ISRAEL UPDATEJune 3, 2001 - On October 21, 1967, a large group of people marched on our nation's capital. Their goal was to levitate the Pentagon off the ground and with positive thought power and desire bring and end to the war in Vietnam.
This group through a combination of new age and metaphysics, believed they could change the spirit of war into one of peace, yet the Pentagon did not come off the ground and the fighting and dying continued in Southeast Asia for another six more years.
Ironic that this group was appalled at the savage brutality that mankind can inflict, not just on fighting men, but the innocent women and children caught up in the bloodbath against their own will.
When Vietnam and the United States signed their peace treaty in January 1973 these "good guys" rejoiced in their victory, feeling they had stopped the carnage.
How strange and hypocritical to know that many of these same protestors rejoiced at the victory of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision, legalizing abortion barely a year later.
America has not only lost a generation because of the war in Vietnam, but there is no telling how many generations have been destroyed because of Roe vs. Wade.
It wasn't the civilian populace of women and children in the villages and cities of Vietnam, but the unborn lost in the hospitals and abortion clinics of America. We have exchanged one atrocity for another. So when we pause to remember those who gave their lives willingly to defend our country let us not forget the unborn lost to abortion, sacrificed on the altar of excess, to the god of personal choice.
June 3, 2001 - Thirty-four years ago today, the threat of war was hanging over the nation of Israel like a swollen balloon ready to burst.
Egyptian commanders were staged in Jordan poised to attack and Hussein tanks and artillery were all pointed in Israel's direction.
The mobilization of Egyptian troops over 100,000 strong had been set on Israel's western border for a month, causing the Jewish reserve military to be mobilized thus paralyzing the economy, not to mention daily marches in Cairo's streets.
Syrians in the north were still shelling civilian farms and settlements for 18 years and now had her own army mobilized.
The surrounding Arab nations lent their financial support, as well as men and materials to drive the Jews into the Sea. The U.N. peacekeeping forces had been driven out, as Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran.
G-d miraculously intervened and Israel prevailed, but not without much loss of life and limb. Israel gained much territory, helping protect her from her enemies.
Today much of the land taken in 1967 has been given back, the Arab nations are rallying and the Palestinian occupation now places thousands of well-armed and trained troops in the heart of Israel.
Israel is suffering from a worldwide boycott and her economy has been drained due to the lack of tourism and world opinion is against her, rather than supporting her as in 1967. The threat of war hangs over her like a swollen balloon ready to burst as history repeats itself.
To be continued…