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PALESTINIANS ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR ON 40th
ANNIVERSARY
OF 1967 SIX-DAY WAR
This
week
is the 40th Anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War that began
June 5, 1967. Let’s take the pulse of the region to see if the
Palestinians are better or worse off now that Israel has left the
region up to themselves to govern. Humm…Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that his people are on the verge of civil war.
How can that be? Didn’t Israel give the Palestinians what they asked for? To leave them alone and let them run things their way?
Yes, and that’s precisely the problem. Both the Fatah and Hamas organizations are loaded to the gills with terrorists, in a power struggle to see who can rule an often unruly people. Terrorists trying to lead a nation? It generally doesn’t work. It’s like two rival street gangs trying to govern the U.S.
Discussing this dilemma is former Brigadier General and Army Chaplain Rev. James Hutchens, who is available to be your Talk Show guest.
During your interview, Rev. Hutchens shares with your audience key reasons why the Palestinians will likely never have their own nation.
Rev. Hutchens applauds Israel for arresting known terrorist leaders and suggests that the tiny nation state should once and for all give up the notion of giving land for “peace” since it is clear that neither Hamas nor Fatah have any sincere interest in any form of lasting peace for Israel.
Hutchens adds that it is ludicrous for Israel to give away any more land since they need the best defense they can muster, if other Middle Eastern nations join Iran in an attack against their small nation. Israel is about the size of New Jersey, but being pressured by to downsize to the land mass of Rhode Island.
Rev. Hutchens is calling upon both Israel and the Bush Administration with its US Security Coordinator in the Israeli-Palestinian situation, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, to stop propping up Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Presidential Guard.
Said Hutchens, “Even if Fatah or the Presidential Guard is successful in overcoming Hamas, which is unlikely, can the heir to Yasser Arafat be trusted to make peace with Israel? Not likely!”
SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:
1) How is it possible that Palestinians are on the verge of a civil war? I thought they just got what they wanted: Israel gone so they could run things the way they want to.. What happened?
2) Israel just arrested 33 key Palestinian leaders, including 3 mayors, in the autonomous Palestinian region. How can they possibly justify this?
3) Can the proposed “land for peace” solution ever work? If not, why not?
4) Should the Bible influence our foreign policy?
5) What is a Christian Zionist?
6) How many Christian Zionists are there?
7) What is the alternative to the “Road Map to Peace?”
8) Is there any moderate leader capable of administrating the Palestinian Authority?
9) How can our listeners get more information on you and this subject? www.tjci.org
10) Is there anything I left out that you'd like to share?
ABOUT REV. HUTCHENS, Ph.D
Rev. James M. Hutchens, Ph.D., a retired US Army Chaplain with the rank of Brigadier General, is President of The JerUSElem Connection, International and editor of the foremost Christian Zionist magazine in America, The JerUSAlem Connection.
…..Dr. James M. Hutchens is a Christian Zionist on a mission for Israel – a mission to make God’s purposes for Israel and the Jewish people an unavoidable issue. He is President and Chairman of the Board of The JerUSAlem Connection, International and Editor of the magazine “The JerUSAlem Connection.” Dr. Hutchens also serves as the Washington DC Regional Director of Christians United for Israel. He is on the forward edge in the battle area of informing, educating and activating America’s Christian community on issues related to Israel from a Biblical perspective.
From his military experience, Dr. Hutchens is well acquainted with the concept of “Mission.” He came to faith in Christ as an enlisted paratrooper under the ministry of his unit chaplain. After college and seminary, he returned to the Army as a chaplain. Dr. Hutchens was decorated for personal bravery in Viet Nam, including the Purple Heart, as the first chaplain wounded in Viet Nam. He served with the famous 173rd Airborne Brigade, and later with the celebrated “Green Berets.” Dr. Hutchens retired from active duty in 1994 with the rank of Brigadier General. His personal account of service in Viet Nam, “Beyond Combat,” tells of his experience as a combat chaplain in Viet Nam.
