ISRAEL AND PROPHESY

Because of the biased media, people have many misconceptions about the origins, but nobody really cared about that splinter of barren land next to the Mediterranean Sea until the Jews began settling in large numbers. So why is it the focus of so much of the world’s troubles? The whole country is only 260 miles long and 70 miles wide. Arabs and Muslims control Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordon, Yemen—not to mention Iran (perhaps the biggest Israel hater) hundreds of thousands of square miles. The landmass of Saudi Arabia alone could contain over a hundred states of Israel, yet the world continues to blame them over the plight of the Palestinians, supposedly robbed of their land by greedy Jews.

     

There was never any such thing as a Palestinian until all the finger-pointing began. There were only Jews, Arabs, and Muslims. Even in the modern era, they lived side by side in an area known as Palestine, which was an area ruled by the British. Because the land was so desolate (God said that no one would be able to grow on it until the Jewish people returned, which is exactly what happened) nobody had tried to make a nation of it since the Jews ruled it 2000 years before. 

     

Figuring the Jewish people for the bigger claim, the British assigned the whole area to be Jewish Palestine. Word got out, and Jews from all over the world began to return to their homeland and another Bible prophecy was fulfilled. And wouldn’t you know it—things began to grow again, the area thrived. That’s when local Arabs finally took an interest. They wanted the newly flourishing land for themselves and began pouring into Jewish Palestine in droves. Did the Jews throw them out? No, they welcomed them.

     

Then, under pressure from neighboring Arab countries, the British divided the area again with seventy-five percent to be deemed Arab Palestine, leaving only twenty-five percent now to the Jews. This was yet another strange decision involving the fate of the region. 

     

But the Jews didn’t complain. They accepted this unreasonable proposal, even allowing the Arabs and Muslims living in their twenty-five percent to remain as friends and neighbors. And many did.

     

Still, none of this created the mythical country of Palestine. The Arabs took their seventy-five percent and most of that land became the country of Jordan. 

     

But the Arabs and Muslims weren’t satisfied. I guess they figured there must be something great over there in that twenty-five percent if they accepted the offer without a fight. Anyway, sensing weakness and opportunity, they attacked, massacring Jews on both sides of the dividing lines. 

     

After lying down throughout the Holocaust, the Jewish people had had enough. They fought back with a vengeance, driving off the hostile Arabs and the pro-Arab Brits. 

     

Finally, the British also had enough, giving the matter to the U.N., who then made another incredible, satanically-influenced decision. They now decided to divide up the Jews’ remaining twenty-five percent, handing another twelve percent of Jewish Palestine over to the Arabs who already had seventy-five percent of the area.

     

Once again, the Jews accepted the compromise. But finally, in 1948, they declared their own Jewish State. Immediately, seven neighboring Arab armies attacked. Warned of the attack on Israel and the intended annihilation of its Jewish citizens, those Arabs, living peacefully in Israel, fled town in a hurry without bothering to pack. They figured they’d be moving back shortly after the slaughter, and to claim their Jewish friends’ and neighbors’ property as well.

 

Lo and behold, the expected annihilation didn’t happen. The little nation was surrounded, outgunned and outmanned, yet the Arabs were soundly defeated. God had promised that once the Jews returned and established their own nation again, they would never be forced to leave it again. And so far, this remains true. 

 

What happened to all the disappointed Arabs who had left to wait out Israel’s predicted defeat during the first attack? They hung around the area that would later become Palestine, complaining about how they were forced out of their homes by the Jews. Why? Because their Arab brothers wanted nothing to do with them. Instead of inviting them in to settle or offering them a little bit of land from their massive countries for their own nation, the neighboring Arab states thought it better to use them as pawns, portraying them as victims robbed of their land by the evil Jews, and the Middle East Crisis was born.