Posted on 07/05/2011 11:13:47 PM PDT by tedbel
Israel is sitting pretty. Sure she has problems, but her future is bright. Even her present is not too shabby.
Of immediate concern, is the attempt by the PA to gain recognitions and membership in the UN in the upcoming session in September. To this end the PA has agreed with Hamas to unify, thinking it would strengthen their case at the UN. Not so fast. Actually unification is proving more difficult to achieve then implied, due to irreconcilable differences. These differences have more to do with tactics rather than goals, they both want to destroy the Jewish state, and to their unwillingness to share power. So, at last reading, they have decided to postpone concluding an agreement until after September, if ever.
The most the PA can expect at the UN is recognition by the General Assembly, of Palestine with the ’49 armistice lines as borders. But such recognition will change nothing on the ground and will be meaningless. The US has made it clear that it will veto its admission to membership. Furthermore, Israel has succeeded, diplomatically, in turning the EU around on the matter of recognition. A few months ago, Britain, France and Germany were threatening Israel to accept the armistice lines as the basis for negotiations, failing which they would vote for recognition. Now they are lined up with the US and Israel in urging the PA not to go to the UN for recognition.
Israel has successfully made the case that such a unilateral move by the PA would be a violation of the Oslo Accords which mandated no unilateral moves and a negotiated settlement. Israel has made it clear that such a move would result in unilateral moves by Israel and the end of the Oslo Accords.
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God’s irrevocable blessing is on the Jewish people because he never reneges on a biblical promise. I do not know if the current incarnation of the Land of Israel is the one expected to last to the end of time, but if not, it’ll be back. In the meantime, God wants the Jewish people to have a place to go if relationships with former friendlies turn sour.
Oil and gas change everything. Now that Israel is a player, Greece wants a piece of the pipeline action and is now kissing her feet.
The rest of Europe will not be far behind. They’d rather get their gas from Israel than dangle from Putin’s string.
Get ready to see some delicious obsequiousness in the near future.
Hee! Hee! I can’t wait to see the Frenchies go all Pepe le Pew over the formerly hated “Zionist Entity”.
“You have zee gas. You have zee oil. Ah, mon cheri! Mmm! Mmm!”
When Israel can influence US Jews as well as It can the “Palestinians” , then she will be siting even better.
Don’t underestimate the European lust for the Holy Land.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL....PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM!
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“Israel is sitting pretty”
Indeed! “And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” - Zechariah 13:9
“Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.” - Isaiah 51:22
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