Israel Agreed to a Brokered Deal on her International Border Crossings

which Many Believe will Gravely Endanger her Security

The United States and the European Union reportedly placed great pressure upon Israel to accept this deal, even though it seemingly gives great advantage to Israel's mortal enemies.

NEWS BRIEF: "Rice Secures Rafah Package Stripped of Adequate Counter-Terror Safeguards", DEBKAfile Intelligence, November 15, 2005
"The White House ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to stay over in Jerusalem until the deal for the Gaza Strip¹s international crossings was in the bag ... The breakthrough was announced after she met defense minister Shaul Mofaz Tuesday morning. It was achieved after Israel backed down from virtually all its demands for security safeguards against terrorist incursions."

Why should we be surprised that Israel backed down from her "firm demands" at the last possible second? Such occurrences have become quite common during the tenure of "hardliner" Prime Minister Sharon.

Let us now examine some of the pertinent features of this agreement:

"The Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt will reopen on November 25 as a Palestinian-Egyptian facility with a European presence. Video images will be transferred to a control center at the Kerem Shalom crossing which is on Israeli soil. It will be manned by Israelis and Palestinians with a European presence. Israel will not be entitled to demand that suspected terrorists be kept out or detained ... As for the crossings from Gaza into Israel, Israel surrendered the prerogative to shut down them down to secure personnel against terror alerts ... Sharon relinquished a key element of Israel¹s sovereign right to self-defense and agreed to hamstring its own army¹s freedom to combat terror. The presence of Palestinian customs inspectors at Kerem Shalom makes an additional inroad on Israeli sovereignty."

"From Dec. 15 to January 15, ³secured Palestinian convoys² will start rolling across southern Israel from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank ­ trucks for goods and buses for people ­ unrestricted by Israel. The Palestinians want their own forces to secure the trucks. There is no sign of the Sharon government standing up to Washington¹s demands on that point either, so it is more than likely that Palestinian ³forces² will be let loose on a wide swathe of southern Israel to escort 150 trucks a day bound for Hebron, Ramallah, Jenin and Nablus. The provisions for the Rafah crossing will also be applied to Gaza¹s deep sea port construction of which begins without delay. Israel has therefore forfeited control and oversight over incoming goods and people to Gaza by sea as well as overland."

The width, depth, and height of this betrayal by the Sharon government is staggering! Now, trucks and other vehicles can cross into israel through the Rafah border crossing and through Gaza ports in whatever volume is needed to arm and militarize the Gaza Strip. It really sounds like the Palestinians, Egyptians and all terrorist groups will now be able to send in as many military supplies as the Egyptian generals in charge of the operation feel is necessary to ready the Gaza for all-out war against Israel. From Gaza, prime military targets are within artillery range!

Literally, Prime Minister Sharon has allowed the enemy to come right up to Israel's gates. Yet, Sharon's officials continue to insist that Israel has never known such "Peace and Safety" as she now enjoys. Earlier this year, we read that the IDF expects war no later than 2006. This kind of one-sided agreements accomplishes two things for the enemies of Israel:

1) They can now stage as much military supply as they feel they need to attack Israel;

2) They must now feel that old "War-Horse" Sharon lacks the will to fight when the battle begins.

Last week, we posted an article entitled, "International Control of Jerusalem Just Jolted Forward" -- NEWS2087. We reported that Sharon's sudden agreement to allow European Union control of the border crossings represents a huge step forward toward International control of the religious sites in the old Holy City, Jerusalem. This next article speaks to that EU plan.

NEWS BRIEF: "EU security teams to region taking shape", The Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2005
"An Italian police commander with experience in Albania and Hebron and an Irish police superintendent with experience in Ulster and London will head EU security-related teams dispatched to the Palestinian Authority. EU special Middle East envoy Marc Otte told the Associated Press that Italian police Gen. Pietro Pistolese will head the 50-man EU team that will monitor the Rafah border crossing ... Otte said that the team will be comprised of monitors from Italy, Germany and Great Britain, and that the goal was to have the crossing point open - at least on a partial basis - by November 25."

"An EU technical team has been in the area for a week assessing the team's logistical needs, but Otte said it had still not been determined whether the monitor force will be armed ... Peres, who met Wednesday with visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos, said EU-BAM 'constitutes an entrance of the EU into the Middle East in a more political sense than ever before'."

Exactly! This revelation is confirmation of our article, above. "International Control of Jerusalem Just Jolted Forward"!

At least one truly conservative news source understood the gravity of the situation.

NEWS BRIEF: "'Israel has forfeited its security': Israel no longer able to act against any breach at international crossings", Jerusalem Newswire, November 18, 2005

"Israeli media analyst Dr. Aaron Lerner says Israel has forfeited any say on its own security by signing on to the ³Agreement on Movement and Access² in the face of an international full-court press led by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earlier this week. The deal, says Lerner, leaves Israel virtually powerless to act or influence decisions should it detect a security breach at the Gaza-Sinai border or off the coast of Gaza ... Furthermore, Israel has committed itself to establish together with and under the eyes of the Bush administration ³an agreed list of obstacles to movement² in Judea and Samaria. Israel regularly uses military roadblocks and checkpoints to disrupt ³Palestinian² terrorist efforts to mass murder its Jewish citizens. According to the agreement, it will now have to coordinate such non-lethal preventative security measures with Washington.

"... between Sunday evening and Tuesday morning, Rice managed to reduce what remained of Israel's resolve and extract the security concessions required by the gentile nations for ³peace.²
"CBN News Thursday quoted former Israeli ambassador and veteran analyst Yossi Ben-Aharon as saying the agreement looks good on paper, but not in practice.
'It may sound plausible, workable -- I beg to differ', said Ben-Aharon. 'We will really not be able to prevent the importation of people, dangerous people, and arms. That is why I think we have made a mistake, for which we will pay a heavy price'.²

This is a recipe for war -- sometime in 2006. Remember what the Apostle Paul foretold as a sure sign of the End of the Age:

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." (1 Thess 5:3)