April 14th, 2002: Special Report On Crisis in the Middle East

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A SPECIAL REPORT ON The Crisis in the Middle East(Israel/Palestinians)

Israeli soldiers are pinned down by Palestinian snipers in a narrow street when a 10-yearold Palestinian boy comes up to them who is strapped with high explosives, the boy-bomb is exploded and the building collapses on the Israeli's, killing 13, wounding dozens. This happened just days ago, one of many nightmare scenarios that Israelis faced with each day.

Do the Palestinians have a grievance? They may, in this kind of bloodfest everyone on every side has grievances; but the Palestinians have not won me over. I can remember all too well how after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon that the Palestinians were dancing in the streets, celebrating and cheering for the murder of thousands of Americans, while in Israel that nation lowered their flag to half mast and mourned with us.

Whose side would I take? Three guesses.

Do we have to take sides? I believe so because we and Israel are going to end up being thrust together by virtue of the fact that we will suffer in common and from a common enemy.

The White House, as of Friday morning, April 15, 2002 is referring to "suicide bombers" as being, "homicide bombers." This distinction is more than appropriate for this is murder,

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plain and simple, and there is no justification for this bestial behavior.

I' m writing this "Special Report" to address this current crisis and to share those historic facts that have recently come into view, things that I did not know about hitherto or knew about only in very vague terms. In watching and listening to various TV news shows and Michael Savage's Radio show (he is well versed in history) I've picked up gems of information that make the issues in the Middle East easier to understand.

I do NOT personally have a Word from JESUS about these things, except what I've

already shared in the main part of this April Newsletter, Rather, I have some insights and some opinions about what is being seen day by day via the News Reports of the fighting in the Middle East between Palestinian gunmen and the Israeli Army.

THE DANGER OF APPEASEMENT: Yasser Arafat has learned that terror pays and so long as we (America and the world) try to accommodate him as he engineers the murder of innocent civilians, we are risking encouraging the spread of terrorism worldwide as a valid means to achieve desired ends. Today it is Israel, tomorrow it could be New York City, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, Paris, London - you name it. What then if we end up encouraging the spread of this vile, murderous behavior? What will we do then?

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Is the Bush Doctrine Schizophrenic? (Continued) to recognize him as being a "Statesman" and wants to negotiate with him.

That I know by the SPIRIT OF GOD and recognize George W. as being God's man does not mean I will agree with everything he does or says. In this area he is heading for trouble.

Let us take a look at the little bit of the history I have on and about Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian movement.

1.) Yasser Arafat is a Marxist. He sat in one the ultra secret meetings in the Kremlin in November of 1979 when the then Soviet Communist top leaders were making plans for a Soviet invasion of Israel, the annihilation of the Jews and a Nuclear attack on the U.S. I picked up on the Marxist orientation of Arafat in listening to Dr. Savage - apparently the PLO has a website that openly avows Marxism. When I heard this recently I remembered reading (years earlier) about Arafat's presence in the planning meeting in the Kremlin in 1979 that aimed for the eradication of Israel and world nuclear war.

A Jewish lawyer named Cohen recently appeared on TV (Fox TV News) alongside of a representative of Hamas (an Iranian-backed terrorist group in the Middle East that sends "homicide bombers" to kill Jewish civilians in Israel) who was representing U.S. Palestinians in a lawsuit against Israel.

Days ago I listened to a telephone interview (on Fox TV News) with an American Jewish woman who has spent that past two weeks in Arafat's headquarters, who sides with Arafat against Israel, who repeated Palestinian propaganda like a parrot.

Jews who side with murderers who promote (by defending) the outright murder of Jews is something hard to grasp. However, once I learned that Arafat is a Marxist I understood it easily. These Jews are Marxists, and their allegiance is to Satan/Lucifer — they are suicidal and serve an unGodly agenda of death and destruction. Truth is, "if' Israel were wiped out (exterminated) by these terrorists, these same Jews who back them today would be next on their list to be murdered. The madness is this - these Jews probably know this and yet they back those who would murder them at their earliest convenience.

2.) In the Balfour agreement of 1922 (implemented in the League of Nations by Great Britain) the Arabs were given the east side of the Jordan River and the Jews the west side of the Jordan River. Until this time there was no such thing as a "Palestinian State."

The arabs that elected to stay inside the west bank with the Jews were accepted by the Jews.

The Jews that wanted to stay in the east bank areas from the Jordan among the arabs were

murdered by the arabs. The west bank areas from the Jordan river that the Palestinians are demanding today was never their land.

