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ISRAEL NEWS OCT.07,2000 8;09 PM
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>Greetings in the name of Jesus!
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>Holly and I have been in fellowship with Tony Black for about 6 years
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>Special Edition: First hand report from Israel
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>Shalom! Peace to you from the land of Israel.
>
>Television screens are once again convulsed by images of violent
>Palestinian
>mobs burning tires and attacking Israeli police and army with submachine
>guns, rocks, grenades and RPGs. Israeli soldiers are shown responding
>with
>tear gas, rubber bullets and live fire, while attack helicopters and
>tanks
>await potential escalation. The images are compelling and distressing,
>and
>the world's media(like CNN and BBC) confidently present the analyses of
>their Middle East supposed experts who (not surprisingly) ascribe nearly
>all
>of the blame for the current mob violence to Israel.
>
>How can believers far removed from this swirling vortex make sense of
>what
>is true and what is propaganda, what is tragic and what is evil? This
>letter is an attempt to help in this process.
>
>Four main points are being consistently communicated by the world media
>throughout this crisis. Let's consider these claims:
>
>1. "The riots are an understandable reaction to a flagrant Israeli
>provocation, the visit of Ariel Sharon (Israeli Likud party leader) to
>the
>Haram a-Sharif/Temple Mount on Thursday September 28. This was a
>desecration
>of a Moslem mosque/holy place."
>
>Israeli politicians have visited this area many times, as has Sharon.
>These
>visits happen all the time. MKs (members of Knesset, Israel's parliament)
>have the legal right to go anywhere at any time with full legal
>protection
>and immunity. As well, Israeli Jews and non-Moslem tourists from all over
>the world visit this site daily in their hundreds of thousands. An
>Israeli
>police post is located on the northwestern corner of the compound, and
>armed
>Israeli soldiers and police regularly patrol the compound. The explosion
>which was triggered has nothing to do with non-Moslems or Israelis
>visiting
>the site, but everything to do with a strategic decision by the
>Palestinian
>Authority to use violence to achieve a new status quo in the so-called
>peace
>negotiations.
>
>In point of fact, Sharon never entered the mosques, but toured the area
>outside of the mosques. This plaza is part of the area of Mount Moriah,
>where the Bible says (and archeology confirms) that Solomon's and Herod's
>Temple stood, where the Jewish Jesus came to teach and pray. This area is
>promised to the Jewish people as the heart of their biblical inheritance,
>and will be the focus of worldwide pilgrimage and devotion at the end of
>days (cf., Isa.2:1-3; 4:2-6; 56:3-8; 65:18-24; Jer.3:19; 31:4-14;
>Psa.102:21-22; Ezek.43:6-7; 47:9-12; Zech. 8:20-23; 14:20-21) . From the
>perspective of the Scriptures, Islam has long attempted to replace the
>Jewish people on what the Bible describes as 'ground zero', the very
>place
>where the Messiah of Israel will establish His glorious throne.
>
>When the Islamic country of Jordan was in charge of the Temple Mount,
>Jews
>were not allowed up to visit the compound. The same was true under
>Islamic
>Turkish rule. It has always been the ardent and stated desire of the
>Moslem
>Waqf (Islamic council which oversees activities on the Temple Mount) to
>prevent Christians and Jews from having access to this area. They dream
>of
>the day when the Mount will have a status similar to Saudi Arabia (where
>no
>Jews are allowed to visit) and Mecca (where non-Moslems are forbidden
>from
>approaching). To be frank, the leaders of Islam in Jerusalem preach
>publicly
>about the day prophesied in the Koran when all Jews on the earth will be
>massacred by all faithful Moslems. This is the world view that continues
>to
>enflame many Islamic hearts in the Middle East, and the spiritual forces
>behind this world view which animate and activate the rioters.
>
>2. "The riots were spontaneous, and Arafat has no control over these
>people.
>The riots are the result of Israeli violations of Islamic sensibilities."
