Some of Israel’s enemies are easy to spot. They sport the 3-K’s (Kaffiyeh, Koran and Kalashnikov); cry ‘Allahu Akhbar!’ as they kill Jews and other infidels; think Hitler was a great guy but call Israelis “Nazis” all the while denying the Holocaust ever happened (go figure); vow to make all Israel’s Jews drink from the Mediterranean Sea; decry “the Jewish custom of using human blood to make matzot,” and just generally spew out antisemitism with every breath of exhaled air.
Others, notably journalists - at least the liberal majority of them - hide behind facades of respectability while criminally manipulating their audiences/readership. They laud their objectivity even as they embrace and promote the fraudulent “Palestinian” cause over Israel’s authentic one.
These self-acclaimed “elites” portray Israel as an apartheid state and its people as land-thieves, war criminals and human rights abusers.
Anyone with two cents worth of grey matter can identify the threats posed by these fiends: the former ache and work to destroy Israel through bloodshed; the latter grind it out around the clock to generate global hostility towards the Jewish nation.
Arguably, though, the men and women who signify as great a danger - and perhaps an even greater one - to Israel, are those the Israelis eagerly embrace as their best friends: people like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Nikolas Sarkozy, Tony Blair, ahem, the Pope, and as time could soon tell, though we can at least HOPE we are wrong, John McCain.
What makes these men a threat to Israel is their very friendliness or, more accurately, their desire to be “fair.”
Thus we had Sarkozy, the smilingly conservative French president, assuring Israeli President Shimon Peres Monday that France will always be Israel’s “true friend” and that he will continue to support Israel “anywhere.”
“The State of Israel’s right to exist securely is not debatable, and I believe that since the Holocaust the world bears the responsibility for this. I will continue to support Israel anywhere, as I did in my previous visits to Arab states,” he said.
According to Ynetnews, Sarkozy gushed all over Peres. And why not? He’s a nice guy - Sarkozy, I mean.
“It is a great honor for me to greet you here as the president of the State of Israel, but it is an even greater honor to greet you as Shimon Peres. I have a lot of respect for you and I view you as a symbol.”
Although he did not explain what exactly it was that Peres - the Oslo Architect - symbolized to him, the French leader didn’t hesitate to describe his excitement at seeing the Israeli flag waving on the Champs-Élysées. And he made sure Peres knew how “he worked uncompromisingly against antisemitic acts and did not hesitate to jail people who had burned Israeli flags or vandalized the Israeli Embassy.”
Surely no-one would call this man an enemy of Israel. Would they?
But notice what Sarkozy said to Peres behind closed doors, according to French presidential spokesman David Martinon, as quoted in The Jerusalem Post Tuesday.
“Israel’s security depends on a stop to the colonization [of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)].”
Sarkozy was building on what French Foreign Ministry spokesman Pascale Andreani had stated earlier in the day when she reiterated that France “condemns” continued “colonization” that could threaten the creation of a viable Palestinian state.
Not that Sarkozy was directly threatening to stop being Israel’s “true friend.” But in his own words, “My conviction is clear: the best guarantee for Israel’s security is the creation of a modern, democratic and viable Palestinian state before the end of 2008.”
And here is the rub.
But instead of spelling it out - if I really need to - let me recount a few anecdotes.
In 1996, the year Israel celebrated 3000 years since King David made the city the capital of his kingdom, United States Vice President Al Gore came to Jerusalem and addressed a large audience of Jews in a Hebrew University sports stadium in honor of that occasion.
I happened to be there, and listened in wonderment as the special guest began his address by reading from the Hebrew Scriptures Ezekiel 37, the well-known passage of the dry bones that were reconstituted into physically whole, breathing beings.
Closing his Bible, Gore gazed out over the thousands of Jewish Israelis who were clinging to his every word, and told them in dramatically-measured tones that they, a regathered people in their reborn Jewish national home, spelled the fulfillment of this prophetic vision.
Jews around me wiped their eyes. Probably so did I. Thinking on Israel’s restoration readily moves me to tears.
But then, in his very next breath, Gore proceeded to explain why, after having finally returned to their beloved ancient homeland, and that out of the very valley of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, the Jews now needed to give away half of that land to be used for the establishment of an Arab state.
