AS AMERICA HAS DONE TO ISRAEL
I am about to make a bold statement. A statement extremely hard to believe, but If you read on, you will see it proven by history. Here is the statement: Almost all major natural (and many financial) disasters to hit America since Israel became a nation in 1948 can be directly linked within days (and in most cases on the same day) of America doing something to further its agenda of forcing Israel to divide its covenant land* for “peace”.
*Covenant land is the land grant God gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. It was the same land that Obadiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah prophesied that God would one day restore to the re-born nation of Israel; The land between the Euphraties River and Nile River.
*Covenant land is the land grant God gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. It was the same land that Obadiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah prophesied that God would one day restore to the re-born nation of Israel; The land between the Euphraties River and Nile River.
Speaking to Abraham (the first Hebrew) and his descendants of which the Jewish people are a part: “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
A prophecy for Judah (the Tribe of Judah from which the Jewish people descended): “He crouches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who curses you.” Numbers 24:9
Speaking of His people; the Twelve Tribes of Israel of which the Tribe of Judah (the Jewish people) is part; God (YHWH) says: For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. (Deuteronomy 7:6)
And…
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done [to My people], it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. Obadiah 1:15
And…
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. (Zechariah 2:8)
What about Jerusalem? Is it important to Him?
Thus says the Lord [YHWH], who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him: 2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. 3 And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. 4 In that day,” says the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of hosts, their God.’ Zechariah 12:1-5 Yup, Jerusalem is important to Him.
AS AMERICA HAS DONE TO ISRAEL
Notes and excerpts from a book by John P. McTernan, Ph.D
Notes and excerpts from a book by John P. McTernan, Ph.D
Note: Comments and statements between brackets [ ] are from the creator of this web site and not the author of the book or writing being commented on.
President Bush brought the United States into a direct confrontation with God [YHWH]. The prophets wrote that this land was not negotiable, as it was part of restored Israel. President Bush said it was negotiable, and that it must be surrendered for the sake of peace. The President placed the United States in a position diametrically opposed to God’s word.
This is what happened when America's leaders started the process of pressuring Israel to give up land for peace:
In 1991, President Bush took upon himself the creation of a comprehensive peace plan for the Middle East. On October 30 1991, President George H. W. Bush convened the Madrid Peace Process which involved Israel and the covenant land, saying: “Territorial compromise is essential for peace” The President used the power of the United States to pressure Israel into this peace process with the Palestinians, Syrians, and Egyptians.
On that same day (October 30), a powerful storm developed off Nova Scotia, catching the National Weather Bureau completely by surprise. It developed suddenly from unusual weather patterns that typically only occur once each century. The National Weather Service never officially named this storm, but it reached hurricane strength. This storm was extremely rare because it traveled for one thousand miles in a westward direction. The weather pattern for the United States is eastward! Meteorologists called this storm “extra-tropical” because it did not originate in the tropics, as most hurricanes do.
On October 31st, this ferocious storm smashed into New England. It was a monster hundreds of miles wide, described by meteorologists as one of the most powerful ever to occur. The National Weather Service later nicknamed this hurricane “The Perfect Storm.” Sebastian Junger wrote a best-selling book about this storm that became a motion picture and captured the drama of the ships caught in it. The Perfect Storm was the title of both the book and movie.
This storm hit the President’s home the same day he initiated the Madrid Peace Conference. What awesome timing! An extremely rare and powerful storm developed in the North Atlantic Ocean and went one thousand miles in the wrong direction. The storm then struck the President’s own home on the very day he was opening the Madrid Peace Conference. The President’s land was touched the day he attempted to touch the covenant land of Israel!
This is what happened when America's pressure actually resulted in the removal of Jewish people from the covenant land where their homes were in Gaza:
August–September 2005
The Closing of the Twenty-Five Jewish Settlements After President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Sharon met in April 2005, Sharon set a timetable to begin the withdrawal from the twenty-five Jewish settlements. On August 16, the Israelis began the process, and by August 23, the Israeli government completed the withdrawal by removing approximately ten thousand Jews from the covenant land.
The Closing of the Twenty-Five Jewish Settlements After President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Sharon met in April 2005, Sharon set a timetable to begin the withdrawal from the twenty-five Jewish settlements. On August 16, the Israelis began the process, and by August 23, the Israeli government completed the withdrawal by removing approximately ten thousand Jews from the covenant land.
