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From: Eddie Chumney
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Subject: Chapter 8: Israel: The Fig Tree Blossoms (Part 3 of 3)
CHAPTER 8
ISRAEL: THE FIG TREE BLOSSOMS
from the book by Eddie Chumney
"RESTORING THE TWO HOUSES OF ISRAEL"
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CHAPTER 8
ISRAEL: THE FIG TREE BLOSSOMS
(Part 3 of 3)
THE POLITICS OF OIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The 1973 Yom Kippur war highlighted how
imported Arab oil has
become an important political and economic issue in understanding
the
present Israel / Arab conflict. The world economy depends on
imported
Arab oil and the Arab oil producing countries decided to use oil
as
an economic and political weapon to influence world opinion
against
Israel. On October 17, 1973, Arab petroleum ministers met during
the
Yom Kippur War and decided to cut oil production and exports.
"It was
under the façade of the war crisis . that the Arabs seized the
opportunity to launch a drastic escalation of oil prices. Libya
announced on October 18 that the cost of its oil would go up 28
percent - irrespective of the war and Israel's misdeeds. Iraq
thereupon declared a 70 percent price rise. Kuwait matched this
figure." 77
Members of the European Common Market
took immediate measures to
placate Arab oil barons, making new demands on Israel to give up
the
occupied territories. Thus an oil-thirsty world forced Israel
into a
diplomatic ghetto. Though the Arabs suffered a devastating loss
in
the Yom Kippur war, they discovered a powerful new weapon and
found
themselves in the driver's seat of the world economy. By a simple
turn of oil valves they could further the goals of Palestine. 78
THE PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE AND ARAB POLITICS
As a result of Israel winning her war of
independence and her
succeeding wars against her Arab neighbors, the Arabs living in
Israel did not have a country of their own. They called themselves
Palestinians. Following the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the Palestinians
became an increasingly important political issue in the
Israel/Arab
conflict. Since the creation of the Arab states, the Palestinian
people have been mistreated by Arab states and have had bad
relations
with many of them. During this time, Arab leaders have fought
among
themselves for the title of being the leader of the Arab world.
By
not having a state of their own, the Palestinians have been used
by
the Arab world for their own political purpose and as a political
weapon against Israel. While the Arab states all recognize the
Palestinians as their cousins, only Jordan was willing to take
their
refugees.
The root of Arab politics toward the
Palestinian people goes back
to the early 1920's when the Arab states were being created
following
the defeat of the Turks in World War I. Following WWI, the
British
and French allowed the gradual formation of seven independent
Arabic
states in the region (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Iraq,
Saudi
Arabia, and Yemen, followed later by ten others). 79
Winston Churchill gave the area of
Transjordan to Abdullah of
Arabia. This he did to mollify the Arab leader for the help his
father, the sharif of Mecca, had given the British in diverting
the
Turks in Arabia in 1917. 80 This gift of East Jordan
(Transjordan) to
Abdullah constituted three-quarters of the area known as
Palestine.
The Arabs west of the Jordan also wanted
an independent state and
had candidates chomping at the bit for rulership. For many years,
two
leading families, the al-Husseinis and Nashashibis, had
alternated in
filling the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. 81 Though a
religious position, it carried strong political clout throughout
Palestine. Both families claimed descent from the Grand Sharif of
Mecca, who in turn claimed descendancy from Muhammad himself.
These
two clans exerted much influence in mayoral offices in the
region,
but were constantly at loggerheads. From the Nashashibis came
King
Abdullah, who was given Transjordan, and his brother Feisal.
Feisal
was first given Syria (until the French took it over) and was
later
made King of Iraq. At the assassination of Abdullah in 1951,
Hussein,
his grandson (not of the al-Husseines), became King of Jordan.
This family was known as
the Hashemites. 82
The al-Husseini family in Jerusalem was
represented by Haj Amin
al-Husseini who was appointed Grand Mufti by the British in 1921
when
only twenty-one. Amin al-Husseini was a Muslim extremist who
violently opposed Zionism. Insisting on Palestine becoming an
Arab
state, he used every influence to halt Jewish immigration. On
August
23, 1929, he inspired a massacre of Jews praying at the Wailing
Wall.
