Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An MK from Israel’s second largest party has warned that settlement-building risks cutting off Israel from the West.
Ofer Shelah, a Knesset deputy from the centrist Yesh Atid party, a key member of Israel’s ruling coalition, whose leader, Yair Lapid, is the country’s new finance minister, made the statement in Hebrew on his Facebook page on Wednesday (14 August).
Referring to new EU guidelines which block funding for Israeli entities which operate on Palestinian land, he said: “The price of occupation that … used to be some abstract, philosophical notion, nowadays is concrete, obvious—and unbearable.”
He noted that settlement-building “will make us the pariahs of the world.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
The Old Testament is chock full of examples of what happens when Israel places the support of foriegn kings above trust in God.
Israel is a pariah because the existence of Israel reminds
the world that there is a God, and that He has a plan
for mankind. (How upsetting for those who want a New World Order...)
This has been the goal of the Arabs for a very long time...cut off and then kill. Well, I got news for them, ain't gonna happen, no more Holocausts. Let the Arabs kill each other off in every land they inhabit, look at the news from today. Isn't that G-d intervening or just plain stupidity, I think a bit of both. There is an old saying that G-d first drives a people mad before He destroys them...
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.That saying is about the Greek gods; often misattributed to Euripides.
Israel , getting cut off from the west? That EU?... much like America, increasingly muslim driven.
How is it that America is sooo deep into ME affairs and partnering up with both Alquaeda and the MB?
I don’t think that the left, or the Muslims, would be satisfied with anything short of returning Israel to its 1880 borders, as part of the Ottoman Empire. Prior to the first major Jewish migration.
They are not in to being satisfied. They want to destroy Israel *and* they want to destroy the Jews. It doesn’t matter if the leftists are themselves Jewish.
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