Jews – It’s YOUR land; when will you just SAY SO!

*News item: Hostile eyes back on the land – envoys representing the so-called Quartet arrive to try restart “peace” talks by recommending how to overcome the obstacles to a two-state solution. (The Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2016)

News item: PLO terror chief MA turns on charm offensive for Israeli audience and visiting Quartet, insisting he and his people are ready for peace. (The Times of Israel, April 1, 2016)

News item: Israeli Arab 5th Column – Thousands of Israeli Arabs protested across the country to mark the 40th annual Land Day, marching with PLO Flags (Ynetnews, March 30, 2016)

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It is true, Israel, that:

The entire world insists you relinquish your historic heartland to which untold millions of Jews prayed and longed to return to through the centuries.

The world’s 1.2 billion Muslims believe it is ordained by their god that no sovereign Jewish state should exist in Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam).

Multitudes of Islam’s adherents loathe you with an unquenchable hatred; many are ready to sacrifice their lives to destroy yours.

It is true that:
Politically, virtually the whole world has embraced the fallacious position that Israel is illegally occupying Arab lands and that your building of Jewish communities in your ancestral and Biblical land contravenes international law.

You have few true friends in the community of nations; but for Washington’s UN Security Council veto and, until relatively recently, its acts of support for your nation you would – barring Divine intervention – have long ago been wiped off the map. Consequently, you feel obligated to jump as high as the US says.

The European Union has members who hold that the worst thing that happened in the 20th Century was the 1948 rebirth of the State of Israel.

The majority of polled Gentiles of various nations believe that Israel poses the greatest threat to world peace today.

The United Nations has voted for more resolutions condemning Israel than all its other condemnation resolutions combined.

It is true that:

Your own media – and not only left-wing newspapers like Ha’aretz and Yediot Ahronot (Ynetnews) but even the more centrist The Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel – have either enthusiastically embraced or tiredly succumbed to employing the epithet ‘West Bank,’ which delegitimizes the claim of your Jews to your heartland – even though Israel’s mountain spine has for millennia been known as Samaria and Judea (Judea – from which you get your national designation, JEW!)

It is also true that:

Most of your leaders – all the way back to David Ben Gurion and, before him, to the great Zionist visionaries Theodore Herzl and Chaim Weizmann – have been avowed secularists or agnostics.

Many (most?) of you are apparently like them, and you do not believe there is any way on earth you can defy, or stand against, the long list of overwhelming odds.

And there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you can win support for any claim you might make to actually OWNING the land everyone is insisting you surrender.

BUT IT IS YOUR LAND.

AND YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT AND SUBSTANTIATION AND REASON TO SAY SO.

In fact, if you truly love your people, then it is your ABSOLUTE DUTY to say so.

I want to ask you something, Jewish people of Israel:

Do you know of any other nation that has ever existed in ALL OF HISTORY that has so globally, and for millennia, massively and positively impacted mankind?

Do you know of any other nation that can claim to have survived EVERY EFFORT the mind of evil man could conceive of to eliminate them?

Do you know of any other nation that has been decimated by war, its survivors hounded into exile, then rendered repeatedly homeless over thousands of years, driven out of country after country, forced en masse to convert or die, made the scapegoat for every major national ill, ultimately devoured in an industrial death machine leaving a pitiful few million remaining – and still SURVIVED?

And not only survived, but returned to their original country and there been reconstituted as a nation, restoring thriving life to their destitute land, resurrecting their original language, withstanding overwhelming and unrelenting efforts to militarily crush them, indeed becoming a nation ‘in a day’ and rapidly racing to the frontlines of hi-tech and other industrial development that never stops and cannot be outdone?

Let me tell you, NO NATION COMES CLOSE TO YOURS.

Israel, you are one amazing M-I-R-A-C-L-E.

And behind every miracle is one astounding G-D.

He is YOUR G-d, the L-rd G-d of ISRAEL. He has named Himself after you. With Him on your side you CANNOT BE OUTNUMBERED and YOU WILL NOT BE UNDONE.

G-d foretold everything that you would experience as a nation; everything I have listed above, and more. He promised to preserve you among the nations and to return you from exile to THE SAME LAND FROM WHICH YOU WERE DRIVEN 2000 years ago.

AND WHAT’S MORE:

He has promised to keep you in this Land, to go to war against Your enemies on your behalf, and to wipe out all those who seek to destroy you. He has sworn to bless those who bless you, and He has vowed to curse those who curse you. This is the pledge and the commitment of your Father in heaven, the Creator of all things.

He does not lie. He is not impressed by numbers. He is not fearful for your future. In fact, as He sits enthroned high above the circle of the earth your G-d, dear Israel, is holding all the nations and all the religions that hate you in derision.

Hear what your great King David said of Him:

“The L-RD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
The G-d of my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation,
My stronghold and my refuge;
My Savior, You save me from violence…
“For You are my lamp, O L-RD;
The L-RD shall enlighten my darkness.
For by You I can run against a troop;
By my G-d I can leap over a wall.
As for G-d, His way is perfect;
The word of the L-RD is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him…” (2 Samuel 22:2,3, 29-31)

David also says:

For who is G-d, except the L-RD?
And who is a rock, except our G-d?
It is G-d who arms me with strength,
And makes my way perfect.
He makes my feet like the feet of deer,
And sets me on my high places.
He teaches my hands to make war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. (Psalm 18:31-34)

As He messaged you through your prophet Jeremiah:

Thus says the L-RD, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb:
“I am the L-RD, who makes all things,
Who stretches out the heavens all alone,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
Who frustrates the signs of the babblers,
And drives diviners mad;
Who turns wise men backward,
And makes their knowledge foolishness;
Who confirms the word of His servant,
And performs the counsel of His messengers;
Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’
To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’
And I will raise up her waste places…” (Isaiah 44:24-26)

And as He promises you through Zechariah:

“The L-RD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. In that day the L-RD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like G-d, like the Angel of the L-RD before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem….” (Zechariah 12:7-9)

Israel, if you look around you, you do have much apparent reason to fear.

And if you put your trust in man, or in a nation, you will surely be let down.

But if you look to the Rock from which you were hewn, and to the One who still regards you with love, as His special treasure and as the apple of His eye, and if you put your trust in Him, your fear will leave you and Ha’Tikvah – the hope you sing of in your national anthem – will be restored.

Stand on your land. Claim your land. And see how the LORD your God will fight for you.

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While the news items on top are current (from March 30-April 1, 2016) the main article – with a few small changes – is one I wrote back in 2008. Nearly eight years later it is still fully relevant despite the following differences:

On the down side, we have since come through two terms of the most anti-Israel American administration in recent memory, arguably the worst ever; the world is united even more than before with determination to rob the Jews of their patrimony in the form of the ‘two state solution’ [sic]; Evangelical support for Israel has been under attack … from Evangelicals.

On the plus side, the indigenous Sovereignty Movement has begun to gain traction, with Knesset Members and even government officials increasingly speaking in support of such a move; the Jewish Israeli public has increasingly come to understand the moral, political and practical bankruptcy of the Palestinian state idea; internationally, pro-Israel evangelicals are beginning to see the importance of taking a stand on the geopolitical question of the land; an international convention is being planned for 2017 that will make Israel’s case – based on international law – for extending sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza.