‘Palestinian State’ Would Leave Israel ‘Indefensible’

As negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority continue amid international calls for a 23^rd Arab state in the Judea and Samaria (West Bank) region—which would leave Israel with the territory it held prior to the 1967 Six-Day War—familiar calls from within Israel are being heard warning of the “indefensible borders” the Jewish State would be left with in such an eventuality.

It is not a new claim. Israel’s former Foreign Minister Abba Eban famously referred to the so-called “’67 borders” as “Auschwitz borders,” provocatively expressing the fears of many Israelis that a return to the 1949 Armistice lines would leave them perilously vulnerable to attack in a neighborhood which has proven all too often to be hostile to their very presence. …

Today Israel only possesses a minuscule portion of the vast land that God promised to Abraham and his legitimate heirs 4 millennia ago. That original "land grant" was unconditional and is still valid, and at some point in the future Abraham's progeny through Jacob will possess the entire parcel. Most of which btw is now occupied by muslim ruled states and has been for over a millennium or more.

The Israelis were driven out of their promised land by Rome in 70 AD due primarily, IMHO at least, to their religious establishment's rejection of Jesus as Messiah. But the promise to Abraham was not rendered invalid by that rejection, therefore the Israelis own that land forever. The Israelis have God's unbreakable promise that they will eventually occupy and govern all the land that they own from the river of Egypt (Nile) to the river of Persia (Euphrates). Unlike our mortal politicians, our immortal God has never reneged on a promise and He never will.

As they are quick to point out, the Arabs are also descendants of Abraham. However, the promise made to Abraham is that his descendants through Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob would inherit that land, not the progeny of his illegitimate son Ishmael who fathered the Arab tribes. In light of current events fulfillment of that promise seems impossible to most of us. But never the less it will be fulfilled according to Gods own timing, or else He lied and that's one thing He can't do.

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