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I just watched the movie called, “The Beach” --- the story of the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. Its message was one of utter hopelessness. Pandominium reigned and people lay down to die. None turned to the Lord, none commanded their souls into His care.

G-d’s message is different: He warns of the consequences of transgressing His immutable laws of nature, of disregarding His moral laws, and patiently waits for men to wake up and come to their senses. G-d’s message offers hope and escape, and ends with a promise of hope. “For,” He says in Joel 2:32, “all who call upon the Name of the Lord shall be delivered… and among the survivors shall be those whom the L-RD has called.”

For twenty years now I have urged His people to wake up, to make the most of the time. For twenty years He had me teach His people called out from the Gentiles how they relate to Israel, warning that whoever does not love Jerusalem now will certainly not reign from her then.

For nearly five months violence has been raging in Israel’s streets and neighborhoods, with random murders taking almost daily the lives of fathers and mothers, of young, old, and children, and no end in sight. The day eight young lives barely off the school bench had been snuffed out by a Palestinian bus driver gone berserk, I watched two young soldierettes carrying their full duffelbags home for the weekend to mother’s washing and good cooking. My heart burned with pain in empathy for the parents who no longer have this joy of embracing their children come home safe.

The holocaust is still going on.

And I ask myself: do the leaders of the “Christian” nations not understand? They go to church, yet are siding with the enemies of G-d, with Satan’s plot to “wipe Israel out as a nation, for the name of Israel to be remembered no more!”¹  They say, “Lord! Lord!”, yet are not jealous for His Land and city, and do not stand with His people.

Sure, there are a few million around the world who DO pray for Israel and stand with her, who bless and do not curse. Yet the majority stands passively by, as if it does not concern them. Already their conscience is seared about the past atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust. A new generation has come, one that does not remember, who has not learned from the past.

As I watch the news and see how on CNN and  BBC, on the German, French and Italian news stations they are literally “ganging up” against Israel, I only can shake my head in utter amazement and disbelief. Not once have they broadcasted the story of at least one Israeli family bereft of a loved one by murdering terrorists. There is no compassion, no empathy for their pain and sorrow, their terrible loss and grief, for it is never shown. Never is the world made to realize the terrible price Israel has to pay, daily, just for the right to exist. 

It is G-d Who promised to bring the Jews back to their own Land², Who is gathering them in. Yet Israelis are treated as thieves and wrongful supplanters of a people who settled in the land during Israel’s exile. Has the G-d of all the earth not the right to give His own Land³ to whom He will?

What the world is made to see are shooting Israeli soldiers and weeping Palestinian mothers. The complaint of Beduins over the destruction of their tent by the IDF was covered for more than 5 minutes by BBC, but the lynching of two Israeli army reservists (one of whom had just married the week before) by jubilating Palestinians for barely 2 minutes. The world was not made to hear and see the sorrow and extremity of shock and anguish of those left behind, nor the story of these two innocent men, mutilated beyond recognition.

"Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, who say: 'Let Him make haste, let Him speed His work that we may see it; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!"

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:18-20
Daily the truth is being turned upside down ^T, by Israel being accussed of the aggression and attrocities those who hate and kill us commit against Israel. The world is not made to see the shooting, bombing, ambushing and abduction of defenseless civilians by Palestinians, the dropping of bricks upon their heads, the stabbings, mutilations, atrocities, the constant, unceasing stream of aggression and incitement, between which and Israel’s civilian population stand only Israel’s sons and daughters, husbands, fathers, brothers who must serve as soldiers. For Israel does not have a separate army serving Israel’s protection. The people are also the army⁴.

As Jacob tried to appease Esau by giving him half of his possessions, by bowing down before him to the ground seven times⁵, so are Jacob’s descendants trying to appease Ishmael’s and Esau’s descendants by giving them half of the covenanted Land and city, bowing, bowing and bowing some more. But by letting the evil come into the midst of Israel, trying to appease, evil and weakness increase.

And I want to cry out and say, “Stop bowing! Stop lowering yourselves to those who can’t save you! Return to the L-RD our G-d, for He will save us. He alone is our salvation! He alone will confirm you as heir, as His covenant people! He alone is our strength and shield!”

In Psalm 2 it is written that G-d has the nations in derision, who plot and scheme with lies and falsehoods against Israel. He laughs at those who try to wrest His holy mount from Israel, His city from His people, and warns of His coming fury and wrath, because they are acting against His will and counsel. “For,” He says,  “I have set my king on Zion my holy hill.” 

Some five or so years ago a prophet by the name of Derek Kuhn prophesied that I would stand before heads of state and leaders of nations, warning them of the coming wrath on account of Israel. And I want with all my heart to go and do just that, saying , “… therefore be wise, be warned, O rulers of the earth…”⁶
 
 

T IF HE'S BEATEN, HE MUST BE PALESTINIAN On Sept. 30, 2001, The New York Times and many other papers published a picture (see above) - supplied by the Associated Press - of an angry Israeli policeman and a badly-beaten and bloodied man, with the caption, "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." Dr. Aaron Grossman, of Chicago, Ill., sent the following letter to the Times:           "Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob."           Tuvia Grossman was on his way to the Western Wall on Friday afternoon (Sept. 29), and was still hospitalized at the time this letter was written (Oct. 5) with head injuries and a stab wound. He told Arutz-7 today, "I was in a taxi on the way to the Kotel [Western Wall] and we got stoned... [They took me out of the car and beat me and] I gave a scream, and for a second they let go of me, and I said Shma Yisrael, because I thought it was all over... After they let go of me, I ran - even though I had a knife in my leg, G-d gave me the strength to run and I was able to make it up the hill where there were soldiers by the gas station and they took care of me. But I was being beaten for around 5 or 6 minutes with a rock on the top of my head, and I was stabbed in the back of my leg and kicked and punched all over my body."           "[When I saw the mis-captioned AP picture] I was extremely, extremely upset. People see a picture of a youth and they think that it's a Palestinian being beaten by Israelis, it changes their world view and makes them think that it's the Israelis beating up the Arabs. I was extremely upset. It was totally the opposite. That policeman was yelling at the Arabs to back off, and was protecting me from them - so to change it around and to say that he was beating me, that's just total distortion, and the world must be notified about how this is not true - the Jews are the ones suffering at the hands of the Arabs."           The Times published a correction today, in which it identified Tuvia Grossman as "an American student in Israel" - not as a Jew who was beaten by Arabs. The "correction" also noted that "Mr. Grossman was wounded" in "Jerusalem's Old City" - although in fact it occurred in an Arab-populated neighborhood of Jerusalem, not in the Old City. An Associated Press spokesman told Arutz-7 that it was looking into the matter.

4 The photos are from The Jerusalem Post Daily Internet Edition, Feb. 15, 16, 18, 2001