Posted on 02/15/2002 10:52:34 AM PST by week 71
On Thursday, January 3rd, 2002, combined Israeli air, sea and intelligence units intercepted a 4,000 ton gun-running Palestinian ship, the “Karine A” in the Red Sea about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of Israel’s port of Eilat. Friday morning, the next day, the ship arrived in Eilat and Israeli security forces began the task of unloading 83 containers holding about 50 tons of weapons supplied by Iran to the Palestinian Autonomy.
These containers were specially designed to be dropped at sea off the Gaza Coast, lie submerged just below the surface and then later retrieved by smaller fishing boats. A small float was attached to them that would indicate their location to Palestinian fishermen or members of the Palestinian Naval Police. The contents of the containers included: 122mm Katyusha rockets with a range of 20 km (12 miles). 107mm Katyusha rockets with a range of 8 km (4.8 miles). 80mm and 120mm mortars Anti-tank rockets (LAW, RPG, and Sagger) Anti-armor mines Sniper rifles AK-47 assault rifles Scuba and rubber raft equipment. Explosives
It is interesting to note that items 1,2,3 and 9 are not defensive but offensive weapons. Item 9: explosives refer to C-4 (Cemtex) one of the most lethal and effective forms of dynamite. It is the kind of dynamite used by Islamic suicide bombers in killing Israeli civilians in bus stations, malls, and discotheques. All the weapons in the Karine A are expressly forbidden by the “so-called” Oslo I & Oslo II peace accords and justify the nullification of what remains of the accords. Last May, the Israeli navy intercepted the San Torini fishing boat, which was filled with large quantities of weapons en route from Lebanon to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. That catch included Katyusha rockets, SA-7 Strella anti-aircraft missiles, rocketed propelled grenades, anti-tank grenades, mortars and shells, mines, Kalashnikov assault rifles and ammunition.” SA-7 Strella anti-aircraft missiles are not exactly what one would call “defensive” missiles. They are, however, capable of bringing down civilian airliners taking off from any of Israel’s airports. On page 266 of my book “Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?” I explain how such a Strella brought down TWA800 in July of 1996.
Again, all of these smuggled weapons are in direct contravention of the “so-called” peace accords with the Palestinians and represent a casus belli (cause for war) with the Palestinian Autonomy. This reminds me of the Japanese Imperial government negotiating peace in Washington, D.C. while the Japanese fleet was steaming towards Pearl Harbor for its day of infamy on December 7th, 1941. Yasser Arafat even had the audacity to offer “hudna” which in Arabic means a wall to wall coalition supporting a cease fire with Israel, when in fact his arms supplies for renewed warfare were just about to arrive on the Karine A. It was yet one more act of deception.
On Sunday (three days after the interception of the “Karine A”) CNN, BBC as well as the enemy we love to hate – the US State Department continued to ignore the entire incident or to say that the gunrunner was actually on its way to Lebanon, and that indeed, this whole affair had nothing to do with the Palestinians. Not even a TV interview with the Palestinian captain of the “Karine A” proving the PA’s complicity and direct connection made any difference. As of Saturday, January 12th, 2002, 10 days later, CNN still describes the incident as being “Israel claims, PA denies,” when everyone understands the truth.
On Tuesday, January 8th, CNN added to the “theater of the absurd” by quoting God’s gift to humanity, Saddam Hussein, as describing Israel’s preventive security action as an act of “international piracy on the high seas.” It wasn’t until Wednesday, January 9th, that the State Department and CNN finally admitted that there was something wrong here with Arafat and the Palestinian Autonomy. As of Saturday, January 12, 2002, 10 days later, CNN still describes the incident in terms of “Israel claims, PA denies,” when everyone understands the truth in spite of CNN. And, of course, Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi repeats the Iraqi canard of “Israeli piracy on the high seas.”
But the key to the problem is not what was said, but rather, what was omitted. The problem, and we see this from the agenda of CNN and the State Department is that the Palestinians can do no wrong, and Israel can do no right. General Anthony Zinni’s visits to the Middle East have only one purpose: Israel will have to make agreements with the Palestinians, agreements detrimental to Israel, because the world is on the side of the Palestinians. Palestinians will break any agreement they sign. But as the State Department and CNN say: “Don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up.”
In my last newsletter of December 2001, I explained the difference between a neurotic person and a psychotic person. The former dreams about castles in the air, the latter lives in them. I explained that there are three parties to the Mid-East conflict: the US, Israel and the Palestinians. Two of them want a Palestinian state, the third doesn’t. The US and in particular the State Department wants a Palestinian state because it believes such a Palestinian state would solve all of America’s foreign policy problems. (The truth is that it wouldn’t.) The Israelis, at least the leftists and politically correct ones, want a Palestinian state to get the Palestinians “out of our hair.” (The truth is that it wouldn’t.) The only group that does not want a Palestinian state is the Palestinians, because by definition, such a Palestinian state would have to live in peace alongside a secure State of Israel. Since the Islamic religion will not allow for this, and will assassinate any Arab, Palestinian, or Islamic leader who makes peace with Israel, therefore the conclusion is that a war to the finish is the only option for the Palestinians. The Palestinians are “psychotic” because what they really want is not a Palestinian state but the destruction of the State of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews. This is, in my opinion, equivalent to “living in castles in the air.” The Islamic religion calls for killing all the Jews on Saturday and all the Christians on Sunday. If Adolf Hitler was psychotic for dreaming he could kill all the Jews on this Earth, how much more so are the Moslems psychotic for thinking they can kill both the Jews and the Christians. And any Israelis or Americans thinking that “peace negotiations” with psychotics will bring peace are psychotic too! It’s like going to an insane asylum and discussing a serious business deal with crazy, psychotic people.
