From www.thegoldenreport.com here is how Jerry Golden sees the situation over there (edited for spelling and clarity).
Once again I want to reiterate that Israel has never been faced with such a threat to its very existence. Our Leadership is unable to see anything but dangers to their political future and they dont care about what is best for the State. The most recent curse on Israel was the second horrible gift given to us by Ariel Sharon, the Kadima Party, first was the Disengagement from Gaza. But there is a third and he has a name: Ehud Olmert, and this third and present curse has himself given us a defeat at the hands of a Terrorist Party that has now encouraged our Arab neighbors to believe that they can now destroy the once-thought-to-be-unbeatable IDF. As you are reading this Syria is massing their army on our northern border along the Golan Heights. Remember that Syria and Iran have a pact to go to war together against the Zionist State.
While I am reiterating things, why not say this again as well, before Bush went to war he made a deal with the Arab world that if they will sit still he would deliver Israel into their hands, he has been doing his dead level best to do that with the Road Map to Hell. Yesterday Condoleeza Rice met with the Syrian Foreign Minister at Sharm e-Sheikh, Egypt. Think about that for a minute, this is one of the axes of evil that the Bush administration would not meet with because they supported terrorists. If you will allow me I want to carry this a step or two further.
I have always believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that they were all moved into Syria, in fact I believe that Bush knows that, what I cant understand is why he has not opening said so. There were a few high ranking Iraqi officials who defected to the US right after the war that even told the locations of these weapons in Syria, and how convoys of trucks traveled for days into Syria carrying those weapons. So my question would be if Bush isnt part of the EU and UN plot to destroy Israel along with the Arab world, then why at this time knowing the above is Rice speaking with the Syrian Foreign Minister in Egypt of all places?
Last night over 200,000 of us Israelis gathered in Rabin Square in Tel-Aviv to demand that the failure Olmert GO HOME and that will not be the last such rally, for many more are planned. He has a 0 approval rating and still refuses to step down, what is even more disturbing is the MKs in the Kadima and Labor Parties who know what they have brought on this country with their Disengagement and last summers Lebanon war will also not step down and call for new elections when they know that the overwhelming majority of Israel is demanding it. All of this simply shows that the idea of democracy in Israel is now dead and the only way for it to be resurrected is for the people to continue to demand their resignations and call for new elections.
But new elections bring with it a set of new problems here in Israel. It would seem that the Likud (the party Ive always been with) is now once again headed by Netanyahu, he says he has learnt his lessons and is now ready to lead the country. I will be the first to admit that he is the best of the possibilities we now have, but that does not mean that we here in Israel have forgotten his performance of the past when he gave away the second most Holy City in Israel Hebron and to add to the insult he also gave them Bethlehem and was about to give them Jericho but was forced out of office. I like many others have not forgotten that he was in favor of the Gaza Disengagement one day and against it the next and then for it back and forth seeming to go with the polls from one day to the next.
We here in Israel dont vote for a man, we vote for a Party and that Party designates who will be the Prime Minister and often times it is not the best man in that Party but the most popular one. For example in the Likud there is such a man who has never taken bribes, has never been corrupted and has always stood for the Zionist State of Israel regardless of how unpopular it may have been, his name is Uzi Landau, but Uzi doesnt have much of a chance of being elected by his Party (Likud) to be the Prime Minister because he is labeled a rebel. So Netanyahu it will be, and all I can say is God help us. But even Netanyahu is a major improvement over the present failure that now sits in that office. I know that Netanyahu is a very popular Israeli leader among most evangelical Christians but they know little of the inside working of Israeli politics and I feel that he cannot be trusted.
So when you put all the above together it draws a very disturbing picture. One thing is almost certain we are about to go into a terrible war, this time with an enemy who has missiles that can reach every part of Israel and known to be armed with chemical and biological warheads. It would seem that the only way that Syria can now be stopped is by a nuclear bomb on Damascus (Isa. 17:1). The longer Israel sits still under the leadership of Olmert our enemies are getting stronger by the day as they frantically prepare for war. The UN has turned a blind eye and many cases assisted Irans rearmament of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Russia has supplied all the missiles Syria needs, and the US has made Egypt a military might in the region. Simply put we are surrounded as many are saying by a sea of Arabs threatening once again to destroy us. And in the meantime among us live the so-called Palestinians who have been teaching their children from kindergarden through college that their greatest honor is to kill Jews for Allah. Daily we have been shelled from the Gaza Strip into our southern cities and not once has the international community said anything about this act of aggression against out civilian populations. We are in trouble and if we dont take care of ourselves we are doomed, unless God sends us a miracle.
There is a good ending for us who know God and love Him, for He will continue to bring His chosen back to the land promised to them as an everlasting covenant. God has called us to prepare to rescue Jews who will be fleeing Europe soon, running for their lives and we are about preparing with your help. I am asking God today to speak into your heart and spirit what He would have you do.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel, and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it. Shalom, jerry golden
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Wow. If what he says about Bush is true, we are in deep trouble.
