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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 13, 1982
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The other thing that makes Israelis behave the way they do is a
continuing sense of insecurity. The unacceptable side of Israeli
policy is the desire for expansion in the name of historical-re
ligious "right." (And expansion how far? The Old Testament could
take Israel right up to the Euphrates.) The acceptable side is
the need for more or less assured physical safety. It may seem
astonishing that a 34 year-old country which has already won four
wars, more or less won a fifth (1973) and has swept up to the edge
of Beirut in its sixth should still feel insecure. Yet geography
lends some plausibility to Israeli nervousness.
"Finish the Job"
Yes, the "Christian" Western world, largely ignoring the history, examples
and admonitions of the Old Testament, influenced by the teachings of the
great false church and infected with worldly humanistic concepts, cannot
see the depth of the no-compromise, life-and-death struggle that the modern
state of Israel is engaged in at the moment. The Jews, however, realize
what they are up against in battling their implacable foe. Here is a re
markable editorial entitled "Finish the Job" published in the Los Angeles
weekly Jewish newspaper, the B'NAI B'RITH MESSENGER (July 9, 1982):
Much has been made in the media these days about Israel's uns
werving dedication to ridding Lebanon of every vestige of P.L.O.
presence. Very few reasoned people can be found who condone the
festering cancer of terrorism spread by the P.L.O. Yet many of
these same "reasoned people"� not
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understand the ourpose
of the radical surgery which Israel� forced� perform in Leb
� to purge the cancer••••
Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin is a student of the Bible.
He knows well the chapter in Exodus which describes the terror
ist-like attack of Amalek upon the Israelites. Mr. Begin remem
bers clearly that in Exodus, chapter 17, verse 14, it states
that, "The Lord said to Moses. 'Record this in writing and tell
it to Joshua in these words: I am resolved to blot out all memory
of Arnalek·from under heaven.'"�
� �� �- -�
Mr. Begin knows that Joshua did not finish the job as the Lord
instructed and it was left later for King Saul to do and he, too,
failed.
And later, from the survivors of Amalek, there arose
Haman. Again and again the survivors of Amalek have risen to af
flict the Jews generation after generation.
We believe that the government of Israel has determined that, as
far as the P.L.O. is concerned, they must finish the job in such a
way that the P.L.O. will never again plague the Jewish state from
generation to generation across its border.
It's obvious that Israel will not be able to quite finish the job this time
either. Descendants of Amalek will still be around in the future when an
anti-Israel confederation is formed (Ps. 83:7).
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau