SELF-HATING JEW? Goldstone has been bitterly criticized in Israel
"What the Gentiles say is not so important; far more important is what the Jews do," Israel’s first Prime Minister David-Ben Gurion once said. According to the Gentiles, the Jewish state has no right to defend itself, and that
came to light once again in the UN-commissioned Goldstone Report which accuses Israel of war crimes during the Gaza conflict last winter.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the report will harm the peace process because if Israel’s hands are tied it cannot take risks for peace. “This report is a license for terrorism because it takes away from democracies their right of self-defense,” he said.
Indeed, it was not the diplomacy of the Gentiles that stopped the rain of rockets on southern Israel, but rather the actions of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces).
But the hostility of the nations toward Israel is a necessary component in God's plan for the Jewish state.
“God is looking at all the other countries through Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel],” Messianic Jewish Bible teacher Ariel Klimer told Israel Today. “As is written: ‘…a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year’ [Deut. 11:12]. The nations are God’s means of correction, to chastise Israel and direct her into His ways, as it was in biblical times.”