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no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
Sadly, I think that with the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 by one of his own nation's people, I don't think the Israelis will ever come close to achieving a cooperative, lasting peace with any of their enemies again. That with the absolute blunders of men like Netanyahu and Sharon, the efforts of moderates like Barak to do more than continue the cycle of bloodshed is marginalized ever more.
I do not believe peace is possible between Israel and it's enemies. We're talking generational hatred at this point, and until both sides are willing to adopt an attitude of peace instead of blood feud, it is only going to get worse. And, I think that is what is prophesied of in ancient scripture.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Olmert Holds Army Back in Face of Imminent Hizballah, Hamas Threats and Buildup
May 8, 2007, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni staged a revealing scrap of asides behind open microphones and TV cameras Monday, May 8.
She said the army chiefs was complaining the politicians were holding them back from dealing with the Palestinian Qassam missiles flying daily from Gaza. He replied: Tell them to take it easy.
Less than a week after Livni told Olmert to resign over the Winograd panels deadly criticism of his handling of last years Lebanon War, the duo were ready to act out a piece of theater and a course of military passivity. Neither seriously wants to hear what the army has to say and not just the chief of staff, as in last years conflict, but the different views of commanders, as the panel advised. They are too preoccupied with personal survival maneuvers to attend to urgent security issues.
Military experts, some of them recently retired from combat duty, tirelessly warn in daily media interviews that the war build-up on three Israeli borders, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, has reached dangerous proportions. Not only is the army again unprepared for another conflict in the months to come, but it is held back by the Olmert government from destroying the plentifully rearmed enemy installations before they go on the offensive.
Confirming the generals worst fears, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah laid out a plan Sunday, May 6, for attacking IDF positions on Mts. Hermon and Dov from the Shebaa Farms, and Israel Navy vessels with the new long-range missiles just delivered (smuggled) by Syria, while also turning the militias guns on the UN peacekeepers posted in south Lebanon.
The plan was aired in a well-publicized interview broadcast Sunday by Iranian television in Arabic, a clear signal that it was first cleared with his Tehran masters.
Yet the Israeli government had no response even verbal.
This time, unlike Hizballahs provocation in 2006, Tehran is solidly behind the Lebanese Shiite militias war plan. The Islamic Republic is furthermore willing to be party to a conflict against Israel launched from Lebanese territory. This willingness is compatible with Nasrallahs public denial of the legitimacy of the Fouad Siniora government in Beirut.
The plan to wage war on Israel has been carefully calculated to knock over several targets, including the Siniora government, while toppling the entire edifice put in place by UN Security Councils Resolution 1701 of August 2006.
Under its terms, Hizballah and Israel accepted a ceasefire and the Shiite group pulled out of southern Lebanon.
To put a legal varnish on these tactics, the Hizballah leader coined the phrase defensive existence. He said: We have a defensive existence, meaning that if Lebanon or the south came under attack, we will defend Lebanon.
We means Hizballah. This is tantamount to denying the legitimacy of the Lebanese sovereign army and its displacement of Hizballah in South Lebanon under the terms of Resolution 1701.
Before the Nasrallahs threats to Israel were aired in Tehran, everything was in place. DEBKAfiles military sources report: Hizballah troops which had pulled back from the Shebaa Farms sector during the war have been redeployed. Syria had replenished the militias stocks of sophisticated C-802 shore-to-sea missiles of the type which struck the Israeli missile ship Hanit in the first week of the 2006 war, together with the latest mobile radar shore batteries. They are lined up along the Lebanese coast, including the Tyre sector close to UNIFIL headquarters at Rosh Hanikra. Vessels in Israeli waters south of the Lebanese border up to Nahariya and Acre are now within range of those missiles.
In last years war, Hizballah seized shore radar centers from the Lebanese armed forces to fire at seaborne targets. Now they have their own.
According to our military sources, the new Hizballah coastal deployments force Israeli naval vessels on patrol against weapons and terrorist smuggling from Lebanon to detour much farther out to sea than before.
The demands by Israels armed forces for action to break up Hizballah and Hamas military buildup - or even put a stop to Palestinian daily Qassam attacks on Israeli towns and villages in the south - fall equally on deaf ears in Jerusalem.
Seeing the Olmert government tied so tightly in its own knots that elementary measures for national security are blocked, it was not surprising to hear the US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announce Monday night, May 7, that Condoleezza Rice has decided to put off her visit to Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority because of the domestic political woes of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
Vice president Dick Cheney will likewise give Israel a miss during the Middle East tour he starts Wednesday, May 8, to Riyadh, Amman and Cairo.
Israels current leaders are holding onto their seats for dear life, but the ground on which those seats stand is being sacrificed in the process.
