The Deed to the Land — Chuck Smith

Tonight we have our friend Ronnie Cohen from Israel. Ronnie's part or has been part for many years of the Israeli military and he's also a tour guide with the group the Sammy Smudge's group that we work with when we go on our tours to Israel.

And he's just a great friend, and he's got some good things to share with us tonight, so let's welcome Ronnie Cohen.

Okay, am I on wait a second mayday mayday all right. Do I need this as well? No, okay? Wow, I'm not really used to speaking in front of people. That's basically what I do. Like pastor Brian mentioned.

I'm a tour guide in Israel. I'm not in the military anymore, but I I'm an American. I grew up in the holy land in New York City, and then I And then I made that odyssey to the Catskills note to Israel and I've been living there now for about 28 years.

At first I thought I was just a victim of circumstance because Certain things and events which happened in my life led me to the Lord led me to Israel and trust me I'm the last person in the world that anyone would have thought of Ever stepping foot in Israel picking up the book and becoming a believer.

So I believe I have the best of two worlds not just a Jew, but also a believer in Christ. But it was a hard road to get there obviously everyone has their own story. I'm not going to start giving you my testimony but I'm a Vietnam veteran and When I was discharged at the ripe old age of 19 and a half I traveled a bit until I finally came to Israel.

I believe at the time that I Landed there by coincidence because I had no place to go and I got stuck in a snowstorm in Istanbul. I Volunteered my services on a kibbutz and the rest is history. I remained in Israel.

That was in February of 1974 I Served two years in the regular army. I did 22 years in the reserves. Nothing any special. I just fought in two wars and 11 military engagements was a 12. I can't remember.

But I don't do the reserve duty anymore because for some particular reason every year that I Continue doing reserve duty the tank kept getting higher and higher whenever I jumped off. They keep changing the tanks I don't so they decided to let me out of my military service, but I've been blessed in a sense that I Started to do something which I never thought I'd ever do in my life.

Israel, Ministry, and the Aftermath of September 11

I don't like to call it guiding. It's almost like a ministry like teaching. There's one particular book that became a real important part of my life. That's this. This is a guidebook by the way. It's a guidebook.

It really is. Those of you who have never been to Israel before there must be a few of you here. I'm not here to promote a tour to Israel. Okay. No serious. That's not why I'm here. You're all gonna go at one point or another.

It's just a matter of time when you get there. But you're all gonna be there at one time. So actually the reason why I'm here because I want to talk a little bit about current events. We went through a very horrendous time the last couple of months the United States Has finally tasted the wrath of terrorism.

Which is a terrible thing to taste. Maybe it'll give you a little bit of an idea of what many of us go through nearly not daily. But it's become almost part of our lives. If you think about it the last time anything a foreigner ever did on American soil was way back in 1812.

Right the war of 1812 the British burnt down, Washington. That's the last time on American soil anybody ever did anything. I'm not talking about Hawaii because that was just not mainland, but I'm talking on mainland.

Something happened to the American people after September 11th. At first when I heard about what happened when I was in Israel obviously to me it was quite shocking. I didn't think that anything like that would ever happened in the United States.

And if you think about the numbers more people died in that hour. Then of all the terrorism that ever happened in the world up until then just in one stroke many lives were just Changed forever, and I'm not talking about the 3 ,000 lives that were lost.

I'm talking about millions of people who Suffered because of what happened on September 11th whether it be a relative or a friend people will never be as be the same again. But one thing I should tell you what I've learned through the years by witnessing terrorism up front.

Is that it's not the act of terrorism which is important to the terrorist. It's the aftermath. Terrorism is terror its fear. And I was a little bit annoyed actually for the first month or so watching the media and everything that was going on in the United States.

First of all you have certain media Organizations like CNN. I'm not going to get into that right now obviously they have to tell you the news. They can sort of warp it around a little bit and tell you half-truths and everything.

But I think the main reason why I'm here today is because I want to give you a better broader picture of what's really going on the American people were intimidated as a result of September 11th, but What's good is that after a few months all of you came back?

At first people were afraid people were fearful and obviously, I believe the word fear is just a substitute or let's just say it's the. You're missing something when you're afraid. What's that word that you're looking for?

Faith okay when you have faith you don't have fear. Now some people have come up to me and said to well. You know you're a Vietnam veteran you're a decorator, and you served in your trailing on. You must be brave you must be fearless.

