Hi Jan & all:
I just found some interesting articles at this link. http://www.israelendtimes.com/blog/br>
Your readers should keep in mind most of the articles are probably from an orthodox Jewish and/or political perspective. You will find Biblical verses cited.
Jean

œEvery place where the sole of your foot will tread shall be yours “ from the Wilderness and the Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River until the Western sea shall be your boundary (Deut. 11:24)

When Israel is not intact, shaleim, it is as if the Eternal One™s integrity and Unity is diminished, state the sages of the Zohar. When this fracturing pertains there cannot be peace, not within or around Israel nor anywhere in the world. And today many cry, œ(152)˜peace, peace™ but there is no peace because Israel is not intact. Its leaders have behaved like wayward sons and faithless wives, like harlots. œOn the roads you awaited your lovers like an Arab in the desert. Thus the quislings œhave brought guilt upon the land with their adultery and evil (Isaiah 2:25 “ 3:9). So intoxicated is this group with their delusions and apologetics about a peace process that brings war and about the pillagers from the desert that they have opened the (152)˜gates™ of the Land to them, tearing it like treif.

To repeat: œthe peace of the wicked has let Edom and Ishmael into the land and holy places in which the Unity of the Eternal One is to be embodied and praised by an integral Israel, Yisrael Shleimah. The selfish arrogance of their designs and self-serving rhetoric fills the land with violence even as œtheir tongue struts the earth (psalm 73). Being harlots, the œfaithless shepherds that abandon their flock the troika of defeatism and corruption have treated Israel like a harlot (Genesis 34). Thus the Land is torn into pieces and the people are fragmented by fatalism, confusion, and alien ideas / gods.

It is a time of His concealed countenance

We will briefly consider the surface noise these betrayals and this drunkenness makes and then return to quench our thirst with the clarity of œmilk and winethe kindnesses promised to David (Isaiah 55, haftora for Torah portion Re™eh). As the penitents sang, this kindness and truth is a veritable œpsalm of song whose foundation is in the holy mountains (psalm 87). For it is in the topography and the Promised Land, in the fruitful œsong of the Land, as Jacob called its produce (Genesis 43:11) that this wholeness is manifest. The integrity of the landscape is the œtruth sprouts from the earth to demonstrate the area in which Israel will be integrated, whole, complete and, thus, at peace.

URL: http://www.israelendtimes.com/blog//p>