Our president now says he is going to review all the funds given to Palestine because Hamas has always said the Israeli state must go. But Arial Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu have always said they would eventually drive out the Arabs, and few are looking in their larder to see how much money came from the USA. It good to investigate, so let’s review and compare the amounts given to both neighbors, not just one. The ratio will be on the order of $1 to $10. Were it not so, we would already have peace.

Aid, except for scanty UN rations for those 2 millions still in refugee camps, has never reached the Philistines anyway, and what dollars get to them does not arrive at the people’s level, it has been poured in the top of the funnel to control parties like the PLO and Fatah. The latter was richly subsidized in the recent election, and the people in the West Bank and Gaza were not fooled. They elected Hamas because they know the USA and Israel supported Fatah, which stood for more of the same, in their eyes. The Philistines have finally spoken. George W. Bush even noticed, and called the election “Democracy at work,� but his words do not reflect the long time intent of those we have come to call the Warmakers.

Israel’s “right to exist? Balderdash! No state, including our own USA, has any God-given right to exist. The one almighty God deals in humanity, not in man-made politics and brutality in its imposition. These are not the ways of those who follow Jesus. God created all men equal in His eyes; at least we claim to live our lives that way. He did not create Israel or the USA. Neither have a right to be here. All have corporate charters like any Wall Street company.

Sadly, the most important voting block in the world has forgotten these truths, almost to the man. “Evangelicals,� as they sometimes falsely call themselves (falsely because evangelizing the truth is a good thing) think God has gifted the land of the Philistines to today’s Israel. Therefore in their eyes, if Hamas opposes Israel’s statehood (Israel has always opposed Palsitinian statehood) then Hamas is evil. Israel is always righteous in jaundiced, Christian Zionist eyes because they think God created this State as a fulfillment of Old Testament prophesies.

Gary Bauer is one of the more political active celebrity Christians.  His immediate response to Hamas' victory was to urge President Bush and members of Congress to immediately end foreign aid to the Palestinian government, because of the Hamas election victory. "America cannot negotiate with Hamas," Bauer said. "The Palestinian people have been immersed in a culture of death for decades, so it is no surprise that they have formally given power to the party of death." He also said the U.S. must stop pressuring Israel "to make concession after concession in pursuit of a two-state solution… I will do everything I can to make sure America stands firmly with Israel, not only for the peace of Jerusalem, but for the peace of the entire world."

Bauer slurs the “culture� of the victims, and he does so in Jesus name, and it is likely he has never been in a Palestinian refugee camp. The United States of America does not have a blank check from God to do whatever works for us. Rights come from God; political power does not, at least not according to Jesus of Nazareth and his followers.

Israel’s brand of segregation, enabled by the likes of Gary Bauer, is based on racism that exceeds in its hypocrisy anything seen in the civilized world in the 20th Century.

Is it possible for the militarist Israel to change? Yes, it is possible, if the USA cuts off all military aid to Israel as well as to the Philistines. I was asked by an English class in Gaza at the University what my solution would be if I had the power of the President. I told the students I would stop all aid to both Israel and Palestine until there was peace.

Everyone thoughtfully agreed, even through each knows many refugee camp families who were hungry and dependent upon UN substance aid. But they also know that the USA gave Israel the missiles, rockets, and planes, and they wanted the daily bombings stopped worse than they want a bowl of oats. Every student affirmed that this simple idea, no aid for either side, would even up the odds for the Philistines. Both will find an excuse for peace with their neighbors, including Iran and Syria.

Let’s give the people of Israel the motivation for peace for a change.

*Holocaust II: Saving Israel from Suicide, by Andrew Hurley, (now available as One Nation under Israel explains the special relationship of Israel to the rest of the world. The Partitioning Agreement is found in part on Page 40.

*World Without Israel, Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2005

*Should the State of Israel be “Wiped off the Map�

Charles E. Carlson Nov 22, 2005