Grief and emotions Grip a Religious Israeli Man as He Cries Out during the Funeral of Yitzhak and Talia Imes, who were Killed by Arabs in a Shooting Attack near Hebron, outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Associated Press)
BibleSearchers Reflections – A growing consensus is building in Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had better and will keep his promises to his Israeli constituents and not officially extend the Jewish building freeze beyond September 26, in the regions of Judea and Samaria. For some this is a breath of relief but that view according to Israel Today on September 17, 2010 stated that this opinion is premature;
Israel Today – “Both Netanyahu and Barak know that extending the self-imposed 10-month building freeze as per Palestinian demands would likely result in the toppling of the government. A majority of Israelis, and a large number of Knesset members, oppose extending the freeze.
But Netanyahu and Barak also know that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, like his mentor and predecessor Yasser Arafat, is looking for any excuse to quit the current peace talks and blame the lack of a final status agreement on Israel. Abbas has repeatedly stated that if the freeze is not extended indefinitely, he will walk.
An Israeli official cited by Ha’aretz said that Barak may use the Defense Ministry to create a de facto Jewish building freeze. The Defense Ministry must approve all building projects in Judea and Samaria, as those areas have never officially been annexed as part of Israel proper. Barak met with top American officials in Washington on Saturday. The official said Barak hoped that tying up Jewish building projects indefinitely would be enough for Washington to convince Abbas to remain at the negotiating table.”
That would put the Jewish patriots living in Judea and Samaria, working against all international forces of accommodating to pressure from all Islamic nations to effectively forestall any future Israeli construction, not only in Judea and Samaria, but also East Jerusalem, eventually all Jerusalem until the Zionist State of Israel is quarantined off to its own oblivion and destruction.
What effect it has had on the Jewish population is that the voice of the Jewish left seeking accommodation and assimilation with the Palestinian Islamic populations is effectively being eroded away. The reality is becoming stark clear, the future of Israel to survive is that it will have to delegitimize all international efforts to blend Islamic and Jewish interests in the Land of Israel. The Jewish Orthodox populations of Israel will increasingly see that their future, short of an Islamic holocaust, must follow the biblical blue-print of the G-d of Israel.
The future and prophetic destiny will eventually declare all the lands once governed by their noble and High Kings David and Solomon are sacred to the G-d of their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. When that day comes, the movement towards sanctifying the “Land” and removing all elements that are contaminating the land must be removed and with it the declaration of the Theocratic State of Israel. Only then will the G-d of Israel return with all the power of the universes to take possession of this land for the coming of the Jewish Messiah son of David.
How soon will this happen? For many prophetic watchers including both Jewish and Christian researchers, consider that as close six to seven years, depending on which prophetic model they are espousing will be all the years that we have before the Messiah is revealed.
What is becoming apparently clear, the present government of Netanyahu and Barak will be toppled as a large majority of Knesset members that oppose extending the freeze along with a sizable majority of the Israeli populous if they decide to sabitoge the Israeli public from having the freedom like anyone around the world, to live and build in their own homeland.
What is also becoming increasingly clear is that the Palestinian leader Mahmoud (another name for Muhammad) Abbas, following in the footsteps of his mentor Yasser Arafat is looking for a way out on the condition of blaming the failure of achieving a final status agreement on Israel upon the lone solitary Prime Minister lead of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The facts remain, the region of Samaria and Judea are still under the military control of Israel guided by the Defense Leader Ehud Barak, a leader that has not shed his pacifist vision of the State of Israel since his 1999 victory over Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s loss was because he broke his promise to the Israeli people and signed the 1997 Hebron Protocol that gave the sacred city, the former capital of Kings David and Solomon to be governed under the rule of the Palestinian leader of Yasser Arafat. Since that day, Hebron has been a hot spot between the Arabs and the Jewish settlers for control and access to Hebron and the Jew’s most famous sacred site, the Grave of Abraham at Ma’arat HaMachpela.
Restarting the Peace talks only have inflamed the tensions in the area, when four Jewish settlers were maliciously shot at dozens of times and the Jewish world once again was appalled that such a heinous crime was still perpetrated. The Hebron massacred will forever touch the consciousness of the Jewish people. This epochal event was documented in the Destination Yisra’el’s article titled, “The Payment of Jewish Blood in Hebron for World Peace - Abraham’s Soul Cries out in Anguish”, and demonstrated by the anguish depicted by the picture of the Israeli settler at the funeral at the beginning of this article.