No fearlessness is stupidity. Correct. I mean anybody who rushes a machine gun that's got to be out of his mind. That's not bravery. He's nuts. I'll tell you what bravery is though bravery is faith or bravery is going on and coping with Fear and in the face of fear that's bravery all right.

Being willing to go on in the face of fear is bravery, and that's exactly what happened to the American people you guys bounced back. You guys bounced back, but Israel in the last first couple of months although.

We really had nothing to do with all of this. Obviously everything focuses down to the Arab-israeli conflict correct and for some reason the Israeli government or at least the people. That's what I hear in the streets.

We felt that our backs were against the wall and everybody started to abandon us. Believe it or not on paper tourism looked really good before September 11th, then all of a sudden everything stopped. I Think it wasn't the fear of coming to Israel.

I think it was the fear of leaving your homes and getting on a plane. That's what happened. So at first Israel felt a little bit aghast thinking wow you know I remember all those years when those flocks of Christians just came here.

And you couldn't even find a parking spot for a bus at any of the sites in Israel now all of a sudden. It's a ghost town what happened. What did we do? Who's the blame for all of this? Well, I truly believe that all this is coming back, and I believe that this book is going to give us the answers because this book here Doesn't just tell us about what happened then.

But it's also telling us what's happening in the present and what's going to happen in the future. I truly believe this all right. The big argument right now is whose land is this how come you guys are fighting over?

It's just a small little strip of land. Who does it really belong to who's got the deed to it well? I say you know not unless somebody who's a Canaanite and comes up and said it's my land. I think it's ours.

Are you clapping for the Canaanites or for me? You know and and you have certain organizations like the United Nations and other world Organizations would say well. You know we need to negotiate and I say there's well.

You know there's not really a lot of negotiation. Because we got a land deed. Okay, what exactly is your land deed once again, so I'll prove that well if I was ever invited to the United Nations. This is what I would say okay.

If you want to follow with me you can. I need my glasses. I really don't need it, but it makes it look cool. All right, you know what whose land is this anyway to tell you the truth. You know what if you open up to a book of Genesis.

The Biblical Deed to the Land

Genesis Chapter 12. Get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and then you.

All of the families of the earth shall be blessed. Well, then the United Nations will probably say to me well that doesn't really mean anything does that just okay? How about this all right? You can still continue with me right now in the book of Genesis.

I'm now on chapter 15. Okay, let's say verse 17 around there. To your descendants I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river the Euphrates. Well that's very general they say to me at the United Nations can be more precise, okay.

Let's just hang out in Genesis for a while and go to verse 13 chapter 13 verse 14. Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are northward southward eastward and westward. For all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

Can't argue that can you? Well, there's still somebody in a Security Council that does by the way the Syrians were voted into the Security Council this year. So my last verse I would say to them, and this is my clincher.

I am now in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 32. Verse 49 go up to this mountain of the Abarim Mount Nebo which is in a land of Moab across from Jericho. View the land of Canaan which I give to the children of Israel as a possession.

Sign sealed and delivered. This is my deeds at a land of Israel right here. Okay, but how did this all start? Well, let's go back and do a little bit of a history lesson. Is that okay with you guys little history?

Israel's Ancient History and the Rise of Modern Zionism

All right. The Jewish people have been in the land of Israel for quite a long time. Let's go back to the time of Abraham. We're talking nearly 4 ,000 years. 3 ,000 years ago Jerusalem becomes the undivided Capital of the kingdom under King David correct for a thousand years it reigns as the capital of the Jewish people.

Until finally the Romans show up 2 ,000 years ago August 12th Think was a Wednesday. They destroyed the temple. They destroyed Jerusalem. And as the end of Jewish rule in the Holy Land for 1 ,900 years.

For the next 1 ,900 years, although there's always a Jewish population there. We are ruled and Overseen by foreigners. We're just Tolerated in our own homeland for 1 ,900 years now it doesn't mean that the Romans killed everybody that was there and or that they carted off everybody into the Diaspora and Dispersed us amongst the nations.

We've always been there at certain periods of time. We are also the majority of the people but we're now ruled by foreigners for 1 ,900 years. Most of the Jewish population that remained in the land of Israel were there basically for spiritual or for religious reasons not really nationalistic until the end of the 19th century sometime around 1880 1885.

Theodore Hertzel has a vision. He is the founder of what's now called modern Zionism now again. There's another organization in the world that calls Zionism or sort of compares it to Nazism of fascism.

That's the United Nations by the way. What is Zionism? It means coming back to Zion to rebuild Zion. So now we had a movement of Zionists. These were pioneers from Europe or Russia who came back to the Holy Land to rebuild it to rejuvenate it.

