Road Maps and Peace Processes: Delusional Obsessions
 
 

 
When will Israel (and other nations) learn that Islam and the world of terror cannot be appeased? Their goal is global war. Negotiating with the world's most barbarous group of terrorists is such an exercise in futility one has to wonder if the world's state departments are having tea with the mad hatter in Alice's Wonderland. They are detached from reality or in a God-ordained state of delusion as end-time purposes play out.
Serious war is on the horizon in Israel because she's been an appeaser. She pulled out of Gaza but had to go back in to wage war. She pulled out of Lebanon and has now had to go in and again wage war. I agree with Michael Medved's comments that, "We need a victory process and not a peace process."
The Israeli IDF has not just invaded Lebanon as Lebanon is a surrogate of Syria and Iran. Damascus is at risk always (Isaiah 17). The current tension could die out as the ultra dove Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is spineless and ineffective in such crucial times; however, he will likely continue to receive pressure from the Israeli people for the soldiers captured or killed. Nonetheless, I will take as a positive and hopeful statement from Olmert when he said, "There are people who are trying to test our resolve. They will fail and they will pay a heavy price for their actions." May his actions, then, speak louder than words.
Hezbollah in Syria is a ruthless outfit that means "party of god." They had ties to the planned NY subway bomb plot a few weeks ago that was prevented. Along with Hamas, they operate in America for our demise as well as Israel's.
What lapse of logic can explain the stubborn, utterly unshakable and nearly universal insistence that Israel must pursue a "peace process" with its terrorist adversaries? Recent events in the Middle East demonstrate that the continued Western emphasis on "road maps" and "peace processes" represents a delusional obsession, not a policy preference. This is a lesson the world needs to learn, not just Israel. An agreement with such people (indisputably characterized as impotent, dishonest, or both) remains a meaningless gesture.
And yet because today we live in an upside down world, the world seems to be caught by surprise at the events in Israel in the last many weeks with a war status in Gaza and now Lebanon. What seems so obvious to some seems to not even be on the radar screen for many of the world's leaders which is why one has to wonder if the scenario being played out is simply one foretold by the ancient Hebrew prophets. It is part of the scenario that must play out, "and then the end shall come."
Yet we know that He who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalms 121); and nor should we cease in our prayers for wisdom for presidents, prime ministers, kings, and more who have to deal with the ugly realities of the 21st Century and the Islamofascists seeking to retake the world and bring it back to the 7th Century.
Awaiting His return, Jan Markell