Let me say from the beginning that I don’t hate anyone as a general rule. I look for and desire to see the good in every human being as I believe everyone else should do as well. If someone has been influenced by an evil mindset in ideology, then my first reaction is not to commence hating that person but rather to make an attempt to shake that person out of that destructive mindset by using logic and reason, along with a persuasive passion for what is spiritually right and true.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!
The rebirth of Israel as a nation has given rise to Allah (an Arabian deity) wanting to be worshiped by his subjects at the very place designed for the God of Israel to be worshiped (see Psalms 132:13,14). Just the possibility of this scenario alone should show the secularists that there is a God of Israel that holds an everlasting covenant with the Jewish people (see Psalms 105:8-10). For it is impossible to ask for better stage to be set from what we see in the Middle East today to begin an all out "end of the age" showdown between good and evil.
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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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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!
World actions of this nature adds a greater significance to the end-time war between good and evil (Ezekiel 38:16-23). Besides the 7.4 billion pledged the to Palestinians, billions of dollars more are added in the form of state of the art weaponry being sold to the enemies of Israel >http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/.
Along with the billions of dollars that the UN is pledging to the Palestinians, the world's plan for tiny Israel becomes very clear! If the nations hadn't taken upon themselves to support Israel's greatest enemies there would not have been a need for Zechariah 12:9 to have been written: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
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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?"
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!
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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!
As God commanded Israel to hate Amalek that his name be blotted out from under heaven for his deeds in using cowardly acts against Israel in possessing her land of inheritance (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) the modern Amaleks of today should be hated for their cowardly terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians who claim their land of inheritance as well. May Arafat's name and the names of those who support his goal be blotted out from under heaven! Amen? Amen!
"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.
"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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«Oldest ‹Older 2201 – 2400 of 3878 Newer› Newest»An article on the website egyptindependent.com is titled
"Egyptians furious over Jennifer Lopez’s Tel Aviv concert, call for boycott of Egypt concert"
Mira Maged
August 9, 2019
4:16 pm
the article says:
"Superstar Jennifer Lopez angered many Egyptians by showing her love and support for the state of Israel, where she held a concert and spent a touristic trip with her family a few days ago. Fans called for the cancelation of her concert in Egypt.
“The motherland Israel!!! First time here. I’m in love!” J-Lo’s first tweet read.
Over the past few days, Lopez posted several photos from her Tel Aviv trip, commenting on a photo from the concert, “Tel Aviv, you were incredible.”
A video was posted on her official Instagram account the day after the provocative concert. “Amazing energy in Tel Aviv last night! Over 50,000 strong! I love you so much. The party continues,” she wrote.
In a photo showing the famed singer smiling from the top of the city, she said that Jerusalem was perfect and that her time there was a strong finale for a trip that she enormously enjoyed.
Days before the Tel Aviv concert, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement released a statement condemning the concert, calling for its cancelation and claiming that the concert is an endorsement of Israel’s abuses against human rights. “The concert was used as a tool for marketing the State of Israel as a ‘cool’ and ‘cultured’ democracy, while hiding a brutal history of colonization, even that of the city itself,” BDS representatives stated.
Nothing changed following the movement’s statement of opposition as Benny Medina, Lopez’s manager, affirmed that the concert will not be canceled, allegedly saying that the issue is “simple.”
“Tel Aviv and Israel deserve Jennifer Lopez, and Jennifer Lopez deserves Israel,” The singer’s manager added.
On the other hand, the debated concert sparked controversy among Egyptians, prompting them to call for the concert to be cancelled.
Likewise, BDS addressed Orascom, noting that those who associate themselves with the movement, as well as many ordinary Egyptians, are boycotting Lopez’s concert in Egypt, requesting that the company take proper action.
“We with other Egyptians were surprised that your company announced that it will still organize Lopez’s concert in Egypt days after her concert in occupied Palestine,” the statement read.
“This is a malicious attempt to normalize relations with the Zionist enemy and those involved with their crimes against humanity,” the statement added.
Additionally, the statement condemned Lopez’s insistence on carrying out her concert normally despite the numerous calls for boycotts and calls to stop the artist’s performance in Egypt.
“The concert is set to take place after her previous performance in occupied Palestine. Despite various calls to boycott Israel and cancel the concert, she insisted on carrying out her performance,” read the statement.
The organizing company released a statement disapproving any changes, confirming that the concert will be held at the set time and that no other decision has been made until the present moment.
A peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979."
One person typed the following comment in response to the egyptindependent.com article just mentioned about Egyptians being furious about Jennifer Lopez performing in Tel Aviv ,
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"Palestine is the name the British, who occupied Israel, gave it while they ruled this land. You need to educate yourself. The Palestinians are a made up people, that instead of trying to move forward and improve their quality of life, have chosen time and time again to victimized themselves in order to illegitimize Israel. BTW Tel Aviv was never inhabited by Muslims. Stop making up stories to fit your antisemitism and hate." As we have stated many times, the term "Palestinians" was originally used to refer to Jews living in the Land, to Jews living in the Land, Not Arabs
From the website www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Iran beauty queen seeks asylum in Philippines, calling government ‘terrorist’"
Detained at Manila airport for a week, Bahareh Zare Bahari says Tehran-issued Interpol alert for assault is ‘fake,’ came due to her political activism
By TOI STAFF
23 October 2019, 11:07 am 5
Iranian beauty queen Bahareh Zare Bahari. (Facebook) the article says
"An Iranian beauty queen has requested asylum in the Philippines after an Interpol alert about her filed by Tehran got her detained at the Manila airport.
Bahareh Zare Bahari has been held at Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3 since October 17, as authorities examine Iran’s allegation that she assaulted a fellow Iranian in the Philippines and Bahari’s counter-claim that the Islamic Republic is targeting her for her political activism and that the charges against her are fake.
Bahari, who represented Iran at the 2018 Miss Intercontinental pageant in Manila and who has been studying dentistry in the Philippines since 2014, is an outspoken women’s rights advocate and a supporter of opposition activists in her country.
Earlier this year she angered Iran’s Islamist government by waving a photo of prominent government critic Reza Pahlavi at a pageant. Joining a beauty pageant is in itself frowned upon by the conservative religious leadership.
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She is a dentist and social activist; Fan of prince Reza Pahlavi, leader of Iran opposition.
Islamic regime want arrest her with fake docs, that they maked for her.#SaveBaharBahari @UNHumanRights@ir_humanrights @INTERPOL_HQ @amnestyusa @SecPompeo @hrw
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Various media outlets have quoted Bahari as saying that if she is deported to Iran in compliance with the Interpol Red Notice, “they will kill me.”
“I am against our government. The Iran government is terrorist. I always try to [give a] voice [to] my people on media,” she told The Philippine Star.
“I used [Pahlavi’s] photo on stage to be [the] voice of my people because all news and media are ignoring my people,” she told The Telegraph on Tuesday.
Bahari, who Philippine authorities say is 31 years old despite her pageant profile saying she was 21 when she joined, has no criminal cases pending against her, according to Markk Perete, undersecretary at the Philippine department of justice.
“The only reason she was held at the airport — and we really don’t call it detention, it is really restraining her from entering the Philippine territory — is only because of that Red Notice issued against her,” Perete told The Telegraph.
But Bahari has complained she is receiving no updates and no reason for the continued detention.
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Our Compatriot Bahareh Zare Bahari is arrested by Interpol. They say: Iran ordered them to do this. Regime in Iran did this because Bahareh spread our voice: Long live Shah. Because she used Iran’s original flag and photo of Prince Crown Reza Pahlavi.
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Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, was quoted by The Telegraph as urging a “fair and impartial hearing of her claim” and saying it was “absolutely critical the Philippines provides Bahareh Zare Bahari with support, including access to legal counsel, to compile and file her asylum application.”
“While waiting for the details to become clear, there should be no action under Iran’s Interpol red notice, especially since under Interpol rules a red notice is null and void if the person named in the notice is found to be a refugee fleeing from the state that issued it."
From the website israellycool.com an article is titled
"Pro-Israel Celebrity Of The Day: James Woods"
By David Lange -February 4, 20151835
The article says
"Anyone familiar with actor James Woods and his tweets will know he is a conservative and an unabashed supporter of Israel, in an industry severely lacking such principled people.
These recent tweets illustrate the point quite nicely.
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Don't kid yourself; Hamas carries on this tradition in spirit every day...
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Boehner's Netanyahu ploy: Our view http://usat.ly/1CPMToP As Obama repeatedly sabotages Israeli security, Congress has the stones to act.
Boehner's Netanyahu ploy runs onto the rocks: Our view
It risks swapping an alliance between nations for an alliance between Israel's Likud Party and the GOP.
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HarperCollins atlas omitted Israel http://usat.ly/1Bnja5N via @USATODAY I'm sure the White House bought the remainders...
HarperCollins sorry for omitting Israel from atlas
HarperCollins has apologized for omitting Israel from an atlas of the Middle East and removed the book from shelves, according to a statement published Wednesday on the company's Facebook page.
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He’s also right on the money with this tweet from today:
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If we ever capture the ISIS thug who burned a heroic pilot alive, let's pray we don't pour a cup of water on his face. That would be cruel.
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From the website dailywire.com an article is titled
"James Woods Absolutely Obliterates Dems For Arguing Whether To Condemn Anti-Semitism" from March 7th, 2019
By Hank Berrien
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"On Thursday, actor James Woods took aim in his inimitably blunt way at the Democrat party for its refusal to condemn the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Rep. Ilhan Omar, ripping the Democrats for having “soulless, vile hearts.”
Woods linked to a Fox News article that delineated how many Democrats were upset that their party might actually create a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. Woods tweeted, “Oh my God, the #Democrats literally can’t agree to condemn bigotry. Six million Jews were killed by Hitler, they are targets of Muslim terrorists constantly, and @theDemocrats can’t find it in their soulless, vile hearts to condemn anti-Semitism.”
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Oh my God, the #Democrats literally can’t agree to condemn bigotry. Six million Jews were killed by Hitler, they are targets of Muslim terrorists constantly, and @theDemocrats can’t find it in their soulless, vile hearts to condemn anti-Semitism. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rank-and-file-dems-revolt-against-pelosi-over-resolution-to-condemn-anti-semitism …
Rank-and-file Dems revolt against Pelosi over resolution to condemn anti-Semitism
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was "taken aback" this week by the growing dissent and anger among rank-and-file Democrats over a possible resolution to formally condemn anti-Semitism, a Democratic source...
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Some indications of how the anti-Semitism in the Democratic party has bubbled to the surface were given by Fox News: “Fox News was also told one senior House Democratic lawmaker expressed concern about the influence pro-Israel interest groups have over the Democratic caucus, prompting debate about a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism in the first place.”
Woods starred in the TV mini-series “Holocaust” in 1978; he played Karl Weiss, a Jewish artist. He has been highly critical of Omar and the Democrats’ embrace of anti-Semitism for weeks. On February 11, after Rep. Steve Scalise tweeted, “Good that some Dems have condemned the disgraceful anti-Semitic remarks of Rep. Omar—but their words are empty unless Dem leaders remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee. No one with her anti-Semitic views should be allowed to represent US foreign policy on that committee,” Woods laid the Democrats bare, tweeting, “Naturally one expects such vile behavior from #Omar. Have you not figured out she is a mouthpiece for all the Democrats? They can pretend to be sanctimonious, but recent events have shone a light on Democrat racism and anti-Semitism as never before.”
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Naturally one expects such vile behavior from #Omar. Have you not figured out she is a mouthpiece for all the Democrats? They can pretend to be sanctimonious, but recent events have shone a light on Democrat racism and anti-Semitism as never before. https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1095013990781079552 …
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Good that some Dems have condemned the disgraceful anti-Semitic remarks of Rep. Omar—but their words are empty unless Dem leaders remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee. No one with her anti-Semitic views should be allowed to represent US foreign policy on that committee.
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After Omar issued an apology that was not really an apology. Woods commented, “The bullshit #BackPedal of the year…”
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The bullshit #BackPedal of the year... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-rep-omar-apologizes-for-israel-comments-calls-out-problematic-role-of-aipac-other-lobbyists …
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for Israel comments, calls out 'problematic' role of AIPAC,...
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., apologized Monday for comments in which she implied that a prominent pro-Israel lobby compensated lawmakers for their support of the Jewish state, but insisted on what she...
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When Congressman Dan Crenshaw tweeted, “At some point Dems just need to accept that @IlhanMN has deeply held prejudices about the Jewish people. Stop explaining her comments away and ‘asking for dialogue.’ It’s clear an apology from her is hollow. And she has a platform on the Foreign Affairs Committee? Really?”, Woods commented, “They push narratives until people are simply too exhausted to fight back. That is how we went from 9/11 to this unabashed Muslim anti-Semite in less than two decades. @DanCrenshawTX.”
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They push narratives until people are simply too exhausted to fight back. That is how we went from 9/11 to this unabashed Muslim anti-Semite in less than two decades. @DanCrenshawTX https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1103071185259151360 …
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At some point Dems just need to accept that @IlhanMN has deeply held prejudices about the Jewish people. Stop explaining her comments away and “asking for dialogue.”
It’s clear an apology from her is hollow.
And she has a platform on the Foreign Affairs Committee? Really?
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After former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke gleefully tweeted his enthusiasm for Omar, Woods stated simply, “Of course. They both hate Jews.”
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Of course. They both hate Jews.
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Here’s what Woods understands that the Democrats simply refuse to acknowledge: After the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh last October, in which 11 Jews were brutally shot and murdered by an anti-Semite, Woods tweeted, “Throughout history attacks on Jews have signaled a seismic shift in the hate spectrum. #AntiSemitism has traditionally been the most vile of all bigotry, thrusting its tendrils into the darkest depths of the human experience, the hatred of a religion.”
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Throughout history attacks on Jews have signaled a seismic shift in the hate spectrum. #AntiSemitism has traditionally been the most vile of all bigotry, thrusting its tendrils into the darkest depths of the human experience, the hatred of a religion. https://www.foxnews.com/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-victims-identified-as-brothers-husband-and-wife-killed-in-unspeakable-and-hateful-crime …
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From the website israellycool.com another article is titled
"Clint Eastwood: “I’m A Big Supporter Of Israel”"
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Clint Eastwood just made my day.
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Meeting the #legendary Clint Eastwood made my day. In his own words, he said "I am a big supporter of #Israel."
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From the website ynetnews.com an article is titled
"Over 200 Hollywood celebrities sign pro-Israel petition" the article says
'Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage,' petition states. 'Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields.'
Ynetnews|Published: 08.18.15 , 23:51
Over 200 Hollywood actors, including Sylvester Stallone, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Seth Rogen, Mayim Bialik and Sarah Silverman, have signed a petition which strongly condemns Hamas and expresses support to Israel.
The signatories state that they are "saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza" and are "pained by the suffering on both sides of the conflict and hope for a solution that brings peace to the region."
However, the petition then comes down hard on Hamas by stating: "We must also stand firm against ideologies of hatred and genocide which are reflected in Hamas’ charter, Article 7 of which reads, 'There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!' The son of a Hamas founder has also commented about the true nature of Hamas."
The petition asserts that "Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage. Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields."
It closes with a clear affirmation of its support for democratic freedoms: "We join together in support of the democratic values we all cherish and in the hope that the healing and transformative power of the arts can be used to build bridges of peace."
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Photo: Ken Ishii Getty)
It is widely believed that Hollywood has a leftist agenda. This can be seen from both the movies that it releases and its actors' political pronouncements, whether concerning the US or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of the most famous examples is Sean Penn's visit to the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, of whom he said upon his death that "I lost a friend I was blessed to have".
When Clint Eastwood's patriotic "American Sniper" came out, it was viciously attacked by Hollywood's liberals who considered it to be jingoistic. However, millions of Americans loved the film and it was a great success at the box office.
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One of the most pro-Israeli actors is Jon Voight who during Operation Protective Shield had this to say at a pro-Israel rally in Las Vegas: “Every patriotic American Jew and non-Jew alike must show their outrage, that we will not tolerate propaganda and lies about Israel being the aggressors and suppressors of the Palestinians.” He added, “It seems anti-Semitism is very much alive."
From the New York Post website www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Why the left buys into every anti-Israel smear"
By Gil TroyMay 20, 2018 | 8:19pm
Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a protest in front of the White House,
Pro-Palestinian protesters in front of the White House.UPI
Eight armed Hamas terrorists fought Israeli troops last Monday. All were killed — then counted in the day’s death toll of “60 protesters.”
Hamas itself identified 50 of the 60 “martyrs” as Hamas members and admitted to “terminological deception,” because it was deploying “peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force.” The widespread condemnations of Israel caused by characterizing those 50 violent fence-invaders as “peaceful” suggests how Palestinians are playing so many for dupes.
Reporters love playing the “peaceful, oppressed protesters-of-color” against “the armed, white, persecuting soldiers” card (even though there are many dark-skinned Israelis and light-skinned Palestinians; the conflict is national not racial). Images of flak-jacketed Israeli soldiers and injured Palestinians trigger waves of simplistic stereotypes. Suddenly, the Palestinians are Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi and Black Lives Matter all in one.
On May 14, the opening of America’s embassy in Jerusalem gave lazy meme-makers a “two-fer, casting Ivanka Trump as Marie Antoinette, essentially sneering “let them eat cake” — partying while “Palestinian protesters” died. This distortion confirmed the stereotype of the Trump family’s insensitivity.
Yet those 50 Hamas fighters disprove all these political “truths.” There’s nothing peaceful about marching toward an internationally recognized border in a coordinated assault, under cover of burning tires, fueled by shouts to mass-murder your neighbors, side-by-side with armed terrorists.
Israel didn’t learn anything by discovering the Hamas Facebook page instructing Gazans who breached the fence how to kidnap Israelis — every Israeli understands Hamas’ intentions. It’s why Hamas — which controls the Gaza Strip undemocratically — builds tunnels instead of roads, trains fighters instead of teachers and shouts “Death to the Jews” louder than “Long live Palestine.”
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"It’s striking how easy it is to discover the truth — or at least see some complexity behind these stereotypes. You need not be a pro-Israel fanatic to assume the story must be more complicated — just as you can be a pro-Palestinian critic of Israel without caricaturing Israelis as Nazis or Ku Klux Klanners.
When people so willingly engage in self-deception, something deeper is taking place.
While in the Middle East and Europe, Jew-hatred still fans the flames of anti-Israel ugliness, Gallup polls consistently report that over 70 percent of Americans sympathize with Israel. Such numbers, despite negative media coverage, suggest something deeper fuels this pile-on and mass misconception.
Call it “what’s-wrong-with-us-ism.” If in the 1940s and 1950s, America suffered from too much “what’s-right-with-us-ism,” since the 1960s, we’ve been overcompensating. Our culture — and especially our media — emphasizes our social flaws, political failures, moral defects.
Such self-criticism helped encourage some reforms. It opened society to necessary protests, especially from African-Americans, women and other once-disenfranchised groups.
But this sensationalist New Nihilism has also shaken American confidence, undermined faith in our institutions, treated many of our leaders as punchlines — long before this president.
And, while the breast-beating appears to be a mass act of humility, there’s an arrogance to it, too. We take blame for much that goes wrong, for the same reason we used to take credit for much that went right: If the world revolves around us, we dismiss others as bit players and cast ourselves as the main actors.
While that sense of “us-ness” is mostly “we Americans,” it extends to our closest allies. This explanation, then, uncovers two mysteries.
We have been conditioned like smokers to nicotine; we buy into the obviously simplistic, one-sided, sensationalist media narrative about Israel because we have become too used to buying into similarly crude, finger-pointing stories about ourselves.
That explains the bigger whodunit: Israel has suffered such harsh media coverage yet remained popular with most Americans because, as Pogo’s cartoonist Walt Kelly famously put it, “we have met the enemy and he is us.” We criticize Israelis because we identify with them, citizens of the Middle East’s only democracy, forced to make difficult calls in defending themselves against dictatorships and terrorists calling for their destruction.
Sometimes criticism is a compliment."
Gil Troy is the author of “The Zionist Ideas” and a distinguished scholar of North American history at McGill University.
From the website www.breakingisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Has the Location of the Garden of Eden Been Found? [VIDEO]"
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz September 21, 2016 , 12:30 pm
“For Hashem hath comforted Tzion; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Hashem; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.” Isaiah 51:3 (The Israel Bible™)
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"It seems the entire globe has been fully explored and no secrets remain, yet no signs of Eden, its garden, or the flaming sword set to guard its entrance have ever been found. One unusual theory, put forth by a young woman who witnessed a remarkable phenomenon she believes marks the beginnings of a prophetic fulfillment, is supported by Biblical verse.
Samantha Siegel, a young American immigrant living in Jerusalem, first came to prominence two months ago when her video showing fish swimming in the sinkholes surrounding the Dead Sea went viral, garnering over 280,000 views. The video excited the public, who saw in it the fulfillment of the prophecy in Ezekiel quoted below.
In her recent video, Siegel suggests this phenomenon is the beginning of a drastic change in the Dead Sea that will turn it into a lush and fertile region. She begins by noting that the Garden of Eden was referred to in the Bible as a garden of God. In a leap of reason based on Biblical sources, she noted the plains of Jordan where the Dead Sea stands today are also referred to in the Bible as a garden of God.
And Hashem God planted a garden eastward…Genesis 2:8
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Hashem destroyed Sdom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Hashem… Genesis 13:10
Similarly, the Garden of Eden had every kind of fruit tree, and the Dead Sea is prophesied to be so in the Messianic era.
And out of the ground made Hashem God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food…Genesis 2:9
And by the river upon the bank thereof on this side and on that side shall grow every tree for food…Ezekiel 47:12
From these Biblical parallels, Siegel proposes that Eden and the Dead Sea are one and the same. Though it might be difficult for the average person to envision the Dead Sea, a salt lake devoid of life, as the fabled Garden, for Siegel, this comes naturally. After personally witnessing the improbable existence of life in the waters surrounding the Dead Sea, Siegel can easily envision in this the first signs of what she believes is the rebirth of the Garden of Eden."
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"As proof of her theory, she notes the four rivers of Eden, listed in the Bible as the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. According to her theory, the Pishon and Gihon could be the two sources of the Nile, southwest of Israel.
The Tigris and Euphrates are located in what is today Iraq, northeast of modern-day Israel. She describes these four rivers as encircling Israel with the center point being the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Rabbi Natan Greenberg, the head of Bat Ayin Yeshiva, was intrigued by Siegel’s interpretation, but noted that there is no Jewish source to support her theory. “For our purposes today, Eden was once a place but it transcended that, becoming a spiritual concept of geula (redemption) and tikkun (fixing) with no specific geographic reference,” Rabbi Greenberg told Breaking Israel News.
“Once it was in the physical world but now it is gone, and there is no return. That connection between the physical and spiritual is unattainable today.”
Rabbi Greenberg compared Eden to a mythical elven land in the “Lord of the Rings” series written by J.R.R. Tolkien. “It’s like Valinor, where the elves first came from. It became a myth, a place of high spiritual transformation and something to strive towards, but there is no return.”
Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman director of Ohr Chadash Torah Institute, also noted there was no source that suggested a geographic location for the Garden of Eden, but that does not detract from its relevance.
“Jewish history follows a cycle of constant states of exile and redemption,” Rabbi Trugman explained. “The first exile was from Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden) and it thereby forms the paradigm for exile for all of history. Geula is what is referred to as returning to the Garden – the full tikkun of the primordial sin and exile from the garden.”
The Garden does have present-day ramifications, according to the rabbi, even political overtones.
“According to Jewish tradition, the Garden of Eden is associated with the Land of Israel, according to the big borders – from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates,” Rabbi Trugman said to Breaking Israel News.
The borders of Israel are described several times in the Bible. When God promised the land to Abraham, specific borders were described allotting to his descendants a piece of land significantly larger than what was eventually conquered in the days of Joshua Ben Nun. These more expansive borders were based on the description of the Garden of Eden.
In that day Hashem made a covenant with Avram, saying: ‘Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Genesis 15:18
“The future geula is centered around Israel,” explained the rabbi. “But geula means a revelation of the primordial utopian state of the garden of Eden.”
From the Jerusalem Post website www.jpost.com an article is titled
"Israel and the Garden of Eden"
We can offer solutions for homeland security, ecology, energy, desertification and water resources.
By Yoram Dori May 30, 2007 18:44
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"It is said of Israel that she is a mini-cosmos. A country of immigrants hailing from more than 120 countries: fair-skinned and dark-skinned, Chinese and Indian, haredim and atheists. An 80 percent Jewish majority that lives alongside an Arab minority, mostly Muslims, an island in an Islamic sea in the throes of a power struggle between Shi'ite and Sunni hegemony, and counting a population of 7 million spread over an area (sovereign Israel) that measures a mere 20,770 kilometers. The world, led by the United States, is facing a number of challenges that are undermining its very existence and threatening its social fabric: the destabilization of homeland security at the hands of Islamist terrorism and the failure of efforts to democratize the Arab world, in addition to ecological issues and global warming, dwindling water reserves in parts of the world and the risk of their becoming polluted in others, as well as the steep price being paid for dependency on oil and the spiraling prices of this commodity as a result. DUE TO its composition, size, location and borders, Israel constitutes an incubator or, more precisely, a model, which can serve to find solutions for global issues and implement them. Take democratization and modernization: Some 1.5 million Arabs live in Israel. Given that ever since its establishment Israel has been a democratic country that accords full rights to all of its citizens regardless of gender, religion, race or nationality, this has had an impact also on its Arab minority. Israel's Arab sector is tangible proof that there is no in-built contradiction in terms between democracy and Islam. Israel counts over 100 local authorities in the Arab sector: municipalities and local and regional councils that are voted in by democratic elections, with the participation of over 60 percent of the Arab electorate or more. Most of these authorities are situated in northern Israel (the Galilee), where the population is 50 percent Jewish and 50 percent non-Jewish, and southern Israel (the Negev) with a 25 percent Bedouin population. Aside from democratization, the Arab sector is also on the path towards modernization. Over 19,000 Arab students enroll every year in institutions of higher education; a large percentage of doctors and nurses in northern Israel hospitals are Arab, and the Jewish patients have no misgiving in consigning their lives to their hands. Industrial zones are being founded in the Arab sector and at present the Vice Prime Minister's Office (Shimon Peres) is advancing the establishment of joint Jewish-Arab industrial zones."
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" Arab Nazareth and nearby Jewish populated Nazareth Ilit are promoting an initiative to establish a joint academic research complex, and a considerable number of projects are being implemented with government funding to stimulate outstanding achievements among the Bedouin population of the Negev, as are also vocational programs for Arab women. THEN THERE is homeland security: Israel is possibly the only country in the western world that has never requested the American army to fight on her behalf. Not one American mother or father needs to worry about the fate of a son fighting on Israeli soil for its protection. Despite the serious disadvantage of being small in number, Israel is nevertheless able to produce from its ranks brave and highly trained soldiers equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and, above all, motivated by a spirit of justice and moral values. Today, Israel is developing anti-terrorist weapons based on nano-technology (sensors, miniature batteries and communication networks, to name just some) that will at the end of the day be of service to the whole of the enlightened world in its fight against the madness of those who employ terrorism seeking to kill for the sake of killing and destroy for the evil pleasure of destroying. Ecology and alternative energy represent another area where Israel has something to offer the world. Israel has decided to fight waterway pollution and the Ministry for Environmental Protection together with the Vice Prime-Minister's Office are funding extensive initiatives in this field. The latest and most important project is a plan to clean up the Jordan River. Shared by Israel and Jordan, this is a river which, by the way, is richer in public relations than water, and its rejuvenation calls for dialogue between former enemies and a great deal of good will. It can therefore serve as a model of ecology in the service of peace for many a country around the world. Israel's efforts, in cooperation with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Palestinian Chairman's Office, are testimony of the advantages emanating from the determination to overcome political obstacles through environmental leverage. ISRAEL, A country that lacks natural resources, invests considerable assets in developing alternative sources of energy, such as solar energy - a whole settlement in the Negev, Darijat, enjoys a supply of electricity generated by a grid of solar heaters deployed on the village roof-tops - and pursues R&D on other energy approaches, among them shale and giant chimneys. "
the article lastly says
"Because Israel is to all intents and purposes an island operating within confined borders because of its neighbors, the country constitutes an exceptional experimental site to test electric-generated vehicles. The greatest distance one can drive in Israel is a few hundred kilometers, ideal conditions for the usage of vehicles operating on rechargeable batteries. Israel's meager water resources have turned it into a development center for desalination plants, reducing the cost of water production. Israeli desalination installations have been erected in neighboring Cyprus and similar plants can serve as a solution for the shortage of water in some of the dry Islamic countries. The government has recently erected a special center for water technologies in the Negev which is developing the means of safeguarding water, reducing wastage and leakage, maximizing effective water usage and making other water-related advances. This center is a dream project for every potential investor in this field. ISRAEL THUS constitutes the definitive model for addressing, and finding solutions to some of the major challenges on the global agenda. Israel can serve as a Garden of Eden in identifying advanced solutions for homeland security, ecological issues, rising energy prices and the fight against desertification and water shortages. Our little "mini-cosmos" can benefit humanity as a whole. That's the role we'd like to play and that's the role we should be playing with the right kind of backing from those who share our vision."
From the website factsaboutisrael.uk an article is titled
"Israel and the Land of Eden The Mysterious Israel-Eden Connection"
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The land of Israel is unique
Israel is part of ancient Eden
Israel will again reflect the glory of the Garden of Eden
According to Strong’s Concordance, Eden (ay’-den) means ‘delicate, delight, pleasure – the region of Adam’s home’. It is a Sumerian word indicating a plain (a flat area where cultivation would be easy). So, at the outset, Eden was a good place in which to live! Genesis states that mankind started in Eden and specifically in a garden in the east of Eden:
The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed … Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold (Gen 2.10,11)
Note that Genesis 2 implies that there was a land of Eden as well as a ‘garden of Eden’ planted toward the east of Eden. This distinction is also implied in the book of Isaiah:
And her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord (Isa 51.3)
Searching for the land of Eden and the Garden of Eden
Fig.1: The Fertile Crescent. Original map: Robert Simmon, NASA’s Earth Observatory
Fig.2: States of the Fertile Crescent c1450 BC – Mesopotamia. Map: Wikimedia Commons
Fig.3: Possible location of the Garden of Eden. Original map: Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims). [CC BY-SA 2.5], Wikimedia Commons
The Fertile Crescent – the ‘Cradle of Civilization’: The so-called Fertile Crescent (shown in green, Fig.1) extends northeast from the Sinai Peninsula, bordered by the Mediterranean coast and the Jordan River, then curves to the southeast, following along the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. It is characterized by unusually fertile soil, and so it is not surprising that humans first created agricultural settlements here over 8,000 years ago, link. For example, archaeological investigations in the Zagros Mountains of Iran reveal that people were grinding wheat and barley about 11,000 years ago, link. And the archaeological site of Gobekli Tepe (locally called ‘Potbelly Hill’) in southern Turkey (indicated in Fig.1) has been carbon dated at around 10,000 BC – older than any other known site, link, link. Bear in mind that the Fertile Crescent probably had a more agriculturally productive climate than today because of massive climatic and geological changes during Noah’s flood around 2300 BC.
Babylonia: After the Flood mankind still lived in the Fertile Crescent. In Genesis 11 and 12 we read that around 1900 BC God called Abram (Abraham) to leave the family home in the Babylonian city of Ur (Fig. 2) and go to the land of Canaan. Abram’s journey took him along the Fertile Crescent via Nineveh and Haran (and probably very close to the archaeological site of Gobekli Tepe). Note that the city of Ur was close to the Persian Gulf.
Oil and Gas in the Fertile Crescent: At this point it is interesting to ask ourselves; ‘Why are there giant oil and gas reserves in the northern Persian Gulf region?’ – see map. For example, Kuwait is less than one-tenth the size of Syria, but its oil reserves far exceed Syria’s reserves, link. The traditional understanding is that these reserves began as microscopic plants and animals living in oceans. During their life they absorbed energy from the sun which was stored as carbon molecules in their bodies. When they died, they sank to the bottom and over millions of years layer upon layer generated pressure and heat and eventually oil (or gas). Geological and sea-level changes then resulted in the land reserves seen today."
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"But does this process have to take millions of years? Are there quicker ways of generating oil? In particular, can the chemistry of oil be explained by flood geology and a high sedimentation rate – see Oil and the Flood. This idea is based on the observation that a high sedimentation rate preserves organic material [Tissot and Welte, 1984, Petroleum Formation and Occurrence, Springer-Verlag]. So a catastrophic sedimentation rate, as would occur in Noah’s flood would uproot, kill, and bury organic material very rapidly and avid oxidizing agents. (On the same theme, we note that polystrate fossils sometimes span many coal seams, providing strong evidence that the coal did not take millions of years to form!)
So do the large oil and gas reserves around the northern end of the Persian Gulf suggest vigorous vegetation and animal life in that region before the Flood? Are the oil and gas reserves the result of the sudden destruction of the garden of Eden?
Eden found? Given these facts, it’s not surprising that the Fertile Crescent has been labelled “the cradle of civilization”. Was this region the biblical Eden? Scholars identify Eden with the Sumerian term ‘edin’, which means “uncultivated steppe or plain” and usually associated with the area today called Mesopotamia (see Fig.2), link. "
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"The Rivers of Eden
Given that some of the world’s earliest complex societies developed in the Fertile Crescent it is tempting to think Eden is associated with the Canaan-Southern Turkey-Babylonia-Persian Gulf region. Descriptions of the four rivers in Genesis 2 may help us to be more specific. But in attempting this we must bear in mind that ancient world catastrophes like the Flood had the potential to dramatically change the original land forms and river systems, Setterfield. Not surprisingly, two of these rivers, the Pishon and the Gihon, are no longer visible, probably due to geological changes incurred during Noah’s flood.
The Pishon River
We note that “a river (the Pishon) went out of Eden to water the garden (of Eden)” and flowed past or skirted the land of Havilah. Where was Havilah? Some argue that the land of Havilah has long since disappeared due to massive geological changes, so searching for it is futile, Setterfield. That said, we note that, post Flood, the descendants of Ishmael “dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur” (Gen 25.18), so the land of Havilah was still recognized post-Flood. It was probably one of those regions in the North Eastern area of the Arabian Peninsula, link, as indicated in Fig.3.
As stated, the Pishon is not visible today, although it must have been a large river in order to “water the garden”. In fact, satellite images and space Shuttle Imaging Radar suggest the river was once up to three miles wide, link. Analysis of these space images shows that, in Kuwait, a dry riverbed (Wadi Al-Batin) cuts through limestone and disappears into the desert of Saudi Arabia. The river ran underground along a fault line under the sand. From the Hyaz (Hejaz) Mountains in Saudi Arabia, link, this river ran northeast to its delta in Kuwait near the Persian Gulf. It is interesting to note that Pishon literally means “to disperse”, or “to spread”, suggesting the parting into some form of delta or ‘riverheads’ as in Gen 2.10. Given these recent discoveries, some claim this lost river corresponds to the biblical Pishon River associated with the garden of Eden.
The fact that the Pishon “went out of Eden”, “skirted the whole land of Havilah” and “parted into four riverheads” suggests that Eden was a large area of land to the north of Havilah.
The Gihon River (the river of Cush)
The word Gihon means “stream’. This ‘stream’ is said to have flowed “around the whole land of Cush” (Gen 2.13). In early biblical history, Cush (pronounced Kush) was the name of a district near the head of the Persian Gulf, link. More specifically, it could be the country still known as Khuzi-stan, on the east side of the Lower Tigris, link. This agrees with the claim that Cush was is in Mesopotamia (rather than in Ethiopia), link. The Amplified Bible also places Cush in Mesopotamia. It is interesting to note that, today, two major rivers flow from the Iranian mountains in the east down to the southern part of the Mesopotamian flood-plain, viz. the Kerkha and the Karun, link. So the Gihon River could have flowed in Iran and the Zagros Mountains, link, as indicated in Fig.3."
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"The Tigris (Heb: Hiddekel) and Euphrates
In Genesis 2 these two rivers are associated with the “four riverheads” (river delta?) coming from the Pishon. The Tigris or Hiddekel flowed “towards the east of Assyria (Heb: Asshur)”. Hiddekel means “flowing rapidly”, indicating it either went through land with a high gradient or had a large quantity of water flowing in it, or both. Maps show the ancient Tigris River flowing through a fertile alluvial plain, link (consistent with the concept of ‘Eden’). The Hebrew word translated ‘Euphrates’ is Perath, which literally means “to break forth”.
Are these two rivers of Genesis the two rivers we see today? Today, the mountains of Turkey collect water that becomes the observed Tigris and Euphrates rivers. But today’s Tigris and Euphrates may not be the original rivers! As already mentioned, we must bear in mind that the massive geological changes of the ancient world (as occurred for example in the Flood) could have changed the rivers of Genesis 2, Setterfield. Today’s Tigris and Euphrates could be running on top of flood-deposited layers of rock. That said, many still assume that the approximate location of the ancient Tigris and Euphrates rivers was as seen today, again as indicated Fig.3. It has been suggested that, viewed from the Persian Gulf region, all four rivers could be seen as “riverheads”.
The Edenic Environment
The Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole, [Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]. Enlarge
Little is known about the climate of Eden and its garden and there is much speculation! Artistic impressions paint an idyllic sub-tropical environment for Adam. But what do we know with reasonable certainty?
At the outset, Adam’s environment must have been conducive to plant growth – many different trees grew and fruited (and it seems that before the Fall there were no weeds!) Also, there is no record of Adam being too cold or too hot or buffeted by storms. Some argue that there was no rain before the Flood and instead “a mist went up from the earth to water the ground” (Gen 2.5,6). Either way, it seems things were environmentally quiet and peaceful. Everything God had created was “very good” (Gen 1.31). How can a severe storm be ‘good’? In addition, we note Adam and his immediate descendants lived approximately ten times longer than present generations. Why?"
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"Adam’s world: A universally warm and pleasant Earth?
Some maintain that before the Flood the earth’s axial tilt was perhaps only 5 degrees (or less), resulting in virtually no seasonal changes and one large stable Hadley Cell of circulating air currents, link, link. The deductions are based on measurements from ancient ‘gnomons’. It is conjectured that the earth was probably universally warm, with no deserts, ice caps or major mountains. There was probably less sea and more land. Lush vegetation grew worldwide, so providing for the coal and oil deposits we now find near the poles. It has also been conjectured that rapid radioactive decay heated the earth’s mantle below the crust, driving out the water locked in the minerals. This water seeped through the earth’s thin granite crust and appeared as a mist, watering the ground (Gen 2.6).
As stated, with this early-earth low-tilt model there would be virtually no seasons, and we note that the first mention of seasons and the associated ‘cold’ and ‘heat’ is after Noah’s Flood (Gen 8.22). And it is argued that a sudden change leading to the present 23.4 degree tilt arose around 2300 BC, possibly due to asteroid/meteor impact. Another sudden change in axial tilt at the end of this age is suggested in Isaiah 24.19-20. More at young earth model.
A Protective Canopy?
Genesis 1.6 mentions a “firmament” (Heb: raqiya, ‘an extended surface’) that divided the created waters. What was this? And did it provide an idyllic environment for Adam and his immediate descendants? Moreover, did it protect them from damaging solar radiation?
Some have proposed that a protective ‘water vapor canopy’ existed before the Flood, but this is not strongly supported, link. What about the Crystalline Canopy Theory? This conjectures that, before the Flood, the ‘firmament’ extended throughout space as a universal macrocosm expanse of lattice structure consisting of charged subatomic particles. Simultaneously, in order to focus the benefit of universal radiation, the firmament is held to be localized as a thin microcosm complex of crystalline structure suspended directly above Earth. To quote:
This (localized) structure consisted of strong magnetic flux lines holding silicate sugilite, hydrogen, water molecules and possibly various metallic colloids in its force field. Water in Earth’s spherical mass was utilized in its solid form in making the localized crystalline firmament, and was simultaneously distributed throughout space in its various molecular forms in the establishing of the firmament as a universal expanse. Earth’s local crystalline canopy in its physical design would uniquely absorb and transfer the radiation of the stellar bodies that were later placed in the universal expanse. These stellar bodies were made to be an orchestrated symphony of mass, energy and radiation, specifically designed to benefit planet Earth and its inhabitants, link"
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"So in this theory the Hebrew word ‘raqiya’ refers to both the universal expanse and the localized crystalline structure suspended above the Earth as one seamless whole.
Man’s Aging: It is claimed that the crystalline canopy suspended perhaps ten miles above Earth’s surface had the benefit that it filtered out most of the damaging UV radiation i.e. DNA damage at the molecular level. It is conjectured that, at the judgement of the Flood, the localized microcosm – the ‘canopy’ suspended over Earth – was disrupted as ‘windows were opened’ in the crystalline lattice. This could have been done by jets of steam from hydrothermal vents in the earth’s crust. Consequently, man was subjected to increased radiation. It is scientifically plausible that a significant increase in radioisotopes in the atmosphere after the Flood could cause the observed progressive reduction in the age of man after the Flood, see human aging.
Conclusions on Eden and the Garden of Eden
Eden: From the foregoing discussion, Eden (the land) could have been the large region bordered in the south by the land of Havilah (possibly NE Arabia) and embracing the Tigris River and Mesopotamia in the east. A northern boundary might be indicated by references to “the people of Eden who were in Telassar” (2 Kings 19.12 Isa 37.12). This city was inhabited by the Bene ‘Eden and was possibly located in the upper Mesopotamian country, link, link. In fact, since the so-called Fertile Crescent is often called ‘the cradle of civilization’, it is tempting to see it as the eastern, northern and western boundaries of Eden. This would include the biblical land of Canaan as part of Eden. The land of Nod (the land of Cain’s ‘wandering’) is said to have been ‘on the east of Eden’ (Gen 4.16) and so outside Eden, as indicated in Fig.3.
The Garden of Eden: Many commentators place the garden of Eden in the Persian Gulf region i.e. ‘eastward of Eden’, as indicated in Fig.3. Some believe the earliest inhabitants in Mesopotamia (see Fig.2) originally lived in this region. The massive oil reserves in this region may even be the result of the sudden destruction of the garden by the Flood c2300 BC. Also bear in mind that at that time the sea level was much lower and sea levels have gradually risen. By c5500 BC most of the Gulf basin was filled, although the sea level was still 17 meters lower than that of today, link. The Persian Gulf did not reach its present levels until Abraham’s time c4000 BC, link.
The environment of Eden (and probably that of the whole earth) could have been enhanced and protected by a ‘canopy’ above the earth.
Sadly, Adam’s time in the garden was short-lived since he and his wife were driven out after the Fall (Gen 3.23,24). From this time on, Adam’s life became difficult as the ground came under God’s curse (Gen 3.17-19), and it is logical to assume that the garden was completely destroyed by the Flood. But whilst it existed, there were 11 overlapping generations with a span of a thousand years that would have had direct knowledge (person to person) about Eden and the Garden, including Noah and his family, link, link. Bear in mind that, pre-Flood, man lived much longer and Adam lived 930 years (Gen 5.5). For more on man’s changing life-span see Human Aging."
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"The Israel-Eden Connection
When man was driven out of the garden of Eden after the Fall (Gen 3.23,24), and the Flood came to destroy evil mankind, was this the end of Eden and its garden for all time? Was God’s beautiful creation to be lost forever just because man sinned? Studies of Israel’s history and prophesied future suggest not. There appears to be a close relationship between the land of Israel (past and future) and Eden and its garden.
It is widely claimed that the earliest civilizations lived along the Fertile Crescent, giving the region the name ‘the Cradle of Civilization’. As discussed, some scholars associate this region with the biblical Eden, and some associate the Persian Gulf area with the garden of Eden. So since the Crescent spans from the Persian Gulf across into southern Israel, we might tentatively associate the land of Israel with Eden (and even the garden of Eden)! Is there any justification for this claim?
Jerusalem-Eden
Pangea. By Kieff GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, Enlarge
Pangea: Geological theory holds that civilized man once lived on a super-continent called ‘Pangea’ surrounded by a super-ocean called ‘Panthalassa’, link. Scientists attribute the break-up of Pangea (a process supposedly lasting hundreds of millions of years) to plate techtonics. The concept of a single landmass and a single ocean is supported by Genesis:
Then God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear’; and it was so (Gen 1.9, emphasis added)
Now consider the following rather intriguing biblical claims:
For God is my King from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth (Ps 74.12)
Thus says the Lord God: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her’ (Ezek 5.5)
Jewish tradition does indeed place Jerusalem at the center or midst of the earth, and some see the temple mount in Jerusalem as the true ‘ground Zero’ of the world, link, link. Is this concept figurative, or can we take it literally? If Jerusalem really is the geographic center of the world then maybe Jerusalem is closely associated with the Eden of Genesis?
Fernand Crombette took these biblical claims seriously and set about finding a single ancient landmass. He noticed that the current continents fitted much better when another biblical text is taken into account:
Then God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.’ Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so (Gen 1.6-7)
Crombette assumed that, initially (i.e. in the days of Eden), the waters were equally divided and that at the Flood the waters above the firmament ‘collapsed’ to fill the oceans below the firmament. This concept is similar to the ‘water-canopy theory’. So Crombette assumed that in the time of Eden the mean ocean depths were only half as deep (c2,000 m) as the current depths (c4,000 m). Today’s continental shelves would then be above the water line. The interesting fact is that at 2,000 meters bathymetric maps show that the current continents fit almost perfectly when they are moved into place."