Shortly later, former PM Barak, during his tenure as Prime Minister participated in the failed 2000 Camp David Summit with then President of the United States Bill Clinton, PA President Yasser Arafat and Israeli PM Ehud Barak that called for Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the Six Day War according to the United Nations Resolution 242.
At that time PM Barak generously offered an appeasement agreement but his plan was firmly rejected by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat that Israel would give over 94% of the West Bank for a Palestinian State, excluding Greater Jerusalem, plus 100% of the Gaza Strip over a period of 10-25 years. If Yasser Arafat would have agreed, these current negotiations may not have been in the future of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, but the G-d of Israel chose otherwise. What has been long forgotten, Mahmoud Abbas was Arafat’s chief negotiator at Camp David in 2000. Ten years later this “leopard has not changed his spots”, as stated on September 9, 2000;
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas – “All of East Jerusalem should be returned to Palestinian sovereignty. The Jewish quarter and Western Wall should be placed under Israeli authority, not Israeli sovereignty. An open city and cooperation on municipal services..." (Mahmoud Abbas, Reports of the Camp David Summit, 9 September 2000 Excerpts published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. XXX, No. 2 (Winter 2001), pp. 168–170)
The leader of the Israeli government in 1999, Barak, is today the same leader who was willing to give virtually all the regions of Shomron (Samaria) and Judea ten years ago is today again in control the fate of these same regions today. Now as the darling of the Obama White House, all eyes are now focused on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Will Netanyahu become the fall-guy of the international community as he refuses to extend the mandate of the nations to stop any more Jewish construction in the United Nation’s disputed Israeli settlements regions of Samaria and Judea? Or will Netanyahu, again in a moment of spiritual weakness, extend the construction mandate and begin the long slide downward towards a Czechoslovakian Sudenland modeled Palestinian State. It would effectively partition the State of Israel like Hitler convinced British Prime Minister Chamberlain to partition the State of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Will the future demise of Israel be predicated upon the same global pattern of the demise of Independent Czechoslovakia and submitting her peoples to Nazi and eventually Communist rule between the years of 1938 to 1990?
So today all sights are focused on Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and what he will do with the current negotiations with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas under the strong hand of the American Obama White House.
As reported in the September 1, 2010, Washington’s Times article titled, “Israeli Moratorium key to Talks” Eli Lake that reported;
Eli Lake with Washington Times – “"The chairman of Israel's largest settler organization in the disputed territory of the West Bank on Wednesday predicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government will collapse if he renews a moratorium on construction inside the settlements as part of the first direct Arab-Israeli peace talks since 2008." However, "Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to leave Thursday's direct negotiations if Mr. Netanyahu does not renew the West Bank building freeze set to expire Sept. 26."
This opinion was countered by the September 1, 2010, New York Times article by Ethan Bronner titled “Israeli Peace Effort Rests on Netanyahu”;
Ethan Bronner with NY Times – “Will the Israeli leader who built a career opposing a Palestinian state be the one to help bring it into being? In some fashion, that is Mr. Netanyahu's own claim -- that only someone like himself, with hawkish credentials, can and will produce lasting peace because only such a leader can bring his people with him. ... But it may also be, as critics on the left maintain, that Mr. Netanyahu is focused assiduously on projecting an image of peacemaker in order to keep the Obama administration on his side for the issue he cares about most -- combating Iran."
Yet, the region of Samaria and Judea are not only the bargaining chips according to Abbas, yet as in the past, the “bargaining chips” that Israel must come forth continue to mount, one demand at a time, without anything placed on the table by the Palestinian leaders. The failure to recognize that Abbas cannot bargain is also to fail to recognize that he does not control the political interests of the Hamas leaders of the virulently anti-Semitic leaders of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. If he were to sign a peace accord with Israel, it would only place the “bull-eye” upon his body for becoming a traitor to Islam.
So it is easier to continue demanding concessions from Israel now with the willing assistance of the American White House, so Eastern Jerusalem has now been added, then the Holy Sites of Israel in the Old City of Jerusalem, but most recently even Western Jerusalem. The first problem with the charade is that Eastern Jerusalem is also the home to over two hundred fifty thousand Israeli Jews living in large neighborhood where construction has never halted since their annexation into Israel. This threat to Israel has now become the international concern of the former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who took his message of concern for the safety of the Jewish State in his last address to the Friends of Israel Initiative in Washington. As Israel Today reported;
Israel Today – “Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar this week took the message of his fledgling Friends of Israel Initiative to Washington, where he openly blasted the policies of US President Barack Obama vis-a-vis Israel and the Muslim world. Aznar told The Jerusalem Post that while building friendly ties with Muslim countries is important, it must not come at “the cost of losing the trust and confidence of the Israeli people.” Appearing before the Council on Foreign Relations…, Aznar insisted that while all previous American governments had supported Israel unconditionally, “this administration, in my view, is a conditional supporter of Israel.”
On Tuesday evening, Aznar hosted a dinner event to officially launch the Friends of Israel Initiative in the US. He reminded those attending that “Israel is an integral part of the West, and the weaker it is, the weaker the entire West will be perceived to be.” He wants to warn that “letting Israel be demonized will lead to the delegitimation of our own cherished values. If Israel were to disappear by the force of its enemies, I sincerely doubt the West could remain as we know it.”
A number of international figures have already joined the Friends of Israel Initiative, including former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble, and former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo. Aznar hopes to add the names of prominent US congressional leaders to the list.”
The international news was gushing about the positive relationship between Netanyahu and Abbas at these meetings. Yet, at the same time, tidbits encased within each news release subtly noted that the renewed negotiations were going nowhere. Right in the midst, the Obama White House began a second peace effort, this time between Israel and the Syrians.
The talks then moved to the official Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem where Netanyahu, Abbas secreted themselves with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and American peace envoy George Mitchell for several hours. While the atmosphere was described as “warm” to Yediot Ahronot reporters, the atmosphere by insiders spoke of eruptive tensions when Netanyahu reaffirmed to Abbas that Israel would resume construction in the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria in the latter part of September.
The Palestinian spokesperson Saeb Erekat later softened the event by insisting that Abbas was not establishing reconditions but was firmly affirming that Israel must fulfill its prior “obligations” by not building homes for Jewish families in areas claimed by the Palestinians for their own homeland.
What was historically understood from prior negotiations was that Israel in the past had agreed not to build any new settlements, yet in every prior negotiations, including the Oslo Accords, the Wye River Memorandum, the UN Road Map and the Annapolis Agreements were premised on the fact that they all provided room for continuous growth within the boundaries of existing settlement blocks. With this fact in mind, both Clinton and Mitchell sought to move Netanyahu to agree to continue the freeze in all areas where Jews were not currently inhabiting large settlements yet still allow continued natural growth inside the boundaries of existing Jewish settlements.
An even more perplexing problem continued to erupt with the discussions about Jerusalem. All the areas of Jewish growth have been in areas that were officially annexed eighteen years ago in 1982. Yet, the Palestinian negotiators continued to insist that Eastern Jerusalem must now include a building freeze along with Samaria and Judea.
Even with such intense dialogue, Mitchell continued to express optimism about the “vigorous” dialogue and intense engagement between the two parties with their willingness to confront early many of the most difficult and sensitive areas of negotiations. At the same time, Mitchell was hinting that this round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would eventually become like all prior negotiations; a dead-end road. This suggestion hit strongly when Mitchell was planning to leave Jerusalem the day prior to the eve of Yom Kippur and fly over to Damascus.
As reported in the August 17, 2010 epic but insightful article titled “The Point of No Return” in “The Atlantic” written by the former Israeli prison guard, Jeffrey Goldberg, was concerning the odds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use the military forces of Israel to attack Iran and its affect upon the potential of effectively bringing about a Palestinian State.
We also read of the bleed-off of the existential threat of Iran upon Israel that casts it pall upon a future threat by the Palestinians now allied with “Nuclear Iran” who would be supporting them with weapons of mass destruction in the future. These were all framed through the eyes of the Holocaust and the Roman Catholic Inquisition of the past. Out of this we see the complexity of what is going on in the mind of Israel’s Prime Minister and Goldberg’s assessment of the father of Benjamin Netanyahu, the centurion Ben-Zion Netanyahu and the power of influence he has over his sons.
Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic – “To understand why Netanyahu possesses this deep sense—and why his understanding of Jewish history might lead him to attack Iran, even over Obama’s objections—it is necessary to understand Ben-Zion Netanyahu, his 100-year-old father.
BEN-ZION NetanyAHU—his first name means “son of Zion”—is the world’s foremost historian of the Spanish Inquisition and a onetime secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the intractable, “revisionist” branch of Zionism. He is father to a tragic Israeli hero, Yonatan Netanyahu, who died while freeing the Jewish hostages at Entebbe in 1976; and also father to Benjamin, who strives for greatness in his father’s eyes but has, on occasion, disappointed him, notably when he acquiesced, in his first term as prime minister in the late 1990s, to American pressure and withdrew Israeli forces from much of the West Bank city of Hebron, Judaism’s second-holiest city. Benjamin Netanyahu is not known in most quarters for his pliability on matters concerning Palestinians, though he has been trying lately to meet at least some of Barack Obama’s demands that he move the peace process forward.
“Always in the back of Bibi’s mind is Ben-Zion,” one of the prime minister’s friends told me. “He worries that his father will think he is weak.” Ben-Zion Netanyahu’s most important work, “The Origins of the Inquisition in 15th-Century Spain”, upended the scholarly consensus on the roots of that bleak chapter in Jewish history.
He argued that Spanish hatred of Jews was spurred by the principle of limpieza de sangre, or the purity of blood; it was proto-Nazi thought, in other words, not mere theology that motivated the Inquisition. Ben-Zion also argued that the Inquisition corresponds to the axiom that anti-Semitic persecution is preceded, in all cases, by carefully scripted and lengthy dehumanization campaigns meant to ensure the efficient eventual elimination of Jews. To him, the lessons of Jewish history are plain and insistent.
Ben-Zion, by all accounts, was worshipped by his sons in their childhood, and today, the 60-year-old Benjamin, who has been known to act in charmless ways, conspicuously upholds the Fifth Commandment when discussing his father.
At a party marking Ben-Zion’s 100th birthday, held this past March at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, before an assembly that included the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, Benjamin credited his father with forecasting the Shoah and, in the early 1990s, predicting that “Muslim extremists would try to bring down the Twin Towers in New York.” But he also told stories in a warmer and more personal vein, describing a loving father who, though a grim and forbidding figure to outsiders, enjoys cowboy movies and played soccer with his sons.
After a brief debate between Ben-Zion and another prominent academic about competing interpretations of the Inquisition—“It is an unusual 100th-birthday commemoration when a debate about the Inquisition breaks out,” said Menachem Begin’s son, Benny, who is a minister-without-portfolio in Netanyahu’s cabinet—Ben-Zion rose to make valedictory remarks. His speech, unlike his son’s, was succinct, devoid of sentiment, and strikingly unambiguous.
Ben-Zion Netanyahu - “Our party this evening compels me to speak of recent comments made about the continued existence of the nation of Israel and the new threats by its enemies depicting its upcoming destruction,” Ben-Zion began. “From the Iranian side, we hear pledges that soon—in a matter of days, even—the Zionist movement will be put to an end and there will be no more Zionists in the world. One is supposed to conclude from this that the Jews of the Land of Israel will be annihilated, while the Jews of America, whose leaders refuse to pressure Iran, are being told in a hinted fashion that the annihilation of the Jews will not include them.”
He went on, “The Jewish people are making their position clear and putting faith in their military power. The nation of Israel is showing the world today how a state should behave when it stands before an existential threat: by looking danger in the eye and calmly considering what should be done and what can be done. And to be ready to enter the fray at the moment there is a reasonable chance of success.”
Many people in Likud Party circles have told me that those who discount Ben-Zion’s influence on his son do so at their peril. “This was the father giving his son history’s marching orders,” one of the attendees told me. “I watched Bibi while his father spoke. He was completely absorbed.” (One of Netanyahu’s Knesset allies told me, indelicately, though perhaps not inaccurately, that the chance for movement toward the creation of an independent Palestinian state will come only after Ben-Zion’s death. “Bibi could not withdraw from more of Judea and Samaria”—the biblical names for the West Bank—“and still look into his father’s eyes.”)
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