However, because this is not always possible regardless of the amount of truth that is placed before certain individuals, and because there are those who will always love the evil inwardly more than righteousness, I believe that there can is righteous-based hatred regarding some humans. I don’t believe in living a life for the sole purpose of hating for any cause as do certain political, religious, and non-religious hate groups. But there are things in this life (including evil devoted people) of whom it's righteous to hate.
God judges hatred along with all motivations of the human heart by His law and not by man’s westernized liberal conceptions. There is a big difference between hating your personal enemy on a personal level for personal reasons, and hating an enemy of God on a spiritual level for spiritual reasons. Examine what the scripture states:
"Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting." - Psalms 139:21-24. (also see II Chronicles 19:2)
In this segment from the book of Psalms, the psalmist was searching his heart before God in which he was making sure that his godly resistance towards his enemies - in the form of righteous hatred - was in check. In this passage Israel’s enemies are the ones who hates God. For the psalmist, his thought was that if he did not have a "perfect" hatred towards God’s enemies, then his thoughts of not hating God's enemy would be of a wicked way within his heart. From my point of view, the politically-correct secular world could learn volumes from the simple declaration that this psalmist proclaimed and of which the first and second Jewish Temple singers sang the psalm:1
“Do not I hate them, O YHVH that hate thee?” and "I hate them (God's enemies) with a perfect hatred"
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I have heard people say that they may hate the things evil people do but not the person themselves. I agree with that concept in general but not as an overall concept. An individual can sink so much into evil that they become “as one” with their wickedness. There is a place in the realms of evil where a person has sold out "soul" lock, stock and barrel in effect crossing the point of no return where their whole lives can only be devoted as an enemy against God. Such was the case with Pharaoh during the time of the Exodus whose heart become more hardened after each manifestation of the ten plagues of Egypt.
To bring this reality into modern times, I do not and cannot love any part of Adolph Hitler including his very soul. I not only hate the things that he did on earth but I also hate him spiritually as God's enemy as well. How about you? Are you a hater of Hitler's very soul?
Fact: There is no separation between Hitler's soul and his Holocaust deeds that he did on earth both now and forever.
Hitler made a choice to become the image of evil rather than expressing the image of God he was made in. I don’t believe God loves him but rather hates him insomuch that Hitler’s soul (and not just the things he did) is in a place of the eternally damned where he will be forever separated from the God of mercy, justice, and righteousness. So in trying to be like minded with God’s thinking towards Hitler, I hate the expressed devil that Hitler was and forever shall be known. I not only believe that it's a righteous act to hate Hitler, but in fact it would be evil of me or anyone else not to do so as the above Psalm of David plainly points out. Furthermore, the so-called do-gooders who actually love Hitler are the ones most likely to support him and his deeds.
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Hitler is not the only ambassador of evil to walk around in human form. I feel the same way with the likes of other such devils as Yassier Arafat, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and now Jimmy Carter who has devoted the rest of his evil life to the cause of Israel's murderous enemy. These men are not simply misguided fools that are followers of evil (a place where true repentance and the turning away from evil are still available to such a person) but they are in fact actual leaders and forgoers of evil for the sole purpose of leading others in their evil!
Since false prophets don’t repent, (no false prophet in the Bible ever did) I have no desire to pray for these men and others like them for a change of their evil ways. Rather, I choose to pray according to God’s promise to them which is for their destruction as God sees fit according to their relentless evil and unrepentant deeds upon this earth.
"And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face." - Deuteronomy 7:10 (See also Isaiah 59:18).
Therefore, my Bible-guided prayer is, "May YHVH according to His holy and righteous Torah promise, repay the Arab-Palestinians to their face, along with and all who support them in their terrorist-expressed hatred acts against YHVH's chosen people."
The Palestinians:
There isn't a greater enemy towards the nation of Israel in all the world today than the Palestinians! The Palestinians have taken the title from the German Nazis as "the greatest threat" to the Jewish nation. Mein Kamph gave way to Jihadi - both meaning "my struggles" in both German and Arabic. When Hitler's struggles expired the Islamic struggles picked up the banner. What now is at stake in the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians that wasn't at stake during Hitler's Final Solution is the possibility of the most evil people in all the earth, worshiping the most evil god (their god Allah), in the most holiest place (Jerusalem and the Temple Mount) in all the world!
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
- Among the two great political parties that rule the Palestinians (Al-Fatah in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip) both covenants from both parties call for for an arms struggle and the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel. http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html
- The greatest forms of child abuse in all the world occur among the Palestinians. Children who are barely old enough to speak are taught to Jew-hate with words they don't even understand. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZL0C2QvqIlo This gives heed to the saying, "they drink the hatred with their mother's milk"! Just the picture alone (at the top of the article) speaks volumes of the Palestinian society.
- Children TV shows are shown in the name of Shahid (martyrdom). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c6lbFGC4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4zgURMOZ6k
- Shahid (martyrdom) for children is glorified of official PA and Hamas television. http://www.pmw.org.il/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm
- An exhibition of glorifying and celebrating suicide / mass murder is displayed with Palestinian gleeful acceptance at Al Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus in September, 2001. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/sbarro.htm This exhibition included many displays of body parts one of which was a bloody set of blue-jean wearing legs with no torso connected, still sitting on a chair. The bombing of Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in which the exhibition re-enacts hits a little close to home. My wife and I personally eat there three years before this massacre occurred.
- School text books promote anti-Israel and pro shahid-martyrdom. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/patext1.html http://www.edume.org/research/testimonies/2007-05-15.html http://www.pmw.org.il/getresults/political/index.html#i214759
- Women who sends their sons to Jew-murder are given high status in Palestinian society, even to run for a government office. http://www.amitiesquebec-israel.org/texts/mother.htm
- Suicide murderers are glorified all through Palestinian controlled areas, in the form of billboards, street names, names of soccer fields, trading cards, names of hospitals, new babies named after suicide bombers, and children's events, songs, chants, and poems during parades, ect. http://programs.ssrc.org/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/allen/ http://www.zoa.org/2003/07/palestinian_aut_13.htm Even "Saddam Hussein" whose Scud missiles hitting Tel-Aviv civilian areas brought Palestinian cheers, is honored in the Palestinian city of Jenin> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53882
- Suicide for the murder of Jews is an accepted norm and is a high form of religious devotion. Outside of martyrdom, there is no guarantee of reaching paradise for oneself and family members. This is one of the reasons candy is passed out in celebration at suicide / murderer's funeral. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013234.php
- One Hundred Thousand citizens of the would-be future State of Palestine attended the funeral of Yahya Ayyash (a.k.a. "the Engineer") not to mention the many funerals of other Palestinian terrorist and terrorist spiritual teachers like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin! I wonder how many of these one hundred thousand funeral attendees of Yahya Ayyash would consider themselves Palestinian moderates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash Moreover, this Palestinian hero has traffic squares named after him in both Jenin and Jericho with no Palestinian complaints. Imagine that! This issue of glorifying and mass murderer among the Palestinians even became part of "peace" negotiation with such a people. See "article 6" section "h" > http://www.israelmfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Israeli+View+on+Palestinian+Security+Commitments.htm?DisplayMode=print
- Palestinians seek to destroy the God of Israel through a revised history of Holocaust and Temple denial, and stand as a barricade between God and His fulfillment of the covenant He has with His chosen people, the Jews. http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/facultyforum.cgi?ID=1735
Muslim religious fervor has many different facets of Jew-murdering expressions that are fully exposed in the Palestinian society. From passing out candy at shahid funerals to eating flesh and drinking blood of Jewish victims as they did on October 12, 2000 in Ramallah> http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014886.php Yet, the Muslim world has the audacity to vilify Israel as the blood-libel people and state. It is these Palestinians who are on the front lines (even occupying a huge portion of the ancient land of Israel) in the Islamic war against the God of Israel!
The 64,000 dollar question: Does the God of Israel "hate" the Palestinians?
The politically-correct answer would be, "God loves everybody". However, the Bible is never politically correct. The Bible states very clearly that God hated Esau, who like the Palestinians wished to destroy Jacob / Israel.
"I have loved you, saith YHVH. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith YHVH: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated (Hebrew: sanay-ti) Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi 1:2,3
The New Testament correctly applies this scripture of God's hatred of an individual as also to the nation that proceeded from that individual (see Romans 9:12,13). The land that should be considered for a Palestinian state is all contained in the ancient writings of which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about -the Bible. Aside from Mecca, the Palestinian spiritual base is that of Esau's - Mt. Seir in Jordan, which is why the prophecies of Ezekiel against Israel's most vicious enemy is not against the West Bank, for that is Israel's land and not the Palestinians! http://www.danielpipes.org/article/298
Take another look at the list above as to what the Palestinians are capable of and then see if you notice any similarities in the following scripture: "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end...Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; [sound familiar? > http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/02/palestine-from-the-river-to-th/ ] whereas YHVH was there: Therefore, as I live saith YHVH God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I have judged thee. - Ezekiel 35:5, 10-111
One of the hardest scriptures for most people to understand and one that I personally had an atheist use in trying to discredit the Bible, is Psalms 137:7-9 which reads:Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
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"But the truth about the International Solidarity Movement was something very different than what has been depicted on stage. Rather than advocating a two-state solution, the group is opposed to the existence of the State of Israel and opposes all measures of self-defense on the part of the Jewish state. What was going on in Gaza during Corrie’s time there was a terrorist war of attrition in which Palestinians sought to bring Israel to its knees with a campaign of suicide bombings and other attacks which, over the course of the second intifada, took the lives of over 1,000 Israelis. You hear nothing about this in “My Name is Rachel Corrie” or any of the accounts of her activities by her fans. Nor do you see the Rachel Corrie captured in a photo of her at the time, face contorted by rage as she joins Palestinians in burning an American flag.
But, as British journalist Tom Gross memorably wrote back in 2005 in his piece, “The Forgotten Rachels,” those promoting the cult of Rachel Corrie don’t seem to care about the Jewish girls by the same name who were slaughtered by the terrorists the ISM activist sought to shield.
As for the particulars of the incident, Corrie’s death was unfortunate. But, as the judge said in his verdict, her death was an accident that occurred during “a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity.” As the Times of Israel noted:
The commander of the troops on the scene, an infantry major, testified last year that the activists had ignored repeated warnings to leave and were endangering his troops. “It was a war zone,” he told the court. The judge repeated that description in Tuesday’s decision, saying that from the outbreak of violence in September, 2000, and until the day of Corrie’s death Israeli forces counted some 6,000 hand grenades thrown at them in the area, as well as 1,400 shooting attacks, 150 explosive devices, 200 anti-tank rockets and more than 40 instances of mortar fire.
As the judge said in his verdict: “She chose to put herself in danger. She could have easily distanced herself from the danger like any reasonable person would.”
The Jewish Rachels who died at the hands of Ms. Corrie’s Palestinian friends had no such chance. They were blown up or shot by Palestinians with munitions like those smuggled in the same tunnels that Corrie was protecting, while driving in a car, sitting in a pizza parlor, waiting for a bus, shopping in a grocery store or just sitting in their own home. But there are no plays about them."
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"Rachel Corrie should not have put herself in front of a bulldozer in the middle of the confusion of a military action in a war zone in which she was taking a side. Her death was as unnecessary as the intifada itself. Had the Palestinians accepted Israel’s offers of an independent state in 2000 and 2001 (and repeated and turned down again in 2008), there would have been no need for any hostilities in Gaza. But they chose war instead of peace and were aided by fools like Corrie in this futile endeavor. Peace will never come to the Middle East so long as Palestinians devoted to destroying Israel can count on the support of Western elites and pilgrims like Corrie to support their murderous activities." Rachel Corrie was more of a Piece of Shit Activist, she was NO "Peace Activist" Rachel Corrie was a Satanic Ugly Diabolical Demonic Cunt & stupid bitch, countless people have stated it was her fault she was crushed by the Bulldozer, it was her stupidity & evil that got her killed, She Supported Terrorism against innocent Israel Civilians , she was an anti-semite, these are the FACTS, the FACTS show she Supported Terrorism, Good that she was killed, Good that she's dead , Because of the so-called "Palestinians" and people like Rachel Corrie, Campus & Universities in America & Worldwide are Living Nightmares for Jewish Students & For People who Support Israel, Cowards like Rachel Corrie & supporters of the so-called "Palestinian People" Cowardly hide behind "Free Speech" to spew their Hatred & Bigotry & Support for Terrorism, but such Hatred would NEVER NEVER NEVER be Tolerated against other Groups of People or any other Nation on College & University Campuses,
We at this blog want Peace in the Mideast & Worldwide, and We Support Free Speech & Freedom of Expression, but Jewish Students & Staff on College & University Campuses also have a Right to NOT Endure a Hostile Threatening Nazi German Type Environment , Jewish students & Staff have a Right to a Safe Environment Free from Abuse, Hate Crimes & Harassment
From the website of the New York Post, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Another UN blow to human rights"
By Hillel Neuer October 18, 2019 | 9:45pm
the article says
"In 1946, in the aftermath of the horrors of World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Commission on Human Rights, to reaffirm the principles of human dignity. That her dream has turned into a recurring nightmare was confirmed on Thursday when some of the world’s worst regimes were once again elected to the 47-nation UN body, renamed in 2006 under a failed bid at reform, as the Human Rights Council.
Who are the UN’s new world judges on human rights?
Absurdly, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is one.
Though the council’s rules stipulate that members must “uphold the highest standards” of human rights, the UN General Assembly chose the narco-criminal regime from Caracas.
Despite promises of a socialist paradise, President Maduro has devastated his country, starved his own people and crushed pro-democracy dissidents.
The government’s repression includes targeting opposition leaders like Leopoldo López, who was thrown into prison for three years and is still under house arrest. According to the NGO Foro Penal, as of April 2019 there were more than 900 political prisoners across Venezuela.
Maduro’s failed policies have produced political instability, hunger, poverty and soaring crime rates. Millions are ill and dying for lack of food, medicine and basic necessities. Four million have fled. Electing Maduro to the council was obscene.
Second, the world body elected Libya, another failed state, where armed groups execute and torture civilians with almost complete impunity. Captured African migrants are bought and sold on open slave markets.
Third, although anti-racism is supposedly the defining credo of the UN, the General Assembly elected the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, where an estimated 500,000 people live in slavery.
Under an age-old caste system, darker-skinned Mauritanians are beholden to their lighter-skinned “masters.” Anti-slavery activists like Biram Dah Abeid are jailed and tortured.
This week’s fourth notable addition to the Human Rights Council — which already includes the likes of China, Cuba, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia — is Sudan, which has one of the world’s highest rates of female genital mutilation.
For the past 30 years, Sudan was ruled by Omar al-Bashir, whose interpretation of Sharia law permitted flogging, amputation and stoning. Bashir also stands accused of committing genocide against an estimated 300,000 people in Darfur.
In April, Bashir was ousted. A joint civilian-military council now rules the country. Though some of the new leaders appear committed to reform, it is too early to know if Sudan will succeed in breaking from its brutal past.
In total, as of Jan. 1 more than half of council members will be non-democracies."
the article continues
"Does it matter that the world’s highest human-rights body is being subverted?
It does. The council’s pronouncements and reports are translated into multiple languages and influence the hearts and minds of millions worldwide.
More than 4 million Venezuelans have left the country in recent years: UN
Dictators on the council will continue to ensure that most of the world’s worst abusers enjoy impunity. Violators like China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia have never been the object of a single resolution, urgent session or commission of inquiry.
Instead, Israel is repeatedly singled out for condemnation, the only country targeted under a special agenda item at every meeting. Hamas terrorism is ignored.
Dictators will also make sure to appoint more anti-Western figures like Jean Ziegler, the longest-serving council official, who openly defends the Maduro regime. In 1989, he announced the creation of the Moammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize, which over the years was awarded to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and, in 2002, to Ziegler himself.
After Moammar Khadafy’s Libya was elected to the council in 2010, Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey defended the choice, saying it was “important to keep a dialogue” in order to “improve the human-rights situation across the world.” Yet after regimes like Russia, China and Cuba served on the council for a decade, their repression only got worse.
Sadly, for the foreseeable future at the United Nations, the inmates will be running the asylum." More like the insane asylum at the U.N.
Hillel Neuer is executive director of UN Watch, a nongovernmental human-rights organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
From the New York Post website, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Adolf Hitler’s ‘last living relative’ convicted of pedophilia"
By Yaron Steinbuch September 5, 2019 | 11:30am | Updated
the article says
"A man claiming to be Adolf Hitler’s last living relative has been convicted of pedophilia for kissing a 13-year-old girl, according to a report.
Romano-Luka Hitler, 69, who lives in the town of Görlitz in eastern Germany, claims to be related to the Fuehrer through Hitler’s father, Alois, according to the UK’s Mirror. He has said that Alois had a younger brother, whose grandson was his father.
The Leipzig schoolgirl’s father, who owns a small garage, told the German news outlet Bild that he believed Hitler was interested in buying his business — but then realized he actually had his eye on the girl.
“He lured her to his flat with sweets, brought her clothes and plastic flowers and even offered to marry her,” the dad said.
The Nazi dictator’s purported relative claimed he simply enjoyed the company of the child and that his kiss was a harmless greeting that is normal in Germany and was harmless.
“I’m innocent,” he insisted.
But Judge Ulrich Schettgen rejected his explanation, saying the sicko kissed the girl “against her will on both the neck and cheek.”
Hitler, who claims he ended up in a monastery when his parents died and was adopted by a Polish family, said he would appeal his conviction.
The man, who worked as a ship helmsman, has said that having the notorious last name has made it tough to find work.
“The name is like a cross to bear and I wish that on nobody,” he said, although he has a picture of the dictator on his wall alongside one of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Hitler was fined the equivalent of about $900.
Hitler’s only confirmed living relatives on his dad’s side are his great-nephews Alexander, Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston, who live a quiet life under the radar on Long Island. The men are the sons of Hitler’s nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK to the Fuehrer’s half-brother, Alois"
On YouTube a good video is titled
"Why Palestinians Want This Video Removed"
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1.8K subscribers the description says
"The Arabs who occupy the land of Israel want this video to be removed . Feel free to copy this video and help spread the truth the palestinians seek to deny." there are many versions of this Video on YouTube, all titled "Why Palestinians want this video Removed"
Anyone Remember the Classic episode of "The Twilight Zone" titled
"Deaths-Head Revisited" which first aired November 10, 1961
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia it says about this episode
"Deaths-Head Revisited"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.
Season 3
Episode 9
Directed by
Don Medford
Written by
Rod Serling
Featured music
Stock
Production code
4804
Original air date
November 10, 1961
Guest appearance(s)
Oscar Beregi, Jr.: Captain Lutze (Mr. Schmidt)
Joseph Schildkraut: Becker
Karen Verne: Inn Keeper
Robert Boon: Taxi Driver
Ben Wright: The Doctor
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"Deaths-Head Revisited" is episode 74 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The story is about a former SS officer revisiting the Dachau concentration camp a decade and a half after World War II. The title is a play on the Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited.
Contents
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Opening narration
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Plot
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Closing narration
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Episode and cast notes
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Critical response
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References
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External links
Opening narration[edit]
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Mr. Schmidt, recently arrived in a small Bavarian village which lies eight miles northwest of Munich... a picturesque, delightful little spot one-time known for its scenery, but more recently related to other events having to do with some of the less positive pursuits of man: human slaughter, torture, misery and anguish. Mr. Schmidt, as we will soon perceive, has a vested interest in the ruins of a concentration camp—for once, some seventeen years ago, his name was Gunther Lutze. He held the rank of a captain in the SS. He was a black-uniformed strutting animal whose function in life was to give pain, and like his colleagues of the time, he shared the one affliction most common amongst that breed known as Nazis... he walked the Earth without a heart. And now former SS Captain Lutze will revisit his old haunts, satisfied perhaps that all that is awaiting him in the ruins on the hill is an element of nostalgia. What he does not know, of course, is that a place like Dachau cannot exist only in Bavaria. By its nature, by its very nature, it must be one of the populated areas... of the Twilight Zone."
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"Plot[edit]
Gunther Lutze, a former SS captain, checks into a hotel in Dachau, Bavaria, under the name "Schmidt". The receptionist seems to recognize him, but he deflects suspicion by claiming to have spent the war serving on the Eastern Front. After harassing the woman by forcing her to explain what the Nazis were doing in Dachau, he returns to the now-abandoned Dachau concentration camp to recall his time as its commandant during World War II. As he strolls around the camp, he smugly and sadistically recalls the torment he inflicted on the inmates.
Lutze is surprised to see Alfred Becker, one of the camp's former inmates and a particular victim of Lutze's cruelty. Lutze supposes that Becker is now the caretaker of the camp, which Becker confirms "in a manner of speaking". As they talk, Becker relentlessly dogs Lutze with the reality of his grossly inhumane actions, while Lutze stubbornly insists that he was only following orders. Lutze tries to leave, but finds the gate locked.
In one of the camp buildings, Becker and a dozen other ghostly inmates put Lutze on trial for crimes against humanity and find him guilty. When Becker is about to pronounce the sentence, Lutze mocks him as mad until he suddenly remembers that he killed Becker seventeen years previously on the night U.S. troops came close to Dachau. As punishment, Lutze is made to undergo the same horrors he had imposed on the inmates in the form of tactile illusions. He screams in agony and collapses. Before departing, Becker's ghost informs him, "This is not hatred. This is retribution. This is not revenge. This is justice. But this is only the beginning, Captain. Only the beginning. Your final judgment will come from God."
Lutze is found and taken to a mental institution, since he continues to experience and react to his illusionary sufferings. His finders wonder how a man who was perfectly calm two hours before could have gone insane. The doctor looks around and asks, "Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?"
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Closing narration[edit]
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There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth. "
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Episode and cast notes[edit]
Hungarian-born actor Oscar Beregi Jr (SS Captain Lutze) had many screen roles as villains and 'heavies', and would have been familiar to American TV audiences of the time for his work in the popular TV detective series The Untouchables, where he had a recurring role as thuggish mobster Joe Kulak. This episode also marked Beregi's second appearance in The Twilight Zone - his first was as the leader of the criminal gang in the Season 2 episode "The Rip Van Winkle Caper".
Alfred Becker, Lutze's supernatural adversary and judge, was played by distinguished Austrian-born character actor Joseph Schildkraut. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Captain Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), although he would have been best known to contemporary audiences for his role as the father Otto Frank in both the Broadway stage version and the 1959 film version of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Kaaren Verne, who makes a brief but memorable appearance as the hotel receptionist in the episode's opening scene, had enjoyed a flourishing career in the Berlin State Theatre before she and her first husband were forced to flee Germany in 1938. She eventually settled in the USA, where she soon became an outspoken opponent of the Nazi regime. In the mid-1940s, she was married for several years to renowned expatriate German actor Peter Lorre."
& continues
"Veteran British-born character actor Ben Wright (The Doctor) trained at RADA with Ida Lupino and worked on stage and screen in the UK before emigrating to the USA in 1946. After becoming established in Hollywood, Wright's much-admired facility with accents and dialects saw him play a wide range of character parts in radio and on screen, portraying English, German, French, Australian and even Chinese characters. He was also in "Judgment Night". Additionally, he played the Gauleiter of Austria Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music. He was also a noted voice actor, and performed featured voice parts in Disney's 101 Dalmatians and The Little Mermaid, which was his final screen credit before his death.
The casting of this episode is notable for several reasons. One is that all of the leading cast were European-born: Beregi was Hungarian, Schildkraut was Austrian, Robert Boon (the taxi driver) was Dutch, Ben Wright (the doctor) was English, and Kaaren Verne (the hotel receptionist) was born in Germany. Nearly all of the main cast also had personal connections to the subject matter—as well as his noted work in The Diary of Anne Frank, Schildkraut (who was Jewish) lost many members of his extended family in the Holocaust, Verne had been forced to flee Germany to escape the Nazis, and both Boon and Ben Wright (the Doctor) had served with the Allied armed forces during World War II.
In an archival audio interview, attached as a special feature to the episode in the Twilight Zone DVD boxed set, series producer Buck Houghton recalled that for this episode, the production was able to shoot the episode's exterior scenes in a large frontier fort set that had recently been built for the pilot for an unnamed Western TV series. Because that series had not been picked up by any of the networks, this very expensive set - which, according to Houghton, had cost US$200,000 (around US$1.6 million in 2016) - was then sitting abandoned on the MGM backlot, and only required minimal redressing to serve as the episode's setting, the Dachau concentration camp.
Speaking of episode director Don Medford, Houghton recalled that while Medford was mainly known as an "action" director, he was chosen both for his ability to create effective "shock" moments, and for his willingness to allow emotional scenes to play out as long as he felt necessary. According to Houghton, Medford was also known for his meticulous preparation, although Houghton also recalled that Medford could become flustered if events during production (such as the unexpected unavailability of an actor) forced him to deviate from his production plans.
Houghton also heaped praise on the work of British-born actor Ben Wright (who appears briefly as The Doctor at the end of the episode), noting that Wright had the ability to master any kind of accent or dialect convincingly, and this allowed him to play a wide range of nationalities during his long screen career.
Houghton also recounted that the original edit of the episode included several scenes (totalling about ten minutes of footage) that were ultimately removed in the final cut, to achieve the optimal running time of around 25 minutes.
The story was later adapted for The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas starring H.M. Wynant in the Oscar Beregi role."
The Wikipedia entry lastly says
"Critical response[edit]
Gordon F. Sander, excerpt from Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man:
Serling meted out nightmarish justice of a worse kind in "Deaths-Head Revisited" (directed by Don Medford), Serling's statement on the Holocaust, written in reaction to the then-ongoing Eichmann trial, in which a former Nazi, played by Oscar Beregi, on a nostalgic visit to Dachau, is haunted and ultimately driven insane by the ghosts of inmates he had killed there during the war.
References[edit]
Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-136-0
Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0
Zicree, Marc Scott (undated), audio interview with Twilight Zone producer Buck Houghton. Episode Special Feature, 'The Twilight Zone' DVD boxed set, Season 3, Volume 1, Disc 2 (CBS Broadcasting Inc., 2007)
External links[edit]
"Deaths-Head Revisited" on IMDb
"Deaths-Head Revisited" at TV.com" This and other classic episodes of
The Twilight Zone can be viewed on the website dailymotion.com
Another episode of "The Twilight Zone" that dealt with the topic of Hitler and the Holocaust was titled "He's Alive" which first aired on January 24, 1963
the Wikipedia entry for this episode says
"He's Alive"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"He's Alive"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.
Season 4
Episode 4
Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Written by
Rod Serling
Production code
4856
Original air date
January 24, 1963
Guest appearance(s)
Dennis Hopper: Peter Vollmer
Ludwig Donath: Ernst Ganz
Curt Conway: Adolf Hitler
Paul Mazursky: Frank
Howard Caine: Nicholas "Nick" Bloss
Barnaby Hale: Stanley
Jay Adler: Gibbons
Wolfe Barzell: Proprietor
Bernard Fein: Heckler
Chet Brandenburg: Audience member
Paul Bryar: Policeman
Bobby Gilbert: Man with cat
Buck Harrington: Audience member
Ed Haskett: Audience member
Robert McCord: Cop
William Meader: Townsman in brawl
William H. O'Brien: Audience member
Bill Zuckert: Detective
Episode chronology
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List of The Twilight Zone episodes
"He's Alive" is episode four of the fourth season of The Twilight Zone. It tells of an American neo-Nazi who is inspired by the ghost of Adolf Hitler. Writer Rod Serling scripted a longer version of the teleplay to be made into a feature-length film, but it was never produced.
Contents
1
Opening narration
2
Plot
3
Closing narration
4
Production
5
References
6
External links
Opening narration[edit]
“
Portrait of a bush-league Führer named Peter Vollmer, a sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. That something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth. But in just a moment Peter Vollmer will ply his trade on another kind of corner, a strange intersection in a shadowland called the Twilight Zone."
”
the Wikipedia entry continues
"Plot[edit]
Peter Vollmer (Dennis Hopper), the leader of a small and struggling Nazi group, is mocked and ridiculed by the crowds he preaches to on street corners. Ernst Ganz (Ludwig Donath), the elderly Jewish man that Peter has had a sympathetic, uncle-like relationship with since he was an abused and neglected kid, offers him shelter and compassion but not respect. Ernst spent nine years in Dachau and recognizes that Peter's politics stem from a childish desire for the respect of others. This pains Peter, who openly confesses that he sees Ernst as his father, since his real father physically abused him and his mother was never around.
Beginning one night, Peter is periodically visited by a shadowy figure who teaches him how to enthrall a crowd. The figure teaches Peter how to speak. The figure pays Peter's rent at the hall where he holds rallies, and instructs him to arrange the death of one of his followers, Nick, thereby creating a martyr to rally everyone around. Following the figure's instructions and assistance, Peter is considerably more successful and his group's following grows. Ernst becomes fearful that Peter may actually succeed in igniting another Holocaust. He disrupts a rally, accusing Peter of being "nothing but a cheap copy" of the German Führer while Peter cowers before his surrogate father.
After the failed rally, the shadowy figure rebukes Peter for his failure and says that from now on he will be ordering Peter rather than instructing him. Peter demands to know who his mysterious benefactor is. The man steps forward from the shadows to reveal himself to be Adolf Hitler (Curt Conway). He orders Peter to kill Ernst. Peter steels himself enough to complete the task. Hitler congratulates him and asks how it felt. Peter replies that he felt immortal. Hitler responds, "Mr. Vollmer! We ARE immortal!"
Afterwards, police arrive to arrest Peter for conspiracy to murder Nick. Shot while fleeing, Peter is astonished by the sight of his own blood. Hitler's shadow appears on the wall behind Peter, who gasps out, "There's something very wrong here...Don't you understand that I'm made out of steel!?"
Closing narration[edit]
“
Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive." Let's remember that Israel treats the so-called "Palestinians" very humanely compared to how Other Arab Regimes & Nations treat them , the other Arab Nations treat "Palestinians" terribly compared to how Israel treats them, Israel always shows Restraint and takes the Moral High Ground
The Wikipedia entry lastly says
"Production[edit]
Rod Serling was particularly pleased with the script for "He's Alive", and was dismayed when he learned that a scene set between Hitler's revealing himself and Vollmer's returning to Hitler was cut due to length constraints.[1] This prompted the idea of doing two versions of "He's Alive": a short version for television, and a longer version for theatrical release as a feature film.[1] His extended script added a number of scenes and even a new protagonist, an FBI agent who investigates Vollmer's neo-Nazi movement, but with The Twilight Zone's budget already stretched to the breaking point, Serling's proposal was turned down.[1] The scene following Hitler revealing himself was filmed, but the footage has since been lost.[1] "
References[edit]
^
Jump up to:
a b c d "All the Little Hitlers". The Twilight Zone Magazine. October 1986.
DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-136-0
Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0
Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
External links[edit]
"He's Alive" on IMDb
"He's Alive" at TV.com
Another classic episode of "The Twilight Zone" titled
"Eye of the Beholder" which first aired on November u1, 1960 had a Hitler type reference
this episode was about a young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the state in a last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal" From Imdb.com The Trivia for this episode says about the character of
"The Leader" played by George Keymas 1925-2008 , it says
"The Leader's hand-movements were meant to resemble the gestures made often during speeches by Adolf Hitler." the Hitler-like character of "The Leader" in this episode calls for
"Greater Conformity" and the Wikipedia entry for the late George Keymas says that the character of "The Leader" in "Eye of the Beholder" was a "Freakish ambiguous character"
Slight typo, the episode "Eye of the Beholder" first aired on November 11, 1960
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinian Convert to Judaism Tortured by Palestinian Authority"
Oct 23, 2019
Related:
Convert to Judaism
Hebron Massacre
Palestinian torture
the article says
"A Palestinian convert to Judaism, now in captivity, is the grandson of an Arab who saved 26 Jews during the 1929 Hebron massacre.
By United With Israel Staff
"A 50-year-old Palestinian man, who converted to Judaism this year just before Rosh Hashana, has been held in captivity and tortured by Palestinian Authority (PA) forces over the past two weeks. He is reported to be the grandson of an Arab who helped save 26 Jews during the 1929 Hebron massacre.
The victim is a resident of Hebron and works at a supermarket in the Jerusalem area. He claims that his family had set him up for arrest in order to prove their allegiance to the Palestinian regime. His own siblings have mercilessly beaten him, while the PA has burned his arms and legs, Ynet reported.
The official reason for the arrest is a police complaint, filed by his brother, that the convert had assaulted him several months ago. However, the accused man denies the allegations.
It is assumed that the brothers are trying to protect their inheritance by showing disdain for their now-Jewish sibling, according to Ynet.
“His brothers must distance themselves in order to show that they don’t support the conversion, otherwise they will also suffer greatly,” said attorney Michael Teplow who is associated with the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, which specializes in assisting Palestinians who cooperate with Israel, reported Ynet.
The man’s capture occurred when he traveled to an area of Judea and Samaria under Palestinian security control, just before Yom Kippur, in order to meet one of his nine Muslim children.
During the reunion, a white Skoda vehicle carrying four men approached. They got out of the car, dragged him into the vehicle and drove away. He was then dropped off at the PA’s Hebron police station.
The man was converted to Judaism by Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, a prominent arbiter of Jewish law and head of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish court in the city of Bnei Brak. The rabbi passed away on Monday.
The convert was waiting for Israel’s Chief Rabbinate to recognize the conversion so that he could apply for an Israeli passport. He was granted a temporary Israeli residence permit, The Jewish Press reported.
Prior to his conversion, he studied at Machon Meir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, an institution strongly associated with nationalist politics and the settler movement, according to Ynet.
Haim Perg, a leader of the Jewish community in Hebron who had spoken to the Palestinian convert by phone and heard first-hand about the torture, is trying to help him.
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s like my son, and I will shake up the world for somebody to come and save him,” Perg said, according to Ynet. “The man’s grandfather rescued 26 Jews during the events in Hebron. Now that he is in danger, we have a commitment to help him.”
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan has contacted senior civilian officials, Knesset members and government ministers to help release the detainee, but to date he remains in PA custody."
From the website www.debbieschlussel.com an article is titled
"Thumbs Down: Roger Ebert Hates Israel, Upset @ Rachel Corrie Verdict" on August 31, 2012
By Debbie Schlussel
I’m not surprised by this: left-wing film critic Roger Ebert hates Israel (and for that, he is linked to and revered by the Breitfraud sites).
the article says
"Several years ago, I told you about Ebert’s friendship with and loud support for Islamic terrorist Ibrahim Parlak, who is still living free in America (despite prior ICE attempts to deport him and every single court affirming that Parlak is a terrorist). After I wrote about this, Ebert responded by attacking me on his website and in his syndicated movie review column.
And, given his penchant for movies sympathetic to Islamic terrorism and Muslims in general, it’s no surprise that he despises Israel and is upset that Israel’s courts found that anti-Israel (and anti-American) activist Rachel Corrie and her terrorist friends in the International Soldiery Movement (ISM) contributed to her death and that it was an accident. Rachel Corrie was an American-flag-burning, pan-terrorist radical who died when she jumped in front of a Caterpillar bulldozer driven by the Israeli Army in Gaza and wasn’t seen by the driver. She got what she deserved. And, by the way, she died trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a house occupied by Islamic terrorists and used as a mechanism to smuggle HAMAS arms for attacks against innocent civilians in Israel. Check out Roger Ebert’s tweet that he sent out today on Twitter (follow me on Twitter):"
the article continues
"Over a decade ago, when “Seeds of Peace” camp graduate Adam Shapiro and his Palestinian Christian wife (then she was only his girlfiend–no typo) started their terrorist group, ISM (in which Corrie was an active member), I wrote an expose on their support for suicide bombings and other Islamic terrorism, despite their claims to being peaceful. Shapiro attended my speech against the University of Michigan Divestment Conference and tried to heckle me (‘cept no one could hear him), and his insane New York-based lawyer brother, Noah Shapiro, called me repeatedly threatening to sue me (he had no legit grounds). Over the years, many “reporters” in major newspapers stole my work on Shapiro, repeating my research down to the quotes I chose, the ellipses I inserted, and so on. And the Israeli Court decision against Rachel Corrie–whose American family sued Israel in Israel–relied upon those obscure quotes I found from Shapiro and Arraf in noting that ISM harbored Islamic terrorists and is at fault for what befell its activists. The decision is surprising because, though most people don’t realize it, the most anti-Israel courts in the world are the Israeli courts, which are dominated by self-hating, far-left Israeli Jews.
But Roger Ebert is surprised. The far-leftist thinks that Americans should be able to behave like Rachel Corrie and provide safe haven for Islamic terrorists who bombed innocent people the next day, and get away with it. He thinks that Americans should be able to jump, like Rachel Corrie did, in front of bulldozers tearing down the methods of terrorist attacks, and get away with it. She became the pancake she aspired to. It was to be expected.
As I noted in my original, much ripped-off piece over ten years ago and in a follow-up column I wrote more recently, Corrie’s and Shapiro’s and Arraf’s ISM harbored several Islamic terrorists the night they blew people up, including at Mike’s Bar in Tel Aviv. They tried to hide terrorists from Israeli soldiers. And whatever bad happens to them is a good thing and not bad enough.
Rachel Corrie is now rotting in hell. And no lawsuit will ever change her fate. She was evil in life. She is not missed in death. Her parents, who raised her to be a radical, anti-American, anti-Semitic piece of crap should–instead of filing lawsuits–be blaming themselves for creating this destructive force whose fate they helped seal and was well-deserved.
But don’t worry about her parents’ fate. They, predictably, are working the Arab Muslim lecture circuit across America. If she had been raped and tortured to death in Gaza–as would have been her fate there–do you think mommy and daddy would be able to sue the HAMASniks? They’d be laughed and dismembered all the way to the Rafah Gate.
And the HAMASniks wouldn’t give two craps about Roger Ebert’s dumb tweets." the article showed pictures of the Ugly terrorist loving stupid bitch & rotten cunt Rachel Corrie, you can see the ugly twisted freakish Satanic Demonic Diabolical Ugly Looks on Rachel Corrie's already ugly face, Rachel Corrie's stupidity & evil got her killed, it was her fault, NOT Israel's fault, still, good that she was killed, she deserved it
Also from www.debbieschlussel.com another article is titled
"So Sad, Too Bad: American Anti-Israel Protester Meets Natural Selection" on March 16, 2009
By Debbie Schlussel
"When you go to a foreign country for the sole purpose of attacking that country’s soldiers and enabling that country’s enemies–in this case, one of its myriad Islamic terrorist enemies–you sometimes get what you deserve. You have put yourself in the position of a warrior, and you are no longer subject to the treatment that an innocent, peaceful civilian deserves.
There’s sort of a poetic justice in this story, since this guy, Tristan Anderson–a former UC-Berkeley tree-sitter–and his ilk threw rocks at Israeli soldiers. And since he’s part of ISM, the International Solidarity Movement, which helped hide Islamic terrorists the night before they blew themselves and many innocent Israelis and others up in Mike’s Bar in Tel Aviv. This is war, and this person is a warrior. In war, sometimes the bad guy gets hurt.
An American demonstrator seriously injured in clashes between protesters and IDF soldiers is in stable condition, a spokesperson for the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer said on Sunday.
“Peaceful Protestors”?:
ISM Activists Sabotage Israeli Anti-Terror Fence
Tristan Anderson, 38, of Oakland, California, was hit in the head by a tear gas canister during a protest against the West Bank security barrier in Nil’in on Friday and underwent surgery at the hospital, near Tel Aviv.
Anderson is on a respirator but in stable condition, the spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity.
The protest took place in the West Bank town of Nil’in, near Ramallah, where Palestinians and international backers frequently gather to demonstrate against the security barrier.
The IDF says the area where the protests take place is a closed military zone off-limits to demonstrations.
About 400 protesters turned out in Nil’in on Friday, according to the IDF. Some of them hurled rocks at troops, who used riot gear to quell the unrest, it added, without elaborating.
Ulrika Jenson, an International Solidarity Movement activist, said troops fired tear gas canisters into the crowd from a hill above.
No tears for this Anderson guy. You throw rocks and hang with a group that helps terrorists blow people up, you deserve what you get in response. This guy wasn’t in Israel for any positive purpose. He went where he was told not to go.
The difference between Israel and any other country in this region was that the Israelis only fired tear gas. Had this idiot, Tristan Anderson, gone to Gaza or the so-called West Bank to protest the terrorists there that constantly try to go through these barriers, he’d have been ripped to shreds. And we’d never hear of or about him ever again. He certainly wouldn’t be taken care of by Palestinians in their hospitals. They’d just kill him and cut him up like a chicken.
And it wouldn’t be a cause celebre for AP or anyone else.
Lefties are trying to turn this into another Rachel Corrie story. Corrie was the America-hating, American flag-burning woman who stood in front of Israeli bulldozers to stop them from tearing down a terrorist house under which terrorist explosives and weaponry were transported through tunnels. The bulldozer driver didn’t see her and she died.
There was a Rachel Corrie play/opera and other baloney tributes to this cretin who got what she deserved. If this Anderson cretin gets the same, expect, “Tristan, the Fertilized Musical.” The guy is already a martyr for these people, no matter what happens to him.
No tears from me for Tristan Anderson."
Some people typed the following comments in reply to the article on
www.debbieschlussel.com regarding Roger Ebert and the late Ugly Deformed Rachel Corrie
that
"They raised a Jew hater, so they themselves must also be Jew haters. To paraphrase Martin Luther King in a speech from 1968, people hide behind their anti-Semitism behind the phrase anti-Zionist.
Rachel Whorie’s parents, “Waaa, my daughter went into a war zone to defend Jew killing terrorists and she got run over by a bulldozer that she stood in front of..Waaaaa, give us money you evil Jews, err, we mean evil Israelis….Waaaaaa, You owe us money because our daughter was siding with the terrorists trying to kill you.
And if anyone knows the Whories, please stop them and make fun of their misery. They deserve it.
Jonathan E. Grant on August 31, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Reply
You can see Corrie’s hate in those photos. She’s brimming with murderous rage in front of a group of kids. What sort of demented person does that?
