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Your comments and questions are always welcome. To send comments and questions please click here to go to our main page May 20th, 2001 Even the media is predicting war in the Middle East so says the latest headlines on CBS World News website. Israel has stepped up its retaliatory defense that now includes air strikes by F-16 fighter jets, of which such force hasn't been used since 1967. This has fueled a fire in the Arab world that I believe will ultimately lead to war. Arab foreign ministers and delegates met today to discuss the situation and came away with a recommendation. Here is what came from the meeting. "Representatives of Arab countries have demanded Arab governments must sever all contact with Israel until the Jewish state ceases military action against Palestinians, throwing into doubt whether Egypt and Jordan would continue efforts to mediate an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. A meeting of Arab foreign ministers and delegates on Saturday made the recommendation. Arab League calls are not binding on governments, but the foreign ministers and other senior officials at the meeting were believed to have been in contact with the highest levels of their governments during the eight-hour gathering. "The meeting called for severing all Arab political communication with Israel as long as the aggression of the siege on the Palestinian people and their national authority continues," according to a statement issued at the end of the emergency meeting. Lending weight to the call were the two men who made it, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa, who spent years mediating with the Israelis and Palestinians as Egypt's foreign minister, and Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul-Illah Khatib. Jordan and Egypt are the only Arab countries to have signed peace agreements with Israel. Both also have been pushing hard for a diplomatic resolution to the latest violence, which has left more than 500 dead since Sept. 28. The countries that attended the talks at the League's headquarters in Cairo were Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen." http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,292287-412,00.shtml It is believed that the remaining Arab countries will adopt the recommendation as well. Also, the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has come out and condemned Israel's retaliation as disproportionate. The world leaders in opposition to Israel are beginning mount up. The U.S. is standing firm for now, but world sentiment is beginning to take its toll. I believe soon world opinion will force the U.S. to abandon its military obligations to Israel and leave it with no allies or outside help. I see peace through the antichrist or war of the magnitude like we've never seen before.
Pastor Malone