Prior to that, "Haj Amin had instituted a plan to restore
the mosques
in order to reestablish the primacy of Islam over all of
Palestine
and to counter the increasingly vocal religious claims of the
Zionists to a portion of Jerusalem." 83
When World War II erupted, Haj Amin was
forced to flee, first to
Iraq and then to Germany where he was welcomed by Hitler and
Himmler. 84
These two families, the Hashemites and
the al-Husseinis, came to
represent the moderate and extreme factions of Palestinian Arabs.
85
Their special bitterness toward each other stemmed from Britain's
bestowal of kingdoms on the Hashemites, which the al-Husseinis
viewed
as a sellout to the enemy. For this Haj Amin and his followers
came
to regard both the Jews and the Jordanian Hashemites as bitter
enemies. 86
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PLO
The Palestinian Liberation Organization
was actually the
brainchild of Gamal Addel Nasser of Egypt. The PLO was first
organized in Cairo in 1964. Its founding document is the
Palestine
National Covenant. This declaration rejects the Balfour
Declaration
of 1917, the UN Partition Agreement of 1948, the Jews' biblical
claims to the land, and it denies the right of the Jewish people
to
have a nation. The Covenant has been revised several times over
the
years, but it still contains the vehement anti-Jewish sentiments
of
the original document. It insists that all the territory of the
nation of Israel properly belongs to the Palestinian Arabs, and
only
those Jews living in Palestine prior to the "Zionist
invasion" can be
regarded as legitimate Palestinians and thus allowed to stay in
the
land. 87
Nasser sought to promote an underground
forum for the Palestinian
people. This was first called the Palestine Liberation Army
(later
the PLO). Chosen as leader was Ahmad Shuqairi, a puppet of
Nasser,
who set up headquarters in Cairo. The expressed purpose of this
organization was to allow the Palestinian people, "to play a
role in
the liberation of their country and their
self-determination." 88 The
Arab leaders who set it up, however, had other designs for the
organization. They intended to make it an instrument of guerrilla
warfare against Israel under their control. They had no intention
of
creating an independent Palestinian movement. 89
YASSER ARAFAT AND THE FATAH
Six years before Nasser created the PLO,
Yasser Arafat started
his own group in Syria to "liberate Palestine." Then
living in
Kuwait, Arafat and a handful of revolutionaries created a
military
organization. They called it the Palestinian National Liberation
Movement. In Arabic, the initials spelled out HATAF (Harekat
at-Tahrir al-Wataniyyeh al-Falastiniyyeh). 90 They turned the
letters
around to spell FATAH, which is a reverse acronym of the name of
the
movement in Arabic. The word "Fatah" means
"conquest by means of
jihad [Islamic holy war]."
The major figures in FATAH were two
young dyed-in-the-wool
guerrilla operators, Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad. 91 Both were
from
the militant Muslim community of Gaza. Arafat was born in Cairo
in
1929 and grew up in the Gaza strip during the tumultuous
Jewish-Arab
conflicts of the 1930s and 1940s. His full name is Rahman Abdul
Rauf
Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. He was later nicknamed as
"Yasser" by
his guerrilla tutor after a great Arab hero. 92 Through his
mother,
Arafat was related to Haj Amin, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and
a
proud member of the al-Husseini family. That lineage supposedly
traced back to Husayn ibn Ali, the son of Fatima, the daughter of
Muhammad. 93
From his earliest years, Arafat
was engrossed in liberation
tactics, devising terrorist activities against the Israelis whom
he
saw as invaders. As he and his cronies began the Fatah, they saw
themselves as the "generation of revenge" - seeking
vengeance for the
loss of Palestine. 94 Originally, FATAH opposed the founding of
the
PLO. By 1969, FATAH had become the largest guerrilla group
affiliated
with the PLO. At that year's meeting of the PLO's executive body,
the
Palestinian National Council, Yasser Arafat won complete control
of
the PLO. 95
ARAFAT BECOMES THE LEADER OF THE PLO
The very establishment of the PLO by
Nasser in 1964 was intended
to rebuff Arafat and his FATAH. Incensed by Arafat's deriding him
in
his paper, Our Palestine, Nasser "ordered his
intelligence service
to see to Arafat's liquidation." 96
Arafat became the leader of the PLO in
1969. Prior to 1968,
Palestinians had looked to the pan-Arab nations to liberate their
land. In the wake of the 1967 war, they gave up on the promises
of
the Arab League and determined that they would have to go it
alone if
they were to "restore their land." 97
When Arafat took over the PLO, the
organization reverted to cell
groups developed by its FATAH members in Syria. First, it was
basically a guerrilla organization that worked underground apart
from
national armies or agencies. Its single purpose was to evict the
Israelis from the land and set up an independent Palestinian
state,
not one in tandem with Jordan or any other Arab state. Second, it
intended to achieve its goals by armed conflict, using
infiltration
and terror to drive out the occupiers of the West Bank and
Gaza
Strip. 98
THE PLO AND THE INTIFADA
In December 1987, Palestinian patience
ran out and long pent-up
feelings were suddenly unleashed with stones and homemade bombs.