If you look carefully at the expressions on the kids faces, even they seem to understand this is an insane person.
adam on August 31, 2012 at 8:08 pm Rachel Corrie did indeed have an ugly deformed face of hate,
Another person typed about Rachel Corrie that
"I spent most of my life around heavy military equipment (tanks, infantry carriers, self-propelled arty) and have had too many close calls. But I was trained for that kind of job and risk. What idiot would stand in front of a huge military blade vehicle? These Israeli vehicles are huge, and even though the cab is high, there are plenty of blind spots and dead space. Typically, when these vehicles are used in non-combat roles there will be a ground-guide to direct them. But since in the Corrie incident, because of the threat of hostile action, there were none. So what IDIOT would stand in front of one? And what idiot parents would think their kid was smart and courageous for doing so? Dumb, DUMB, and DUMBER. The perfect living example of why we have Darwin Awards."
Russ on August 31, 2012 at 9:29 pm
From the website of the New York Post, www.nypost.com
an article is titled
"Why are jihadis so obsessed with porn?"
By Phyllis Chesler
February 17, 2015 | 6:06pm
Osama bin Laden owned an extensive collection of pornography.
AP
the article says
"US military nabs ISIS members of notorious 'Beatles' cell that executed American hostages
Recently, London Mayor Boris Johnson described Jihadists as “porn driven losers” who have “low self-esteem and are unsuccessful with women.” He’s on to something important and profound.
According to Syrian doctors in a report in the British media, ISIS fighters are buying frilly underwear for their wives and sex slaves — and subjecting them to abnormal and sadistic sexual practices. They may well have learned this from pornography.
The Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden found a fairly extensive stash of modern pornography in his possession.
The 9/11 jihadists visited strip clubs, paid for lap dances, and for prostitutes in their motel rooms in Boston, Las Vegas and Florida.
Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American-born imam who fled to Yemen in 2004 and was later assassinated by a US drone, ate a lot of pizza and visited a lot of prostitutes in the months after 9/11.
As a presumably “holy man,” Al-Awlaki mentored at least three of the 9/11 hijackers, the Fort Hood shooter, the would-be Times Square bomber (Faisal Shahzad) and the underwear bomber.
In the years since 9/11, police raids of terrorist cells in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain have yielded countless images of hard-core child pornography.
Not only did jihadists use porn for pleasure, they also embedded secret coded messages into shared pornography and onto pedophile Web sites.
In 2011-2012, German police found more than 100 al Qaeda documents concerning terrorist plots embedded within a porn video hidden in suspect’s Maqsood Lodin’s underwear.
According to NSA documents made public by Edward Snowden’s leaks, countless “radicals” have called for Jihad by day but watched porn by night. One damaging piece of evidence shows a “militant” using “sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls.”
This year’s Paris jihadists Amedy Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi both kept child-porn photos on their laptops, which included “sickening pictures of young boys and girls involved in sexual acts with adults.”
Why does the jihadis’ porn obsession matter?
Pornography is literally what prostituted women are forced or paid to do. It is derived from the Greek porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”).
Porn is a global phenomenon, produced and consumed everywhere and increasingly by people of all ages — deforming the sexual development of young viewers. Watching it desensitizes the viewer to sexual aggression and strengthens existing beliefs that support violence toward women."
the nypost.com article continues
"It is routinely very violent: 82 percent of the top-rated porn scenes involve physical aggression (slapping, spanking, gagging); 49 percent contain verbal aggression (name calling, insults). The perps are male, 94 percent of the targets are female.
It’s easy to imagine pornography’s empowering effect upon would-be jihadists, who may unable to afford the price of a wife or a prostitute, who are young, without normal sexual outlets and already predisposed to violence towards women — and to pedophilia.
Yet, while most of the Muslim world is profoundly sexist (and while porn is everywhere there, too), few Muslims approve of porn. Indeed, its leaders often castigate the West for exposing women in a sexually explicit way.
Consider the divide in Western Europe, revealed in a 2008 Gallup poll: 43 percent of the general French population found viewing porn “morally acceptable,” but only 16 percent of French Muslims did.
In Germany, it was 58 percent of the general public but only 18 percent of Muslims. In Britain, 35 percent of non-Muslim Brits viewed pornography as acceptable, but only 1 percent of British Muslims did.
Muslims may lie to poll takers about sex, but if they are telling the truth, the way to de-heroize bin Laden and all the other jihadis is not to call them “terrorists,” but rather to describe them as “porn hounds.”
Maybe Muslims are opposed to pornography — but jihadists are not."
Phyllis Chesler is a CUNY emerita professor of psychology and a fellow at the Middle East Forum. Her books include “Women and Madness” and “The New Anti-Semitism.”
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com a good book is titled
"Phantom Nation: Inventing the "Palestinians" as the Obstacle to Peace"
by Sha'i ben-Tekoa
Overview , the description says
"Meticulously researched.… These volumes are packed with more information than any single book on the history of Israel. Ben-Tekoa chronicles it all – from the early pre-state Zionists to the rebirth of the Jewish state, through the endless wars and terrorism to the present Holocaust denial and international anti-Semitism.…I highly recommend ben-Tekoa's work. Phantom Nation belongs in homes, libraries, and should be studied by all Israel support organizations."
– Ruth King, Board of Directors, Americans for a Safe Israel
Who are the "Palestinians"? Why is there no book in any library on the planet narrating their history? Why are there no references in United Nations records to the “Palestinians” for the first quarter-century of UN resolutions of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Phantom Nation is an exhaustive survey of historical records and news accounts that demonstrates conclusively that the Arabs currently inhabiting the land of Israel have no indigenous ties to the area, and that “Palestinian” nationalism is verbal camouflage for belligerent Islam and functions as this generation's politically correct, even fashionable mutation of the ageless fear, loathing and hatred of Jews."
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com Another book is titled
"Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World"
by Avi Jorisch
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Overview
"Thou Shalt Innovate profiles wondrous Israeli innovations that are collectively changing the lives of billions of people around the world and explores why Israeli innovators of all faiths feel compelled to make the world better. This is the story of how Israelis are helping to feed the hungry, cure the sick, protect the defenseless, and make the desert bloom. Israel is playing a disproportionate role in helping solve some of the world's biggest challenges by tapping into the nation's soul: the spirit of tikkun olam – the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
Following Start-Up Nation's account of Israel’s incredibly prolific start-up scene, Thou Shalt Innovate tells the story of how Israeli innovation is making the whole world a better place. Israel has extraordinary innovators who are bound together by their desire to save lives and find higher purpose. In a part of the world that has more than its share of darkness, these stories are rays of light.
Key Points about Thou Shalt Innovate
• Features fifteen astonishing Israeli inventions that are changing the world.
• Examines the driving force behind Israel’s outstanding contributions to technology, science, agriculture,
water management, and defense.
• Based on extensive research and over one hundred personal interviews.
• Written by a Middle East insider.
About the Author
Avi Jorisch is a seasoned entrepreneur and Middle East expert. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and founder of IMS, a merchant processing company that services clients nationwide. Mr. Jorisch is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Entrepreneur’s Organization. A thought leader in exploring global trends in the Arab world, radical Islam, counterterrorism, and illicit finance, Mr. Jorisch served as a policy advisor at the Treasury Department’s office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Binghamton University and a master’s degree in Islamic history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied Arabic and Islamic philosophy at the American University in Cairo and al-Azhar University, the preeminent institution of Sunni Islamic learning. His articles have appeared in influential outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Forbes, and Al-Arabiya.net."
AUTHOR RESIDES IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Amazon.com description of "Thou Shalt Innovate" says
"What people are saying about Thou Shalt Innovate:
Thou Shalt Innovate is full of inspiring stories revealing the ancient roots of Israel s innovative spirit, and how that drive to improve the world continues to play out on a global stage. It's a great read for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone who wants to understand where innovation comes from and how it s done.
Dan Senor and Saul Singer, co-authors, Start-Up Nation
Want to understand the Israel of today, the nation that leads the world in problem solving? Thou shalt read Thou Shalt Innovate!
Seth M. Siegel, author, New York Times best seller Let There Be Water
Thou Shalt Innovate is a book the world needs to pay attention to. In a rich and exhilarating narrative, Avi Jorisch outlines the roadmap for how Israelis innovate while making the world a better place, and how other countries and people can follow suit.
Yaakov Katz, Editor in Chief, Jerusalem Post; co-author, The Weapon Wizards
The secret of Israel's innovation is about leadership, determination, and, perhaps above all, about seeing opportunity when others predict failure. Thou Shalt Innovate gives readers a valuable insight into Israeli innovation and entrepreneurship, together with some inspiring lessons in leadership.
Meir Brand, CEO, Google Israel
From www.barnesandnoble.com another good book is titled
"Israel's Edge"
by Jason Gewirtz
the description says
"How will Israel keep its strategic edge over an increasingly dangerous Iran? Israel has been preparing for this day by creating a special and secretive IDF unit called Talpiot.
Instead of being trained to fight, the few soldiers each year selected for Talpiot are taught how to think. In order to join this unit they have to commit to being in the army for ten years, rather than the three years a normal soldier serves.
Talpiots are taught advanced level physics, math and computer science as they train with soldiers from every other branch of the IDF. The result: young men and women become research and development machines. Talpiots have developed battle ready weapons that only Israel's top military officers and political leaders know about. They have also dramatically improved much of the weapons already in Israel's arsenal.
Talpiot has been tasked with keeping Israel a generation ahead of a rapidly strengthening and technologically capable Iran. Talpiots contribute to all of the areas that will be most important to the IDF as Iran becomes even more powerful including missile technology, anti-missile defense, cyber-warfare, intelligence, satellite technology and high powered imaging. Talpiot soldiers have also been a major factor in the never ending fight against Israel’s other enemies and many have left the R&D lab to fly fighter planes, serve in the field as commanders of elite army ground units and at sea commanding Israel’s fleet of naval ships.
After leaving the army, Talpiots have become a major force in the Israeli economy, developing some of Israel’s most famous and powerful companies.
Israel’s Edge contains dozens of interviews with Talpiot graduates and some of the early founders of the program. It explains Talpiot's highly successful recruiting methods and discloses many of the secrets of the program's success. The book also profiles some of the most successful businesses founded by Talpiot graduates including CheckPoint, Compugen, Anobit, recently bought by Apple, and XIV, recently bought by IBM.
No other military unit has had more of an impact on the State of Israel and no other unit will have more of an impact in the years ahead. The soldiers of Talpiot are truly unsung heroes."
The full title of the book is,
Israel's Edge: The Story of The IDF's Most Elite Unit - Talpiot Paperback – February 15, 2016
by Jason Gewirtz (Author)
From www.barnesandnoble.com Another good book is titled
"No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces"
by Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
Overview
"A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and the death- defying commando missions of the Israeli Special Forces. The stories are often of victories, but sometimes also of immense failures, and they run side by side with the accounts of the lives and accomplishments of some of Israel’s most prominent figures.
Captivating and eye-opening, No Mission Is Impossible is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how these crucial missions shaped Israel, and the world at large."
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com another great book is titled
"Top 5 Israeli Special Forces: Special Forces, Israel, Special Operations, Special Operator, Navy Seals, Delta Force, SAS"
by Richard Berrington
Overview
"This book is an insightful look at the elite Israeli Special Forces. Inside the book emcompasses the Top 5 Special Forces units in the Israeli military. The Israeli military is know for being one of the best military on the face of the earth.
The Special Forces that will be cover in the book are the following:
Sayeret Matkal1
Shayetet 1314
Shaldag31
Oketz39
Sayeret Yahalom43
We explain the history and creation of each Special Forces unit and the mission they have conducted."
The Amazon.com Description of the book "Top 5 Israeli Special Forces" by
Richard Berrington says
"
Sayeret Matkal
Sауеrеt Matkal General Staff Rесоnnаiѕѕаnсе Unit 269 оr Thе Unit iѕ аn еlitе Sресiаl Fоrсеѕ unit of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Itѕ mаin rоlеѕ аrе соuntеr-tеrrоriѕm, dеер reconnaissance аnd intelligence gаthеring, but the unit iѕ firѕt аnd fоrеmоѕt a fiеld intelligence-gathering unit, uѕеd tо оbtаin ѕtrаtеgiс intеlligеnсе behind еnеmу linеѕ. Sауеrеt Matkal iѕ аlѕо in сhаrgе оf hоѕtаgе rеѕсuе missions оutѕidе Israeli borders. Thе unit iѕ mоdеlеd оn thе British SAS, аnd organizationally reports to the Directorate оf Militаrу Intеlligеnсе. Its IDF nickname iѕ ѕimрlу "Thе Unit". Bоrrоwеd frоm thе SAS, thе unit'ѕ mоttо iѕ "Whо Dаrеѕ Winѕ."
Thе unit iѕ bеѕt knоwn fоr Oреrаtiоn Thunderbolt, соmmоnlу knоwn as Operation Entеbbе, in which it rеѕсuеd mоrе than 100 Air France аirlinе раѕѕеngеrѕ hijасkеd and flown tо Ugаndа bу PLO militаntѕ, аnd killеd 52 enemy соmbаtаntѕ whilе lоѕing only the аѕѕаult еlеmеnt соmmаndеr, Yоnаtаn Netanyahu, аnd three hostages. "
From the website www.cbsnews.com an article is titled
"Ohio doctor fired for anti-Semitic tweets, including threats to give Jews "the wrong meds"
By Sophie Lewis
Updated on: January 3, 2019 / 9:54 AM / CBS News
"A prominent hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, fired a first-year resident after discovering anti-Semitic comments in her social media posts.
Lara Kollab worked as a first-year resident at the Cleveland Clinic from July to September 2018. She has since deleted all of her social media, but screenshots of her posts — dating back to 2011 — have been documented by the Canary Mission, a site dedicated to exposing anti-Semitism in an effort to combat its rise on college campuses.
According to the Canary Mission, Kollab's posts called for violence against Jews, defended Hamas, trivialized the Holocaust and repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany. The group saved dozens of similar posts from 2011-2017.
Trending News
In one now-deleted tweet from 2012, Kollab said, "ill purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds..." Yahood is an Arabic term for Jewish people. Other tweets made reference to "Jewish dogs" and said in Arabic, "Allah will take the Jews."
lara-kollab.jpg
Screenshots captured by the Canary Mission reveal Lara Kollab's anti-Semitic posts on social media. The Canary Mission
"In no way do these beliefs reflect those of our organization," The Cleveland Clinic said in a statement, adding that it took immediate action when it learned of the posts and that Kollab has not worked at the hospital since September.
The Cleveland Clinic confirmed that Kollab's departure was related to her social media activity. It also emphasized that she was under constant supervision during her residency, an apparent response to her tweet about giving Jewish people incorrect medication. "For first-year residents, multiple safeguards and direct supervision are required for patient care and prescribing medicine," the hospital said. "In addition, there have been no reports of any patient harm related to her work during the time she was here."
The statement continues, "We fully embrace diversity, inclusion and a culture of safety and respect across our entire health system."
Kollab graduated from Touro College, which also denounced her rhetoric on Twitter. "Touro College is appalled by the anti-Semitic comments reportedly made by Lara Kollab, a graduate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine," the school tweeted. "The mission of Touro College is to educate, perpetuate and enrich the historic Jewish tradition of tolerance and dignity."
First published on January 2, 2019 / 5:43 PM
From the website, www.theblaze.com an article is titled
"Moderate' Palestinian Leader Swears: 'If We Had a Nuke, We'd Have Used It This Very Morning" On May 13, 2013
Against whom?
SHARONA SCHWARTZ
Senior Palestinian Authority official Jibril Rajoub (Courtesy: Palestinian Media Watch)
the article says
"Jibril Rajoub, a senior Palestinian Authority official who is frequently characterized as a "moderate" in both the Western and Israeli media, said on Lebanese television that if the Palestinians had a nuclear weapon they would have nuked Israel "this morning."
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) discovered and translated to English the interview Rajoub gave to Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV on April 30. Rajoub also posted the video clip to his own Facebook page, according to PMW.
When the interviewer referred to peace talks with Israel as “the negotiations game,” Rajoub suggested that the Palestinian Authority [PA] engages in negotiations because it does not have the military strength to defeat Israel by force.
"I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning," he said.
He also said the Palestinian Authority would consider returning to the negotiating table only if Israel agrees to a list of Palestinian preconditions including freezing construction in Jerusalem, in West Bank settlements and freeing Palestinian prisoners, some of whom are serving sentences for terrorist acts.
Rajoub is President of the Palestine Olympic Committee and serves as Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee.
Israel Today explains why Rajoub’s nuclear threat strikes such a sensitive chord for Israelis, particularly in light of Iran’s nuclear quest:
There is a very good reason for Israel taking the Iran nuclear threat so seriously. There are a lot of people in this region, many of them holding positions of authority, who would like nothing more than to use a nuclear weapon against Israel, the consequences be damned.[…]
This revelation validates one of Israel's chief concerns in the peace process - that in the absence of actually being educated for peace and coexistence, the inhabitants of an independent Palestinian state will, as a first order of business, work toward acquiring the military means to engage in renewed warfare against Israel.
In his Palestine Olympic Committee capacity last summer, Rajoub thanked International Olympic Committee officials for agreeing to not honor during the opening ceremony in London the 11 Israeli athletes slain during the 1972 Munich Olympics by Palestinian terrorists.
In the 1970s and 80s, Rajoub served 17 years in Israeli prison for terrorist activity."
the article continues
"Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik of PMW write:
Senior PA officials often state that avoiding violent confrontation or war with Israel is only temporarily, due to the PA's inability to take on such a conflict. They claim that negotiations with Israel are the right course of action for now, because conditions are not right for violence.
[Palestinian Authority President] Mahmoud Abbas himself has also said on several occasions that if the Arab nations would begin a war against Israel, "Palestine" would join them.
According to the Commentator, a pro-Israel website, Rajoub is a signatory to the Geneva Initiative, a project that promotes a two-state solution. The group’s tagline is “An Israeli-Palestinian Initiative to End the Conflict.”
Its mission statement reads in part, “After a century of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, the Geneva Initiative offers a real and mutually agreed upon possibility for ending the conflict between the two sides and obtaining a mutually acceptable peace that guarantees the vital national interests of both sides.”
Rajoub was featured several years ago in a video clip promoting the campaign, where he stated “I am your partner” in Hebrew.
“There is a consensus in the Arab world to recognize the existence of Israel in return for an end to occupation,” he added then.
The Commentator provided translation of more excerpts from Rajoub’s Lebanese TV interview: “If you ask me as a Palestinian, I say — our battle is with the Israeli occupation. Our main enemy, not [just] as Palestinians but as Arabs and Muslims, is Israel and the Israeli occupation.”
“If [Arab] mobilization would begin for the liberation of Jerusalem; if money [would be spent] and swords drawn in the face of the Zionist enemy, that would be great,” Rajoub said according to the Commentator.
Here is the excerpt of the Rajoub interview that PMW translated:
Lebanese TV host: "The American [John Kerry] came to the PA. They are talking about reviving negotiations, about getting back to the table with the Israelis... Will you go back to the negotiations game?"
Jibril Rajoub: "There is no going back to negotiations unless the source of authority is the international resolutions, with a time frame and with the freezing of all unilateral Israeli steps: Jerusalem, the fence, settlements and prisoners."
Host: "You've heard Israel's refusal."
Jibril Rajoub: "That doesn't matter. Listen. We as yet don't have a nuke, but I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning."
[Al-Mayadeen TV (Lebanon), April 30, 2013]
Watch the clip here, courtesy of PMW:"
Another Good Online article in 1997 is by Louis Rene Beres
titled "Where the Shadow Really Falls: Why Israel Must Have Nuclear Weapons"
the article can be found here, http://bjwa.brown.edu/4-1/where-the-shadow-really-falls-why-israel-must-have-nuclear-weapons/ Israel Must NEVER surrender it's Nuclear Weapons, Israel must always be on the Safe Side, and Not take chances with it's Security
From the New York Daily News website www.nydailynews.com an article is titled
"'How to Stab a Jew' taught to Palestinian children: Israel’s UN ambassador"
By NICOLE BITETTE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 17, 2015 | 5:35 PM
"Palestinian leaders have established an incubator to raise children as terrorists," said Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon. (JUSTIN LANE/EPA)
Terrorists are posting "How to Stab a Jew" tutorials on the internet — fueling the unrest between Palestinians and Israelis.
During a United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday, Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon displayed a diagram titled "How to Stab a Jew" — blaming the Palestinian government and media for allowing messages of hate and violence to be spread to children and teenagers.
A few weeks ago, YouTube removed a video that encouraged stabbing attacks against Israelis, while Twitter users continue to use an Arabic hashtag, "Slaughtering the Jews," to promote stabbings, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Danon explained that the particular diagram he displayed — featuring the human anatomy — is being taught in schools, according to the International Business Times.
"Palestinian leaders have established an incubator to raise children as terrorists," Danon said during the meeting.
"When a Palestinian child returns from school and opens (sic) the TV, he doesn't see Barney or Donald Duck, he sees murderers portrayed as heroes. When he opens a textbook, he doesn't learn about math and science, he's being taught to hate," he said.
Danon added that the Palestinian government should be teaching about peace and tolerance rather than hate.
The emergency Security Council meeting was held on Friday on the heels of continued violence between the Palestinians and Israelis.
On Friday, President Obama addressed the unrest saying the tension is bound to create further "misunderstanding and triggers."
"What we do need to make sure of is that we're focusing right now on ensuring that innocent people aren't being killed," Obama added."
From the website www.townhall.com an article is titled
"The Sickening Nature of Anti-Israel Hatred"
|Posted: Jan 09, 2017 11:09 AM
the article says
"When is a cold-blooded murderer hailed as an international hero? When he's a radical Islamic terrorist who slaughters Jews. They deserve to die!
It is gut-wrenching to watch the video footage of a truck ramming into a crowd of Israelis in East Jerusalem, killing four of them and injuring at least 15 more.
Three of the victims were soldiers, all female, aged 20, 20, and 22. The fourth victim was an Israeli man, also just 20-years-old.
All of them had dreams of a bright future, a future none of them will live to see.
Israel is again in mourning.
But there is celebration in the Jew-hating, Israel-despising world. It doesn’t get any better than slaughtering Israelis – especially Israeli soldiers – in cold blood.
As for the truck driver, a religious Palestinian Muslim who was shot dead by police, his sister said “the family was ‘thankful’ for the attack and called her brother’s death ‘the most beautiful martyrdom.’”
Other Palestinian Muslims reacted similarly, as reported by Michael Qazini on the Daily Wire, noting that, “These weren’t spontaneous celebrations by a few bad actors. Praise for the terrorist came from the top of the Palestinian leadership chain, placing a rubber stamp on a Jew-hating culture of death.” (See the article for details.)
Accordingly, Hamas, representing the most extreme side of Palestinian leadership, lauded the truck attack as “heroic.” (Yes, it takes a real hero to back up a truck and run over your victims while being shot at. What courage.)
Similarly, Al Quds [Jerusalem] News posted a report, “Live from where the heroic incident took place in Occupied Jerusalem.” (See the link for more examples of Palestinian celebration, including passing out sweets in the streets.)
But this shouldn’t surprise us at all, since this is same leadership that names children’s schools after Palestinian terrorists who died in the course of their murderous acts, hailing them as martyrs. (Last October, the Palestinian Authority “dedicated a new school to the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. . . .”)
And this is the same leadership that pays salaries to imprisoned Palestinian terrorists at a rate up to four-times the average Palestinian salary."
the article continues
"And this is the same leadership that sponsors summer camps for children where they learn the requisite skills for slaughtering Jews, also naming the camps after famous terrorists.
Over on the Iranian-run Press TV Facebook page, the hatred flowed freely, with a good number of commenters justifying the slaughter because these Israelis were in East Jerusalem, which they consider to be an illegal occupation. (Wait a minute. Didn’t the Obama administration just affirm that in the UN Security Resolution it allegedly helped craft?)
Comments on the Press TV page included:
· Sow the wind, reap the storm. Occupiers have no rights, only the obligation to go back to where they came from. The Israeli regime is responsible for the deaths of its citizens in this instance. There will never be peace on stolen land.
· Palestinians have every right to self-defense. If they find IOF on their roads they must repeat this and should be encouraged.
· I wish and pray there will be repetition of this incident at much much bigger scale which will wipe out brutal israel from world map, InshaAllah [God willing].
· Good job ... because its Israel problem killing innocent Palestinians every day no one criticise why...
· Tonight I’m very happy after watching video, and I especially order for mutton biryani.
· Hahaha look at the IDF soldiers. Muppets. I don’t support terrorism but at least this one did not kill any innocent woman or child and went straight for their killers!
· Killing an oppressor is not being an extremist. These were occupation soldiers and were in the process of going to commit atrocities in Palestine. When the French resisted German occupation it was not called terrorism."
the article lastly says
"· It is so good to hear this News.
· Good work ever done by a true Muslim.
· BWAHAHAHA!
· Kill them all.
· Deserved.
· The Zionists been ramming tents and makeshift shelters of innocent Palestinians for the past 70 years no problem, now that some Zionist soldiers rammed by Palestinian is good thing to happen.
· One sure remedy - ''Get out of Palestine'' - back to your Ghettos.
I have no doubt that there are Palestinians who have been mistreated by Israeli soldiers and for that reason, harbor intense hatred against the people of Israel. As a friend of Israel, I say: Let the injustices be exposed and rectified. And certainly, many Palestinians are shocked and grieved over the death of these young people.
I also recognize that there are right-wing extremists in Israel who have engaged in terrorist acts against Palestinians (like the infamous Baruch Goldstein), and I know that some of these extremists consider Palestinians (and even all non-Jews) to be less human, even saying that the only good Arab is a dead Arab.
But this represents the extreme fringe of the extreme fringe, and if an Israeli rammed a truck into a crowd of young Palestinians, there would be national outrage in Israel (and the worldwide Jewish community), the government would immediately and unconditionally condemn the killer and look to arrest any accomplices, and there would be a sense of shame rather than glee through the country.
But when Jewish blood is shed by a radical Islamic terrorist – in particular Israeli blood, especially the blood of an Israeli soldier – then celebration erupts among Jew-haters worldwide.
Time to pass out the candy and rejoice.
This is beyond sick."
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Director of Jewish Descent Felt Shame Dressing as Hitler for Movie"
Roman Griffin Davis (l) and Taika Waititi in a scene from the WWII satirical film "Jojo
Oct 24, 2019
As troubling as it was for Taika Waititi to see himself dressed as Hitler, it was also disturbing for his cast to be directed and ordered around by someone wearing a Hitler costume.
By Marcela Isaza, Associated Press
"Drawing on his own Jewish heritage and experiences growing up surrounded by prejudice, writer-director-actor Taika Waititi was excited to make a movie against hate through a satire of the Nazi culture at the height of WWII, until he saw himself dressed as Adolf Hitler for the first time. He said he felt “shame and embarrassment.”
“Jojo Rabbit” tells the story of a boy in the Hitler Youth army who discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their house and things get complicated as the boy’s imaginary friend is Hitler himself. Waititi plays the imaginary Hitler in the movie, which stars Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, and Rebel Wilson, among others. Wearing a Hitler costume was jarring, but Waititi said he eventually “came to the conclusion that it’s not Hitler.
“This character is conjured from the mind of a 10-year-old. So, he is a 10-year-old in a grown-up’s body, and also one way of me like I think disempowering Hitler, was by taking over his body and putting those clothes on and taking his mustache and his haircut. And then it felt in a way like I had possessed him and then I could, I could control him and do whatever I wanted. I could be you know; I could be really nice, or I could be even more of an idiot. And you know I could be like this real kind of clumsy buffoon and that’s what I enjoy. I enjoyed that the most really was like being able to ridicule him from within his clothes, I guess.”
The root of the film began with the novel “Caging Skies” by Christine Leunens. While the book is more dramatic, Waititi decided to use that as a base while adding comedic elements.
As troubling as it was for Waititi to see himself dressed as Hitler, it was also disturbing for his cast to be directed and ordered around by someone wearing a Hitler costume. “Game of Thrones” actor Alfie Allen walked on to set for the first time to find his director already in full costume.
“It was definitely an arresting image to be greeted by your director dressed as Hitler. And so yeah, he kind of was conscious of that. At times I think he would know that if he was getting us a little bit irate that he would have to kind of reel in because it was genuinely frightening for people,” Allen said.
Waititi remembers Johansson, who plays the young Nazi boy’s mother, rolling her eyes at his costume. But what concerned Waititi was the emotional reaction of his young star, Roman Griffin Davis
“He’s so empathetic that he had done all this research of what the victims of World War II had gone through and stuff and I think he was so struck with that that when he saw me, he got really emotional and I got really worked up because he associated that — and rightly so — he associated that image with murder of millions and millions of people as he should associated it,” Waititi said. “But it was just such a pure reaction from someone who’s from a pure heart.”
From Yahoo News yahoo.com another article is titled
"'Jojo Rabbit' star Scarlett Johansson on the 'terrifying' experience being directed by man dressed as Hitler" about the 2019 movie "Jojo Rabbit"
Yahoo Movies Kevin Polowy October 18, 2019
Jojo Rabbit was not an easy sell. Even star Scarlett Johansson admits the film had a "terrible" logline.
"Based on the novel by Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, the "anti-hate satire" follows a Hitler Youth recruit (Roman Griffin Davis) in WWII Germany who discovers that his mother (Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Oh, and he regularly converses with his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi).
"There's no way to pitch it without sounding offensive, crazy," Johansson told Yahoo Entertainment at the film's Los Angeles press day (watch above). "When I got the script it came to me with a preface, 'Read the script. Forget the logline.' It was such a beautiful piece of work. It was really perfect."
Sam Rockwell also had his reservations before reading the script, which came from the uniquely clever mind of Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople). "Of course when you read the script it just blows the top of your head off, how unique it is," he said.
Cracked Stephen Merchant: "I opened the script and I though, 'Oh, here we go, another imaginary Hitler script."
"I knew right from the get-go, it's a hard film to describe and it's a hard film to pitch," explained Waititi. "So I ended up not bothering to do that and I just wrote a really, really good script that I loved and I felt, 'I'm really proud of this.'"
Audiences at the Toronto Film Festival felt that way about the final product: The edgy but ultimately heartfelt dramatic comedy won the highly coveted People's Choice Award in September, which immediately positioned the film as an Oscar contender. The last seven films to take home the award went on to earn a Best Picture nomination, with two of them winning (Green Book in 2019 and 12 Years a Slave in 2014).
While the experience of reading the script was eye-opening for its cast, the experience of being directed on set by a man dressed as Adolf Hitler was particularly odd.
"At times he was super terrifying," Johansson said. "Especially when he was in his prime with the blue contacts in. He would always say to you, 'Don't look me, I look terrible. I know, just don't look at my face. I'm terrifying right now.'"
Jojo Rabbit is now playing. Watch the trailer:" this article was from yahoo.com
From www.barnesandnoble.com Another Good book is titled
"The Church Has Not Replaced God's Israel"
by Pelham Gross
Overview
"Challenges traditional church thinking about the church replacing Israel. Dr. Daniel Juster, Tikkun International, comments: "...very pithy...amazing and popular style...message is important...could do a lot of good."
A Disturbing video from YouTube of an ugly little Arab girl
the YouTube video is titled
"Palestinian Preschool Girl Holds Knife, Says: "I Want to Stab a Jew"
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32 The comments people gave in response to this YouTube video are worth reading
From Wikipedia an entry/article is titled
"Samson Option"
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For the 1991 book, see The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign
According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and "bowed himself with all his might" (Judges 16:30, KJV). This has been variously interpreted as Samson pushing the pillars apart (top) or pulling them together (bottom).
The Samson Option (Hebrew: ברירת שמשון, b'rera shimshon) is the name that some military analysts and authors have given to Israel's deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against a country whose military has invaded and/or destroyed much of Israel.[1] Commentators also have employed the term to refer to situations where non-nuclear, non-Israeli actors, have threatened conventional weapons retaliation, such as Yasser Arafat[2] and Hezbollah.[3]
The name is a reference to the biblical Israelite judge Samson who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him,[4] crying out "Let me die with the Philistines!" (Judges 16:30).[5]
Contents
1 Nuclear ambiguity
2 Deterrence doctrine
3 Authors' opinions
4 See also
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External links
Nuclear ambiguity
Israel refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, an official policy of nuclear ambiguity, also known as "nuclear opacity." This has made it difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to describe the country's true nuclear policy definitively, while still allowing Israel to influence the perceptions, strategies and actions of other governments.[6][7] However, over the years, some Israeli leaders have publicly acknowledged their country's nuclear capability: Ephraim Katzir in 1974, Moshe Dayan in 1981, Shimon Peres in 1998, and Ehud Olmert in 2006.[8]
During his 2006 confirmation hearings before the United States Senate regarding his appointment as George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons.[8] In his 2008 book The Culture of War, Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at Israel's Hebrew University, wrote that since Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, any talk of Israel's nuclear weapons in Israel can lead to "arrest, trial, and imprisonment." Thus Israeli commentators talk about "doomsday weapons" and the Samson Option.[9]
Nevertheless, as early as 1976, the CIA believed that Israel possessed 10 to 20 nuclear weapons.[10] By 2002, it was estimated that the number had increased to between 75 and 200 thermonuclear weapons, each in the multiple-megaton range.[11] Kenneth S. Brower has estimated as many as 400 nuclear weapons.[12] These can be launched from land, sea and air.[13] This gives Israel a second strike option even if much of the country is destroyed.[14]"
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Deterrence doctrine
Main articles: Nuclear strategy, Deterrence theory, and Assured destruction
Although nuclear weapons were viewed as the ultimate guarantor of Israeli security, as early as the 1960s, the country avoided building its military around them, instead pursuing absolute conventional superiority so as to forestall a last resort nuclear engagement.[15] The original conception of the Samson Option was only as deterrence. According to United States journalist Seymour Hersh and Israeli historian Avner Cohen, Israeli leaders like David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan coined the phrase in the mid-1960s. They named it after the biblical figure Samson, who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him, mutilated him, and gathered to see him further humiliated in chains. They contrasted it with ancient siege of Masada where 936 Jewish Sicarii committed mass suicide rather than be defeated and enslaved by the Romans.[16][17]
In what they called the "Last Secret of the Six-Day War" the New York Times reported that in the days before the 1967 Six-Day War Israel planned to insert a team of paratroopers by helicopter into the Sinai. Their mission was to set up and remote detonate a nuclear bomb on a mountaintop as a warning to belligerent surrounding states. The greatly outnumbered Jewish state in a surprising turn of events effectively eliminated the Egyptian Air Force and occupied the Sinai winning the war before the test could even be set up. Retired Israeli brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov referred to this operation as the Israeli Samson Option.[18]
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft. The Israeli Ambassador warned President Nixon of "very serious conclusions" if the United States did not airlift supplies. Nixon complied. This is seen by some commentators on the subject as the first threat of the use of the Samson Option.[19][20][21][22][23]
Seymour Hersh writes that the "surprising victory of Menachem Begin's Likud Party in the May 1977 national elections ... brought to power a government that was even more committed than Labor to the Samson Option and the necessity of an Israeli nuclear arsenal."[24]
Louis René Beres, a professor of political science at Purdue University, chaired Project Daniel, a group advising Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He argues in the Final Report of Project Daniel and elsewhere that the effective deterrence of the Samson Option would be increased by ending the policy of nuclear ambiguity.[25] In a 2004 article he recommends Israel use the Samson Option threat to "support conventional preemptions" against enemy nuclear and non-nuclear assets because "without such weapons, Israel, having to rely entirely upon non-nuclear forces, might not be able to deter enemy retaliations for the Israeli preemptive strike."[26]"
the Wikipedia entry lastly says
"Authors' opinions
Ari Shavit writes of Israel's nuclear strategy: "Concerning anything and everything nuclear, Israel would be much, much more cautious than the United States and NATO. Concerning anything and everything nuclear, Israel would be the responsible adult of the international community. It would well understand the formidable nature of the demon and keep it locked in the basement".[27]
Some have written about the "Samson Option" as a retaliation strategy. In 2002, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter which the American Jewish author Ron Rosenbaum writes "goes so far as to justify" a Samson Option approach:[28]
Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow—it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away—unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans—have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?[29]
Rosenbaum writes in his 2012 book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III that, in his opinion, in the "aftermath of a second Holocaust", Israel could "bring down the pillars of the world (attack Moscow and European capitals for instance)" as well as the "holy places of Islam." He writes that "abandonment of proportionality is the essence" of the Samson Option.[dubious – discuss][30]
In 2003, a military historian, Martin van Creveld, thought that the Al-Aqsa Intifada then in progress threatened Israel's existence.[31] Van Creveld was quoted in David Hirst's The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) as saying:
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: 'Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.' I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.[32]
However, it was unlikely Israel could have even targeted Europe as according to Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Yaakov, who was the mastermind behind the "Samson Option", Israel did not yet have other measures like bombs or missiles to carry the nuclear payload.[33]
In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name. It contains the line: "If you force us yet again to descend from the face of the Earth to the depths of the Earth — let the Earth roll toward the Nothingness." Jerusalem Post journalist Gil Ronen saw this poem as referring to the Samson Option, which he described as the strategy of using Israel's nuclear weapons, "taking out Israel's enemies with it, possibly causing irreparable damage to the entire world."[34]
See also
Dahiya doctrine
Israel and weapons of mass destruction
Massive retaliation
No first use
Nuclear weapons and Israel
Pre-emptive nuclear strike
Preventive war
Project Daniel
References
From the website www.ynetnews.com an article is titled
"Rajoub: Israel should beware, we are enemies"
Palestinian official, interviewed on Lebanese television network, breaks from moderate tone of most PA leaders, states, ‘Palestinians are enemies of Israel; if we had nuclear weapons, we would use them against Israel’
Elior Levy|Published: 05.14.13 , 11:07
Jibril Rajoub, a Fatah Central Committee member who recently visited Lebanon, said in an interview with the Hezbollah affiliated television network Al Mayadeen, "We the Palestinians are the enemies of Israel."
In the interview, which took place earlier this month, Rajoub emphasized that Fatah now supports popular resistance, but has not abandoned the idea of armed resistance. "As the people of the Fatah movement, we keep resistance on the agenda in all its forms," he said.
"At present, we are satisfied by the popular resistance," Rajoub added, but explained, "We the Palestinians are a source of concern for Israel. We are in this country, and this country is ours. They are our enemy and our battle is against them."
The interviewer of Al Mayadeen, a network associated with Iran and with the Assad regime in Syria, criticized the policy of the Palestinian Authority, and in response Rajoub responded, "Our war is against the Israeli occupation. Our main enemy, not just as Palestinians, but Arabs and Muslims, is Israel and the Israeli occupation," he added.
At the height of the interview, when the subject of American efforts to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians were raised, the interviewer asked: "Will you resume the negotiation game?"
Rajoub, who appeared agitated at the mocking tone, replied quickly that there would not be a return to negotiations without international decisions taken within a limited time frame and with the Israeli promise to freeze all “one-sided” steps related to Jerusalem, the separation barrier, settlements and the release of prisoners.
"Until now we have not had nuclear weapons," he declared, "but in the name of Allah, if we had nuclear weapons, we’d be using them."
Rajoub, one of several Palestinian leaders who signed the Geneva Initiative, had stated on previous occasions that he was interested in peace with Israel.
During his visit to Lebanon, he met with the Iranian ambassador to Beirut, Ghazanfar Roknabadi, and they discussed the subject of Israel's actions against the holy places of Islam" that article was from ynetnews.com Earlier we mentioned this Sick Disturbing YouTube video of an ugly little Satanic Demonic Arab girl saying she wants to stab a Jew,
Again the YouTube video is titled
"Palestinian Preschool Girl Holds Knife, Says: "I Want to Stab a Jew"
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From the website nbcphiladelphia.com an article is titled
"Hitler's "Shocking" Table Manners"
By Karen Araiza
Published Jul 17, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Hitler's "Shocking" Table Manners
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"The Brits might find it "shocking" but Philly psychologist Frank Farley says there's a reason Hitler had bad table manners.
Hitler passed gas, pigged out, threw temper tantrums and had a host of other nervous and nasty habits at the dinner table.
The revelations come from a German officer who spent a lot of time with Hitler near the end of the war. His details of day-to-day life inside the bunker with Hitler were tucked away for more 60 years in a top-secret document that experts say likely belonged a British intelligence agent.
You can click here to read more about how the documents were discovered after more than 60 years.
Some of the Fuhrer’s “uncouth” behaviors that his wartime dining companions found appalling include:
nervous nail biting at mealtime
ate fast
ate only vegetables and stewed fruit
gorged on cake (which gave him a digestive disorder)
passed gas
got lost in his own thoughts
paid little attention to what others were saying
threw “carpet-biting” tantrums
had a streak of “passive masochism” in his post-dinner relationships with women
thought he was “greatest military genius of all time”
"Little short of shocking," said the German officer. Really?!
Philly's renowned authority on human behavior, Dr. Frank Farley doesn't think so. He sees a "Despot at the Dinner Table" whose flatulence, indifference and tantrums were very much an "in-your-face form of intimidation" which makes sense for a man who "had risen to the point of absolute control," says Farley.
Farley says most of us conform to the expectations of others; that's what manners are all about. Hitler had no need for niceties.
"Hitler was a monster in his lack of concern for many people. Why would we expect him to show much concern for table mates? We can presume he knew people were afraid of him and his unpredictable and in-your-face table behavior (e.g., flatulence, quirks, ignoring others, etc.) might be said to help assert his absolute control over them all. He could do whatever he wanted, they could not."
The German officer thought Hitler was not a homosexual, which was the rumor of the day. Hitler said he never married because it would have interfered with his duty to his country, according to the documents.
The German officer, whose name was never revealed, said Hitler was a mad, delusional man in the last days of the war. He told the story of a girl who was a dinner guest at the bunker. Apparently, Hitler was behaving so badly that night, she turned to her mom and said, “... will the lunatic chew up our carpets too?"
From the website dailymail.co.uk an article is titled
"Hitler had shocking table manners, gorged on cake and suffered flatulence, reveals never-before-seen profile"
By LUKE SALKELD FOR THE DAILY MAIL
UPDATED: 15:01 EDT, 17 February 2009
"To the wartime world, he was nothing less than a monster. In private, it seems, Adolf Hitler was equally unappealing.
According to an aide, the German dictator had 'shocking' table manners, constantly bit his nails and suffered from a 'digestive disorder' that may have resulted in severe flatulence.
The secret documents also reveal that he believed official Nazi propaganda about himself and thought 'he was the greatest military genius of all time'.
