Esther 8:11 KJV Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
From a New York Daily News article, Peace, the formidable foe:
Peace, the formidable foe [/] Thursday, July 27th, 2006In every generation they will come to kill us, the Torah instructs.
And the Chosen People too often choose not to believe it.
So now with the greatest army in their chosen land, Jews live in underground shelters, rocketed by those they chose to ignore in the name of Peace Now.
All they got was war now, and the nation will survive, once again. The question is, will the peaceniks survive and live again to help destroy their one and only Jewish state?
If they don’t get the message that everything they have done has led them to this, the next time might be the last time for Israel.
Now, fortunately, for the first time, Israel has an American President who backs its efforts in the war against terrorism. George W. Bush, unlike his daddy, unlike every American President since the rebirth of Israel in 1948, is not preventing Israel from attempting to destroy its Arab enemies.
The Arabs give no credit for this; they blame the U.S. not only for "creating Israel," but for enabling the Jewish state to keep the Palestinians in an "apartheid" state.
It’s all baloney. America did absolutely nothing to create Israel — Harry Truman recognized it, but immediately placed an embargo on it, while the British continually armed the Arabs.
From then on, in every event — the War of Independence of 1948; the Sinai campaign; Six-Day War; the Yom Kippur War; the Lebanon war in 1982, and the intifadehs of 1989 and 2000. Each time, the U.S. stopped Israel from completing a victory. The result: Israel never lost a war, Israel never won a war.
The turning point was the Oslo Accords in 1993, resulting in the great handshake at the White House garden, when Bill Clinton happily got Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to make "peace" with then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
This was the politics of hope at its apex. It was the beginning of the end for peace. All it did was embolden the Palestinians, who understood that Israel was willing to surrender its true hegemony over them, in return for nothing but promises that proved less than the talk of love from the mouth of a hooker.
Finally, in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, without conditions, left Lebanon, both betraying the Southern Lebanese Army and leaving Hezbollah with its rocket capability.
This surrender to terrorism was widely praised by the Israeli Labor Party, led by Shimon Peres and Amir Peretz, who is now the Israeli minister of defense.
The irony is great. Those like Peres and Peretz, who organized the Peace Now movement to move Israel out of Lebanon, now want the nation to destroy Hezbollah.
Well, maybe something good will happen. Maybe the peaceniks will understand that appeasement never worked, never will.
Only if the Jews, at long last, believe that the Torah had it right: In every generation, they will come to kill us. [My ellipses and emphasis]
