On Wednesday this week Ehud Olmert’s government voted to declare Hamas-controlled Gaza an enemy entity, and pledged to curb energy supplies to the 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs living there if terrorism from the Strip continues.
Were the outcome of this resolution not certain to be tragic, it would be laughable.
But sadly, unlike some of its earlier generations, today’s Israel lacks the moral fiber to implement decisions of this kind.
It would have been better to have done nothing than to make threats and issue warnings they will not carry through.
As inevitable as the cries of rage and resentment that will soon swell the throats of so-called human rights groups, governments - and, of course, the “Palestinians†- are the effects this outcry will have on the country.
The international indignation will work quickly to dissipate whatever “resolve†and “courage†may have been generated between like-minded members of the Security Cabinet.
No concerned observer of Israel’s drastically-eroded deterrence can anticipate anything other than the government’s total capitulation in the face of the global outrage this vote is certain to excite.
Watch the “Palestinians†– past masters at this game – provoke an Israeli response by attempting to carry out a particularly heinous terrorist attack.
As they know full well, Prime Minister Olmert will have to implement the cabinet’s decision, cutting the power or closing the water mains and subjecting all those men, women and children, to darkness, cold and thirst.
The outrage will explode immediately – directed not at the terrorists whose murderous actions are to blame for the suffering of their own people, but at those heartless Israeli lawmakers who chose to employ this kind of “inhuman†collective punishment.
A condemnation in the United Nations, a phone call from the White House, and Israel will back down.
Israel always backs down.
And the Arab side will chalk up yet another victory against the “sons of pigs and monkeys†in Jerusalem, while singing with even more conviction than ever the praises of their god, who is “greater†than any other.
Of course, the trouble with trying to police a war, instead of fight it, is that these are the best kinds of responses hobbled governments can come up with.
And Israel’s government is hobbled – hobbled by the United States and by every other nation and international body that has signed on to the fraudulent Arab claim to these Jewish lands and insists that Israel treat the terrorists with kid gloves.
We must pray for Israel’s government: For backbone for the prime minister and his cabinet, for courageous leadership that will put the well-being of Israel’s citizens at the top of the list and push concerns about how loud the Arabs will scream, or how insistent the world will be that Israel act differently, to the bottom.
And we should pray confusion and failure on Israel’s enemies: May no weapon they have formed against Israel prosper; may they be trapped in their own snares; may the arrows they fire at the Jews fall back on their own heads and pierce them.
Dear Stan, you are so right as always. Israel’s only friend is almight God and your
zionist Christian friends who stand with you. I pray always for Israel and know that you are our family and when you hurt we hurt. Almight God bless and keep you as always.
Dear Stan,
Like you, I am so sick of the world bodies that continue to condemn Israel for simply protecting her sovereign right to exist as a nation and a people. I am sick of this weak Israeli PM who seems to be concerned about what the human rights groups and other bodies think of him than doing what is right for the people of Israel.
I pray for Yahweh’s blessings upon Israel.
Shalom Aleichem.
As one ordinary man in this world dominated by degenerates, it saddens me greatly to see the appeasement being shown against those who foster hate for Israel — and who support those who believe war against peace-loving people can be justified. Had it been me instead of the current leaders of Israel who seem to be easily influenced by insane logic, lethargy, or some kind of secular philosophy that has nothing to do with God, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and all others with evil intentions would be publicly identified as enemies worthy of disrespect. In addition to showing contempt, military action would be sooner rather than later to put an end to their threats.
Stan:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has already come out against even the threat of withholding electricity from Gaza Strip. No one mentioned that against the EU when they withheld funds for electricity, did they? It’s only if Israel does something to defend itself that human watch groups start yelling.
I pray for an Israeli leader that will have the chutzpah to say “This is the people and the country I have been elected to protect, and protect it I will!”
Still in all, we know it is G-d who watches over Israel. He takes note, takes account of everything done against His people and His land. It is He whom the national leaders will account to, including Bush, Abbas, Rice, and Olmert.
In the meantime, my prayer is “Father G-d, please preserve Israel!”
I expect nothing but continued cowardice from Israel’s leaders. Leaders?, did I say leaders? Well shut my mouth!
Stan, so glad you are back up. You are so right…..Tomorrow is a prayer with Fasting day for Israel……God Bless You and your dear family.
Stan,
Thank you so much for the wonderful insight. I enjoy your articles and web site. I have really had a burden to pray for the leadership of Israel lately. I pray that God will rise up a leader that has the best interest of Israel at heart and one that will make Godly decisions. It saddens me that my President and his cabinet cannot and will not stand in solidarity with Israel. All they give is lip service to Israel and appeasment to the Palestinians. The saving grace in all of this is God is in total control and no matter how bad Olmert, Bush, Rice, etc mess things up, HE WINS!! I pray for the peace and security of Jersulem.
In Christ Love,
Susan
I am so ashamed of my Government for continuing to allow the impression that anyone but God’s people own Israel - the land given them by Divine Declaration and Promise. Not all Brits are believers in the Arab cause! Many of us watch the news in awed silence at the prophecies of old coming true before our eyes. Lift up your heads, our salvation comes!
IMHO, the reason today’s Isreal appears to lack moral fiber is largely the doings of the Communist-Socialist inspired Revisionists. The have enough supporters in the government and among the population to blunt any deceicive actions by our military. They actually have officers in the IDF that openly defy military orders! How can anyone have an effective military when it’s members are allowed to decide which orders to obey?
They, IMHO, are at least as much a threat to Israel’s security as the hard nosed Arabs. Like the lefty lunatiick fringe in the US Dem.
Dear Stan, my heart is broken over these events. Isreal shouldn’t back down. They should cut off yhe power and water off until Hamas crys uncle.
I pray for the people of Israel. A strong and decisive response is the only course to follow against all threats. The “World Community” will NEVER take Israel’s side on matters of national survival anyway.
My heart goes out to all Israel and to let them know that there is alot of Americans that are behind you 100% and we know that the FATHER in HEAVEN is in control of every thing . I read the Prophesy in the HOLY SCRIPTURES and see that it is beening fullfilled so fast that it;s hard to kept up with it , and it makes your head swim. Love your articals Stan
PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY FOR THE ACTIONS OF MY PRESIDENT, AND SOME OF THE LIBERAL AMERICANS.GOD SAID “IF MY PEOPLE THAT ARE CALLED BY MY NAME WILL HUMBLE THEM SELVES AND PRAY, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN AND HEAL THEIR LAND” I PRAY THAT ISRAEL WILL HEED THIS AND DO AS GOD SAID DO.
GOD BLESS YOU STAN AND RAYN AND MAY GOD BUILD A PROTECTIVE HEDGE AROUND YOU AND YOURS AND KEEP ALL OF YOU SAFE AND WELL.
Psalm 83 - O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still. See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. “Come,†they say, “Let us destroy them as a nation, that they name of Israel be remembered no more.â€
It will sure be spectacular when the God of the bible returns and honors his promises to the great men that died believing in HIs promises. Abraham, Issaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Caleb. These men fought and died and yet their descendents let the land slip through their very fingers. Tis a shame that the children of great men often lack the spirit of their fathers. These were honorable men that have left us all with something to look up to. Don’t doubt for even a second that the great God of the universe has forgotten his promises to these men. It is nothing but a terrible shame that land that was given and secured remains in the hands of others, and is disputed by men and governments without honor or regard for the Lord, creator of all things known by us