No, what makes me sad is that the world leaders have bought into this extraordinary lie of the Arabs and Arafat, and are pledging to help make Arafat's "vision" of an Arab state on Jewish Biblical Land a reality. This is the very land which the G-d of Israel promised the Jewish People in our Judeo-Christian Bible.
"I will ratify My covenant between Me and you and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you; and I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojourns - the whole of the land of Canaan - as an everlasting possession; and I shall be a God to them." (Genesis, 17:7-8)
Some examples of the reactions of world leaders to Arafat's death:
U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN: "I am deeply moved. It is tragic that he did not live to see his vision fulfilled!"
What vision? To drive the Jews into the sea?
FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC called Arafat a "man of great courage and conviction".
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR wants to remind us that Arafat was a Nobel Peace Laureate.
FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT CLINTON: "Arafat's greatest moment was September 13, 1993... which led to seven years of negotiation and relative peace."
"Relative peace"? Does Bill Clinton mean that ONLY 1,288 people were killed on Arafat's DIRECT orders since 1993? This would be equivalent in American terms to 64,400 murdered!
Most disturbing to me were the remarks of President George W. Bush who, was just reelected with a popular vote majority of 3.6 million. He said that Arafat's death was a "significant moment" in Palestinian history. That remark, of course, could be interpreted in different ways.
However, President Bush has previously endorsed the establishment of a Palestinian State on Jewish Land. He renewed that pledge immediately after his reelection last week.
President Bush said that with a new Palestinian leadership that asks for help in building a democratic, free society "there will be an opening for peace". When that happens, Mr. Bush said, the "United States of America will be more than willing to help the institutions necessary for a free society to emerge so that the Palestinians can have their own state".
"The vision is of two states, a Palestinian state and Israel living side by side," he said, "and I think we have got a chance to do that, and I look forward to being involved in that process".
Who is that wonderful moderate leadership which President Bush is talking about? Arafat has built an entire apparatus of power in Palestinian society in his own murderous image. All of Arafat's presumed heirs - from Mahmud Abbas to Ahmed Qurei to Muhammed Dahlan to Jibril Rajoub - are terrorists.
(The following information about the so-called "moderates" in line to succeed Arafat is taken from an article by Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick.)
MAHMUD ABBAS owes his prominence to the fact that he co-founded the Fatah terror groups with Arafat. He wrote his PhD dissertation and later a bestselling book explaining why the Holocaust is a hoax. He has planned and overseen terrorist attacks for the past several decades, including the latest four year old Palestinian terror war.
AHMED QUREI also co-founded the Fatah terror group with Arafat. He has been the chief PLO money man for the past three decades. He has blackmailed the international community into contributing billions of dollars in aid to the PLO. He continues to overtly support and applaud terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, and as recently as September he has made open calls for terrorists to murder civilians.
MUHAMMED DAHLAN is a favorite of Israel and American policy makers alike. He is one of the architects of the current terror war. In 1994, Arafat placed him in charge of coordinating activities with Hamas. Dahlan's militia in Gaza has taken an active role in carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians, including the infamous bombing of an Israeli school bus in November 2000, in which three people were murdered and a half dozen school children lost their legs and arms. He is active in weapon smuggling to Gaza and in frequent terror attacks.
JIBRIL RAJOUB is Dahlan's counterpart and rival in the West Bank from 1994 to 2000. Rajoub's men take an active role in carrying out terror attacks in Israel while they still retained their salaries from Arafat.
Today there is not one Palestinian political party that is not a terrorist organization. Of the twelve militias that Arafat formed in the West Bank and Gaza, since arriving at the scene in 1994, there is not a single one that is not deeply involved in terror activities. Documents seized by the Israeli army during major combat operations in the West Bank and Gaza, have shown Arafat's generals ordering the carrying out of suicide bombings and authorizing the payment of terrorist cell members.
Are these the moderate Palestinian leaders that President Bush is talking about? Are Mahmud Abbas or Ahmed Qurei or Muhammed Dahlan or Jibril Rajoub going to be any different than Arafat himself? After decades of murdering and of indoctrinating young people to murder as a way of life, can we really believe that these "moderate leaders" would suddenly metamorphous into Jeffersonian democrats?
To my surprise, after the U.S. election, I received quite a few letters from Evangelical Christians telling me that they could not bring themselves to actually cast a vote for George W. Bush, because of his stated intention to divide the Hold Land. Nonetheless, they were happy that Kerry lost.
The reason that I myself, and millions of Bible believing Christians and Jews voted for President Bush despite his expressed support for a Palestinian state on Biblical Land is, I believe, twofold.
1. A belief that John Kerry was a great danger both to the interests of the United States and Israel.
2. That his Christian constituency will ultimately convince the President of the danger for the United States to go against G-d's Word.
Judea, Samaria and Gaza, are all part of Israel's Biblical Heartland. Beit El, Shilo, Hebron, Shechem (Nablus) and Jerusalem should be just as much a grassroots issue as the belief in family values, and opposition to partial birth abortion and gay marriage.
At the heart of G-d's covenant with Israel is the Promise to the Jewish People - His People - to the Land of Israel. For Bible believing Jews and Christians, this is the only "Road Map" of value.