Enlarge Final days: Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun dine in the Fuhrer's bunker in Berlin in 1945
Final days: Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun dine in the Fuhrer's bunker in Berlin in 1945
The Fuhrer's daily routine and 'uncouth' behaviour were revealed in notes taken from a captured high-ranking Nazi and handed to a British agent.
The typed four-page profile is dated May 1945 - the month Hitler died - and states on the front: 'This summary must be destroyed within 48 hours.'
Despite the instructions, the papers were retained by the agent and returned to England.
They have surfaced after 60 years following a recent house clearance and are expected to raise more than £1,000 at auction.
The unidentified German soldier revealed he dined with Hitler about 30 times and kept his diary in the bunker where the Fuhrer saw out the last few weeks of the Second World War.
He wrote: 'Hitler eats rapidly, mechanically; for him food is merely an indispensable means of subsistence.
'He does not smoke and it is strictly forbidden to smoke in his presence as he seems to be very susceptible to laryngitis.
'He talks in a mellow baritone, without that raucous, unpleasant stridency of his public speeches."
the article continues
"Enlarge a Nazi dinner
Dictator: In a recently uncovered document a high-ranking Nazi describes Hitler as an 'uncouth' individual who lacked table manners
'At the table and in his speech he shows many facets of rather uncouth behaviour.
'He abstractedly bites his fingernails, he runs his index finger back and forth under his nose, and his table manners are little short of shocking.'
The Nazi said Hitler would retire to his private rooms late at night where he would drink 'health tea' and listen to his phonograph.
He added: 'Hitler ate prodigious amounts of cake (this cake eating was responsible for a slight digestive disorder and the addition of a bay window to his already not too fortunate figure).
'Quite often he would retire into this privacy with women whom he esteemed very much (during later years particularly with a Miss Eva Braun whose relationship to Hitler is quite unknown).
'It is not believed that in these sessions with women Hitler's attitude intensified to any more than a platonic relationship.'
He continued: '(The rumours about his homosexuality and other abnormal obsessions were rumours and nothing more. If there was any such streak in him, it was a touch of passive masochism in his relationship with women.)'
Hitler dining
The document resembles a psychological profile of the late leader
Talking about Hitler's delusions, the source states that Goebbels' techniques were so effective that 'Hitler himself became very susceptible to this propaganda.
'He then actually started believing that he was a man of exceptional ability in the science of warfare.'
Auctioneer Richard Westwood-Brookes, who is selling the document next month, said: 'It is a highly important document which has clearly survived through extraordinary circumstances.
'The statement provides a vivid personal description of Hitler in his last days and his behaviour in the bunker.
'It mentions a digestive disorder which could be a reference to his flatulence, but denies the rumours that Hitler was homosexual.
'This remarkable document is potentially unique, given the requirement that it should have been destroyed within hours of receipt.'
Terry Charman, senior historian at the Imperial War Museum said: 'Hitler's problem with flatulence has been well documented and was even mentioned in his doctor's diaries."
It is also well documented that Adolf Hitler had terrible bad breath, people often couldn't stand being near him, another well documented fact is that Hitler had notoriously bad teeth, diseased teeth, he had many missing teeth, that by the time of Hitler's death at age 56, only a few of his own teeth remained,
Notice this Bible verse, Psalm 3:7 which says
Psalm 3:7
"Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God! For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have shattered the teeth of the wicked." Psalm Chapter 3 verse 7 in the Old Testament which tells about how God ruins the teeth of the wicked, people like Hitler , All these Disturbing Facts about Hitler can be found online, do a Google Search or Bing Search, about Hitler's Horrible Teeth, bad breath, etc
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com a book is titled
"The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege"
by Kenneth Levin
Overview
"In the 1993 Oslo accords, Israel embraced Yasser Arafat as its "peace partner." It then installed him in Gaza and the West Bank as head of a nascent Palestinian government, allowed him to bring with him some 7,000 of his loyalist gunmen, and provided the gunmen with weapons, even as Arafat continued to support terrorist attacks on Israelis and to assure Palestinians and other Arabs his goal remained Israel's destruction.
Why did Israel pursue the path of Oslo? Why did it persist on that path when, in the wake of the initial Oslo agreements, the Palestinians unleashed an unprecedented wave of anti-Israel terror? Palestinian leaders also routinely called for holy war against Israel and compared Oslo to the Treaty of Hudaibiya, which Mohammed had signed in 628 and abandoned when his forces became strong enough to overwhelm his adversaries. Arafat and his subordinates told Arab audiences that Oslo was a step in the PLO's 1974 "plan of phases," a strategy of acquiring whatever land could be won by negotiations and using that territory as a base for pursuing Israel's annihilation. Yet Israel responded with additional concessions.
What psychological, historical and communal forces spawned policies that undermined Israel's security and even threatened its survival? Dr. Levin's original and powerfully persuasive analysis relates Israeli diplomacy of the nineteen-nineties to psychological responses common among chronically besieged populations, whether minorities subjected to defamation, discrimination and assault or small nations under chronic attack by their neighbors. More particularly, he demonstrates links between the evolution of Oslo and the long history of Diaspora Jews being subjected to persistent abuse. The reaction of many enduring such abuse was to seek to improve their predicament by endorsing elements of the surrounding societies' bigoted indictments and embracing delusions of salvation through self-effacement and concessions.
This case study in the psychology of a community under chronic attack takes on broader significance at a time when even traditionally safe and secure societies such as the United States are confronting the psychological challenges posed by terrorist assaults." we have all heard of the Psychological Problem known as The Stockholm Syndrome , the Oslo Syndrome was a disaster for Israel , the so-called "Peace Process" was a failure & disaster
The Wikipedia entry for the book "Oslo Syndrome" says
The Oslo Syndrome
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The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege is a 2005 book by Kenneth Levin, a psychiatrist with doctorate in history.[1] The book applies psychiatric insights to the Arab-Israel conflict by arguing that Israel's reaction to Arab hostility is a corollary of the Stockholm syndrome in which hostages come to identify and empathize with their captors.[2][3][4][5]
Originally published in English, the Oslo Syndrome has been translated into Hebrew.[6]
Synopsis
According to Professor Ron Shleifer of Ariel University, Levin, a psychiatrist, compares the acceptance of the Oslo Accords by the Israeli public to Battered child syndrome, in which the victims "blame themselves and are convinced that if they would only behave better, their parents would cease to beat them, without knowing that they will continue to be beaten anyway because it is their parents who have a problem and not they."[6]
Jerold Auerbach history professor from Wellesley College describe the book as "comprehensive historical description and compelling psychological interpretation of the “delusions of a people under siege""[1]
Iddo Netanyahy described The Oslo Syndrome "attempts to show how a whole country can suffer from wishful thinking. A great majority [of Israelis] thought the accords we signed with [Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser] Arafat and his people would bring peace. All it brought was more bloodshed."[7]
Excerpt from the book:
"This phenomenon reveals great similarity, at the level of human psychology, to the response of children subjected to chronic abuse. Such children tend to blame themselves for their suffering."
Thus, he continues, "those segments of the Jewish community who live and work in environments hostile to Israel, commonly embrace the anti-Israel bias around them. And they often insist they are being virtuous by doing so." This pathology is "no less delusional than that of abused children who blame themselves for the abuse they experience." But, he concludes, the result is awful:
"All too often such children doom themselves psychologically to lives of self-abnegation and misery. In the case of Jews indicting Israel for the hatred directed against it, the misery they cultivate goes far beyond themselves, and ultimately undermines Israel's very survival."[8]
See also the official website oslosyndrome.com
From the website breibart.com an article is titled
"Dean Reuter: Research Reveals Post-WWII Nazi Plans for a Fourth Reich"
the article says
"Near and after World War II’s conclusion, a plan to preserve components of the Nazi Party — including assets, weapons research, and personnel — for a Fourth Reich was acted upon by top-level German officials, explained Dean Reuter, General Counsel, Vice President & Director of the Practice Groups of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.
Reuter previewed new research and findings related to Nazi plans for a Fourth Reich revealed in the forthcoming book The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil, which he co-authored, on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
“Hans Kammler is an important person and figure in history but has been overlooked in history to this point in time, which is remarkable to me,” Reuter said. “He was by training an architect and an engineer, born in 1901, grew up during the First World War suffered through — became a man, really — as Germany was losing that First World War.”
“[Hans Kammler] was an ardent [and] early Nazi and member of the SS, but his first real work in World War II was as a civil engineer — just basic projects — but he quickly converted to more evil scenarios, where he was the architect, really, of the concentration camps,” added Reuter. “He was the person who expanded the existing concentration camps and began building the new concentration camps, so he made them larger. There his work was designing and installing the gas chambers and ovens that were used to kill millions.”
Kammler’s helped “make evil efficient,” said Marlow."
the breibart.com article continues
"“That was their goal,” concurred Reuter. “They mechanized death, essentially, and they made it as efficient as possible, and Hans Kammler, as we show in Hidden Nazi … was terrific at it. That’s probably the wrong word.”
Reuter explained, “[Hans Kammler] designed the standard concentration camp barracks, first of all. We have architectural drawings that bear his signature. He overruled an underling’s design for brick barracks in favor of wooden barracks, which were obviously cheaper to make but not as warm. [Prisoners] suffered through the elements through wooden barracks.”
“We have an architectural drawing where the capacity of the barracks is noted in the margins as ‘550 people,’ and it’s stricken through — and that would already be crammed full of people — that number is written over with ‘774,’ so with the stroke of a pencil, he increases the barracks’ capacity, and the misery — by 30 percent for each barracks,” noted Reuters.
Reuter remarked, “[Hans Kammler] made ceaseless visits to these camps that we have documented through excruciating work by my researchers, daily sometimes, weekly changes. He was in charge of the metes and bounds of these camps, the design, layout, but not just the sort of geography of it, the barracks, and the concentration camp ovens and gas chambers, so he was really in it up to his neck.”
“Their goal was to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible,” said Reuter of the Nazis’ intent to work their prisoners — who were de facto slave laborers — to death. “[Their] overall goal … was to work those people and work them so ruthlessly [so as to] grind them to dust, really.”
Reuter went on, “By the end of the war, [Hans Kammler] was in charge of all Germany’s secret weapons, which included nuclear research, shaped charges, lasers, anti-tank guns, but also Germany’s famous ‘vengeance weapons,’ the V-1 and V-2 rockets, and about a hundred other, lesser-known rockets that people haven’t paid attention to.”
“I’ve never seen anybody in a wartime environment operate a weapon cradle-to-grave literally from the drawing board to firing it at the enemy,” shared Reuter. “That’s how pervasive [Hans Kammler’s] power was.”
Kammler revealed some new findings from his forthcoming book.
“[There] was a high-level meeting in 1944 among the highest-level German government officials, army officials, and industrial leaders,” Reuter said. “At that meeting, everyone was told to offshore all their assets. This is as the war was already known to be lost. ‘Take all your gold, all your technology, everything you have, preserve it for later, dump it into companies outside Germany, and preserve it for a Fourth Reich,’ and that was a meeting that happened almost a year before the war ended.”
Reuter added, “We also found what I thought as an astonishing CIA report. Eight years after the war, in 1953, the CIA was terrified of a Fourth Reich in South America. There were enclaves of Germans in South America. Again, this seems like science fiction, but there were thousands of visas issued [and] tens of thousands of Germans in South America.”
“This [CIA] report documents the scientists down [in South America], their technology, the weapons experts they had down there, a German chamber of commerce, a true German enclave that was funded and populated and ready to rise again,” concluded Reuter. “It never did.”
From the website theguardian.com an article is titled
"It’s right to condemn Mahmoud Abbas for his antisemitic remarks"
Jonathan Freedland
Supporting someone’s cause also means calling them out when they are wrong. The Palestinian leader’s views on Jews and the Holocaust are unacceptable
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‘The right reaction is to condemn what Abbas said, safe in the knowledge that to do so does not in any way undermine the justice of the Palestinian demand for independence and statehood.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Think of it as a test. Can you hold two apparently clashing thoughts in your mind at the same time? Or, put another way, can you condemn reprehensible words and deeds when they come from someone whose cause you otherwise believe is just?
The question arises after the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, declared in a rambling speech on Monday that the root cause of the Holocaust was not so much the Nazis’ genocidal hatred of Jews as the Jews’ own conduct, specifically their “social behaviour”, adding that he meant “their social function related to banks and interest”. Loosely translated, Abbas seemed to be suggesting that Jews brought the mass slaughter of six million upon themselves, thanks to their supposed stinginess, fondness for money-lending and for driving a hard bargain – to cite just a few of the hoary anti-Jewish stereotypes Abbas apparently had in mind.
On the face of it, those remarks are classically antisemitic, carrying an extra sting of victim-blaming for good measure. At a push, you could imagine someone justifying such a view by noting that tension between Jews and their neighbours in Europe was fuelled for centuries by antisemitic laws that banned Jews from owning land, excluded them from key professions and forced them to engage in financial activity religiously forbidden as “usury” to Christians. But Abbas didn’t say any of that.
Besides, the Palestinian leader has form in this area. In a January speech, he implied that European Jews preferred to endure the Holocaust than move to Palestine: “The Jews did not want to emigrate even with murder and slaughter,” he said. Even during the Holocaust, they did not emigrate.” Of course, the truth is that after 1939 the British mandatory government that then ruled Palestine barred all but a trickle of Jewish migration to Palestine – and the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe were not exactly free to move where they chose.
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What’s more, Abbas wrote a doctoral thesis at Moscow University several decades ago focusing on the Nazi period that drew on the writings of Holocaust deniers to question the number of Jews who were murdered.
In other words, when it comes to these latest remarks it’s hard to lend Abbas the benefit of the doubt. They are as awful as they look.
And yet, some will be wary of condemning them outright. They will worry that to do so is to side with Israel and its advocates, who have of course been quick to lambast Abbas. They will feel the urge either to justify or play down what the Palestinian leader has said or to look the other way."
the article continues
"But that would be to fail the test. For the right reaction is to condemn what Abbas said, safe in the knowledge that to do so does not in any way undermine the justice of the Palestinian demand for independence and statehood.
Witness the tweeted reaction of the journalist, Mehdi Hasan, a forceful advocate for Palestinian rights: “Mahmoud Abbas’s claim, as reported by the BBC, that Europe’s Jews were mass-murdered in the Holocaust because of their financial activities (!) and not because of Nazi anti-Semitism, is dumb, offensive, ahistorical and, yes, deeply, deeply anti-Semitic.”
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Mahmoud Abbas's claim, as reported by the BBC, that Europe's Jews were mass-murdered in the Holocaust because of their financial activities (!) and not because of Nazi anti-Semitism, is dumb, offensive, ahistorical and, yes, deeply, deeply anti-Semitic. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43967600 …
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's speech suggested Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves.
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That gets it right. Indeed, there are three conclusions one can draw from the Abbas speech, none of which should be unpalatable for supporters of the Palestinians.
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The first is that yet another of the tragedies suffered by that people is to be poorly led. Abbas’ elected term of office expired nearly a decade ago, yet he remains in post. In that same speech on Monday, he threatened to tighten the squeeze on Palestinians in Hamas-ruled Gaza yet further, by reducing their share of the Palestinian Authority budget or cutting them off altogether – a leader adding to his people’s woes rather than reducing them.
The second is that Abbas is making the mistake of thinking the Palestinian case for statehood somehow depends on discrediting the Jewish claim. That’s why he seeks to minimise, or even blame the Jews for, the Holocaust – which, for many, underpins the moral case for a Jewish homeland – and why he remains attached to eccentric theories suggesting European Jews are not really Jews at all, or which otherwise deny the historic connection of Jews to Palestine. He fails to see that a two-state solution makes such arguments unnecessary: you can believe that both peoples, Jews and Palestinians, have a legitimate claim to the same land, which is why both have the right to a state of their own.
The third lesson of this episode stretches far beyond Israel-Palestine. There is a tendency in the current culture wars for partisans to behave as if their cause must be 100% just, while their opponents’ must be 100% unjust. It leads people to refuse to admit when their own side has got it wrong, as if that might undermine the wider case. It leaves supporters of Israel standing by Benjamin Netanyahu even when he engages in crude racism – warning that Arab citizens of Israel were heading to the polls “in droves” in the final hours of the 2015 campaign, for example – just as it can leave supporters of the Palestinians indulging Abbas.
It’s the same cast of mind that leads Republicans to cover for Donald Trump no matter how badly he behaves, that leads Tories to excuse the Windrush scandal, or Labour supporters to play down antisemitism within their own ranks. It’s a bad habit. If your cause is strong enough, you should have no fear of pointing out when it, or its leaders, err – and err badly."
From the New York Times, nytimes.com
an article is titled
"Palestinian Teaches Tolerance via Holocaust"
Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi has led an effort to teach Palestinians at universities in the West Bank about the Holocaust. CreditMichal Luczak/Anzenberger
By Matthew Kalman | The Chronicle Of Higher Education
April 20, 2014
"JERUSALEM — Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is an unlikely advocate for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. He trained as a guerrilla with the Palestine Liberation Organization, was banned from Israel for 25 years because of his prominent role in Yasir Arafat’s Fatah group, and still refers to Israelis as “my enemy.”
But Mr. Dajani, now the library director and a professor of American studies at Al-Quds University, in East Jerusalem, has become a prominent activist for tolerance.
In 2007, he founded Wasatia (“moderation” in Arabic), a group that promotes the Muslim tradition of compromise and nonviolence. His chosen path has already led him to a lonely stand opposing an academic boycott of Israel supported by most of his Palestinian peers.
Recently, he traveled into further isolation by leading an effort to teach Palestinians at universities in the West Bank about the Holocaust, which is not part of the curriculum in Palestinian schools. In addition to a series of seminars on the topic, in March he took what is thought to have been the first group of students from the Palestinian territories to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in Poland.
Referring to the trip, Mr. Dajani said in an interview, “It helped emphasize the human story of the Holocaust, to study the meaning of the historical narrative as related to our conflict, to heighten empathy, awareness, and sensitivity.”
The visit was part of a study program on conflict resolution involving students and scholars from Wasatia and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel. The program is organized by the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, in Germany, and paid for by the German Research Foundation."
the article continues
"Titled “Hearts of Flesh — Not Stone,” a reference to a passage in the Book of Ezekiel, the program also involves sending a group of Israeli students to a Palestinian refugee camp in Bethlehem. German doctoral students in social psychology are surveying the Israeli and the Palestinian participants to see how they react to the visits.
Al-Quds University does not officially approve Mr. Dajani’s involvement in the program, a point it emphasized after an article about the trip to Poland appeared in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
“The university lecturer and the students involved acted in their personal capacity and were not representatives of the university,” Al-Quds University said in a statement.
Some Palestinians outright condemned the trip. Abdullah Dweikat, a local news commentator, lambasted the “pilgrimage” to Auschwitz-Birkenau. “Let us first pay attention to our martyrs and their families,” he wrote on the website for Al-Watan, a television station in Ramallah.
Students involved in the project were not immune to such thinking. Responding to peer pressure, undergraduates from Bir Zeit University opted to skip the trip as they were preparing to depart, Mr. Dajani said. Students who did go declined to comment.
Mr. Dajani said he was somewhat surprised by the anger the trip engendered.
“I find it difficult to understand why anyone would oppose such a visit since students learned much more than they would sitting in a classroom,” he said.
Yet he knew that the project was dealing with a sensitive subject for Palestinians, in part because of the misinformation that exists about the Holocaust. “The few books in Arabic about the Holocaust are tarnished with bigotry,” he said.
“People have not been able to deal with this sensitive issue because they believe it is at the core of the establishment of the state of Israel, which, in other words, is the source of the Palestinian Nakba,” he added, using the Arabic term for “catastrophe” by which Palestinians refer to the creation of the Jewish state, in 1948.
Mr. Dajani said his eagerness for Palestinian and Israeli students to learn about their historical sufferings resulted from his own journey, which he began as someone dedicated to pursuing armed struggle against the Zionist enemy."
the article continues
"Born in 1946, Mr. Dajani is a member of one of Jerusalem’s historic Arab clans. The honorific “Daoudi” was added to the family name after an ancestor was appointed keeper of the Tomb of King David, on Mount Zion, in medieval times. He had planned to study engineering in Lebanon, but his plans changed after the 1967 Middle East war. He was recruited into the ranks of the Fatah guerrillas, where he received military training but never fired a shot in battle. Mr. Dajani eventually became head of the organization’s English-language propaganda arm.
Banned from Jerusalem, where his family lived, because of his Fatah activities, he pursued an academic career that took him to the United States, where he acquired a Ph.D. in government from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in political economy at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1993, he was teaching at a university in Jordan when his ailing father finally secured a permit from the Israelis for him to return home.
Mr. Dajani began to regard Israelis differently after he accompanied his father for cancer treatment at a hospital in Israel and also witnessed the care given to his dying mother by Israeli doctors and even soldiers.
“I became confused about my enemy, who did their best to help my father and my mother,” he said. “I started to see the other side of my enemy, which is the human side.”
The Holocaust course is not the first time he has pushed curricular boundaries. At Al-Quds University, Mr. Dajani has established the somewhat radical idea of an American-studies program. He concentrates not on the history, politics, or culture of the United States, but instead tries to teach his students “what made America become great.”
“I teach about religious freedom, about multiculturalism, pluralism,” he said. “These are things I extracted from the American experience, and these are the things that I wanted my students to learn.”
These are deeply unfashionable sentiments in a Palestinian context, where America is regarded with suspicion because of its backing for Israel, and American values are seen by many as secular Western implants alien to Arab culture and inimical to Islam."
the article lastly says
"But the only way for Palestinians to advance, Mr. Dajani said, is to acquire the skills of critical thinking and risk-taking that characterize their neighbors, and the only way to engage with Israelis is to understand their deepest fears — and vice versa.
Such thinking has earned him supporters.
“He is very unique,” said Shifra Sagy, a professor of psychology and chairwoman of the Martin-Springer Center for the Study of Conflict Management and Negotiation at Ben-Gurion University, who took the Israeli participants in the “Hearts of Flesh” program to the refugee camp. “Other Palestinians are very cautious to do such projects, especially ones that concern the Holocaust. But any cooperation now between Israeli and Palestinian academics is very difficult.”
Ultimately, Mr. Dajani said, Palestinians cannot begin to understand Israelis unless they learn about the impact of the Holocaust.
“It is my role as a professor to open the minds of my students to knowledge and to learning without any restriction or prohibition,” Mr. Dajani said. “I would like Palestinians to explore the unexplored and to meet these challenges, even though you might find that within their community there will be a lot of pressure on them not to do it.”
From israelnationalnews.com an article is titled
"The French cannot catch their breath under Islamism"
The French state has created its own destruction and its police forces are vainly attempting to fight the inevitable.
Giulio Meotti, 24/10/19 07:52 | updated: 07:33
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The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.
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Just four typical French headlines in one week.
"According to information from BFM TV, “27 officials from the Paris police headquarters have been reported for radicalization since last October 3”, when one of their colleagues, the convert to Islam Michael Harpon, murdered four people inside the Paris' prefecture.
The multiplication of these reports can be explained by an internal note sent on October 7 by Didier Lallement, the prefect of police, in which he encouraged officials to denounce “signs of a possible radicalization”.
Two policemen have been relieved of their arms due to fears of their radicalization, enquiries have been launched about policemen attending suspected terrorists, a USB with the names of other agents has been found in the desk of the Jihadist who worked in the heart of anti-terrorism office and the media published stories about “black lists” with the names of policemen suspected of Islamism .... It is a sign of the panic in the French security forces.
Second, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner revealed on France-2 television that a terror plot inspired by the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York has been foiled by the intelligence services.
Third, two women have been sentenced to 30 years and 25 years in prison respectively for a car bombing plot against the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Fourth, a mother wearing a hijab on a school trip has been at the center of another symbolic fight in a typical French cultural war between secularism and political Islam.
All in the same week - dozens of French policemen under scrutiny for suspected Islamism, terrorists being held in custody after apparently planning a September 11-style attack, another all female cell sentenced for trying to blow up French Christian most important shrine and an integration row with Muslim symbols.
It leaves one thinking that France – the supposed land of freedom, equality and fraternity – is wheezing and short of breath, weighed down under the impressive strength of Islamism.
The French state has become, according to Eric Zemmour, “the weapon that is destroying our nation and bringing about the subjugation of its people, the replacement of its French people by another people, another civilization”. Looking at France today, one remains petrified as if one is a legendary Medusa." From israelnationalnews.com
Sad Disturbing News from Europe, from the website meforum.org the website for Middle East Forum
an article is titled
"European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched "Every Day" "
by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute
April 14, 2019
the article says
"In February, vandals desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, France, and mangled the arms of a statue of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner. In addition, an altar cloth was burned. (Image source: Eutrope/Wikimedia Commons)
Countless churches throughout Western Europe are being vandalized, defecated on, and torched.
In France, two churches are desecrated every day on average. According to PI-News, a German news site, 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols (crucifixes, icons, statues) were registered in France in 2018. This represents a 17% increase compared to the previous year (2017), when 878 attacks were registered— meaning that such attacks are only going from bad to worse.
Among some of the recent desecrations in France, the following took place in just February and March:
Vandals plundered Notre-Dame des Enfants Church in Nîmes and used human excrement to draw a cross there; consecrated bread was found thrown outside among garbage.
The Saint-Nicolas Church in Houilles was vandalized on three separate occasions in February; a 19th century statue of the Virgin Mary, regarded as "irreparable," was "completely pulverized," said a clergyman; and a hanging cross was thrown to the floor.
Vandals desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, and mangled the arms of a statue of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner. In addition, an altar cloth was burned.
Arsonists torched the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris soon after midday mass on Sunday, March 17.
Similar reports are coming out of Germany. Four separate churches were vandalized and/or torched in March alone. "In this country," PI-News explained, "there is a creeping war against everything that symbolizes Christianity: attacks on mountain-summit crosses, on sacred statues by the wayside, on churches... and recently also on cemeteries."
Who is primarily behind these ongoing and increasing attacks on churches in Europe? The same German report offers a hint: "Crosses are broken, altars smashed, Bibles set on fire, baptismal fonts overturned, and the church doors smeared with Islamic expressions like 'Allahu Akbar.'"
the article continues
"Another German report from November 11, 2017 noted that in the Alps and Bavaria alone, around 200 churches were attacked and many crosses broken: "Police are currently dealing with church desecrations again and again. The perpetrators are often youthful rioters with a migration background." Elsewhere they are described as "young Islamists."
Sometimes, sadly, in European regions with large Muslim populations, there seems to be a concomitant rise in attacks on churches and Christian symbols. Before Christmas 2016, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, where more than a million Muslims reside, some 50 public Christian statues (including those of Jesus) were beheaded and crucifixes broken.
In 2016, following the arrival in Germany of another million mostly Muslim migrants, a local newspaper reported that in the town of Dülmen, "'not a day goes by' without attacks on religious statues in the town of less than 50,000 people, and the immediate surrounding area."
In France it also seems that where the number of Muslim migrants increases, so do attacks on churches. A January 2017 study revealed that, "Islamist extremist attacks on Christians" in France rose by 38 percent, going from 273 attacks in 2015 to 376 in 2016; the majority occurred during Christmas season and "many of the attacks took place in churches and other places of worship."
As a typical example, in 2014, a Muslim man committed "major acts of vandalism" inside a historic Catholic church in Thonon-les-Bains. According to a report (with pictures) he "overturned and broke two altars, the candelabras and lecterns, destroyed statues, tore down a tabernacle, twisted a massive bronze cross, smashed in a sacristy door and even broke some stained-glass windows." He also "trampled on" the Eucharist.
For similar examples in other European countries, please see here, here, here, here, and here.
In virtually every instance of church attacks, authorities and media obfuscate the identity of the vandals. In those rare instances when the Muslim (or "migrant") identity of the destroyers is leaked, the perpetrators are then presented as suffering from mental health issues. As the recent PI-News report says:
"Hardly anyone writes and speaks about the increasing attacks on Christian symbols. There is an eloquent silence in both France and Germany about the scandal of the desecrations and the origin of the perpetrators.... Not a word, not even the slightest hint that could in anyway lead to the suspicion of migrants... It is not the perpetrators who are in danger of being ostracized, but those who dare to associate the desecration of Christian symbols with immigrant imports. They are accused of hatred, hate speech and racism."
Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book, Sword and Scimitar, Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and a Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
Another Article about the Disturbing attack on Christianity in Europe is from the website
www1.cbn.com the article is titled
"Churches Desecrated in Ongoing Attacks Across Europe"
04-16-2019
Christian Ellis
French church desecrated (Image courtesy Cardinal R. Sarah via Twitter)
Across Europe, there has been a growing rise in attacks on churches. Countries like France and Germany have seen a spike in violent vandalism, desecrating cherished churches and Christian symbols in recent months and years.
According to the German news site PI-News, every day in France, two churches are desecrated. They report 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols like crucifixes, icons, and statues in France in 2018, marking a 17 percent increase from the year before.
The Middle East Forum reports that attacks on Catholic churches in France since the start of the year have included smashed statues, broken crosses, and demolished tabernacles.
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Recently, the historic Church of St. Sulpice in Paris was set on fire after a midday service on Sunday.
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March, an illegal Muslim immigrant tried to burn down the organ of the Saint-Denis basilica (another jewel) and destroyed stained glass (http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-l-incendie-a-l-eglise-saint-sulpice-n-etait-pas-accidentel-18-03-2019-8034678.php …
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Paris : l’incendie à l’église Saint-Sulpice n’était pas accidentel
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It was the second attack in a month after the St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Houilles found their statue of the Virgin Mary destroyed and the altar cross on the ground.
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Les actes de profanation et de vandalisme dans les églises sont toujours hautement condamnables. Ils sont le triste reflet d’une civilisation malade qui se laisse emporter dans les filets du mal. Les évêques, les prêtres, les fidèles doivent garder la force et le courage. +RS
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In February, at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, congregants found their altar cloth burned and the church's crosses and statues of saints broken. And in the city of Nimes, individuals vandalized the church of Notre-Dame des Enfants (Our Lady of the Children) and smeared a cross with human excrement according to Newsweek.
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In a statement to a local paper, The Tablet, Bishop Robert Wattebled of Nimes said, "This greatly affects our diocesan community. The sign of the cross and the Blessed Sacrament have been the subject of serious injurious actions."
"This act of profanation hurts us all in our deepest convictions," he continued. "
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Tristesse de la communauté catholique diocésaine et de la paroisse Dijon-Notre-Dame en particulier: profanation de l’église ce matin. Messe de réparation présidée par l’archevêque ce samedi à 17h30. @Lebienpublic @RCFDijon @F3Bourgogne Merci pour vos RT.
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According to The Tablet, a record 47 documented attacks on churches and religious sites were reported in February alone.
"I think there is a rising hostility in France against the church and its symbols," stated Ellen Fantini, executive director of Observatory of Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe. "It seems to be more against Christianity and the symbols of Christianity."
"These attacks are on symbols that are really sacred to parishioners, to Catholics." she added. "Desecration of consecrated hosts is a very personal attack on Catholicism and Christianity, more than spray-painting a slogan on the outside wall of a church."
The German media reports the growing anti-Christian sentiment is believed to be a result of increased Muslim migration. In 2016, after the arrival of close to a million Muslims in Germany, a local newspaper reported "not a day goes by" that attacks on religious statues did not happen in the town of Dülmen.
And in France studies show the attacks on churches have increased as the number of Muslim migrants has increased. A January 2017 study stated, "Islamist extremist attacks on Christians" in France rose by 38 percent, going from 273 attacks in 2015 to 376 in 2016; the majority occurred during Christmas season and "many of the attacks took place in churches and other places of worship."
In 2016, CBN News reported on three "radicalized" women who were plotting to bomb Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Police found a car loaded with at least six gas canisters near the church. One of the females was found guilty of encouraging other potential jihadists to perform attacks in Syria and France as well. "
From the website www.unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"British Mogul Branson Visits Israel: ‘Say Yes to Innovation, No to Boycotts!’"
Oct 25, 2019
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Richard Branson arrived in the Jewish state to launch Virgin Atlantic’s new direct route to Israel from the UK.
By JNS
"British billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Atlantic, arrived in Israel on Wednesday to inaugurate the airline’s new route from London’s Heathrow Airport to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
Branson exited the plane with flight attendants waving Israeli and British flags and then bent down and kissed the ground.
He praised Israel’s entrepreneurial spirit and advances in space technology
Branson said that he opposes boycotts and that his company is “invested” in both Israel and the Palestinian sector, reported i24 News.
He also noted that the addition of this route will help push down airline fares to and from Israel.
The flight from London to Tel Aviv takes five hours, and will be served by Virgin’s Airbus A330-300 aircraft." this article was from unitedwithisrael.org
Earlier on this blog we mentioned episodes of "The Twilight Zone" episodes related to the Holocaust , many people compare the Science fiction show "The Outer Limits" to
"The Twilight Zone" there was the original series called "The Outer Limits" in 1963, and a remake in 1995 , the episode of the 1995 series which aired in 1999 was about the Holocaust, the episode was titled "Tribunal" the Wikipedia entry for this episode states-
"Tribunal (The Outer Limits)"
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"Tribunal"
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no.
Season 5
Episode 12
Directed by
Mario Azzopardi
Written by
Sam Egan
Production code
4619
Original air date
14 May 1999
Guest appearance(s)
Saul Rubinek as Aaron Zgierski
Alex Zahara as Karl Rademacher
Lindsay Crouse as Gwen Sawyer
Jan Rubeš as Older Karl Rademacher/Robert Greene
Roman Danylo as Leon Zgierski
Peter Boretski as Older Leon Zgierski
Alex Diakun as Nicholas Prentice
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"Tribunal" is the 100th episode of The Outer Limits. It first aired on 14 May 1999, during the fifth season.
Contents
1
Opening narration
2
Plot
3
Closing narration
4
External links
Opening narration[edit]
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It is said that those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. But what dangers await those who cannot forget the past, those obsessed with reliving it?
”
Plot[edit]
Leon Zgierski, an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944, is forced to watch as his wife is shot and killed by S.S. Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher—and two SS guards drag away Leon's daughter Hannah to what he believes are the gas chambers. The murder is witnessed by a mysterious man who writes in a digital notebook, but before he can be taken, he steals Rademacher's greatcoat, holds up a pocket watch and vanishes in a flash of light.
Many years later, Aaron—Leon Zgierski's son by a second marriage, and a Nazi hunter—becomes obsessed with tracking down Rademacher and bringing him to justice.
Aaron is sure he has finally found Rademacher in the United States, living under the name Robert Greene—but is unable to find enough evidence to convince the authorities to prosecute Greene. Aaron confronts the man himself and angrily denounces him as a war criminal with little success. Greene insists that he is not Rademacher, but—realizing that he has been found—makes plans to leave for Argentina to avoid any possible prosecution.
Nicholas Prentice, the mysterious man with the antique watch, appears and gives Aaron some artifacts from the camp: the greatcoat and a notebook of names and details. Aaron continues to build his case, but the authorities are reluctant to get involved even with the evidence provided by Prentice."
the Wikipedia entry continues
"Determined to find out more about Nicholas Prentice, Aaron goes to the man's hotel room; Prentice is in the shower, but the room door has been left ajar and it opens when Aaron knocks. After searching the room, Aaron finds an antique watch with high-technology innards. He accidentally activates the device, drops it, and finds himself back in the 1944 concentration camp with his father and Rademacher—with no way to return home. The watch is a time travel device, and Prentice is from the late 21st Century. Prentice returns from showering and finds the dropped watch. He realises what must have happened, follows Aaron back to 1944, and returns him to his own time.
Having seen the camp conditions and Rademacher's crimes for himself, Aaron becomes even more determined to bring the war criminal to justice. Things look slightly hopeful when the artifacts given to Aaron create sufficient grounds for a deportation hearing. Prentice visits with bad news: future history records that as the evidence mounted, "Robert Greene" bought a one-way ticket to Argentina and was never heard from again. Livid, Aaron goes to Greene's/Rademacher's house with a gun and demands a confession. Prentice follows him, and explains that he is Aaron's great-grandson. If Aaron kills Greene and goes to prison, Prentice will cease to exist. Aaron agrees not to shoot Greene, realizing that it would only cause more harm to Aaron's family. Prentice gives Aaron a bag with two S.S. camp guard uniforms and camp inmate clothing. They change into the SS uniforms, force Greene to put on the inmate clothing, and the three of them travel back to 1944.
Greene meets his younger counterpart and tries to explain who he is, but young Rademacher shoots him, believing the old man to be just another Jewish prisoner. Aaron then meets his half-sister Hannah, whom he and Prentice (in their disguises as SS guards) drag away. They then order Leon to be sent to a labor camp (because history recorded that everyone who did not report to the labor camp would later be executed by the SS), thus fulfilling the flow of history—earlier, young Leon had seen his daughter taken away by the SS, not realizing that the guards were Aaron and Prentice in disguise.
Back in the present day, Aaron visits his father, the elderly Leon Zgierski, and introduces him to Hannah - identified by the camp number still tattooed on her arm.
A fulfilled and yet deeply humbled Nicholas Prentice watches the tearful reunion between his ancestors from nearby, before quietly walking away and dematerializing.
Closing narration[edit]
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The wounds of war run deep, cutting across generations. But there is always the hope of healing, so long as there are souls among us whose hearts are more full of love than hate.
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External links[edit]
Episode on Hulu
"Tribunal" on IMDb People have said "Tribunal" was a Superb episode, we need to remember that there is indeed a difference between hate, and the biblical concept of Righteous Anger, some evil wicked people & actions should Never be forgiven
One user on the website IMDb.com said about "The Outer Limits" episode "Tribunal" that
"Superb, Masterful Storytelling
This is a wonderful episode. It would stand up as an excellent mainstream movie. It involves a lawyer's effort to bring to trial and punish a man who, at Auschwitz, killed his mother in cold blood. The man was pure evil. He works hard to come up with evidence. So much time has passed and there is little that would hold up in court. He confronts the man (in his eighties now) on the street, but is seen as a pest and at best cruel. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, another lawyer, but she advises him to forget it. It's much too complicated and the guy isn't going to be around much longer. Enter a time traveler, who, by using a watch, is able to actually go to Auschwitz in 1944 and observe. He is able to provide our lawyer with evidence to use against the guy. There are some wonderful plot turns and the acting is superb. One could take issue with the implications of traveling back in time, but at least it is not ignored by the characters.I couldn't take my eyes off this episode, certainly a high point for the series. The Auschwitz scenes are as graphic as Schindler's List and capture the heartlessness of the SS."
From the New York Daily News, www.nydailynews.com an article from 2015 is titled
"No country for Jews? An Israeli sadly concludes that ordinary Palestinians are fighting a long war against Israel itself"
By Daniel Gordis
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
Oct 18, 2015 | 5:00 AM
Can they live together? (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
the article says
"We have a young language instructor at Shalem College in Jerusalem, where I work. She's a religious Muslim who wears a hijab, lives in one of the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and is a graduate student at Hebrew University. She's fun and warm, and a great teacher — the students like her a lot.
Late last spring, when things here were quiet, some of the students mentioned to the department chair that as much as they'd spoken with her over the past couple of years, they'd never discussed politics. They were curious what someone like her thought about the conflict in this region, especially now that she was teaching at an unabashedly Zionist college, had come to know so many Jewish students and had developed such warm relationships with them. How does someone like her see things here? How did she think we would one day be able to settle this conflict?
"So ask her," the department chair said. "As long as you speak to her in Arabic (she's on staff to help our students master the language), you can talk about anything you want."
They did. They told her that since they'd never discussed the "situation" (as we metaphorically call it here in Israel), they were curious how she thought we might someday resolve it."
the article continues
""It's our land," she responded rather matter-of-factly. Stunned, they weren't sure that they'd heard her correctly. So they waited. But that was all she had to say. "It's our land. You're just here for now."
What upset those students more than anything was not that a Palestinian might believe that the Jews are simply the latest wave of Crusaders in this region, and that we, like the Crusaders of old, will one day be forced out. We all know that there are many Palestinians who believe that.
What upset them was that she — an educated woman, getting a graduate degree (which would never happen in a Muslim country) at a world class university (only Israel has those — none of Israel's neighbors has a single highly rated university) and working at a college filled with Jews who admire her, like her and treat her as they would any other colleague — still believes that when it's all over, the situation will get resolved by our being tossed out of here once again.
Even she , who lives a life filled with opportunities that she would never have in an Arab country, still thinks at the end of the day the Jews are nothing but colonialists. And colonialists, she believes, don't last here. The British got rid of the Ottomans, the Jews got rid of the British — and one day, she believes, the Arabs will get rid of the Jews."
& continues
"That is one of the many reasons that this recent wave of violence, consisting mostly of deadly stabbings carried out by Israeli Arabs (not Palestinians living over the Green Line) and Arab residents of east Jerusalem, has Israelis so unsettled.
Yes, the reality on the ground is frightening. People are being stabbed on the street, on buses, in malls. Those being attacked are elderly men and women and young boys on their bicycles. No one is immune, and unlike the last Intifada, when suicide bombers sought high casualty counts so you felt safe away from crowds, now nowhere feels definitely safe.
But even that is not the most debilitating dimension of this new round of attacks on Jews. What's most sobering is the fact that this new round of violence has made it clear, once again, that this conflict is simply never going to end.
What Israelis are coming to understand by virtue of the fact that the attackers are not Palestinians living in refugee camps but Israeli Arabs — who have access to Israeli health care, Israeli education, Israel's free press and right of assembly, protection for gays and lesbians and much more — is that this latest round of violence is simply the newest battle in the War of Independence that Israel has been fighting for 68 years now.
The war began even before Israel was a state — Arabs attacked Israel not when David Ben-Gurion declared independence on May 14, 1948, but when the United Nations General Assembly voted — on November 29, 1947 — to create a Jewish state. When formal independence followed some six months later, the attacking Arab militias were replaced by standing armies of five Arab nations — Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and even Iraq (which joined the fray even though it did not share a border with Israel).
Over the years, the enemies have shifted (Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but now there are the Palestinians and Iran is both pursuing a weapon of mass destruction and declaring that Israel must be destroyed) and the methods have changed (standing Arab armies have been replaced by terrorism at home and an international campaign to delegitimize Israel in the UN and beyond). But the basic goal of Israel's enemies remains the destruction of the Jewish state. "
& Continues
"Increasingly, Israelis (who, polls show, overwhelmingly would like to get out of the West Bank and live peacefully alongside a Palestinian State that would recognize Israel) fear that while for us this is a conflict that can be settled by adjusting borders and guaranteeing security for both sides, for our enemies this is an all-or-nothing battle in which the only end would be for Israel to disappear.
