Posted on 05/18/2002 4:42:28 PM PDT by LibWhacker
The awful "Israeli warmongers" have ceased their "bloodthirsty slaughter" of innocent Palestinian women and children in the occupied territories long enough for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to propose … a return to the peace table. Imagine that!
Arafat is losing the propaganda war in the United States. Americans aren't buying the "freedom fighter" bit anymore. Folks are beginning to wonder how the territories can be "occupied territories" and "areas under Palestinian control" simultaneously.
A lot of Americans are wondering why when the cities are under Palestinian control, suicide bombers attack Israeli civilians. And when Israel actually does send troops in to "occupy" the "occupied territories" - Israeli mothers can go to supermarkets and Israeli children can go to school without being blown to pieces.
A USAToday/Gallup Poll says 70 percent of Americans are waking up from their daze, shaking off the effects of hypnotic mantras like "cycle of violence" and "racist Israeli oppressors" and taking a look at what the media can't conceal.
They are discovering in Yasser Arafat a terrorist leader at the head of an army of blindly fanatical terrorists. They don't see them conducting a war of independence. They recognize it is a war of annihilation. Less than one in four Americans still believes in the moral equivalency between Palestinian terrorism and legitimate acts of war.
Despite the best efforts of the paid spin doctors and the liberal left, Americans have decided that, given the choice between whether to believe the spin doctors or their lyin' eyes, they'd like to give reality a chance. That is bad news for Yasser Arafat.
Reality means rethinking President Bush's "vision" of a Palestinian state side-by-side with an Israeli Jewish state. The mere formality of granting "statehood" to the Palestinians won't undo a decade of anti-Israeli indoctrination. Neither will it change the fact that suicide bombers aren't killing Jewish civilians for nationalist reasons.
They are killing them for Allah. They believe that a Jewish presence in the Middle East is an offense to Islam and to Allah. There is little reason to believe a Jewish presence in the Middle East beside a recognized Palestinian state will make Israel less offensive on Islamic grounds.
These facts are obvious on their face, especially to anyone who will take a deep breath and a second look. The poll suggests that America is taking that breath and that second look. And they are seeing a different reality than Peter Jennings does.
While that might be gratifying for the Israelis, it means the beginning of the end for America as Middle East peacemaker.
The Arab states have never trusted America, but they've always been confident in their ability to push all the right buttons to get America to see it their way. Between America's thirst for oil and its faith in the media, the Arabs have usually been able to manipulate public opinion to their side.
But that was before Sept. 11. Americans no longer trust words like they did, and they are beginning to look at deeds and consequences in a whole new light.
It's time for the Arab world to find a new mediator. And wouldn't you know it, waiting in the wings, eager for his call, is EC President Romano Prodi.
Prodi went on record last week saying the United States had failed and that it is time to give Europe a try. The Europeans point to their wonderful relationship with the Arab world and say only they can negotiate a lasting peace.
According to the prophet Daniel, Prodi is half right. If we are at the point that Bible prophecy suggests, the only one who will be able to negotiate a peace is the leader of the Revived Roman Empire. Daniel identifies him as the prince of the people that would destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D. 70.
Daniel says that Roman leader will "confirm the covenant" of seven years' duration. Oslo was a failed peace covenant that ran within a framework of seven years. It opened on Sept. 13, 1993, and was scheduled to have concluded with the final disposition of the city of Jerusalem on Sept. 13, 2000.
Roman Prodi is president of the all-powerful European Commission, which functions according to the principles set forth by the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
American popular opinion is turning away from the Arabs, and we are preoccupied with our own war on terror anyway.
The timing is just about perfect for somebody else to stick his head into the meat grinder and try and bring peace to Jerusalem.
Is this the time spoken of by Daniel? Nobody can know for sure. But if not, it can't be far off. What we do know is that it was Jesus Christ Himself Who said that "when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21:28
How's come everybody conveniently forgets that Bill Clinton brokered a contract with Israel at the beginning of his reign of terror? And then never did honor that committment?
I thought Hillary was now a Senator from New York.
Go figure.
ARROGANT EU chief Romano Prodi last night ordered Tony Blair to put the brakes on the planned US military action in Iraq.Mr Prodi told the PM to take advantage of Britain’s special relationship with America and persuade President Bush not to bomb Baghdad.
And in a startling boast, he predicted the European Union would become a “superpower” to rival the US.
His outburst came in an astonishing interview in which he warned that Britain must ditch the Pound or “vanish” and the EU must have a single foreign policy.
He also slammed Mr Blair for snubbing the EU over Afghanistan war planning.
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The EU President — an ex-Italian Premier — urged Britain to surrender control of its foreign policy to Brussels.
You are probably right. My opinion is, that Satan has been preparing an "anti Christ" for every generation since the first coming, because he does not know when the second coming will be either. Your thoughts?
Pretty tricky Hal. Which "these things" was Jesus talking about- the things you just described, or maybe something different? Hint: in the passage there are no references to 7 year peace treaties, the UN, or even a "revived" Roman Empire. One thing He did say:
Luke 21:8
8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
P.S. Another hint: the word "Christ" is not in the Greek manuscripts in verse 8. "I Am" could still be a reference to Jesus Christ, or maybe it relates to this prophecy:
John 5:43
43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
20“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 25“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”Luke 21:20-28
I'd prefer he just be strident. He should point out that he is INTERPRETING scripture from his OPINION, and that he is not prophesying. He should be careful to point out that he could be wrong.
All that said, he should then just say what's on his mind.
Poor Hal, he hasn't figured out that the image is in Babylon.
According to the prophet Daniel, Prodi is half right. If we are at the point that Bible prophecy suggests, the only one who will be able to negotiate a peace is the leader of the Revived Roman Empire. Daniel identifies him as the prince of the people that would destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D. 70.
How many more pizza parlors and grocery stores need to be ***destroyed*** before the light goes on here?
Daniel says that Roman leader will "confirm the covenant" of seven years' duration.
Daniel never said that. I hope he comes back to set the record straight. Daniel and Ezekiel both. Those guys have got to win the prize for writing the most abused books in Scripture.
"They shall not cleave, one unto another, says Daniel...Even as (wrought) iron cannot be mixed with miry (wet) clay..."
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