Monday, 15 March 2010 01:51
Written by John Hellein
The nations of the world will stop at nothing to extinguish Jewish life in Judea and Samaria.
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Last week, I wrote about our efforts to build up Jewish life in Judea and Samaria. One method to accomplish this is through our annual work groups that we send to Kedumim in Samaria, Israel. Now we'll take a look at the other side – those who work indefatiguably to tear down that same expression of Jewish life on what they would call the West Bank in an effort to conceal the millenia-old Jewish history of judea and Samaria.
When news broke last week of the 1,600 new housing units in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighbrhood – just as US Vice President Biden arrived to step up pressure against Israel – it looked as though Prime Minister Netanyahu's government was displaying signs of a backbone vis-a-vis the United States government. While Netanyahu had capitulated to the US by agreeing to enforce a building freeze throughout Judea and Samaria, it seemed that he was at least willing to stand up to the US on the inviolobility of Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem.
Then came the harsh, harsh criticism from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (no longer worried about how the Jewish constituency of New York might feel about it) and others in President Obama's administration like David Axelrod. in a 45 minute phone conversation with Netanyahu, Clinton communicated Obama's demands that Israel make concrete concessions as a sign of contrition and, more importantly, to remind them who calls the shots in the middle east and, apparently on both sides of the "Green Line" in Jerusalem. Today, Arutz Sheva is reporting that Jerusalem housing planners throught the city had been instructed to halt all activity and the Jerusalem Post is speculating how else the US expects Israel to grovel.
So now, Netanyahu has not only frozen construction in Judea and Samaria – telegraphing his weakness and willingness to compromise on the land of Israel if the United States say that it should – he has also, apparently, submitted the daily planning of communities in West and East Jerusalem to the authority of a foreign government acting as Israel's protectorate. Such is existence as an invertabrate.
"Do What We Say and Nobody Get Hurts"
Rav Waldman, the head of the Yeshiva Nir in Kiryat Arba, Judea, Israel is fond of saying that when the United States came out in favor of Israel's independence in 1948 that it never intended for Israel to get the idea that it should actually act independently. That message is continuously being communicated from Washington to Jerusalem but usually it is transmitted clandestinely. This week however, the US is publically, at least to some degree, proclaiming a loud-and-clear message: Israel must depend on the "lone superpower" for protection and if it is to expect that protection it must do what it is told. It is a lie that is purchased by the United States through billions of dollars of US taxpayer money every year. The lie also relies on the perception that if the US were to withdraw its protection of Israel then the Arab and Moslem nations that surround Israel would quickly destroy Israel.
Israel's Well being Does Not Depend on The United States
The simple truth is that throughout its thousands of years of existence, Israel has lived surrounded by nations and empires that externally appeared to be stronger than it. This used to mean Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome. Today, it means Europe, Russia, Iran, the UN and the United States. Israel's existence, however, does not depend upon the goodwill of any of these nations; it depends upon the God of Israel, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
As I wrote in a earlier post, the nations of the world view – on a very deep level – the building up of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria as an act of terrorism. They will always respond irrationally and harshly to it and seek to discourage it with all the power that they can bring to bear against the people of Israel.
Where The Past Week's Events Premeditated?
It is always immpossible for me to know, let alone prove, whether events such as those that have unfolded around the Ramat Shlomo announcement were staged. When I start considering such thoughts, I always feel more like a conspiracy theorist than I am comfortable with. I do believe that organizations such as the US State Department are clever enough to look for opportunites that they can exploit to promote a policy that they have already decided to implement. When the israeli government announced the plans for Ramat Shlomo, to the embarrassment of Biden, it presented a prime opportunity to "put Israel in its place." To remind Israel of its (false) dependence on the apparent power of the United States for protection.
Mark Perry provides some insight into such an assumption in a Foreign Policy post:
There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA, the American Medical Association, the lawyers - and the Israeli lobby. But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S. military. While commentators and pundits might reflect that Joe Biden's trip to Israel has forever shifted America's relationship with its erstwhile ally in the region, the real break came in January, when David Petraeus sent a briefing team to the Pentagon with a stark warning: America's relationship with Israel is important, but not as important as the lives of America's soldiers.
I recommend you read the enire post. Also, here is a related sermon, delivered today, by Ken Garrison.
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