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"So, by adhering to the biblical text, Crombette showed that when the present continents are repositioned, they fit almost perfectly at a depth of 2,000 meters. Moreover, it is claimed that the center of the single continent is Jerusalem, link, link. Staying with biblical concepts, Noah’s Flood has been conjectured as the mechanism and timing for the division of this single continent, link.
Modern Calculations: Today, the geographical center of all current land-areas can be computed using satellite data and great-circle distances on the sphere of the earth, link. Using this approach, Holger Isenberg computed the geographic center at 37.7°N 35.4°E, corresponding to a location in southern Turkey, link. The discrepancy between this location and Crombette’s location (Jerusalem) must be partly due to the fact that Isenberg’s calculation is based upon current sea levels. So they do not apply to Adam’s pre-Flood world, although they do provide some confirmation of Corbette’s calculations in that the ‘midst’ of the earth is around the Eastern Mediterranean.
Conclusion: It is reasonable to conjecture that God would have placed Adam near the center of this single continent rather than at its periphery. In other words, Adam could have been placed near to the location of the future Jerusalem. The implication then is that Jerusalem could be closely associated with Eden, even the garden of Eden itself!
Israel-Eden in the Past
Israel-Eden
Fig.4: Canaan under Solomon
Map: Biblical Maps. Enlarge
Canaan – where was it?: God promised Abram (Abraham) and all his descendants “all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession” (Gen 17.8). Why Canaan? What was special about Canaan? Moreover – where was Canaan?
On the day of God’s covenant with Abram, God defined Canaan as running from the river of Egypt (traditionally identified as the Nile, link) to the River Euphrates (Gen 15.18). The same boundaries are found in Exod 23.31. The tribes of Israel occupied most of this area, link, and there are indications that the kingdoms of David and Solomon c1000 BC did indeed stretch from the river of Egypt on the Sinai peninsula, across the Syrian Desert to Tiphsah on the northern parts of the Euphrates. So the biblical Canaan closely followed the Fertile Crescent northwards and eastwards.
Prior to these kingdoms, God gave Moses the boundaries of Canaan as the children of Israel entered the land (Num 34.1-12). The southern border went through the Wilderness of Zin to the river of Egypt, the western border was the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern border ran north from the dead sea along the Jordan up to Zedad (modern-day Sadad in Syria) in the north east. Virtually identical boundaries to those given to Moses are given in the future boundaries of Israel (Ezek 47.13-21).
Canaan – a ‘Good Land’: Recall that Eden means ‘delicate, delight, pleasure’ – a good place in which to live and where cultivation would be easy. Can this be said of the land of Canaan? Certainly! We might describe Canaan as an ‘Eden-like land’. Let’s summarize the characteristics of Canaan as described by Moses to the nation of Israel (Deut 8.7-9):"
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" For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper (Deut 8.7-9)
This is confirmed by Sinhue, an Egyptian living in the 20th century BC. Here’s his description of Canaan:
It was a good land named Yaa. Figs were in it, and grapes. It had more wine than water. Plentiful was its honey; abundant its olives. Every [kind of] fruit was on its trees. Barley there was and emmer. There was no limit to any [kind of] cattle. [Thompson, J.A. Handbook of Life in Bible Times, Leicester: IVP, 1986, p125]
Canaan – a land of God’s blessing: Recall, when Abram (Abraham) was called out of Ur to the land of Canaan (Gen 11.31) he was being sent to “a good and large land flowing with milk and honey” (Exod 3.8, Deut 26.9). The phrase “flowing with milk and honey” is understood to be hyperbolically descriptive of the land’s richness; it is generally taken as a metaphor meaning ‘all good things — God’s blessings’. Again, when Abram and Lot needed to separate their livestock (because their flocks and herds were so large), Lot chose to go to a good place:
Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere … like the garden of the Lord … (Gen 13.10, emphasis added)
So, even thousands of years after the Fall, the actual land of Israel was still ‘a delight and a pleasure’ in which to live. And this was still true hundreds of years later when the prophet Jeremiah was preaching to the rebellious stiff-necked people of Judah. Through Jeremiah the LORD said to Judah:
I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day (Jer 11.5)
So even as late as c600 BC it appears that, at least parts of the land of Israel reflected the blessings of Eden! That said, man gradually had a detrimental effect on the environment in Canaan e.g. deforestation and the loss of many species of mammal and birds due to hunting, link.
Israel-Eden in the Future
Here is where we see an even stronger Israel-Eden connection. Even now, the land of Israel is blossoming in terms of agriculture compared with the desolate land of 100 years ago. But in the future it appears that the land of Israel will have a strong Eden-like appearance. Let’s compare Adam’s Eden with the land of Israel during the Millennium:
God walks with Man: Before the Fall, God walked in the garden in which He had placed Adam (Gen 3.8). He wanted fellowship with man. Likewise, in the Millennium, prophecy indicates that God in the form of Christ the King will again walk this earth alongside man. The book of Ezekiel describes the Millennial temple and the future earthly dwelling place of the LORD:
Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever (Ezek 43.7)"
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"This concept is mind-blowing! But is it any more than when Christ the Son of God walked this earth 2,000 years ago?
A Garden: In Adam’s day God planted a perfect garden eastward in the land of Eden. The trees of the garden were beautiful to look at and provided Adam with food (Gen 2.9). The garden was so perfect it became a legend to this day. In the Millennium, prophecy says that God will again plant ‘a garden of renown’ for food in the land of Israel:
I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land … (Ezek 34.29 NKJV)
It seems that at least parts of the land of Israel will become like Adam’s Eden. The area around Zion or God’s ‘Holy Mountain (Isa 56.7)’ i.e. around Jerusalem will receive a special blessing:
I will make the places all around My hill (Zion) a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase (Ezek 34.26,27)
For the Lord will comfort Zion … He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord (Isa 51.3)
In fact, it will be so beautiful they will say:
This land that was deserted and desolate has become like the garden of Eden … (Ezek 36.35)
Beautiful Trees: In Adam’s day this garden had “every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food” (Gen 2.9). What sort of trees were they? Apart from fruit trees (Gen 1.11), the prophet Ezekiel describes a few of them – ceders, firs and chestnut trees (Ezek 31.8). Likewise, in the Millennium God will plant many beautiful trees:
I will put the cedar in the wilderness, the acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree; I will place the juniper in the desert together with the box tree and the cypress (Isa 41.19)
As to be expected, when it comes to fruit trees the future land will be blessed with fig trees and vineyards (Joel 2.22). Why does God do this? All this is done to make Christ’s future dwelling place on earth, His sanctuary, ‘glorious’ (Isa 60.13). Even now the land of Israel has seen significant aforestation. Since 1900 some 250 million sub-tropical trees have been planted in all regions of Israel, from the Golan and Galilee in the north to the Negev in the south, link.
Well Watered: Adam’s Eden had the great river (probably the Pishon) that flowed east to water the garden of Eden. Similarly, in the Millennium water will flow east from the (new) temple to replenish the Dead Sea:
Then he said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah (the Jordan Valley); then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the Dead Sea shall be healed and become fresh (Ezek 47.8 amplified)
Has this already started? Researchers have discovered huge craters on the floor of the Dead Sea. Fresh water is flowing from these craters and fish are now swimming in fresh water sink holes, link. Also, in the Millennium Israel’s deserts will have pools and fountains of water and crops will be well-watered from traditional rains:
I will open rivers on the bare heights and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land fountains of water (Isa 41.18)
So rejoice, O sons of Zion … for He has poured down for you the rain … the early and latter rain as before
(Joel 2.23)"
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"With the passing of time, when the people of Israel forgot their God, the “early” (Autumn) and “latter” (Spring) rains were delayed or did not fall. But when the Jewish people acknowledge their true Messiah (Christ) it seems that God will bless the nation with the required rains (Jer 31.11-12).
A Peaceful Land: Before the Fall, Adam’s world was at peace; there was no hurt and no killing. So Animals and birds ate green herbs (Gen 1.30). Likewise, in the Millennium, the land of Israel will be at peace and Jerusalem will be “a quiet home” (Isa 33.20). There will be no hurt and animals will not devour one another:
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together. And a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox … They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain (Isa 11.6-9)
Here, the term ‘holy mountain’ is usually taken to mean ‘the mountain of the LORD’S house’ (Isa 2.2, Ezek 40.2) – a reference to the preeminence of Zion (Jerusalem) above the other ‘mountains’ or nations, and in particular the area surrounding the new temple (see a new temple in Jerusalem). In fact, the whole world will be at peace during the Millennial age and “nation will not lift up sword against nation” (Isa 2.4).
A Vegetarian Diet? Before the Fall, Adam was given herbs and fruit to eat and the beasts of the field ate herbs (Gen 1.29,30). There was no killing and so animal meat was ‘off the menu’! Will this be true in Millennial Israel, given that “there shall be no hurt” in Christ’s ‘holy mountain’? Certainly it seems true in the Jerusalem area since the river flowing east from the temple seems to bless the surrounding land:
Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine (Ezek 47.12)
It seems that in this ‘new Eden’ around Zion, meat could again be ‘off the menu’. Where prophecy speaks of future flocks of sheep and cattle (Isa 30.23, 61.5) this may be in other parts of Israel, or for temple sacrifices (Ezek 43.18,19 Zech 14.21).
A Healthy Environment: Ezekiel 47.12 refers to the healing benefits of Israel’s trees. Is this a reference to the future widespread use of herbal medicine? Note that the future inhabitants of Zion will not say “I am sick” (Isa 33.24) and people will live long lives (Isa 65.20). Will this future Eden-like environment reflect the healthy environment of Adam’s world?
A Protected Environment: Besides geographic changes, meteorological changes and changes in the animal kingdom, the area around Zion will be specially protected from extreme weather:
The Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain (Isa 4.5-6)
Note that this protective ‘canopy’ echoes the atmospheric protection Adam appears to have benefited from, albeit on a much smaller scale"
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"The Sanctuary-Eden Connection
Israel-Eden
Fig.5: Solomon’s Temple linked to Eden
There is a deep spiritual connection between the garden of Eden and the Hebrew temples. Consider the first ‘temple’. As the Israelites were travelling through the wilderness towards Canaan, God asked them to make a place where He could “dwell amongst men” – a sanctuary or tabernacle (Exod 25.8). Clearly, this had to be portable and so it became known as ‘the tent of meeting’ (Exod 29.11, 33.7 NASB). After the Israelites were established in Canaan, the sanctuary became a permanent structure, as in Solomon’s Temple (2 Chron 3), only later to be destroyed and replaced by Herod’s temple. The basic structure of Solomon’s Temple is shown in Fig.5, link. Fast-forward to the Millennial age, and we find details of a new temple in the Jerusalem area in chapters 40-48 of the prophet Ezekiel.
Let’s consider some common features between the garden of Eden and these Hebrew Temples:
1: God dwelt with man in the garden of Eden; there was a physical closeness just as Christ dwelt with man some 2,000 years ago. God accepted the man He had created and talked with him (Gen 3.9). Similarly, in the tent of the meeting (the first tabernacle) we read that the LORD talked with Moses as a man speaks to his friend (Exod 33.7-11, Num 7.89). This amazing God-man dialogue will happen again when Christ rules from the new temple in the Millennium, and finally in the new heaven and new earth (Rev 21.3)
2: The entrance (exit) to the garden of Eden faced east (Gen 3.24). In fact the entrance to all Hebrew Temples has to face east, link. For example, see Ezekiel 40.6. Pagan temples were oriented in other directions. The eastward orientation could be a prophetic expectation of the Second Coming of Christ (see Ezek 43.1,2 Mat 24.27). His glory “comes from the east”
3: The garden of Eden had a special area with a special restriction. In its center was the ‘tree of life’ and the ‘tree of of the knowledge of good and evil’ (Gen 2.9). Adam was restricted from eating from the latter. Likewise, the temples had a special inner area with holy restrictions. The Holy of Holies was the most sacred part of the temple and entry was forbidden except on Yom Kippur, when the High Priest was permitted to enter
4: When Adam sinned he was prevented from coming back into the garden by Cherubim placed at the “east of the garden”. So Adam found himself outside the ‘holy area’ of Eden due to his sin. Similarly, the exit from the temple ‘holy place’ led via the vestibule or porch to a large courtyard area east of the holy place where all the people assembled for worship (Jer 19.14, 26.2). This area contained the ‘altar of burnt offering’ for sin atonement
5: After the Fall, Adam and his family probably lived east of the garden of Eden. And in the course of time Cain and Abel brought offerings to the LORD (Gen 4.3-4). Abel knew the meaning of sacrifice, the demand of God, so this was the first altar. It has been suggested that Adam’s altar was as close to God as possible near the east entrance to the garden. Similarly, as just discussed, Solomon’s Temple had an altar of burnt offerings just outside the holy area. The Second Temple (Herod’s Temple) also had an altar, as will the Third (Millennial) Temple (Ezek 43.13-27)"
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" 6: In the middle of the garden of Eden grew a special tree, the ‘tree of life’. Like the other good trees, its fruit was good to eat (some think it was an almond tree, link). But Adam didn’t have to eat of it to have eternal life. The tree’s real role was to symbolize ‘God-given eternal life’. The same symbolism (same tree) is found in the midst of Paradise (Rev 2.7). Now, in the book of Numbers chapter 17 we read that one day God instructed Moses to place 12 rods (corresponding to the 12 leaders of the children of Israel) into the tabernacle. This was to show Israel who was God’s chosen leader. The next day they found that Aaron’s rod had not only budded, but it had blossomed and yielded ripe almonds! The parallel with the ‘tree of life’ is striking; both the tree and the almond rod exhibited God-given life
7: As mentioned, after Adam’s sin God placed Cherubim at the entrance to the garden of Eden. Cherubim are powerful winged creatures (Exod 25.20, Ezek 10.16) and here they were guarding Paradise and the abode of God. Similarly, when Moses met with God in the tent of meeting, a ‘pillar of cloud’ descended and stood at the tent entrance (Exod 33.9,10) – as though guarding holiness. The Israelites remained at their tent doors as though they were ‘outside the garden’. Solomon had images of Cherubim carved on the walls of the temple (1 Kings 6.29) and Cherubim will also decorate the Millennial Temple (Ezek 41.18)
8: There was an effective ‘door’ at the east of the garden of Eden. As mentioned, Cherubim stood guard there after the Fall, guarding the way to holiness. Likewise the temples had large doors (also facing east). When the lamb was to be sacrificed, three trumpets sounded and the massive doors to the temple were opened and people gained access to the courts (east of the holy place) (Num 28). The concept of an ‘open door’ to God’s dwelling is also found in Rev 4.1 – John saw “a door standing open in heaven”. This heavenly door was to the apostle John ‘a door of opportunity’ to gain an understanding of the future from God’s throne room
Conclusion: The garden of Eden and the earthly temples reflect the heavenly temple (Rev 11.19, 15.5-8). They speak of human access to the presence and glory and power and blessing of the Creator God – the God of Israel. Recall that when Moses and Aaron came out of the tent of meeting to bless the people, the “glory of the LORD appeared to all the people” (Lev 9.23). Put another way, although the original Eden and its garden appears to be lost, the concept lives on in the spiritual symbolism of the Hebrew temples. Like the garden of Eden, the temples demonstrate that redeemed man can walk eternally with his Creator in abundant blessing."
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Summary of the Israel-Eden Connection
Many Bible scriptures point to a strong link between the land of Israel (Canaan – as given to Abram and his descendants) and the biblical Eden. The two are not isolated entities and the Edenic vision of an earthly paradise can be seen in both historical Israel (the land of Canaan) and in the future Israel. The parallels between the Eden of Genesis, and the Zion (Jerusalem area) of the future (Millennial) Israel are especially striking. They both have the following in common:
God walks with mankind on this earth
Their environments are supernaturally enhanced by a ‘canopy’ in the atmosphere
There is no hurt and no killing e.g. the lion eats straw like the ox
There are beautiful trees and plants, providing food for both man and animals
The land is well-watered, with rivers a key feature
They are located in the ‘Fertile Crescent’ (Jerusalem can even be identified with Eden)
They are ‘delightful’ places in which to live
They are healthy places in which to live – people live long lives
They use the geographic parameter of “east”
They are reflections of the heavenly “Paradise of God” (Rev 2.7)
Israel-Eden
This strong Israel-Eden connection strengthens the significance of modern Israel. Whilst God initially walked with man in an idyllic environment, prophecy suggests that a similar scenario will develop in the land of Israel. Even now there are visible signs that the future land of Israel will reflect the paradise of the Genesis Eden as Israel ‘greens’ her desert places. Recall that Eden means ‘delicate, delight, pleasure’ – a pleasant place to be – a garden home. Prophecy suggests that the nations will soon see a ‘modern Eden’ in the center of Israel. Referring to that time, God says to Israel:
It will no longer be said of you [Judah], ‘Azubah (Abandoned),’ nor will it any longer be said of your land, ‘Shemamah (Desolate)’; but you will be called, ‘Hephzibah (My Delight is in Her)’ and your land, ‘Married’; for the Lord delights in you, and to Him your land will be married [owned and protected by the Lord]
(Isa 62.4, amplified, emphasis added)
This sees the future people of Israel living with their God in a pleasant place – their ancestral ‘garden home’ – a latter-day Eden centered around Jerusalem!"" Many good pictures, Maps & Diagrams in this article
From the website, israelmyglory.org an article is titled
"Finding Eden"
May/June 2005 Craig Parshall
Finding Eden
"Long ago, in the misty echoes of ancient time, there was a first man and a first woman. They walked in the cool, green shade, surrounded by lush, fruitful trees and benevolent beasts. The region was watered by a great river that had its headwaters there and then branched into four other great rivers of the Middle East. The Bible tells us this place had a name. It was called Eden.
And so we are told, “eastward in Eden” God planted a garden (Gen. 2:8). He placed the man and woman there, telling them to live, flourish, and exercise dominion (1:28; 2:15). In the garden was a special tree: the tree of life (Gen. 2:9).
Few locations in world history evoke such powerful images as does the Garden of Eden. Poets have been inspired by its peaceful beauty, and philosophers have sought to emulate its balance by contriving their own theories of utopia.
Still others use Eden as a metaphor for political and social harmony. Israel-based journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, on his quest to find a key to peace in that region, wrote of a legend described in the Zohar, a chief source of Jewish mysticism. The tale has Abraham encountering Adam and Eve’s grave. There he sees an opening to the Garden of Eden. His eyes become transfixed, and his heart yearns to dwell there forever.
For those of us who believe the Bible, Eden, like other important sites in Scripture, becomes a place where geography and theology converge in an incredible drama where God is both the Divine Playwright and Leading Character. In a rather amazing way, the Garden of Eden becomes the scenery for both the beginning and the promised ending of the greatest story ever told."
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"A Creation of Paradise
The Genesis account makes it clear that the Garden of Eden was both physically beautiful and environmentally perfect. It is also plain that the Bible speaks of it as an actual, existing site, though it gives only enticing hints as to its exact location.
Merrill Unger’s Commentary on the Old Testament offers the traditional view that the Sumerian roots of the word Eden indicate the Garden stood somewhere in the oldest cultural strata of mesopotamia, possibly at the head of the Persian Gulf. Archaeologist Juris Zarins shared this view in an interview with Smithsonian Magazine.
There is some geographical support for this view. The headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are described as flowing out of Eden (Gen. 2:10–14). These two rivers, together with the “Pishon” and “Gihon” rivers, all found a common source in Eden (vv. 11, 13). The Tigris and Euphrates both exist today and flow into the Persian Gulf, supporting this traditional theory. The problem is that neither the Pishon nor the Gihon are current geographical entities. Juris Zarins speculates that, based on satellite photos, the Pishon could be Wadi Batin, a fossilized riverbed running through Saudi Arabia; and the Gihon might be the Karun River, which rises in Iran and flows toward the Gulf.
On the other hand, there is intriguing evidence of an Eden-Jerusalem connection. To conclude that the Garden of Eden may have been located in the current site of Jerusalem, however, we first must explain away the four-rivers issue, as neither the Tigris nor the Euphrates currently run into Israel. One theory is that the catastrophic Noahic flood obliterated or, in some cases, reoriented river paths and geological features. As we see the devastating result of one tsunami that hit recently on a single day in the Indian Ocean, we can imagine the force of a global flood lasting 40 days.
There are biblical and linguistic clues that link Jerusalem with the Garden of Eden. Harvard Archaeologist Lawrence E. Stager notes that, during the united monarchy in Israel, there were strong suggestions of such a link. In an article in Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR), he points out that, during the building of Solomon’s Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the iconography and architectural details hearken back to several features of the first paradise.
After the Fall of Man, God posted angelic cherubim to guard the Garden’s eastern entrance, to block access to the “tree of life” (Gen. 3:24). Compare this with Solomon’s Temple, where elaborate images of cherubim filled the inner sanctuary (1 Ki. 6:23–28). There are strong suggestions that, like the Garden of Eden, the Temple (the House of God) flourished with trees and greenery (Ps. 52:8; 92:12–14).
Ezekiel 31:8–9 speaks of the trees in “the garden of God,” and then links that in verse 16 with “the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon.” Clearly, the reference is not to an “Eden” that was in Saudi Arabia or the Persian Gulf.
In his article in the November/December 2004 issue of Israel My Glory, Jimmy DeYoung cited the fact that in Ezekiel 28:14, 16, the phrase mountain of God, referring to the Temple mount, is equated with the Garden of Eden. Ezekiel 28:13 describes the same place as being “in Eden, the garden of God.”
Finally, in a recent letter to the editors of BAR, Rabbi Bernard Bloom said the mysterious Gihon River of Genesis may not be missing after all; in fact, it is linked with Jerusalem. Gihon was the name of the main spring and water source for David’s Jerusalem. Furthermore, King David ordered his servants to take his son Solomon down to the Gihon stream to anoint him as king (1 Ki. 1:32–40)."
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"A Courtroom of Judgment
However, to quote the English poet John Milton, the perfection of Eden eventually became “paradise lost.” Adam’s utter failure of moral leadership and his embarrassing attempt to shift the blame (Gen. 3:12), plus Eve’s willingness to be deceived and the couple’s direct disobedience to God’s eternal command in deference to temporal enticement (Gen. 3:2–13), are shockingly reminiscent of all our universal struggles with sin, as we fight against “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 Jn. 2:16).
What had been an ideal relationship of communion between God and man, woman, and nature was now smashed and disfigured. Though He is Creator, Nurturer, and divine Father, God is also a holy and righteous Judge. His clear, perfect moral law would have been empty and meaningless had it not been inexorably connected to consequences—and punishment. Because of sin, God converted the lush paradise of peace and tranquility into a courtroom for the execution of judgment.
For the 30 years I have been trying cases in court, I can recall one common sensation in every case. In those final minutes before the judge gavels the case back into session to announce a decision, or in that instant before the jury foreman passes the verdict to the court to read it aloud, there is one final, trembling, fearful moment. It is the recognition that justice—albeit a frail, imperfect, and abundantly human type—is about to be administered.
Now think about divine justice meted out by the High King of the universe. If the prophets and righteous men of old fell on their faces at the appearance of angels who had come from the mere presence of God, what must it be like to fall into the hands of that righteous God himself who must execute judgment?
Here, also, is a clear connection to Jerusalem. In Eden, God passed judg-ment on the “first Adam” because of sin. Later, at the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry, God exercised judgment in Jerusalem by permitting His own Son, the “second Adam,” to be wrongly arrested, charged, and convicted because of the sin of us all (1 Cor. 15:22, 45)."
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"A Consolation of Grace
Happily for us, the story doesn’t end with condemnation and punishment. God graciously covered the couple’s shame with animal skins (Gen. 3:21), prefiguring the necessity of blood sacrifice for the covering of sin.
The Lord also promised victory over the power of Satan—the demonic, beguiling serpent. To the serpent, God said, “He [the Redeemer] shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (3:15), clearly referring to Jesus, the promised Messiah and perfect Lamb of sacrifice. And though Adam and Eve were evicted from Eden and the entrance barred, we know that the great Hero of this story will yet appear. The first appearance of the King of kings was to fulfill Genesis 3:15—to overcome the power of Satan, the sting of death, and the seeming invincibility of sin.
And as our Savior hung in indescribable physical and spiritual agony on the cross, He took the time to look with kindness on the believing thief next to Him. Jesus told him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Lk. 23:43).
In the Greek, the word paradise can also be rendered “garden” or “park.”1 How incredible that our Lord used a phrase reminiscent of the Garden of Eden before the fall in His promise to the dying, repentant criminal who was suffering on the cross next to Him.
But that is not the end of the story of Eden. There is a second appearing of the Messiah and a future role for the Garden of God.
Back to the Future
The Bible is clear: There will be a future end of days and an eternal Kingdom where God will reign, His Son will be glorified, and where we who have believed on the name and in Jesus’ blood sacrifice will abide.
God will create a heavenly Jerusalem. Some of its features will be powerfully familiar: a great river that flows from the throne of God, much like the first Eden. It will water a special tree, the Garden of Eden’s “tree of life,” which now reappears and will yield its fruit and heal the nations with its leaves (Rev. 22:1–2). Permanent peace in Jerusalem, which will have evaded us all throughout all of the millennia, shall finally be achieved.
And when we are there, basking in the glory and love of Him who wooed us to salvation and walking the paths of His future garden city, I can just imagine looking past the smiling faces of the millions of His children and seeing the faces of one man and one woman who are standing quietly off to the side, by that great tree. And in their visage I vaguely recognize the features of everyone I have ever known. And the man and woman are smiling as if to say, “So you see, the Lord has brought us, all of His children, all the way back home to be with Him in His wonderful Garden after all, hasn’t He?Just like He said He would.”
A good book that can be ordered from Amazon.com is titled
"Jerusalem, the eye of the universe" Paperback – 1976
by Aryeh Kaplan (Author)
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From the website biblical-Christianity.com an article is titled
"God’s Unconditional Promise to Israel"
"Biblical Christianity All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
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"Whether the Jews have a right to their land has been the subject of dispute among many nations up until today. Some say that the Jews have occupied a land that wasn’t theirs and that the occupation must be stopped.
However, the Jews claim that the land originally belonged to them and they have every right to it. They base their claim to the land of Israel on at least four premises and one of them is that God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham.
The Nation of Israel was founded by God
The Bible clearly tells us that Israel is the only nation founded by a sovereign act of God. It all started when God told Abraham to “get out of his country, from his family and from his father’s house, to a land that He will show him” (Genesis 12:1). And then God promised to give him that land (Genesis 12:7).
However, there are two controversies concerning the nation of Israel. The first is whether the promise to Abraham was a promise of literal land or promise of heaven. The second controversy asks whether the promise to Abraham and his seed for a literal land is conditional based upon Israel’s obedience to God or an unconditional promise.
We will then examine Scripture to verify beyond any doubt that God intended for Abraham and the Jewish people to have a literal land upon which they would live.
God Promised a Land
In Genesis 13:14-15, God told Abraham, “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are … for all the land which you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.”
And Genesis 15:18 states, “On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates.’” This is a very literal land. Heaven is not described, even allegorically, as the area between the river of Egypt and the Euphrates.
God told Abraham, “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions” (Genesis 15:13-14).
Israel’s departure from the Promised Land was literal because they went into a literal Egypt. After four hundred years they became a nation of two to three million people and they physically left a literal Egypt for a literal Promised Land – not heaven."
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"Photo Credits: Piano Bible Chapel
The title deed to the Promised Land was passed from Abraham to Isaac. God said to Isaac, “Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father” (Genesis 26:3).
The title deed to the Promised Land was then passed to Jacob from Isaac. In Genesis 28:13, God said, “I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.”
You have to be in a very literal land to lie on it.
God’s Promise was Unconditional
Was God’s promise to Abraham of a Promised Land conditional or unconditional? Those who believe God’s promise was conditional simply do not understand the blood covenant.
In the Old Testament, there were three ways by which covenants could be made; a shoe covenant, a salt covenant, and a blood covenant.
In the blood covenant, the contracting parties would agree on the terms of the covenant. Then they would take an animal, kill it, split the carcass in half down the backbone, and place the divided parts opposite each other on the ground forming a pathway between the pieces.
The two would join hands, recite the contents of the covenant, and walk between the divided halves of the slain animal. The blood covenant meant they were bound until death, and if either broke the terms of the covenant, his blood should be spilled as the blood of the slain animal. A blood covenant was a permanent and unconditional covenant.
In Genesis 15, God commanded Abraham to take a heifer, a she-goat, a ram, a turtledove, and a pigeon; and all were split in half except the birds. God placed Abraham in a deep sleep, for no man can look upon God and live, as He prepared to enter a blood covenant with Abraham.
In his sleep, Abraham saw “a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces” (Genesis 15:17). In the Old Testament, the burning lamp signified the presence of the Shekinah Glory of God. God was binding Himself, unconditionally, by a blood covenant to Abraham and his descendants forever, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land” (Genesis 15:18).
Confirmation that the promise to Abraham and to his seed was unconditional is presented in Psalm 89:30-37. God says, “If his sons [Israel] forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, if they break My statutes and do not keep My commandments, then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.”
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“Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail.” God is saying here that He will not break His covenant.
God’s Promise Fulfilled
What about the future of Israel? Israel was reborn as a nation in one day on May 14, 1948, when the United Nations recognized the state of Israel. This was a fulfillment of Isaiah 66:8.
Amos writes concerning the restoration of Israel, “I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them, says the LORD your God” (Amos 9:14-15).
The prophets of Israel declared the nation of Israel would be reborn, would be rebuilt, and the Jewish people would never again be removed. When the Messiah comes, He will set up His throne in the city of Jerusalem and of His kingdom, there shall be no end.
*Read more of the promises of God to the nation of Israel in this article: The “I Will” Promises of God
Conclusion
God’s covenant with Abraham and the nation of Israel was unconditional, depending solely upon God who obligated Himself in grace. The unconditional character of this covenant is indicated by God’s declarations “I will” that repeat throughout without corresponding “you must” demands of Abraham.
This covenant contained all that God then began to do, has since done throughout history, and will continue to do."
The website www.pre-trib.org has an article titled
"ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO THE PROMISED LAND" By Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum It's a long article but worth reading
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: ‘Zionist Entity is a Biological Bomb,’ Says PA Official"
Nov 10, 2019
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“The Zionist entity is a sort of biological bomb that is spreading and expanding and poisoning the whole climate in the region,” a senior Fatah official tells viewers of official Palestinian Authority TV.
“How can we deal with the plans of the Israeli occupation, which is pushing towards a religious war,” asks a TV host on official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV, as translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
The “Zionist enemy” wants war between Jews living on “Palestinian lands” and the surrounding Muslims and Arabs, responds Fatah Revolutionary Council member Haj Rifat Shanaah, alleging that Israel is attempting to portray a “false image” in order to gain world sympathy. Fatah, headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, is the ruling party of the PA.
This is just one example of the continuous PA incitement against the Jewish State."
From the website www.tabletmag.com an article is titled
"To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman"
‘You do not have the right to invoke my people’s struggle for your shoddy purposes’
By Chloe Valdary
July 28, 2014 • 12:00 AM
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A protest led by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009.(Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
"The student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many college campuses, preaching a mantra of “Freeing Palestine.” It masquerades as though it were a civil rights group when it is not. Indeed, as an African-American, I am highly insulted that my people’s legacy is being pilfered for such a repugnant agenda. It is thus high time to expose its agenda and lay bare some of the fallacies they peddle.
• If you seek to promulgate the legacy of early Islamic colonialists who raped and pillaged the Middle East, subjugated the indigenous peoples living in the region, and foisted upon them a life of persecution and degradation—you do not get to claim the title of “Freedom Fighter.”
• If you support a racist doctrine of Arab supremacism and wish (as a corollary of that doctrine) to destroy the Jewish state, you do not get to claim that the prejudices you peddle are forms of legitimate “resistance.”
• If your heroes are clerics who sit in Gaza plotting the genocide of a people; who place their children on rooftops in the hopes they will get blown to bits; who heap praises upon their fellow gang members when they succeed in murdering Jewish school boys and bombing places of activity where Jews congregate—you do not get to claim that you are some Apollonian advocate of human virtue. You are not.
• If your activities include grieving over the woefully incompetent performance by Hamas rocketeers and the subsequent millions of Jewish souls who are still alive—whose children were not murdered by their rockets; whose limbs were not torn from them; and whose disembowelment did not come into fruition—you do not get to claim that you stand for justice. You profess to be irreproachable. You are categorically not.
• If your idea of a righteous cause entails targeting and intimidating Jewish students on campus, arrogating their history of exile-and-return and fashioning it in your own likeness you do not get to claim that you do so in the name of civil liberty and freedom of expression.
• You do not get to champion regimes that murder, torture, and persecute their own people, deliberately keep them impoverished, and embezzle billions of dollar from them—and claim you are “pro-Arab.” You are not.
• You do not get to champion a system wherein Jews are barred from purchasing land, traveling in certain areas, and living out such an existence merely because they are Jews—and claim that you are promoting equality for all. You do not get to enable that system by pushing a boycott of Jewish owned businesses, shops, and entities—and then claim that you are “against apartheid.” That is evil.
• You do not get to justify the calculated and deliberate bombings, beatings, and lynchings of Jewish men, women, and children by referring to such heinous occurrences as part of a noble “uprising” of the oppressed—that is racism. It is evil."
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"• You do not get to pretend as though you and Rosa Parks would have been great buddies in the 1960s. Rosa Parks was a real Freedom Fighter. Rosa Parks was a Zionist.
Coretta Scott King was a Zionist.
A. Phillip Randolph was a Zionist.
Bayard Rustin was a Zionist.
Count Basie was a Zionist.
Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was a Zionist.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Zionist.
Indeed, they and many more men and women signed a letter in 1975 that stated: “We condemn the anti-Jewish blacklist. We have fought too long and too hard to root out discrimination from our land to sit idly while foreign interests import bigotry to America. Having suffered so greatly from such prejudice, we consider most repugnant the efforts by Arab states to use the economic power of their newly-acquired oil wealth to boycott business firms that deal with Israel or that have Jewish owners, directors, or executives, and to impose anti-Jewish preconditions for investments in this country.”
You see, my people have always been Zionists because my people have always stood for the freedom of the oppressed. So, you most certainly do not get to culturally appropriate my people’s history for your own. You do not have the right to invoke my people’s struggle for your shoddy purposes and you do not get to feign victimhood in our name. You do not have the right to slander my people’s good name and link your cause to that of Dr. King’s. Our two causes are diametrically opposed to each other.
Your cause is the antithesis of freedom. It has cost hundreds of thousands of lives of both Arabs and Jews. It has separated these peoples, and has fomented animosity between them. It has led to heartache, torment, death and destruction.
It is of course your prerogative to continue to utilize platitudes for your cause. You are entirely within your rights to chant words like “equality” “justice” and “freedom fighter.”
You can keep using those words for as long as you like. But I do not think you know what they mean."
Also from the website www.tabletmag.com an article is titled
"Ray Charles in Israel"
When the ‘Genius of Soul’ sang ‘Hava Nagila’ with David Ben-Gurion
By Shalom Goldman
November 4, 2019 • 12:00 AM
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“I had always heard that I was popular in Israel, but I didn’t get over there until the early seventies,” the soul genius Ray Charles recalled. “Some people asked me to do a documentary. I liked the idea. I’d never done anything like that before. The film people knew I wasn’t a scholar or a theologian, but they had heard that I had a decent working knowledge of the Bible. They had also heard that the Israelis liked me, and they hoped the two things would blend.”
Ray Charles, accompanied by his five backup singers, the Raelettes, arrived in Israel in early December 1972. In the first two weeks of that month they performed at five wildly successful concerts. Israeli fans of the “Genius of Soul” thronged the concert halls of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. Fans cheered the musicians in the streets and the press gave their concert tour wide coverage.
The musicians spent two weeks performing and touring in the country. It was, Charles remembered, an opportunity to “look around and learn. … It was all so old, so incredibly old, that I couldn’t help but shake my head in wonder. I could smell history in the streets.”
By the early 1970s, Ray Charles and the Raelettes had given concerts all over the world. In Japan, they had encountered particularly enthusiastic audiences. But in terms of enthusiasm none of these concerts prepared Charles and his ensemble for the reception they received in Israel.
That many Israelis liked Ray Charles and his music was an understatement. I was living in Jerusalem at the time and I remember vividly the excitement that his visit generated. I also remember that by the time I made it to the concert hall box office the two Jerusalem shows were completely sold out. I never got to hear him on that tour, but news of it was in all of the Israel newspapers. It seemed that by missing that concert I had missed more than the music."
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"The riveting story of the Jerusalem concert is best told by the genius himself: In his autobiography, Brother Ray, (co-written with David Ritz) Charles wrote that, “In thirty years on the road, I had never experienced anything like this. We were supposed to do two shows, but the first one had the crowd so crazy and happy that they wouldn’t leave. The second crowd was due any minute, but the first crowd wasn’t about to move.”
The concert promoters were rattled by the raucous audience and wanted to clear the hall by force. But Charles suggested that they announce that ticket holders to the first show will be allowed to stay in the hall, as long as they gave up their seats. As Charles remembered, “He made the announcement and everyone cheered. So for the second show there were Israelis everywhere. … I was sure glad the place didn’t catch fire, because we all would have burned up together. But fortunately the only fire was the one in them and in me. I can’t remember ever feeling more loved.”
Three decades later, Mable John, lead singer of the five-member Raelettes, recalled her own vivid memories of the reception the musicians got in Israel:
In a 2004 interview she said:
It wasn’t just the show but how they treated us—and that gave me such a love for Israel. Our flight going into Tel Aviv was five hours late so it looked like we would have to perform in the same clothes we wore on the plane. There were people all around the building and we were supposed to do two shows. We went into a dressing room to freshen up and there were all these people on their knees outside the windows looking at us! Now it wasn’t that they were trying to spy or see us without our clothes on—it was adoration!
We finally got on the stage so late that we didn’t do our usual part of the show and we were supposed to do a second show but the people from the first one wouldn’t leave. We thought there was going to be a riot! Well, they let the people from outside in and they sat on and all around the stage—we did one show for two shows’ worth of people in that room!”
Ray Charles was in his early 40s when he visited Israel. Born in 1930 in rural Georgia, he emphasized to friends and fans that deep down he was “a country boy … and, man, I mean the real backwoods. … All I ever saw—and I’m talking literally—was the country. I didn’t lose my sight till I was 7. It happened gradually. So I have years of pictures of country places, country people, country animals in my mind.”
Blinded by a juvenile glaucoma, a hereditary disease, Ray was sent to the “colored department” of the Florida State School for Deaf and Blind. It was in his second year at the school learning to play music and taking instruction in how to do musical notation in Braille that he declared his ambition to be “ a great musician.” Through hard work he achieved that ambition by the time he was in his mid-20s.
During his two-week tour, Charles also visited former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion at Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev, as I recount in Starstruck in the Promised Land. Israel’s founding father was then 87 years old. The meeting between the King of Soul and Ha-Zaken, “the Old Man” as he was known affectionately by Israelis, has been preserved on film. In the documentary Soul of the Holy Land, released after Charles’ death in 2004, we can hear the children of Sde Boker join Ray and Ben-Gurion singing “Hava Nagilah.” Ray then sang Stevie Wonder’s song “Heaven Help Us All” for Ben-Gurion and the kibbutzniks."
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"In 1976, four years after he had visited Israel, B’nai B’rith honored Ray Charles as its Man of the Year. Accepting the award at a dinner in Beverly Hills, Charles said, “Even though I’m not Jewish … Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting. Blacks and Jews are hooked up and bound together by a common history of persecution. If someone besides a black ever sings the real gut-bucket blues, it’ll be a Jew. We both know what it’s like to be someone else’s footstool.”
Responding to reports of anti-Jewish feeling expressed by some African Americans, Charles said, “I’ve heard about anti-Semitism among blacks in America, but I never paid that much mind. … But that prejudice is narrow and stupid, and fortunately short-lived. For the most part we’re two peoples who work well together. And in many instances, there is real love between us.”
By the late 1970s, though, many people on the left—including activists in African American communities—would begin to challenge the assertion that the two liberation movements of historically oppressed, despised, and ghettoized people should continue working together, or see their collective struggles as in any way equivalent.
Ray Charles never bought it. In 1982, a decade after his first visit, he returned to give a series of sold-out performances. And in 1987, on his last visit, he performed in the former Roman amphitheater at Caesarea. The Israeli jazz saxophonist Nadav Haber was at that performance. He told a Haaretz reporter that even in that large performance space, Charles managed to create a feeling of intimacy. “Ray,” Haber said, “is the kind of artist who takes you in a kind of trance; you leave altered. Many people in the amphitheater came to relax and enjoy themselves. I came to be with Ray, and that is what actually happened.”
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From the website worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Nikki Haley receives prestigious Zionist award: ‘Most courageous woman in America today’"
November 10, 2019
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley (AP/Andrew Harnik)
The former American ambassador to the U.N. received recognition for her staunch defense of Israel in the international body.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News the article says
"Nikki Haley said that she depended on her “core values” to defend Israel in the U.N. when she was presented with the Theodor Herzl Award Wednesday for her unwavering support of the Jewish state in the world body during her tenure as U.S. ambassador.
Accusing the Security Council of following years of “unquestioned, outdated customs” like “a monthly Israel-bashing session,” she told the appreciative audience that her strength to counter it came from “not [being] afraid to rely on your core values.” For Haley, this includes “standing up for your friends.”
It was not a matter of favoritism, she said. “In all that we did at the U.N., our approach to Israel was tied together by one major idea. The idea is the simple concept that Israel must be treated like any other normal country. And that demand is actually a demand for peace.”
She quickly learned that this was not what the U.N. was about, however.
“The U.N.’s bias against Israel has long undermined peace, by encouraging an illusion that Israel will go away. Israel is not going away. When the world recognizes that, then peace becomes possible,” Haley said.
The ambassador, who served for two years in the U.N. (2017-2018) and whose name has been floated as a future presidential contender, also touched on the rise of global anti-Semitism in her acceptance speech.
“It is baffling to me that anti-Semitism is not treated with the same disdain as racism or other forms of hate. It is exactly the same. It must never be tolerated. It must never be excused. It must never be rationalized,” she said.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) gives the award, its highest, to those individuals who work to promote Herzl’s ideals for a safer, more tolerant world for the Jewish people.
In presenting Haley with the statuette, WJC President Ronald Lauder called the ambassador “perhaps the most courageous woman in America today” as one who was “a strong and clear voice of truth” in the U.N.
He added that the award comes with a price, but one that he was sure Haley could pay.
“The Herzl Award comes with our gratitude, and with our deep appreciation. But it also comes at a price. You will not be able to rest because we expect even greater things from you … Like Herzl, you have championed a cause that has, and continues to have, more than its share of enemies. But it places you on the right side of history. And if there is anyone in this room that has the fire, the courage, and the faith to take on this test, it is you, Nikki Haley.”
The other 2019 recipient of the Theodor Herzl Award was German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This choice aroused some controversy, as many felt that Merkel has not done enough to counter the rising anti-Semitism in her country, including her refusal to designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist entity, as have the U.S., the U.K., and Israel.
Merkel is also held responsible for allowing a million Muslim refugees into Germany, many of whom have brought anti-Semitic attitudes with them.
Lauder defended that decision in a Jerusalem Post op-ed earlier this month.
He wrote that Merkel “has indeed been strong in our defense. She has been, at times, a lone voice among European leaders defending Israel. She has followed in the traditions of previous chancellors, starting with Konrad Adenauer, to defend the Jewish people, and she has been one of the strongest voices against anti-Semitism.”
He also said that the award would “encourage” Merkel “to take stronger steps in this regard.”
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Opinion: Over 150 Reasons to Say No to a Palestinian State"
Nov 13, 2019
What would the U.S. decide to do if, after ISIS leader al-Baghdadi killed himself, his terrorist soldiers fired 150 rockets as U.S. civilian targets? Would it enter negotiations?
By Moshe Phillips
the article says
"Over 150 rockets were fired at Israeli civilian targets by the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists from Gaza within hours after the November 12 targeted air strike assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata, a top commander of Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ).
Coming just over two weeks after the U.S. successfully targeted ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to be captured or killed, there is a simple question to ask here: What would the U.S. decide to do if, after al-Baghdadi killed himself, his terrorist soldiers fired 150 rockets as U.S. civilian targets? Would the U.S. then decide to negotiate with ISIS over how large their independent state would be, where its borders would be, and where its capital would be located?
These rockets offer over 150 vivid demonstrations of why a Palestinian state must not be created. Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and ISIS are no different from one another.
The international community for years has badgered Israel to leave Gaza. Israelis were told that if only the ‘occupation’ ended, the Gazans would embrace peace. That the presence of Israeli soldiers and the Jewish communities in Gaza were the obstacles to peace. That once Israel withdrew, the Gaza Palestinians would no longer have a reason to attack Israel. And that “if even a single missile were fired into Israel from Gaza,” the Israeli army would be justified in re-occupying the area.
At the time, many leading Israeli military experts warned that withdrawal was a very dangerous move for Israel’s physical safety.
That Gaza was a vital security belt for Israel’s south and a buffer between Israel and an increasingly unstable Egypt. That Gaza under full Palestinian control would become a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists and one enormous storage depot for weapons to be used against Israel.
But eventually, the international pressure became unbearable. The constant browbeating by U.S. State Department officials, New York Times columnists and E.U. envoys wore down Israel’s political leaders. It was decided to gamble. In 2005, with zero demands or preconditions, Israel withdrew all its soldiers from Gaza and forcibly evicted all of the area’s 10,000 Jewish residents from their longtime homes and neighborhoods.
