Further Comment on Israel

This is a postscript to yesterday's report of what President Obama stated.

I heard on the news this morning that what Obama was recommending in his statement yesterday was that Israel agree to the pre-1967 borders and then make land trades with Palestine for other land the Palestinians would want to exchange for, so Israel would ultimately retain those housing areas that now cover the land affected for their own. That puts a slightly different face on the request, but it still doesn't take the Truth of God's design for Israel into account. And it doesn't take Eastern thought into account.

First I must state: God is Israel's defender. God blesses those who bless Israel.

We think in terms of fair and equitable, the Palestinians don't. Politically, they don't even acknowledge Israel's existence. On an individual basis, many Israelis and Palestinians live side-by-side and do so beautifully, but ideologically, many in that region - even those who are good, loving people - do not believe Israel has the right to exist. They don't even say the name 'Israel.' And that is a foundational problem. At the core of the issue is that the majority of Palestinians want Israel to be wiped off the map. I realize that is a pretty broad generalization - but I believe it to be true, and have good reasons for my belief.

If you measure out the size of Israel, it is at it's very longest, according to Israel information sources online, 290 miles long, and at it's very widest, 85 miles wide. From that width, it tapers to a point at the south - for a very narrow access to the Red Sea, at Eilat. The border of Israel diverts around the West Bank to the north - with the resulting shape of the entire country looking something like a slipper, were you to view it lying sideways. Along the Mediterranean, between the sea and the West Bank Occupied Area of Palestine, the narrowest width of Israel is reduced to less than 10 miles wide - 9.3 miles to be precise.

If you look at information online you will note that most of the southern part of Israel is comprised of the Negev Desert. It doesn't support much life. Israel is small. Yet - it is the center of the universe. It is the hub of all of Judaism and Christianity, and has been adopted as a secondary hub for Islam, second to Mecca - as well as Haifa being the center of Ba'hai faith. In addition, geographically, it is the hub between Europe, Asia and Africa.

Israel is a 'David and Goliath' story. It is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, The West Bank (aka Palestinian occupied territory), Jordan and Egypt.

The only reason Israel exists is because God wills it to be so.

The Bible prophesied that Israel would become a nation again - and in 1948, against all odds, it did. Crazy as it seems in logical terms, nations will rise and fall based on their support of Israel. So - - though I jumped to a conclusion yesterday that didn't include the fact that President Obama was trying to lobby for Israel not having to give up the land that houses so many of its population in housing areas that once were not under their control, he misses the greater point. He should, #1, take a look at the borders defined as Israel by God...and (#2) he should understand that Palestine politically does not acknowledge Israel exists - or even has a right to exist. Those two details certainly change the conversation.