Daily WATCH! Volume 2 Issue 43, Thursday, February 28, 2002
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KATSAV SUPPORTS SAUDI PLAN
By Randy Loudenslager
Israeli President Moshe Katsav has become outspoken in favor of not dismissing the land for peace plan proposed by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. This is unusual for Katsav because he usually takes a quieter approach towards Israeli politics.
Katsav is quick to point out that he has not departed from the Likud party line and therefore does not support an Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 borders. What he and others in the government like about the Saudi plan is the addition of Saudi Arabia into the dialogue and the actual incentive of normalized relations with the Arab world.
Katsav is indicative of the almost mesmerizing effect this proposal has had even on the rightists. The plan itself offers very little in the way of detail and in fact was first made public via a New York Times interview with Prince Abdullah. The part of the incentive that so intrigues Israel is that of hope, hope that Israel will finally be accepted as a fellow nation among her neighbors and will finally be able to live in peace.
Israel's desperation for peace ironically has led her away from God. God's covenant with Israel was centered around the land he gave her. This land was measured out in detail and was meant as a lasting inheritance to be handed down through the generations, not as a bargaining chip or as something to be sold or traded. In ignoring this covenant Israel teeters on the precipice of rebellion against God and has become blind to His saving power.
The LORD says even now return to me before it is too late! Even now Israel could be the crown of God, but she will not and so she slides slowly into the pit of scorn in the eyes of the world's nations.
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