Once again the best of our people have to give up their beautiful homes and 
communities to please the world and an insatiable enemy.
Jewish survivors of the Russian Pogroms and the Nazi Holocaust returned 
to the Land with mostly nothing but their clothes on their bodies. Yet with sacrifice, 
innovation and perseverance they rebuilt and replanted the barren land, rock-strewn 
and swamp infested, creating in less than a century a marvllous infrastructure. 

The Palestinians on the other hand have remained 
in the squalor of their refugee camps, waiting for the hand-outs of UN 
and UNICEF, from the EU and USA, but none rolled up their sleeves and began 
to imitate the Jews -- building, planting, creating enterprises right there where they live.
Now, like a cuckoo-bird, they want to set themselves in the beautiful nest they did not build.

Like a phoenix out of the ashes the Jewish people rose again as on wings of eagles, 
renewed in hope, in faith, in beauty. Having survived the Crusades, the Inquisition, 
the Pogroms, the Nazi Holocaust, they rebuilt the cities and planted fields 
and orchards and forests. Jerusalem was but a dirty village 
when the Jews returned. Today she shines in copper 
and in gold, a princess among cities.

But her leaders have become weak and corrupt: stalwart Menachem Begin bowed 
to the American President Jimmy Carter; YitzhakRabin bowed to President Bill Clinton as did Ehud Barak; and now the former man of steel, Arik Sharon, bows to President George W. Bush, being ordered around by him as though we were his subjects and not a sovereign nation.

It is time for the monarchy to be re-established in Israel, to prepare the throne for
Messiah Yeshua. The time has come for Israel to put off the Galut (exile) mentality. 
When they say, "Bow down, that we may pass over," Israel must learn to say "no!",
and no longer make our back like the ground and like the street for them - 
USA, UN, EU, Arabs - to pass over²². The time has come for Jacob to stop 
bowing to Esau and Ishmael, but before the Lord our G-d, 
the Holy One of Israel, alone.

The time has come when Israel shall say, "Enough is enough! 
The time of our sacrifices has come to an end. We shall rally to the banner of the Lord, 
for He alone is our salvation. Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the L-RD!"

Even so, come Lord Yeshua, and wipe away the tears of your people!
Come, and pour the  balm of Gilead into your people's many wounds, 
and bind up the brokenhearted. Comfort the young and old, the mother with her suckling,
the husband and wife, the bridegroom and bride. Comfort all who mourn, give them a
garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of
praise instead of a faint spirit. Turn their mourning into dancing, and their fast days
into days of feasting, and pour out your Holy Spirit upon the whole regathered nation²³.

Hear O Israel, the Lord our G-D, the L-RD is One! 
Let us order our steps aright that He may show us His Yeshua (with an "ayn" = Name)!
Heavenly Father, draw us into your yeshuah (with a "heh" = salvation), and give us 
new birth through faith in Your Son²⁴, whom You have already set as King upon Your holy hill! 
Amen and Amen.