Suggestion for Father's Day Gift

Silver Rolls Royce

THE MOST AMAZING STORY I'VE HEARD IN 76 YEARS!!!

The last half of this message is from twin boys from Tennessee, 24-year-olds, who moved
to Israel 10 years ago. God spoke to them to begin planting vineyards on the
mountains of Samaria.  The results have been earth-shaking, making news around the
world, and even resulting in a visit by the IRS (from the White House).  This is one of the
most amazing and powerful testimonies I have ever heard in 76 years.
http://elshaddaiministries.podomatic.com/entry/2014-06-09T08_03_35-07_00

500 illegals RELEASED EACH WEEK

COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU:

HAPPY TIMES ARE HERE AGAIN! :)


IN ADDITION TO THE 30,000 MURDERERS AND RAPISTS ALREADY SET FREE . . .

NOW OBAMA IS RELEASING 500 ILLEGALS EACH WEEK.


I'LL BET YOU JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR THEM TO COME STREAMING INTO YOUR TOWN OR CITY.

DON'T WORRY . . . THE CRIME RATE WON'T GO UP!  LIKE THE "PEACEFUL MUSLIMS" . . . THESE FOLKS STREAMING IN ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN BORDER ARE
"PEACEFUL", TOO.  :)

DON'T BELIEVE ME?  READ THIS:  
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/04/BREAKING-Border-Patrol-Sector-To-Release-500-Illegal-Aliens-Per-Week-Into-US

LORD JESUS, HELP OUR NATION.  YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE NOW WHO CAN SAVE IT!

"THE MAN" IS TRYING TO DESTROY THE U.S. AND LEAVE AS MUCH DEVASTATION AS POSSIBLE BEFORE HE LEAVES OFFICE. 

BUT DON'T IMPEACH HIM OR YOU WILL BE BRANDED A RACIST.

THE LORD IS THE ONE WHO REVEALS HIS THOUGHTS TO MANKIND.

        “The Lord is the One who reveals His thoughts to mankind” (Amos 4:13).

Dear Partner,                                                       

Greetings in Jesus’ Name!

A call came “out of the blue” from an 83-year-old woman a few months ago.  I mentioned this in last month’s newsletter, but I want to give you an update on this story.

She has 35 women sewing dresses for the little girls in Haiti.  When she called me she asked if we could use the dresses for our ministry in Jeremie, Haiti.  Of course I said a resounding “YES”!  

So . . . within a few weeks she brought about 700 dresses to my home.

So there I was with all these dresses piled up in my living room.  At first I was a little overwhelmed, but then I was reminded by a friend that this was “God’s business” and not mine.  He told me, “Just talk to Jesus about it and see what happens.”

Believe it or not . . . within a few days all the dresses were on their way to Haiti.  Two different groups, (one from North Dakota and one from New York) actually came to my home and picked up all the dresses.  I found out from the manager of a clothing store that each dress was worth approximately $25.00.

So . . . out of the blue Jesus provided about $17,000.00 worth of brand new dresses for the little girls at our mission in Jeremie.  We can’t wait to see the pictures of the Haitian children wearing them!

Well . . . these are exciting times!  And God is doing amazing things.  There is so much to learn about Him, His Word, and the ways He works.  Someone said, “Find out what God is doing, and then try to stay out of His way.”

So often church folks attempt to do it backwards.  They get a “do-gooder idea” that is going to cost a lot of money.  Then, because they don’t have the money for the project, they do all kinds of things to raise the money for something God never told them to do in the first place.

The carnal man will not pray.  The carnal man cannot hear the voice of God.  And he knows nothing about flowing in the Holy Spirit of God.  And the carnal man does very little serious Bible study.  

So much in American Christianity is done without God being involved in it at all.

Our heart’s cry during these last days should be, “Here I am, Lord.  I’m available to you. Please let me hear your voice and I will obey.”

Martha Hoffman, the 83-year-old woman, prayed this way.  The result?  Seven hundred dresses will soon be arriving at our mission in Jeremie, Haiti!  God is awesome and He is just like his name, Jehovah Jireh, THE PROVIDER.