For promoters of Israeli territorial concessions, Gaza was supposed to set the precedent they hoped would soon be repeated in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).
Instead, Gaza has become the most graphic illustration of why relinquishing Judea and Samaria to the perennially hostile and extremely corrupt Palestinian Authority was a flat-out dangerous idea."
the article continues
"No Such Thing as a ‘Demilitarized State’
Imagine how the rocket attacks against Israel in the wake of the al-Ata killing would have looked if the terrorist armies had instead been West Bank Palestinians, acting from inside a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.
Despite the nice-sounding turn of phrase, there is simply no such thing as “a demilitarized Palestinian state.” An independent state controls its own borders. “Palestine” would be free to open its borders to truckload after truckload of Iranian weapons.
If Israel tried to intervene, it would be accused of violating Palestinian sovereignty, denounced at the U.N., and threatened with international sanctions from the E.U.
Now about those 700 rockets. A Palestinian state in Judea-Samaria would mean that the border with Palestine would reach the outskirts of both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Those over-150 rockets might have been aimed at the Western Wall, at the Knesset, or at passenger airliners landing at Ben Gurion Airport.
The terrorists and their rockets would quickly vanish behind the civilian shields of Palestinian orchards, tunnels, and safe houses. The government of ‘Palestine’ would declare that the attacks were “regrettable,” but that they “cannot control every extremist element.”
Israel Would Be Completely Helpless
All the while, ‘Palestine’ would continue to amass a huge arsenal of weapons — just as Hamas and Islamic Jihad have done in Gaza — and Israel would be completely helpless to stop it, without launching a preemptive war and inviting the wrath of the international community.
There are many other reasons to be opposed to the creation of a West Bank Palestinian state. There is the likelihood that a drastically shrunken Israel would be unable to prosper economically or have room for new immigrants, that its cities would become unbearably overcrowded and increasingly unlivable. There is also the tragedy for the whole Jewish people of being completely unable to visit Jewish biblical shrines such as the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem.
Just days before this latest mini-war jumped off, an opinion poll conducted for Israel’s Channel 12’s “Meet the Press” program showed a minority of Israelis support the creation of a Palestinian state. Let us hope that this mistaken minority in Israel continues to shrink in the aftermath of all of this. But for now, let us be reminded that the national security of all Israel is at stake. Those over 150 rockets [the number of rockets rapidly increased since the time of this writing] gave us all that we really need to know."
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"New BDS Ploy: Refusing Jews Their Flight Luggage!" about the Satanic Demonic Primitive Losers at BDS & their BS
Nov 13, 2019
Jews who flew from Tel Aviv to France waited hours to receive their luggage.
By United with Israel Staff
"Passengers on a flight that left Tel Aviv for France on Sunday faced barbaric treatment from the Lyon Saint-Exupéry staff upon arrival. A report from JForum news said that the mostly Jewish passengers waited hours to receive their luggage in an act of suspected Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) support.
According to one traveler’s testimony, the Transavia flight landed in Lyon at 5:20 p.m. at a terminal filled only with passengers from the Tel Aviv flight. Usually, the terminal is bustling with people.
The crowd headed towards the luggage conveyor belt and waited for their suitcases. By 5:50 p.m., no luggage had been unloaded. They were “surprised” at the delay, especially since this was the only flight that landed there at the time, according to the testimony.
By 6:30 p.m., the luggage had still not been received, at which point the passengers understood that something was wrong. According to the report, one of the travelers went to the luggage claim for an explanation and was told that it would arriving “within five minutes.”
Afterwards, “an almost inaudible audio message [told] the crowd that their luggage will arrive in another 10 minutes,” according to the testimony.
The passengers – 95 percent of them Jewish, the report said – then noticed that travelers from other flights that landed later than the one from Tel Aviv were getting their luggage within 10 minutes of arrival.
“It is now clear and everyone understands what is happening: the baggage handlers intentionally hold our luggage as hostages because of where we come from,” said the report. “We learn from passengers that they have already done it several times for flights from Tel Aviv. And for fear of reprisal, the airport management does nothing (or maybe he is accomplice?)”
Tempers rose as no airport official came to their assistance. A group from the flight found some airport staff who claimed they had no idea what happened to their luggage and started threatening the angry crowd, according to the report.
Suddenly, a few passengers thought they saw their luggage being carried away on a cart, in a totally different area, and decided to go and get their belongings on their own.
“At that moment, a baggage handler physically intervened and pushed a passenger,” according to the testimony. “A brawl ensued and everything [got] confused. The passengers, helped by two or three airport agents, quickly [returned] the calm.”
Two policemen arrived and said that, due to the agitated crowd, the baggage handlers were reluctant to deliver the travelers’ luggage.
The passengers finally received their luggage two hours after landing, causing some people to miss their trains.
Lyon Airport baggage handlers are overwhelmingly North African Muslims, according to the report."
It is also important to remember that both Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch are
Satanic Demonic Diabolical Loser Liars in reporting the Mideast Crisis,
An Article in the Jewish Press Volume XLI, No. 29 week of July 19-July 25, 1991, pg 8a) presents "a response to the Amnesty International 1991 annual report from Israel's Ministry of Justice" It notes serious deficiencies in Amnesty's reporting, most notably their failure to provide background details necessary to evaluate the proportionality of Israel's responses to the intifada violence" For Example, the 1991 A.I report omits the fact that "during the relevant year, participants in the intifada perpetrated 71,792 public disturbances, 81 shootings, 5 grenade attacks, 651 molotov cocktail attacks, 94 bombings, 173 'cold' attacks(mostly knives,clubs,axes,and swords) and 299 cases of arson. This violence forced 1193 Israeli Civilians and 2815 members of the Israel Defense Forces to secure hospital treatment for their injuries" The biased Western Media never reports this, As always Everything is the Fault of the Arabs & So-called "Palestinians" It's always their Fault, Everything is their fault, Everything is their Fault, Israel is always the Victim of their Wicked Evil Ways
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"The 4,006 Palestinians the Europeans Have Not Heard Of"
Palestinian men sit amid the bombed-out rubble in Yarmouk refugee camp, Syria. (UNRWA)
Yarmouk refugee camp, Syria
Nov 13, 2019
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The European court decision, obliging retailers to identify products made in Judea and Samaria with special labels, does not help the Palestinians in Syria in any way.
By Bassam Tawil, The Gatestone Institute
"As all eyes are turned on the latest tensions in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian terror groups have been firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli killing of Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata, the number of Palestinians killed in Syria since the civil war began there in 2011 has risen to 4,006.
The plight of the Palestinians in Syria, however, is of no concern to Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, who continue to be obsessed with destroying Israel. The international community, including the United Nations and human rights organizations, are also clearly not interested in the suffering of Palestinians in Syria — or in any other Arab country.
The 4,006 Palestinians killed in Syria were not targeted by Israel; evidently that is reason enough for the international community and the UN to look the other way.
The Europeans evidently think they have all the time in the world to worry about foodstuffs originating from Israeli suburbs, but no time at all even to express concern about the brutal deaths of more than 500 Palestinians a year in Syria over the past seven years.
This week, instead of taking notice of the rising death toll of Palestinians in Syria, the European Court of Justice ruled that member states must oblige retailers to identify products made in Israeli settlements with special labels.
The European court decision does not help the Palestinians in Syria in any way. These Palestinians do not give a damn whether or not the Europeans label settlement products. What they do give a damn about is staying alive — a goal which they would appreciate the people of Europe would further by helping them to stay employed, rather than focusing on debates about packaging."
the article continues
"What, for example, does the European court’s decision do to highlight the case of three Palestinians who were tortured to death in October while being held in detention in a Syrian government prison? The three, identified as Said Mustafa Amarin, Ziad Lutfi Amarin and Fadi Fuad Al-Sotari, were arrested by the Syrian authorities several years ago. Their deaths bring to 611 the number of Palestinians killed as a result of torture in Syrian prisons in the past eight years, according to a recent report.
According to the Action Group For Palestinians of Syria (AGPS), another eight Palestinians were killed in Syria in various outbreaks of violence in October.
These victims likely knew nothing of the European court’s move to label settlement products — but they might still be alive if Europeans had turned some of their attention to the atrocities perpetrated the Syrian regime against Palestinians instead trying to block products just because they were made by Jews living peacefully in their communities in Judea and Samaria. The Europeans, however, have proven that the only Palestinians they care about are those who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and whose “suffering” might somehow be blamed on Israel.
European ‘Moralizing’
The European court would have done Palestinians a greater service had it ruled that the Syrian authorities must reveal the whereabouts of 329 Palestinians who have gone missing in Syria in recent years. The court would also have done a greater service to the Palestinians had it ruled that the Syrian authorities must release 1,768 Palestinians languishing for years in Syrian prisons.
The Palestinians held in Syrian prisons are probably not overly concerned about whether or not a bottle of wine made by Jews is labeled by the Europeans. The Europeans, however, who never stop moralizing to the rest of the world, take a different view: they seem to perceive settlement products as more dangerous than the repressive and brutal measures taken by the Syrian authorities against Palestinians.
Palestinian leaders, too, appear deadly oblivious to the suffering of their people in Syria. As the death toll crossed 4,000, Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders were still squabbling over whether they should hold new and long-overdue presidential and parliamentary elections. The two parties have been fighting for more than 10 years, and the only thing they seem to agree on is repressing their local Arab opponents.
Details like 4,000 Palestinians who died at the hands of the Syrian butchers are, it appears, too minor to warrant the attention of the Palestinian leaders. Hamas, together with its allies in Islamic Jihad, seems determined to continue the fight against Israel, no matter what price the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have to pay. The Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, are meanwhile too busy hunting down critics on Facebook to pay any heed to the Palestinians in Syria."
& lastly says
"In two months’ time, Abbas will turn 85. The PA president seems determined to stay in power until his last breath. This past week, his Fatah officials have publicly stated that Abbas will be their only candidate in any presidential elections, if and when they ever take place. Such an announcement could not have been made without Abbas’s approval. Abbas, in other words, is too busy holding onto power to notice that his people, particularly those living in Syria and the Gaza Strip, are busy spending their days staring down the barrels of machine guns aimed at them by fellow Arabs.
‘Clearly Anti-Semitic’ Preoccupation with Israeli ‘Settlements’
The clearly anti-Semitic European preoccupation with combating settlement products — after all, they do not label products from China although it occupies Tibet — rather than saving the lives of Palestinians must elate Abbas and Hamas. For the PA president and Hamas, how come it is not at the very least embarrassing when Arabs kill Palestinians? Much better, from their point of view, for the international community to spend its time disgorging hate against Israel and Jews; after all, at least that serves the Palestinians in their real project of delegitimizing, and destroying, the region’s only free and democratic state."
Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East. From unitedwithisrael.org
From the website catholicsforisrael.com an article is titled
"Israel-Palestine: When the Map Lies"
Written by Catholics for Israel
Category: Israel Today
Created: 07 November 2011
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Israel-Palestine: When the Map Lies
On the Evolution of the Middle East the article says:
"A map claiming to illustrate the Palestinian 'loss of land' since 1946Perhaps you have seen this map before. You can find it all over the internet. It claims to illustrate the "Palestinian loss of land" from 1946 to 2000. In the words of the Friends of Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian organization, the map "succinctly illustrates Israel's expansion and West Bank settlement policies since 1948." According to other websites, it exposes the "strategy of a greater Israel" at the expense of Palestine.
But the problem is that this map has little to do with reality, for it completely misrepresents the recent history of Palestine-Israel.
The map's deceptiveness was already exposed several times on blogs and websites such as Roy Osherove, solomonia.com, giyus.org, Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic, Dvar Dea, zionism-israel.com and frontpagemag.com. But old lies die hard, and so we have decided to present our own summary of the evolution of the map of the Middle East, based on the aforementioned sources.
Map 1 (1946): No State of Palestine but the British Mandate
Palestine 1946 (?)The first map (labeled "Palestinian and Jewish land 1946") shows "Palestinian land" in green comprising more than 90% of "Palestine," suggesting that, in 1946, nearly all the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean was "Palestinian." Land designated as "Jewish" in this map constitutes maybe five percent of the total. This map is ridiculous, not only because the term "Palestinian" in 1946 referred, generally speaking, to the Jews who lived in Palestine, not the Arabs, but because there was no Palestine in 1946 (nor was there an Israel.) There was only the British Mandate. Jews lived throughout the territory then occupied by the British, including on land that today constitutes the West Bank.
So most of this land was not owned by either Jews or Arabs, but was under the political control of the British Empire and was vacant - especially the bottom half of the map which was mostly unpopulated desert.
The intent of this propaganda map is to suggest that an Arab country called "Palestine" existed in 1946 and was driven from existence by Jewish imperialists. In reality, most of this "Palestinian" land was "Palestinian" only in the sense that it was public land owned by the British mandatory government of "Palestine."
Not only was there no such country as "Palestine" in 1946, there has never been a country called Palestine. Before the British conquered Jerusalem, Palestine was a sub-province of the Ottoman Empire. (And after the British left, of course, Jordan and Egypt moved in to occupy Gaza and the West Bank.)"
the article continues
"Map 2 (1947): The U.N. Partition Plan - never came into existence
Palestine 1947 (?)The second map is a rendering of the U.N. Partition Plan, which would have divided the British mandate into two equal parts, one part for Arabs and one part for Jews. It appears to show a massive loss of "Palestinian land", but in fact it reflects the fact that the largely vacant and inarable Negev desert was partitioned by the U.N. to Israel.
The Jews accepted this partition of Palestine, and the Arabs rejected it. When Israel declared independence, the Arabs sought to eliminate the U.N.-supported Jewish state, but they failed.
So this map was only a theoretical solution proposed by the U.N. but it never came into existence on the ground because of the refusal of the Arabs to accept the existence of a Jewish State in what was formerly the British Mandate of Palestine.
Map 3 (1949-67): Jordanian West Bank, Egyptian Gaza
Palestine 1949-67 (?)The third map shows further decline in "Palestinian land" which resulted from Arab losses in the 1948 war. The map fails to mention that this was a war of aggression started by the Arab states, thereby absolving them of responsibility for those losses.
The map also falsely describes the Gaza Strip and West Bank and East Jerusalem as "Palestinian land," whereas in fact Jordan annexed the entire West Bank, and Gaza was held under Egyptian occupation.
The map also omits the fact that Arabs owned (and still own) private property in those white areas - in Israel, as does the Muslim Waqf and the Greek Orthodox Church."
The article lastly says
"Map 4 (2000): Omitting the key facts
Palestine 2000 (?)The last map (labeled "2000") is especially deceptive because it omits an impressive list of key facts:
It is silent about several other wars launched against Israel by its Arab neighbors, most notably the Six-Day War in 1967 (Egypt, Jordan, Syria) and the Yom Kippur War in 1973 (Egypt, Syria).
It omits the Israeli withdrawal from the territories gained in these wars, especially the entire Sinai peninsula.
It omits the fact that it was Israel who gave land to the Palestinians, and not Egypt or Jordan who ruled the Gaza Strip and the West Bank prior to 1967.
It omits the facts that Israel offered more land to the Palestinians in exchange for peace in 2000; but the Palestinian leadership rejected this offer.
It omits the murderous violence that Palestinians launched against Israeli citizens after that rejection, during the Second Intifada.
It omits the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, when Israel surrendered the entire Gaza Strip to Palestinian control, and the subsequent rise of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas there.
It omits the constant Palestinian Qassam rockets attacks on Israeli population centers in the south of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert’s offer to PA President Abbas in 2008 to give more land to the Palestinians, and Abbas' rejection of that offer.
In closing, we would like to propose a more accurate map (produced by StandWithUs) for those interested in a more objective view of the evolution of the Middle East (or click below to download the full-sized pdf map):" Again, everyone can view the maps with this article on the catholicsforisrael.com website
From the website 1221.ffoz.org an article is titled
"Who Knew? Ten Celebrities who Support Israel"
Despite the backlash they receive, some of the most influential entertainers still choose to cast their lot with the Jewish state.
Chuck Norris meets Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in Israel.
12-21 Staff
For better or for worse, Hollywood celebrities have a lot of influence over culture and politics.
With the world slowly turning its back on Israel and more and more countries supporting the BDS movement, it is encouraging to know that there are still some famous people voicing their support for Israel. Now, we are certainly not saying that all of these entertainers are kosher and spiritually edifying. This is not a sweeping endorsement of their work or lifestyles, but rather a surprising list of some of the most influential entertainers who put their lot with the Jewish state. Here are ten:
1.Simon Cowell, most famous for his role as a judge on American Idol, The X-Factor, and America’s Got Talent donated $150,000 to the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces.
2.Kayne West, famous rapper and entrepreneur, held a concert in Tel Aviv two years ago, had both of his children baptized in Jerusalem, and is reportedly looking at purchasing real estate in Israel.
3.Scarlett Johansson, the Jewish actress who portrays Black Widow in the Marvel Comics movie series, stood by the company SodaStream, for whom she was a brand ambassador when they were criticized for having the company based in the disputed territory of the West Bank.
4.Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne and actress, who often uses humor to address social injustice and whose sister lives in Jerusalem, signed a 2014 pro-Israel statement along with 190 other Hollywood celebrities.
5.Seth Rogan, Jewish comedian, filmmaker, and actor who did voice work for the cartoons Horton Hears a Who! and Kung Fu Panda, signed the 2014 pro-Israel statement and has vehemently attacked anti-Semitism on social media.
6.Mayim Bialik, the Orthodox Jewish actress and neuroscientist, who is most famous for her role on The Big Bang Theory, openly declared she is a Zionist despite receiving fan backlash.
7.Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, bodybuilder, and politician, most famous for his role in the movie Terminator and being the former governor of California, has publically declared his support for Israel against terrorists.
8.Bill Maher, comedian, actor, and political commentator, who currently hosts the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher, is unrepentant in his defense for the right of the Jewish state to exist and the need for Europe and the UN to stop their criticism of Israel.
9.Sylvester Stallone, actor and filmmaker most famous for his roles in the Rocky and Rambo series, also signed the 2014 pro-Israel statement despite receiving much criticism.
10.Chuck Norris, martial artist, actor, and filmmaker, whose martial arts moves in actions films are legendary, has often voiced his support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has filmed three movies in Israel."
Did anyone see the 1992 Movie "School Ties" from Wikipedia the entry says
School Ties
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"School Ties is a 1992 American sports-drama film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell, Cole Hauser, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery and Anthony Rapp. Fraser plays the lead role as David Greene, a Jewish high school student who is awarded an athletic scholarship to an elite preparatory school in his senior year.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links
Plot
Set in the 1950s, David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is a working-class Jewish teenager from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is given a football scholarship to an exclusive Massachusetts prep school for his senior year due to his grades and ability to play football. Upon his arrival, he meets his teammates Rip Van Kelt (Randall Batinkoff), Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon), Jack Connors (Cole Hauser), and his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell) who are the big men on campus (the most well known and popular students) and learns of the school's cherished honor code system. Soon learning that his new friends are prejudiced against Jews, he suppresses his background.
David becomes the team hero and wins the attentions of beautiful débutante Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane), whom Dillon claims is his girlfriend. In the afterglow of a victory over the school's chief rival St. Luke's, Dillon inadvertently discovers that David is Jewish. Out of jealousy, Dillion makes this widely known, causing Sally and his teammates to turn against David. Soon after, he finds a sign above his bed bearing a swastika and the words "Go home Jew". David is constantly harassed by his classmates, led by Richard "McGoo" Collins (Anthony Rapp) and his bodyguard-like roommate Chesty Smith (Ben Affleck). Only Reece and another unnamed student remain loyal to Greene.
Overwhelmed by pressure from his prestigious family, Dillon uses a crib sheet to cheat in an important history exam. David and Van Kelt each spot him doing so, but remain silent. After the exam, Dillon gets pushed while leaving class and drops the sheet on the floor after the test. When the teacher, Mr. Geirasch (Michael Higgins), discovers it, he informs the class that he will fail all of them if the cheater does not confess. He leaves the task of finding the cheater up to the students, led by Van Kelt, the head prefect.
When David confronts Dillon and threatens to turn him in if he does not confess, Dillon unsuccessfully attempts to buy David's silence with money. Just when David is about to reveal Dillon to the other students, Dillon accuses David. Both agree to leave and to trust the rest of the class to decide who is telling the truth. The majority of the class blame David out of anti-Semitic prejudice, while Reece, the unnamed student, and Connors, going against his own self-professed anti-Semitism, argue that it is unlike David to cheat or be dishonest. Despite this, the class votes that David is guilty, prompting Van Kelt to tell him to report to the elitist headmaster, Dr. Bartram (Peter Donat), to confess to cheating.
David goes to Bartram's office and says that he was the cheater. Unbeknownst to him, Van Kelt has already told the headmaster that the real offender was Dillon. Bartram tells David and Van Kelt that they should have reported the offense, but absolves them. Dillon is expelled. As David leaves the headmaster's office, he sees Dillon leaving the school. Dillon says that he will be accepted to Harvard anyway and that years later everybody will have forgotten about his cheating at school, while David will still just be a Jew. "And you'll still be a prick," David replies, and walks away."
The Wikipedia entry for "School Ties" continues
Cast
Brendan Fraser as David Greene
Matt Damon as Charlie Dillon
Chris O'Donnell as Chris Reece
Randall Batinkoff as Rip Van Kelt, head prefect
Cole Hauser as Jack Connors
Andrew Lowery as "Mack" McGivern
Ben Affleck as Chesty Smith
Anthony Rapp as Richard "McGoo" Collins
Amy Locane as Sally Wheeler
Peter Donat as Headmaster Dr. Bartram
Željko Ivanek as Mr. Cleary, French language teacher
Kevin Tighe as Coach McDevitt, American football coach
Michael Higgins as Mr. Gierasch, history teacher
Ed Lauter as Alan Greene, David's father
Peter McRobbie as Chaplain
Reception
The film received generally mixed reviews. The film has a 59% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 41 reviews.[2] Roger Ebert found it "surprisingly effective",[3] whereas Janet Maslin found it followed a "predictable path".[4]
From GotQuestions.org a Question asks,
"Why is Israel called the Holy Land?"
Answer: The Holy Land, or Israel, is a revered location for many faiths, especially Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Land includes Jerusalem, the Western Wall, the Jordan River, the Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, Masada, and the Dome of the Rock. Visitors to the Holy Land explore the ancient towns and beautiful destinations such as Gethsemane, the Sea of Galilee, and the Dead Sea. Israel is called the Holy Land because it is the site of divine encounters between man and God and the land where Jesus lived, died, and rose again.
The Holy Land is special to Christians because it is the historical region of Jesus’ birth, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection. It is also the birthplace of the church, the place where most of the Bible was written, and the location of many events in the Old and New Testaments. Many Christians visit the Holy Land to touch, see, and confirm what they read in the Bible. The Holy Land is where God revealed Himself to us in the Person of Jesus Christ and performed many miracles. It is also where Jesus will one day rule and reign. After God punishes Satan and his followers, “the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem” (Isaiah 24:23).
In Judaism, Israel is more than the “Holy Land”; it is also the “Promised Land.” God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants, saying, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it” (Genesis 15:7; cf. verse 18). God’s promise of the land was repeated to Isaac (Genesis 26:3) and to Jacob (Genesis 28:13). The exodus of the Jews from Egypt under Moses’ leadership and their travel to Canaan was a fulfillment of God’s ancient covenant with them (Deuteronomy 19:89). It is the “land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8). It is the land of King David, Joshua, Gideon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and many more biblical heroes. Many mitzvoth, or commands, given to the Israelites in the Torah can only be performed in the land of Israel. The prophet Joel relates a promise of the future blessings of Jerusalem: “I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy” (Joel 3:17).
Muslims call the land of Israel the “Holy Land” based on a passage in the Quran in which Moses proclaims, “O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin” (Surah 5:21). Muslims usually call the land “blessed.” In Islam, Jerusalem also has significance. There Muhammed is said to have experienced the Isra and Mi’raj. Jerusalem is also the location of two of Islam’s holy buildings, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.. Jerusalem was Islam’s first qiblah (direction of prayer); however, Islamic prayers are now directed toward Mecca. The region referred to as “blessed” is interpreted differently by various Muslim scholars.
The Baha’i religion also regards Israel as the Holy Land, and its two most important shrines are located there. Baha’i followers pilgrimage to the Mansion of the Bahji in Akko, the final resting place of Bahaullah, the founder of their religion. The Baha’i Gardens in Haifa contain the Shrine of Bab, who was a prophet respected in Baha’i, where the Bab’s remains are laid to rest and can be found on a hillside of terraced gardens."
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"What is the Abrahamic Covenant?"
Answer: A covenant is an agreement between two parties. There are two basic types of covenants: conditional and unconditional. A conditional or bilateral covenant is an agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment. Both parties agree to fulfill certain conditions. If either party fails to meet their responsibilities, the covenant is broken and neither party has to fulfill the expectations of the covenant. An unconditional or unilateral covenant is an agreement between two parties, but only one of the two parties has to do something. Nothing is required of the other party.
The Abrahamic Covenant is an unconditional covenant. God made promises to Abraham that required nothing of Abraham. Genesis 15:18–21 describes a part of the Abrahamic Covenant, specifically dealing with the dimensions of the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants.
The actual Abrahamic Covenant is found in Genesis 12:1–3. The ceremony recorded in Genesis 15 indicates the unconditional nature of the covenant. The only time that both parties of a covenant would pass between the pieces of animals was when the fulfillment of the covenant was dependent upon both parties keeping commitments. Concerning the significance of God alone moving between the halves of the animals, it is to be noted that it is a smoking furnace and a flaming torch, representing God, not Abraham, which passed between the pieces. Such an act, it would seem, should be shared by both parties, but in this case God’s solitary action is doubtless to be explained by the fact that the covenant is principally a promise by God. He binds Himself to the covenant. God caused a sleep to fall upon Abraham so that he would not be able to pass between the two halves of the animals. Fulfillment of the covenant fell to God alone.
Later, God gave Abraham the rite of circumcision as the specific sign of the Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 17:9–14). All males in Abraham’s line were to be circumcised and thus carry with them a lifelong mark in their flesh that they were part of God’s physical blessing in the world. Any descendant of Abraham who refused circumcision was declaring himself to be outside of God’s covenant; this explains why God was angry with Moses when Moses failed to circumcise his son in Exodus 4:24–26.
God determined to call out a special people for Himself, and through that special people He would bring blessing to all the nations. The Abrahamic Covenant is paramount to a proper understanding of the kingdom concept and is foundational to Old Testament theology. The Abrahamic Covenant is described in Genesis 12:1–3, and (1) it is an unconditional covenant. There are no conditions attached to it (no “if” clauses suggesting its fulfillment is dependent on man). (2) It is also a literal covenant in which the promises should be understood literally. The land that is promised should be understood in a normal definition of the word—it is not a figure of heaven. (3) It is also an everlasting covenant. The promises that God made to Israel are eternal."
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"There are three main features to the Abrahamic Covenant:
1. The promise of land (Genesis 12:1). God called Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees to a land that He would give him (Genesis 12:1). This promise is reiterated in Genesis 13:14–18 where it is confirmed by a shoe covenant; its dimensions are given in Genesis 15:18–21 (precluding any notion of this being fulfilled in heaven). The land aspect of the Abrahamic Covenant is expanded in Deuteronomy 30:1–10, which is the Palestinian Covenant.
2. The promise of descendants (Genesis 12:2). God promised Abraham that He would make a great nation out of him. Abraham, who was 75 years old and childless (Genesis 12:4), was promised many descendants. This promise is amplified in Genesis 17:6 where God promised that nations and kings would descend from the aged patriarch. This promise (which is expanded in the Davidic Covenant of 2 Samuel 7:12–16) would eventuate in the Davidic throne with Messiah’s kingdom rule over the Hebrew people.
3. The promise of blessing and redemption (Genesis 12:3). God promised to bless Abraham and the families of the earth through him. This promise is amplified in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31–34; cf. Hebrews 8:6–13) and has to do with “Israel’s spiritual blessing and redemption.” Jeremiah 31:34 anticipates the forgiveness of sin. The unconditional and eternal nature of the covenant is seen in that the covenant is reaffirmed to Isaac (Genesis 21:12; 26:3–4). The “I will” promises again suggest the unconditional aspect of the covenant. The covenant is later confirmed to Jacob (Genesis 28:14–15). It is noteworthy that God reaffirmed these promises amid the sins of the patriarchs, which fact further emphasizes the unconditional nature of the Abrahamic Covenant.
God’s method of fulfilling the Abrahamic Covenant is literal, inasmuch as God partially fulfilled the covenant in history: God blessed Abraham by giving him the land (Genesis 13:14–17), and, centuries later, the sons of Abraham took control of the land: “So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there” (Joshua 21:43). God blessed Abraham spiritually (Genesis 13:8, 18; 14:22, 23; 21:22); God gave him numerous descendants (Genesis 22:17; 49:3–28). An important element of the Abrahamic Covenant, however, demands a still-future fulfillment with Messiah’s kingdom rule:
(1) Israel as a nation will possess the totality of the land in the future. Numerous Old Testament passages anticipate the future blessing of Israel and her possession of the land as promised to Abraham. Ezekiel envisions a future day when Israel is restored to the land (Ezekiel 20:33–37, 40–42; 36:1–37:28).
(2) Israel as a nation will be converted, forgiven, and restored (Romans 11:25–27).
(3) Israel will repent and receive the forgiveness of God in the future (Zechariah 12:10–14). The Abrahamic Covenant finds its ultimate fulfillment in connection with the return of Messiah to rescue and bless His people Israel. It is through the nation Israel that God promised in Genesis 12:1–3 to bless the nations of the world. That ultimate blessing will issue in the forgiveness of sins and Messiah’s glorious kingdom reign on earth."
Also from GotQuestions.org another Question with Answer that's important to state is
"Has Israel’s territory ever encompassed the promise in Joshua 1:4?"
Answer: In Joshua 1:4 God promised Joshua that the land of Israel would include territory extending “from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.” This territory would include the land from the southern tip of Israel along the Red Sea to the Euphrates River on the east, the border of Syria on the north (land of the Hittites), and the Mediterranean Sea (Great Sea) to the west. As of yet, Israel has not controlled this entire land area.
In Joshua’s time, much of the land of Canaan was brought under Israelite control. In the time of David and his son Solomon (approximately 1000 BC, or 400 years after Joshua), a wide area of land was under Israel’s control or influence. Yet the entire territory promised to Israel in Scripture, both in Joshua 1:4 and elsewhere, has yet to be fulfilled.
Some point to a passage later in the book of Joshua as contradicting the promise of Joshua 1:4. After the conquest of Canaan, the historical account says, “So the LORD gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it. And the LORD gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hand. Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass” (Joshua 21:43–45). There is really no contradiction. At the time referred to in Joshua 21, all of Israel’s enemies were subdued. No one posed a threat to God’s people. God had given them a right to everything He had promised in Joshua 1:4, and they were authorized to take possession of the entire land—all the way to the Euphrates—as soon as they needed it and as soon as they called on the Lord for aid. The fact that they never did so does not negate the fact that God had kept His promise.
After Joshua’s death, the book of Judges teaches, the Israelites turned away from God. As punishment, God allowed their enemies to increase in power, and Israel lost territory that God had given earlier. Judges 2:14 says, “In his anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.”
Various judges arose during this period, and there was an ongoing battle for the control of Israel’s territory. Later, during the reigns of David and Solomon, Israel controlled the largest part of the Promised Land to date. After Solomon’s reign, the kingdom was divided into the Kingdom of Israel to the north and the Kingdom of Judah to the south. Both kingdoms eventually sinned to such a degree that God allowed outside nations to defeat them, and most of the Jews were exiled."
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"Yet God was not done with His people, and He restored Israel’s territory. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah document the return of the Jewish people from Babylon seventy years after their exile. The temple was rebuilt, and worship in Jerusalem was re-established. Israel continued in their land until AD 70 when the Romans destroyed the temple and overtook Jerusalem.
It would not be until 1948 that the modern nation of Israel was established following World War II. Now, more than sixty years later, Israel has become a thriving nation and the longest-established democracy in the Middle East. Yet many of its neighbors remain hostile, and a Palestinian movement seeks to develop its own nation within the borders of modern Israel’s territory.
The Bible teaches that God will eventually fulfill the promise to give Israel full control over the Promised Land. Israel’s full territory will ultimately be ruled by the Messiah during the Millennium (Revelation 20:1–6). God’s promises, partly fulfilled throughout history, will have complete, literal, fulfillment prior to God’s creation of new heavens and a new earth (Revelation 21—22; cf. Psalm 72:8)."
Also from GotQuestions.org another Question & Answer is
"Why was Abraham promised land that belonged to others (Genesis 12)?"
Answer: In Genesis 12:1-3, the Lord says to Abraham, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” This blessing included land that, at the time the promise was made, belonged to other people.
There are several reasons why this transfer of ownership was appropriate. First, “the earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it” (Psalm 24:1). As the Creator of the earth, God has the right to do with it as He pleases. He can take land away or give it according to the counsel of His will (Psalm 135:6).
The land pledged to Abraham was part of God’s provision for the Jewish people. After the Exodus from Egypt, the Jews were given the Promised Land, confirming God’s power to predict the future and fulfill His promises.
Second, giving the land to Abraham’s descendants was, in part, a judgment on the sinful Canaanites. In Genesis 15:16 the Lord gives a timeframe for the transfer of the land, as well as a reason for it: “In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” This statement clearly shows that God had a reason for wresting the land from the Canaanites—namely, their sin. At the edge of the Promised Land, Moses told the children of Abraham, “It is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you” (Deuteronomy 9:4). Abraham did not inherit the land immediately because it was not time yet for judgment to fall. God eventually took the land from the idolaters and turned it over to His children.
Third, the prosperity promised to Abraham required much land. Prosperity in Abraham’s time involved acquiring land and having much livestock. God’s promise to make Abraham prosperous would virtually require giving him large amounts of land.
Fourth, the geographical portion of the Abrahamic Covenant served as the historical basis for Israel’s eventual settlement of the land. Though there were many nations living in Canaan when Israel crossed the Jordan River, God’s promise to Abraham was Israel’s claim to the land. In Genesis 15:18-21, God further defined the borders of the land promised to Abraham: “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
Yes, God promised Abraham land that belonged to others. The reasons for this transfer of land include the need to punish the Canaanites’ sin and the need for God’s chosen people to have a land of their own, eventually to become the birthplace of the Messiah."
From the website www.god1st.org an article is titled
"Significance of Israel in Bible Prophecy"
By Brian C Thomas
Introduction
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"The nation of Israel is the foundation of the Bible and the Christian faith. God’s intimate relationship with mankind was re-established through the Jews after the fall of Adam. They are the true chosen people of God. The Lord called them to be a holy people while leading them to the Promised Land following centuries of Egyptian bondage. God also repeatedly warned them that consequences would follow disobedience and later dispersed them into the nations of the world due to their rebellion against His Word. It is the same eternal covenant-keeping God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who is restoring Israel to the land of their fathers at the end of this age just as He promised. Sadly, much of the Christian Church does not properly honor and recognize the nation of Israel. As we go through this study, it is my desire that all will give due reverence to the importance of God's chosen nation to the world. The nation of Israel literally lies in the center of events that point to the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Topics
The following topics will be covered in this study:
Abrahamic Covenant
Dispersion & Restoration
Replacement Theology
The Jewish Messiah
God’s Prophetic Time Clock
Blessings and Curses
Present Day Conflict
The Eternal Home
Ways to Bless Israel
Abrahamic Covenant
The call to Israel as God’s chosen people began with Abraham. God spoke the following to him:
Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are – northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants for ever – Genesis 13:14-15
God later reaffirmed this promise with Abraham’s son Isaac and grandson Jacob (Genesis 26:3-5; 28:10-15). When God made the covenant with Abraham, He also spoke the following, “I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” – Genesis 12:3
God was not only referring to Abraham as an individual, He was also referring to Abraham’s descendants, which are the Jews. Therefore, we are commanded to not only bless the physical nation of Israel in the Middle East but to also bless all Jews throughout the world. God made an everlasting covenant that is unconditional in nature.
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates – Genesis 15:18"
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"And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. – Genesis 17:7
But prior to this covenant coming to pass, Abraham’s people spent 400 years under Egyptian bondage. Under tremendous persecution, the Hebrew slaves called out to God for deliverance. Following twelve plagues cast on the land of Egypt by the hand of God, pharaoh finally consented to the order of Moses to let the people go. God then led the Hebrews to the Promised Land. The Exodus out of Egypt came after the sacrificial lamb was slaughtered and the celebration of the first Passover. This sacrificial lamb was a foreshadow of the True Lamb that would come centuries later - the Messiah Jesus Christ. The sacrifice by Jesus Christ would deliver all of mankind from the bondage of sin for all that would accept His free gift for salvation. Just as the land between the Nile and the Euphrates rivers was given to the Jews as a gift from God, the shedding of innocent blood by Jesus Christ was given as a free gift for the price of all man’s sins.
Dispersion
Israel was given laws and ordinances that they were required to adhere to carry the title and honor as God’s chosen people. They were warned by God through Moses and other Old Testament prophets that failure to obey God’s orders would result in punishment under the wrath of God. One of the punishments would be Israel’s enemies exiling them their land and taking them into slavery. History reveals that this came about as the Babylonians and Assyrians overtook the Jews. But these proved to be short-term takeovers as God restored His people to their land once they called out to Him and repented from their rebellion (Leviticus 26; Deutoronomy 30). But even still, periods of disobedience continued to surface within the nation of Israel with repeated idolatry. As a result of this, the warning of a long-lasting dispersion throughout the many nations of the world was to come. This would greatly contrast the local dispersion into the lands of Babylonia and Assyria. This warning was fulfilled in the first century. After centuries of occupation, the Jews were driven away from the Promised Land and scattered throughout the world as punishment for disobedience to God and rejection of Christ as the Messiah (Ezekiel 5:10) in 70 AD. Jesus prophesied that this would occur beginning with the destruction of Jerusalem (Matthew 23:37-39).
Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other - Deutoronomy 28:64
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste - Leviticus 26:33
Jesus indicated that the Jews would remain exiled from Jerusalem for a long period of time - until the time of the Gentiles was fulfilled, “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." – Luke 21:24. The Roman siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD began the long dispersion of the Jews from their land, a dispersion that would last almost 2000 years. During those two millennia, relentless persecution of the Jewish exiles occurred as they dwelled in the lands of strangers."
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"Restoration
God stated that He would punish the Jews but not completely destroy them (Jeremiah 30:11). The promise to restore Israel to their land some day was revealed to the prophet Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones Vision (Ezekiel 37). Israel’s exile from the land because of disobedience does not nullify God’s covenants. Even though Israel was unfaithful, God is a forever faithful covenant-keeping God who will again restore the nation to their land.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord - Leviticus 26:44-45
The restoration of Israel brings tremendous resistance from its enemies. The kingdom of darkness is fully aware of God’s future plans with Israel and is the reason for the campaign of hatred against the Jews. Events such as the Holocaust are rooted in a satanically driven hatred against God and His chosen nation. The prophet Zechariah revealed that the physical descendants of Abraham (the entire Jewish nation) are the “apple of God’s eye”, “For thus says the LORD of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.” – Zechariah 2:8. This term of endearment by God is not used to describe any other nation in the world."
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Replacement Theology
The fact that Israel rejected Jesus as the Messiah resulting in their world-wide dispersion, has led to a great satanic deception which has invaded the Christian Church with many teaching that God’s covenant with Israel no longer exists. This is known as Replacement Theology - the view that the church is the new or true Israel that has permanently replaced or superseded Israel as the people of God. The theory is that because Israel rejected Christ as the Messiah (Romans 9), God took His promises from the Jews and gave them to the Gentiles. It is true that God brought salvation to the Gentiles due to the stumble of the Jews, “I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.” – Romans 11:11. The preceding scripture makes it clear that God did not cast away the Jewish nation and replace them with the Gentiles, often referred to as the Church. Apostle Paul stated that Gentiles who accept Christ are “grafted” spiritually into the Jewish nation and become a part of God’s chosen people (Romans 11:11-36). The Church was grafted into God’s chosen people but never replaced Israel.
Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. – Zechariah 2:11
Non-Jews can find great joy in knowing that all who accept Christ will be joined with the “apple of God’s eye”. Apostle Paul also stated the order in which salvation comes to the world, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” – Romans 1:16.
As God is always true to His word, the Jews have returned to physical Israel and the Jewish nation was officially reborn on May 14, 1948. One would think this event would have erased all thoughts of Replacement Theology. The physical restoration is occurring today but the spiritual restoration is still to come. The spiritual restoration will come about as a result of the worst persecution that Israel will ever face. Replacement Theology has led to the Church abandoning Israel even though the entire world is coming against it, led by forces of evil.
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 - Zechariah 13:8-9?"
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"Apostle Paul’s Warning to the Church
For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 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. – Romans 11:15-22
Replacement Theology has led to a plethora of false doctrine and anti-Semitism.
Examples:
Interprets the woman in Revelation 12:1-6 as the Church rather than true Israel.
States Christ could return anywhere, even in light of Zechariah 14:4.
The mormons teach that Christ will return to Independence, Missouri of all places!
Misunderstanding of the purpose of the Tribulation and Rapture of the Church.
Misunderstanding of “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains” – Matthew 24:16
Shear disdain for the Jews, even in the Church. 16th century Protestant Reformer Martin Luther wrote, “Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools...” and “If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'.”
Israel’s return to the land is just a coincidence.
The Church never has nor ever will replace Israel in the eyes of God. This false teaching has no place in the Church and has caused much confusion concerning Bible prophecy and is the reason for anti-Semitism in the Church. This false doctrine should be permanently removed from the Church.
The Jewish Messiah
Significance in the Jewish nation of Israel is found in the fact that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was brought into the world through the Jews. Jesus lived in Israel while on earth as a Jew. The scripture refers to Jesus as King of the Jews, “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.” – Matthew 2:1-2. Jesus also spoke that He was King of the Jews, “Now Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.”” – Matthew 27:11. God’s word also declares that Jesus will return to earth someday to rule and reign from Jerusalem (Zechariah 1:16, 8:3, 14:4, 14:16).
I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen down. I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up, so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does all these things - Acts 15:16-17
God's Prophetic Time Clock
As stated earlier, the nation of Israel lies in the center of events related to prophecy. Numerous prophecies of the Bible reveal that when certain events happen concerning Israel, respective prophecies will be fulfilled. One of these prophecies is the Seventy Weeks Prophecy found in the book of Daniel. The prophecy gives specific timeframes concerning the First Coming of Christ, His crucifixion, the antichrist, and Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Daniels Seventy Weeks Prophecy"
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"Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.
After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
Jesus gave the parable of the fig tree to His apostles as an indicator concerning His return to earth. He was conveying the message that when the fig tree (Israel) blossoms, His return would soon follow. He also spoke of Jerusalem and its trampling by the Gentiles as it relates to His Second Coming.
Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. – Matthew 24:32-33
And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. – Luke 21:24
The prophecy of the fig tree was fulfilled on May 14, 1948 when Israel once again became a nation. The times of the Gentiles in Jerusalem were fulfilled in June 1967. The fulfillment of the Gentiles marks the soon closing of the Church dispensation. Scripture states the generation that sees these events will also see the return of Christ.
According to biblical prophecies, the orthodox faith of Israel will strongly revive and the temple will also be rebuilt. This initiative will coincide with the continued rejection of the once for all sacrifice of Jesus as the true Messiah of Israel (Hebrews 10:5-11).1
The rebuilt temple will be desecrated by the false messiah (Antichrist). When Israel revokes their covenant with him, they will be driven out of the city. It will only be at the coming of the true Messiah to the Mount of Olives, that Jerusalem and the remnant of Israel will be spiritually restored.1
The spiritual cleansing must occur after Israel has been restored to their land. It will coincide with great distress and tribulation. A remnant of Israel will be refined in the fire of God’s wrath (Zechariah 13:9).1
Therefore thus says the Lord God: because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you… then you shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out My fury on you. - Ezekiel 22:19-22"
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"Seven Feasts of the Lord
We find further evidence of that nation of Israel as God's prophectic time clock when studying the Seven Feasts of the Lord. Of the seven feasts, there are three in the spring, one in the summer, and three in the fall.
Jesus, at His first coming, literally fulfilled the spring feasts on the actual feast day. They can be summarized as follows3:
1) Passover (Leviticus 23:5) – Pointed to the Messiah as our Passover lamb (I Corinthians 5:7) whose blood would be shed for our sins. Jesus was crucified on the day of preparation for the Passover at the same hour that the lambs were being slaughtered for the Passover meal that evening.
2) Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:6) – Pointed to the Messiah's sinless life (as leaven is a picture of sin in the Bible), making Him the perfect sacrifice for our sins. Jesus' body was in the grave during the first days of this feast.
3) First Fruits (Leviticus 23:10) – Messiah's resurrection as the first fruits of the righteous. Jesus was resurrected on this very day, Paul refers to Him in I Corinthians 15:20 as the “first fruits from the dead.”
4) Weeks or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:16) – Occurred fifty days after the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and pointed to the great harvest of souls and the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2). The Church was established on this day as the His Holy Spirit was poured out and 3,000 Jews responded to Peter's sermon and his proclamation of the Gospel.
Since the spring feasts were literally fulfilled on the actual feast day, it is likely that the fall feasts will be literally fulfilled in the Lord’s Second Coming.
5) Trumpets (Leviticus 23:24) – The first of the fall feasts. Many believe this day points to the Rapture of the Church when the Messiah Jesus will appear in the heavens as He comes for His bride, the Church. The Rapture is always associated in Scripture with the blowing of a loud trump, the last trump (I Thessalonians 4:13-18 and I Corinthians 15:52).
6) Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27) – Many believe this prophetically points to the day of the Second Coming of Jesus when He will return to earth at the end of the seven year Tribulation. That will be the “Day of Atonement” for the Jewish remnant when they “look upon Him whom they have pierced,” repent of their sins, and receive Him as their Messiah (Zechariah 12:10 and Romans 11:1-6, 25-36).
7) Tabernacles or Booths (Leviticus 23:34) – Many scholars believe that this feast day will be fulfilled as the Lord's promise to once again “tabernacle” with His people when He returns to reign over all the world during the Millennium (Micah 4:1-7).
Blessings and Curses
God promised blessings and curses over people based on their treatment of Abraham and his descendants. This is recorded in the book of Genesis.
I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” – Genesis 12:3
In this same promise, God stated that all families (nations) of the world would be blessed as a result of the Jewish people. Below are just a few of the numerous contributions made by Israel that have been a blessing to the entire world:
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany.
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Although the Jews make up only 1% of the world's population, approximately 22% of Nobel Prize recipients are of Jewish decent.
Albert Einstein was Jewish.
The Messiah Jesus Christ. "
& continues
"Blessings and curses are found in the history of the United States of America due to its stance toward Israel. The U.S. was the first nation to recognize Israel a nation in 1948 and played an instrumental role in the declaration of Israel as a state, thus receiving many blessings. At this point in history, the U.S. is the most prosperous nation that the world has ever seen. This is directly related to the fact that the U.S. was the best ally to Israel for many decades and has been a safe haven for Jewish people in which they can live without the persecution that they face in most foreign nations. But the tide began to turn in U.S. Israel relations in the early 1990's. Israel is the apple of God’s eye. When you “curse” Israel, it’s like poking your finger in God’s eye. George H. W. Bush signed the Oslo Accord October 30, 1991 at the Madrid Peace Conference. This began U.S. pressure to divide Israel, to force Israel to trade land for peace with the Palestinians. Within 24 hours of Bush's signature, a freak “The Perfect Storm” hit his house in the northeast. Below are several more examples of curses that have came upon America as a result of attempting to divide God's land which is forbidden (Joel 3:2).2
August 23, 1992 – President Bush was in meeting in Washington D.C. to pressure Israel to give land to Palestinians. On the very same day, hurricane Andrew, a category 5 storm, slammed into Florida. It caused $30 billion in damage while destroying 180,000 homes. It was the worst natural disaster to ever hit the U.S.
February 18, 1993 - President Bill Clinton's administration makes it first trip to Israel with the purpose to restart peace talks with 7 Arab nations. The next day, terrorists hit the World Trade center in New York City with a 1500 lb car bomb.
August 23, 2001 - President Bush appeared on CNN to challenge Yasser Arafat to put 100% effort into stopping terrorism. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia became enraged at Bush’s comments saying the U.S. supports Israel. He orders ambassador Bandar to immediately leave the U.S. because Bush supports Israel. Before his exit, Bandar meets with Condoleeza Rice while Bush was on vacation, states his disgust with Bush’s comments, and threatens to withhold oil. Rice reports this to Bush who issues a letter to Bandar stating “Palestinian people have the right to live in their own state in their own homeland”. On Sept 7th, a happy Bandar returns to U.S. to draft a plan with Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Powell for the creation of a Palestinian state. On September 10, 2001 the group meets to finalize Bush’s plan to Create a Palestinian Nation in Israel in 2005. A jubilant Bandar then calls his offices to inform them that the plan is finished and the U.S. is willing to stand with the Palestinian plan.
8:46 AM the next morning, a hijacked plane crashes into the North Tower of the WTC.
9:03 AM another plane hits the South Tower.
9:37 AM Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.
10:03 AM Flight 93, another hijacked craft, crashes into a field in Pennsylvania.
September 11, 2001 was the worst terrorist act in history as 3000 people died.
This serves as another reminder, "I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you..."
August 15, 2005 - 9000 Jewish settlers were ordered to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip. This act, to force 35 years of residence in Gaza to leave within 48 hours or be forcefully removed, was backed by the United States of America administration. Homes were bulldozed at the orders of the United States. This removal of the Jews was completed August 23, 2005. Within 24 hours, hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic, and defying computer model predictions grew into a major storm. On August 28th, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin issues a mandatory evacuation, starting with low-lying “West Bank”. Katrina slammed into New Orleans on August 29th. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history as nearly 2000 perish."
& continues
"April 16, 2007 - A Virginia Tech student goes on a killing spree, leaving 32 dead. It was later revealed he had written “act of Ishmael” on his arm prior to his shooting spree. Ishmael is Arabic for “Ishmael the father of the Arabs”. This occurred just after the U.S. agreed to supply ammunitions to Arab forces.
August 1, 2007 - Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was in Jerusalem for a meeting to once again divide the land. Minnesota congressman, Keith Ellison (only Muslim in congress at the time), stated he was going to Israel as well to work on two-state agreement. On the very same day, the main span of a bridge collapsed in his Minnesota district during rush hour. Thirteen people died and approximately 100 were injured on the I-35 bridge. Ironically this bridge is known as the West Bank and was constructed in 1967.
January 9, 2008 – President George W. Bush makes first trip to Israel as president with the agenda to divide land. On this Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset (Jan 8 – 9, 2008) was a new moon. This was Sevat 1 on the Hebrew calendar, the first day of the 11th month. Thousands of years earlier, Moses spoke the following on the 1st day of the 11th month, issuing God’s order to go in and possess the land.
Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them, after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.
On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’ - Deutoronomy 1:3-8
On the exact same day President Bush made his trip to Israel, a “freak” tornado hits Jerusalem, Arkansas destroying the town and Mt. Zion Church.
It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem – Zechariah 12:9
To ensure God’s blessing upon us, we must bless Israel.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you...(Genesis 12:3)
We must not rush to condemn the Jews stating they crucified Jesus – remember Gentiles participated! It was an act of unbelief, but it was part of God’s plan of salvation for Israel and the nations. If the atoning death of the Lord Jesus had not taken place, you and I could not have been reconciled to God, nor become Christians. The reason why all believers should in a very serious and dedicated way intercede for Jerusalem is because it is the city of the great King (Psalm 48:2). Despite the religious formalism and deadness of the Jewish people, there is no justification for waging a campaign of hatred against them. To do this is one of the most foolish and self-destructive things nations or individuals could do. To act against the declared will and purposes of God is to heap judgments upon ourselves with many sorrows to follow.1"
& continues
"Present Day Conflict
Many nations, including the United States of America, have adopted foreign policies for a two-state solution in what they believe is necessary for peace between the Jews & Palestinians.
“And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.”– Zechariah 12:3
The entire world is coming together against Jerusalem calling for a two-state solution between the Palestinians & Israelis. The nations are trying to force Israel to give up land (Jerusalem) for peace.
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. - Psalm 83:4
The president of Iran (Biblical Persia) made the following statement on October 26, 2005, "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map." This is fulfilment of the predictions made in Psalm 83:4 concerning the world's hatred toward God's chosen nation.
God sternly warned that He would bring judgment upon nations that attempt to divide His land, “I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.” – Joel 3:2.
This leads to a few rhetorical questions:
How many churches today have this topic in the forefront?
When was the last time your church prayed concerning the conflict in Israel?
Does your church raise the point that the conflict points to the return of Christ?" "
& lastly says
"The Eternal Home
Although present-day conflict will escalate into the Great Tribulation in which Israel will believe annihilation is inevitable, Christ will return to rescue the Jewish nation. During the subsequent millennial reign of Christ the saved remnant of Israel will rejoice in the Lord and evangelize the entire world (Isaiah 12:3-6; 40:9; 51:11).
“Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit” (Isaiah 27:6). The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:9-10; Habakkuk 2:14).
Israel will reign supreme as the greatest nation on earth. Jerusalem will be the eternal home for all who receive salvation. We will serve a Jewish Lord and worship Him in the new Holy City. Following the 1000 year reign of Christ, The New Jerusalem will descend from heaven (Revelation 21:2) and come down to the new earth. The city will be glorious with precious stones, streets of transparent pure gold, and gates named after the twelve tribes of Israel (Revelation 21:9-21).
Ways to Bless Israel
We are instructed to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.” – Psalm 122:6. Those that pray for Jerusalem will prosper.
Educate your church by encouraging prayer for Israel, deliver teachings on Israel, and create support groups.
Display the Israel flag at your home, church, or ministry as a sign of support and love.
Do not support political legislation that divides Jerusalem or Israel. Division of God's land is forbidden in Joel 3:2.
Donate to organizations that have been created to assist Jews with returning to Israel from foreign lands. You can also donate to help Jews who are already living in Israel as many are living below poverty.
Conclusion
The Jewish people are a great and holy nation that we should bless and be grateful for.
No nation/race has suffered such great persecution throughout its history.
In accordance with His divine will, the Lord will transform Jerusalem to be the world capital, the wonderful city of the Messiah, and rule the Millennial world from the restored throne of David (Isaiah 62:6-7).
Total fulfilment of prophecy that Israel will be elevated above all nations and abundantly blessed is still to come (Millennium).
Blessing Abraham and his descendants honors the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - the very Lord whom Christians claim as their God and Father of Jesus Christ.
We are reminded to pray for Jerusalem and the revelation of God’s glory from that city: “You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6)
God told Abraham that all nations would be blessed because of Israel. And all have been blessed with the opportunity for eternal life that was given by the King of the Jews, Jesus Christ. It is written, "You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews" - John 4:22.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you - Zech. 8:23
We look forward to the day that our Lord Jesus Christ will rule and reign from Jerusalem. Until then, we pray Blessings to the great nation of Israel, Peace to Jerusalem, and to the only wise God, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
References
Johan Malan, The Significance of Israel to End-time Prophecies
John Muncy, America Cursed by Forcing Israel
Dr. David R. Reagan, The Feasts of Israel " from www.god1st.org
From the website of the New York Post Newspaper nypost.com an article is titled
"1 in 4 Europeans hold anti-Semitic beliefs, new survey finds"
By Talia Kaplan, Fox News
November 21, 2019 | 2:41am
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Education Dept. probing alleged anti-semitism at NYU
UN releases first-ever report on anti-Semitism highlighting uptick
the article says
"A new survey shows about one in four Europeans holding anti-Semitic beliefs, with such attitudes on the rise in Eastern and Central European countries.
The poll of 14 countries released Thursday by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that such views have held mostly steady in Western Europe.
“It is deeply concerning that approximately one in four Europeans harbor the types of anti-Semitic beliefs that have endured since before the Holocaust,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said.
“These findings serve as a powerful wake-up call that much work remains to be done to educate broad swaths of the populations in many of these countries to reject bigotry, in addition to addressing the pressing security needs where violent incidents are rising.”
In the Eastern and Central European countries surveyed, the stereotype of “Jewish power” in business and the idea that Jewish people are more loyal to Israel than to their own country are especially widespread, according to the findings, which added that many people in those countries also believe that Jews still talk too much about the Holocaust.
The poll, which was fielded between April and June 2019, found anti-Semitic attitudes most prevalent in Poland, Ukraine and Hungary, with more than 40% of the respondents in each country expressing such views.
The ADL noted that when asked if they agreed with the statement that “Jews have too much power in the business world,” 72 percent of Ukrainians agreed, as did 71 percent of Hungarians and 56 percent of people from Poland.
Recently the governments of all three countries have been criticized by Jewish groups, though all deny being anti-Semitic
In a statement sent to Fox News, Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesperson for the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations said, “The Ukrainian society does not tolerate any forms of discrimination. Anti-Semitism is a crime in our country. All instances that occur are subject to a thorough investigation by the law enforcement agencies.”
“How can Ukraine be mentioned as ‘one of the most anti-Semitic,’ if in April 2019 the Ukrainian people by the overwhelming majority (73 percent) elected a President of Jewish ancestry? The previous Prime Minister, who left the office in August 2019, was a Jew too, making Ukraine the first country outside Israel with [a] Jewish President and PM [Prime Minister],” Nikolenko said.
“Claims about prevalent anti-Semitic attitudes have nothing to do with reality.”
The Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations and The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations and the Embassy of Hungary in Washington also did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Italy and Austria both posted significant decreases, according to the survey, which noted that in Italy, anti-Semitic attitudes fell 11 percent and in Austria they decreased 8 percent.
Overall, such attitudes remained virtually unchanged in Belgium, Germany and Denmark, according to the ADL.
The study found anti-Semitic views were either stable or down in western Europe and reported decreases in Spain, Netherlands, Italy and Britain. France was also unchanged and Sweden had the lowest rate, at 4 percent."
Also from the website nypost.com an article is titled
"Orthodox Jews opening up their wallets for Trump in 2020"
By Doree Lewak and Jon Levine
November 23, 2019 | 8:26pm
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Rabbi YY Jacobson greets President Trump at a private lunch attended by 400 Orthodox Jews last week.
White House to allow disciplinary review of Navy SEAL Gallagher to proceed
the article says
"Though he polls as generally unpopular with Jews and has even been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in office, New York’s Orthodox enclaves are kvelling over the president — and even raised $4 million for him at a Midtown banquet last week.
“[He’s] the first Hasidic president,” gushed Yossi Garelik, an Orthodox rabbi in Crown Heights who voted against Trump in 2016.
“Literally right before he went into office when Obama abstained at the U.N. in December 2016 [jeopardizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank], Trump said, ‘January 20th everything will change.’ I said,’ This guy means business.’ I completely converted.”
He is not alone. In 2018, 91% of Orthodox Jews rated President Trump’s job performance as “satisfactory” or “very satisfactory” — with 82% saying they would support him again in 2020, Ami Magazine, a Jewish weekly, reported.
This is in opposition to less-religious Jews, 71% of whom voted for Hillary Clinton, according to the Pew Research Center.
And the Orthodox are not just opening their hearts to the Republican president, they’re opening their wallets.
Trump attended a $25,000-per-couple luncheon last week at a Midtown hotel, where 400 moneyed Orthodox machers raised at least $4 million for the America First SuperPAC.
Rabbi YY Jacobson introduces President Trump at a lunch where 400 moneyed Orthodox machers raised at least $4M for the America First SuperPAC.
Simon Scheiner
One guest, Brooklyn real estate mogul Rubin Schron, is a longtime Dem donor — and benefactor to Joe Biden’s failed presidential campaign in 1987.
“Many of the people who attended were Chuck Schumer donors,” Kelly Sadler, an America First spokeswoman told The Post, noting the political converts at the event. “We screened all of the people in attendance, and we were surprised to see how many have given before to Democrats, but never a Republican.
“People were standing up on their chairs chanting … eight more years,” she added.
“Over the years I haven’t seen any galvanized, concentrated effort for a political candidate like this,” Rabbi YY Jacobson, who introduced the president at the lunch told The Post. “They are very moved by the leadership he’s shown in security and defense against terror and the support of Israel.”
Orthodox leaders say they’ve embraced Trump because of his pro-Israel policies, including voiding the Iran nuclear deal. Some pointed to Trump’s commuting of Hasidic meatpacking boss Sholom Rubashkin‘s 27-year-sentence for bank fraud and money laundering in 2017.
“Everyone has been talking about moving the embassy to Jerusalem. He didn’t talk, he just did it and you know what — the world didn’t implode,” said Yossi Gestetner, a marketing executive and co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council. “Every other administration likes to squeeze and press Israel right, left and center and he doesn’t do it.”
The Trump lunch was the first event of its kind, according to Sheya Landa. “You never had an event like this. The closest thing was a lunch for George W. Bush with maybe 30 people.”
Trump eagerly returned the love.
“I worked with my father in Brooklyn, on Ocean Parkway, and 97% of the people I knew growing up were Jewish,” he told the crowd.
To laughter, he claimed to have a “98% approval rating” in Israel (69% Israelis expressed confidence in Trump, a Pew poll found). He continued: “If anything happens here, I’ll take a trip over to Israel and be prime minister there.” God Bless President Trump & Vice President Mike Pence for Standing With Israel !!!
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Hundreds of Rabbis Thank Trump for New Judea and Samaria Policy" on November 24, 2019
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of Chabad of Poway (R) thanks President Donald Trump for his support, May 2, 2019. (Youtube/Screenshot)
the article says
"Trump will be remembered in Jewish history as a “man who stood on the front lines, unafraid,” the rabbis said.
By TPS
Following the Trump administrations announcement ’s that U.S. policy concludes that Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria does not violate international law, hundreds of rabbis, including Israel’s Chief Rabbis, sent a letter on Sunday morning to the president, thanking him for his pro-Israel decision.
After to the letter, after the US had the privilege of being the first to recognize Israel’s establishment, Trump had the great fortune of recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights for the first time, and can now do the same for the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria.
“The presidents of the United States have had the merit of standing at Israel’s side, of partnering in the realization of the prophetic vision of the return to Zion and the rebirth of Israel. A rare privilege has now presented itself to you: To be the first American president to blaze the trail for recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and now, over the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria,” they wrote.
The rabbis said that, as God had promised to the prophets, Trump’s decisions will be a source of blessing to him.
“To the Prophet Isaiah, God promised that He will not rest until all the nations of the world recognize the righteousness of Israel, and the righteousness of your decisions will be a source of His blessings for you,” they wrote.
The letter called his decision historic, saying he would be remembered in Jewish history as a “man who stood on the front lines, unafraid.”
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"WATCH: Palestinian Leadership Openly Promotes Terror, Discourages Negotations"
Abbas advisor Mahmoud al-Aloul. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)
Nov 24, 2019
Palestinian incitement
Palestinian terror
the article says
"Top advisors to Mahmoud Abbas demanded violence over agreements, urging “resistance,” the primary Palestinian code-word for terrorism.
A leading advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared at a recent event, “[Resistance] cannot be stopped or deferred in order to consider some other possibility such as an agreement, negotiations, or other things because [the resistance] is what guarantees victory.”
In Palestinian society, “resistance” means violent terror attacks on Israelis, and this advisor, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, is communicating the PA’s official policy of support regarding the murder and maiming of innocent civilians.
Once again, Israel’s “peace partners” show their true colors."
It's terrible how the United Nations, U.N. has such a sickening bias against Israel,
yet the U.N. has a statue of a man beating a Sword to a ploughshare as seen in the Bible verse Isaiah 2:4 from the Old Testament, from the Wikipedia entry for
"Swords to ploughshares" it says
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This article is about converting military technology. For the American veterans' NPO, see Swords to Plowshares.
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection
Swords to ploughshares, or swords to plowshares, is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications.
The phrase originates from the Book of Isaiah:
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. –Isaiah 2:3–4
The ploughshare (Hebrew: אֵת ’êṯ, also translated coulter) is often used to symbolize creative tools that benefit humankind, as opposed to destructive tools of war, symbolized by the sword (Hebrew: חֶרֶב ḥereḇ), a similar sharp metal tool with an arguably opposite use.
In addition to the original Biblical Messianic intent, the expression "beat swords into ploughshares" has been used by disparate social and political groups.
An ongoing example as of 2013 is the dismantling of nuclear weapons and the use of their contents as fuel in civilian electric power stations, the Megatons to Megawatts Program. Nuclear fission development, originally accelerated for World War II weapons needs, has been applied to many civilian purposes since its use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including electricity and radiopharmaceutical production.
Contents
1 Biblical references
2 Practical applications
3 In political and popular culture
4 See also
5 References
Biblical references
This analogy is used several times in the Old Testament or Tanakh, in both directions, such as in the following verses:
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
— Isaiah 2:4
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
— Christian versification: Joel 3:10 Jewish versification: Joel 4:10
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
— Micah 4:3
An expression of this concept can be seen in a bronze statue in the United Nations garden called Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a gift from the Soviet Union sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich, representing the figure of a man hammering a sword into the shape of a ploughshare.
From the New York Post website , nypost.com
"A ray of Arab-Israeli hope and other commentary"
By Post Editorial Board
November 24, 2019 | 8:50pm
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Foreign desk: An Arab-Israeli ‘Ray of Hope’
Thirty prominent public figures from 15 Arab countries, some facing “serious personal security issues,” gathered in London last week “to repudiate the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement” against Israel and demand their nations establish “direct civil relations” with the Jewish state, reports Jenni Frazer at the Jewish Journal. Attendees included Mohammed Anwar Sadat, a member of the Egyptian Parliament and a nephew of former President Anwar Sadat; former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sami Abdul-Latif Al-Nisf; as well as other religious and political notables. The group recounted “personal stories about good relations with Jews” and deplored terrorism, “brainwashing” kids against Israel and politicizing Islam. Former US diplomat Dennis Ross called the participants “courageous” and “a ray of hope.” And while no government was officially involved, the views expressed are bound to resonate throughout the Middle East."
We Israel supports can never forget the Episode of The Original Star Trek titled
"Patterns of Force"
From Wikipedia it says about this episode which first aired on February 16, 1968
"Patterns of Force (Star Trek: The Original Series)
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"Patterns of Force"
Star Trek: The Original Series episode
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Kirk in a Nazi uniform with Daras, an Ekosian resistance member
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 21
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Written by John Meredyth Lucas
Featured music George Duning
Cinematography by Jerry Finnerman
Production code 052
Original air date February 16, 1968
Guest appearance(s)
David Brian - Professor/Führer John Gill
Chuck Courtney - Davod
Skip Homeier - Deputy Führer Melakon
Richard Evans - Isak
Patrick Horgan - Chairman Eneg
Valora Noland - Daras
William Wintersole - Abrom
Paul Baxley - First Trooper
Peter Canon - Gestapo Lieutenant
Gilbert Green - S.S. Major
Bartell LaRue - Nazi Newscaster
Ralph Maurer - S.S. Lieutenant
Ed McCready - S.S. Trooper
Eddie Paskey - Trooper
William Blackburn - Lt. Hadley / S.S. Trooper
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"Patterns of Force" is the twenty-first episode of the second season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek. Written by John Meredyth Lucas and directed by Vincent McEveety, it was first broadcast on February 16, 1968.
In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise tracks down a Federation observer on a planet dominated by a "Naziesque" regime.
This episode was banned on German television from 1968 until 1995 due to the depiction of Nazi uniforms and presence of several different Nazi insignia.[1]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Production
3 Reception
3.1 German broadcast history
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Plot
The starship Enterprise arrives at the planet Ekos to investigate the disappearance of a Federation cultural observer named John Gill, who was one of Captain Kirk's history professors at Starfleet Academy. The Enterprise enters orbit around Ekos and is attacked by a rocket armed with a thermonuclear warhead, technology that is too advanced to be from either Ekos or their neighboring planet, Zeon.
Kirk suspects Gill may be responsible for the introduction of advanced technology, which would mean that he has contaminated Ekosian culture and violated the Prime Directive. Kirk and First Officer Spock decide to beam down to the planet to investigate. Before they transport to the surface, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy inserts subcutaneous emergency transponders, a type of homing device, into the forearms of each in the event they cannot use their communicators."
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"Upon their arrival, Kirk and Spock watch in horror as a Zeon is arrested by Ekosian soldiers dressed as brown-shirted Nazi Stormtroopers. An outdoor video newsreel shows an Ekosian rally featuring huge crowds shouting Nazi-style slogans and waving swastika-emblazoned flags. A female Nazi officer, Daras, is shown receiving a medal of honor; the Iron Cross, Second Class. The "Final Solution" is mentioned, meaning apparently the extinction of all Zeons on Ekos, as a prelude to the entire destruction of Zeon. The broadcast ends with the reporter making a Nazi salute to a picture of the Führer — whom the shocked Kirk recognizes as John Gill.
Startled and determined to contact Gill, Kirk and Spock steal uniforms and attempt to infiltrate the main headquarters, but are caught when Spock's ears are exposed. He and Kirk are tortured until Party Chairman Eneg orders them thrown in a cell for further interrogation. There they meet Isak, the Zeon prisoner they had seen arrested earlier.
The trio quickly engineer an escape using the rubindium crystals from Kirk and Spock's transponders as cutting-torch lasers and retrieve their communicators. Isak takes them to meet the underground resistance led by his brother Abrom. Suddenly, their hideout is raided, led by Daras, in what is quickly revealed as a ruse to test the strangers' loyalty. Daras is actually a resistance member who has infiltrated the government. Abrom explains that Deputy Führer Melakon is actually the de facto leader of Ekos; in turn, Kirk and Spock explain the situation from their perspective, and ask for help in locating Gill. They learn that the "Führer" is to make a speech that evening that will officially launch the "Final Solution".
To gain entrance to the broadcast center, the whole group pretends to be a film crew. They find Gill in a broadcasting booth surrounded by guards, seemingly dazed but beginning his speech. Kirk has Dr. McCoy beam down; he arrives in a cloakroom, where the party is discovered by a security team led by Chairman Eneg—who surprisingly does not seem to recognize them. After he leaves, Isak explains that Eneg is also a resistance member.
Sneaking into the broadcast booth, McCoy confirms Gill is heavily drugged. He administers a counteractive stimulant while Spock uses a Vulcan mind meld on Gill, which confirms that Melakon was responsible for Gill's condition. Barely coherent, Gill explains that he initially imposed a form of Nazism/Fascism upon the lawless Ekosians because he believed it to be the most efficient system of government ever devised. The system worked on Ekos until Melakon gained control and twisted it into a tool to wipe out Zeon.
Kirk makes Gill aware of the extent to which Ekos has progressed toward resembling Nazi Germany. Gill, now lucid enough to speak his own mind, renounces the "Final Solution", cancels the invasion of Zeon, and declares Melakon a traitor. Melakon grabs a submachine gun and opens fire on the broadcast booth, fatally wounding Gill. In retaliation, Isak shoots Melakon twice, killing him. Eneg and Daras, still officially respected party leaders, agree to "stop the bloodshed," and plan to announce the end of the Nazi regime. Eneg thanks Kirk for Starfleet's help, but asks them to leave, saying it is up to the two planets to rebuild themselves."
The Wikipedia entry for "Patterns of Force" lastly says
"Production
The V-2 rocket films were actual films and the clips of Hitler in a car were from the movie Triumph of the Will (1935).[2]
Reception
Critic Darren Mooney criticised the episode's premise that Nazi Germany was the most efficient state Earth ever knew, citing historians' criticism of that common misconception.[3]
In the 1960s, the amount of Nazi-themed content was noted by West Germany, which restricted its broadcast on first airing.[4] (more information below)
German broadcast history
Because the episode contains Nazi uniforms and insignia, and features a character who makes the statement that Nazi Germany was the "most efficient society" ever created, it was considered unfit for entertainment in Germany. Consequently, this episode is the only one which was not aired during either of the two original runs in Germany (on the public ZDF network in the mid-1970s and on the private Sat.1 network in the late 1980s/early 1990s). It was only dubbed into German in 1995, and was presented in the original English with subtitles in all earlier German releases. It was finally shown on German pay TV in 1996 and included on all DVD/Blu-ray season sets. On November 4, 2011 it was finally shown on the public network channel ZDFneo as well.[5]
This episode was not aired in West Germany on first airing because of the Nazi-themed content.[6]
See also
Strafgesetzbuch section 86a
References
https://www.metv.com/lists/5-original-star-trek-episodes-that-were-banned-overseas
https://www.tor.com/2010/06/04/lemgstar-treklemg-re-watch-patterns-of-force/
Mooney, Darren (December 31, 2014). "Star Trek - Patterns of Force (Review)". the m0vie blog. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
"5 original Star Trek episodes that were banned overseas". Me-TV Network. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
"ZDF neo zeigt umstrittene Nazi-Folge". Bild. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
"5 original Star Trek episodes that were banned overseas". Me-TV Network. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
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"Patterns of Force" Side-by-side comparisons of the remastered version at TrekMovie.com, overall "Patterns of Force" was a good episode that showed the criminal evil of Nazism
Another Star Trek website notes about the Original Series episode "Patterns of Force" that
Eneg's name is an inside joke – it is "Gene" backwards. The name "Zeon" is a take on "Zion," while "Abrom" corresponds to "Abraham", "Davod" to "David", and "Isak" to "Isaac"; "Daras", reversed, is almost "Sara". With respect to the "Eneg" name, Walter Koenig attempted to repeat this inside joke several years later when writing for Land of the Lost. It was to be the name of the Altrusian character in that show. However, somehow the name got mistranscribed as Enik. (citation needed • edit)
Star Trek 12 contains a novelization of this story by James Blish and J.A. Lawrence.
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This is the second mention of Nazi Germany in Star Trek, the first being in "The City on the Edge of Forever". However, in "Mirror, Mirror", Scott did compare Hikaru Sulu's security system to "the ancient Gestapo".
The hit TV series "7th Heaven" also had a moving episode about Holocaust Denial
the episode was titled "I Hate You" and it first aired on November 17, 1997
from Imdb.com Internet Movie Database it says about this episode
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Simon discovers friendly, generous old neighbor Charlotte Kerjesz has concentration camp tattoo. Eric forbids Simon to ask her to help for a history assignment but realizes his son is right after hearing classmate Larry's father spreads holocaust denial. The Camdens are excited to meet Joanne, Matt's first girl since Heather dumped him. Considering her 'too perfect', jealous Lucy and Mary decoded flippantly to hate and ignore her. Joanne overhears them and dumps Matt over his lousy siblings, which stands even after apologies.
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Mary, Lucy, and Ruthie all learn that mere words can easily hurt people, and Simon befriends a Holocaust survivor and urges her to share her story with his class as part of a homework assignment.
Wikipedia says about the 7th Heaven episode "I Hate You" that
"Matt gets dumped by new girlfriend, Joanne, after she overhears Mary and Lucy criticizing her "perfect" appearance during a dinner at the Camdens. Ruthie practices her artistic skills on the wall of her and Simon's bedroom, and has a bad reaction when Annie punishes her. When a classmate says that his father denied the existence of the Holocaust, Simon befriends a Holocaust survivor, and tries to persuade her to talk to his history class as part of a homework assignment." Imdb.com confirms in it's Trivia section that this episode "I Hate You" was based on a True Story
Yet Another Big Surprise, Backstabbing Jordan & it's Backstabbing hate filled Jordanian people are preparing for War with Israel, from the website breakingisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Jordan Holds Mass Military Drill Preparing for War with Israel"
By JNS November 28, 2019 , 9:48 am the article states
Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go and bathe seven times in the Yarden, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.” (Kings 2 5:10)
Review of members of the Jordanian army, downtown Irbid on the occasion of Independence Day, May 2017 – Image: Shutterstock
Members of the Jordanian Armed Forces participate in “Sword of Karameh” military maneuvers on Nov. 25, 2019. (MEMRI)
The Jordanian Army conducted a series of military maneuvers this week simulating an attempted invasion of the kingdom, but which also appeared to be a message to Israel.
The maneuvers, which took place on Nov. 25 in the presence of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, were named “Swords of Karameh,” in an apparent reference to Israel’s 1968 military operation against Fatah near the Jordanian village of Karameh, in which the Jordanian Army fought alongside the Palestinian group.
Jordan’s official Petra news agency and the Jordanian media reported that the maneuvers involved large numbers of ground and air vehicles, and were aimed at “destroying the vanguard of the enemy and the bridges that can be used as crossing points” into Jordanian territory.
While the official Jordanian reports did not explicitly mention Israel, the reference to the Battle of Karameh and the fact that the drill focused on an invasion via bridges—that is, bridges over the Jordan River that forms the border between the two countries—strongly implies a connection.
King Abdullah, center, stands with commanders and officials in front of a model of the Dead Sea region’s Jordan-Israel border (Source: Hala.jo, November 25, 2019)
Furthermore, a photo of the maneuvers published in the Jordanian media showed King Abdullah standing with army commanders in front of a model of Jordan’s western border and the Dead Sea area. An article published by a local Jordanian website stated explicitly that the maneuvers simulated a battle with “the occupying entity across the river”—that is, Israel.
In attendance for the maneuvers, in addition to the king, were Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz, director of the Royal Court, several government ministers and members of the upper and lower houses of the Jordanian parliament. Also present were university heads and students, army veterans and military attachés from several unidentified countries.
The full report is available at the MEMRI website. Other Articles online document this Ugly Arab Satanic Plot by Jordan , this Ugly Arabian Wickedness & Evil , Is the Israeli Government & Military Paying Attention to this Arab Nazi Plot , or will they be caught off guard like in the 1973 War which was the Arabs Fault, just like everything is the Arabs Fault , granted some Arabs support Israel, and are decent people, but they are the tiny minority
Also from the website breakingisraelnews.com another article is titled
"Isaiah’s Prophesied Crown of Beauty from Ashes: Holocaust Survivors Celebrate in Sukkah Hosted by German Christians"
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz October 25, 2019 , 11:00 am
the article says:
"To provide for the mourners in Tzion— To give them a turban instead of ashes, The festive ointment instead of mourning, A garment of splendor instead of a drooping spirit. They shall be called terebinths of victory, Planted by Hashem for His glory. Isaiah 61:3 (The Israel Bible™)
(Photo courtesy Alexander Dietz)
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Sukkoth became a time for a very special manifestation of ingathering this year, as the grandson of a Nazi soldier hosted Holocaust survivors in his personal Sukkah in the Galilee.
More than 200 Holocaust survivors made the trip to Poriya Illit near Tiberias from towns across Israel to celebrate Sukkoth, the Feast of Tabernacles, in a handmade sukkah at the home of Alexander Dietz. Under a canopy of palm leaves, the guests were treated to a feast set to the music of harps, guitarists and singers. Three of the five groups then enjoyed a boat trip on the Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) to watch the sun set at the end of a very special day.
(Photo courtesy Alexander Dietz)
“It was a little bit of heaven on earth,” Alexander Dietz, one of the organizers, commented after the event.
(Photo courtesy Alexander Dietz)
Dietz was raised in a secular home with no religious affiliations. Now a devout Christian, Dietz has a strong belief in Jesus but, through his Bible study, he realized that this necessarily connected him to the Jews.
A German Christian, Dietz has been volunteering in Israel for over three years under the auspices of the Helping Hand Coalition. Although he engages in a wide range of volunteer activities much of his focus is on activities that bring joy to Holocaust survivors, as he is the grandson of a soldier who served in the Nazi army. This year, he saw Sukkoth as an opportunity to show his love of Israel and continue on his path of reconciliation.
Explaining his rationale for hosting the event, he cited scripture as a direct influence on himself and his wife, Cecilia. Citing the Prophet Isaiah, Dietz emphasized that it was incumbent upon all Christians to openly express their love for Israel.
Comfort, oh comfort My people, Says your God. Speak tenderly to Yerushalayim, And declare to her That her term of service is over, That her iniquity is expiated; For she has received at the hand of Hashem Double for all her sins. Isaiah 40:1-2
“We see the Holocaust in this prophecy,” Dietz said. “We want to speak good words to the people. We want to comfort their heart with this day.”
Looking to the Bible to guide his actions, Dietz cited Isaiah again as his personal inspiration.
Bowing before you, shall come The children of those who tormented you; Prostrate at the soles of your feet Shall be all those who reviled you; And you shall be called “City of Hashem, Tzion of the Holy One of Yisrael.” Isaiah 60:14"
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"“We are the descendants of those who oppressed them,” Dietz said. “Now is the time in which prophecy is getting fulfilled, and this is what we see. How do we fulfil it? By coming and serving them, loving them.”
Explicitly linking the Holocaust to scripture, Dietz thirdly cited Isaiah yet again, which declares that the people of Israel will be given a crown “of beauty instead of ashes.”
To provide for the mourners in Tzion— To give them a turban instead of ashes, The festive ointment instead of mourning, A garment of splendor instead of a drooping spirit. They shall be called terebinths of victory, Planted by Hashem for His glory. Isaiah 61:3
“Ashes is the Holocaust, to be totally burned,” Dietz said, adding: “We want to give them beauty instead of ashes, gladness instead of a depressed heart. So these were the words of the Tanakh that
(Photo courtesy Alexander Dietz)
captured our attention as we believe in the God of Israel. We feel that HaShem is blessing both of us: taking from us Germans our guilt, and giving them the respect and the love that they deserve. That’s what we always feel in these meetings. We stand here in the gap and we believe that HaShem sees our deeds and maybe has grace and mercy on us.”
(Photo courtesy Alexander Dietz)
There are approximately 150,000 Holocaust survivors currently living in Israel. Dietz feels particularly drawn to helping those of Russian descent, who tend to be among the poorest. Over the summer, volunteers at Helping Hand have been running weekly events for Holocaust survivors, serving them dinner and offering them a boat trip on the Kinneret.
“They [the survivors] know how to survive with little, but we want to give them a day of feast, a day of joy, a day of coming together – of reconciliation. This is where Cecilia and my main work is, because as the German volunteers with Helping Hand we can work on reconciliation and give our nations a new start.”
In May this year, Dietz was among a small group of Christians who raised funds for a 265-pound gold-plated duplicate of the menorah stolen by Titus in 70 CE to be made and returned to Jerusalem, as part of reparations for acts of anti-Semitism by Christians.
“The worst enemies of Israel have the greatest opportunity now to be Israel’s closest friends,” Dietz told Breaking Israel News at the time. “In Christianity, we call it ‘Grace’ but in Hebrew, you call it Chesed. Chesed is why I even exist. Clearly, the only reason Germany still exists in God’s world is because of Chesed.”
“If you are the recipient of such love, you have to return it,” Dietz said. “And the only way to do that toward God is to pass it along to your fellow man.”
NOTE: This article was co-written with Donna Rachel Edmunds. "
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Shocking German Exhibit Contains Ashes and Bones of Jews Murdered by Nazis"
An oversized urn in Germany that supposedly contains human remains of Holocaust victims. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Dec 3, 2019
the article says
"The exhibit has sparked outrage for violating Jewish ritual law and dishonoring the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust.
By United with Israel Staff
The Center for Political Beauty installed, on Monday, an exhibit on the grounds of the former Kroll Opera House, near the Bundestag German federal parliament. The urn-like structure appears to contain the ashes and bones of Jews murdered by the Nazis. The exhibit is meant as a protest-call against German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives about the dangers of working with right-wing extremists.
The display, dubbed the “Resistance Column,” is a large, grey metal tube with an orange illuminated glass area in which soil that contains the human remains of Holocaust victims floats.
The Center’s website describes itself as “an assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism. The group’s basic understanding is that the legacy of the Holocaust is rendered void by political apathy, the rejection of refugees and cowardice. It believes that Germany should not only learn from its History but also take action.”
It also credits itself for engaging in “the most innovative forms of political performance” that “must hurt, provoke and rise in revolt,” an endeavor it describes “aggressive humanism.”
The group said it spent “two years digging up soil and testing rivers near areas where the ‘Nazis perfected and industrialized mass murder,'” according to DW. “At one of the horrific sites we found ashes and bone char a meter deep. This column contains the sample from this soil that has been preserved for all eternity.”
Over that time, the Center said “it collected over 240 samples from 23 locations across Germany as well as in previously Nazi-occupied areas in Poland and Ukraine,” according to DW. Samples were taken from areas near Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka and other concentration camps where ashes and remains of Holocaust victims were spread in nearby fields and rivers.
Human remains were found in over 70 percent of soil samples sent to a lab, the group said in a statement.
The Center said that the placement of the display was chosen intentionally as it is the site where German members of parliament gave dictator Adolf Hitler virtually unlimited authority in 1933.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany said that the display was “problematic,” while recognizing that fighting against rising far-right extremism is important.
“From a Jewish perspective, the Center for Political Beauty’s latest campaign is problematic because it violates Jewish religious law about not disturbing the dead,” council president Josef Schuster told DW in a statement.
Schuster added that, when the display is dismantled, a rabbi should be consulted to “ensure, at least, a respectful and correct handling of the ashes according to Jewish law.”
The exhibit is scheduled to remain in place until Saturday. The ‘artists’ have set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds in order to pour concrete around the urn and make it a permanent memorial."
From the website DanielPipes.org a person typed
Israel the Head of Nations
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Israel, during the millenial reign of Christ will be the head of nations:
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: Deuteronomy 28:13
From the website prophecyclubnews.blogspot.com an article is titled
"Israel is destined by God to become the head of the nations"
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
the article says
Jerusalem Watchman | Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
"Israel is destined by God to become the head of the nations – a position she held back in the days of the first son of David, King Solomon. This is her glorious, Divinely assured future.
The Bible is clear – those nations that serve Israel will reap heavenly rewards; those that don't will perish and be utterly done away with (Isaiah 60:12). In Genesis 12:3 stands the unshakeable foundational Biblical principle where God declares to Abraham concerning his seed: "I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you. And in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed."
As Israel is raised to this ordained position, moving fully into her calling to be a light to the world, a fitting picture of her in the prophetic future would be as a lighthouse set on a high hill at the center of the earth, her beam finding and illuminating those nations that have risen out of the mire of global condemnation to take up their positions – as Australia is now doing – on smaller hills around her, to stand with her and receive her light.
"Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising." (Isaiah 60: 1-3)"
A recent article on the website unitedwithisrael.org quotes
Rabbi Abraham Cooper as saying the following
"Palestinians are the supremacists; they insist no Jews can live as neighbors.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper pointed out who the real Racist Supremacists are, !!!!
Also this Quote is NOT "Out of Context" but simply stating the fact, Israeli Jews are Not Racist, the enemies of Israel and the Jews are the Real Racists & Hypocritical Losers
About the Stupidity of Hitler, From the website warhistoryonline.com an article is titled
"Top 10 reasons why Hitler lost WWII"
ARTICLES
May 4, 2015 Joris Nieuwint
the article says
"Adolf Hitler, a man who swept the Germans up to incredible victories, was also the main reason Germany ultimately lost the war. He refused to accept reality, took no advice from his Generals and then made poor decisions. This way he ensured a relatively quick end of Nazi Germany.
Here follow ten other reasons why he lost the war.
10. His Allies in the Axis of Evil
On 25 October 1936, an Axis was declared between Italy and Germany. (Bundesarchiv)
Having no luck in enticing England to join in the fight against the USSR Hitler had to look for other, less powerful countries.
Italy was a natural choice, having an ideology similar to the Nazis, but when WWII started their military equipment was already outdated.
Other countries like Romania and Hungary were enticed into the Axis, but neither could provide high-quality military assistance. In the case of Italy, Hitler had to bail out his ally who started more than one ill-fated attack.
9. The Not One Step Back policy
Hitler saved the German army from catastrophic defeat in the winter of 1941 – 1942 when he ordered his troops to stand and fight against the Russian counter attacks after their failed operation to capture Moscow. At that point, a decision to withdraw could well have caused a total collapse of the German front and an early defeat in Russia.
After this, feeling vindicated, he took this policy too far and allowed not a single unit to withdraw. He went so far as to give orders down to regimental and even company level, bypassing normal military channels.
His decision to deny the German 6th Army at Stalingrad to withdraw caused its complete destruction. In later battles, he denied the army to pull out to more favorable terrain or to shorten the lines. This caused the German Army countless casualties that it could ill afford.
8 The right technology used incorrectly
King Tigers on parade (Bundesarchiv)
The Germans were well in advance of the Allies when it came to Military Technology. Having vastly superior tanks and jet airplanes being mass produced and correctly employed should have given the Germans an edge in any battle.
However, the quest for ever heavier tanks instead of concentrating on the mass production of the good designs like the Panther tank left the Germans with a wide array of tanks, each requiring different spare parts and expertise.
Also, the reliance on forced labor meant that quality control was a big issue, causing more frequent breakdowns which required more spares, etc.
7. Declaring War on the USA
Hitler declares war on the United States on December 11, 1941, from the Krolloper’s stage (Bundesarchiv)
On December 11, 1941, Germany declared war on the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States when they were still neutral. This occurred 4 days after December 7, 1941 when the Empire of Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
According to the terms of the Anti-Comintern Pact signed with Japan, Germany was obligated to come to the aid of Japan if a third country attacked Japan, but not if Japan was the aggressor. Nevertheless, the German government (Hitler) chose to declare war on the United States.
This proved to be a godsend for both Churchill and Roosevelt who soon agreed on a Germany First strategy which meant the destruction of Germany took precedent over Japan.
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6. Hitler taking over as Commander-in-Chief
In December 1941 when the attack on Moscow stalled, the Soviets launched a massive counterattack which threatened to rout the Germans bringing them to the brink of disaster.
Hitler did not wish to accept the facts, and he began removing officers from their command for not obeying orders or when they proposed to withdraw.
Hitler did not believe in giving back captured territory (see reason 9), so in the biggest shake-up of Germany’s military high command, he declared himself commander in chief of the army.
He would train it “in a National Socialist way”—that is, by personal fiat. He would compose the strategies, and the officers would dance to his tune. (History.com)
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5. Hitler did not listen to his Generals
Having won spectacular victories early in the war under his supervision, Hitler considered himself a military genius. However, when the tides of war changed, Hitler blamed his Generals for not carrying out his “brilliant” orders. Causing a downward spiral of mutual mistrust, in the end, Hitler only listened to himself (see reasons 9 and 6).
For instance, his plan to launch the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, despite his Generals misgivings, caused Germany to lose valuable men and material making the job of the final defeat of Germany easier for the Allies."
& continues
"4. The Russian Winter
German soldiers in heavy snow west of Moscow (Bundesarchiv)
Hitler was certain of a quick victory over the USSR, saying to his Generals “We have only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.” Since victory would be achieved before winter set in, there was no need to prepare for the Russian winter.
However, being unable to capture Moscow in the autumn of 1941 and force a Soviet surrender his troops had to face the full onslaught of arctic cold in their summer uniforms.
