However, because this is not always possible regardless of the amount of truth that is placed before certain individuals, and because there are those who will always love the evil inwardly more than righteousness, I believe that there can is righteous-based hatred regarding some humans. I don’t believe in living a life for the sole purpose of hating for any cause as do certain political, religious, and non-religious hate groups. But there are things in this life (including evil devoted people) of whom it's righteous to hate.
God judges hatred along with all motivations of the human heart by His law and not by man’s westernized liberal conceptions. There is a big difference between hating your personal enemy on a personal level for personal reasons, and hating an enemy of God on a spiritual level for spiritual reasons. Examine what the scripture states:
"Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting." - Psalms 139:21-24. (also see II Chronicles 19:2)
In this segment from the book of Psalms, the psalmist was searching his heart before God in which he was making sure that his godly resistance towards his enemies - in the form of righteous hatred - was in check. In this passage Israel’s enemies are the ones who hates God. For the psalmist, his thought was that if he did not have a "perfect" hatred towards God’s enemies, then his thoughts of not hating God's enemy would be of a wicked way within his heart. From my point of view, the politically-correct secular world could learn volumes from the simple declaration that this psalmist proclaimed and of which the first and second Jewish Temple singers sang the psalm:1
“Do not I hate them, O YHVH that hate thee?” and "I hate them (God's enemies) with a perfect hatred"
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I have heard people say that they may hate the things evil people do but not the person themselves. I agree with that concept in general but not as an overall concept. An individual can sink so much into evil that they become “as one” with their wickedness. There is a place in the realms of evil where a person has sold out "soul" lock, stock and barrel in effect crossing the point of no return where their whole lives can only be devoted as an enemy against God. Such was the case with Pharaoh during the time of the Exodus whose heart become more hardened after each manifestation of the ten plagues of Egypt.
To bring this reality into modern times, I do not and cannot love any part of Adolph Hitler including his very soul. I not only hate the things that he did on earth but I also hate him spiritually as God's enemy as well. How about you? Are you a hater of Hitler's very soul?
Fact: There is no separation between Hitler's soul and his Holocaust deeds that he did on earth both now and forever.
Hitler made a choice to become the image of evil rather than expressing the image of God he was made in. I don’t believe God loves him but rather hates him insomuch that Hitler’s soul (and not just the things he did) is in a place of the eternally damned where he will be forever separated from the God of mercy, justice, and righteousness. So in trying to be like minded with God’s thinking towards Hitler, I hate the expressed devil that Hitler was and forever shall be known. I not only believe that it's a righteous act to hate Hitler, but in fact it would be evil of me or anyone else not to do so as the above Psalm of David plainly points out. Furthermore, the so-called do-gooders who actually love Hitler are the ones most likely to support him and his deeds.
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Hitler is not the only ambassador of evil to walk around in human form. I feel the same way with the likes of other such devils as Yassier Arafat, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and now Jimmy Carter who has devoted the rest of his evil life to the cause of Israel's murderous enemy. These men are not simply misguided fools that are followers of evil (a place where true repentance and the turning away from evil are still available to such a person) but they are in fact actual leaders and forgoers of evil for the sole purpose of leading others in their evil!
Since false prophets don’t repent, (no false prophet in the Bible ever did) I have no desire to pray for these men and others like them for a change of their evil ways. Rather, I choose to pray according to God’s promise to them which is for their destruction as God sees fit according to their relentless evil and unrepentant deeds upon this earth.
"And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face." - Deuteronomy 7:10 (See also Isaiah 59:18).
Therefore, my Bible-guided prayer is, "May YHVH according to His holy and righteous Torah promise, repay the Arab-Palestinians to their face, along with and all who support them in their terrorist-expressed hatred acts against YHVH's chosen people."
The Palestinians:
There isn't a greater enemy towards the nation of Israel in all the world today than the Palestinians! The Palestinians have taken the title from the German Nazis as "the greatest threat" to the Jewish nation. Mein Kamph gave way to Jihadi - both meaning "my struggles" in both German and Arabic. When Hitler's struggles expired the Islamic struggles picked up the banner. What now is at stake in the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians that wasn't at stake during Hitler's Final Solution is the possibility of the most evil people in all the earth, worshiping the most evil god (their god Allah), in the most holiest place (Jerusalem and the Temple Mount) in all the world!
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
- Among the two great political parties that rule the Palestinians (Al-Fatah in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip) both covenants from both parties call for for an arms struggle and the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel. http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html
- The greatest forms of child abuse in all the world occur among the Palestinians. Children who are barely old enough to speak are taught to Jew-hate with words they don't even understand. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZL0C2QvqIlo This gives heed to the saying, "they drink the hatred with their mother's milk"! Just the picture alone (at the top of the article) speaks volumes of the Palestinian society.
- Children TV shows are shown in the name of Shahid (martyrdom). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c6lbFGC4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4zgURMOZ6k
- Shahid (martyrdom) for children is glorified of official PA and Hamas television. http://www.pmw.org.il/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm
- An exhibition of glorifying and celebrating suicide / mass murder is displayed with Palestinian gleeful acceptance at Al Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus in September, 2001. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/sbarro.htm This exhibition included many displays of body parts one of which was a bloody set of blue-jean wearing legs with no torso connected, still sitting on a chair. The bombing of Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in which the exhibition re-enacts hits a little close to home. My wife and I personally eat there three years before this massacre occurred.
- School text books promote anti-Israel and pro shahid-martyrdom. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/patext1.html http://www.edume.org/research/testimonies/2007-05-15.html http://www.pmw.org.il/getresults/political/index.html#i214759
- Women who sends their sons to Jew-murder are given high status in Palestinian society, even to run for a government office. http://www.amitiesquebec-israel.org/texts/mother.htm
- Suicide murderers are glorified all through Palestinian controlled areas, in the form of billboards, street names, names of soccer fields, trading cards, names of hospitals, new babies named after suicide bombers, and children's events, songs, chants, and poems during parades, ect. http://programs.ssrc.org/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/allen/ http://www.zoa.org/2003/07/palestinian_aut_13.htm Even "Saddam Hussein" whose Scud missiles hitting Tel-Aviv civilian areas brought Palestinian cheers, is honored in the Palestinian city of Jenin> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53882
- Suicide for the murder of Jews is an accepted norm and is a high form of religious devotion. Outside of martyrdom, there is no guarantee of reaching paradise for oneself and family members. This is one of the reasons candy is passed out in celebration at suicide / murderer's funeral. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013234.php
- One Hundred Thousand citizens of the would-be future State of Palestine attended the funeral of Yahya Ayyash (a.k.a. "the Engineer") not to mention the many funerals of other Palestinian terrorist and terrorist spiritual teachers like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin! I wonder how many of these one hundred thousand funeral attendees of Yahya Ayyash would consider themselves Palestinian moderates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash Moreover, this Palestinian hero has traffic squares named after him in both Jenin and Jericho with no Palestinian complaints. Imagine that! This issue of glorifying and mass murderer among the Palestinians even became part of "peace" negotiation with such a people. See "article 6" section "h" > http://www.israelmfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Israeli+View+on+Palestinian+Security+Commitments.htm?DisplayMode=print
- Palestinians seek to destroy the God of Israel through a revised history of Holocaust and Temple denial, and stand as a barricade between God and His fulfillment of the covenant He has with His chosen people, the Jews. http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/facultyforum.cgi?ID=1735
Muslim religious fervor has many different facets of Jew-murdering expressions that are fully exposed in the Palestinian society. From passing out candy at shahid funerals to eating flesh and drinking blood of Jewish victims as they did on October 12, 2000 in Ramallah> http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014886.php Yet, the Muslim world has the audacity to vilify Israel as the blood-libel people and state. It is these Palestinians who are on the front lines (even occupying a huge portion of the ancient land of Israel) in the Islamic war against the God of Israel!
The 64,000 dollar question: Does the God of Israel "hate" the Palestinians?
The politically-correct answer would be, "God loves everybody". However, the Bible is never politically correct. The Bible states very clearly that God hated Esau, who like the Palestinians wished to destroy Jacob / Israel.
"I have loved you, saith YHVH. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith YHVH: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated (Hebrew: sanay-ti) Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi 1:2,3
The New Testament correctly applies this scripture of God's hatred of an individual as also to the nation that proceeded from that individual (see Romans 9:12,13). The land that should be considered for a Palestinian state is all contained in the ancient writings of which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about -the Bible. Aside from Mecca, the Palestinian spiritual base is that of Esau's - Mt. Seir in Jordan, which is why the prophecies of Ezekiel against Israel's most vicious enemy is not against the West Bank, for that is Israel's land and not the Palestinians! http://www.danielpipes.org/article/298
Take another look at the list above as to what the Palestinians are capable of and then see if you notice any similarities in the following scripture: "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end...Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; [sound familiar? > http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/02/palestine-from-the-river-to-th/ ] whereas YHVH was there: Therefore, as I live saith YHVH God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I have judged thee. - Ezekiel 35:5, 10-111
One of the hardest scriptures for most people to understand and one that I personally had an atheist use in trying to discredit the Bible, is Psalms 137:7-9 which reads:Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2801 – 3000 of 3878 Newer› Newest»From the website raptureforums.com an article is titled
"The Land Nobody Wanted"
By Jack Kinsella on March 8, 2019 the article says
"The land claimed by Israel is smaller than the state of Rhode Island. In comparison to the Arab Middle East, Israel is like a single piece of sod on a football field.
Carrying the analogy further, imagine that one team has to defend that single piece of sod from an opposing team that outnumbers them 650 to 1.
The other team, claiming unfair advantage, is demanding the single piece of sod be divided and half of it be awarded to them.
The referees agree, and penalize the defending team for refusing to concede half of its 1/6th of one percent of the field to the opposition [that outnumbers them 650 to one]. The crowd loudly boos the defenders.
That is roughly analogous to the rules of engagement under which the Middle East conflict is being played out.
The Arab side makes two concurrent claims; 1) Israel has no historical right to the land; and 2) Israel, by its existence, has dispossessed the indigenous Palestinian people, leaving them with nowhere to go.
Except for a few decades of Christian control during the Crusades era, the land claimed by Israel was under Islamic control for 1300 years. This is one of the principle arguments advanced in favor of the Palestinian claim that Israel has no historical right to the Land of Promise.
That argument is bolstered by the existence of an Arab mosque atop what the Jews claim as Temple Mount, a mosque that has graced Mount Moriah for some 1,350 years.
According to modern Islam, the mosque atop Mount Moriah is the third-holiest site in Islam. Recenty Islamic tradition says the al Aqsa Mosque marks the place where Mohammed ascended into heaven aboard a winged horse.
For that reason, it now ranks third in line behind Mecca and Medina as Islam’s holiest cities.
In ancient times, Israel sat atop the most strategic crossroads of the known world. One couldn’t get from Babylon to Egypt by chariot without passing through it.
Israel and Jerusalem have been fought over and conquered by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and finally, the British in 1917.
In each of its conquests, Jerusalem was strategic because of its strategic value as Israel’s God-given capital. From Nebuchadnezzar to Titus, each successive conqueror acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of the Jews.
When the region was conquered by Islam, taking Jerusalem was a strategic, rather than religious necessity. Whoever controlled the Jewish holy city controlled the remaining indigenous Jews.
The reconquest of Jerusalem became a holy religious duty only after the Crusaders claimed the city for Christianity. Since the city was holy to Judaism and holy to Christianity, it became holy to Islam, as well.
But ‘holy’ doesn’t mean the same thing to Islam as it does to Christians and Jews. To Christians or Jews, ‘holy’ means worthy of reverence, whereas to Islam, ‘holy’ means worthy of possession.
Under Islamic possession, Jerusalem was just another dusty city of the province of Southern Syria. In the four hundred years Jerusalem was under Ottoman rule until 1917, the city was never even a regional or provincial capital."
the article continues
"After the Ottoman Empire fell to the Allies in the First World War, British foreign secretary Lord Balfour put into writing Britain’s support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
When the League of Nations made Palestine a British mandate after the war, Lord Balfour’s declaration was assumed as part of the deal and the allied powers of the Great War all agreed. By 1935, there were more than 300,000 Jews in Palestine. Tel Aviv, founded in 1909, had 100,000 people.
In 1947 Britain, which had been handed the Palestine problem by the now-defunct League of Nations passed it on, with relief, to the newly born United Nations. The UN agreed to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a neutral UN zone containing Jerusalem, a city sacred to three religions.
The Jews were thrilled, the Arabs adamantly opposed.
In late 1947 the plan was ratified by the UN, and the State of Israel proclaimed on May 14, 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the country.
The the British pulled out completely, and most of the Arab world- Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, as well as Palestinians- immediately attacked in an attempt to destroy Israel.
By the time of armistice in 1949 Israel held three quarters of Palestine- twice as much land as the UN had proposed- Jordan had taken the land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and Egypt had taken the Gaza Strip.
It is at this point in the story of the Middle East that history ends and the modern myth of the Middle East is born.
Assessment
The modern myth is that at the end of the Israeli War of Independence, the indigenous ‘Palestinian’ people were dispossessed by Israel and left with nothing.
The historical fact is that, until the mid 1930’s, the term ‘Palestinian’ was a label applied to the Jews.
Until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST; the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE; Bank Leumi was the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK; the Israel Electric Company was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY; there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC.
All these were Jewish organizations. In America, Zionist youngsters sang “PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE”, “PALESTINE SCOUT SONG” and “PALESTINE SPRING SONG”
In general, the terms ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinian’ referred to the region of Palestine as it was prior to 1948.
Thus “Palestinian Jew” and “Palestinian Arab” are straightforward expressions. “Palestine Post” and “Palestine Philharmonic” refer to these bodies as they existed in a place then known as Palestine.
The adoption of a Palestinian identity by the Arabs of Palestine is a recent phenomenon. Until the establishment of the State of Israel, and for another decade or so, the term ‘Palestinian’ applied exclusively to the Jews.
The claims of the Arab ‘Palestinians’ to be a separate people is an utter fiction. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Arab Palestinians."
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Arab Palestinians are indistinguishable from Jordanians (recent British inventions all), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Syria was created by the British and subsequently given to France as the French Mandate. The Syrians declared independence after the British left in 1946, two years before Israel did the same thing. Jordan was created by the British in 1921.
The same British government that created the modern Arab world in 1920 at the San Remo Conference in Italy — by decree — also created a Jewish homeland the same way at the same conference.
And the Jewish Palestine of the Balfour Declaration as confirmed at San Remo encompassed a much bigger chunk of ground than Israel claims today.
Until the Jews renewed their claim to the land of Palestine, nobody else wanted it. The Jews petitioned for statehood on the principle that Palestine was “a land without a people” and that the Jews were “a people without a land.”
Arab revisionist historians say that claim was ‘a myth.’ History and mathematics tell a different story — if anybody were interested in the facts, that is.
In 1948, there were about 735,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs in Palestine. There were about 716,000 Jews. Since the same land now supports a population of more than 12 million combined Arabs and Jews, the argument that the Arabs were ‘crowded out’ by the Jews makes no sense.
The ‘Palestinian refugees’ languishing in ‘refugee camps’ in Jordan, Lebanon and elsewhere, were not interned by Israel. They were interned by their own governments after those governments lost the war with Israel.
Those Jordanian citizens that lived in Jordan’s West Bank and the citizens of Egypt’s Gaza Strip (who, on May 30, 1967 were still Egyptians), became instant ‘Palestinians’ on June 7, 1967.
From the moment of its declaration of statehood, the Jews of Israel have lived under the constant threat of annihilation by the surrounding Arab states.
As Golda Meir observed during the Yom Kippur War, “the Arabs can fight, and lose, and come back to fight another day. Israel can only lose once.”
What makes this significant is that NONE of this is a secret. Knowing this, the entire world prefers the fictional account advanced by the Islamic world; that the Palestinians pre-existed the Jews, that the Jews stole ‘Palestinian land’ dispossessed its inhabitants and locked them away in refugee camps."
& lastly says
"Remember the football field and the single square of sod analogy. To the world, dividing that single square of sod defended by a team outnumbered 650 to one that holds the rest of the football field is an example of ‘leveling the playing field’.
It is nothing short of madness. But it is a madness that seems to have infected the world at large. The Islamic version of the Arab-Israeli conflict is a monstrous lie being advanced in favor of a claim to land that nobody wanted until the Jews did.
In the midst of a global war on terror, the world is prepared to countenance an openly terrorist government ruling over a ‘people’ that do not exist, (a people whose only goal is the ANNIHILATION of another people whose history is THE most documented record of ancient times) based on the argument that the Jewish claim to Jerusalem is historically invalid.
That lie is so delusional that it boggles the mind. Yet it is the basic reason for a global war on terror that now threatens to spill over into an all-out war of civilizations.
Israel, by its very existence, is a stench in the nostrils of the secular world. It is a constant reminder of the existence and reality of God, and therefore, man’s accountability before Him. Paul explains it this way:
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind…” (Romans 1:28)
The secular world’s war, blind anti-semitism so ingrained in its psyche it is blissfully unaware it even exists.
Any critically-thinking person can see the truth, yet the UN consistently finds the ‘anti-truth’ when it involves Israel. It is almost supernatural in its scope and breadth. In fact, scratch ‘almost’ from that last sentence.
It IS supernatural."
From raptureforums.com an article is titled
"Christian Zionism"
January 5,2020
Christian Zionism
What is it? Is it biblical? Is it dangerous? Does it matter?
By Dr. David R. Reagan
“Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Eretz Israel [Palestine] secured under public law.” — First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, 1897.
“Zionism is the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist within defined and defended borders…” — The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
“Zionism is a form of racism and social discrimination…” — United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, passed November 10, 1975.
“Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today… they are not only inciting hatred between Jews and Muslims but are also the greatest roadblock to lasting peace in the Middle East.” — Stephen Sizer, Anglican Vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, England.
I was a Christian Zionist before I knew what one was. A simple definition of a Christian Zionist is a Christian who supports the right of the Jewish people to establish and defend a state in their historic homeland of Israel.
There are two types of Christian Zionists. The minority consists of those Christians whose support of Israel is purely political in nature. For example, there is an organization called The Catholic Friends of Israel. On its website, the statement is made that they support Israel because it is “the only democracy in the Middle East.”
