VOL. 44                     NEWSLETTER           JAN./FEB. 2002

Dear Friends of Israel and “Or Tzion”, 

the peace of G-d which passes all understanding be a protection about your mind in Messiah Yeshua for the days are evil. Let us all the more hold firm to the sure hope we have in the Son of G-d. 

Living in the land covenanted to Abraham by God with an oath means standing on that oath and “keeping the fort” against overwhelming odds.  A few million only dare dig in their heels, determined to safeguard the divine inheritance. 

It reminds me of the last stand at the Alamo, where only several brave ones staked their lives against the enemy which outnumbered them more than 1000 to 1. Because those against Israel are so much more than those for Israel. Common sense says, “Quit, there is not a chance you make it. Surrender! Give up! Save yourselves!” But then --- Israel is not a common place! G-d has placed us here and G-d is keeping us here! Alas at a great cost! 

There is no longer a safe place in all of Israel! Every city, street, restaurant, bus, mall, market, is a terrorist's potential target. The only possible way to ensure safety is to keep all Arabs out of Israel proper. But that is impossible! Some are part of the work force, and many of them hold Israeli citizenship. Furthermore, closing Israel’s borders completely to all Palestinians in the so-called “territories" would bring world-wide pressure on Israel to let the Palestinians return. 

Damned if we do and damned if we don’t! Living in Israel means having to live under the whip of a double standard! Y

The natural right to self-preservation and security; to decide who may enter and may not enter the country is denied to Israel. While the U.S. and allies zealously pursue terrorists all across the globe, Israel is commanded to let terrorists in. Today, every Palestinian has become a potential suicide bomber or gunslinger. It is impossible to know who may be trusted; even young women have joined ranks with the suicide bombers!! 
 

Living in Israel means living with murderers, wrongly depicted as victims. Living in Israel means raising children whose future¹ is uncertain. Parents question the priorities in their children’s lives, for youth just out of high school and barely in the army are being killed regularly by bloodthirsty terrorists. The Media, however, distorts the truth. For our soldiers are no warmongers, but 18 - 21 year-old defenders, cruelly slain or abducted and murdered by vicious assailants. Media reports about slain “settlers” mean aged grandparents, or father, mother and children on their way home from family visits. 
 

Living in Israel means hearing on a daily basis the perversion of truth by the world media and the outright lies of the Palestinian leadership. Each lie means feeling violated and deprived of the inalienable right to defend ourselves, our cities and our land. 

For decades now the Israeli/Palestinian issue has been portrayed as a "conflict" between “overbearing” Israel and “helpless” Palestine. Never, I repeat never, is it said that the Palestinians are targeting not only so-called “Arab” land (in which they include Judea and Samaria termed “territories” or the “Westbank”) but ALL of Israel! All of it! The modern cities and productive farms, the dried swamps made fruitful, the rocky ground tilled and planted, the barren heights reforested and modern highways and educational and commercial institutions; in short, the entire land and the whole infrastructure built by the Jews IS what they are after! This present 17 months lasting GREAT INTIFADA²  is meant to accomplish this! 

So convinced is Arafat of taking over ALL of Israel, that he refuses to build a sorely needed Palestinian infrastructure in the autonomy, waiting for the day that he appropriates all of Israel with the help of Arab oil, the West, and the ever-growing aggression of Islam. Something like the cuckoo bird who, instead of building her own nest, takes over other nests, throws out their eggs and replaces them with hers. 

Palestinians are indeed “plishtim” --- INVADERS of G-d’s OWN land and the Jews’ inheritance!!!³

This is not merely “conflict!” It is war with the intent to utterly destroy the Jewish state and establish a Palestinian one on the ruins of that state and the corpses of its citizens⁴. 
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Were this fact truthfully reported by the world Media, perhaps nations would have their governments stand with Israel in her struggle for survival. 

Living in Israel means to be victims of “the end justifies the means": better to control Israel and drive her to suicidal genocide than to perturb oil-rich Arab states. 

I would like to point you now to a book I strongly suggest to read: