After a few days, I was given assignment papers that destined me to an amphibious craft unit in Cam Rahn Bay. After a few weeks of settling into my job as a marine diesel mechanic, I received another set of orders telling my unit to pack up and be prepared to leave Vietnam.
It was the first week of June 1967. I soon learned our unit was on alert to travel to Israel to provide transport support for Israeli troops in the Sinai in their attack on the Egyptian army. As a solder and a young Jewish man I was eager to go to Israel to defend the country of my heritage.
However, the war only lasted six days, thank God, and Israel was clearly the victor in their engagements with Syria, Jordan and Egypt. As a result of the Six Day War Israel controlled land that included the Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the entire West Bank and the addition of East Jerusalem.
After peace talks and UN negotiations Israel gave back 94% of the land they controlled through conquering the Arab aggressors. Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt and Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians or Jordanians. Israel hoped that with this gigantic land give-away there would be peace and the Palestinians and their Arab brothers would drop their goal to remove the Jewish presence from the land of Israel.
The one thing a student of Israel's history will learn is that Israel's conflict with the Palestinians is never about borders or land. It's always about Israel's right to exist.
It is foolish for Israelis, Americans and especially evangelical Christians now being courted by Palestinian Christians to think that if Israel gives the West Bank back to the Palestinians, there will be peace. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The only way peace will come in the Middle East is if the Jewish people living in Israel are annihilated by the surrounding Arab and militant Islamic nations. To the Palestinian when Israel ceases to exists, there will be peace in the Middle East.
To show you what Israel has given away for peace, the map below lays out thirty four years of Israel giving away more and more land to the Palestinians. And what do they have to show for it? A demand for more land give aways and more Palestinian rockets from Gaza killing innocent Israeli citizens.
Let not Christians be fooled by Palestinian Christians who sidestep historical facts and try to persuade evangelicals that the Israelis are the enemies. The more land Israel has given to the Palestinians, the less respected they are by Arabs and militant Muslims and the more these enemies attack the Jewish nation.
This map provides tangible proof that the falsehood of "land for peace" can no longer be tolerated. The only key to peace in the Middle East is for the Palestinian government made up of Fatah and the terrorist Hamas to accept Israel's right to exist and to drop their commitment to destroy Eretz Yisrael.
3 comments:
Did you make that map all by yourself?.. because clearly that's a falsified version. Only a brainless twit, that's never bothered to look into this issue on their own, would believe that map. You should be ashamed of attempting to spread such ignorance along to others.
Cosmia:
Great response to my blog. Name calling, "Brainless twit" and accusing me of never looking into this issue on my own. Usually when a person has nothing substantive to say, they resort to name calling and ridiculing. I call that "left wing tactics."
No, I did not make the map up by myself. Here is the link to the map: http://cifwatch.com/2011/03/14/palestinian-propaganda-map-deconstructed/.
Also, the map in the first panel demonstrates the fact that after the 1967 Six Day War Israel controlled all the territories in blue. NT professor at Wheaton College, Gary Burge, (no friend of Israel) in his book, "Whose Land? Whose Promise?" says, "within a week Israel captured the entire Sinai desert, the 'West Bank' including East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan Heights." He notes Israel doubled its size. Is this history or is it not? Send me some links to show me your alternative revised historical view.
In the second panel, which shows Israel in 1993 reflects the historical fact that Israel withdrew from the Sinai peninsula and gave the land back to Egypt. Is this not true? How is this panel falsified? Where is the ignorance you claim I am spreading. Brainless twit? I don't think so.
The final panel shows Israel in 2011. The areas in red are territories where Palestinians have complete autonomy as in Gaza and limited autonomy as in the West Bank. Are you denying that on 8/15/2005 that Israel withdrew settlers and troops from the Gaza strip? I saw this happen with my own eyes?
Of course, the West Bank and the Golan Heights are still area of controversy. Israel continues to negotiate with Syria over the Golan Heights mostly because the Syrians want to control the area near the Jordan River and take over the water distribution. The West Bank remains a hot button due to the presence of the settlements and the military presence of the IDF. The map in the third panel reflects the fact the West Bank is not totally under control of the Palestinian Authority. Israel will never pull out the IDF from the area east of the WB for its own protection and to control who comes into the WB from the East. If they were not there, more and more terrorists would be entering the Palestinian territory and using the WB as a launching point (as with Gaza) to attack Israeli citizens.
So send me some links that show the opposite of what I said here. Calling me a "brainless twit" really did not demonstrate much evidence on your part that you even thought about what you were saying nor that you yourself have a deep grasp of the Middle East conflict.
cosmia: Here is a good synopsis of the Golan Heights controversy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14724842
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