its destruction. Netanyahu addressed 140 Israeli


ambassadors and heads of delegations that were in Jerusalem on Dec. 28, 2009, for the first-ever series of high-level briefings. He once again emphasized his conditions to a peace deal: • Palestinian acceptance of Israel as


a Jewish state. • Demilitarization of any future Pal-


estinian state. Netanyahu said, “Recognizing Israel as


a Jewish state is necessary for any agree- ment with the Palestinians that would lead to an end to the conflict. We want an end to the conflict,” he said. “That means the Pal- estinians must stop attempts to use a Pales- tinian state as a jumping-off point for fur- ther claims against Israel. No claim to flood Israel with refugees, which would mean the end of the Jewish state; and no irredentist claims to the Negev, Galilee or Israeli citi- zens, which would mean the dissolution of the Jewish state.” Ha’aretz reported: Netanyahu said the


situation in Lebanon, and the rearming of Hezbollah despite Security Council Resolu- tion 1701 prohibiting just that, proved that agreements on paper were ineffective.


Netanyahu said, “Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is necessary for any agreement with the Palestinians that would lead to an end to the conflict. We want an end to the conflict.”


“I am doubtful that anyone can do this


except a real Israeli presence, Israeli forces,” he said, intimating that in any future agree- ment with the Palestinians, Israeli forces— not international ones—would have to be on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state to prevent it from importing arms and staging attacks against Israel.


Obama Admin threatens to withhold aid to Israel American President Barack Obama’s


Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, threat- ened in the first week of January to with- hold financial aid to Israel if they did not accept demanded concessions to get the stalled peace process back on track. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Mitchell was asked what leverage the U.S.


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has to get Israel to comply with Arab and international demands. He answered: “Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel.”


Israel’s Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz


quickly reacted, saying, “Israel had no intention of making use of the U.S. loan guarantees in the near future, as it had man- aged to raise enough funds on its own.” Mitchell’s remarks came shortly after


Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren rejected Washington’s attempt to place a firm two-year deadline on the peace process. “In the past, attempts to impose time


frameworks have not proved either realiz- able or helpful,” Oren told The Jerusalem Post. Previous deadlines have only increased the Palestinians’ refusal to meet their peace obligations, confident that Israel would be forced to comply regardless in order to meet the timetable. Senator John McCain (Republican-Ari-


zona) told a Jerusalem press conference on Sunday, Jan. 10, that he expects President Barack Obama to explicitly announce that his Administration is not planning to alter America’s policy regarding financial aid to Israel.


Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat-Connecticut) stated at the same press conference that even if Obama tried to use U.S. financial aid as leverage, Con- gress would never approve such a measure.


The Bible’s road map—the ultimate plan


God gave the land of Canaan to Abra-


ham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants when He said, “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kad- monites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Gergashites and Jebusites” (Genesis 15:18). The Promised Land is not to be divid-


ed; and the Bible said, “I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judg- ment against them concerning my inheri- tance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land” (Joel 3:2). And that there will be consequences to those who attempt to divide the land of Israel (see Zechariah


12-14). We realize that Israel will eventually


agree to a final seven-year peace plan and that the false messiah will sponsor a peace plan that will be confirmed by the nations (Daniel 9:27). The false messiah will come forward at


the midway point to stop sacrifices on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Daniel 9:26- 27, Daniel 11:31, and Matthew 24:15). The Great Tribulation will begin at that point and last for 42 months (Revelation 11:2, Revelation 12:6, Daniel 7:25, Revelation 12:14).


During the final 42 months, the Jews


will mourn for the one they pierced (Zecha- riah 12:10). They will not see the Messiah until they say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Matthew 23: 39) God will make Jerusalem a burden-


some stone (Zechariah 12:3), and He will destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:9). At the end of the 42 months, there will be final battle for the city of Jerusalem—the battle of Arma- geddon (Zechariah 12-14). We must continue to pray for the peace


of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6)—a peace that will only occur when Yeshua returns to Jerusalem to begin His 1,000-year millen- nial reign. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! (Rev. 22:20)


Eye to Eye It is 271 miles long and 81 miles wide at its widest point. It makes up less than one percent of the land of the Middle East. “It” is Israel, and many world leaders believe this nation is the key to peace. In this book, Bill Koenig provides conclusive evidence that the U.S. and the world are on a collision course with God over Israel’s covenant land. ORDER #8635 | $15.00 +3.95 S&H


BILL KOENIG is the president of Koenig’s International News (http://watch.org). The daily news service has readers in 50 states and 79 countries. Bill co-authored Israel: The Blessing or the Curse in 2001 and Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel in 2007. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with a B.S. in Communications. Bill and his wife, Claudia, reside in the Washington, D.C. area where he is a White House correspondent. He writes a weekly 12-page news report called “Koenig’s Eye View from the White House” that focuses on world news that is biblically relevant and White House news from a Christian perspective. Bill plans to release a new book in 2010.


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