The Israeli government has become the ultimate Charlie Brown.
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And Israel wonders why terrorists feel free to set off nail bombs, shoot up schools, and bash in children’s heads???
Israel sounds more and more like its own worst enemy. Were it up to me, terrorists would not be captured alive, unless it was desirable to interrogate them—and I don’t mean by asking nicely.
Yeah, let them go only to come back and destroy you- WOW!
A Proposal made by the new Israeli Suicide Party.
Oslo - Reflections On A Decade Of Death
By Stan Goodenough - September 12, 2003Ten years ago, on September 13, 1993, the sun rose on a day the world would hail as heralding an era of peace for the Middle East.See the Rest Of It HereAs dignitaries gathered on the White House lawn, and television cameras sent their signals to the farthest corners of the earth, Israel and the PLO signed the agreement that became known simply as "Oslo."
Lost amidst the celebrations and drowned out by the applause, the scattered voices of disbelief, the pleas for reason, the sounded warnings - all were derided, steamrollered, waved away.
This writer, who two years earlier covered the International Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid - there to learn first hand the extent of the world media's unbridled disdain, contempt and even hatred for the Jewish state - was in the ranks of the relative few who urged Israel not to go down the Oslo road.
For me, that road could have no other ending than the one it inevitably arrived at.
Apart from the global prejudice weighing heavily in favor of the Arabs, I based my warning on the geo-political realities of the day, and on my understanding of the true agenda of Islam. I based it too on my knowledge of the bigger picture, the 2000-year history of a people who had never been allowed to live in peace and safety, and who I knew were not going to receive that gift under Oslo.
Primarily, though, I based it on two passages in the Hebrew Scriptures.
The first came to me a few weeks earlier, when the news originally broke that an agreement had been reached following a series of illegal (under Israeli law) secret meetings in Norway between Israel's left wing politicians and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Going to the Bible, and wondering in my heart how to view what I was hearing, I felt led to the 13th chapter of the book of Ezekiel.
In those verses, the prophet describes a peace arrived at between Israel and its foes, a peace based on "futility" and "lies." He likens this peace to a wall built with "untempered mortar." And he describes God's anger towards Israel's leaders who have given their people false hope in "visions of peace when there is no peace."
I read of His rage at the way these leaders had "profaned" His holy name by "killing people who should not die and keeping alive people who should not live."
And I read about the fate God had decreed over these false peace predictors, vowing to cause a stormy wind to break forth in His fury, and to send a flooding rain and great hailstones to bring down their false peace agreement - their wall built with mortar made from lies and deceit.
Those who had built it, God said, would be swept away with its ruins.
On the same evening that I read through this passage, a Christian friend of mine 3000 miles away felt led to the same chapter and received the same insight into it.
But...but I thought Israel was torturing Palestinian detainees.