President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put enormous pressure on the Israeli government to evacuate these twenty-five settlements. The United States and Israeli governments were negotiating $1.2 billion in aid to help relocate the settlers. The removal of all Jews from Gaza was the first step in President Bush’s plan to establish a Palestinian state next to Israel. In Gaza, sixteen of the twenty-one settlements were collectively known as Gush Katif. These sixteen settlements together made up a small city with a population of about eight thousand. It was one of Israel’s major agriculture centers, and about 15 percent of all Israel's vegetables were grown there. This was not a primitive village but a small, modern city.
To accomplish the evacuation, the Israeli government sent forty thousand soldiers into Gaza to remove approximately ten thousand residents. The government requested the settlers to leave voluntarily, and any who refused were forced out of their homes and off the land. The army then demolished their homes and destroyed the twenty-one Gaza settlements. The demolition left only twenty-one synagogues and the huge vegetable greenhouses standing. It is against Jewish law to destroy a house of worship of any religion, so the Israelis let the synagogues remain.
The Israelis removed the last of Jewish settlers from Gaza on August 22, and the last settlers from Samaria on August 23. The removal of the settlers took a mere seven days to complete. President Bush was extremely happy and mentioned the Israeli withdrawal in speeches on August 22 and 23. In the speech on August 22, he acknowledged that the closing of the settlements caused pain but called it historic. The President’s speech of August 22, in part, follows:
“This past week, Prime Minister Sharon and the Israeli people took a courageous and painful step by beginning to remove settlements in Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank. The Israeli disengagement is an historic step that reflects the bold leadership of Prime Minister Sharon.”
“This past week, Prime Minister Sharon and the Israeli people took a courageous and painful step by beginning to remove settlements in Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank. The Israeli disengagement is an historic step that reflects the bold leadership of Prime Minister Sharon.”
In a speech on August 23, the President again praised Prime Minister Sharon for his “courageous decision to withdraw from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.” He felt this was the beginning of the creation of the State of Palestine. The following is an excerpt from the President’s speech:
I want to congratulate Prime Minister Sharon for having made a very tough decision….The Prime Minister made a courageous decision to withdraw from Gaza….This is step one in the development of a democracy….This is a very hopeful period. Again, I applaud Prime Minister Sharon for making a decision that has really changed the dynamics on the ground and has really provided hope for the Palestinian people. My vision, my hope is that one day we’ll see two states—two democratic states living side by side in peace.”
I want to congratulate Prime Minister Sharon for having made a very tough decision….The Prime Minister made a courageous decision to withdraw from Gaza….This is step one in the development of a democracy….This is a very hopeful period. Again, I applaud Prime Minister Sharon for making a decision that has really changed the dynamics on the ground and has really provided hope for the Palestinian people. My vision, my hope is that one day we’ll see two states—two democratic states living side by side in peace.”
On September 12, Israel handed over the twenty-one Gaza settlements to the Palestinians. This was the largest evacuation of Jews in modern Israeli history, as never before were so many Jews forced off their covenant land. When the Palestinians took control of the settlements, their first objective was to destroy and burn the twenty-one synagogues. Mobs then looted and burned everything in sight, including the huge greenhouses which Israel had left for them.
Hurricane Katrina
The energy, the near-record low pressure in the storm’s core, and its huge dimensions add up to an inevitable disaster. That’s why they’re basically forecasting Armageddon when it goes inland. –Bill Read, meteorologist, tracking Hurricane Katrina, August 28, 2005
The energy, the near-record low pressure in the storm’s core, and its huge dimensions add up to an inevitable disaster. That’s why they’re basically forecasting Armageddon when it goes inland. –Bill Read, meteorologist, tracking Hurricane Katrina, August 28, 2005
On August 23, just as Israel removed the last settler, tropical depression twelve formed over the Bahamas and upgraded to a tropical storm named Katrina. Katrina grew rapidly in power and on August 24 became a category-one hurricane. On August 25, Katrina hit southern Florida, doing about one billion dollars’ worth of damage. Katrina weakened over Florida and was downgraded to a tropical storm.
The hurricane then moved into the Gulf of Mexico and rapidly intensified. By August 29, it was a massive category-five storm about 375 miles in diameter. It was heading directly toward New Orleans. The approaching category-five storm forced 1.5 million people to evacuate their homes and flee inland. As Katrina approached New Orleans, the eye veered slightly eastward and missed the city by fifty miles. The storm destroyed entire parishes both east and south of New Orleans, and heavily damaged the Port of New Orleans, the fifth largest in the world.
The eye struck the Mississippi coast with a storm surge up to thirty-five feet high. This was the highest storm surge ever recorded! The storm entirely devastated the fifty-mile Mississippi coast. When the eye struck land, the barometric pressure was 27.18. This was the third lowest barometric pressure ever recorded for a hurricane making landfall in the United States. The low pressure is an indication of the storm’s power. This was a catastrophic storm in every sense of the word.
