“No” to Israel

There has always been debate about the “loyalty” of Israeli Arabs. Meaning, of course, Palestinians who are citizens of Israel, apart from those living in the West Bank/Judea-Samaria.

Now, a new poll bolsters the argument that these Palestinians are a sort of Fifth Column within the Jewish state.

Not loyal at all.

According to a report in the Times of Israel:

“Two-thirds of Arab Israelis believe Israel has ‘no right’ to define itself as the Jewish nation state, while a majority of Jewish Israelis (58 percent) say those who reject that definition of Israel should have their citizenship revoked, according to a new poll underlining deep divisions between the two communities.

“Some 67% of Arab respondents ‘answered that the State of Israel had no right to be defined as the national home of the Jewish people,’ the Israel Democracy Institute survey, released Tuesday, found.”

I’ve always believed this to be the case.

To give you an idea of the convoluted atmosphere in this context, pollsters found that there is widespread disagreement about how much latitude Arabs should be given concerning budget allocations and even in the area of buying/selling land.

(Keep in mind, in many Middle East countries, selling land to a Jew is punishable by death.)

And there is one other very telling piece of data from this particular survey:

“Most Jewish Israelis (58%) also said they avoid entering Arab residential areas, while only 16% of Arab Israelis steer clear of Jewish residential communities.”

This tells us clearly that Jews do not feel safe around Palestinians, but the reverse is not the case. Why? The answer is obvious: Israeli Jews are not a threat to Palestinians. This is one other fact that the international community does not want to grasp.

This is the most telling thing, in my opinion, and is another indication that the physical world is becoming much more violent and uncertain. While I do expect the Israeli government to protect its citizens, I do not expect other governments to protect their citizens, save for the length of the Donald Trump administration.

But back to the subject at hand. For more than 100 years, the Arabs of Palestine have been volatile and a threat to Jews. This has not changed and I do not believe it will change on a large scale.

There is no human action—most especially coming from the international elites—that will change this equation. Only the Messiah will bring real peace.

This data also should make it clear that it’s important for the status quo to remain in place. NO to a Palestinian state! If a majority of Israeli Arabs reject Israel as the Jewish state, can you imagine the numbers in “Palestine”? It would be off the charts.

Here I’m going to say something many won’t like: the Palestinians overall are not to be trusted. At all. Never let your guard down. If they were launching murderous attacks on Jews in 1929, 1936, and in the modern intifadas, what would a state of Palestine do?

A further absurdity is the often-promoted dream-like concept of a “demilitarized” Palestine. How long do you think that would last? Ten minutes?

In fact, it would never exist. A newly created Palestinian state would be armed from the beginning, thus bringing a terror-state to Israel’s doorstep. Isn’t Lebanon-Hezbollah enough?

It should be obvious that there are individual Palestinian Arabs who are fine people. The problem is that, collectively, their society is violent and unworkable as a governing entity. Sadly, a quarter-century of Western-backed “autonomy” in the Palestinian Territories has cemented radicalism, thanks mostly to the thoroughly evil Yasser Arafat and his equally repugnant deputy/successor, Mahmoud Abbas.

I believe my view of no to a Palestinian state is the minority position overall. And eventually, some sort of grotesque nation-state will be forced on Israel. That will set the stage for the great end-times conflict that will culminate in, thankfully, the arrival of the Messiah.

It’s really a tragedy that polite society thinks that worldview is absurd.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

 

Hater Hillary

Regular Americans are just beginning to get a glimpse into the evil that courses through the veins of American government. And it’s been that way a long time.

Now comes evidence—as if we needed it—that the Clintons, at least Hillary, are as anti-Israel as they come. I’ve documented before how Hillary Rodham as a member of a Methodist youth group was heavily influenced by Don Jones, who taught the teenagers in his charge that at least some of the Bible is myth.

Her foundations were destroyed, you see.

Fast-forward decades and is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton, first as first lady then as secretary of state, would undermine Israel?

This week in the Jerusalem Post, Schmuley Boteach outlines the depth of the Jew-hatred in Hillary’s inner circle:

“It’s already been established that one of Hillary Clinton’s most trusted advisers, Sid Blumenthal, sent her anti-Israel articles, ideas and advice during her time as secretary of state. But the stream of anti-Israel advice received by Clinton was much more comprehensive.

“In the entire forced dump of Clinton’s emails, you will be hard pressed to find a single one sympathetic toward the Jewish state from any of the people she relied on. The negative, poisonous approach to Israel throughout this email expose shows the atmosphere that she had established around herself. These emails seem to demonstrate that a huge segment of her close advisers and confidantes were attacking Israel, condemning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and strategizing how to force Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria at all costs.”

With regard to that last point, one can see clearly how Clinton’s early worldview helps shape how she views geopolitics now. For example, a politician like Ted Cruz probably has some sense that the Bible is Israel’s title deed to the land. Clinton on the other hand would have none of that.

According to Boteach, notice how Clinton’s various advisors undermined Israel:

“Sandy Berger was Clinton’s foreign policy adviser during her 2008 presidential campaign. In September of 2010 he sent her ideas on how to pressure Israel to make concessions for peace. Berger acknowledged ‘how fragile is Abbas’s political position,’ and how ‘Palestinians are in disarray,’ and that ‘failure is a real possibility.’ Berger was well aware of, and informed Hillary of, the very real possibility that Israel would be placing its national security at grave risk in a deal that would very likely fail and lead to a Hamas takeover.

“But Berger felt the risks to Israeli lives were worth it.

“He advised the need to make Netanyahu feel ‘uneasy about incurring our displeasure….’

“Berger emphasizes the need ‘to convince the prime minister – through various forms of overt persuasion and implicit pressure – to make the necessary compromises’ and talks of the ‘possibility – to turn his position against him.’”

This is madness! Pressure Israel, knowing full well the Arabs are chaotic sociopaths.

Only at platforms like RaptureReady can we explore the spiritual dimensions of such insane political policies. I go back to Genesis 3 as the beginnings of such hatred for the Jews.

Nothing else makes much sense. Why would otherwise smart people engage in such mendacity when it comes to Jewish lives, to Israel’s fragile security?

Our New Testament corollary is Ephesians 6:12:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

History has known few political leaders more heartless and calculating than Hillary Clinton. The new email evidence confirms that.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com