The vast majority of Christian Zionists are Evangelicals who believe that God is fulfilling promises today that were made to the Jewish people thousands of years ago in Bible prophecy. The cornerstone of their support is the belief that the title to the land which God granted to the Jews in the Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 12:1-7 and 13:14-18) is everlasting and irrevocable. These Evangelicals should really be referred to as “Biblical Zionists” to differentiate them from Christian Zionists who are politically motivated. But that distinction is seldom ever made by anyone."
the article continues
"Historical Roots
The origin of Christian Zionism is usually attributed to the development of Dispensational eschatology in the early 19th Century. This important end-time viewpoint keeps Israel and the Church separate, arguing that God has a distinct plan for each. The Church will be taken out of the world at the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), and then God will orchestrate all the nations of the world against Israel (Zechariah 12:2-3), hammering the Jewish people until they come to the end of themselves, at which point the remaining remnant will accept Jesus as their Messiah (Zechariah 12:10).
The Dispensational viewpoint is based upon a literal or plain-sense interpretation of Bible prophecy. It denies that the Church has replaced Israel or that God has washed His hands of the Jewish people because of their unbelief (Romans 11:1-2). It points to the preservation of the Jewish people as a supernatural phenomenon clearly prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures (Jeremiah 30:11 and 31:35-37). The worldwide regathering of the Jews that occurred in the 20th Century is also viewed as a fulfillment of prophecy (Isaiah 11:10-12). And the re-establishment of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948 is considered to be one of the greatest miracles of modern history and a definite fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Isaiah 66:7-8).
There is no doubt that Dispensational theology undergirds modern day Christian Zionism, but it was by no means the origin of the Movement. Tommy Ice, one of the leading Dispensational spokesmen today, has written an in-depth essay in which he clearly shows that one of the delayed consequences of the Reformation was the development of what came to be known as the Christian Restoration Movement, the precursor of Christian Zionism."
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"Christian Restorationism
I say “delayed” because the Movement began to emerge among the second generation of Reformers, after they had been given an opportunity to study the Bible in detail in their own languages. Keep in mind that for 1500 years before the Reformation, the Catholic Church kept the Bible out of the hands of the people and refused to allow it to be translated from Latin into the various national languages. Also, during that time, the Church was virulently anti-Semitic and abused Bible prophecy by spiritualizing it. It took some time to digest the Bible once it had been translated and published in common languages, and it took great courage to begin interpreting it to mean what it said.
For example, in 1585 an English scholar named Francis Kett (ca 1547-1589) published a book in which he mentioned that the Bible prophesies the “Jewish national return to Palestine.” He was quickly arrested for espousing this heresy and was burned at the stake in 1589.
Despite the persecution, a number of books were published in the early 1600’s advocating the restoration of the Jews to their land. One of the key writers was Henry Finch (1558-1625) who published an in-depth book about the Jews in prophecy in 1621. At the time, he was a member of Parliament and was a highly respected legal scholar, but his social and political status did not protect him. King James was offended by Finch’s assertion that a day would come when Israel would be the prime nation in the world. The result was that Finch and his publisher were arrested, and Finch was striped of his status and possessions.
As time went by, the greatest proponents of Restorationism became the Puritans. This was most likely due to the great value they gave to the Hebrew Scriptures. And since the American colonies were settled primarily by Englishmen, including many Puritans, Restorationism took root quickly in the New World.
One of the leading Puritan proponents of Restorationism was Increase Mather (1639-1723) who served as the first president of Harvard. His book, The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation, strongly supported the restoration of the Jewish people to their land.
Tommy Ice presents evidence of widespread support of the Restorationist Movement throughout Europe during the 19th Century. One very interesting advocate was a German Lutheran by the name of C. F. Zimpel whose writings proved to be prophetic. The pamphlets he published in the mid-1800’s warned that if the Jews were not allowed to return to Palestine, they would be subjected to persecution and slaughter.
At the same time, the Movement really gained steam in England, and the leading spokesman who emerged was Lord Shaftesbury (1801-1885). He was a strong Anglican who interpreted the Bible literally and was known as “the Evangelical of Evangelicals.” Shaftesbury “never had a shadow of a doubt that the Jews were to return to their own land… It was his daily prayer, his daily hope.” Shaftesbury’s influence was widespread, both within governmental and clerical circles.
Perhaps the most influential Christian Zionist of the 19th Century, from a practical viewpoint, was William Hechler (1845-1931) who was born in India of German missionary parents. He was raised in the Church of England, became a passionate Restorationist, and in 1882 published a book entitled, The Restoration of the Jews to Palestine According to Prophecy.
In 1885 Hechler was appointed Chaplain to the British Embassy in Vienna. Theodor Herzl was residing there at the time, working as a journalist. The two met, and they were united in heart. Hechler became one of Herzl’s closest friends and advisers. He constantly assured Herzl that what he was doing in founding the Zionist Movement was a fulfillment of Bible prophecy."
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"The 20th Century
With the dawn of the 20th Century, two Christian Zionists in England were to have an even greater practical impact than Hechler. They were David Lloyd George (1863-1945) and Arthur James Balfour, later known as Lord Balfour (1848-1930).
Lloyd George became Prime Minister during World War I. He was a strong Christian Zionist who was “determined to gain control of Palestine… He also wanted his country to carry out what he regarded as God’s work in Palestine.” The British Foreign Minister at the end of the war was Lord Balfour. He was also a strong Christian Zionist. Lord Balfour’s biographer says that his interest in Zionism was rooted in his boyhood training in the Old Testament under the guidance of his mother.
These two Christian Zionists, George and Balfour, worked together to issue the most important document of the 20th Century — the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917. In that pronouncement, the British Government declared its intention to provide a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, which was in the process of being liberated from the Ottoman Empire. The document electrified the Evangelical world because its leaders considered the declaration to be the first tangible sign that the world was moving into the end-times.
Lloyd George tried later to justify the Balfour Declaration on the grounds that it was a reward to the Jewish people in response to the fact that during the war a Jewish scientist, Chaim Weizmann, had invented a synthetic form of acetone, an ingredient necessary for the production of explosives. But one of the leading historians of that period has concluded that Lloyd George and Lord Balfour were both motivated primarily by religious and sentimental feelings which they could not publicly admit.
The person who would prove to be the most influential in the long run was an Englishman named John Nelson Darby (1800-1882). He was the one who organized the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy into the systematic theology called Dispensationalism. Although Darby never became involved in politics and therefore never became a major player in British Restorationism, his Dispensational theology, when transported to the United States, became the foundation of American Christian Zionism."
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"The American Scene
Without a doubt, the most important Christian Zionist in the United States during the late 19th Century and the first half of the 20th Century was William E. Blackstone (1841-1935). He was a businessman who became convinced of the Dispensational viewpoint of end-time prophecy. In 1878 he wrote a book called Jesus is Coming, and it became the first Bible prophecy best seller. In 1887 he founded the Chicago Hebrew Mission for the evangelization of the Jews. In 1891 he presented President Benjamin Harrison with a petition signed by over 400 prominent Americans, advocating the re-settlement of persecuted Russian Jews to Palestine.
Advocates for a homeland for the Jews abounded in the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century. There was C. I. Scofield who published the first study Bible in 1909. Another was Clarence Larkin who specialized in drawing fascinating charts in the 1920’s about Bible prophecy. Moody Bible Institute in Chicago (founded in 1886) and Dallas Theological Seminary (founded in 1924) were both bastions of Christian Zionism, training students in the fundamentals of Dispensationalism.
One of those students, Hal Lindsey, produced a book in 1970 titled The Late Great Planet Earth. It emphasized the fulfillment of God’s promises to the Jewish people in their worldwide regathering, the re-establishment of their state, and their re-occupation of Jerusalem in 1967. This book was the number one best seller for ten years! It introduced the general public to Dispensationalism in a popular, easy-to-read way, and it produced a large increase in the number of Christian Zionists.
At the end of the 20th Century, Tim LaHaye’s phenomenal Left Behind series of books touched millions more all over the world with the Dispensational viewpoint, including an understanding of the biblical case for the Jewish title to the land of Israel.
Today, at the beginning of the 21st Century, Christian Zionism is at the peak of its influence. The most visible spokesman on the political scene is Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. In 2006 he formed a political action organization called Christians United for Israel."
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"A Serious Problem
Pastor Hagee is a good example of a problem that has plagued Christian Zionism since the mid-20th Century. The problem is that Christian Zionists sometimes become so enamored with the Jewish people and the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith that they decide that since the Jews are God’s Chosen People, the Jews must have a way of salvation that is separate and apart from accepting the Christian Gospel. This unbiblical viewpoint is known as Dual Covenant Theology.
Hagee has believed in this theology for many years, although he has consistently denied it. But his actions have spoken louder than his words, and on several occasions even his words have betrayed him when he would let it slip in interviews. For example, in an interview with the Houston Chronicle in 1988 he said: “Everyone else, whether Buddhist or Baha’i, needs to believe in Jesus, but not Jews. Jews already have a covenant with God that has never been replaced by Christianity.”
Hagee finally decided to come out of the closet with his recent book, In Defense of Israel. Incredibly, he proclaims in the book that “The Jews did not reject Jesus as Messiah.” He explains: “… if Jesus refused by His words or actions to claim to be the Messiah of the Jews, then how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?” These incredible words are no slip of the pen. Hagee proceeds to make the statement over and over that Jesus refused to be the Jewish Messiah, “choosing instead to be the Savior of the world.”
This is gross apostasy. Peter confessed Jesus as “the Christ [Messiah], the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). Later, Peter declared in his first sermon at Pentecost “that God has made Him both Lord and Christ [Messiah] — this Jesus whom you crucified.” Paul proclaimed the same message in the Jewish synagogues, “proving that this Jesus is the Christ [Messiah]” (Acts 9:20-23). John went so far as to declare that anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ [Messiah] has the spirit of antichrist (1 John 2:22). Furthermore, Jesus Himself declared point blank that He was the Messiah when the Jews asked Him (John 10:24-33).
Hagee also claims in his book that the Jews are still under the Old Covenant because the Old Testament was not invalidated by the Cross. He is correct about the Old Testament, but he is dead wrong about the Jewish Covenant. The Mosaic Covenant, which constitutes only a small portion of the Old Testament, was replaced at the death of Jesus by a New Covenant that had been promised in the Hebrew Scriptures (Jeremiah 31:31-34). The whole book of Hebrews was written to emphasize this point (see Hebrews 7:22, 8:6-13, and 9:11-16). In fact the book of Hebrews says that the Old Covenant was rendered “obsolete” (Hebrews 8:13).
Those Christian Zionists who have embraced Dual Covenant Theology have embraced a lie. Paul wrote that the Gospel was meant for “the Jew first” and also for the Greeks (Romans 1:16). Loving the Jewish people so much that you refuse to share the Gospel with them is loving them right into Hell. Fortunately, the vast majority of Christian Zionists have rejected the apostasy of Dual Covenant Theology."
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"The Attack on Christian Zionism
The two foremost critics of Christian Zionism are Reverend Stephen Sizer, an Anglican priest in England, and Hank Hanegraaff here in the United States, known popularly as “The Bible Answer Man.” Both men are virulently anti-Semitic. Sizer has “marketed a nightmare version of Christian Zionism that paints all Christian supporters of Israel as reactionary and dangerous fundamental fanatics intent on bringing on Armageddon.” Hanegraaff bluntly asserts that “Israel is the Harlot of Revelation.” Some of the arguments presented by these men and other critics include the following:
1. “The Jews have been set aside by God because of their unbelief.”
This statement is directly contrary to Scripture. See Romans 9-11.
2. “The Church has replaced Israel.”
Says who? Where in God’s Word is this stated? The Scriptures always maintain a separate identity for physical Israel and the Church. See, for example, 1 Corinthians 10:32.
3. “The Jews were dispossessed of their land because of their unbelief.”
Not true. There are two covenants pertaining to the land, a title covenant and a usage covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant gave them an eternal title to the land (Genesis 13:14-15). The Land Covenant, given to them through Moses, made their enjoyment of the land conditional on their obedience (Deuteronomy 28-29). Even when they have been evicted from the land because of disobedience, they have retained their title to it. They still have that title today (Psalm 105:8-11).
4. “The regathering of the Jews to Israel in the 20th Century could not be an act of God because the Jews have not repented and accepted Jesus as their Messiah.”
The Bible clearly prophesies that the Jews will be regathered in unbelief in the end-times (Isaiah 11:10-11). Their regathering is not a blessing they have earned; it is a demonstration of God’s grace.
5. “The Jews stole the land of Palestine from the Arabs and exist there illegally.”
This is nonsense. First, the land belongs to the Jews as a grant from God (Genesis 13:14-15). Second, when the Jews started returning in the early 20th Century, they bought the land from the Arabs, paying exorbitant prices. Third, the state of Israel was created in response to a declaration of the United Nations, passed in November 1947, authorizing the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
6. “The state of Israel is an accident of history.”
One would have to be spiritually blind to make such an assertion. The whole world hated and persecuted the Jews for 2,000 years after the Romans evicted them from their homeland. Yet, God preserved them, regathered them, and miraculously orchestrated the vote of the United Nations that authorized the re-establishment of their state."
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"7. “Christian Zionists believe that God has a different way of salvation for the Jews.”
Unfortunately this is true of a handful of Christian Zionists. But the vast majority hold no such belief. They would argue that being the Chosen People of God does not guarantee salvation and that the only hope for the Jews is the same as for Gentiles — namely, faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior.
8. “Christian Zionists are trying to manipulate American foreign policy toward Armageddon in order to hasten the Lord’s return.”
This is drivel. In the first place, Christian Zionists do not have that much political power. In fact, most Christian Zionists are not political activists. They are content to teach the truth about Israel and pray for God’s will to be done. The key to hastening the Lord’s return is not orchestrating a war in the Middle East. Rather, it is by preaching the Gospel to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible (Matthew 24:14).
9. “Christian Zionists blindly support every action of the Israeli government.”
This is poppycock. Many Christian Zionists believe, like I do, that the greatest enemy of Israel today is its own leaders who have been deceived into believing that they can gain peace through appeasement.
10. “Christian Zionists have no sympathy for the oppressed Palestinian people.”
Wrong again. My heart goes out to them, not because they have been oppressed by Israel, but because they are victims of a long string of wretched leaders like Yasser Arafat who have imprisoned them under a rule of tyranny and have stolen the billions in aide that has been provided by the international community. Their leaders could have established a Palestinian state in 1948 at the same time the state of Israel was established because the United Nations resolution called for the creation of two states. But their leaders decided instead to launch an attack on Israel. They have been afforded several opportunities since 1948 to create a Palestinian state, but each time they have responded with violence because their aim is the annihilation of Israel. As the Israeli diplomat, Abba Eban, once put it: “The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
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"The Scriptural Basis
Let’s conclude by taking a look at the scriptural basis of Christian Zionism.
To begin with, the Bible makes it clear that God Himself is a Zionist. Psalm 132:13 proclaims that “The Lord has chosen Zion” as His everlasting dwelling place. Psalm 87:2 says “the Lord loves the gates of Zion.” In the Abrahamic Covenant God promised to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse the Jews, and history is littered with the carcasses of nations who mistreated the Jews. We are commanded by the Lord “to pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6).
Through the prophet Zechariah, God warned that those who touch Israel, touch “the apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8). A similar warning is contained in Psalm 129:5 — “May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned back.” The passage goes on to say that no blessing of any kind should be given to those who hate Zion.
We are exhorted to comfort the Jewish people and to speak tenderly to them (Isaiah 4:1-2). We are commanded to speak out for Zion’s sake and to be watchmen on the walls for Israel until the Lord “makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:1, 6-7). We are warned not to be arrogant toward the Jews (Romans 11:18). And we are reminded that due to our spiritual debt to them, we should minister to them in material things (Romans 15:27).
With regard to the Jews in the end-times, here is a list of prophecies:
1. Regathering in unbelief (Isaiah 11:10-12 and Ezekiel 36:22-28).
2. Re-establishment of the state of Israel (Isaiah 66:7-8 and Zechariah 12:3-6).
3. Reclamation of the land (Isaiah 35:1-7 and Joel 2:21-26).
4. Revival of the Hebrew language (Zephaniah 3:9).
5. Re-occupation of Jerusalem (Luke 21:24).
6. Resurgence of military strength (Zechariah 12:6).
7. Refocusing of world politics on Israel (Zechariah 12:3 and 14:1-9).
Jeremiah twice says that when God has accomplished all His purposes in history, the Jewish people will look back and consider their regathering in unbelief to be the greatest of God’s miracles among them — greater even than their deliverance from Egyptian captivity (Jeremiah 16:14-15 and 23:7-8). What an exciting time we are privileged to live in! Maranatha!"
From the website, cms.frontpagemag.com an article is titled
"End the Hoax: There Are No Palestinians"
The “Palestinian people” is a propaganda fiction. It’s time to stop playing along.
February 3, 2020
Robert Spencer the article says:
"President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” was a brilliant illustration of his mastery of the art of the deal. This extravagantly generous proposal, and the Palestinians’ contemptuous rejection of it, severely damages the international Left’s claim that the Israelis are the obstacles to peace, and exposes the Palestinian leadership for the genocidal warmongers they are. Now it is time to take one more crucial step: end the recognition of the “Palestinian people” altogether. There is no such nation, race, ethnicity, nationality, or culture, and never was. Returning to reality on this matter will pave the way to the adoption of sane policies for the region.
“The Palestinian people” was born in 1963, when the foes of Israel hit upon a new strategy that would turn the tide of international public opinion against Israel and give new impetus to the jihad against it. Before that, as The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process shows, amid all the drama surrounding Jewish settlement in Palestine, the rise of Zionism, and the establishment of the Jewish state, the Palestinians are nowhere to be seen. Palestine was the name of a region, like Staten Island or Dubuque, not the name of a people.
It is no accident that neither Mark Twain, nor any of the series of English travelers who visited the area, nor anyone else who traveled through desolate Palestine over the centuries ever mentioned the “Palestinian” people. They spoke of encountering Arabs, as well as Jews and Christians and others, but no one, among multitudes of people who wrote about Palestine, ever refers to any Palestinians. Nor do the many British White Papers and other documents the British government produced during the Mandate period ever mention the Palestinians. The opposing factions in those documents are the Jews and the Arabs.
There is a very simple reason for this: there were no Palestinians."
