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“Update, Thursday, November 30, 2006.”
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I am sorry to bother you so soon with another prayer update, but really
momentous things are getting into motion today:
Today, Pres. Bush is receiving the new vision for Middle East policies
from the briefing given by the Iraqi Study Group headed by former Sec.
of State James Baker (who was not friendly towards Israel) and
ex-Democrat Congressman Lee Hamilton. Pres. Bush and his top team are
said to be ready to swallow the recommendations immediately, based on
the Republican losses in the Congress and Senate.
Please pray that whatever comes of this would lead America in a Biblical
posture towards Israel (Gen. 2:3). This would take a miracle. Seems that
the president is creating a new strategic alliance with Russia, based on
Putin’s renewed wooing of the U.S. I doubt that Russia can be trusted in
the long run. This vision is seen as restoring our influence with the
Arab world. We would also accept Russia’s negotiating with Iran to limit
their nuclear capabilities. This is highly suspect. We would try to
positively negotiate with Iran and Syria, perhaps compromising with
them.
And today, after this top level briefing, President Bush is set to meet
with the Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and give him the new American
approach, without recourse or give-and-take. We are said to be
distancing ourselves from Israel and Jordan, our friends who shared the
vision of the elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime, and put their
countries on the line. America has a recent history of mis-treating our
allies and sometimes abandoning them; we need to pray against this
happening. A retreat from Iraq emboldens the terror groups and nations
to attack us more, not less. Just yesterday, four Middle East terror
groups called for attacks on America to the same extent as they are
attacking Israel.
Here is an interesting synopsis, from the Lekarev Report (see
www.lekarev.org for contact info):
On the heels of the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, a strategic
pact between the US and Russian presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir
Putin for the purpose of doing battle with al Qaeda and the world
Islamic terrorist movement was forged over the telephone, of all things.
The partnership, initiated by Putin, did not survive very long at all.
In early 2003, as the American invasion of Iraq drew near, the cracks
widened with Moscow’s unbending opposition to the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein and the US conquest of Iraq.
To Putin’s credit it must be said that he was the only world leader who
warned Bush of the trap Saddam and his sons had prepared for the US
army; a guerrilla war into which US troops would be drawn inexorably
after toppling the Baath regime. Putin told the Americans that his
information had come from Russian military intelligence-GRU, but the US
president and his intelligence advisers decided not to heed the warning.
Putin is looking to re- establish the earlier pact with Bush. Why?
According to Putin, the United States shares four crucial problems with
Russia: Europe, China, Iran and Islamic Terror. Putin is convinced that
given America's current position in Iraq, an alliance with Russia is the
only hope for restoring US standing in the Muslim world. Saudi Arabia
and the oil emirates have initiated strategic changes that will lead
them to alternative powers able to bolster their security and stability,
freeing them from the previous close alliance with Washington.
Now, after a series of disappointments over Washington’s attitude on
Chechnya and the Washington-engineered revolutions in the Ukraine and
Georgia, Putin is again signaling Bush that he is willing to go back to
their strategic alliance against Islamic extremists and global terror.
In the last few days, he posted a note to the White House to this
effect. The US president responded Thursday, Nov. 10 by adding a visit
to Moscow on his way to the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit on November
18-19 in Hanoi .The Moscow stop was initially planned for a refueling of
Air Force One but the White House has decided that Bush will use the
opportunity for a meeting with Putin.
Stay tuned - this could get REALLY interesting, to say the least; and
the ramifications of any such 'renewed alliance' could be huge.
Please keep all this in your prayers, and pray that we would truly work
in friendship with Israel instead of abandoning them.
Thanks for praying, thanks for caring.
Shalom,
David
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