Just asking. Thanks, Diane Bahler

My comment: It is not food and drink the Arabs want from Israel. What they want is for Israel to disappear off the face of the earth. For the proud Arab Muslims Jewish sovereignty in their midst is unacceptable, an intolerable "injustice" that turned their world order upside-down. Jews are to be "dhimmis", subservient subjects ruled over by Moslems. Western Christianity felt the same for most of its history as being "predestined" to rule as superior over the "inferior" Jews. 

Even if all the food and drink in the world were to be given to the Arabs by Israel it would not appease them nor make them more willing to live together in peace with sovereign Jews. The only thing that will "appease" them to accept Jews is the destruction of Jewish sovereignty. Even if only the city of Tel Aviv were to remain a sovereign Jewish enclave, the Arabs would not rest until they destroyed it.

This is the reality of the Israel-Palestinian "conflict". If people like Diane, who
professes to be a born again and Spirit filled believer in Yeshua of Nazareth can be so ignorant of the facts on the ground, how then should secular people know the truth and understand the true nature of the "conflict"?

".... if Israel actually followed that policy..."

Dear Diane,

shalom shalom in Yeshua. If you would be in contact with people who LIVE in Israel and not go by what the anti-Isral world Media reports, then you would know that this is PRECISELY what Israel does. We literally supply them with everything, including their hospitals, without which they could not treat their patients. The doctors there know this very well but do not speak up for fear for their lives, if they would tell the world the truth about how Israel is sustaining their hospitals and provides the services needed for daily life, while the "Palestinian" leadership has robbed the people by stealing millions of $$$ from the donations by the UN, the EU, etc. Until this day they have not located all the accounts where Arafat stashed away the millions he took for himself. His widow lives in great luxury in Paris while "her" people live in squalor, whom she does not even want to visit because "they stink".

"... He always seemed to me to be all about PEOPLE..."

Diane, you are one of many who have asked and are asking me this question. Many confuse the commandment of "love your enemy" with referring also to G-d's enemies. The commandment is to our PERSONAL enemies, to those who slander and malign us, who trick and backstab us, who lie about us and speak evilly of us, who do us harm, even seek our destruction. THESE - our PERSONAL enemies - we are to love, to forgive, to return their hatred and ill will with kindness and goodness and compassion, praying for them as well.

But we are not commanded to love G-d's enemies, for then we might as well love the devil and those who are his! There IS a distinction between the House of Israel and the Jewish people and the "goyim/Gentiles/nations", meaning those who are not joined to the Commonwealth of Israel through their faith in Yeshua. Reading in Ps 83, for example, you will find that the nations mentioned there who have made a pact for the sole purpose of "wiping Israel out as a nation so that she won't be remembered anymore" are referred to as "G-d's enmies who have raised their heads... who want to take possession for themselves OF THE PASTURES OF G-D." These nations mentioned (their root origin) are today's nations of the Arab League, to which belongs also the PA (Palestinian Authority).

Over "Philistia" G-d shouts triumphantly (Ps 60:8; 108:9), and in Joel 3 He speaks to "the 'regions' of Philistia/Palestinians" asking, if they are "paying Him back for 
something," in context with "dividing up MY land". He does not ask if they are paying His people back for something, but if they are paying HIM back for something, namely that He has brought His people back into their OWN land which He covenanted to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to their descendants. In Ezekiel 25:15-17 the Palestinians are described in detail to how they act toward Israel and why: "Because the Philistines/Palestinians acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of heart to destroy in never-ending enmity; therefore thus says the Lord G-D, behold, I will stretch out MY hand against the Philistines/Palestinians, and I will cut off the Cherethites¹ and destroy the rest of the seacoast. I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful chastisements. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them."

You may also want to read G-d's words of judgment against Philistia/ Philistines/ Palestinians in Isa. 14:29-31; Amos 1:8 - "... the remnant of the Philistines shall perish." Zeph. 2:5-7; Jer. 47:4. The Palestinian entity is challenging the covenant of the Holy One of Israel, and defying His oath. They want to usurp the whole land of Israel, always lying and saying that the Jews are occupying their land, Palestine. However, there never was a sovereign entity by that name occupying the whole covenanted land of Israel. Before the Jews returned the land was but barren, rock-strewn wilderness and swamps, renamed "Palestine" by the British after the example of the Roman occupiers. 

The first Jews who escaped the Russian pogroms and returned to the land BOUGHT the seemingly worthless land from Arab landowners who lived in Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and were NOT Palestinians nor ever identified themselvs as such. It is a modern invention. Now they want to take over the whole infrastructure the Jews have built, their cities, their agriculture, everything, claiming the Jews "stole" it. Why did they not build cities and infrastucture before the Jews returned, if that land was indeed theirs and they were a sovereign nation? 

If you fly over the area you will understand what the "green line" means: on the Jewish side you see a flourishing agriculture, much green, on the Arab- "Palestinian" side wilderness. Why? Because the land does not yield itself to the "invaders"/"plishtim/Palestinians", but only to the rightful heirs who have returned to their own land, the Jews. Read Ezek. 35:10-15, you will come to realize that coming against the Land of Israel, wanting to usurp and plunder it, is literally defying and challenging the Almighty, Who has chosen this land for His own heritage, sort of like a "tithe" from all the earth. Read also 36:1-15, and onward, where G-d makes it clear He will do this NOT for Israel's sake because the Jews are so righteous, but for His holy Name's sake; hence, wanting to give the Palestinians the land of Israel is like spitting G-d in the Face and on His holy Name.