria.
The Midrash teaches us that we are like a sheep among seventy wolves. Only the great Shepherd can protect us from all enemies. Nevertheless, Jews are instructed to do whatever they can to defend themselves. Perhaps Netanyahu may yet be exalted among the leaders of the reconstituted Jewish state and confound Israel’s many enemies. We can but pray.
It was the prophet Joel who reminded his fellow Jews that the covenanted land must never be given away: “In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My inheritance, My people Israel, for they scattered My people among the nations and divided up My land.”
Joel, speaking God’s words, then proclaimed: “The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the Lord God will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.”
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and the author of several books including Volumes One and Two of “Politicide: The Attempted Murder of the Jewish State,” which may be purchased either from the publisher, www.lulu.com or from www.Amazon.com.