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Mar 24

Dateline Jerusalem - Jim Fletcher

"With Allies Like These, Who Needs Enemies?”

Angela Merkel said this week that Germany will always defend Israel.

No, they won’t.

The German chancellor since 2006, Merkel is actually quite an improvement over some past German premiers. She seems genuinely sincere, giving an historic speech in the Israeli Knesset. Merkel, whose father was a pastor in East Germany, conveyed her deep sadness over the Holocaust, even using the Hebrew word Shoah, to describe the ghastly murders of six million European Jews.

But Merkel is wrong for two specific reasons.

First, the prophet Jeremiah recorded that one day, all of Israel’s friends will abandon her. This will happen in the last days, which I’m convinced we are experiencing now.

Secondly, Merkel also subscribes to the wacky theory that cementing Israel’s security means endorsing the “peace process,” that opiate of the diplomatic masses. Sadly, France’s new president Nicolas Sarkozy also endorses the Oslo Delusion. How different our world might be if these leaders, along with President Bush, would stand up to the global blackmail thrust on us all by the Palestinians.

Israel’s Arab population is deranged, driven mad by evil practiced by Yasser Arafat, his Fatah lackeys, and the wider Arab world, so dominated by dictators. The Palestinians feel a sense of entitlement and, but for some minority segment of their population, feel that violence is okay. Violence directed at other people, of course.

The international community will realize at some point that there is no diplomatic solution, and when they see that UN forces and shuttle diplomacy don’t work, they will conclude first that it’s unsolvable. Then when things get worse, they will conclude that it’s all Israel’s fault.

All this is another indication that my current obsession — If the Bible were true, what would we expect to see in the real world? — is confirmed. People can pay lip service to the security of the Jewish state, but because God’s word says otherwise, we know the latest pathetic peace process is an illusion. Amazingly, even if humans try to fool themselves, the Bible always confirms “real” reality. The international community wants us all to believe that there is a peace process that’s working, or can work, in the Middle East. The Bible tells us something else, and is confirmed by reality.

In a poll recently, the Palestinians indicated that they favor Hamas strongman Ismael Haniyeh over the wax figure rolled out by Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, aka, Abu Mazen, aka Holocaust Denier. This is telling, if for no other reason than it shows the Palestinians favor the overt violence employed by Hamas.

As Middle East analyst Barry Rubin noted in the Jerusalem Post, there is no good solution to the crisis in Gaza. Rubin astutely advocates for a buffer zone to be created in Gaza by the IDF, to keep Palestinian rocket launchers far enough away from Israeli cities like Sderot and Ashkelon. One only has to fly into Ben Gurion airport to get a chilling, bird’s-eye view of just how small Israel really is. Everyone knows — even if it isn’t talked about — that if rockets can hit Ashkelon, they will eventually hit Tel Aviv, and then west Jerusalem.

The two peoples live in such close proximity to each other that it’s difficult to imagine a more difficult problem. In Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), Jewish communities are within rock-throwing distance of Palestinian villages. The so-called boundary, marked now by the security fence, has Jewish and Arab communities on both sides of the border. In a region full of crazy ideas, the idea that these two can live together is the craziest of all.

The Arab-Israeli conflict has occupied the most brilliant minds in the world. No one can solve it. Israel has tried heavy handed approaches, subtle approaches, diplomacy, cajoling, empty threats, real threats. Nothing works. Do we need more evidence that the Bible is true and God is alive? He declares over and over that He alone will save the Jews.

The current situation is perilous, because weapons of mass destruction are now being sought and used by Israel’s enemies. This is a relatively new reality, that makes the apocalyptic scenarios in the Bible more and more plausible.

In Jeremiah 30:16, God tells the Jews, “Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity.”

Every one of them. How delicious.

God then tells His people that he will restore health to them, that their long and painful exile will come to its conclusion. Because the Lord has rebuilt Zion, we know that this is the season.

Angela Merkel has good intentions. She’d also better make plans to duck when the shooting starts.