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"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14;

Prof. Paul Eidelberg
March 29, 1999
Used by permission of GAMLA News Service

NATO's attack on Yugoslavia on behalf of Albanians in Kosovo should give Israel cause for concern. Suppose Israel persists in rejecting a Palestinian state. Or suppose the Arabs in the Galilee who speak of self-determination resorted to violence and terror to achieve this goal. Would NATO, led by the United States, issue an ultimatum against Israel to desist from resorting to violence against the Arabs? And if Israel rejected the ultimatum and tried to suppress this Arab secession, would NATO bomb Israel to stop the conflict in the name of "peace" and "humanitarianism"?

Farfetched as this may seem, NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is an invitation to any dissatisfied ethnic group in any country to engage in secession under the democratic banner of "self-determination." NATO has embarked on a policy that encourages international anarchy.

This is surely one reason why Hebrew University Professor Raphael Israeli denounced NATO's attack on Yugoslavia as "International Piracy" (JERSALEM POST, March 26). He writes: "Imagine an increasing Mexican population in southern California, or a growing Arab community in France, which would declare its will to secede from the American or the French heartland, and would use violence and terror to achieve its goal. "Would Mexico or Algeria be entitled to bomb Los Angeles of Marseilles in support of the dissidents' claim for independence? This is more or less what is happening in Kosovo today. The Serbs have considered Kosovo the cradle of their culture and ethnic identity, and as the stage where their history has unfolded, since the fourteenth century. Over the past decades, due to poverty and misery in neighboring Albania, tens of thousands of (mostly illiterate) migrants have infiltrated into Kosovo to seek new opportunities. This is not unlike the process of illegal migration from Mexico to the southwestern state of the US, or from North Africa to France.

"And yet, those same countries which would not allow an illegal immigrant population to secede politically while tearing away part of the national turf, stand in the forefront of the western effort to delegitimize the legitimate Serbian endeavor to protect its national territory, but use force to achieve that morally and politically questionable goal."

Evident here is the arrogance of power as well as the arrogance of ignorance. The proud Serbs reject NATO's demand to station an international force on Yugoslavia's sovereign territory. This not to condone atrocities, which began, however, not with the Serbs. Prof. Israeli asks: "Once the Albanians back up their demand for independence with violence and terror, what are the Serbs supposed to do?" Sacrifice part of their homeland and ignore the well-being of their fellow Serbs in Kosovo?

Instead of fomenting international anarchy, the West, says Prof. Israeli, should focus against the rising threat of fundamentalist Islam in which the Serbs have stood in the forefront, first in Bosnia and now in Kosovo.

The question arises as to whether the arrogance of power and ignorance underlying the US-led NATO strikes against Yugoslavia will manifest itself against Israel in its struggle with the Arab Palestinians. It should be borne in mind that the vast majority of Israel's Arab citizens regard themselves as "Palestinians." One of their spokesmen, Knesset Member Azmi Bishara, boldly describes the Jewish people as a "fiction with no right of an independent state." Bishara has entered the race for Prime Minister of Israel as head of a so-called National Democratic Alliance (NDA). We need only cite two statements of the NDA to grasp its ultimate objective.

(1) The Arab Israeli citizens are a part of the Palestinian nation and the Arab people in its national and cultural identity.

(2) The National Democratic Alliance will act to achieve the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state in the occupied territories [i.e., in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza], whose capital is eastern Jerusalem."

But inasmuch as the "Arab Israeli citizens are [described as] a part of the Palestinian nation," it follows that Bishara (to say nothing of other Arab Knesset Members) is committed to a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.

Now suppose the Government of Israel were to enforce the law that prohibits any party from negating the Jewish character of the state. Bishara could then demand, on behalf of Israel's Arab inhabitants, self-determination. Given the Kosovo precedence, he could expect US-led NATO to support Arab secession in the Galilee should Israel respond to Arab violence and terrorism by force.

"Peace" and "humanitarianism" would then prompt NATO to bomb Israel. Welcome to the end of the twentieth century, the most violent and perhaps the most stupid in human history.


Editor's Note: This would immediately lead into the Time of Jacob's Trouble and soon followed by the ETERNAL coming down to earth and standing on the Mount of Olives and His raising the Messiah, King David, and the Prophet, Elijah from their graves. Then would come the restoration of all things and the Kingdom of ETERNAL on earth with of all of those living the Hebrew faith of Abraham and those questing for The Righteous One of Israel standing from their graves.

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