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Stan Goodenough is an experienced journalist who has written about politics in South Africa and the Middle East for such organizations as The Daily Dispatch of East London, South Africa, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post, and the Virtual HolyLand website. He has been a South African gentile resident in Israel for 12 years. Stan is editor of and .
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By Stan Goodenough
June 15, 2007
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Concerning the chaos in Gaza -- where the so-called Palestinians are killing one another in spades in a bloody bid to determine whether the Islamist Hamas or the secular Fatah will hold sway over that terrorist mini-state -- a friend of mine said this morning"
"God is fighting for Israel."
I believe, absolutely, that this is true.
What do I mean? Just this: Gaza's spiral into internecine violence is sending an unmistakable message to Israel and to the international community.
The scenes of running battles as Arab fights Arab are pouring a torrent of water onto whatever flames of hope still flicker in the deluded reaches of this world that land-for-peace has more than a snowflake's hope in hell of achieving any kind of success.
As Hamas men drag Fatah men out onto the sand dunes and, in front of their wives and children, shoot them executioner-style in the head, the word is going out from Gaza.
On television screens around the world, from CNN to Fox to the BBC to Sky News, as well as on thousands of other news services, the message is being broadcast loud and clear on Israel's behalf (because, shamefully, Israel's leaders are too subservient to America and the West to say it for themselves):
The Road Map -- which realists and the politically-incorrect have been saying all along was never going anywhere anyway -- is dead: Stone cold, ice cold, dead.
Like "Oslo" before it, and every variation of "peace process" that could be conjured up in the minds of Saudi Arabian djinns, UN or EU antisemites, State Department Arabists or Israeli leftists, the map now can be clearly read: there is no peace for Israel (or for the Arabs) down this road.
Nothing President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice can say can alter this now.
Nothing Tony Blair -- whether still at 10 Downing Street or out in a post-prime ministerial peacemaking role -- can say will carry any weight.
Nothing Ehud Olmert or Ehud Barak or Shimon Peres can say will be able to mislead their people any more. Their hopes of continuing influence and power are evaporating with every bullet or RPG round being fired down in Khan Yunis and Gaza City.
Galling as it will be for these Israelis to "recall" -- it was Bibi Netanyahu who coined the name that has now been affixed to Gaza, when he warned, on Israel's "disengagement" from the Strip in 2005, that the area would quickly be turned into "Hamastan." The Israeli electorate will remember this.
In Gaza this week the sun set on the whole idea of land for peace, the two state solution, the imminent creation of Palestine.
Night is falling on the blood-and-terrorism-saturated fabrication known as the "Palestinian people."
Senior Fatah spokesman Saab Erekat spelled it out Wednesday when he said: The future of the Palestinians as a people is at stake.
It's on the stake, actually. And it's as true today as it always has been: They never were a people.
Israel does not need to come up with any more arguments, presentations, special briefings etc. to make its case, once and for all, against giving away its land.
For what happened in southern Lebanon, and what happened and is happening in Gaza, would happen too in Samaria and Judea. And might still.
And, not withstanding the apparently impervious dreams and unassailable fantasies of Israel's liberal lights suddenly clamoring for Israel to "seize the day" with Syria, it will happen, too, on the Golan Heights. Damascus noted well Hizb'allah's accomplishments last summer.
Thanks to the self-hatred and self-destructiveness of the "Palestinians" -- this point is being driven home loud and clear. They hate only one thing more than the Jews: each other.
As happened so many centuries ago to those Philistines the Palestinian Arabs claim to be descended from, Israel's enemies are turning upon one another -- slaughtering themselves.
Those who used their existence to glorify the bullet and bomb are being destroyed by the bullet and the bomb. They are, unbelieveably, not missing the opportunity to miss another opportunity. May it be their last.
This is the truth of God's hand acting for his People in the Gaza Strip. This is the sense in which it can be said that, even in their absence, He is fighting the war for Israel there. This is the revelation that He lives, and cares, for his holy nation.
But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life." (Isaiah 43:1-4)
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