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'You have been warned'

/By/ *Stan Goodenough*

/May 4th, 2006/

A long-standing leader in the international Christian Zionist movement
Thursday sent a strongly-worded warning to the brand new Israeli
government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Jan Willem van der Hoeven, a Dutch Christian and 40-year resident of
Israel, who in 1981 founded the International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem and today directs the International Christian Zionist Center,
said the "convergence" plan will "explode in [the] faces" of Olmert "and
those who have chosen, often out of personal ambition, to sit with you
in your government."

Israel's leadership had "been warned by many - by military experts, by
political strategists, by deeply, deeply concerned leaders, both Jews
and Christians - /not/ to allow a Palestinian (Muslim) state to be
created between Israel and the Jordan; /not/ to divide this land."

Van der Hoeven said that "G-d Himself has warned you repeatedly not to
do this evil to your people and nation. He has even warned that He will
severely judge the nations who advocate such a path."

Nonetheless, many of Israel's leaders had "chosen to harden [their]
hearts and [their] foreheads, thinking [they] know better, better than
all these experts, even better than G-d Himself, what is ultimately the
best for Israel."

The rationale given by Olmert, who in his speech to the Knesset earlier
Thursday reiterated the "need" to withdraw from 95 percent of Israel's
biblical lands in order to ensure that Israel remain a state with a
Jewish majority, was, Van der Hoeven said, "a baseless argument" that
would be "to no avail."

Pouring withering scorn on the whole Jewish majority issue, the Dutch
pastor said if Israel had not aborted two million Jewish babies in the
years since its independence, and if previous leftist government
policies had not discouraged Jewish immigration and encouraged Jewish
emigration, there would be no demographic threat to worry about.

"Go ahead," he continued angrily. "Give in to the pressures of a world
which will in any case not fight for your survival."

Van der Hoeven also slammed the expected willingness of the new
government to allow a major international homosexual event to take place
in Jerusalem later this year.

"Follow their goyish ways. Be afraid to say no and let them parade their
lustful pleasures when, by the tens of thousands, they come here to your
destined holy city this summer, parading in your Jewish capital their
filth-ridden abominations, all with the permission of an Olmert-led
government which now includes SHAS [the ultra-orthodox party], the great
upholders of G-d's sanctity!!"

"Do it all - and see what the Divine answer will be. When it comes, and
it will surely come, it will not be peace so that, as you said, Mr.
Olmert, Israel will be a place that will be FUN to live in."

It would be the opposite, Van der Hoeven said, unless Israel turned back
now.

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