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President Obama and Israel ?
The Obama Presidency
What will it bring for Israel and for the world?
This is a major topic; one which wildolive is not qualified to explain, but this is a first attempt to draw together comment from experienced observers in order to watch as events unfold. This topic will require much more work yet.
Wildolive is not qualified to judge the President of the United States, the most powerful man on earth, and as Malcolm Hedding explained in Biblical Christian Zionism, it is not for us to tell Israel’s leaders what they should be doing; so it is even less our business to lecture the president of the USA. However, we need to put President Obama’s agenda in perspective in order to understand what is happening to Israel and what to expect and what to pray about.
One big question is what happens to the Roadmap? How much is it still on the table? How many of its ideas are still alive and well? Will Obama leapfrog the requirements that the Palestinians have not met and impose the final status, Palestinian State, upon Israel?
First impressions of Obama’s approach to “Middle East Peace” are of arrogance and confidence that he can easily achieve what several US presidents before him have attempted but failed to achieve. Certainly, the early days of Obama’s presidency have been marked by many overtures to the Muslim world and hardening of attitude towards Israel.
This is very worrying, bearing in mind the disasters that previous presidents have brought upon America.
Obama commits against Israel at the UN - 23 September 2009
Early signs
Daniel Pipes - During the presidential election campaign, Obama denounced discussion of his connections to Islam as "fear-mongering," and those exploring this subject found themselves vilified. He so severely discouraged use of his middle name, Hussein, that John McCain apologized when a warm-up speaker at a campaign event dared mention "Barack Hussein Obama." After the election, the rules changed dramatically, with the oath of office administered to "Barack Hussein Obama" and the new president volunteering, "I have Muslim members of my family, I have lived in Muslim countries."
One Jerusalem - During the past two weeks, [April 25th 2009] senior members of the Obama Administration, including the President himself, have publicly sought to bully Israel into adopting policies that would be harmful and dangerous to the people of Israel.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had the temerity to suggest that if Israel does not embrace the failed two-state Palestinian policy it will suffer when it comes to Iran. Clinton should be reprimanded for three reasons.
- For setting American policy that is central to the existence of the State of Israel before Israel's new Prime Minister has the opportunity to discuss these matters with President Obama.
- Clinton and Obama are trying to make the Palestinian issue the central issue defining Israel's relationship with the United States. They have embraced this track even though they know that for Israel and America's Arab allies - stopping Iran is issue number ONE.
- Clinton has gone so far as to suggest that if Israel does not adopt the two-state platform it will pay a price on the Iran front. Clinton's words suggest that Israel and the United States have different goals when it comes to Iran.
Daniel Pipes - a first diplomatic telephone call to Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, the appointment of two high-profile envoys and the first interview granted to Al-Arabiya television channel.
Obama and His Team
Obama himself comes out of the Democratic party's intensely anti-Zionist left wing. Just a few years back, he associated with voluble Israel-haters like Ali Abunimah, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said, and Jeremiah Wright, not to speak of Saddam Hussein lackeys, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the Nation of Islam. As Obama rose in national politics, he distanced himself from this crew. On winning the presidency, he appointed mostly mainstream Democrats to deal with the Middle East. One can only speculate whether his change was tactical, designed to deny the Republicans a campaign issue, or strategic, representing a genuinely new approach.
The anti-Israel track record of many of Obama’s team has been a matter of concern to many observers. Bill Koenig keeps a Watch on events in the White House. Daniel Pipes keeps a close watch on Islam and the west.
There is concern about the stance of several of Obama's associates and appointees.