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An uncomfortable fact for those who advance the claim that the Palestinians are the indigenous people of the area is that they have no history: there was never a state of Palestine, never a King or President of Palestine, never (until quite recently) a Palestinian flag, and nothing that distinguishes the Palestinians culturally, linguistically, or otherwise from the other Arabs of the region.
During the Mandate period, the Arabs of Palestine generally considered themselves to be Syrians, and Palestine to be Southern Syria. Early in 1919, Arab Muslims in fourteen Palestinian municipalities, calling themselves the Muslim-Christian Association, presented a petition to the Paris Peace Conference, which was deliberating about the postwar fate of Syria, Palestine, and other former Ottoman possessions.
The petitioners insisted that Southern Syria, i.e., Palestine, be considered to be “inseparable from the independent Arab Syrian government,” for it was “nothing but part of Arab Syria and it has never been separated from it at any stage.” Arabs in Palestine, they said, had “national, religious, linguistic, moral, economic, and geographic bonds” with Syria, and therefore insisted that Palestine must be “undetached from the independent Arab Syrian Government.” Palestine “should be part of Southern Syria, provided the latter is not under foreign control.”
Those who were making these demands would all today be considered Palestinians. Yet they would be baffled beyond measure if they could be transported a century ahead and made to listen to today’s rhetoric about the Palestinians, the indigenous people of Palestine. So would Musa Kazim al-Husayni, who as head of the Jerusalem Town Council declared in October 1919: “We demand no separation from Syria.”
Even Ahmad Shukairy, who in the 1960s was President of the Palestine Liberation Organization, conceded that at the close of World War I, no one was talking about the rights of the Palestinian people; instead, what was in the air was union of the Arabs of Palestine with the Arabs in Syria: the slogan went “Unity, Unity, From the Taurus [Mountains] to Rafah [in Gaza], Unity, Unity.”
In fact, the word “Palestinians” was more often applied to Jews than to Muslim Arabs. During the Mandate period, some Arabs rejected the term, explaining: “We are not Palestinians, we are Arabs. The Palestinians are the Jews.”
Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, an Arab Muslim leader, regarded the term with the same disdain, telling the Peel Commission in 1937: “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.”
In 1946, the Arab-American historian Philip Hitti testified before the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not” – meaning that there had never been a nation bearing this name.
By the early 1960s, however, the situation had changed, and changed drastically. The 1963 draft constitution of the Palestine Liberation Organization refers matter-of-factly to “Palestinians,” as if they were a distinct and readily identifiable people. “All the Palestinians,” it states, “are natural members in the Liberation Organization exercising their duty in their liberation of their homeland in accordance with their abilities and efficiency.”
In the early days of the existence of the Palestinians, the fact of their non-existence in history was much more widely know than it is today. In 1969, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir stated that “there was no such thing as Palestinians....It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.” In fact, she noted, an “independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian State” had never existed."
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The Arab Muslims of Palestine knew this as well. Syrian President Hafez Assad once told Yasser Arafat: “You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. 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.”
Prince Hassan of the Jordanian National Assembly put it simply on February 2, 1970: “Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate.” PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein likewise acknowledged that the Palestinian people was a propaganda invention in a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism."
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" For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.
Abdul Hamid Sharif, the Prime Minister of Jordan, would have agreed. He said in 1980: “The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture.”
King Hussein of Jordan put it most succinctly of all in 1981: “The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.”
Nonetheless, the myth has taken hold, and it is now widely taken for granted, in our age that has little historical memory and scant interest in gaining more, that the Palestinians are a genuine nationality, and are the indigenous people of the land that Israel illegally occupies.
This is a propaganda success that Josef Goebbels and the editors of Pravda would have envied, and it became the foundation for more. Having established the Palestinians as a tiny indigenous people whose land was stolen by rapacious, well-heeled, and oppressive foreigners, it was time to return to the negotiating table – not in order to achieve any genuine accord with Israel, but to exploit the victimhood status of the new tiny people they had invented in order to win valuable concessions from the Israelis.
If all this were recognized, the onus would be on Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the other Arab states for not welcoming their Palestinian Arab brethren. The contention that the Palestinians are a people who must have a state would lose much of its force. Returning to reality and discarding propaganda fantasies can never have a downside. It’s time to take that step."
From www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to read is titled
"The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process"
by Robert Spencer
Overview
"Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failures were inevitable, and what must be done instead.
Every new American President has a plan to bring about peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and every one fails.
Every “peace process” has failed in its primary objective: to establish a stable and lasting accord between the two parties, such that they can live together side-by-side in friendship rather than enmity.
But why? And what can be done instead?
While this failure is a consistent pattern stretching back decades, there is virtually no public discussion or even basic understanding of the primary reason for this failure.
The Palestinian Delusion is unique in situating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict within the context of the global jihad that has found renewed impetus in the latter portion of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Briskly recounting the tumultuous history of the “peace process,” Robert Spencer demonstrates that the determination of diplomats, policymakers, and negotiators to ignore this aspect of the conflict has led the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world down numerous blind alleys. This has often only exacerbated, rather than healed, this conflict.
The Palestinian Delusion offers a general overview of the Zionist settlement of Palestine, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Arab Muslim reaction to these events. It explores the dramatic and little-known history of the various peace efforts—showing how and why they invariably broke down or failed to be implemented fully. The Palestinian Delusion also provides shocking evidence from the Palestinian media, as well as statements from the Palestinian leadership, showing that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians will never work.
But there is still cause for hope. Spencer delineates a realistic, viable alternative to the endless and futile “peace process,” that shows how the Jewish State and the Palestinian Arabs can truly coexist in peace—without illusions or unrealistic expectations."
From www.barnesandnoble.com it also says about the book
"The Palestinian Delusion"
Editorial Reviews
"Spencer brings his formidable erudition and smooth keyboard to the knotty topic of the Palestinian assault on Israel. Deftly separating fact from fiction, he persuasively establishes the justice of Zionism and the barbarism of its opponents. Everyone should read this one-volume synthesis to understand the most complex conflict of our time."
Daniel Pipes
This is eye-opening history with enormous implications for foreign policy today. Taking us through the sad history of the Middle East peace process, Robert Spencer is the one analyst of the situation with the courage to identify why these peace negotiations have all failed, and will always fail. This book should be the occasion for a major reset of our policies toward Israel and the Palestinians, and a handy guide for everyone who is tired of the media spin on this all-important issue.
Steven Emerson
"If you want to learn the whole unknown hidden truth of the Arab/Islamic war against Israel, read this book from cover to cover. Robert Spencer's book teaches you how to answer virtually every propaganda lie about Israel and Arabs one is confronted with by Israel-haters, Jew-haters, and those simply ignorant of the facts. This comprehensive treatise will eliminate the ability of newspapers and TV and radio and social media to convince you of their Mideast distortions and falsehoods. A critically necessary work in this Orwellian era."
Morton Klein
"It's a great read, well researched, and very important for any student of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to consider the information being presented. Even for people who are well read on the subject, there are many new details to learn and absorb."
Dov Hikind
From the website www.forward.com an article is titled
"Shatner Beams Down to Israel"
May 12, 2006 the article says
"Eager to get in touch with his Jewish roots — and to lend a helping hand to Israeli children with disabilities — actor William Shatner is “boldly” going to Israel later in the month to assess the condition of the country’s “therapeutic riding centers.” A longtime equestrian, the former “Star Trek” star has in recent years been active with American charities involved in using horses to help handicapped children. Now, he said, it’s time to make a difference internationally. The actor, who today stars on the ABC drama “Boston Legal,” has teamed up with the Jewish National Fund to help raise $10 million for therapeutic riding centers across Israel. The program hopes to facilitate cooperation among Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians. “What better way to create a dialogue than by helping handicapped children from different countries feel good about themselves?” Shatner said.'"
Another article about how William Shatner tried to bring Peace to the Mideast , the website trektoday.com had an article titled
"Shatner Visits Israel To Help Disabled Children"
By Michelle
June 1, 2006 - 9:22 PM the article said
"While visiting Jerusalem, William Shatner (Kirk) reiterated his hope that helping Israeli and Palestinian children with therapeutic horse riding will lead to dialogue toward peace.
"We know that the use of a horse in their therapy takes them beyond their handicapped body, their injured body, and into another area of health," Shatner told CanadaEast.com.
He hopes to raise $10 million dollars along with the Jewish National Fund for riding programs in Israel, and said that Jordanians and Egyptians as well as Palestinians and Israelis will be invited to participate in sending disabled children to ride.
Shatner and his wife Elizabeth have visited Israel together once before. He has been involved for many years with California's therapeutic riding group Ahead With Horses.
KSBW noted that Shatner hoped to establish nearly 30 centers in Israel like Ahead With Horses."
From the New York Daily News website www.nydailynews.com an article is titled
"We must return Nazi-looted art: The Supreme Court should hear Laurel Zuckerman’s case"
By JERROLD NADLER and BOB GOODLATTE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 28, 2020 | 5:00 AM the article says
Who is the rightful owner of Picasso’s ‘The Actor’?
"It is unusual for every Democrat and every Republican in Congress to completely agree. But when it came to providing restitution for Holocaust survivors and their families, we did.
In 2016, the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (the HEAR Act) passed both the Senate and the House unanimously. This bipartisan legislation provides Holocaust survivors and their heirs with a legal remedy for the largest loss of artwork in human history: the displacement of artwork from Jewish families in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s as a result of Nazi and fascist persecution. The legislation fulfills commitments that Congress made to Holocaust survivors and their families, some of whom are, or were, constituents.
After World War II, the psychological trauma of the Holocaust often prevented survivors from pursuing their lost artwork. In addition, these survivors were often destitute, lacking the financial resources to pursue claims. On top of these challenges, Holocaust survivors and their heirs faced another obstacle to their claims: the passage of time.
Courts were repeatedly dismissing cases brought by Holocaust survivors and their heirs as untimely, based on statute-of-limitations defenses. At least one court ruled that the law required Holocaust survivors and their heirs to have brought their claims before World War II even ended — at a time when many of the survivors were still imprisoned in Nazi death camps like Treblinka and Auschwitz.
Every single member of Congress agreed that this was an injustice of the worst kind. To ensure that courts would not dismiss claims by Holocaust survivors and their families as being brought too late, the HEAR Act created a temporary window in which claims could be brought and decided on their merits. Indeed, the HEAR Act contains a clear directive that its claims should be decided “on the facts and merits of the claims.”
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"Unfortunately, however, a federal appeals court has interpreted the HEAR Act in a way that upends its fundamental purpose. Last Friday, we joined a group of current and former members of Congress in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
The case was brought by Laurel Zuckerman. Her great-great-aunt and uncle, German Jews, sold a painting under duress in the late 1930s to fund their escape from the Nazis and from Fascist Italy. That painting, Pablo Picasso’s masterwork, “The Actor,” is now on display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The HEAR Act was intended to allow Zuckerman to pursue her claims and have them decided on the merits. Sadly, however, that is not what happened.
The federal appeals court in Zuckerman’s case ruled that while it was “understandable” that her family did not bring a claim to recover their artwork “during the course of World War II and even, perhaps, for a few years thereafter,” their 2010 demand for their painting was too late. For that reason, the court dismissed Zuckerman’s case. Even though her claims were covered by the HEAR Act, the court still ruled that the “delay was unreasonable.”
In the friend-of-the-court brief filed last week, we explain that the federal appeals court’s ruling conflicts with the fundamental purpose of the HEAR Act we wrote. Our brief describes how that ruling, if not reversed, would eviscerate the law’s protections, discouraging the very claims that the Act meant to encourage.
We are hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will take Zuckerman’s case and interpret the HEAR Act as Congress intended: to provide meaningful restitution to Holocaust survivors and their families. Republicans and Democrats agree that justice demands it."
Nadler, a Democrat from New York and current member of Congress, and Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia and former member of Congress, were the lead sponsors of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016.
On YouTube a good video is titled
"The Truth about Islam" by Paul Joseph Watson on November 23, 2015
& another YouTube video is titled
"Sam Harris: Islam is Not a Religion of Peace" by FORA.tv on December 30, 2010 of course, we at this blog are Not saying all Muslims are bad or evil, but some are
Another good Pro-Israel website is Canarymission.org
where they say on it's homepage
"Canary Mission documents people and groups that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews. We investigate hatred across the North American political spectrum, including the far right, far left and anti-Israel activists.
Every individual and organization has been carefully researched and sourced. You can help expose hatred by alerting us to anti-Semitic activity on your college campus and beyond."
this Canarymission.org website is even more Proof of how Primitive & Satanic,Demonic,Diabolical,Unpseakably Evil Supports of "Palestine" & so-called
"Palestinians" are, shows how Wicked Evil Demonic & Satanic supporters of the
so-called "Palestinians" are, Cowardly Weasels & Slime who hide behind "Free Speech" to spew their Pure Evil & Raw Hate, such "Free Speech" would NEVER be tolerated against any other Group of People on College & University Campuses, so why is it OK to unjustly hate Israel & Jews, The Founding Fathers of America , would Not support the type
of "Free Speech" & Satanic Demonic Diabolical Primitive Pure Evil, Wickedness & Raw Hate spewed by these Nazi Terrorist supporters of "Palestine" The Founding Fathers of the United States would realize this type of "Free Speech" should Never be Tolerated on College or University Campuses, or anywhere, The Founding Fathers would realize that these Supporters of "Palestine" are completely Possessed by the Devil, and are utterly primitive Satanic Creatures, utter trash & Garbage, with not the slightest shred of decency or morality, or sanity within them, Unspeakable Evil of the supporters of "Palestine" that words cannot describe, it's impossible to reason with them, it's impossible to have Civil Debate with them, they are in full Retard Mode, not only that these "Palestine" Supporters are Hypocrites, they cry about "Free Speech" yet they are against Free Speech for those they disagree with, these terrorist supporters of "Palestine" & the so-called "Palestinians" are the Troublemakers & Instigators on College & University Campuses,, Everything is their Fault, Everything is their Fault, It's always their Fault, Why can't they be Peaceful & Civil like the Pro-Israel People on College & University Campuses, Supporters of "Palestine" are disgusting , they are destabilizing the Entire College & University Campuses, Supporters of Israel are Afraid of Violence, Christian, Jewish & Other Pro-Israel students are afraid of Violence & being killed on College & University Campuses, The "Palestine" Supporters are Pure Evil, Everything is their Fault, they are Worthless Heartless Pathetic Losers & Troublemaking Turds who should Just Get a Life, Get a Life Already , Even if a Person doesn't like some Israeli Policies that is NO EXCUSE, NO EXCUSE for the Raw Hatred given towards Israel, if someone dislikes certain Israeli Policies, that does NOT Justify the Type of Hatred that People have towards Israel, Israel has Valid Legitimate Security Needs, Many Many Nations of the World in 2020 have Policies & Actions that can be considered unfair & unjust, yet these other Nations are Not hated in the same way Israel is Hated, why the Double Standard, why all this Sick Abnormal Unhealthy Obsessive Fixation on Israel & Jews, Why ?
From jewishvirtuallibrary.org an entry about the settlements says
"MYTH The Geneva Convention prohibits the construction of Israeli settlements."
FACT The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the forcible transfer of people of one state to the territory of another state that it has occupied as a result of a war. The intention was to ensure that local populations who came under occupation would not be forced to move. This is in no way relevant to the settlement issue. Jews are not being forced to go to the West Bank; on the contrary, they are voluntarily moving back to places where they, or their ancestors, once lived before being expelled by others. In addition, those territories never legally belonged to either Jordan or Egypt, and certainly not to the Palestinians, who were never the sovereign authority in any part of Palestine. “The Jewish right of settlement in the area is equivalent in every way to the right of the local population to live there,” according to Professor Eugene Rostow, former undersecretary of state for political affairs.4
16. Settlements 293
The settlements do not displace Arabs living in the territories. The media sometimes gives the impression that for every Jew who moves to the West Bank, several hundred Palestinians are forced to leave. The truth is that the majority of settlements have been built in uninhabited areas, and even the handful established in or near Arab towns did not force any Palestinians to leave."
From unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Lionel Richie says ‘Hello’ to Israel, Promising This is Not ‘Good-Bye’"
Mar 3, 2020
Lionel Richie. defying BDS bullies, performed to a packed house and adoring fans in his first Israeli concert that received glowing reviews.
By Tsivya Fox-Dobuler
"Lionel Richie, 70, did a lot more than just say “Hello” to a packed house of adoring Israeli fans Monday night. He stood up to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) pressure, spread love, and rocked the rafters.
“This was a most amazing concert, and I’ve been to lots of big names,” Sandy Leigh told United with Israel (UWI). “Lionel was right there at the top of the many other performances I’ve seen. I love his music, and he even played some songs I didn’t know. He is definitely a superstar. That’s why I went. I feel this was a once in a lifetime experience to go to something like this in Israel.”
Leigh said she may have yet another opportunity to see the famous crooner. “For 40 years my friends have been telling me to come here,” Richie told his Israeli audience. “Forty years later and I’m here. I promise you. This is my first trip. It will not be my last,” Richie said to thunderous applause.
Richie also said he was looking to rent a place in Israel, Leigh told UWI.
The show took place at Tel Aviv’s Menora Mivtachim Arena. The lighting, staging, effects and atmosphere received rave reviews.
The music celebrity changed the original time of the show to 7 p.m. instead of 8:30, as Israel faced its third election on Monday and there were concerns that people would stay home to see the 10 p.m. exit polls.
In a video promoting his concert, Richie said, “Hello Israel. This is Lionel Richie and I can’t wait to perform in Israel for the first time ever. We’re going to dance all night long. So go to vote and I’ll see you on the second of March in Tel Aviv. See you then.”
Richie faced strong condemnation from BDS activists for performing in Israel. However, according to longtime fan Miri Gantshar, he is a man of love who would never submit to the hate-filled group.
“Richie’s personality is very charming,” Gantshar told UWI. “He’s still spreading love through his songs and warm personality. He spoke about love.”
She said the performer appeared “genuinely floored” by the warm reaction and engaging audience, including many standing ovations, sing-alongs, and dancing. “I wonder if the excitement, love and appreciation that performers get when in Israel is more intense than they receive in other places because we are so aware of what performers face from BDS to come here.”
Noting Richie’s age, Gantshar said, “I feel he’s at a point in his life that it doesn’t matter any more what people think. He plays for the audience and connects to people in a way not often seen at other concerts.”