These are the days when we can LEARN, LEARN, and LEARN! 

It seems that the Holy Spirit is revealing things in these last days like never before.  I recently discovered that the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) in Hebrew had different names from what we have in English.

And this is thrilling!  Here are the Hebrew names and their meanings:

Beresheet: “In the beginning.”

Shemot: “These are the names.”

Vayikra: “The Lord called out”

Bamidbar: “In the wilderness”

Devarim: “These are the words”

Put it all together and here is what you have:  “In the beginning these are the names the Lord called out in the wilderness, and this is what He said!”

Another amazing bit of TRUTH:  
Nahshon is a man who is mentioned nine times in the Bible.  According to the Jewish Midrash (stories by Jewish Rabbis), this man, Nahshon, was the first man who walked into the Red Sea before it split. And, according to Jewish tradition, he was neck-deep before the waters parted!  Of course, it is just “tradition”, but he got his name in the Bible nine times for some reason!  And . . . he was appointed "Captain of the children of Judah" (Numbers 2:3) for some reason. Yes, he was a great an of faith.

One more:  Our vast galaxy is spinning at the incredible speed of 490,000 miles per hour.  But, even at this breakneck speed our galaxy still needs 200 million years to make one rotation!  And there are more than 200 billion galaxies similar to ours in the universe.

“He counts the stars and calls them all by name” (Psalm 147:4).  “Seek Him who makes the stars” (Amos 5:8).

My prayer for you this month is that as you seek this Mighty God of ours (The Star Maker) He will show you great and mighty things.  May He reward you for your gift to Full Life Crusade by giving you special blessings.  Thank you so much for your generosity and helping us take the gospel to the nations.

In His Service,

Wesley Smith

      

Full Life Crusade, P.O. Box 398, Winona  Lake, IN 46590   Telephone: 574.267.7546

Eighty nations are now reading our website and blog: FLC7.com

A VIDEO ABOUT JERUSALEM

If you like to learn, learn, learn . . . then here is a video to watch.

WOW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R2h3lLUXFI

Defensible Borders for Israel:

http://jcpa.org/book/israels-critical-security-requirements-for-defensible-borders/

THERE'S NO REASON TO STARVE TO DEATH

I  have listened to 200 of Mark's teachings.  Wow!

Just today I listened to this one.  And is Mark fired up.

He just returned from leading more than 100 people to Israel.

So I guess this is why he has such a fresh anointing.

He's always good . . . but in this one he still has the dew of Israel on him.

Copy and paste:
http://elshaddaiministries.podomatic.com/entry/2014-05-27T07_46_40-07_00


And . . . here's a little shot of my latest grand baby: Riley Jane



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GET A GOVERNMENT JOB

Don't think you can qualify for a government job?

Think again.

You do remember Mohammed Atta, don't you?

He's the guy who masterminded the 9/11 murder of about 3,000 Americans.

You do remember, don't you, that the Twin Towers in New York City were destroyed?

Oh, yes.  That guy!

Six months after the 9/11 event, one of the brilliant government employees approved Atta's visa . . .

and mailed it to the small Florida airport where Atta had been learning how to fly.

I guess the government employee forgot to mail it to the hole in the ground.

Small mistake!

But, don't worry, the government employee won't be fired, he'll just be moved sideways to another location.

One nice thing about having a government job . . . you can never be fired, no matter how stupid you are, even for overlooking such a minor thing as approving a visa for a deceased terrorist.  :)

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Oh, yes, Mark Steyn is the one who researched this.
Strange days:

WHAT IS THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?

No one can argue the fact that organized religion in modern America lacks power!

When I was a 26-year old High School teacher I was baptized with the Holy Spirit. It was back in the 1960's. I did not even know what had happened to me, because back then the United States was just entering a mighty move of God.

Thousands of young people like myself were being called by God to take the wonderful good news about Jesus to the nations.

After some very serious study of the Bible I discovered that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is what made the early church so powerful . . . and so much unlike the modern church today.