Bill Clinton, who visited Israel four times as president, was wildly popular here. On one occasion, in a spurt of spirit, he even vowed that “if Iraq came across the Jordan River [to attack Israel] I would grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die.”
Some Israelis actually said they would vote for him if, on completing his second term in the White House, he decided to run for election as prime minister of Israel.
But Bill Clinton used his very popularity with the Israelis, and the trust they put in him, to push forward the Oslo Process and lay the groundwork for what would come next.
What came next was George W. Bush, another true friend of Israel who, in the aftermath of 9/11 drew lines in the sand that should have seen the US stand squarely with Israel on one side against Al-Qaeda and the PLO on the other.
Instead Bush became the first US president to reward the PLO’s decades of terrorism by openly endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state “side-by-side with Israel” - which really means with Israel reduced to half of the land and the other half turned into this 22nd Arab state.
So it has been with former British Prime Minister - now Quartet Special Envoy - Tony Blair.
So it is with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who plans to come to Israel on March 16 at the head of a high level delegation of ministers and on Tuesday received permission to address the Knesset in German - despite appeals from some in Israel that she not do so.
Friend Germany on Monday condemned Israel’s plan to build hundreds of new homes in Jerusalem and Samaria, saying this is “unacceptable [and] posing a potential danger to the peace process.”
German’s foreign ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said Merkel’s government urged Israel to refrain from building new settlements and to evacuate existing ones.
These Jewish communities on biblical Jewish lands, he said, undermine the creation of the Palestinian state foreseen by the international roadmap for Middle East peace. That a German would support the idea of rendering any territory juden-rein (Jew-free) is horrendous.
This is what is happening here: Warmly sincere world leaders seduce Israel with promises of undying friendship and support into relinquishing the cradle of Jewish nationhood; giving it to a people who remain committed - bound by their very religion - to using it as a springboard from which to destroy the sliver of Jewish national home that is left.
Let’s look just once more at Sarkozy’s words and deeds:
First he states clearly and firmly: “The State of Israel’s right to exist securely is not debatable, and I believe that since the Holocaust the world bears the responsibility for this.”
And then he states, just as unequivocally: “My conviction is clear: the best guarantee for Israel’s security is the creation of a modern, democratic and viable Palestinian state before the end of 2008.”
He can perform all the verbal acrobatics he likes, but given the unchanged realities on the ground, Sarkozy is gambling with the very right to exist he insists he believes Israel has.
As Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Sunday told visiting US envoy James Jones: “The creation of a Palestinian state is not the required answer to Israel’s security needs.”
And in the somber words of Shas Party leader Eli Yishai on March 3: “The country is facing an existential threat of a kind not seen in its history.”
That this is so is in no small way thanks to the efforts of Israel’s friendly foes - who smile and hug the Jews while pressuring them to “take risks for peace.”
Traitors…..as most can see. They lay in bed at night and divise a plot and in the morning they execute it.
Cockatrice and cockatrice eggs. See what they are hatching. Follow the lineage of Europe, France, Germany…to America…
Unfit and rotten to the core. Perverted in their justice.
Impotent individually. They lie.
Wicked rulers for wicked days.
Fulfilling God’s plans so that He may come and bring His Wrath upon……murderers
idoloters, whoremongers, drunks but not with wine, revelers in the blood of others, setting up earthly kingdoms all for naught. Sorcerers, and black witchcraft is all around.
Time has not changed where King’s butcher their own.
A foul stench is rising and it reaches the nostrils of Almighty God. He will not stand still forever.
He is the all seeing eye. Nothing shall escape Him.
To those who Love the Lord…..
Look up for surely the Lord will hear when we cry unto Him.
‘Be very afraid ye wicked men, for He will come and avenge the blood of the innocent.’
Hi Stan
No amount of playing ‘Mr Nice Guy’ will impress God. He has ordained that Israel belongs to the sons of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob (not Ishamael) and He will not alter His plans whatever the nations want! It is a disgrace that our Government and now, most outrageously, some of our Bishops - including sadly my own - have called on Israel to be kind to the Palestinians and virtually put up with the repeated atrocities rained down on her. Please Stan know that the majority of us will not be swayed from out prayers and lobbying for Israel and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with her beleaguered people. Let us all say ‘Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus’.