President-elect Barack Obama's transition website reveals that he has re-hired a former advisor who once advocated an American invasion of Israel in order to impose a peace deal on the Jewish state and the Palestinians. Samantha Power will serve on the State Department National Security Team when Obama takes office in January, again raising the eyebrows of Israel's supporters in the During the Democratic Party primary campaign Obama was blasted for having Power on his team by those pointed to a disturbing interview In the interview with Harry Kreisler of the Institute for International Studies at Berkeley, Power suggests that the "Israel Lobby" controls foreign policy, accuses Israel of widespread human rights violations and recommends invading with a "mammoth protection force" to impose a peace agreement. Sunday, November 30, 2008 Israel Today Staff
His overtures to the Muslim world
Obama appears to believe that his unique advantage is the special relationship he believes he has with the Muslim world. He believes he has a special empathy with the Muslim world because of his origins as the first mixed race president of the United States and his Muslim father. This raises his somewhat ambiguous position as a Christian or a Muslim. He says he is a Christian but believes he has a special empathy with Muslims, although it is not clear how. According to the beliefs of Islam, if he was born a Muslim he must always be a Muslim unless he becomes an apostate by converting to Christianity and thus liable to a death sentence. Daniel Pipes observed, before Obama was elected, that the Muslim world was very happy about Obama. Their leaders appeared happy to believe that “he is one of us.” They clearly believed that his foreign policy would favour them.
Most western world leaders appear to have an unfounded optimism about the possibility of winning over the Muslim world by sympathy and making concessions that ignores the self proclaimed truth about the Islamic worldview and agenda.
Many western leaders are assuming their Muslim counterparts are thinking the same way as they are and do not take seriously what the holy books of Islam say. President Obama takes this much further. One commentator on Obama's speech believes Obama is speaking as a Muslim but using Takiah to appear to speak as a Christian.
Is Barak Hussein Obama a Christian or a Muslim?
How do Muslims see Barack Hussein Obama? They have three choices: either as he presents himself – someone who has "never been a Muslim" and has "always been a Christian"; or as a fellow Muslim; or as an apostate from Islam.
Reports suggests that while Americans generally view the Democratic candidate having had no religion before converting at Reverend Jeremiah Wrights's hands at age 27, Muslims the world over rarely see him as Christian but usually as either Muslim or ex-Muslim.
Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masri al-Youm, refers to his "Muslim origins." Libyan ruler Mu‘ammar al-Qaddafi referred to Obama as "a Muslim" and a person with an "African and Islamic identity." One Al-Jazeera analysis calls him a "non-Christian man," a second refers to his "Muslim Kenyan" father, and a third, by Naseem Jamali, notes that "Obama may not want to be counted as a Muslim but Muslims are eager to count him as one of their own."
A conversation in Beirut, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, captures the puzzlement. "He has to be good for Arabs because he is a Muslim," observed a grocer. "He's not a Muslim, he's a Christian," replied a customer. Retorted the grocer: "He can't be a Christian. His middle name is Hussein." Arabic discussions of Obama sometimes mention his middle name as a code, with no further comment needed.
Obama's speech .
Given on 4th June 2009 in Cairo University, Cairo to leaders of the Islamic nations .
"REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON A NEW BEGINNING"
Bill Koenig - All eyes were on Obama this week as he traveled to Cairo, Egypt, to deliver what many believed would be an appeasement speech to the benefit of Islam. Leading up to the speech, White House advisors are doing something that was taboo during the presidential campaign -- they are stressing Obama’s Islamic roots. And Obama helped the effort as he told a French media outlet that the U.S. could be considered one of the largest Muslim nations in the world. This has to cause Israel some heartburn as such overtures will lead the Arab world to view Obama as a man solidly in the Islamic camp.
The speech will prove to be very costly to the Obama Administration. It gives Islam an importance it doesn't deserve, opens a door for Islam in America, and further confuses the public as to Islam's true threat and extreme teachings. Obama also legitimized the Koran to the world by mentioning it in the speech.
Wildolive - Obama spoke of the time when Islam was "revealed";" So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." Thus he is asserting that Islam's origin is divine. If one accepts that, one must also accept that Islam superceded all that went before and that Allah has no son. How can a Christian assent to this?
