“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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Ishaan Tharoor—The 1967 Arab-Israeli war took six days. But 50 years later, it’s still not over.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, the swift, epochal conflict in which Israel decisively defeated a host of Arab armies and captured territory held by Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Israeli’s military occupation of land inhabited by millions of Palestinians continues to this day — as do the disputes surrounding the status of Jerusalem, the rights of the occupied and the dreams of Israeli settlers.
The two-state solution — the internationally desired creation of separate Israeli and Palestinian states, along borders approximately equivalent to what existed before the 1967 war — remains the stated goal of the Trump administration as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. But the facts on the ground suggest it’s nowhere in sight.
I spoke to Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem-based analyst with the International Crisis Group and the author of the new book “The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine” to get a better sense of the hard realities facing Israelis and Palestinians.
Today’s WorldView: So, tell us about the somewhat grim thesis of your book.
Nathan Thrall: The thesis of my book is that force — including but not limited to violence — has been a prime driver of accommodation for both Israel and the Palestinians. Through one military defeat after another, the Palestinians slowly made ideological concessions that brought them from rejection of any Zionist presence in Palestine to acceptance and recognition of Israel in 78 percent of historic Palestine. What I show in the book is that each step along that long and tortuous path was driven by severe pressure on the Palestinians — military, economic and diplomatic. Similarly, on the Israeli side, strong coercion has forced Israel to make nearly every territorial withdrawal, beginning with the 1956 Suez Crisis, when the threat of U.S. sanctions led to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and Sinai. On the Palestinian front, too, it was mass uprisings and violence that led to Israeli concessions.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
It’s true. The two-state solution is the “internationally desired” solution to the problem between Israel and Palestinians. More about that later.
Israel’s problems with her Arab neighbors didn’t begin following the Six-Day War. They began the very day that the modern State of Israel came into existence. That was in 1948.
Since that day, Israel has been at war. Sometimes it’s open conflict, but most of the time it’s a lull in fighting with only sporadic terrorist attacks. The lulls in fighting are used by Israel’s enemies to heal their wounds, import and stockpile more and better weapons, and complain to the world that Israel is a bully.
Even though Israel has never been the aggressor in those wars, the world takes the bait. This has been going on for almost 70 years. It’s so predictable that a child can see it or should be able to see it.
What’s the problem?
The answer to that question is the crux of the matter. The problem is that most of the world rejects Yahweh. I suspect that the vast majority of them don’t believe He exists. In their world, humans evolved; the climate can be controlled; and in a nutshell, we are our own gods.
But Yahweh does exist. He has made promises about the Promised Land that He will fulfill. That’s why, despite overwhelming odds, Israel continues to win wars that world leaders think she can’t win, and that’s why Israel continues to prosper in a hostile environment.
The “internationally desired” solution is a man-made solution that Yahweh will not endorse because it flies in the face of promises that He has made. Most global leaders will never get it because they think they have the authority to impose solutions, and that’s exactly what they will do.
As I said, they believe that they are gods and that they can do what they want without regard for Yahweh and what He said He wants.
The whole world is in for a rude awakening. It’s coming. It’s as certain as night following day. It’s not a matter of “if”. It’s a matter of “when”.
Yahweh has made His existence so clear that no one will have an excuse when that day arrives. For instance, to believe that humans evolved defies logic, common sense, probability, and mountains of evidence.
That doesn’t prevent most people from believing in the theory of evolution, though. It’s their religion. It’s their way of explaining things without Yahweh.
That’s not going to change until Yahweh reappears in Person. In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis explained it this way: “When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.”
People who don’t know Yahweh have no idea how horrific that day will be for them. In the blink of an eye, their worlds will change forever, and they will never have a chance to recover.
Because of Yahweh’s grace, we have the chance now to do the right thing. When He returns, the grace period will be over.
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“If My people who are called by My Name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7: 14)
Change that Yahweh calls “good” begins in the hearts of believers—people who are recognizable because they are different.
We are different because we belong to Him and are called by His Name. We are Yahweh’s people, His followers.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
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