3. The attack on Greece
German troops raising the swastika flag over the Acropolis 1941 (Bundesarchiv)
Fully aware of the urgency to launch the assault on the USSR right after the thaw ended and Russian roads became passable again, Germany ended up bailing out Italy (see reason 10) in their misadventure in Greece.
This military operation caused a 6-week delay of the attack on Russia. This delay meant that first the autumn rains and then winter arrived before Operation Barbarossa could be completed and the Russians destroyed.
2. Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad, seen as the bloodiest fights in WWII, and perhaps, in the whole history of war.
One of the costliest battles ever fought in a war, the Battle of Stalingrad became a turning point for the second world war. Driving for the oil fields in the Caucasus the German 6th Army could have bypassed or surround the city to take care of it later.
However they were ordered to take the city itself and thus were forced to fight for every city block, house and room causing massive casualties.
Then the Soviets launched an offensive and surrounded Stalingrad, trapping the 6th Army in a vast pincer movement. Hitler refused to allow the 6th Army to break out towards friendly lines, making their destruction inevitable.
1. A two front war
American Soldiers in Italy
Hitler’s prime target had always been Russia but to secure Germany’s western flank and avoid a war on two fronts Germany decided to attack France and Britain first.
France was taken care off in a matter of weeks but after losing the Battle of Britain Hitler had only partially achieved a secured western flank.
Then he declared war on the USA (see reason 7) and now Germany was forced to fight Britain and the USA in North Africa, Italy and finally France.
Hitler was constantly dividing his forces between two fronts. Having to focus his strength everywhere meant he could not secure a decisive victory anywhere, ultimately invited defeat
More about the Incompetence of Adolf Hitler, from the website
nationalinterest.org an article on October 19, 2019 is titled
"Adolf Hitler was the Biggest Reason Germany Lost World War Two" the article says:
What if he was overthrown and Germany's generals waged war the way they wanted?
by David T. Pyne
"In our last installment, we discussed the ways how Germany might have defeated the Soviet Union. In this article, we will discuss why Adolf Hitler was Germany’s greatest obstacle to winning World War II and how the war might have been won without if German generals could have prevented him from interfering in military operations. Hitler, a German dictator, has been considered a political genius by some and a mad man bent on world conquest by others, but the truth is that he was neither. Rather, he was a virulent anti-Semite who believed his life’s mission was to reunite Germany and lead an international crusade against Soviet Communism. He was also responsible for committing a series of strategic blunders and military miscalculations, some small and some great, that ended up ensuring Germany’s defeat. But what if German military leaders had been given the freedom to prosecute the war more wisely, resulting in a stalemate or even something resembling a Nazi German victory? Here are some things that Germany could have done differently to win the war:"
Overthrow Adolf Hitler Before or Immediately After he violated the Munich Pact
Overthrowing Hitler or assassinating him was probably the single most important thing Germany could have done to win World War II, assuming it had ended up fighting it at all without him. Hitler made a series of critical strategic errors beginning with his decision to violate the Munich Pact in March 1939 and continuing with his decision to spare the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk in May 1940. By the time he decided to halt the German advance on Moscow in August 1941 and declare war on America in December 1941, he had all but guaranteed ultimate German military defeat.
There were over forty known coup or assassination attempts against Hitler, many with wide support by top German military leaders, including eleven German Field Marshals at various times. But the first and perhaps the most promising was planned to occur in September 1938 in response to fear by the German General Staff that Hitler’s demand for the German Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia would result in a war with Britain and France, which Germany was woefully unprepared to fight and would have surely lost. The Germans had only about one-third as many divisions as they were able to mobilize in September 1939 and the Czech army had the same number of troops as the Germans did and six more army divisions! Needless to say, they would have had to use the bulk of the German Army to successfully invade leaving Germany’s western borders largely undefended against a potential French invasion and occupation of Germany’s Rhineland industrial region. Thus, the German generals led by Gen. Ludwig Beck felt it would be necessary to remove Hitler from power in order to avoid a near certain German military defeat."
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"These senior military anti-Hitler conspirators, also known as the Oster Conspiracy, after the name of the German general who initiated it, planned to arrest or assassinate Hitler the moment he gave the invasion order, overthrow his Nazi regime, and restore Kaiser Wilhelm II as Emperor of Germany. Germany’s chief of the general staff at the time, Col. Gen. Franz Halder, reportedly carried a loaded pistol at all times in his meeting for Germany in case the time was right to arrest or kill Hitler. However, implementation of the plan depended on the British issuing a declaration guaranteeing Czechoslovakia from German military aggression and threatening to declare war if the Germans invaded. A strongly worded letter from Chamberlain to Hitler that Britain would declare war on Germany if they invaded Czechoslovakia may have been all it took to trigger the overthrow of Hitler and save the world from the devastation of World War II. The coup plotters sent an agent to tell former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain of their plan to overthrow Hitler. They wanted him to issue such a declaration to justify Hitler’s ouster. Unfortunately, the British Cabinet rejected their proposal. This plan to overthrow Hitler lost much of its senior German military support after France and Britain signed the Munich Pact, which gave into most but not all of his demands without war. It goes without saying that a post–Nazi German government would never have forcibly expelled the Jews, let alone mass murdered them in the Holocaust as Hitler did.
The coup plotters continued to plot to overthrow Hitler after the signing of the Munich Pact, but senior military support from the coup was much reduced following Hitler’s quick string of victories which the Germans were able to achieve from 1938–1941. British prime minister Neville Chamberlain remained a strong supporter of German efforts to overthrow Hitler until his untimely death in November 1940, but his successor, Winston Churchill, refused repeated requests to help Germans resistance leaders trying to assassinate him. One of the few ways that a Hitler assassination would have worked is if his enemies used nerve gas. Sontact between his skin and a single drop of nerve gas could have killed him within twenty minutes, but it appears that German resistance leaders never seriously contemplated using this method of assassination"
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"Allow the German General Staff to Make All Important Military Decisions
Hitler’s insistence on making all of the major military decisions, instead of allowing his generals to run the war resulted in a series of avoidable mistakes that assured Germany’s ultimate defeat. Not only did he halt the advance of Army Group Center and prevent it from taking Moscow in summer 1941, but he issued “no-retreat” orders that led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of German troops as the tide of war began to shift against them. Entire German armies were surrounded and captured as the tide of war began to shift against them. Some historians have argued this “no-retreat” order prevented the German military withdrawal in the face of the Soviet offensive in the winter of 1941 from turning into a rout, which may be true, however, that was an exception. Also, he ordered militarily dubious offensives at Stalingrad in August 1942 and at Kursk in July 1943 and later the Ardennes at the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and in Hungary in March 1945, which resulted in heavy German losses without which Germany could have likely defended against successive Soviet offensives at least a couple years longer.
Employ Nerve Gas to Repel the Allied Invasion of Normandy and Subsequent Red Army Invasion of Germany
Hitler spent over $2 billion (as much as the United States spent on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb) developing and producing a large arsenal of Tabun and Sarin nerve gas, which were much more deadly than the Allies’ stocks of mustard gas. The stockpile weighed about twelve thousand tons. Still, Hitler declined repeated requests from his military commanders to employ it against enemy troops on the battlefield—even when Germany was in the process of being totally overrun by the Western Allies and Soviet Red Army from January to May 1945 and he was preparing to commit suicide. The Germans could have employed their vast stocks of nerve gas to potentially repel the Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy on D-Day. The Germans could have delivered Sarin nerve gas via mortars, of which Germany had considerably more of than did the Allies, along with other types of artillery rounds since delivery by air in the face of Allied air superiority would likely have proven much more challenging. Winston Churchill, on the other hand, had no such scruples and reportedly planned on using mustard gas against German troops on the beaches if they had ended up invading Britain. Nerve gas might have also been used successfully to repel Soviet troops advancing on eastern Germany from Berlin, given favorable wind conditions. Interestingly, all German mortars and multiple rocket launchers above ten centimeters in diameter during the war were designated by the Germans as Nebelwerfers, which translates to “smoke or fog throwers,” and were initially assigned to the German Army Chemical Corps, being primarily designed to deliver poison gas and smoke rounds.
Another related major mistake was Hitler’s decision to control the Panzer divisions in Normandy instead of giving full control to Rommel to repel the Allied landing forces on D-day while he slept through D-day and missed the opportunity to do so believing the Allied ruse that the invasion of Normandy was merely a diversion from the main planned allied landings."
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"Don’t Enact Anti-Semitic Laws that Caused Top Nuclear Scientists to Emigrate from Europe to the United States
When Hitler was appointed as Reichskanzler in 1933, his virulent anti-Semitism, which he developed following the German surrender at the end of World War I, caused all the top Jewish German and Hungarian scientists, including most notably Albert Einstein, who had been working at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, to emigrate to the United States and United Kingdom. Their assistance proved critical in aiding the U.S.-led Manhattan Project in helping the Allies develop the atomic bomb by July 1945. However, had Hitler and the Nazis never enacted discriminatory laws against Jews, Einstein and other European scientists might have helped Germany develop the atomic bomb first, which Germany then could have employed to help break the deadlock on the Eastern Front and produce a more favorable peace settlement with the Soviet Union. That, in turn, would have catapulted Germany to military superpower status along with the United States and Soviet Union."
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"This concludes the list of the top twenty things Nazi Germany could have done differently to win World War II. However, even if they had technically won the war, their victory would have likely have been limited in scope unless they had succeeded in capturing Moscow and pushing the Red Army back to the Archangel-Volga-Astrakhan Line. Even then, Stalin would have eventually counterattacked and pushed the Germans back, making Germany’s victory temporary and prolonging the war considerably longer than it was waged in actual history. The most likely final outcome of a German victory in the war would have been a German-dominated Europe in which German troops had completely withdrawn from Northern, Southern and Western Europe (except for Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine). German troops would be present in Eastern Europe to defend against the prospect of renewed Soviet aggression while Poland would be a Polish-led German protectorate. The Soviet Union would have likely been restored to its 1938 borders with Nazi Germany fighting a half-century long Cold War against them. Germany might have succeeded in regaining its African colonies and may have succeeded in adding a few new ones had it pursued other options. Had the Jews been forcibly deported to Palestine as part of a peace agreement with Britain as Hitler had requested in his May 1941 peace offer, the Jewish Holocaust would have largely been averted. Ultimately, a victorious Nazi Germany likely would have been a contented, but contained, regional power, not bent on world domination as Allied war propaganda, war hysteria and popular mythology suggested at the time and since. Hopefully, Hitler would have been assassinated and the Nazis overthrown by the German resistance shortly thereafter, returning Germany to democratic control. Then the new German government could have granted full independence to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic, and returned all Polish majority territories to Poland. Then, it could have invited them to join a new Central and Eastern European mutual defense alliance against the Soviet Union."
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"‘We Stand with London’: Israel Mourns Victims in UK Stabbing Attack"
on Dec 1, 2019
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"Israel sent its “condolences to the friends and families of the victims” and “wishes for a quick recovery to those injured,” announced senior Israeli official Yuval Rotem on Saturday night.
By TPS
“Israel stands with the resilient Londoners, who have again become a target of brutal terrorism,” Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Yuval Rotem stated Saturday night after an attack in the heart of the city in which a Muslim terrorist stabbed and murdered two people.
“Our condolences to the friends and families of the victims, wishes for a quick recovery to those injured,” he added.
Jihadi Usman Khan, 28, stabbed and killed a man and a woman and injured three others during a stabbing spree on the London Bridge on Friday. He was stopped and overpowered by citizens and then was shot dead by police.
Khan had been released on “extensive licence conditions” in 2018 after serving time for plotting to carry out a series of bombing attacks in London and after being released early from prison.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that automatic early release from jail was not working and that canceling early release would have prevented the attack.
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror organization claimed responsibility for the attack."
From the website gatestoneinstitute.org an article is titled
"Lebanon's Apartheid Laws"
by Khaled Abu Toameh
June 21, 2013 at 4:00 am
the article says
"Lebanon is not the only Arab country that openly enforces Apartheid laws against Palestinians. What is disturbing about the Apartheid laws in Lebanon and the mistreatment of Palestinians by Arab countries is the silence of the media, the international community and human rights groups -- even UNRWA, which is supposed to look after the well-being of Palestinian refugees.
About three years ago, the Lebanese government decided to amend its Apartheid law that denies Palestinians the right to work in as many as 20 professions.
Then, Palestinians were told that from then on they would be able to work in many professions and even own property in Lebanon. But now Palestinians have discovered that the Lebanese government, like most Arab countries, has lied to them.
Although Palestinians have lived in Lebanon for more than six decades, they are still treated as foreigners when it comes to obtaining a work permit, according to Lebanon's The Daily Star newspaper.
Lebanon is not the only Arab country that openly enforces Apartheid laws against Palestinians.
Palestinians have, in fact, long been treated as third-class citizens in most of the Arab countries, where they are denied not only basic rights such as employment and health care, but also citizenship.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees [UNRWA], Lebanon's 450,000 Palestinian refugees have long been subject to many employment restrictions.
For example, Palestinians in Lebanon are banned from working as doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers or accountants.
By contrast, anyone visiting an Israeli hospital or medical center would quickly notice the presence of a significant number of Arab doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
Yet, although three years have passed since the law was amended, nothing has changed for the Palestinians in Lebanon. And there is no indication whatsoever that the Lebanese authorities intend to ease restrictions imposed on Palestinians in the forseeable future.
According to a report in The Daily Star, the revisions to the law remain unimplemented.
Human rights activists say the Lebanese government is now using the war in Syria and its impact on Lebanon to avoid abolishing the Apartheid laws. This, of course, is a weak excuse: the anti-Palestinian Apartheid laws have been in effect long before the crisis in Syria erupted.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled to Lebanon from neighboring Syria over the past two years, providing the Lebanese government with an excuse to avoid implementing the amendment to the Apartheid law.
The Lebanese, who have always despised Palestinians, are afraid of incorporating them into their economy and workforce. Many Lebanese hold the Palestinians and the PLO responsible for destroying their country, especially during the civil war that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people during the 1970's and 1980's.
What is disturbing about the Apartheid laws in Lebanon and the mistreatment of Palestinians by Arab countries is the silence of the international community and media.
Even UNRWA, which is supposed to look after the well-being of Palestinian refugees, continues to turn a blind eye to Lebanon's Apartheid laws.
When contacted by The Daily Star for comment on the plight of the Palestinians in Lebanon, UNRWA's public information officer Hoda Samra said she had "no public statement to make regarding this particular issue."
This is the same UNRWA whose spokesmen regularly condemn Israeli military operations and house demolitions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas governments are also continuing to bury their heads in the sand with regards to the mistreatment of Palestinians in Lebanon and other Arab countries. The two governments are too busy fighting each other while at the same time inciting Palestinians against Israel."
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Looking for Apartheid? Skip Israel, look up north in Lebanon"
DEC 8, 2015, 7:00 AM
the article says
"Over the last few years, the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) has developed its sphere of influence increasingly, denouncing the supposedly apartheid regime of Israel, alleging it discriminates the Palestinian population. This movement gained strength and counts more and more supporters among academics and artists all over Europe and the United states. Even though a bunch of legal analysts constantly shows how and why Israel policy does not amount to apartheid state, the BDS movement pursues its campaign with a growing energy, focusing solely on Israel, for the sake of the Palestinian cause. When thinking about it, it is curious to see this movement battling so heavily against Israel, when it shuts down its eyes on countries, not so far in the region, that implemented, undoubtedly, several discriminatory measures against their own Palestinian population, equating to what should be, certainly, defined as Apartheid cases.
Indeed, there is no need to search for long. Right up north Israel’s borders, a country, namely, Lebanon falls into this category.
Lebanon, a country supposedly favoring the Palestinian struggle, enacted a series of law discriminating its own Palestinian population, a kind of policy that should raise alarmed voices and condemnations through out the world.
This situation is not undisclosed by or to anyone and a quick glance on several Lebanese laws addressing foreigners status would corroborate this assessment. All facts and information can be gathered after a simple research conducted on the internet. It is then startling to notice how the whole world and especially the BDS movement remains silent upon this catastrophic situation.
Before listing the series of discriminatory measures enacted against the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, it is essential to emphasize that despite its political rough instability, Lebanon is a parliamentary democracy, and as such, is expected to treat its inhabitants with fairness, justice and care, whether they are citizens or not. Furthermore, Lebanon signed several International treaties enforcing those obligations upon it.
Palestinian refugees arrived in Lebanon in 1948, after they fled or were expelled from the newly established State, Israel.
About 100.000 Palestinian refugees settled in Lebanon, waiting for the Arab states to resolve the “Israeli problem”. Instead, the Palestinian Refugees problem took roots; a problem remaining a major encroachment and a crucial issue for the success of any conciliation between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Since the Palestinian refugees status is transmissible, a real peculiarity in so far as none of the other refugees in the world, relevant to the UNHCR (United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees) pass on its status to its descendants, this population enlarged and nowadays, we count around 455 000 Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA in Lebanon (5millions in the world)."
the article continues
"It is necessary to precise that granting them full Lebanese citizenship was and will probably always be out of the question for the Lebanese public opinion. “Tawteen” (permanent settlement of Palestinians) has been raised by several politicians in Lebanon to defend the idea that no civil rights should ever be guaranteed to the Palestinians. This refusal is justified by a trifling argument, stating that had the Palestinian refugees obtained citizenship or at least a decent way of life, they would forsake their aspiration to return to their homeland. Needless to respond that Lebanon has the obligation to offer decent life conditions to any person settling on its soil, refugees included. More astonishing is to discover the real, deeper motive behind this refusal. When digging a bit, it appears that the real justification is in fact the fear to completely shattered the fragile confessional balance that holds Lebanon together. Indeed, Palestinian refugees are mostly Sunnis and if integrated, they would be added up to the existing Sunni population in Lebanon, creating deep concerns for Shia’s and Christians."
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"One of the direct consequence of Tawteen is that Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are blatantly discriminated, being denied most of basic rights, living in condition of extreme poverty, with hopeless future ahead on the road.
Most of the Palestinian refugees are spread between 12 refugees camp, which were, for most of them, established when they settled in Lebanon in 1948. UNRWA, The United Nation Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees, was founded a year later in order to alleviate the Palestinian Refugees situation.
Until today, Palestinian refugees are entirely dependent on UNRWA welfare in any way whatsoever. UNRWA provides health care, education, and social services, since Arab countries, among them Lebanon, constantly refuse to fully integrate and enhance life conditions of the Palestinians refugees living on their soil.
In Lebanon, Labor law is one of the most astounding element of the discrimination system against Palestinian. Palestinian refugees are purely excluded from the labor market, entailing a tremendous unemployment rate among this population.
Up to a recent time, Palestinian refugees were banned from more than 70 professions, all listed in a government decree enacted in December 1962 and amended in 1995. In 2005, the ban was lifted on 50 professions. Nowadays, around 30 professions are still prohibited to Palestinian, including practice of law, medicine, engineering, where membership of Lebanese syndicates is compulsory and to which Palestinian are not allowed to adhere.
In the same vein, Palestinian refugees are denied access to Lebanese state medical facilities by the authorities, being left in the sole hands of UNRWA. This exclusion puts Lebanon in breach of several international treaties signed and providing a “right to health care” that Lebanon ought to uphold (among all, article 12 of the ICESCR, the International covenant on Economic, social and cultural rights).
Another astonishing legal discrimination toward Palestinian refugees in Lebanon concerns real estate ownership."
& lastly says
"Until 2001, Palestinians were allowed to own real estate up to a certain level. In 2001, the parliament amended the Presidential decree 11614 in a way that ownership was denied to any foreigner, not carrying “citizenship issued by a recognized state”. While not being stated literally, Palestinian refugees are the clear target of this amendment. Likewise, Palestinians are denied the possibility of bequeathing real estate. They are therefore condemned to be confined in refugees camps, camps the Lebanese government has always refused to extent despite the rise of its population since 1948. This catastrophic situation is aggravated by the difficulty of entering construction materials within camps, especially for the one located in the south of the country. Some camps were even considered military zones and subject to checkpoints that greatly hindered the mobility of thousands of Palestinians. These measures put Lebanon in total breach of the “right to adequate housing” stated in several treaties and to which it is a party (for instance, article 14 of the CERD, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination).
This discriminatory set of law entails, as a direct consequence, impoverishment of the Palestinian refugees of Lebanon, a total lack of future perspective and an abyssal feeling of despair.
Indeed, what shall be the hope of a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon? Why study conscientiously if laws exclude him from the labor market? How to feel secure and serene when denied the right to own a home?
This situation has lasted for more than 50 years and the world remains silent. Chances are that it will worsen, considering the horrendous financial situation of UNRWA, dreadfully lacking funds to pursue its mission. BDS activists especially, so focused and vigorous when it comes to Israel, have been utterly mute on this serious matter. They grab every opportunity to demonstrate against Israel, on campus, on the artistic scene, calling for its boycott. They pretend to advocate for the Palestinian cause, calling for the end of the Palestinians’ adversity and suffering. Where are their complaints and actions against Lebanon, a state undoubtedly applying an apartheid policy against Palestinians? Is the unfathomable cause of BDS actually vicious? Do they only care about Palestinians when the accused body is Israel? Those questions will remain opened, even though the answer seems clear as water roc." As Always BDS is full of BS, Hypocrisy & LIES, BDS and all Anti-Israel people are such worthless Losers & Troublemakers who should just Get a Life already, they should just Get a Life & Get Help, if they can't get over their Sick Obsessiveness with hating Israel, as Usual, Israel takes the Moral High Ground, while all the Problems in the Mideast aren't Israel's Fault, it's the fault of the so-called "Palestinians" and other Arab Regimes, It's Always Their Fault, Everything is their Fault, Israel isn't to blame
From the New York Post website, nypost.com an article is titled
"The ridiculous storm over Trump’s latest move against anti-Semitism"
By John Podhoretz
December 11, 2019 | 8:04pm | Updated
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the article says
"Upon being told that the mayor of Dublin, Bobby Briscoe, was Jewish, Yogi Berra famously said, “Only in America.” You know what else could happen only in America? A president changes policy for the purpose of helping American Jews who find themselves under assault on college campuses — and gets called an anti-Semite as a result.
This could only happen in America, because President Trump could only have happened in America. And it could only happen in America, because, save for rare and sometimes horrific exceptions, American Jews have so little personal experience with actual anti-Semitism that they imagine their ideological differences with Trump, and their honest distress at his divisive rhetoric, are enough to mark him as an anti-Semite.
The latest example comes with a new executive order from Team Trump that extends to Jews some language from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 denying federal funding to any institution that discriminates on the basis of race, color or national origin.
The original reporting on the executive order suggested it would do this by placing Jews in the “national origin” category — which, it was said, would define Jews as a separate “nation.”
This inaccurate account of the executive order caused what can only be called a freakout all over social media. Liberal Jews likened the idea to Nazi ideology, said Trump was denying us our Americanness and that this would be the beginning of a separate status for American Jews.
The reaction was psychotic — in two ways.
Trump signs executive order to combat anti-Semitism at colleges
First: Is the idea that you can’t discriminate against an American of Irish or Italian origin a way of “othering” Irish Americans or Italian Americans in a manner that makes them less “American”? Of course not!
Americans are surpassingly ignorant about their history, so perhaps they can be forgiven for not knowing that “national origin” was a key part of modern civil rights law precisely because minority ethnic groups had been openly discriminated against (“No Irish need apply” appeared on store windows and in employment ads in the second half of the 19th century).
Second, the Jews who object to the idea of Jewry being a “nation” are mainly disclosing their own illiteracy about our tradition.
The very first Jew, Abraham, was told by God, “I will make of you a great nation” (Genesis 12:2). The Bible is the story of a people liberated by God to build a nation. Their repeated expulsions from the nation they built didn’t bring the Jewish nationhood to an end, as it did for almost every people on Earth whose land was taken from them.
For two millennia, Jews existed as a stateless people. Their deepest connection was not to the diaspora lands where they resided but to the tradition from which they came — and they had more in common with other Jews who lived untold thousands of miles away than they did with their non-Jewish neighbors 100 yards away.
Jews occupy a unique status. We are part of a faith tradition, part of an ethnicity, part of a tribe. We have unique genetic markers for disease we share almost exclusively with other Jews. That is nationhood without a nation."
the article continues
"In any case, it turned out that the executive order doesn’t actually classify Jews as a separate nationality. It doesn’t really offer a definition of Jewry as part of any category; instead, it directs executive agencies to apply language from recent international law in determining whether something constitutes anti-Semitic discrimination.
This is an elegant way to get to the result the Trump administration wanted. Maybe it’s a little sophistic, but so what? In what way is the goal of denying those who would allow anti-Semitism to go unchecked, especially on college campuses awash in government dollars, something to deplore?
The thing is, it was clear from the moment the news broke that the Trump administration was altering policy in a way designed to benefit Jews who are finding it increasingly difficult to advocate for Jewish causes — Israel, particularly — on college campuses.
This was an act of solidarity and friendship. And there should come a point when the Jewish community takes such gestures for what they are. It is a distressing habit to look with suspicion and distaste at an outstretched hand if that hand comes from someone with whom you disagree politically.
If Trump’s support for Israel and this policy war against anti-Semitic outrages on campus marks him as an anti-Semite, all I can say is, I wish everybody were an anti-Semite."
God Bless Donald Trump & Mike Pence for Supporting Israel !!!
Also from the New York Post website, nypost.com an article is titled
"Rashida Tlaib wrongly claims ‘white supremacy’ behind Jersey City slaughter"
By Tamar Lapin
December 12, 2019 | 2:04pm | Updated
the article says:
Rashida Tlaib wrongfully blames NJ shooting on 'white supremacy'
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"Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib appeared to blame the Jersey City shooting on “white supremacy” Thursday — even though the attackers have been identified as members of an extremist “anti-white and anti-Semitic” movement.
The Democratic congresswoman retweeted a photo of one of the victims of Tuesday’s shooting, 24-year-old Moshe Deutsch, an Orthodox Jew, with the caption: “This is heartbreaking. White Supremacy Kills.”
Twitter users were quick to call out Tlaib.
“Um, @RashidaTlaib the shooters were black…,” wrote conservative political consultant @CalebJHull.
Shooters David Anderson and Francine Graham were followers of the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe religious movement, not affiliated with mainstream Judaism, that’s been labeled a hate group by experts who track extremists in the US.
The tweet, which was posted to her personal account, had been deleted by Thursday afternoon.
Reached for comment, Tlaib’s spokesman directed The Post to the congresswoman’s official account.
“It was beyond heartbreaking to learn of what appears to be another anti-Semitic act of violence. The hate growing in our country is toxic,” the tweet on her official account said.
“We must do so much more to fight it and stem the tide of gun violence. My love goes out to the victims, the first responders, their families, and the community of #JerseyCity."
Also from the New York Post website nypost.com another article is titled
"After the Pensacola jihad, can we finally break with the Saudis?"
By Bob McManus
December 10, 2019 | 8:11pm
the article says:
"Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, US Navy, died a warrior’s death at Naval Air Station Pensacola last week, and now the question is how best for the Navy — for America — to memorialize the young hero.
How about with a Silver Star — and a stern warning to Saudi Arabia to stop sending us radicalized young men who say they want to learn how to fly?
This would command attention in Riyadh, which needs reminding that America’s newfound energy independence is changing the rules of global petro-diplomacy,
Watson was a duty watch officer at the Florida panhandle training center on Friday, when Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi national at Pensacola for training, pulled a gun and opened fire. Watson deliberately placed himself between the weapon and Alshamrani’s targets; he was mortally wounded but still managed to direct arriving police to where they needed to be. Authorities said the aspiring naval aviator, now forever 23, had saved many lives, and who’s to doubt it?
That Watson acted in the highest tradition of the naval service is obvious, and the Navy doesn’t lack for means to recognize such heroism. It needs to do right by the young officer, of course, and a posthumously awarded set of gold aviator’s wings wouldn’t be out of order, either.
But for now there is the matter of Alshamrani, and what he was doing at Pensacola in the first place. It turns out that his radicalization wasn’t exactly a secret. He allegedly had hosted a dinner party where Islamist snuff videos were played — and the FBI now has at least 10 fellow Saudi trainees in custody while it sorts out the details."
the article continues
"For its part, in a classic ex post facto barring of the barn door, the Navy on Tuesday grounded 300 Saudi aviation trainees at three Florida bases as it, too, parsed evidence.
Or at least that’s what the agencies say they are doing. When it comes to Islamist fanaticism, it’s not always useful to take Washington’s words at face value.
Certainly, Friday’s butcher’s bill — three dead, including Watson and enlisted sailors Mohammed Haitham, 19, and Cameron Walters, 21 — was more modest than the 13 lives extracted by radical Islamist Army Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas, 10 years ago.
And there’s some small comfort to be taken from the fact that it only required 24-plus hours for the FBI to “presume” the Pensacola attack was an act of terrorism — a sharp departure from the Obama administration’s declaration that the Fort Hood assassinations constituted “workplace violence.”
Little steps for little feet, as it were.
But other things have changed over the past decade, as well, perhaps not the least being that America has all but achieved energy independence since then. It no longer must abase itself before Middle Eastern oil potentates, including, if not especially, the Saudis.
The whole mob has had inordinate influence in the West since the end of World War II and not just the West. Both Japan and China largely depend on the Mideast for oil, and that matters a lot.
As does stability in the Mideast. There is no need to be reckless.
But there is also no need to continue the pretense that Saudi Arabia is in any meaningful way capable of protecting itself from its regional enemies — a task America has undertaken to the tune of two conventional Mideast wars in the last 30 years and a special-operations oriented presence in Afghanistan that has persisted for almost two decades.
see also
FBI says Pensacola shooting 'presumed' to be terror attack
The training of Saudi military personnel is part of the charade, and while bringing an end to the practice would largely be symbolic, it also would be noticed.
More to the point is the need to inform Riyadh that America will no longer tolerate its long-standing and well-documented practice of funding Islamist radicals who agree to stay out of Saudi Arabia but who nevertheless work elsewhere to destabilize the West.
This led directly to 9/11 and to much of the turmoil that followed — and, indeed, to much of the Islamist violence that plagues the world today. (Count Ensign Watson and naval Airmen Haitham and Walters as among the latest victims.)
The Mideast is a devil’s cauldron, to be sure, and wrong steps can bring terrible consequences. But what’s the point of energy independence if America is to continue kowtowing to the energy sheiks?
We don’t have to. So enough."
From the website www.wnd.com an article from 2012 is titled
"Forget all you've heard about Gog, Magog"
Find out why it won't be Russia that invades Israel
WND Staff By WND Staff
Published June 21, 2012 at 8:15pm
the article says
"For generations Christians researching the biblical prophecies about the end times have eyed Russia with askance, wondering just how and when that expected attack from the north on Israel would be launched, the attack marking the beginning of the end.
But the author of new book, "Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case of an Islamic Antichrist," says believers should forget Russia, and instead worry about Turkey.
That is, after all, where an Islamic power structure ruled as recently as about a century ago, and while Iran, Egypt and Syria grab the headlines these days for their Muslim activities, the Islamic influence in Turkey just keeps surging.
In fact, just days ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive imam of arguably the most powerful Islamist movement in the world, to return home to Turkey.
"We want this yearning to come to an end," Erodgan said. "We want to see those who are abroad and longing for the homeland to be among us … We are saying that this absence from home [of Gulen] should end."
Joel Richardson, the author of the new "Mideast Beast," says the assumption about the Battle of Magog and Gog, revealed in biblical prophecy in Ezekiel 38 and 39, should be corrected so people understand.
In a commentary in WND today, Richardson explains that the assumption that the biblical reference to Magog would indicate Russia was developed some 100 years ago, and has been taught and discussed ever since.
In reality, however, it more likely is Turkey, he said.
"For those concerned with truth, modern scholarship unanimously affirms that it is high time to discard the notion that the prophet Ezekiel predicted a Russian invasion of Israel," he writes. "What then did he predict? Which presently rising Middle Eastern nation does Ezekiel point us to as the leader of a last-days coalition that will come against Israel?"
the article continues
""In my new book, 'Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist,' I provide the average student of the Scriptures with all of the tools necessary to understand many of the most important end-time prophecies of the Bible. As the difficulties of the end of this age now creep ever so closer, it is absolutely imperative that students of the Scriptures diligently study the meaning of these texts in a careful and responsible manner. The urgency of the hour demands no less," he said.
He said the rise of the assumption that the army that would march to attack Israel would be Russian arose about the time of the release of the Scofield Reference Bible in the early 1900s, and that has influenced many other reference works.
Several of the biblical resources include the following maps, showing Magog to be in Russia.
He says in 1971, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan continued the focus, saying, "Ezekiel tells us that Gog, the nation that will lead all of the other powers against Israel, will come out of the north. Biblical scholars have been saying for generations that Gog must be Russia. What other powerful nation is to the north of Israel? None."
But research that Richardson would consider more accurate portrays Magog as being in the nation of Turkey:
Richardson explains that a different way of interpreting the Bible results in different conclusions.
But he said, "in the late seventh and early sixth century B.C. when Ezekiel prophesied, Magog, Mescheck and Tubal were known to have dwelt in Asia Minor, or modern day Turkey."
Richardson's book follows his earlier hit, "The Islamic Antichrist," a book that has changed the eschatological views of many evangelical Christians since its release two years ago.
The new book picks up where the last one left off – with even more biblical evidence that the long-anticipated Antichrist will be a figure from the Middle East, a Muslim.
Whereas most students of the Bible have long held that some form of humanism or universalist religion would catapult the Antichrist to world power, "Mideast Beast" systematically makes the case that the Antichrist is even now before us and knocking at the door."
From the website www.washingtonpost.com an article is titled
"Why many evangelical Christians now celebrate Jewish holidays"
The reasons are both spiritual and political.
The Rev. Billy Graham rides a donkey in Jerusalem on March 28, 1969, as he visits holy places in the city. Graham was one of the first evangelical leaders to address antisemitism. (AP)
By Dan Hummel
Dan Hummel is a staff member of Upper House, a Christian study center on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of "Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations."
August 19, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. EDT the article says
"On Aug. 10 and 11, many Jews worldwide observed the religious holiday of Tisha B’Av by fasting, praying and reading Bible passages related to the destruction of the first Temple by the Babylonians. Religious Jews have kept Tisha B’Av for centuries as a day of communal mourning.
But this year they were joined by a growing number of evangelical Christians who now observe the holiday to lament the historical persecution of Jews by the church. The new Christian Tisha B’Av calls for penance for past misdeeds — most especially by growing Christian support for Israel.
This mix of interfaith and political solidarity is actually a core component of modern Christian Zionism. Millions of Christians are undertaking robust political and diplomatic activism in the United States and worldwide in support of Israel’s military, its occupation of the West Bank and its ongoing confrontation with Iran, not only because of their theological views and political alliances, but also because of a new, very different sort of interfaith alliance driven by guilt and the need to atone.
Christians have observed Jewish holidays dating to the days of the New Testament, and holidays such as Pentecost, based on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, have remained fixtures on the Christian calendar.
But today’s evangelicals and Pentecostals have built upon this long-standing practice in a distinctly modern way: by fusing religious observance, general support for Israel and public denunciations of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Christians are not only reviving Jewish holidays and practices in their own faith in recognition of the Jewish roots of Christianity. They also are responding to the seismic events in modern Jewish history, most especially the horrors of anti-Semitism, some of it perpetrated by Christians.
In a way, they are engaging in these practices to atone for past sins. American evangelicals and Pentecostals do not have the same history of denouncing anti-Semitism or grappling with Christian contributions to the Holocaust that other Christians do. Catholics, for instance, have Vatican II’s “Nostra Aetate” in 1965, which focused on the church’s relationship to Jewish people. Because of their theological conservatism and decentralized structure, evangelicals arrived — and continue to arrive — only piecemeal at the conclusions reached by Catholic and liberal Protestant theologians in the 1950s and 1960s about the history of Christian involvement in anti-Jewish persecution."
the article continues
"One early pioneer, educator G. Douglas Young, was one of the first post-Holocaust evangelicals to link support for Israel with atoning for past Christian anti-Semitism. By acknowledging Jewish claims for statehood and security, Young argued, Christians could begin to right the historical wrongs of treating Jews as cursed or killers of Christ. In theological terms, Young denounced “supersessionism,” the historical Christian teaching that God’s covenant with the Jewish people had been superseded by a new covenant with the church. The Rev. Billy Graham also attacked anti-Semitic beliefs, rebutting the charge of deicide in his sermons, including during a trip to Israel in 1960. Evangelicals in his orbit encouraged Christians to observe Jewish feast days to get in touch with the Hebrew roots of their faith.
Because of the influence of Graham, Young and their followers, by the 1970s, evangelicals began to attend Seder meals, incorporate Jewish practices into their worship and engage in interfaith dialogue. They also began to organize politically into the modern Christian Zionist movement, out of both a growing conviction that past Christian attitudes needed to be rectified, and the belief that the Jewish people and Israel remained central to God’s plans for the future.
In 1979, hundreds of Christians — mostly American and European — celebrated the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in Jerusalem. The organizers chose Sukkot to gather in Jerusalem alongside Jews as a symbolic fulfillment of a prophecy in Zechariah that in preparation for the end of time, people from all nations “will go up year after year [to Jerusalem] to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.”
& continues
"The next year, a much larger group gathered to celebrate this feast following the Knesset’s passage of the Jerusalem Law. A statement by the Israeli right wing of the centrality of a unified Jerusalem under Israeli control to their agenda, it was designed to calm Israeli fears about losing Jerusalem after the Camp David Accords. Although the law prompted 13 countries to evacuate their embassies in Jerusalem, Christian Zionists greeted it very differently. Seeing an opportunity to display their belief that God’s guarantee of Jerusalem to the Jewish people had not been superseded, and to back their words of interreligious solidarity with actions, Christian Zionists used the second annual Feast of Tabernacles gathering to inaugurate the International Christian Embassy, the largest Christian Zionist organization operating today.
This movement has blossomed since 1980. Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians have adopted Jewish dress, practices and Hebrew language in prayer and worship. These range from the anodyne (blowing shofars and wearing prayer shawls) to liturgical (singing in Hebrew and mirroring synagogue Torah readings) to the overtly political (adopting Jewish symbols in Christian Zionist branding and partnering with Israel to promote shared interests).
The new Christian observances of Tisha B’Av touch all of these dimensions. For Jews, the ninth day of the month of Av commemorates multiple tragedies in Jewish history, ranging from God decreeing that the Israelites would wander in the desert for 40 years to Jews being expelled by decree from England (1290) and Spain (1492). The Orthodox Jewish organization Chabad ranks Tisha B’Av as “the saddest day on the Jewish calendar,” even more somber than Yom Kippur.
And although Christian commemoration of this holiday has a political subtext, given the alliance between conservative evangelical Christians and the Jewish and Israeli far right (including many Orthodox Jews), the development of this new practice is about more than just politics. It is also historical and theological. Marking the somberness of Tisha B’Av has become a way to atone for Christian atrocities against Jewish people.
Evangelicals have embraced a condemnatory version of church history — one shared by many Jews who see centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism as a moral blot on the church and weighing down Christians today. Conservative Christians and Orthodox Jews, along with many politically conservative non-Orthodox Jews, find deep consonance in this reading of the past, for different reasons. Many of them also share a similar reading of the future: of a Judeo-Christian exceptionalism in God’s plans for humanity that views both Jews and Christians in covenant with God as the vehicles of worldwide redemption.
Although most interfaith alliances in the 21st century have striven for liberal political gains, this linked understanding has created a powerful shared political ideology built around key conservative goals: supporting Israel and attacking theological supersessionism, which they identify as the root of much past Jewish persecution."
the article lastly says
"Christian Zionists and Orthodox Jews are increasingly using Tisha B’Av as an interreligious setting to brand movements opposed to Israeli policies — from calls to boycott or divest from Israel to growing criticism of settlements in the West Bank — as the modern versions of past Christian persecution of Jews. They share a vision for Israeli military superiority and continuing settlement in the West Bank.
The ramifications for this could be huge, especially in the United States. Conservative evangelicals are the largest and most influential constituency in the Trump era (and any foreseeable future Republican administration) when it comes to Israel, and their success in deepening and broadening Christian Zionist activism through interreligious cooperation will define the future of U.S. support of Israel. This growing solidarity could have enormous political ramifications, and demonstrates how interfaith alliances are no longer simply a creature of the left."
From unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"EU Defies Israeli Sovereignty, Supports Illegal Arab Construction"
Dec 12, 2019
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The European Union continues to pay for the illegal construction of Palestinian buildings in areas under full Israeli control.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS the article says
"The European Union (EU), Denmark and the Palestinian Authority (PA) inaugurated on Wednesday two buildings in the Bethlehem area, both of which are situated in Area C which is under full Israeli control and where PA development is illegal.
The EU said in a statement that the total area of the two buildings is 630 square meters and they will serve more than 2,000 people.
The EU provided €310,000 and Denmark provided €215,000 to fund the buildings in the Al Ma’asarah and Marah Mi’allah villages.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by EU, Dutch and PA representatives.
“By investing into projects in Area C, we invest in the future State of Palestine,” said Simone Petroni, EU Head of Political Section.
The EU will “continue to support projects promoting economic development and improving the quality of life of Palestinian communities in Area C in areas such as private sector, environment and agriculture,” he vowed.
These newly inaugurated buildings are part of “the EU and Member States support to developmental interventions in Area C” and “all EU activity in the West Bank is fully in line with international humanitarian law,” the EU claimed.
The EU openly admitted that it works with the PA “to develop Area C and support Palestinian communities,” in an apparent open challenge to Israeli sovereignty in the area."
the article continues
"The EU has inaugurated and celebrated the construction of similar projects in Area C in recent months.
The Regavim organization, which monitors and pursues judicial action against illegal Arab construction, explains that the PA’s “active and intensive efforts to establish and expand its control of Judea and Samaria, specifically in areas designated [for] full Israeli jurisdiction under the Oslo Accords, is well documented and undisputed.”
‘Quiet Annexation’
One of the central tactics of this “quiet annexation” is the construction of schools in the illegal outposts, exploiting the State of Israel’s reluctance to demolish schools, Regavim added.
Regavim told TPS that the “real story” with these EU-funded projects is that they are part of the Fayyad Plan activity.
One of the new buildings located at Al Ma’asarah is situated in a strategic point that cuts Gush Etzion in half, separating the eastern and western sectors of the Gush, Regavim noted. The area is known to Israelis as Givat HaEitam, a hilltop designated to be a part of Efrat.
“The PA is focusing efforts there in order to choke off the growth and development of Jewish communities in an area that has always been in the Israeli consensus,” Regavim stated.
“According to international law, [under] the Oslo Accords, [and] according to Israeli law – no matter how you slice it, the EU is funding illegal activity that is undermining the rule of law and eroding Israeli sovereignty, leading the area down a collision course, and setting the stage for conflict rather than compromise and negotiation,” the Israeli organization added.
In 2009, then-prime minister of the PA Salaam Fayyad laid out the Plan for the Creation of the State of Palestine, a methodical program for seizing control of territory in Area C, under full Israeli control as prescribed by the Oslo Accords, to form a broad and viable basis for a Palestinian state, specifically in the areas under Israeli control.
Fayyad’s plan essentially bypasses all negotiation or compromise with Israel and creates facts on the ground.
According to data collected by Regavim, in 2009 the number of illegal Arab structures in Area C stood at 29,784, while in 2018 the number surged to 58,435.
Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennet recently threatened to demolish any illegal Arab construction in Area C, even if it was funded by the EU.
In response to an inquiry on the issue by TPS, a senior official in the Defense Ministry stated Thursday that the “phenomenon of illegal Palestinian construction in Area C is one of the main issues that Defense Minister Bennett is dealing with, and he has already begun to work to eradicate the phenomenon.”
The official added that “a number of discussions took place on the subject and Bennett is monitoring the progress in person.”
At his meeting with EU ambassadors last week, Bennet told them that the “illegal construction [they are] financing would be destroyed by Israel” and made it clear that “his position on the issue was unequivocal.”
Also from unitedwithisrael.org website an article is titled
"SHOCKING VIDEO: Jersey Residents Blame Jews for Deadly Shooting as Jewish Victims Lay in Cold Blood!"
Students exit Henry Snyder High School near the scene of the Jersey City shooting, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Shooting Jersey City
Dec 11, 2019
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Residents of Jersey City, standing near the location of the deadly anti-Semitic shooting, spewed vile, Jew-hating comments and called for the Jews to get out.
As Jewish bodies were still laying in cold blood after being murdered by anti-Semites in Jersey City, a representative of Americans Against Anti-Semitism captured residents blaming the Jews for the deathly shooting and calling for them to get out of the neighborhood, tweeted politician Dov Hikind, founder of the organization.
New Jersey officials had confirmed that the shooter specifically chose the Kosher Market location and was targeting Jews.
Jew-hatred in America is worse than ever. Wake up and fight, urges Americans Against Anti-Semitism!
Dov Hikind
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@HikindDov
SHOCKING VIDEO: As Jewish bodies were still laying in cold blood after being murdered by terrorists in Jersey City, a rep of @AmericansAA captured spontaneous antisemitic tirades blaming Jews for their own murder & ppl cheering it on!
Antisemitism, a bigger problem than appears.