Linda
I live in the U.S. and believe that Israel has the right to what is theirs! There should be no Arab peoples taking your land! Though, this was all prophesied in the scriptures. It is so frustrating to me to see the leaders trying to take what rightfully belongs to the Jewish people. I hope and pray for Israel!
Please protect me from my friends, my enemies I can handle myself.
It has already been established in the Tanakh, Nevi’im Acharonim, even by the words of Z’kharyah who foretold of a day such as this when he spoke of the day of the coming of the Messiah.
They will cry shalom, but there shall be no shalom. A most excellent article, to bad those who need its message, shall not hear it.
Yet, for all of its unimaginable horror and unspeakable evil that was the Holocaust, has not HaShem used that very thing to bring about the restoration of Israel? Was not the coming against Israel by those who hate her also result in the restoration of Y’rushalay’im to the people of the Promise? Surely, HaMaschiach will come in our day.
BS’D
S-HALOM , Stan
The great French author and philospher Jeanne Paul Sartre had it right when he wrote”
“JEWS HAVE NO PASSIONATE FRIENDS, …ONLY PASSIONATE ENEMIES!
You truly and clearly grasp this truism which our Israel so-called ‘leaders’
refuse to or incapable of seeing.
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THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE ONLY ONE TRUE AND ETERNAL ALLY
THE G-D OF ISRAEL! HE, BLESSED IS HIS HOLY NAME, HAS ORDAINED
THAT WE ARE TO BE A ‘NATION THAT DWELLS ALONE.’!
AND HE ALONE HAS GUARANTEED OUR REDEMPTION !
Your commentaries are almost always “a breath of fresh air”
and If , by your own choice, you would ever want to convert to JUDAISM, …
I THINK YOU WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL.
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With love of G-D and Eretz Yisrael
Shifra Hoffman
Founder, VICTIMS OF ARAB TERROR INTERNATIONA:L
website:www.victimsofarabterror.com
Again and again Israel is being assalted by her so called friends. No matter what is said to our President Bush and others he goes right ahead trying to be the socalled peace keeper, NOT!! At times like this I am ashamed to be an American. What has happened to this great nation?? I know the enemy of our souls has been very busy. If one had the ability to see the supernatural we would see demons hanging all over certain ones who have done such evil deeds to this nation and Israel. God help us all. I LOVE ISRAEL.I pray daily for the peace of Jerusalem.
“Anyone with two cents worth”, this quote that was stated in this story said something to me, it was on the American 2 cent piece that the words “In God we trust “were first printed . We all need to put our “two cents” in, because God is the only one we can trust thee days!!!.
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will have the last laugh!
Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage,And the people plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves,And the rulers take counsel together,Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;The LORD shall hold them in derision. 5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,And distress them in His deep displeasure: 6 “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree:The LORD has said to Me,’You are My Son,Today I have begotten You. 8 Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance,And the ends of the earth for Your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron;You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”
10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings;Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear,And rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,And you perish in the way,When His wrath is kindled but a little.Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
NKJV
Israel, must repent and cling to her Messiah and Savior, the Son of David, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Enemy Within
Israel’s worst enemies are those within… Jews In Name Only…
The Arabs are at least honest in their hatred for Israel.
And yes, Israel has been betrayed by those who claim to be friends…
including the likes of Bush and Rice…
But the very worst betrayal has come from Jews within Israel.
There are no excuses.
Since 1948, Israel has been in the grip of the godless, humanistic Left…
Israeli media, education, justice and government have been dominated by the anti-Israel, anti-Torah Left.
By the way, Stan, whatever happened to my comment regarding the contradiction between the true Jewish character of Israel and Democracy?
As I said, the Jewish character of Israel is NOT based on Democracy,
but on the Torah, which was given by God and is NOT subject to democratic vote.
Modern (godless) people worship Democracy… power to the people…
But that is the OPPOSITE of what Torah commands.
What matters is not what people want, but what God wants.
Hence, true Jewish values are not based on Democracy.
Or do you believe that, for example, the man-made, godless, rebellious State of Israel has the right to give away the Land of Israel by ‘democratic vote’?
I would hope you understand that the Kingdom of God is NOT a Democracy
but a royal Kingdom, where God reigns, and rules… and Democracy
does not have more power than God’s will.
