The Hundred Years’ War

In the past few days well over two thousand Arabs (both Israeli Arab citizens and Palestinian Authority Arab residents) have been involved in riots and violent attacks against Israeli police and security forces. The actual murders of Jewish families, stabbings and shootings of Israeli civilians, attempted lynchings of Jewish motorists, and collusion between terrorists and Arab shopkeepers – these have been the order of the day for the past week.

A U.S. State Department official said, in response, that the U.S. has not yet determined whether to characterize the attacks as acts of terrorism (https://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/White-House-deeply-concerned-by-escalating-tensions-in-Jerusalem-official-says-421222#article=6024QkY4NDJCMzA4NjFBMjUyOTI4NzdEQzY4MzMxQTZFMjU=).

Over six hundred years ago Europe was torn asunder by what historians call ‘The Hundred Years’ War’ a clash between the English Kingdom of Plantagenet and the French Kingdom of Valois (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War). Apart from the military casualties involved, during that Hundred Years’ War the bubonic plague swept across Western Europe, killing between 20% and 50% of the population.

The present civil unrest in Israel (the Promised Land given by covenant to the sons of Jacob) is by no means as violent as that European land war, nor does it even approach the present slaughter in Syria and Iraq – the clash between dictators and jihadis. Yet because of the prophetic significance of the Jewish people and their land in the Bible, and because of God’s deep heart-covenant with Jacob’s children, it is worth taking the time to briefly understand what is happening there now, and to pray about these fast-moving events.

Replacement theology – Islamist style

Over the past five years, Islamist societies in Israel have funneled funds from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States to groups of women (and some men) known as murabitat (feminine) and murabitoun (masculine)

These women’s role has been to verbally harass and even physically attack non-Islamic visitors to the Temple Mount, Two days ago I spoke with a Christian tourist who was hassled on the Temple Mount because of a necklace she wore with Hebrew lettering on it. She was then physically removed for the Mount. Other tourists (Jewish, Christian and totally secular) have been stalked, yelled at, spit upon, and summarily thrown off the Mount at the instigation of the Muslim waqf security guards. It is illegal to pray on that Mount unless one is a Muslim. Carrying a Bible or reading from it is totally banned.

The official Islamic line is that there has never been a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, and that any attempt by Jewish people to visit that area actually defiles the Islamic sanctity of what they define as exclusively a mosque. The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared in the past few days that Jewish feet walking on the stones of the Temple Mount actually defile the sanctity of the al Aqsa compound.

Islamist Replacement theology is the theological background of these views. The belief is that the Jews have been replaced; their land has been forfeited to the forces of Mohammed; their Temple Mount never was, and now has become a mosque. In some ways this perspective is also reflected by the declaration by Amon Goeth, commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, in Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List, as his Nazi forces are about to destroy the ancient Jewish community of Cracow (Kraków):

Riot in the streets

After years of the above-described Islamist abuse of Christian and Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, the Israeli government decided to allow freedom of access for all to the Temple Mount and to drastically curtail murabitat Islamist attacks on non-Muslim visitors. The murabitat and murabitoun are similar in their worldview to al Qaeda and ISIS. Though it was understood that limiting the murabitat’s extremist activities would be used by anti- Israel media against the State of Israel, the government decided that the time had come to exercise its sovereign right to uphold and maintain order – and that sovereignty does extend to the Temple Mount.

The explosive situation on the Temple Mount is linked to the problematic relationship between competing Palestinian groups. The majority of Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, where they are ruled by the terrorist organization Hamas, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (which also gave birth to al Qaeda). Hamas calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, basing itself on impeccable Islamic sources in the Quran and the hadith (Muslim religious law).

The leader of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, however, is Mahmoud Abbas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas). He is not a religious Muslim, and is considered secular and heretical by both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. On the West Bank Abbas finds himself outflanked by Hamas at every turn. Hamas’ jihadi popularity is growing on the West Bank, and polls show that if elections were held today, the Palestinian Authority would lose badly to jihadi forces. As a result, Abbas has postponed elections since January 2009, trying to dodge the jihadi bullet.

Abbas attempts to bolster his image by occasionally emphasizing jihad. Every so often Abbas and the Palestinian Authority turn up the flames, winking to the jihadis that a limited armed insurrection will be quietly encouraged – as long as things don’t get out of hand. For Abbas, this means occasional riots and terror attacks are kosher, but a crushing response by Israel is bad news and is to be avoided.

The Islamo-fascist connection

History shows that events similar to today’s riots happened during the time of the British Mandate, when the British Empire occupied the land of Israel (1922-1947; www.mythsandfacts.org/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/mandate_for_palestine.htm).

At the close of WWI, His Majesty George V’s government was attempting to establish Britannia as the Middle East’s superpower. Though Britain was eventually stymied by the United States and lost its pre-eminence to America, in 1917 it still saw itself as regional kingmaker. England issued the Balfour Declaration calling for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, while simultaneously linking that declaration to other statements backing Arab nationalist movements. Eventually Britain sliced off 80% of the Palestine mandate and established a colonialist puppet state known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan. In the remaining 20% England set about preparing the ground for another Arab state, one which would arise on the ashes of the soon-to-be-destroyed Jewish Yishuv (fledgling community) – or so they thought.

The British White Papers (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/brwh1939.asp; www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/whitetoc.html; www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/06/%E2%80%98a-death-sentence-for-the-jews%E2%80%99-75-years-since-the-british-white-paper/) reveal Britain’s realpolitik tilt during WWII, limiting Jewish escape from Hitler’s Holocaust while preventing Jews from immigrating to the Jewish national homeland. At the same time Britain developed undercover links with jihadi leaders (who were bona fide collaborators with Hitler and Himmler), strengthening pro-Nazi forces while winking at murderous Arab street riots and massacres against the Jewish population in the Promised Land.

Haj Amin al-Husseini, the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, was the first jihadi leader who instigated street riots and murderous attacks against the Jewish population in the Promised Land. His inflammatory charge was based on spreading lies about an attempted Jewish takeover of the Temple Mount.

The Middle Eastern wakeup call

The foundations of the present riots in Israel are simply one more flashpoint in a Hundred Years’ War between the Jewish people and the forces of Islamist jihad. They are another jihadi attempt to raise the black banner of jihad over the smoking ashes of the Jewish state.

As Europe is being flooded with Syrian and pseudo-Syrian refugees fleeing their countries due to Islamist and dictatorial massacres, as Iran (flush with terrorist petro-dollars and new European business contracts) funnels rivers of gold into terrorist coffers, as jihadi forces stream their black banners across Syria, Iraq, Chechnya, Libya, Nigeria, etc., a Middle Eastern wake-up call is clanging desperately for those whose hearing aids still have batteries.

When stars collide

Recent events in Syria include the establishment and expansion of Russian state-of-the-art military might – on land, sea and in the air. China is also positioning aircraft carriers off the coast of Syria and avowing its intentions to fly its bombers over Syria as well. The Middle East, tar pit of the superpowers, is once again exerting her seductive ways on the nations. The words of the prophet Ezekiel seem to have burning relevance at this time:

How shall we then pray?

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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