The Boycott Against Israel Grows WR 14-63

Jesus/Yehoshua said in Matthew 24:

9  Then shall they deliver you (The Jews) up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

10  And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11  And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Israel is caught between the Shekel and a hard place. I think that Jewish money will dictate and force Israel to pull out of East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, the West Bank. The noose is being placed around the neck of the Jews in Israel as the information below explains. 

God is using evil Gentile nations to discipline his people as He explains in Habakuk.

1  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

2  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3  Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked (Gentile nations) doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

5  Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. (Believe that Yeshua is Israel’s Messiah)

6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, (Babylon, the chief Gentile nation) that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.

7  They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

9  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11  Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12  Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. (God will judge the heathen, Gentile nations)

13  Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man (Jews) that is more righteous than he?

14  And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15  They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

16  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

17  Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

1  I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see (your Watchman writing the Watchman Report watches for the enemy - satan for you) what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2  And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

3  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

4  Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. (Those who have faith in Jesus/Yeshua Hamaschiach shall be saved)

Friends, this is just one or more indication that we are approaching the Rapture and the beginning of The Great Tribulation.  

God says in Joel that He will gather all the Gentile nations to Jehoshaphat and judge them for their sins against His “chosen people”.

Joel 3:2  I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Joe 3:12  Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

In early February, when Secretary of State John Kerry warned that Israel was at risk of facing a growing campaign of de-legitimization in the absence of a peace deal with the Palestinians, the response from Israel’s politicians was swift, and fierce. “Threats to boycott Israel will not achieve their goal,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, called Kerry’s remarks “hurtful,” while economic minister Naftali Bennett accused Kerry of being “a trumpet” of anti-Semitism. But after the dust settled, Israeli officials acknowledged Kerry’s comments hardly came out of the blue. “I think he was making a descriptive statement,” Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, a former economic attaché, said.

 

In December, the Dutch firm Vitens announced it would stop working with Israeli water infrastructure company Mekorot because of its activities in Israeli settlements. In January, Norway’s Ministry of Finance announced it would sell its interests in construction firms Danya Cebus and Africa Israel because they build settlement homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. 

Earlier this month, Denmark’s Danske Bank blacklisted Israel’s Bank Hapoalim because it operates and funds construction in West Bank settlements.

Last month, Israel’s finance minister, Yair Lapid, warned that a partial European Union boycott could cost the country nearly $6 billion in exports. But the moves already announced amount to a soft boycott on Israeli trade—a problem dozens of companies exporting to Europe are already facing thanks to the removal of their products from stores, reduced commitments from European investors, and termination of contracts. “We’ve seen an escalation whereby Israeli companies have been targeted in spite of the fact that the relationship under discussion has nothing to do with the West Bank,” said Daniel Reisner, an attorney who specializes in international law and has seen an uptick in client consultations on export problems. “The foreign company says, ‘We know you have other operations in the West Bank, and because of that I don’t want to do business with you in Israel.’ ”

 

That reality has accelerated the campaign by breaking the Impasse, a coalition of Israeli and Palestinian business people. In February, the group took out highway billboards urging Netanyahu to make a deal or risk a continued rise in Israel’s cost of living. “Netanyahu is not doing enough,” said Eyal Waldman, a member of the group and CEO of Mellanox, a semiconductor and software firm based in the northern Israeli town of Yokneam. “The amount of negotiations, the people involved, and the rhythm should be faster and more concrete.”

The hope of businessmen like Waldman, who said Mellanox, with clients around the world and programmers working in Ramallah, doesn’t have serious exposure in the event of a broadened boycott campaign. Netanyahu is a former business strategy consultant and will be swayed by appeals to the bottom line. “Netanyahu is in many ways even more sensitive to the business community than to the settlers,” said Yaron Ezrahi, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “They give him a very good reason to redefine the vital interest of Israel.”

So far, the government is maintaining a delicate balancing act. In December, Israel and the European Union concluded months of negotiations over the terms of the Horizon 2020 agreement, which provides $95 billion in research funding to Israeli science and technology projects on condition that no money goes to institutions operating in the settlements.

But meantime, it’s in the settlements that the bite of sanctions is already being felt. Last year, the revenues of growers in the Jordan Valley’s 21 settlements dropped $29 million, a loss of more than 14 percent, after Western European supermarkets—particularly in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia—began removing settlement-grown produce from store shelves.

In the Jordan Valley settlement of Netiv Hagdud, pepper farmer Hanan Pasternak said exports to Europe have been shrinking over the past eight years, and this year he did not sell to Europe at all. “We send all our harvest to Russia,” Pasternak said. “They know we have no choice, and they kill us on prices. And the Russian market only takes extra-large peppers.”

Yet it’s the representatives of the settler movement who, at least publicly, have insisted they are less concerned with losing money than keeping land. Last week, the main settler lobby group, the Yesha Council, launched an English-language website that uses short films to lampoon Kerry and his efforts at cementing a peace agreement. And so far, the Israeli government has compensated the settlers for their losses overseas: Since 2010, when they were excluded from duties exemptions given to Israeli companies in Europe, Pasternak said that the government has covered the loss with an annual payment of 24 million shekels, or about $6.8 million. He said he expects the government to further support his farm with reduced water prices as European sanctions begin to squeeze his revenues further. “Seventy percent of Israelis think the Jordan Valley has to remain in Israeli hands,” Pasternak said. “We expect the government to help us and take responsibility.”