Richie performed many of his greatest hits from the 1980s and his days with the Commodores. These included “Hello,” “Endless Love,” “All Night Long,” “Sail On,” “Easy Like Sunday Morning,” “Brick House,” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.”
“I was surprised that so many of the crowd were Hebrew-speaking Israelis as opposed to English speakers and most were older,” Harold Bergstein told UWI. “However, Richie really got the crowd going, especially when he performed ‘Dancing on the Ceiling.’ The audience was standing, singing along, dancing and clapping.
“I loved the concert. Aside from the music, it was particularly touching how he spoke about his visit to Israel.”
In video below, Richie tells the audience that he’ll be back. (Courtesy Harold Bergstein)
From the website abuyehuda.com an article is titled
"Why They Attack Jews in New York"
Posted on December 29, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal the article says:
Louis Farrakhan holds a copy of his book, “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews”
Why are blacks and Hispanics attacking Jews?
I have been searching for a coherent statement by an assailant. Most of them don’t get past “f- you, Jews.” But it seems to me that they blame Jews for something, and feel justified in hurting them. The consequences of doing it are not great, so why not?
Blaming Jews is a subset of blaming others, and the feeling that others are responsible for one’s problems is popular today. There is a concept in psychology called locus of control, and individuals can be placed on a scale depending on the extent to which they believe that their success or failure is due to their own actions, or those of other people or “fate.”
On one end of the scale are those with an internal locus of control, people who believe that what happens to them is primarily dependent upon their actions (or lack thereof). On the external side are people who believe that the course of their lives is determined by external factors, and that their own agency has little effect. Here is a simple test you can take to see where you are on the scale.
Everyone knows somebody on the external extreme, the kind of person that always blames others for their problems. If he or she doesn’t get a job or a promotion it’s because somebody screwed them. Nothing bad that happens to them is ever their own fault. These people can be hard to live with. Their negativity is self-sustaining: nothing good happens to them because they do nothing to help improve their situation, because they believe that nothing they do matters; and this just reinforces their belief that “the system” is oppressing them.
Strong external locus of control is also associated with behaviors like smoking and alcohol usage, poor self-control in eating or taking medication, excessive gambling, and so forth. People with internal locus of control are more likely to be good students and to attain high socioeconomic status.
Obviously, sometimes things happen because of external influences. Sometimes you get lucky or unlucky. Sometimes it helps to know someone. Sometimes the deck is stacked against you. But at least in modern Western societies, you usually get what you deserve. A person in the US with an extremely external locus of control is usually misperceiving reality – that is, their actions could influence the degree of satisfaction they derive from life, but they do not believe this, and therefore do not act in a way that maximizes their satisfaction.
But in recent years it has become an article of faith on the Left that the system is structurally biased against “people of color (POC),” a term which includes black people, people whose ancestors came from a place where Spanish is spoken (except Spain), and Muslims with white skin who were born in the US like , and excludes Jews of any color and Protestants or Catholics of European origin. It includes East Asians if they are discriminated against, but not if they are successful."
the article continues
"A key word is “structurally.” The idea is that the colorless people (non-POC) who benefit from the bias made the rules in such a way that the system will help them and hurt POC. This is called “structural racism,” because it has been built into the structure of society, and doesn’t require explicitly racist behavior to injure POC. POC who believe this can complain bitterly that their problems are due to “racism” even if they can’t cite instances of blatant racial discrimination.
POC who are convinced that the system is structurally racist will be less likely to believe that their actions can determine the course of their lives. For them, the deck is always stacked. This ideology therefore conditions them to adopt an external locus of control, with all its negative consequences.
But humans like to anthropomorphize their problems. A Devil is more comfortable to the mind than abstract evil. A conspiracy is more comfortable than a complicated historical process. If society is set up to benefit one group more than others, someone must have set it up that way. And who is at the top of the pile in wealth and influence (at least, so you are told)? Do I need to say it?
I don’t, because people like Louis Farrakhan are saying it over and over, day in and day out. And Louis Farrakhan, the “GOAT” (Greatest Of All Time) is one of the most popular personalities in the American black community. According to Farrakhan, the Jews dominated the slave trade, created the Jim Crow system, exploited black talent and creativity to make money while leaving performers in poverty, introduced drugs and sexual deviance into their community, own stores and real estate that exploit POC, and more.
Ironically, Farrakhan’s philosophy calls for blacks to adopt an internal locus of control, and change their condition through action. But at the same time he is telling them that all their problems are someone else’s fault: the Jews.
The idea that a Jewish conspiracy is responsible for the perceived problems of POC in the US is widely believed. The “information bubbles” that surround people today make it possible for what would have been considered extremism in the past to become conventional wisdom within each bubble. If everyone in your neighborhood “knows” the Jews are responsible for its poverty and crime, who are you to deny it?
Just as the Palestinian educational system has produced a generation of young people who will cut a Jew’s throat – even a Jewish child’s – as easily as looking at him, the ideology of powerlessness against a society designed to exploit you, combined with explicit anti-Jewish rhetoric from respected figures, has created an angry young generation.
They are punching, spitting at, robbing, or cursing Jews. They have (mostly) not become murderers like the young Palestinians (yet).
It isn’t enough to discredit explicit Jew-haters like Farrakhan, not that it would be easy to do so. It’s probably also necessary to fight against the epidemic of blame ideology, in which everything bad that happens is someone else’s fault. Those who believe that they are primarily responsible for their own success or failure – a distinctly right-wing belief, by the way – will use their energy to improve their own positions, rather than to strike out at others that they perceive as enemies.
Until Americans figure out how to do that, Jews there will have to study krav maga along with Talmud. Just like Israelis." that article was from the website abuyehuda.com
We at this blog say Most Blacks & Hispanics are decent people, but you NEVER see Jews attacking Blacks or Hispanics, like you sometimes see certain Blacks & Hispanics attacking Jews, Even if some Jews have Racist Views, they have the decency to keep it to themselves, but overall Most Blacks & Hispanics are Decent Cool People, some are bad apples, but Most are Decent
From the Jerusalem Post website www.jpost.com an article is titled
"1 in 5 Europeans says secret Jewish cabal runs the world, survey finds"
In each of the countries polled, a representative sample of 1,000 adults was presented with 45 questions or statements in face-to-face interviews about Jews and Israel.
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA FEBRUARY 26, 2020 03:44Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger
Protesters hold placards and flags during a demonstration, organised by the British Board of Jewish Deputies for those who oppose antisemitism, in Parliament Square in London. (photo credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS)
Protesters hold placards and flags during a demonstration, organised by the British Board of Jewish Deputies for those who oppose antisemitism, in Parliament Square in London.
(photo credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS) the article says
"PARIS – A secret network of Jews influences global political and economic affairs.
That’s the feeling among a fifth of the 16,000 respondents to a survey among Europeans from 16 countries. The same number also agreed with the statement that “Jews exploit Holocaust victimhood for their own needs.”
The survey was presented Monday at a conference about antisemitism organized in Paris by the European Jewish Association. It was conducted in December and January in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland, among other countries.
Other findings:
* A quarter of respondents agreed with the statement that Israel’s policies make them understand why some people hate Jews.
* More than a quarter concurred with the statement that “Israel is engaged in legitimate self defense against its enemies.” A quarter of respondents disagreed and 46% did not express a position.
* More than a third agreed with the assertion that “During World War II, people from our nation suffered as much as Jews.”
Holocaust revisionism and classic antisemitic stereotypes were more common in Eastern Europe, whereas anti-Israel sentiments, including anti-Semitic ones, were more common in the west, according to Rabbi Slomo Koves, chairman of the Action and Protection League. The Budapest-based group is affiliated with the Hungarian Jewish community’s main watchdog on anti-Semitism.
In each of the countries polled, a representative sample of 1,000 adults was presented with 45 questions or statements in face-to-face interviews about Jews and Israel, according to the Action and Protection League. The survey has a margin of error of 0.8%.
Koves said his group is still working on a breakdown of the results in each country, but it’s complicated “by challenges in the collection process,” noting the difficulty of finding pollsters willing to go into the poor neighborhoods and ghettos of Paris and Brussels, for example. That, he said, “is necessary for arriving at a representative sample.”
The website ricochet.com has an article titled
"A Palestinian State Would Mean Israel’s Destruction"
By Susan Quinn
| March 4, 2020 the article says
"The completion of the marathon series of elections in Israel could determine the nation’s existence. If Netanyahu loses, Benny Gantz as prime minister will likely return Israel to the Leftist positions. Although Gantz has been characterized as a moderate, he may be offering those positions for public consumption. The fact is, Gantz is an unknown politically, and Israel needs a leader who will take clear and firm positions.
A number of issues have shifted in the Middle East that suggest Israel is not criticized as severely as it has been in the past. That shift begins with Arab countries that have discovered they have much to gain militarily and commercially with Israel. This change doesn’t mean that these countries will embrace Israel; in fact, many of the exchanges between the two countries are only first steps, and those countries could always sever their connections. But at this time, Sudan, Saudi Arabi, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Morocco, and Bahrain have all showed an interest in changing their relationships with the Israelis, agreeing to a “normalization of relations.” Behind those decisions, for example, are the purchase of spy equipment by the Saudis, discreet meetings with a Minister of UAE; cooperation between Israel and Egypt to provide security in and out of the Gaza strip; a security buffer between Israel and Jordan, as well as Israel supplying Jordan with water.
All is not rosy, however, internationally. The United Nations continues to try to cripple Israel. Most recently they created a boycott list against Israel of over 100 companies, which is clearly political and meant to be punitive:
As several major democracies wrote the UN, the world body has no legal mandate to tell companies where they should or should not operate. Moreover, if this were really about human rights, then the key factor would be a consideration of whether Palestinian human rights are actually violated, yet that’s ignored.
Sadly, this is one more example of the Palestinian hijacking of UN bodies to promote a one-sided political agenda that fosters conflict instead of advancing peace.
High Commissioner Bachelet, who should be standing up for the UN Charter principles of universality and equality, has now allowed her office to become a tool for the discriminatory anti-Israel BDS movement, which singles out the Jewish state for boycott, divestment and sanctions. With the blacklist, the UN has now become Ground Zero for global BDS."
the article continues
"So Israel is making progress in building alliances with its Mideast partners, and nothing has changed, nor will change, at the United Nations in terms of singling out Israel.
Unfortunately, the Palestinians, as usual, are refusing to partner with anyone, particularly Israel, in bringing peace to the region. Here is a short list of some of their self-destructive actions that would likely make peace impossible, in the short- and long-term:
Mahmoud Abbas, supposedly elected democratically, has been the totalitarian ruler of the Palestinians since 2005, with no publicized plans to step down. There is no tracking of the millions of dollars given to the Palestinians, and every reason to believe that Abbas, just as Arafat did, is pocketing much of the money and paying his cronies.
Neither Hamas nor the Palestinians have ever changed their missions to destroy Israel. There is no reason to think that if they had their own state, they would withdraw this commitment.
Hamas continues to shoot rockets into Israel, and attacks have even increased.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, instead of seeing the Trump Peace Plan as a place to begin a peace negotiation, rejected it outright.
Perhaps a most insidious prediction for the future: textbooks for Palestinian children continue to demonize Jews and deny the legitimacy of a Jewish state. Depicting Jews as animals and justifying violence and martyrdom are included in the curriculum.
Essentially, the Palestinians want all the land and all their demands met. They have shown themselves incapable of self-governance, eschewing violence, or living peacefully.
At this writing, it appears that Bibi Netanyahu will be re-elected (although he still needs to form a coalition), and he has restated his promise to annex the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria.
The Israelis appear to be less concerned about international criticism regarding their decisions, since much of the world is irrational and directs its venom only at Israel and not the Palestinians. The Israelis are dealing with an irresponsible and uncompromising partner in the Palestinians. The Palestinians expect Israel to continue to give up all their land and their future, while the Palestinians offer nothing.
It’s time for Israel to claim and govern what is their due." From the website
ricochet.com The so-called "Palestinians" already have a State, it's called Jordan
The website www.timesofisrael.com on November 29, 2019 has an article titled
"In Ramallah, hundreds of Israelis join Palestinians to 'unify forces' for peace"
by Adam Rasgon, some people typed the following comments in reply to the article
“‘Let’s unify our forces, join hands and fight together against the continuation of the occupation,’ he said, adding that Israelis and Palestinians should also work together for mutual recognition and the establishment of a Palestinian state along 1967 borders.”
Only “useful” Jews attended that conference.
When Arabs currently occupy twenty-one nations to which they are not indigenous (the sole exception being Saudi Arabia), they have ethnically and culturally displaced millions of indigenous Amazigh, Assyrian, Hebrew, Chaldean, Copt, Kurd, Yezidi, and more since they spread out in conquest during the 7th century. When, periodically, there is discontent or an uprising of the indigenous populations whom they subjugate with their sense of supremacy, they become offended.
Where in the Muslim world are the righteous protests against the Arabist autocracies concerning the occupation and mistreatment of the people indigenous to North Africa? It would only become a real problem were these people (like the Jews) to gain ground against their oppressors by taking back territory which is rightfully theirs. Then the Arab world begins to throw a tantrum about perceived injustices. Only when it happens to them. Otherwise, there are no protests in the streets by Muslims or the people of Europe about the internecine violence Arabs and Muslims commit against one another.
There were no “1967 borders”. It was an armistice line between Israel and Jordan. “Palestine” has nothing at all to do with it. And, as I seem to recall, there was no “Palestinian” struggle against either Jordan or Egypt, for those who lived in Gaza and the Disputed Territory were citizens of the aforementioned countries. Moreover, had they raised even the slightest peep against those governments, the rabble-rousers would first have been laughed at for their assertion that they were somehow a “unique” people, but that their discontent would have been dealt with must severely. “Palestinians” get away with their their antics now because they know Israel will not do to them that which they would willingly do to one another.
This conference was just a love fest for opportunistic “Palestinian” nationalists and the sappy Jews with their heads in the clouds whom they could make fools (and tools) of."
"You probably meant useful idiots."
From the New York Post website www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Israel’s election shows it’s on to a new Middle East while Democrats stuck in the past"
By Jonathan S. Tobin March 5, 2020 | 10:02pm the article says
"Though most of the world tends to think the only thing worth discussing about Israel is what it should do about the Palestinians, the country’s voters largely ignored that issue and treated the elections as a referendum on their embattled prime minister and his lackluster rival, retired Gen. Benny Gantz.
That’s because there is a consensus about the peace process and the lack of a Palestinian partner that stretches across the Israeli political spectrum — from the moderate left to the right. While Israelis were once deeply divided about the peace process, that stopped being true almost 20 years ago.
Neither Netanyahu nor Gantz supports the sort of land-for-peace schemes that once divided Israelis. The violence of the Second Intifada shattered their faith in such schemes; the aftermath of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, which led to the creation of a Hamas state in that enclave, buried them.
Gantz and his center-left Blue and White Party were determined to portray their stance as no different from that of Netanyahu and just as supportive of the Trump administration’s Middle East plan. Yet somehow this message hasn’t gotten through to the Democratic Party and its candidates. The moderate Joe Biden and the radical Bernie Sanders both seem to think Israelis need to ignore the events of the last 27 years that forged this broad consensus.
Sanders is, of course, the nuttier of the two. His slanderous comments about AIPAC — he falsely framed the pro-Israel lobby as a platform for “bigotry” — made it clear that the US-Israel alliance would be another casualty of a Bernie Bros administration.
The problem isn’t just Sanders’ willingness to smear a bipartisan group or to embrace the rabidly anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and other advocates of a Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement drenched in anti-Semitism.
Sanders’ “even-handed” stances — ending the blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and diverting some of the aid the Jewish state receives from the United States to the enclave — are completely divorced from reality."
the article continues
"But Biden is almost no better. The ex-veep seems either unaware of or unconvinced by the facts that have driven Israeli voters to reject the tired, old land-for-peace schemes.
While Biden is supportive of AIPAC, he is also determined to revive his old boss President Barack Obama’s efforts. He advocates a return to policies that would pressure the Israelis to make territorial concessions to Palestinians — who remain as determined as ever to reject the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders are drawn.
The premise of the Obama administration’s Israel policy was that by creating “daylight” between Washington and the Jewish state, the latter would feel compelled to make concessions that even liberal Israelis now see as the height of folly. It didn’t work, and in the years since, the whole region has dramatically changed.
Obama and Biden’s nuclear deal with the ayatollahs, and their broader failure to check the Iranian regime’s hegemonic ambitions on the Middle East, drove the moderate Arabs to forge a hitherto unthinkable partnership with the Jewish state.
The Saudis, the Emiratis and other powers have all downgraded the Palestinian cause. They now view Israel as a crucial bulwark against Tehran. And they’re running out of patience with Palestinian intransigence.
All of which means the two-state solution isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
While such a solution, the theoretical end goal of the Trump plan, is a rational way to end the decades-old conflict, so long as the Palestinians remain committed to the Jewish state’s elimination and to terrorism, pressure on Israel makes no sense. The Arabs get this.
Yet neither of the major Democratic candidates acknowledges this Israeli consensus or understand why it exists.
Instead of listening to Clinton and Obama administration alumni who are eager to get back to work next year pressuring Israel and ignoring Palestinian violence, the Democratic candidates should be listening to Israel’s voters and stop trying to repeat the mistakes their party has made in the past."
A classic Movie all Supporters of Israel & The Jewish People should Watch is the 1961 film
"Judgment at Nuremberg" The Wikipedia entry says
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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Film poster
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Produced by Stanley Kramer
Screenplay by Abby Mann
Based on Judgment at Nuremberg
1959 Playhouse 90
by Abby Mann[1]
Starring
Spencer Tracy
Burt Lancaster
Richard Widmark
Marlene Dietrich
Judy Garland
Maximilian Schell
William Shatner
Montgomery Clift
Werner Klemperer
Music by Ernest Gold
Cinematography Ernest Laszlo
Edited by Frederic Knudtson
Production
company
Roxlom Films
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
December 14, 1961 (Kongresshalle, Berlin)[2]
December 19, 1961 (USA)
Running time
179 minutes
Country United States
Language English
German
Budget $3 million[3]
Box office $10 million[4]
"Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American courtroom drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, written by Abby Mann and starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.[5] Set in Nuremberg in 1948, the film depicts a fictionalized version of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the twelve U.S. military tribunals during the Subsequent Nuremberg trials.