This
uprising was known as the Intifada. It quickly spread through the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The cities of Nablus, Hebron, and
Jerusalem in the West Bank soon became centers of agitation. 99
Most irritating to the Palestinians was
the Israeli settlement of
Jewish communities in the West Bank. This has received almost
continuous coverage by the press since 1977 when Begin began
encouraging the program. 100 Various reasons were given for this
colonization. Some Jews settled there for religious reasons, such
as
the hard-core Gush Emunists, searching for their biblical
heritage.
Others simply sought a place of residence from which to commute
to
the big cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 101
Through the intifada, the Palestinians
have looked to the world
media to dramatize their fight against Israel. 102 By being
successful at this, it has forced Israel to rethink its policies
regarding the settlements in biblical Judea and Samaria (West
Bank).
While the settlements are a security issue for Israel, world
public
opinion is demanding a compromise on the issue and encouraging
Israel
to trade "land for peace." However, will trading
land result in
peace for Israel? It is highly unlikely because "PLO"
after all,
means the "Liberation of Palestine," which is not
negotiable to the
leaders of the movement. 103
THE PLO PHASED PLAN
DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL
Following the 1967 war, two different
schools of thought
developed among the Arabs concerning their dilemma of what to do
with
Israel. With the increased territory Israel gained as a result of
the
war, it was believed impossible to defeat Israel by conventional
means.
The first school of thought held that
since it was no longer
possible to defeat Israel by conventional means, then there was
no
choice but to make formal peace with the Jewish nation. This view
was
held by Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who accepted Menachem Begin's
invitation to help negotiate a settlement with Israel. The peace
treaty, called the Camp David Accords, was drafted in late 1978
and
signed in early 1979.
The second school of thought held that
since it was no longer
possible to defeat Israel within her existing boundaries, then
the
course of action should be to first reduce Israel to the pre-1967
borders and then destroy her. This view was officially adopted by
the
PLO at their 1974 conference in Cairo. It was formalized in a
document known as the Phased Plan. Dr. Aaron Lerner, a Middle
East
analyst, summarizes the goals of the PLO's Phased Plan as
follows:
"First, to establish a combatant
national authority over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated
(article 2);
second, to use that territory to continue the fight against
Israel
(article 4); finally, to start a pan-Arab war to complete the
liberation of all the Palestinian territory (article 8)."
104 The PLO
phased plan destruction of Israel and articles 1-4 and 8 are
highlighted below.
THE PLO'S PHASED PLAN
Political Program: Adopted at the 12th
Session of the Palestinian National Council, Cairo, June 9, 1974.
The text of the
Phased Plan resolution:
The Palestinian National Council:
On the basis of the Palestinian National
Charter and the
Political Program drawn up at the eleventh session, held from
January 6-12, 1973; and from its belief that it is impossible for
a
permanent and just peace to be established in the area unless our
Palestinian people recover all their national rights and, first
and
foremost, their rights to return and to self-determination on the
whole of the soil of their homeland; and in the light of a study
of
the new political circumstances that have come into existence in
the
period between the Council's last and present sessions, resolves
the
following:
1.
To reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organization's
previous attitude to Resolution 242, which obliterates the
national right of our people and deals with the cause of our
people as a problem of refugees. The Council therefore
refuses to have anything to do with this resolution at any
level, Arab or international, including the Geneva
Conference.
2.
The Liberation Organization will employ all means, and
first and foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian
territory and to establish the independent combatant
national authority for the people over every part of
Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will require
further changes being effected in the balance of power in
favor of our people and their struggle.
3.
Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the
realization of the Liberation Organization's strategy of
establishing the democratic Palestinian State specified in the
resolutions of previous Palestinian National Councils.
4.
