Posted on 05/23/2010 6:16:55 PM PDT by Ari Bussel
For Israel to Survive by Ari Bussel
For Israel to survive she needs to change direction.
First, she needs to admit that peace will not emerge from the current mistaken path of the last two decades. Further concessions only perpetuate the delusion on the Israeli side that peace is attainable and continue to weaken Israels already inferior position vis-à-vis the Palestinians.
Second, she needs to start responding to the blood libels against her, observe, deduct trends and act before the 12th hour. Refusing to act until it is almost too late to react only worsens Israels position, and then we are asked with wonder: How did Judge Goldstone reach his conclusions? or soon How did the Palestinians unilaterally declare a state and won overwhelming international support?!?
Third, Israel needs to face the fact that there is a new type of warfare against her. Decades ago it was ground offensive with tanks and artillery. Then it became a war of missiles against the civilian population, which necessitated the creation of a Home Front Command in the IDF. Sophistication ensued and missiles were augmented with various warheads and replaced with acts of terror such as homicide bombings.
To these two fronts (the physical, outward boundaries and the physical, inside backbone of society) a third was added: the Public Relations front. Israel is yet to respond, thus she fails. To these three fronts, a new one will be added soon, using technology, such as computer accessibility or electric magnetic pulse to bring society to a standstill. Nations recognize the threat, yet are not advanced enough to provide a sufficient response.
Fourth, Israel must strengthen herself, fight corruption at the highest levels, the violence against the elderly and overall crime that have escalated to heights previously unknown, eradicate hunger and focus on education (which has been deteriorating at the K-12 levels) and on instilling values (other than watching Big Brother or Israeli Idol) in future generations.
Fifth, her people must unite and recognize their own rights: the right to their land, right to live in peace within secure borders, right to be an equal member among nation states with equal justice prevailing and applied to all. This very element cannot be achieved when some of Israels harshest critics are Israelis and Jews, when there is no respect or loyalty even within ones own political party or religion, and when unity is easily expressed yet rarely practiced.
Sixth, until a visionary emerges, to lead Israel toward acting once again rather than lagging behind and hardly reacting, Israel must react forcefully. When the Palestinians boycott Israeli goods and services and the Palestinian leadership burns Israeli products for the world to see, there must be a severe and immediate response.
When self-declared humanitarians set sail to end the blockade on Gaza, their efforts must be stopped at all costs. Likewise, when anarchists instigate trouble that threatens the lives and wellbeing of the security forces, they should be imprisoned or deported. When the enemy bombards the very electric plant that supplies electricity to Gaza, the flow of electricity must be stopped.
If a rocket is launched against a civilian population, there must be a greater, not a proportionate, response. When a kidnapped Israeli soldier has not seen a soul other than his captors for the past four years, there must be a reaction. In the Middle East, the only discernible language is strength, great strength. Yet, Israel is embroiled in internal debate, led by the Pro-Peace Pro-Israel camp of J Street or the New Israel Fund and other Israel haters that undermine its national welfare.
For Israel to survive, Israelis must change direction. No one can do it for them. Our own contributions should not be those to non-profit organizations, too numerous to count. Our sole contribution should be to alert Israel to what we witness with our eyes wide open, what she does not see, or prefers to subdue quietly. Israel is on a straight collision course and some see the existential impact coming. Yet our waves, shouts, rush to alert the driver and the occupants just seem to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes, deflected from the windows of a vehicle otherwise immune and oblivious to the outside world.
We cannot want more for Israel than she wants for herself. Sadly, we are left to pray a leader will arise who will have the inner conviction of Israels natural and historical rights, will not hesitate to sacrifice some of lifes momentary conveniences for a better future and who will draw from Israels Eternal Book, the binding bond, her core, for a modern day existence in peace and security.
### In the series Postcards from IsraelPostcards from America, Ari Bussel and Norma Zager invite readers to view and experience an Israel and her politics through their eyes, an Israel visitors rarely discover.
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A number of true points are in the article.
However,
God Almighty will insure Israel’s survival . . .
and not even FOR Israel, per se . . .
but FOR HIS OWN GLORY.
He will, however, likely discipline them for foresaking Him.
Israel — the apple of God’s eye, the hourglass of God’s timing, the centerpiece of God’s plan...What they may fail to do in their own wisdom, He will do for a remnant of them in HIS infinite power...
This was understood even in Old Testament times. The bible prophets made it clear that Israel didn’t deserve to get saved, but that God was intent upon doing it anyhow. We have God’s guarantee that the Jewish people, as a people, will never vanish from the earth, though sometimes I wonder whether the current incarnation of the secular state of Israel is the one that is destined to last till the end of the physical world. Biblical Israel occupied far more territory than the shadow we call “Israel” today.
INDEED.
Even David and Solomon’s kingdoms did not encompass all that God had promised Abraham.
I don’t believe all that territory will be Israel’s until after Christ puts all the evil doers under HIS FEET at the literal Armageddon . . . which seems to be looming closer and closer by the day.
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