Back in the Land! – Observations in Quarantine (3)

This is not a very happy post.  But it’s not a despairing one either.  It strengthens my trust in the One Who is guarding His Word concerning Israel, and will see its destiny done – His way.

It always gets darkest just before the dawn.

It is doubtful – certainly within the limits of my awareness – that the Jews of the Jewish state have been as riven with division, and as snarled up in sinat achim (literally Jewish hatred of their own kind) as they are today, since David Ben Gurion declared Israel gloriously resurrected 73 years ago.

This is almost bewildering – to this Gentile – given the position widely held by Jews that the very reason for the destruction of Jerusalem, the loss of the Temple, the deaths of two-thirds of the Jews and the scattering of the rest – was this very hatred of one for the other.

While the division I am just now referring to is in the political landscape – a disunity that led to four elections in under two years – it is an extension of the rifts and factions that are tearing at this nation’s soul.

Politically, it’s a terrible mess.  Surely it wasn’t supposed to be this way, says my head; cries my heart.

Along with multitudes of Believers, I prayed fervently for a unified right-wing government to be elected in March, a Zionist government mandated by the nation to stand up to the brazenly anti-Israel Biden administration, whose puppet-president has not stopped mouthing unfriendly US intentions towards Israel, and authorising them, since he entered the Oval Office three months ago. (More later about that fox.)

Surely, I wanted to believe, this would be the will of Heaven: to raise up a leadership for Israel that would unyieldingly position itself and fight without compromise for the nation’s security and its legal sovereign right to its land?

The thing is that, between them, the right wing parties did win enough seats to put together the most Jewish nationalist government in history.  If only they would have come  together – recognising the one priority they say they all share – Israeli sovereignty and a flourishing Jewish presence in all of the land of Israel that,  according to the Biblical record, plus throughly documented history, plus standing international law, is rightfully theirs.

On the face of it, though, it is all falling apart.

Instead of installing a Zionist power that can Get Things Done, Israel’s squabbling leaders have set their nation adrift amid the flotsam and jetsam of an election shipwreck.  As of today there is no government to speak of.

Nor, as far as I can see, is any promising progress being made in the post-election talks towards forming one.

As the Jews’ snarling, nearest enemy – aided by the criminally antisemitic European Union – tears chunks out of Israel’s’ ancestral land, desecrates most of Israel’s archeological sites and sprouts forests of empty apartment blocks throughout Samaria and Judea, these ‘right-wing’ elected politicians are scratching and clawing at one another, holding ostensibly confidential coalition negotiations then shamefully leaking the proceedings to the press in an effort to score points and pressure would-be partners to do things their way.

Peering through the haze, swiping across my smartphone screen from leftist news site to purportedly rightist one, brings no clarity.  Without even a pretence at professionalism, an unethical press files fake reports and fans flames of rumours to skew ‘reality’ their way.

Any good leader who opposes the ‘Anyone-but-Bibi’ bloc, like the Religious Zionist Party’s Bezalel Smotrich, who has vowed never to sit in a coalition supported by Muslim Israeli Arabs, is defamed and framed by these Jewish journalists.

Frustrated, Land-loving Israelis vent that the recently elected right wing leaders are squandering this God-given opportunity and, in their pride and short-sighted arrogance, are steering the nation to destruction – ‘The captains can’t see the icebergs…‘  It must be said, thought, that these Jews have not lost hope; their eyes are trustingly on their God.

Just now, there is no clear way out of this mess. I don’t know what the LORD is going to allow to happen.  Clearly, He is not doing things the way we would.  But then, His ways are always so much higher than ours.  That the outworking of Israels destiny will take place as He has said it will, is the most certain thing I know.

But, goodness me, how much we do need to keep praying!

Tomorrow – to the Palestinian Arabs – those nearest haters of Zion.  With Donald Trump no longer in the White House, they’ve been having a field day.