Struggle along with the Jordanian national forces to
establish a Jordanian-Palestinian national front whose aim will
be to set up in Jordan a democratic national authority in
close contact with the Palestinian entity that is
established through the struggle.
8.
The Liberation Organization will strive to strengthen its
solidarity with the socialist countries, and with
forces of liberation and progress throughout the world, with
the aim of frustration all the schemes of Zionism,
reaction and imperialism.
The Executive Committee of the
Palestine Liberation Organization will make every effort t implement this program,
and should a
situation arise affecting the destiny and the future of the
Palestinian people, the National Assembly will be convened in
extraordinary session.
THE OSLO ACCORDS AND
THE PHASED DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL
The PLO has decided that it would be
acceptable to get rid of Israel in stages (by trading land for peace) if it couldn't
be done
all at once (by war). Arafat has publicly told his followers, on
numerous occasions, that the Declaration of Principles signed
with
Israel in 1993 (Oslo I) is actually a part of the PLO's Phased
Plan.
In November 1994, in a speech marking the celebration of
Palestine
National Day, Arafat said:
"What has been a dream has
become a reality. In 1974, the PNC decided on establishing a
Palestinian Authority on the first piece of land from which the enemy
has withdrawn or that we have liberated."
Another clue that the PLO has not
totally renounced its idea of eliminating Israel, but has merely postponed it, is the
fact that
the official PLO letterhead still has for its logo a map of the
nation of Israel labeled "Palestine." Textbooks in
Egyptian and
Jordanian schools, as well as those used in Palestinian schools,
do
not even show the nation of Israel on their maps. 105
Furthermore, Arafat has not eliminated
terrorism in his
government. Instead, he has elevated it to official status. In
May
1996, Arafat set aside four cabinet seats in the Palestinian
Authority for representatives of the most active terrorist
groups:
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and two PLO rejectionist groups, the
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). The US
law that provides financial aid to the PA specifically says that
aid
will be cut off if the PLO allows terrorists to be included in
the
governing agencies. But to date, Congress has made no move to
terminate the annual one hundred million in financial aid to the
Palestinians.
The PLO has threatened that if Israel
doesn't exchange "land for
peace" that they will continue the struggle to liberate
Palestine by
any other means. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are part of the
"war by
other means" by the PLO against Israel. These two Islamic
fundamentalist groups are funded, trained, and armed by Iran and
Syria. The Hezbollah, or Party of Allah, which operates against
Israel primarily out of Syrian-controlled southern Lebanon, is
also
sponsored by Iran. These groups are adamantly opposed to peace
with
Israel and, in fact, they are fanatically dedicated to waging
continual "war by other means" against all non-Muslim
countries. 106
During his youth in Cairo, Arafat's
family had close ties to a
group called the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic fundamentalist
group
active in Egypt and the Middle East. As a teenager Arafat fought
with
the Muslim Brothers in Jerusalem in 1948 and, during his
university
days, he often went on secret missions with the Brothers when
they
were fighting the British at the Suez Canal. Many of the early
Fatah
members were tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, which once tried to
assassinate Egyptian president Gamal Adbel Nasser. 107
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
Charter, released to the
public in 1988, states that "Hamas is one of the links
in the Chain
of Jihad in the confrontation with the Zionist invasion. It links
up
with . the Muslim Brotherhood who fought the Holy War in 1936; it
further relates to another link of the Palestinian Jihad and the
efforts of the Muslim Brothers during the 1948 War, and to the
Jihad
operations of the Muslim Brothers in 1968 and thereafter ."
So the
current masters of terrorism affirm their historic link to the
Muslim
Brotherhood. And it's a link that joins them directly to Yasser
Arafat. 108
ISRAEL WANTS PEACE
WITH HER ARAB NEIGHBORS
Beginning in the late 1800s in Europe,
political Zionism was
birthed. With political Zionism, the Jewish people (house of
Judah)
dreamed of living in the ancient homeland of their forefathers
Abraham (Avraham), Isaac (Yitzchak) and Jacob (Ya'acov) where
they
would be free from anti-Semitism while living in security and
being
at peace with her neighbors.
Theodor Herzl is the father of modern
Zionism. He established the World Zionist Organization in 1897 with the purpose of
establishing
a national homeland for the Jewish people (house of Judah). His
dream
was carried by Chaim Weizmann who influenced the British to help
establish a homeland for the Jewish people (house of Judah) by
signing the Balfour Declaration.