Mike Evans - He greeted the assembly by saying, “assalaamu alaykum.” The question now becomes: Did the President know exactly what he was saying, or did he like John Kennedy in Berlin commit a linguistic faux pas? - - One Muslim website explains the greeting this way: “When Islam came, Allaah prescribed that the manner of greeting among Muslims should be “Assalaamu alaykum” and that this greeting should only be used among Muslims and not for other nations...do not single out anybody out of arrogance or to impress them, but do it to honour the symbols of Islam and to foster Islamic brotherhood.”
Daniel Pipes - Barack Obama's mention of "seven million American Muslims" in the course of his rambling and complex six-thousand-word address to the Muslim world from Cairo symbolizes the whole message. Study after study has found that demographic figure about three times too high. But Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America relentlessly promote the notion of seven or even ten million American Muslims. Obama's accepting their version amounts to a giveaway, a cheap way to win the approbation of Islamists who so widely influence Muslim opinion.
Prof. Moshe Sharon. Department of Islamic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In Jerusalem Post Christian Edition
Some have said it was remarkable that an American president could stand in Cairo and deliver a tough speech to the Muslim world and still get applause. But I don't think Obama said tough things to the Muslim world. In 6,000 words, we did not hear the words "terror" or "terrorism" once; we did not hear the word "jihad"... Obama spoke of the evils of [Western] colonialism, but not about the colonialism of Islam, which has been one of the greatest colonial powers on Earth.
All these things are missing, and the president of the United States is doing everything he can to flatter Islam. The word "flatter" would be good in this case... For instance, the Muslims had nothing to do with the founding of America, as Obama claims... He said Islam and America share common ideals. But the ideals of freedom, equality, the fraternity of peoples, all these things are alien to the Muslim world. No Jew or Christian can live free like a Muslim in the Islamic world... He speaks of the tolerance of Islam, but what does this tolerance mean? It means that I am better than you but I tolerate you. It's not such a wonderful thing. Yes, Islam can be `tolerant' in many situations, but because it was always on top. What Islam is talking about is that they may choose to let you exist. It's not a right, it's a privilege which they can also take from you...
Israel Today magazine - .... There is no biblical connection of the Jews to the Land of Israel [in the speech] He said the Holocaust legitimized the creation of the Jewish state, but that only strengthens the Arab arguments that the Palestinians are paying the price for European crimes against the Jews. "Our rights in this land are not predicated solely, or even primarily on the tragedies that have befallen us during our history in exile" wrote Jerusalem Post editor David Horowitz. "Those rights relate rather to the fact that we were in exile - from this land, this historic Jewish homeland.
Also - An official in the Foreign Ministry told Israel Today, "The American public must wake up and realize that Obama is more Muslim than Christian."
- Obama told his worldwide audience more than 100 million people that the killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust was the equivalent of Israel’s actions in dealing with the Palestinians.This remark is incredible on its face, an insult to the six million Jews who died as a result of Hitler’s genocide and it is a form of revisionism that will bode evil for Jews for years to come.
While Obama acknowledged that “six million Jews were killed more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today” his discussion about the Holocaust was followed by this statement: “On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people Muslims and Christians have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.”
“On the other hand . . . ”?
Obama’s clever construct comparing the mass genocide of six million Jews to the Palestinian struggle will not be lost on the estimated 100 million Muslims who tuned into to hear him.
Perhaps it was not lost on James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist identified as the alleged attacker Wednesday at the Holocaust Museum. He apparently felt that he could easily take retribution against the Jews for the atrocities Obama implies they are guilty of.
- The immediate danger posed by Obama’s speech is in its incredible re-writing of the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims from Medieval times to the present.
Obama, continually throughout his speech, talks of Islam’s peaceful intent. And while there are certainly Koranic verses that support this interpretation, Islam has a long and bloody history of violence against fellow Muslims, Jews and Christians.
Has Obama not heard about the Muslim’s violent conquest of the Middle East, Spain and half of Western Europe? Was he never taught that the Crusades sought to turn back this Muslim onslaught that demanded subjugated populations convert or die?
In his almost hour-long speech, there is not a single word about Islam’s well known and checkered past.
