Of course Israel could not care less than it does already who says what about the continued TEARING DOWN OF PALESTINIAN HOMES AND BUILDING THEIR OWN settlements. Usually, when Western nations sort of protest, Israel takes that as an "OKAY" do as much as you can while you can while the PUBLIC EYE IS ASLEEP. Today in Israel, the people throw up blue and white? ribbons in jubilation (because they are continuing to build while the FENCE LOOKS ON) at Netanyahu's absolute REFUSAL TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM. They are racing out to CONTINUE their destruction of PALESTINIAN homes to construct, among other things, a day care center, or maybe it's a mall or something. Why ask cooperation of them, I do not know, because the international community knows and Israel knows it will continue to do as it pleases from the looks of it and the world had better accept it.
The president says he encourages the extension of the MORATORIUM. That doesn't mean anything at all. They (the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INCLUDING OF COURSE, us) continue to put the WEIGHT of the failure or success of peace talks on the heads of the PALESTINIANS), Israel says by its actions, "So what, who cares." The Palestinian Abbas will not accept what Israel had already stipulated, i.e., do not expect us to cease building on YOUR LAND, which they will take. All they need is time, while others shout out their TIMID AND BACKBONELESS "Oh we wish you would ..., but we know you won't" platitudes.
If Israel can kill people, committing gobs of war crimes (ever since it set itself up in the ME in the MIDST OF Arab, not EUROPEAN, nations), including the incident of the flotilla, who would expect her to abide by the +40 yr-old U.N. guidelines, or the United States et al., when Israel knows THEY DON'T REALLY MEAN IT.
They just give lip service to those who sincerely desire honest, equitable peace in that region. But everyone is expected to sacrifice or bow down to Israel, or allow Israel to commit its heinous acts, and have everybody else act as though they all OWE HER SOMETHING. As long as "Israel has the right to protect herself," she will commit whatever crime that helps her establish her plan in the Middle East, THE WHOLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BE FENCED IN OR RATHER "OFF" WHERE ISRAEL WILL BE ONE LONE ENTITY ENCLOSED WITHIN AN APARTHEID FENCE with her nuclear weapons, e.g., THE ONLY EUROPEAN IN TOWN, in a way.
ALSO. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW OR DON'T CARE OR HAVEN'T PIECED TOGETHER ALL THE RHETORIC: THE ARABS DO NOT DENY ISRAEL THE RIGHT TO EXIST, BUT THEY DENY ISRAEL THE RIGHT TO EXIST AT THEIR EXPENSE - THAT IS, NO PALESTINIAN STATE SOVEREIGNTY, WITH A STANDING ARMED FORCES, AIR SPACE, ETC., AND EVERYTHING ELSE EVERY SOVEREIGNTY IS ENTITLED TO. ISRAEL'S IDEA OF A PALESTINIAN STATE IS A SUBSERVIENT, UNRECOGNIZED, AND THEREFORE REALLY OCCUPIED, SLAVE STATE.
But we all know there will never be any peace until Christ returns. But before that, the false one will appear. As he appears before Christ. This is the generation of the fig tree, spoken of by Christ in Matt. That generation began in 1948, when Israel became a naton again. So there will be talks of peace, and they will work at it. And that is a good thing. I wish that Israel and the palestinians could get along. But we have to go back eons to see the fighting and killing between the various nations of middle east. I think that it would be that way til Christ returns. But before He returns, the false will appear. Then Will Christ returns.
ReplyDeleteRemember where it is said somewhere in the Christian Bible, "Lord, I'm for peace, but they are for war." That's the working out of this scenario here. Those who are Christ's must be working for peace now. "Blessed are the peace makers (now), for they shall be called the children of God.
ReplyDeleteThat's why there is this "Harvest" going on. Jesus asked us to pray the Father, that he might send workers into his harvest field. The work is now, and those who will reign with Christ when he comes, must be working for peace NOW while it is NOW, as they did of old.
Therefore, if we are not working for peace or praying for peace now, there will be no peace for us then. So everyone who refuses to work or think toward peace, Christ will reject out of hand when the time comes. I believe that is why Paul said there would be a pithy REMNANT when God sends the messenger to them and they receive the message that time. Which son of God only he and the angels knows.
That will be a saving message for the Jews, but it will not come through the Master, he's no longer the suffering servant. He cannot be bruised again. The work is finished. The message just needs to be accepted.
The bottom line, though, is right now, who's side are you (or I) on? As for me, I'm for the One who was rejected by the builders; they did not know he is the Master Builder. He is still being overlooked today; thrown aside in favor of another while they say they serve him. They try to serve him, for example, through serving the the Jews (who rejected him). They need him to save them like we do. He told us what the work of the Church is, but do we do it?
They will be rejected just as the Jews rejected him. They will be the tares whom the Lord plucks up when his angels come with their winnowing hooks. His reward will be with him. None will have to wait in line for their rewards. "Behold," he said, "I come quickly." However long or short quickly is: SO BE IT.