The film centers on a military tribunal led by Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood (Tracy), before which four German judges and prosecutors (as compared to 16 defendants in the actual Judges' Trial) stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. The film deals with non-combatant war crimes against a civilian population, the Holocaust, and examines the post-World War II geopolitical complexity of the actual Nuremberg Trials.
An earlier version of the story was broadcast as a television episode of Playhouse 90.[6] Schell and Klemperer played the same roles in both productions.
In 2013, Judgment at Nuremberg was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[7]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Background
4 Soundtrack
5 Reception
6 Accolades
7 Release
8 Adaptations
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 External links
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Plot
Judgment at Nuremberg centers on a military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany, in which four German judges and prosecutors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is the chief trial judge of a three-judge panel that will hear and decide the case against the defendants. Haywood begins his examination by trying to learn how the defendant Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) could have sentenced so many people to death. Janning, it is revealed, is a well-educated and internationally respected jurist and legal scholar. Haywood seeks to understand how the German people could have turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the crimes of the Nazi regime. In doing so, he befriends the widow (Marlene Dietrich) of a German general who had been executed by the Allies. He talks with a number of Germans who have different perspectives on the war. Other characters the judge meets are US Army Captain Byers (William Shatner), who is assigned to the American party hearing the cases, and Irene Hoffmann (Judy Garland), who is afraid to provide testimony that may bolster the prosecution's case against the judges.
German defense attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell) argues that the defendants were not the only ones to aid, or at least turn blind eyes to, the Nazi regime. He also suggests that the United States has committed acts just as bad or worse as those the Nazis perpetrated. He raises several points in these arguments, such as US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s support for the first eugenics practices (see Buck v. Bell); the German-Vatican Reichskonkordat of 1933, which the Nazi-dominated German government exploited as an implicit early foreign recognition of Nazi leadership; Joseph Stalin's part in the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, which removed the last major obstacle to Germany's invasion and occupation of western Poland, initiating World War II; and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final stage of the war in August 1945.[8]
Janning, meanwhile, decides to take the stand for the prosecution, stating that he is guilty of the crime he is accused of: condemning to death a Jewish man of "blood defilement" charges—namely, that the man slept with a 16-year-old Gentile girl—when he knew there was no evidence to support such a verdict. During his testimony, he explains that well-meaning people like himself went along with Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic, racist policies out of a sense of patriotism, even though they knew it was wrong, because of the effects of the post-World War I Versailles Treaty.
Haywood must weigh considerations of geopolitical expediency and ideals of justice. The trial takes place against the background of the Berlin Blockade, and there is pressure to let the German defendants off lightly so as to gain German support in the growing Cold War against the Soviet Union.[9] In the course of the movie, it becomes apparent why the three other defendants supported the Nazi regime: one was afraid, one was following orders, and one actually believed in Nazism. All four defendants are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
Haywood visits Janning in his cell. Janning affirms to Haywood that, "By all that is right in this world, your verdict was a just one," but asks him to believe that, regarding the mass murder of innocents, "I never knew that it would come to that." Judge Haywood replies, "Herr Janning, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent." Haywood departs; a title card informs the audience that, of 99 defendants sentenced to prison terms in Nuremberg trials that took place in the American Zone, none was still serving a sentence when the film was released in 1961.[10]"
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"Cast
Spencer Tracy as Chief Judge Dan Haywood
Burt Lancaster as defendant Dr. Ernst Janning
Richard Widmark as prosecutor Col. Tad Lawson
Maximilian Schell as defense counsel Hans Rolfe
Werner Klemperer as defendant Emil Hahn
Marlene Dietrich as Frau Bertholt
Montgomery Clift as Rudolph Peterson
Judy Garland as Irene Hoffmann-Wallner
Howard Caine as Hugo Wallner - Irene's husband
William Shatner as Capt. Harrison Byers
John Wengraf as His Honour Herr Justizrat Dr. Karl Wieck - former Minister of Justice in Weimar Germany
Karl Swenson as Dr. Heinrich Geuter - Feldenstein's lawyer
Ben Wright as Herr Halbestadt, Haywood's butler
Virginia Christine as Mrs. Halbestadt, Haywood's Housekeeper
Edward Binns as Senator Burkette
Torben Meyer as defendant Werner Lampe
Martin Brandt as defendant Friedrich Hofstetter
Kenneth MacKenna as Judge Kenneth Norris
Ray Teal as Judge Curtiss Ives
Alan Baxter as Brig. Gen. Matt Merrin
Joseph Bernard as Major Abe Radnitz - Lawson's assistant
Olga Fabian as Mrs. Elsa Lindnow - witness in Feldenstein case
Otto Waldis as Pohl
Paul Busch as Schmidt
Bernard Kates as Max Perkins
Production
Background
The film's events relate principally to actions committed by the German state against its own racial, social, religious, and eugenic groupings within its borders "in the name of the law" (from the prosecution's opening statement in the film), from the time of Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The plot development and thematic treatment question the legitimacy of the social, political and alleged legal foundations of these actions.
The real Judges' Trial focused on 16 judges and prosecutors who served before and during the Nazi regime in Germany and who embraced and enforced laws—passively, actively, or both—that led to judicial acts of sexual sterilization and to the imprisonment and execution of people for their religions, racial or ethnic identities, political beliefs and physical handicaps or disabilities.
A key thread in the film's plot involves a "race defilement" trial known as the Feldenstein case. In this fictionalized case, based on the real life Katzenberger Trial, an elderly Jewish man had been tried for having a "relationship" (sexual acts) with an Aryan (German) 16-year-old girl, an act that had been legally defined as a crime under the Nuremberg Laws, which had been enacted by the German Reichstag. Under these laws, the man was found guilty and was put to death in 1935. Using this and other examples, the movie explores individual conscience, collective guilt, and behavior during a time of widespread societal immorality.
The film is notable for its use of courtroom drama to illuminate individual perfidy and moral compromise in times of violent political upheaval; it was the first mainstream drama film not to shy from showing actual footage filmed by American and British soldiers after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.[citation needed] Shown in court by prosecuting attorney Colonel Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark), the scenes of huge piles of naked corpses laid out in rows and bulldozed into large pits were considered exceptionally graphic for a mainstream film of at the time."
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"Reception
The world premiere was held on December 14, 1961 at the Kongresshalle in West Berlin.[2] 300 journalists from 22 countries were in attendance,[11] and earphones offering the soundtrack dubbed in German, Spanish, Italian and French were made available.[2] The reaction from the audience was reportedly subdued, with some applauding at the finish but most of the Germans in attendance leaving in silence.[11]
Kramer's film received positive reviews from critics and was lauded as a straight reconstruction of the famous trials of Nazi war criminals. The cast was especially praised, including Tracy, Lancaster, Schell, Clift and Garland. The film's release was perfectly timed as its subject coincided with the trial and conviction in Israel of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times declared it "a powerful, persuasive film" with "a stirring, sobering message to the world."[12] Variety wrote: "With the most painful pages of modern history as its bitter basis, Abby Mann's intelligent, thought-provoking screenplay is a grim reminder of man's responsibility to denounce grave evils of which he is aware. The lesson is carefully, tastefully and upliftingly told via Kramer's large-scale production."[13] Harrison's Reports awarded its top grade of "Excellent," praising Kramer for employing "an ingenious device of fluid direction" and Spencer Tracy for "a performance of compelling substance."[14] Brendan Gill of The New Yorker called the film "a bold and, despite its great length, continuously exciting picture," which asks questions that "are among the biggest that can be asked and are no less fresh and thrilling for being thousands of years old." Gill added that the cast was so loaded with stars "that it occasionally threatens to turn into a judicial 'Grand Hotel.' Luckily, they all work hard to stay inside their roles."[15] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post declared it "an extraordinary film, both in concept and handling. Those who see this at the Warner will recognize that the screen has been put to noble use."[16] The Monthly Film Bulletin of Britain dissented, writing in a mostly negative review that "this large-scale trial film undermines faith in its philosophical and historical merit by colouring the better part of its message with hackneyed court-room hysteria," explaining that "in a series of contrived scenes ... the point is hammered home right down to the last shock-cut. The same specious technique (zoom-lens shots and camera-circlings predominant) and showmanship turn the trial into little more than a travesty—notably in the melodramatic switch in the character of Janning."[17]
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"The film grossed $6 million in the United States, and $10 million in worldwide release.[18]
Accolades
The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. Maximilian Schell won the award for Best Actor, and Abby Mann won in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. The remaining nominations were for Best Picture, Stanley Kramer for Best Director, Spencer Tracy for Best Actor, Montgomery Clift for Best Supporting Actor, Judy Garland for Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, and Best Film Editing.[19] Stanley Kramer was given the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. This is one of the few times that a film had multiple entries in the same category (Tracy and Schell for Best Actor). Many of the big name actors who appeared in the film did so for a fraction of their usual salaries because they believed in the social importance of the project.
In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten Top Ten" after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Judgment at Nuremberg was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the courtroom drama genre.[20] Additionally, the film had been nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies.[21]"
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"Release
Judgment at Nuremberg was released in American theatres on December 19, 1961.
CBS/Fox first released the film as a two-VHS cassette set in 1986. MGM re-released the VHS version in 1991 while the 1996 and 2001 reissues were part of the Vintage Classics and Screen Epics collection respectively. In addition, the special edition DVD was released on September 7, 2004.[22]
Two Blu-ray versions of the film were also produced. A limited edition Blu-ray was released by Twilight Time on November 14, 2014. Kino Lorber re-released the Blu-ray as a standard release in 2018.[23][24]
The Australian Blu-ray was released as part of The Hollywood Gold Series.[25]
Adaptations
In 1985, a Soviet stage adaptation of the film under the title Judgment was produced for Baltic House Festival Theatre with Gennady Egorov as director.
In 2001, another stage adaptation of the film was produced for Broadway, starring Schell (this time in the role of Ernst Janning) and George Grizzard, with John Tillinger as director.[26]
See also
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, British and American army film of the camps
List of Holocaust films
Nuremberg Trials (a Soviet film on the trials)
Trial films
War crimes trials
It's also important to remember the 2000 TV miniseries "Nuremberg" starring Alec Baldwin
the Wikipedia entry for this Miniseries says
Nuremberg (miniseries)
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Genre Docudrama
Written by David W. Rintels
Directed by Yves Simoneau
Starring Alec Baldwin
Brian Cox
Christopher Plummer
Jill Hennessy
Matt Craven
Colm Feore
Christopher Heyerdahl
Michael Ironside
Max von Sydow
Composer(s) Richard Grégoire
Country of origin Canada
United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Mychèle Boudrias
Ian McDougall
Cinematography Alain Dostie
Editor(s) Yves Langlois
Running time 180 minutes
Distributor Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Release
Original release July 16, 2000
Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian/United States television docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg trials.
Contents
1 Plot
1.1 Part one
1.2 Part two
2 Cast
3 Historical inaccuracies
4 Reception
4.1 Awards
5 Streaming
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot
Part one
At the close of World War II, Hermann Göring (Brian Cox) surrenders to the Americans and enjoys the hospitality of a U.S. Army Air Force base. Samuel Rosenman (Max von Sydow), acting on the orders of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, recruits U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (Alec Baldwin) to prepare a war crimes tribunal against Göring and the surviving Nazi leadership. Göring, Albert Speer (Herbert Knaup) and others are arrested for war crimes and imprisoned in a U.S. Army stockade at Bad Mondorf in Luxembourg. Jackson, his assistant Elsie Douglas (Jill Hennessy), and his prosecution team fly to Germany. Psychologist Gustave Gilbert (Matt Craven) arrives at the stockade with prisoner Hans Frank (Frank Moore), who has attempted suicide.
Jackson negotiates with Allied representatives Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe (Christopher Plummer), General Iona Nikitchenko (Len Doncheff) and Henri Donnedieu de Vabres (Paul Hébert) to ensure a unified prosecution. Jackson selects the Nuremberg Palace of Justice for the site of the trials and reconstruction work commences. Göring and the others are stripped of their rank and transferred to the prison in Nuremberg, where they come into conflict with the guards under the command of the strict Colonel Burton C. Andrus (Michael Ironside). Major Airey Neave (Geoffrey Pounsett) serves Göring, Speer and the others with their indictments. U.S. judge Francis Biddle (Len Cariou) arrives to take control of the court but reluctantly passes the honour at Jackson's insistence. Following the suicide of prisoner Robert Ley (Julien Poulin), round-the-clock watches are posted and Gilbert is appointed prisoner liaison.
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (David Francis) opens the trial with all defendants pleading not guilty, and Jackson gives a stirring opening statement. At lunch a jovial Göring holds court over the other defendants while Speer begins to show signs of remorse. Maxwell-Fyfe puts forward an emotive eyewitness account of the Nazis' genocidal policies toward Jews and others, while Jackson reads out dry documentation. As the court begins to tire of Jackson's meticulous approach, Maxwell-Fyfe urges pushing on to the witness interviews, which reveal the horrors of the concentration camps. The court is shaken by documentary footage of the camps; even Göring appears unsettled."
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"Part two
Speer explains Göring's dominance to Gilbert and insists that his control over the others must be broken. Göring takes the stand and begins speaking to the German people. Jackson, at Gilbert's suggestion, has Göring isolated. Under cross-examination, Göring outmaneuvers and humiliates Jackson, who later accuses Biddle of giving Göring free rein in court. Douglas talks Jackson out of tendering his resignation, and the two share a kiss. Under advice from Maxwell-Fyfe, Jackson returns to confront Göring with evidence of his crimes against the Jews and successfully dismisses the defendant’s denials.
At a Christmas party, the German housekeeper refuses to serve the Soviets, but Douglas rescues the situation before slipping away with Jackson. Gilbert visits the defendants and, under Jackson's advice, attempts to convince them to take responsibility for their crimes. Andrus relaxes the prison rules for Christmas, and Göring shares a friendly drink with his guard, Lt. Tex Wheelis (Scott Gibson). The cross-examination of the defendants intensifies and the defence calls Rudolf Höß (Colm Feore), who casually reveals the horrors of Auschwitz. Speer is implicated in the enslavement of foreign workers by fellow defendant Fritz Sauckel (Ken Kramer) and in response accepts collective responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi regime.
Gilbert interviews Göring's wife Emmy (Susan Glover), who reveals that Hitler had ordered them all executed, which led to the family's surrender. Jackson is moved by Gilbert's summation of his examinations — that the source of the evil behind Nazi Germany was a complete lack of empathy — to give an impassioned closing statement. Göring uses his final statement to condemn the trial, and is sentenced along with several others to death by hanging. Speer uses his final statement to commend the tribunal and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Göring commits suicide after his request to be executed by firing squad is denied. Andrus presides over the executions of the others while Jackson and Douglas head home."
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"Cast
Alec Baldwin as Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
Brian Cox as Hermann Göring
Christopher Plummer as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Jill Hennessy as Elsie Douglas
Matt Craven as Capt. Gustave Gilbert
Christopher Heyerdahl as Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Roger Dunn as Col. Robert Storey
David McIlwraith as Col. John Amen
Christopher Shyer as Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor
Hrothgar Mathews as Thomas J. Dodd
Herbert Knaup as Albert Speer
Frank Moore as Hans Frank
Frank Fontaine as Wilhelm Keitel
Raymond Cloutier as Karl Dönitz
Bill Corday as Alfred Jodl
Ken Kramer as Fritz Sauckel
Max von Sydow as Samuel Rosenman
Sam Stone as Julius Streicher
Douglas O'Keeffe as Baldur von Schirach
Benoit Girard as Joachim von Ribbentrop
James Bradford as Hjalmar Schacht
Frank Burns as Wilhelm Frick
Erwin Potitt as Walther Funk
Tom Rack as Hans Fritzsche
Roc LaFortune as Rudolf Hess
Colm Feore as Rudolf Höss
Dennis St. John as Franz von Papen
Griffith Brewer as Konstantin von Neurath
Gabriel Gascon as Erich Raeder
Julien Poulin as Dr. Robert Ley
Alain Fournier as Alfred Rosenberg
René Gagnon as Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Len Cariou as Francis Biddle
David Francis as Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey
Len Doncheff as Gen. Iona Nikitchenko
Paul Hébert as Henri Donnedieu de Vabres
Michael Ironside as Col. Burton C. Andrus
Charlotte Gainsbourg as Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
Geoffrey Pounsett as Maj. Airey Neave
Steve Adams as Gen. Lucius D. Clay
Paul Hopkins as Capt. Dan Kiley
Susan Glover as Emmy Göring
Scott Gibson as Lt. Tex Wheelis
Historical inaccuracies
In the film, Göring, his wife, and daughter drove and surrendered to an unnamed American air corps base in Germany on 12 May 1945. In reality, Göring, after sending an aide to Brigadier General Robert I. Stack in which he offered to surrender to Dwight D. Eisenhower personally, was discovered and arrested in a traffic jam near Radstadt by a detachment of the Seventh United States Army, which was sent through the German lines to find him and bring him to a secure American position, on 6 May 1945.[1]"
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"Wilhelm Keitel was described in the film as an admiral during the defendants' sentencing. He was in fact a field marshal and would not have been identified with naval rank. However, he is correctly addressed as field marshal in other parts of the film.
In the film Jackson describes the Nuremberg's Justice Palace as "the same building where Nuremberg Laws were decreed to deprive all the German Jews all of their rights". In reality, the Nuremberg Laws were introduced by the Reichstag at a special meeting at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the NSDAP. Nuremberg's Justice Palace was, as it has always been, a regional court for the local area and the building had no association with the annual Party Rally during the Nazi era.
Justice Jackson is portrayed as initially failing in his cross-examination of Gӧring and emerging triumphant on the second day. In reality, the cross-examination was a disaster and severely damaged Jackson's reputation. This situation was recovered by Maxwell Fyfe.
The verdicts and sentences were pronounced together with all defendants present. In reality, verdicts and sentences were pronounced separately and the defendants were called one at a time into the courtroom to learn their sentence. Andrus was not present at the executions.
