Message #4510

[Mark]

Palestinian statehood = Israeli suicide

A Messianic Jewish leader is shocked that nearly four-dozen Israeli intellectuals would support a plan that leaves the Jewish state indefensible.

The prominent Israeli intellectuals and artists are in favor of creating a Palestinian state based on the 1967 line that marks the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.

47 signatories, including 16 recipients of the country's highest civilian honor, the Israel Prize, support the Palestinian drive for U.N. recognition. But progress in peace talks with Israel has come to a halt, as the Israeli government opposes the unilateral initiative that also calls for Israel to pull out from the West Bank because "the complete end of occupation is a fundamental condition for the freedom of both peoples."

"They're being told to go back to borders that are completely indefensible," laments Olive Tree Ministries founder Jan Markell. "I would like to ask some of these critics and some of these so-called 'artists and intellectuals' if they are in favor of Israel committing suicide. Not that God would allow that to happen, because he wouldn't, but nonetheless, the point is here are Israelis themselves wishing such an evil deed to come upon this little nation."

But unfortunately, she says the Israeli leftists have the same attitude as the Jewish left in the United States, which has no concern for the state of Israel.

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