The Arabs responded to the Jewish (house
of Judah) desire for a
national homeland with great protest. Because of British politics
to
appease the Arabs, the Jewish (house of Judah) Zionist dream was
delayed until 1948. It was only achieved because of world outrage
to
the horrors of the holocaust and the Jewish Resistance Movement
against the British. With political division, the United Nations
approved the partitioning of Palestine into a Jewish state, an
Arab
state and Jerusalem being an international city through UN
Resolution
181 in 1947.
The Arabs rejected this plan and went to
war with Israel in 1948
following the passing of the UN partition plan. Israel defeated
the
Arabs and won her independence. The Arabs went to war with Israel
again in 1956, 1967 and 1973 to liberate the land of Palestine.
However, Israel won all these wars and increased the territory
that
she controlled and began to build settlements in these
territories.
The Arab world and the PLO became
infuriated with Israel for
building settlements in these newly conquered land areas. These
settlements and Israel's existence as a nation continued to be a
thorny issue to Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Because the PLO and
the
Arab world could not conquer Israel by war, they decided to go
forward with a phased plan destruction of Israel by trading
"land for
peace."
With the passing of UN Resolution 242
following the 1967 war and UN Resolution 338 following the 1973 war, the principle of
Israel
trading "land for peace" was established in the
international world
community. Because UN Resolutions 242 and 338 could be used as a
means to accomplish the phased plan destruction of Israel, it was
acceptable to the PLO and the Arab world. Because UN Resolution
242
and 338 is a part of the plan to establish the credibility of the
UN
as an organization to promote World Government and the "New
World
Order," trading "land for peace" is a high
priority to the framers
who want to establish World Government. Therefore, the goals to
establish World Government and the goal of the PLO to destroy Israel
through its phased plan are being united through UN Resolutions
242
and 338. Because of this, Israel is being pressured to trade
"land
for peace."
In the next chapter, we will learn that
all of Israel's peace
agreements with her Arab neighbors beginning with Egypt and
the Camp
David Accords in the late 1970s have been based upon UN
Resolutions
242 and 338. Because the United States has been actively involved
in
promoting Israel having peace with her neighbors based upon UN
Resolutions 242 and 338, it is easy to discern that the United
States
strongly advocates and promotes the idea of establishing World
Government.
Because Israel desires so strongly to
have peace with her Arab neighbors, she has agreed to "peace" with
her Arab neighbors based
upon UN Resolutions 242 and 338. While Israel desires peace with
her
neighbors, by agreeing to trade "land for peace," she
is rejecting
the covenant that the G-d of Israel made with Abraham (Avraham)
when
He promised Abraham (Avraham) and his descendents an eternal
Promised
Land. This land would include the biblical areas of Judea and
Samaria
(West Bank).
By desiring to have World Government
without the rulership of the
G-d of Israel, the nations of the world have rejected the G-d of
Israel as King of the Universe and have also rejected the
covenant
that the G-d of Israel made with Abraham (Avraham). By rejecting
the
covenant that the G-d of Israel made with Abraham (Avraham), the
judgment of the G-d of Israel will fall upon Israel and the
nations.
Rather than having peace (shalom) with her Arab neighbors based
upon
UN Resolutions 242 and 338, the words of the prophet Jeremiah
(Yermiyahu) ring loud and clear. In Jeremiah (Yermiyahu) 6:14 it
is
written:
"They have healed also the
hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;
when there is no peace."
In the Brit Hadashah (New
Testament), in I Thessalonians 5:3 it is written:
"For when they shall say,
Peace and safety [security]; then sudden destruction cometh upon
them, as travail upon a woman with child [Chevlai shel
Mashiach/birthpangs of the Messiah] and they shall not escape."
However, it is during Jacob's
trouble (Chevlai shel Mashiach), that the prophet Jeremiah (Yermiyahu) declares that
the two houses
of Israel will be reunited in the land of Israel (Jeremiah
[Yermiyahu] 30:1-7) when they return to the mountains of Israel
(Judea and Samaria/West Bank) (Ezekiel [Yechezekel] 37:15-22).
May the G-d of Israel pour out His Holy
Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) and bring redemption, restoration, reconciliation and
unity to both
the house of Judah (Judaism) and the house of Israel
(Christianity)
speedily in our days. Amen !!
(End Part 3 of 3)
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