For the next 50 years God took me to 45 nations of the world: 60 trips to China, 45 trips to Haiti, 35 trips to The Philippine Islands, 15 trips to Israel, etc., etc.  I found myself walking through jungles in Africa, Nepal, and Central America.

In total, the Lord's journeys took me out of the country 150 times, plus crisscrossing the United States countless times.

We never begged for money . . . and still don't.

And yet, somehow, the finances were always there for every travel need and every personal need as Primrose and I raised five daughters and sent them all to college.

Looking back it almost seems like a dream.

But it is a good dream . . . a wonderful dream!

You, too, can receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit!

Copy and paste each link below, listen, watch, and allow God to be God in your life.

Part One:
http://vimeopro.com/theawakeningwarsaw/the-awakening/video/29925300  

Part Two:
http://vimeopro.com/theawakeningwarsaw/the-awakening/video/30013873

Part Three:
http://vimeopro.com/theawakeningwarsaw/the-awakening/video/29929881

82 nations and 250,000 people are being reached by this blog and my website: FLC7.com

36,000 CRIMINALS TURNED LOOSE

THE MAN IS DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO DESTROY OUR NATION BEFORE HE LEAVES OFFICE!

720 MORE CRIMINALS PER STATE ALLOWED TO KILL, ROB, AND RAPE . . .
AGAIN!

WHO DOES THIS TO HIS OWN NATION?

AND IF A PRIVATE CITIZEN HAPPENS TO BLOW ONE OF THEM AWAY WHILE HIS WIFE IS BEING RAPED . . . LOOK OUT. THE COURTS WILL HOUND YOU TO DEATH FOR BEING A RACIST AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT YOU'LL END UP IN THE SLAMMER . . .
INSTEAD OF THE CRIMINAL.

HERE ARE THE FACTS:

The document reveals that the 36,007 convicted criminal aliens freed from ICE custody in many instances had multiple convictions. Among them, the 36,007 had nearly 88,000 convictions, including:

193 homicide convictions (including one willful killing of a public official with gun)

426 sexual assault convictions

303 kidnapping convictions

1,075 aggravated assault convictions

1,160 stolen vehicle convictions

9,187 dangerous drug convictions

16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions

303 flight escape convictions…

AND YOU STILL DON'T THINK IT IS TIME TO PRAY FOR OUR NATION?

IT'S GOING DOWN FAST, FOLKS.  IT IS GOING DOWN FAST!

Just keep walking and don't worry about a thing:

ANOTHER PEACEFUL MUSLIM GROUP

How would you like your child to be in the hands of this Nut-case?


Boko Haram (another "peaceful" Muslim group) has kidnapped almost 300 young girls from a school in Nigeria.

And can you imagine the outcry from the press world-wide if Christians or Jews were going around kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering children?

Oh . . . I forgot to mention, "Boko Haram means "Learning is Sinful".

But because it is the "peaceful Muslims" doing it - - - hardly a word.

But, of course, the "brave" tweeters are hash-tagging.  :)

Pass this around if you love Israel:
http://vimeo.com/15210104

THESE HAPPEN TO BE FACTS, BUT PARDON ME FOR MENTIONING THEM:

Do you remember?  Duh!!!! 

1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed...by a 

Muslim male. 

2. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, athletes were 

kidnapped and massacred... by Muslim males. 

3. In 1972, a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually 

diverted to an Arab country where a fuse was lit on 

final approach and it was blown up shortly after 

landing... by Muslim males. 

4. In 1973, a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome, with 

33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades... by Muslim males. 

5. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over... 

by Muslim males. 

6. During the 1980's a number of Americans were 

kidnapped in Lebanon... by Muslim males. 

7. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was 

blown up... by Muslim males. 

8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and 

thrown overboard in his wheelchair... by Muslim males. 

9. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was 

murdered... by Muslim males. 

10. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed ... 

by Muslim males. 

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the 

first time... by Muslim males. 

12. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 

were bombed... by Muslim males. 

