“Delegitimization a greater threat than HizbAllah”. We must get a peace deal.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak seems to be the acting Prime Minister of Israel, visiting the US promoting his own political agenda.
“We will have serious discussions in the coming month on security, borders, Jerusalem, refugees,” the defense minister told reporters in Washington Monday. “The mechanisms will be resolved in the coming weeks.”
Though Barak received a rebuke from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when in a speech in Washington on Friday night he said that Jerusalem would need to be divided in a final peace agreement – after which Netanyahu denied it was government policy — the defense minister played down the exchange Monday.
“We don’t need to reveal all our positions before negotiations,” he said, though he reaffirmed his comments before the Saban Forum on Friday.
Barak spent Monday meeting with Defense Secretary Bob Gates, CIA director Leon Panetta, senior White House advisor Dennis Ross and Vice President Joe Biden after spending Sunday in New York.
He said the conversation with Gates focused on the strong American commitment to Israel’s security and the need to maintain its Qualitative Military Edge.
Source: Jerusalem Post.
My comment:
Ehud Barak was surely a brilliant General. But he is a hopeless politician. The solution he promotes, has already been tried. It was a political failure, that brought disaster up on the state of Israel during the second intifada.
Israel can never get peace by giving up Jewish land. The surrender of Gish Katif in Gaza, lead the way for a Hamas takeover of Gaza.
If Israel give up East Jerusalem, this party of the capital of Israel will become a second Gaza. And if Samaria is given back under Islamic occupation, than Tel Aviv and Haifa will be next.
Only a strong Israel who put their trust in God of the Bible can stand up to the pressure of Islam. A Post-Christian West will end up supporting the evil forces of Islam. Together they will be judged and sent to Hell the day the Messiah returns.
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I dont know who is worse when it comes to pushing their own politcal agenda Ehud Barak or Tpzi Livini?
Dear Richard.
Shalom.
Politics are politics. Jesus took up a coin, and told the people to give to the Emperor, what belongs to the Emperor.
The Jews are a tough people. They have survived 3.000 years of “politics”. There have not been more pressure on them, since the horrors of Nazi-Germany.
We need to pray for both Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni. A man like Benjamin Netanyahu needs a double doze of our prayer and blessings.
http://bible.cc/zechariah/14-2.htm this is what will happen when they divide Israel
You should quote the whole passage, or as much as possible.
Zechariah 14
The LORD Comes and Reigns
1 A day of the LORD is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.
2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. 3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. 5 You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake[a] in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
6 On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. 7 It will be a unique day—a day known only to the LORD—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.
9 The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.
10 The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place. 11 It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.
12 This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. 13 On that day people will be stricken by the LORD with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another. 14 Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing. 15 A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+14&version=NIV