Israel's iconic diplomat, Abba Eban, said in the early 1970s that "the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." It was, sadly, an apt observation. And it is still true. By joining the violence and responding to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' incitement (Abbas insists that he's not inciting, but that is patently false — if nothing else, his ludicrous claim that Israel is planning to change the status quo on the Temple Mount proved sufficient to inflame an entire region), Israeli Arabs have foolishly put themselves on the wrong side of history.
Rather than take a page from Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps protesting peacefully on behalf of other Palestinians, a violent minority has chosen to show its support for the larger Palestinian cause by attacking innocent Jews. And by and large, Israeli Arab leadership has been silent.
Israeli Jews have taken note — and the consequences are likely to be longstanding. While Israelis are feeling vulnerable, they are also feeling abandoned. When Secretary of State John Kerry said that he would not "point fingers from afar" at who was responsible for the violence, and called the latest attacks part of a "revolving cycle that damages the future for everybody," he convinced Israelis once again that the present American administration has abandoned any ability to distinguish right from wrong, just from unjust, wise from destructive. America is hopelessly irrelevant in the Middle East, which means that Israel is sadly very alone.
When Americans fret in the months and years to come that the peace process is stuck, Israelis hope that they will remember that when the violence broke out again, the world's newspapers ignored it. When Abbas said Israel had murdered a 13-year-old Palestinian attacked and the Israeli press then published a photo showing the boy sitting in an Israeli hospital bed, Abbas did not retract and the world ignored his mendacity.
When the American secretary of state was asked to comment on why the new round of violence erupted, he refused to mention Abbas and said he would not point fingers. When Palestinians incited, Israeli Arabs (20% of Israel's population) who picked up knives convinced many Israelis that they were enemies, not fellow citizens.
Israelis hope that people will remember all that, but we also know better.
Where all this will lead, no one can say. For the time being, though, the future in this region is going to be bleak. Despair and a sense of having been abandoned never bring out the best in anyone, never make them more likely to compromise. When Palestinians express their objections to occupation, to checkpoints, to mistreatment at the hands of Israelis, those protestations will fall on increasingly deaf ears.
Why? Is it because Israelis do not want peace? Is it because we do not understand that our future would be better if Palestinians could have a democratic, functioning state? Is it because we're oblivious to their legitimate complaints?
No. It's simply that we know, with no doubt, that for our enemies, this is a conflict not about borders but about our very right to be here. We know that, overwhelmingly, the Arab world is still committed to driving us out of this land. So we'll stay, and tough it out — whatever the world thinks of the steps we have to take — for as long as it takes. For as Golda Meir put it decades ago with her characteristic wit, "Israelis have a secret weapon — we have nowhere else to go."
From the website jewishnews.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Righteous Albanian Muslim, 93, to be honoured in Poland for rescuing Jews"
Xhemal Veseli will be recognised for his efforts during the Shoah, as commemoration group looks to unearth more stories of heroism in the region
By JTA and Jewish News Reporter
October 16, 2019, 3:25 pm
Xhemal Veseli with Jonny Daniels the article says
"A Muslim man from Albania who saved Jews during the Holocaust will attend an event in Poland honouring rescuers from across Europe.
Xhemal Veseli, 93, who is among a handful of Muslim rescuers alive today, will travel to Warsaw with Albania’s foreign minister, Edmond Panariti, whose family also saved Jews from the Holocaust.
They will attend in Warsaw an event titled “An Evening for the Righteous” on Nov. 14 organised by British-born Israeli, Jonny Daniels, who founded the From the Depths (FTD) Holocaust commemoration group.
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“In the remarkably fragmented and aggressive world we live in today, religion sadly often divides us,” said Daniels. Testimonies like Xhemal’s “bring us together as Jews and Muslims.”
In addition to Albania, the event will be attended by rescuers from Poland and Belarus as well as officials from Israel, Denmark and the United States.
Xhemal Veseli and his late brother, Hamid, rescued two Jewish families from Italian occupation forces in 1943. Xhemal, then 17, walked with elderly Jews for 36 hours to his family home, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Israel.
Yad Vashem recognised the brothers as Righteous Among the Nations in 2004, while Derita Veseli, Xhemal’s wife, said her family also rescued Jews in Albania.
Daniels, who is originally from London, said FTD will be extending work in the Balkans, to highlight heroic stories of righteous Muslims.”Thee are important stories and we must make sure they are remembered and never forgotten” he added.
This comes after FTD launched an initiative last year called the ‘Silent Heroes’ taxi service, giving free rides to elderly righteous people. He said two cabs will be sent to the Balkans, and “we will record their testimonies and use this as an important platform to build stronger ties and bridges between our communities and religions”.
The organisation also pledged to cover the costs of eye medication, Eylea, for Xhemal’s wife for the rest of her life, costing £7,800 ($10,000) annually.
Albania was the among a handful of Nazi-occupied countries whose Jewish minorities grew during the Holocaust. Most of the 2,000 Jews living in Albania after the Holocaust were refugees from neighbouring countries."
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com Another good book is titled
"A Cup of Trembling: Jerusalem and Bible Prophecy"
by Dave Hunt
The Overview says:
"Dave Hunt shows why the current "peace process" in the Middle East can lead only to destruction, why it is impossible for this city to know peace, how the Antichrist will attempt to destroy Israel, and the truth about the Vatican's treacherous intentions."
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com another good book is titled
"Betrayed: The Conspiracy to Divide Jerusalem"
by Mike Evans
The Overview says
"The fuse is lit; the missiles are aimed; the terror cells are in place; the world moves closer to zero-hour. Betrayed: The Conspiracy to Divide Jerusalem is a prophetic and chilling eye-witness account by a man who has been in meetings with hundreds of world leaders from the Royal Palace in Madrid to the White House, Betrayed: The Conspiracy to Divide Jerusalem will touch your emotions, shake you to the core, and change forever the way you think about "Peace in the Middle East," Betrayed: The Conspiracy to Divide Jerusalem reveals the secret plan to divide Jerusalem, to relinquish the Temple Mount, Christian Holy sites, and part of the Old City."
The website targetofopportunity.com has an article titled
"The Truth About the Palestinian People" and it says
"The 1948 Israeli War of Independence was between the neighboring Arab countries and the newly formed state of Israel. The Arab countries did not send troops to help the people that are today known as "Palestinians" but rather they sent troops to drive the Jews into the sea. Most of the "Palestinian Arabs" fled to avoid the fighting. Remember, in 1948 they were not referred to as "Palestinians". This name was was created by the Soviet disinformation masters in 1964 when they created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The term "Palestinian People" as a description of Arabs in Palestine appeared for the first time in the preamble of the 1964 PLO Charter, drafted in Moscow. The Charter was affirmed by the first 422 members of the Palestinian National Council, handpicked by the KGB. This term was formally used by newspapers around the world after 1967.
United Nations Resolution 181 recommended a partition of the territory from the British Mandate for Palestine into two states - one for Jews and one for Palestinian Arabs. But the rejection of partition by the Arabs left in place as the legally operative Mandate for Palestine, the 1924 Anglo-American Convention, and Article 80 of the United Nations Charter. All of the Arab countries objected to the creation of the Jewish state and fought a war against its creation. This was Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Despite their superior numbers, the Arab countries lost the war and the Palestinian state never materialized because of this loss. In the war that was waged, the territory allotted to be the Palestinian state by the UN partition resolution was divided between Israel and Jordan. The "Palestinian Arabs" were rejected by every single Arab country, with the exception of the small percentage that ended up in refugee camps in Jordan where they remain to this day."
the article continues
"The History of the Region
To understand the truth of modern day Israel, you must first have a clear understanding of the history of the region.
Judea was an autonomous state in the Persian Empire following the return from Babylonian exile thanks to Cyrus, King of Persia. Following the death of Alexander the Great who had captured the Persian Empire, it became part of two Hellenistic.
Following the Maccabean revolt, Judea became an independent state. Following the death of King Herod, the Romans seized it and it then became a Roman province. Judea was briefly independent during the first revolt against the Romans until it was finally destroyed when the Romans put down the revolt and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in the year 70.
Judah lost its independence to Rome in the year 70 and became again a colony. In the year 135, the Romans gave the country the name "Palaestina". The name Palaestina, which became Palestine in English, is derived from Herodotus, who used the term Palaistine Syria to refer to the entire southern part of Syria, meaning "Philistine Syria." This was to add insult to injury against the Jewish people. The intent was to remove any memory of a Jewish presence. The name was kept by the next possessors, the Byzantine Empire, and then by the conquering Arabs and their successors, the conquering Turks. Note that we have a succession of different nationalities, none of whom thought of themselves as Palestinians. They were the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, or Turks.
About 61 B.C., Roman troops under Pompei invaded Judea and sacked Jerusalem in support of King Herod. Judea had become a client state of Rome. During the seventh century (A.D. 600's), Muslim Arab armies moved north from Arabia to conquer most of the Middle East, including Palestine. The Seljuk Turks conquered Jerusalem in 1071, but their rule in Palestine lasted less than 30 years.
During the 7th century, Muslims invaded and the Crusaders from Europe ruled for a time until they were driven out. The Crusaders left Palestine for good when the Muslims captured Acre in 1291. During the post-crusade period, crusaders often raided the coast of Palestine. To deny the Crusaders gains from these raids, the Muslims pulled their people back from the coasts and destroyed coastal towns and farms. This depopulated and impoverished the coast of Palestine for hundreds of years.
In the mid-1200's, Mamelukes, originally soldier-slaves of the Arabs based in Egypt, established an empire that in time included the area of Palestine that lasted until the Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamelukes in 1517, and Palestine became part of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish Sultan invited Jews fleeing the Spanish Catholic inquisition to settle in the Turkish empire, including several cities in Palestine. The Ottoman Empire ruled until the British took control of the area in 1917.
In 1922, the British declared that the boundary of Palestine would be limited to the area west of the river. The area east of the river, called Transjordan, which is now the country of Jordan, was made a separate British mandate and eventually given independence. The British maintained control until 1948."
& continues
"There was always a Jewish population in the region, most of them resided in the religious communities in Jerusalem, Tz'fat, Tiberius, and Hebron. With Jewish immigration suddenly on the rise from the 1880's on, the economy of this very under populated and very poor country began to rise dramatically, attracting a parallel stream of Arabs from the surrounding countries who came in looking for jobs. At the same time, Arab/Muslim nationalism and extremism began to rise, spurred by the influx of what they considered "Infidel Jews" and the breakup of the Turkish Empire followed by the occupation by European countries of much of the Middle East.
From this time through the War of Independence in 1947-49, there were local Arab leaders who called for an independent Palestine (Arab state) in the entire country with not a single inch for a Jewish state. During the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, the local Arab armies and leaders identified with Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and thought of themselves as such. At the end of the war, the Arab allotted land was divided between Israel, Egypt (Gaza), and Jordan. The Egyptians refused to let the Gazans become independent or Egyptian citizens. Eventually, the Jordanians did allow some refugees become citizens, but not all. The Arab states are content to let their brother Arabs remain in those refugee camps that are really crowded and squalid towns and live like that since the UN supported them. Because of this, they make a great political tool used to invoke sympathy, especially in regard to the European countries. That is crass, unfeeling politics, but these same people do not hesitate to strap bombs to their young men and women.
Another reason why the Palestinian Arabs fled is that they refused to live in a Jewish dominated state. Ironically, had they accepted the partition and those in Israel not fled, Israel would have had a huge and growing Arab population and indefensible borders."
& continues
"A Few Forgotten Facts
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
9. In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
10. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution, and slaughter.
11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.
12. Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
13. The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won.
14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them.
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall."
& continues
"The Modern Day Conflict
From the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, "Palestinian Arabs" have been sacrificed as pawns by all other Arab countries as they are to this day. No other Arab country has ever offered to accept any of these people into their own countries even though they are well able to do so. To the Arab countries and the rest of the anti-Semitic world, the "Palestinian Arabs" are useful only as a tool to exterminate Israel and the rest of the Jews in the Middle East. Otherwise, their welfare is of no concern to the rest of the Arab world.
What about the ingrained notion that the Palestinians are fighting for their ancient homeland annexed by the Jews? The truth about this matter has been so deliberately obscured that even to raise the issue seems strange to many people.
In the 1967 war, also known as the Six Day War, did Israel annex territory from a Palestinian nation? No, Israel did not take a single inch of territory from Palestine. That is because there is not, nor has there ever been, a Palestinian nation. Israel captured the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem from Jordan's King Hussein and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, after they declared war against the Jewish State. It was only following the Six-day War in 1967 that Arab refugees living in these territories began identifying themselves as the "Palestinian People" because the global media labeled them as such. One cannot help but wonder why these Palestinians suddenly discovered a national identity after Israel won the war, but not during the "Jordanian Occupation" or the "Egyptian Occupation"?"
& continues
"There Was Never A Country
Called Palestine
If you consider Palestine to be a "Sovereign" and "Independent" country that goes back through most of recorded history as many would have you to believe, then a few questions need to be answered:
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
Who was the President?
What was its form of government?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
Who was the Palestinian leader before Yasser Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency and what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, or Japanese yen on any particular date?
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
If these so-called "Palestinians" are anything but a generic collection of Arabs from all over the rest of the Arab world and if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, then why did they never try to become an independent and sovereign nation until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War in 1967?"
& continues
"The Ten Commandments of Arab Lies
1.The "Palestinian People" have an historic connection to the land.
This is very interesting since there is no such thing as a "Palestinian People". When the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestine, the people living there at the time were Jews, not Arabs. If there had been a "Palestinian People", which there never was, they would have been Jews.
2.The Palestinian People have been in the land from time immemorial.
For centuries pre-Israel Palestine was a forgotten, desolate wasteland inhabited by a remnant of Jews, along with some Christians and wandering Bedouins who certainly had no thought of a national identity of any kind.
3.There were no Jews in Palestine until Israel became a state in 1948.
The Romans officially banished the Jews from Israel (Palestine) in 135 CE. However, historical records show there was always a Jewish presence in the land. While many were scattered, other Jews simply moved out of harm's way until a less hostile power ruled the land. Jews were returning to what is now Israel well before 1948. Many left Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
4. Arabs and Jews lived in harmony before Israel became a state.
Throughout the centuries, Jews as well as Christians, living under Islamic rule suffered persecution and humiliation, the intensity of which was determined by the character of a particular Moslem ruler. As second-class citizens, there was never a "good time" for non-Muslims living under Islamic rule. Because of the way that most Islamic countries look down on non-Muslims, they are always considered second-class citizens and less than equal. Arabs have rarely lived in harmony with anyone if they were the majority.
5.The returning Jews displaced the Palestinian Arabs
The ancestors of most of the present-day Arab population migrated to the land after Jewish pioneers began to reclaim the land. They came from many different countries and were not original inhabitants of the land.
6.The Jews stole Arab land
Jews returning to the land settled on unclaimed, unoccupied land or bought land from absentee Arab landowners at outrageously high prices. This is a matter of record.
7.The Jews forced Arabs to flee Palestine
When Israel was declared a state in 1948, leaders from the surrounding Arab countries declared war on Israel and instructed the Arab civilians living in the land to flee until the Jews were annihilated. Israeli leaders, to no avail, urged the Arabs to stay. Property that they owned was abandoned.
8.The Jews caused the Arab refugee problem
If Arab countries would assimilate and care for the "Palestinian" refugees, as Israel did for their Jewish refugees, there would be no refugee problem. Instead they use the refugees as political pawns in their struggle against Israel. No Arab country that wants "Palestinian Arabs" in their country as they would rather use the "Palestinian Arabs" as pawns rather than assimilate them into their populations and bring peace to the Middle East.
9.Israel is the aggressor against defenseless Palestinians
In its brief history, Israel has had one war after another and each time they are blamed as the aggressor. The Arabs do not recognize the right of Israel to exist and are in a constant state of hostility against Israel. Their aim is to destroy Israel.
10.Jerusalem is holy to Muslims
While Jerusalem is mentioned over eight hundred times in the Bible, it is not mentioned one time in the Koran. Muslims have had little or no interest in Jerusalem until the Jewish presence in modern times."
the article continues
"THE JEWISH SITUATION
by
Larry Miller
"A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still do not get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don't thank me. I am a giver. Here we go:
The Palestinians want their own country. There is just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians. It is a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan", "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in war, Gaza belonged to Egypt and there were no "Palestinians" then. The West Bank belonged to Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians" then. As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the "Palestinians", weeping for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation." So for the sake of honesty, let us not use the word "Palestinian" any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they are being taped. Instead, call them what they are: "Other Arabs From The Same General Area Who Are In Deep Denial About Never Being Able To Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death." I know that is a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters."
Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing. No, they do not. They could have had their own country any time in the last thirty years, especially two years ago at Camp David. But if you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living. That is no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course - that is where the real fun is - but mostly they want Israel. Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel - or "The Zionist Entity" as their textbooks call it - for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they are the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you have ever been around God's Earth, you know that is really saying something. It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I am missing something, the Arabs have not given anything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.
Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding."
& continues
"My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshalling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab state into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting. No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
Mr. Bush, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it is in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, that cannot be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels that have just had their drugs taken away. However, in any big-picture strategy, there is always a danger of losing moral weight. We have already lost some. After September 11th our president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City every week and then every day, start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint. If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan. (Hey, wait a minute, that is actually not such a bad idea... uh, that is, what a horrible thought, yeah, horrible.)
To see the true agenda of what the "Palestinians" and the rest of radical Islam really stand for and the hatred that is at their core beliefs, look at "Islam - A Religion Based on Terrorism".
the TargetofOpportunity.com article lastly gives links to other good articles
"
Palestinian terrorists use the "Road Map to Peace" to plan their next attack
Courtesy of John Pritchett
Below are some additional links on the true dangers of Islam that might prove informative.
10 Obvious Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace
15 Iraqi War Myths
HAMAS Charter of 1988
Islam - A Religion Based on Terrorism
Islamic Terrorism in Israel
ISIS Forces Iraqi Christians To Pay Jizya,...
Jews and Muslims - An Intellectual Comparison
Quotes From The Islamic World
When World War III Started
On a final note, in all of the writing and reporting on Israel, there is one undisputed fact that is consistently forgotten and ignored. That fact is that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East who has ever properly protected sites holy to each religion and the rights of all to worship in Jerusalem and all of Israel. No Islamic nation can come close to making that claim."
From the website nopalestinianpeople.blogspot.com an article is titled
"There are No Palestinian People-Country" it says
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
There's no such thing as "Palestine"
"There's no such thing as "Palestine"
"Palestine" is the name that the Romans gave to the land of Israel when they conquered this land 2000 years ago and Wikipedia explains (Israel) :
It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Muslims conquered the land from the Byzantine Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Muslim states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
And also the Greeks prior to the Romans:
Abba Eban wrote in his book 'My nation - The history of the nation of Israel' in page 64 that the Greek historian Herodotos used the name 'Palestina', that is 'Pleshet', for the first time as a complete name for all the land of Israel while in the past it referred only to the populated areas of the Philistines themselves.
Abba Eban added that the Philistines, who settled down in the shore area, were the first ones with whom the Greek invaders encountered thus the Greeks called all the land in the name of the Philistines.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" nation.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" state.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" kingdom.
There were never in the history of the world "Palestinian" kings.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" capital.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" essence.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" heritage.
There was never in the history of the world a "Palestinian" culture."
the article continues
"The "Palestinians" are ARABS who were brought to the region by the Ottoman empire as part of the Muslim occupation in the region and later on also by the British who entered masses of Arabs from the surroundings while closing Israel to its genuine owners. Arabs from countries like Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen emigrated to Israel in the beginning of the 20th century to look for employment (due to the development of this land by the Judean inhabitants) while pretending to be living in Israel "for thousands of years..." These Arabs are definitely not the tribes from Crete who settled down in the 5 cities of Gaza strip after the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. These tribes were called Philistines and they weren't Arabs at all and the nowadays "Palestinians" are definitely not their descendants. The Philistines don't exist as a nation nowadays.
There's no "Palestinian" nation but an ARAB one which went out of the Arabian Peninsula and occupied dozens of lands, including the land of Israel.
According to the Israeli Wikipedia the Arabs who were living in the land of Israel started to call themselves "Palestinians" only after the establishment of Israel in 1948 and prior to it they called themselves just 'Arabs' and this is how they called their organizations ('Arab Higher Committee') and their struggles ('The Great Arab Revolt') and nicknamed the land of Israel in different names such as 'Southern Syria'.
Zuheir Mohsen is widely known for having made the following statement in a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. "
& continues
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For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
There was an Israeli state in the land of Israel 2000 years before the prophet of Islam dreamt that he's flying on a "magical horse" from Mecca to Jerusalem.
There was an Israeli nation in the land of Israel.
There was an Israeli kingdom in the land of Israel.
There were Israeli kings in the Israeli kingdom of Israel.
There was an Israeli capital in the kingdom of Israel.
There was and there is an Israeli essence.
There was and there is an Israeli heritage.
There was and there is an Israeli culture.
Israel isn't just a name of a state. It's first and for all a name of a nation (Am Yisrael). Israel is the name of the father of the nation (Jacob) and Israelis are his descendants. The real meaning of the word 'Israeli' is someone who belongs to the nation of Israel and not only "a citizen of a state called Israel". The word 'Israeli' (Yisraeli) is mentioned in the Torah and we use it in Hebrew till this day. Yisraelim in plural.
Don't say "Jews", say Judeans. Yehudi in Hebrew is Judean in English, not "Jew". "Jews" is a mockery word for Judeans. The word 'Judeans' was invented by gentiles. When the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans conquered the land of Israel they called all the Israelis in the name 'Judeans' because at those days the tribe of Judah was the biggest and the dominant tribe which survived the exile of Assyria in which 10 tribes of Israel were exiled. The tribe of Judah lived in the Judean desert thus the gentiles who occupied the land of Israel called the members of this tribe (and also the ones of Benjamin and Levi who joined it) in the name 'Judeans'.
When Israelis (Judeans) who live abroad go to synagogue they don't read about Judeans and not about "Jews" in the prayer books nor in the Torah but about 'The Nation of Israel', 'The Children of Israel', 'The House of Israel', 'Israeli', 'Shema Yisrael', etc. They are Israelis because they belong to the nation of Israel even if they aren't citizens of a state called Israel. Both of the words 'Judeans' and 'Israelis' refer to nationality, to ethnic identity and not to religion. Judeans are members of the tribe of Judah and not "people who believe in Judaism". And the nation isn't called Judah but Israel, and so does the land and in the future the 10 tribes will return to this nation."
& continues
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Israelity ("Judaism") isn't a "religion" but a historical national covenant between G-d and the Israelis.
That's why Arab citizens of Israel don't define themselves as Israelis but as Arab/"Palestinian" citizens of a state CALLED Israel. They aren't members of the Israeli nation but of the Ishmaelite nation. Ishmael used to shoot arrows at Isaac (father of Israel) while saying: "I'm only playing..." That's why there's no "Israeli-Palestinian conflict" but a WAR that the Ishmaelites/Arabs opened on the Israelis. Also Muhammad murdered Israelis in Saudi Arabia who refused to accept his murderous pagan dream.
That's why we should say: End the Arab occupation in the land of Israel!
Couple of facts that the haters of Israel don't like:
Israel became a state in 1312 B.C., two millennia before Islam.
Arab refugees from Israel began calling themselves "Palestinians" in 1967, two decades after (modern) Israeli statehood in 1948.
After conquering the land in 1272 B.C., Israelis ruled it for a thousand years and maintained a continuous presence there for 3,300 years.
The only Arab rule following conquest in 633 B.C. lasted just 22 years.
For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem was the Israeli capital. It was never the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even under Jordanian rule, (East) Jerusalem was not made the capital, and no Arab leader came to visit it.
Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Tanach, but not once is it mentioned in the Qur'an.
King David founded Jerusalem; Mohammed never set foot in it.
Israelis pray facing Jerusalem; Muslims face Mecca. If they are between the two cities, Muslims pray facing Mecca, with their backs to Jerusalem.
In 1948, Arab leaders urged their people to leave, promising to cleanse the land of Israeli presence. 68% of them fled without ever setting eyes on an Israeli soldier.
Virtually the entire Israeli population of Muslim countries had to flee as the result of violence and pogroms.
Some 630,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948, while close to a million Israelis were forced to leave the Muslim countries.
In spite of the vast territories at their disposal, Arab refugees were deliberately prevented from assimilating into their host countries. Of 100 million refugees following World War 2, they are the only group to have never integrated with their co-religionists. Most of the Israeli refugees from Europe and Arab lands were settled in Israel, a country no larger than New Jersey, USA.
There are 22 Muslim countries, not counting "Palestine". There is only one Israeli state.
Fatah and Hamas constitutions still call for the destruction of Israel."
& lastly says
"During the Jordanian occupation, Israeli holy sites were vandalized and were off limits to Israelis. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian holy sites are accessible to all faiths.
The U.N. was silent when the Jordanians destroyed 58 synagogues in the old city of Jerusalem. It remained silent while Jordan systematically desecrated the ancient Israeli cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced apartheid laws preventing Israelis from accessing the temple mount and western wall.
Arabs started all five wars against Israel, and lost every one of them. "
Also from the website nopalestinianpeople.blogspot.com another article is titled
"More Facts on the Myth of "The Palestinian People" Arabs "
More Facts on the Myth of "The Palestinian People"
Posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 12:00:01 PM by Kaslin
My May 28th article, “Five Simple Truths about the Mideast Conflict,” elicited some passionate responses from those on both sides of the debate, with the first point in particular proving to be the most controversial: “There is no such thing as a historic ‘Palestinian people” living in the Middle East.’”
Let’s unpack two of the most common responses to that assertion, separating myth from fact. Of course, we know that there are several million people living in the West Bank and Gaza who identify as Palestinians today, and regardless of their historic pedigree, they are human beings with real needs. But when a misleading “history” is presented so as to delegitimize Jewish claims to the Land, the falsehoods must be exposed.
Myth #1. The modern Palestinians can trace their lineage back to the ancient Philistines, who were living in the land of Canaan (= Palestine) long before the Israelites had arrived on the scene.
This is completely false as to any lineal or ethnic connection between modern Palestinians and ancient Philistines.
First, the Philistines were Aegean (or Cypriot) sea peoples who migrated to the southern coast of Israel/Canaan in the 12th century BC. It is unclear what relationship they bear with the Philistines who are mentioned in Genesis, hundreds of years earlier. In short, they were not a Semitic people, as the Israelites and Arabs were. Second, from the 8th-5th centuries BC, they were crushed or ruled by the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians, ultimately being absorbed by these populations and entirely disappearing from history. In other words, there was a distinct, end of the line for the Philistines roughly 2,500 years ago.
Third, six hundred years after the extinction of the Philistines, and after putting down a Jewish revolt, the Romans changed the name of Judea to Palaestina (in Latin) in order to discourage Jewish patriotism. So, there is absolutely no lineal or ethnic connection between the (earlier) Philistine people and the (later) land called Palestine. In fact, the Philistines had previously lived in the western part of the country, on the Mediterranean coast, whereas Palestine originally referred to the eastern part of the country, on the West Bank of the Jordan river.
Fourth, some Muslim leaders have claimed that there was a continuous Arab presence in Palestine dating back to Muslim conquests in the 7th century AD. But this dubious claim, even if true , would still mean that the continuous Jewish presence in the land predated the first major Arab presence by at least 2,000 years, and it would also underscore the fact that there is no connection between the later Arabs and the earlier (extinct) Philistines."
& continues
"Myth # 2. The whole argument about there being no historic, “Palestinian people” is meaningless, since there’s is no such thing as a historic Iraqi people either. Borders were artificially created after World War I.”
This is false, as to the overall argument and only partially true about the artificial borders.
Anyone who knows the history of the modern Middle East will recognize the names of nation-states that did not exist as such before (such as United Arab Emirates). But not all national identities in the Middle East are of recent origin.
There has certainly been an ancient, historic Egyptian people in the region, to the south of Israel, and an ancient, historic Syrian-Lebanese people, to the north of Israel, while the Iraqi people often traced their heritage back to the ancient kings of Babylon as well as to the golden age of Islam that flourished in their region 700 years ago. In contrast, the Arabs living in Palestine had no such national identity because they had no such ancient, historic roots, not to mention the fact that there were dozens of other (non-Arab) peoples living in Palestine, some of whom had ruled the region for centuries.
In the oft-quoted words of the celebrated Arab-American historian and Princeton University professor, Philip Hitti, testifying before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history, absolutely not.” And so, if there was no “Palestine” in the pre-1948 Arab consciousness, there was no Palestinian people. The only people living in Palestine who traced their pedigree back to ancient, biblical times and who awaited the restoration of their ancient homeland were the Jewish people.
But why bother with facts? The old myths and lies are so much more effective."
From the website www.medium.com an article by Keith Foster on October 10, 2016
is titled "There is no Palestine, so there are no Palestinians" the article says
"There is no Palestine, so there are no Palestinians. There was a Palestine, and the Palestinians were the Jews who lived there. Those people changed the name of their bordered region to Israel in 1948, when they declared independence, so now they are Israelis.
The people who you are referring to as “Palestinians” may be arab; so fine, I agree they are arabs, If you want to call them something, call them NIMAs (non-Israeli muslim arabs). But they are not Palestinians.
The adoption of the term “Palestinian” by the non-Israeli arabs who live in Gaza or the west bank cities was purely a public relations stunt to try and pretend that they have some claim to the land that exists west of the Jordan River. They have no ancestral or racial connection to the people who co-existed on that land with the Hebrews of Judea and ancient Israel, but that’s a separate anthropological issue (which is easily proven by any study of Middle East genetic anthropology).
If you don’t want to believe me, believe the muslim arab people themselves:
“There is no such country as Palestine. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. Palestine is alien to us…” (Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937)
“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” (Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946)
“It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” (Delegate of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Security Council, 1956)
“Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel…” (Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council, Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977)"
the article continues
"In February 2014, Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar who lives in Jordan, recognized Israel’s historic right to live in the Holy Land on his personal facebook page. He wrote: “I say to those who distort their Lord’s book, the Koran: From where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already named it ‘The Holy Land’ and bequeathed it to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment,” the Sheikh stated.”
Sheik Adwan continued, “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in the Koran. Your demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews).”
I’m a native-American because I was born in America, but that doesn’t mean that I can make a legitimate claim to belonging to the Sioux or Cherokee or Maidu tribes. To claim an ancestral right to land in New York so I can open a native-American gambling casino would be a fraud.
If and when the non-Israeli muslim arabs ever finally decide to create one or two independent nation-states out of Gaza and the non-Israeli west bank cities, the people will most likely not even use the term “Palestine” in their permanent country name(s). Palestine is an English word based upon a Latin word used by the Romans to demean the conquered Judeans (the Jews). The Gazans and west bank arabs will ultimately do what the muslims of India did when their two nations were declared independent — they became Pakistan and Bangladesh. Although the people are Indians they didn’t call their respective countries West India and East-Western India. They chose national names that are relevant to their personal real or imagined heritage. Ceylon and Burma are two good examples of non-muslim countries that followed this naming principal: They changed the names of their countries to Sri Lanka and Myanmar, respectively, and became Sri Lankans and Myanmese.
For muslim arabs to call themselves by a humiliating name selected by ‘European infidels’ to demean Jews should, and would, be an embarrassment to them."
Also from nopalestinianpeople.blogspot.com Another article is titled
"Wednesday, August 17, 2011
There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ nor ‘Palestinian people’
There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ nor ‘Palestinian people’
it says
"Despite the proclamations of anti-Israel activists and anti-Semites the truth of the matter is that there has never been a country called ‘Palestine’, nor has there ever been a people called ‘Palestinians’. The entire myth of a Palestinian nation-hood was foisted by the PLO terrorist organization. Many of these ruthless terrorists were honest about this lie admitting that they created this ‘people’ for the express purpose of driving the Jews in the Holy Land into the sea. Yassar Arafat {Yemach Shemo Vezichron/May his name and memory be erased!} was a chief architect of the ‘Palestinian’ lies.
Before the state was declared in 1948 the word ‘Palestinian’ was used by the British as the name for Jews who lived in the British controlled land. But the term was hi-jacked, just as the terrorists hi-jacked planes and buses in order to blow them up, in order to further their jihad against the Jewish state.
There has never been a country called ‘Palestine’ and there is no such thing as a ‘Palestinian people’. The arabs who are occupying Jewish land came to Israel in order to prevent the establishment of the Jewish state. The British Mandate gave approximately 70% of the British land to the arabs who established the states Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. The arabs who are occupying Israel belong in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan and should be motivated, either monetarily or physically, to move away from the Jewish state.
The arabs complain about Nakba, their disaster, but how about the Catastrophe that the arabs inflicted on their Jewish populations in 1948. How many Jews were forcibly evicted from their homes, their properties confiscated, when the Jewish state was established? I personally know a Jew of Egyptian heritage that was alive at the time. His family lost their fortune, their home, and their community. The expulsion of arabs from Israel would be justice for the injustice they perpetrated against the Jewish people."
From nopalestinianpeople.blogspot.com an article is titled
"What was the identity of the Arabs of Palestine at the end of the Ottoman Empire?"
it says
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Are the Palestinians a separate and unique people, different from the other Arabs? When did the notion arise - of the Palestinians as a separate Arab people?
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
- Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist,
editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily
The concept of "Palestinians" is one that did not exist until about 1948, when the Arab inhabitants, of what until then was Palestine, wished to differentiate themselves from the Jews. Until then, the Jews were the Palestinians. There was the Palestinian Brigade of Jewish volunteers in the British World War II Army (at a time when the Palestinian Arabs were in Berlin hatching plans with Adolf Hitler for world conquest and how to kill all the Jews); there was the Palestinian Symphony Orchestra (all Jews, of course); there was The Palestine Post; and so much more. The Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians" do so in order to persuade a misinformed world that they are a distinct nationality and that "Palestine" is their ancestral homeland. But they are no distinct nationality at all. They are the same - in language, custom, and tribal and family ties - as the Arabs of Syria, Jordan, and beyond. There is no more difference between the "Palestinians" and the other Arabs of those countries than there is between, say, the citizens of Minnesota and those of Wisconsin.
What's more, many of the "Palestinians", or their immediate ancestors, came to the area attracted by the prosperity created by the Jews, in what previously had been pretty much of a wasteland.
- New York Times, June 12, 2000 (via CFICEJ's ISRAEL REPORT May/June 2000)
Meeting in Cairo in 1964, the Arab League resolved to divert the waters of the Jordan River, which are vital for Israel's existence. At that same conference, there was a public declaration of the intention to destroy Israel, and the PLO was founded. - Anita Shapira, The New Republic, 29 November, 1999
It is mainly in the past few decades that "Palestinian" has been co-opted by the Arabs, as if the name belongs exclusively to them, pretending to have a long history and independent national identity. Until 1967, most of those who now call themselves Palestinians were reasonably happy with their Jordanian citizenship and with calling themselves "Jordanians" Even today, there is strong support among the "Palestinian" majority of Jordan for their Hashemite monarchy, though King Hussein relies on his Bedouin troops when he needs absolute loyalty. The use of a term like "Palestinian" without the suffix "Arab" and the term "Israeli-Occupied Palestine" have served to confuse the public into thinking that there has always been an independent "Palestinian" people which hasn't been given the opportunity for self-determination. In fact, any such failure has been the fault of the government of Jordan, which covers the majority of what was once known as "Palestine" and in which the majority of Palestinian Arabs live. "
and it continues
""Palestinians" [are an] Arab people no one heard of before 1967 before Israeli governments certified this piece of propaganda... As has been noted many times before, prior to 1948, that is before Jews had begun to call themselves Israelis, the only persons known as "Palestinians" were Jews, with the Arabs much preferrring to identify themselves as part of the great Arab nation. - David Basch
The actual word "Palestine" came from the Romans, not the Arabs, and there has never been an independent country or state of Palestine, nor a Palestinian rule. Yet we are led to believe that there are Palestinians and then there are Arabs.
Avi Erlich wrote in his book Ancient Zionism, A Palestinian Arab claim to the Land of Israel cannot rise above a claim to houses, lost from the larger Arab Empire. Neither Moorish homes in Cordoba nor Arab homes in Jerusalem can reasonably constitute lost nations. ...Homeland represents the grafting of a specific place with a specific national idea. No Palestinian idea beyond the claim to land or other lost property has ever been articulated. Borrowed and usurping nationhood does not count. "
From the website www.thereligionofpeace.com , about which one Christian website says
"You gotta see this" the website www.thereligionofpeace.com has an article titled "Games Muslims Play"
the article says-
It's much easier to act as if critics of Islam have a problem with Muslims as people than it is to accept the uncomfortable truth that Islam is different.
Given Islam's violent history and the unfavorable contrast that its oppressive practices have against 21st century values, Muslim evangelists are hard-pressed to repackage their faith in the modern age. Apologists have come to rely on tricks involving semantics and half-truths. This propaganda is, in turn, repeated verbatim by other unsuspecting (yet sincere) Muslims and well-meaning progressives outside the faith.
Here we try to expose some of these games, and help truth-seekers find their way through the maze of disingenuous and false claims about Islam and its history.
The Games: Click on Each Quote/game below to Read an In-depth detailed article explanation ,
“If Islam Were a Violent Religion, then All Muslims Would be Violent”
“Other Religions Kill Too”
“Where Does the Quran Say to Kill Innocent People?”
Muhammad Preached 'No Compulsion in Religion' (Quran: 2:256)
The Crusades
The Andalusian Paradise (Tolerance in Muslim Spain)
“Muhammad Never Killed Anyone!”
The Quran Teaches that All Life is Sacred (Quran 5:32)
"Muslims are to Only Kill in Self-Defense”
"Verses of Violence are Taken Out of Context"
"Islam Must be True Because It is the World’s Fastest Growing Religion"
"The Quran can Only be Understood in Arabic"
"Terrorists Can't be Muslim Because They Kill Muslims"
"Suicide Bombings are Against Islam"
"It's a Phobia: More People are Killed by Bathtubs Than Terrorists"
"You Can Only Learn Islam from a Muslim"
"Under Sharia, Your Loans are Interest-Free!"
Of course Many American Muslims and Muslims worldwide are decent people, some Muslims even risked their lives to Rescue Jews during the Nazi Holocaust !!! But sadly there is a very real danger of Islamic Extremism in America & Worldwide
One of the "Games" from the website www.thereligionofpeace.com
TheReligionofPeace
TROP is a non-partisan, fact-based site which examines the ideological threat that Islam poses to human dignity and freedom.
It's much easier to act as if critics of Islam have a problem with Muslims as people than it is to accept the uncomfortable truth that Islam is different.
Another good article on www.thereligionofpeace.com is titled "What can we learn about Islam from this woman?"
It's a Phobia Because
More People are Killed
by Bathtubs Than
by Islamic Terror...
The Game: Fear of Islam is a phobia since far more people are killed by something other than Islamic terrorism.
The Truth:
Comparing the number of people killed by terrorists to the number killed in accidents involving items that are otherwise benign - say, bathtubs or furniture - is a strategy to mitigate concern about Islam. The argument is that since we don't fear these "more deadly" objects, then it is irrational to fear "less deadly" Islamic terror.
The critical assumption is that danger and risk are measured by number of people killed. Let's test the soundness of this logic by applying it to bathtubs and alligators.
In the United States, about 300 people are killed accidently each year in a bathtub, usually by hitting their head or drowning. In the same period, on average, only about one person dies from an alligator attack. According to the "it's a phobia" argument, alligators must be significantly less dangerous than bathtubs.
Of course, no one seriously believes that bathing in an alligator pond is safer than using a bathtub. When they actually do think about it, no one seriously believes that a bathtub is more dangerous than a terrorist either, even though terrorists kill fewer people (in the West, at least). This is because the number of casualties does not necessarily correspond to the severity of a threat - nor what our response should be.
Untold billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of security personnel are spent each year to protect the world from Islamic terrorists. This means the number of terror victims is not an apples-to-apples comparison to bathtubs and lightning strikes. Most people know that much of the planet would be killed off if these religious extremists were free to pursue their stated ambitions.
Even the people who peddle the numbers game do not seriously think that a terrorist in the home would be safer than a bathtub or refrigerator, which proves that their simplistic point is meaningless.
Moreover, how much stock do these 'intellectuals' put in the numbers game when they claim that "Islamophobia" is a great problem than Islamic terror? To our knowledge, only one Muslim in America lost their life to anti-Muslim bigotry in the fifteen years following 9/11, while there were close to 100 Islamic terror plots and 150 kills. In Western Europe, there were more than 200 Islamist attacks and over 1100 killed against perhaps a dozen deadly hate crimes targeted toward Muslims.*
Also from www.thereligionofpeace.com Another article is titled
The Crusades
The Game:
Muslims love talking about the Crusades... and Christians love apologizing for them. To hear both parties tell the story, one would think that Muslims were just peacefully minding their own business in lands that were legitimately Muslim when Christian armies decided to wage holy war and "kill millions."
The Truth:
Every part of this myth is a lie. By the rules that Muslims claim for themselves, the Crusades were justified. The excesses (though well beneath Christian standards) pale in comparison with the historical treatment of conquered populations at the hands of Muslims.
Here are some quick facts...
The first Crusade began in 1095… 460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies, 457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies, 453 years after Egypt was taken by Muslim armies, 443 after Muslims first plundered Italy, 427 years after Muslim armies first laid siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople, 380 years after Spain was conquered by Muslim armies, 363 years after France was first attacked by Muslim armies, 249 years after the capital of the Christian world, Rome itself, was attacked by a Muslim army, and only after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslavement and forced conversions of Christians.
By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world.
Europe had been harassed by Muslims since the first few years following Muhammad’s death. As early as 652, Muhammad’s followers launched raids on the island of Sicily, waging a full-scale occupation 200 years later that lasted almost a century and was punctuated by massacres, such as that at the town of Castrogiovanni, in which 8,000 Christians were put to death. In 1084, ten years before the first crusade, Muslims staged another devastating Sicilian raid, burning churches in Reggio, enslaving monks and raping an abbey of nuns before carrying them into captivity.