13. On 9/11/01 , four airliners were hijacked; two wereused as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers 

and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US 

Pentagon, and the other was diverted and crashed by thepassengers. Thousands of people were killed... by 

Muslim males.

14. In 2002, the United States and Canada and others 

fought a war in Afghanistan... against Muslim males. 

15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and 

beheaded by---you guessed it--- by Muslim males. 
 
16. In 2012 ... US Consulate in Benghazi..... Muslim 

males. 

17. In 2013 .... Boston marathon bombers.... Muslim 

males. 

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify 

profiling, do you? These 17 incidents are merely 

coincidence. So, to ensure we Americans/Canadians 
never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on 

killing us, airport security screeners will no longer 

be allowed to profile certain people. 
Absolutely No Profiling! 

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old 

women,little kids, airline pilots with proper

identification,secret agents who are members 
of the President's security detail, 85-year old 

Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but.............. 
leave Muslim Males alone lest they be guilty of

profiling.

"Profiling", of course, is a much worse crime

these days than murdering people! 

If Jews or Christians had a pattern of 

behavior like this the press would be 

screaming about it.  But these

facts are NON-NEWS to the blind liberal 

press elite.

An amazing story that most people do not 

know about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cLj4akmncsA&feature=channel_video_title" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cLj4akmncsA&feature=channel_video_title" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" 

COMPARE YOUR SALARY TO "THEIRS"

WHAT!!!!!?????

Make sure to read all the way to the end.

OBSCENE SALARIES

THE WORK ETHIC WE INHERITED GROWING UP HAS FALLEN PREY TO THE 'WELFARE' SYSTEM

The Cato Institute released an updated 2013 study (original study in 1955) showing that welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia. Even worse, welfare pays more than $15 per hour in 13 states. According to the study, welfare benefits have increased faster than minimum wage. It’s now more profitable to sit at home than it is to earn an honest day’s pay.

Hawaii is the biggest offender, where welfare recipients earn $29.13 per hour, or a $60,590 yearly salary, all for doing nothing.

Here is the list of the states where the pre-tax equivalent “salary” that welfare recipients receive is higher than having a job:

1. Hawaii : $60,590

2. District of Columbia : $50,820

3. Massachusetts : $50,540

4. Connecticut : $44,370

5. New York : $43,700

6. New Jersey : $43,450

7. Rhode Island : $43,330

8. Vermont : $42,350

9. New Hampshire : $39,750

10. Maryland : $38,160

11. California : $37,160

12. Oregon : $34,300

13. Wyoming : $32,620

14. Nevada : $29,820

15. Minnesota : $29,350

16. Delaware : $29,220

17. Washington : $28,840

18. North Dakota : $28,830

19. Pennsylvania : $28,670

20. New Mexico : $27,900

21. Montana : $26,930

22. South Dakota : $26,610

23. Kansas : $26,490

24. Michigan : $26,430

25. Alaska : $26,400

26. Ohio : $26,200

27. North Carolina : $25,760

28. West Virginia : $24,900

29. Alabama : $23,310

30. Indiana : $22,900

31. Missouri : $22,800

32. Oklahoma : $22,480

33. Louisiana : $22,250

34. South Carolina : $21,910

As a point of reference the average Middle Class annual income today is $50,000, down from $54,000 at the beginning of the Great Recession. Hawaii, DC, and Massachusetts pay more in welfare than the average working folks earn there. Is it any wonder that they stay home rather than look for a job. Time for a drastic change. America is virtually bankrupt.

Are we Nuts or what? How do we un-do this type of stupidity on the part of Americans?

This is crazy!

Salary of retired US Presidents

$180,000 FOR LIFE

Salary of House/Senate....$174,000 FOR LIFE

This is stupid.

Salary of Speaker of the House ....$223,500

FOR LIFE!

This is really stupid.

Salary of Majority/Minority Leader $193,400

FOR LIFE!

Ditto last line.

Average Salary of a teacher .. $40,065

Average Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN

AFGHANISTAN .. $38,000

Think about this.