This is the real problem for the American administration, the State Department, CNN, BBC, the EU etc. Because these entities are not Jewish, Christian or “Judeo-Christian” but rather “liberals”, globalists, and money people, they are not capable of understanding that the war between Israel and the Palestinians is a war of the Judeo-Christian God versus the satanic moon-god, war-god, Allah, of the Moslems. If one doesn’t believe in God, that’s one’s personal choice, but for those of us who believe in God, God’s word is very clear, and his promises to Israel and the Christians (the true Christians who love Israel and are committed to Israel) are irrevocable. God’s word, also to those who go against God, is very clear. “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.” (Genesis 27:29 and Numbers 24:9) Two weeks before the September 11th Islamic attacks on the World Trade Center in NY, the Pentagon in Washington, DC, as well as the flight which came down in Pennsylvania, Palestinian spokesman Nabil Sha’ath was quoted as saying that he was in possession of a written secret agreement between President George W. Bush and the Saudis, that the US was committed to a total withdrawal of Israel to the indefensible borders of June 5, 1967. This would mean, God forbid, that if implemented, this forced withdrawal by Israel would lead to Israel’s destruction. Henry Kissinger described the 1967 borders as “Auschwitz Extermination Camp” borders. Two weeks after this secret Bush-Saudi-Palestinian agreement was revealed by Nabil Sha’ath, the Satan-god Allah and his followers carried out the attacks of September 11th, 2001. Call it God’s judgment on America or God’s returning President George W. Bush to God’s intended path. No matter what the US does to placate Satan-Allah and the Moslems, America will still be the ultimate target, the great Christian Satan in the eyes of Islam. Without the destruction of America, Islam cannot conquer the rest of the world and kill all the Jews and Christians.
Two weeks after 9.11, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a speech warning the US that Israel was not Czechoslovakia of 1938 and that Israel would not be sacrificed by its liberal, western, “enlightened” allies for temporary convenience, as Czechoslovakia was by then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who thought that by handing over the Sudetenland to the Germans, peace could be “bought” at the expense of the poor Czechoslovaks. For Israel, the modern day Czechoslovakia, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan are the Israel’s version of the Sudetenland. Force Israel to return to the borders of 1967, and Israel will be absolutely indefensible.
In both my books, “Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?” and “Christian Revival for Israel’s Survival,” I share a testimony that changed my life forever. To make the testimony very short, I was invited to speak before an economic forum known as the Dallas Council on World Affairs, the Dallas branch of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). After I spoke, I was told that 6 million Jews were killed in WWII for a barrel of oil. So, too, would Israel (today 5 million Jews) also be sacrificed for a barrel of oil and that Israel and the Jews would not come in the way of oil supplies. I was told that the only thing that made America great was the barrel of oil. My Christians friends there that night corrected the Dallas Council people, saying: “You call yourselves Christians? What made America great was not the barrel of oil. What made America great was Jesus Christ!”
In conclusion, I would say that America must search its soul. America must decide what’s more important, the barrel of oil, or the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Bible and Jesus Christ. Alexis DeTocqueville wrote in his 1820 book “Democracy in America” that America would one day be the greatest country on earth, because the American people were a good people and that their pulpits were on fire for the Lord.” Conversely, he said: “America will lose its preeminence in the world when its pulpits are no longer on fire for the Lord.” (Not on fire for oil or petrodollars.) According to Professor Samuel Huntington, in his book, “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,” this noted Harvard professor predicts the decline of the US over the coming decades. According to Huntington, Islam is one of the rival systems waiting in the wings to take the place of the declining, decrepit America. America must choose, now, whether it continues the decline or stops the decline by returning to God’s word, the Bible.
My belief is that America’s supporting Arafat and Islam means the beginning of the end for America. Supporting Israel, blatantly in the face of the Arab-Islamic petrodollar paymasters, may be a difficult option for a cash-strapped America, but it will keep President George W. Bush and America on God’s chosen path to continue being the greatest country on Earth.
This may sound sad, but I really don't know how. If anyone wants to tell me, that would be great.
STATE DEPT MEMO: DEATH OF US SAILORS (ON USS COLE) DOES NOT COMPARE TO PALESTINIAN TOLL
'The United States State Department believes the "17 or so dead sailors" on the U.S.S. Cole "does not compare to the 100+ Palestinians who have died in recent weeks" in Mideast violence, a stunning government memo reveals.'
Yes, that of course applies to ALL the Israelites, not just Jews, who are a small part of the total number of Israelites.
I assume your screen name tells us how long the so called Al Aqsa Intifada has been going on.
The Left and the infidels siding with them, whether of Jewish or Christian descent, simply cannot hope to understand and therefore cope with today's situation. They have not investigated and FOUND God not to exist-- they have ASSUMED it, taken for granted, that of course there is no God.
When events prove the contrary, they are going to fall apart.
I assume your screen name tells us how long the so called Al Aqsa Intifada has been going on.
Truth is rare, and so are people who seek it and appreciate it. I'm glad you like the article. My screen name actually comes from Daniel Chapter 9 were Daniel is given a message of the future of Israel. God outlines Israel's future using 70 weeks; the 71st week will be when Messiah comes. As a Christian, of course, I believe for the second time. Your guess makes a lot of sense however. :-)
Thanks for the link. Oh...where to begin. Are they willing ignorant or just anti-semetic? There is not many other choices.
No I have not. I'll see if I can find it. I know good scholars and laymen have diverse interpretations of the controversal chapter; certainly the one I hold is not without controversy. Having viewed many of your replies I would be interested in your view. Shalom
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