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What could, and one day will be


By Ryan Jones
December 08, 2004

Israeli “Arab” Azzam Azzam returned home this week after suffering through eight years in an Egyptian prison on trumped-up espionage charges.

One of the most touching scenes in the whole affair was Azzam’s Druze village of Mughar in the Galilee region awash with Arab citizens proudly draped in Israeli flags as they gave the long-time prisoner a hero’s welcome.

Azzam publicly praised the Sharon government and expressed his “pride at having been born in Israel.” As Sunday’s celebrations spilled over into Monday, Israeli Jewish government ministers who had made a point to visit Azzam in prison were received in Mughar with open arms.

It was a stirring glimpse of the kind of unity that could exist between the Jewish and Arab citizens of this nation.

Sadly, many Israeli Arabs choose to identify with the Israel’s enemies, refuse to pay their taxes, play the role of an oppressed minority*, and even participate in acts of terror against their Jewish countrymen.

(* Israel’s Arab citizens do not suffer from general discrimination. This is evidenced by the fact that the residents of Arab towns that have chosen the path of loyalty to the state enjoy prosperous lives and freedoms unparalleled in the wider Middle East.)

There will one day be unity and peaceful coexistence between Israel’s Jews and all Arab states, but it won’t be the result of efforts by Israeli leaders who brazenly disregard God’s Word or Western diplomats who willfully turn a blind eye to realities in the region.

Peace and unity will rather be the result of the “iron-fisted” Jerusalem-based rule of the Messiah. (Psalm 2:9)

Isaiah prophesies that under Messiah’s rule, Israel will live in perfect harmony with its Arab neighbors in Syria/Iraq and Egypt. (Isaiah 19:24, 25)

The joy and camaraderie with Israel oozing from the Azzam family and their home town of Mughar this week is but a small taste of divinely-brokered unity and resulting bliss that will one day encompass the Middle East.

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