When the defendants were indicted by Major Neave they all made verbal statements. In reality these statements were collected by Captain Gustave Gilbert. He asked the defendants to write their first reactions on a copy of the indictments.[2]
In the film Albert Speer was arrested when he was giving a lecture to American soldiers. In reality Speer was arrested together with Karl Dönitz and Alfred Jodl in Flensburg where they had set up a provisional government.[3]
In the film Captain Gilbert is graciously given the right to talk to the prisoners by Col. Andrus in exchange for a library and an exercise field. In reality Gilbert was specifically appointed to talk to the prisoners by the US military. The idea was that Andrus was informed by Gilbert about the state of mind of the prisoners.[4]
The tribunal is depicted as having four judges. In reality, there were eight, a senior and a junior from each of the four Allied powers.
Göring's suicide is discovered when the guards come for Joachim von Ribbentrop when in real life, Göring himself was to go first. Ribbentrop only went first after Göring's suicide.
At the executions, the condemned state their names on the gallows and make their final statements in English. In reality, the condemned said their names before marching to the gallows and spoke in German, with an interpreter on the gallows. In addition, all executions appear to be carried out correctly. In real life, some of the hangings were reportedly botched as witnesses say not all of the executed Nazis fell with enough force to break the neck, and the trap door was too small causing bleeding head injuries to some of the men, as shown in pictures of the bodies."
Another noteworthy film is the 2001 movie "Uprising" from Wikipedia it says about this Movie -
Uprising (2001 film)
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Uprising
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DVD cover
Written by Jon Avnet
Paul Brickman
Directed by Jon Avnet
Starring Leelee Sobieski
Hank Azaria
David Schwimmer
Jon Voight
Donald Sutherland
Theme music composer Maurice Jarre
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Jon Avnet
Jordan Kerner
Cinematography Denis Lenoir
Editor(s) Sabrina Plisco
Running time 151 minutes
Distributor NBC
Release
Original release November 4, 2001
Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television miniseries about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Avnet and Paul Brickman. This miniseries was first aired on the NBC television network over two consecutive nights in November 2001.[1]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Filming
4 Music
5 Alternate titles
6 Reception
6.1 Controversy
7 Accolades
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Plot
On 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland and after which the regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the newly created Warsaw Ghetto.
As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was responsible for the administration of the ghetto. The film tells the moral dilemmas faced by Adam Czerniaków (Donald Sutherland), head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto, who was ordered to carry out orders of the German authorities, including sending Jews to the Treblinka Concentration Camp."
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"A group of Polish Jews decide to rebel against the Germans and not to lend a hand to the murder of their brethren. They begin to organize their people in order to protect the honor of the Jewish people, but Czerniaków as the leader of the Judenrat objects to this activity, fearing violent German retaliation against the Jews in the ghetto. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghetto realize they are doomed as the deportations to Treblinka began. The rudiments of resistance are planned by Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria) together with Yitzhak Zuckerman (David Schwimmer) and laid the foundation for the Jewish Combat Organization, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB).
The film illustrates the moral dilemmas of members of the Jewish Combat Organization during the preparations for the revolt: "How to remain moral, in an immoral society?"
On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis again hold raids in the ghetto, they encounter resistance from the Jews, for the first time. To their own surprise, they manage to stop the Nazi raids into the ghetto. When the Germans return to the ghetto on 18 April 1943, the uprising in the ghetto breaks out. In the intervening time, many of the ghetto residents construct hidden shelters or bunkers in the basements and cellars of the buildings, often with tunnels leading to other buildings. The handful of fighters who have weapons take to these shelters, giving the uprising the advantage of defensive positions.
The fighters hold out for more than a month. In the more than three hours mini-series, we see a realistic and docu-like representation of what happened at the Warsaw ghetto.
Cast
LeeLee Sobieski as Tosia Altman
Hank Azaria as Mordechai Anielewicz
David Schwimmer as Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman
Jon Voight as Maj. Gen. Jürgen Stroop
Donald Sutherland as Adam Czerniaków
Stephen Moyer as Simcha "Kazik" Rotem
Sadie Frost as Zivia Lubetkin
Radha Mitchell as Mira Fuchrer
Mili Avital as Devorah Baron
Eric Lively as Arie Wilner
Alexandra Holden as Frania Beatus
John Ales as Marek Edelman
Andy Nyman as Calel Wasser
Nora Brickman as Clara Linder
Jesper Christensen as Gen. Friedrich Krüger
Cary Elwes as Dr. Fritz Hippler
Palle Granditsky as Dr. Janusz Korczak
Hannah Hetzer as Girl in Trench
Filming
The movie was filmed in multiple locations, including Bratislava, Slovakia and Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria.
Music
The miniseries's soundtrack was the last film score composed by Maurice Jarre, and prominently features the work of Max Bruch, including his Violin Concerto No. 1 during the opening sequence.
Alternate titles
The French title for the film is 1943, l'ultime révolte.[2] The German title for the film is Uprising: Der Aufstand.[3] The Polish title for the film is Powstanie.
Reception
The film has a score of 7.4 out of 10 on IMdb, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4]
Controversy
The film aroused controversy in Poland due to historical shortcomings and the way in which the attitude of Polish people to the Holocaust was shown. Most of the people of Polish nationality appearing in the film are depicted as anti-Semites who look indifferently or approving of the extermination of Jews. The film omits the fact that the Poles were also repressed and sentenced to extermination by the Nazis. In contrast to the occupied countries of western Europe, Poles were threatened to be executed on the spot, instead of being sent to prison for helping the Jews.[citation needed]"
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"Accolades
In 2002, the film received the following awards:[5]
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Stunt Coordination category
American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot (Network)
Christopher Award for Television & Cable
Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Television - Dialogue & ADR, Long Form
Political Film Society Awards for Exposé
See also
Mila 18
List of Holocaust films
Vladka Meed"
Another TV Miniseries worth watching is the 2003 miniseries "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" from Wikipedia it says
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil
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Written by John Pielmeier
G. Ross Parker
Directed by Christian Duguay
Starring Robert Carlyle
Stockard Channing
Peter O'Toole
Peter Stormare
Thomas Sangster
Liev Schreiber
Theme music composer Normand Corbeil
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) John Ryan
Ed Gernon
Peter Sussman
Editor(s) Sylvain Lebel
James R. Myers
Henk Van Eeghen
Running time 179 minutes
Distributor Alliance Atlantis
Release
Original release
18 May 2003
Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian television miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It stars Robert Carlyle in the lead role and explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after the First World War and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May 2003 on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received two Emmy awards, for Art Direction and Sound Editing, while Peter O'Toole was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.[1]
The film's subplot follows the struggles of Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist who opposes the rising Nazi Party. He is portrayed as to fulfill the essence of the quotation disputably attributed to[2] Edmund Burke, which is displayed at the beginning and at the end of the film:
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links
Plot
The opening of film features a montage of Adolf Hitler's life during years 1899–1914, when he left Austria for Munich. His participation in the First World War on the German side is then shown in a series of episodes which includes his promotion to the rank of corporal, his awarding of the Iron Cross for bravery, and his blinding during a gas attack.
Hitler returns to a revolutionary Munich in 1919 and, still employed by the army, is assigned to report on the newly formed political parties in the city. After attending a meeting of the German Workers' Party, he is recruited by the party's leader, Anton Drexler, to organise its propaganda activities and give increasingly popular speeches that harp on the themes that Germany has been betrayed by the leaders who surrendered in the last war, and that Communists and Jews are sapping the German spirit from within. After meeting the wealthy art publisher Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler is encouraged to refine his image and create a symbol for the party – which he does by adopting the Swastika. Hanfstaengl also puts Hitler in contact with the city's elite, including the war hero Hermann Göring, and the militant Ernst Röhm, eventual organiser of the paramilitary SA. In 1921, Hitler forces Drexler to resign and takes over as leader of the renamed National Socialist Party."
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"In 1923, the Minister of Bavaria, Gustav von Kahr, urged on by his speechwriter, the journalist Fritz Gerlich, tries to outfox Hitler by convincing him that he is preparing to stage a military coup against the national government in Berlin and that Hitler must remain silent or else his party can play no part in it. Upon learning that the proposed putsch is merely a ruse, Hitler confronts Kahr at gunpoint and coerces him and his associates into supporting his own plan for a putsch. Röhm and the SA plan to take over the military barracks in preparation for a march on Berlin, but the attempted coup is quickly crushed. Hitler takes refuge at the Hanfstaengl home, almost resorting to suicide before Ernst's wife takes the gun from his hand.
Arrested by the authorities and tried for treason, Hitler manages to use the trial to his advantage, winning over the audience and the Judge with his courtroom theatrics. Consequently, he is awarded a lenient sentence in Landsberg Prison, during which he writes his memoirs (later published as Mein Kampf). In 1925, Hitler goes to the countryside to escape from politics and is joined by his older half-sister, Angela, and her daughter Geli Raubal. When he returns to Munich, Hitler takes Geli with him but, distraught by his overbearing control of her life, she later commits suicide.
Eschewing revolution, Hitler now demands that the party follow a democratic course to power. This declaration puts him into conflict with Röhm, but Hitler's demand for complete subordination of the party to himself as Führer (Leader) wins the approval of most others, including an impressionable young agitator named Joseph Goebbels. During the late 1920s, the party's political fortunes improve, with the National Socialists gaining more and more seats in the Reichstag with each election. Alarmed by the party's growing popularity, Gerlich continues to write articles in opposition to Hitler and, when the paper's editor fires him, forms his own newspaper.
In 1932, Hitler becomes a German citizen and runs for President against the incumbent, Paul von Hindenburg. Although he is unsuccessful, the party has become the largest in the Reichstag, which emboldens Hitler to demand that he be made Chancellor of Germany. Though Hindenburg despises Hitler, the former Chancellor Franz von Papen helps bring this about in 1933. Thereafter, the Reichstag building is set on fire, allegedly by a communist, and Hitler uses the incident to have parliament award him dictatorial powers, which include suspension of civil liberties and suppression of the press. As a consequence, Gerlich's newspaper is shut down and he is arrested by the SA and sent to a concentration camp."
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Germany now becomes a police state and Hitler crushes all his opponents, both inside and outside the party, which sees Röhm being shot and the SA greatly reduced. Following Hindenburg's death in August 1934, Hitler combines the office of President and Chancellor into one; making him at last, the ultimate ruler of Germany.
Cast
Robert Carlyle as Adolf Hitler
Stockard Channing as Klara Hitler
Jena Malone as Geli Raubal
Julianna Margulies as Helene Hanfstaengl
Matthew Modine as Fritz Gerlich
Liev Schreiber as Ernst Hanfstaengl
Peter Stormare as Ernst Röhm
Friedrich von Thun as Erich Ludendorff
Peter O'Toole as Paul von Hindenburg
Zoe Telford as Eva Braun
Terence Harvey as Gustav Ritter von Kahr
Justin Salinger as Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Chris Larkin as Hermann Göring
James Babson as Rudolf Hess
Patricia Netzer as Sophie Gerlich
Harvey Friedman as Friedrich Hollaender
Nicole Marischka as Blandine Ebinger
Julie-Ann Hassett as Angela Hitler
Thomas Sangster as Hitler (age 10)
Simon Sullivan as Hitler (age 17)
Robert Glenister as Anton Drexler
Brendan Hughes as Hugo Gutmann
Ian Hogg as Alois Hitler
Production
Originally, famed Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw had been on board as a consultant in the production of Hitler: The Rise of Evil. Alliance Atlantis, which had purchased the rights to adapt Kershaw's celebrated biography had wanted to make it more dramatic, but Kershaw found the production's liberties so historically inaccurate regarding Hitler's life that he ultimately chose to have his name removed from the project.[3]
Executive producer Ed Gernon was fired for comparing the climate of fear that led to the rise of Hitler's Nazism to U.S. President George W. Bush's war on terrorism.[4] CBS was prompted to act by a New York Post article that claimed Gernon's comment as an indicator of anti-Americanism in Hollywood.[5]
Reception
The miniseries received mixed reviews but was nominated for seven Emmy Awards and won two.[1] It received a nomination as "Outstanding Miniseries" and Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Emmy in the supporting actor in a TV movie or miniseries category. The miniseries won a Primetime Emmy Award for Art Direction and John Douglas Smith won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special" as Supervising Sound Editor.[1][6]
The New York Times said "The filmmakers worked so hard to be tasteful and responsible that they robbed their film of suspense, drama and passion"[7] but praised the performances of Peter O'Toole, Julianna Margulies and Liev Schreiber.
David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle gave it a positive review, praising Carlyle's performance as "brilliant".[8]
Another article documenting Arab Criminality, Arab Evil & Wickedness,
the website of Christians United For Israel, cufi.org has an article titled
"Canadian Arabic newspaper publishes article accusing Jews of blood libel"
Categories: News
An Arabic-language Canadian newspaper has published an article praising Palestinian terrorists and accusing Israel of burying prisoners alive and stealing their organs. Al-Meshwar, which circulates in the Greater Toronto area, dedicated half a page in its February 28 edition to an article titled “The Abuse of the Martyrs and the Manipulation of Their Bodies Are Jewish Commandments and Israeli Directives,” according to B’nai Brith Canada.The article was penned by former Hamas official Dr. Mustafa Yusuf al-Lidawi, who has a track record of accusing Jews of blood libel and other antisemitic charges. In it, he praised the “martyrdom” of Muhammed al-Na’im, a commander in the al-Quds Brigade of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was killed on the Gaza/Israeli border last month trying to plant a bomb. An IDF bulldozer prevented other Palestinians from retrieving his body, in a tit-for-tat action over the holding of fallen IDF soldiers in Gaza. Of Palestinian terrorists, Lidawi wrote: “Blessed is their martyrdom, and congratulations to them on their dwelling [in heaven], and hail to them in the highest Paradise.” He also accused Israel of burying prisoners alive and stealing their organs, ascribing such a practice to Israel’s “ancient malice, and Talmudic and Torah commandments.”
Read More: Jerusalem Post
From the GotQuestions.org website an article is titled
Question: "What is replacement theology / supersessionism?"
Answer: Replacement theology (also known as supersessionism) essentially teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s plan. Adherents of replacement theology believe the Jews are no longer God’s chosen people, and God does not have specific future plans for the nation of Israel. Among the different views of the relationship between the church and Israel are the church has replaced Israel (replacement theology), the church is an expansion of Israel (covenant theology), or the church is completely different and distinct from Israel (dispensationalism/premillennialism).
Replacement theology teaches that the church is the replacement for Israel and that the many promises made to Israel in the Bible are fulfilled in the Christian church, not in Israel. The prophecies in Scripture concerning the blessing and restoration of Israel to the Promised Land are spiritualized or allegorized into promises of God’s blessing for the church. Major problems exist with this view, such as the continuing existence of the Jewish people throughout the centuries and especially with the revival of the modern state of Israel. If Israel has been condemned by God and there is no future for the Jewish nation, how do we explain the supernatural survival of the Jewish people over the past 2,000 years despite the many attempts to destroy them? How do we explain why and how Israel reappeared as a nation in the 20th century after not existing for 1,900 years?
The view that Israel and the church are different is clearly taught in the New Testament. Biblically speaking, the church is distinct from Israel, and the terms church and Israel are never to be confused or used interchangeably. We are taught from Scripture that the church is an entirely new creation that came into being on the day of Pentecost and will continue until it is taken to heaven at the rapture (Ephesians 1:9–11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17). The church has no relationship to the curses and blessings for Israel. The covenants, promises, and warnings of the Mosaic Covenant were valid only for Israel. Israel has been temporarily set aside in God’s program during these past 2,000 years of dispersion (see Romans 11).
Contrary to replacement theology, dispensationalism teaches that, after the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18), God will restore Israel as the primary focus of His plan. The first event at this time is the tribulation (Revelation chapters 6–19). The world will be judged for rejecting Christ, while Israel is prepared through the trials of the great tribulation for the second coming of the Messiah. Then, when Christ does return to the earth at the end of the tribulation, Israel will be ready to receive Him. The remnant of Israel who survive the tribulation will be saved, and the Lord will establish His kingdom on this earth with Jerusalem as its capital. With Christ reigning as King, Israel will be the leading nation, and representatives from all nations will come to Jerusalem to honor and worship the King—Jesus Christ. The church will return with Christ and will reign with Him for a literal thousand years (Revelation 20:1–5).
Both the Old Testament and the New Testament support a premillennial/dispensational understanding of God’s plan for Israel. The strongest support for premillennialism is found in the clear teaching of Revelation 20:1–7, where it says six times that Christ’s kingdom will last 1,000 years. After the tribulation the Lord will return and establish His kingdom with the nation of Israel, Christ will reign over the whole earth, and Israel will be the leader of the nations. The church will reign with Him for a literal thousand years. The church has not replaced Israel in God’s plan. While God may be focusing His attention primarily on the church in this dispensation of grace, God has not forgotten Israel and will one day restore Israel to His intended role as the nation He has chosen (Romans 11).
From the website GotQuestions.org another article is titled
Question: "Did God divorce Israel?"
Answer: One of the ways in which God assures His people of His love for them is to describe Himself as their husband. For example, the prophet says to Judah, “Your Maker is your husband—the LORD Almighty is his name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth” (Isaiah 54:5; cf. Jeremiah 3:14; 31:32).
Israel often proved to be an unfaithful spouse, committing spiritual adultery by worshiping false gods and forsaking the Lord. In fact, it was due to idolatry that God spoke this word:
“I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. . . . Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense” (Jeremiah 3:8–10).
In this passage, God warns Judah against making the same mistakes that Israel, their neighbors to the north, had made. In their idolatry, Israel had polluted the land and broken their covenant with God. Due to the enormity of their sin, God punished Israel, and He illustrates that punishment like this: He “divorced” Israel and sent them away—a reference to the Assyrian invasion, which resulted in Israel’s removal from their homeland (see 2 Kings 17:5–7). Even given the example of Israel’s “divorce,” Judah remained unfaithful, as if daring God to mete out a similar punishment on them.
Having just cause, God, the faithful Husband, “divorced” Israel, His unfaithful wife. To make matters worse, God had asked, “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again?” (Jeremiah 3:1). The answer, according to the Mosaic Law, was “no”; a man who had divorced his wife could not later remarry her (Deuteronomy 24:1–4). According to God’s metaphor, Israel seems to be in a hopeless situation: she has been divorced by God, and, according to the law, she can never be accepted back.
