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Why
Middle East
PeaceTalks Collapsed
" ... thB ambassadors of peacB sha/1 weep bittBrly"-lsaiah 33:7.
by
Charles Hunting and David Ord
Ata ume when lhe United States is receiv·
iDg
a
~"'"
of blows
acroos
the &lobe. thc
breakdown of Dr.
Kissi~~&er's
elfoi1S toward
peace in the Middle East
lS
a
tragie disap–
polntment to all parties.
Yel lhe eollap$C or lhc tl li($
was a
pre·
di<table setback. For whal;., fut shaping up.
as
Plaln Trutlt
has foreca.st ror
over
fony
years.
lS
a
crisis
unpartJ.Jelcd
111
all buman
hi.otory.
No one wants war. Tbe Atabs don't want
it.
The Jsraelis crave thc security that peace
would bring. The United States has notbing
lO
ga.ín from the explosion
of
this powder
keg.
Every industrial nauon on the face of the
e.arth.
st.ands
to
lose
if
there
i.s
anolher con·
l!ia m lhe Mtddle EasL And so
does
e•-ery
underdeveloped oation. wbose people must
be fed by oil·based feniliten.
But despite the wbole world's desires for
peaee in lhe Mi<Ídle East, lhe ambassadora
another cxplosion tn lhe Middle East jeopar·
dizes lhe sccuntyof tbe catire planct?
Wheo Talkln¡ FaUs
General Douglas MacAnhur once stated:
"Men since lbe beglnning of time have
•ougbt peaee. Various mctbods lhrough lhe
e¡cs have been auempted
to
devise an
Jftltr·
natiooal
prooess
10
preven! or scttk duput..
between nations•... Military alluonces,
baJ.
ances of power, teagues of nations,
o/1 In
turn[alltd,
leavin& the only path to be by the
cruc•ble ofwar.''
Tragically, as every attempt to brin& peau
by diplomacy prov'" inadequate, the Middle
East is drifling eloser to tbe solutioo tbat
OlbODS
bave aJways
Wto
ÍO
the cnd: lhe
palh ofwar.
Yet another war oould sever vital oi.llife–
lines of European nations, bringing about
cconomic stra.ngulation. And the Europcans
can.not affotd to takesuch a risk.
ISRAEL/ PRIME MIN/STER RAB/N,
l•h.
with
U.S.
Secrotory
of
Stote Kis>ingt>r, Morr:h
23. 111dly
announct~d
•nd to Midttllst ñegoti11tlon1.
of peace
are
aJready billerly di.oappointed -
and tbey are goíng
1.0
w«p
bill•rly
before
mocb more time
hu
passcd
Therl>oo'l
Kaow
Tbe Way
As
soon
as
it
became ipparent tbat his
peacwhutde had reached a dead eod, Dr.
Xissi~~&er.
show;ng obvíous disappointmeot
at lhe failure of
!he
taJks,
ftew
1.0
eonfer with
Presiden! Ford.
Desptte hl$ disiUusionmeot, the
Seactary
of Stale eoutd not alford lo &ive up hope.
Perh•Jl$ the shuule eoutd be resumed wbco
tbe siluation has quietened. Or maybe lhe
parties could be brought baek
lo
lhe Geneva
Cooference.
Yet there
is
a
growing
awarcnes.s amons
the world't nations
that
cven a retuto
t.O
Genc:va would
be
mercly anotber
straw
to
cluleh aL Pew expea any posítive ground lo
be gaincd in the talks.
lt
is
bec:oming increuingly apparent that
prospe<ts for peaee ín lbe Middle East
are
blc.ak. A solution
.is
as distant
u
ever. Not
even
Dr.
Kiuinger.
with
bis personal eredi–
bility among both Arabs and hraelis, ean
brill&
peaoe.
In
tbe wor& of the prophel lsailth, "The
way of
peaoe
tbey know not."
Bul can the world alford
10
stand idly by if
4
Dr. Kissinger
iJ
known
to
bc:tievc tbat fur..
tbcr diplomaiJC moves in the Middle
East
must includc
thc:
European aations.
who
have
so
mucb at stake
if
tbere ;., renewed
ftghting.
Brilaín,'s
Dolf)i
T•legraph
eommented,
Match
24:
"The whole of the
Wes~
and
especially Europe, after an unprecedented
series of reven.. in Greece, Turkey,
Cyprus
and Ponugal,
is
oonfronted witb new perils
whicb it;., ill·cquipped
10
meeL~
Will
continued failure to
talk
a way to
peaoe and tbe growing inability or lbe
United States to guarantce Europe's Middle
East oil supply lead European nations
10
fonnulate tbeir own Moddle Eut peaee
>el·
tlement? .
Comillc
-A
" Pax Roawuo"' '
lt
is
beeomíng painfully evident tbat íf
there is ever going to
be
stability io the oil
world,
a
form of arbitratOr superior
lO
An¡eriea's Secrelary of State ;., required. A .
peac;c-keeping power witb teelh
is
tbe
only
way
lO
a 1asting
solulioa~
Whe~
Dr.
Kissi~~&er
bas
failed, oould !he
nations of Europe bling peaee?
Spealóngof our unparalleled age of travel
and the knowledge explosion
(Dan, 12:4),
lhe prophel Daniel referred to a southem
power pushong al nonhern Europe. wbieh
will
by
tbat time c:omprise ten natioos.
