Lance Lambert Middle East Update – June 2014
editor Thursday 10 July 2014 
By Lance Lambert.. This is Lance Lambert speaking, and this is my Update for June, 2014. This Update has been recorded in Britain, outside of Israel, with the help of my dear friend, Hugh Kitson, the producer of the Blessing/Curse or Coincidence, andJerusalem the Covenant City, and other documentaries, and dear Richard Briggs, who was with us for over four years in Jerusalem.
I’m very sorry for the delay that there has been this year in this Update, but we’ve had two years of problem and difficulty, but the Lord has been very wonderful in it all, and brought us through it all. We want just simply to say that at present, we have a number of difficulties, both in the management of the house and looking after it, as well as the ministry, and this has combined to make a delay for this Update. I do hope you understand, and that you will pray for us.
I’m going to read the Scriptures—I’m going to go to a number of those that we have at different times underlined. First of all in Psalm 33, verse 10 and 11. “The Lord bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples [or the strategies of the peoples] to be of no effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth fast for ever, the thoughts [or strategies] of his heart to all generations.”
And then I want to add to that Ezekiel, chapter 13, from verse 10. ”Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar: say unto them that daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar; and I will say unto you, the wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;to wit, the prophets of Israel that prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord.” [Ezekiel 13:10-16]
I want to add to that in Jeremiah, chapter 8, from verse 11 to 13: “And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. I will utterly consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.”
And then finally, Jeremiah 14, verse 13: “Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, the prophets say unto them, ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then the Lord said unto me, the prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword;” [Jeremiah 14:13-16]
In this Update, I shall seek by the grace of the Lord to cover these matters: the so-called Peace Process. I consider it a charade—a dance of death to national suicide—its demise, that I will cover this. And then, its final death knell and the US officials and their words that they’ve spoken; the weather troubles in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, and the surrounding nations at present, and what is happening in them, and the Pope Francesco’s [Francis] visit to Israel, to the Holy Land. I will seek to cover these matters, as the Lord helps.
This “Peace Process” which I have described is a macabre dance of death, leading to a national suicide. The problem before John Kerry and for President Obama, and for the other leaders, both in the United Kingdom and the European Union, is they speak peace, peace, where there is no peace. We have to remember that no other nation has been engaged in a peace process with nations that have written within their constitution that they aim to completely destroy . I cannot believe that the United States or the European Union nations, the United Kingdom would dream of sitting down at a table and being pushed by the United Nations or others, to make peace with people who are adamant about our elimination and destruction. That’s why this peace process could never at any point succeed as far as God is concerned. It is a lie from the beginning. The so-called “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas has always actually been clear about the final elimination of Israel.
He was the architect of the plan that’s called the “stage-by-stage demoralization and destruction of Israel.” He actually got his doctorate by denying the Holocaust, saying it never actually happened. How he could ever be called a “moderate man for peace” I don’t know. For this reason I have called the peace process “so-called,” and a “death dance to Israel’s suicide.”
They speak about “land for peace.” I think it should be termed, “land for war.” And it is an invitation to Israel—this peace process—to drink a deadly poison. Consider that Mahmoud Abbas, who has led the Palestinian side in the peace process, refuses to even recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
And then another matter—the Palestinian logo has the whole of Israel as its logo for Palestine—not just part of it—the whole.
Then thirdly, he has made a reunion between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
Fourthly, he continuously refers to Israel as an “apartheid state” whilst at the same time, insisting that not a single Jew will be allowed to reside in the “State of Palestine.”
Fifthly, the Palestinian Authority has a global plan to strangle Israel, and it’s called the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Program.”
Sixthly, all now the various ministers both from the Fatah, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have now been named.
The Prime Minister of Israel had said from the very beginning that if the Palestinian Authority were to take unilateral action it would be the end of the peace process. And that is precisely what they did. They applied in 15 UN treaties—to become part of those treaties.