>
>Prior to Sharon's visit, on Wednesday Sept 27 two explosive devices were
>electronically detonated by Palestinian terrorists near Netzarim, a
>Jewish
>farming community in the Gaza Strip, mortally wounding David Biri a 19
>year
>old Israeli army medic and Jerusalem resident. Armed Arabs then attacked
>the
>Israeli soldiers present with submachine guns. Israeli Army (IDF)
>officials
>were concerned that Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials were
>behind that attack.
>
>On that same day Jibril Rajoub, presently Preventative Security Service
>chief for the PA and former commander of Force 17 (a PLO elite terrorist
>group formerly on the US terrorist watch list) threatened countrywide
>riots
>if Sharon visited the Temple Mount. "The visit is a provocation which
>will
>trigger bloodshed and confrontation . . . If Sharon tries to enter the
>Haram
>a-Sharif, the Moslems will stop him" said Rajoub. On the same day Marwan
>Barghouteh, a senior Fatah (PLO) leader said that should riots erupt and
>Palestinians get injured, the protests will spread to the West Bank and
>Gaza
>and turn violent.
>
>During Sharon's visit on Thursday Sept 28, three Arab MKs present on the
>Mount led chants of "murderer, out!" against Sharon, stirring up Moslem
>bystanders. After Sharon left, Palestinians began throwing stones,
>bottles
>and chairs at police, who responded with tear gas. Soon after the visit,
>Arafat's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh stated, "Sharon's visit was an
>incitement to terror which can lead to religious confrontation." Arafat
>then called Sharon's visit "a dangerous process conducted by Sharon
>against
>Islamic sacred places." He called upon Arab and Moslem states to take
>action to protect the site. Faisal Husseini, senior PA official in
>charge
>of Jerusalem, said, "Sharon thought that this place belongs to the
>Israelis,
>but...(this) was clear proof to all the world that the Israelis have no
>sovereignty here". This was followed by a statement by the Moslem
>Brotherhood Movement's Central Committee of Moslem Scholars in the
>Islamic
>Action Front Party in Jordan, which stated, "This is an atrocious act
>which
>requires Moslem and Arab leaders to declare jihad to liberate ... the
>shrines in Jerusalem" and called for "shedding the blood of those Jews if
>they implement their outrageous crime and establish their alleged temple
>in
>the yards of the blessed Al-Aksa Mosque."
>
>That same Thursday another roadside bomb was again detonated against an
>IDF
>jeep patrol in the Gaza Strip.
>
>On Friday Sept 29 an early morning joint jeep patrol of Israeli and PA
>soldiers (part of the Oslo peace process security framework) sipped
>coffee
>together for 20 minutes in the Kalkiliya area before continuing on
>patrol.
>As the Israelis returned to their jeeps, one of the PA soldiers Nail
>Suliman
>walked over to the Israeli jeep, shouted "Allahu akbar!" (Allah is great)
>while emptying his gun into the heart of one of the soldiers, Yossi
>Tabaja,
>a 27-year old immigrant from Ethiopia, killing him and wounding the
>Israeli
>soldier sitting next to him. The PA soldier then escaped to the
>PA-controlled area, where he turned himself over to Jibril Rajoub's
>forces
>and was temporarily detained (pending a quick trial and soon release by
>the
>PA, as is the norm in these matters). PA forces immediately stated that
>IDF
>forces had provoked Suliman into murdering them.
>
>A senior Fatah (PLO) leader has stated, "Fatah's position is clear, we
>will
>stop the riots when the Israelis withdraw". At another meeting with
>Israeli
>security officials, it is said that Jibril Rajoub said that he would stop
>the shooting if the Israelis apologized for the earlier deaths, but that
>the
>Israelis refused to apologize. A senior Israeli security source who
>participated in that meeting said, "This just shows that they had the
>power
>to control the situation."
>
>The fact that Arafat's top official echelons are on record with
>prophesied
>warnings of coming riots and promising that they will not stop them, the
>atmosphere created by Islamic declarations of jihad, the cries of "death
>to
>the Jews" that occurred during these riots all these clearly reveal that
>events have not spun out of control. On the contrary, these riots and the
>ensuing deaths of Palestinian rioters are a deliberate PA strategy,
>employed
>often in the past, which uses civilian casualties as a bargaining tool.