To clear the swamps to turn the deserts into the Garden of Eden, which they did. That's modern Zionism. I want to read something else to you. I've been doing my homework. Okay, you guys can follow me right now again turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 11 verse 11 it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time.

To recover the remnant of his people who are left now, I'm gonna skip a little bit. He will set up a banner for the nations and it will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together. The dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Coming back to Zion to rebuild the land very important. So The Jews are now returning. It's the turn of the century. We have pioneers rebuilding the land. Now the First World War breaks out. The British arrive they steer up Nationalism amongst the Arab tribes understand something that in the Middle East up until then.

There were no Arab countries. It was just one big Arab block. With certain chieftains or sheiks in different areas. You've seen the movie with Lawrence of Arabia, right? They start to steer up nationalism amongst the Arab tribes.

Help us fight the Turks or the Germans and we'll give you the Middle East well the First World War is over and the British and the French say now they split up the Middle East amongst themselves and That is a time where they start to put boundaries around certain areas which are dispersed now in the Middle East.

The Mandate, Palestine, and the Partition of the Land

Now I just want to show you a little Map over here if you don't mind. Could this be dimmed down a little bit here? Is it possible? More more more more more. Okay, can everybody see this map can you guys see it back there?

No, trust me. There's a map here. Okay, can you guys sort of see it? Yeah. How's it it's getting better, right? All right. Look here. This is the map of Israel as it is right now. Can you see something over there?

It's that small. Really? Okay. Here's the map of Israel showing you the borders of what the land is right now. We're bordered on the west by the Mediterranean. Minus South by Egypt our longest border over here to the east Jordan our Friendly neighbors to the north Syria and Lebanon.

This is the land of Israel right now. It's quite small. It's less than 11 ,000 Square miles about the size of New Jersey just to give you an idea of the comparison. Take a look at this. But where's Israel?

There you go. Look here if you can see that here's California 160 ,000 square miles. Here's Israel less than 11 ,000. That's the size in comparison. Wait, it gets better. So here we are in the Middle East.

By the way, if you listen to CNN very very closely it gives the impression of Jewish history beginning like this. There was a Holocaust the dispersed Jews had no place to go after the concentration camps.

They all got on boats and they took over the Arabs land in Palestine. Correct that's what it makes it sound like but if you think about it It was the Jewish population that was in the Middle East before the Arabs arrived, correct?

We'll take a look at the Middle East as it is today. Can you see this look here? All of this over here is the Arab world. There's Israel. Okay today Israel has a population of about six million. Which about I'd say four point nine million or Jews and this also counts the Israeli taxi drivers in LA.

Now remember I was at the First World War with you guys, right. First World War the British defeat the Turks. They split up the Middle East amongst themselves and the French at this time still there are no Arab countries now the area known as Palestine never had any boundaries on it.

It was never a country with a government. It was always ruled by somebody. Does anybody have any idea where the name Palestine comes from? In the year 135 AD Hadrian who is now Emperor of Rome has a second war against Israel.

Okay, they demolished the city once again, they tear down the walls. They turned the city into a pagan city changing its name Aelia Capitolina and to erase all existence of Jewish fact to the land. They changed the name of Judea to Palestina taking the name of an ancient seagoing people who used to live along the coast who were called their Philistines, so that's what a name Palestine comes from.

All right, so here we go everything's nice and order, you know how the British are they put things in order and everything. This is the boundaries now, which they put around the area which they call Palestine looks kind of awkward, doesn't it?

You notice there's this big corridor. Going out towards the east makes sense because now the British find another source of Fuel in the Middle East especially in the area of Iraq, which is called Oil olive oil, right?

Anyway, the oil the oil fields are over here in British Mandate Iraq and this corridor was an area where the oil pipeline would go all the way to the port city of Haifa. The French of course got this whole area up here in the north.

Which is known as Lebanon Syria and this area now is called Palestine by the way. 1917 the Balfour Declaration in England states that Palestine is the Jewish Homeland and as far as they're concerned Palestine was Both sides of the Jordan River as you can see right over here but what happened was in the 1920s the Arab population didn't like the idea of this influx of Jews now coming back to Israel.

Riots break out and being at the British did not want to step on the toes of the Arab population. Because they had all the oil. They declared that No Jews were allowed to build any settlements or live on the eastern shores of the Jordan River.