The storm surge reached miles inland, destroying everything in its path. This surge totally annihilated the small city of Waveland, Mississippi. A two hundred mile stretch of the Gulf coast from Louisiana to Florida felt the hurricane’s powerful surge. The storm was so powerful that hurricane-force winds struck Jackson, Mississippi, one hundred and fifty miles inland! The winds and rain damaged the entire state of Mississippi.
The direct impact of Katrina initially missed New Orleans, but the next day, August 30, several of the city’s levees failed and water from the surrounding lake poured into the city. Most of the city is below sea level, and now 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. In some places the city was sixteen feet underwater. This was one the greatest disasters in a major city in United States history, and the only comparison to it was the destruction of San Francisco in 1906 by a powerful earthquake and fire. The only comparison to the overall destruction was the Great Hurricane of 1938. The federal government declared a ninety thousand square mile area of land, an area nearly the size of Great Britain, to be a disaster area. New Orleans ceased to function as a city.
City officials estimated that entire neighborhoods were destroyed, and that 120,000 buildings, or 70 percent of the city’s structures, were unsalvageable. Peter Teanen, national Spokesman for the American Red Cross, put the disaster in perspective:
“We are looking now at a disaster above any magnitude that we’ve seen in the United States. We’ve been saying that the response is going to be the largest Red Cross response in the history of the organization.”
“We are looking now at a disaster above any magnitude that we’ve seen in the United States. We’ve been saying that the response is going to be the largest Red Cross response in the history of the organization.”
[8,000 Israeli settlers from the Gaza strip were forced to leave their homes and villages. Exactly 7 days later, Hurricane Katrina smashed Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. 80% of the city of New Orleans was under water.
It is interesting to note almost to the person, 100 times more people were made homeless from Katrina than Jews made homeless from being kicked out of Gaza. What is more interesting is the place where the hurricane broke the levy was called the West Bank levy in Louisanna (http://www.slfpaw.org/). side note: The area across the river is known as the "West Bank", despite the fact that because of the twists of the river it is actually to the south or east from parts of central New Orleans. Such details are not likely to be noticed by people who are not familiar with New Orleans.
Hurricane Isaac pounds Louisiana on (7 year) anniversary of Katrina
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/08/28/hurricane-isaac-makes-landfall-in-southeast-louisiana/#ixzz2NJObvub7 ]
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/08/28/hurricane-isaac-makes-landfall-in-southeast-louisiana/#ixzz2NJObvub7 ]
The connection between the United States government pressuring Israel to destroy twenty-five settlements on the covenant land and Katrina’s destruction is obvious. The hurricane destroyed Southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi a mere six days after the completion of the Gaza evacuation of Jews off the covenant land. Just as the major southern Jewish city in Gaza was destroyed, so was a major southern city in the United States.
The New York Times vividly captured the connection between Gaza and Hurricane Katrina. On the editorial page for August 31, there were two articles. The first, titled “New Orleans in Peril,” was about the destruction of New Orleans; the second, titled “The Battle for Israel’s Future,” was, in part, about the evacuation of Gaza. The following are excerpts from the two editorials to show just how Gaza and Katrina were linked, so that anyone reading the articles could put them together:
“On the day after Hurricane Katrina was declared to be not as bad as originally feared, it became clear that the effects of the storm had been, after all, beyond, devastation. Home owners in Biloxi, Miss., staggered through wrecked neighborhoods looking for their loved ones.”
“On the day after Hurricane Katrina was declared to be not as bad as originally feared, it became clear that the effects of the storm had been, after all, beyond, devastation. Home owners in Biloxi, Miss., staggered through wrecked neighborhoods looking for their loved ones.”
In New Orleans, the mayor reported that rescue boats had begun pushing past dead bodies to look for the stranded living. Gas leaks began erupting into flames and looking at the city, now at 80 percent under water, it was hard not to think of last year’s tsunami, or even ancient Pompeii. –from “New Orleans in Peril”
Mr. Sharon’s withdrawal of Israeli settlers from Gaza completed last week was a historic shift that should be acknowledged and extended. Now that Mr. Sharon has demonstrated that he is able to carry out a territorial compromise…he needs to extend the principle from Gaza to the crucially important West Bank. –from “The Battle for Israel’s Future”
Note: [Shortly after the eviction, Mr. Sharon went into a coma that lasted eight years, ending with his death in January of 2014. For a video about the prophetic significance of this click HERE and HERE .]
