Israel is celebrating its 60th aniversary as a modern nation. Of course it existed from the time of Saul and David in ancient times, but no other nation has risen from the dust with the same people, religion, and even language like Israel. Charles Krauthammer in a short summary outlines the rise of modern Israel in the miraculous manner in which it happened. To me, the Hand of God is evident.
Today it is popular to encourage negotiation with the Palestinians to win "peace" in the middle east. As Krauthammer has pointed out peace is only possible if the Palestinians accept the existence of Israel. "Look at Gaza today. No Israeli occupation, no settlements, not a single Jew left. The Palestinian response? Unremitting rocket fire killing and maiming Israeli civilians. ...
Israel's crime is not its policies but its insistence on living."
The Palestinian attitude to Israel reminds one of a familiar phrase, "the (Israelis) must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary for the public peace—their outrages are beyond all description." Lilburn Boggs.
Negotiation with such a group committed to ones destruction is foolishness. President Bush rightly equated those who try to an American senator who, as Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.'
May the Israelis (and the Americans) live worthy of the blessings they have received and the blessings they have been promised.
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