In 1095, Byzantine Emperor, Alexius I Comneus began begging the pope in Rome for help in turning back the Muslim armies which were overrunning what is now Turkey, grabbing property as they went and turning churches into mosques. Several hundred thousand Christians had been killed in Anatolia alone in the decades following 1050 by Seljuk invaders interested in 'converting' the survivors to Islam.
Not only were Christians losing their lives in their own lands to the Muslim advance, but pilgrims to the Holy Land from other parts of Europe were being harassed, kidnapped, molested, forcibly converted to Islam and occasionally murdered. (Compare this to the Quran’s justification for slaughter simply on the basis that Muslims were denied access to the Meccan pilgrimage).
Renowned scholar Bernard Lewis points out that the Crusades, though "often compared with the Muslim jihad, was a delayed and limited response to the jihad and in part also an imitation.... Forgiveness for sins to those who fought in defense of the holy Church of God and the Christian religion and polity, and eternal life for those fighting the infidel: these ideas... clearly reflect the Muslim notion of jihad."
the article continues
"Lewis goes on to state that, "unlike the jihad, it [the Crusade] was concerned primarily with the defense or reconquest of threatened or lost Christian territory... The Muslim jihad, in contrast, was perceived as unlimited, as a religious obligation that would continue until all the world had either adopted the Muslim faith or submitted to Muslim rule... The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic law."
If someone takes your wallet and you take it back, who is the thief?
The Crusaders only invaded lands that were Christian. They did not attack Saudi Arabia (other than a half-hearted expedition by a minor figure) or sack Mecca, as the Muslims had done (and continued doing) to Rome and Constantinople. Their primary goal was the recapture of Jerusalem and the security of safe passage for pilgrims. The toppling of the Muslim empire was not on the agenda.
The period of Crusader “occupation” (of its own former land) was stretched tenuously over about 170 years, which is less than the Muslim occupation of Sicily and southern Italy alone - to say nothing of Spain, Bulgaria and other lands that had never been Islamic before falling victim to Jihad. In fact, the Arab occupation of North Africa and Middle Eastern lands outside of Arabia is almost 1400 years old.
Despite popular depiction, the Crusades were not a titanic battle between Christianity and Islam. Although originally dispatched by papal decree, the "occupiers" quickly became part of the political and economic fabric of the Middle East without much regard for religious differences. Their arrival was largely accepted by the local population as simply another change in authority. Islamic radicals even lamented the fact that many of their co-religionists preferred to live under Frankish (Christian) rule than migrate to Muslim lands.
The Muslim world was also split into warring factions, many of which allied themselves with the Frankish princes against each other at one time or another. This even included Saladin, the Kurdish warrior who is credited with eventually ousting the "Crusaders." Contrary to recent propaganda, however, Saladin had little interest in holy war until a rogue Frankish prince began disrupting his trade routes. Both before and after the taking of Jerusalem, his armies spent far more time and resources battling fellow Muslims."
& lastly says
"For its part, the Byzantine (Eastern Christian) Empire preferred to have little to do with the Crusader kingdoms and went so far as to sign treaties with their Muslim rivals on occasion.
Another misconception is that the Crusader era was a time of constant war. In fact, very little of this overall period included significant hostilities. In response to Muslim expansion or aggression, there were only about 20 years of actual military campaigning, much of which was spent on organization and travel. (They were from 1098-1099, 1146-1148, 1188-1192, 1201-1204, 1218-1221, 1228-1229, and 1248-1250). By comparison, the Muslim Jihad against the island of Sicily alone lasted 75 grinding years.
Ironically, the Crusades can be justified from the Quran itself, which encourages Holy War in order to "drive them out of the places from whence they drove you out" (2:191). In this case, the objective wasn't to expel Muslims from the Middle East, but to bring an end to the molestation of pilgrims. Holy war is not justified by New Testament teachings, which is why the Crusades are an anomaly, the brief interruption of centuries of relentless Jihad against Christianity that began long before and continued well after that event.
The greatest crime of the Crusaders was the sacking of Jerusalem, in which at least 3,000 people were said to have been massacred. This number is dwarfed by the number of Jihad victims, from India to Constantinople, Africa and Narbonne, but Muslims have never apologized for their crimes and never will.
What is called 'sin and excess' by other religions, is what Islam refers to as duty willed by Allah.
Further Reading
Yes, Italy Should Remember Its Past with Islam
Games Muslims Play Index"
From www.thereligionofpeace.com an article is titled
"What Ahlam Tamimi
Teaches Us about Islam" the article says
You learn more from what people do
or don't do than from what they say"
"If Islam were truly against killing, one could hardly imagine a scenario more tailored to evoke Muslim outrage than unrepentant child killers literally receiving the royal treatment at Islam's holiest site..."
Is Islam really against killing people? That's what we always hear in the wake of high-profile terror attacks, even if it contradicts what we usually see. Sometimes we're even told that the terrorists aren't Muslim (despite what the terrorists themselves think and say).
But talk is cheap. Actions speak louder. Do Muslims really act as if killing is against their religion? Consider the case of Ahlam Tamimi:
Terrorists could hardly make it more obvious that innocent civilians are being targeted than when they bomb a restaurant packed with dozens of women, children and babies. This is exactly happened on August 9, 2001 at a Sbarro's pizzaria in Jerusalem.
The monster who picked out this target was Ahlam Tamimi, a female journalism student from Jordan who also planted a bomb at a grocery store in the same area. Tamimi was not shy about her religious motivation in murdering innocent people:
This is the path. I dedicated myself to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and Allah granted me success. You know how many casualties there were. This was made possible by Allah.
Among those casualties whose murder was "made possible by Allah" were at least seven children and a pregnant woman, along with eight others. Nearly 130 suffered injury, some maimed for life.
It's hard to imagine a purer example of innocent people being killed in the name of Allah than this. Were it truly an offense to Islam, what better opportunity for Muslims to prove it by demonstrating their outrage.
Here's what happened instead (in Ahlam Tamimi's own words):
Afterwards, when I took the bus, the Palestinians were all smiling. You could sense that everybody was happy. When I got on the bus, nobody knew that it was me who had led [the suicide bomber to the target]... inside the bus, they were all congratulating one another. They didn't even know one another, yet they were exchanging greetings... As the number of dead kept increasing, the passengers were applauding.
Ahlam Tamimi received 16 life sentences for her role in the attack. From an Israeli prison, she snubbed her victims and made it quite clear that she had no remorse or sympathy for them. Her only regret was that there were not more of them:
I admit that I was a bit disappointed, because I had hoped for a larger toll. Yet when they said "three dead," I said: 'Allah be praised'...Two minutes later, they said on the radio that the number had increased to five. I wanted to hide my smile, but I just couldn't. Allah be praised, it was great.
Even during that interview, over 10 years later, Ms. Tamimi expressed joy when hearing for the first time that eight children had been killed - one more than what she had previously thought. In fact, she could not stop smiling at the news."
the article continues
"So, here is a devout Muslim not only killing people explicitly in the name of Islam, but openly praising Allah for the slaughter of children... just the sort of thing that Muslim leaders in the West claim "horrifies" them. Yet, what was their reaction? Total silence.
At this point, apologists might say that there was no point in expressing outrage at the time because it was a localized event in which justice was served. How does it affect them, they might ask. Terrorists aren't even Muslim, remember? Some nut does something bad somewhere in the world and Muslims elsewhere have to answer for it? Why, that sounds like "Islamophobia!"
But wait... that isn't the end of the story.
Despite her crime, Ahlam Tamimi was part of a group of terrorists released in an October 2011 swap for an Israeli prisoner of Hamas. Muslims could have protested her release if they felt that she were guilty of "horrifying" crimes in the name of their religion. None did."
& continues
"Instead of being outraged, some Muslims actually celebrated Ms. Tamimi's release. In fact, she was treated like a hero - and not just by Palestinians. The keepers of Islam's holiest sites subsequently invited her to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca along with the other terrorists as guests of the Saudi king!
The pilgrimage known as the Haj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. It is so important to the religion that tens of millions of impoverished Muslims, some disabled, scrimp and save for decades to be able to afford it. The waiting list in Indonesia can be up to 39 years - and that's after spending an average of one month's income just to be in the lottery.
Despite the tremendous oil wealth of the Arab world (and the pretentious fashion in which it is squandered), most of the world's pious Muslims never make the haj due to cost or lack of space...
They should try killing innocent people in the name of Allah, because that's exactly what earned Ahmal Tamimi and her fellow terrorists an all-expense paid trip to Mecca on a private Saudi jet!
If Islam were truly against killing, one could hardly imagine a scenario more tailored to evoke Muslim outrage than unrepentant child killers literally receiving the royal treatment at Islam's holiest site. So, how much outrage was there? Zero. Absolutely none.
If Muslims want people to believe that they believe terrorism is an offense to Islam, then they completely blew the moment of truth test. The religion notorious for throwing deadly tantrums over hijabs, films, books, cartoons, church buildings, stuffed teddy bears and monkeys couldn't bring itself to even go through the motions of outrage when terrorists butcher innocents in the name of Allah and then get feted at the expense of other Muslims at Islam's holiest site.
(The episode also belies the aphorism that "terrorists aren't Muslim", since it is a fact that non-Muslims aren't allowed to set foot in Mecca, much less live large there while pilgrims elsewhere in the city are almost literally starving in horrid conditions).
Clearly, when we are told that Islam is "against terrorism and the killing of innocent people," all is not what it seems. The truth is that Islam has its own definition of "innocent people" in which heretics, apostates, 'hypocrites', consenting adults and non-submissive infidels do not qualify, and so killing them isn't "terror", but divinely sanctioned punishment or jihad. In fact, Muhammad said he had been "made victorious through terror," and the Quran prescribes harsh treatment of both non-practicing Muslims and unbelievers."
the article lastly says
"This doesn't mean that most Muslims agree with the violence, but the contradiction between what their religion teaches and what their hearts tell them accounts for their ambivalence - and our skepticism. Empathy for those outside the faith is never encouraged by Islam, explaining why the Muslim community acts almost the opposite of how it is expected to much of the time, and why the passion and outrage in denouncing Islamic terror is largely absent in comparison to what we see when Muslims are genuinely offended over something relatively trivial.
Non-violent Muslims are fond of saying that they can't be held responsible for what another person does. Fair enough. But aren't they responsible for what they choose? The case of Ahmal Tamimi isn't about what one person or one group teaches us about Islam. It is about what all Muslims teach us by choosing to stay quiet in such glaring circumstances." From, www.thereligionofpeace.com
From the website www.telegraph.co.uk an article is titled
"'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies'"
By Manuela Dviri in Tel Aviv
12:01AM BST 26 Jun 2005
the article says
"It was about midday when a young Palestinian woman from the refugee camp of Jabalya in Gaza approached an Israeli checkpoint clutching a special permit to visit a doctor on the other side of the border.
The girl had big, brown eyes and her black hair was tied in a ponytail, but it was the strangeness of her gait that attracted the attention of the security officials at the Erez crossing, the main transit point between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
When a soldier asked her to remove her long, dark cloak, she turned to face him. All her movements were taped by the military surveillance camera at the checkpoint: calmly, deliberately, she took off her clothing, item by item, until she looked like any normal young woman in T-shirt and jeans. It was then that she tried to set off the belt containing 20lb of explosives hidden beneath her trousers. To her horror, she did not succeed. Desperate, she clawed at her face, screaming. She was still alive, she realised. She had failed her martyrdom mission.
That afternoon, on June 21, the 21-year-old, Wafa Samir al-Biss, was brought before the press by Israeli intelligence. Her neck and hands were covered with scars caused by a kitchen gas explosion six months earlier. The ugly scars - which had been treated in a hospital in Israel - had probably helped turn her into the perfect would-be huriia (virgin), the ideal martyr, since they would make it difficult for her to find a suitable husband.
The decision to publicise her case was intended to show that a terrorist threat remains despite a lull in the intifada since the Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire agreement at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in February"
From the website nopalestinianpeople.blogspot.com
Another article is titled
" The Forgotten Palestinian Refugees"
December 28, 2009
the article says
"Even in Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians are suffering under Muslim intolerance. Meet Mr. Ibrahim (a pseudonym to protect him from reprisals), a 23-year old Palestinian refugee living in the West Bank. Unlike those descendents of refugees born in United Nations camps, Mr. Ibrahim fled his birthplace just two years ago. And he wasn't running away from Israelis, but from his Palestinian brethren in Gaza.
Mr. Ibrahim's crime in that Hamas-ruled territory was to be a Christian, a transgression he compounded in the Islamists' eyes by writing love poems.
"Muslims tied to Hamas tried to take me twice," says Mr. Ibrahim, and he didn't want to find out what they'd do to him if they ever kidnapped him. He hasn't seen his family since Christmas 2007 and is afraid even to talk to them on the phone.
Speaking to a group of foreign journalists in the Bethlehem Bible College where he is studying theology, Mr. Ibrahim describes a life of fear in Gaza. "My sister is under a lot of pressure to wear a headscarf. People are turning more and more to Islamic fundamentalism and the situation for Christians is very difficult," he says.
In 2007, one year after the Hamas takeover, the owner of Gaza's only Christian bookstore was abducted and murdered. Christian shops and schools have been firebombed. Little wonder that most of Mr. Ibrahim's Christian friends have also left Gaza.
On the rare occasion that Western media cover the plight of Christians in the Palestinian territories, it is often to denounce Israel and its security barrier. Yet until Palestinian terrorist groups turned Bethlehem into a safe haven for suicide bombers, Bethlehemites were free to enter Israel, just as many Israelis routinely visited Bethlehem.
The other truth usually ignored by the Western press is that the barrier helped restore calm and security not just in Israel, but also in the West Bank including Bethlehem. The Church of the Nativity, which Palestinian gunmen stormed and defiled in 2002 to escape from Israeli security forces, is now filled again with tourists and pilgrims from around the world."
the article continues
"But even here in Jesus' birthplace, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Christians live on a knife's edge. Mr. Ibrahim tells me that Muslims often stand in front of the gate of the Bible College and read from the Quran to intimidate Christian students. Other Muslims like to roll out their prayer rugs right in Manger Square.
Asked about why Muslims would pray so close to one of Christianity's holiest sites, Pastor Alex Awad, dean of students at the Bible College, diplomatically advises me to pose this question to the Muslims themselves. Mindful of his community's precarious situation, he is at pains to stress that whatever problems Christians may have with their Muslim neighbors, it's not the PA's fault.
"Muslims and Christians live here in relative harmony," he tells reporters, only to add that Christians "feel the pressure of Islam . . . There is intimidation and fanaticism but these are little instances and there is no general persecution."
Samir Qumsieh, the founder of what he says is the holy land's only Christian TV station, also stresses that there is no "Christian suffering" and that the Christians' problems are not orchestrated by the PA. Yet his stories of land theft, beatings and intimidation make one wonder why, if the PA doesn't approve of such injustices, it is doing so little to stop it?
Christians have only recently begun to talk about how Muslim gangs simply come and take possession of Christian-owned land while the Palestinian security services, almost exclusively staffed by Muslims, stand by. Mr. Qumsieh's own home was firebombed three years ago. The perpetrators were never caught.
"We have never suffered as we are suffering now," Mr. Qumsieh confesses, violating his own introductory warning to the assorted foreign correspondents in his office not to use the word "suffering."
Always a minority religion among the predominantly Muslim Palestinians, Christians are, Mr. Qumsieh says, "melting away," even in Bethlehem. While they represented about 80% of the city's population 60 years ago, their numbers are now down to about 20%, a result not just of Muslims' higher birth rates but also widespread Christian emigration. "Our future as a Christian community here is gloomy," Mr. Qumsieh says.
Palestinian plight not attributable to Israel barely seems to register in the West's collective conscience. As Christians around the world remember Jesus' birth, perhaps we can think of Mr. Ibrahim and those Christians still suffering in Gaza and Bethlehem." Israel doesn't Persecute Christians, Again, Israel does NOT Persecute Christians, Arab & Islamic Nations are guilty of Persecuting Christians
Some good news, from the website, bbc.com an article is titled
"Mastermind behind Munich Olympics attacks dies"
3 July 2010
Image caption Oudeh was buried in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus
the article says
"The mastermind behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed, has died, his daughter and Palestinian officials say.
Mohammed Oudeh died of kidney failure a day after he was taken to hospital in Syria, his daughter said. He was 73.
Oudeh - also known under his guerrilla name Abu Daoud - did not take part in the notorious attack.
He later said he had no regrets because he considered the athletes, as military reservists, to be legitimate targets.
Oudeh died at the Andalus hospital in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday, after being taken ill, Hana Oudeh told the Associated Press news agency.
The high-profile and audacious Munich attack, which unfolded live on television, shocked the world. In the following years, Israel assassinated a number of top Palestinian officials whom it believed were involved in the massacre.
Oudeh survived an assassination attempt in which he was repeatedly shot at a cafe in Warsaw in 1981.
Black September
Image caption Eleven Israelis died after being taken hostage in the Olympic Village
Two Israeli athletes were killed in the September 5 attacks, and nine more died in a botched rescue attempt by the German police. A German policeman and five Palestinian gunmen were also killed.
Ms Oudeh said her father was to be buried at the Martyrs Cemetery in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, in Damascus.
Oudeh was "a great, loving and sincere man whose dream was to go back to Palestine", she told AP.
Oudeh was a leader of Black September, an offshoot of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah group.
The faction had been established to avenge the 1970 expulsion of Palestinian guerrillas from Jordan.
In a 2006 interview with AP, Oudeh said the Munich attacks were a turning point for Palestinians.
He rejected the term "terrorists" to describe Palestinian fighters, and said: "Before Munich, nobody had the slightest idea about Palestine."
Oudeh admitted responsibility for the Munich operation in a 1999 book, Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich. It caused uproar when it was published, and Israel barred him from returning to the West Bank." good that Mohammed Oudeh is dead , he can eat shit in hell
Another good book is titled
"Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism""
by Dore Gold, Nadia May, et al.
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From the website jcpa.org Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs an article is titled
"Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism"
(Regnery)
Dore Gold
Excerpts from Reviews and Commentary
William Safire, New York Times, February 24, 2003:
The Saudi ruler is all lip service but no help; that family's blackmail payments to Hamas through a charity front are devastatingly documented in former Ambassador Dore Gold's new book, Hatred's Kingdom.
David Hirst, The Guardian, May 1, 2003:
You won't find the newly published Hatred's Kingdom in any Saudi bookshop, but it is so much in demand among high officials that the government has brought out a reprint of its own.
Toby Harnden, London Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2003
Some senior officials, most notably in the Pentagon, echo the views of Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, whose recent book, Hatred's Kingdom, cites the Wahhabi extremism of Saudi Arabian clerics as a root cause of terrorism.
Hypocrisy, he argued, was a central problem. "The Saudi regime can pay U.S. public relations firms to portray Saudi Arabia as America's tolerant partner while Saudi preachers and state-controlled religious texts spew anti-western invective."
He concluded: "Despite Saudi Arabia's insistence to the contrary, the record makes it frighteningly clear that the Saudi kingdom is, at this point, with the terrorists."
"Indeed, it is Saudi Arabia that has spawned the new global terrorism. Unless the Saudi regime feels pressure to change, the hatred that has motivated a horrifying series of worldwide terrorist attacks...will only go on."
Prof. Joseph Kostiner, Head of the School of History, Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2003
"Gold's well-written and cogently argued work definitely helps explain the special Saudi role in international terrorism."
Hume Horan, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2003:
Muslim thinkers who had for centuries credited Islam's worldly stature to its monopoly on divine truth began to ask themselves, "What went wrong?" And their next question was, "How can we regain our former estate?" Dore Gold's Hatred's Kingdom (Regnery, 309 pages) describes such attempts at return. The book opens with a lucid account of how the Saudi royal family came to power in the mid-18th century. Mr. Gold argues persuasively that contributions from some of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, and from charitable arms of the Saudi government, were important for al Qaeda's evolution.
Alex Alexiev, Commentary Magazine, May 2003
Among the Wahhabis
What will the next strategic stage in the war against terrorism look like? One might hope that it would be a campaign to destroy the vast infrastructure that begets, nurtures, and sustains Islamic extremism. To do that, the U.S. would have to accept a fact it has so far refused to face: that Saudi Arabia, our putative ally, has been and remains the chief ideological and financial enabler of our most virulent enemies. After Saddam, a showdown with the House of Saud is, or should be, inevitable.
Hatred's Kingdom, a timely new book by the Israeli scholar and diplomat Dore Gold, lays out the grounds for this looming confrontation more powerfully than any other recent writing on the subject. Gold's lucid, dispassionate, impressively researched narrative debunks much of the conventional wisdom, establishing in a systematic way the dark reality of Saudi involvement in fomenting terror."
the article continues
" Gold also explains the central role played by the Wahhabi sect in shaping the broader current of Islamic extremism. As he extensively documents, the Saudis have sheltered and co-opted virtually every Islamist ideologue and movement of the past century, from the leaders of previous generations like Muhammad Rida, Hasan al-Banna, and Abu al-Ala Mawdudi to more contemporary figures like Abdullah Azzam and Muhammad Qutb, the mentors of al Qaeda's leadership. Wahhabism remains the prototype ideology of all violent Islamists. As Gold quotes one radical cleric, "Osama bin Laden is a natural continuation from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab."
A further service performed by Hatred's Kingdom is to dismantle the self-serving propaganda of Saudi Arabia and its apologists. Since the attacks of September 11, the Saudis have maintained, for instance, that terrorism is a result of America's cruel indifference to the suffering of the Palestinians, a position to which many European governments and the American Left uncritically subscribe. Apart from the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of the more than 150,000 recent victims of Islamic terrorism have been Muslims, it is clear, as Gold demonstrates, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has never mattered much to Riyadh. Despite their visceral dislike of Jews, the Saudis historically have paid little attention to them, feeling much more threatened by rival Arab powers like the Hashemites in Transjordan and Iraq, Nasserite socialism in Egypt, Syria, and Yemen, and, more recently, the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein.
For the general reader interested in the origins of Middle Eastern terrorism, Hatred's Kingdom will shed a great deal of light; for policy-makers in Washington, it ought to be required reading.
Jeffrey Gedmin, Die Welt, May 24, 2003
"Indispensable reading"
Joseph A. Kechichian, The Middle East Journal, Summer 2003
"[a] thoroughly researched study"
Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem Report, December 15, 2003
�...certain for many years to remain the standard work on the political and terrorist effects of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic world and the West.�
Hatred's Kingdom was featured on the New York Times Bestseller List for three weeks in March 2003. It also appeared on the Washington Post Bestseller List.
Hatred's Kingdom is available from amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Steimatzky's, and other leading bookstores."
From the website www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com an article is titled
"Iran: The Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism" the article says
"The U.S. government classifies the Islamic Republic of Iran as the “foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” alleging that Iran provides “a range of support, including financial, training, and equipment, to [terrorist] groups around the world – particularly Hezbollah.” The U.S. has designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984.
What is state-sponsored terrorism?
State-sponsored terrorism is a state’s deliberate use of terrorism or assistance to terrorist organizations as a foreign policy tool against other countries or groups of people. It can refer to either direct attacks by the state or support of terrorist organizations through the provision of weapons, funds, training, and sanctuary.
Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism by Iran:
Since the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, one of the defining hallmarks of the Iranian regime has been its habitual use of terrorism against the United States and its allies throughout the world and its ties to terrorist organizations. In addition to carrying out direct attacks, Iran has committed terrorism by proxy through Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban, militias in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain and the Gulf and a plethora of other terrorist groups. Iran has a long history of terrorist attacks against the U.S. and other Western countries, carrying out bombings, abductions, and hijackings.
The U.S. State Department noted in its most recent Country Reports on Terrorism that “In 2015, Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism worldwide remained undiminished.” According to the 2017 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, “Iran continues to be the foremost state sponsor of terrorism and, with its primary terrorism partner, Lebanese Hizballah, will pose a continuing threat to US interests and partners worldwide.” As illustrated in the timeline below, Iran has accelerated its support for terrorism in recent years, particularly since reaching a nuclear deal with the P5+1 in July 2015. Rather than fostering moderation, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has emboldened Iran to escalate its destabilizing activities and enhanced its ability to bankroll terrorism and proxy wars.
Lebanon U.S. Embassy Bombing
The Iranian Regime Terrorism Timeline
Since its founding in 1979, the Iranian regime has employed terrorism as a key instrument to advance its interests and strike at its domestic and foreign enemies. As a result, the U.S. government labels the Islamic Republic of Iran the “most active state sponsor of terrorism.” The U.S. has designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984."
Some good news, from the website www.foxnews.com an article on October 29, 2019 is titled
"Joey Jones: ISIS leader 'died a coward's death' and all Americans should celebrate"
By Joshua Nelson | Fox News
Joey Jones on death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the article says
"Retired U.S. Marine Joey Jones told “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday that he celebrated that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “died a coward’s death,” reacting to an interview with the parents of murdered ISIS captive Kayla Mueller.
“I am ecstatic that he died a coward's death. I think the entire country should feel that way because evil like that should not exist in this world and it’s beyond humanity, so I give that person al-Baghdadi no human respect and I’m glad he’s dead,” Jones said.
Kayla Mueller’s parents spoke to Fox News after President Trump mentioned their daughter during his official announcement that the terrorist group's leader was dead.
PARENTS OF ISIS VICTIM KAYLA MUELLER EXPLAIN WHAT TRUMP MENTIONING THEIR DAUGHTER AFTER AL-BAGHDADI RAID MEANT TO THEM
Carl and Marsha Mueller told "The Story" they cried when the president announced al-Baghdadi blew himself up in Idlib, Syria, as U.S. forces closed in.
Kayla Mueller's parents react to al-Baghdadi's deathVideo
"The reaction to the president speaking Kayla's name was tears from both of us," Carl Mueller said.
HOW ISIS LEADER AL-BAGHDADI'S HEADLESS BODY WAS ID'D MINUTES AFTER DEATH
Mueller, 26, was a humanitarian worker from Prescott, Ariz., who was captured while leaving a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, during that nation's bloody civil war in 2013. She is believed to have been tortured and raped by al-Baghdadi himself until her death 18 months later.
On "The Story," MacCallum asked Marsha Mueller how it has been for her family since the news of al-Baghdadi's death broke.
“I hope that anyone else that would pick up that mantle gets the same fate in honor of Kayla, so that there isn’t another one like Kayla that has to go through that,” Jones said.
Kayla Mueller's parents said on Sunday that they hope the ISIS leader's death will reveal more answers about what happened to their daughter. Even though they confirmed her death through pictures sent by militants, their daughter's body was never recovered.
Jones, a Marine veteran who lost his legs in an explosion while fighting in Afghanistan, delivered a message to those who argued that al-Baghdadi's death should not be celebrated.
"The worst thing I ever saw in war is what human beings did to other innocent human beings, especially children," he said. "That's what keeps me up at night. That's the worst thing that can possibly happen. An innocent human being gets murdered, mutilated and tortured for no other reason than evil. For any journalist or pundit who says we shouldn't' celebrate the death of al-Baghdadi, let me tell them, thank God you don't have in your heart what we have had to have in ours."
Fox News’ Charles Creitz contributed to this report. Good that al-Baghdadi is dead, he lived a coward and died a coward, big surprise, good that he's dead, he can eat shit in Hell
A good Movie showing the Evil of Adolf Hitler & Nazi Germany during World War II is titled
"World War II: When Lions Roared" the Wikipedia entry says
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the entry says
Distributor NBC
Release
Original network NBC
Picture format Color
Audio format Stereo
Original release April 19, 1994
"World War II: When Lions Roared (also known as Then There Were Giants) is a 1994 American war television miniseries, directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Michael Caine, John Lithgow and Bob Hoskins as the three major Allied leaders, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill respectively.[1] It was notable as the first video production to be produced in an early form of analog high-definition video using the Sony HDVS line of equipment expressly for broadcast in the United States on the NBC television network.[2]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 Home media
5 References
6 External links
Plot
The film portrays Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Italy, the Tehran Conference, and the Yalta Conference. The Big Three discuss Operation Overlord in Tehran, and the formation of the United Nations and the future of Poland at Yalta. The film concludes with the death of Roosevelt and the end of the war in Europe.
In particular, the focus is on the relationship between the leaders themselves and the large strategic concerns at play, with little scrutiny given to the decisions taking place at a lower level[3][4] - an example of this is how, despite his personal disdain for communism, Churchill was willing to go to great lengths to aid the Soviet Union in their fight against Nazi Germany.
Cast
Michael Caine as Joseph Stalin
John Lithgow as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bob Hoskins as Winston Churchill
Ed Begley Jr. as Harry Hopkins
Jan Triska as Vyacheslav Molotov
Georgy Zhukov, Soviet defense minister
Corey Burton as Radio News Announcer
Awards
It was nominated for 6 Emmy Awards, including Best Actor for Michael Caine, but only won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or a Special.
Home media
Certain UK home versions used an edited version of the film running at 115 minutes, under the alternate title of Then There Were Giants.[5][6] The complete film was released on a two-disc DVD set on February 13, 2007.[7]" This made for TV movie "When Lions Roared" can be viewed on the website tubitv.com
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com Another good book is titled
"Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos"
by Dore Gold
The Overview says
"A United Nations insider exposes how anti-American and antidemocratic forces have hijacked the UN and put America and its allies at risk
Politicians and pundits are imploring the United States to give the UN a major role in American foreign policy. But as bestselling author Dore Gold reveals in Tower of Babble, it is absurd to look to the UN to fight aggression, combat terrorism, and preserve global order. The UN is an abject failure—a fatally flawed organization that has actually accelerated and spread global chaos. And it is dominated by anti-Western forces, dictatorships, state sponsors of terrorism, and America’s worst enemies.
In his New York Times bestseller Hatred’s Kingdom, Gold blew the lid off Saudi support for terrorism, and now he uncovers an even more important story. As a former UN ambassador, he has a unique insider’s perspective on why the UN fails to address—or in many cases exacerbates—the very problems it was created to solve. He shows how President Franklin Roosevelt’s great vision has been corrupted beyond recognition.
Using internal UN documents and classified cables, Gold presents stark evidence of how the UN ignores mass murder, emboldens terrorists, props up dictators, and otherwise betrays its mission to protect the world’s security. Tower of Babble reveals:
• Why America can—and indeed must—go outside the UN to address the most serious threats to national security
• How the UN jeopardizes the success of the war on terror—and how terrorist groups have actually penetrated UN organizations
• How, in the space of a year, the UN turned a blind eye to two horrifying episodes of mass murder—and why the slaughters could have been prevented
• How the oil-for-food scandal only hints at the UN’s repeated failures to deal with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
• How the UN’s new international criminal court threatens America’s sovereignty
• How the UN’s startling record of failure has led Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton, and George W. Bush to bypass the UN Security Council
As this hard-hitting book reveals, it is, quite simply, a myth that the United Nations is a positive force for world order or the “sole source of international legitimacy.” And unless the United States and its allies recognize this now, they will continue to put themselves at risk.
"Dore Gold's book is informed and informative. It can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone with a genuine interest in the United Nations. I warmly recommend it."--Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations
"For anyone wondering what's wrong with the United Nations, this is the book to read. Providing both a concise history and an urgent warning for our own time, Dore Gold in clear and lively detail explains how and why the UN too often promotes not peace, but problems--and what we can do about it."--Claudia Rosett, columnist, the Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com
"Dore Gold's Tower of Babble is bound to be one of the most controversial critiques in the public debate on the UN."--Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State"
From the website mfa.gov.il of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs click on the article
"MFA Foreign Policy FAQ FAQ: The campaign to defame Israel"
FAQ: The campaign to defame Israel
10 Nov 2010
Delegitimization is a political, economic and philosophic campaign aimed at reversing the right of the State of Israel to exist and denying the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland.Introduction | Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism | The Holocaust | Delegitimization Techniques | Fallacies
Introduction
• How is delegitimization dangerous?
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
• What is Zionism?
• Is all criticism of Israel antisemitic?
• Is there a difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism?
• Why has there been a rise in antisemitic incidents?
The Holocaust
• What is Holocaust denial?
Delegitimization Techniques
• How are Israeli values being denigrated?
• How is "lawfare" being used to delegitimize Israel?
• Is Israel treated fairly in the United Nations?
Fallacies
• Was the Holocaust responsible for the establishment of Israel?
• Is Israel not an apartheid state?
• Is Israel not a colonialist invention?
• Can Israel be both a Jewish state and a democracy?
• Is the Law of Return a just law?
• Does Israel's identity as the Jewish state mean the oppression of its Arab minority?
• Do the Palestinians have a "right" to immigrate to Israel?
• Is Israel viewed favorably in the US because of a Jewish lobby?
• Is the conflict linked to all the problems of the Middle East?
• Is the fence a legitimate means of self-defense? Good Information on this website , Good Articles, No "Right of Return" for so-called "Palestinians"
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website article we just mentioned on
mfa.gov.il, the article titled "FAQ: The campaign to Defame Israel" Scroll down to read all the arguments in Support of Israel,
Plus the website israeltoday.co.il has an article titled
"COMMENTARY: Will Israel Suffer Another Holocaust?" the article says:
Many Christians who say they love Israel believe the Jewish nation has one more appointment with God’s wrath. That it will be the worst suffering she has ever known.
July 6, 2015 | Israel Today Staff
and it says
"Many Christians who say they love Israel believe the Jewish nation has one more appointment with God’s wrath. That it will be the worst suffering she has ever known. Worse than 70 AD. Worse than the Inquisition. Even worse than the Holocaust. And it will come by means of the armies of anti-Christ in the last days.
This popular consensus is based on the belief that Jesus words in Matt. 24: 15-31, Mark 13:14-23 and Luke 21:20-24 are all speaking of the end times without reference to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. So when Luke says that “when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, recognize her desolation is near” this is understood to be her coming fate in the Great Tribulation. What Jeremiah calls “Jacob’s Trouble” (Jer. 30:5-7). And Daniel, “a time of distress” (Dan. 12:1) .The justification given for this devastating wrath is the necessity to purify Israel from her sin and bring her to salvation.
But is this true? Must this nation, this people, endure one more horrifying chastisement from God via the hands of a sworn enemy? Must she suffer one more humiliation and dismemberment for her sins? Or is this the time Isaiah spoke about for the Church to comfort the Jewish people, and speak kindly to Jerusalem? To tell her “that her iniquity has been removed; that she has received double for all her sins?” (Isaiah 40:1,2).
I am 100% convinced it is the message of hope that God wants spoken today. I believe the Holocaust was the last of her punishment. That the curses detailed in the Law of Moses (Deut. 27,28) that fell upon Israel for her Law-breaking are fulfilled. That her long night of suffering is over. That God has now brought her home to bless her, not bash her. Because this is God’s time to restore the kingdom to Israel. It is the set time to favor Zion!
So what about those passages that seem to tilt exclusively towards an end-time fulfillment? First, I believe Jesus dire warning pertained to both the 70 A.D. disaster and the end-times distress. Second, Israel will surely face Satan’s final attempt at a final solution, but as Jeremiah tells us, “he [Jacob] will be saved from it” (30:7). Daniel also tells us Michael will arise to protect Israel at that time, “and everyone who is found written in the book will be rescued” (Dan. 12:2). Surely we can see He is already on her side fighting for her?
Those who think otherwise are judging Israel through the lens of the Mosaic Law. They see her sins and her continued unbelief today and they say, “How can God bless her?” They forget that God has promised to have the same mercy on her as He did on us (Rom. 11:30-32). And that His covenant of promise spoken to Abraham is not based on ethical righteousness, but the righteousness of faith. And since that faith is always a gift it shall be given.
It’s the nations who will be judged this time, not Israel."
The website reviveisrael.org has an article titled
"Second Holocaust"
©April 20, 2009 Asher Intrater
the article says
"There is a direct relationship between the restoration of Israel and the 2nd Coming of Yeshua (Jesus). The connection between Israel and the End Times can be summarized in this three part saying: 2nd Coming, 2nd Pentecost, 2nd Holocaust.
2nd Coming
The Second Coming is real. As He ascended from earth to heaven at Jerusalem, so He will descend from heaven to earth at Jerusalem (Acts 10). His feet will literally stand again on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
Yeshua will return not only to the place "Jerusalem" but to the people of Jerusalem. He said that He would not return until the people of Jerusalem receive Him back as King. "For I say to you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord'" - Matthew 23:39. Who is the "you" in this passage? – the people of Israel; in fact the same religious Jews who rejected Him in the first place.
2nd Pentecost
Before the 2nd Coming, a world wide revival will take place. This revival will be similar to the one that took place in Jerusalem in the first century, but much wider. "It shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh… before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord" – Acts 2:17, 20.
The same fire of the Holy Spirit will be poured out… this time, not just in Jerusalem, but in the whole world, on all flesh. The flames of revival that will engulf the whole world will include Israel as well. This is what Paul meant that "All Israel will be saved" – Romans 11:26. This revival will lead to the 2nd Coming and the Resurrection of the Dead. "What will their acceptance be but life from the dead" – Romans 11:15.
2nd Holocaust
Revival in Israel is a pre-requisite to the 2nd Coming. Since the devil knows he will be defeated at Yeshua's coming, one of his central objectives is to stop the restoration of Israel, both physically and spiritually. At the end Satan will be so desperate he will incite all the nations of the world to try to destroy Israel.
World wide anti-Semitism and a war of all the nations against Israel is one of the most recurring themes of End Times' prophecies, both in the Old Testament and the New.
Revelation 16:14, 16; 19:19
They are spirits of demons which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty...
And they gathered themselves together to the place called in Hebrew, Mount Megiddo… I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
The kings and armies and nations of this world will gather together to make war against Yeshua (Revelation 19:19). They will be inspired by the devil and gathered by demons (Revelation 16:14). That war will culminate in Israel, on the plain surrounding Tel Megiddo (Revelation 16:16), and down to Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2). The battle will be spiritual and physical at the same time.
Like the First Holocaust
I write these words on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day here in Israel. On this same day, an international conference sponsored by the United Nations, known as Durban II, is convening in Switzerland. The conference is led by Libya, Iran and Cuba. The conference, allegedly to fight racism, is just a cover up to condemn Israel.
Even U. S. President Obama called the Durban II conference "hypocritical and counterproductive."
the article continues
"Iranian President Ahmadenijad is scheduled to be the key note speaker. Ahmadenijad has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel and denied the Holocaust. Having him speak on the same day that the people of Israel are mourning the 6,000,000 Jews who were murdered in Europe is insidious and infuriating.
In the coming Holocaust, the Bible says that 2/3 of the people in Israel will be killed.
Zechariah 13:8 – "It shall come to pass in all the land that two-thirds in it will be cut off and die." The first Holocaust took place in the middle of a world war. Millions of other people from the surrounding nations were killed, as well as the Jews. The same will be true in the second Holocaust.
If two thirds of the Jews will be killed, how many will be killed of the nations? – One Third. Revelation 9:15-16 – "So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them." Two hundred million is 200,000,000. That number was inconceivable in Biblical times. Today's population is estimated at 6.77 billion. One third of that would already be over 2 billion.
Positive Ending
While this message of the 2nd Holocaust and Apocalyptic wars in the End Times, sounds alarmist, let us remember that there is a positive ending. While the darkness gets darker, the light gets lighter. Isaiah 60:2 – "Behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising."
The 2nd Holocaust takes place concurrently with the 2nd Pentecost. And they both lead to the great victory at the 2nd Coming. Just as the first Holocaust and World War II ended up in the re-birth of the nation of Israel, so will the second Holocaust and World War III end up in the birth of the Millennial kingdom of peace and prosperity on earth."
We at this blog, hope and pray there is never a second holocaust, we agree with People who say that the 2/3, the two-thirds of the people of Israel killed in the Bible verse
Zechariah 13:8 is referring to the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, some people claim Zechariah 13:8 Is referring to the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, while others claim Zechariah 13:8 is referring to a Future Second Holocaust, People have different interpretations, it can be very confusing & perplexing, Only God Knows for sure what the future holds, still whatever happens, the Bible makes clear Israel will NEVER be Destroyed, that's for certain
From the website israelmyglory.org an article is titled
"Israel & the Church"
September/October 2019 Israel My Glory
the article says
"Abrahamic Covenant
We believe the unconditional covenant God made with Abraham is still in force today, and God will not cancel it.
God made the unconditional covenant with Abram (Abraham), recorded in Genesis 15, that includes a parcel of land in the Middle East to be inherited by Abraham’s physical descendants (v. 18). The details of this covenant’s promises are listed in Genesis 12:1–3.
First, if Abraham left his homeland to go to the land God promised him, he would become a great nation (v. 2). That is, he would have children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, leading to a large people group. This promise was fulfilled through Abraham’s son Isaac, Isaac’s son Jacob (whom God renamed Israel), and Jacob’s 12 sons whose growing tribes became the nation of Israel.
Second, God promised Abraham He would bless him and make his name great (v. 2). This promise has certainly been fulfilled. Almost everyone has heard of Abraham.
Third, God said Abraham would be a blessing (v. 2), a promise repeated in the next verse.
Fourth, God assured Abraham that those who bless him will be blessed and those who curse him (and his descendants) will be cursed (v. 3). If we study history, we see how God dealt with nations and leaders, such as Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and many others who have dared to destroy the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The final promise introduced in verse 2 contains more detail in verse 3: “And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Here the scope of promise guarantees Abraham to be a blessing to the entire world, not merely the developing Hebrew nation. As Scripture unfolds, we see the worldwide fulfillment of this last provision come through the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who died; was buried; and rose again from the dead so that those who put their faith in Him would have everlasting life and a home in God’s coming earthly Kingdom (Gal. 3:8–9).
The prophecy recorded in Daniel 7 predicts that in God’s coming Kingdom, “all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him” (v. 14). The apostle Paul taught that Christ redeemed us from the law, “that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Gal. 3:14).
Thus, the Abrahamic Covenant is still in force and will not be canceled by God. It is an everlasting covenant (Gen. 17:7). Israel’s disobedience of the Mosaic Law does not negate the Abrahamic Covenant’s promises: “And this I say,” wrote Paul, “that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later [than the promise to Abraham], cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ” (Gal. 3:17).
Thus, both the physical promises to Israel—such as the land—and the spiritual promises of salvation that come through Messiah are everlasting under the Abrahamic Covenant.