- Obama said “For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation,” Obama told his audience, citing a litany of American shortcomings. He failed to mention that Arab Muslims were the greatest slave traders in the history of humanity. According to Obama, Israelis, too, are guilty of wrongdoing, especially when it comes to their supposed maltreatment of the Palestinians.
Also - Listen to what Obama said: “Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit - for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.”
And Obama not only ignores the gross subjugation of women in many Arab societies he does not mention even once the almost total religious intolerance throughout the Muslim world against Christians and Jews. Obama’s only plea for Muslim women living in Muslim countries is that they should be afforded an education.
How about a discussion of the beheading of Arab women for “crimes” such as adultery? How about the malicious treatment of women in Muslim countries who choose not to wear the hijab?
Obama insists that Islam has promoted tolerance and that in Islamic societies such ideals have flourished.
Blackham Family Ministries - picked up on several Obama quotes
'As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth."' (Applause.) - This is not true, As a Muslim, you are allowed to lie if it is for the benefit of Islam.
"It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed." - This is not true, Arabic culture brought some beautiful and helpful discoveries, but Arabic culture is not Islamic Culture! Algebra came from India then spread to Arabic countries.
"The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind." - Actually, This is a Jewish saying from the Mishna, Tractate Sanhedrin, Chapter 4, a book that was completed in the third century (before Islam). It is the very core of ... Jewish thinking.
Is Obama handing power to the Islamic leaders?
He is encouraging them to believe he will do what they want.
Ha’aretz. -Saudis, Egyptians behind 2-year deadline for Palestinian state - Egyptian and Saudi leaders recently warned US President Barack Obama that he needs to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within two years or they will let the Arab peace initiative of 2002 expire, according to
Arutz Sheva - The United States should cut off all to Israel if the Jewish state does not accept the terms of the 2002 Saudi Peace Plan, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Newsweek magazine. In answer to a question if U.S. President Barack Obama should use financial help as a tool to force Israel to implement the plan, the Foreign Minister stated, "Why not? If you give aid to someone and they indiscriminately occupy other people's lands, you bear some responsibility."
He also made it clear that the only concession the Arab world can make to Israel is diplomatic recognition, meaning that all other terms of the Saudi peace initiative are non-negotiable. “We don't have anything to offer Israel except normalization, and if we put that before the return of Arab land we are giving away the only chip in the hands of Arab countries,” he told the news weekly.
The interview was conducted the day after President Obama’s speech calling on a “new beginning” in relations between Muslim nations and the U.S.
Foreign Minister al-Faisal said that Israel “must be reasonable and make reasonable concessions.” Echoing the Arab demand that the Obama government take concrete steps, he revealed that during the president’s visit to Saudi Arabia the day before his Cairo speech, the monarchy told him it wanted to see action.
The Saudi Peace Plans calls for the 22-member Arab league to recognize Israel as a country, but not necessarily as a Jewish state, on condition that it surrender all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, including numerous neighborhoods in Jerusalem and the Old City, where the proposed PA state would be headquartered. It also wants to allow the immigration to Israel of five million foreign Arabs who claim ancestry in Israel.
Obama and the Settlements
Obama is pressing Netanyahu to move against settlements if he wants US to do something against the threat of a nuclear Iran.
It is not clear how Obama defines a settlement; just the illegal outpost or new towns like Har Homa.
Jackson Diehl notes, based on an interview with Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, that by publicly and repeatedly stressing the need for a without-exception freeze of Israeli building on the West Bank, Obama has revived a long-dormant Palestinian fantasy: that the United States will simply force Israel to make critical concessions, whether or not its democratic government agrees, while Arabs passively watch and applaud.