But then comes a surprising twist: God’s mercy intervenes:
“‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will frown on you no longer,
for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will not be angry forever’” (Jeremiah 3:12)."
the article continues
"
In the same passage in which God sets up a scenario of hopelessness for Israel, He invites His people to “return” to Him and promises that His anger will end. Could it be that God’s love is stronger than His people’s rebellion? The Lord doubles down on His invitation:
“‘Return, faithless people,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I am your husband. I will choose you . . . and bring you to Zion” (Jeremiah 3:14).
God promises to do what the Mosaic Law could never do: restore the broken “marriage.” It was unthinkable that a human husband would take back his unfaithful wife, but God is greater than that; He can and will forgive His wayward people when they repent of their sin and seek Him again (Jeremiah 3:13).
God used the shocking illustration of a “divorce” of Israel to stress their guilt before Him. But God never cut Israel off unilaterally for all time. He only asked that they return to Him and experience His goodness. In fact, after God says that He “divorced” Israel, He commands them three times to “return” (Jeremiah 3:11, 14, 23).
The apostle Paul explains, “Did God reject his people? By no means! . . . God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. . . . At the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. . . . Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! . . . And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again” (Romans 11:1–6, 11, 23).
Another illustration of God’s amazing goodness is found in the story of the prophet Hosea. God actually commanded Hosea to marry a prostitute (Hosea 1:2). She did not remain faithful to Hosea. Then, while his wife was living in immorality, the Lord commanded Hosea to find her and buy her back. God’s purpose was to show the greatness of His grace: “Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods” (Hosea 3:1).
Hosea’s grace toward his unfaithful wife is a model of God’s grace toward His unfaithful people. Israel had been chosen and loved by God, yet they were unfaithful to Him by way of idolatry. In Jeremiah 3, God gives them a “bill of divorcement,” but then He pleads with them to come back. In Hosea, God pursues and redeems His estranged “wife” and seeks to continue His relationship with her. Both stories provide an unforgettable picture of God’s strong, unending love for His covenant people.
How can a divorced wife return and be restored? The law forbade it, but “mercy triumphs over judgment” (James 2:13), and God still has a plan for Israel. God’s grace in the New Covenant provided restoration for all who would believe in Christ.
Once, the incredulous disciples asked Jesus, “Who can be saved?” Jesus assured them that salvation is based on God’s power and grace, not man’s efforts: “What is impossible with man is possible with God” (Luke 18:27)."
Recommended Resource: Faith of Israel, 2d ed.: A Theological Survey of the Old Testament by William Dumbrell
From the website www.memri.org an article is titled
"Iraqi Writer: Arab Muslims Are Racist And Expansionist – And Attribute These Evil Traits To Israel"
July 2, 2018
Iraq | Special Dispatch No. 7549 the article says
"In an article posted August 28, 2017 on the liberal Arab website Al-Hiwar Al-Mutmaddin (ahewar.org),[1] Iraqi Muslim Arab writer 'Ali 'Abd Al-Karim Al-Sa'di harshly criticized Muslim Arabs, saying they are racist, greedy, harbor expansionist aspirations, and hate the other – yet, by a double standard, they attribute all these traits to Israel, and raise their children to hate it and also to hate all those who are not Muslim Arabs. For example, he wrote, the Arabs and Muslims vilify Israel for occupying Palestine, and accuse it of grave crimes and evil intentions, but at the same time take pride in their own conquest of more than 20 lands in the early Islamic era.
As an example of the Arab lust for conquest, Al-Sa'di presents Iraq itself, which he said was neither Arab nor Muslim because it was once populated by members of various cultures, religions, and ethnicities, prior to the first conquests of the area in the early Islamic era when Muslim Arab tribes from Yemen and the Hejaz arrived and forced Islam and the Arab identity on the locals. He added that Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and other countries were also originally neither Arab nor Muslim, but were forcibly Arabized and Islamized, often by means of massacring their residents.
Pointing at the Arab Muslims' deeply rooted hatred of the other, he described how Iraqi children are raised to believe that the Sabians [2] are tainted and that they not must come into contact with them nor partake of their food or drink. "Who, then," he asked, "are the Nazi racists who lust for expansion and conquest?" – hinting at Arab accusations against Israel.
Al-Sa'di concluded by condemning the Muslims' appropriation of God, the next life, and Paradise, excluding from them non-Muslims; he called it "a corrupt, racist, and Nazi idea" and added that all this makes him ashamed to be an Arab.
The following are translated excerpts from Al-Sa'di's article:
"We always hear that Israel is the source of racism and crime, that it hates the Arabs and Muslims, that it is greedy, that it has expansionist intentions, and other accusations and slogans of this kind, with which they have filled our heads since infancy. I hear [these slogans] recycled at home, on the street, in the school, at the mosque, and in the media. Unfortunately, I was once one of the herd that accepted the ideas, or a particular ideology, imposed by the ruling class, without awareness or analysis. At the same time, sometimes I can forgive myself, because a decade ago, when I was part of the herd, I was only 17. But after I wised up and began to think and ask myself many questions, I realized that these accusations directed against Israel attributing to it racism, expansionist aspirations, greed, and crimes were traits in which we ourselves – not Israel – excel, and are expert. Why, then, do we accuse the other of them?"
the article continues
"
"I will explain this forthwith. As an Iraqi Muslim Arab citizen, I will talk about my country Iraq, which was [originally] neither Arab nor Muslim. Everyone is aware of the cultures in it, and of its archeology, and also of the history of the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and the Kurds in it. These peoples are neither Arabs nor Muslims, but at the time of what the Muslims call the futuhat [i.e. the Arab conquests during and after the time of the Prophet Muhammad], and in which they take pride, they conquered Iraq and forced Islam and [the Arab] ethnicity upon [the residents, telling them]: 'Pay the jizya [poll tax] or convert to Islam'... and thus they Arabized and Islamized [the region] and raised in it the ethnic [Arab] and Islamic flag, at the expense of the other ethnicities and religions, through murdering millions.
"Every Iraqi Arab citizen knows that we are of Yemeni and Hejazi[3] origin, and the sheikhs of our tribes also know this; it's considered obvious. This applies to me – my tribe, the Al-Sa'di Arab tribe, is of Yemeni, not Iraqi, origin. My tribe itself took part in the Islamization and Arabization of many of the other ethnicities and religions, such as the Sabians and the Mandaeans[4] in southern Iraq, particularly in the city of Maysan, in the Al-Musharrah region [in southeastern Iraq, on the Iranian border], where many Sabians lived, and the region was considered an important stronghold for them. Under threat, they were forced to become Arab, to the point where Al-Musharrah, and the city of Maysan, was nearly emptied, and only a few families remained, that later emigrated after the 2003 Iraq war.
"All this has been pointed out by numerous Iraqi and Arab historians and writers... and Iraqi tribes like Shammar, Ka'b, Tamim, Tayy, Khazraj and others remain. To this day, I know many members of other ethnic groups living in my city... who were forced to join Arab tribes because society's nature is Arab and tribal and they were forced to ally with them. [The tribes] conduct psychological warfare against anyone who tries to take pride in his [own] ethnic group and refuses to join them, harming his security, livelihood, social ties, and good name and honor, and using all the Bedouin methods of aggression against them."
the article continues
""As we know, the borders of the [ancient] Arab state are only the Hejaz and Yemen, and within them lived Jews, Christians, and many opponents of Islam, who were all murdered and destroyed in the Battle of Banu Qurayza,[5] and there are Muslims who are ashamed of this [Battle] and attempt to rewrite [its history]. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, and other countries are not Arab countries, but they became so by force of invasion, and by force of murder and massacre [of their residents]. The Arab conquests [in early Islam] that came to India and Europe and other places failed, and praise Allah for that, because, had they been successful, these countries would have now been Arab-Islamic, and the Arabs would have called them 'the source of Arabism' [manba' al-'urouba], just as they call Iraq 'the mind of the Arabs' [jamjamat al-'arab].
"The following is an example connected to the Arab Muslims' attitude towards the Sabians: When I was an elementary school pupil, we had in our class pupils of the Sabian religion. We would ridicule them and exclude them, and when one of them brought us food or water, we would throw it into the garbage in front of him, without thinking about how he felt. Do you know why? Because we were raised to believe that the Sabians were unclean and that contact with them would befoul the body, so we must not eat or drink anything that is theirs. That is what we heard, and we did it without analyzing it for ourselves, because we were young. In addition to this, there were dozens of false accusations that we were taught about them, some of them shameful.
"But as time passed, I knew for sure that everything they told us was a lie, and I realized the power of the racism and hatred of the Arabs towards others. It is an indescribable phenomenon, most shameful and frightening. Hatred [of these others] only because of differences of race, ethnic group, or religion is unjustified. By Allah, is this fair? Is this just? Is this true? Who, then, are the racist Nazis who lust for expansion and occupation? Even their idea about God, the life of the world to come, and Paradise is loathsome, racist, and Nazi. They always claim that 'the Quran is Arab and the language of the denizens of Paradise is Arabic!' They think that the Creator and Paradise are theirs and theirs alone.
"Oh Arabs, the Quran is Arab, [but] this is not an achievement on your part, nor a reason for pride. The Quran itself has faulted you in more than one verse. One of the verses states: 'Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Quran that you may possibly understand [43:3].' That is, the Quran was brought down in your language in order to bear witness against you [on Judgment Day] – obviously, if we recognize the truth of the Quran. With regard to your claim that the language of the denizens of Paradise is Arabic, this denigrates the Creator, because He is not Arab, and He belongs to no ethnic group, and the Arabs have no monopoly over Him.
"Why is the occupation of one single land by Israel – assuming that it is indeed occupation – considered a crime that is forbidden by Islamic law, while your occupation and attacks on more than 20 countries [in early Islam] are allowed according to that same religious law, and you see these as welcome occupations?! Worse, you also regret that the rest of the attacks didn't go so well, like in Andalusia, India, and other places. What nerve! "
& lastly says
""I regret that for 17 years of my life I was misled. I feel that this regret has aroused in me an internal counter-reaction, causing me to hate my affiliation, my origin, and my ethnic group, and from now on I will feel shame when I say I am Arab.
"What the Arabs think and what they do is a bizarre combination of double [standard] and contradiction... that in my view belongs in mental institutions. But I don't know why the world allows them to carry out their nonsense, and tolerates them! And when will the Arabs notice that they are mentally handicapped?!"
[1] Al-Hiwar Al-Mutamaddin bills itself as a leftist, secular, and democratic website where many intellectual Arab writers publish their writing with the aim of disseminating secularism in the Arab world.
[2] The Sabians were an ethnoreligious group that lived in the Middle East for centuries prior to the rise of Islam. They are referred to in the Quran three times as "People of the Book" along with Jews and Christians, and sometimes Zoroastrians.
[3] The Hejaz, the region containing Mecca, has unique historical, religious and political significance for Arabs and Muslims.
[4] The Mandeans were an ethnoreligious group with a unique religion and language that lived primarily in southern Iraq, in what is today the Iranian province of Khuzestan. They believed that John the Baptist was the most important of the prophets, and that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad are false prophets. .
[5] Banu Qurayza were a Jewish tribe that lived until the 7th century in Yathrib (today's Medina), along with two other Jewish tribes, Banu Nadir and Banu Qaynuqa. In the fifth year after the Hijra (627 AD), as tensions between the Muslims and Jews increased, the Muslims, led by the Prophet, besieged Medina and defeated the Jews. All the Jewish men who refused to convert to Islam were slaughtered, and the women and children were captured as slaves and forced to convert.
People have mentioned before how the documentary film "Reel Bad Arabs" allegedly unjustly stereotypes Arabs, From Wikipedia, it says about this Film
Reel Bad Arabs
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Reel Bad Arabs
Directed by Sut Jhally
Produced by Jeremy Earp
Written by Jack Shaheen, Jeremy Earp
Starring Jack Shaheen
Music by Simon Shaheen
Edited by Sut Jhally, Andrew Killoy, Mary Patierno
Release date
1 November 2006
Running time
50 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen, which also analyzes how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of Arabs. Documentary analyses 1000 films that have Arab and Muslim characters, produced between 1896 to 2000, out of which great majority, 936 titles, were negative in their portrayal, arguing that the slander of Arabs in American filmmaking has existed since the early days of the silent cinema and is present in the biggest Hollywood blockbusters today. Jack Shaheen analyzes a long series of "demeaning" images of Arabs through his presentation of various scenes from different American movies which he has studied. He argues that this image is characterized by showing Arabs either as bandits or as a savage, nomadic race, or shows Arab women as shallow belly dancers serving evil, naïve, and greedy Arab sheiks. Most important is the image of the rifle in the hands of Arab "terrorists". The film then attempts to explain the motivations behind these stereotypes about Arabs, and their development at key points in American history, as well as why it is so important today.[1]
The film showed for the first time in Washington on 8 June 2007 and then in Los Angeles in the 20 June 2007. The run time of the film is 50 minutes, with Arabic and English subtitles. Soon afterward, the film was shown successively in more than a dozen of international film festivals between 2006 and 2009 [2][3] The film's estimated budget is $100,000.[4]"
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Contents
1 Synopsis
1.1 Arabs stereotypes reportedly found in movies
1.2 Films which reportedly depict these stereotypes include
1.3 Films which reportedly depict a positive image include
2 Cast
3 Reception
3.1 Film festivals
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Synopsis
Shaheen speaks at the beginning of the documentary about the extent to which Arabs face slander and manipulation in Hollywood, commenting that he has formulated that view of his after having seen over a thousand films produced, in the past and in the present. He also talks about how bleak the views are, those of which are borne by the Western civilization (and he refers to it as our civilization), admittedly confessing how the views directly attack the Arabs' humanity. Furthermore, he mentions how the same image took shape in several patterns to feed the same substance that is continuously demonizing the Arabs, thus. The image had to repeat over and over and was depicted in scenes in several films that heavily abuse the Arabs' behaviors and morals.
All through the documentary, Shaheen's statements are illustrated by clips from the films he describes.
Shaheen reviews some of the images about Arabs he perceives as distorted, and argues this causes a process of feeding/poisoning the minds of the younger generations with these infected ideas about Arabs that characterizes them with such heinous and harmful descriptions as in the Disney motion picture, Aladdin. Shaheen also turns it around: what must viewers from the Arab world think of America and Americans when they keep seeing these images in American films?
Shaheen also argues that the image of the Arab woman is distorted and does not represent her. Arab women in films are either bellydancers or faceless, anonymous shapes in black robes. More recently Arab women are also portrayed as terrorists. The truth is, they are just like all other women in the world: talented, intelligent, and equal in all areas and fields.
Shaheen then argues that politics have a big role in affecting Hollywood's image about Arabs, and moreover, both Hollywood and politics feed and empower the other. He stresses that filmmakers openly acknowledge this interaction between Hollywood and American politics by citing Jack Valenti, longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America: "Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA". Political and economic events like the crisis of high oil prices in the United States as a result of the Arabs refusal of exporting it to The States, the revolution in Iran (a non-Arab country) as well as Al-Qaeda activities, the events of 11 September and others, all exported a bad, faded image about Arabs to every American home... It is a truly a very distorted picture. Both the book and the film to reveal the American film scene history, where they exposed a blatant pattern of profiling to stereotype the Arabs and they also showed the similarity of this stereotype with the racist, anti-Semitic caricature and cartoon art throughout history.
Alleging a political agenda, he says out of 1000 films that have Arab and Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000), 12 were positive depictions, 52 were neutral portrayals of Arabs, and 936 were negative.
Although the negative imagery of Arabs and the Arab world in the film is a hundred years old, Shaheen also voices optimism about the future. Showing some examples of films that portray Arabs as ordinary people, he expects the negative images to change, due to the works of a new generation of filmmakers, who see things differently."
the Wikipedia entry continues
"Arabs stereotypes reportedly found in movies
The bad Arab character that is always evil and portrayed as a "terrorist" causing explosions, shootings, stabbings, offenses and attacks.
The shallow or silly Arab character that is always naive, pursuing only fun, lust, and extravagance.
The Bedouin Arab character, that is remotely far from civilization and science and is often accompanied by "tent" and "camel" images.
The arrogant Arab character that is very nervous, repressive of women, and the farthest possible from emotions or romance.
Films which reportedly depict these stereotypes include
Invitation to the Dance - 1956
Exodus - 1960
Harum Scarum - 1965
Cast a Giant Shadow - 1966
Network - 1976
The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington - 1977
Black Sunday - 1977
Chapter Two - 1979
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1981
Rollover - 1981
Never Say Never Again - 1983
Sahara - 1983
Cannonball Run II - 1984
Protocol – 1984
Back to the Future – 1985
Young Sherlock Holmes - 1985
The Jewel of the Nile - 1985
Hell Squad - 1985
The Delta Force – 1986
Iron Eagle – 1986
Death Before Dishonor - 1987
Wanted: Dead or Alive - 1987
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story – 1988
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 1989
The Bonfire of the Vanities – 1990
Navy SEALs – 1990
Patriot Games - 1992
Aladdin - 1992
Son of the Pink Panther - 1993
Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero – 1994
True Lies – 1994
Father of the Bride Part II - 1995
Executive Decision - 1996
Ernest in the Army - 1998
The Siege - 1998
The Mummy - 1999
Rules of Engagement – 2000
Gladiator - 2000
Black Hawk Down - 2002
24 - TV series
Sleeper Cell - TV series
Homeland - TV series
Films which reportedly depict a positive image include
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – 1991
A Perfect Murder - 1998
Hideous Kinky - 1998
The 13th Warrior – 1999
Three Kings – 1999
Kingdom of Heaven – 2005"
The Wikipedia entry for "Reel Bad Arabs" continues
Cast
Filmmaker information
Narrator: Jack Shaheen
Director: Sut Jhally
Producer: Jeremy Earp
Post-Production Supervisor: Andrew Killoy
Editors: Sut Jhally, Andrew Killoy, Mary Patierno
Additional Editing: Jeremy Smith
Sound Engineering: Peter Acker, Armadillo Audio Group
Media Research & Collection: Kenyon King, Bathsheba Ratzkoff
Subtitling: Jason Young
Arabic Translation: Huda Yehia, The Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts
Graphic Designer: Shannon McKenna
Additional Motion Graphics: Janet Brockelhurst
Production Assistant: Jason Young
DVD Authoring: Andrew Killoy, Jeremy Smith
Additional Footage Provided by: Mary Patierno, The Newsmarket.[5]" While Not all Arabs are Evil & Hate Filled, Many Are, thus the Arabs have themselves to blame for Negative "Stereotypes" about them, it's their fault as always, It's always their fault, Everything is their Fault , and instead of them crying about these "Stereotypes" about them in TV & Movies, they should try to Improve Themselves as a People, and become Civilized like
Israeli Jews ,
From www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to read is titled
"1,001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel" Published in 2006
by Mitchell G. Bard, Moshe Schwartz
Overview
Hardly a day passes when Israel is not in the news. Virtually all the press coverage, however, is about the conflict between Israel and her neighbors. There is so much more to Israel that is positive and should be better known. This book provides essential facts about not only the political events in the news, but also the positive contributions Israel is making in the arts and sciences. It describes some of the remarkable sites and people that make the country unique. This is not a recitation of facts and figures, but a mosaic of the most important aspects of Israel's past and present. The book will entertain those interested in some of the fascinating trivia about Israel and inform those doing more serious research about the economy, government, and culture of the Jewish State."
