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Thursday, March 19, 2009 Israel Today Staff


Obama about to betray Israel, says former intel official
A former top US intelligence official warns that the Obama Administration is about to break America's long ties of friendship with Israel, and maybe even take steps toward the dissolution of the Jewish state.
Speaking on condition of anonymity to Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network, the source said:
"I have every reason to believe, based on what I’ve seen at my level of [security] clearance especially over the last several years, that Israel will soon be completely on their own… or worse."
He went on to note that the betrayal likely won't happen in one dramatic moment, but rather subtly, behind the scenes, and over the course of several years.
The Obama Administration is preparing to "provide more support to Arab countries [with] financial and military aid, undercutting Israel’s defense efforts all while pushing Israel to succumb to the pressure of unreasonable demands designed to end with their political annihilation as a nation," said the source.
Israeli officials have of late noted a marked increase in the pressure from Washington to more rapidly acquiesce to Arab land-for-peace demands, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has clarified that Washington is none to pleased with incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to commit to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian Arab state with Jerusalem as its capital.

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It seems that sometimes our government is totally against God. I'm reminded daily that Elijah, too, was living in a time when his government abandoned God. In fact, he thought he was the only one in all of Israel that cared about God and His laws. That was not so. Paul said,

Rom 11:1-5
(1) I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
(2) God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,
(3) "Lord, they killed Your prophets and dug down Your altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
(4) But what does the Divine answer say to him? "I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
(5) Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being.

And even so, there is still a remnant according to the election of grace that is standing with Israel, with life, with morality, and with the name of Jesus. Although we may feel alone in our faith, God assures us we are not alone.