HaAretz - Washington is furious over the Interior Ministry's anticipated approval of a plan to build a new hotel in East Jerusalem, just 100 meters from the Old City's walls. The plan, which would see the demolition of a wholesale market and kindergarten, is slated to be approved today. In conversations with Israeli officials, senior American officials have made it clear that they want Israel to freeze all plans for expanding the Jewish presence in East Jerusalem, and especially in the Holy Basin - the area adjacent to the Old City.The regional planning and building committee for Jerusalem will discuss the plan Tuesday. It was submitted by the Jerusalem municipality, which owns the land on which the hotel is slated to be built, and the state-owned Jerusalem Development Authority, which will actually construct it
ICEJ Frontpage - A serious disagreement has erupted between Jerusalem and Washington over the issue of Jewish settlements in the disputed territories. The Obama administration is calling for a total freeze on all Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, as well as in eastern Jerusalem. But the Netanyahu government has countered that President George Bush gave Israel a letter in April 2004 which commits the US to allowing construction based on “natural growth” – meaning new homes can be built for the families of children born in these communities. This commitment especially applies to those large settlement blocs which will likely remain a part of Israel in any final peace deal with the Palestinians. So can the Netanyahu government work out a deal with the Obama administration to save settlement growth?
Daniel Pipes - The much-anticipated meeting between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu on May 18 went off smoothly, if a bit tensely, as predicted. Everyone was on best behavior and the event excited so little attention that the New York Times reported it on page 12.
As expected, however, the gloves came off immediately thereafter, with a series of tough American demands, especially U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's insistence on May 27 that the Netanyahu government end residential building for Israelis in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. This prompted a defiant response. The Israeli governing coalition chairman pointed out the mistake of prior "American dictates," a minister compared Obama to pharaoh, and the government press office director cheekily mock-admired "the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live in Jerusalem."
If the specifics of who-lives-where have little strategic import, the Obama administration's rapid and harsh turn against Israel has potentially great significance. Not only did the administration end George W. Bush's focus on changes on the Palestinian side but it even disregarded oral understandings Bush had reached with Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.
Gary L. Bauer - Charles Krauthammer hit a grand slam this morning with an obersvation that has eluded the Obama-worshipping media. He points out that from the first day of his presidency, Obama has emphasized that our foreign policy will be conducted through conciliation. The days of “dictating” to other countries are over. Obama reiterates this theme over and over again, and he has practiced it by reaching out to “Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria and even Venezuela.” There is only one exception to the Obama “compromise” rule – Israel. To Israel, Obama dictates by demanding that no housing for Jews be built in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Incredible.
ICEJ (late July 2009)
The US-Israeli diplomatic row over settlements has deepened further after the US State Department confirmed on Monday that it indeed had frank discussions last week with Israel’s new Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Michael Oren, demanding that all Jewish building in east Jerusalem must be made part of a construction freeze in the West Bank.
"We have made our views known to Israel," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley affirmed yesterday. "Our views are not new either: that this kind of construction is the type... of issue that should be subject to permanent-status negotiations. We are concerned that unilateral actions taken by the Israelis or the Palestinians cannot prejudge the outcome of these negotiations."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday flatly refused the American demand that Israel stop building apartments in east Jerusalem or stop Jews from buying apartments there, noting that Arabs are free to buy apartments in west Jerusalem.Both Russia and France also weighed in today, endorsing Washington’s demands to stop the “Shepherd Hotel” housing project which would see an old Arab hotel converted into 20 apartments for Jews. The land, which was a former Jewish property before 1948 and has been back under Jewish ownership since 1985, is located between the Sheikh Jarrah and French Hill neighborhoods one kilometer north of the Old City.
ICEJ News 11th August
Seventy-one US Senators have signed a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to be more vocal in his efforts to encourage Arab states to normalize relations with Israel, the latest indication that even Democrats in Congress are concerned he has leaned too hard on Israel to freeze settlements.
The letter, circulated with AIPAC's backing, applauded Israel for recently taking “concrete measures to reaffirm its commitment to advancing the peace process … We encourage Arab leaders to take similar tangible steps to demonstrate their commitment to the peace process," wrote the senators. The letter asks Obama to encourage the Arab League to end its boycott of Israel, establish normal relations, and cease propaganda campaigns that "demonize" Israel.
