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My forthcoming political thriller -- THE COPPER SCROLL -- centers on an apocalyptic battle between religious Jews and their Middle Eastern enemies for control of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria (more commonly known as the West Bank). More details on the novel coming soon. But it should be noted that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to divide Jerusalem and give it and most of the West Bank to the terrorist Hamas regime is increasingly unpopular in Israel and could trigger a new wave of regional violence, perhaps even a new war. The Bush administration seems cautiously supportive of the Olmert plan. Evangelical Christian leaders are watching to see exactly what will transpire. But I'm hearing a number of prominent Christians leaders consider how best to oppose the Olmert plan while simultaneously standing with Israel in its nuclear showdown with Iran.
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Consider the following excerpts from an Agence France Presse story:
"Right-wing Israeli fanatics are plotting an apocalypse of fire and brimstone to sabotage Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to evict thousands of Jews from the West Bank after a 40-year occupation. A draft battle plan, seeking to incite a third Palestinian uprising in the vein of the intifadas of 1987-93 and 2000 until today, has been drawn up and handed out to sympathisers at an award ceremony for a dissident Jewish conscript. On its cover the short booklet adopts images of the apocalypse, pertinent to popular culture surrounding the end of the world: flames licking through fields and villages; Israeli army vehicles ablaze and olive trees axed to pieces. 'We are going to create an atmosphere of terror,' promises the pamphlet in its heavily printed dozen-odd pages, calling on militants to 'lead the call to fight against the army of destruction'....First off, swarms of militant Jews will puncture the tyres of jeeps and army trucks, torch military supplies and dump toxic products into water supplies to cut the soldiers' advance in its tracks. In a second wave of protest, young people will flock en masse to settlements threatened with eviction orders and try to succeed where they failed last year in Gaza: to stop soldiers and police from carrying out their mission. In parallel, the plan calls for assaults on Palestinian villages and fields, and for water and electricity supplies to be sabotaged in order to provoke a third intifada, divert military attention and delay evacuation. 'This is a war that knows no bounds,' vow the authors of the brochure which encourages readers to deface mosques with anti-Muslim graffiti. So great will be Palestinian fury, hope extremist Jews, that trouble may flare at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem -- revered by Muslims as the third holiest site and by Jews as the Temple Mount." CRO
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2006 Joel C. Rosenberg
