THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Thursday, July 14, 2005


Dear Friends,

President Bush has said on many occasions, even after 9/11, that Christians, Jews and Muslims pray to the same deity.  Most decidedly we do not!  Jews and Christians believe in the Tanach (The Holy Bible) and the G-d of Israel .  The Moslems believe in the moon god, the god of the sword and of destruction.

The Bible tells us that Ishmael is the forefather of the Ishmaelites, and later the peoples of the deserts, the Arabs and the Muslims.  As it says in Genesis,
                ?And he shall be a wild-ass of a man:
                his hand against everyone, and everyone?s hand against him;
                and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren?
                                                (Genesis 16:12)

This Biblical prophecy has certainly come true.  The hand of Islam is against every man?s hand.  Fanatic Islam now is the enemy of the whole world!

President Bush has declared that terrorism must be fought wherever it is found.  Unfortunately, the one place which he excludes from his game plan is the very cradle of Judeo-Christian civilization, the Holy Land .  He has shown sympathy for the Arab desire for yet another Arab country, which is to be carved out of what the G-d of Israel gave to the Jewish People as an everlasting inheritance.

Terror attacks against the Jews in Israel are therefore ignored and even condoned.  After all, this imaginary people, ?the Palestinians?, deserve a homeland, don't they?  What do terrorists learn from this?  That terrorism pays!  The inevitable result: increased terrorism world-wide.

Last Thursday, July 7, 2005, the Islamic terrorists attacked London ?s transportation system, the tubes (underground train system) and a double-decker bus.  There are 52 dead (so far) and 700 injured.  This happened even though Tony Blair has always been very supportive of the Arabs.  He has singled out the status of the Palestinians as the most important problem in the world today.  His idea of solving this problem has been to pressure Israel to make more and more possessions for peace.

When I heard about the terrible London tragedy, I could not help but remember what Prime Minister Blair?s wife, Cherie Blair, said in June of 2002, just hours after a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in which 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded:  ?As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up, you are never going to make progress,? said Mrs. Blair, as she hugged Queen Rania of Jordan at the launch of a ?500,000 ($730,000) Charity Appeal for Medical Aid for Palestinians.

The Muslims certainly do not seem very grateful for the support continually expressed by Prime Minister Blair and his wife.

The people of Spain were attacked by radical Muslims on March 11, 2004, in the Madrid commuter train bombing.  191 dead and 1,460 wounded.  The Madrid bombings resulted in the pullout of Spanish troops from Iraq .

The people of the United States suffered the atrocities of September 11, 2001, with 2,986 dead.  Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were Saudi citizens.  This did not prevent President George W. Bush from promoting the Saudi sponsored Road Map, which divides the Holy Land .  It also does not prevent the President from walking hand-in-hand with Saudi ruler Prince Abdulla on the grounds of his Texas ranch, when they discuss important state affairs.

Appeasement of the Arabs has not helped the West:  Terrorism feeds on appeasement.  It is time for Western governments to recognize that condemnation is not enough.  It does not make sense to discriminate between acts of terror in Israel and elsewhere.  Such discrimination will inevitably lead to proliferation of terror.

In truth, the chickens have come home to roost!

With Blessings and Love for Israel ,

Ruth Matar

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