The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 262
Fourteellfh Friday Sermon Feb 22, 1991 word is worthless and it has totally lost all credibility. It is not a coincidence that when Israel attacked Lebanon in 1982, it had likewise said: 5 "We have no intention of taking even an inch of Lebanon. " After Israel attacked and subdued Lebanon, apart from committing appalling atrocities there, before leaving Lebanon, it annexed all the land south of the Litani River, which was a part of its original plan 6. ff that portion of land were surveyed in terms of inches it would be 8 trillion inches and 830 billion square inches. So when Israel states that she does not want even a single inch of land, in reality, she means to grab 8 trillion and 830 billion square inches. This made me think of Israel's history, and wonder when this principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was first preached. How long ago was that? If the interval of time that bas elapsed were counted in seconds then on gets an idea as to how much Israel has intensified in its scope and scale of revenge. I was amazed to find that if one calculated the time span between the revelation of the Torah and the present time, in tenns of seconds, then it would amount to 6 trillion, 244 billion, 128 million seconds. You can well imagine that from the time of Moses"' to the present day 6 trillion 244 billion and 128 million seconds have passed and during this time, Israel's broken promises have mounted to astronomical figures; indeed Israel has been telling lies at a faster rate than the passage of time. Similarly the scale of its retaliatory action has soared in the same proportion. As regards the appalling destruction to Lebanon caused by Israel, I will quote a comment from a diplomat Mr Theodore Arcand who was then the Canadian Ambassador in Lebanon. In describing the bombardment of Lebanon, he said 7 that compared to it the bombing of Berlin was a tea party. 5 Ibid Page 125 6 Ibid see pages 220, 221, 225 7 Ibid 224 262