Célébrant quarante ans après la victoire israélienne miraculeuse dans la guerre 1967 de six jours, une analyse des circonstances de cet événement important a été récemment éditée par un groupe de journalistes et d'historiens investigateurs. Sa conclusion est que tant de facteurs sont venus ensemble pour le succès de l'Israel qu'il est impossible de conclure qu'ils étaient des résultats normaux ou le cours normal des événements.

« C'est de Dieu ».

Avant le juin 1967, les frontières de l'Israel étaient périlleuses, indéfendable - à un point, le sud de Haïfa, la largeur de l'Israel de la mer méditerranéenne vers la Cisjordanie Jordanie-commandée était moins puis dix milles. La guerre a augmenté la taille du secteur Israel-commandé par plus que le double. D'une manière plus importante, Jérusalem est devenu une ville unifiée et le capital de l'Israel. Les Arabes identifient leur défaite désastreuse en réclamant constamment « le retour à pre-1967 encadre » dans n'importe quelle affaire de paix avec l'Israel.

Dans la guerre l'Israel a combattu deux fois autant de soldats ennemis, trois fois autant de réservoirs et quatre fois autant d'avion. La nuit avant que le Commander-in-Chief de l'Egypte commencée par guerre ait recueilli sa commande élevée pour une partie à une base aérienne éloignée où ils ont été emprisonnés le matin prochain, incapable de retourner à leurs bases. Le radar de la Jordanie a détecté les escadrons des avions israéliens d'attaque décollant et l'Egypte avertie mais le commis de chiffre a employé le livre faux de code et ne pourrait pas comprendre le message pressant.

Tous les commandants supérieurs d'armée dans le Sinai ont été remplacés pendant deux semaines déja et étaient peu familiers avec le territoire qu'ils ont été censés pour défendre.

Écrivez Sarah que Rigler, qui a écrit au sujet de la guerre de six jours, croit que la série d'erreurs égyptiennes a indiqué le travail d'une main invisible : « Vous pouvez la dire, une quelle coïncidence ou toi chanceuse pouvez voir la main divine, » avez dit. « Vous pouvez voir Dieu a arrangé toutes ces choses pour se produire la manière qu'elles parce qu'il a voulu que la grève israélienne réussît. Il a voulu que nous gagnassent. Il a voulu que nous regagnassent nos endroits saints. »

Le Général célèbre Moshe Dayan, le commandant de l'Israélien force, était une personne très séculaire. Pourtant il est allé visiter le mur occidental le jour après qu'il ait été libéré. Il y a une tradition pour mettre des notes à Dieu dans le mur. Tellement même il a mis une petite note à Dieu dans les crevasses dans le mur. As soon as he left, a newspaper man ran and took the note out and read it.

It was a line from Psalms that said; ‘This is from God. It’s wondrous in our eyes.” (Psalm 118:23).

One of the many places in the Bible that refers to the latter day lowly state of Egypt is Isaiah 19. “The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst, and they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit” v.14. This description could have been specially written for Egypt’s performance in the Six Day War.

A reading of any detailed record of the 1967 war, such as The Swift Sword by Brig. Gen. S. Marshall and published by the American Heritage Magazine, will confirm hundreds of battlefield incidents that are simply beyond normal experience. These miracles have been a recurring theme throughout Israel’s sixty years of modern history and testify to God’s overriding care for Israel. “Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper” Psalm 121:4-5. “He who touches you touches the apple of his eye” Zechariah 2:8.

Israel Desperately Needs a Better Government
The present leaders of Israel have little to no idea of Israel’s divine destiny. Surrounded by hostile Arab forces, Israel’s politicians are trying to find the least repulsive of the options open to them - coexistence with a Palestinian state - to divert the worst of the Arab invective and make Israeli life more tolerable. They don’t seem to realize that the 3000 year old Arab enmity will not go away, “…you have had an ancient [other versions "perpetual", "continuous"] hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword…” Ezekiel 35:5. Furthermore, the Bible destiny of the Palestinians is surrender of the lands on which they now camp [Obadiah vv.18-20 where modern Esau = Palestinians] rather than an official identity. The only Biblical [and therefore certain] option for Israel is to stand firm against Arab efforts to annihilate her as tough as that course may be.

The UK newspaper The Economist recently issued a 14 page assessment of Israel in 2008. A key conclusion is that, over many decades, the proportional system of election, rejected by nearly all democracies, is producing an increasingly irresponsible brand of government in Israel. At present there are 12 political parties represented in the Knesset, each scrabbling for a place in the ruling coalition, resulting in risky promises, shaky loyalty and unstable alignments. Corruption of politicians is on the rise. Integrity is at a discount. Harassment is increasing. Israelis of integrity and talent are avoiding politics and turning to business. It is a sad decline from the old days of visionary government.

On the other hand, Israel’s economy and tourism is healthy, the value of the shekel improving. The Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer announced plans to buy daily $25 million of foreign currency to arrest further rises in the shekel value. It will boost reserves from $28 billion to $35-40 billion to aid Israeli business competitiveness.

At an international business conference in Jerusalem, a US-based investor said, “Israel boasts many advantages for foreign investors: including terrific universities, a wealth of experienced managers, quality engineers and scientists, well-trained physicians and more. But I have never seen a lower calibre of government than you have in this country. Your foreign ministry is staffed with low quality people and a low quality leader. The Supreme Court is a collection of far-left activists who then appoint more far-left activists to join them on the bench. It feels like all the smart people in the country have started their own companies, and the rest have been left to run the country”.

God will not let Israel disappear or be displaced. He did not restore Israel to the Holy Land in vain. Despite the politicians, God has given Israel a sound base to survive. The politicians will lose the plot and let Israel’s enemies grow to the point where Jesus will need to deal with them [Isaiah 63:1-6]. Then the politicians will be replaced by Jesus ruling out of Jerusalem. “For out of Zion the Law shall go forth and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” Micah 4:4.

And Still the Tourists Come
While Israel watchers deplore the political ineptitude of Israel’s government and its inability to deal effectively with Hamas, Gaza and the Palestinians, and while rockets from Gaza pepper two towns in Israel [Ashkelon and Sderot], the tourists are not deterred. The following information from the Israeli Tourist Board is surprising:

“February 2008 saw 200,000 tourists arrive in Israel, an increase of 46% in comparison to 2007. The U.S. tops the list, providing more than a quarter of all tourists, followed by France and Russia. Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Germany and England also rank high. Individuals from China and Korea are also beginning to show a keen interest in visiting Israel.”

Jesus Christ’s coming Kingdom Age will see enormous crowds arriving in the Holy Land, “And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts” Zechariah 14:16. They will come in their millions, not as tourists, but as worshippers of the true God.