A mere twenty-one days after the eviction of the last Jew, the President of the United States was publicly humiliated. On September 13, President Bush told the nation, Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility.
The man behind the humiliation of Israel, by forcing Jews from their covenant land, was himself humiliated before the entire world. His handling of the disaster relief directly impacted his presidency. The public’s opinion of him soured and started the downward spiral of his popularity.
The Similarities
The following is a list of similarities between the destruction of Gaza and Hurricane Katrina.
The following is a list of similarities between the destruction of Gaza and Hurricane Katrina.
Prior to removal, the Israeli government called on Jews to evacuate their homes. The US government called on residents to evacuate their homes prior to the hurricane.
On August 17, Israel ordered a mandatory evacuation of the settlements. On September 7, the mayor of New Orleans ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city.
The evacuation of twelve thousand Jews was the largest in Jewish history since 1948. Several million Americans would evacuate from the path of Hurricane Katrina.
Israel sent forty thousand troops to evacuate the settlers while the United States had to send eighty thousand soldiers to the destroyed area.
Jews went to their roofs to try and delay the eviction, while thousands in New Orleans went to their roofs to keep from drowning.
Gaza is located in Israel’s southern coastal area. A section of America’s southern coast was destroyed.
The evacuation destroyed thousands of Jewish homes. The hurricane destroyed or damaged more than five hundred thousand American homes.
The day Hurricane Katrina hit, Jews were digging up their dead to re-inter them in cemeteries outside Gaza. Katrina’s tidal surge uncovered hundreds of bodies from Gulf coast graveyards.
The Israeli government barred citizens of Gaza from their homes. American citizens in the destroyed areas were barred from their homes.
Many Jewish people felt abandoned by their government. Many Americans felt abandoned by the government’s failure to respond quickly to Hurricane Katrina.
The Israelis from the settlements boarded buses and were taken to locations all over Israel. The people trapped in New Orleans were loaded on buses and taken to shelters all over the United States.
Gush Katif was a major agricultural center. The Port of New Orleans was the major agricultural shipping center in the United States, and the midwestern states shipped much of their produce through this port.
President Bush promised $2.2 billion for the relocation of the settlers. The early estimates were a cost upwards of $200 billion to repair the damage from the hurricane.
Hurricane Rita
While the nation was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, a second monstrous storm, Rita, headed into the Gulf of Mexico. On September 20, Rita brushed Key West, Florida, and headed into the Gulf. Rita exploded to a category-five on September 21 with 175 mile-per-hour winds and headed directly toward Texas. The people living along the Gulf Coast began to evacuate, and eventually nearly everyone fled Houston. Traffic jams one hundred miles long stretched out of Houston as 2.8 million people fled the coast. This would be the greatest evacuation in United States history.
As Rita headed west, the hurricane weakened and turned northward. The storm dropped to a still-powerful category-three hurricane with 125 mile-per-hour winds. On September 24, the hurricane came ashore in Texas just west of the Louisiana border. The eye hit a sparsely populated area of Texas, devastating the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur. The coastal area of western Louisiana was also devastated, and many small cities were totally destroyed. The hurricane’s storm surge reached all the way to New Orleans, flooding the city for the second time in a month. The total damage inflicted by Hurricane Rita was more than ten billion dollars.
The Israel Connection
Hurricane Rita also had a connection with Israel. The destruction of New Orleans occurred just seven days after the removal of the last Jew from Gaza. On September 12, the Israelis gave control of the twenty-one settlements in Gaza to the Palestinians. On September 21, Israel completed its pullout from the four settlements in Samaria. When Israel completed the pullout, the Palestinians poured in and destroyed the settlements, just as in Gaza.
The Palestinians overran the settlements and burned everything, including the trees. They then looted everything possible. At the very time Israel transferred the final four settlements to the Palestinians, Hurricane Rita exploded into a category-five storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour!
On the day Israel surrendered Gaza, New Orleans and huge sections of the Gulf Coast lay in ruins. On the day Israel turned over the Samaria settlements to the Palestinians, a category-five hurricane bore down on the United States. It seems that Katrina was for Gaza while Rita was for Samaria. Within a very short time, Rita tore through the oil rigs in the Gulf, heading toward some of the major refineries in Texas, and destroyed several small towns along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
Coincidences? Maybe the first example was and possibly the second, but three? If I give you another example will you begin to believe there might be something to this? How about two more? In John P. McTernan's book "As America Has Done To Israel" he will give you at least forty-seven more! Click HERE for his website.
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