Gary Cooperberg, July 30, 2008

Americans like to look for the promising knight on horseback to lead the nation. Barak Obama is young and charismatic and projects the hope of change. Yet his rhetoric finds him speaking in circles and changing stories. As all politicians he seeks to please everyone. It has been said that he will not advance his own policy on the Israeli peace process as it would be a "waste of time". He thus has decided to continue with the Bush policy. Why then should we vote for him? If we want the Bush policy it would be better to vote for McCain.

I really don’t care who is the next president of the United States or even if there will be one. No world leader can be expected to protect and stand with Israel. Until the leadership of the Jewish State understands that we cannot conduct our policies according to the whims of other nations, we will never be a truly independent nation. We are still fighting the war for our independence but refusing to finish it.

We are making "peace" with enemies who still seek our destruction and who use the spoils of peace to weaken us for the kill. We arbitrarily gave away Gaza for peace, at a very high price, and now we are reaping the rewards of that lunacy. And worse, we continue to refuse to recognize our mistake and choose to live with missiles being lobbed into our country from Gaza and watch as their range and accuracy increase!

Our Minister of Defense is seeking to spend millions to buy a defense system to protect us from the missiles rather than take back that which we gave away in error. Instead of undoing our obvious mistake we continue with the error and plan to create even more sanctuaries for terror!

The entire world is entering into an era of chaos. Biblical destiny is being challenged by "modernists" who do not believe in the Living G-d of history, or by those who believe in a different god. Islamic leaders are fanatic proponents of a plan to make the entire world believe as they do. And most other world leaders think that they are able to run the world, without G-d, on their own terms. Both of these views are destined to clash with the reborn Jewish State in the Land of Israel. Even Israeli leaders seem to be challenging their own destiny which only furthers the needless tragedy we face here.

Gary Cooperberg, a resident of the Jewish community in Hebron, Israel, is the founder and director of Project Shofar.

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