A Three-State Solution?

I listened to a fascinating podcast this week from the Friends of Israel. Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid, a resident of Jericho, was asked about the situation in Israel, overall. He focused of course on life as a Palestinian.

The New Year’s Eve interview left me wondering how such a man can live and breathe in Jericho, a stronghold of the PLO (I really get tired of referring to the artificially created “Palestinian Authority,” which is really just the old murderous PLO dressed up in diplomatic clothes).

Eid is a very brave man, taking issue with the murderous leadership of the Palestinians, whether it’s Fatah (PLO) or Hamas. He is public with his criticisms, and deserves our prayers. He told one incredible, almost hilarious story about his brush with trouble back in the 90s, during the Bill Clinton Administration. Born in 1958 under Jordanian rule, Eid began to distance himself from the PLO in 1993.

Now, what makes this story truly remarkable is that Clinton was perhaps more responsible for anyone for the creation of the Frankenstinian monster known as Yasser Arafat as a “statesman.” Remember, Arafat, the killer Egyptian dwarf passing himself off as a “Palestinian” revolutionary; he was hiding in a cave in Tunisia when Western diplomats plucked him out, put clean clothes on him and presented him as the undisputed Palestinian leader.

Anyway, Clinton presided over the monstrous Oslo ceremonies at the White House in 1993—to his eternal shame—and he spent a good bit of his time pushing “peace” between Palestinians and Israelis. The other half of course was spent mentoring young interns.

So it is especially amazing that a Clintonista would come to the aid of a good guy like Eid. The activist had run afoul of Arafat, who jailed him. Lo and behold, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, an otherwise thoroughly forgettable political hack, got on the phone and gave Arafat five minutes to release Eid, or else. We’ll never know what “or else” would have been, but Bassem Eid walked out of jail and never looked back. To this day, he seems able to say what he wants about the goons that enslave his people.

But it was an insight Eid had that really grabbed my attention.

He said that the Arab leaders want a “three-state solution.” Hamas wants their Islamic Emirate in Gaza; Abbas wants his empire in the West Bank. Then you have the state of Israel.

I’d never heard this perspective before. Now, I think most of us know the vaunted “two-state solution” has never been the real goal of the terrorists. Even a multi-state solution is not the ultimate goal; the ultimate goal is the destruction of the Jewish state.

But Eid’s insight was intriguing. He means that the two rival Palestinian factions want to see who will finally emerge to continue the stranglehold on the people themselves, and then they will turn their focus solely on eliminating Israel.

A three-state solution. Well, everything else has been tried. Remember during the waning days of the odious Clinton years? Diplomats were actually floating the idea that the Temple Mount should basically just be administered by God Himself! Everything else had been tried, enormous manpower and money had been spent trying to make the sewer of Palestinian control into a modern nation-state. So at the end of the day, in some respect, the stones cried out and God was acknowledged.

As we speed toward the end, we will see that only the One-State solution will work:

The God State.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

Hitting Iran

As Israel transitions from the Yair Lapid regime to the new reign of Benjamin Netanyahu, the country has maintained its steadfast vigilance against Iran.

A couple weeks ago, airstrikes attributed to Israel were carried out against Iranian air defense bases in Syria. Near Damascus and the Qsair Military Airport west of Homs also took out Hezbollah’s aeronautics unit, engaged in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Lebanon.

At the same time, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps increased salaries for fighters serving pro-Iranian militias in eastern Syria.

Additionally, Esmail Qa-ani, a commander with the Qods Force, has declared that Israel is under tremendous pressure and will soon collapse, with the Palestinians claiming the land!

Typical terrorist rhetoric. Sounds like Baghdad Bob, if you remember that clown from the First Gulf War.

On the evening of December 19, a very interesting development occurred: the Syrian army claimed that Israeli Air Force missiles hit positions near Damascus. Now, the attack came right after an Iranian cargo plane landed at the airport. We know from prophecy that Damascus plays a key role in the last days, and this strike also shows clearly that Israel’s intelligence capabilities are far ahead of their enemies’. It’s almost as if Israel knows what the terrorists are going to do before they do.

This is but one evidence that God is fighting for His people, right now. This is very exciting.

If we are looking at Isaiah 17, the burden of Damascus will, I believe, involve the nefarious plans drawn-up by Iran and her proxies in the region. We are told that the regime in Syria will cease to exist overnight! Before dawn, the enemy will no longer exist.

The Lebanese news website al-Nashra published a report based on a senior Iranian source, alleging that Iran is willing to provide fuel to Lebanon, and even prepared a contract awaiting the approval of the Lebanese government, but the government has avoided signing onto it due to fear of American sanctions. According to this report, Iran is prepared to send 600,000 tons of fuel to the Lebanese government, and that the issue was handled by the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon. The source also claimed that Iran is not intervening in the election process of the next Lebanese president because it has allies in the country, including Hezbollah and Amal, which know the situation in the country better than Tehran, and make decisions on their own regarding this matter.

We know of course that Lebanon has been a key player in terrorist activity going back generations. As an aside, the Lebanese people have suffered greatly for years, starting with Arafat and his PLO gang of killers in the 60s and 70s, and in recent years by Iran. With Lebanon on Israel’s northern doorstep, the energy sources provided by Iran come with significant strings. Like with most other end-time plots involving military activity, Lebanon belongs in the gaggle of neighboring nations that come against Israel. Think of the intricate plans devised by Israel’s enemies; they will be thwarted in the blink of an eye by the Lord. How much better it would have been to use all these resources and manpower for good purposes!

Finally, Iran is also meddling in Iraq, working to bolster tourism and pilgrimages. It’s almost hard to believe the two countries were locked into a protracted war all through the 1980s; untold numbers were slaughtered in that savage war brought by the mullahs and Iraq’s psychopath, Saddam Hussein.

While Iran ramps-up its mischief in the region, let us maintain our prayer vigil for the people in this region, and not only Israelis. We pray for their physical safety, even as we watch their spiritual transformation underway.

The Lord also loves the millions of suffering Arabs, gripped by regimes that hate and use them. Let us pray for them as well.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com