The Challenge to Israel's Legitimacy

Middle East and Terrorism ^ | August 6, 2010 | Dore Gold

[citizenredstater9271]

A dangerous global shift is taking place in terms of Israel's standing in the world at large which could have profoundly destabilizing implications for the Middle East.

Looking at recent developments, there is a dangerous global shift occurring with respect to Israel's international standing, which must be urgently addressed. Over the last decade, former Israeli officers have been threatened with arrest for alleged war crimes if they visit certain European countries.

From Norway to the UK, there is increasing talk of boycotts against Israeli universities. There is more talk about trade sanctions, as well. European media outlets from France-2 to the BBC spread complete fabrications about Israeli behavior, like the famous case of the 2001 killing of the boy Muhammad al-Dura, that often come from politicized reporters and by agenda-driven non-governmental organizations. The imbalanced conclusions adopted in the report by Justice Richard Goldstone for the UN Human Rights Council may have been discredited in Israel, but it only reinforced many of these negative trends in Europe and elsewhere.

The cumulative impact of these developments is the creation of an increasingly hostile environment for Israel, as every negative report about Israeli policy is accepted at face value. The tremendous risks for peace that Israel itself undertook in the last seventeen years – from implementing the 1993 Oslo Agreements with the Palestinians to withdrawing from the Gaza Strip in 2005 – are completely ignored. In this milieu, Israeli diplomats find themselves accosted in European universities and even attacked by mobs, as was the case in Manchester this year.

[citizenredstater9271]

Leftists/socialists and jihadi anti-semites are teaming up to wipe israel from the map politically.

[Westbrook]

Completely expected.

Predicted by Biblical prophesy.

Bible Prophecy says that Israel would be destroyed, and the Jews scattered throughout the world for nearly 2000 years, then brought back to the land of Israel, only to have the entire world turn against them and attempt to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth and eradicate the Jewish race.

All this was predicted by Biblical prophecies 2000 years old and older.

The part of the prophecy where Messiah returns to save Israel and destroy the forces arrayed against her is yet to be fulfilled.

But I believe with all my heart that will indeed happen.

[Joe Boucher]

How hard do they push until Israel sets off the nuclear option?????????