Monday, January 30, 2012

THE NEW CHALLENGE

                                          
Evangelicals Christians are watching closely as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads off a challenge for Likud party leadership with contender Moshe Feigler. Christians in the US have a deep respect and admiration for Prime Minister Netanyahu however, those who staunchly support him, Christians Zionist may very well support Moshe Feigler who holds the same basic conviction and core belief that all of Judea and Samaria belongs to and should be in control of Israel. Christian Zionist has consistently maintained that a Palestinian state inside Judea and Samaria is unacceptable and that all of the West Bank should be annexed and incorporated as part of Israel.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once held this view, but has changed his position. The growing frustration among young Israeli families who want to claim vacant land and establish communities is a sore point in the Netanyahu government. “Settlers” are looked upon as extremist and hard-core nationalist, but are they? The growing movement among young families to settle in the land that G-d promised is nothing more but a commandment that they are fulfilling.

Moshe Feigler if he is wise, could appeal to Christian Zionist around the world and get their support. If this was to happen, it would create a large obstacle to Netanyahu leadership. As of now, Christian Zionist supports Prime Minister Netanyahu but with a bit of pessimism when it comes to giving up land for peace.  If Moshe Feigler wants to challenge Netanyahu leadership, he has to convince the voting public that the Oslo Peace Accord is over and that a new paradigm shift is needed.  

What would be the new paradigm shift? Perhaps the best answer to this is what was said by Yasser Arafat, King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan[1] -Jordan is Palestine. Unless there is a fundamental shift in thinking that there is a country east of the Jordan River that is Palestine, there will be no peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

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Abraham J. Santiago






[1] From Time Immemorial The Origin of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine, Joan Peters Pg. 240 JKAP Publications ©1984 Chicago, IL.

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