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3.) When Israel was recognized as a sovereign state in 1949 the arab nations around Israel told the arabs in Israel to leave their homes and when the war was over they could go back to them and that they could have the homes of the Jews (as they would be all dead by then).

These arabs that left their homes on this advice found themselves dispossessed when Israel won the war after the arab nations that attacked Israel were soundly defeated in battle.

This dispossessed group of arabs have since become known as the Palestinians.

4.) In 1970, under Yasser Arafat's leadership, the Palestinians became as numerous in the State ofJordan as the Bedouins that peopled Jordan. Arafat led a Palestinian armed uprising that tried to take over Jordan and seize the throne of King Hussein. In September, 1970 the Jordanian response (later to be called Black September) led to the slaughter of 30,000 Palestinians.

5.) The Palestinians moved into Egypt following this military defeat at the hand of Jordanian arabs. After ten months of stirring up trouble in Egypt, the Egyptians drove the Palestinians out of Egypt.

6.) The Palestinians ended up in Lebanon and here Arafat burned Beirut for three years (terrorist attacks).

The history of this people stretches back to Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis 16: 11 and 21: 3) and from that time to this time there had been nothing but trouble between them. As it is given in Galatians 4. 29, "But as then he that was born after the flesh (Ishmael) persecuted him that was born after the Spirit (Isaac) , even so it is now. "

Those of us in Christ who are led of by the HOLY SPIRIT will face the same kind of persecution from the children of the flesh. This problem in the Middle East is ages old and no man or nation or nations can of themselves resolve the trouble apart from God and God's help.

7.) Yasser Arafat is the man who not onl y originated the idea of hijacking airliners to gain political objectives but trained and led his people in this terrorist activity.

8.) Yasser Arafat is the man who originated the idea of suicide or homicide bombing, more he has built schools in Palestinian areas that teach children (from kindergarten up) the joy of becoming a human-bomb to kill Jews. He teaches this, finances it, commands it as the leader of Palestinians.

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9.) In the year 2000 Beastman Clinton worked a deal to get 97% of the territory Arafat was seeking from Israel, half of Jerusalem would be given to them for their capitol -- this was a dream come true. Arafat responded by launching a massive wave of terrorist attacks on Israel killing Israeli's week by week. It was obvious that his agenda had nothing to do with establishing a Palestinian State, his objective became crystal clear - he was out to eradicate every Jew in Israel and obliterate the Israeli Nation.

More, Arafat was needling the Jews with constant murderous attacks to get a response, a military one, to the ends of seeing his own people butchered in a war to gain more political clout.

LIBERAL SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS and THE MARXIST CONNECTION: So much of this behavior visible in the Palestinian camp under Arafat makes no sense that if you try and see things from the point of view that Palestinians want a home (nation) that you miss the whole point. The people in control, the people supporting this king of terrorism, Yasser Arafat, care nothing for the Palestinians and only see them as a means to an end. The ends is a thing called the "new Marxism", a term coined by Patrick Buchanan in his new book, "The Death of the West." To quote page 78-79: "In 1930, a renegade Marxist and admirer of the Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer directed the Frankfurt School to retranslate Marxism into cultural terms. The old battlefield manuals were thrown out, and new manuals were written. To old Marxists, the enemy was capitalism, to new Marxists, the enemy was Western culture (the Judaic/Christian culture of the west). To old Marxists, the path to power was the violent overthrow of the regime, as in Paris in 1789 and in St. Petersburg in 1917. To the new Marxist, the path to power was nonviolent and would require decades of patient labor.. Victory would cane only after Christian beliefs had died in the soul of Western Man. And that would happen only after the

institutions ofculture and education had been captured and conscripted by allies and agents of the revolution. Occupy the cultural institutions of the West... and it would fall without a fight. For old and new Marxists, however, the definition of morality remained: what advances the revolution is moral, what obstructs it is not... When Ronald Reagan famously blurted that the Soviets, "reserve to themselves the right to lie, steal and cheat," he hit on a truth that an honest Marxist would not... contest. " (Unquote) How do I see a connection to Arafat and Palestinian behavior? Arafat lies, steals and cheats with the kind of skill common to Marxists and since he is also from the old school of

Marxists and he murders Jews with hidden delight.

The liberals in Israel and the United States advanced the idea that they could get peace by giving the Palestinians land, but when they negotiated to that end, Israel got homicide bombers galore and incessant attacks by various terrorist organizations.

