Man in the Gap — What Holly Thinks

EU high representative Javier Solana addresses the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament on Wednesday. Photo: Council of the EU

Javier Solana has taken center stage in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

The United States won’t be able to continue leading the talks until the new administration gets its footing. Until then, the only person capable of filling the void is EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, according to an article published in the International Herald Tribune, Aug. 26, titled “Europe Into the Breach.” Read it here.

Solana is eager to take up the role. Right now he’s in the Middle East meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and then he’s off to New York for a series of meetings on the Middle East. In an address to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament on Wednesday, he said the EU must take responsibility for continuing the negotiations:

I think it is important that we take advantage of what are probably the last days left in the calendar if we want to achieve something from the agreements reached in Annapolis. I will be going to New York soon for over a week, where we will have an important series of meetings on the Middle East. We will have a meeting of the Quartet, and the Quartet plus the Arabs, and other meetings in other formats, with both sides present. I think it is very important that we Europeans try to analyse the situation after the General Assembly in New York and see how to go from then until the end of the year and until the new American Administration is fully operational. It is important to try and ensure that what has been achieved in the way of negotiations up until then is not lost and that we can continue to move on from the beginning of 2009. It will be an important responsibility for us to keep up the momentum. (Read his full address here.)

And, in an interview published in Reuters today, Solana admitted that achieving peace by the end of 2008 is unlikely, but said his goal is to “get something that will maintain the momentum and (so) we will not start at the beginning of the year 2009 in a more complicated situation.”

What is the “something” Solana is hoping to get? According to the Reuters interview, he didn’t clarify what he meant, “but Israeli officials have suggested a joint statement could be issued, committing both sides to continue final status talks in 2009 from wherever they leave off.”

Why is Solana’s entrance into the talks important for Bible prophecy? If you’ve been following FP, then you know of his sudden appearance among a 10-nation military alliance in 1999. You also know that, back in 1995, Solana negotiated the Euro-Mediterranean free-trade zone (the covenant with many?) and later brokered the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The purpose of his ENP is to make firm, or confirm, his 1995 Euro-Med. And, beginning on Jan. 1, 2007, his new ENP went into force for a seven-year time frame.

These, of course, are all things the Antichrist is prophesied to do. To top it off, his office of EU high representative and emergency powers in the Western European Union were both created with documents numbered 666. Learn more here.

Now we’ll see if Solana can reach a breakthrough where so many others have failed.

Stay tuned!

— Holly Pivec
9/12/08