Dear Mr. President:

“Do Not Divide My Land!”

Do not allow a legacy of your administration to be that you divided God’s Land!

Very significantly, the latest suicide bombing in Israel, which took place near the city of Megiddo on the 35th anniversary of the liberation of the ancient city of Jerusalem, could very well be a Divine warning to the nations.

The plains of Megiddo, also known as the valley of Jehoshaphat, is the prophesied site of the final battle between good and evil. The battle of Armageddon, of which battle the Holy One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob said, “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land. (Joel 3:2).

Please note: Mr. President, the one requirement to be on the wrong side at this age ending battle is to have participated in the division of the Land that was promised to Abraham and his descendants as a perpetual (that means forever) inheritance.

We urge you Mr. President to take the position that President Reagan did and vow that there will be no more division of the land Israel. No separate Palestinian State. Instead, encourage Israel to incorporate the West Bank and Gaza into the nation of Israel, and do with the Palestinians in these areas what they have done with a million Palestinians within their present boundaries (Green Line), recognize them as citizens of Israel. (Separately I have sent you a paper titled, Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria or a Palestinian State, Which Will It Be? which deals more fully with this proposal.)

From this paper, I quote the following excerpts from a letter written by former Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, written to President Ronald Reagan on September 5, 1982. This letter defined Israel's position regarding the “West Bank.” and it should define your position.

Dear Ron:

What some call the “West Bank,” Mr. President, is Judea and Samaria; and this simple historic truth will never change. There are cynics who deride history. They may continue their derision as they wish, but I will stand by the truth. And the truth is that millennia ago there was a Jewish [Israelite] kingdom of Judea and Samaria where our kings knelt to GOD, where our prophets bought forth the vision of eternal peace, where we developed a rather rich civilization which we took with us, in our hearts and in our minds, on our long global trek for over 18 centuries; and with it, we came back home.

By aggressive war, by invasion, King Abdullah conquered parts of Judea and Samaria in 1948; and in a war of most legitimate self-defense in 1967, after being attacked by King Hussein, we liberated, with GOD's help, that portion of our homeland. Judea and Samaria will never again be the "West Bank" of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan which was created by British colonialism after the French army expelled King Feisal from Damascus....

The matter of security is of paramount importance. Geography and history have ordained that Judea and Samaria be mountainous country and that two-thirds of our population dwell in the coastal plain dominated by those mountains. From them you can hit every city, every town, each township and village and, last but not least, our principal airport in the plain below. We used to live penned in eight miles from the seashore; and now, Mr. President, you suggest to us in your proposals, that we return to almost that same situation.

True, you declare that you will not support the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza District. But such a state will arise of itself the day Judea and Samaria are given to Jordanian jurisdiction... Under no circumstances shall we accept such a possibility ever arising which would endanger our very existence.

Mr. President, you and I chose for the last two years to call our countries “friends and allies.” Such being the case, a friend does not weaken his friend, and ally does not put his ally in jeopardy. This would be the inevitable consequence were the "positions" transmitted to me on August 31, 1982, to become reality [Today, those positions are proposed by the United Nations, the European Union, the Arab Nations, and the United States].

I believe they won't.

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest. Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, And her salvation like a torch that is burning (Isaiah 62:1).

Yours, respectfully and sincerely,

Menachem.

Mr. President you are in our prayers.

Shalom in our generation,
Angus Wootten
Executive Director, Messianic Israel Alliance