— Mike Stallard, FOI director of International Ministries
the article continues
"Israel and the Church
We believe Israel and the church are entirely different entities, with diverse paths in history according to God’s plan for each.
God is doing many different things in history as His multifaceted plan unfolds. Part of His plan involves the two institutions of Israel and the church. To be sure, throughout history, saved individuals in both institutions share some vital truths and experiences.
God is doing many different things in history as His multifaceted plan unfolds. Part of His plan involves the two institutions of Israel and the church.
First, Israel began with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Genesis narrative, continuing later with Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt in Exodus. On the other hand, the church began on the day of Pentecost with the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1—2; 11:14–15; 1 Cor. 12:13).
Second, Israel in Scripture is a political nation with a functioning government. The church, however, is not. It has rules of governance, of course; but it does not have political boundaries, nor does it act as one of the countries of the world.1 In fact, it is an international institution in God’s eyes.
Third, a corollary is the fact that God promised Israel a specific land to mark off the nation’s boundaries (Gen. 15). Though disobedience would lead God to scatter the nation (Dt. 28), the people of Israel were always promised they would come back to their land (Dt. 29—32; Isa. 11; Amos 9; Zech. 12—14).
HAS THE CHURCH REPLACED ISRAEL?
For further evaluation of these differences, read Has the Church Replaced Israel? by Michael J. Vlach.
Fourth, Israel is primarily an ethnic entity, although provisions were made for Gentiles within the nation (e.g., Ruth). The church is not ethnic. It is to be comprised of diverse spiritual disciples gathered from people groups the world over (Mt. 28:19–20).
Fifth, the nation of Israel is a covenant community. It has a special relationship to the biblical covenants (Rom. 9:4). On the other hand, the church can be described as an organic, spiritual body in union with Christ and all Church Age believers by means of the baptism of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 4).
Such a list of differences makes it difficult to suggest there is no distinction between God’s plan for Israel and His plan for the church.
ENDNOTE
1The language from Exodus of “a holy nation” is applied to the church in 1 Peter 2:9. However, it is at best simply analogous. Using Old Testament imagery with which he was familiar, the apostle Peter was not suggesting anything other than a special grouping of individuals in God’s plan.
— Mike Stallard, FOI director of International Ministries" again, 1 Peter 2:9 refers to Jewish Believers in Jesus, NOT the Church
the article continues
"Israel’s Future
We believe God has not rejected the Jewish people and has a glorious plan for Israel’s future.
Throughout history, demonically inspired despots like Haman and Hitler have attempted genocide of the Jewish people. The Jews often stand before their history in sober silence, stunned and numbed by the unmitigated brutality their eyes have seen and their hearts have been unable to comprehend. Horrifying pictures of the Holocaust of World War II remind us of Satan’s relentless attempts to eradicate world Jewry.
On May 14, 1948, the Jewish people officially regained their land, as the State of Israel declared its independence as a sovereign nation for the first time in almost 2,000 years. Will Israel survive? Does God still have a plan for the Jewish nation? We believe the answer is yes! The apostle Paul wrote, “God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew” (Rom. 11:2).
Israel will survive and have a glorious future. In fact, God guarantees Israel’s survival forever after its Messiah returns to establish His eternal Kingdom on Earth. Ezekiel 37:15–28 clearly states that Israel, which was divided after King Solomon’s death, will be reunited when the Messiah returns, never again to be destroyed. It will endure as a nation throughout eternity (v. 28).
The prophets also stated explicitly that when the Messiah returns, the Jewish people will be planted in their land forever (Jer. 32:41; Ezek. 28:25). Their restoration in these prophecies does not refer to the Jewish people returning from captivity in Babylon but, rather, to them being gathered from the worldwide Diaspora after the Great Tribulation.
Once in the land, God will institute a New Covenant with Israel (Jer. 31:31–40). This promise is futuristic and will come to fruition only at the Messiah’s glorious appearing. Then Israel’s partial spiritual blindness, mentioned in Romans, will be removed; and all Israel will be saved. The nation’s sin shall be removed forever (Rom. 11:25–27; cf. Zech. 12:10).
When Israel turns to the Lord in total repentance, the Messiah will establish the Millennial Kingdom on Earth; and the world will have true peace. Israel will play a major role on the international scene, as prophesied in Isaiah 65:18–25; Zechariah 8:1–23; and 14:16–21. God will fulfill His promise to place a descendant of David on the throne of Israel forever (2 Sam. 7).
The final evidence that Israel’s future is secure will be Messiah’s 1,000-year reign from Israel. This reign is the first stage of an everlasting, eternal Kingdom of God on Earth that will include all the redeemed throughout the ages. This Kingdom was clearly promised in God’s covenant with Israel.
We believe God will glorify Himself through Israel in the future, and Israel will be a shining example of God’s unparalleled mercy and grace.
— David M. Levy, FOI media resource specialist"
Here we go again, the Satanic Demonic Diabolical Pro-Palestinian people abusing & hiding behind
"Free Speech" to spew their hate,
the website unitedwithisrael.org has an article titled
"VILE: Pro-Palestinian US College Students Call for ‘Slaughter of Jews’ and ‘Bloodshed’"
the article says
"Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activists post deplorable, threatening content on social media in the name of “resistance.”
Once a year, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) gather at their National Conference, with the the 2019 SJP Conference set to be held at the University of Minnesota.
At this gathering, participants spout hatred of Jews and glorify terrorism.
Meet the activists behind the host chapter of this year’s conference, and see the vile and deplorable things they have said on social media." this again shows there is not a shred of humanity or decency within people who support so-called "Palestinians" there is Not a Shred of Humanity or Decency or Sanity in those Devils who support so-called "Palestinians" & "Palestine" you cannot reason with them , they are not on the plane of reason, everything is their fault, Everything is their fault , Hateful Words made the Nazi Holocaust of World War II possible, it started with words, like the "Free Speech" of these worthless genetic defects & losers & troublemakers mentioned in this article , cowards hiding behind "Free Speech" when this type of "Free Speech" would NEVER NEVER be tolerated against any other group of people , groups that support "Palestine" are Hate Groups, Cowards who hided behind "Free Speech"
From the website int.icej.org for International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
an article is titled
"Restored for Destruction?"
Is the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble’ still ahead of us?
By: Jürgen Bühler, ICEJ President
Posted on: 11 Apr 2018 (All day) the article says:
“Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.” (Jeremiah 30:7)
A few years ago, I listened to the sermon of a well-known Bible teacher who basically stated: “The Jewish people did not learn the lesson of the Holocaust, so they need to go through more suffering that will make the Holocaust look small in comparison.” A similar thought we frequently hear is: “Two-thirds of the Jews will die in the Great Tribulation.” In other words, the worst chapter in Jewish history is still ahead of us. Or to put it more bluntly, God is returning the Jewish people back to their homeland of Israel in order to kill two-thirds of them in a massive conflagration. These views are usually linked to ominous quotes from the Old Testament prophets which seem to underline their point. One such passage is the above verse from Jeremiah, which speaks about the “the times of Jacob’s trouble”. Other passages used to bolster this teaching are Zechariah 13:8-9 and Ezekiel chapter 5, which both speak about a time when two-thirds of those in the land will be wiped out.
The prophetic context
I personally have strong reservations with subscribing to this kind of interpretation, because I believe that it takes these passages out of context and, even more importantly, they misrepresent the character of God and His present purposes for Israel. At the same time, Scripture indicates that “the time of Jacob’s trouble” and the time when two-thirds of Israel are to be cut off, refer to two different events in Jewish history. Allow me to explain.
A. Jeremiah and Jacob’s trouble
The prophet Jeremiah introduces in chapter 30 a great succession of passages (30-33) that foresee the restoration of Israel, culminating in a “new covenant” of changed hearts and the rule of the “the Righteous Branch”. God makes sure that these prophecies will not be lost for future generations, as He explicitly tells Jeremiah to “write down” the words, because “I will restore the fortunes of My people… and I will bring them back to their land…” (30:2-3)
Then God begins to lay out, from verse 4 onward, the sequence for how He is going to accomplish this redemptive work. He first sees a picture of despair and calamity: “Cries of terror and panic!” Concluding with the call: “Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s trouble…” (30:7). Immediately following these verses, God’s restoration programme starts to play out. The Lord announces that change is coming as He breaks off the yoke of oppression (30:8), until Israel will finally serve God and His Messiah. He continues:
“Therefore, do not fear, O My servant Jacob … For behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid.” (30:10)"
the article continues
"A similar sequence of events is found in the following chapter of Jeremiah 31, where the prophet declares: “Thus says the LORD, ‘The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness …’” (31:2) Israel escaped the sword and God saved them. This declaration again is followed by the promise of return from exile: “Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the ends of the earth, … A great throng shall return there.” (31:8)
This indicates that the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble’ represents an unprecedented catastrophe (‘none is like it’) at a time when Israel is still exiled. Out of this crisis, God is restoring them back to their land.
This is what we see fulfilled in the modern history of Israel. A nation that barely escaped complete annihilation in the Holocaust, with six million dead, yet they arose from the ashes of that great tragedy and returned to their homeland to re-establish the nation of Israel, just as the prophet Ezekiel foretold:
“Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, “Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!”’ “Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.”’” (Ezekiel 37:11–12)
The Holocaust indeed was one of the darkest chapters of Jewish history. It was a time of Jacob’s trouble and all historians agree that it was a singularly unique tragedy in human history. Yet out of this season of devastation and hopelessness, God saved His people and restored them to their land."
the article continues
"B. Ezekiel and the scattered hairs
Ezekiel was the first prophet to foresee the calamity of two-thirds of the people of Israel perishing. (Ezekiel 5:1-4) He prophesied these things during the Babylonian Exile and was asked to carry out a strange act to demonstrate what was coming: to take a razor blade and cut off all the hair on his head and beard! Then “you shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, … then you shall take one-third and strike it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind….” (5:2) “This is Jerusalem,” explains the Lord. A two-thirds majority will be wiped out in famine, judgement and war, while the remaining one-third are not redeemed but scattered around the world, with harsh persecution following them even in exile. (5:2-4)
C. Zechariah and the shepherd
Zechariah lived in the time when Israel was returning from Babylon. Chapters 12-14 speak about the end-time struggle and restoration of Jerusalem, climaxing in the redemption of Israel as the “spirit of grace and supplication” is being poured out upon them. Yet right in the midst of these passages, the prophet inserts a vision about the Messiah…
“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion,” says the LORD of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.” (Zechariah 13:7)
Jesus himself quotes this scripture (Mark 14:27), referring to its fulfilment in the Garden of Gethsemane, as his disciples fled leaving him to suffer alone. In a broader sense, it is also a picture of the entire nation of Israel being scattered three decades after Christ, who is the great Shepherd who was “struck” and died. In this context, Zechariah foresees tragic times for all of Israel: “And it shall come to pass in all the land, says the LORD, that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it.” (Zechariah 13:8)
The accounts of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius tell us that during the first Jewish uprising, prior to the destruction of the Temple, some 1.1 million Jews lost their lives in the land of Israel. Just a few decades later, during the Bar Kochba revolt, the Roman historian Cassius Dio tallies another 580,000 Jewish casualties, with the surviving remnant being exiled. This would bring the total number of casualties in both revolts to over 1.7 million people."
& Continues
"Moreover, the Jewish historian Salo Wittmayer Baron estimated the population of Israel at 2.3 million at the time of the Roman emperor Claudius (41-54 AD). Two-thirds of this number would represent some 1.5 million people. So, there is amazing accord between these secular histories and the words of the Hebrew prophets foretold some 500 years earlier. Both the history books and the prophetic context of the ‘stricken shepherd’ compel us to place these events in the past and not in the future.
Jesus himself foresaw this calamity over Israel when he wept over Jerusalem. “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations.” (Luke 21:24) Zechariah likewise foresees an extended period of judgement for Israel, with two-thirds perishing while the one-third remnant is placed through the “fire” of exile, followed by their eventual redemption.
Thus, there is a common thread that can be followed throughout these prophetic writings in Jeremiah 30-33, Ezekiel 5 and Zechariah 13. The process of Israel’s redemption starts with the rejection and striking of the Shepherd. This is followed by a huge upheaval in the land of Israel where two-thirds are “cut off” with the remaining one-third scattered to all the nations. This exile is accompanied by the refining fire of ongoing persecution and culminates in a final calamity outside the land known as “Jacob’s trouble”. Finally, it ends with a national restoration of Israel that ultimately gives way to her spiritual restoration as well.
This very same sequence also can be found in the great chapters of Ezekiel 36-37, while Psalm 102 also forsees a Holocaust-type ordeal after which God declares that “the time to favour Zion has come!”
The new paradigm of favouring Zion
The prophets indicate that once God’s restoration purposes with Israel set in, nothing can stop or interrupt it anymore. Zechariah tells us that Jerusalem will become a “cup of drunkenness” for the world and that the nations will eventually gather against Jerusalem. Although, the same prophet also declares that it is the nations who will be judged, while Israel is delivered and comes out victorious."
& continues
"The restoration of Israel represents a paradigm shift in how God is dealing with the Jewish people. The prophet Isaiah starts his restoration-chapters (40-48) with the call to “Comfort My people” and to cry out to her, “that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.” (Isaiah 40:1-2) This expression “her iniquity is pardoned” could be better translated from the Hebrew as “her debt has been settled”, or “she has paid for her sin”. Rather than pardon or forgiveness, it reflects the idea that God has completed His season of judgment with Israel and He is no longer dealing with her anymore according to her sins. God is telling the world to cry out to Israel saying that her warfare and time of judgement has ended, and a new season of restoration lies ahead of her!
Likewise, Zechariah declares: “‘But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ says the LORD of hosts… ‘Just as I determined to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘And I would not relent, so again in these days I am determined to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear.’” (Zechariah 8:11-15) This means that God has started an unwavering restoration process representing a radical shift in how He deals with Israel. This does not mean He will never again correct Israel, like a loving father would his son, but it will be done “with measure”. (Jeremiah 30:11)
The way to redemption
Finally, the teaching that Israel will only receive her Messiah through yet another period of great judgement misrepresents the character of God and even mankind. In general, great human catastrophe does not lead to repentance but rather to the contrary. Pharaoh, after the severest plagues, only hardened his heart even further. The book of Revelation parallels this by describing humanity as hopelessly in rebellion against God, even after His great wrath unfolds in the last days: “And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.” (Revelation 16:11)
Catastrophic judgments like that which occurred to Israel in 70 AD were not God’s way to call His people back to Him; rather, they expressed His sense that their measure of sin was full and demanded divine justice. Jesus declared “your house is left to you desolate…” (Matthew 23:38)
Similarly, the great tragedy of the Holocaust left most Jews not seeking God but rather asking “Where was God?”, and many even lost their faith in Him. As one Holocaust survivor once told me: “For me, God died in Auschwitz.” The Apostle Paul, on the other hand, declares that “the goodness of God leads you to repentance”. (Romans 2:4)
God’s way of redeeming His people is a story of His covenant faithfulness and eternal love restoring them. (Jeremiah 31:2) In contrast, the message of God to the nations in our day is not that more judgement is waiting for Israel, but: “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’” (Jeremiah 31:10) This can surely include measured discipline by the corrective staff of the good shepherd, yet it will lead to green pastures.
This is the call we are committed to at the Christian Embassy: declaring God’s mercy and faithfulness to Israel and to the nations. We are declaring that a new season of restoration has started, and we are challenging the Church to join God in this great restoration work with Israel. Our call is to “Comfort My people” and to declare to Israel that a new chapter has started which will lead not to further judgement but to all of Israel being saved!"
From the website en.shalomfromg-d.net an article is titled
"Shoah in the Bible?"
Considering the Tanakh's promise of Shalom, the Man, and the Land – all in the sea of the Nations
Welcome
Shoah in the Bible? the article says
"Two events have dramatically impacted the welfare of Jews in modern times. The remarkable re-birth of the Nation of Israel, and its growing prosperity, today is the more visible of these two events. But just a little further back in time lurks the second event – the Holocaust or Shoah. This unspeakable evil saw the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Yad Veshem is the best reference for the Shoah. Here we want to explore whether the Bible had anything to say about it. That may sound absurd since the last book of the Tanakh was written about 2400 years ago. How can books written 2400 plus years ago say anything about what happened just over a generation ago? The prophets of the Bible claimed that G-d inspired their writings, and as proof, made many detailed prophecies of the future. The re-birth of Israel, even its date, and the six-day war of 1967 were predicted by these prophets of the Tanakh. So is it conceivable that they also foresaw the Holocaust?
Moses had predicted the expulsion of the Jews from the land of Israel, which happened twice. The prophecies of Moses, though matching these exiles, do not describe the Holocaust.
But Psalm 102 does. We may not see it because it is written in the first person so we assume it is only describing the Psalmist’s life. But other passages in the Tanakh are also written in first person but are not ultimately referring to the writer. For example, Psalm 16, written by King David, states that G-d ‘will not abandon me to the realm of the dead’ (v.10). But David has been buried in Jerusalem for 3000 years, so the ‘me’ must refer to someone else. For this reason, many think that this is a Messianic Psalm, and not about David per se, even while it is written through his eyes.
The ‘I’ in Psalm 102 describes a communal experience. Thus the ‘I’ could very well have the Jews in mind. So let’s take a look at Psalm 102 to see if it describes the Holocaust.
Psalm 102
1 Hear my prayer, Lord;
let my cry for help come to you.
2 Do not hide your face from me
when I am in distress.
Turn your ear to me;
when I call, answer me quickly.
3 For my days vanish like smoke;
my bones burn like glowing embers.
4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass;
I forget to eat my food.
5 In my distress I groan aloud
and am reduced to skin and bones.
The psalmist is in great distress. His distress centers on his life vanishing up in smoke while his bones burn – bringing to mind the ovens of the death camps like Auschwitz where smoke rose continuously as the bodies – and bones – were burned. Holocaust victims, being emaciated skeletons, fit the Psalmist description as being ‘withered’ and ‘reduced to skin and bones’.
6 I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.
7 I lie awake; I have become
like a bird alone on a roof."
the article continues
"At a recent Holocaust memorial service I heard a survivor describing his isolation as he hid for two years behind a false wall in the upstairs attic of a rundown mill. Feeling like a ‘lonely bird on a roof’, the psalmist describes a similar experience of isolation. The owl is an unclean animal (Leviticus 11:16-18). The movie Zookeeper’s Wife describes how Jews were fed pork at the Warsaw zoo and how pork was smuggled into the ruins of the ghetto to feed the people. Their choice was to be unclean or to starve in their ruined ghetto.
‘Among the ruins’ – a snapshot of the ruins of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania
8 All day long my enemies taunt me;
those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
9 For I eat ashes as my food
and mingle my drink with tears
Under the Nazis and their collaborators the term ‘Jew’ was used as a curse and Jews across Europe were taunted while millions were reduced to ashes.
10 because of your great wrath,
for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
11 My days are like the evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.
The inescapable conclusion for those going through the Holocaust was that G-d had indeed thrown them aside in great wrath. Approaching sunset (‘the evening shadow’) describes the psalmist’s desperate sense that his life will end shortly, and captures the same desperation felt by those in the Shoah knowing their days would end shortly.
12 But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever;
your renown endures through all generations.
13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her;
the appointed time has come.
14 For her stones are dear to your servants;
her very dust moves them to pity.
15 The nations will fear the name of the Lord,
all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
16 For the Lord will rebuild Zion
and appear in his glory.
17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute;
he will not despise their plea."
& continues
"The tone and perspective of the Psalm now changes. The focus is on Hashem who will ‘rebuild Zion’ at the ‘appointed time’ and use the nations to do so. Though it would have been impossible to imagine it in the depths of the Holocaust, barely three years after it was over, Israel was born, through a mandate of the nations in the UN. Shortly thereafter, Zion itself was restored to the Jews and they have rebuilt it. The Psalmist’s abrupt and unexpected transition from the horrors of his affliction to the rebuilding of Zion, foresaw the same abrupt and unexpected transition from the horrors of the Shoah to the building of the modern state of Israel.
18 Let this be written for a future generation,
that a people not yet created may praise the Lord:
19 “The Lord looked down from his sanctuary on high,
from heaven he viewed the earth,
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners
and release those condemned to death.”
21 So the name of the Lord will be declared in Zion
and his praise in Jerusalem
22 when the peoples and the kingdoms
assemble to worship the Lord.
The Psalmist clearly states that the Psalm was not written for himself or for his generation. It was written for a ‘future generation’ – for those who were not yet a people, or nation. This Psalm was written for the generation just before Israeli Independence (‘A people not yet created’) who would see the creation of the nation centered on Zion (Jerusalem). That was the generation that lived through the Holocaust, those that were ‘condemned to death’ but were ‘released’ so that G-d could be praised in Zion. We see the future-focus of the Psalm here as well as a communal emphasis. No longer is it an ‘I’ but it is ‘a people’ released from death. It anticipates the Jewish generation that survived the Holocaust to see the state of Israel born."
the article lastly says
"In the course of my life he broke my strength;
he cut short my days.
24 So I said:
“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;
your years go on through all generations.
25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
and they will be discarded.
27 But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.
28 The children of your servants will live in your presence;
their descendants will be established before you.”
The Psalmist closes with the reminder of the unchanging nature of G-d, even as all things in the physical world wear out and decay. Then it is promised that the ‘children’ of the servants who passed through the great affliction (i.e. the Jews born after the Holocaust) will be ‘established’ before this unchanging G-d.
The description of the afflictions, the abrupt transition to the rebuilding of Zion, and that it was specifically ‘written for a future generation’ which would see G-d ‘release those condemned to death’ make it reasonable that the Psalmist was, thousands of years ago, foreseeing the affliction of the Shoah. Of course, many of us today find it difficult to accept the idea of prophetic foretelling. But given that the warnings in the Tanakh about exile into foreign Gentile lands, the re-gathering back to Israel and Jerusalem, including even the timing, are verifiable prophecies, we should at least be open-minded about it.
If there is even a possibility that Psalm 102 was prophesying the Shoah and subsequent rebuilding of Zion then that leaves an important question for us. After all, the Psalm does conclude with
The children of your servants will live in your presence;
their descendants will be established before you.
It is essential for the ‘children of your servants’ (the generation after the Holocaust) to understand what it means to ‘live in your presence’ and to ‘be established before you’. After all, Psalm 102 moves to this conclusion. Perhaps the Divine Author inspiring the human Psalmist is calling those on the Post-Holocaust side of history to seek out His Presence. Here is His Promise for those who do:
You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand. (Psalm 16:11)
Perhaps a good place to start is with Abraham."
From the website voices-magazine.blogspot.com an article is titled
"Psalm 102 - The Holocaust and the Redemption" on May 2, 2011
the article says
"Last night was Yom HaShoa, an evening when we remember those Jews who were lost to us in the Holocaust when hatred for the Jewish people led to the extermination of Six Million of our people – family, friends, children, adults.
My next door neighbor Batya Yaniger and I made a siyum (a celebration of the completion of a Torah book) on Sefer Tehillim (psalms).
Perhaps it was a strange time to make a siyum, but in addition to the Psalms that we discussed last night, we also discussed Psalm 102, which an American journalist David Dolan suggested foretold the Holocaust and the Final Redemption.
My son Mati and I studied the perek (chapter) together to see if that might indeed be true.
Here are some excerpts of Perek 102:
The Singer calls it "Tefilla l'ani" – a prayer of the afflicted man.
"O' L-rd, hear my prayer and let my cry come before You…For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth."
With these words, we remember our brethren who in the face of death still called out with faith and prayer to Hashem, despite the round-the-clock evil annihilation in the Nazi crematoria.
"My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I have forgotten to eat my bread." Me'am Lo'ez offers an alternative explanation, "For lack of bread, I have already forgotten how bread is eaten. Because of much affliction, I forget to eat."
We are reminded how the Jews in the ghettos and concentration camps were starved for real food, how they picked through garbage and thanked Hashem for a stale piece of crust or a rotten potato.
"From the sound of my sighing, my bones cleave to my flesh." Who can forget the pictures of our brethren who died or lived as starved-tortured-skeletons?"
the article continues
""My enemies vilify me all day; those who are in a frenzy against me swear (or curse) by me."
Me'am Lo'ez says "All day long my enemies would revile and taunt me, until maddened to a frenzy against me." We bitterly recall the taunts of the Nazis against our people, "Schweinehund," (dog). We were dirty Jews, less than human.
David Dolan said that they took the name Jew itself and made it into a curse. Every Jew had to wear a yellow Magen David with the word Jude (Jew) inside. There could be nothing lower or more contemptible in their eyes.
"For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears."
If we cannot understand what this means, Dolan suggested that we should try to remember the movie "Schindler's List". Ashes of cremated bodies wafted from the camp chimneys and then rained on the camp when the winds dragged them down. "Thus," he says, "inmates were sometimes forced to breathe in, and even taste, the sooty remains of their fellow Jews."
These images are so heart-wrenching, but B"H, Psalm 102 then consoles us and gives us hope for the future.
Hashem - "You will arise, and have compassion upon Zion, for it is time to favor her with grace, for the appointed time has come. For Your servants take delight in her stones, and cherish her dust."
We are living in that time. Hashem has brought us back to Zion, He has made miracles for us, He has blessed us in countless ways. And we, His servants, especially those of us who live in Yehuda and Shomron (who once lived in Gaza), and all our supporters take delight in the stones of Eretz Yisrael and cherish its dust. We kiss the ground beneath us – whether rock or earth or sand – and we thank Hashem for the opportunity to fulfill the dreams of those who perished in the Holocaust and all those who came before us, who prayed that one day truly the "L-rd will build up Zion and appear in His glory."
The psalm assures us that we will see this. It will be a time when "the nations are gathered together and the kingdoms, to serve Hashem."
And "the children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their seed with be established before You."
From the website elishavision.com an article is titled "Holocaust Again?"
"Elisha Vision – Commentary"
Les Lawrence – Voice of Christian Zionists
the article says:
NEVER AGAIN!
Here is a simple answer to a critical question. Will Israel and the Jews still suffer another Holocaust? They will not.
The two millenia since Jesus show that they were severely judged nationally for rejecting Jesus as the Messiah. Even though almost all the early believers were Jews, the national political and religious authorities of that day did not believe He was the promised Messiah. Apostle Paul profoundly declared an often misunderstood principle in Romans eleven.
Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. Romans 11:22-23
History bears this out. For almost 2,000 years the Jews have suffered great persecution under the severity of God. However, as surely as it happened, it came to a certain end after the Holocaust. God turned the page for Israel from severe judgment to favor, blessing and restoration. Psalm 102 is the prophetic Holocaust Psalm. After spending eleven verses in the most graphic picture of the concentration camps of Europe, the Psalm turns abruptly to verses twelve and thirteen:
But You, O Yehovah, shall endure forever, and the remembrance of Your name to all generations. You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come. Psalm 102:12-13
Likewise history abruptly turns after the Holocaust. Within just three years Israel is a nation! And for 68 years against overwhelming odds, Israel has survived. Not only that, but it has prospered in every area of its national life. Israel has one of strongest armies in the world, economic prosperity and wealth (especially with mammoth finds of natural gas and oil), and the return of over six million Jews from nearly every country on earth! The season of Israel’s judgment is over. Read Psalm 102 and Romans 11 for yourself. This is the time of the resurrection of God’s covenant people. We are seeing Israel’s restoration by Yehovah, the promise keeping God! Praise Him.
Les Lawrence, Voice of Christian Zionists (READ MORE)
(I have taken the liberty to change the word “LORD” to Yehovah. Every single time you see LORD or GOD in all capital letters in the Old Testament, the actual Hebrew word is Yehovah. This name occurs 6,828 times in the Hebrew text, yet remains untranslated in most Bibles. His name, obscured for 2,500 years, is now being revealed. It is TIME to restore the name of Yehovah! (for deeper study click here.)"
From the website www.trumpetsounds.com an article is titled
"The Holocaust Prophesied"
By Bob Westbrook and Stan Goodenough
July 22, 2001
the article says
"How awful that day will be! None will be like it."
The Holocaust was a time of unprecedented and unspeakable horror for the Jewish people, a tragedy of immense proportions unparalleled in human history. This was the final episode among many episodes of persecution for the Jewish people while exiled from their land, dispersed among the nations. Now, they have their own homeland where they do not have to be subjected to the cruel whims of the nations in which they lived.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the evidences for the operation of Divine providence in establishing and confirming the state Israel are unmistakable. The political currents set in motion during this time of awful trouble for the Jews contributed greatly to the founding of the Jewish state a few years later.
The Bible is not silent about what happened in those days. "Surely the Lord GOD does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7 NASB) If every significant event in the history of the Jews has been declared in advance in the Bible, are there not Bible prophecies which describe these events? Should we not expect to find in the Bible predictions of the holocaust, and the subsequent founding of the state? Yes.
For those of you that understand that every important occurrence in the history of Israel, through and including the present time, was prophesied in the Bible, don't you think it odd that you are aware of no prophecies regarding the Nazi Holocaust? Six million Jews perished during that time, and it is the event stamped most harshly on the psyche of every Jew alive today. So would not God have foretold it? Yes, He did foretell that awful, incomparable day.
In Jeremiah 30, we find prophecies that describe the horrors of the holocaust, and the subsequent restoration of the Jewish people to their own land that allows them to be free from oppression in foreign lands. God begins with one of His frequent declarations regarding the restoration of Israel to the land that was promised "'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their forefathers to possess,' says the LORD." .(Jeremiah 30:3 NIV)
That is a straightforward statement, easy to comprehend. We understand it to be speaking of the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948. But the next verse conveys an abrupt change in tone, and may seem to not fit very well at first. However, now that we have the perspective of understanding the circumstances that surrounded the founding of Israel, we know to what it is referring.
"This is what the LORD says: "'Cries of fear are heard-- terror, not peace. Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it." (Jeremiah 30:5-7 NIV)"
the article continues
"When I read this, the picture it evokes is the haunting videos I've seen about the Holocaust. The pictures from the liberated death camps showed "every strong man" looking like a human skeleton, with every face turned deathly pale. Could a modern reporter have penned a more apt description than Jeremiah did? Certainly it was an awful day for Jacob. Certainly nothing else could be compared to it. The Holocaust was an incomparable time of trouble for Jacob, and though millions perished, the Jewish people as a whole were saved out of it, and their new nation was founded just a few years later.
Therefore, in this passage, we see juxtaposed allusions to both the Nazi Holocaust in 1939-1945, and the birth of the nation of Israel in 1948. However, many Bible commentators wish to incorrectly assign this phrase "time of Jacob's trouble" to the future Day of the Lord, even though there is nothing definitive that ties this to a future time period. Yet there is plenty that ties this passage in Jeremiah to the events of the 1940s.
The prophecy in Jeremiah 30 this tells us that at some point in history after Jeremiah penned these words, a time of incomparable terror was going to come upon the children of Israel. That period could have happened a hundred years after he wrote it or three thousand years after he wrote it. Certainly there is nothing to buttress the belief that it would be part of the final, final days of history.
Of course, even the phrase "the last days" as used in the Bible is often a difficult period to precisely pin down. "The last days" could, and probably does, refer to the period beginning with the first return of Jewish exiles to their ancient homeland in the late 1800s; or it could refer to the period of time beginning with Britain's liberating God's land from over a millennium of Muslim rule. It could have "started" with the rebirth of Israel in '48, or, if we tie it to Yeshua's words about Jerusalem being trodden on until the end of the times of the gentiles, it could have begun in 1967, and so on.
So verse 7 on its own simply tells us that at some point after it was written Israel would experience a time of unsurpassed suffering, and would be saved out of it. Verse 8 gives us a clue as to the period: "' In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, 'I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them." (Jeremiah 30:8 NIV)
Here we read that, after the period of "Jacob's trouble" God Himself will liberate Israel out from it and from among those who have caused it. "Jacob's trouble" will thus have been Israel's suffering at the hands of oppressors (as opposed to what some teach as Israel experiencing the end of days judgmental outpouring of the wrath of God). The end of "Jacob's trouble" will thus also have marked the end of the people of Israel's being under the heels of the gentiles."
& continues
""Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them." (Jeremiah 30:9 NIV) Instead of being enslaved to gentiles, the people of Israel will serve YHWH their God and the restored King David - whom we know to be the Son of David, Jesus, their Messiah. This restoration to the land just described by Jeremiah will culminate in the reign of Jesus. Note that it does not say that immediately after they come out from "Jacob's trouble" they will be restored in their relationship with their God and His Anointed One, only that they will do so at some point after being saved out of that awful suffering. It is very common in Bible prophecy for us to see descriptions of the reign of Messiah in the same breath as descriptions of events that have already been fulfilled in the last one hundred years. The prophets saw the "last days" as a broad period of time that began with the restoration to the land and ended with the triumphant reign of the Messiah.
Verse 10 spells out the sequence: "'So do not fear, O Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel,' declares the LORD. 'I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid." (Jeremiah 30:10 NIV) When He saves them from out of Jacob's trouble He will save them "from afar", and their children "from the land of their captivity". In other words, they will be saved "out of Jacob's trouble" from places far away from their own land, the lands of the gentiles in which they and their descendants have been held "captive".
Jacob will come back to his land, and once he is here he will have rest, quiet, and freedom from fear. It does not say Jacob will return and then face another holocaust. Nor does it say anything about yet another exile. No, their return to their land follows the time of Jacob's trouble, and the time of Jacob's trouble follows, and marks the end of, the times of the gentiles' ascendancy over them.
"Wait!", you might remonstrate with me, "Israel is back in the land but you can't tell me that Israel knows peace and rest and quiet and a lack of fear, anything but!!!" Of course, if you responded this way you would be quite right. But I believe verse 11 addresses this: "I am with you and will save you,' declares the LORD. 'Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.'" (Jeremiah 30:11 NIV)
Yes, ingathered Israel has indeed not been left unpunished. God has and continues to correct the Jews in justice. We see the scales of justice balanced between the successfully perpetrated violence on the one side, and the uncountable acts of God's intervention to thwart and foil attacks on the other. The Jews too witness these horrors and these miracles. But this is meted out punishment, in justice, and not precursor to another terrible holocaust.
Israel's restoration is a process that is unfolding. There is no instantaneous day of restoration, just as there was no instantaneous obliteration of Israel after Messiah ascended. From the day He returned to heaven until the final realization of His words of judgment - with the razing of Jerusalem and the driving into exile of the last of the Jews - nearly a century went by."
& continues
"So too, Israel's restoration began slowly and almost quietly over 150 years ago, and the groundwork to prepare the way for that happened decades and even more before that with the so-called Enlightenment. Numerous milestones have been passed on the way towards the full rebirth of Israel: the preaching by Christian pastors in the nineteenth century as they realized prophetically that the return of the Jews to their land was nigh; the rise of political Zionism; the waves of immigration that began in the 1890s and continue to this day; the allied victory in World War I that liberated the Holy Land from the Ottoman Empire, Arab and British opposition to Jewish settlement; the Holocaust; the UN's role, Arab wars and terrorism since 1948, the "peace" process - all these events and situations have been part of the outworking and coming to pass of Israel's restoration.
During the years out of her land Israel passed through a long long period of suffering. Certainly in one sense the exile, expulsions, crusades, inquisitions, pogroms and the Holocaust could all be seen as "a time of trouble for Jacob". Or perhaps the day of Jacob's trouble was the Holocaust itself. In either case, the Holocaust is "credited" with being the major factor that brought about the rebirth of the state of Israel or, in other words, as a result of the Holocaust the Jews finally were given an independent homeland and, for the first time in 2000 years were no longer under the heel of the gentiles.
Therefore, based on these considerations and a careful examination of Jeremiah 30, it is reasonable to conclude that the time of Jacob's trouble preceded the rebirth of the state of Israel. God's clock has moved on. His set time to favor Zion has come. So too has His time to avenge Himself on the enemies of Israel for all they have done to her:
(Psalms 102:13 NIV) You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
(Isaiah 51:22-23 NIV) This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again. I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, 'Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.' And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over."
(Isaiah 34:1-2,8 NIV) Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it! The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.... For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.
The day of the Lord, then, is described by Him as a day "to uphold Zion's cause." The widespread belief that what we commonly call the "tribulation period" can be primarily described as the "time of Jacob's trouble" is false. Not only is this widespread, it's almost universal among theologically conservative Bible teachers. The standard teaching, which is uncritically parroted by many teachers, is this: the seven year tribulation period is the "time of Jacob's trouble." This is a serious misreading of what God will be doing on the earth at that time. To take one phrase of questionable interpretation and build an entire doctrine around it is irresponsible. "
& continues
"In the Hebrew Scriptures, what we refer to as the "tribulation period" is called "the day of the Lord." That day has certainly has not come yet. That day is the outpouring of God's wrath on the wicked world. The book of Revelation develops this theme that was started by the Jewish prophets, and gives us much more detail. It ties together all of the previous prophecies about the Day of the Lord into one end-time scenario. Revelation describes in detail the devastations that God inflicts on the world in those days, and do you see any kind of mention at all of those judgments being directed at Israel? No, not a word.
On the contrary, the Day of the Lord is described as a time of punishment and judgment on the nations of the world, and a time when God throws down the power of those who scattered and oppressed Israel.
(Ezekiel 30:3 NIV) For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near-- a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
(Obadiah 1:15 NIV) "The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.
(Isaiah 13:9-11 NIV) See, the day of the LORD is coming --a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger-- to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
(Zechariah 1:14-21 NIV) Then the angel who was speaking to me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, but I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they added to the calamity.' "Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,' declares the LORD Almighty. "Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.'" Then I looked up--and there before me were four horns! I asked the angel who was speaking to me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem." Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people."
During this time period, when God pours out His judgments on the earth, He will indeed be dealing with Israel also. But it will not be in a harsh, negative manner. On the contrary, He will be wooing, consoling, restoring, forgiving, and vindicating Israel. If I cited every passage in the Bible that explains this, I would take up very much space here. Nearly every Old Testament prophetic book describes this process. It will be the time when God turns Israel's heart back to Him, and they will all know and understand who their Messiah and Savior is. "
From the website www.trumpetsounds.com an article is titled
"A Future Holocaust?"
By Bob Westbrook - March 19, 2001
the article says
"Interpretation of future events, as outlined by the prophecies of the Scriptures, is a challenging task. Yet it is a task that entails a great deal of responsibility for those who undertake it, for a misrepresentation of future expectations can have grave consequences. Accordingly, there is an interpretation of a single verse, frequently presented from Bible teachers, that in my opinion has seriously distorted the understanding of the future of the Jewish people.
This teaching can be summarized as follows: there is yet a future holocaust for the Jewish people, worse than the Nazi holocaust, during which two-thirds of the world's Jewish population will perish. This is based on a single verse in the Bible, Zechariah 13:8, and unfortunately is a very popular teaching among Evangelical Christians. Yet it is an interpretation that is entirely without credible basis or merit.
One of the most important principles of Biblical interpretation is to examine the context of a verse. On occasion, with prophetic passages, there is little context that will assist us in understanding a verse, but fortunately, this passage in Zechariah is not one of those occasions. Let's look at the entire passage first, from a few different translations:
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion," says the Lord of hosts. "Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; then I will turn My hand against the little ones. And it shall come to pass in all the land," says the Lord, "that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it: I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; and each one will say, 'The Lord is my God.' (Zech 13:7-9 NKJV)
"Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my associate!" says the LORD of Hosts. "Smite the shepherd, and the sheep [of the flock] will be scattered, and I will turn back my hand and stretch it out again upon the little ones [of the flock]. "And in all the land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be cut off and perish; yet one-third will be left alive. And I will bring the third part through the fire; and will refine them as silver is refined and will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will hear and answer them; I will say, 'It is my people,' and they will say, 'the LORD is my God.'" (Zech 13:7-9 Amplified)"
the article continues
""Sword, hit the shepherd. Attack the man who is my friend," says the Lord All-Powerful. "Kill the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter, and I will punish the little ones." The Lord says, "Two-thirds of the people through all the land will die. They will be gone, and one-third will be left. The third that is left I will test with fire, purifying them like silver, testing them like gold. Then they will call on me, and I will answer them. I will say, 'You are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is our God.'" (NCV)
Jesus Himself provides us with some information about this prophecy. Just before His arrest, He quoted a portion of it, "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered" to announce to his disciples the dire news that every one of them would temporarily desert Him. Thus, we know that this act of violence that will "awaken" against the "shepherd" is referring to His arrest and execution. Jesus is the man who is the "associate" of the Lord God, translated by other versions as "my companion," "my partner," "my fellow," "my friend"" and "the man who is close to me." The Messiah, the only man who on his own merit could be God's close companion and associate, would be struck down. The next verses describe the immediate results of that.
Though Jesus applied the phrase "the sheep will be scattered" to his small brand of His disciples, it is evident from the context that "the sheep, the little ones" also has a broader meaning. In the next phrase, which Jesus pointedly did not quote in reference to his disciples, it says "I will turn my hand against the little ones." This is God speaking, and clearly He is not speaking about the disciples here, whom God did not turn against. Of whom is He speaking?
Sadly, Jesus had prophesied about the people against whom God would turn His hand because of their rejection of the Messiah. As Jesus approached Jerusalem for the last time, and 'saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace--but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."' (Luke 19:41-44 NIV)
Jesus cried openly because He foresaw what would happen in Israel in the near future. God would strike the sheep, because of what had happened to the shepherd. The metaphor of Israel as the sheep rejecting the shepherd was a continuation of the prophetic concept of Zechariah 11:4-14. In that prophecy, the Lord had informed them "I will not be your shepherd" any longer, because of their rejection of Him. (See The Flock Doomed To Slaughter).
Therefore, when the Lord said, "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones," He was speaking of the incredibly horrible devastation and destruction that would befall Jerusalem and Israel a few short decades later. In the next breath, Zechariah gives accurate details about the extent of the sentence that had been handed down by the Lord, details that have been historically verified. "In the whole land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left."
& continues
"As a result of the Lord turning His hand against His own sheep of Israel, in the tragic massacres at the hands of the Romans in AD 70 and 132, the total population of Jews declined from 4.5 million to 1.5 million. Indeed, this prophecy was fulfilled exactly as Zechariah had foretold. Two-thirds of the Jewish people died in this ghastly purge, and one-third was left alive, to be scattered among the nations.
