GUEST AUTHOR Could Benjamin
Prime Minister Who signs the Daniel 9:27 Covenant?
BY BILL KOENIG
Netanyahu Be the Israeli
No Israeli politician is better known. No Israeli leader is a stronger defender of his nation’s threats.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be the leader
who agrees to the final biblical peace deal spoken of in Daniel 9:27—“He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offer- ing. And on a wing [of the temple] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” No Israeli politician is better known. No Israeli leader is a stronger defender of his nation’s threats. In his policy speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity on June 14, 2009, Netanyahu was superb, clever, reason- able and strategic. He attempted a very delicate political balancing act—which, for the most part, seemed to succeed. He calmed the Kadima Party and the Labor Party with his statement that he favors a Palestinian state, but he offered very challenging contingencies that must first be satisfied. He satisfied Israel’s right-wing political parties on the state- ment of a unified (not divided) Jerusalem. Members of the Likud Party who don’t want to see any of
Israel’s biblical land given to the Palestinians were disgruntled about the talk of a Palestinian state, but they appeared satisfied that Netanyahu’s requirements for the Palestinians are all but impossible for them to meet. He also enjoined Israel’s concerns and the moderate Arabs’ concerns about a nuclear Iran. This was a good strategy. He said: • If we receive this guarantee regarding demilitarization
and Israel’s security needs, and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people, then we will be ready in a future peace agreement to reach a solution where a demilitarized Pales- tinian state exists alongside the Jewish state. • If the Palestinians turn toward peace—in fighting terror,
in strengthening governance and the rule of law, in educating their children for peace and in stopping incitement against Israel—we will do our part in making every effort to facilitate freedom of movement and access and to enable them to develop their econo- my.
• Above all else, the Palestinians must decide between the
path of peace and the path of Hamas. The Palestinian Authority will have to establish the rule of law in Gaza and overcome Hamas. Israel will not sit at the negotiating table with terrorists who seek
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