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From the website of the New York Daily News, nydailynews.com
"Readers sound off on the Jersey City attack, Tessa Majors’s murder, and charity"
By VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 14, 2019 | 3:00 AM
The oldest hatred. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
"Be strong against anti-Semitism"
Glen Oaks Village: Jersey City became a war zone the other day when two evildoers went on a killing spree, including the murder of a dedicated police detective, Joseph Seals. These two entered a kosher supermarket and killed those inside the market, targeting the Jewish store because of their hatred of Jews. We are a nation based on freedom and respect for all those who come here. As such, my heartfelt prayers go out to those who lost loved ones in Jersey City. As a Catholic and as Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus in Douglaston, I stand firmly with all my brothers and sisters of the Jewish faith and pray for an end to anti-Semitism, which is on the rise in our country today. You see, our Creator created the human race. We are his children, and as such we are all brothers and sisters of the same human family and were created to love one another. So let’s teach our children to do the same. Frederick R. Bedell Jr.
"It’s getting worse"
Merion Station, Pa.: Four years ago, a racist murdered nine African Americans studying the Bible in a church. Two years ago, racists filled with hate thronged to Charlottesville. There have been multiple attacks on Muslims or people mistakenly believed to be Muslim. After an anti-Semitic gunman murdered 11 Jews praying inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, my sister Roz called me from Israel and asked if I was ready to move there. I replied that the murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue were a complete aberration from the tolerance accorded Jews in the United States since 1654. In April, three African-American churches in Louisiana were set on fire and there was another synagogue shooting in California. Tuesday, two killers murdered Jews in Jersey City. “Roz, clean out your spare room. I’m not sure about the ‘when,’ but I’m afraid there’s no longer an ‘if.’ ” Paul L. Newman
From the New York Post website nypost.com
where the Print Edition of the Post for Sunday December 15, 2019 says above this article on page 31
"Playing the Trump Card"
the article is titled
"Student who sued NYU for anti-semitism: Trump has ‘empowered’ Jews on campus"
By Adela Cojab Moadeb December 14, 2019 | 3:55pm
Student who sued NYU for anti-semitism: Trump has ‘empowered’ Jews on campus
NYU student Adela Cojab Moadeb.J.C. Rice , the article says
"On Dec. 7, I had the honor of standing on stage at the Israeli-American Council’s (IAC) 2019 National Summit while President Trump affirmed the rights of Jewish students to a harassment-free environment on college campuses. Three days later, he signed an executive order to include Jewish students under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
When I first started at NYU, I was excited to go to a school that championed diversity and inclusion — until that diversity and inclusion applied to everyone except my community. After years of overt protests, boycotts, and direct aggression toward Jewish students from NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the university honored the organization with the President’s Service Award for “outstanding contribution to NYU life.”
What did SJP do to “earn” this prize? They organized a 53-group boycott against Realize Israel, a non-political student organization, depicting assault rifles on flyers calling for a revolt. Further, at the 2018 Rave in the Park in which NYU students celebrated Israel Independence Day, one SJP member burned an Israeli flag and another physically assaulted a Jewish student; both students were arrested.
Throughout the year, I spoke with eight administrators from multiple NYU departments — the Office of Student Affairs; Center for Student Life; Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards; and even the Office of Public Safety — about rising hostility against the Jewish community on campus. My concerns were brushed off, and after the arrests, I was asked not to draw attention to the issue.
The presidential award solidified the university’s stance: violent acts against students on the basis of their views are not only tolerated, but celebrated, and the concerns of Jewish students are not to be taken seriously.
When I sued NYU for campus anti-Semitism, college leaders shrugged. It took the US president to do something about it.
When I sued NYU for campus anti-Semitism, college leaders shrugged. It took the US president to do something about it.
NYU’s position stands in direct defiance of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which states, “If an institution knows or has reason to know about student-on-student harassment, Title VI requires that the school take immediate and effective action to eliminate the harassment, prevent its recurrence, and, where appropriate, address its effects on the harassed student and the school community.”
the article continues
"Although my legal complaint argued that NYU’s reaction — or lack thereof — to its Jewish community’s plight already violated Title VI, religion was not a protected class under civil rights law — at least until this week. President Trump’s new executive order not only changes that reality, but corrects a longtime gross injustice against Jewish students. The order expands Title VI’s existing protections to explicitly include discrimination against Jews.
Standing with President Trump on stage allowed me the opportunity to elevate the voices of Jewish students nationwide, voices that up until now were not sufficiently protected under anti-discrimination laws. If a single student watching the speech was inspired to stand up for their rights on a college campus, then my experiences at NYU, however unpleasant, were well worth it.
But for the pro-Israel community, our mission is far from complete. My biggest fear is that despite the new legal protection, countless Jewish students will continue to believe they are not welcome in university environments.
Calls to withdraw support from NYU are a distraction from the issue. If anything, the president’s executive order should serve as a source of empowerment to ensure that Jewish students can proudly live on campuses without checking any part of their identities at the door.
The more Jewish students are excluded from arenas like campus life, the more their position is jeopardized as integral components of the fabric of the academic world. Anti-Semites have won when they are allowed to define where a Jew can and cannot feel comfortable. To that I say, never again.
We fought to have our voices heard, and from here, we cannot flee or hide; we must show up and stand up. Jewish students should go to NYU. I might even say it is our responsibility."
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President Trump signs an executive order against anti-Semitism last week.AP
Adela Cojab Moadeb is a Syrian-Lebanese, Mexican Jew. She graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individual Study in May 2019.
Many Americans on the Political Left & Right do not consider Jews to be "White" this is a serious cause of Anti-Semitism From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com there is an article about this titled
"No Such Thing As A “White European” Ashkenazi Jew"
FEB 21, 2019, 1:43 AM
by Dani Ishai Behan
the Opinion article says
"Today’s generation of Jews are experiencing an anti-Semitism renaissance. Although Western reckoning with the Holocaust temporarily forced overt Judenhass underground, anti-Semitism was far from finished. It began its slow, steady climb back into mainstream consciousness by the late ’60s, and is now acceptable in polite society once more. Anti-Semitism has undergone yet another mutation.
At the heart of this newly revitalized anti-Semitism is anti-Zionism, a self-professed “anti-imperialist” ideology aimed at dismantling the State of Israel. Dressed in hip social justice frippery, anti-Zionism proved to be an effective conduit for anti-Semitism, simultaneously appealing to old school anti-Semites while seamlessly adapting itself to modern cultural sensibilities, thus resonating with younger generations and bringing many new converts into the fold.
Anti-Zionism’s core belief is that Israel, the very first nation-state built by a historically dispossessed indigenous people, is an illegitimate “colonial” project built on the bleached white bones of “indigenous people of color.” In this narrative, Ashkenazi Jews (i.e., Jews who wound up in Central/Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, and were the vast majority of Israel’s fighters circa 1948) are cast as “white European” interlopers whose only claim to the land is a Bible and a gun. From there, Zionism is framed as the Jewish version of Manifest Destiny, ennobling the broader Arab and Islamic crusade against Israel as a righteous struggle against “imperialism.” It makes for a romantic story, one that manages the nearly impossible feat of appealing to oppressed peoples throughout the world, while also reeling in classic racists with a familiar villain. It is, however, quite false.
What Zionism DID do is uproot centuries-old power structures, restoring a native people back to its land and overthrowing a 1,000+-year-old colonial occupation. It not only gave one of the most abused and widely despised minorities in the world a sizable chunk of its land back, it gave them power. And in the eyes of anti–Semites, Jews are not supposed to have either of these things.
As with other successful liberation movements (e.g., feminism), the resistance against Zionism has been, and continues to be, ferocious. Anti-Semites on both ends of the spectrum — and both ends of the globe — have made it more than clear that they will stop at nothing to see Israel destroyed, and the Jews restored to their rightful place at the bottom of the totem pole. And they decided that only way to do this would be to re-ignite anti-Semitic passions throughout the world (or at least, bring them out of hiding) and recruit them to their cause. But the times have clearly changed, and the old anti-Semitic rhetoric involving the foreign, non-white, conniving, sinister, bloodthirsty Jew was in dire need of a contemporary makeover."
the article continues
"In today’s climate, it is no longer acceptable (or wasn’t, until just a few years ago) to openly advocate white supremacy or advance the “inferiority” of people of color. These views are now (rightly) considered retrograde, chauvinistic, and morally reprehensible. Instead, the locus of what is considered undesirable and abhorrent has shifted to white supremacy, along with all of its trappings.
Jews, having been traditionally despised as primitive, static, Oriental “outsiders,” can no longer be seriously harmed by these arguments. Right-wing anti-Semites would remain on board (as they would have anyway, since their values haven’t really changed much), but the center-left, progressives, and other minorities would have immediately rejected it. If anything, it would have increased their sympathy for Jews (and thus, their sympathy for Israel). A change was obviously needed.
To this end, Jews have been stripped of their indigenous Levantine ethnic identity and reduced to a religious faith, whose adherents are merely: “Slavs, Germans, Italians, Arabs, and Berbers who just so happen to practice Judaism.” Ashkenazim by extension are situated as “white Europeans” who — despite their “very unfortunate” experiences throughout history — are recast as part of the white European ruling caste. And from there, Zionism is delegitimized as a “European colonial movement,” since political Zionism was born in the European exile, and Ashkenazim were arguably the driving force behind Israel’s re-establishment.
In this current epoch, wherein white supremacist power structures are grappled with on more of a mainstream level, Jews (Ashkenazi Jews in particular) are once more cast as the villain, if not “the brains” behind it all. This is in spite of the fact that these very same structures have, and still do, harm Ashkenazim — and Jews more broadly.
Reframing Ashkenazim as “white Jews” in the 21st century carries an array of benefits to the anti-Semite — many of which I have written about previously — that simply weren’t available decades ago."
& continues
"1. It implies that Ashkenazim are not really ethnic minorities at all, thereby robbing them of the critical protections that such a status would accord. For example, a “white Jew” who complains of anti-Semitism or otherwise gets too uppity can be swiftly shut down with “you’re white, stop centering yourselves.” This is why you’ll often hear ludicrous claims like “the Holocaust is a white on white crime,” thereby diminishing its overall significance in the social justice arena.
2. It has the effect of bleaching out their indigenous Middle Eastern roots. Stripping a people of their entire identity, history, and lived experiences by conflating them with their captors and oppressors is both dangerous and morally unacceptable. That should go without saying, and it stands to reason that few, if any, would consider whitewashing Arabs, Natives, or (hypothetically) Africans in this way. But this is done to “white Jews” on a regular basis. Labeling the vast majority of Israel’s founders “white European” reaffirms the premise of anti-Zionism (that Zionism is essentially a settler-colonial enterprise), thereby leaving Zionism vulnerable to attack. This, I assume, is the entire point of the term “white Jews,” and accounts for why the term is so vigorously defended.
3. As a result of 1, anti-Semites can vent their anger by specifically targeting “white Jews,” whom they are more likely to see as “representative” or “emblematic” of world Jewry (since anti-Semitism was born in developed in Europe, and therefore centered on Ashkenazim). By doing so, they can strike at the Jews without actually striking directly at all Jews. To give an example, whenever one starts screaming about “white Jewish colonialism” or accuses “white Jews” of being “fake Semites,” our usual response is to remind them that Israel is majority Mizrahi and call it a day. But what they fail to understand is that this new variant of anti-Semitism doesn’t need to target all Jews: only those who are perceived as the “most threatening” to anti-Semites (and we all know who those are). Moreover, anti-Semitism that targets Ashkenazim only is STILL anti-Semitism. It’s not a game of hot potato where we can address the problem by handing it off to another group of Jews, and it isn’t something that can (or should) be answered with “oh, that’s okay, because these non-Ashkenazi Jews are legit.”
4. Minority anti-Semites get a free-pass. In other words, minority anti-Semitism can be excused away with “they have no institutional power, which white Jews have in abundance” (more on this below). Anti-Semitism then becomes a form of “punching up.”
& Continues on Point 4 in this article
"In summary, the term “white Jew” renders its target completely and utterly vulnerable. That’s why the debate over Ashkenazi “whiteness” (or lack thereof) has become such a hot-button topic. The conception of Ashkenazim as “white Europeans” (and Jews more broadly as “just a religious faith”) is at the very heart of the anti-Zionist movement, and of America’s contribution to this millennia-old prejudice. It is not an innocuous debate by any means. It is simply the latest battle in a very old war. Anti-Semites of today NEED Ashkenazim to be “white” because anti-Semitism cannot flower otherwise.
It should come as no surprise that, of all of the articles I’ve written, those attacking Ashkenazi “whiteness” have courted the most resistance. That is because if Ashkenazim are not white, then they are genuine ethnic minorities in need of protection — and, it could be said, genuinely indigenous to the Middle East. And from there, it follows that Zionism is not a “white European” Jewish offshoot of Manifest Destiny, but an indigenous rights cause. Anti-Zionists cannot allow this, as it would collapse their entire movement. Without Ashkenazi “whiteness,” the anti-Zionist movement would quickly wither.
Please do not misunderstand me. I am not attempting to deny or mitigate the very real marginalization non-Ashkenazim experience in the Jewish community. Ashkenormativity is real, and any serious endeavor toward equality requires us to dismantle it. It is an extremely important conversation to have. Nevertheless, acknowledging the trials faced by non-Ashkenazim does not require us to whitewash Ashkenazim with oppressive terms like “white Jews,” nor should it.
=== Do “White Jews” Have White Privilege? ===
One commonly deployed argument in defense of the term “white Jews” is that those labeled as such can usually — if not always — benefit from all of the same privileges white people do. But can they really?
The online Racial Equity Tools resource defines white privilege as the following…"
& continues
"Refers to the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.
Structural White Privilege: A system of white domination that creates and maintains belief systems that make current racial advantages and disadvantages seem normal. The system includes powerful incentives for maintaining white privilege and its consequences, and powerful negative consequences for trying to interrupt white privilege or reduce its consequences in meaningful ways. The system includes internal and external manifestations at the individual, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels.
The accumulated and interrelated advantages and disadvantages of white privilege that are reflected in racial/ethnic inequities in life-expectancy and other health outcomes, income and wealth and other outcomes, in part through different access to opportunities and resources. These differences are maintained in part by denying that these advantages and disadvantages exist at the structural, institutional, cultural, interpersonal and individual levels and by refusing to redress them or eliminate the systems, policies, practices, cultural norms and other behaviors and assumptions that maintain them.
Interpersonal White Privilege: Behavior between people that consciously or unconsciously reflects white superiority or entitlement.
Cultural White Privilege: A set of dominant cultural assumptions about what is good, normal or appropriate that reflects Western European white world views and dismisses or demonizes other world views.
Institutional White Privilege: Policies, practices and behaviors of institutions — such as schools, banks, non-profits or the Supreme Court — that have the effect of maintaining or increasing accumulated advantages for those groups currently defined as white, and maintaining or increasing disadvantages for those racial or ethnic groups not defined as white. The ability of institutions to survive and thrive even when their policies, practices and behaviors maintain, expand or fail to redress accumulated disadvantages and/or inequitable outcomes for people of color."
& Continues
"Jews qua Jews are undeniably disadvantaged on the cultural and interpersonal level (certainly vis a vis white people). One only needs a cursory glance at hate crime statistics to see that. However, the institutional area is a bit trickier, and needs to be looked at within the context of Jewish history.
There is little doubt that Jews, broadly speaking, have ascended to high positions in government, law, and economics. People who see this often mistakenly assume that it is a function of whiteness, as opposed to being merely a continuation of traditional anti-Semitic patterns. They ignore the fact that anti-Semitism operates by positioning Jews as the “buffer zone” between the oppressed (people of color, in this case) and the privileged class (white people) — a position that ultimately leaves us vulnerable to scapegoating. In the Middle Ages, for example, Jews were forced to be tax collectors, thereby putting us in direct opposition to the lower classes, fostering a grassroots anti-Semitism. Jews came to be despised as the face of power. A more recent example would be in Brooklyn, where Jews are considered a symbol of gentrification. We are seeing this same pattern play out right in front of our eyes at this very moment, as both the right and the left have decisively turned against us. The right continues to despise us as dirty, Oriental “mongrels” (as they always have) responsible for importing other undesirables into the country, while the left sees us as “white Europeans” responsible for upholding white supremacy. This inevitably leads to anti-Semitic claims like “Jews are responsible for exploiting black and brown bodies” and “Jews bear a special responsibility for the slave trade” — views that have almost single-handedly caused the Women’s March leadership to circle the drain into ostracism and powerlessness.
In milder terms, what we have is more akin to model minority status combined with occasional white-passing. This often gives people – including ourselves — the illusion of whiteness, but it is really just that: an illusion. Per Eric Ward…"
& Continues
"Instead of recognizing this threat, many anti-racists, leftists and progressives insisted Jews primarily recognize themselves as whites with privileges. Yet the truth is that Jews are not “whites” in the United States. If they were, they would not receive death threats, their houses of worship would not be targeted, their burial sites would not be desecrated. Systemic anti-Semitic violence and threats are forms of social control and they exist to ensure that Jews know their place.
It is more accurate to say Jews in this country hold a form of temporal privilege. I liken it to my experiences in philanthropy. In my seven-plus years working as a grant-giver in philanthropy, I automatically became the most humorous person in the room. I was suddenly a 100 times better looking. Nearly everyone returned my phone calls. People would also send me invitations informing me of fundraisers and asking for individual donations of $500 or more. Yes, I had time-based privileges and access but it was only one small part of my identity and a passing one at that. There were lots of assumptions being made about my identities and my background and most of it was based on a temporal position. I’m a kid who spent most of his teenage years living in a motel where rent was paid by the week. I was thin in my twenties because I was malnourished and often near starving at times. I never made a living wage until well into my forties. When I left philanthropy, I wasn’t as good looking, I wasn’t as funny.
With the Jewish community, any semblance of temporal privilege is contingent on the basis that Jews suppress their primary identity as Jews, except in those ways found acceptable by larger society. And when Jews choose to self-actualize their own identities the threat is always delivered that if the Jewish community doesn’t behave itself, access, safety and opportunity will be taken away. Sorry, but this doesn’t happen because Jews are seen as primarily “white” but because they are seen as something other than white. White communities simply don’t receive threats like this, they don’t need to."
& continues
"Moreover, other notable institutions have a tendency of treating us with disrespect, if not utter contempt.
Academia immediately springs to mind here. Universities are notoriously rife with anti-Semitism — often going out of their way to marginalize and rewrite Jewish history — and very rarely take anti-Semitic incidents seriously. Jews are frequently fired or barred from high chairs, especially if they are not sufficiently critical of their own community or national rights. And as for non-elective courses, the most you’ll hear about Jews will be about the Holocaust — if even that.
Mainstream media behaves in a very similar fashion, especially in its coverage of anti-Semitism and the wider Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Anti-Semitic beliefs are routinely enforced by both right-wing and left-wing media, and by politicians on both sides of the spectrum. And this, of course, is the inevitable result.
So if anti-Semites think Jews are white, why do they keep drawing us with exaggerated Middle Eastern features?
It should be noted that the above fliers were not found in Rednecksville, Mississippi. They were from liberal Newton, Massachusetts.
Hollywood representation is another sticking point that is often brought up, although it could be said that this belongs under “cultural.”
To wit, whenever Jewish actors or Jewish characters show up in Hollywood movies/TV, they’re usually either…
* Arabs (e.g. Oded Fehr, an Ashkenazi Jew, playing Jafar in Disney’s “Once Upon A Time” series) – so much for Jews being seen as white, I guess
* Whitewashed (i.e., white actors playing Jewish characters, e.g., Magneto, Einstein, and virtually every single instance of a Bible/Torah character appearing on screen)
* Nerds
* Terrorists
* Comedic punching bags
* Victims, usually Holocaust survivors (it makes for nice “white savior” porn, at least)
* Bankers
* Some other Jewish stereotype: nasally rabbis, hypochondriacs, gold-diggers, neurotic mothers, etc
There are odd exceptions here and there, but this is our lot in Hollywood for the most part. Despite there being a large number of Jews who work in Hollywood, we are still mostly portrayed (if we’re even portrayed at all) as either weak victims, villains, nerds, or punching bags. The Jews who can simultaneously escape this typecasting and enjoy success are those whose Jewishness is less obvious."
& continues
"To summarize:
* Jews are the most targeted “religious” group in the United States, even eclipsing Muslims by a 3:1 margin
* Job resumes from Jews, especially those with obviously Jewish surnames and/or phenotypes, are likely to be thrown out on the spot. God help you if you have an Israeli name.
* Anyone who is visibly Jewish — either by phenotype or religious dress — or who is known to be Jewish will almost certainly have strangers come up to them and threaten to “break that hooked nose of yours,” beat them up, ask them invasive questions, throw money at them, molest their scalp for horns, request to feel their hair (folks with Jewfros get this quite often), and, in at least one — admittedly anecdotal — case, being lit on fire.
* Jews cannot succeed anywhere — literally anywhere — without being accused of controlling that particular field or playing dirty pool.
* Jews who advocate for their own people are regularly seen as fifth columns, conspiring against humanity for their own nefarious ends.
* Jews, although well-represented in economics, education, and business, are significantly less so in other areas. Even “Jewish-controlled” Hollywood has trouble giving Jews roles that aren’t A ) nerds, B ) villains, C ) comedic goofballs, or D ) Holocaust survivors. Companies like Disney won’t touch us with a 10-foot pole (although, given their track record, that’s probably a good thing).
Does that sound like white privilege to you?
As a side note, “white” Ashkenazi Jews are frequently profiled at airports, just as Mizrahim often are. Contrary to what some believe, many “white” Ashkenazi Jews look Middle Eastern."
& continues
"=== On Colorism ===
Racism and colorism exist in all societies, particularly those that have been affected by European colonialism and persecution by European dominated societies.
It exists among Caribbeans (both indigenous African and Indian) who have no issue with voicing their preference for lighter skinned people, and among Indians with respect to the indigenous African laborers that were brought in by the British to replace them. But that unfortunate fact, which we should all work to eradicate, doesn’t make those Indians “white” or European.
It also exists in Arab countries (especially in the Gulf), throughout South America, East Asia, and even sub-Saharan Africa. Countries like India are notorious for their caste system, which favors lighter-skinned individuals over those with dark skin. Are any of these groups derisively referred to as “white” by anti-racists? Hardly.
White-passing is not the same as being white. I can pass, but it’s always been made apparent to me that it’s only on the sufferance of white people. Privilege, by definition, is only for those with the power to grant or deny it. Pale people who are not white might really want to be considered white, but that means nothing.
By the same token, racism among Jews, as abhorrent as it may be, does not make them “white.” It makes them colonized. Having a colonized mentality does not make one European or “white.” Being “white” means being of European origin. It means having an ethnic identity that originated in Europe and is dominated by European concepts and motifs. More importantly, it means being able to reap the full benefits of European colonialism and the power structures wrought by it. The above claims obviously cannot be made of Jews — barring a small handful of very recent converts. Persistent attempts at mapping internal Jewish problems onto an American anti-racist framework are, in essence, akin to pounding a square peg through a round hole."
& continues
" Here are some of the double standards that are often applied to us. My rebuttals can be found beneath each question.
Q: “If black Jews are black, why aren’t white Jews white?”
A: Same reason “white Arabs” are not considered white, even though black Arabs exist.
Q: “If Jews participated in the slave trade, why shouldn’t they be considered white?”
A: Same reason Arabs, Latinos, and Natives are not considered white. All of these groups participated in the slave trade, often to a far greater extent than Jews did (most of whom were Sephardic, anyway).
Q: “If Jewish actors wore blackface, why shouldn’t they be considered white?”
A: Arab, Latino, and (ironically) even black-American actors participated. Are they considered white? No. So why only Jews? It’s hard to escape the feeling that the answer lies rooted in a certain deep-seated, millennia-old prejudice that, less than a century ago, culminated in the near extermination of our people on the grounds that we are not white.
Of course, it can be safely argued that converts of European extraction (e.g., Ivanka Trump) qualify as white Jews, but that is rarely whom this term’s proponents (and proponents of similar terms like “Jews of color” which, although not always malicious in intent, arrive at the same place by default) have in mind.
In fact, one of the key reasons colorism persists is that many Ashkenazim have bought into the lie that they are white. I believe an essential part of deconstructing Jewish colorism is for Ashkenazim to shed this delusion, and begin fully identifying as Middle Easterners and people of color.
Grievances over colorism are perfectly legitimate, and an important conversation to have. But it does not justify this…"
& lastly says
"Articulating the marginalization experienced by non-Ashkenazim is one thing. Calling upon Ashkenazim to erase themselves is another. The latter can only be described as an act of anti-Semitism.
=== In Summary ===
What too many people fail to understand, or refuse to understand, is that we are not a religious faith. We have a religious faith (or, more specifically, a national/tribal faith), but we are not ipso facto a religious faith. We are first and foremost a nation and tribe. And like most nations/tribes, the overwhelming majority of our members belong to a single, cohesive ethnic group, indigenous to a specific place. And in our case, that place is Israel. Centuries of exile and separation does not change that. We are not religious subsets of the dominant ethnic group of whatever country/countries we recently resided in, and never were.
Failing to acknowledge and accept this reality is not only oppressive in its own right — seeing as it completely whitewashes the history and lived experiences of a broad swath of Jews — it is also inherently suicidal. For if Ashkenazim are not indigenous to Israel, and are really “just Poles, Germans, Romanians, Russians, and Hungarians who practice the Jewish faith,” then it can also be claimed that Mizrahim are not indigenous to Israel either, as they are really “just Arabs, Iranians, Turks, and Kurds who converted to Judaism at some point.” Sephardim, in turn, would be “Spaniards, Greeks, Italians, Frenchmen, and Amazigh who embraced Judaism,” and so on and so forth. And at the end of this slippery slope we find a Jewish identity that is robbed of all meaning — a mere hodgepodge of foreigners engaging in some weird Orientalist karaoke. Under this assumption, it would naturally follow that Zionism is “an imperialist ideology,” a claim that we’ve spent many years fighting (and rightly so).
As has been said many times before: “Judaism is the portable suitcase of a people expelled from their indigenous homeland.” And that indigenous homeland is not in Europe. It is in Israel."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Half-Irish/half-Jewish American activist, musician, and writer. Look up the article for additional comments people made
People have suggested watching the 2019 film "A Hidden Life" from
Wikipedia it says about the Film,
The Wikipedia entry says
A Hidden Life (2019 film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
December 13, 2019 (United States)
Running time
174 minutes
Country
United States
Germany
Language
English
German
Budget $7–9 million[3]
Box office $52,000[4][5]
A Hidden Life (formerly titled Radegund) is a 2019 historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, and Matthias Schoenaerts with both Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz in their final performances. The film depicts the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on December 13, 2019.[6]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Writing
3.3 Filming
3.4 Post-production
4 Music
5 Release
6 Reception
7 Accolades
8 References
9 External links
Plot
Austria, 1939. Peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), born and bred in the small village of St. Radegund, is working his land when war breaks out. Married to Franziska (Fani) (Valerie Pachner), the couple are important members of the tight-knit rural community. They live a simple life with the passing years marked by the arrival of the couple's three girls. Franz is called up to basic training and is away from his beloved wife and children for months. Eventually, when France surrenders and it seems the war might end soon, he is sent back from training. With his mother and sister-in-law Resie (Maria Simon), he and his wife farm the land and raise their children amid the mountains and valleys of upper Austria.
As the war goes on, Jägerstätter and the other able-bodied men in the village are called up to fight. Their first requirement is to swear an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Despite pressure from his neighbors, who ostracize him and his family, Jägerstätter refuses. Wrestling with the knowledge that his decision will mean arrest and even death, Jägerstätter finds strength in Fani's love and support. Jägerstätter is taken to prison, first in Enns, then in Berlin and waits months for his trial. During his time in prison, he and Fani write letters to one another and give each other strength. Fani and their daughters are victims of growing hostility in the village over her husband's decision not to fight.
After months of brutal incarceration, his case goes to trial. He is found guilty and sentenced to death. Despite many opportunities to sign the oath of allegiance, Jägerstätter continues to stand up for his beliefs and is executed by the Third Reich in August 1943, while his wife and three daughters survive.
Cast
August Diehl as Franz Jägerstätter
Valerie Pachner as Franziska Jägerstätter
Michael Nyqvist as Bishop Joseph Fliesser
Jürgen Prochnow as Major Schlegel
Matthias Schoenaerts as Captain Herder
Bruno Ganz as Judge Lueben
Martin Wuttke as Major Kiel
Alexander Fehling as Fredrich Feldmann
Maria Simon as Resie
Franz Rogowski as Waldlan
Tobias Moretti as Priest Ferdinand Fürthauer
Ulrich Matthes as Lorenz Schwaninger
Max Mauff as Sterz
Johan Leysen as Ohlendorf
Sophie Rois as Aunt
Karl Markovics as Major
Alexander Radszun as Sharp Judge
Joel Basman as Military Trainee
Waldemar Kobus as Stein
Johannes Krisch as Miller
Another good website is titled Christians in Defense of Israel,
cidisrael.org/about where it says
"We are CIDI
STRENGTHENING YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH AND INSPIRING GOODWILL AMBASSADORS FOR ISRAEL.
What We Do
The mission of Christians in Defense of Israel (CIDI) is to strengthen your Christian faith and to inspire you to be a goodwill ambassador for Israel and the Jewish people. We accomplish this mission through education, advocacy, and a life-changing Holy Land tour.
CIDI provides education and advocacy in multiple ways, including, but not limited to the Defender newsletter; brochures, books and booklets; audio-visual; radio and television; social media; informative emails; and immersive experiential tours in Israel.
Our weekly emails keep you in touch with breaking news and other issues regarding Israel. These emails are the best way to stay informed and to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people. Subscribe by clicking here.
Holy Land Tours
Covenant Journey Travel provides unforgettable, life-changing experiences in Israel. The Holy Land tour was designed with a bold vision to create a unique Israel experience that will strengthen your faith and inspire you to be a goodwill ambassador for Israel.
Unlike many Christian tours, you will discover the vibrant intersection of ancient and modern Israel from a biblical, historical, political, security, business, technology, science, and trade aspect. This experience will allow you to contextualize Israel’s role as a land of Judeo-Christian values and democracy standing in a sea of extremism and radicalism in the Middle East.
The past, present, and future all come together in Israel.
When considering tour providers, keep in mind that your experience will be directly related to the provider you select. The best analogy for comparison of tour providers is the 12 spies who entered the Promised Land. All 12 saw the same land, but only two experienced God. We will show you more of the land than most tours, but we want you to experience God.
Our tour provides the best opportunity for a spiritual and learning experience that will last a lifetime. We pay attention to the details to make this journey a life-changing experience.
The tour costs cover round-trip flights from the designated departure point in the United States to Tel Aviv, beautiful hotel accommodations, three meals each day, travel via luxury bus, tours with an experienced guide, sessions with knowledgeable speakers, and all entrance fees.
When considering prices of other tours, make sure you compare apples to apples. Some tours of Israel appear to offer bargain prices, but a closer look often reveals time-consuming layovers rather than direct flights, two meals a day rather than three, hotels that do not provide good service or food, low quality tour guides and bus transportation, an airline fuel surcharge as you approach the departure date, fewer sites, and no special speakers."
and it continues
"We are committed to make your journey to Israel a life-changing experience that will last for a lifetime.
Covenant Journey
CIDI also supports Covenant Journey (CJ), which is a life-changing immersive experience in Israel designed for Christian college-age students to strengthen their Christian faith and introduce them to the Holy Land. Students who are selected pay only $500, and the rest of the tour is underwritten by donors. Applications are accepted on CovenantJourney.org.
Both the Covenant Journey Travel tours and the Covenant Journey trips for college-age students provide life-changing experiences.
Your Christian faith will be strengthened and your understanding of and love for Israel will be deepened.
Supporting Israel
Everything comes together in Israel—our Christian faith, our Judeo-Christian values, our history and heritage, the past, present, and future—everything revolves around Israel. This small country is no bigger than the state of New Jersey, but it is always at the center of attention. From biblical history and prophecy to geopolitical issues, Israel occupies a unique place in history.
The fact that Israel even exists today is a miracle. In 1948 the modern state of Israel arose out of the smoldering furnaces of Nazi Germany. The ancient cities, the Hebrew language, and the Jewish people who were scattered throughout the world continue to exist against all odds. The Pharaohs of Egypt, the Kings of Babylon or Persia, the maniacal Roman Emperors, nor the brutal Nazi tyrants were able to extinguish Israel or the Jewish people. Not only have Israel and the Jewish people survived while these other regimes became extinct, but today Israel has become one of the world’s most innovative countries in the areas of business and technology. Much of our modern technology that we rely upon daily was invented in Israel.
It is important that we support Israel. The Bible has much to say about how Israel occupies a unique place in God’s economy. In addition to what the Bible says, Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. Israel is the only place in the Middle East where religious liberty and democracy flourish. Our Western culture, law, policies, and Judeo-Christian values are rooted in Israel. Indeed, our Christian faith is rooted in Israel and the Jewish culture. Jesus was born in Jewish flesh, and the Bible was written predominately by Jews.
There is no place on earth like Israel. We are honored to provide you the opportunity to learn about Israel, to discover the wonders of this land and the people, and to deepen your understanding of the Bible and God’s plan for you."
From the New York Daily News website, nydailynews.com an article says on December 16, 2019
"Readers sound off on campus free speech, impeachment and the death penalty"
By VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 16, 2019 | 3:00 AM
Hate against Jews.
Hate against Jews. (Julia Xanthos/Daily News) the headline says
"Anti-Semitism isn’t free speech"
Brooklyn: Thank you for Joe Cohn’s op-ed regarding the Trump administration’s passing of a bill concerning campus free speech (“Trump’s threat to campus speech,” Dec. 13). I agree with many of Cohn’s points. Free speech on campus must be protected for everyone.
However, it is also necessary to point out that anti-Semitism in particular is a unique type of bigotry. It is a form of psychological hatred that transcends race, color, religion, nationality and ethnic origin and is different from any other type of bigotry. It has existed for two millennia and the Jew-haters have spent a great deal of time fine-tuning their hatred to make it “acceptable” to the masses. Nowadays, anti-Semites have been able to mask their hatred as “criticism of Israel.”
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While it is perfectly fine to criticize the Israeli government for questionable policies, it is not fine for Jewish students to be attacked on campuses by members of organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine simply because they are Jewish. The attackers never inquire as to the political leanings of their Jewish targets. They see a Jew and they attack. Because anti-Semitism is unique, it must be dealt with in a unique fashion. If this means the passage of special laws, so be it. The new law should be exercised with great discretion but exercised all the same. The RICO statute gives the federal government special powers when dealing with certain types of criminals, powers it would not ordinarily have. I look upon this new bill the same way: A unique law to deal with a unique and rather complex situation. Eric Weber
From the New York Daily News website nydailynews.com an article in 2018 was titled
"The myths that fuel Israel-blaming: Look honestly at what Hamas was trying to accomplish"
By ZACH SCHAPIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAY 17, 2018 | 1:43 PM
Not a peaceful protest (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) the article says
"Amidst all the chatter about recent events on the Israel-Gaza border, it seems to me there are three core myths underlying the basis of this non-controversy:
Myth #1: This was a peaceful demonstration.
This farce has been repeated most shamefully by the UN Security Council, which advanced a (now-vetoed) resolution condemning the "killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest."
Peaceful protest? I don't know about you, but kite bombs, Molotov cocktails, meat cleavers, slingshots and hatchets don't strike me as peaceful. Neither do acts of arson, vocal threats of kidnapping and mass murder, or Hamas statements that, after tearing down the border with Israel, they would "tear out their hearts from their bodies."
Call me cynical, but I don't think the protesters who brought weapons, ropes, wire cutters and burning tires in order to infiltrate the border fence were planning to sit for afternoon tea once they succeeded. It may be hard to dissect what exactly constitutes a peaceful demonstration, but in the words of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, I know it when I see it — and this ain't it.
Myth #2: The IDF is to blame for the death of Palestinians.
Having served as a combat soldier and commander in the Israel Defense Forces, I was trained on the stringent rules of engagement and witnessed the extent to which Israel goes above and beyond to uphold them — despite their being consistently flouted by their enemies in battle.
The IDF, for its part, set up a 500-meter buffer zone, laid miles of extra barbed wire, dropped leaflets warning Palestinians of the dangers in approaching the fence, and employed standard rules of engagement, using lethal force only when required to safeguard Israeli life and critical infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Israel has a strong incentive to avoid killing protesters in virtually any circumstance, knowing full well civilian deaths would mean a massive public relations disaster.
Hamas, for its part, incited these riots, bribing activists with money to rush the border, offering higher payouts for anyone injured or killed, sending disabled civilians, children, and their own operatives straight into danger, and in one instance even lying to them over loudspeakers that Israeli soldiers were abandoning their positions.
Meanwhile, Hamas (which refused medical aid from Israel) has a strong incentive to maximize the death of Palestinians, since they know it will surely be a massive public relations victory. So sorry, but who is to blame?
Myth #3: Israel's response has been disproportionate.
Proportionality, of course, can only be sensibly discussed within the confines of risk.
So, proportional to what risk? To the number of Palestinians Israel would be forced to kill if a mob actually overwhelmed the fence, at the precipice of an invasion? To the thousands of Israelis whose lives the IDF would be risking if they waited until that climax and failed to contain the multitudes?
Or to the very certain casualties of a subsequent war with Hamas if it escalated to that point? How would you expect your government to react?
Sadly, the only thing disproportionate about this situation is the overwhelming media bias against Israel."
Schapira, a former deputy platoon commander in Israel's Special Air Forces, is currently a freelance journalist living in New York City.
Also from the New York Daily News website, nydailynews.com an article from 2013 was titled
"Brooklyn College is no place for an Israel-bashing lecture"
By EDITORIALS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 29, 2013 | 4:00 AM
Brooklyn College should not be hosting an anti-Israeli hatefest. (Schumann, Heidi) the article says
"The political science department of Brooklyn College lists 17 professors of varying ranks. Do all support welcoming to campus an event that will verge on anti-Semitism?
Most disturbingly, the poli sci faculty is "co-sponsoring" a Feb. 7 lecture aimed at building support for the odious BDS movement — a branch of activism that views Israel's very existence as an illegitimate, oppressive occupation.
BDS stands for boycotting Israel, divesting from concerns doing business with Israel and applying sanctions against Israel because it exists. Proponents appear all too regularly on campuses.
Generally, student groups invite speakers and administrators are left to defend the students' academic freedom, however misguided. This is different; said a statement from college President Karen Gould, "The event is co-sponsored by several campus and community organizations, including the political science department."
The right of faculty members to foster expression and discussion is unquestioned. What is in doubt, thanks to the co-sponsorship, is the quality of their intellectual endeavors and judgment.
One noted Brooklyn College alumnus, Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz, has aptly described the BDS movement as one of the most "immoral, illegal and despicable concepts around academia today." And that, it is fair to conclude, is what the department now stands for.
The evening will feature two prominent BDS purveyors: Omar Barghouti, who has compared Israelis to Nazis, and Judith Butler, who has praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as "social movements that are progressive."
The primary host, Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine, is aimed at "helping end Israeli apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine." It convicts Israel of subjecting Palestinians to oppression equal to the systemic racial crimes once committed against blacks by South Africa.
Understandably, the group declared that the political science department "endorsed" the Barghouti/Butler teach-in. A college spokesman insisted, "The department's support is simply for providing a forum for discussion and debate about the topic. Nothing else is implied."
He added that the term "co-sponsor" indicates only "general support for the program in the form of promoting it to students and others." Really?
What says department Chairman Paisley Currah? He was "unavailable for an interview," according to the spokesman. What say the department's other 16 professors? Will any have the courage and decency to condemn the teaching they are recorded as co-sponsoring?"
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: We Kill Because it’s a Palestinian ‘Value,’ Says Senior Fatah Official"
Dec 19, 2019
Related:
Fatah
Palestinian incitement
Palestinian terror
the article says
"A senior Fatah official touts Palestinian “values” while praising teenage terrorists and the murder of innocent Israeli civilians.
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, in a speech in October at a “Loyalty to Martyrs (i.e. terrorists)” conference, praised the murder of Israeli civilians, saying that the “children of Palestine felt that the [Palestinian Authority] leadership didn’t know what to do.”
Headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah is the PA’s ruling party.
While justifying terror, Zaki claimed that murdering a man in front of his wife and two-year-old son, and not killing the wife and son, shows Palestinian “values,” notes Palestinian Media Watch’s Itamar Marcus.
Can there be any “values” more perverted than these?"
From the website standwithus.com an article is titled
"'Israel is what the Arab world can be but is unable to be'" on December 4, 2019
Israel HaYom
Dudi Caspi
12/01/2019
Aboubakr during his visit to Israel in 2018 the article says
"Hussein Aboubakr loves Israel. This is always a welcome sentiment, of course, but it is twice as moving when it comes from an Egyptian-born Muslim, and even more so when you consider that Aboubakr is one of the most outspoken activists fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement in Los Angeles.
Aboubakr, 30, defines himself as a Zionist. His sympathy for Israel forced him out of Egypt and in the last seven years he has been living in the United States. He moved to Los Angeles after getting a job with Stand With Us – a non-profit pro-Israel education and advocacy organization, seeking to bolster Israel's image among the American public.
Our interview is conducted in Hebrew, which Aboubakr speaks fluently and with a barely detectable accent.
"There's a new generation today of Western Arabs who grew up in the US, speak English and understand how to take advantage of the system," he said. "They were brought up to honor the edicts of Islam even though they are completely secular. People like that are, in fact, the driving force behind BDS. They run an anti-Israel campaign in American academia, but they also have an anti-US campaign.
"They think I'm a traitor. They come to my lectures to heckle me. They won't hear of anti-Semitism in the Arab world and they accuse me of racism."
Touching on current affairs and the recent flare-up in southern Israel during which Islamic Jihad terrorists fired over 450 rockets at Israel in retaliation over the elimination of top Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata in his Gaza home, Aboubakr said, "It's hard for me to see Israelis undergo this annual rocket event. Usually, there is [security] escalation, then Hamas receives more money from Qatar, and uses most of it to increase its arsenal. Israel eliminated a terrorist, not a social worker."
'We were told Jews are evil'
Aboubakr was born and raised in Giza, a few miles from the pyramids. He has three brothers and a sister. His father, Ahmed, was a banker at one of the largest government banks in Egypt. His mother, Huda, is a housewife.
"We were a typical family when it came to religion," he said. "We would go to the mosque with my dad every Friday and fast during the holy month of Ramadan. But unlike many religious families, there was a television in the house, and at some point, there was even internet."
At the age of 11, Aboubakr became interested in religion.
"I delved into the Quran and became a devout Muslim. I also started hanging out with Salafists – they're like the haredim of the Muslim world – and that was steeped with anti-Semitism. There were stories about how the Jews tried to kill the Prophet Muhammad after what they did to Jesus.
"They called Jews 'traitors' and said they were 'evil,' and I believed that. At that time – it was post 9/11 – whenever you would turn on the TV you'd see the war in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. This was also the height of the Second Intifada in Israel. All we saw was how Muslims were getting killed everywhere. That tied into everything I heard at the mosque and I started to believe that Jews were the source of all evil."
At this point, he said, he decided to learn more about Jews so he could fight them more successfully."
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""At the age of 14, I began studying the issue independently," he recalled. "I stopped going to the mosque and just searched the internet to read and understand more. Then I discovered that reality was totally different and that Israel has values such as tolerance and humanity.
"It was a difficult moment. I discovered the moral gap between my background and Western culture, especially with respect to Israel. All of a sudden, you realize that there is nothing to the stories that were drilled into you, that there's no one in Israel who gets up in the morning and thinks up ways to harm Egypt."
This was a defining moment for Aboubakr and the ensuing personal crisis was unavoidable.
"I completely lost my faith. We all want to believe that all religions are similar and impart values for human relationships but in reality, religious systems are archaic and so are their ideas – certainly Islam, which has caused so much harm in the world.
"I decided to keep the change I was going through a secret. It's not like I could tell the people around me that Israel is right and that there is no Palestine."
In college, Aboubakr began studying Hebrew, something he said was "very usual, because you can use it during your military service" – like Israel, Egypt has compulsory military service from men – "and after the service you can use it if you teach or work in the media, so it didn't raise suspicion.
"The Oriental languages Department, where I studied, was set up in the 1960s as part of the fight against Zionism. Like many other things in Egypt, these things began when [Egyptian President Gamal Abdel] Nasser came to power and are frozen in time. My professors didn’t speak very good Hebrew."
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"Presumed guilty
The outdated material frustrated Aboubakr and in late 2009, he decided to visit the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, established in the early 1980s after Egypt and Israel inked their peace treaty.
Many in Egypt believe the center actually houses secret Israeli espionage headquarters, he said.
"I was curious to visit there, to speak Hebrew," he explained. "The first time I only met the security guard, who spoke to me a little in Hebrew. On my second visit, I met the director of the center, Prof. Gabi Rosenbaum. After I left, Egyptian security personnel approached me on the street and started asking me questions, like why I was there. They also called my friends to gather information about me."
About a week later, the Egyptian National Security Agency contacted Aboubakr and ordered him not to set foot in the center again, as well as abandon his studies.
"I refused. I shared the story on my blog and eventually Israeli media picked it up," he said.
Three days later, he and his father were arrested.
"My father promised them that the family will handle it. Afterward, he and my uncles gave me a long talking-to, but I told them I no longer consider myself a Muslim. They were deeply offended. The men hit me. The women were sobbing. I left home that very day. It was the last time I saw them."
The disconnect lasted nearly a decade.
"My mother contacted me last April, she found me on Facebook," he said. "Lately, we've been talking on the phone every week. My younger brother got married recently and she sent me videos of the wedding. I have no contact with my father or anyone else from my family. Maybe in the future, but I'm not ready yet."
After leaving home, Aboubakr went to live with friends, first in Cairo and later in Alexandria. He also became a prolific blogger, writing about the anti-Semitism in Egypt.
