Post-Oslo Myths

HonetReporting.com

Dec 23, 2004

Anti-Israel ideologues rewrite history and deny the fundamental challenges facing the region.

George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Ariel Sharon have all recently expressed a commitment to try restarting Mideast talks.

As things move forward, it is self-evident that any successful new process must overcome three obstacles that doomed the Oslo process of 1993-2000:

1) the Palestinian leader's inability to accept a final settlement with Israel,
2) Palestinian promotion of suicide terrorism, and
3) the historical Palestinian/Arab rejection of the legitimacy of the State of Israel.

Yet, as movement toward new talks begins, anti-Israel ideologues in the media have begun chipping away at all three of these established truths ― rewriting history and denying the fundamental challenges facing the region:

1) 'OSLO FAILED BECAUSE OF ISRAEL'

In the Buffalo News, academic Jerome Slater claims that Oslo failed not because of Arafat, but rather because of Israel and Ariel Sharon. Slater writes:

Arafat's real bottom line was not the destruction of Israel... but a genuine two-state compromise settlement... it is a myth that Arafat "never made a counteroffer" and walked away from the bargaining table or that the negotiations broke down when the Palestinian Intifada broke out.

Slater presents himself as more knowledgeable than those who actually conducted the negotiations ― ignoring President Clinton's famous response to Arafat's compliment that Clinton is 'a great man.' Said Clinton: 'I am not a great man. I am a failure, and you have made me one.'

And Slater ignores the testimony of Dennis Ross, who directed the entire negotiating process during those years. In his recent book 'The Missing Peace', Ross recalls the end of the negotiations:

If there had been any hope for an agreement, it was gone now... Arafat was not going to say yes under any circumstances... As he had so often in his career, Arafat was seeking to have it both ways, creating the illusion of being positive by accepting the ideas, but practically rejecting them with his reservations. (p. 13)

Slater's article distorts this all-important aspect of the historical record ― the Palestinian rejection of Israel's far-reaching peace offer of 2000.

2) AN 'ISRAELI CULTURE OF MARTYRDOM'

In a Dec. 22 article in The Nation, Baruch Kimmerling brushes aside the Palestinian culture of suicide 'martyrdom' (one factor that killed Oslo), and fabricates in its place a supposed Israeli promotion of death culture. In an article entitled 'Israel's Culture of Martyrdom', Kimmerling claims that

in the case of Israel the connection between nationalism and death is especially visceral... Zionism, the state's ruling ideology, is a triumphal creed shadowed by death... It is deeply ironic that the very same society now claims to be shocked by the 'martyrdom culture' in the occupied territories.

Kimmerling goes on to describe 'European Jews who colonized Palestine,' Israeli leaders 'unburdened of almost any moral restrictions, or even obedience to internal and international laws,' and an 'obsessive commemoration of the Holocaust and of Jewish victimhood... the victory of death over life.'  [Surely....the Christians outnumber the leaders of this world?]

Obedience to the Lord for every single Christian - is to speak the truth } Zec 8:16 - Eph 4:25 . The saints 'sing' the song of Moses} Rev 15:3 

Song of Moses:

Exd 15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.  Song of Moses - the first author of the Bible.  The saints 'sing' this song}  Rev 15:3 

Isa 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

The Koran forgot to mention Palestine

The name Palestine is a 'British Mandate'.

It did not come from the Arab world.

 

Isa 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD?

Isa 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

1Cr 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Mal 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

Jhn 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Joe 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with Me? O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render Me a recompence? and if ye recompense Me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head.

Joe 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Isa 14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

Jer 10:10 The LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. [The name Israel came from the Lord - not men. It is the Lord's heritage]

A similar denial of Palestinian promotion of martyrdom recently appeared in the International Herald Tribune (Dec. 18), where Roger Avenstrup claimed that 'time and again, independently of each other, researchers find no incitement to hatred in the Palestinian textbooks.'

Rev 21:8 The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. [There was a death that reigned already} Rom 5:14 ]

In response, expert Itamar Marcus said those like Avenstrup 'are tragically enabling the Palestinian Authority to avoid necessary changes in its education system.' Marcus gives a number of examples of Palestinian schoolbook lessons that the Koran views the Jews as 'the enemy of God,' that Israel resides on Palestinians' 'stolen homeland,' and of an Islamic religious obligation to destroy the Jewish state.

The Arab world wants to destroy the name Israel for one reason -- There is NO 'Holy One of Palestine'  

Isa 30:12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this Word, and trust in oppression and perverseness [the slaying of 'Infidels', beheadings and the cutting off of hands and feet...allowing flesh to make such judgments upon flesh], and stay thereon:

 

Isa 30:13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

 

Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 

 

Isa 45:22  Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

 

3) ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGITIMATE, COLONIAL STATE

This week, both the LA Times and The Guardian published an op-ed from David Hirst that challenges the very legitimacy of the state of Israel:

The real trouble is that... the U.S. has never been able to acknowledge the real nature of the problem... is essentially one of decolonization... If the Palestinians were to secure the redress that other colonized peoples have, there would be either no Israel (as there is no Algerie francaise) or there would be a binational state (like South Africa).

Read carefully: Hirst claims that all of Israel is an illegitimate colony.

Hirst ignores the plain historical facts that: 1) Jews have dwelled in the Land of Israel for 4,000 years ― millennia before Islam ever began, and 2) those who immigrated as Zionists did not come to extend colonial European influence.

This type of historical revisionism has undermined every effort of peaceful Arab/Israeli coexistence, including Oslo. As Mahmoud Abbas said just days before the outbreak of violence in 2000:

They [the Jews] claim that 2,000 years ago they had a Temple. I challenge the claim that this is so.  (August 25, 2000, Kul Al-Arab, an Israeli Arab newspaper)

Luk 13:35 Behold, your house [Judaism] is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Act 7:48 The most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Mar 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

1Cr 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2Cr 6:16 Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. All who are in Christ

1Cr 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God [with his own mouth], him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Mat 12:31 All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. {not in this world - nor in the one to come] Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost - is to call the Father in heaven a liar} 1Jo 5:10

Mic 1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.  [which temple ye are} 1Cr 3:17

Psa 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword [Word of God] in their hand; To execute upon them the judgment [already] written: this honor have all his saints. Psa 149:9 [This is the work of 'the temple (body) of God']

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Mar 13:14 When ye shall see the abomination of desolation {without life - "He that hath the Son hath life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not life" - Palestine denies the Son] spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, [The name Israel is His heritage] (let him that readeth [The Word] understand)  

 

Mat 24:21 Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

2Pe 1:19  We have a more sure Word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed. [Eternal Life is at stake]

1Jo 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. [Palestine denies the Holy One of Israel - unto their own Eternal Destruction!]

Psa 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

Jer 51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Jer 51:57 I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Isa 41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? [righteous in His wrath]

He condemned Palestine - A very LONG time ago - and the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed it! The whole book of Isaiah was included in the Scrolls:

Isa 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. [If you support Palestine - then you are Palestine]

Mat 12:30 He that is not with Me is against Me.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were written long before the Koran was - BUT were not found until 1947. They are a preserved record that prove the Old Testament which the world had all along.

The LA Times ostensibly published the Hirst op-ed as a public service, in the interest of open debate. But by promoting such a radical and distorted viewpoint, the Times actually performs a disservice ― obscuring the real issues and distancing the hope of Mideast peace.

Zep 2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

 

Zep 2:3  Seek ye the LORD [out of the Book of the Lord], all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

 

Zep 2:2  Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.  [The name Israel belongs to God - not men]

 

Mat 12:30 He that is not with Me is against Me.

Eph 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Introduction