Zech:2:8: For thus saith YHWH of
hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his
eye.
The following events may be coincidental, but one has to wonder in light
of Genesis 12:3. YHWH is jealous over His land and His people. Note: Not all
events are included in this list.
1. October 30, 1991 - Talks in Madrid Spain, initiated by President Bush
(Senior) between the Syrians and Palestinian delegations. Topic: Israel must
give land for peace.
October 30, 1991 - Powerful storm off Nova Scotia traveling from East to West
for one thousand miles smashed into New England. Ocean waves were 100 feet high
and ran all the way to the Carolinas. President Bush's home in Kennebunkport,
Maine was heavily damaged.
2. August 23, 1992 - Madrid peace conference moved to Washington, D.C. where
talks resumed.
August 23, 1992 - Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida. 180,000 homeless in
Florida and 25,000 in Louisiana. Damage as high as $30 billion. Storm was 25-30
miles wide.
3. January 16, 1994 - President Clinton met with President Hafez el-Assad of
Syria in Geneva. Topic: An agreement that Israel would give up the Golan Heights
to Syria
January 17, 1994 - A 6.9 earthquake rocked southern California. It was the
second most destructive natural to hit the U.S. Hurricane Andrew was the first.
4. March 1, 1997 - Yasser Arafat met with President Clinton in Washington, D.C.
to discuss settlements being built by Israel. Clinton rebuked Israel for
building the settlements. Arafat went on a speaking tour of the U.S. The United
Nations Security Council and the General Assembly voted to condemn Israel.
March 1, 1997 - Powerful tornadoes devastated huge sections of the U.S.
Arkadelphia, Arkansas was destroyed by tornadoes. Falmouth, Kentucky was
destroyed by flooding. The storms stalled over Ohio causing extensive flooding.
Cost - over $1 billion.
5. September 27, 1998 - Secretary of State Albright met with Arafat in New York
in preparation for a meeting with President Clinton. On September 28, 1998
President Clinton met with Arafat and Netanyahu. The three agreed to formally
announce the land giveaway
September 27, 1998 - Hurricane Georges slammed into the Gulf Coast striking
Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle. The storm stalled and then moved inland.
$1 billion in damage. As Arafat was leaving the hurricane dissipated.
6. October 15, 1998 - Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu met at the Wye
Plantation, Maryland for a five day meeting on giving away thirteen percent of
the West Bank. Under pressure from Clinton, Israel agreed
October 17, 1998 - Rains and tornadoes hit east Texas. Twenty five percent of
Texas was ravaged. Cost was over $1 billion. The day the talks ended the storms
subsided.
7. March 23, 1999 - Arafat met with President Clinton in Washington, D.C. to
discuss a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
March 23, 1999 - Stock market fell two hundred nineteen points. May 3, 1999 -
The most powerful tornado to ever hit the U.S. fell on Oklahoma and Kansas.
Clocked at 316 mph wind speed the tornado was just short of being an F-6. One of
the tornadoes was over one mile wide. 43 people died in the twisters.
8. July 12, 2000 - Clinton , Ehud Barak and Yassar Arafat meet at Camp David,
Maryland to discuss dividing Jerusalem and giving away large portions of land by
Israel.
July - August, 2000 - seven million acres of timber burn in the Western U.S.
Montana and Wyoming were declared disaster areas. More than twenty five thousand
from all over the world fought the fires.
9. June 6, 2001 - CIA director George Tenet traveled to Israel to discuss
stopping building of Settlements. This was the first involvement of the George
W. Bush administration.
June 8, 2001 - Three feet of rain fell on Houston, Texas from Hurricane Allison.
Twenty Five thousand homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged. Cost $3-4
billion dollars.
10. August 9, 2001 - President Bush demanded that Israel abide by the Madrid
peace process, the Mitchell Plan, and United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338.
The resolutions called for Israel to go back to the borders prior to the Six-Day
War of 1967.
September 11, 2001 - Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York and
attacked the Pentegon and brought a plane down in Pennsylvania.
11. August 2005 - The Bush administration brings pressure on Israel to remove,
by force, settlers in the Gaza Strip and giving the land to the Palestinians in
order to establish peace.
August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina crashes into the Gulf coast of the United
States. Over $26 billion dollars in estimated destruction. This was the worst
catastrophe in the history of the nation. Initial estimates of 80 dead in one
county alone. The effects on the economy for the future are staggering.
Similarities between the two events -
Close to 10,000 Jews were expelled from their homes in the Gaza Strip and parts of northern Samaria. Katrina's death toll is now expected to reach at least 10,000.
America's population ratio to Israel is about 50:1. Ten thousand Jews who lost their Gaza homes is the equivalent of about 500,000 Americans who are now reported to be displaced as result of Katrina.
Gaza's Jewish communities were located in Israel's southern coastal region; America's southern coastal region now lies in ruins.
The U.S. government called on Louisiana residents to evacuate their homes ahead of the storm. The Israeli government, backed by statements from U.S. officials, demanded Gaza residents evacuate their homes.
Katrina, written in Hebrew, has a numerical equivalent of 374, according to a biblical numbering system upheld by all traditional Jewish authorities. Two relevant passages in the Torah share the exact numerical equivalent: "They have done you evil" (Gen. 50:17) and "The sea upon land" (Exodus 14:15).
Bush, from Texas, and Rice, from Alabama, were the most vocal U.S. backers of the Gaza evacuation. Hurricane Katrina hit the states in between Texas and Alabama – Louisiana and Mississippi.
Similarity in scenes: Many residents of Jewish Gaza climbed to their rooftops to escape the threat of expulsion, while residents of the Gulf Coast climbed on their own rooftops to protect themselves from the rising waters. Jewish Gaza homes described as beautiful and charming were demolished this week by Israel's military. Once beautiful homes in New Orleans now lie in ruins.
The day Katrina hit, Israel began carrying out what was termed the most controversial aspect of the Gaza withdrawal – the uprooting of bodies from the area's Jewish cemetery. There have been media reports of corpses floating around in flooded New Orleans regions.
Citizens of Israel were barred from entering Gush Katif; people were only allowed to leave Jewish Gaza. As Katrina was making landfall U.S. authorities barred citizens from entering the affected areas. People were only allowed out.
Gush Katif was an important agricultural area for Israel, providing the Jewish state with 70 percent of its produce. A New Orleans port that exported much of the Midwest's agricultural production was destroyed by Katrina.