I found the following New York Times editorial rather informative, as not
only does it reveal certain things that I personally did not know -- such as
the real motivations behind certain decisions which have been made over the
years by Israel's Arab neighbors -- but in its closing paragraph, it also
lays all of the cards on the table, by being brutally honest, and telling
the Palestinians what they probably need to hear, in case they haven't
already realized it themselves; and that is that nobody is going to help
them but themselves, because everyone else involved in the so-called "peace
process" has selfish motivations. I am referring to this paragraph:

----- Begin Quote -----

The sooner the Palestinians recognize that their cause is theirs alone, the
sooner they are likely to make peace with the existence of the State of
Israel and to understand the need for a negotiated settlement.

----- End Quote -----

If my understanding of Endtime prophecy is correct, then "a negotiated
settlement" may indeed eventually come; and perhaps sooner than later; and
this peace deal may possibly be the seven-year Holy Covenant, which appears
to be prophesied in the Book of Daniel, as well as indirectly in the Book of
Revelation.

In other words, in the Book of Revelation, we are told that the outer court
of the temple will be given into the hands of the Gentiles for a period of
forty-two months -- or three and a half years, or 1,260 days -- because the
Prophet Daniel tells us that the Holy Covenant will be broken in the midst
of the week; that is, in the middle of the 70th week, or Last Seven Years.
As I point out in such series as "The Great Tribulation And The Rapture",
this 42-month period -- or three and a half years, or 1,260 days -- will be
the time of the Great Tribulation. Consider these verses:

"And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying,
Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship
therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it
not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread
under foot forty and two months."
Revelation 11:1-2, KJV

"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they
worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to
make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and
two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was
given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power
was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that
dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the
book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man
have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into
captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints."
Revelation 13:4-10, KJV

So as I have said many times before, a peace treaty between the Israelis and
the Palestinians may eventually come, but it will not last the full seven
years, as per God's Word.


The Palestinians, Alone

By EFRAIM KARSH - NYT

August 1, 2010


IT has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to peace and stability in the
Middle East. Since Arabs and Muslims are so passionate about the Palestine
problem, this argument runs, the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate feeds
regional anger and despair, gives a larger rationale to terrorist groups
like Al Qaeda and to the insurgency in Iraq and obstructs the formation of a
regional coalition that will help block Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

What, then, are we to make of a recent survey for the Al Arabiya television
network finding that a staggering 71 percent of the Arabic respondents have
no interest in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks? "This is an alarming
indicator," lamented Saleh Qallab, a columnist for the pan-Arab newspaper Al
Sharq al Awsat. "The Arabs, people and regimes alike, have always been as
interested in the peace process, its developments and particulars, as they
were committed to the Palestinian cause itself."

But the truth is that Arab policies since the mid-1930s suggest otherwise.
While the "Palestine question" has long been central to
inter-Arab politics,
Arab states have shown far less concern for the well-being of the
Palestinians than for their own interests.

For example, it was common knowledge that the May 1948 pan-Arab invasion of
the nascent state of Israel was more a scramble for Palestinian territory
than a fight for Palestinian national rights. As the first secretary-general
of the Arab League, Abdel Rahman Azzam, once admitted to a British reporter,
the goal of King Abdullah of Transjordan "was to swallow up the central hill
regions of Palestine, with access to the Mediterranean at Gaza. The
Egyptians would get the Negev. Galilee would go to Syria, except that the
coastal part as far as Acre would be added to the Lebanon."

From 1948 to 1967, when Egypt and Jordan ruled the Palestinians of the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank, the Arab states failed to put these populations on
the road to statehood. They also showed little interest in protecting their
human rights or even in improving their quality of life -- which is part of
the reason why 120,000 West Bank Palestinians moved to the East Bank of the
Jordan River and about 300,000 others emigrated abroad. "We couldn't care
less if all the refugees die," an Egyptian diplomat once remarked. "There
are enough Arabs around."

Not surprisingly, the Arab states have never hesitated to sacrifice
Palestinians on a grand scale whenever it suited their needs. In 1970, when
his throne came under threat from the Palestine Liberation Organization, the
affable and thoroughly Westernized King Hussein of Jordan ordered the deaths
of thousands of Palestinians, an event known as "Black September."

Six years later, Lebanese Christian militias, backed by the Syrian Army,
massacred some 3,500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in the Beirut refugee
camp of Tel al-Zaatar. These militias again slaughtered hundreds of
Palestinians in 1982 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, this time
under Israel's watchful eye. None of the Arab states came to the
Palestinians' rescue.

Worse, in the mid-'80s, when the P.L.O. -- officially designated by the Arab
League as the "sole representative of the Palestinian people" -- tried to
re-establish its military presence in Lebanon, it was unceremoniously
expelled by President Hafez al-Assad of Syria.

This history of Arab leaders manipulating the Palestinian cause for their
own ends while ignoring the fate of the Palestinians goes on and on. Saddam
Hussein, in an effort to ennoble his predatory designs, claimed that he
wouldn't consider ending his August 1990 invasion of Kuwait without "the
immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Arab
territories in Palestine."

Shortly after the Persian Gulf War, Kuwaitis then set about punishing the
P.L.O. for its support of Hussein -- cutting off financial sponsorship,
expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers and slaughtering
thousands. Their retribution was so severe that Arafat was forced to
acknowledge that "what Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than
what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories."

Against this backdrop, it is a positive sign that so many Arabs have
apparently grown so apathetic about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For if
the Arab regimes' self-serving interventionism has denied Palestinians the
right to determine their own fate, then the best, indeed only, hope of peace
between Arabs and Israelis lies in rejecting the spurious link between this
particular issue and other regional and global problems.

The sooner the Palestinians recognize that their cause is theirs alone, the
sooner they are likely to make peace with the existence of the State of
Israel and to understand the need for a negotiated settlement.

Efraim Karsh, a professor of Middle East and Mediterranean studies at King's
College London, is the author, most recently, of "Palestine Betrayed."



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