Dr. Hutchens was ordained to the ministry in 1962 and has served, concurrent with his chaplain duties, as a church planter and senior pastor for over 24 years. His wife, Patty, is an exhibiting artist and professor at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Northern Virginia Community College system. The Hutchens have three married children and twelve grand children. The Hutchens tell their fascinating story of a life-long love for Israel in their book “Guilty: Keeping God’s Covenant of Love with Israel.” The “General” now brings his military leadership skills and pastoral devotion to duty to accomplish the mission of The Jerusalem Connection International.(TJCI)
TJCI is an advocate of Christian Zionism. We are one with Christians world-wide who stand in agreement with what God’s Word says about Israel. As Christian Zionists, we support the modern State of Israel as the partial fulfillment of God’s covenant promise to provide homeland of the Jewish people. Through its “Operation Aliyah,” TJCI has helped bring over 80,000 Jews out of the former Soviet Union back to Israel. While still involved with Aliyah efforts in the FSU, we believe God’s future focus will be on the 6.2 million Jews in the Americas. TJCI’s Elisha Fund brings food, shelter and medicine to countless impoverished Israelis – its Operation Life for Israel provides aid and comfort to victims of terror and supports sanctity of human life endeavors throughout Israel. Taking bombed out Bus # 19 around the USA served to confront anti-Semitism of Islamic terrorism.
Rather than “replacing” or “superseding” Israel and the Jews, Dr. Hutchens sees Christians as having been “engrafted” into the family of God and thus joint-heirs of the covenant promises of God. He believes TJCI is called to restore an appreciation of the Hebrew roots of Christianity. He seeks to encourage all believers to wait with expectation “for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.” These projects and purposes are carried out with an attitude of extending mercy because of the mercy we have received in Christ. [Romans 11:30-31].
The JerUSAlem Connection. Int’l is bold to believe we follow in the distinguished tradition of the “men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.” We believe a Christian’s perspective on what God is doing in Israel is a vital key to seeing the big picture of God’s plan and how he is operating in the world today. With this perspective, Christians have a sense of urgency to be used by God as never before. TJCI encourages you to be a part of living out that sense of urgency as a result of having a Biblical perspective on Israel.
Under Dr. Hutchens’ leadership, The JerUSAlem Connection’ In’l stays current on all the issues regarding the Middle East and Israel on a daily basis and keeps an ongoing update through “The JerUSAlem Connection” magazine. The “General’s” passion is to share the mission and vision of this ministry which has been raised up “for such a time as this.”
…..For more information and free subscription to Dr. Hutchens’ E-Newsletter, visit: www.TJCI.org
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE MAY BE HELPFUL IN SHOW PREP:
The Associated Press
June 5, 2007 Tuesday 11:25 AM GMT
Abbas warns Palestinians on verge of civil war; infighting worse than occupation
BYLINE: By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer
RAMALLAH West Bank
Marking 40 years of Israeli occupation, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Tuesday that his people are on the verge of civil war. He said the infighting is perhaps worse than living under Israeli military rule.
Israel's capture of the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast War was a "black day" for the Palestinians, who paid a heavy price for defeat, Abbas said in a televised speech marking the start of the Six-Day War on June 5, 1967.
Abbas focused on the bloody factional fighting between his Fatah movement and the Islamic militant Hamas. The two parties have been governing in an uneasy coalition since March, but another round of gun battles erupted in May, killing dozens of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Regarding our internal situation, what concerns us all is the chaos, and more specifically, being on the verge of civil war," Abbas said.
He said he has spent hundreds of negotiating hours trying to halt the bloodshed, "realizing that what is equal to the danger of occupation, or even more, is the danger of infighting."
Meanwhile, about 200 Israeli demonstrators gathered Tuesday in Hebron to mark the 40th anniversary of the war's outbreak, urging the government to remove all Jewish settlers from the biblical city.
Demonstrators faced off against 30 counter-protesters nearby, who carried signs calling them "traitors." Local Palestinians peered out from the windows at the protesters, while dozens of soldiers including troops on a nearby rooftop stood guard.
"I'm here to protest the occupation in one of the most violent places in the territories. I want my name down as one of the people who are opposed," said Doron Narkiss, 52, a teacher from Tel Aviv.