Other Bible commentators agree that that two-thirds prophecy was fulfilled in 70 through 132 AD. Matthew Henry's commentary on Zechariah 13:8 states, "The Roman army laid the country waste, and slew at least two-thirds of the Jews." Keil and Delitzsch concur: "cutting off of the two-thirds of Israel commenced in the Jewish war under Vespasian and Titus, and in the war for the suppression of the rebellion led by the pseudo-Messiah Bar Cochba." John Walvoord writes: "The scattering of the sheep also seems to refer to the scattering of the Jewish nation when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70." John Wesley says of this verse, "the greater part shall die a temporal death, by the sword of Titus."
Josephus, the Jewish historian who was present at the scene, graphically described the horrors of those days. The Jewish people suffered terribly when God "turned His hand" against them at that time. Yet God, in His great compassion, provided a word of hope to Israel in the next verse. Even though the Lord had declared "I will not be your shepherd" to Israel, this decision was temporary, not permanent. Even in judgment, God remembered mercy. The one-third that remained after the judgments would not be entirely rejected, but would be refined, and ultimately, restored. "This third I will bring into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.'" (Zec 13:9 NIV)
This verse takes a very long view of the history of the Jewish people between 132 AD, when Rome completed its devastation of Israel, and the day when Israel will once again call upon the name of the Lord. The interim centuries have been a story of refining for the Jewish people, a long process of being put "in the fire," to bring them to the place where they will be prepared for their final restoration and revival. Though He "turned His hand" against them for a short period, He will once again say of them, "They are my people." Isaiah confirms this: "I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City." (Isa 1:25-26 NIV) "
& continues
"Thus, we can see that these verses have been precisely fulfilled, except for the last portion, which is in the process of being fulfilled. Therefore, it is irresponsible and presumptuous for so many Bible teachers to flippantly parrot the assertion that Israel faces a future holocaust worse than the Nazi holocaust, during in which two-thirds of the Jews will be slaughtered. There is no other Biblical evidence for this claim, and basing it on one verse which has a historically verifiable past fulfillment is doing a great disservice to the recipients of the message, not to mention the Jewish people themselves.
I'm not sure who was the originator of this pernicious teaching, but it is uncritically repeated by nearly all Bible prophecy "experts." Whether or not one agrees with my understanding of these verses, certainly there is enough reasonable doubt about the concept of a future purge of two-thirds of world Jewry as to lead responsible teachers to a more circumspect approach.
The incorrect teaching also contradicts one of the major, vital works that God is doing in these last days: the spiritual restoration of Israel. As we know from numerous other prophetic Scriptures, God is renewing His care for Israel. They have been returned to the land in fulfillment of the first phase of end-time prophecy, and now we are seeing the beginning of the fulfillment of the second phase. "For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. One will say, 'I belong to the LORD'; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, 'The Lord's,' and will take the name Israel." (Isa 44:3-5 NIV) "
the article lastly says
"The concept that Jews will undergo another holocaust after Christians are raptured away is not correct. On the contrary, according to Revelation 12, it will be the Jewish people who will be supernaturally protected during that time, while the Christians will be facing mass persecution and martyrdom at the hands of the antichrist. This will be addressed further in a future article.
The important point to consider is this: do not uncritically accept the teachings of the popular Bible prophecy "experts" - there is really no such thing as an expert on this subject. We are all just trying to piece it together with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but our understanding is far from complete. However, teaching about these topics is a very grave responsibility, and to easily toss out statements such as "two-thirds of the Jews will be slaughtered in a future holocaust," without a solid Scriptural basis, is cause for censure."
From the website www.trumpetsounds.com an article is titled
"The Flock Doomed to Slaughter" on April 2, 2000
part of the article says
""I will heap calamities upon them," said the Lord, and that is what has happened. The woeful tale of the history of the Jews is heaped with calamities. There is a portion of Psalm 44 that could have been written by any historian to describe the treatment of the Jews in the lands were they were scattered. It is a complaint of the people to the Lord regarding His treatment of them: "You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations. You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale. You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us. You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us." (Psalm 44:11-14 NIV) Indeed, He had threatened them that He would do all of those things: "I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, an object of ridicule and cursing, wherever I banish them." (Jeremiah 24:9 NIV)
The fulfillment of these dreadful promises has made the history of the Jews a legacy of horror. However, those who inflicted the horrors upon them are very guilty before God. Just as He judged Babylon for carrying out His orders in 586 B.C., so too all of the nations to whom the Jews were made "abhorrent" will be judged for their treatment of them. The shocking history of the mistreatment of the Jews, consisting of pogroms, massacres, banishments, and oppression, was foretold in the Scriptures, but the agents who carried those out are culpable before God. Yes, God allowed these things to happen, and did not step in to stop it; but He is not the originator of evil. God is not the one who inspired Hitler to dream up "the final solution." Hitler was heavily involved in the occult, and his demented schemes were a product of this dark ideology.
The culmination of the persecutions, the Holocaust, was foretold in this prophecy by Zechariah. While the horrific and unthinkable slaughter of the Jews continued unabated in Europe, God seemed unconcerned. Those who were in league with the Nazis acquired vast wealth as they slaughtered millions of Jews. Zechariah prophesied about the monetary gains of the Nazis and others, who took over Jewish possessions and businesses and became incredibly wealthy. They even did it in the name of the Lord, using "Christian" terminology to rationalize it, fulfilling another grotesque portion of that prophecy. In an incredibly perverse distortion of Christian teaching, they justified their murders by saying the Jews deserved it for killing their Christ. That is a sickening distortion of the Scriptures - no genuine Christian would condone such atrocities. "
the article continues
"The prophet Jeremiah saw a vision of the dreadful future treatment of the Jews as they languished among the nations. This sounds like it was written by a modern historian looking at the Jew's suffering in Europe through the centuries: "Away! Unclean!" people shouted at them; "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; it was said among the nations, "They shall stay here no longer." The LORD himself has scattered them, he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders. Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save. They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered; for our end had come. Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness." (Lamentations 4:15-19 NRSV)
The Scriptures are full of the prophetic plaintive pleadings of Jewish people, pleadings that start with the question "Why?" Here is a sample from Psalm 44: "Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression? We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love." Here is another from Lamentations: "Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long? Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure." (Lamentations 5:20-22 NIV) God certainly hears, and will hear, these pleas, and has not "utterly rejected" them. The prophecy of the "flocked destined for slaughter" is not the end of they story. God's "unfailing love" to Israel will prevail, and He will rise up and help them."
the article lastly says
"After the severe warnings cited above from Leviticus 26, He gave them this reassuring promise: "'But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers--their treachery against me and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies--then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.'" (Leviticus 26:40-45 NIV)
The declarations of the Lord that He will once again regard Israel with favor are numerous and undeniable. "I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them." (Zechariah 10:6 NIV) In a Messianic passage announcing the appearance and rule of the Lord Jesus, He says through Zechariah, "This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you." (Zechariah 9:12 NASB) At that time, the answers to these questions that have haunted the Jews will be answered with a resounding "No!": "Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?" (Psalm 77:7-9 NIV) As we approach the day of the next "visitation" of the Shepherd, He is speaking tenderly to the flock once again, saying, "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says the LORD your Redeemer. (Isaiah 54:7-8 NIV) "
Bob Westbrook 4/2/00
From the website www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Man yells ‘We love Hitler’ at Hasidic teens in Brooklyn"
New York police hate crime task force investigates incident after retired politician Dov Hikind intervenes
By JTA
21 May 2019, 9:11 am 0
Illustrative: Children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra-Orthodox Jews. (AP/Bebeto Matthews) the article says
"Two Hasidic teenagers were harassed with anti-Semitic epithets in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
The boys were walking home at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday when a car with four men pulled up next to them.
One of the men reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic, which caused the boys to run from the car. The vehicle followed them, with another man shouting “Do you know Hitler? We love Hitler.”
Former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind tweeted Sunday that he accompanied the boys to the 66th Precinct of the New York Police Department, WPIX-TV news reported.
“We must deal with the source of anti-Semitism,” Hikind said in the tweet.
The boys were not physically harmed.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating, 1010WINS radio in New York reported." We often hear the statistic that Jews make up the single largest percentage of hate crime victims based on their religion , that the highest number of hate crimes based on religion are committed against Jews, but many people have pointed out that sadly Secular Non-Religious Jews are often victims of Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes, Victimized because of their Ethnicity/Race which cannot be changed, and not because of the their Jewish Faith/Religion Because of Anti-Semitism in America, Many Jews and people who are Partly Jewish, when they dress Non-Religiously , with no religious attire or yarmulke hat, often they hate being asked "Are you Jewish?" or being told "You look Jewish"
Many Secular Non-Religious Jews & partly Jewish persons in America do Not like being Jewish, the ethnic/Racial aspect which is unchangeable , and often they try to pass as Gentiles or change their last names, do the Jew-Haters & Anti-Semites Realize that many Jews & Partially Jewish Persons don't like being Jewish either , The Anti-Semites & Enemies of Israel are Pure Evil, Satanic, Demonic & Filled with Raw Hate
On YouTube there is a video titled
"Hitler Was Not Human, Was A Demon, The Demonic Possession of Hitler the Doqmentalist etymology" 305K views
The DoQmentalist
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This does NOT mean that Hitler can hide behind the "Devil made me do it" excuse, that Devil/Demons made him do it, Hitler was still evil,
On the Catholic Answers Forums website forums.catholic.com
a discussion thread is titled
"Evidence of Stalin and Hitler’s possession by the devil "
Apologetics
Dec 2014
People typed
PazzoGrande
Dec '14
Father Gabriele Amorth believed that Stalin and Hitler were possessed by the devil. Although the media’s reporting of it made the public think Amorth was giving an excuse for their actions (heaven knows the Vatican is always getting accused of sympathising with the Nazis and other dictators), I believe Father Amorth. It isn’t so much that “the devil made them do it,” but rather that they made pacts with the devil that enabled them to unleash so much horror.
So my question is, what were the other signs that these men were possessed? Hitler practised the occult, we know that. But what other evidence is there? I’m unaware of Stalin practising the occult.
As far as I know, there are no reports of them having superhuman strength, knowledge of hidden things or speaking in languages they shouldn’t know.
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PazzoGrande:
Father Gabriele Amorth believed that Stalin and Hitler were possessed by the devil. Although the media’s reporting of it made the public think Amorth was giving an excuse for their actions (heaven knows the Vatican is always getting accused of sympathising with the Nazis and other dictators), I believe Father Amorth. It isn’t so much that “the devil made them do it,” but rather that they made pacts with the devil that enabled them to unleash so much horror.
So my question is, what were the other signs that these men were possessed? Hitler practised the occult, we know that. But what other evidence is there? I’m unaware of Stalin practising the occult.
As far as I know, there are no reports of them having superhuman strength, knowledge of hidden things or speaking in languages they shouldn’t know.
How can you make pacts with the devil? What does that mean?
Its like saying they sold their souls to Satan which of course is impossible.
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DavidFilmer
Dec '14
thistle:
How can you make pacts with the devil? What does that mean?
Its like saying they sold their souls to Satan which of course is impossible.
Absolutely.
This whole nonsense is an invention of Hollywood. It is pure fiction.
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PazzoGrande
Dec '14
thistle:
How can you make pacts with the devil? What does that mean?
Its like saying they sold their souls to Satan which of course is impossible.
Read the book The Rite by Matt Baglio. It’s very well researched and cites exorcists who detail what can happen when pacts are made with the devil.
Relevant to this discussion, he mentions Father Aldo Buonaiuto, who says some satanic cults “counts as members very wealthy and influential people who are said to sell their souls to the Devil for the promise of power and riches, which are then used to ensure a perpetual state of strife – war, famine, economic instability, and such.” That’s on page 56 of the paperback version.
Another type of pact with the devil details when a child, even one who isn’t yet born, is offered up to the devil by relatives. A sister in the book suffered possession because of it.
The book chronicles the work and training of Father Gary Thomas, the exorcist of San Jose. There’s a talk available on YouTube where he mentions a case of a girl who was possessed because her mother dedicated her to the devil.
So yes, it does happen."
Another person typed on the forums.catholic.com discussion thread
"Evidence of Stalin and Hitler's possession by the devil"
the person typed
" Please read the book “My battle Against Hitler: Faith, Truth and Defiance” by Dietrich Von Hildebrand. He was a devout Catholic professor that was one of the first to speak up and out against Hitler starting with 1921. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he fled the country to Austria. He continued from Austria and when Hitler annexed Austria, he fled in a dramatic escape similar to the Sound of Music portrayal. There were many Catholics that were against Hitler and persecution of devout Catholics under him. He was a friend to the man that eventually became Pope Pius the 12th. "
From the National Catholic Register website, www.ncregister.com an article is titled
"Vatican exorcist: Hitler Knew the Devil" on October 25, 2006
EDWARD PENTIN
"VATICAN CITY — Were Hitler and Stalin possessed? the article says
"The devil gets more attention in the popular culture at Halloween than at any other time in the year. But it’s not often one hears the question put so specifically.
When Rome’s chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, told Vatican Radio in August that he believed Hitler and Stalin were “certainly” possessed by the devil, it made headlines around the world.
Regarded as the Church’s most experienced and prominent exorcist, Father Amorth warned Vatican Radio listeners Aug. 27 that the devil can possess not only individuals but also entire groups and populations.
“I am convinced that the Nazis were possessed by the devil,” he said. “If one thinks of what was committed by people like Stalin or Hitler, certainly they were possessed by the devil. This is seen in their actions, in their behavior and in the horrors they committed.”
After his comments were made public, some accused the veteran exorcist of making excuses for the atrocities perpetrated by the two infamous dictators, and essentially of defending them by using the “devil-made-me-do-it” excuse.
“It absolves the Nazis from their crimes,” Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles told “NBC News.” “It says they’re really great people. Up in heaven, some celestial evil angel caused it all.”
Before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger also spoke about the influence of the demonic in the life of Hitler — but explained that it absolved nothing.
In the Book God and the World (Ignatius, 2002), he is quoted treating the subject at some length.
“There are reliable reports by eyewitnesses that suggest he had some kind of demonic encounters,” the future Pope said of Hitler. “He would say, trembling: ‘He was there again,’ and other such things. We cannot get to the bottom of it. I believe one can see that he was taken into the demonic realm in some profound way, by the way in which he was able to wield power and by the terror, the harm, that his power inflicted.”
In an interview with the Register Oct. 17, Father Amorth restated his belief.
When asked if he still believed the dictators were possessed, he answered, “Certainly,” and denied that the statement abrogates culpability.
“It’s both,” he said. “They have full responsibility for their actions, but they have followed the promptings of the devil — and they have done so willingly. Therefore they are guilty, completely responsible.”
When asked if there were any leaders today who could be similarly possessed, Father Amorth said there are “many who listen to the temptations of Satan and follow him.” Because of that, he said, “the world goes bad.” Instead of leading others “towards peace and well-being, the world moves towards war and unease,” he said.
Cardinal Ratzinger addressed the question when journalist Peter Seewald asked him about it."
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the article continues
"What about Hitler?” asked Seewald. “Was he, as many people think, ‘Satan incarnate’? Sartre once said, ‘The devil is Hitler, that is, Nazi Germany.’”
Cardinal Ratzinger answered: “On the one hand, Hitler was a demonic figure. One only need read the history of the German generals, who time and again made up their minds, just for once, to tell him to his face what they really thought, and who were then yet again so overcome by his power of fascination that they did not dare to. But then, when you look at him from up close, this same person who has a demonic fascination about him is really just a quite banal hoodlum.”
He pointed out that “the power of evil makes itself at home precisely in what is banal” because, when it comes to evil, “the greater it is, the more pitiful.”
One exorcist who fully backs Father Amorth is Father Hermanagild Jayachandra, pastor of St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church in Boulder, Colo. Having spent many years dealing with cases of possession in India, Father Jayachandra is convinced the devil can misdirect political leaders, and twist their philosophy into thinking their fascist ideology was right. “Once you are corrupt to evil ideas, the door is open for the devil to get hold of you,” he said.
He added that temptation is given by the devil, but in cooperation with God’s grace it can be overcome.
However, dictators such as Stalin and Hitler turned away from God and refused such cooperation, he said. He also believes that mental illness and possession can often exist at once in the same person, and that psychological illnesses are frequently caused by persistent sinful behavior."
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"In his interview, Cardinal Ratzinger pointed to a deeper relationship between Hitler and the devil.
“Hitler was able to foresee demonic situations,” he said. “For instance, I once read an account of how the preparations were made for Il Duce’s (Italian dictator Benito Mussolini) visit to Berlin. Those who were responsible for various aspects of it made their suggestions, and after a long time he said: ‘No, none of that is right. I can see how it ought to go.’ And in a kind of ecstasy he delivered a lecture about it, and it was all done like that. That is to say, there is some kind of demonic power that takes possession somehow, that makes what is banal great — and makes what is great appear banal — and above all makes it dangerous and destructive.”
In the past, Father Amorth has warned of a lack of awareness of the devil in modern society.
He has also criticized the application of the liturgical texts of the Second Vatican Council and, in 1999, he had some criticisms of a new Rite of Exorcism. His views on the application of the council have not changed: He blames bishops for “exaggerating” the reforms and for “wanting to make everything new.”
But he accepts the new rite and has grown to like it.
“It’s good; it’s an official Church document so it’s valid and it functions well, but it has its defects,” he said, adding that he still uses the old rite as it is still allowed.
The renowned exorcist did not succumb to the temptation of explaining his opinion of Halloween and, at first, seemed unaware of the tradition."
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"“I don’t practice it and so I don’t want to seriously answer that,” he said. But he was aware of the famous movie of the 1970s, The Exorcist.
“I know it very well,” he said. “Fifteen scenes are very real, the substance of the film is positive.”
He felt it was particularly helpful in showing how exorcism is of value when all medical care has proved useless. But he warned that the film is a “spectacle because cinema needs to make spectacles.”
Hollywood and Halloween apart, there’s no denying Father Amorth takes exorcism extremely seriously. “It is very important today because there are so many requests for them,” he said. “People have lost the faith,” he said, “and superstition, magic, Satanism, or Ouija boards have taken its place, which then open all the doors to the presence of demons.”
He lamented that there are “too few” exorcists around today.
“Many bishops and priests don’t practice the material, and they don’t believe in it, or they believe only a little, despite the fact that canon law is very clear, as clear as the Gospel where it says pray and cast out devils and evil spirits,” he said.
Father Jayanchandra agreed: “They don’t believe in demons anymore, but it’s a biblical doctrine, and it’s a big problem,” he said. “It’s a ministry, and canon law says it is so.”
At his general audience address Oct. 18, Benedict XVI gave some salutary advice on how to overcome the devil’s temptations.
“Truly, there are many ways in which the human heart can be perverted,” he said. “The only way to avoid them is to be in full communion with Jesus.”
From the website www.godtube.com a video is titled
"Adolf Hitler Was Demon Possessed - Ministry Videos"
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acts2and38 2260 views about a year ago the description says
"According to his officers and those around him who knew him intimately, Adolf Hitler was controlled by demons. One said it was like a archangel that spoke through him, after he went through a trance like state. Hitler heard voice that directed him almost to the end of his life. After Satan complete his work in you, he gets rid of you. Often after he's done he compels people to kill themselves. His mission is to steal, kill and destroy. "And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds." 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
From the website www.mgr.org an article is titled
"Historical Confirmation of Hitler's Demonic Possession"
the article says:
INTRODUCTION and PURPOSE
The purpose of sharing this excerpt from one of many Hitler's biographies is to highlight the moment when Hitler became possessed by satan, a possession which led to the bloodiest century of recorded history.
As you well know, disregarding the requests made through Fatima (1), the Roman Catholic Church Administration triggered the mechanism which will automatically lead the world to the End of These Times and the Glorious return of Jesus Christ.
If there was one individual who could be singled out as the one most responsible for the misery triggered upon humanity through World War II, that individual was, without question, Adolf Hitler.
As it was illustrated in one of our documents, (2) Nazism was clearly linked with the forces of darkness. It logically followed that Hitler had to be possessed in order to manipulate and lead the Germans the way he did. An absolute nothing of a man could not do that unless he was fully possessed by satan.
Through sheer providence, we came across information that gave us the when, the where and the how Hitler's possession was triggered - thus historically confirming what we knew otherwise.
The information comes through a friend from his youth, August Kubizek, who, although being the only witness to the event, never became aware of what had spiritually happened on that fateful night.
August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they were both competing for standing room at the opera. Their mutual passion for music created a strong bond, and over the next four years they became close friends - probably the only friend he ever had.
We will share with you the full text describing the 1906 events associated with Hitler's possession as it appeared in the English version of The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek - originally published in 1955. "
the article continues
"The Young Hitler I Knew (3)
by August Kubizek
Excerpt
[underscoring by The M+G+R Foundation]
Chapter 10 -- In That Hour It Began
It was the most impressive hour I ever lived through with my friend. So unforgettable is it, that even the most trivial things, the clothes Adolf wore that evening, the weather, are still present in my mind as though the experience were exempt from the passing of time.
Adolf stood outside my house in his black overcoat, his dark hat pulled down over his face. It was a cold, unpleasant November evening. He waved to me impatiently. I was just cleaning myself up from the workshop and getting ready to go to the theater. Rienzi was being given that night. We had never seen this Wagner opera and looked forward to it with great excitement. In order to secure the pillars in the Promenade we had to be early. Adolf whistled, to hurry me up.
Now we were in the theatre, burning with enthusiasm, and living breathlessly through Rienzi's rise to be the Tribune of the people of Rome and his subsequent downfall. When at last it was over, it was past midnight. My friend, his hands thrust into his coat pockets, silent and withdrawn, strode through the streets and out of the city.
Usually, after an artistic experience that had moved him, he would start talking straight away, sharply criticizing the performance, but after Rienzi he remained quiet a long while. This surprised me, and I asked him what he thought of it. He threw me a strange, almost hostile glance. "Shut up!" he said brusquely.
The cold, damp mist lay oppressively over the narrow streets. Our solitary steps resounded on the pavement. Adolf took the road that led up to the Freinberg. Without speaking a word, he strode forward. He looked almost sinister, and paler than ever. His turned-up coat collar increased this impression.
I wanted to ask him, "Where are you going?" But his pallid face looked so forbidding that I suppressed the question. As if propelled by an invisible force, Adolf climbed up to the top of the Freinberg. And only now did I realize that we were no longer in solitude and darkness, for the stars shone brilliantly above us.
Adolf stood in front of me; and now he gripped both my hands and held them tight. He had never made such a gesture before. I felt from the grasp of his hands how deeply moved he was. His eyes were feverish with excitement. The words did not come smoothly from his mouth as they usually did, but rather erupted, hoarse and raucous. From his voice I could tell even more how much this experience had shaken him.
Gradually his speech loosened, and the words flowed more freely. Never before and never again have Adolf Hitler speak as he did in that hour, as we stood there alone under the stars, as though we were the only creatures in the world. I cannot repeat every word that my friend uttered."
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"I was struck by something strange, which I had never noticed before, even when he had talked to me in moments of the greatest excitement. It was as if another being spoke out of his body, and moved him as much as it did me. It wasn't at all a case of a speaker being carried away by his own words. On the contrary; I rather felt as though he himself listened with astonishment and emotion to what burst forth from him with elementary force.
I will not attempt to interpret this phenomenon, but it was a state of complete ecstasy and rapture, in which he transferred the character of Rienzi, without even mentioning him as a model or example, with visionary power to the plane of his own ambitions. But it was more than a cheap adaptation.
Indeed, the impact of the opera was rather a sheer external impulse which compelled him to speak. Like flood waters breaking their dikes, his words burst forth from him. He conjured up in grandiose, inspiring pictures his own future and that of his people. Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was no longer the case. Now he aspired to something higher, which I could not yet fully grasp. It rather surprised me, as I thought that the vocation of the artist was for him the highest, most desirable goal. But now he was talking of a mandate which, one day, he would receive from the people, to lead them out of servitude to the heights of freedom.
It was an unknown youth who spoke to me in that strange hour. He spoke of a special mission which one day would be entrusted to him, and I, his only listener, could hardly understand what he meant. Many years had to pass before I realized the significance of this enraptured hour for my friend.
His words were followed by silence. We into the town. The clock struck three. We parted in front of my house. Adolf shook hands with me, and I was astonished to see that he did not go in the direction of his home, but turned again towards the mountains.
"Where are you going now?" I asked him, surprised. He replied briefly, "I want to be alone."
In the following weeks and months he never again mentioned this hour on the Freinberg. At first it struck me as odd and I could find no explanation for his strange behavior, for I could not believe that he had forgotten it altogether. Indeed he never did forget it, as I discovered thirty-three years later. But he kept silent about it because he wanted to keep that hour entirely to himself. That I could understand, and I respected his silence. After all, it was his hour, not mine. I had played only the modest role of a sympathetic friend.
In 1939, shortly before war broke out, when I, for the first cited Bayreuth as the guest of the Reichs Chancellor, I thought I would please my host by reminding him of that nocturnal hour on the Freinberg, so I told Adolf Hitler what I remembered of it, assuming that the enormous multitude of impressions and events which had filled these past decades would have pushed into the background the experience of a seventeen year old youth. But after a few words I sensed that he vividly recalled that hour and had retained all its details in his memory. He was visibly pleased that my account confirmed his own recollections. I was also present when Adolf Hitler retold this sequel to the performance of Rienzi in Linz to Frau Wagner, at whose home we were both, guests. Thus my own memory was doubly confirmed. The words with which Hitler concluded his story to Frau Wagner are also unforgettable for me. He said solemnly, "In that hour it began". "
& lastly says
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Final Comments by The M+G+R Foundation
Hitler's demonic possession took place in 1906, almost 11 years before the first apparition in Fatima, but 60 years after the Apocalyptic Message of LaSalette was delivered.
If the requests of Heaven had been fulfilled, Hitler would not have reached the position that he did regardless of being possessed. God would have derailed Hitler's ascent just as He caused Hitler to lose the war through two major mistakes made by Hitler; mistakes that, in human terms, should have never happened:
(a) Not becoming aware that the Nazi message encoding system had been cracked by the Allies; and
(b) Insisting that the V-2 flying bombs were to be launched from fixed installations and not from mobile launchers.
As we always remind everyone who is willing to listen: God always has the last word!
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(1) Requests from Heaven through Fatima were ignored.
(2) The Key Role Played by Occult Practices In Nazi Germany
(3) About the book"
From the website catholicherald.co.uk an article is titled
"We should never forget the Nazis’ sinister occult roots"
Francis Phillips 22 August, 2017
A Nazi rally at Berlin in 1936 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
the article says
"Every so often I read a warning on the internet by a wise priest, warning of ever dabbling in the occult as it can open a portal to demonic activity. Such counsellors also say that exorcisms because of diabolical possession, though rare, are on the increase, alongside the need for prayers of deliverance to combat lesser forms of satanic activity and oppression.
This does not come as a surprise. Humans are spiritual beings and when this side of human nature is not fulfilled by belief in Christian revelation and acceptance of the authority of the Church, it will find other, darker outlets.
Even within Christianity, there can be an unhealthy, superstitious focus on searching for “signs.” On a train once from Edinburgh to London, I was cornered by a friendly lady who proceeded to ask me if I knew about the “blood moons” prophecy in the Bible. My heart sank; the journey from Edinburgh to London takes four hours and I could see I was in for a long harangue.
On another occasion, I was told in no uncertain terms that if I did not repeat a certain prayer to Our Lady at a certain time every day, I would be cursed. A magical ritual had replaced faith in Christ.
I mention this as I have been dipping into Hitler’s Monsters: a Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander. It is extraordinary, though not surprising, that a western country as advanced in scientific understanding and progress as Germany was in the 20th century could also, between 1920-1945, have been so prey to irrational beliefs and intellectual lunacy.
A popular volume of parapsychology, Magic: History, Theory, Practice, by Ernst Schertel, was heavily underlined by Hitler himself. Significantly, his library at Berchtesgaden included almost no works on political theory or philosophy but numerous books on popular medicine, German mythology, magic symbols and the occult.
Belief in astrology was rife among the Nazis; Rudolf Hess consulted an astrologer before his ill-fated flight to Scotland in 1941 and towards the end of the war Himmler’s personal astrologer was by his side night and day.
Indeed, the Party, as Kurlander shows, leant heavily on occultism, pagan, New Age and Eastern religions. Pendulum dowsers, border science, “ariosophy” (the resurgence of a lost Aryan civilization), theosophy (begun by Helena Blavatsky), anthroposophy (started by Rudolf Steiner), World Ice Theory and a host of other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo were the standard spiritual fare of the Nazi high command.
Kurlander quotes the German philosopher and sociologist, Theodor Adorno, who suggested that “the power of occultism was rooted, like fascism, in its appeal to “semi-erudite” individuals driven by the narcissistic wish to prove superior to the plain people.”
It sounds like the ancient temptation to Gnosticism, i.e. superior and secret knowledge and also to the most fundamental temptation of all from which none of us is entirely immune: “You shall be as gods…”
If the Nazis had been a grubby little group of occultists, rather like the magician, Aleister Crowley, and his associates in the Golden Dawn, their evil influence would have been somewhat confined; but when one reads that Himmler, head of the Nazi SS and the second most important figure in the Third Reich, encouraged research regarding “Lucifer’s role as the harbinger of enlightenment and enemy of the Jewish God”, it is terrifying.
Carl Jung, who understood a thing or two about parapsychology, remarked that “All the Nazi leaders were possessed in the truest sense of the word.”I have only dipped into this book – yet I already feel I have spent long enough in the repellent purlieus of its leading actors."
From the website www.psychologytoday.com an article is titled
"How Mad was Hitler?"
What motivated Adolf Hitler's destructive behavior?
Posted Dec 20, 2014
the article says
"Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party perpetrated one of history's most evil deeds by instigating World War II and the Holocaust, which led to tens of millions of lives lost or irreparably damaged. What drove Hitler to act in such a monumentally murderous, horrific (and ultimately self-destructive) way? What with the recent rise of the Nazi-like ISIS movement (see my prior post), not to mention the much less publicized proliferation of Neo-Nazism in Europe and the U.S., it may be beneficial to take a closer look at what influenced Hitler to choose the particular destructive path he did.
What do we really know about Hitler's personality? Perhaps the most famous psychological study of Hitler was done by Henry A. Murray, former director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, at the behest of the American OSS during the war. (See a summary of his original report here
.) Dr. Murray points out that though there is very little information available about Hitler's childhood, he is said to have been sickly and frail. His father was described as "tyrannical" and physically abusive. According to psychoanalyst Michael Stone, Hitler's father reportedly beat both Adolf and his older brother with a whip regularly, meting out daily whippings to the more rebellious Adolf, who, by the time he turned 11, "refused to give his father the satisfaction of crying, even after 32 lashes."
Here we can begin to see how Hitler as a young boy was overpowered by his father and confronted with a situation he could not control, except by controlling his own emotions and actions. Stone further suggests that Hitler's hatred for his father fueled his hatred of Jews, who, after his father died when Adolf was only fourteen, served as scapegoats for his residual fury. And, I would add, they served as a receptacle for the defensive projection of Hitler's shadow (see my prior post).
According to Murray, the adult Hitler was a "counteractive type," by which he meant a person primarily motivated by resentment and revenge in response to prior narcissistic wounding and profound feelings of inferiority. Pathological narcissism is in part a compensatory defense against these painful wounds and inferiority feelings. There is no question that Hitler's personality included pathological narcissism or what I have called psychopathic narcissism (see my prior post), and may have met modern diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder.
Much has already been written regarding Hitler's ravenous hunger for power. In Hitler's case, he chose to pursue power through politics. Of course, Hitler is certainly not alone in this motivation among politicians in general. The truth is, we all, whether consciously or unconsciously, implicitly or explicitly, directly or indirectly, seek some measure of power and control in life. However, Hitler, like so many victims of physical or sexual abuse during childhood, may have experienced an extraordinary sense of helplessness and powerlessness as a boy, stemming mainly from his poor relationship with his exceedingly domineering and controlling father. It is frequently this feeling of total helplessness and powerlessness in childhood that drives what Nietzsche called the exceptional "will to power" later in life."
the article continues
"As depth psychologist Alfred Adler pointed out, such tragic circumstances engender "inferiority feelings" which, in the form of "increased dependency and the intensified feeling of our own littleness and weakness, lead to inhibition of aggression and thereby to the phenomenon of anxiety." In turn, this becomes what Adler referred to as "masculine protest," consisting of a compensatory striving for superiority (to counteract feelings of inferiority), aggression, ambition, avarice and envy, coupled with constant "defiance, vengeance, and resentment.
Hitler evidently suffered also from severe anxiety. How much of Hitler's destructive behavior, before and after rising to power, was a defense mechanism against his painful anxiety? Existential anxiety stems from the inevitabilities or givens in life that we are unable to control or overpower, such as insecurity, aloneness, meaninglessness, suffering, sickness and mortality.
It is known that Hitler suffered not only from chronic anxiety, but also from insomnia and related somatic symptoms similar to what we today might call irritable bowel syndrome. Once in power, he maintained a very close relationship with his personal physician, who helped manage the anxiety symptoms with numerous medications, many of which were highly unorthodox, and are said to have included both sedating barbiturates and stimulating amphetamine, on which Hitler came to depend.
No doubt due to his violent treatment at the hands of his father, Hitler seems to have identified more with his mother, with whom he was quite close. In this regard, he may have decided to dis-identify with his father's "masculine" aggression, anger or rage, rejecting these seemingly solely negative, noxious and destructive feelings in himself, choosing to become more "feminine" like his mother. This would have rendered him highly susceptible to being "possessed" by his chronically disowned anger, resentment and rage, a phenomenon noted by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, who refers to Hitler's barely controlled and intensely intimidating "attacks of anger."
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"Moreover, Murray, who never actually met or examined Hitler in person, states that Hitler manifested other signs of neurosis toward the end of his four years of military service during W.W. l, when he developed a case of "hysterical blindness" and "mutism," possibly in response to "shell shock" or what we now call PTSD. Even earlier, Hitler is said during adolescence to have developed "syphilophobia," a dread of being contaminated by sexual contact with women, leading eventually to sexual impotence according to acquaintances. As Fuehrer, Hitler's neuroses persisted and probably worsened, taking the form at times of intense episodes of "emotional collapse" characterized by violent bouts of furious screaming and crying. Indeed, Dr. Murray accurately identifies Hitler's core of hatred, rage and resentment as the "mainspring" of his career, describing him diagnostically as a borderline paranoid schizophrenic and hysterical "megalomaniac." Indeed, it can be argued that perhaps the major component of Hitler's madness was, well, his mad-ness: his immense anger, embitterment and hatred toward his father and, eventually, Jews and the world at large."
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"There seems no question that Hitler's barely repressed anger, rage and resentment, especially toward his father, fueled much of his symptomatology and destructive behavior. He may have also harbored some resentment toward his beloved mother for having not protected him from her sadistically abusive husband. Such emotions become doubly dangerous when chronically repressed, making one prone to fits of daimonic possession in its most negative form. Indeed, as I discuss in my book Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic (1996), Hitler could be seen as having been what I call a "dysdaimonic genius. The dysdaimonic genius manifests a confounding combination of exceptional creative powers coalesced with equally strong tendencies toward psychopathology, perversity, destructiveness, and evil; a providentially rare amalgamation of daimonic power witnessed--in its negative extreme--in devious historical figures like Adolf Hitler, or in the fictional film character Darth Vader.
Who would deny Hitler's evil genius for destructiveness? Typically--but not always--these diabolical individuals die at an unusually young age, laid low by their overweening arrogance, hubris, and unholy alliance with evil." Such people, including charismatic religious cult leaders like Jim Jones, David Koresh, Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and others, can further be understood as manifesting a "messiah complex" (see my prior post).
They become inflated by a grandiose identification with the Messiah archetype present within each of us. Because of this grandiose self-image and elevated mood alternating with periods of despair and emotional outbursts of crying or rage, as in Hitler's case, such individuals are commonly perceived to be suffering from some type of bipolar disorder (see my prior post). Indeed, much of Hitler's documented behavior and demeanor appears to corroborate such a retrospective diagnosis, his mania or hypomania masking a chronic underlying state of despair, sadness and rage."
The article lastly says
"Often gifted with the ability to influence and motivate the masses through the power of oration and messianic vision, such leaders, as Murray observes, become the "incarnation of the crowd's unspoken needs and cravings." At the same time, much like the mythic figures of the Antichrist in Christianity, Armilus in Judaism, and Masih ad-Dajjal in Islam, they are not merely false prophets, but, even more perniciously, the very embodiment of evil."
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to read is titled
"Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism"
by Nadia May (Read by), Dore Gold
the description says
"In Hatred’s Kingdom, Dore Gold has the goods on Saudi Arabia, proving how it is actively supporting terrorism. Using previously unpublished documents, Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. and internationally known Middle East strategy expert, pieces together the links between the current wave of global terrorism—from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia—and the ideology of hatred taught in the schools and mosques of Saudi Arabia.
Gold reveals:
How September 11 was only the most dramatic example of a new breed of terrorism, even now poised to strike again, that was born and nurtured in Saudi Arabia and quietly unleashed on the international community.
The deadly recipe that creates the new terrorism: a broad financial and military network mixed together with a strong motivating ideology that could compel people to sacrifice their lives and commit mass murder. Both of these ingredients grew together in Saudi Arabia, in a movement called Wahhabism.
How Wahhabi preachers in the main mosques of Saudi Arabia justify and support continued hostile acts against the U.S. and the West (translated sermons included).
How prominent Saudi Wahhabi clerics actually justify the 9/11 attacks in publications, which are revealed here and translated.
Shocking evidence of how the Saudis have financed the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda and Hamas. Gold reveals the discovery of cancelled Saudi checks found in a Hamas headquarters in the West Bank. Internal Palestinian intelligence and political reports explicitly tie Saudi Arabia to radical Palestinian terrorist groups engaged in suicide bombings. Similar proof of Saudi backing for Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, and the U.S. are presented.
Dore Gold connects the dots. He combines a rich knowledge of the history of the Middle East with a decade of hands-on diplomatic experience. If there is a single book that clearly explains Saudi Arabia, the complexities of the Middle East, and the rise of the new global terrorism in one volume, this is the one."
Another online article is titled
"Is the Time of Jacob’s Trouble Past, Future, or Both?"
the article says
"I addressed this important subject in my commentary on Jeremiah, which is due out later this year. Here, I’ll provide a very short summary of what I wrote there.
The concept of “Jacob’s trouble” comes from Jeremiah 30:5-7: “This is what the LORD says: ‘Cries of fear are heard– terror, not peace. Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.’”
Does it refer to Jacob’s (= Israel’s) sufferings at the time of the Babylonian captivity, a major theme in Jeremiah? Does it refer to Israel’s many severe sufferings through history, such as the Holocaust? Or does it point towards an ultimate time of Jewish suffering immediately before the Lord’s return?
There are a number of potential approaches for those of us reading the book of Jeremiah today: (1) Everything refers to the events that unfolded in the prophet’s own day, the 6th century BC, with no reference to any period beyond that; (2) The primary application is to the events that unfolded in the 6th century BC, with the possibility of secondary, future applications; (3) Both the immediate application and the distant-future are equally intended and applicable; (4) There may have been a past period called “Jacob’s trouble,” but the primary application is to various future events (such as the Holocaust); (5) Everything refers to events that are yet to unfold, to a future “tribulation” period called Jacob’s trouble, with no historical application of the text.
The context of the entire book of Jeremiah rules out the possibility of #5 (namely, that Jacob’s trouble refers exclusively to events that are yet to unfold), since an immediate application is demanded by virtually everything that precedes and follows these chapters. In other words, for the prophecy to make any sense to Jeremiah and his listeners, and based on the immediate context (just read Jeremiah 29!), the prophecy of “Jacob’s trouble” had to refer in the first place to the exile of the Jewish people by the Babylonians and the destruction of Jerusalem. All of this took place in Jeremiah’s day."
the article continues
"On the other hand, there are some clear Messianic promises in Jeremiah 30 (see Jer 30:8-10, 17-22) which still have not been fulfilled. There are also references to both Israel and Judah in Jer 30:3-4, meaning, this prophecy cannot refer to Judah alone (remember that it was Judah, not Israel, which was exiled by the Babylonians; the tribes of Israel had already been dispersed by the Assyrians 140 years earlier). This would suggest an immediate application of these verses in the destruction of Jerusalem and its consequent rebuilding in the 6th century BC, with a subsequent application and ultimate fulfillment in the end-time upheaval that will overtake much of the world before the Lord’s return, an upheaval that will surround Israel, and from which Israel will ultimately be saved. So, the first application of the prophecy would be to Judah’s exile and return from exile over 2,500 years ago, but the full application of the text is still future: There will again be traumatic sufferings for Israel, but God will deliver His people!
And yet there’s more. These verses also provide a template in which Israel’s sufferings, at select times in history, can be read. This means that while it would certainly be incorrect to see Jer 30:6-7 as “a prophecy of the Holocaust,” it would be valid on some level to apply these verses to that terrible period in Israel’s history, a period followed by what many would see as the beginning of Israel’s end-time spiritual restoration, marked by the physical reestablishment of the State of Israel in 1948, having been saved out of the decimation of the Holocaust.
Interestingly, a number of prominent rabbinic commentaries read these verses with a dual application. As noted by Rashi (he lived from 1040-1105; Rashi was the foremost traditional Jewish commentator), on Jer 30:5, “Some interpret this as alluding to the tidings of Babylon, from which those exiled there quaked. But the Midrash Aggadah [an older, rabbinic homily] explains it as an allusion to the war of Gog and Magog.” Commenting on the words “that day,” in Jer 30:7, he writes, “The day of the assassination of Belshazzar and the downfall of Babylon. Another explanation: the day of the downfall of Gog.” How fascinating!
So, to sum up, “Jacob’s trouble” refers first to the exile of Judah in Jeremiah’s day – out of which God delivered His people 50-70 years later; it provides a pattern of suffering and deliverance in Jewish history through the centuries; and it refers to the final time of trouble for Israel and Judah in the end of the age. The good news is that this time, there will be a lasting and glorious deliverance. In fact, it is the deliverance from trouble which is the great theme of the text. Let’s not forget the gracious promises of God!
“‘In that day,’ declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them. Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. So do not fear, O Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid. I am with you and will save you,’ declares the LORD. ‘Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’” (Jeremiah 30:8-11)"
Another online article is titled
"Some Moral Reflections on the Death of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi"
the article says:
"I will leave it to others to reflect on the political and strategic implications of the killing of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (see, for example, here and here). And enough has been said to ridicule the disastrous “austere scholar” headline of the Washington Post (see here and here and here). Allow me instead to offer some moral reflections on America putting this monstrous terrorist to death.