So therefore they split now Palestine. Jews can only live over here. But Arabs can live on both sides if by any chance you're ever blessed by having Bibi Netanyahu come here. He belongs to the revisionist party as far as he's concerned when he takes a look at this map.

He calls everything over here the occupied East Bank. Because as far as he's concerned he goes by the Balfour Declaration meaning that Palestine is a Jewish homeland both banks of the Jordan River. But then once again, we see that the whole area known as Palestine is still in British hands.

Is it getting complicated? All right, it's gonna get worse. Up until then, you know that the Jewish societies always had their own governments, you know, the Jews always took care of themselves. Doesn't make a difference.

Who? Ruled them. They always had their own sort of community and they took care of their own. I don't know social needs if you would. Those of you have been to Israel before you notice all those brand new forests that are now Standing everywhere all those millions of trees that have been planted.

All those trees were not planted since the beginning of the birth of the State of Israel. They were planted even beforehand. And if you ever go to like a real kosher delicatessen or a bakery. Sometimes you may have noticed that right next to the cash register was this little blue tin box and on it.

It said JNF. JNF literally means the Jewish National Fund all that loose change and all those pennies that you may have put inside that tin box. Were used for planting trees in the Land of Israel. Okay 1947 comes about it's after the Second World War.

Israel's Independence and the Arab-Israeli Wars

The British government is totally devastated economically. Why? Because they're on the brunt of the fighting, correct? The Second World War the British were involved for six years. The Americans were really only involved for three and a half.

We went into the war at the end of 41 and the war was already finished by the beginning of the summer of 1945 but economically the British government was falling apart. They say that the Sun never sets in the British Empire.

It's setting all over the place. In India is now becoming independent. Pakistan's independent all the West Indies and African colonies are becoming independent and now they find themselves in a quagmire in Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews.

They want to try and sort of bail out gracefully. November 29th 1947 the newly formed United Nations declares a partition plan. Which means that all land in Palestine which has a very large Jewish population?

Will now be a Jewish state and all land which has a very heavy Arab population will be an Arab state. It doesn't name borders and it doesn't name countries. It doesn't say Israel or Palestine. It says an Arab state in the Jewish state right away all the Arab nations Which now became independent are totally against all of this.

The British now have a grace period from November 47th till May 48. They're gradually leaving. The day that they leave on May 15th 1948 the Jews declare independence. That afternoon they were attacked by seven Arab nations.

Now the Israeli army was not even an army. It was sort of a conglomerate if you would of different underground organizations like the Haganah and the Palma. They now become under one name the IDF Israeli Defense Forces and Then seven months of fighting they managed to defeat.

Seven Arab nations are the good fighters. Are they good shots? Was it lucky? I think it's the grace of God at any event in 1949 this is now the armistice lines in the land of Israel. Everything that's yellow over here is Israeli territory.

Everything that's over here is now Arab territory as you can see Lebanon becomes independent. Syria becomes independent. Transjordan now becomes Jordan now. What about this area over here this bulge which everyone's talking about today called West Bank?

Okay, Samaria and Judea. This should have been part of the Arab entity, correct? Well, it was Jordan annexed everything on the West Bank. It became Jordan. Shouldn't it become Palestine at the time? So how come the PLO was not formed against the Jordanians?

Why against the Israelis? We weren't occupying their land the Jordanians were but it's okay. It's within the Arab fold. So let's not make a big stink about it two countries in the world Recognize the annexation of the West Bank to Jordan not even United Nations and not even Arab countries.

Two nations in the world recognize the annexation of the West Bank to Jordan Great Britain and Pakistan. That's it. By the way in 1965 the PLO was formed. Why is it formed and why is it centered towards the Israelis if we're not occupying their land?

The Gaza Strip is now swallowed up by the Egyptians over here. You can see in the north the Syrians have control of the whole north eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Those of you who have been to the Sea of Galilee before and They've been on a one of those wooden boats sailing across you couldn't do that pre 67.

Why you'd be target practice for the Syrians before their first cup of coffee. Okay, so this was the map of Israel for 19 years. Jerusalem look at that. You had to drive through a corridor to get to Jerusalem.

Surrounded on two sides by Jordanian territory. And once you got to the city itself, it was divided. The Jews were expelled from the walls of the ancient city never to set foot in it again. All the holy sites were not accessible to the Jewish population.

It was a city divided barbed wire and mines divided the city for 19 years. And this was the situation. Look at the width of Israel right over here by the coast nine miles wide, that's it. And that's how the people lived for 19 years.