Nancy Pelosi will retire as a Congress Person

at $174,000 Dollars a year for LIFE.

She has retired as SPEAKER at $223,500

a year.

PLUS she will receive an additional $193,400 a

year as Minority Leader.

That's

$803,700

Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical

which is not available to us .... the taxpayers

She is just one of the hundreds of Senators

and Congress that float in and out every

year!

I think we found where the cuts should be made!

If you agree ...... pass it on.

And . . . you might like to know the six people Obama hired to "help guard" the chicken coop:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164009#.U2_RHnzjgcR

LIMITLESS GOD

When God is not limited by man's foolish doctrines and ideas . . . He is awesome!

Greetings in Jesus’ name!

Four years ago I almost died in Haiti. Our family 

and I had gone there to bring some relief to the 

suffering victims a few days after the huge 

earthquake that took the lives of 300,000 people.  The night 

before we were scheduled to return to the United States I was rushed to the over-crowded hospital where dozens and dozens of people were lying on the floor waiting for treatment.  I was placed on the floor, too, in a hallway.  With a fever of 105.7 I was in and out of consciousness.  Really . . . I barely knew what was happening.

Somehow . . . by the grace of God, the help of my 

precious daughter, volunteer American doctors, the U.S. military, and most of all the prayers of those who love me around the world, my life was spared.  I spent one night in the Haitian hospital.  The next day a military helicopter air-lifted me to  the USNS Comfort hospital ship anchored in the bay of Port-au-Prince.  I spent five days there . . . in and out of consciousness.  Then the U.S. Air Force flew me to Tampa, Florida.  After a total of five days in the Tampa hospital I had had enough.  I checked myself out of the hospital with the warning from the doctors that I could die at any moment.

They did not have to tell me that!  I felt weaker 

than I have ever felt in my entire life.  And after 

all of the tests, poking, blood draws, x-rays, etc., etc. the medical folks could not find out what was wrong with me, or what they could do to bring me back to health.

When I finally arrived at my home in Indiana I 

was so weak that I could barely walk.  But I knew that if I did not try . . . really try . . . my life would slowly come to an end.  And I wanted to go out with a “bang”, not a whimper.

So I started walking.

The first few weeks I was only able to walk the 

length of my small yard, and back to my house. But . . . little by little I got stronger.  I could feel my strength returning.  This gave me great hope.

But the emotional impact inside of me cannot possibly be put into words.  For almost all of my adult life I have traveled the world preaching the gospel:  sixty trips to China, forty-five trips to Haiti, thirty trips to the Philippines.  I also tramped through jungles in India, Nepal, and Africa.

For all of this to be shut down in a moment of time was overwhelming.  I felt so worthless!  I wanted to keep preaching the gospel and experiencing the mighty move of the Holy Spirit.  It was my life.  It was my love.  People often ask me what my “hobby” is.  Each time I have to answer, “I just want to teach the Bible to hungry people.”

But all this was over.  Yes, it made a huge 

emotional impact in my life.  But there were still two things that I could do.  I was able to pray and study the Bible!

One of my main prayers was, “God, please heal 

me.  Please give me my strength back.”

There was also a lot of introspection.  How could I have been a better person?  If God heals me will I use the years I have left to obey His voice?   Have my motives been pure?  How can I improve?

In my entire life I never spent so much time in 

God’s Word and in prayer.  As I look back, I 

know it was good for me, but it was not especially something I enjoyed.

God is so merciful!

I discovered in a new way that my family loves 

me.  Friends love me.  The body of Christ world-

wide loves me.  And these truths got down deep 

inside my emotions.  The outpouring of love from 

so many people caused me to cry, really cry, from 

deep within.  It was a time of wonderful inner cleansing that purged me to my deepest core.

And I discovered, in a new way, that God loves 

me in spite of all of my imperfections.  This is a great joy!

Months went by, and slowly, very slowly, my 

strength began to return.  Of course, I still do not 

feel like I did when I was 20 years-old and ran a 4 

minute 28 second mile.  But I am able to walk two 

miles each day and do a light work-out on a 

machine.  I call this my “prayer-walk”.

