PERSONAL!

To
Prime Minister
Benyamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister's Office
J e r u s a l e m

April 19, 1997/Nisan 12, 5757

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,

G-d willing, you hopefully received and read my third letter of warning and exhortation and, please G-d, have also taken it to heart. Although I usually refrain from saying, “Thus says the L-RD,” it is indeed He, the Holy One of Israel, our G-d, Who has been prompting me to send you these messages. Like Amos, who was but a herdsman and dresser of sycamore trees, I may be an unknown and of no account to those in the country who consider themselves “important”. But I am not an unknown to HaShem, Who has been using me as a messenger since 1976. The following, dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, is in all probability my last letter to you. I know it is a last warning and exhortation. Because...

...thus says the L-RD: “They are saying, ‘there is no hope for him. He is powerless, he is helpless, he cannot extricate himself from the trap we have set for him. Now we shall give him the final blow.’ Has my arm been shortened that I cannot save? Has my hand lost its power to deliver? Was it not I,” says the L-RD , “Who loved you and set you as a shepherd over my flock, Israel? Was it not I Who chose you to lead my people back to strength and to safety? But you forsook your calling, you betrayed your promises, and instead of looking to Me for counsel you leaned upon the arm of flesh. Instead of saving Hebron you abandoned it; instead of nullifying the agreements against My Covenant with Abraham you confirmed them. Therefore I warned you,” says the Holy One of Israel, “that shame would cover you and disgrace clothe you if you do not rectify the wrong committed by your predecessors and by yourself. Was the price of the 73 not enough? Must the abandonment of My cities, abandoned by Israel’s leaders, crush upon the whole nation? Must the punishment for Hebron come upon all the people?”

“Therefore hear this,” says the L-RD, the Holy One of Israel, her Savior and Redeemer, “if you will repent with all your heart of your faithlessness, of not having sought My counsel but trusted in the counsel of mortal, sinful men; of having bowed to the demands of mere mortals and evil men instead of in faith and hope to Me, the G-d of all the earth, the Shepherd of Israel; of having forsaken your promises, betrayed the trust of the people and abandoned Hebron; if you will repent with sackcloth and fasting, seeking My Face with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, THEN I will deliver you,” says the L-RD, “and rescue you out of the trap they have set for you. Then I will command and the trap intended for you shall catch them instead. And you shall be cleared of all charges, and not a single spot shall cling to you. And you shall lead my people Israel as I ordained it to be done and for which I raised you up, that you should lead them to strength and to safety.”

“But if you will not repent, and will not humble yourself before Me with fasting and sackcloth, and will not weep before Me and seek My Face with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, then,” says the L-RD, “the shame of your weakness shall surely catch up with you and cover you, and the disgrace of your faithlessness and betrayal shall surely clothe you. And you shall be powerless to extricate yourself out of the trap your enemies have set for you. It shall catch you and pull you down, and My curse and the curse of the people shall devour your “peace” of mind and destroy your flesh, nor shall Israel mourn you or weep over you. And you shall be to Me as king Saul was, whom I loved, whom I had chosen to be My anointed to lead My people. But he proved faithless and weak, and leaned rather on the arm of flesh than on Me. And it repented Me of having chosen him and I turned My Face away from him and rejected him from being the leader of My people. “

“There is still time,” says the L-RD, “a little time provided by my grace for you to turn, to repent and to rectify the wrong done. Therefore do not procrastinate, and do not say in your mind, ‘I shall get myself out of this. I shall not be undone, but I shall continue to rule and lead this nation,’ for I shall surely bring you down, if you do not repent,” says the L-RD.

“Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the L-RD, the G-d of hosts, will be with you, just as you have said. Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the government; it may be that the L-RD, the G-d of hosts, will be gracious to ... you.”¹

Respectfully,

(Annelore's full name & e-mail address)

This is an excerpt from an E-mail posting of April 18, 1997:
 

Hebron-Past, Present and Forever
by David Wilder

The Jewish Community of Hebron

As a practicing, observant Jew, I believe that these events [the Bar-On-Affair] are no less than a curse brought on Netanyahu because of his abandonment of Hebron and his willingness to abandon other parts of Eretz Yisrael. He was put into office, and I use the word `put' because his victory was a literal miracle, in order to neutralize the previous regime's policies and change them, starting with Hebron. Netanyahu failed the test and now he is paying the price.  There is, there really is a G-d in heaven. 

All of that not withstanding, the current plot to overthrow the Netanyahu government is much more dangerous than Netanyahu.  It is much more dangerous than Yigal Amir. For Amir was one person who took the law into his own hands, killing Rabin. That act has been condemned by everyone.  However, this attempt to assassinate Netanyahu is being initiated at the highest levels of government - not by a `Yigal Amir' but by people holding the most senior public offices in Israel. It is being supported by those who desire to replace Netanyahu. In other words, this is nothing less than an attempted coup.

Perhaps Netanyahu should be replaced, but not this way.  If this coup succeeds, we can literally kiss Israeli democracy goodbye. The results will be nothing less than cataclysmic.

I hope and pray that we should witness the same kind of Divine Intervention that brought Netanyahu to office and is now punishing him, to save us from the hands of the real, true criminals, whose motives are far from pure.

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