Post by Salem6 on Feb 9, 2004 9:59:48 GMT
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
February 8, 2004
Jerusalem (jnewswire.com) - An influential Christian Zionist warned Sunday that by unilaterally leaving the Gaza Strip, and then Judea and Samaria, Israel would have helped create three terrorist enclaves that would be able to throttle the remnant of the Jewish state.
In a statement faxed to Israeli leaders, the director of the Jerusalem-based International Christian Zionist Center, Jan Willem van der Hoeven, painted an ominous picture of the likely results of the "foolishness" being planned by the Sharon government.
As Israel's May 2000 pullout from Lebanon had helped establish the Hizballah-controlled region today threatening Israel's north with 12,000 missiles, so leaving Gaza would help create a Hamas-controlled enclave that would endanger parts of southern Israel and its coastal strip.
Leaving Samaria and Judea would enable a third terror mini-state to be born, this one on the mountainous ridge overlooking the coastal plain - home to over 80 percent of Israel's population and industry, and the location of Ben Gurion Airport - Israel's lifeline to the world.
Van der Hoeven called on all Bible-believing Christians to pray earnestly for "God's wisdom to prevail on the beloved leaders of this land" even at this "very late moment."
From Fatah-land to Hizballah-land
In his statement, Van der Hoeven recalled the mini-state known as Fatah-land that the PLO had set up in southern Lebanon, and from which it waged unrelenting terrorism against Israel and the people of Lebanon before being driven out by the IDF in 1982.
In May 2000, Israel had suddenly and unilaterally pulled its forces out of the security zone established in place of Fatah-land, handing an unearned victory to the Iranian-backed, Syria-supported Hizballah.
To no avail had then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak charged the Lebanese and Syrian governments with being, from that moment on, "responsible for preventing acts of terror or aggression against Israel."
Instead, wrote Van der Hoeven, "by unilaterally withdrawing from southern Lebanon, Israel had been responsible for creating the Hizballah terrorist mini-state that today threatens Israel's northern townships with 12,000 rockets."
Hamas-land in Gaza
Addressing the plan announced last week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whereby Israel would uproot 17 settlements from the Gaza Strip, eventually ensuring that not a single Jew remained there, Van der Hoeven said the result would emulate what happened in Lebanon.
"By unilaterally withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, Israel will be responsible for creating a Hamas terrorist mini-state that will threaten Israel's southern area and coastline with all manner of weaponry."
The Hamas Islamist terror organization is enormously popular in the Gaza Strip, where it has established a network of social services including hospitals, clinics, schools and charities among the Strip's one million Arabs.
Many Gazan Arabs are believed to regard Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority as a powerless puppet of the Israelis.
Israel's foolishness
With Gaza gone, said Van der Hoeven, "we only have to wait for Israel to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria - as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Deputy-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have already said they will do - to see how, through Israel's foolishness, a Fatah-Tanzim terrorist state will come into being."
This state would sit on the mountainous spine of the biblical land of Israel, threatening what would be left of "tiny Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport - its lifeline with the world!"
Upwards of 80 percent of the entire population of Israel lives in the coastal plain between Tel Aviv and Haifa, all within shoulder-launched missile reach of the land the world is demanding Israel surrender for the creation of a Palestinian state.
The vast majority of Israel's industry is located in the same area, as is Ben Gurion International Airport, the flight paths to which pass over the same future Palestinian land.
May God's wisdom prevail
Despite the lateness of the hour, and the momentum already gathering under Sharon's plans for unilateral withdrawal, Van der Hoeven said Christians should earnestly pray for "God's wisdom [to] prevail upon the beloved leaders of this nation."
Millions of the world's Bible-believing Christians share the conviction that the God of Israel has returned the Jewish people to their ancient homeland to establish them here forever.