During this forty-minute walk God speaks 

wonderful things into my life. 

One of the things He showed me was that my life 

was not over, and that I still had the strength to teach God’s Word.  And . . . it was during this time that He opened up the most far-reaching ministry of my entire life . . . through the internet.

Today our website and writings on my blog are 

reaching 80 nations and more than 250,000 

people!  And my children and grandchildren are 

going places with the gospel of Jesus Christ where 

Primrose and I have never gone.  This brings me 

great, great pleasure.

Someone said, “When the people you have 

trained outrun you, then you have done a good 

job!”

By His grace I have lived to see this day.

So why am I writing a letter such as this?  If, for some reason you are down in the dumps.  Never give up.  Through consistent Bible study and prayer all things are possible.  I just met an 83-year-old woman who is accomplishing more now than ever in her life.  She has 35 women sewing beautiful dresses for the people in Haiti, and our teams are taking them there.

God is opening up great things in these last days!

Find out what He is doing, and then do it with 

Him, and . . . then try to stay out of his way!

Thank you so much for helping the outreaches of 

Full Life Crusade.  And may you flow in His 

exciting will for your life.

In His Service,

Wesley Smith

 Full Life Crusade, P.O. Box 398,  Winona Lake, IN 46590  Tel. 574.267.7546                                                                                                    

   FLC7.com

See Jeremie (our mission headquarters) way off to the left:

Do your "American problems" still seem big?
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LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!

Anyone with a brain knew that OHH (Obama, Hillary, and Holder) were lying about Benghazi!

And Carey's body language really gives him away. He consistently lies and it is easy to tell that he is under a great deal of stress.

But the real reason he is so uncomfortable is because he is attempting to sound credible and still please his "HANDLERS"!  Difficult job, Carey!

They could not pay me enough money to do what he does.  Talk about pressure!  (By the way he makes a mere $270,000 per year.)  :)

That's only about five grand a week!  Who would work for such a pittance?

Now OHH's pants are so on fire that even the suck-ups to the administration are ready to turn on the White House administration, not because they love America, or have any morals, but because they want to keep their big-paying jobs and all the perks that come with them.

The cat is out of the bag about Benghazi, but the much larger story is even more important.

Now the real questions are:
Who are the "HANDLERS".
Who decided to put Obama in the White House?
Who picked him?
Who decided that a homosexual needed to have a "wife and kids" in order to get elected and be acceptable to the American people?
Whose money paid to hide O's history?  He is the only president  . . . ever, whose past is a secret.
And who figured out that a black man would be perfect for the job because he could never be put out of office . . . Holder and Obama can always play the race card . . . and in America, that always works.
Any sin is acceptable today: child molestation, homosexuality, adultery, murder, lying.  The list goes on and on.
But accusing a black President of ANYTHING is the biggest sin of all.  It is racism!
 . . . even if the President consistently lies to the American people!
Folks . . . it is not about race . . . it is about the fact that he does not have character.  He is a sham . . . whether he is black, white, or blue is not the issue.
The person who finds out who Obama's handlers are, and makes it public, will not only become an instant millionaire, but he/she will go down in history as the best investigative reporter on the planet.  Obama did not "just emerge out of the blue" and become the President of the United States of America!
This was planned by a group of big money people for the express purpose of destroying our nation.
" . . . be sure your sins will find you out!"  Numbers 32:23
And the word in the street is that Mrs. O will divorce O as soon as his term ends.  What other couple takes separate vacations?