Sorry if that sounds a bit radical.
Sodom and Gomorrah were Democratic too…
it did not help them.
Israel needs to turn back to God
and do what is right.
Modern ideas about Democracy are only the blind leading the blind
in rebellion agaisnt God…
Israel must choose between God’s Torah or the People’s Democracy.
God is King and He commands our obedience,
not based on any Democratic and godless political system.
Israel needs to act to remove the present evil Israeli government
and return to God.
Time to get rid of the enemy within.
Sorry you are in denial Stan.
Israel’s worst enemies are within Israel.
Keep on sticking your head in the sand…
Israel, my Beloved! God is allowing these things until ” the gentile dispensation is over”. Very soon we will celebrate together the grace and mercy of our Lord God! I love you Israel. Israel has a right to her God given land, I wish the rest of her cousin nations would give her a break, but we know through Scripture these thing have to be until that time. Please be patient and let God have His way.
With Godly love,
Timothy
Thank you Stan for my news from Israel. My heart cries for the cruelty that those in authority are bringing against Israel. Are people really that blind? Even I can see what is happening and I am a nobody. I pray daily and God hears my prayers. I also read my Bible and know what will happen to our own countries when we back those that do such treachery. They cry peace when they know we cannot serve any god but the God of Israel. He said to have no other God’s before Him
and stated by His son who opened the doors to his Great Promises. Where have all the Christians gone? What is next? We know that He will deliver but we wonder How.
No better time to quote, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” and “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” With perfect faith and conviction, I declare Israel belongs to the Jewish people, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. One day (and I believe soon), she will be restored to ALL her land by her Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach. Listen up world leaders, UN, EU and the rest: you are playing with fire, you are inviting G-d’s wrath by dividing His land (Joel2). It is not up for sale, do not tempt the Lord, he always repays His enemies!!
Ann C
On occasion, when I read of the attrocities of my own nation, I get the urge to pick up my family and leave. I hate sin. I hate that we are so easily swayed and worse, deceived. I have never been to Israel. I have no Jewish friends, to speak of and yet I love Israel and G-ds chosen people. I would give anything to see a Spirit filled man lead us back to His will and the restoration of Israel. Maybe we will!
In all fairness to politicians & heads of state, they are just the spokesman of the
country, nor do they make the policies all by themselves. They walk a fine line
trying to balance world politics & keep World Peace.
Having said this I in no way condone what they do, they read the Bible & know what
it says & have advisors if they do not who can tell them, but what the Bible says &
what politics say seem to be two different things.
Never the less at the end of the day they will be held accountable & their countries
for the decisions to force Israel to give away half of her God given Land. YHWH
will apply His Word, not the words of world leaders. Going against YHWH’s Word
is extremely dangerous & foolhardy.
There is a saying that old age is not for sissies & I agree with that at my age.
Further I would add that politics is not for sissies either.
Israel is in a precarious position & the sooner they stop seeking world favor &
seek the favor of YHWH, the sooner the matter will be resolved.
AS for the western nations the sooner they get totally behind Israel & support her,
the better will be the result for them.
Psalm 2:1-4″ Why do the nations rage & the people plot a vain thing. The kings of the earth set themselves & the rulers take counsel together, against YHWH & His
Annointed, saying, Let us break their bonds in pieces, & cast away their cords from
us. HE WHO SITS IN THE HEAVENS SHALL LAUGH, YHWH shall hold them in
derision.”
VS 5-8 Are a declaration to YHWH’s Son, giving Him the Nations & all the ends of the earth. War declared on them, distress & breaking them with a rod of iron, dashing them to pieces like a potters vessel. This does not sound great, sounds
like Revelation. YHWH has set His KIng on His Holy Hill of Mount Zion..
Vs10-12 YHWH’s advice to the Nations
” Now therefore, be wise O kings, be instructed, you judges of the earth.
SERVE YHWH with fear, & rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, &
you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little.
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM.”
THe sooner people come to Yahshua Ha Moshiach to be saved & put their trust
in Him the better, Israel & all the Nations.
