The Election (in Israel) and More...

Connie and I just returned from voting we both voted for Likud not that we trust Netanyahu but because Likud is the only chance of forming a conservative coalition.  Our hopes that in order for him to form the coalition he will be forced to ask Avigdor Lieberman and a couple of the other right wing Parties to join in order to have the necessary 61 votes in the Knesset.  Believing that the other right wing Parties will hold a line on Netanyahu and not allow him to do any of his old tricks that got him kicked out of the Government when he was Prime Minister.

What is interesting is the winner of this election will not necessarily be the one to head up the Government that is up to the President “Shimon Peres”.  If he believes the winner of the election cannot form a coalition of 61 MK’s he will chose someone who he believes can.

Right now Likud is the favorite but by a narrow margin with Kadima threatening to win.  But by this time tomorrow we will all know who got the most votes.  And within a few days Peres will chose the Party to lead Israel hopefully for the next four years, and most believe it will be Likud.  But you can believe Peres will hate to have to make that judgment as he is very liberal and spent nearly all his life in the Labor Party.

With almost of the world wanting Israel to disappear and Russia and Iran working with the rest of the Arab Block to destroy Israel or to get ready for the big war the one thing this election has done it given Israelis reason to be serous about this election.

Britain’s Jews are getting very nervous as anti-Semitism has taken a more violent and aggressive turn, for that matter throughout all of Europe it is getting worse than it was in the early 30’s leading up to the Holocaust.  A friend in Switzerland wrote me telling how things are getting dangerous for the Jews there and the newspapers are full of what is happening to the Jew in Venezuela.  The Netherlands has for all intent and purposes surrendered to the Islamic threat.

I have no idea how much time we have but one thing is certain the days are numbered and we still have much to get done, and I pray daily for the purchase of the larger boat for many will be depending on us as their way of escape to Israel.  But above all I pray that God’s Will be done in all things and that we all may be found obedient to His calling.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers, pray for this Ministry and your part in it.  Shalom, jerry golden