Olmert's Plan Almost Identical to Clinton's Wye Agreement!!

I realize this is an old story concerning dividing Jerusalem, nonetheless it is a story that the Christian Right needs to pray about. If Jerusalem is divided it will be the result of Appeasement - plain and simple. Appeasement never satisfies the thirst and hunger for more. Hamas is on record (the PA's governing terrorist party) as calling for the destruction of Israel. Islamofascist Palestinian groups like Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are supported by Iran. Iran has called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Will dividing Jerusalem bring peace to Israel? It is doubtful. Dividing Jerusalem will only bring more demands and terror.

Yet if the Israeli driven notions of Israel's security and reciprocity govern the redeployments, Netanyahu's other gains are revealed on matters where the agreement is largely silent. In April 1997, the PA suspended the negotiations in protest at Israel's decision to build the Har Homa settlement in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wye agreement says nothing about Har Homa, and next to nothing about the 8,000 settlement units currently under construction not just in Jerusalem but also in the West Bank and Gaza.

On the contrary, at the signing ceremony President Clinton confirmed that he would request Congress to authorise some $500 million to Israel to offset the "costs" of the further redeployments. This money will be used to accelerate the building of some 33 by-pass roads whose purpose has been to integrate the settlements into Israel proper and to separate the north and south West Bank from each other and both from Jerusalem. The fact that the PA has apparently won Netanyahu's agreement to open an airport and two "safe passage" corridors between Gaza and the West Bank is a small price to pay for such massive American investment in Israel's settlement programme. (Al-Ahram Weekly On-line)

Apparently the Wye Agreements began because of Jewish settlement in former East Jerusalem. The part of the City of David re-taken after a failed Jordanian invasion in 1967. The Jewish perspective about Wye does not seem to include Jerusalem, but is strikingly similar to the Convergence/Disengagement Unilateral Plan of Prime Minister Olmert for the rest of the West Bank and Gaza.

Let me re-state the reality of Jerusalem: Appeasement will only foment Palestinian-Arab terror, not engage the Security that the Land of Israel requires.