>The
>IDF, which has a longer history in dealing with Arafat than do most
>newsmen,
>are on record in their conclusion that Arafat has full control over these
>events. Guarded reference has been made in the Israeli media to
>interception
>of sigint (signal intelligence) where Arafat has been urging on riot
>leaders
>to attack Israeli forces.
>
>3. "Israelis were the first to shoot, and they perpetrated a massacre of
>young children, ambulance drivers and young men. They did not use proper
>anti-riot control but shot to kill. As France's Chirac said, 'One does
>not
>respond to emotions with guns.'"
>
>The first riots occurred Thursday Sept 28 on the Temple Mount after Ariel
>Sharon departed. Thirty Israeli policemen and four Palestinians were
>lightly
>wounded. One round of tear gas was fired by Israeli police at the
>Palestinian rioters.
>
>On Friday Sept 29 just after 1 p.m. as Moslem worshippers began to exit
>the
>mosques on the Temple Mount, hundreds of Palestinian Moslems tried to
>overpower Israeli Border Patrol guards stationed near the Mugrabi Gate on
>the Temple Mount and began to throw stones over the retaining wall
>(approximately 25 feet high) down onto Jewish worshippers 120 feet below
>at
>the Western Wall. With over 22,000 Moslems on the Mount the situation was
>explosive. Large numbers of Moslems began to rush the Mugrabi Gate in
>order
>to attack Jewish worshippers below, stoning and wounding Jerusalem police
>chief Cmdr. Yair Yitzhaki in the process. At that point IDF Border Patrol
>reinforcements entered the Mount and began to disperse the rioters, first
>using rubber bullets and tear gas. Israeli Police Inspector-General
>Yehuda
>Wilk said that police mainly fired rubber-coated steel pellets, but that
>some police snipers also fired live rounds, targeting violent protesters
>whom they felt were endangering the lives of Israeli police officers.
>More
>than 100 Palestinians were wounded and four were killed. Over the weekend
>58
>Palestinian youths were also arrested by Israeli police in Jerusalem for
>stone throwing incidents and firebomb attacks. During the riot and also
>on
>Saturday, Moslem religious leaders called from the loudspeakers of the
>mosques for a jihad, a holy war against Israel.
>
>During the past days of rioting 4 of the Israeli Magen David Adom (Red
>Star
>of David, equivalent to the American Red Cross) mobile intensive care
>units
>and 11 ambulances were shot at, damaged or destroyed by rioting
>Palestinians. During an intense firefight between Palestinians armed with
>machine guns (who were attacking the the Netzarim Israeli outpost in the
>Gaza Strip, close to where the three roadside bombs were detonated
>against
>Israeli jeeps) and Israeli soldiers defending the post, a 12-year old
>boy,
>Mohammed Jamal Aldura, and his father were caught in the middle of a
>murderous crossfire. The boy was shot dead and his father was wounded. It
>is
>not clear by what bullets the boy was killed, nor does that fact matter
>for
>his father and family. Some bystanders said that Mohammed was
>participating
>in the stoning of the IDF outpost when his father came to drag him home
>before he got hurt. In any case, this tragedy of war was broadcast across
>the world as a French TV crew was filming in that direction during that
>moment. The clip was accompanied by PA officials who were certain that
>the
>bullets were Israeli and that the shooting had been deliberate. In fact,
>the
>corner where the boy and his father were hiding was close to the direct
>line
>of fire, but due to smoke and fire visibility was severely curtailed for
>both sides.
>
>It is frivolous for a French leader like Chirac to suggest to the IDF
>that
>the machine gun attacks that they are facing are 'merely emotion', and
>that
>the IDF should stand down when faced by thousands of rioters with murder
>in
>their eyes, mouths and hands.
>
>One Israeli official, when asked to comment on whether the Israelis
>deserved
>the rioting, since Sharon's visit was seen as provocative by the PA. "We
>say
>the following: There is freedom of access and worship on the Temple Mount
>(ed. for Moslems only), and Sharon's visit did not damage the Aksa Mosque
>in
>any form whatsoever. But say it was a provocative act, is this the way
>to
>respond? It's like the abusive husband who says he beat his wife because
>she burned the food!"