First, there really is such a thing as good and evil. ISIS is and was evil. Al-Baghdadi was evil, just as Hitler was evil.
Terrorism is evil. Murder and rape are evil. Selling human beings into sex slavery is evil. Merchandizing aborted baby parts is evil.
Conversely, it is good to confront evil and to judge evil. And it was good to take out al-Baghdadi.
To be sure, there is more than enough moral ambiguity in our society, and many “good” causes become compromised by ulterior motives and human corruption.
As for life on earth, none of us are perfectly good (outside of Jesus; see Matthew 7:11), and even the most evil person has some good quality, having been created in God’s image.
Yet there is no denying that some people are downright wicked, and either in this world or the world to come, they will certainly pay for their sins.
Second, God has given authority to governments and rulers to punish evil with the sword. In the words of Paul, “For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer” (Romans 13:4-5).
Yes, governments, by the will of God, “bear the sword,” but for good, not for evil. It is therefore a terrible abuse of God-given authority when a government or king or president or leader uses the sword to promote evil and to suppress good. What a serious offense.
But, to repeat, God does give the sword to governments and leaders. And without that “sword” – which includes both the local police and the national army -- there will be chaos in the streets. And so, just as a mother or father uses “force” on a certain level (such as grounding a rebellious teenager or spanking a rebellious toddler), the government uses force on another level.
That’s how the Allies defeated the murderous designs of Adolph Hitler. It was by a united show of force.
Tragically, innocent people will die in the process, which is why much care must be used in the exercise of such force. But without the force of a righteous “sword,” many more innocent people will die.
Third, while it is easy to identify the evil of al-Baghdadi and ISIS, we must always remember that evil lurks near all of us.
Put another way, the Islamic terrorists of ISIS were fellow-human beings, not beings from another planet. Some of them were husbands who loved their wives and fathers who loved children. Yet these same men committed acts of unspeakable savagery, seemingly with glee.
It’s the same with people who have been guilty of horrific acts of human cruelty through the millennia. They, too, were fellow-human beings.
They were cut out of the same cloth you and I were. They had to make moral choices just as we do. And, over time, they chose to suppress the voice of conscience and harden their hearts until they could murder little children and slice open pregnant women without the slightest feeling of guilt."
the article continues
"Obviously, most of us will never commit such grotesquely evil acts. Yet all of us, on one level or another, are capable of doing evil. And all of us, in one way or another, are guilty of thinking ugly and sinful thoughts.
If you’re reading this saying, “Not me! I’m really a very good person,” let me ask you this: How would you feel if we posted in real time for the world to see all your secret thoughts? How much pride is there? Lust? Greed? Hatred? Anger? Violence? Bitterness? Judgmentalism?
Recognizing this does not minimize our recognition of unrepentant, bold-faced evil, as in the actions of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Nor does it minimize the rightness of doing our best to eradicate such evil, thereby saving many lives.
But it does mean that we always do well to search our own hearts, recognizing that every day, we are either hardening or softening our hearts. Why let evil of any kind infiltrate your mind and soul? Why allow any pollution to stain and defile you?
Finally, there’s a fourth reflection, but one that is too late for al-Baghdadi. Simply stated, redemption is possible. Serial killers can be saved. Terrorists can be transformed. I know such people personally.
Some are in jail, paying for their crimes. Others are now paying back the society they once ravaged.
But in Jesus, through the gospel, dramatic and radical change can come.
And so, while the government goes about its work of carrying the sword, let us go about our work of carrying the message of redemption.
Better a redeemed, forgiven, repentant, and transformed terrorist than a dead terrorist."
A Christian website had an article about the death of the Osama Bin Laden, the article was titled "The death of Osama Bin Laden"
the article stated
"On May 1, 2011, U.S. forces killed Osama Bin Laden in a 40-minute attack on a compound in Pakistan. This ended a ten-year hunt for the world's worst terrorist, who masterminded the attack on U.S. soil where the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed and 3,000 people killed. What should the Christian's attitude be about his death?
The Christian response should be two-fold. First, we should be sad that he has died and entered into his eternal condemnation. This judgment is indeed horrible, and as Christians, we should be saddened for any unbeliever who has denied the true God as Bin Laden did in his Islamic beliefs. Second, we should rejoice that justice has been carried out.
On the one hand, God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
"For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord God. "Therefore, repent and live," (Ezekiel 18:32).
"Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked . . ." (Ezekiel 33:11).
We clearly see that God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked. That is, it is not his desire that even the wicked die. Yet, on the other hand, we find . . .
"And it shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you . . . " (Deut. 28:63).
The word "delight" here is the word "soos" in Hebrew and it means to exult, rejoice, display joy.
"If one man sins against another, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the Lord desired to put them to death," (1 Sam. 2:25).
The word "desired" here is the same Hebrew word, "chaphets," used in Ezekiel 18:32 and 33:11 ("pleasure") above. It means "to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with."
Likewise, the word "chaphets" occurs in Isaiah 53:10 where it says, "But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief."
In the above verses, you can see that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, yet he delighted in destroying wicked people. Is this a contradiction? No, because God can be saddened by the death of the wicked but also delight in executing his righteous judgment upon them because it is in accordance with the holy Law (do not murder, etc.), which he himself has given us.
If God executes his righteous judgment upon the wicked, then we have an obligation to follow his lead, to carry out righteousness, to deal with the wicked, and to guard the safety of others. We need to do this carefully, with caution, and only after proper laws have been followed."
The website www.washingtonpost.com has an article titled
"It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis"
By Michael Dirda
August 2, 2017
the article says
"Whether you learned about it from watching “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or, even earlier, from reading Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier’s European bestseller “The Morning of the Magicians,” who doesn’t now know that Hitler and Nazi Germany were obsessed with the occult?
“Hitler's Monsters,” by Eric Kurlander (Yale University Press)
In “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich” Eric Kurlander, professor of history at Stetson University, carefully tracks the fringe movements and lunatic beliefs that swept through Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, he documents the intense interest in parapsychology, New Age fantasies and so-called “border science.” Some Nazi leaders firmly believed that the Aryan race descended from the aliens who established Atlantis, that Satan was really a good guy and that werewolves actually protected clean-living Teutons against the ravages and sexual depredations of Slavic vampires.
Kurlander groups all these — as well as the Nazi obsession with the Holy Grail, witchcraft, Luciferianism, World Ice Theory, anti-gravity machines, astrology and pagan religions — under the rubric “the supernatural imaginary.” He begins his study with Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, champion of Ariosophy, “an esoteric doctrine that prophesied the resurgence of a lost Aryan civilization peopled by Nordic ‘God Men.’ ” According to Lanz, in 1909 he gave some issues of his magazine Ostara to a pale, shabbily dressed young man named Adolf Hitler. Of course, the future Führer may have just wanted the magazine for the pictures, since it was illustrated with — shades of Frank Frazetta! — “muscular Aryan cavaliers defending scantily clad blonde women from the advances of hideous-looking ‘ape-men.’ ”
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As the author of “The Theozoology, or the Science of Sodom’s Apelings and the God’s Electrons,” Lanz frequently referred to “lesser breeds” as “Tschandals,” a derogatory term taken from the Hindu codes of Manu. Manu? In German theosophical circles it was commonly believed that India and Tibet preserved the hidden enclaves of ancient Atlanteans or even living Secret Masters. One lunatic named Guido von List “proved” that Baldur, Jesus, Buddha, Osiris and Moses were all pure-blooded Aryans. Witches were simply Earth mothers and practitioners of a traditional Indo-Germanic religion that Judeo-Christianity tried to eradicate. (This is similar to the long discredited thesis of Margaret Murray’s 1921 book, “The Witch-Cult in Western Europe.”) With growing frequency, the Jews were deemed the most pernicious Tschandals. Kurlander paraphrases the British racist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who blustered that “heroic Aryans” sought “higher knowledge and creativity fuelled by their superior ‘racial soul,’ ” while “monstrous Semites” were “civilization-destroying materialists who lacked the capacity for transcendence.”
Throughout, Kurlander underscores the dangers of insane nationalism. Georg Kenstler proclaimed — with horrific consequences — that German territorial superiority required “Lebensraum,” or “living space.” Walther Darré affirmed the ultra-patriotic, almost mystical association of “Blut und boden,” or blood and soil. Erik Hanussen, the country’s “most flamboyant clairvoyant,” helped convince “millions of Germans that they were the ‘Chosen People’ and that the downfall of 1918 would be reversed by Hitler’s ability to make ‘the impossible possible.’ ”
the article continues:
The author Eric Kurlander (Nick Leibee)
As Kurlander stresses, Hitler’s rise to power resulted from multiple factors — Germany’s military defeat, onerous war reparations, economic chaos — but esoteric mumbo-jumbo clearly played its part. He examines the popularity of the extremist horror writer Hanns Heinz Ewers and parses the racist imagery of expressionist films such as “Nosferatu ” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.” Hitler apparently studied Ernst Schertel’s “Magic” as a self-help manual, underlining personally useful passages, among them “He who does not carry demonic seeds within him will never give birth to a new world.” Such a channeling of demonic power or “mana” has always been central to occultism. The psychologist Carl Jung would even assert that Hitler was a medium, a “mouthpiece of the gods of old.”
It may seem paradoxical that once firmly in charge, Hitler turned against astrology, tarot reading and all “commercial” uses of the supernatural. In fact, he feared that these could be used to manipulate the public in ways outside his control. Even professional magicians were legally compelled to demonstrate how their tricks were accomplished. Still, Hitler and his inner circle continued to firmly support “scientific occultism.” In the mid-1930s, for instance, Rudolf Hess hoped to create a Central Institute for Occultism.
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As late as 1942, Hitler could declare himself a “supporter” of World Ice Theory. “Glacial cosmogony,” as it was also known, maintained that “icy moons had crashed into the earth,” causing floods and geophysical damage, but also bringing “living kernels” from outer space that would evolve into Aryan superbeings. According to SS chief Heinrich Himmler, perhaps the most ardent Nazi occultist, these Ur-Aryans possessed paranormal powers and extraordinary weapons, one dimly recalled as Thor’s thunder hammer. Himmler would send an expedition to Tibet to search for traces of this primordial civilization.
In general, the Third Reich embraced crackpot doctrines “that buttressed its racial, political, and ideological goals.” These goals eventually included concentration camps, monstrous human experiments and the “Final Solution.” An entire people was horribly demonized solely because of their religion and ethnicity. This couldn’t happen now, could it? Some Nazis continued their grandiose self-mythologizing even when the war was lost, viewing the destruction raining down around them as a Wagnerian “Twilight of the Gods.”
Eric Kurlander has written a scholarly book that reveals — to borrow Joseph Conrad’s phrase — the fascination of the abomination. But he also shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media. As the Reich’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels reportedly declared, “If you repeat a lie a thousand times, people are bound to start believing it.” "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a 1981 Indiana Jones movie
From the website thetrumpet.com an article is titled
"Hitler’s Dark Ambitions"
Hulton Archive/Getty Images ,
"Nearly all observers fail to recognize the evil spiritual force that guided Adolf Hitler."
By Gerald Flurry • December 13, 2015
the article says
"Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich exterminated 6 million Jews during World War ii. The war he started led to the deaths of 60 million people. Still, Hitler thought he was the savior of the Germans.
Many would attribute Hitler’s destructiveness to insanity, but the Bible is filled with examples of Satan using human beings to fulfill his purposes. In Ezekiel 28, the prince of Tyre seamlessly transitions to the king of Tyre, who once was perfect (verses 11-14). Only Satan, formerly Lucifer, fits this description. Satan is the king of Tyre, and the prince of Tyre is his human instrument.
Satan has possessed and guided humans throughout their history. Perhaps the most notable example of this is Hitler.
Satan got to Hitler early. “When Adolf Hitler was 17 years old, a radical change occurred in his life,” we wrote in our booklet on Germany in prophecy.
A friend close to Hitler was deeply shaken by his voice. In his book called The Psychopathic God—Adolf Hitler, Robert G.L. Waite wrote: “After gazing intensely at his friend for a full minute, he began to speak. ‘Never before and never again have I heard Adolf Hitler speak as he did in that hour ….’ [August] Kubizek thought there was something strange about Hitler that night. ‘It was as if another being spoke out of his body, and moved him as much as it did me. … I rather felt as though he himself listened with astonishment and emotion to what burst forth from him with elementary force.’” … What Hitler said that night has been lost, but one thing was burned into Kubizek’s memory. Adolf did not speak of becoming an artist or an architect. Now he saw himself … as the messiah of his people.
Satan the devil exalts himself in the same way. “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isaiah 14:13-14). The connection between Hitler and Satan is clear.
Where It All Began
Before ever gaining power, Hitler exhibited dangerous tendencies. He said the foundation of his philosophy was laid in Vienna, Austria. “This was the time in which the greatest change I was ever to experience took place in me,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf referring to the effect seeing the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire had on him. “I had turned into a fanatical anti-Semite.”
Here is more from my booklet on Germany in prophecy: “Much of the world looks upon the Jews as God’s chosen people. In Vienna, Hitler came to believe that God had replaced the Jews with the Germans and the Holy Roman Empire. He believed the Germans were God’s chosen people. This is why the crown jewels of that empire meant so much to him.”
Hitler brought the crown jewels home with him and showed them off at a rally in Nuremberg in 1938. They had been in Vienna for 140 years, but Hitler said they would stay in Germany forever once he followed in the bloody history of Charlemagne, king of the First Reich. Hitler knew so much about history, and he believed the Third Reich was entirely dependent on him. That is not normal thinking.
Satan makes people fawn over his German war machine. “And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:4). We must always remember that Satan is the ultimate power behind the beast. The Germans have many good traits, but God allows Satan to use them as a tool to punish the nations of Israel (Isaiah 10:5)."
the article continues
"At a Nazi Christmas celebration in 1926, Hitler said, “Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews. … The work that Christ started but could not finish, I—Adolf Hitler—will conclude.” Again, this is eight years before Hitler became führer! The German people heard exactly what Hitler planned to do, and they still elected him!
Hitler thought he could accomplish something that even Jesus Christ supposedly couldn’t. Satan thinks the same way! He has tried to overthrow God twice. He thinks he knows more than the Being who created him. He led Hitler down the same path.
If you ever place yourself ahead of Christ, something is terribly wrong with your mind.
Religious Motivation
“We are not a movement. Rather, we are a religion,” Hitler said. “I’m going to become a religious figure.” Hitler planned a colossal assembly hall for his new capital of Germania. Instead of seeing this structure as a civic building, Hitler thought of it as a secular cathedral. The dome would have been seven times the size of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.
“It was basically a hall of worship,” said Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect. “Without such cult significance, the motivation for Hitler’s main structure would have been senseless and unintelligible.” Satan is the master of all counterfeit religion. He inspired Hitler’s perverted religious aspirations.
Hitler’s track record is staggering. Here is the total number of Jews killed by the top concentration camps: Auschwitz: 1 million; Treblinka: 750,000; Belzec: 550,000; Sobibor: 200,000; Chelmno: 150,000; Lublin: 50,000. A better name for these outposts would be extermination camps! Yet Hitler reached the height of self-delusion, claiming he was a messiah-type.
Hitler considered the Jew to be the devil personified. He heard voices as he lay on his hospital bed in 1918, telling him to rescue his motherland from the Jews. Satan lied to Hitler. He convinced Hitler that the Jews were evil, thus justifying his goal to exterminate them. In reality, Hitler was Satan personified.
Hitler’s religion directly opposed God’s true religion. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” (Matthew 5:43-44).
Had Hitler followed Christ’s admonition, he never would have carried out the Holocaust.
An Attack on God
Hitler attacked the Jews because he believed they were Satan’s tool, but they are actually the exact opposite. “In truth, the Jews have been specially commissioned to preserve the oracles of God (Romans 3:1-3),” we wrote in our booklet on Germany in prophecy. “The oracles include the sacred calendar, knowledge of the biblical week, including the seventh-day Sabbath, and the Old Testament Scriptures.”
God commissioned the Jews to bring humanity to Him, but they and the other nations of Israel have failed. However, the Jews have successfully preserved His oracles. The Jews weren’t Hitler’s main target; God and His plan were! Satan is always trying to cast God’s truth to the ground. He has even done it in God’s Church in this end time (Daniel 8:12).
Everything Satan told Hitler was a lie. Satan lies all the time. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). Combine a lying leader with real military power, and you get a mass murderer."
the article lastly says
"By contrast, God speaks only truth: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17). You can see why Satan would fight viciously to take over God’s throne and crush God’s purpose.
Worse Than Hitler
Hitler was the sixth head of a seven-headed beast controlled by Satan (Revelation 12:3; 17:10). Since the time of Hitler, God has cast Satan and his demons out of heaven and confined them to this Earth (Revelation 12:12). Look at the mounting problems in this world. Never have events been so chaotic. Satan is the cause.
Satan keeps repeating the same strategy of causing tremendous destruction through human instruments because mankind never learns. People could see the devil in Hitler’s compelling eyes, but they didn’t heed the warning. Satan gave this man great power to fulfill his will.
“Hitler did not like to be told that the ways of God were not always revealed to him,” we wrote. “On one occasion an aide noted that ‘God does not let people look at the cards He holds.’ Hitler immediately broke forth into such a [hysteria] of fury that he himself feared a heart attack. He gave orders that the aide never repeat the offensive phrase” (ibid). This angered Hitler because his god—Satan—did reveal things to him!
A man coming on the scene today is about to cause even more destruction than Hitler ever did (Daniel 8:22-24). Events will get so bad that Christ must return to stop him (verse 25). “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful” (Revelation 17:14).
Jesus Christ will ensure that no beastly power will ever terrorize the world again. Those who serve God before Christ’s Second Coming will be His bride (Revelation 19:7). These faithful few will rule with Christ for all eternity!"
An online article is titled
"Why We Should Care About Israel Today"
the article says
"Many believers today, especially in the younger generation, have serious questions about why they should stand with the people of Israel. What connection, they wonder, does the modern State of Israel have with ancient biblical prophecy? After all, didn't Paul state in Romans 9:6 that "not all Israel is Israel"?
And, why should Christians stand with Israel when Israel is allegedly guilty of committing atrocities against the Palestinians? What about standing on the side of justice?
Why focus on the salvation of Jewish people as if their salvation were more important than the salvation of any other people group? To give priority to the salvation of Israel would imply favoritism (or even racial discrimination) on the part of God.
These are serious questions that deserve serious answers, so let's examine them carefully, following Paul's discussion in Romans 9-11 in detail.
When it comes to Romans 9:6, we need to remember that Paul devoted three chapters to the subject of Israel in this letter. He had not yet been to Rome to preach the gospel and he wanted to be sure that, before he arrived there, the believers clearly understood the foundations of the faith.
That's why, right up front, he declared, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek" (Rom. 1:16).
And notice that he put a priority on the gospel going to the Jewish people. (As many top Bible scholars recognize, when Paul said "to the Jew first," he was speaking of priority and not just history.)
Paul next speaks of the wrath of God on sinful human beings, making plain that all people, both Jews and Gentiles, are guilty in God's sight (Rom. 1:18-3:31).
Then, in Romans 4-5, Paul lays out the extraordinary message of justification by faith, continuing with his teaching on victory over sin and life in the Spirit in chapters 6-8. These are not trivial matters"
the article continues
"In Romans 9-11, he focuses on Israel, which was obviously as important to him as the other, foundational subjects he had just covered. As one of my colleagues at FIRE School of Ministry has said, if you don't understand Israel, you don't understand Paul's gospel.
Yet there are pastors who actually skip over Romans 9-11 when preaching through the book, thinking it is not relevant for believers today. Talk about a serious error!
The big question for Paul was this: Did God's Word fail? After all, the Lord had made many promises to Israel in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), and yet as a nation, they missed the Messiah when He came. What happened?
Paul first reiterates that the covenant promises still belong to Israel, writing, "to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises" (Rom. 9:4).
But there is a mystery here that Paul unfolds, explaining that there is a believing remnant within the nation, an Israel within Israel, writing, "But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but 'Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.' This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise who are counted as Abraham's offspring" (Rom. 9:6-8).
Unfortunately, many of those who are familiar with this passage are not familiar with what comes next, and so they miss the whole point Paul was making. They also misinterpret this verse as if Paul were saying here that Gentile believers are Israel (something he never says; in fact, in Romans 11, he states the opposite).
Instead, Paul was making a spiritual observation, pointing out that God's faithfulness continued to be manifest in the remnant within Israel, like the 7,000 who didn't bow the knee to Baal, to use imagery that Paul takes up in Romans 11:1-5.
But here is what so many Bible teachers miss. Paul then speaks of Israel 10 more times, and every single time, he is referring to the nation as a whole, the natural children, not to the Israel within Israel, the spiritual children. (Don't take my word for it; keep reading from Romans 9:8 to the end of Romans 11).
Here is where it gets exciting. Paul explains to the Romans that while a remnant of the Jewish people embraced Jesus as Messiah, the rest of Jews fell and were hardened. But that is not the end of the story. "So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall [the NIV says, "fall beyond recovery"]? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous" (Rom. 11:11).
Here we have the first part of Paul's major answer to the question, "Why should I care about Israel's salvation?" It is because the gospel has come to the Gentile world "so as to make Israel jealous."
And there's more: "Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!" (Rom. 11:12)
This is glorious beyond words. The "full inclusion" of Israel, which we'll see shortly, speaks of their national turning to the Messiah, will bring about something that makes the current worldwide harvest of Gentile believers actually look small. Israel's salvation is mega-important, with massive implications for the entire population of the world."
& continues
"That's why it is so important for Gentile believers, whom Paul addresses as Gentiles rather than as spiritual Israel, to provoke the Jewish people to spiritual jealously.
Tragically, throughout much of church history, professing Christians have driven Jews away from Jesus, to the point that many religious Jews today associate the Holocaust with Christianity. In fact Martin Luther, who wrote some of the most ugly, anti-Semitic words in history, has been called the John the Baptist of Adolf Hitler.
As the great Old Testament and Hebrew scholar Franz Delitzsch wrote, "The church still owes the Jews the actual proof of Christianity's truth. Is it surprising that the Jewish people are such an insensitive and barren field for the gospel? The church itself has drenched it in blood and then heaped stones upon it."
Before getting back to Paul's words, as a Jewish believer in Jesus, I can say from the heart that this is another reason the church should show love and solidarity to the people of Israel: It is only tears of love and acts of love that can wipe away the stain of "Christian" anti-Semitism.
Returning to Romans 11, Paul wrote, "Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them" (Rom. 11:13-14).
And once again, he wants the Gentile believers in Rome to understand the implications of Israel's salvation, writing, "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?" (Rom. 11:15)
Did you catch that? Paul speaks of life from the dead, also known as resurrection.
He is saying that Israel's salvation is intimately tied in to the return of the Messiah, and when He returns, the righteous dead are resurrected and living believers receive their glorified bodies. You'd better believe that Israel's salvation matters!
Peter emphasized this as well, preaching to his Jewish people in Acts 3 and saying, "Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the [Messiah] appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago" (Acts 3:19-21)."
& Continues
"Jesus taught this as well, ending His denunciation of the hypocritical leaders in Matthew 23 with a warning and a promise: "your house [speaking of Jerusalem] is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord'" (Matt. 23:38-39). In other words, Yeshua will not return until the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem recognizes Him as Messiah and says, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" (see the Messianic usage of this phrase in Matthew 21:9).
It is not that God shows favoritism. It is not that God is guilty of ethnic discrimination. It is that He keeps His promises, and He has promised to save the people of Israel, a people that has suffered greatly for many centuries because of being specially chosen and specially judged (see Amos 3:1; Rom. 2:9-11).
Since the Law and the prophets and the Messiah and the apostles are all from Israel, and since the Gentile believers have been grafted into the commonwealth of Israel—into Israel's olive tree (see also Eph. 2:11-22)—they should be humble rather than prideful. And so Paul warns, "do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you" (Rom. 11:18); in Rom. 15:27, Paul goes so far as to urge the believers in Rome to help support Jewish believers living in Israel, since they are spiritually indebted to them.
Paul explains that the great bulk of the nation remains hardened and outside of the Messiah (and therefore lost), but that hardening is only "in part," meaning, it is not for all the people (there is always a remnant that believes) and it is not for all time. As he writes, "Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in" (Rom. 11:25).
Paul was concerned that the Gentile believers would think that they were the new Israel and that they had replaced the old Israel (sadly, this had been taught through much of church history, resulting in much suffering for the Jewish people, not to mention much spiritual darkness in the church). He emphasized that Israel's hardening was only partial, waiting until the full harvest of the Gentiles would come in. This clearly speaks of the climax of the Great Commission.
Paul then writes, "And in this way [meaning, on the heels of the fullness of the Gentiles coming in or provoked by that fullness] all Israel will be saved, as it is written, 'The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob. And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins'" (Rom. 11:26-27)."
& continues
"This is what God declared through Jeremiah more than 2,500 years ago, "At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people" (Jer. 31:1). And this is why the Lord called for prayer for Jerusalem in Isaiah 62, urging His people to give Him no rest until Jerusalem became the praise of all the Earth (see Is. 62:1-7).
To repeat: This is not a matter of divine favoritism; it is a matter of the faithfulness of God. He always keeps His promises! And so Paul concludes, "As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable" (Rom. 11:25-29).
How strange it is that we understand grace when it comes to God's dealing with the church—and with us as individuals—but we don't understand when it comes to His dealings with Israel.
You might be wondering, "But how do I know if the modern state of Israel today is the fulfillment of prophecy?"
The answer: When God blesses no one can curse, and when He curses no one can bless. When He opens a door, no one can shut it, and when He closes a door, no one can open it. In the same way, when He scatters no one can gather, and when He gathers, no one can scatter.
It is He who scattered the Jewish people in His wrath, preserving us under His discipline as He promised (see Jer. 31:35-37), and therefore it is only He who can regather us. The fact that we have been regathered to the Land, especially in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust, can only be explained as a glorious act of God."
& lastly says
"As for Israel's alleged atrocities against the Palestinians, the reality is actually quite the opposite, and the fact remains that if the Palestinians put down their weapons, there would be no more war. But if the Israelis put down their weapons, there would be no more Israel.
Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East and is America's most significant ally there, and so standing with justice means standing with Israel, which includes calling them to account when there is injustice against the Palestinians, a people loved by God as well.
But most important are the larger implications.
The church should stand with Israel because of its spiritual, historic debt, since salvation is from the Jews (John 4:22). The church should stand with Israel to help eradicate the horrible history of "Christian" anti-Semitism.
And, the church should stand with Israel and share the gospel with the Jewish people because Israel's salvation means life from the dead and the return of the King.
I'd say that's pretty important."
The Bible verse John 4:22 in the New Testament says
New International Version
"You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews."
But God does NOT "love" so-called "Palestinians" who murder innocent Israeli Civilians & Citizens in Terrorist Attacks , God only loves "Palestinians" who are peaceful, non-violent & willing to be reasonable and accept Israel's right to Exist as a Jewish State
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Photo of Terrified 5-Year-Old Shows Palestinian Rockets’ Toll on Israeli Children"
Nov 3, 2019
the article says:
“It was scary and I wanted to sleep, but it didn’t stop. It always scares me,” a 5-year-old Israeli girl said after the latest barrage of Palestinian rockets on Friday.
By United with Israel Staff
A photo accidentally snapped of a terrified child during a recent Palestinian rocket attack has gone viral.
In the photo, Tahel Dahan,5, is seen crouching in the fetal position in her family’s safe room in the southern town of Sderot, while her mother Sara tries to comfort her,
“My daughter! My own personal joy! The little girl who I promised to protect froze in place and simply would not move even though she was in the shielded room,” the 22-year-old single mother said, “Her whole body shook, she locked up on the floor and didn’t move, with her hands on her head. My girl, I’m so sorry you need to go through this”
Tahel told Ynet how scared she gets when the rocket siren alarms go off.
“It was scary and I wanted to sleep but it didn’t stop. It always scares me. Mom gives me a hug and says she’s always here, she won’t leave me,” she said.
Sara told the Israeli news site how hard it is to see her child so scared.
“It breaks you. It’s not an easy thing to see your daughter fall apart like that and cry. There’s not a lot I can do. Just hold her, reassure her, explain that mommy is here, that mommy is keeping her safe,” she said. “Ever since one of the sirens caught us in the street it’s been happening to her. She simply lies down on the floor, puts her hands over her head, shakes and mumbles words even I don’t understand.”
On Friday night, Israel’s Iron Dome defense system intercepted eight of the ten rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel. While no casualties were reported from the impact of the other two missiles, shrpanel slammed into a home in Sderot, damaging it and other property.
Israel responded to the attack by launching an airstrike against strategic Hamas positions.
The targets included weapons manufacturing and storage facilities, a naval base and a compound serving Hamas’ aerial defense array, the IDF said in a statement."
As people have pointed out, you cannot spell the word Jerusalem , without the letters
usa in the Middle !!!!
From the website www.thejewishvoice.com an article is titled
"Convert to Judaism & Ex-Porn Star Jenna Jameson Defends Israel in Twitter Firestorm" "Published 4 months ago on 07/03/2019 the article says
“Israel was promised to the Jewish people [by] G-d,” Jenna Jameson wrote on Twitter. “Don’t Arabs have enough land? They target the one free-thinking democracy and want to turn it into a wasteland”…”Why does ‘Palestine’ want to drive all Jews into the sea? Why do they want to take over what the Jews have built and ethnically cleanse?”
Can any insights about the prospects of Middle East peace be gained from an actress whose credits include films like Zombie Strippers, Dirt Merchant, Erotic Aftershock and Teenage Delinquents?
Actually, yes.
One-time porn goddess Jenna Jameson, a recent convert to Judaism, is weighing in on such weighty matters in the wake of a firestorm of Twitter messages she has been receiving.
“The antisemitic comments don’t hurt me whatsoever; all they do is educate my followers and the public about how antisemitism runs rampant on social media,” said Jameson, who converted in 2016, in an interview published by The Algemeiner. “So by attacking my faith, you prove my plight. I welcome the hateful debates, because I am informed on the Torah due to my recent Orthodox conversion. I’ve been a warrior all my life. Now I am applying my strength to defending the Jewish people and Israel.”
Jameson, who is pregnant with her third child, has been outspoken in social media about her support for Israel and her condemnation of Palestinians – which she correctly points out does not actually exist.
“Israel was promised to the Jewish people [by] G-d,” she wrote on Twitter. “Don’t Arabs have enough land? They target the one free-thinking democracy and want to turn it into a wasteland”…”Why does ‘Palestine’ want to drive all Jews into the sea? Why do they want to take over what the Jews have built and ethnically cleanse?”
Married to an Israeli, Jameson has also spoken out strongly in favor of the Israel Defense Force. When a Twitter contact complained of Israeli soldiers killing so-called “innocent” Palestinians, the former X-rated actress wrote, “I don’t believe in Hamas launching rockets daily at Israel. They made their bed, now they can lie in it…Innocence is relative.”
She was eager to set the record straight on living conditions in the Jewish State, tweeting, “What’s ironic is the sheer number of Arabs thriving in Israel and how that is overlooked.”
She was also quick to make clear that she bears no hatred toward Muslims and Arabs. “I’m cool with [them]. I disagree with Islam. The Quran teaches to wage war on non-believers. And don’t get me started on what it says about Jews.”
“The harsh exchanges between Jameson and her critics began on Tuesday, when she posted a series of comments against the “tyranny” of Islam,” The Algemeiner reported. “After being called a “whore” and compared by a Palestinian to the late Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and Zionists “who rape, kill and commit all the crimes,” she shot back: “I’m sorry you follow an ideology that promotes child rape, female genital mutilation, butchering non-believers and polygamy. The Torah does not teach hostile violent takeover of the world. It does not teach to kill men, rape their wives and enslave their children.” Jenna Jameson is right, why do the Arabs & so-called "Palestinians" have to be so damn greedy & selfish, a picture of Jenna Jameson can be found in this article
As of Today, Thursday November 7, 2019 Jenna Jameson is back on Twitter, where she calls herself a "Conservative" & "Proud Jew"
an article from earlier in 2019 from the timesofisrael.com website is titled
"Jenna Jameson leaves Twitter over anti-Semitism" the article says
Former porn star who converted to Judaism in 2015 says she was ‘being attacked for my faith’ on the social media platform
By MARCY OSTER
10 January 2019, 11:32 pm
"Former adult actress Jenna Jameson promoting her erotic novel “Sugar” at a Barnes and Noble in Los Angeles, October 25, 2013. (Valerie Macon/Getty Images/via JTA)
Former adult actress Jenna Jameson promoting her erotic novel “Sugar” at a Barnes and Noble in Los Angeles, October 25, 2013. (Valerie Macon/Getty Images/via JTA)
JTA — Jenna Jameson, who converted to Judaism in 2015, said she is taking “an indefinite break from Twitter” after being attacked for her religion and for having been a porn star.
“It’s near impossible to just have normal conversations without hundreds of people attacking me for the past I cannot change,” she tweeted Wednesday.
Jameson also wrote: “I want to clarify why I’m leaving. My sobriety and faith are the most important things to me. I am being attacked for my faith. Being Jewish. I must protect my love for G-d above everything, my sobriety and strength stem from him and his grace.”
Her Twitter account is no longer in service.
Jameson is an unabashed conservative and supporter of US President Donald Trump.
One person tweeted that Jameson was going to hell because she is “conservative,” “Jewish” and a “hoe.” In response to a deleted comment she tweeted “Antisemitism is alive and well.”
Her Instagram account, where she chronicles her journey with weight loss, was still active on Thursday. She posted a photo of herself in a drab olive-colored T-shirt featuring the logo of the Israel Defense Forces and wrote: “Remember sometimes people will doubt you, second guess you and your faith. Let them. Show them what the lord has made you capable of. Be unshakeable. Be brave. ✡️”
Jameson became a Jew by choice before her marriage to the Israeli-born diamond dealer Lior Bitton, with whom she has a daughter named Batel. She also has been sober for the past three years."
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Shin Bet Thwarted Hundreds of Terror Attacks in 2019"
Nov 7, 2019
the article says
"The Shin Bet’s second-to-none counterintelligence efforts focused on sabotage, terrorist activities, and other security threats to the citizens of Israel.
By United with Israel Staff
The director of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security apparatus, announced on Thursday that his agency stopped hundreds of terror attacks in 2019.
“In the past year, we have thwarted over 450 significant terror attacks, and we have allowed Israeli citizens to have full and comfortable lives in the day-to-day without knowing what’s going on underground,” said Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman at the UVID International Conference and Exhibition on Unmanned Vehicles in Tel Aviv.
The Shin Bet, tirelessly conducts internal counterintelligence focused on sabotage, terrorist activities, and other security matters to vigilantly protect the Israeli people.
Argaman said that his agency’s use of advanced technology “allows us to maintain our qualitative advantage over challenging rivals” and is a key component in its success.
“We try to watch Israeli citizens so they can quietly live their day-to-day lives,” he said. “Israeli technology and industry are always close to our hearts. We buy Israeli technologies before anything else. Innovation and startups are part of what we are.”
The number of thwarted attacks in 2019 nearly matches those of 2018.
Last year, Argaman warned the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, that despite the agency’s success in thwarting 480 terror attacks, the country must not be lulled into a false sense of security.
“In the Gaza Strip we stand between a possible military campaign on the one hand, and an attempt to stabilize the humanitarian situation of the residents of Gaza on the other,” he said. “The reality is very complex. We can say that on the surface we observe relative calm, but we must emphasize that this is on the surface.”
“Hamas is trying with all its might to carry out terrorist attacks from Judea and Samaria with guidance from the Gaza Strip, Turkey, and Lebanon,” Argaman warned."
More about the Greatness of Israel, Another article on unitedwithisrael.org is titled
"Tel Aviv Beaches Offer A Lot More Than a Day of Sun and Water"
United with Israel
The Global Movement for Israel ™
Tel Aviv beachfront. (Shutterstock)
Jul 8, 2019
"With a wide range of offerings, Tel Aviv beaches are a great way to spend fun in the sun.
By Tsivya Fox-Dobuler, United With Israel
In 2010, National Geographic Magazine ranked Tel Aviv as one of its “Top 10 Beach Cities,” in the world.
Now, for the first time, all of Tel Aviv’s 13 beaches received a “Blue Flag” from of the Foundation for Environmental Education. This coveted award is an internationally recognized symbol of quality.
So, what’s so special about the beaches in Tel Aviv?
Tel Aviv beaches provide bathrooms, showers, changing rooms and lounge chairs to rent.
Restaurants and cafes line most beaches and vendors carrying coolers walk the sand providing drinks and cold snacks.
Many beaches have water-resistant work-out gyms, volleyball nets and water-sports facilities that offer surfing, kayaking, boating and diving.
Beach bums enjoy watching people play a unique Israeli game, called “matkote.” Matkote is similar to ping-pong except there is no net, the ball is hard, and the paddles are wooden.
The promenades are filled with everything from walkers, joggers and bikers to artisans, clowns and jugglers.
And Tel Aviv beaches are known for their beautiful and romantic sunsets.
The “Blue Flag” awards are the cherry on top!
According to the EcoOcean website, an Israeli non-profit organization that promotes the preservation of the coastal and marine environment, the Blue Flag is awarded to beaches and marinas that excel in education and information, water quality, safety and environmental management and services.
It also raises environmental awareness among beach users and the surrounding communities to encourage good environmental management and reflects positively on the city’s municipality.
So, when are you coming?" that article was from unitedwithisrael.org
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"HEARTBREAKING: ‘I’m Scared to Die,’ 7-Year-Old Girl Cries After Rocket Attack"
"An Israeli child sits under a desk in a bomb shelter during an air raid siren drill. (illustrative) (AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
child bomb scare
Nov 7, 2019
Related:
Palestinian terror
Rocket attack
the article says
"Palestinian terrorists in Gaza should be ashamed of themselves for indiscriminately firing rockets and terrifying Israeli children like this seven-year-old girl.
While Adi Hagbi may have run for bomb shelters tens of times in her short life, the experience doesn’t become any less frightening each time Palestinians fire rockets at her hometown in southern Israel.
In this heartbreaking video, the seven-year-old cries out, “Mom, I’m scared,” describing how it feels to hear red alert rocket sirens.
When will terrorists in the Gaza Strip stop firing rockets and missiles at Israeli children? When will the world finally listen to Adi?" A Link to a video is shown in the article, as always, the so-called "Palestinians" are the aggressors, and they are to blame, everything is THEIR fault
From the Jerusalem Post website, www.jpost.com an article about Jennifer Lopez & her August 2019 visit to Israel is titled
"THANK YOU" the article says
J.Lo, and her almost equally well-known and similarly nicknamed beau, future baseball hall of famer Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) made the most of their few days in Israel last week.
BY JPOST EDITORIAL AUGUST 5, 2019 21:11
3 minute read.
Thank you
Jennifer Lopez performs in Israel. (photo credit: LIOR KETER)
"Sometimes, a photo really is worth a thousand words... especially if it’s an Instagram post of Jennifer Lopez looking fabulous against the backdrop of the Tel Aviv coastline.
The global icon, known universally as J.Lo, and her almost equally well-known and similarly nicknamed beau, future baseball hall of famer Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) made the most of their few days in Israel last week.
Before and after her much-heralded Las Vegas-style performance for 57,000 fans at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park, J.Lo was spotted and captured on camera enjoying Tel Aviv nightspots, Jerusalem eateries, the bustling beach scene and the holy sites of the capital.
After the concert, she posted a video and wrote: “Amazing energy in Tel Aviv last night!! Over 50,000 strong!!! I love you so much.”
Like an Israel PR wild dream, the power couple posted photos of themselves with their children riding camels, praying at the Kotel and visiting the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
A-Rod added a photo of himself on an electric scooter at the Tel Aviv promenade with the tag, “This beats NYC traffic any day. #Israel.”
Earlier in the trip, he posted a photo of himself and J.Lo in Tel Aviv with the tag “What an amazing time we are having on my first trip to Tel Aviv! The people have been wonderful and have such energy. I will definitely be back and recommend visiting this incredible country! How many of you have been here and how was your experience?”
And upon leaving the country over the weekend, A-Rod posted a photo of the couple overlooking the Old City taken from the Mount of Olives, writing, “Jerusalem, you are unforgettable. What a perfect finale to our first trip to this beautiful land.”
You might say, so what... two celebrities indulging the good life in Israel. What does it matter?
But, with their few Twitter and Instagram posts, J.Lo and A-Rod succeeded in doing what countless hasbara efforts, ministry budgets, conferences and strategies have been unable to do: portray Israel not only as a normal place, but an exciting, fun and even desirable destination.
Research studies and focus groups of Americans conducted on behalf of Israel have shown time and time again that the only things most people know about the country is that there’s a conflict going on.
There’s a small, vocal base which loves Israel and gets it, and another smaller but also vocal base which sees Israel as the oppressor of Palestinians. But in Israel, we tend to forget that there’s a vast middle out there for whom Israel is just a name in the headlines often associated with turmoil, controversy and carnage. Many Americans are even surprised to discover that much of Israel features a coastline and beaches, thinking it’s a barren desert.
Juxtapose that against a People Magazine article over the weekend, read by millions, entitled “Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Enjoy Quality Family Time with Their Kids During Israel Trip” and featuring the aforementioned photos."
the article continues
"It’s not only priceless PR for Israel, but it’s truthful and indicative of the experiences that most first-time tourists encounter – they fall in love with the country. And the beauty of it is that it doesn’t require very much effort – no complex discussions about the post-1967 lines, or the demographic threat of a one-state solution.
Those are very real and urgent issues, but they can be separated from the virtues of the amazing country that has been built on this tiny sliver of land.
J.Lo and A-Rod’s visit here is not just a treasure for displaying Israel’s ample virtues to the world – it also provides a much needed lesson to those of us who live here. We get bogged down on the day-to-day reality and forget that there is indeed something very special about this place. Despite its myriad of problems and challenges and injustices that we can find the time to dwell on, we shouldn’t forget to sometimes take a break and ride an electric scooter on the Tel Aviv promenade" Thank You Again, Jennifer Lopez & Alex Rodriguez
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