David Wilder, a spokesman for the Hebron settlers, called the protest "incitement."
"How can Jews support those trying to kill us?" he said.
Israeli troops and settlers pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, but the Israeli military still keeps a tight grip on Palestinian movement there, controlling cross-border movement of goods, limiting passage to Israel to a trickle of approved laborers and traders and shadowing every movement of fisherman along Gaza's Mediterranean coast.
In the West Bank, hundreds of Israeli roadblocks prevent Palestinians from moving freely, their economy is stifled and their lives are dominated by the ever-present Israeli soldier, bureaucrat or roadblock.
Now Israel is building a network of walls, trenches and barbed-wire fences around the West Bank, jutting into the territory in several places. Going up ostensibly to stop Palestinian militants launching raids into Israel, the barrier puts some 8.5 percent of Palestinian land on the "Israeli" side.
The Palestinians want the West Bank, Gaza and largely Arab east Jerusalem for their future state.
After Israel routed Egypt and Syria and pushed the Jordanian military out of east Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israelis and Palestinians were in contrasting states of shock.
Dovish former Cabinet minister Shulamit Aloni said Israel missed the chance to make peace in those heady days, again after its victory in the 1973 Mideast War, and is still failing today.
"We reached such a state of euphoria and such excitement that we were blinded, because with such a success we could have brought peace," she told Israel Radio. "Today we can make peace and we aren't trying."
In 1967, Israelis by the tens of thousands streamed to Jerusalem to see and touch the holiest site in Judaism, the Western Wall, off limits to them and under Jordanian control since 1949. Others traveled to biblical sites in the West Bank. The ecstasy was so great that many talked of the coming of the Messiah.
At the same time, terrified Palestinians cowered in their houses, many expecting pain and death at the hands of the Israeli military, which had just vanquished the best of the Arab war machine in less than a week.
At first, Israelis did not accept that there was such a thing as a Palestinian people. Then they believed that if they treated the Palestinians well enough, they would drop the political ambitions of exiled leaders like Arafat.
In June 1987, the Israeli Civil Administration, an arm of the military, put out a full-color booklet trumpeting Israel's accomplishments during its two decades in control of the West Bank and Gaza, giving the Palestinian people roads, schools, hospitals and prosperity.
But Palestinians chafed under the occupation, and just five months later the situation blew up. Gaza, then the West Bank, erupted in riots. Israeli forces tried to put them down, killing demonstrators throwing rocks and firebombs.
At the center of the uprising were young Palestinians who grew up under Israeli occupation and demanded its end. The violence forced Israel into negotiations with Arafat's PLO, in secret at first and then publicly, leading to that handshake on the White House lawn.
Arafat made a triumphant return to Gaza in 1994, and both sides felt peace was on the way. They were wrong.
Agreements were negotiated but not fully implemented. Israel pulled out of West Bank cities and refugee camps, but kept a tight hold on Palestinian life. Palestinians smuggled large quantities of weapons into their areas, preparing for more clashes.
When violence erupted again in September 2000, it seemed inevitable.
The last seven years have seen more than 100 Palestinian suicide bombing attacks against Israelis and intense Israeli military incursions in the West Bank and Gaza.
Even Israel's unilateral pullout from Gaza in 2005 didn't stem the chaos, with the impoverished coastal strip deteriorating into anarchic world of gang wars and attacks on Israel that invite retaliation.
On Sunday, Israeli tanks and infantry pushed a short distance into Gaza, detaining several Palestinians in their fight against gunmen.
Years of polls show both sides want a state living in peace next to the other state, but their leaders have proved unable to overcome the historic stumbling blocks, especially control over Jerusalem and a solution for Palestinian refugees from the 1948-49 war that followed Israel's creation.
© 2007 The Associated Press
“STOP PROPPING UP ABBAS”
By Rev. James Hutchens
Israel and the Bush Administration with its US Security Coordinator in the Israeli-Palestinian situation, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, should stop propping up Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Presidential Guard.
Even if Fatah or the Presidential Guard is successful in overcoming Hamas, which is unlikely, can the heir to Yasser Arafat be trusted to make peace with Israel? Not likely!
