The following letter to Janee E. Healy, Editorial Page Editor of the Orlando Sentinel, addresses a problem that is applicable to much of the media.

Dear Ms. Healy:

The Orlando Sentinel gives a distorted view of the Middle East situation when its columnists describe the regions problems and solutions from a two dimensional, Jewish/Palestinian, perspective. (Saturday: A Jewish point of view, by Sheely; A Palestinian perspective, by Diab; and Sunday, Far-away conflict, local concern: Attention to both sides, by Pynn.)

The following letter to Janee E. Healy, Editorial Page Editor of the Orlando Sentinel, addresses a problem that is applicable to much of the media.

Dear Ms. Healy:

The Orlando Sentinel gives a distorted view of the Middle East situation when its columnists describe the regions problems and solutions from a two dimensional, Jewish/Palestinian, perspective. (Saturday: A Jewish point of view, by Sheely; A Palestinian perspective, by Diab; and Sunday, Far-away conflict, local concern: Attention to both sides, by Pynn.)

The problems and solution are three dimensional and the dimension that the Sentinel is not addressing is the perspective of the God of Israel.

The Bible records the past, present and future of the land of Israel, and every prophecy in the Bible either has or will come to pass. However, they did not, and will not come to pass in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Moscow or Tokyo. The fulfilment of Biblical Prophecy takes place in Israel, in the Holy Land.

The future of your readers may well depend on understanding what has happened in Israel and what is happening today. If we as a nation make the wrong decisions about Israel we could be destroyed by God. For God says, "It shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." (Zechariah 12:9). We certainly don't want to be one of the nations destroyed by God, and yet, because we bow before Arab oil money we could end up on the wrong side of our Creator.

It is madness to commit our country’s support to the blasphemy that Jerusalem, the city of David, and the ancient Israelite kingdoms of Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank), should be recognized as a sovereign Palestinian State, because that State will serve another god.

There is a better solution.

Fortunately, we have a relationship model that has worked for the past fifty-four years, one that has had Israelis and Palestinians live together in peace: Make them both citizens of one state.

Presently the State of Israel includes a million Arabs among its citizens. There has been no outcry from these Arab citizens in Israel, or from the world, that they are being mistreated. In fact, there has not only not been an outcry to deliver these Arabs citizens from Israel, the reverse is true. Some three to four million Arabs, claiming to be the descendants of the 750,000 refugees that fled during the 1948 War of Independence, want back in.

Integrating the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into the present State of Israel would result in a state with a population of 9,730,000. Of these: 5,190,000 would be Jews, 3,980,000 Muslims (Arab), and 560,000 Christians (many of whom are Arab). Such integration would bring immediate peace because the Arabs believe they could win the ensuing population battle and thus achieve their objective of having a state in which they would be in the majority. On the other hand, the Jews will rest in the assurance that they serve a God who can control wombs and immigration in their favor.

May the editorial policy of the Orlando Sentinel be in favor of uniting and not dividing God’s Land!

Shalom in our generation,

Angus Wootten
Executive Director, Messianic Israel Alliance