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Sowing the seeds of destruction


By Ryan Jones
August 02, 2004

Despite 15 years of clear-cut evidence that the more Israel gives the more violence and pain it gets in return, the United States continues to lead the Western world’s determined efforts to pressure the Jewish state into surrendering its God-given land to its Islamic foes.

That pressure, in addition to negating the Jews’ own claim to the land as rightfully theirs, has also effectively worked to rip the Israeli people in two.

It is no secret that Israel’s leaders make no important policy decisions without looking over their shoulders to see whether or not they will receive Washington’s approval. Most Israelis place great importance in what the White House says Americans think of them.

But some in Israel still hold that God and the Scriptures should have greater bearing on their lives than the whims of any US administration. This, God-fearing, sector of society has been increasingly demonized by those of their fellow countrymen who believe they should kowtow to America and its “interests” in the region.

That a United States headed by a born again Christian is actively participating in rending Israeli society asunder should be of great concern to every bible-believing American.

Fuelling that concern is a question increasingly seeking an answer:Just what kind of pressure is Washington exerting, and how far is the US willing to push Israel?

What is the nature of the threat, how intense is the squeezing, that has succeeded in making a man who once championed the Jews’ right to settle Judea, Samaria and Gaza, suddenly change his stripes and become withdrawal’s greatest advocate?

Ariel Sharon has not only bent in the spirit of compromise, he and his ideology have been broken.

What kind of pressure would cause Israel to agree to take that last step off the plank of self-destruction? We have had decades of evidence that such pressure, and the willingness to apply it, is in the United States’ repertoire. Will the current Bush administration be the one to use it?

In a world stacked almost universally against Israel, the US has often been the only nation prepared to take the side of the Jewish state, even bearing the scorn and rage of the nations for doing so. Despite this history, despite this alliance, the de facto result of the last 15 years of US foreign policy in the Middle East is that Israel has been weakened, in its security and in its society, amidst the increasingly dangerous environment in which it lives.

The US is helping the gentile world to bare Israel’s throat, even as implacable foes in Tehran, Damascus, southern Lebanon and Egypt work night and day to sharpen the blades with which they plan to cut it.

Tehran is pushing ahead with its efforts to become a nuclear power, last month ordering new, long-range surface-to-surface missiles from North Korea, and simultaneously breaking its pledge to the European Union that it will no longer seek to manufacture an atomic bomb. Damascus is assembling SCUD-missile mountable VX gas warheads on production lines within Syria’s borders. Both Syria and Iran are facilitating the efforts by the Lebanese Hizballah, (which already has more than 10,000 missiles aimed at northern Israel), to increase the range of those rockets and to acquire non-conventional warheads to fit on them.

Egypt, that nation supposedly at peace with Israel, and facing no national threat from any surrounding nations, is pouring billions of dollars annually into upgrading its forces, and regularly conducts war games in which Israel is the enemy. A former Egyptian war minister has stated publicly that in the event of another Arab-Israeli war, Cairo would tear up its peace treaty with Israel and willingly join the fray.

And inside Israel, the people to whom Washington wants to give a state or giving themselves no rest in their effort to increase the deadliness of their terrorism, so that they will not only kill 20 or 30 Jews at a time, but 2000 or 3000 or more.

For the last 60 or so years, the nations of the world have been vowing, “never again.” Never again would they allow a holocaust to be perpetrated against the Jews. Never again would they allow efforts to render extinct the ancient people of Israel. Every head of state that pays an official visit to Israel stands at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem and mouths the words, “Never again.”

But it is being allowed to happen again. These leaders are actively helping to bring a about the destruction of the Jewish state. The western nations are playing with Israel’s future, with Israel’s life.

President George W. Bush has “personally committed” himself to overseeing the creation of a state for the Palestinian Arabs, even as all his intelligence agencies feed him this information, that those Arabs regard such a state as the most effective weapon they will have to use against what will be left of Israel – to finally expunge the Jewish cancer from their Muslim midst.

They declare their intention openly, believing that Allah will ensure them this victory over the infidel Jews.

The evidence is too clear. No longer can the US claim ignorance; no longer can it say that it is only trying to do what was best for all involved.

Will Washington continue to push Israel until it is too late, until the increasingly existential threat posed by the Arabs around and within erupts into hostilities that will leave tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of Jewish dead?

And are the millions of bible believing American supporters of Israel going to allow their representative government to continue down this road?

Most of those Christians know that God has promised to restore the Jews to their homeland, and to plant them there, no longer to uproot them again.

The real question then becomes:Are America’s Christians going to allow their nation to travel a path that will end in its own severe judgment at the hands of a wrathful God?

Israel’s future is secure. God is committed to it. America’s future is not so certain. Time is fast running out.

“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:3)

“For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly ruined.” (Isaiah 60:12)

“…Whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye. I will surely raise My hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.” (Zechariah 2:8-9)

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