Gary Cooperberg, November 7, 2007

George Bush, like most lame duck presidents before him, wants very much to leave office with a big feather in his cap. As has become the precedent with many past presidents, Israel is the chosen vehicle which best promises to give the president the feather he seeks. While world peace is always the proclaimed goal, clearly that is just a cover for the real goal. It sounds so noble for our President to be working to achieve peace for all the nations of the world. Who can say anything bad about so noble a goal?

The truth is that world peace is not the goal at all. Even were the Jewish State to agree to dissolve and hand the keys to the PLO, this will never result in peace. On the contrary. The only reason that Arab states are not warring with one another is their common hatred for Israel. Take that away and they will resume their inner hostilities with one another.

George Bush, knowingly or otherwise, is being used as a pawn by Arab oil interests. The vision of two states living peacefully, side by side, is complete fantasy. No Arab nation wants to accept a Jewish State of any size in the Middle East. The only reason Egypt and Jordan have signed peace treaties with Israel is because they see those treaties as a better tool to destroy Israel than war. Those treaties have already weakened the Jewish State more than any effort by war.

Already we have seen Olmert literally throw away the entire Gaza strip and uproot the entire Jewish community there. This would never have been the result of a war. Clearly the so called peace process is the most powerful weapon the Arabs wield against Israel. Bushs vision is the next calamity for the Jewish State. It promises to further reduce the size of Israel, as well as to establish a fully armed PLO state on Jewish soil, poised to destroy whatever is left of tiny Israel.

In war, the entire country is united to fight the enemy. In this alleged peace process our own leaders are working together with our enemies. Because of their perceived dependence upon the USA, our leadership has deluded itself into believing that voluntary surrender to our most implacable enemies will somehow result in peace.

We have been in a state of war with the Arab world for nearly sixty years. Why is it that our Prime Minister thinks that he can bring real peace to our region before Bushs term in office is over? Could it be that Bush, like Clinton and others before him, seeks to use Israel to improve his own image with the Arab world? He may not consciously wish to hurt the Jewish State, rather to placate Arab oil interests. He has thus convinced himself that conciliatory gestures can be made in which Israel can make certain concessions and still maintain her security, while at the same time he can curry favor with the Arab world. It would seem that Israeli leaders too share in this self delusion.

What leaders of both countries consistently fail to consider, to their own peril, is the reality of the existence of the Creator of the Universe. While they may pay lip service to the concept, they do not really believe in G-d. If they did, neither would ever consider voluntarily giving away that which G-d Commanded to the Jewish People.

Neither Jew nor Gentile can alter Biblical Prophesy. Gaza, Jordan, parts of Syria and Egypt will eventually return to the Jewish People as that is Biblical Destiny. All those who seek to obstruct that destiny not only will ultimately fail, but will bring needless tragedy upon themselves.

Gary Cooperberg, a resident of the Jewish community in Hebron, Israel, is the founder and director of Project Shofar.

Copyright © 2007 Gary Cooperberg