Posted on Thursday 22 November 2007
My American readers
Most of you will not see this before the weekend is out, so you may well miss it altogether. Yet I feel to write it now; to get it down.
When you wake up today, starting seven hours or so after we do here in Israel, you will celebrate Thanksgiving, marking 386 years after that first special gathering to thank and praise the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for taking care of the pilgrims He had planted in the “new promised land.”
It is a day when you will express your appreciation “for the many signal favors of Almighty God” bestowed upon your country.
As a nation, you do have much to give thanks for. You have been blessed with an enormous, breathtakingly beautiful and extremely prosperous land.
There is ample room for you and your 300 million fellow citizens to live in, share and benefit from. The US is the wealthiest, most powerful and most influential country on the planet. For nearly one hundred years you have been the world’s uncontested “Number One Superpower.”
Thanksgiving will kick off the four-day long weekend that marks the two heaviest annual travel days in the United States as families, often from diverse places all across the country, make a special effort to come together in one place.
And as the majority of you do every year, you will carve up your turkeys, tuck into sumptuous feasts, and take turns talking about things you are thankful for and experiences during the past year which have left you feeling grateful. Untold numbers of you will be filled anew with gratitude that you are Americans.
I want to wish you, with all my heart, a Happy Thanksgiving indeed.
But I wonder how many of you, as you sit down to enjoy your national holiday, will be aware of the fact that a number of your countrymen will be otherwise occupied over this weekend? State Department and other administration officials will be burning the candle at both ends trying to get things lined up for the big event that is to be convened the day after you all return to work.
While you are thanking God for your land and His bountiful provision in it, your elected leaders will be brainstorming for the most effective way to take another nation’s land away from them.
And as you while away your weekend, relaxing, visiting, having fun, government officials and other leaders from as many as 40 countries will be boarding the planes that will bring them to your shores in time for Tuesday, when they will come together to determine how best to commit this crime - this massive historic injustice.
That’s right. The International Conference for the Creation of Palestine on Israel’s biblical land is set to convene in Annapolis, Maryland, on November 27 - this coming Tuesday.
And what a day to choose.
On the Jewish calendar, November 27, 2007 is 17 Kislev, 5768. It was on 17 Kislev 5708 in Jerusalem (evening time) - exactly 60 years ago - that the United Nations voted to split the Land of Israel in two, and out of it carve a Jewish and an Arab state.
Back then the decision was greeted with joy. for even though it deprived the Jews of a large part of the land promised them for a homeland, it did provide the foothold from which their ongoing restoration could unfold. A majority of the nations - perhaps moved with at least some compassion following the Holocaust - voted in favor. And on the strength of that vote David Ben Gurion six months later read out Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
What will happen on Tuesday though, is that the majority of the nations represented at Annapolis - all of them in fact - will give a massive push to the relentless effort to try and turn back the clock and enforce to the realization of the partition decision.
And the US will be leading the charge - a charge against the will and purpose of the same God who established your country, and who is working to re-establish His country for His people - Israel.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I am praying for you, America.
For I fear for you.
http://www.stangoodenough.com/?p=87
too true Stan
...the 9/11 perpetrators are alive and well in my opinion to destroy nations and feed their power baseY
