Israel My Glory - July/August 2011

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (right) talks with PA President Mahmoud Abbas (left) during their meeting in Cairo on May 4 (Wissam Nassar/Corbis).

Adifferent atmosphere has emerged in Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak’s departure. The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Iran are no longer viewed with disdain; and Hamas has an office in Cairo. In fact, Cairo recently hosted secret talks between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA’s) Fatah, two long-standing rivals that now claim they have created a unity government.

Fatah is headed by Mahmoud Abbas
and considered by Israel and the
West to be a legitimate peace partner.
Hamas, on the other hand, is a ruth-
less terrorist organization that refuses
to recognize Israel’s existence and
states in its charter, “Israel will exist
and will continue to exist until Islam
will obliterate it, just as it obliterated
others before it. . . . There is no solu-
tion for the Palestinian question
except through Jihad.”
Abbas’s willingness to team up
with Hamas shows how weak he is
and what measures he will take to stay
in power. The alliance bodes nothing
good for Israel.

“A Hamas-Fatah PA state would allow the Hamas terrorist organization, whose stated aim is the destruction of Israel, to deploy Iranian and Syrian-supplied Katyusha missiles near all Israel urban centers,” the news service stated.

Arutz- 7 said the AFSI map points
out that 70 percent of Israel’s popu-
lation and 80 percent of its industrial
base are located in the coastal region
that includes Netanya and metropoli-
tan Tel Aviv. Furthermore, “Jerusalem
would be within easy range of Jericho,
where the PA army is trained on a
United States-funded base by American
military officers. Be’er Sheva already
has been attacked by Grad Katyusha
missiles from Gaza, as have been Haifa
and the Galilee.”
David Horovitz, editor-in-chief of The
Jerusalem Post, wants to know: “Where is
the outrage? I waited for the global con-
demnation for the Palestinian Authority
and its president for choosing to tie their
fate to an organization ideologically bent
on wiping out the Jewish state.” The
answer to Horovitz’s question is that
there was no outrage, only silence.

So far, the Obama administration
“has only stated that it is ‘studying’
the new agreement,” Arutz- 7 said,
while, in typical fashion, “former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter stated he
thinks it is a great idea.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu reacted to the news from
Cairo by telling the PA it “must choose
peace with Hamas or with Israel; not
both.” He knows that an alliance between
the PA and Hamas is certain to crush any
vestiges of hope for a peace agreement.

When King Solomon was faced with the awesome task of ruling Israel, he asked the Lord for wisdom. In the reality of today’s Middle East, we hope that Israel’s leaders will take a page from Solomon’s book and ask God to grant them His guidance and wisdom so that they are able to protect the tiny Jewish nation.