And he was firmly on the Egyptian National Security Agency's radar.
"It became an absurd, repetitive situation. I would be taken in for questioning, they would ask me which Israelis I was in contact with and why I posted a certain text on the blog, I would apologize, and they would let me go," he said.
"At the end of 2010, I was supposed to enlist in the army. In Egypt, if you study for a degree you go into service after you graduate and every year they announce which degrees are relevant for conscription. Anyone with a degree in Hebrew is automatically enlisted because of the same Nasser-era mental fixation.
"Once I was drafted, instead of sending me to boot camp, I was taking in for questioning in an intelligence unit. They had pictures of any Israeli I ever spoke with, reports on every word I ever typed. They were sure I was some kind of spy."
Aboubakr was then jailed for two months."
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""No formal charges were ever filed – all they had were suspicions that I was a 'Zionist agent.' I was put in solitary confinement and tortured. My family didn't even know I was there. They let me go after two months. I was also discharged from the army. The discharge papers cited, 'Poses a threat to the integrity of the Egyptian social fabric.'
"I didn't know what to do next. I went to my friends in Alexandria, but they didn't understand what I was going through. These things don't usually happen – most people are 'normal,' no one has run-ins with the authorities, and even if they do, it's usually over religion, not things like Israel.
"I never consider myself a political activist, just someone who expands his interests. I knew that I was neither an agent nor a spy, and I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong that I was being interrogated that way."
And then came the Arab Spring.
Conspiracy theories
Tahrir Square in Cairo, where masses gathered, demanding the ouster of then-President Hosni Mubarak had ostensibly subversive ideas and demands for reforms but they, too, were very anti-Israel, he said.
"It was very strange. As much as they [protesters] came out against religion and tradition, when it came to Israel – it was still the enemy. This hatred is instilled from an early age.
"Once Mubarak was ousted and the Muslim Brotherhood came to power, anti-Semitism grew. The government-controlled media featured intimidating headlines saying that 'Israeli tanks are on their way to Sinai' and 'the Zionist army's ships are about to attack us.' They wanted to create a panic, to convince people that the revolution was an Israeli conspiracy. When new politicians were trying to win over voters, the strongest accusation you could throw at them was that they were 'in service of the Jews.'"
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"The anti-Semitism grew more intense until it erupted on Sept. 9, 2011, when thousands of Egyptian protesters rushed the Israeli Embassy in Giza, Greater Cairo, after breaking down a recently constructed wall built to protect the compound. Six members of the embassy's staff, who had been in a safe room, were extracted by Egyptian commandos, at the personal intervention of then-US President Barack Obama.
A few months after that, Aboubakr lost his job. He was arrested almost immediately and detained for a week.
"When they let me go, they made it clear that I would no longer be able to get a job, that this was it – I won't be released next time. At the time, protesters could turn to human rights organizations for help. I couldn’t do that because they, too, saw me as an Israeli agent. I knew no one would save me."
After six months in hiding and with the help of some friends, Aboubakr was able to reach the American Embassy in Cairo where he sought – and received – asylum.
Two weeks later, he was able to leave Egypt and head to Los Angeles.
'Israel isn’t perfect, but I love it'
During his first year in LA, Aboubakr was unable to find his place among the local Muslim community, which did not exactly welcome him with open arms.
Through his contacts in the Israeli academia, he was able to contact Dr. Nir Boms, a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, who put him in touch with the local Jewish community.
He first worked at a warehouse and then managed to find work teaching Hebrew at an Orthodox Jewish high school in the Valley area. In 2013, he moved to the picturesque town of Monterey and enlisted in the US Army.
"I went through boot camp after which I was stationed at a base that has an educational center for language studies. I taught Hebrew to officers and US Army officials who work with Israel."
In 2018, he visited Israel for the first time, an experience that, given his extensive knowledge of all things Israel, he described as surreal.
"It was the first time I was in an environment that was very similar to the one I knew in Egypt. Israelis sometimes like to 'sell' themselves to the West in Western-looking photos of beautiful beaches and girls, but Israel is first and foremost a Middle Eastern country," he said.
"For the first time, I experienced the culture I came from – the food, the smells, the atmosphere, the noise, the mentality – with an atmosphere of freedom. It made me want to explain to the Arabs how it feels to live their life, only with freedom. Israel is what the Arab world can be but is unable to be."
The atmosphere in Jerusalem, he said, "is much more Middle Eastern than the one in Tel Aviv. When I walked through the streets it was clear to people that I was a foreigner, but they didn't know exactly where I was from, and I could feel the tension in the air. There are some problematic Middle East issues there, that I knew about from [living in] Egypt. But it's not violent. You can live with it."
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"Arriving in Israel and going through security at Ben-Gurion International Airport with the name Hussein Aboubakr was an "interesting experience," he said, smiling.
"It was after I became a US citizen and held an American passport, but it says I was born in Egypt. And I spoke Hebrew at passport control and they panicked. I was detained for questioning because they tried to understand how a guy named Hussein, who was born in Egypt, came to Israel from the US and speaks Hebrew. It took me a while to explain.
"Leaving Israel was more complicated. They [airport security] gave me the strictest security rating, six, which required full scrutiny of all my things and a comprehensive physical examination. So I was delayed and underwent a full body search, every inch, before I was allowed to board the plane. I visited Israel again a few months later and had to go through the same inspection. It wasn't a pleasant experience."
"I know Israel is not perfect, I'm friends with enough Israelis to know that, but I support it and I love it," he stated.
'I want to debunk Arab myths about Israel'
Aboubakr defines himself as "an Egyptian-American from a Muslim background. This may include a religious affiliation – I can't say I'm a practicing Muslim – but it also expresses a cultural-historical identity and affiliation. I'm a spiritual person and I believe in a higher power."
His life, he said, has taken a surreal twist.
"This is the last thing I expected my life to be. It's very strange, but it feels good. It feels right. I want people to understand that you don't have to become like someone else to understand them. You don't have to be Jewish to understand what anti-Semitism is. I'm not thinking about converting to prove it, because there is no need. I have Stars of David at home because I love Jewish art. Learning Hebrew changed my life."
But Aboubakr was less optimistic as to the possibility that Egypt will undergo a real liberal revolution.
"Egypt may like to boast that it is a modern and developed country in the heart of the Middle East, but in reality, as far back as the 1970s, it has been undergoing a gradual process of religification. I was born in 1989 into a secular home and within 10 years not one woman in my family walked around without a headdress."
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"I am optimistic about the future of the Middle East, because the smartphone I, and an increasing number of people hold in our hands will change the world. Today there is access to everything, and Arab states are not sophisticated enough to systematically block and censor everything. This could be the beginning of something good."
When it comes to Arabs from "non-friendly" countries visiting Israel, like the Saudi blogger, Aboubakr said that while this was a welcome phenomenon, "There is still a very big psychological barrier. I hope to do something similar – to visit Israel, take photos and show Arabs what Israel is really like; to show that Muslims are not limited when it comes to observing their beliefs. I want to debunk these myths."
Aboubakr said he misses Egypt very much, but going back simply isn’t an option.
"I can't go back there – I'll be arrested at the airport. It's no secret that I'm a Zionist, I work for a Zionist organization, and under Egyptian law that's grounds to have your citizenship revoked. They'll probably do that after I publish my book, A Minority of One. It's currently in the editing stage.
Asked if his life experiences have bred political aspirations, Aboubakr says the thought hasn’t even crossed his mind.
"I want to be a teacher," he said. "I haven’t pursued my academic studies to make it happen, because it costs a lot, and I don’t have good grades from college [in Egypt] or recommendations from professors. I came from an anti-Semitic system, so [they] deliberately gave me low scores. My alternative is to study in Israel. Maybe I'll live there for a while."
A web cache of an article from the website, haventoday.org is titled
"Why does the devil hate Jews?"
Charles Morris • October 30, 2018
the article says
"We are all reeling from the recent horrible slaughter in a historic synagogue in Pittsburgh. We mourn the dead and pray for the survivors. Such an atrocity against Jewish people is nothing new.
Each year one week is set apart in the Jewish calendar as Holocaust Remembrance Week. Yom HaShoah is the annual day for remembering the Holocaust. The horrible tragedy of the six million was not by any means the first time the Jewish people had been slaughtered. There have been many attempts to annihilate the Jewish people throughout history. Passover, Hanukkah and Purim are also Jewish holidays associated with attempts to wipe out the Jewish people and God’s faithfulness to deliver.
Pharaoh sought to kill all male babies born to Israel (Ex. 1:9-16). Haman tried to completely wipe out all of the Jewish people (Esther 3:5-6, 13). Antiochus IV, the Syrian-Greek tyrant tried to make all Jews become Greeks or else die (The Hanukkah Story). Herod, the Edomite king who had converted to Judaism, killed thousands of Jewish children in an attempt to prevent the Messiah’s coming (Matt. 2:16). Then there is the awful history of so-called “Christian” persecution of the Jewish people. (I recommend Edward Flannery’s The Anguish of the Jews on this topic.)
Yet in spite of centuries of persecution and attempts to wipe out the Jewish people, “Am Israel Chai,” the people of Israel live. But why this hatred and persecution of the Jewish people? Could there be a spiritual dimension?
Some have suggested the Jewish people have incurred the wrath of God through rejecting Messiah Jesus. But why have Jewish believers in Jesus also suffered? Why did at least five million Gentiles die in the Holocaust? Why were there 200 pastors in the Dachau concentration camp? Clearly that theory must be completely rejected.
God created the Jewish people to be those through whom His revelation to mankind would come. He chose the Jewish people to bring the Messiah to the world. Jesus was—and still is—a Jew. This goes a long way toward understanding the spiritual dimension of anti-Semitism."
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"I suggest an additional answer is to be found in Romans Chapter 11. We are told there that God did not reject the Jewish people—in spite of unbelief and disobedience. Paul tells us this clearly In verses 1-6 and 28-32. A believing remnant remains which follows Messiah, and, even in unbelief, they are still chosen because the “gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.” God’s love and faithfulness toward the people of Israel in unbelief should certainly encourage believers!
God had a purpose in the unbelief of Israel. Through their transgression, salvation came to the Gentiles. Non-Jews who believe in the Jewish Messiah have been grafted into the tree of believing Israel. They are connected to the root of the patriarchs and have become spiritual descendants of Abraham. But they are the wild branches and the Jewish people, even in unbelief, are still the natural branches. God has promised that before Jesus returns, many Jewish people will accept Jesus as Messiah. This will be a great boost to the advancement of the gospel.
If you were the Devil and wanted to stop the gospel from going forward and Messiah from coming again, what would you do in regard to the Jewish people? First try to wipe them out; failing that, persecute them in Jesus’ name so that they won’t want to hear it mentioned. That is what Satan has done. Herod is a clear example of this strategy: kill Jewish people and prevent Messiah from coming. Satan hates both Jews and Christians because he hates Jesus. As believers, we have a moral responsibility to commit ourselves to the survival of the Jewish people and to promote revival among the natural branches, beloved even in unbelief."
This article was written by Rev. Fred Klett, Director of the CHAIM ministry and church planter of Rock of Israel PCA, a church in Pennsylvania to Russian Jews who have immigrated to the United States. Find out more at www.chaim.org or www.rockofisrael.com.
We Christian, Jewish & Other Supporters of Israel all realize the truth and fact that
Everyone who Hates Israel and/or the Jews is Satanic and of the Devil ,
From the website israelunwired.org an article is titled
"History proves there are no “Palestinian” people"
By Leah Rosenberg - January 1, 2019
the article says
"Golda Meir’s statement about the “Palestinian” people is true. There indeed is no such thing as a Palestinian people. It is one big invention that was set up in order to pressure and ultimately destroy the State of Israel. The term “Palestine” denotes nothing more than a geographic area where various people lived in – Jews, Arabs, Christians, and other people. There is as much reason for a Jew to be called a “Palestinian” as there is reason for an Arab to be called a “Palestinian.” But the truth is that neither is really true. Jews are Jews. Arabs are Arabs. Kurds are Kurds. Africans are Africans.
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Salami Approach
Yasser Arafat proudly announced a few decades ago that his approach was one of the salami variety. That means that the idea of destroying the Jewish state was via stages. At first, there would be a small Arab state within the Land of Israel. Then, they would demand a larger swath of land, and then they would fight to make the State of Israel smaller and smaller. This way they would have an effective platform to destroy the State of Israel from within.
Arafat’s Marketing Plan
But in order to have an Arab state within the State of Israel, Arafat came up with a brilliant marketing plan. He decided to claim that the Arabs were the indigenous people. They coined the term – “Palestinians” – and adopted the term as their essence. All of the anti-Israel forces adopted this as the reason why the Arabs were entitled to a State. After all, the “Palestinians” were the ancient people of the State of Israel. That’s what the term “Palestine” connotes. Smart Plan – but a lie.
The Arabs know this too. The preachers in Mosques don’t talk about their history in Palestine as much as they say things about how to destroy the Jewish State. That’s because that is the essential tradition that the Arabs have received from their forefathers."
On College & University Campuses, all the Sickening Disgusting Hatred of Jews & the State of Israel just goes to show how utterly & completely Satanic & Demonic the enemies of Jews & Israel are, there is Not the Slightest Shred of Decency, Morality or Humanity within them, there is No Humanity within them, No Intelligence or Humanity within them, they are Unspeakably Evil Devils, completely Diabolical & Satanic , notice how they are Ugly and Physically Repulsive on the Outside, as much as they are ugly and Satanic on the Inside, the Anti-Israel people are Satan Incarnate, and Proof that there is PURE EVIL in the World, it is pointless to debate them or reason with them, they are Not on the Plane of Reason, they will never change, these Anti-Israel Losers know they would lose any debate, Truth is on Israel's Side
From the website www.israelnationalnews.com an article is titled
"The Counterfeit Arabs" and it says
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; no such thing as a Palestinian history; and no Palestinian language exists. There has never been any independent, sovereign Palestinian state in all of recorded history.
Victor Sharpe, 20/11/13 09:20
Victor Sharpe is a prolific freelance writer with many published articles in leading national and international conservative websites and magazines. Born and educated in England, he has been a broadcaster and has authored several books including a collection of short stories under the title The Blue Hour. His three-volume set of in-depth studies on the threats from resurgent Islam to Israel, the West and to Judeo-Christian civilization is titled, Politicide: The Attempted Murder of the Jewish State. www.amazon.com
"What you can find are coins, pottery, ancient scrolls, all providing conclusive, empirical and millennial evidence of Jewish civilization dotting the land known correctly as Israel – not Palestine.
They are the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.
They are indistinguishable from those Arabs who live in the surrounding artificial states such as Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or the other entities throughout the Middle East created by the colonial powers, France and Britain. Both powers were victorious after the Ottoman Turkish Empire lay defeated at the end of World War I.
Both of these European powers carved artificial borders across the corpse of what had been Turkey’s empire in the Middle East, and both France and Britain have left a resulting legacy of war and violence ever since. One such territory, previously occupied by Ottoman Turkey for 400 years, was the geographical entity known sometimes as Palestine.
But there is no such thing as a Palestinian people; no such thing as a Palestinian history; and no Palestinian language exists. There has never been any independent, sovereign Palestinian state in all of recorded history – let alone an Arab independent state of Palestine.
You will search in vain for Palestinian Arab coinage or Palestinian Arab archaeological artefacts specifically related to any Palestinian Arab king or ancient leader. But what you will find are coins, pottery, ancient scrolls, all providing conclusive, empirical and millennial evidence of Jewish civilization dotting the land known correctly as Israel – not Palestine.
The present-day so-called “Palestinians” are an Arab people sharing an overwhelmingly Muslim Arab culture, ethnicity and language identical to their fellow Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, with few if any distinctions.
Yasser Arafat, the arch-terrorist, who imposed himself undemocratically upon the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, was fond of repeating the absurd myth that Palestinian Arabs were descended from the Canaanites and the Philistines. As we know, the bigger the lie, the bigger the number of people will believe it. And so Arafat twisted history in order to disinherit the indigenous native people of the land: the Jews.
Canaanites, without doubt, were the first known inhabitants of the Land of Israel before the first Hebrews, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives, settled there, and before Moses brought their descendants back to the Promised Land during the Exodus from Egypt.
The Canaanites lived both along the coastal plain and in the mountain regions, which run like a spine down the biblical territory of Samaria and Judea. Their language was similar to Hebrew and their territory stretched north into present day Lebanon and included the present day Golan Heights."
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"The Canaanites were finally subdued during the reign of King David. Most Canaanites were gradually assimilated into the Jewish people and were no longer a distinguishable people.
After the 8th century BC, the Canaanites no longer existed and the only people, therefore, who can trace back an historic link to ancient Canaan are the Jews, not the Palestinian Arabs. So much for Arafat’s nonsense and for the on-going attempts by today’s Palestinian Arabs, financed by vast Arab oil wealth, to hoodwink the world.
The term “Philistines” provides the source from which the term “Palestinians” is derived. Like the Arabs who gave themselves the concocted name “Palestinian,” the Philistines were alien peoples who entered the land from the Mediterranean isles. That is why they were also known as the Sea People.
The modern “Palestinian Arabs” are primarily the descendants of itinerant Arabs who illegally flooded British Mandatory Palestine from Arab territories as far away as Sudan, Egypt, Syria and what was Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). They were attracted during the early decades of the 20th century by new employment opportunities provided by the Jewish pioneers, whose heroic efforts were turning the desert green again and restoring centuries of neglect that the land had endured under a succession of alien occupiers. Joan Peters proved this in her seminal work on the subject.
Britain, during its Mandate over the territory, turned a blind eye to the flood of illegal Arab aliens entering, while at the same time often arbitrarily limiting Jewish immigration into their ancient, biblical and ancestral homeland. This was a betrayal of the Mandate given to Britain to facilitate a Jewish Homeland in the geographical territory known as Palestine.
The Philistines were non-Semitic peoples who had entered the land from their homes throughout the Aegean Islands in general and from Crete in particular. These ancient Cretans arrived in Southern Canaan and along the Egyptian coastline and were known as “Pelestim (from the Hebrew root for invaders)and Keretim” by the Hebrew tribes. It appears that their first settlement may have been Gaza. Later they settled in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gat and Ekron: the Pentapolis.
Their territory was primarily along the coastal Mediterranean; interestingly, a territory not dissimilar to the present day Gaza. They attempted at different times to invade Judah but were turned back by the various Jewish biblical heroes and finally defeated by King David. From that time onwards they were diminished as a threat and as a separate people, finally disappearing from history and any “Palestinian” Arab attempt to claim a lineage with them is as absurd as that of links with the early Canaanites.
Moving fast forward to 73 AD, the first attempt of the Jews to reclaim their independence from the repressive yoke of Roman occupation ended when Jewish warriors and their families fled to the fortress of Masada from Jerusalem. The Romans had destroyed the Jewish capital city along with the Second Jewish Temple."
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"Historically documented and universally recognized, Masada, which rises to great height overlooking the Dead Sea, is where the heroic last stand took place and where the surviving warriors and their families took their own lives rather than be tortured or sent as slaves throughout the mighty Roman Empire. The Land where these stirring and epochal events took place was in the province known as Judæa. There is absolutely no mention of any place called “Palestine” before that time.
After the suppression of the Second Jewish Revolt in 135 AD against the Roman occupation, the Emperor Hadrian replaced the name of Judea (Yehuda in Hebrew from where the name Yehudim, Jews, originates) to Syria-Palæstina after the “Philistines” who were the ancient enemies of the Israelites. Hadrian did so with the explicit purpose of effacing any trace of Jewish history.
Ancient Romans, as well as so-called Palestinian Arabs, have fulfilled the Hebrew Scriptural prophecy that declares: “They lay crafty plans against Your People… they say: ‘come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more’.” – Tehilim 83:3-4 (Psalm 83:3-4). They failed, as Israel is reconstituted as a modern Jewish state in its ancestral and biblical homeland.
No such name as Palestine occurs in any ancient document. It is not written in the Bible, neither in the Hebrew Scriptures nor in the Christian Testament, not even in Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian, Ptolemaic, Seleucian or other Greek sources.
There is no “Palestinian” people ever mentioned, not even by the Romans that invented the term.
If “Palestinians” allegedly are the historic inhabitants of the Holy Land, why did they not fight for independence from Roman occupation as Jews did? How is it possible that not a single “Palestinian” leader revolted against the Roman invaders or is mentioned in any historic record?
Why is there no Palestinian rebel group mentioned, as for example the Jewish Zealots? Why does every historic document mention the Jews as the native and aboriginal inhabitants, and the Greeks, Romans and others as foreigners dwelling in Judea; but no “Palestinian” people, neither as native or as foreigner? What is more, there is no reference to any “Palestinian” people in the Koran, although Muslims claim that their prophet was once in al-Aksa (meaning the farthest place) which Muslims, for political purposes, chose to be Jerusalem – an event not even mentioned in the Koran.
Saladin, a Kurd, knew the Jews and invited them to resettle in Jerusalem. He had no trouble in recognizing Jerusalem as their eternal capital city and the territory as their rightful Homeland. But he did not know any so-called Palestinians and to claim otherwise that Palestinians are the original people of Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, is not only counter to secular history but also is opposed to Islamic history."
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"The so-called “Palestinians” who claim Jerusalem want it so that they can take it away from the Jews for whom Jerusalem, known also as Zion, is the eternal, 3,000 year old Jewish capital.
Perhaps what links the modern day Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” with the ancient Philistines is that both are invaders. The Philistines wanted to take from the Israelites the Holy Ark of the Covenant, while today’s so-called “Palestinian Arabs” want to take from the Jewish people the Holy City of the Covenant – Jerusalem.
A wealth of information about this and related subjects may be found at this website. I encourage all to read it.
Let me close, beginning with the words of a Christian Arab, Joseph Farah, who has made his home here in America and who knows of what he writes:
“There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 per cent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one per cent 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… No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.” (Joseph Farah, “Myths of the Middle East”)
Let us hear what other Arabs have said:
“There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it”. (Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937)
“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not”. (Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946)
“It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria”. (Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956)
Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated: “The only Arab domination since the Conquest in 635 AD hardly lasted, as such, 22 years.”
The preceding declarations by Arab politicians were issued before 1967 as they had not the slightest knowledge of the existence of any Palestinian people."
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"How and when did they change their mind and decide that such people existed?
When the State of Israel was reborn in 1948 the Arabs had still not discovered that “ancient” people. They were too busy attempting to annihilate the reconstituted sovereign State of Israel, and did not intend to create any Palestinian entity, but only to distribute the seized Jewish lands among the already existing Arab states.
The Arab armies were miraculously defeated by a tiny handful of Jewish defenders. The Arabs attempted again to destroy Israel in 1967, and were humiliated in only six days, in which they lost the lands that they had previously stolen and usurped in 1948. Those lands included Judea and Samaria, which comprise the biblical and ancestral Jewish heartland, tracing its history back some 4,000 years.
Now the world forgets such empirical history and prefers to name the ancestral Jewish territory, the "West Bank", which was illegally occupied by the Jordanian Arabs for 19 years from 1948 until its liberation in 1967.
In all those years, when Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip, neither of them created a “Palestinian” state, since the still non-existing Palestinians would have never claimed their alleged right to have their own state.
Paradoxically, during the British Mandate, which lasted from 1920 to 1948, it was the Jews that were known as Palestinians!
But read what other Arabs declared after the Six-Day War:
“There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity… 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”. Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council
“Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people”. Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat
“As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today’s Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today’s Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants”. Walid Shoebat"
& continues
"During the long years of alien occupation of the Land of Israel, though Jews were always living in the Land in whatever numbers they could sustain, visitors were always struck at how the land had become a barren waste with malarial swamps and a remarkably sparse population. The following reports from travellers to the desolate landscape that had become a mournful waste are quite telling:
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel, Galilee); not for thirty miles in either direction… One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee… Nazareth is forlorn… Jericho lies a mouldering ruin… Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation… untenanted by any living creature… A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent, mournful expanse… a desolation… We never saw a human being on the whole route… Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country… Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes… desolate and unlovely…” Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”, 1867
One wonders, therefore, where were the “Palestinians” hiding so that Mark Twain could not see them? Where was that so-called “ancient” people in the mid nineteenth century? Of course, Arab politicians now attempt to discredit Mark Twain, retreating into that realm of all scoundrels by calling him a racist.
“In 1590 a ‘simple English visitor’ to Jerusalem wrote: ‘Nothing there is to be seen but a little of the old walls, which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds much like to a piece of rank or moist ground’”. Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund
“The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil”. British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, mid-1700s
“Palestine is a ruined and desolate land”. Count Constantine François Volney, XVIII century French author and historian
“The Arabs themselves cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters. The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it”. Comments by Christians concerning the Arabs in Palestine in the 1800s
“The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population”. James Finn, British Consul in 1857
“The area was under populated and remained economically stagnant until the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers in the 1880′s, who came to rebuild the Jewish land. The country had remained “The Holy Land” in the religious and historic consciousness of mankind, which associated it with the Bible and the history of the Jewish people. Jewish development of the country also attracted large numbers of other immigrants – both Jewish and Arab. The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts… Houses were all of mud. No windows were anywhere to be seen… The plows used were of wood… The yields were very poor… Schools did not exist… The rate of infant mortality was very high… The western part, toward the sea, was almost a desert… Many ruins were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their inhabitants”. The report of the British Royal Commission, 1913"
& lastly says
"Far too many otherwise decent people have come to accept Arab oil financed falsehoods masquerading as history about the origins of the so-called Palestinian Arabs. These lies now permeate the mainstream media, schools, colleges, and universities and are perpetrated by the tenured leftist professors and the colleges who all too eagerly accept Saudi blood money.
The historical facts given above may be of help to those who have otherwise fallen hook, line and sinker for duplicitous Arab propaganda and what constitutes one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated upon the world.
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of several books including a collection of short stories called The Blue Hour and Volumes One, Two and Three of Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state."
From the website askdrbrown.org an article is titled
"Is God a Zionist?"
Posted Dec 17, 2019 the article says
"As antisemitism continues to rise in America and as Israel-bashing becomes more and more common on our campuses, it would be good to ask the question: “Is God a Zionist?”
But before we can answer that question, we first need to define the term Zionist.
Simply stated, a Zionist is someone who believes that the Jewish people should have a homeland in what is now Israel. That’s it.
Based on that definition, we can say that, yes, for sure God is a Zionist.
How I can be so confident?
Our latest, animated, Consider This video gives you the scriptural and historical reasons that make me so sure. Watch here." A Link to a YouTube video is given, the YouTube video is titled "Is God a Zionist?"
The website www.lbc.co.uk which is the website for "Leading Britain's Conversation"
the website has an article titled
"MAAJID NAWAZ
Maajid Nawaz explains why anti-semitism is the 'most dangerous' form of racism"
17 November 2019, 16:11
LBC's Maajid Nawaz has explained why he believes anti-semitism is the "most dangerous" form of racism in a heated debate.
Caller John, from Suffolk, said he was "confused" as he thought saying anti-semitism was the "most dangerous" form of racism was an "idiotic argument".
John added he thought this was because "all racism is equal" and happens all over the world.
Explaining his reasoning, Maajid said: "The far left, the far right and Islamists, all three of them, campaign, propagate and recruit on an anti-semitic basis.
"Therefore unlike other forms of racism that I may suffer, the far-left don't campaign and propagate anti-brown or black racism, they pretend to be defenders of it while propagating anti-semitic racism.
Maajid Nawaz explains to a caller what his reasoning is
Maajid Nawaz explains to a caller what his reasoning is. Picture: LBC
"The far right don't propagate anti-white, say, racism but they do propagate anti-semitism just like the far left.
"The Islamist theocrats aren't recruiting people based on anti-black racism, though obviously anti-black racism exists in the Arab world, but they do recruit people on the basis of anti-semitic racist tropes.
"And so all three facist extremes use anti-semitism to recruit and it is why it is the most dangerous."
John was not satisfied with Maajid's answer, and asked: "Why is anti-semitism such a hot topic today?"
Watch the full exchange in the video at the top of the page."
Also from the website www.israelnationalnews.com an article in 2018 is titled
"Pal-Arabs are counterfeit" and it asks:
Why is there no ‘Palestinian’ rebel group mentioned in ancient Roman history, as for example the Jewish Zealots are?
Victor Sharpe, 08/03/18 09:07
the article says
"Recently, the Holocaust-denying head of Terror, Inc, known as the Palestinian Authority, one Mahmoud Abbas, upped his erstwhile mentor and arch terrorist, Yasser Arafat, by spewing yet another Arabian Nights hallucinatory diatribe at the United Nations Security Council. It went as follows:
“We are the descendants of the Canaanites that lived in the land of Palestine 5,000 years ago and continuously remained there to this day.”
We should remember that the grisly, blood soaked Arafat had claimed that those Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, were descended from the Philistines. But then the followers of the ‘religion of peace’ will tell you that even Adam was a Muslim. Loony tunes for loony people!
But let’s come back to reality and deconstruct the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; no such thing as a Palestinian history; and no Palestinian language exists.
The present-day so-called ‘Palestinians’ are an Arab people sharing an overwhelmingly Muslim Arab culture, ethnicity and language identical to their fellow Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, with few if any distinctions. They are primarily the descendants of those itinerant Arabs who illegally flooded British Mandatory Palestine from Arab territories as far away as Sudan, Egypt, Syria and what was Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). They were attracted during the early decades of the 20th century by new employment opportunities provided by the Jewish pioneers, whose heroic efforts were turning the desert green again and restoring centuries of neglect that the land had endured under a succession of alien occupations.
Britain, during its Mandate over the territory, turned a blind eye to the flood of illegal Arab aliens entering, while at the same time often arbitrarily limiting Jewish immigration into the ancestral Jewish homeland. This was a betrayal of the Mandate given to Britain to facilitate a Jewish Homeland in the geographical territory known as Palestine.
Yasser Arafat, the Egyptian born arch-terrorist, was fond of creating the absurd myth that Palestinian Arabs were descended from the Philistines.
Canaanites, without doubt, are mentioned in the Bible as the first known inhabitants of the Land of Israel before the first Hebrews, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives, settled there, and before Moses brought their descendants back to the Promised Land during the Exodus from Egypt.
The Canaanites lived both along the coastal plain and in the mountain regions, which run like a spine down the biblical territory of Samaria and Judea. Their language was similar to Hebrew and their territory stretched north into present day Lebanon and included the present day Golan Heights.
The Canaanites were finally subdued, decimated and intermarried and no longer exist as a distinguishable people.
The ‘Philistines’ were non-Semitic peoples who had entered the land from their homes throughout the Aegean Islands in general and from Crete in particular. These ancient Cretans arrived in Southern Canaan and along the Egyptian coastline and were known as ‘Pelestim and Keretim’ by the Hebrew tribes."
the article continues
"It appears that their first settlement may have been Gaza. Later they settled in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gat and Ekron: the Pentapolis.
Their territory was primarily along the coastal Mediterranean and they attempted at different times to invade Judah, but were turned back by the various Jewish Biblical heroes and finally defeated by King David. From that time onward, they were diminished as a threat and as a separate people, finally disappearing from history after King Hezekiah defeated them and Assyria exiled them. Any claim to lineage by the Arabs who call themselves ‘Palestinian’ is as absurd as that of links with the early Canaanites.
Moving fast forward to 73 CE, the first attempt of the Jews to reclaim their independence from the repressive yoke of Roman occupation ended when Jewish warriors and their families fled to the fortress of Masada from Jerusalem. The Romans had destroyed the Jewish capital city Jerusalem, along with the Second Jewish Temple. Masada is where the heroic last stand took place and where the surviving warriors and their families took their own lives rather than be sent as slaves throughout the mighty Roman Empire.
The Land where these stirring and epochal events took place was in the province known as Judæa. There is absolutely no mention of any place called ‘Palestine’ before that time.
After the suppression of the Second Jewish Revolt in 135 CE against the continuing Roman occupation, the Emperor Hadrian replaced the name of Judea (Yehuda in Hebrew from which the name Yehudim, Jews, originates) with Syria-Palæstina after the ‘Philistines’ who were the ancient enemies of the Israelites. Hadrian did so with the explicit purpose of effacing any trace of Jewish history.
No such name as Palestine occurs in any ancient document. It is not written in the Bible, neither in the Hebrew Scriptures nor in the Christian Testament, not even in Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian, Ptolemaic, Seleucian or other Greek sources. There is no ‘Palestinian’ people ever mentioned, not even by the Romans who invented the term. Yet, here again, the fantasist, Abbas, who ranted in the UNSC and then bid a hasty retreat, still claims Jesus was a ‘Palestinian.’
There is no ‘Palestinian’ people ever mentioned, not even by the Romans who invented the term. Yet, here again, the fantasist, Abbas, who ranted in the UNSC and then bid a hasty retreat, still claims Jesus was a ‘Palestinian.’
Why is there no ‘Palestinian’ rebel group mentioned, as for example the Jewish Zealots are? Why does every historic document mention the Jews as the native and aboriginal inhabitants, and the Greeks, Romans and others as foreigners dwelling in Judea while there is no mention of a ‘Palestinian’ people, neither as native or as foreigner?
What is more, there is no reference to any ‘Palestinian’ people in the Koran, although Muslims claim that their prophet was once in al-Aksa (meaning the farthest place) which Muslims, for political purposes, chose to be Jerusalem."
& continues
"Saladin, a Kurd, knew the Jews and invited them to resettle in Jerusalem. He had no trouble in recognizing Jerusalem as their capital city and the territory as their rightful Homeland. But he did not know any so-called Palestinians and to claim that Palestinians are the original people of Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, is not only counter to secular history but is also opposed to Islamic history.
The so-called ‘Palestinians’ who claim Jerusalem want it so that they can take it away from the Jews for whom Jerusalem, known also as Zion, is the eternal, 3,000 year old Jewish capital.
Perhaps what links the modern day Arabs who call themselves ‘Palestinians’ with the ancient Philistines is that both are invaders.
The Philistines wanted to take from the Israelites the Holy Ark of the Covenant, while today’s so-called ‘Palestinian Arabs’ want to take from the Jewish people the Holy City of the Covenant – Jerusalem.
So let me close, beginning with the words of a Christian Arab, Joseph Farah, in Myths of the Middle East. Farah has made his home here in America and knows of what he writes:
“There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians.
“Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 per cent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one per cent of the landmass. But that’s too much for the Muslim Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today….No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.”
From the website www.jpost.com the website for the Jerusalem Post, an article is titled "Maligning Martin Luther King as an enemy of Israel" the article says
"I am fed up with the hypocrisy of people who claim to be concerned about the human rights of Palestinians but are silent when it comes to their mistreatment by their fellow Arabs.
By SHMULEY BOTEACH JANUARY 29, 2019 00:52 Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger
A STATUE of Martin Luther King. (photo credit: REUTERS)
"After reading Michelle Alexander’s screed in The New York Times, I am not sure whether I should be more outraged by the paper’s publication of yet another in a seemingly never-ending series of anti-Israel articles, by Alexander’s outrageous misstatements of fact and scurrilous attacks on Israel, or by her disreputable effort to suggest that Martin Luther King Jr. would share her contempt for the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
One can get a clue of the distortions to follow from the headline, “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine” as if there have not been decades-long efforts by everyone from “civil rights icon” Angela Davis to former president Jimmy Carter to smear Israel. Detractors regularly appear on broadcast media, op-ed pages and nearly every type of public forum – not to mention their ubiquity on social media.
The notion that critics of Israel and supporters of the Palestinian cause are somehow silenced is laughable. In what has become a rallying cry for Alexander and her ilk, anyone who dares to counter their arguments is “McCarthyite.” Free speech is their divine right, but those with whom they disagree have no such right. Thus, she attacks those who have the audacity to call out supporters of the antisemitic boycott movement explicitly created to deny the Jewish people their right to self-determination and destroy their indigenous homeland – Israel.
Just what is wrong with publicizing the views of people who express anti-Israel or antisemitic (and I acknowledge they are not identical) ideas? They have no hesitation to put them on social media, for example, but it is somehow intimidating to then publicize what they write? Why should they fear how employers or others will view them unless they are embarrassed for anyone outside their echo chamber to see them?"
the article continues
"I was offended to see Alexander try to put words in Dr. King’s mouth to justify her views on Israel. She says, “There is no way King could publicly reconcile his commitment to nonviolence for all people, everywhere, with what had transpired after the 1967 war.” This, however, is what King actually said in 1968 just 10 days before his assassination:
“Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect her right to exist, its territorial integrity and the right to use whatever sea lanes it needs. Israel is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security, and that security must be a reality.”
In that same speech at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, King also gave a strong response to Alexander, and other promoters of “intersectionality” when he said:"
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& Continues
"The response of some of the so-called young militants does not represent the position of the vast majority of Negroes. There are some who are color-consumed, and they see a kind of mystique in blackness or in being colored, and anything non-colored is condemned. We do not follow that course.”
Alexander also misses the irony in an article claiming Jews are intimidating critics of saying that King canceled his planned trip to Israel because he was afraid of criticism by the Arabs.
It is hard to know where to start to refute her statements regarding Israel. She claims Israel violates international law. Really, which law? Resolutions by the UN that are political statements, not legal ones?
She says Israel occupies the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza. The West Bank was never Palestinian territory nor was east Jerusalem. Since Israel has an equal if not better claim to the territories, they are disputed, not occupied. Jerusalem was established as the capital of the Jewish people more than 3,000 years ago. It has never been the capital or even a significant city under Arab rule. The Palestinians want a capital in east Jerusalem, but they have no historical, political or religious claim to any part of the city.
It is especially galling for Alexander to refer to Gaza as occupied. Perhaps she was asleep during 2005 when Israel withdrew every citizen and soldier from Gaza. The area is now controlled by Hamas, which has used the territory as a base for terrorist attacks against Israel. Alexander has nothing to say about the more than 10,000 rockets launched into Israel by Palestinian terrorists. Her failure to appreciate the impact this has had on Israeli society, namely an unwillingness to evacuate additional land in Judea and Samaria (Israel already withdrew from 40%) out of fear that it, too, will become a base for launching attacks against Israel. Israelis also know, as Alexander must not, that allowing Palestinians to fire rockets from the West Bank would put Israel’s capital, airport and major population centers in the crosshairs.
Then again, I don’t think she cares. Clearly, her idea of being a human rights crusader does not include care for the lives of Jews or even Israeli Arabs. What’s more, like so many self-appointed spokespeople for the Palestinian people, she does not care about their human rights unless Jews can be blamed for their plight.
She advocates boycotting Israel, for example, despite the opposition of the Palestinian people. More than 100,000 go to work in Israel every day, thousands work in the settlements she derides. Ask the hundreds of Palestinians who lost their jobs when boycott proponents declared victory by forcing SodaStream to close its plant just outside of Jerusalem how they feel about Alexander’s disregard for their well-being.
If she wants to invoke Dr. King’s name, maybe she should consider what he would say about the dictatorship created by Mahmoud Abbas who is now serving the 15th year of his four-year term. What would he say about the Palestinian Authority’s silencing of its critics by jailing, torturing and sometimes killing them? What would he say about the “honor killings” by men of women who have violated their idea of moral behavior? How about their persecution of gays? What about the PA’s denial of women’s rights, freedom of speech, assembly or the press? What do you think King would say about the persecution of Christians by Hamas and Palestinians in the West Bank?"
& lastly says
"I am fed up with the hypocrisy of people who claim to be concerned about the human rights of Palestinians but are silent when it comes to their mistreatment by their fellow Palestinians, or in the case of places such as Lebanon and Syria, by their fellow Arabs. Why doesn’t Alexander have anything to say about the slaughter of Palestinians by Bashar Assad and the thousands he has turned into refugees? Does she think King would look the other way as she does? I think not.
Paragraph after paragraph is filled with vitriol. She says Israel will not discuss Palestinian refugees. It’s a lie. Since 1948, they have offered to allow tens of thousands to return and allowed in similar numbers. No Israeli from any political party would accept the idea that Palestinians have a “right” to return to homes they chose to leave in hopes that the Jews would be driven into the sea. No thinking person would accept the UN fiction that there are more than five million Palestinian refugees when the UN itself reported the number was 360,000 in September 1948. If five million Palestinians were permitted to enter Israel, the Jewish state would cease to exist, and the Palestinians would have not one but two states – one in the West Bank and one in what used to be Israel.
Alexander also trots out the tired canard comparing Israel to South Africa. This specious argument has been rebutted ad nauseum, but it is as indestructible as Holocaust denial and equally invalid.
Let me end with where Alexander begins her diatribe, with the view of Dr. King – not the one she imagines, but his actual words.
Alexander says, “The days when critiques of Zionism and the actions of the State of Israel can be written off as antisemitism are coming to an end.” King saw things differently. When a student attacked Zionism during an event in 1968, King responded, “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism.”
The writer, “America’s Rabbi,” whom The Washington Post calls “the most famous rabbi in America,” is the international bestselling author of 30 books, including his most recent, The Israel Warrior. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
From the website www.israelunwired.com an article is titled
"All the beauty that can exist in one small country"
By Phil Schneider - December 4, 2019
the article says:
"Can the beauty of a country be encapsulated in a bit more than one minute? Well this video certainly does a good job of attempting it. The idea of featuring Israel’s massive desert as the beginning of the video is more than just a nice idea. It is actually the story of how the Jewish people entered the Promised Land. They came via the desert – for 40 years – and entered a Land that had beautiful mountains and valleys – with rivers flowing through it in all kinds of beautiful ways.
Weather Patterns in the State of Israel
There are very few countries in the world where a person can go skiing in the morning, travel 2-3 hours by car, and lie down on a beach in the afternoon. But in Israel, the mountains of the Hermon are so high that they are snow-capped for most of the 3-4 months of the winter. On the other hand, the Dead Sea is so low that it is nearly always warm and mild there throughout the same winter months. It is only a 2-3 hour ride from one to the other.
On the other hand, there are unique areas in the Land of Israel that are both warm and arid in the daytime and cool in the evening. Nearly 50% of the Land of Israel is desert – Israel’s south. It is very difficult in the daytime without A/C. But the night times are so cool and pleasant that one needs to snuggle under the covers to stay warm.
Are these weather patterns a mere coincidence? Many people would argue that nearly any country that is near the equator will have similar weather patterns. But, it seems that when it comes to the State of Israel, things are more extreme. The Dead Sea is not just a low place – it is the lowest place on the Planet. The heights of the Hermon mountain range and the mountains in Lebanon are not just mountainous – they are extremely high. The closeness seems to indicate that the Land of Israel is a place that tends towards extreme highs and lows. It is a Land, the Bible says, that “God watches over all of the time – all year round.” Perhaps that is what accounts for the extreme highs and lows in the Promised Land. A truly special Land indeed."
From the website metro.co.uk an article in 2016 is titled
"Biblical storm ‘sent by God’ to ‘protect Israel from ISIS’" Toby Meyjes Friday 9 Dec 2016
the article says "The storm occurred on the border between Israel and Syria (Picture: Facebook/Israel News Online) To some it might just be an unusual storm cloud of dust and rain forming over the desert, but to others its the hand of God. This piece of footage shows a huge storm forming on the border between Israel and Syria near the Golan Heights region. Baby drowned 'after mother left him in bath with tap running then took nap' But rather than simply being a storm of epic proportion, others are claiming it is divine intervention to protect Israel from the hands of ISIS. Believed to have been shot a week ago, it was uploaded to Facebook by Israel News Online with the tagline ‘the hand of Hashem’ – a Hebrew term for God. On Facebook, Israel News Online wrote: ‘A weather phenomenon occurred at 8am Thursday on the other side of the Syrian border, in the same place where ISIS attacked Israel. Storm cloud of dust on Israel and Syria border Play Video Loaded: 0% 0:00Progress: 0% PlayMute Current Time0:00 / Duration Time0:43 Fullscreen ‘This strange storm of what appears to be dust, cloud and rain did NOT cross the border fence into Israel. ‘It sat like a barrier between ISIS and Israel.’"
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2016/12/09/biblical-storm-sent-by-god-to-protect-israel-from-isis-6311057/?ito=cbshare
I wonder what the Heartless Satanic Worthless Loser Liar Troublemaker Anti-Israel & Anti-Semitic people have to say about this, God is Protecting Israel !!! Take That Anti-Israel Losers
Also from the website www.israelunwired.com an article is titled
"Scientists Have Proven that God is Protecting Israel"
By Phil Schneider - April 11, 2019
the article says
"Nuclear physicist, Gerald Schroeder, a known researcher in the past for The Weizmann Institute and Hebrew University, simply cannot be accused of unscientific thinking. When observing statistics that don’t seem all too logical, most of Schroeder’s colleagues admit that there was “luck” involved.
Impossible Stats?
The existence of the State of Israel, the fact that there were so few casualties from the Scud missiles shot down on Israel during the Persian Gulf War of 1991, all appear, on the surface, to be a stroke of luck. Schroeder, however, refuses to call it “luck.” Luck is just not a scientifically sound term. For nuclear physicists like Schroeder, the real answer is that God is protecting His people.
Dr. Schroeder makes the point that many miracles happen in what seems like a very natural manner. The Persian Gulf War in 1991 was an odd war. The States of Israel endured a massive bombing of an enormously powerful missile – the Scud missile – on heavily populated areas in Israel – Tel-Aviv and it’s surroundings. Not one person was killed from these bombing, though there were wounded. One man experienced a hart attack, and it is unclear if this was connected to the bombing.
