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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 10, 1982
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"The government's stubbornness and her unwillingness to discuss
possible compromise...will lead us to a dead-end situation re
sulting in war and Israel's total isolation," Hillel said.
Israel, moreover, has next to no support in Western Europe. Even President
Mitterrand of France, an early supporter, turned against Israel during the
Lebanon crisis. Mitterrand described Israel's actions in Lebanon as sim
ilar to those committed by the Nazis in the countries which they occupied.
Given the shrinking influence of the U.S. over the region's new "Goliath"-
Israel--one can certainly see the desire of a yet-future United Europe to
impose peace in the Middle East, a "peace" much to the detriment of Israel
(Psalm 83 and Daniel 11:41-43).
King Juan Carlos of Spain Calls for a United States of Europe
A recent event in Europe escaped the attention of most of the world's news
media. Last May 20, King Juan Carlos of Spain was awarded the Charlemagne
Prize in a ceremony in Aachen, West Germany (Charlemagne's old capital).
This award is given annually to the public figure most advancing the cause
of European unity. The King wps the first royal recipient of the prize.
Earlie� winners have included Winston Churchill, Jean Monnet, Robert
Schumann and Konrad Adenauer.
In accepting the prize King Juan Carlos .traced, in the present tense, the
development of Europe and its need for unity. He placed great stress on the
role of Europe's monarchies. Here are key excerpts of his address, tran
slated from a German text:
Europe becomes historic reality due to one of the most far reach
ing developments in the Middle Ages: The division of the Medi
terranean basin--the cradle of the culture of antiquity--because
of the invasion of Islam in the seventh and the beginning of the
eighth century.
The Mediterranean is no longer the "Mare
Nostrum" (our sea); it is being divided into the sea of the
Christians and that of the Muslim.
The Christian shores see
themselves isolated from Africa which the Ptolomes, Philen or
Saint Augustine Hellenized, Romanized and Christianized.
From this beginning, the hour of its birth, Europe is going to
develop both Roman and German. A Romania, splintered by inva
sions united itself with a Germania, which together with her
unifies itself into a carrier of common history.
Over the centuries the resurrection of the Roman Empire under
clearly Germanic, and of course Christian, signs is the political
dream: the Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nation. But what is
really being created is something else: Europe.
The great Karl [Karlder Grosse or Charlemagne] is in 800 A.D. the
impetus for laying the foundation stone in this famous town for
the European community, which has so often quarrelled and fought
itself, yet has always bound back together again.
Despite splintering, private interests, rivalries and power
struggles, the European elements have nevertheless functioned as