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LIBERAL SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS and THE MARXIST CONNECTION(ContinuedJ It is becoming obvious that support for Palestinians and Arafat is coming more and more from our Universities - again the liberal faction is sounding off loudly in favor of Arafat and against Israel. The Media bias has been visible all along; Dr. Savage likes to refer to CNN these days as being the "Crescent News Network," MSNBC is not much better and only Fox News (cable TV) presents more of a balanced view.

So why are the liberals and new Marxists stirring up hatred and opposition to Israel? Israel, and the Jewish people, are a cornerstone of the Western world's culture right alongside of Christianity. The eradication of Western culture is the primary objective of the new Marxists and Arafat being from both the old and new school of Marxism pursues both objectives.

Arafat is working any way he can to get into a position where he could effectively annihilate every Jew in Israel, this is the most obvious thrust of what he had been doing all along, this is his vocation, the heart of who and what he really is.

Arafat has been going on Arab TV and in front of western journalists saying he condemns these terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians but when he goes on Arab TV speaking in Arabic he incites renewed attacks on Israel and praises the Martyrs. In fact, the evidence/documentation found by Israeli troops as they took most of Arafat's compound reveals that Arafat has been paying for the explosives, the training and has directed Palestinians to go blow themselves up in the midst of Israeli civilians. This man, Arafat, not only originated the idea of homicide bombers, he is commanding the attacks even now.

When Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel he was greeted by a homicide bombing (this time a Palestinian woman) that killed 9 and injured 84, blood and guts covered the square in Jerusalem. The Palestinian terrorist organization claiming responsibility for this terrorist attack was the one headed by Arafat. This same day, Israeli security discovered and prevented a homicide bomber from attacking Colin Powell's motorcade -- another little greeting card from the terrorist Arafat. Yet Colin Powell will be seeing Arafat later today - who can figure it.

The God Factor One thing is obvious to me, what is going on in the Middle East is pure madness and defies any kind of reason one can sum up. In fact, the Devil is right in the middle of this nightmare and is stirring up death and destruction for all concerned.

I'm aware that there are decent Palestinians living in this area who are as much victimized by this evil elf named Arafat as are the Jews in Israel. The Palestinians have been immersed

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The Gad Factor continued in a death culture have become captive to it. Unless they are freed of that stain of death it will infect almost all of them.

The situation in the Middle East is clearly beyond the ability of men to resolve, try as they may. Why? Because the Devil is in control of too many of the key events transpiring in the Middle East at this time.

What I do know is that the LORD our GOD is not far from this situation and I know from what He has shown me in the past that GOD will defend Israel against all comers. I

wouldn't want to be on the side of those against Israel - GOD will fight them and He will (as He has in the past) empower the Israeli nation to triumph.

PERSPECTIVE What we need keep in mind is that for the past 18 months (since September, 2000 when Clinton got the Israeli's willing to yield so much to the Palestinians) Israel has been attacked by the Palestinian terrorists week by week and just weeks ago it reached a level where they were being hit by two homicide bombers A DAY. If you take the number of Israeli citizens killed since September, 2000 and by percentage look at how many Americans would have died if we were being attacked like this - then 55,000 Americans would have perished at the hands of these terrorists in the past 18 months.

"If" we had a nation on our border that sent terrorists at us every day for 18 months what do you think we would do about it? I doubt if America would have waited 18 months and likely many Americans would be calling for the nuking of that nation which is attacking us.

One thing for sure, B-52's dropping 35,000 pound bomb loads on those who sent terrorists would be a certainty, that and then daisy cutters (a 15,000 pound bomb) would be dropped as we have done and are doing in Afghanistan.

The Israeli's have shown considerable restraint and for a long time. Even now, though the destruction and havoc wreaked in the Palestinian towns is horrific, it is no where near as horrific as it might be.

One ofArafat's top officers with him made the statement recently that they are winning the war against Israel because the death ratio of Palestinians to Israeli's killed is now 3 to 1, whereas in years past it was 7 to 1. The Arafat people see that as a sign that they are winning! They fail to recognize that the Israelis' are more restrained than they have been in the past and see that as a sign of weakness. When you are dealing with people that think like this mercy is lost on them. The terrorists are merchants of death.

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The Christian Possibility On the morning TV News today from some former government man was asked if the U.S. should send troops to Israel on a peacekeeping mission to separate the Palestinians from the Israeli's. My first thought was, "No way!" He confirmed it by saying, "If you did you might as well pin a note of the backs of our soldiers that says, "Shoot ine ", because that is what is going to happen."

