MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS: 10.14.16 - The Dangers of Demanding the Quick Creation of a Palestinian State

The Dangers of Demanding the Quick Creation of a Palestinian State - By Stephen M. Flatow - http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=712

 

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas suffered chest pains this week and was rushed to a hospital in Ramallah. The episode was an important reminder of the dangers and risks Israel will face if it heeds demands for the quick creation of a Palestinian state.

 

In recent weeks, the S. Daniel Abraham Center has been sponsoring full-page ads in The New York Times calling for a Palestinian state. The Obama administration this week issued an overheated condemnation of Israel for approving the construction of a handful of houses for Jews, because that construction might interfere with the emergence of a Palestinian state. 

 

And there have been reports that the United Nations, perhaps with the support of President Obama, will soon issue some new Palestinian statehood resolution.

 

Abbas is 81-years-old. His recent heart episode illustrated the fragility of his health. And, at his age, if it's not his heart, it will soon be something else. One of these days, and it won't be long, he will no longer be physically able to govern the Palestinian Authority (PA).

 

So, let's imagine for a moment if Israel were to listen to Obama, the U.N. and S. Daniel Abraham and permit the creation of a fully sovereign Palestinian state. And then imagine if, shortly after signing a statehood agreement with Israel, Abbas is incapacitated. What would follow?

 

There are, I think, two possibilities.

 

The most likely scenario is that the terror group Hamas would take over. It has the troops and weapons needed for a coup. They already defeated Abbas's Fatah forces and took over Gaza nine years ago. 

 

And Hamas has widespread support among ordinary Palestinians judging from the results of the few elections that Abbas had permitted over the years.

 

So Hamas, which openly advocates the annihilation of Israel and the genocide of Israel's 6.4 million Jews, would be in control of a full-fledged state with borders straddling Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

 

The new Hamas regime could bring in tanks and planes, not to mention missiles from North Korea and "volunteers" from Iran. A lone Hamas terrorist with a shoulder-fired rocket would be within striking distance of planes taking off from Tel Avivs Ben Gurion Airport. 

 

Perhaps after he brought down a plane or two, the U.N. would pass a resolution expressing concern about "the escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence."

 

The other scenario would involve some non-Hamas official from the PA succeeding Abbas. Now, if Abbas had spent the past 23 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords educating the Palestinian public to embrace peace, perhaps there would be a chance of a peace-minded leader emerging to succeed him.

 

But instead, PA schools became anti-Israel indoctrinating centers, PA summer camps were used for teenage military training, and the official PA news media saturated Palestinian society with glorification of terrorists as "heroes" and "martyrs." 

 

PA cartoonists drew images of Jews that rivaled those of the worst anti-Semites through the ages. Then-Senator Hillary Clinton called the PA's anti-Jewish education "child abuse."

 

Considering the ideas and values that the Abbas regime has propagated for 23 years, which is more likely; that his successor will be moderate, reasonable, and devoted to coexistence with Israel, or that his successor will be extreme, violent, and dedicated to destruction of the Jewish state?

 

One can understand why the Obama administration, the S. Daniel Abraham Center, and J Street have in effect adopted "Quick, give him a state!" as their motto. 

 

If Abbas doesn't get a state right away, he may not be around to get it at all. And then Israelis (and American Jews) would see, once and for all, how foolhardy it would be to put Israel's fate in the hands of unstable Palestinian dictators.

 

Prepare the Biblically Promised Land for Israel at End of Days? - By Rivkah Lambert Adler - http://www.breakingisraelnews.com

 

"And ye shall inherit it one as well as another concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it unto your fathers; and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance." Ezekiel 47:14 (The Israel Bible�)

 

Could ISIS have an unexpected role to play in preparing to restore the original borders of the Biblical Promised Land to Israel? That's exactly what Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel suggested on a recent radio show on the Land of Israel network.

 

Rabbi Gimpel suggested that ISIS could be seen as a divine tool used to prepare the region for a second-stage fulfillment of Genesis 15, which promises Abraham that his children will inherit a plot of land significantly larger than the current State of Israel.

 

In that day Hashem made a covenant with Avram, saying: 'Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Genesis 15:18

 

The Biblical prophecy in Genesis 15 promises the Children of Abraham all the land from the Nile River to the Euphrates River. This includes all of modern-day Jordan and Lebanon, the majority of Syria and parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

 

Yet, two chapters later, we see that the promise of a wide swath of land in the region is reduced to just the Land of Canaan.

 

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Genesis 17:8

 

What happened in between these two chapters that dramatically reduced the territory promised to Abraham's descendants through his son Isaac? Ishmael was born.

 

In his book The Ishmaelite Exile: The Truth Behind the Headlines, Rabbi Yechiel Weitzman explained that "God's promise is kept in its entirety, albeit in a divided manner. The territory within the bounds of the promise is the possession solely of Avraham's offspring. This includes Ishmael, who took the larger share."

 

This is clearly the case, as the State of Israel currently has dominion over only a tiny fraction of the territory that stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. The rest of the land is dominated by Arab countries. However, Rabbi Weitzman reassures his readers that "in the future these areas will also revert to the ownership of the nation of Israel."

 

Rabbi Gimpel suggested one scenario for how that could happen when he said, "I'm watching ISIS and they're destabilizing pretty much, if you look at a map, all of the Biblical Promised Land from the Nile to the Euphrates. That entire region is being destabilized by ISIS. [T]his destabilization is just making empires fall and monarchies fall."

 

He offered an example of how ISIS activity has dramatically weakened at least one of the countries that is part of the larger territory promised in Genesis 15. "I mean Syria is an absolute shambles. To see the aerial footage of what Syria looks like now, it's like an apocalyptic movie, but in real life. All of the building are empty and half-destroyed and crumbled. And it's happening all over the Promised Land, from the Nile to the Euphrates."

 

If ISIS succeeds in toppling existing governments in the region, it could pave the way for Israel to step in and take over, without having to go to war against strong and stable nations.

 

Rabbi Gimpel pointed out to to Breaking Israel News that, according to some rabbinic opinions, Ezekiel 47, specifically verses 15-20, outline the expanded boundaries that will be part of the Land of Israel in Messianic days.

 

And this shall be the border of the land: on the north side from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon unto the entrance of Zedad; Hamath Berothah Sibraim which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon which is by the border of Hauran. And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side. And the east side between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead and the land of Yisrael by the Jordan from the border unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side. And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh to the Brook unto the Great Sea. This is the south side southward. And the west side shall be the Great Sea from the border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. Ezekiel 47:15-20

 

This idea, that in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, the Jewish people will expand the borders of Israel in Messianic days, may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Although he did not speak to the plausibility of ISIS serving as a divine tool to restore Israel, End of Days expert Rabbi Pinchas Winston did indicate that more land in the region will come under Jewish dominion at the End of Days.

 

Rabbi Winston told Breaking Israel News, "We were promised ten lands but only received seven upon entry. We will get the other three after Moshiach (Messiah) comes."