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The baffling worldview of the United Nations Hal Lindsey March 4, 2004 Last week, Israeli forces arrested three boys – ages 13, 14 and 15 – at a West Bank checkpoint after they were discovered carrying homemade guns. The boys told Israeli investigators they had been recruited by Islamic Jihad to carry out a shooting attack against Israeli civilians in the city of Afula. The target was Afula's main bus station. Later, a letter was discovered by one of the boy's parents, in his own handwriting, that said he had also been recruited by the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Many Palestinians expressed outrage at the terrorist groups for recruiting children, but there was no comment from the United Nations. It is an express violation of the United Nation's own protective declarations to use children as combatants. The United Nations has said nothing about it. Evidently, from the U.N.'s perspective, recruiting children as suicide weapons is a lesser obstacle to peace than a fence designed to keep them out of Israel (and alive). Such thinking is typical of the UN where Israel is concerned. It's baffling, really, when you think about it.
The diplomats at the United Nations are educated persons of some distinction in their home countries. As such, you would think that some of them have presumably read books.
U.N. diplomats are also generally mature individuals who have lived long, productive lives. Many of them have been alive throughout the history of the modern state of Israel. Some since before Israel was reborn in 1948. So, even if they aren't that well-educated, or that well-read, maybe some of them might be able to remember the world as it existed before the creation of the Palestinian "people." Throughout history, until the mid 1960s, "Palestine" has never been the name of a people or a state. It was a geographic term used to designate the region during those times in history when there was no nation or state there.
The word "Palestine" is derived from the word "Peleshet" which is translated into English in the Bible as "Phillistine." The Phillistines were seafarers who migrated to the southern coasts of the Land of Caanan from the area of the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea.
They set up five city-states along what is today the Gaza region. The Phillistines were neither Arabs nor Semites. The name chosen by Yasser Arafat for his people is not an Arabic name. It is the Arabic pronunciation of the area the Greeks and Romans called "Palastina." Moses existed LONG before the Greek and Roman empires.
The people who claim to be Palestinians are not descended from the ancient Phillistines. (Yasser Arafat [Abu] is an Egyptian, for example). They simply appropriated the name and called themselves a "people." and then screamed 'Occupation' You'd think the learned diplomats at the United Nations would know that. It isn't like it is a secret. It is not a secret...and the UN diplomats DO know that. So one is left with only one Question: What are their motives and why? They clearly defend Islam...continuously.
When the Arabs attacked the fledgling state of Israel after the British Mandate ended in 1948, they won control of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank. Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip. Nobody offered the "Palestinians" a state, and no "Palestinians" requested one. The Palestinian Liberation Organization was founded in 1964 with Ahmed Shukairy as its first chairman. This same Ahmed Shukairy – 8 years earlier – testified before the United States Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." History only traces the "Palestinian people" to 1964. Then they vanish from the historical record. One would think that fact would make some impression on the learned diplomats of the United Nations. Even if the United Nations is composed of diplomats who are uneducated, unread, too young to have lived through the 20th century and know nothing of history, it still doesn't explain it. Even an idiot can figure out that the best way to keep somebody bent on killing you from doing it is to keep away from that person. Or keep that person away from you. But given the choice between the rights of Israelis to live in their own country or the rights of Palestinian terrorists to come into that country and kill them, the United Nations sides with the rights of the terrorists – every time. If the diplomats at the United Nations still can't see what they are supporting, then the fact that little boys are being recruited by the Palestinians for use as suicide weapons ought to have some of them scratching their chins and at least wondering if they just might be backing the wrong horse. You'd think so, anyway. Like I said, it's baffling. 1Cr 3:19 The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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