You Must Listen To This

http://elshaddaiministries.podomatic.com/entry/2008-12-14T10_52_00-08_00

TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST—
It’s hard not to admire Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s brazenness.
Two weeks ago, Abbas signed on to 15 international agreements that among other things require the PA to respect human rights and punish war criminals.
And this week, he signed a unity deal with two genocidal terror groups all of whose leaders are war criminals. Every leader of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two parties that signed the deal with the PLO, are war criminals. Under the Geneva Conventions, which Abbas signed onto just a couple of weeks ago, he is required to put them on trial, for their war crimes.
Here it is worth noting that under the Geneva Conventions, every single rocket launch from Gaza into Israeli territory is a separate war crime.
Abbas was only able to sign the Geneva Conventions on the one hand, and the unity deal with terrorist war criminals on the other, because he is utterly convinced that neither the US nor the European Union will hold him accountable for his actions. He is completely certain that neither the Americans nor the Europeans are serious about their professed commitments to upholding international law.
Abbas is sure that for both the Obama administration and the EU, maintaining support for the PLO far outweighs any concern they have for abiding by the law of nations. He believes this because he has watched them make excuses for the PLO and its leaders for the past two decades.
When it comes to the Palestinians, the Western powers are always perfectly willing to throw out their allegiance to law – international law and their domestic statutes – to continue supporting the PLO in the name of a peace process, which by now, everyone understands is entirely fictional.
Why do they do this?
They do it because the peace process gives them a way to ignore and wish away the pathologies of the Islamic and Arab world.
The peace process is predicated on the notion that all those pathologies are Israel’s fault. If Israel would just surrender Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, then the Arabs writ large, and the Muslim world as a whole will cast aside their support for jihad and terrorism and everything will be fine.
At least that is how Abbas analyzes the situation.
And so far, the US has not disappointed him.
The Obama administration’s immediate response to Abbas’s unity with terrorist war criminals deal involved pretending it didn’t understand what had just happened.
In a press briefing on Wednesday, shortly after Hamas war criminal Ismail Haniyeh signed the deal with Fatah and Islamic Jihad, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki acknowledged that the deal is bad for the peace process. But she wasn’t willing to reach the inevitable conclusion.
Rather, she averred, idiotically, “I think the ball, at this point, is in the Palestinians’ court to answer questions to whether this reconciliation meets the US’s long-standing principles.”
Two days before the unity deal, a reporter from Al-Monitor asked Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar if Hamas has given up terrorism.
Zahar responded, “Anyone who claims so must be drunk. How has Hamas abandoned the resistance [that is, terrorist] effort? What are the manifestations of it doing so? Where have we prevented the launching of rockets?” No ambiguity whatsoever there.
And Abbas just signed a deal Hamas, and with Islamic Jihad, the official representative of the Iranian mullahs in the Palestinian war criminal lineup.
No ambiguity there, either.
If the US is willfully blind to who the Palestinians are, what they are doing, and what they stand for, the Europeans are so committed to the Palestinians that they invented an imaginary world where international law protects war criminals and castigates their Jewish victims as international outlaws.
In the EU’s view, Hamas is an attractive organization.
During a meeting with Abbas last October, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, urged Abbas to sign a unity deal with Hamas. A statement from her office read that she views reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas “as an important element for the unity of a future Palestinian state and for reaching a twostate solution.”
And while unity between terrorist factions is something that Ashton considers conducive to peace, in her view, Jewish presence in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is tantamount to a war crime.
In a statement released by her office last week, after Baruch Mizrahi was murdered by Palestinian terrorists while driving in his family car, with his wife and young children, to a Passover Seder, Ashton gave no more than a perfunctory condemnation of the war crime.
Four-fifths of her statement involved condemning Israel for respecting Jewish property rights and the rules of due process and international law in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
In the EU’s imaginary world, being in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem while Jewish is a war crime. Murdering Jews is merely impolite.
The deal signed on Wednesday is the fourth unity deal Fatah has signed with Hamas. After the first one was signed in 2007, the so-called Middle East Quartet, which includes the US, the EU, the UN and Russia, issued three conditions for accepting the unity government: Hamas has to recognize Israel’s right to exist, abjure terrorism and accept the legitimacy of the previous agreements signed by the PLO with Israel.
