A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM MIKE EVANS, THE FOUNDER OF THE JERUSALEM PRAYER TEAM.
Dear Friends,
My long-time friend Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet succeeded in putting together a coalition government. He must form a group that comprises a majority in the 120-member Knesset. This is proving extremely difficult in the deeply divided body. He is asking Israel's President Shimon Peres for an extension of up to two weeks.
The real battle being fought is a spirit war. Israel's election was held on January 22 of this year. The prime minister's party won 31 seats, but something else very important happened within that same twenty-four hour period of time: President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term in office.
The significance of this is very existential. Why? It is no secret that President Obama dislikes the prime minister and does not want a Likud Party in office. The two parties Netanyahu most needs to form his government--the Labor Party, and the Yesh Atid Party--control 34 seats between them. Both have presently refused to join the Netanyahu government.
My friends in diplomatic circles in Jerusalem have told me what is happening is that President Obama's advance team is in the city meeting with those party leaders and encouraging them to dig in their heels. My contacts believe that if Netanyahu is prohibited from forming a government, new elections will be forced on the Israeli people, and the prime minister will not be given a necessary mandate. This would give President Obama a Leftist party with which he could work to divide Jerusalem and quickly create a Palestinian state.
President Obama's new secretary of defense Chuck Hagel is without question no friend to Israel, and the newly confirmed secretary of state, John Kerry, is not far behind. The president will visit Jerusalem the very week Netanyahu is faced with meeting his deadline to form a government. Mr. Obama will speak to the Knesset, meet with Palestinian leaders, Jordanians, and present his peace plan--not one that the prime minister can or will support.
Dear Friends,
My long-time friend Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet succeeded in putting together a coalition government. He must form a group that comprises a majority in the 120-member Knesset. This is proving extremely difficult in the deeply divided body. He is asking Israel's President Shimon Peres for an extension of up to two weeks.
The real battle being fought is a spirit war. Israel's election was held on January 22 of this year. The prime minister's party won 31 seats, but something else very important happened within that same twenty-four hour period of time: President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term in office.
The significance of this is very existential. Why? It is no secret that President Obama dislikes the prime minister and does not want a Likud Party in office. The two parties Netanyahu most needs to form his government--the Labor Party, and the Yesh Atid Party--control 34 seats between them. Both have presently refused to join the Netanyahu government.
My friends in diplomatic circles in Jerusalem have told me what is happening is that President Obama's advance team is in the city meeting with those party leaders and encouraging them to dig in their heels. My contacts believe that if Netanyahu is prohibited from forming a government, new elections will be forced on the Israeli people, and the prime minister will not be given a necessary mandate. This would give President Obama a Leftist party with which he could work to divide Jerusalem and quickly create a Palestinian state.
President Obama's new secretary of defense Chuck Hagel is without question no friend to Israel, and the newly confirmed secretary of state, John Kerry, is not far behind. The president will visit Jerusalem the very week Netanyahu is faced with meeting his deadline to form a government. Mr. Obama will speak to the Knesset, meet with Palestinian leaders, Jordanians, and present his peace plan--not one that the prime minister can or will support.
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