By Tony Pearce
Tony Pearce (from the UK and director of Light for the Last Days) is the author of The Messiah Factor (published by LT), countless articles and reports, and several Lighthouse Trails booklets. His insights into Israel and other global issues have played a vital role in warning and equipping the saints.
“The US, Israel, Gaza and the Two-State Solution”
Six weeks after the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, the Biden administration is still sticking to a policy of support for Israel’s war to eliminate the terrorist threat in the Gaza Strip. However they are under pressure from the left wing of the Democrat Party to impose a ceasefire on the conflict.
To appease the left, President Biden is now saying that the aftermath of the fighting must result in the creation of a “real” Palestinian state alongside Israel. The administration’s favourite columnist, The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, has been urging Biden to lay down the law to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and insist that the price of continued U.S. support is the Jewish state’s acquiescence to an American diktat for a post-Gaza war two-state solution.
But both Biden and his advisors aren’t just wrong about the future of Gaza or two states. They are completely out of touch with reality in a way that will make it easy for even a politically weak Netanyahu or any conceivable successor to say “no” to advice that is not so much ill-conceived as insane. . . .
For 16 years, Israel tried to live with the Hamas government in Gaza, where it ruled what was for all intents and purposes an independent Palestinian state in all but name. The missile fire that made life hell for southern Israel, and eventually for much of the rest of the country whenever Hamas and its Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist rivals chose to start a round of fighting, proved a problem Jerusalem could never solve. Nor could it do anything about the ability of Iran to prop up its Gaza proxy. Click here to continue reading this article and an adjoining one called “Demonstrations in the West.”
Thank you so much for your work. I look forward to every issue.
Well said Paul. Thank you for sharing.
The Israeli people and government should not trust Biden. They can certainly count on the support of many people in the U.S. , Canada, Britain etc.. But the leaders of our nations are not following God, nor do most of them, or even ALL of them, have any respect or fear, or acknowledgement of God and His will. Joe Biden married his current wife at the UN chapel if I remember right. These leaders cannot “serve” the UN and its evil agenda. And then be trusted to stand with Israel when it really counts. There is no way these global leaders have any appreciation of Israel as part of God’s plan for the end times. While they may help Israel in the short term they cannot be trusted in the long run. Biden is pushing now for a cease fire that is detrimental to Israel’s security. The support of the US and other countries is only happening by the grace of God. They could easily do an about face the next moment and be Israel’s enemies. Let’s pray that the Jewish people, the nation of Israel itself will have the veil lifted soon. They need to understand that Jesus Christ is the only one who has their best interest at heart. They need to turn from putting their faith in “the chariots of Egypt” (Isaiah 31:1) and instead put their full faith in God alone and turn to Him in repentance and find their true Messiah. Jesus Christ is the ONLY one who will stand and defend the Jews and who will remember and keep His promises to them.