"IF", and this is a big

IF", if the Church was dedicated to day and night intercession,

asking God's help and Holy Spirit Presence to quell the violence in the Middle East, it would be an excellent start to unraveling the bloodfest that is now consuming that region of this world.

I do not perceive that prayer alone would end the murdering and killing that is now a daily event in the Holy Land; rather it would serve to mitigate and keep the blood letting under control, with the hope of moving it towards a genuine peace that both sides would desire, seek and keep. Right now it is an eye for an eye, it is war pure and simple.

We have re-introduced the prayer for peace in the Middle East for both Israeli's and Palestinians in our new DAILY PRAYER SHEET. It is a start. What else the Lord may have us do, we don't know, but at least we are back to praying for the peace of Jerusalem.

PALESTINIANS and MOSLEMS: While some Palestinians are Moslems, not all are, many are Christians. Christians would NOT become suicide/homicide bombers because we know that to do so would earn us a place in hellfire, not heaven. The Moslems are the ones deluded into thinking that the suicide murdering of Israeli's will get them heaven.

Here in America two Moslem leaders have come forth to condemn the homicide bombings against Israeli - that is it -just two! All the rest are silent or are recruiting Moslem warriors or raising funds to support the terrorists.

I perceive that the majority of Moslems are not murderous in heart, not inclined to this kind of evil; but the murderous ones are very potent and smother out all reason and all desire to seek a genuine peace - what they want is war and to bathe themselves in the blood of Israeli's.

Well, they got war and now they are screaming "murder" — but in truth they brought this down on themselves. As Herb-ABRAHAM used to say, "Ifyou fool with the bull, you will get the horn ", Palestinians are getting the horn.

On the next page is a letter published in the Voice of the Martyr's (VOM) for your information. God bless. c

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Copy of letter published in the Voice of the Martyr's February, 2002 Magazine

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Hi, I just wanted to let you know I agree whole-heartedly with the article, , Have We Shamed The Face Of Jesus? „ (VOM, December 2001).

When I first accepted the Lord into my life, I was married to a Muslim man named Hikmet , from Turkey. We had problems in our marriage before I accepted the Lord; but after TI accepted Him, the problems escalated. Sudde

tarted receiving beatings for going to s "bothering" him.

church, reading my bible, or sometimes 'just because my Christianity

He would make the excuse that I did something wrong in the way I cleaned the house or

because I was a Christian.

Once he tried to choke me to death, once he threw a knife at me, and another time he held a knife at my throat. He used to appear to get great joy in telling me that if he took me to Turkey with him, he would tell others how I believed and they would stone me to death washed the dishes,

for it. Then he said he would have immediate access to heaven when he died. The time he

threw a knife at me he was the one that had bro ught up the subject of Jesus. He, too, tried to tell me that Muslims believed is Jesus. What angered him was that I asked him if he believed prophets lied. When he said, "No, of course not." I told him that Jesus Himself said He was the Son of God. When I said that, it was like a black cloud came across him. He threw the knife at me, and it landed straight up in the table directly in front of me. Then he said he was Satan, and he was going to kill me. As I rushed to get away from him, he

followed me, spitting on me, cursing me and continuing to say he would kill me.

Another time, I had been doing the dishes and came out to see something on TV. After seeing what it was I wanted to see, I continued to stand there, leaning against the wall and praising the Lord in my heart and mind. All of a sudden, Hikmet got up; and before I knew what had happened, he hit me so hard I fell to the floor. When I got over the shock, I asked him why he had hit me. He replied that my face looked like the face of an angel, and it angered him.

Anyway, the point of all this is to demonstrate that a true Christian cannot peacefully co-exist with a person of the Muslim faith. I loved Hikmet, and I tried to live peacefully with him, but it didn't matter what I did or how I felt. I didn't preach at him, I just tried to live my faith in the Lord. It was my faith and the presence of the Holy Spirit in me that Hikmet Could not stand. He told me that the only thing that would change things would be if I converted to Islam. I, of course, would not do that.

Our marriage lasted for three years after I accepted the Lord before we finally divorced.

I lived with persecution on a daily basis during that time, but I also experienced some of the greatest blessings I have ever known. The Lord has since blessed me with a Christian husband and a wonderful family. So, if anyone tries to tell you, including any brother or sister in Christ, that we believe in the same God or that we can live peacefully with people of the Muslim faith, please feel free to send them this email. Whether or not they believe me will not alter the truth. But this is my testimony; and as God as my witness, it is the truth.

