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SPECIAL EDITION - October 2001
Jerusalem
- a cup that sends all peoples reeling
1. WATCHMAN INTERNAT'L, PENSACOLA
It is now expected that within a few weeks, the Bush administration will go ahead and announce to the UN's General Assembly America's full support for a Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as the capital. The shift in Bush's Middle East policy is primarily a result of strong pressure from Saudi Arabia. Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Washington 10 days before the September 11 terror attacks, that US policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict had become untenable, indicating that US bias towards Israel was making it impossible for the Saudi leadership to follow policies that were in both countries' interests. President Bush is said to have written back to reassure the crown prince that the message had found a listening ear.
Originally America's plan to announce its support for a Palestinian state was scheduled to take place in September, but because of the event on September 11, the plans were postponed. What President Clinton was unable to accomplish last summer at Camp David, experts believe that George W. Bush and Tony Blair, with the help of the rest of the world, will now take the opportunity to enforce on Sharon and Arafat.
At the moment, the Arab world is doing everything it can to shift the present focus away from Islamic terrorism back on Israel. Blair said during a press conference with Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt yesterday that it is necessary to solve the Palestinian conflict in order to remove an excuse for further terrorist attacks by people like Bin Laden. Blair made the comment in response to a very strong statement from Mubarak that there will never be peace on the planet until the Palestinian issue is solved. Last year during the Camp David peace talks Mubarak warned Arafat that he had no right to give up full control over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
The question is, what does God say about this? In Zechariah 12 God has promised, "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling [an expression for divine judgment]. ...I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. ...I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, ...Jerusalem will remain intact in her place. ...I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced." (Zech 12:2-10)
Ps 105:10-15 says, "He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.' When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings: 'Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.'"
The prophets and anointed ones that God is talking about here are not pastors or evangelists, but the Jewish people. And it is spoken in the context of God's promise to give them the land of Israel. The Jews are a prophetic people destined to bring God's peace to this earth! God says, "Do not touch them! They are my people and I have a plan with them!" "For their sake he rebuked kings." America take warning! One day God will judge the whole world because of what they have done to the Jewish people in dividing up His land, Joel 3:2. AMERICA WILL NOT GET BY IF THEY ENFORCE A DIVISION UPON THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM!...
Lars and Harriet Enarson
Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah
European Parliament member assails anti-Semitic PA texts By Herb Keinon
JERUSALEM (October 16) - A European Parliament member and prominent French lawyer, Francois Zimeray, is investigating the possibility of filing suit in Holland and Finland against ministers in those countries responsible for financing the publishing of Arab schoolbooks that include virulently anti-Semitic passages. "We have found books with passages that are so anti-Semitic, that if they were published in Europe, their publishers would be brought up on anti-racism charges," Zimeray said in an interview yesterday.
Zimeray, in Israel for four days of meetings with Israeli leaders, said that if he could get an indictment against one minister, it would send a powerful message to the EU against funding the publication of these books. He was referring to Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian texts. Zimeray said that he is not opposed to the EU helping to finance the PA's educational apparatus, but that it should be promoting education to peace, not indoctrinating youth to hatred and to turning themselves into human bombs.
Simultaneously, Zimeray has filed a complaint with one of the EU's courts against the funding of the books. He protested to EU Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten, who responded that the EU doesn't fund the books, but rather pays teachers and helps build classrooms and libraries. "This is not a serious response," Zimeray said. "Even if the books are not directly funded by the EU, I think that the EU could pay attention to the content of what teachers being paid by the EU are teaching."Zimeray said that he hopes his complaint to the EU court will convince the EU of the seriousness of the issue....
3. WHITE HOUSE INVASION PRAYER
Weekly Summary
ANTI-TERRORISM COALITION STRAINS US-ISRAELI TIES*
On 10 Oct, USAT reported, "The campaign against Osama bin Laden is severely testing the US's relations with its closest Middle East ally, Israel, which Muslims say is a root cause of the 11 Sep attacks. How Israel deals with its long-festering conflict with the Palestinians, and how they respond, could determine the fate not only of peace prospects but the Arab world's fragile support for the US-led anti-terrorism coalition. The Bush administration's desire to build a broad coalition against bin Laden keeps it from ostracizing Arafat, who remains the symbol of the Palestinian nationalist movement. Washington also views Arafat as the only Palestinian who can restrain militants and negotiate a peace agreement. The abrupt change in diplomatic favor, Washington courting Arafat and chiding Sharon, has upset some Israel supporters. Israel's supporters insist that here is no real link between the attacks on the US and US support for Israel. But the Palestinian issue has been a central Muslim cause for more than 50 years, a fact bin Laden highlighted in a video broadcast. Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland, said the Palestinian issue was paramount to most Arabs. "There are other reasons for anger in the region, but there is no escaping that the Arab-Israeli conflict is a big part of it," he says."
4. ICEJ NEWS SERVICE FROM JERUSALEM
"The fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel." II Chronicles 20:29
BLAIR BACKS CREATION OF "VIABLE" PALESTINIAN STATE
Ever forging ahead in the war against terror, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made his first public declaration of support for a Palestinian state Monday following a meeting with PLO leader Yasser Arafat at 10 Downing Street, in what could turn out to be a conduit to Washington for the world's most allusive pioneer in hijacking aircraft.
"A viable Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated and agreed settlement, which guarantees peace and security for Israel is the objective," Blair told a press conference after the meeting. He called on both sides to "put behind them the bitterness of the past," and continue "on the basis of mutual recognition and respect towards a better, more peaceful and prosperous future" in which Israelis and Palestinians live "side by side."
On returning from a whirlwind conciliatory tour of the Middle East, Blair told reporters Sunday that military action in Afghanistan must be balanced by progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. With Arafat beside him Monday he reiterated that the events of September 11 "have made the need for peace more urgent." Echoing the catchphrase of the allied campaign, he asserted that the war against terror is not a war against Islam, and compared the situation between Israel and the Palestinians to that of England and Ireland.
"Further proposals were being worked on even before the September 11 attacks," Blair said tacitly. "Although I can't speak for the Americans, I know that they are thinking about this." President Bush, having also delivered an unprecedented statement in support of a Palestinian state earlier this month, is to determine soon the new US policy in the Middle East. He has yet to decide when to publish a speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell on US regional policy, and when to dispatch a special envoy to the Jewish state.
"Everybody knows that there is absolutely no justification whatever for what happened on September 11 but people also understand - and it is a point understood by people inside the Israeli Cabinet as well - that at the same time, we have got to reduce the tensions within which terrorism breeds and terrorism can hide," UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said prior to his own parley with the PLO Chief.
Arafat used the press conference to repeat his condemnation of the September 11 attacks and called on the Israeli government to come "immediately" to the negotiating table, and to put an end to settlements. "We are not asking for the moon," he said, smiling at reporters, "only for the implementation of UN resolutions [calling for Israel to withdraw to pre-June1967 borders]."
Before travelling to Dublin to meet with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Arafat met with British opposition leaders, and was warmly received by Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey.
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