Well. Now we come into scripture. How things are going to change a little bit in Late May of 1967 the Arabs decide, you know what we've had enough of these Jews. Let's finally throw them into the sea.

They sought to mass their troops. The Egyptians move into the Sinai which now has a buffer zone of UN troops. They tell them to leave so they leave. King Hussein now places all his artillery on top of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and.

The Egyptians now mine and block the Straits of Tehran which is the access for the Jews from the Red Sea to go to the Far East. It's eminent that war is going to happen at any time. Israel has a population of three million back in 1967 in numbers, there's no way possible.

They can defeat nine Arab nations. Impossible. So on June 5th 1967 the Israelis take it upon themselves to make a preemptive attack. They fly into Egypt. They destroy 75 of the Egyptian Air Force on the ground by this time.

Abdel Nasser the president of Egypt sends a message to the young King Hussein praise be to Allah. We just destroyed 80 of the Israeli Air Force in the air and our tanks are on their way through Beersheba.

They'll be in Jerusalem tomorrow morning. King Hussein takes the bait and commits himself. He sends in his Air Force to northern Tel Aviv and Netanya. They bombed the cities. All his artillery opens up all over Western Jerusalem.

The Israelis do not retaliate for 12 hours. They send a message to King Hussein. We have nothing against you. Stop firing at us, but he had already committed himself on the Golan Heights all the Israeli kibbutzes down by the Sea of Galilee under gunfire.

The war had begun. How many days was a six-day war? Well, let me show you a map of Israel on a seventh day, that's my apartment right over there. Okay, so as you can see what happened was the Israelis pushed the Jordanian forces across the Jordan River.

They pushed the Syrians right off the cliffs of the Golan Heights 15 miles eastward and they chased the Egyptians across the Suez Canal. This is what Israel looked like on the seventh day of the six-day war.

They must have been good shots. It must have had a tough army or maybe it was the grace of God who knows. Okay, but you know what the Israeli government Approaches the Arabs and they say to them listen, we didn't fight a war to take land.

We fought a defensive war. Let's try and have peace. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll exchange land for peace. Whoa deja vu, right? We'll exchange land for peace. But the Arabs way back then in 67 and 68 said listen.

We're never going to talk to the Israeli or the Zionist entity ever and that's it. Settlements now spring up in the areas of Samaria and Judea. If you think about it Tel Aviv and Haifa are not mentioned in biblical text.

Okay, they're not biblical cities, but the Bible Belt of Israel is Samaria and Judea. People go there and start to build settlements not as an embarrassment to the world. Because they want to restate and rename all their cities next to all the ancient sites today.

There's a modern site next to the ancient site of Shiloh Bait El Shechem all these places which are mentioned in Scripture. It was a devastating defeat for the Arab forces for six years. They had to live.

With this total defeat that was terrible. They lost a lot of face and all of this. So now they coordinate once again. They get together all the Arab armies and they practice daily for six years for one major assault against Israel to get back the land and to finally push them back into the sea like they tried to do back in 1948 and 56 and 67, okay.

The Israeli Secret Service you ever hear them the Mossad. Okay, the Israeli Secret Service way back in 1973 in early October. Not just know the day of this Arab invasion. They know what time it's going to begin but the Prime Minister at the time Golda Meir Does not want to make the same mistake as the Israelis did back in 67 because we threw the first punch in 67 the whole world blamed us for the war.

She said you know what let the Arabs throw the first punch. We'll annihilate them and whoop them like we did back in 67. It's good for public relations because this way the world will know that we didn't start the war they did and then we took care Of business.

This was the biggest mistake that she ever made in her life and she took this to the grave with her. I'm sorry to say because by not alerting all of the armed forces on the day of atonement on the day when all of the Israelis were in the synagogues on Yom Kippur.

All of these are all of the Arab armies attacked Israel and By not putting everybody on full alert the Israelis lost in the first 48 hours of fighting. 900 killed that is the cream of Israeli youth was lost in two days.

The Libyans the Sudanese and the Egyptians. Make an assault now across the Suez Canal with a hundred and fifty thousand troops. They're willing to lose 50 ,000 in the crossing. Little do they know that the only thing stopping them in the whole Sinai Peninsula is 12 outposts manned by reservists up here in the Golan Heights.

A Hundred and twenty tanks are on top. Israeli tanks are on top of the Golan Heights all of a sudden the Judeanian Saudi Iraqi Syrian. All these four armies attack now across the Golan Heights with 2 ,000 armored cars and tanks and 2 ,000 artillery pieces firing simultaneously.