The second thing that the Prime Minister said, was that if there was going to be a reunion between Hamas and the Fatah—the Palestinian Authority, it would be the end also of the peace process. The fact is that that reunion has taken place and it looks as if it’s set at present in stone. For this reason, Binyamin Netanyahu said the peace process is finished. Even Kerry said the United States had failed with the peace process. The really interesting thing—fact—for all of you to hear that are listening to me, is that Hamas has never ceased to cause problems from Gaza for Israel.
When Ariel Sharon withdrew from Gaza, destroying all the settlement there, he believed it was the beginning of a reconciliation with the Palestinians that would lead to peace. It has been nothing of the kind. We have had over 40,000 rockets and missiles since then. It is quite clear that if Hamas is going to remain part of the Palestinian Authority, they will boost what is already the Palestinian Authority’s view of the final demoralization of Israel and her destruction.
They will use weapons that they will fire from the Palestinian state on every part of Israel. The end is simply to say, this is—“peace,” they’re saying “peace, peace, where there is no peace.”
The reunion of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is really the death knell of the peace process. The Israeli government, led by Bibi Netanyahu has been absolutely clear from the beginning that this reunion, once it became a fact, would be the end of the peace process.
The situation is really quite simple. You cannot introduce into a peace process those who are 100% for its destruction—for Israel’s destruction. The immediate response of the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations is amazing. The United States said through John Kerry, the Secretary of State, in a telephone call to Benjamin Netanyahu, that Washington would work with the new Palestinian government, while continuing to watch it closely.
The European Union’s top envoy to the United States said that Europe was also prepared to work with a government backed by Hamas. The United Nations also said that it would work together with the new Palestinian unity government.
The Israeli government’s response was immediate. They said they were deeply disappointed by the United States’ State Department, saying that it would work with the Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas—Islamists, opposed to Israel’s existence.
If you take Danny Danon, Deputy Defense Minister, he actually warned the US that its taxpayer money will ultimately fund terror. It is well worth noting here that the United States actually pays 500 million dollars per year to the Palestinian Authority. It is supposed to be for hospitals, for kindergartens, for schools, for building estates, but the ordinary Palestinian naturally wonders where it all goes—because it is not built on such matters. This is actually true—not only of the United States and it is from American taxpayers that the money comes, in the end, but it is true also of the European nations, the Scandinavian nations and of Britain. The European Union gives 500 million Euro per year to the Palestinians. It all comes from European citizens’ tax. That is amazing to me. One wonders where does the money all go?
Naftali Bennett, also in the government, the Economics Minister, said the newly inaugurated joint Hamas-Fatah-Palestinian Authority government is nothing more than a gang of terrorists in suits.
Intelligence Minister in the government of Israel, Yuval Steinitz, publicly declared on IDF radio, you cannot present it as a Hamas government internally then present it publicly as a government of technocrats—which of course is what Abbas called it. He said that every government minister in the Palestinian government would not be belonging to a particular political factions, but would all be “technocrats.”
If we take this whole matter, it is a serious development. Hamas itself—it is interesting to note, the co-founder of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, has made it quite clear that Hamas involvement in the Palestinian Authority would only be a means to further the resistance to Israel and that any agreement the Palestinian Authority might reach with Israel will only serve as a prelude to war.
I think that it is extraordinary that after all the “hoo-ha” about this peace process that we suddenly discover what really lies at its heart. For instance, the Hamas weapons production program in Gaza is moving ahead at full speed with local rocket production centers, churning out thousands of projectiles, according to Israeli security evaluations. All said and done, we have seen the end of the peace process, as far as Israel is concerned. I have no doubt at all that the United States administration, the British administration, the European Union administration, will all seek to resurrect this peace process in a new guise, but I think it has completely failed.
I’m very surprised that John Kerry has used the words, which later he said he regretted using, and said that Israel would become an apartheid state, if there was a one-‐state solution rather than a two-‐state solution. It is a most unfortunate use of the word “apartheid” when actually referring to Israel.
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