Will America Pass the Test?
Gary Cooperberg
October 3, 2002
We are living in times of crisis. The horror of 9-11 has succeeded in terrorizing the free world. The fact that we are living in a world of vast technological advances only serves to confuse us even more. Mankind has possession of the kinds of weapons which are capable of destroying our planet. If there are people who are prepared to give their own lives in order to murder others, and we know that this is the case, then we are certainly in big trouble. Despite Israel's relative success in stopping most attempted suicide murderers in our country, such a feat borders on miraculous. It is virtually impossible to stop a murderer who doesn't care if he survives, or worse, actually wants to die murdering others.
Most Americans really do not understand what all this terrorist stuff is all about. Why in the world should anyone in their right mind want to crash a plane into a building, deliberately murdering thousands of innocent people as well as themselves? It makes no sense. But that is exactly what terrorism is all about. If you don't have any idea why or when or where or even how the next terror strike will occur, how can you not be scared out of your mind? Of course the first reaction is that we will strike back and destroy those who dare think to do such things. But can anyone honestly think that even should we wipe Afghanistan off the map that this will stop terror? Once it seems evident that we cannot destroy the source of terror, the next psychological affect is to try and figure out what it is that the terrorists want so we can give it to them in order to stop this horror.
This is what is going on in Israel too. The difference here is that our terrorists live with us every day. They have made it clear that they want our country. Our leaders are afraid to either remove or destroy our enemies, which is the surest way to stop terror, for fear that we will be accused of being undemocratic , thus jeopardizing our relationship with the United States and other western nations. So we have set our own precondition that we cannot destroy or remove our enemies! We live with terror and are prepared to do almost anything to stop it. If we have decided that we cannot destroy terror, then our only other choice, aside from outright suicide, is to try and placate the terrorists by making a deal to give them at least part of what they want in the hope that they will leave us alone. This has been Israeli policy and the basis of the Oslo fiasco. What we have failed to learn is that our enemies are prepared to have us make compromises as a first installment which they intend to see continue until we have weakened ourselves enough so they can destroy us.
There are a great many political movements in Israel which have been sufficiently terrorized to have fallen into the trap of thinking that there is a way to compromise with murderous terrorists. Thus terror has succeeded in creating a far more formidable enemy within the Jewish State and even within our own government! Islam has learned that democracy can be used as a tool to destroy democracy. That lesson is now being employed in the United States. If Americans can be terrorized; if they can be made to fear that there is no way to destroy those who are prepared to murder Americans, then the next step is to try to placate the terrorists. Everyone knows that the source of terror is Islam. All of the Arab nations, even those allegedly at peace with Israel, seek to destroy Israel. America is seen as an ally of Israel. The time is coming, and it will be sooner than you think, when there will be tremendous political pressure within the United States to abandon Israel. Powell has already promised to build a PLO state on Jewish soil in the futile hope to appease Islamic terror!
The bottom line here is faith in G-d. If we cannot muster enough faith in the True Living G-d of Israel to stand with His Truth even in the face of terror, then we are finished. Although the modern state of Israel, on the surface, is trying to be a copy of the United States, ironically the United States was founded upon principles which emulated those for which the Jewish State was reborn! The founding fathers of the United States were religious men who truly believed in G-d and in the Bible. It was this spirit of serving G-d which made America different and enabled her to flourish.
Today America has become a super power with the highest standard of living in the world. She has allowed her affluence to seduce her away from the G-dly principles which once guided her. Honesty and the will to sacrifice for G-dly principles have been replaced with embezzlement, greed and immorality. Forgotten are the slogans, Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute ; I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
The test for the survival of the United States is coming. Will America sell her future existence to the Devil of Islam? Or will she display the kind of moral fibre which enabled her to reach the status she has achieved today? Will she find the strength of faith in G-d to stand with Israel against the Moslem worshipers of the Moon? It is not an easy test. The Islamic nations control an enormous amount of wealth, and have made huge investments in the United States. They have infiltrated America and threaten her from within, almost as much as our Moslem population in Israel threatens us! If we are playing a numbers game, which is the backbone of democracy, we are doomed. But if we truly believe in G-d and are prepared to stand with Truth even as a minority, then we will prevail. It is not an easy test. But that is exactly why we have it.
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