To these Christians, the global effort to divide the biblical Land of Israel and impose upon it a two-state solution - "Israel and Palestine living side by side," in the words of US President George W. Bush - poses an existential danger to the Jews and should be opposed.
www.jnewswire.com/news_archive/04/02/040208_gaza.asp
February 8, 2004
Jerusalem (jnewswire.com) - An influential Christian Zionist warned Sunday that by unilaterally leaving the Gaza Strip, and then Judea and Samaria, Israel would have helped create three terrorist enclaves that would be able to throttle the remnant of the Jewish state.
In a statement faxed to Israeli leaders, the director of the Jerusalem-based International Christian Zionist Center, Jan Willem van der Hoeven, painted an ominous picture of the likely results of the "foolishness" being planned by the Sharon government.
As Israel's May 2000 pullout from Lebanon had helped establish the Hizballah-controlled region today threatening Israel's north with 12,000 missiles, so leaving Gaza would help create a Hamas-controlled enclave that would endanger parts of southern Israel and its coastal strip.
Leaving Samaria and Judea would enable a third terror mini-state to be born, this one on the mountainous ridge overlooking the coastal plain - home to over 80 percent of Israel's population and industry, and the location of Ben Gurion Airport - Israel's lifeline to the world.
Van der Hoeven called on all Bible-believing Christians to pray earnestly for "God's wisdom to prevail on the beloved leaders of this land" even at this "very late moment."
From Fatah-land to Hizballah-land
In his statement, Van der Hoeven recalled the mini-state known as Fatah-land that the PLO had set up in southern Lebanon, and from which it waged unrelenting terrorism against Israel and the people of Lebanon before being driven out by the IDF in 1982.
In May 2000, Israel had suddenly and unilaterally pulled its forces out of the security zone established in place of Fatah-land, handing an unearned victory to the Iranian-backed, Syria-supported Hizballah.
To no avail had then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak charged the Lebanese and Syrian governments with being, from that moment on, "responsible for preventing acts of terror or aggression against Israel."
Instead, wrote Van der Hoeven, "by unilaterally withdrawing from southern Lebanon, Israel had been responsible for creating the Hizballah terrorist mini-state that today threatens Israel's northern townships with 12,000 rockets."
Hamas-land in Gaza
Addressing the plan announced last week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whereby Israel would uproot 17 settlements from the Gaza Strip, eventually ensuring that not a single Jew remained there, Van der Hoeven said the result would emulate what happened in Lebanon.
"By unilaterally withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, Israel will be responsible for creating a Hamas terrorist mini-state that will threaten Israel's southern area and coastline with all manner of weaponry."
The Hamas Islamist terror organization is enormously popular in the Gaza Strip, where it has established a network of social services including hospitals, clinics, schools and charities among the Strip's one million Arabs.
Many Gazan Arabs are believed to regard Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority as a powerless puppet of the Israelis.
Israel's foolishness
With Gaza gone, said Van der Hoeven, "we only have to wait for Israel to withdraw from most of Judea and Samaria - as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Deputy-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have already said they will do - to see how, through Israel's foolishness, a Fatah-Tanzim terrorist state will come into being."
This state would sit on the mountainous spine of the biblical land of Israel, threatening what would be left of "tiny Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport - its lifeline with the world!"
Upwards of 80 percent of the entire population of Israel lives in the coastal plain between Tel Aviv and Haifa, all within shoulder-launched missile reach of the land the world is demanding Israel surrender for the creation of a Palestinian state.
The vast majority of Israel's industry is located in the same area, as is Ben Gurion International Airport, the flight paths to which pass over the same future Palestinian land.
May God's wisdom prevail
Despite the lateness of the hour, and the momentum already gathering under Sharon's plans for unilateral withdrawal, Van der Hoeven said Christians should earnestly pray for "God's wisdom [to] prevail upon the beloved leaders of this nation."
Millions of the world's Bible-believing Christians share the conviction that the God of Israel has returned the Jewish people to their ancient homeland to establish them here forever.
To these Christians, the global effort to divide the biblical Land of Israel and impose upon it a two-state solution - "Israel and Palestine living side by side," in the words of US President George W. Bush - poses an existential danger to the Jews and should be opposed.
www.jnewswire.com/news_archive/04/02/040208_gaza.asp