Peres is a fine example of a man that has been ruined by flattery. Once flattered, a person doesn’t hear the clearly stated agenda of their enemies parading as friends. The Nation of Israel was created for the Jews’ protection, yet her enemies thrive within her by stealth and do not protect her. Come, Lord Jesus, come!
All of us know the fulfillment of prophesies are being processed within our eyesight! We must continue to pray to the Saviour that He quickly restoreth His Kingdom here on earth. Let’s all of us be humble to His return. Let’s all of us pray for our enemies as well. For Sovereigned Y’srael is what Y’shua is coming back. May we see the King of kings, Lord of lords return with fiery in defense of Y’srael and her cousins. Amen.
The snake has a two forked tongue, and it cannot hear. Consciences are being seared in these end days. To we whom God gives light, we are blessed to have this communion with Him and understanding of His will for Israel. We are here, right now, to stand for Israel and to represent Jesus for Israel. When the time is right, then and only then will The Almighty act, and act He will. Til then, we must be patient and wait on God.
i like others am sadden by the events that have been happening. It appears that the leaders of the world are not even thinking rational anymore. It appears to most that the world is spinning out of control but we know God is in charge. Our Lord will deal with the enemies of Israel wherever they are from. We need to continue to pray Psalm 83 daily for Israel.
Come, Lord Jesus!
How many times has Israel put their faith in man instead of God. We read over and over again in scripture that Israel went to the “so-called friends” only to be chastised by the Lord for not putting their faith in Him. This Medeterranian union smells of prophecy…Daniel 9:26 and 27. If it is so be it…God has already foretold the outcome and guess what everybody….Iread the last page of the Bible…..HE WINS!!!!!
I envision all of the so called “friends of Israel” as the Apple in the Garden of Eden. They are “enticers.” The old saying: Eyes are the windows to a person’s soul still holds true—it always will.
It does not matter how much a person smiles and turns on the friendly charm….it is still the eyes that reveal the secret that is in that person’s heart.
Now is not the time to get discouraged….it is the time to stay on our knees before The One True God—Israel’s God! There is a special place that each of us needs to have in our home or in another quiet place…It is our Altar….as we kneel down, and petition The Most High God….He hears, He always hears—He Always will hear.
We must not lose heart. All is not lost……it is just as each nation of the world continues to “free fall” into greater and greater darkness, it is up to each of us individually to come to the Altar of the Lord in prayer.
“I Am” will always be what He has always been….and so He will always do what He has always done…..We cannot help the fact that many Israelis have no heart for the One True God…..but we can pray for them corporately, and hold up this nation and People…..It is our highest calling….
Let each of us be about our Father’s business.
I agree with Mr. Rowntree, the enemy is within as well. As in America, her government and those left of center.
I am so grieved at what my own country is doing. Just so grieved, there are no words to convey it. I am grieved by the pure evil hatred directed towards Israel by her wicked enemies. I loathe my own President and government for what they have done to destroy my own nation, and your nation. They will pay Stan. Of that you can be certain. They can’t hide behind their phoney smiles for much longer.
They ar corrupt greedy monsters. Advocates of the Devil.
But here we are in the USA, with a nearly worthless dollar, our economy crumbling around us, so many losing jobs, homes, cars…and it will continue to grow much much worse. I’d say Stan, that God is very fair.
In the end when all is said and done, Israel WILL LIVE. HALLELUJAH!!!!!
The USA on the otherhand, will be destroyed. THAT dear brother, is a promise from Mighty God.
Our days are numbered.
I pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Shalom alechem to you and your family, in the midst of the raging storm precious brother.
Stan, I do also agree with Mr. Roundtree.
It isn’t just Israel’s enemies, and friendly foes, but the enemy within also. Israel must recognize her Messiah, repent, and serve Him. Because of all of this that is going on, she one day will know Him.
Last night I read a commentary and one of the commentors said that it is time for Israel to stop being a theocracy (Jewish State) and start being a democracy that seperates religion from politics in their rulings. Yes, liberal Jews are what I would call frenemies.
All indications are that the US, now looking like the chief arbitrator of a divided land of Israel, will be set aside and will surrender what original God-given sovereignty there is left in the aftermath of its transgressions, and it will not matter who is president, for that person will be required to execute the last constitutional act before dissolution of the current form of government and surrender it to the WORD and will of the Holy One of Israel.