Moses tells Israel, "Those that you let remain shall be pins in your eyes and thorns in your side" (Book of Numbers, 33:56), speaking of other peoples who might claim ownership of the Land of Israel.

If that isn't clear enough, Moses says it another way. Should Israel fail to keep the Torah of the Lord, especially including the laws commanding the Jews to remove unholy foreign influences from their midst, God shall bring against them a non-nation, "a vile nation that is no nation" (Deuteronomy 32:21).

Obviously, many people, studying these passages, think of the so-called Palestinians. Many readers relate these teachings to the psalm which predicts a great conspiracy by the "Ishmaelites" or Arabs, together with other nations, not just to "cut them [the Jews] off from being a nation," but to erase the name and even the memory of Israel (Psalm 83:5).  Beyond that, the Torah tells the Jewish people again and again, do not try to divide the Land of Israel between yourselves and any other people - "thou shalt make no covenant with them" (See, for example, The Book of Exodus 32:23, Numbers 33, Deuteronomy 7:2).

We live in strange times. Much of the news we see is almost unbelievable. "Three Islamic militants were found guilty yesterday of decapitating three Christian schoolgirls in 2005 and dumping their bloodied heads in nearby villages," reads a report this week from the Associated Press. In Darfur, in the Land of Israel, in Iraq as it disintegrates, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Muslims keep committing unbelievably cruel crimes against each other.

Muslim Iran threatens the world, and particularly Israel, with nuclear destruction. In Europe, with its fast-growing Muslim population, many Muslim neighborhoods are so lawless that the police themselves don't dare enter. The whole world has placed itself on alert against jihad - Muslim "holy war," "Islamic" terror.

Islam hasn't always been like this - it hasn't always been a plague of hate. But it's on the warpath now. From the petro-sheiks of Saudi Arabia to prosperous Pakistani doctors and business people in London, the money keeps coming in on behalf of jihad. And then we come to a real oddity: most of the world isn't mad at the Muslims about this. To the contrary, Israel is, by far, the world's most-hated country. "Israel needs to do something about the Palestinians. Really," they say, from London to Australia, and on college campuses almost everywhere, "the Jews are worse than Nazis."

To everyone looking for a truly meaningful role for Noahides in connection to the Torah and Israel, please open your eyes. Israel needs you. The world needs you. Without you, the human race will stand before God damned, and Israel will suffer another Holocaust.

You need to tell Israel the truth. You need to tell the world the truth.

Part of the truth here is that the Jewish people really are partly responsible for the current mess. When Israel rejects, forgets, or shows a lack of respect for God, the enemies of Israel grow stronger.

When Israel disregards the Torah - not to mention the obvious needs of its own people, not to mention their posterity - in order to show the world how kind and charitable and generous Jews can be to those who want to smash the skulls of Jewish children, the world is not impressed. Quite the contrary. What we get instead is the mess that we're in now - which now afflicts the whole world.

It's ironic - no people in human history ever needed a refuge more than the Children of Israel. To quote Walid Shoebat, a former professional Palestinian terrorist who turned against his awful people,  the world's biggest refugee problem isn't that of the "Palestinians" but the Jews. 

Whether or not the so-called Palestinians deserve a state of their own - the Kurds, who by any measure are more worthy, aren't generally regarded as being so entitled - this much is certain: they don't deserve a state within the Holy Land. They don't deserve anything in the Land of Israel - and the truth is that it would do them no good. They won't make the land a "happening place." The land is holy because the people who actually belong there make it so. Giving the Arabs what they demand won't solve anything.

What about a "two-state solution"? One problem is that Jordan, occupying four-fifths of Palestine, when the Turks and the British ran it, already is the second state. No Jews are allowed there, except as temporary visitors. It's already the Arab Palestinian homeland - and, by the way, how many homelands do these people need? Aren't they part of the great "Arab Nation"? 

On top of those problems there is this problem, which is fatal. Unless the Arabs triumph - God forbid - and reduce the Jews to abject subjects, the Arab "Palestinian" areas will always be squalid and horrible compared to the Jews'. They will always provoke the Arabs' jealousy, the world's sympathy, and condemnation of the Jews. The so-called Palestinians don't keep the Noahide Laws. Speaking generally, compared to any civilized nation, they are, among other things, a murderous, thieving, cruel, immoral, and lawless nation. They don't make deserts bloom. Cultures like theirs turn good land into deserts. How could it be otherwise?

Currently, American taxpayers provide about a third of the budget of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency. This agency was formed for the sole purpose of resettling the Arabs who fled or were squeezed out of Israel's Jewish areas - in the Arab world's several attempts to liquidate Jewish Israel. What UNRWA actually does is prevent their resettlement.  It has been dominated from the start by the worst of the Arabs' leaders. It is given over entirely to building up the "Palestinian Nation" as a weapon to destroy Israel, as a literal human sacrifice. It keeps its charges in refugee camps - thousands of families have been living on the UN dole for more than 60 years, since 1948, as refugees. (Nothing like this has ever happened before in all of human history.) Meanwhile, UNRWA's mere existence tells the Arabs that the world is actually with them in this cause.

We will hear the presidential candidates offer one awful idea after another for solving the "Israeli- Palestinian" conflict, in the run-up to the next elections. If nobody else will say this out loud, Noahides need to do it. They know what the Bible teaches. They know what's right and wrong here.

If it weren't so terrible it would be funny. It isn't just the Torah, history or common sense that teaches that the Land of Israel needs the People of Israel and vice versa. Look at the nations' Scripture. 

In the Christian Scriptures, Paul defends the wisdom of God concerning Israel's restoration in the future. Even in the Koran/Qur'an, Muhammed speaks of Allah's promise of the land to the People of Israel, Allah's command to the Jews to dwell in the land, and the certainty that, in the "end days," the Jewish people will resettle the land that Allah Himself has given them (The Children of Israel, Sura 17:104).

Noahides need to tell the truth about this mess to the Jews, they need to tell it to their fellow Noahides and to Christians, to YouTube and radio and television and newspapers, to senators and congressmen, and especially to Muslims. The only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is for the Arabs themselves to stop treating their own people so cruelly. The only solution is to abolish or clean up UNRWA, or at least stop funding it.

If we keep going the way that we've been going, with "land for peace," contrary to Torah, we will, indeed, find another "solution" - through cataclysmic war and apocalyptic suffering. Otherwise, the only solution is to work with the Arabs to help their brethren, the so-called Palestinians, make lives for themselves on some other real estate - the world still has plenty of empty real estate - somewhere other than where they can shell Israel with high explosives.

We who love the Bible and try to live the Torah need to remember that, whatever so-called "progressive" people think, we are the party of liberty. In the upcoming freedom festival, the great holiday of Passover/Pesach, we will honor the God Who sets men free - Who liberates men from slavery. The Noahide Laws, and God's incredible institution of a full day off from workaday cares at the end of every week: that is the heart of the Hebrew Revolution. Belief in Him, in the Golden Rule, in the truth that every human life has inestimable value - those are our values, and no doctrine or system of belief has ever been more progressive or up to date.

Let us keep these things in mind in the coming days and months. As to those who soldier for the "Palestinian cause," homosexual marriage, late-term abortion, "mercy killing," pornography, anarchy, state-sponsored torture, murder, or the like, let us remember that we, not they, are the true liberals. We are the progressive party - we are the party of the Hebrew Revolution, the Torah Revolution.

MD