News from the CWI - Yachad

A call for action and assurance…

Dear Friends,

Although CWI is first and foremost a mission concerned with the spiritual well-being of the Jewish people we cannot afford to stand by silently when Jewish people and our own friends and colleagues are in danger.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to support the establishment of a Palestinian state when the UN meets on the 20th of this month. In the lead up to the historic vote, attacks on Israel have increased and as we draw closer to the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Centre the internet is festooned with claims that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.

Should the UN vote in favour of a Palestinian state, not only will that violate the Oslo Accord, it will also result in further conflict just as when Israel ethnically cleansed Gaza of its Jewish population. The result was an escalation of missile attacks on the towns and cities of southern Israel. CWI has colleagues and friends in Israel and I have not the slightest doubt that the establishment of a Palestinian state will place them in even greater danger than they already are.

In May, British Prime Minister David Cameron assured Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that ‘Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support for Israel and Israel’s security is something I have described in the past, and will do so again, as unshakeable.’

At the time, columnist Melanie Philips asked if Mr Cameron makes a habit of threatening his friends because the PM also told Mr Netanyahu that unless Israel ‘engages seriously in a meaningful peace process’ with the Palestinian Authority, the more likely it is that Britain will endorse the “State of Palestine” for which the PA is expected to seek recognition at the UN in September.’
‘This is not the behaviour of a friend,’ said Miss Phillips, ‘so much as the kind of intimidation that is more reminiscent of a Mafia protection racket.’

I have written to Mr Cameron, to the Foreign Secretary William Hague and to my own MP asking for an assurance that Britain will stand by Israel at the UN.

The following is my letter to the Prime Minister. Please feel free to adapt it to write your own letter to Mr Cameron, to the Home Secretary and to your local MP.

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8th September 2011
The Prime Minister
The Right Honourable David Cameron MP
House of Commons
LONDON
SW1A 0AA

Dear Prime Minister,

Although I welcome your assurance to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Britain’s friendship with Israel is ‘unshakeable’, I was deeply concerned to read your warning to Mr Netanyahu that unless Israel ‘engages seriously in a meaningful peace process’ with the Palestinian Authority, Britain will support the PA’s call for the recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN this month.  

Your threat concerns me for a number of reasons.

First, you are pressurising the victim in the Israel-Palestine conflict rather than the aggressor. Israel has constantly tried to make peace while their enemies have not, and virtually all Israel’s concessions to the Palestinians have been reciprocated with an increase in aggression.

Second, Mr Netanyahu has stated publicly that he will be the first to welcome a Palestinian state if that state is willing to recognise a Jewish state. Although Mr Abbas wishes the world to recognise and support a Palestinian state, he has stated repeatedly that he will never accept Israel as a Jewish state.

Third, a ‘State of Palestine’ will be a racist state, inasmuch as Mr Abbas has declared on several occasions that not a single Jew will be allowed to live there.

Fourth, Mr Abbas’ Fatah party is in an alliance with Hamas, a terror organisation explicitly committed to the genocide of the Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel. If Britain supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, it will be endorsing a regime committed to a programme of genocide.

Such unreasonable pressure on Israel is nothing less than a demand that Mr Netanyahu negotiate the destruction of his own country. Should Britain support a Palestinian state at the UN later this month, I believe future generations will condemn you as the Prime Minister who stood shoulder to shoulder with genocidal terrorists against their victims.

May I be assured that you will be a true friend to Israel by opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state until such a time as the Palestinian leaders unambiguously recognise the right of the Jewish people to a national homeland?

Yours sincerely,

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Yours for the salvation of Israel,

Mike Moore
General Secretary 
Christian Witness to Israel