It seems
like the peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinian Authority (PA), brokered by the United States , headed by Secretary
of State, John Kerry, have all but come to a crashing halt—as of today anyway. On
Thursday, April 24, 2014, Israel decided to suspend further peace talks because
of the merger between the PA and Hamas (1), while the US had hoped to get the
two sides to agree to at least a framework deal by the end of this month, on
April 29th (2). This move by Israel’s Prime Minister, Binyamin
Netanyahu, and the Israeli Security Cabinet, has pushed the Secretary of State
into making an angered response a day later to some world leaders that if
Israel does not make peace, and make it soon, they “could
become ‘an apartheid state,’ like the old South Africa” (3). The European Union
(EU) has weighed in on Israel ’s
decision by urging both sides to get back to the table and negotiate (4).
What
does all this political foreign policy have to do with people like you and me?
Why does it seem the US and the EU are putting so much effort into trying to
get Israel and the Palestinian people some kind of peace agreement so they can
live side by side? It sounds like a noble gesture by these two world
leaders to make every attempt to bring peace to this region that is in upheaval
over which of these two groups of people have claim to the real estate they
reside on, but don’t let their so-called good foreign policy fool you because
the US and the EU have their own motives in getting a peace treaty signed
between Israel and the Palestinian Authority—their motives will be revealed
once the peace agreement is enforced. This political foreign policy has
everything to do with the future of this contemporary generation, and the
people who will witness this peace deal will experience a time like this world
has never known before or will ever know again.
There
will be a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinian people even though it
looks like there will never be one, with all the deliberate indecisions by the
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, changing his mind on key proposals every
time it looks that a deal may be close—we will not discuss in this article that
the US always lays the blame for the failure of a peace deal on the Israelis,
because anyone who is even slightly following these negotiations knows that
Israel is even willing to give up some settlements for peace (5). There will be
a peace treaty because it has already been prophesied that there will be one.
It will be a seven year peace deal that will have a duration of 2,520 days,
according to the Jewish calendar that functions under a lunar year of 360 days,
rather than under the solar year of 365.24219 days. The angel Gabriel revealed
to Daniel the prophet that this peace deal will be exactly seven years
(Dan.9:27), which will be lunar years because when the bible speaks in years it
refers to lunar years.
Whether
the Israelis and the Palestinians come to some amicable peace settlement is
immaterial at this point, because the bible makes it clear that this seven year
peace covenant will be forced upon the two parties. When Daniel recorded this
end time prophecy (Dan.9:27), given to him by Gabriel, he wrote that the man
who brokers the peace deal will confirm (גָּבַר) {gabar} the deal for a period of seven
years—the record uses prophetic language: One week is prophetic language for
seven biblical years in this prophecy. The key word used in arriving at the
peace deal is the Hebrew term גָּבַר which translated in the English text as
the word ‘confirm’: “He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week”
(Dan.9:27a, KJV). גָּבַר, has the meaning, in the context of this passage, as
showing strength, being strong, showing power, which indicates that his peace
deal will be made by the strength, or political power, or the insistence, of
the man or the leader behind the man who makes the deal. In other words, Israel
and the PA will have no choice at the end of negotiations but to agree to the
terms the broker is putting on them.
The
President of the United Sates, Barak Obama, and the Secretary of State, have
already revealed where their hearts are at in these peace negotiations, thereby
revealing they have a motive for this peace deal, by threatening both sides
with financial sanctions and boycotts if they do not agree to a peace deal (6)(7).
The threats by these brokers of peace is a clear indication that neither Israel
or the Palestinian people will have any choice in the end whether they mutually
agree to a peace agreement, because this seven year agreement will be forced
upon them whether they like it or not.
(2) http://www.voanews.com/content/kerry-mideast-peace-talks-may-miss-april-29-deadline/1860128.html