Americans for Peace Now, J Street, and other left-wing groups had called on senators not to sign the letter unless it was amended to include mention of steps that all the parties in the Middle East need to take towards peace - especially Israel's need to stop settlement construction.
But Richard Gordon, president of the mainstream American Jewish Congress, penned a column encouraging senators to endorse the letter, arguing that settlements are part of a different discussion. Gordon explained that recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a nation should be the first tangible step Arab nations can take in pledging their commitment to the peace process.
“It is understandable that Palestinians and Arab nations latch on to the settlement issue as an excuse to continue to avoid recognizing Israel. What is unfathomable is why those who claim to love Israel would give them cover in continuing their decades-long refusal to acknowledge Israel's place in the Middle East."
US Leaves No Choice But to Okay Palestine
HaAretz - Officials in Jerusalem told Israel Radio on Saturday that there is no alternative but to ultimately agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Israel will be forced to acknowledge the necessity of a future Palestinian state because there are no signs that the Obama administration will yield on this issue, a diplomatic source told Israel Radio.
Government sources in Jerusalem also told Israel Radio that the quicker Israel adopts the road map for peace as the preferred diplomatic initiative, the more likely it will ward off American pressure to concede to a Palestinian state within the framework of an alternative plan that is less agreeable to Israel.
Reuters A day after President Barack Obama told Israel its key ally would no longer tolerate building settlements in the West Bank, the European Union was considering using its trade clout to bolster U.S. pressure, diplomats said. The EU is the Jewish state's biggest trading partner and one option it may have is to crack down on fruit, vegetables, olive oil and other farm produce grown by Israeli settlers on occupied Palestinian land.
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hit back hard at comments by a senior Israeli negotiator who said Obama's predecessor George W. Bush privately agreed to expansion of settlements. That was not U.S. policy, she insisted.
Guysen.International.News - 09/11/09
Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders with US recognition, after Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad allegedly reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration. The reports were revealed in a scoop by Haaretz.
The move could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently asked the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to veto any such proposal, after reports reached Jerusalem of support for such a declaration from major European Union countries, and apparently also certain U.S. officials.
Such recognition would likely transform any Israeli presence across the Green Line, even in Jerusalem, into an illegal incursion to which the Palestinians would be entitled to engage in measures of self-defense.
Is Obama anti-Israel?
Nobel laureate Wiesel: It would be foolish to call Obama anti-Israel (Ha'aretz)
Wildolive - It must also be conceded that President Obama's Cairo speech included challenges to the Muslim leaders to rectify shortcomings on their side.
However, telling both sides what they want to hear and applaud whilst allowing them to ignore the bits critical of their position will not achieve anything. The whole history of negotiation with the Arabs over Israel and a Palestinian state has been marked by the Arabs grasping the bits they like (concessions from Israel) whilst ignoring the bits that require concessions and reforms from them.
The Bottom Line
Obama appears to be regarding Israel as just one small piece (pawn) on the global chessboard that he is playing to achieve his objectives for the good of America (of Islam?) and then of the world. By linking Israel and Iran as a simple issue of “solve Islam’s issues with Israel and we will solve the Nuclear Iran issue at the same time” he appears to be in denial of a whole raft of problems. At the same time he is pushing Israel into a position of being completely alone and having to take action without any international support to protect against the promised nuclear annihilation. Surely this is a scenario for World War III!
It appears to this observer that Obama is playing chess as if it were draughts / chequers; unaware that it is the God of Israel who is moving the pieces on the world’s chessboard and that The USA and its president are just one of the pieces. It also appears that Obama is hoping to save the world by continuing the brilliant electioneering that brought him success in the presidential elections. Winning elections and saving the world are not the same thing!
We Christian Zionists cannot influence the president of the United States (whatever our opponents believe) but Christians need to see the situation as it really is, from God’s point of view, and be watching, thinking and praying from that viewpoint rather than from the secular, human centred viewpoint.
How did Binyamin Netanyahu respond? - How did the Arabs respond?
Updated 09/11/09
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