By Jan Willem van der Hoeven
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem.
Isaiah 62:6
May we all beseech the Lord – after the wonderful way He anointed and used Bibi’s speaking in Washington DC – that he will not now fall into the five following traps:
- That he will NOT take the Kadima Party which is under the curse of the disengagement into his government, thereby forming a disastrous unity cabinet.
- That he will NOT go to Paris to try offset the danger of a unilateral United Nations’ vote for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. (Neither France nor the other Europeans will do Israel any good.)
- That he will NOT free Marwan Barghouti as part of a deal with Hamas to get Gilad Shalit back from his terrible 5 year imprisonment ordeal. Barghouti is the only charismatic Palestinian leader who could dangerously truly unite Fatah and Hamas. This move would be the same mistake, for Israel, as Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s freeing Arafat and his men to leave Beirut after the first Lebanon war. By letting Arafat go then, Israel created the problem brought about by his renewed rise to power, and the subsequently disastrous Oslo accords. By freeing Barghouti, Israel will likely create a huge existential problem for herself. For as God said to Israel’s leader in the past “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ ” (1 Kings 20:42)
- That the Prime Minister and his Minister of Defense would not be overly concerned by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s public and critical attack on them saying that Israel should have accepted the 2002 Saudi peace plan for a return to the pre-1967 lines. Every sensible Israel’s knows that, if this was indeed his opinion, also all his present remarks need to be filtered through the realization of his own extreme political opinions which sadly may have influenced his view of the facts he knows so well as head of the Mossad.
- Maybe the most important trap for Israel and her leaders – both religious and political – to evade, is to agree that this nation can behave and live like the goyim. Tel Aviv is already a clear example and warning of this trend and soon Jerusalem, in spite of all the religious Jews living there, could follow suite. Again and again in the history of Israel described in the Tanach, we read the repeated warning of God that if His people follow the ways and abominable practices of the goyim, the result would be that the land would spew them out. Israel’s army alone will not be able to protect this nation from God’s judgment.
May Israel therefore not fall into these traps, I pray.
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
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