Cal Thomas has it right on this one (see article below) when he says new leadership is needed and Christian Zionists are in total agreement.
How can a Christian President continue to impose an incremental suicide on Israel by arming her enemies and demanding the implementation of his failed Road Map to Peace, in defiance of God’s covenant promises to Israel for a national homeland?
The Bush administration has rigorously condemned Iran for its defiance of the world regarding its nuclear ambitions, for its state sponsored terrorism in Iraq and its blatant training, equipping and arming of Hezbollah and Hamas. Yet it is doing the same thing when it sends millions to arm the Abbas’ Presidential Guard.
Stop Propping up Abbas now!
TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, May 24, 2007
Israel's Next War
By Cal Thomas
There are consequences to losing a war, or being perceived not to have won. Israel's ability to win wars has been based on its capacity to pound its many enemies into submission whenever they have dared attack. Depending on how you count them, Israel has been the target of at least four wars started by one or more of her neighbors, as well as numerous terrorist attacks. It had won all of them until 2006.
Last summer, in response to repeated guerrilla assaults by Hezbollah -- or Party of God -- a militant Lebanese Shia political party, Israel invaded Lebanon, but failed to drive out the terrorist organization, or free two captured Israel soldiers. A committee, appointed to study why Israeli forces were not victorious, blamed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hezbollah quickly regrouped and has restocked its armaments. Israel's new ambassador to the United States, Sallai Meridor, tells me there could be another war by this summer, probably launched from terrorist positions in Gaza, Lebanon and possibly Syria, which has not directly attacked Israel since it was bloodied in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Meridor says that while Hezbollah is bad, Hamas, the largest and most influential Palestinian militant group, which is entrenched in Gaza, is even worse. That's because Hamas, he says, has more armed terrorists and is stockpiling missiles and explosives. It is also supported by Iran. Hezbollah, which Israel estimates had thousands of short-range missiles when its positions in Lebanon were attacked last summer, is supported by Iran, as well. All share the same objective: the eradication of Israel.
The Winograd Committee report on last summer's war is an indictment of Israel's top leadership, including the prime minister, the minister of defense, Amir Peretz, who has announced he's leaving by the end of the month, and the chief of staff, who also submitted his resignation. "All three made a decisive personal contribution to these decisions and the way in which they were made, (but) there are many others who share responsibility for the mistakes we found in these decisions..." the report says. After specifying the many reasons the government failed to achieve victory, the committee concluded, "All of these add up to a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence."
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called upon Olmert to resign. He has refused and in a mark of his weakness, Olmert declined to fire Livni, saying they could continue to work together. One is left to wonder how.
Polls in Israel show Olmert's approval numbers are worse than those of President Bush.. More than 60 percent of Israelis want Olmert to resign. He survived three "no confidence" votes in the Knesset last week. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is three times as popular as any potential rival.
Last week, Netanyahu delivered a powerful speech to Israel's Parliament in which he said, "The state of Israel needs better leadership. ... Peace can never be achieved by unilateral steps. ... The time for a reassessment of our policy has come. We should look at the situation without any illusion and restore to the state of Israel its might, deterrent power and above all our self-respect."
When Israelis feel threatened they have always looked to the right and this time they appear eager to again turn rightward. The London Sunday Times quoted a Tel Aviv lawyer: "We're fed up with the Arabs and the chances of reaching peace with them. We gave them too many chances. They don't want us here, period. That's why I think Netanyahu and his political approach is the right one."
If there is to be another war and so soon, Israelis are asking themselves who they would rather have leading their nation: a wishful thinker like Ehud Olmert, who, according to the government report on the Lebanon war, "made up his mind hastily, despite the fact that no detailed military plan was submitted to him and without asking for one," or Benjamin Netanyahu, who understands better than most that Israel won't get a second chance in an all-out war.
It's a good bet that Olmert's days are numbered and Netanyahu's return as prime minister is drawing near. It had better come quickly, because if Ambassador Meridor's worst-case scenario comes true, not only summer is just around the corner; the next war may be as well.
CalThomas@tribune.com
(C) 2007 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
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