Your sister in Christ, Linda H. The apostle Paul understood the power of Christ's presence in the life of the believer and how it is embraced by some and staunchly opposed by others, like the situation of Linda and her former husband. In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he wrote: "For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death Ieading to death, and to the other the aroma of life Ieading to life" (2:15,16).

May we allow Linda's testimony to encourage us to be that fragrance of Christ, whether it is joyfully embraced or bitterly rejected by our family members, neighbors and coworkers.

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SORRY. "NO FIERY TRIALS" IN THIS NEWSLETTER Nancy-TONI began working on a "Fiery Trials" Report for this Newsletter when she was taken down by a fairly severe case of bronchitis. Though she saw a doctor and got medication there was no improvement and I realized that while Nancy-TONI was under the stress of every day tasks plus writing the articlg,that she was not going to improve. At that point I asked Nancy-TONI to forget about the article for "Fiery Trials"this Newsletter and to focus on rest and recovery. After several days of bed rest she has improved and is on the mend. The next "Fiery Trials" will come out with next Newsletter. Til then. God bless. G

BOZO'S IN THE AIRWAYS

There was a little space left before completing this Newsletter and I wanted to make some comments about "air safety" with all the new screening rigors going on in our airports. I've heard enough horror stories since they were put in place to bring me to the resolve of "never flying anywhere" unless JESUS directs me to take an aircraft.

It is not fear but utter disgust and absolute mistrust in the measures being made that I discern are wholly useless and as recent findings discovered, they are hopelessly useless.

I hear people say that they will endure anything to ensure their safety on an airplane and then I wonder, just what are they getting for what they are giving up'? Actually nothing.

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In part I discerned it by the Spirit of God a very real vulnerability. On another level I saw up close the level of unprofessional behavior by screeners; I was also aware that they were grossly underpaid and probably not very well trained.

What crossed my mind more than once in 1999 on seeing this poorly funded and unprofessional airport security was that the airlines were on the cheap and were going to pay a terrible price when someone dangerous saw their weakness and exploited it.

Wel,l it happened on September 11, 2001 and those Islamic terrorists were able to almost simultaneously hijack four airliners at the same time and on the same day and worked to use them as flying bombs.

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BOZO'S IN THE AIRWAYS (continued) On a flight just weeks ago an American businessman went to the bathroom (but to do that 30 minutes before landing is forbidden by new federal regulations) - in any event three U. S. Air Marshals sprang to their feet, drawing their guns on the man and ordering the passengers to hold their hands over they heads until they landed (30 minutes) - at gunpoint.

This man (who had to go) is facing a ten year prison sentence for going to the bathroom.

The behavior of the Air Marshals got my notice, these guys are lunatics! I'd rather see the American citizen carrying arms on airplanes than have bozo's like that on an airplane AND/OR arm the pilots (which the Bush Administration is dead set against).

John Ashcroft, the Attorney General of the United States was just about strip-searched by airport screeners recently, and former House Speaker Newt Gingerich has been severely searched each time he flies — what kind of people are doing the screening?

Many of these airport screeners are aliens, non-citizens, and some can hardly speak English. One U.S. Senator stated that 87% of the airport personnel at Dulles Airport are aliens (non-American citizens). Another fact, many airport screeners cannot read, therefore they are unable to read the manuals on how to do the job.

I've heard first hand accounts of how a woman some 90 years old in a wheelchair was not allowed to board a plane because she didn't have a current photo I.D., while other women are being "felt-up" with some regularity by screeners (some have filed law suits against the screeners and airports for molestation). In another account a retired U.S. Marine General (80+ years old) was not allowed on a flight because he had a strange, dangerous looking medal on his person (the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award of this nation for valor and courage in battle). These people are a band of bozo's and you'd have to be crazy to think you are safe with them.

More recently a report came out about how easy it was to penetrate these new security systems — of hundreds of attempts* to get guns, knives and bombs on airplanes — 33% of

the times the guns got past the screeners, 60% of the time the knives got past and 70% of the time the bombs got past them. More, of hundreds of attempts, 70%+ were able to get on empty airplanes without being noticed or caught. *Note - This was done by people hired to test the airport security systems to see if they could get by it with weapons.

What I keep in mind is this - the same people who gave us 9/11 are in charge of improving security in the airports. BEFORE you fly, pray to know if you should fly or not because Bozo's are in charge of security - dangerous clowns. End of report. God bless.

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