>
>4. "The peace can be restored when the Israelis withdraw from the Arab
>areas in question. Anything less will lead to continued violence."
>
>This is getting to the heart of the matter. During the riots, Arafat and
>his
>negotiators released unofficial demands for stopping the riots. (How can
>one
>stop that which one has not started?...) These include Israeli forces
>surrendering all outposts which were being attacked and fired upon by
>Palestinian forces; an official Israeli apology for having responded to
>mob
>violence and shooting with tear gas, rubber bullets, etc; total removal
>of
>all Israeli forces from the Temple Mount.
>
>What we have here is pure Machiavelli, who once stated that politics is
>simply making war by other means. In Arafat's case, he views the peace
>process as a political way to get what he wants and, if that fails, he
>abandons the olive branch to pick up the machine gun.
>
>Please pray for Israel's leaders, that the deceiving and seducing mirage
>of
>peace falsely extended by the PA will be decisively blown away, and that
>God-given wisdom, discernment and courage will strengthen and inform
>their
>decisions. Pray for the salvation and safety of the soldiers, for wisdom
>and
>discernment for their commanders, and for salvation for the many
>Palestinians who are being led along a path of destruction and perdition
>by
>their evil leaders.
>
> * * * *
>* * *
>
>How have the events of the past few days affected most Israelis? Most
>are
>in shock. The Jerusalem Post has as its headlines today (Tuesday Oct 3)
>'Worst civil disturbances since 1948'. Israelis are concerned about three
>separate issues. First, the return to mob violence accompanied by PA
>machine
>guns is not what was the hoped for result of the Oslo peace process. If
>the
>PA decides to use weapons against Israeli troops even occasionally, most
>Israelis would conclude that the peace process is dead and buried, and
>that
>a return to armed conflict is unavoidable. Second, the participation by
>some
>Israeli Arabs in attacks and riots against Israel's police is considered
>seditious, as these Arabs are citizens of Israel. The potential effect of
>a
>growing fifth column is a red line that Israelis would prefer not to
>consider, for that would put the majority of Israel's Arab citizens (over
>a
>million Arabs are Israeli citizens) under the shadow of treasonous
>suspicion. Third, most Israelis are too tired to imagine living under
>continued threat from an openly hostile PA. Most Israelis had truly hoped
>that peace was but a signature away, and that dreams of calm and
>prosperity
>were at hand. There is a great deal of agony of soul as most Israelis
>realize that 'it ain't so' and that this mild earthquake of riots may be
>the
>harbinger of blacker days ahead.
>
>How are praying believers to respond? How can we intercede for this
>highly
>explosive situation? First on the biblical priority is to pray for
>Israel's
>salvation. Rom.11:15 says that Israel's salvation will transform the
>Middle
>East and bring life from the dead to all the peoples of the world. God
>has
>purposed to bring life to this people; the enemy has purposed to bring
>death. Pray that God will bring resurrection life out of death, salvation
>out of destruction, and mercy out of judgment. Pray for God to open the
>eyes
>of His people to their crucified Messiah, and that He would raise up the
>mighty Israeli army prophesied in Ezek 37:10.
>
>Pray for whatever peace can be preserved, be it even a temporary one,
>which
>is based on clear-eyed discernment and courage on the part of Israeli
>leaders (2 Tim.2:1-4).
>
>Remember that God's purposes for Israel will triumph, that His plans for
>their good, their welfare and their future will come to pass (Jer.29:10),
>and that interceding for Israel's salvation, her entering into God's
>magnificent purposes, her call to be a light to the nations (Isa.49:6-7;
>Acts 13: 46-47) all are being opposed by the enemy. Do not believe the
>enemy's lies when he suggests that Israel is "motivated by pure,
>unadulterated evil." Instead, stand in the gap and pray for a beleaguered
>people whose salvation is the key to world revival.
>
>Avner Boskey
>=
>
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