As Zahar and every other Hamas leader has made clear repeatedly, these conditions will never be met.
But regardless of how Hamas views them, in and of themselves the Quartet’s conditions are deeply problematic. They themselves constitute a breach of international law.
The Quartet’s conditions assert that if Hamas and Islamic Jihad agree to them, they will be accorded the same legitimacy as the PLO. In other words, the Quartet members have committed themselves to granting immunity from prosecution for war crimes to all Palestinian terrorists.
Providing such immunity is arguably a breach of international law. And it exposes a profound and irrational dependence on the mythical peace process on the part of Western policy-makers.
Reacting to this week’s unity deal, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said, “The agreement between Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad brings the Middle East to a new diplomatic era. The Palestinian Authority turned into the largest terrorist organization in the world, 20 minutes from Tel Aviv.”
And under international law, including the agreements that Abbas acceded to just two weeks ago, Bennett is absolutely right.
Apologists for Abbas note that this week’s deal is as unlikely as all its predecessors to be implemented.
But even if they are right this doesn’t mean that Abbas’s repeated practice of signing unity deals with war criminals should be cast aside as insignificant.
They expose the lie at the heart of the peace process. The time has come to call things by their names.
Abbas is a terrorist and the PA is a terrorist organization.
In light of this incontrovertible fact, the time has come to treat the PA in accordance with international law.
Perhaps shocked by Abbas’s behavior, perhaps overwhelmed by the serial failure of every one of its foreign policies, the administration acknowledged that Israel can’t be expected to negotiate with a government that doesn’t accept its right to exist.
Administration officials even said that the US would have to revisit its relationship with the PA in light of the agreement with Hamas.
No doubt, the administration is convinced that it can revert to form and ignore reality once again the moment the smoke as cleared. But whatever its intentions, the administration’s acknowledgment of Abbas’s bad faith opens the door to action by both Israel and the US Congress.
The Israeli government and the US Congress should take the steps necessary to bring their national policies toward the Palestinians into accordance with the law of nations.
On Thursday, the security cabinet rightly decided to end negotiations with the PA. But this cannot be the end of the line. Israel must also stop all financial transfers to the PA.
Just as critically, Israel must stop cooperating with PA security forces in Judea and Samaria.
It must end its support for US training of those forces and call for the US to end its mission to assist PA security forces.
Israel must begin arresting and prosecuting Palestinian officials who incite for the murder of Jews, and charge them with solicitation of murder.
The government should assist Israeli citizens in submitting war crimes complaints against Palestinian officials and the PA generally at international tribunals for their involvement in war crimes, including their incitement of genocide.
As for the US Congress, last week, with the passage into law of Sen. Ted Cruz’s bill banning terrorists from serving as UN ambassadors, the Congress showed that it is capable of acting to force the administration to uphold US anti-terror laws.
To this end, in accordance with those laws, Congress must act to immediately end US military support for Palestinian security services.
The Office of the US Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian territories that trains Palestinian military forces should be closed straightaway. Its personnel should be redeployed out of the area forthwith.
So, too, given that the Palestinian Authority now inarguably meets the US definition of a foreign terrorist organization, the US must end all financial assistance to its operating budget. Also, in accordance with US law, the US banking system must be closed to PA entities. Foreign banks that do business with these entities should be barred from doing business with US banks.
Abbas is not interested in peace. The two-state model isn’t about achieving peace. It is about blaming the victim of the absence of peace for the absence of peace.
Abbas knows his apologists, both in Israel, and most important in the US and Europe. He knows they will go to any length to defend him.
The Israeli Left does so because without the phony peace process, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the Labor Party and Meretz become political irrelevancies.
The administration and the EU defend Abbas and the phony peace process because they don’t want to acknowledge the plain fact that Israel is the only stable ally they have in the Middle East and the stronger Israel is the more protected they are. Doing so contradicts their ideology.
So now Abbas is telling them that the deal is good for peace since it brings Hamas-controlled Gaza into the PLO and so reunifies the PA, which has been operating as two separate entities for seven years. And they may go along with it.
They’ve been perfectly willing to embrace utter nonsense countless times over the years.
Only the Israeli government and Congress can stop them. And they must stop them.
These phony peaceniks’ preference for Jew-killers over international law comes with a prohibitive price tag. Jews are murdered, war criminals are embraced, and the rule of law is rent asunder.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.