The Land and People of Israel are now in great peril, both from within and without. The Prime Minister of Israel, in an unholy alliance with the Israeli Left, the architects of Oslo, is planning to drag Jewish families forcefully out of their homes in Biblical Gush Katif. The Quartet, the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and unfortunately the United States, is hell-bent on dividing Israel and giving the Arabs an additional state carved out of the Holy Land.
Could a Holocaust happen again?
The prevention of a second Holocaust is not only a Jewish responsibility. It is a Christian responsibility as well. We should remember G-d's blessing upon Abraham: "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee should all the families of the Earth be blessed."
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Arafat: Death of a Serial Muderer
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Dear Friends,
I am writing this Letter from Jerusalem only moments after Yasser Arafat was finally pronounced dead.
It is with deep sadness that I read about the world's reaction to this serial murderer's death. I am not going to discuss the reaction of the Arab Muslim world. Arafat was their standard bearer, their great hope of dislodging the "Jewish Cancer" from the Holy Land. They were complicit in helping Arafat create the fiction of a "Palestinian People" and a "Palestinian Homeland", in what they perceived to be their own interest.
No, what makes me sad is that the world leaders have bought into this extraordinary lie of the Arabs and Arafat, and are pledging to help make Arafat's "vision" of an Arab state on Jewish Biblical Land a reality. This is the very land which the G-d of Israel promised the Jewish People in our Judeo-Christian Bible.
Some examples of the reactions of world leaders to Arafat's death:
U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN: "I am deeply moved. It is tragic that he did not live to see his vision fulfilled!"
What vision? To drive the Jews into the sea?
FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC called Arafat a "man of great courage and conviction".
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR wants to remind us that Arafat was a Nobel Peace Laureate.
FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT CLINTON: "Arafat's greatest moment was September 13, 1993... which led to seven years of negotiation and relative peace."
"Relative peace"? Does Bill Clinton mean that ONLY 1,288 people were killed on Arafat's DIRECT orders since 1993? This would be equivalent in American terms to 64,400 murdered!
Most disturbing to me were the remarks of President George W. Bush who, was just reelected with a popular vote majority of 3.6 million. He said that Arafat's death was a "significant moment" in Palestinian history. That remark, of course, could be interpreted in different ways.
However, President Bush has previously endorsed the establishment of a Palestinian State on Jewish Land. He renewed that pledge immediately after his reelection last week.
President Bush said that with a new Palestinian leadership that asks for help in building a democratic, free society "there will be an opening for peace". When that happens, Mr. Bush said, the "United States of America will be more than willing to help the institutions necessary for a free society to emerge so that the Palestinians can have their own state".
"The vision is of two states, a Palestinian state and Israel living side by side," he said, "and I think we have got a chance to do that, and I look forward to being involved in that process".
Who is that wonderful moderate leadership which President Bush is talking about? Arafat has built an entire apparatus of power in Palestinian society in his own murderous image. All of Arafat's presumed heirs - from Mahmud Abbas to Ahmed Qurei to Muhammed Dahlan to Jibril Rajoub - are terrorists.
(The following information about the so-called "moderates" in line to succeed Arafat is taken from an article by Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick.)
Today there is not one Palestinian political party that is not a terrorist organization. Of the twelve militias that Arafat formed in the West Bank and Gaza, since arriving at the scene in 1994, there is not a single one that is not deeply involved in terror activities. Documents seized by the Israeli army during major combat operations in the West Bank and Gaza, have shown Arafat's generals ordering the carrying out of suicide bombings and authorizing the payment of terrorist cell members.Are these the moderate Palestinian leaders that President Bush is talking about? Are Mahmud Abbas or Ahmed Qurei or Muhammed Dahlan or Jibril Rajoub going to be any different than Arafat himself? After decades of murdering and of indoctrinating young people to murder as a way of life, can we really believe that these "moderate leaders" would suddenly metamorphous into Jeffersonian democrats?
To my surprise, after the U.S. election, I received quite a few letters from Evangelical Christians telling me that they could not bring themselves to actually cast a vote for George W. Bush, because of his stated intention to divide the Hold Land. Nonetheless, they were happy that Kerry lost.
The reason that I myself, and millions of Bible believing Christians and Jews voted for President Bush despite his expressed support for a Palestinian state on Biblical Land is, I believe, twofold.
1. A belief that John Kerry was a great danger both to the interests of the United States and Israel.
2. That his Christian constituency will ultimately convince the President of the danger for the United States to go against G-d's Word.
Judea, Samaria and Gaza, are all part of Israel's Biblical Heartland. Beit El, Shilo, Hebron, Shechem (Nablus) and Jerusalem should be just as much a grassroots issue as the belief in family values, and opposition to partial birth abortion and gay marriage.
At the heart of G-d's covenant with Israel is the Promise to the Jewish People - His People - to the Land of Israel. For Bible believing Jews and Christians, this is the only "Road Map" of value.
The Land and People of Israel are now in great peril, both from within and without. The Prime Minister of Israel, in an unholy alliance with the Israeli Left, the architects of Oslo, is planning to drag Jewish families forcefully out of their homes in Biblical Gush Katif. The Quartet, the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and unfortunately the United States, is hell-bent on dividing Israel and giving the Arabs an additional state carved out of the Holy Land.
Could a Holocaust happen again?
The prevention of a second Holocaust is not only a Jewish responsibility. It is a Christian responsibility as well. We should remember G-d's blessing upon Abraham: "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee should all the families of the Earth be blessed."
=============================================
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Posted by at November 12, 2004 03:16 AM