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May 22, 2009
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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  A two-state peace isn't the Arab goal
by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Who favors a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?
President Obama does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Monday. So does former President George W. Bush, who began advocating Palestinian statehood in 2002 and continued until his final days in office. The Democratic Party's national platform endorses a two-state solution; the Republican platform does, too. The UN Security Council unanimously reaffirmed its support a few days ago. The European Union is strongly in favor as well -- so strongly that the EU's foreign-policy chief, Javier Solana, has been warning Israel that its relations with Europe "will be very, very different" if it drops the two-state ball. Pope Benedict XVI called for a Palestinian state during his recent visit to the Holy Land, thereby aligning himself -- on this issue, at least -- with the editorial boards of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. And, for that matter, with most Israelis. A new poll shows 58 percent of the Israeli public backing a two-state solution; prominent supporters include Netanyahu's three predecessors -- former prime ministers Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak -- as well as president Shimon Peres. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Cal Thomas said: “In a rebuke to the President [Obama’s] commitment to diplomacy, Iran conducted a missile test within hours after Mr. Netanyahu left Washington for Israel. If Iran gets a nuclear bomb, everything will change in the Middle East. Whatever dim prospects for peace there may be will come unraveled. That's why stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions trumps a Palestinian state and everything else.”
God says: “I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. … I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. Persia, [Iran[ Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets. … In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel.” (Ezekiel 38:2-5, 8).
The Jerusalem Connection says: A war of holocaust proportions is fact of future history. There may be a few political speed bumps that slow it down. But the Bible tells us with alarming specificity that it is indeed inevitable. A remnant of Israel will be saved only when they cry out “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.” [Yahwey]. “What kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. … make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with Him.” ( Matthew 23:39; II Peter 3:11-12, 14).
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