Am Israel Chai: December 2012

Now that the vote is in by the UN General Assembly endorsing Palestine as an observer non-member state, what will Israel do next? What options does Israel have since the Palestinians under President Mahmoud Abbas has circumvented direct negotiations with Israel and has gone directly to the UN? The final count was predicted, 138 in favor, 9 against and 41 abstentions. It is clear that the UN from the beginning favored the Palestinians.

As a result of the eight day war with Hamas, and now the UN vote, Israel must decide what they will do next in terms of their future. Israeli citizens know that the Arab block and the international community are against them, this is reality. A brief review of all the UN Human Rights resolutions, confirms that over forty percent are directed toward Israel the only democracy in the Middle East. With 233 resolutions against Israel, it is easy to see why many nations voted for a Palestinian state. President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech at the UN General Assembly said the following:

“Palestine comes today to the United Nations General Assembly at a time when it is still tending to its wounds and still burying its beloved martyrs of children, women and men who have fallen victim to the latest Israeli aggression...”[1]

The very fact that most UN member nations supported president Abbas as the first Arab leader to approach a terrorist entity- Hamas and congratulate them for their victory over Israel and in the same breath praised the martyrs before the United Nations is insightful. The United Nations has made the democratic State of Israel the target of persistent condemnation while ignoring its mandate in challenging the tyrannical regimes around the world. What does this say about the UN? As of this moment, the government of Israel has given the green light to build additional homes, 3000 in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank. The Obama administration has reacted by denouncing the building of new homes as unacceptable. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Viet said:

"We reiterate our longstanding opposition to settlements and East Jerusalem construction”[2]

The real terrorist state is not Hamas or the PLO under president Abbas. The real terrorist state is the state of Israel. They are the true aggressors and the world is beginning to believe it. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state” as Israel was defending her citizens from rockets coming in from Gaza. This clearly shows the mindset of most people in the region.[3] Israel does not have a right to defend herself because her army is strong, advanced and well equipped. Palestinian combatants are fighting Goliath, so to even the balance of warfare; they must use every means they can to inflict pain and destruction to their enemy, even at the expensive of sacrificing their own people. If we are honest with ourselves we have to admit that Jew hatred is pervasive. We can no longer try to win over those who hate us to our cause, it will end in failure. Jew hatred is no longer confined to the uneducated and ignorant, it has reached the highest levels of society.

An opinion poll taken a number of years ago in 2003 in Europe, an estimated fifty-nine percent of Europeans believed that Israel is the major threat to world peace.[4] That was nine years ago, how much more now? We as Jews and evangelical Christians cannot stand idly by and see our people mangled by the media, academics, and left wing organizations. We have within ourselves the power to inform, educate and proclaim the truth regarding Israel and the long standing conflict of Islamic jihadist who seek to wipe us out. We can become our own “media” and spread the truth or we can stand and watch.

One thing we can do is to seriously consider making aliyah to Israel. By making aliyah to Israel we can strengthen existing communities and build new ones. This is our destiny and we have a great future ahead of us. In the meantime, we need to be pro-active and do all we can to dismantle current myths about Israel, Jews and Zionism.

“God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still. See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. Come, they say, let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." Psalm 83:1-4 NIV

Abraham J. Santiago (c)

[1] http://www.cfr.org/palestinian-authority/abbas-speech-un-general-assembly-november-2012/p29579

[2] http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/11/white-house-opposes-new-israeli-settlement-construction-150763.html

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/19/us-palestinians-israel-turkey-idUSBRE8AI0FH20121119

[4] Dave Hunt, Judgment Day! Islam, Israel and the Nations- (Bend, Oregon 2006) p.30

Am Israel Chai

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Am Israel Chai: ISRAEL THE TERRORIST STATE

ISRAEL THE TERRORIST STATE