The only thing to stop them is a hundred and forty-five Israeli tanks. They moved up units over here. One part has 120 one part has 30. Within 48 hours the Syrian tanks are in view of the Sea of Galilee.

That's how quickly they moved. Six tanks are left on the Golan Heights in 48 hours of fighting six. Now again those of you that have been to Israel before see I'm not promoting a tour. Those of you have been to Israel before if you've been on top of the Golan Heights perhaps.

Myself or other guides who are on your buses would have pointed out on a spot on a Golan called the Valley of Tears. Because that's exactly what happened there. Six lone Israeli tanks with skeleton crews hardly any ammo.

No gas. Take up positions on a hillside and they watched the whole Iraqi army coming across the valley. 150 tanks. With banners on the turrets and loudspeakers playing marching music like they're going on parade Iraqis.

Go figure, okay. So the Israeli tanks knock off the first tank. They knock off the last tank creating a bottleneck. The Iraqis can't turn around. Within an hour and a half they knock out 77 tanks. You know you heard the story of Tzvika.

Can you mention that name. Tzvika. This guy was a reserve officer who was on vacation in Kathmandu. When the war broke out he flies all the way back to Israel. Gets into a tank. All his units wiped out except for his tank.

He's the only tank that's stopping the Syrian army from going down to the Sea of Galilee. He goes on one hill. Shoots at a Syrian tank changes the radio frequency goes down the hill. Comes up another hill.

Changes the frequency on the radio shoots at another tank. The Syrians think they're surrounded ahead for the hills. Now I got a better story for you right over here the Egyptian forces are now moving across the Sinai.

Who's the Prime Minister of Israel today. Ariel Sharon? Well Ariel Sharon was known for his toughness as being a paratrooper, but during the Yom Kippur War. He was a reserve general in the armor unit.

He's on the Suez Canal. The general staff said to him listen Sharon. Stay right where you are hold the line and don't do anything till we tell you something. What's that turns off the radio? He tells everybody else in his brigade turn the radios off.

You don't need them. What does he do? Well, he's not really disobeying orders because he couldn't hear the orders. He crosses the Suez Canal. He is now on kilometer 101 outside of Cairo. That's Ariel Sharon.

Ceasefire comes about once again another defeat to the Arab forces. Again the Israelis must be really good shots. Well, it must have been their lucky day, or perhaps. Maybe it was the grace of God. As a result of the Yom Kippur War we have a peace treaty now with Egypt.

Sadat makes a very famous Trip to Jerusalem. Menachem Begin is now the Prime Minister of Israel. He arrives in Ben Gurion Airport in 1977. The red carpet is out. All the parliament members and all the dignitaries in Israel or all lined up about a hundred and fifty people.

You had to see this on TV. I remember it like it was yesterday. Sadat comes down from his from his jet. You know the trumpets are playing the band is playing the Prime Minister's there. He walks right past the Prime Minister.

He walks right right past the president of Israel walks all the way down the line. Until he comes up to one of the lower dignitaries in Israeli Parliament Ariel Sharon. He walks right up to him and he hands out his hand.

He goes finally I caught up to you. So we have a peace treaty now. With Egypt later on of course you know we have a peace treaty with Jordan. If by chance during negotiations right now Samaria and Judea is given back.

Contemporary Territorial Claims and Palestinian Leadership

This is what the map of Israel looked like once again. Can you see that look here? Jerusalem is a split city by the way you have no idea how close this would have been. Just a year and a half ago while Barack was still Prime Minister and before all the disturbances began.

Do you know that the Palestinians were this close of getting a Palestinian state recognized by the State of Israel with? 95 of the West Bank. Clinton and Barack were actually contemplating splitting Jerusalem.

Do you remember that? This would have been the map of Israel once again the width of Israel over here. Nine miles. Jerusalem a divided city once again, and of course the Bible Belt. I call this the Bible Belt will now become 100 PLO.

So what's exactly happening today? Arafat has this problem. It's called a personality problem. Okay, first of all his pants can't hold a crease. He doesn't understand that no. We have a problem with Arafat.

He doesn't necessarily want to go down in history as being a politician. I mean he did receive the Nobel Peace Prize, right? He does not want to go down as a politician. He wants to go down as a freedom fighter.

So therefore although he nearly got everything that he wanted from Barack and today everything would have been really hunky-dory. Correct if they would have gotten back The West Bank would they would have been happy with that anybody ever get a chance to see what the map of Palestine is.