Dear Mr. President:

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting...God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it” (Daniel 5:18-31).

This was the judgment of the most high God concerning Belshazzar, king of Babylon. Belshazzar like his father Nebuchadnezzar, refused to acknowledge that ultimately the will of the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men.

Today the media reported that your Secretary of State Colin Powell has come up with a proposal to end the Israeli-PLO standoff: A temporary Palestinian state. Further, Powell told a Lebanese newspaper that, “President Bush feels that such a state could be a step towards a comprehensive agreement, something on which the Palestinians could hang their hopes and dreams.” President Bush's vision of peace in the Middle East, Powell said, includes “The end of the conquest, the end of [Jewish] settlements [in Yesha], and a Palestinian state - and I know that in order to reach this vision, a temporary state is needed as an interim stage.”

Mr. President you need to change your vision! If you refuse to acknowledge God’s command not to divide His Land and are party to giving the ancient Israelite kingdoms of Judea and Samaria, wherein the people of Israel worshiped the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to a people who serve another god, you too may well receive the judgment measured out to Belshazzer.

Remember our Messiah’s last command to his disciples, which includes you, was to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea, and Samaria until the consummation of the earth (Acts 1:8). It will be difficult to fulfill this command in a Palestinian State which will undoubtedly follow the lead of other Islamic States and put Christians to death for being a witness for Jesus (Yeshua).

Mr. President you have been given the task of developing a vision that will truly bring peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Fortunately, you have a relationship model that has worked for the past fifty-four years in having Israelis and Palestinians live 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. At least this would be a battle to protect and create life, rather than to kill. However, the big advantage of this solution is that it does not divide God’s Land.

Furthermore, the proposed solution of a separate Palestinian State will not work. Putting a different label on the package does not change the contents. Radical Islam has not, is not, and will not allow any entity to coexist peaceably with 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. Further, I have sendt you a copy of the current issue of the Messianic Israel Herald which includes a copy of this article.

Mr. President you are in our prayers.

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