Ate we today, through the Arab threat
1.0
Europe's ool lifeliñe, beginning to see tbc
kíng of thc soulb "pushing at" thc new Eu·
rope? The prophecy implies thal as a result
of
this
pressure from the sou1h, the Euro–
peao
power bloc will
"en~r
iniO tbe eoun·
tries. and sh.all overftow and
pass
ovct. He
$hall eoter also ínto the &lorious land [Patos·
tine), and many c:ounlries ¡hall be over·
thrown ..• and the laod of Egypl shall not
es<:ape" (Dan.
11.:40-42).
This European - power is described
u
l'laoting "the tabemacles of hi.o pataee
be,.
twecn thc seas
in
lhe glorious boly moun·
LalD"
(vene
45).
Does
llus
indicate tbat
a
peaet·keepon& forc;c from thi.o
~n·nation
Europca.n power will in thc near
fu1ure
enter
Palestine, and that continued presrure
from
sorne or the Arab nalioiU might meet wilb
a
fi.rm
rcbuual from
Ibis
power'l
Needtd -A
C.talyst
At tbe prescnt time, Europe
os
far from
united. Peter
Jay.
ec::onouuc
COtTe$pOndeot
for llle London
Tim.. ,
hu Stated: ..Eurnpe
won't really get anywhere with economic
union unless
it
forms
li
serious politica.l
union. and
it
can't achieve an effec:úve
polit·
ical uruon
untess
it urútes militArily. Every
time .omebody
hu
lried
to urúte Eurnpe
militarily, n·s been a di.saster.
h
turns ou1
10
mean a Napoleon
ora Hitler:•
Europe, threatened by growing Russian
military might and troubled by America's
rapid wilhdrawal from the role of world
po–
ijceman, m•ght be shakcn from her letbargy
and for¡ed into
-a
poweñuJ un.ion of nation.s
aJmOfl
overnigJu
if
anot.ber
~·hddle
East
war
werc
to
pose
alhreat to wor1d peaee.
But wbat Europe laala
is
the kind ¡¡f ICfd·
ersb.íp that would act as a cataJyst to bring
lhe nations together
f~r
a common putpose.
U
needs
a
central figure lo look
10
lhat wduld
lJ1l.D.SCCnd
netional interests.
Tbere
is
one authority
1.0
which European¡
bave looked io tbe
past
for leaderahip.ln tbc
days of the Hoty Roman Empire. lhe Vato·
can proved to
be
a powe:rfut uniting
in–
ftuence
in
Eu.rope.
And
Now -
a
Newl'ope?
In
Rome oo ChrislDWO Eve for the
stan
of
tbe
Pope's Holy Year, it wu paonfuUy tvi·
· dcnt tbat Pope Paul
VI
bas.faded to capture
the imapnauoo ofthe masses.
Wc were able
to
.auend tbe speciaJ .service,
at whicb prima.rily digoila.ric$ of the church
were in
auendance. whíc.h preceded
the
mid·
night Mass. The brilliantly arrayed Pope.
no"'· aginar was applauded on several
oc:ca·
sions. Despile lhe
stonny
term or
olllee
wbic:h
he
bu apericnced.
u
was
evideot
that tbere ;., slill
a
peal deal of loyalty
amo~~&
the hierareby oftbe
Catho~c
Cburcb.
8ut
in
t.he basalica of SL Peter's,
even
though lhere wu applause, lhe fervor lhat
has greeted other papal oeeasions was
clearly lackíng. As the Pope rodc in his pa·
p•l cbair down the aisle of St. Peler's follow·
ons
tbe Mass, we heard only one lone monk
cry,
"Viva,
Papa!"
The rouo.....
¡
morning
at
lb't Pope's ad·
drcss to the wor)d there was evcn less
enthu~
siasm from lbe many thousand> wbo had
gathered in SL Peler's square. The square
.
was
far
from fulJ,
dcspile
the Vatican's
ex·
pressed desire to bring ooe of lbe largest
crowds: ever
to
Rome.
Large oumbers wbo
did gatber sbowed lmle interut ín wbat wu
wingplaee.
But
if
Pope Paul's peraoiiJil
mag~~cusm
u
not
great enougb to inspire cven C4tbolics,
what are his cbanees of leading Europe lo
unity'l
_
For thi.o reason, and since Bible propheey
does indicate tbat Europe
wiJI
be guodcd by
a
poweául religoous ftgure. it appeara that •
new pope wbo would be able lo eapture the
minds of the mmes may
be
just over the
horizon.
In
lh~
Shoes of the
Fisbennao
A$
oever before, lbe Catbolic Cbureh -
indeed tbe whole of Eurnpe - needs
a
cbampion who c:ould tnspire lbe hearu of
men
10
a
way
that
has
oot
beco done in
modero timt$.
Aner centuries
during
wh.ich mirac.uJous
occurrenees:
ha
ve becn few. could therc ari.se
in our day
a
pope wilb miracle-wotl:in¡
powers - a pope whom thc whole of Cbri..
tendom would follow'?
Could thi.o be wbat
ít
w;u take to unue ten
nations
in
Europe and tO
Jorge..JJ
pta~
keeping force that wiU
go
down to the
Middle East and pul an end to thc A.rab·
lsraeli
confliet?
lf
sucb
wcre.
lO
occur.
what
would
it
me-an
to the United Statcs a.nd Britain, prc·
dominantly Protcstant couotries? How
would
YOllll
life be alfe<ted
if
tbere were
10
be
a
modero Holy Roman Empire led by a
person working awcsome miraclcs?
The Bible, wbich
P/oin
Trut/1
has used fo r
over four dec:adc.s
to
forecast world trends
and cooclitions. supplies thc vital answtr.
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WEEK
ENDINO APRJL 19. 1975