MidnightCall Magazine
In this issue:
- Hear theWord of the Lord — By Thomas Lieth
- FirstThessalonians 3 and the Rapture — By Dr. Ron J. Bigalke Jr.
- Popular Prophecy:CheckingDogmaTwice — By Wilfred Hahn
News From Israel MagazineIn this issue:
- Why Jerusalem is Jewish — By Arno Froese
- ON THE HORIZON:
- Analysis: Birthright Needs to Transform on Larger Scale
- Israel Praises Turkish Authority for Preventing Hezbollah Attack
- Relationship with American Jews Is Changing
- A Festival of Discrimination—Funded by the EU
- The Cyrus Cylinder
Conditions for Upgrading Relations With Israel
In a draft declaration, the EU has sketched out three conditions for upgrading relations with Israel.
“The EU clearly stated that the upgrading of relations with Israel should serve the purpose of pursuing the common objectives and interests of both parties,” it says. “Our common interests and objectives include the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through implementation of the solution based on two states.”
“The [EU] is deeply concerned by the recent increase in settlement activities, house demolitions and evictions in the Palestinian territories, especially in East Jerusalem,” it adds.
“Reconstruction and economic recovery of the Gaza Strip require permanent opening of the border crossings for the delivery of humanitarian aid.”
Between 500 and 700 truck-loads of aid need to get into Gaza every day to help maintain basic living conditions, but Israel lets in just 100 or so, an EU diplomat explained.
Israel’s ambassador to the EU, Ran Curiel, noted that EU-Israel relations remain vibrant, especially at bilateral level, despite the lack of progress on the upgrade.
The current governments of Germany, France, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania are on the Israeli-friendly side. Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Greece and Cyprus are more critical, however.
The draft EU declaration also urges “a complete and unconditional stop of attacks against Israeli territory by Palestinian militia.”
It takes a firm line on Iran, condemning “threats toward Israel by the Iranian government” and “any denial of the Holocaust as a historical fact.”
The text supports the Israeli narrative that militant movements such as Hizbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza are proxies for foreign powers. “Iran should stop its support to violent groups in the region and use its influence in order to encourage them to follow a non-violent approach.”
http://www.euobserver.com, 28 May 2009
Nothing new is to be expected from the EU for two reasons: 1) The world’s most powerful person, the present pope of Rome, has declared that the Jewish people can claim no rights to biblical Israel (as did his predecessors); 2) All nations, without exception, follow that guideline and have democratically declared that Israel must surrender territory they have conquered by military force.
While this “law” has been accepted internationally, it is not applicable to Israel. There is no country on the face of the earth whose borders were not established by weapons of war. Israel is singled out and the world collectively says no to Israel’s taking possession of the Promised Land, within the borders defined by the God of heaven.
When we understand these fundamentals and analyze them from biblical perspectives, we immediately recognize the hopeless situation the world is in. The world stands unitedly against the Creator of heaven and earth. In this connection, we must read again Psalm 2:1-3: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”