Sep 26, 2011
The Vultures Gather
Just now, Mahmoud Abbas
submitted an application for full statehood, to UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
(By the way, it’s sad that
Ki-moon, as a South Korean, would shake hands with a
terrorist and consider such a move. The South Koreans know
something about facing-off against a totalitarian regime,
and the presence of 50,000 US troops
keeps the North Koreans at bay.)
Of course, everyone is
talking about Abbas and the Palestinian power-play in New York.
I’d like to talk, however, about some of the things that
brought us to this place.
At about the same time Abbas
was appearing at the UN (on the heels of Ahmadinejad’s
speech to the same body. Isn’t the world insane?), Bill
Clinton was telling Foreign Policy magazine that the one
to blame for the failure of the peace process is…Benjamin
Netanyahu.
No one knows better than Clinton
what a huge lie that is. He spent a good portion of his
presidency having affairs and pushing for a peace deal
between the Israelis and Palestinians, so pronounced is
his narcissism.
After the Camp David talks in
2000 broke down between Ehud Barak and Yasser
Arafat—dashing Clinton’s
last real chance at a legacy—the American president knew
who had scuttled any chance for peace. He later expressed
astonishment at the lengths the Israelis were willing to
go to seal a deal. After he left office, he felt
comfortable enough to lay the blame at Arafat’s feet.
No one knows better than
American presidents just how diabolical the Palestinian
leadership really is.
We live in a world in which
huge lies are told by the left and, incredibly, to great
effect. So hated is Israel that
vast numbers of people actually believe this game is
between the brutal Israelis and the oppressed, innocent
Palestinians.
In part, Clinton told FP:
"That's what happened. Every
American needs to know this. That's how we got to where we
are," Clinton
said. "The real cynics believe that the Netanyahu's
government's continued call for negotiations over borders
and such means that he's just not going to give up the
West Bank."
FP writer Josh Rogin also
revealed:
The Netanyahu government has
received all of the assurances previous Israeli
governments said they wanted but now won't accept those
terms to make peace, Clinton said.
This is an astonishing lie.
The Palestinians have never recognized Israel
as the Jewish state, and they have never stopped
incitement to violence among their own people.
These are obvious things.
And for all of Clinton’s
renowned intellect, he shows that he clearly does not
understand Scripture:
"The two great tragedies in
modern Middle Eastern politics, which make you wonder if
God wants Middle East peace or not, were [Yitzhak] Rabin's
assassination and [Ariel] Sharon's
stroke," Clinton
said.
So he is blaming A) Netanyahu
and B) God. The chutzpah of change agents like Clinton
is indeed breathtaking. (By the way, I strongly urge you
to get a copy of Richard Minister’s masterful book, Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s
Failures Unleashed Global Terror.
Prepare to be scared and enraged.)
We also have learned in
recent days of the intense pressure that Clinton’s
wife has put on the Israelis to apologize(!) to the Turks
for last year’s flotilla fiasco.
Closely associated with the Clintons’ animus toward Israel
are their friends on the Religious Left.
In what I believe is a
coordinated effort, leftists in the Church are now
ramping-up the rhetoric against Christian and Jewish
Zionists. Front-and-center is Brian McLaren, whose disdain
for Zionists puts the lie to his carefully crafted,
peace-loving persona.
Now that the Palestinians
have become emboldened by the calculated groveling toward
the Muslim world by Barack Obama, their friends in the American
Church
are coming out of the woodwork. When McLaren approves of
hate-speech against Zionists, he signals his sycophantic
protégés in the Emergent community to follow
suit.
Obama, it is rumored, will
veto the Palestinian bid for statehood, but this is only
window-dressing and only temporary. The pieces are being
put into place for a catastrophic attack on the Jewish
state and Obama and his leftist friends will not only
openly turn on Israel
soon, but on her friends as well.
We all know that is primarily
Christian Zionists. We are also being demonized from
growing circles within the Church.
In the midst of all this, I’d
encourage you to get a copy—or several—of Paul Smith’s new
book, The New Evangelicalism (you
can order from The Word for Today, http://twft.com),
which traces the sorry slide away from the Bible at Fuller
Theological Seminary, and how that played-out with folks
like Rick Warren, Billy Graham, and the son of Fuller’s
founder, Daniel Fuller.
Your eyes will be opened, and
you will then understand why a powerbroker like Warren
(who is hugely influencing young Emergent pastors like
Perry Noble and Steven Furtick) can schmooze with Syria’s
butcher, Bashar Assad, as he did in five years ago (www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53030).
There are many things going
on besides the Palestinian power-play at the UN, but all
are connected. Many fronts are opening-up against Israel
and her supporters, and you should beware. I have said it
many times and will say it again, loudly:
American Church leaders and ministries
are speeding toward abandoning Israel
(if they ever supported the Jewish state) and embracing
the barbaric Palestinians. It is happening and it will get
worse.
The vultures are gathering.