One does not need to be a brilliant professor in order to reach the conclusions of Dr. Schroeder. But, it is most reassuring when someone of his stature makes it clear that the rational explanations of the occurrences in the modern State of Israel simply don’t hold water. We don’t need to be scared of the repercussions of accepting God’s involvement in this world. If it is logical to assume that there is a hand of God in charge of this world, and illogical to assume otherwise, then let’s accept that the creation and existence of the State of Israel is one big miracle." A Link to a YouTube video is given in this article showing how God is Protecting Israel !!!!
From the website
www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to order is titled
"Miracle of Israel : The Shocking, Untold Story of God's Love for His People"
by Gary Frazier, Jim Fletcher
Overview
"Nothing demonstrates how God keeps His promises better than the story of Israel. Everyone is looking for a miracle. Families devastated by a faltering economy. A college student facing the horrific diagnosis of cancer. Corporately, whole nations are teetering on the brink of despair and chaos. Miracle of Israel is a stunning examination of the millennia-old love that God has for His people that: Clearly conveys the promise God gave to Abraham, Examines the ancient prophecies regarding Israel that have happened and are unfolding even today, Provides an easy-to-read timeline of miracle after miracle related to the nation of Israel. Tracing the history of the Jewish people to the present day, the authors look at prophecy after prophecy that clearly attest to the Lord's miraculous promises. From historical records, to personal, dramatic stories, the Miracle of Israel shows us that in keeping epic promises to the nation of Israel, God's provision for each of us is sure, perfect, and on time, every time."
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com Another book is titled
"Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories About The Spirit Of Israel: A Tribute To Rebirth In The Land Of Our Ancestors"
by Israela Meyerstein
Overview
"Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories About The Spirit Of Israel" captures the epic story of the miraculous rebirth of the modern Jewish nation in 1948 and its growth until today, bound up in the varied realms of religious fervor, social justice, political perspectives, and scientific discoveries. These passionate and powerful stories of individuals provide the framework for the reader to clearly see how it is possible that ordinary Israelis, in revealing just how extraordinary they really are, exemplify the Biblical command to be a "Light unto the Nations". Israela Meyerstein’s collection of stories provides the clarity of how and why the Jewish state has not only survived, but thrived through its many years of adversity. Not only is this book a powerful reminder of the many connections that Jews and non-Jews alike have for the modern Jewish miracle, but it is also a reminder of the 2000-year-old steadfastness of the Jewish People to once again live in the Land."
As usual the Loser Anti-Israel Supporters of so-called "Palestine" are in full retard mode, the "Palestine" supporters never produce such great books & works of literature like the Pro-Israel people do !!!
Again, Well said Mr. Eric Weber
From the New York Daily News website, nydailynews.com an article says on December 16, 2019
"Readers sound off on campus free speech, impeachment and the death penalty"
By VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 16, 2019 | 3:00 AM
Hate against Jews. (Julia Xanthos/Daily News) the headline says
"Anti-Semitism isn’t free speech"
Brooklyn: Thank you for Joe Cohn’s op-ed regarding the Trump administration’s passing of a bill concerning campus free speech (“Trump’s threat to campus speech,” Dec. 13). I agree with many of Cohn’s points. Free speech on campus must be protected for everyone.
However, it is also necessary to point out that anti-Semitism in particular is a unique type of bigotry. It is a form of psychological hatred that transcends race, color, religion, nationality and ethnic origin and is different from any other type of bigotry. It has existed for two millennia and the Jew-haters have spent a great deal of time fine-tuning their hatred to make it “acceptable” to the masses. Nowadays, anti-Semites have been able to mask their hatred as “criticism of Israel.”
While it is perfectly fine to criticize the Israeli government for questionable policies, it is not fine for Jewish students to be attacked on campuses by members of organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine simply because they are Jewish. The attackers never inquire as to the political leanings of their Jewish targets. They see a Jew and they attack. Because anti-Semitism is unique, it must be dealt with in a unique fashion. If this means the passage of special laws, so be it. The new law should be exercised with great discretion but exercised all the same. The RICO statute gives the federal government special powers when dealing with certain types of criminals, powers it would not ordinarily have. I look upon this new bill the same way: A unique law to deal with a unique and rather complex situation." Eric Weber, Again well stated Eric Weber ,
Anti-Semitism isn't Free Speech
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinian teens celebrate the PFLP terror group with Nazi salutes in Ramallah." (Quds News/Facebook)
‘Heil Hitler’: Palestinian Students Give Nazi Salute on Terror Group’s Anniversary
Dec 16, 2019
the article says
"Only the Arabic-language Quds News site showed the picture, but an Israeli blogger took a screenshot before the photo could be scrubbed.
By United with Israel Staff
The Palestinian Quds News network recently posted on its Arabic language Facebook page a photo of students giving the Nazi salute.
The Palestinian students were marking the 52nd anniversary of the establishment of a terror group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at Birzeit University, Ramallah, located in Samaria, according to IsraellyCool.
Commenting on the photo on Facebook, Motasem Dweat wrote, “Hitler is back again.”
Quds News describes itself as “one of the leading news agencies in Palestine” and claims to give “the full picture of Palestine.”
Commenting on the offensive post, David Lange, founder and managing editor of Israellycool, wrote, “I fully expect them to take down the photo (hence the screenshot), because they really don’t want the world knowing that their terrorism comes from a place of Jew-hatred, not a mere territorial dispute.”
Quds News website is blocked by the Palestinian Authority and Twitter suspended its accounts in 2019.
It looks like it is time for Facebook to block the so-called “news site” as well."
Notice how Jewish Israelis are NEVER as Hate Filled as the so-called "Palestinians" and other Arabs, They are filled with Raw Hate, while Jewish Israelis are NEVER filled with Hate
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: Pro-Palestinian Mob Chants ‘Adolf Hitler,’ ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Germany'"
Dec 17, 2018
Related:
Germany
Islamic anti-Semitism
Pro-Palestinian activists
"Pro-Palestinian protesters in Germany chanted “Adolf Hitler” and “Allahu Akbar” while giving the Nazi salute.
They were very candid about where their sympathies lie and who they support.
A lethal combination of Islamic extremism, Nazism and pro-Palestinianism." Very Sad,
Jewish Israelis NEVER teach their Children to hate Others, Jewish Israelis NEVER teach their Children to hate Arabs or Muslims, Yet sadly Many Arabs & Muslims in America & Worldwide teach their Children to hate Jews, Israel, Christians,
From the website www.alaraby.co.uk which is the website for The New Arab
an article is titled "Kuwaiti writer's support for Israel provokes social media backlash"
"October 19, 2015 Updated 14:28 GMT
Robert Bain
Blog: Abdullah al-Hadlaq has provoked a backlash for his views on Israel's right to defend itself against the "terrorism of Palestinian knives".
the article says
"A Kuwaiti columnist known for his pro-Israeli views provoked a storm of criticism on social media when he wrote this weekend that Israel had a legitimate right to defend itself against the "terrorism of [Palestinian] knives".
Abdullah al-Hadlaq was referring to the recent wave of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories some have dubbed "the intifada of knives", because of the number of stabbing attacks against Israelis.
Hadlaq's latest article, The terrorism of knives and the right of Israel to self-defence, was published in the Kuwaiti daily al-Watan on 17 October, but had apparently been taken down by the morning of 19 October.
"With the increase of [Palestinian] crimes, and the terrorism of knives against Israeli soldiers... and against innocent civilians," Hadlaq wrote, "Israel's legitimate right to defend itself and kill [Palestinian] terrorists, whatever their age, children, youths, male and female, is clear," Egyptian news site Rassd reported.
Strong reactions on social media
Kuwaiti poet Ahmed al-Kandari took to Twitter to express his strong opposition to the article and called for it to be taken down.
Translation: "As a Muslim and a Kuwaiti citizen, I strongly oppose the article of Abdullah al-Hadlaq that attacks the rights of the Palestinians and request it be removed from the site."
Ahmed al-Hojairat, a blogger from Kuwait, tweeted that Hadlaq's article must have been published in error:
Translation: "The writer Abdullah al-Hadlaq published this article in the newspaper al-Watan by mistake, instead of publishing it in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz."
Abdallah Marouf, a teacher at Taibah University in Medina, was more blunt in his feelings about Hadlaq:
Translation: "I would savour the moment before I spit in the face of the contemptable Kuwaiti writer (Abdallah al-Hadlaq) and his newspaper, falsely called al-Watan ["The Nation"] after it published this article..."
A long-standing supporter of Israel
Hadlaq is known for his long-standing support of Israel. In the past he has urged Kuwait to normalise relations with Israel, asserted the right of the "people of Israel" to control Jerusalem and praised Israel's model of democracy, contrasting it with Arab autocracy.
In his most recent article, he wrote: "The [claims of the] Palestinian diaspora are void in the face of Israel's clear right to defend itself and its people and its soldiers, despite the feeble response of the international community."
He also called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to "stop inciting hatred" and to condemn attacks against Israelis."
Another article from www.alaraby.co.uk is titled
"'There is no Palestine, no occupation': Kuwaiti writer sparks outrage"
Abdullah Al-Hadlaq commented in an interview on Kuwait Alrai TV channel earlier in the week [Twitter]
Date of publication: 23 November, 2017
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"A Kuwaiti writer sparked outrage after claiming there is no such thing as Palestine, or an occupying entity and that Israelis are "a people returning to their promised land'.
A Kuwaiti writer has sent shockwaves in the Arab world after claiming that there is no occupation and Israel is a legitimate sovereign state.
Abdullah Al-Hadlaq commented in an interview, televised on the Kuwait Alrai TV channel earlier in the week, saying that there is no occupation of Palestine, and it is simply a case of "a people returning to their promised land."
"When the State of Israel was established in 1948, there was no state called Palestine," said Al-Hadlaq in the interview.
"There were various communities living in Arab countries under a host of other names."
Al-Hadlaq continues by quoting verses from the Islamic holy book, the Quran and providing them as 'evidence' of the land promised to the Israelis.
"The usurping entity is whoever was there before the arrival of the Israelites – not the Israelis," he says in a bizarre twist rendering the Palestinians as the occupiers of Israel.
In fact, Al-Hadlaq continues, "Why shouldn't we live in peaceful coexistence with Israel, and cooperate with it against my great enemy, which is the Persian regime? I support the establishment of a three-way alliance, consisting of Israel, the Arab Gulf states, and America, in order to annihilate Hizballah beyond resurrection."
The interview comes against a backdrop of a series of reports of Saudi-Israeli normalisation.
Recent events have been taken as a rupture of one of the principle social pacts between the Saudi royal family and the general populace.
Earlier this week, an Israeli blogger posted images onto the popular social media platform Instagram of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina.
The kingdom continues to deny any official relations with Israel, despite the deluge of recent reports claiming rapprochement between the two states.
Kuwait, similar to Saudi Arabia, does not recognise Israel.
In the face of the continued expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia's assertion to lead both the Arab and Muslim worlds, the reported rapprochement of the governments of Binyamin Netanyahu and Mohammad bin Salman seems to be gathering pace against a common Iranian foe." the article has links to videos showing this debate
From the website www.euronews.com some good news
"Norway: Muslims form protective 'Ring of Peace' around synagogue"
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the article says
"Around Oslo’s synagogue it was called a ‘Ring of Peace’ – more than 1,000 Muslims offering symbolic protection for Norway’s Jewish community.
Today we get to show that Islam stands for peace and unity
A human chain was formed amid condemnation of last weekend’s deadly attack by an Islamist gunman on a synagogue in neighbouring Denmark.
“I believe in strong values such as love, freedom and unity,” said event organiser Hajrah Arshad.
“And today we Muslims finally get an opportunity to show our version of our religion and change what the media writes about us. Today we get to show that Islam stands for peace and unity.”
Participants chanted: “No to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia,“a week after Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, a Danish-born son of Palestinian immigrants, killed two people at a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen.
For Jewish leaders, the message of solidarity was significant.
Ervin Kohn, President of the Jewish community in Oslo, said:
“I was asked after the attacks in Copenhagen: ‘What do you feel?’ And I answered: ‘Sorrow and anger’. But my answer today is, that I feel gratitude and hope.”
Norway’s Jewish community is one of Europe’s smallest, numbering around 1,000.
Its Muslim population, which has been growing steadily through immigration, is 150,000 to 200,000.
Norway has a population of about 5.2 million.
The debate over immigration in the country came to the forefront in 2011 when Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and accused the government and the then-ruling Labour party of facilitating Muslim immigration and adulterating pure Norwegian blood.
Support for immigration has been rising steadily since those attacks, however, and an opinion poll late last year found that 77 percent of people thought immigrants made an important contribution to Norwegian society."
From the website www.standwithus.com an article in December 2019 is titled
"Christians are being ethnically cleansed from Middle East, except in Israel"
Legal Insurrection
William Jacobson
the article says
"Christians are being ethnically cleansed throughout the Middle East, including areas under Palestinian Authority and Hamas control.
A report last spring commissioned by then British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt found:
Pervasive persecution of Christians, sometimes amounting to genocide, is ongoing in parts of the Middle East, and has prompted an exodus in the past two decades, according to a report commissioned by the British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
Millions of Christians in the region have been uprooted from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned and discriminated against, the report finds. It also highlights discrimination across south-east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in east Asia – often driven by state authoritarianism.
“The inconvenient truth,” the report finds, is “that the overwhelming majority (80%) of persecuted religious believers are Christians”.
The exception is in Israel, where the Christian population is growing:
The Christian population of Israel currently stands at approximately 177,000 citizens, or 2% of the overall population, according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) ahead of Christmas.
Last year, the population grew by 1.5%, compared to 2.2% in 2017. Over three-quarters (77.5%) of Christians living in Israel are Arabs, the CBS said, representing 7.2% of all Israeli-Arab citizens. The majority of non-Arab Christians living in Israel are citizens who immigrated to Israel since 1990, together with Jewish family members under the Law of Return.
Some 70.6% of Arab-Christians live in northern Israel today, while 13.3% reside in the coastal city of Haifa and 9.5% live in Jerusalem. The nation’s most populous Christian cities are Nazareth (21,900 inhabitants), Haifa (16,100), Jerusalem (12,700) and the Galilee city of Shfaram (10,300)….
The average fertility rate among Christians in 2018 was 2.06 children per woman, below the average rate for Muslim women (3.2), Jewish women (3.17) and Druze women (2.16).
Christians are excelling in the Israeli educational system, including higher ed:"
the article continues
"The Christian population in Israel is slowly growing, and their educational achievements are rivaling those of the majority Jewish population, according to figures released this week by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.
The data revealed that 70.9 percent of Christian high school students in Israel achieve college-entry matriculation grades, which is slightly higher than the figure among Israeli Jews (70.6 percent). Among Israel’s Druze the figure is 63.7 percent, according to the report, while among the Muslim population it is 45.2 percent. Three out of four Christian students who achieve a masters degree, or 74 percent, are women, as are 63 percent of Christian doctoral students.
By contrast, Christians are being driven out of Palestinian-controlled areas:
Contrast these [Israeli] data with the figures in a report published by then-British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt in July. The report found that the number of Christians in the Middle East has dwindled from 20% of the population a century ago to just 5% – most notably in the Palestinian territories, where they have dropped to below 1.5%.
“We’ve all been asleep on the watch when it comes to the persecution of Christians,” Hunt said.
The organization Open Doors put “the Palestinian Territories” in 49th place – out of 50 – on its World Watch List, an annual report on the global persecution of Christians. The report cited “Islamic oppression” as the main source of persecution, adding that “Islamic extremist militants are also present in the West Bank, causing Christians to fear being attacked,” and that the persecution is particularly brutal for converts to Christianity.
While anti-Israel activists try to blame Israel for Christians leaving Palestinian-controlled areas, that’s nonsensical and inaccurate. The driving forces are Islamism. I wrote in 2015 about this tactic of Falsely blaming Israel for Christianity’s collapse in Gaza and West Bank.
As StandWithUs tweeted:
This week in 1995, Bethlehem became the 6th city on the West Bank to come under Palestinian rule in accordance with the Oslo accords. Since then, the Christian population has dropped by 64%. Israel is the only place in the Middle East where the Christian population is growing."
& lastly says
"Which brings me back to a post I wrote in 2016, “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” (quoting Bernard Lewis, emphasis added):
In the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967, an ominous phrase was sometimes heard, “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.” The Saturday people have proved unexpectedly recalcitrant, and recent events in Lebanon indicate that the priorities may have been reversed. Fundamentally, the same issue arises in both Palestine and Lebanon, though the circumstances that complicate the two situations are very different. The basic question is this: Is a resurgent Islam prepared to tolerate a non-Islamic enclave, whether Jewish in Israel or Christian in Lebanon, in the heart of the Islamic world? The current fascination among Muslims with the history of the Crusades, the vast literature on the subject, both academic and popular, and the repeated inferences drawn from the final extinction of the Crusading principalities throw some light on attitudes in this matter. Islam from its inception is a religion of power, and in the Muslim world view it is right and proper that power should be wielded by Muslims and Muslims alone. Others may receive the tolerance, even the benevolence, of the Muslim state, provided that they clearly recognize Muslim supremacy. That Muslims should rule over non-Muslims is right and normal.9 That non-Muslims should rule over Muslims is an offense against the laws of God and nature, and this is true whether in Kashmir, Palestine, Lebanon, or Cyprus. Here again, it must be recalled that Islam is not conceived as a religion in the limited Western sense but as a community, a loyalty, and a way of life—and that the Islamic community is still recovering from the traumatic era when Muslim governments and empires were overthrown and Muslim peoples forcibly subjected to alien, infidel rule. Both the Saturday people and the Sunday people are now suffering the consequences.
In the modern Middle East, Israel is the only place where both the Saturday people and the Sunday people are thriving."
We at this blog, continue to say Zero Tolerance for Violence,
It's very very sad how attacks on Christians & Jews keeps increasing Worldwide,
As many Christians have stated, Anti-Semitism is Satanic and of the Devil, all of this hate will backfire on Satan big time, when as the Bible says Satan the Devil will be Cast into the Lake of Fire to Suffer Forever, Satan will Suffer Forever
From the website www.reasonsforhopejesus.com an article is titled
"Israel Celebrates 70 Years As A Nation & the Significance for Christians"
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 13, 2018
After 1,878 years of dispersion from their homeland, in 1948, the Jews were regathered in the land that God promised to their forefathers.
On May 14, 1948 (on the Gregorian calendar) David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared that the State of Israel would be established with the termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day. And so…Israel was “born again.” (Read about the 1917 Balfour Declaration that led to the 1922 British mandate)
Each year the nation’s “birthday” is celebrated in Israel with a national Independence Day holiday.
The holiday is celebrated on 5 lyar, according to the Hebrew calendar, with the Hebrew day beginning at sundown (this year April 18-19, 2018 on the Gregorian calendar).
What a jubilant day May 14, 1948 must have been. The Jewish people had been in exile for almost 2,000 years. They had been expelled from numerous countries and persecuted beyond compare, even to the point of a holocaust that killed a third of the world’s population of Jews in the early 40s. In 1948, not only was the nation’s identity restored, but also was the people’s culture revived and the Hebrew language “resurrected.” Sadly, even restored to their homeland, all was not peace and rest for the nation of Israel.
70 Years of Unrest Ensued
Only one day after Israel’s rebirth, on May 15, 1948, the nation was invaded by Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. The invading forces took control of the Arab areas and immediately attacked Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements. Ten months of fighting ensued and brought about significant demographic change throughout the Middle East, including a Jordanian/Israeli division in the city of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is often called the epicenter of the Middle East, and in reality, it is the epicenter of all the earth. Jerusalem is God’s holy city, a city on a hill that will never be destroyed and will one day be the home of the Kingdom of Heaven. Control of this city is a battle that has been waged for centuries, but the protection of this city and its people is guaranteed by God. No warring nation will ever destroy it. "
the article continues
"Isa 25:10 For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest,
Isa 31:5 Like birds flying about, So will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; Passing over, He will preserve it.”
The Bible prophecies that one day all nations will come against Jerusalem. But God has promised to protect and preserve His city and His people.
Zec 12:8-9 “In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
The Six Day War
After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israel did not enjoy good relations with neighboring countries. In 1956, with an objective to reopen the shipping routes of the Straits of Tian that had been blocked since 1950, Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai. They were forced to withdraw but were given a guarantee that the Straits of Tiran would remain open. Egypt reneged on their promise and, in May 1967, President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that the straits would be closed and he mobilized forces along its Israeli border.
On June 5th, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields, catching the Egyptians by surprise, and nearly destroying the entire Egyptian air force with very few Israeli losses.
At the same time, Israel launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and the Sinai. This also caught the Egyptians off guard. With Israeli forces in pursuit, Egypt evacuated the Sinai resulting in heavy losses and Israel’s capture of the Sinai.
Syria and Jordan joined with Egypt to attack Israel but Israel’s counterattacks resulted in their seizure of East Jerusalem and the West Bank from the Jordanians, and their taking occupation of the Golan Heights from Syria.
The war ended only six days after it began. It should be no surprise that it was only a six-day war. On the seventh day, Israel rested. On June 11, 1967, the ceasefire was signed. Israel had defeated and crippled the Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces, killing more than 20,000 troops, with Israeli losses of less than 1,000.
Conflicts Continue"
the article lastly says
"The Middle East is a hotbed of conflict to this day. Incidences of violence, targeting Israel, Jerusalem, and its people, continually fill the pages of newspapers, the airwaves of news broadcasts, and, in recent years, the posts of electronic media. God has clearly prophesied in the Holy Scriptures that peace will not come to Israel until Jesus returns and sets up His kingdom. The land of Israel remains the epicenter of God’s fulfillment of human history and the people of Israel will be the focus. Read next week’s Got Questions? article: “Is God Fulfilling All Things? The Parable of the Fig Tree and Israel’s 70th Birthday”
Celebrate 70 Years
Knowing God is in control, celebrate Israel’s perseverance, heritage, and especially their preservation. It is God who called them out of the world and prepared them to bring forth our Saviour, the Jewish Messiah. AND, it is God who will preserve them until Jesus comes again in glory, to rule and reign as King in a kingdom whose “palace” (the Holy Temple) will be in Jerusalem.
Rejoice with Israel that they inhabit their land. It is rightful, as Winston Church is quoted as having said just prior to their 1948 national birth:
“…it is manifestly right that the Jews, who are scattered all over the world, should have a national center and a National Home where some of them may be reunited. And where else could that be but in this land of Palestine, with which for more than 3,000 years they have been intimately and profoundly associated?” (“Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations”)
Significance for Christians: The City On a Hill
Mount Zion, the highest point in ancient Jerusalem, is a broad hill south of the Old City’s Armenian Quarter. Mount Zion is often the name used to refer to the whole city, the City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2), as well as the entire Promised Land. Jesus, however, spoke of another city on a hill in His teaching of the Parable of Salt and Light. In His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5), Jesus told his followers that they are that city on a hill:
Mat 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Mat 5:15 “Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
Mat 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
The control of the city of Jerusalem has changed hands many, many times, From 1,000 BC when King David first captured the city from the Jebusites (a Canaanite people) to the time of Pax Romano (Roman peace; 27BC – 180AD), when God sent His Son to redeem mankind, to the return of the Jewish people to their land in 1948, and their taking control of the Holy City in 1967, Israel has never been at rest. But the city Jesus spoke of is His Church—all true believers in Jesus. This city can never be hidden, nor can it ever be overtaken. We who belong to Jesus are to be the light of the world. We are His light until He returns and sets up His Kingdom.
Happy Birthday Israel! At 70 years young, what will be next? "
Also from the website www.reasonsforhopejesus.com an article is titled
"Is God Fulfilling All Things? The Parable of the Fig Tree (Matt 24) and Israel’s 70th Birthday"
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 13, 2018
Israel is 70 Years Young the article says
"On May 14, 1948, the nation of Israel was “re-born” in a day with the termination of the 1922 British Mandate (preceded by the Balfour Declaration) and the proclamation of statehood by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. The Jews had been dispersed from their homeland since 70 AD when the Roman Emperor Titus Vespasian invaded and destroyed the city and the Second Temple but on that day, 70 years ago, God’s prophecy that He would regather His people was fulfilled.
Isa 11:11-12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
The 70th “birthday” celebration will be held on 5 Iyar 5778, according to the Hebrew calendar with the day beginning at sundown (April 18-19, 2018 on the Gregorian calendar). (Read Israel Celebrates 70 Years As A Nation & the Significance for Christians).
Interpreting Biblical Prophecy
Throughout the Bible, God has graciously given prophecies in patterns, types, and symbols as ways of revealing and pointing to future events. Looking back at prophecies that have already been fulfilled, it’s easy to see how clearly God has revealed His purpose and plan to His people. But looking forward is not so easy.
Interpreting biblical prophecy must be done with an understanding that only God knows the future, and that the patterns, types, and symbols are simply “whispers” of what is to come. These “whispers” are given so we can discern the time and the seasons, and so we can know that our God is working all things together for His glory and our good.
Always remember, interpretations of prophecies that are yet to be fulfilled may or may not be correct. With that said, let’s look at the typology that Jesus gave to His disciples in the parable found in Matthew chapter 24. The lesson it tells suggests that Jesus’ return may occur in the not too distant future.
The Parable of the Fig Tree
In Matthew 24, Jesus told the Parable of the Fig Tree to His disciples (Matt 24:32ff). This passage is prophesying of the time we know as the seventieth week of Daniel (Daniel 9), the time of Jacob’s trouble (Jer 30:7), and the Great Tribulation (Mat 24:21)
Jesus began His discourse with a mandate to learn this parable. Since Jesus commanded that we learn it, we should take it very seriously and do our best to understand His teaching.
Mat 24:32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
Israel is the Fig Tree
Israel has been represented typologically, in the Old Testament, as a fig tree with both good and bad figs.
Jer 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jer 24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good."
the article continues
"This clearly indicates that the “fig tree” is a symbol for Israel. It is a “tree” that produces both good and bad figs. The good figs representing those devoted to serving God (David, Daniel, etc) and the bad figs representing self-righteousness (many, especially the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus’ day). The leave of the fig tree are what Adam and Eve tried to use to cover their sin (Gen 3:7) and the fig tree is the only tree that God ever cursed (Matt 21:19,20). Jeremiah clearly tells that fig tree represents religious Israel without fruit (Jer 24:2,5,8).
Young and Tender?
Matthew 24:32 raises the question: since the fig tree is Israel when was Israel “young and tender?” Certainly, it was not when Jesus was teaching. The nation of Israel, God’s people, was ancient, dating as far back as God’s covenant with Abraham. But in 70 AD the nation ceased to exist. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans and the people were dispersed throughout the nations. The language died, and there was no Israel. But God, in His faithfulness, regathered His people and on May 14th, 1948 Israel was” born again” (statehood declared) and became a “young and tender fig tree.”
Israel was “young and tender” but not for long. The day after statehood was declared a war with Arab nations began and then seven years later, in 1956, the Jews fought the Suez Canal War. With overwhelming odds, God gave them victories. Again in 1967, Israel was at war. This time with their neighboring nation, Egypt and the combined forces of the Arab nations. Known as the “Six Day War, Israel fought for six days. Once again, God gave them victory, and on the seventh day they rested (what a beautiful pattern from “the beginning” Gen 1). In the Six Day War, Israel gained control of God’s holy city, Jerusalem, the Sinai peninsula, and the west bank–the lands known to the Jews as Judea and Samaria.
Jesus Gave a Warning and a Prophecy
Mat 24:33 “So you also, when you see all these things, know that it [the Tribulation] is near; at the doors!
All what things? Earlier in His discourse, Jesus had said spoken of things they would see that would precede the Great Tribulation (Matt 24:4-21). Let’s look at some of those verses. Since Israel was reborn:
many have come in His name (vs 5).
there have been many wars (vs 6),
nations have risen against other nations (vs 7).
there has been famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places (vs7)."
& continues
"Israel, in its “young and tender” years, has seen all these things. All these are the “beginning of sorrows,” told Jesus (vs 8). He then continued by telling of the things that will take place in the first 3 ½ years of the seventieth week of Daniel (Matt 24 9-20), things that are yet to come. And finally, He told of the coming Great Tribulation (the last 3 ½ years) that would come, “such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Mat 24:21)
When?
Remembering that we cannot know the day or the hour (Matt 24:36), but understanding that we are able and expected to discern the times and seasons (Luke 12:56), let’s continue
Mat 24:34-35 “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.”
What generation? And what did Jesus mean when He said that this generation shall assuredly not pass away until all these things take place?
End Times Prophecy
Biblical scholars have long understood this chapter to offer information about the timing of the Great Tribulation. It is centered on the “fig tree,” the young and tender Israel that was “birthed” in 1948. It’s believed that is the generation that “will by no means pass away till all these things take place.”
This now raises an important question. How many years is a generation? The Bible defines a generation by various numbers of years.
According to the standard set down in Genesis 15:12-16, a generation is 100 years.
According to Moses, in Psalm 90:10, it is 70 (or 80) years.
According to the passage in Matthew 1:17, it is about 42 years.
Forty-two years? Seventy years? One hundred years? We can rule out forty-two years since that would have been 1990 and the Tribulation did not take place then. The next possibility would be 70 years. Does that fit?
Seventy does seem to fit. The nation was exiled from the land for 70 years (in Babylon) before they returned to rebuild the Temple. So is it plausible that the nation could be “rebirthed” for 70 years before the Tribulation comes? Could this be God “restoring the years the locust have eaten” (Joel 2:25) and “redeeming the time” (Eph 5:16, Col 4:5). The answer is, we don’t know. Those are simply thoughts for consideration. We certainly know that we are in the season of the last days. Sin is rampant, apostasy is greatly increased. We certainly live in a time that is likened unto “the days of Noah,” which Jesus said is another sign of the coming Tribulation (Mat 24:38).
Could the generation be 100 years? Yes, it could be. Remember, Jesus said the generation would not pass away. It’s certainly possible that people born in 1948 could live for 100 years. Is a generation of 100 years more probable? We simply do not know."
& lastly says
"Conclusion
With the 70th “birthday” of Israel, we, as Christians, should be well aware of how quickly we are approaching the time of God’s fulfilling all things. We do live in the last days. There will be a time when Jesus comes for His Bride (Read: What is the Rapture?) There will be a time of Jacob’s Trouble, a seventieth week of Daniel, a Great Tribulation (Jer 30:7, Dan 9, Matt 24:21). And whether the generation of the fig tree is 70 or 100 years, our commission remains the same as it has been since Jesus gave it:
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
We are to be Jesus’ hands, His feet, and His mouth to show His love and to speak His good news of saving grace. We don’t want anyone to go through the Tribulation. The Book of Revelation tells how terribly bad it will be and Jesus desires that none should perish but rather obtain salvation in Him (2 Pet 3:9, 1 Th 5:9). He has paid for all the sins of the world, but not all the people of the world have repented and trusted in Him. Share the gospel with someone today:
Rom 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
From the website www.forward.com an article is titled
"Antisemitism in 3-D"
Natan Sharansky January 21, 2005 the article says
"Why is it so very difficult to combat the “new antisemitism”?
To modern eyes, classical antisemitism is easy to recognize. Films showing Jews draining the blood of gentile children or plotting to take over the world are clearly antisemitic, and are not only vulgar and illegal, but socially unacceptable throughout the free world.
Movies on such themes screened in recent months by government-controlled media in Iran, Egypt and Syria — and broadcast via satellite to millions of Muslims around the world (including, particularly, in Europe and even America) — employ motifs and canards that are familiar to us.
But while classical antisemitism was seen as being aimed at the Jewish religion or the Jewish people, the new antisemitism is far more subtle, directed as it is against the Jewish state. Hiding behind the veneer of “legitimate criticism of Israel,” this new antisemitism is much more difficult to expose.
Far too often, when we criticize particularly virulent anti-Israel statements as being rooted in antisemitism, our opponents claim that we are trying to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel by manipulatively labeling it as antisemitic.
Yet it has now become clear to leaders of the free world that not all criticism of Israel is legitimate.
Almost a year ago, the leaders of Europe recognized this principle for the first time, in their conference on battling antisemitism led by then-president of the European Commission Romano Prodi and joined by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and others. And just this month, the first report on global antisemitism by the U.S. State Department did the same:
An important issue is the distinction between legitimate criticism of policies and practices of the State of Israel, and commentary that assumes an anti-Semitic character. The demonization of Israel, or vilification of Israeli leaders, sometimes through comparisons with Nazi leaders, and through the use of Nazi symbols to caricature them, indicates an anti-Semitic bias rather than a valid criticism of policy concerning a controversial issue.
This recognition of the difference between arguing over Israeli policy and attacking Israel or its leaders can be our starting point. If not all criticism is valid, how then do we define the boundary line?
I offer a simple “3-D” test for differentiating legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism. This “3-D” test applies the same criteria to the new antisemitism that for centuries identified different manifestations of classical antisemitism.
The first “D” is the test of demonization — as noted in the State Department report. Jews have been demonized for centuries as the embodiment of evil, whether in the theological form of a collective accusation of deicide or in the generalized depiction of Jews as money-grubbing Shylocks. Today we must take note when the Jewish state or its leaders are being demonized, with their actions being blown out of all rational proportion.
For example, the comparisons of Israelis to Nazis and of the Palestinian refugee camps to Auschwitz — comparisons heard frequently throughout Europe and on North American university campuses — are clearly antisemitic. Those who draw such analogies either are deliberately ignorant regarding Nazi Germany or, more commonly, are deliberately depicting modern-day Israel as the embodiment of evil."
the article continues
"The second “D” is the test of double standards. From discriminatory laws many nations enacted against Jews to the tendency to judge their behavior by a different yardstick, this differential treatment of Jews was always a clear sign of antisemitism. Similarly, today we must ask whether criticism of Israel is being applied selectively. In other words, do similar policies pursued by other governments produce similar criticism?
It is antisemitic discrimination, for instance, when Israel is singled out for condemnation by the United Nations for perceived human rights abuses while proven obliterators of human rights on a massive scale — like China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria, to name just a few — are not even mentioned. Likewise, it is antisemitism when Israel’s Magen David Adom, alone among the world’s ambulance services, is denied admission to the International Red Cross.
The third “D” is the test of delegitimization. Traditionally, antisemites denied the legitimacy of the Jewish religion, the Jewish people, or both. Today, they attempt to deny the legitimacy of the Jewish state, presenting it as, among other things, the prime remnant of imperialist colonialism.
While criticism of an Israeli policy may not be antisemitic, the denial of Israel’s right to exist is always antisemitic. If other peoples, including 21 Arab Muslim States — and particularly the many states created in the postcolonial period following World War II — have the right to live securely in their homelands, then the Jewish people has that right as well, particularly given the sanction of the United Nations in setting up and recognizing the country at its founding. Questioning that legitimacy is pure antisemitism.
One recalls those 3-D movies we enjoyed as children. Until putting on special two-toned glasses, the picture was blurry. But with those glasses, the screen came alive, and everything was seen with perfect clarity. Similarly, if we do not wear the right glasses, the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitism can become blurred, so that we fail to recognize this ancient evil, much less fight it.
But when we apply the 3-D test and ask whether Israel is being demonized or delegitimized or subjected to a double standard, antisemitism will be easily recognizable. The 3-D test offers a simple and accurate reality-check.
My experience has convinced me that moral clarity is necessary for effectively struggling against evil. Evil must be recognized and isolated to be defeated. Only with clear moral demarcation, can evil be recognized and isolated. Evil thrives in moral confusion and uncertainty where right and wrong become a matter of opinion instead of clear, objective truth. With moral clarity, we can identify and expose the new antisemitism to universal condemnation."
From the website GotQuestions.org it asks
"Question: "Are the Jews cursed because they killed Christ and asked for 'His blood to be on us,' according to Matthew 27:25?"
Answer: Some people believe that the Jews are cursed because they killed the Son of God. This belief is sometimes used to justify anti-Semitism and feelings of prejudice against the Jewish people. This is not a biblical idea. The Jews’ rejection of their Messiah did have its consequences, but the Bible does not speak of a continuing curse upon God’s chosen people.
In Matthew 27:22, during Jesus’ so-called trial,Pilateasks the crowd, “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” The crowd answers, “Crucify him!” Pilate publicly proclaims Jesus’ innocence, but “they shouted all the louder, ‘Crucify him!’” (verse 23). Pilate then famously washes his hands, declaring himself to be “innocent” (verse 24) and telling the crowd that Jesus’ death “is your responsibility!” It is a responsibility that the mob accepts, shouting the chilling words, “His blood is on us and on our children!” (verse 25).
It is important to remember who was speaking these words. Matthew 27:20 says, “The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd.” Yes, the mob at Jesus’ trial was comprised of Jews gathered in Jerusalem for Passover, but they were incited by religious leaders who had rejected Jesus years earlier (Matthew 12:14). The mob’s ringleaders bear the most responsibility, as does Pilate, who presided over such a travesty of justice. Also, the mob’s self-indictment was spoken by some Jews, not all of them. Jesus was a Jew, as were all His disciples, and they certainly did not call a curse upon themselves."
The article continues
"The Jewish nation did indeed suffer for their rejection of their Messiah. On His way to the cross, Jesus hints at a coming judgment (Luke 23:31). Within one generation of the crucifixion of Christ, Jerusalem was totally destroyed by the Romans. The Jews were scattered, and for almost 1,900 years (until 1948), they had no homeland. There were spiritual ramifications, as well, as the gospel was brought to the more receptive Gentiles (see Acts 18:6). The apostle Paul likens the Gentiles’ inclusion in salvation to wild branches being grafted into a cultivated olive tree. The Jews (the natural branches) are not completely forsaken: “If they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again” (Romans 11:23).
In rejecting Christ, the Jews “stumbled over the stumbling stone” (Romans 9:32; cf. Isaiah 8:14). But they are not cursed by God. Paul asks the rhetorical question: “Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew” (Romans 11:1–2). In fact, there is coming a time when “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26).
How can the Jews be “cursed” when God had made an unconditional covenant with Abraham? “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:2–3). God also promised the Jews a large extent of land in Genesis 15. Israel has never had full possession of the land God promised, so the prophecy still awaits fulfillment during the Millennial Kingdom.
People reap what they sow (Galatians 6:7), and disobedience brings sorrow. When the people of Israel fell into gross, unrepentant idolatry, they lost their land for the 70 years of the Babylonian exile (Jeremiah 29:10). When they rejected their Messiah, they lost their land for even longer. Jesus “came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him” (John 1:11). But God’s promise still stands: “The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: ‘Say to Daughter Zion, “See, your Savior comes!”’ . . . They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted” (Isaiah 62:11–12)." That Question with Answer was from GotQuestions.org
Also from GotQuestions.org it asks
"Question: "What is the Abrahamic Covenant?"
Answer: A covenant is an agreement between two parties. There are two basic types of covenants: conditional and unconditional. A conditional or bilateral covenant is an agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment. Both parties agree to fulfill certain conditions. If either party fails to meet their responsibilities, the covenant is broken and neither party has to fulfill the expectations of the covenant. An unconditional or unilateral covenant is an agreement between two parties, but only one of the two parties has to do something. Nothing is required of the other party.
The Abrahamic Covenant is an unconditional covenant. God made promises to Abraham that required nothing of Abraham. Genesis 15:18–21 describes a part of the Abrahamic Covenant, specifically dealing with the dimensions of the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants.
The actual Abrahamic Covenant is found in Genesis 12:1–3. The ceremony recorded in Genesis 15 indicates the unconditional nature of the covenant. The only time that both parties of a covenant would pass between the pieces of animals was when the fulfillment of the covenant was dependent upon both parties keeping commitments. Concerning the significance of God alone moving between the halves of the animals, it is to be noted that it is a smoking furnace and a flaming torch, representing God, not Abraham, which passed between the pieces. Such an act, it would seem, should be shared by both parties, but in this case God’s solitary action is doubtless to be explained by the fact that the covenant is principally a promise by God. He binds Himself to the covenant. God caused a sleep to fall upon Abraham so that he would not be able to pass between the two halves of the animals. Fulfillment of the covenant fell to God alone.
Later, God gave Abraham the rite of circumcision as the specific sign of the Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 17:9–14). All males in Abraham’s line were to be circumcised and thus carry with them a lifelong mark in their flesh that they were part of God’s physical blessing in the world. Any descendant of Abraham who refused circumcision was declaring himself to be outside of God’s covenant; this explains why God was angry with Moses when Moses failed to circumcise his son in Exodus 4:24–26.
God determined to call out a special people for Himself, and through that special people He would bring blessing to all the nations. The Abrahamic Covenant is paramount to a proper understanding of the kingdom concept and is foundational to Old Testament theology. The Abrahamic Covenant is described in Genesis 12:1–3, and (1) it is an unconditional covenant. There are no conditions attached to it (no “if” clauses suggesting its fulfillment is dependent on man). (2) It is also a literal covenant in which the promises should be understood literally. The land that is promised should be understood in a normal definition of the word—it is not a figure of heaven. (3) It is also an everlasting covenant. The promises that God made to Israel are eternal."
the article continues
"There are three main features to the Abrahamic Covenant:
1. The promise of land (Genesis 12:1). God called Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees to a land that He would give him (Genesis 12:1). This promise is reiterated in Genesis 13:14–18 where it is confirmed by a shoe covenant; its dimensions are given in Genesis 15:18–21 (precluding any notion of this being fulfilled in heaven). The land aspect of the Abrahamic Covenant is expanded in Deuteronomy 30:1–10, which is the Palestinian Covenant.
2. The promise of descendants (Genesis 12:2). God promised Abraham that He would make a great nation out of him. Abraham, who was 75 years old and childless (Genesis 12:4), was promised many descendants. This promise is amplified in Genesis 17:6 where God promised that nations and kings would descend from the aged patriarch. This promise (which is expanded in the Davidic Covenant of 2 Samuel 7:12–16) would eventuate in the Davidic throne with Messiah’s kingdom rule over the Hebrew people.
3. The promise of blessing and redemption (Genesis 12:3). God promised to bless Abraham and the families of the earth through him. This promise is amplified in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31–34; cf. Hebrews 8:6–13) and has to do with “Israel’s spiritual blessing and redemption.” Jeremiah 31:34 anticipates the forgiveness of sin. The unconditional and eternal nature of the covenant is seen in that the covenant is reaffirmed to Isaac (Genesis 21:12; 26:3–4). The “I will” promises again suggest the unconditional aspect of the covenant. The covenant is later confirmed to Jacob (Genesis 28:14–15). It is noteworthy that God reaffirmed these promises amid the sins of the patriarchs, which fact further emphasizes the unconditional nature of the Abrahamic Covenant.
God’s method of fulfilling the Abrahamic Covenant is literal, inasmuch as God partially fulfilled the covenant in history: God blessed Abraham by giving him the land (Genesis 13:14–17), and, centuries later, the sons of Abraham took control of the land: “So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there” (Joshua 21:43). God blessed Abraham spiritually (Genesis 13:8, 18; 14:22, 23; 21:22); God gave him numerous descendants (Genesis 22:17; 49:3–28). An important element of the Abrahamic Covenant, however, demands a still-future fulfillment with Messiah’s kingdom rule:
(1) Israel as a nation will possess the totality of the land in the future. Numerous Old Testament passages anticipate the future blessing of Israel and her possession of the land as promised to Abraham. Ezekiel envisions a future day when Israel is restored to the land (Ezekiel 20:33–37, 40–42; 36:1–37:28).
(2) Israel as a nation will be converted, forgiven, and restored (Romans 11:25–27).
(3) Israel will repent and receive the forgiveness of God in the future (Zechariah 12:10–14). The Abrahamic Covenant finds its ultimate fulfillment in connection with the return of Messiah to rescue and bless His people Israel. It is through the nation Israel that God promised in Genesis 12:1–3 to bless the nations of the world. That ultimate blessing will issue in the forgiveness of sins and Messiah’s glorious kingdom reign on earth." That Question & Answer was from GotQuestions.org
Another good article is from the website www.oneforisrael.org the article is titled
"What if Peter was Writing to Jews? The Evidence and the Implications"
the article says
"Peter was Jewish, but to whom was he addressing his letters? A mixed congregation of Jews and Gentiles? Or a group of Jewish believers? If he was addressing a Jewish audience in his first letter, there are some major implications. We intend to show you that he was, and why understanding this is important for all believers, Jews and Gentiles alike, together in Messiah.
Click here for the original article by Jim R. Sibley as it appears in The Southwestern Journal of Theology, with more detailed arguments and full documentation.
“The correct identification of Israel is a key to the true interpretation of the whole Bible. If Israel means God’s ancient people, the Bible becomes as clear as truth itself. If Israel means the New Testament church, the teaching of the Bible becomes obscure.” W. A. Criswell [1]
Correctly understanding the ongoing place of Israel unlocks greater meaning in the Bible, giving new dimensions to words and stories that may have become written off as purely figurative. However, when we see how serious God is in His dealings with His people, how extremely faithful He is to every word, the Scriptures become more alive and relevant than ever before – both to the Jew, and to the gentile. God does not end His relationship with Israel on the arrival of the New Covenant, but His words to His Jewish remnant in 1 Peter show that there is still more to come. The continued relationship between God and Israel is a guarantee of the promised future restoration; a restoration that will bless the whole earth.
1 Peter 2:4–10 reads as follows:
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For this is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone, and he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.” This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, “The stone which the builders rejected, this became the very corner stone,” and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Scott McKnight claims,“There is no passage in the New Testament that more explicitly associates the Old Testament terms for Israel with the New Testament Church than this one.”[2]
John S. Feinberg claims that the references to a ‘holy nation,’ ‘chosen people,’ and ‘royal priesthood’ in 1 Pet 2:9 are clearly references to the church.[3] For him the matter is settled, but is it? And what difference does it make if Peter is addressing a Jewish audience?"
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