From the website Christianactionforisrael.org an article is titled " THE LAND OF ISRAEL - A Christian Zionist View"
By Halvor Ronning, Board Member of the ICEJ the article says
"A long spiritual pilgrimage would be required of most Christians today before they would ever consider calling themselves "Christian Zionists". This is true of the writer who was trained at a seminary where the predominant theology was REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY, i.e., the teaching that the Church has replaced the People of Israel, and that therefore the land of Israel today is no longer theologically significant.
In contrast, a Christian Zionist is a Christian who looks with favor on the Jewish return to Zion, the city of Jerusalem and the land of Israel, specifically because of the biblical significance of this return.
PROBLEM: THE TERM "CHRISTIAN ZIONISM"
The term "Zionism" originated in the late 19th century in a Jewish publication called "Self-Emancipation".[1] Traditionally Christians and Jews have not believed in self-emancipation, because only God Himself is believed to have the power to emancipate fully. Within Judaism there have been serious discussions over this term. Opposition was so strong that Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Jewish Zionism, was not able to hold the first World Zionist Congress in Germany as he desired, but was forced to look elsewhere to Basel, Switzerland.
[1] April 1, 1890, See "Zionism" in ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA (Jerusalem; Keter, 1971), vol. 16, p. 1032.
Redeeming a Biblical Concept
Within Christendom there are many who look favorably on the existence of the State of Israel, but do not call themselves "Zionists" because of their rejection of the perceived exclusively political origin of the term. Whatever that origin, and however we disassociate ourselves from that origin, the time has come to redeem the term. The reason we should redeem the term is because the return of the Jewish people to Zion is above all a biblical concept. This concept originated thousands of years before the specific modern term, "Zionism", with its new "-ism" ending which suggests a political connotation.[2]
We redeem the term when we support the Jewish return to Zion not because we think that Jews are heroes capable of self-emancipation, but because we look upon them as refugees whom God is capable of rescuing from annihilation. It is God Who is returning them to Zion and largely against their will. God is responsible for returning Jerusalem to the world stage.
He is doing so for His own purposes - beyond all human efforts to hinder or to help. Christian Zionist support for Israel goes beyond any weak altruism that could evaporate under difficult circumstances. It is grounded in our understanding of our own identity and therefore is not subject to fluctuation depending on circumstances such as the behavior of Israel or the threats of Israel's enemies."
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[2] Is. 35:10 "And the redeemed of the LORD shall RETURN and come with singing unto ZION and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." Until now this has not been fulfilled because the joy of returning has never lasted. The people have been driven out.
Jer. 16:14 "Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be said, "the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt'; but, 'the LORD liveth that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had driven them', and I will bring them again into their land that I have to their fathers." Surely this word did already apply to the return from Babylon as originally intended, but the phrase "from all the lands" and the present dramatic return from the north fit even more precisely.
Amos 9:14-15 "'And I will RETURN My people Israel out of captivity, and they will rebuild the waste cities and inhabit them, and I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of their land which I have given them' says the LORD your GOD." This prophecy has never yet been fulfilled because until now the people have always been driven out."
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"SIX BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES - from general to specific
The Christian Zionist view of the land of Israel can be expressed by listing a number of biblical teachings to which such a Christian adheres. By following this list from the more general teachings to the more specific, any reader can determine how much he can agree with such an understanding of Scripture - preferably total agreement. Hopefully the reader can at least part company with a clearer understanding of the scriptural logic that supports the Christian Zionist position.
1. BELIEF IN REVELATION. According to the Bible, contact between God and man is a contact established by God. He takes the initiative. He is the One Who wants the contact most of all. He has created us in His image; we are not the ones who create him in our image. That image in us creates in us a longing for the fulfillment of contact with Him. Additionally, He is the One Who reveals to us how we can make that contact.
This separates us from humanist philosophers. For a humanist the universe is silent and all that matters is how we human beings interpret the silence. The humanist does not need the land of Israel, because neither any land nor any nation have any special significance whatsoever. There is no God to give any land any special significance.
2. REVELATION VIA PARTICULARITIES. The God of the Bible is presented as making specific, particular, concrete, historical choices through which He reveals His plans for the lifestyle He requires.
This separates us from the general theists who do not need the land of Israel. For such theists, or New Age pantheists, all that matters is the divine spark within every individual, irrespective of whether the source of that divinity is outside or exclusively within. The physical location of anyone is totally irrelevant.
This also separates us from mythologizing Christians. They do not need land because history is only the accidental clothing of eternal truths. From their perspective any land or any time can be the setting of mythological stories that reveal eternal truths about God and man. For them no specific land nor any specific time have any necessary bonds to these timeless truths. As one such mythologically oriented theology student put it, "It doesn't matter whether Jesus ever lived or not. It is the timeless ethical teachings collected in the 'Sermon on the Mount' which are important."
To call this kind of Christian by the name "demythologizers" is a misnomer. Their activity is rightly called "remythologizing", which amounts to "dehistoricizing". It is precisely the ancient pagan NON-biblical world which consisted of meaningless repetitions of nature cycles in which individual human beings are but historical accidents. In contrast, it is precisely the biblical message which demythologized the ancient world by introducing the concept of an ongoing development overseen by One Almighty Lord.
It is a gross injustice to attempt to reverse this process by pretending that it is the Bible stories which are mythological! Such behavior must be exposed for what it is, viz., the attempt to reduce the Bible to the level of ancient mythology which is merely to be analyzed and criticized. Though the Bible can indeed be analyzed and critiqued, it is above all God's Word to be revered and obeyed. Its prophetic critique of our sinful behavior is to be respected and not ridiculed"
& continues- 3. RECORD OF REVEALED PARTICULAR CHOICES. Scriptures present us with a written record of God's earlier revelations. They record that God chose an individual who was told to leave his home and who was guided to go to another land promised to his descendants. By choosing Abraham and by promising to him the land of Canaan, God Himself created a new identity. This identity involved a specific land as the basis of the national aspect of the identity; it is also involved being bound in a relationship to God, the Giver, as the basis of the religious aspect of the identity.
The written record of these choices establishes forever an ongoing unchangeable reminder of how God did in fact create this new identity. This record has fixed forever the fact that God's style is to make choices! He chose a specific people in a specific location through whom to reveal Himself to other humans who are likewise concrete, specific, historical individuals in specific locations.
This separates us from Moslems. Moslems claim to have a revelation that makes the closeness of the Jews obsolete.
This also separates us from those Christians who think that the New Covenant was made with Christians - instead of realizing that it was made with the Jews first and only later was it expanded to include us non-Jews.[3]
[3] In Acts 10 we read of the acceptance of non-Jews into the family of believers. The very first non-Jew was a particularly hard case to swallow, an officer of the pagan Roman occupation army, Cornelius, and his family. Yet, after intense discussion among the all Jewish followers of Jesus, this expansion was accepted graciously and with a spirit of amazement at God's generosity.
4. RESPONSE TO REVEALED CHOICES. The importance of utter trust in God is reflected in the very name of the land today. The name, Israel, originated in the Jabbok River incident in which God changed Jacob's name to Isra-el, "struggling with God". Jacob is depicted as feeling totally powerless to face the dangers of the next day without God's help. Accordingly, in response to Jacob's desperate plea for God's blessing, God gives him a new name including "El", the generic Semitic name of God. This name reflects total rejection of independence from God. This means that Israel is not really "Isra-el" apart from a sense of dependence on God. The name does not mean to "struggle against God" but "struggling with God" to convince Him of our need for His blessing."
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This insight separates us Christian Zionists from anyone who glorifies military might, because God wants us to feel dependent on Him above all. Since "He can save whether by many or by few", the Bible demonstrates that seeming powerlessness coupled with prayer is stronger than military coercion.
It must also be remembered that the existence of might is not a biblical evil, but the ABUSE of might is evil. The Bible is not concerned with underdog/overdog, but with responsibility in serving God's justice. This is the challenge to be faced by Jewish and Arab rulers alike in dealing with the minorities under their control.
This separates us from Moslems who believe that military coercion is an appropriate vehicle for spreading religion. It also separates us from the overzealous fringe elements in the Israeli military; such individuals are not glorified in Israel, but are caught and punished by the Israeli military courts themselves.
This insight most surely separates us from those Christians who get romantic and starry-eyed over Israeli military accomplishments without holding Israel to account according to biblical standards about how to treat minorities and how to treat conquered enemies. [4]
It is surely significant that Israel is the only nation in the United Nations that mentions God in its very name. It is more important, for example, than the "IN GOD WE TRUST" on United States coins. The reason is that the message on USA coins is totally insignificant, unless the people of the land take that message seriously.
The difference is that Americans themselves choose how to label their coins, but God chose to label Israel. This difference means that even if Israel would like to forget its God-given identity and its destiny to be a dependent people, God Himself does not allow it.
[4] In the Hebrew Bible there are stories of conquered enemies being killed and stories of conquered enemies being fed and freed. Israelis have almost without exception followed the second alternative."
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5. GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS CHOICES.God's choice of the People of Israel and the land of Israel was confirmed and established stronger than ever before when He sent His Son Jesus to be a Jew in the land of Israel. [5]
God had promised that the house of Jacob would never be utterly destroyed, that there would always remain a remnant.[6] Accordingly He came down Himself as Immanuel to enter into that identity of "Israel", those who strive to express their utter dependence on God. Thereby He insured the indestructibility of the Jewish identity; even torture and death were revealed as impotent by the resurrection of His Son, the ultimate Jew, Jesus, the epitome of the remnant of the Chosen People.
By choosing Abraham God had created this identity, by naming Israel He had defined it, and by sending His Son He confirmed it. Since God Himself has created, defined and confirmed this identity. No other identity can successfully compete or replace this identity.
As descendants of Abraham and Israel, Jews of today still have the ongoing responsibility to be God's witness in the real world of concrete historical choices by maintaining their God-given special national-religious identity. To maintain this identity is a blessing according to the Scriptures; to attempt to be no different from any other nation is a curse.
History teaches that Jews outside the land have never found more than an all too temporary respite from trouble, and the same holds true when they have been in the land but have disregarded the instructions of the Torah.
Be it duly emphasized that trouble in itself is no proof of separation from God's purposes; on the contrary, hatred by a world of people who are not dependent on God is part of the fate of belonging to the family of God - whether a person belongs to the original chosen family or to its enlargement in the Christian family.
Some Jews thought that they could find respite by becoming Israelis - this is the mistake of the secular Zionists. But "oil has made us Jews again" said one Israeli satirist, which is to say, the oil crisis and the dependence of the world on Arab oil has again made it impossible for the Jews just comfortably to take their place among the family of nations."
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It is not only the economics of oil that causes difficulties. Far more dangerous to Israelis is the religious reality that Moslems suffer from the very thought of having lost control of the land. Israelis have to face the fact that Moslems consider it a religious obligation and duty to regain control of the entire land of Israel.
This all means that Israelis are constantly being reminded that no matter how hard they try, they cannot become just one more nation. The Bible even warns that it is a curse for them to try - because they alone among the nations have a particular God-given destiny as a nation that is different in kind from any particular God-given destinies that other nations may have. No other nation was chosen to be a blessing to all other nations, to be the home of the World Redeemer, and to be the locus of His Return. This is far from being a matter of pride for most Israelis. They are more likely to feel and say, "We are tired of being the Chosen People. If you want it, just take it. You can have our sufferings!"
This understanding of the Scriptural testimony to the faithfulness of God separates us Christian Zionists from all who think that God has abandoned the Jewish people, both from those who think of Jews as just one more NATIONALITY among the nations, and from those who think of Judaism as just one more example of the pre-Christian RELIGION of one more culture in which Christianity is to be contextualized.
This understanding clearly separates us from Moslems who believe that it is a stain on the honor of Islam to have lost control of the land after 1,300 years of Moslem rule. They teach that some Jews can live in the land, but that Moslems have a religious obligation to regain control of the land.
[5] In the Synoptic Gospels the chief use of the word Jews is in reference to Jesus as "King of the Jews" - with only three exceptions.
[6] "Fear not, O Jacob My servant, says the Lord, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure, yet I will not leave you wholly unpunished" (Jer. 46:28)."
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6. CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO ISRAEL. A certain deep biblical truth, unknown for centuries throughout most of Christendom, is now regaining recognition; it is the ongoing validity of God's claim on the Jewish people to maintain a specific peculiar combination identity, an identity that is at once both national and religious. Christian Zionists welcome and support the renewal among Christians of this biblical concept of Jewish identity as a sign of God's faithfulness to His historical choices.
This means that we support the national existence of the Jewish people including their political autonomy in the State of Israel, and we also support their religious existence as a people called to maintain an identity of a specific dependence on God unlike that of any other people.
We respect this dual character of the Jewish identity as being God's foundation of our own heritage. Yet we do not immigrate to Israel to become Israelis, nor do we convert to Judaism; we share the heritage but not their specific identity. This is because the early Jewish followers of Jesus were humble enough not to insist on making Jews out of all of us non-Jewish followers of Jesus. [7]
[7] See the proceedings of the Jerusalem conference held on this issue - as recorded in Acts 10."
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"DISCUSSION: WHO JOINS WHOM ?
This is the key question!
Do we enter the people of God by joining the faithful Jews?
Or do Jews enter the people of God by joining us in the Church?
The Ecclesiastical answer for centuries has been that they join us. The biblical New Testament answer is that we non-Jews join the Jews by our faith in the Jewish Messiah; we join the faithful remnant of the Jewish people who have always trusted in the God of Israel for their salvation and who refuse to give His Honor to any other!
We Christians join the Jews, those Jews who are the stump whose root is God, i.e., we are grafted into the remnant which is made up of those Jews who are faithful to God. But who are these faithful Jews? Karaite Jews? Rabbinic Jews? Messianic Jews?
In any case, we are not grafted into secular Jews nor into rabbinic Jews. But when we join the Messianic Jewish remnant even the secular Jews and the orthodox Jews must be accepted as somehow a part of the family. However problematic this may seem, we gain some kind of a special relationship even to them. Perhaps this relationship could be compared to the kind of relationship we have with nominal Christians, i.e., people who bear a name of which they are not fully cognizant nor serious. They are not to be rejected but to be challenged to fully live up to God's calling.
But what is this special relationship? This is not the task for one writer but for all Christian thinkers! The gloom of the Holocaust and the glow of the revival of the Jewish people in the State of Israel now challenge all Christians with an unfinished task: we must redefine our relationship in the view of what God has allowed and what God has instigated; He has allowed Auschwitz and He has instigated the return of the people of Israel to their land.
We need to redefine our understanding of Scriptures in terms of our relationship with the Jewish people whom God has not allowed to disappear, especially now in the twentieth century when we realize so vividly and so painfully what every Jewish family sings in the annual Passover Seder, "there have been in every generation those who stood over us to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed be He, has saved us from their hand."
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"GUIDELINES
Without claiming to solve the problem of how best to understand our relationship, it is possible to suggest guidelines for achieving a growing and hopefully better understanding:
1. Abandonment of the arrogant REPLACEMENT theology which claims that the Church has replaced the Jewish people. We are to reject the notion that they supposedly no longer have any theological reason for continued existence as God's people. [8]
2. Caution against overreaction leading to the opposite extreme of TWO-COVENANT theology as though God now works through two different methods with two different people. We are different peoples but are a "new creation" for whom there is only one way, God's way, of salvation.
3. Development of REMANANT THEOLOGY:
a) Study of the behavior of the biblical remnant in relationship to the others among the people who were not part of the faithful remnant. It will be of utmost importance to note how the remnant cried out to God on their behalf, rather than abandoning or rejecting them.
b) Clarification of our relationship to the various kinds of Jews. Who are the best candidates for being the stump which is organically connected to the Root? The Root is the Redeemer, Who is God Himself - as is so clear in the Passover Seder, "I and not another!" But which Jews are the remnant? Who constitute the stump into which we Christians are grafted? Who constitute the core of the family into which we are adopted? Are they not the Messianic Jews?
c) Development of Christian evaluation of the various forms of Jewish Messianism as respectful caring critique from within the family.
d) Insistence on the continuing faithfulness of God to the Jews as seen in His refusal to let Jewish identity assimilate and disappear even though many Jews have chosen the route of assimilation.
e) Clarification of the essence of the New Covenant as being established with the same ancient people, and only later expanded to include others also.
f) Clarification of the newness of the New Covenant: What is meant by a later convenant being a better covenant (Hebrews 8:6)? What is the advantage of a covenant "written in our hearts" (Jeremiah 31:33)? What is the advantage of a covenant which is opened up to the whole world? Stated more abstractly, how does the internalization of the locus of a covenant (in our hearts) and the expansion of the scope of a covenant (to reach the whole world) represent the improvement which the New Testament claims to be?
[8] Already in Numbers, chap. 14, the option of replacement theology is presented and flatly rejected. The option was that God would kill all the Israelites because of their sinfulness, and He would start all over again from the beginning. He would not reject the IDEA of a chosen people, but He would destroy the people descended from Abraham and start a new people from Moses. This new start with one individual is rejected. God listened to Moses prayer for His sinful people. God the Father has surely listened also to the prayer of Jesus. Moreover, in the New Testament, Paul makes it absolutely clear: "Has God cast away His people? God forbid! … God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew" (Rom. 11:1-2)."
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"SUMMARY
Two conclusions can be drawn about the significance of the land of Israel:
1) Because of a reawakened recognition that nationality, as well as religion, are both crucial to the full expression of God-given and God-preserved Jewish identity, we Christian Zionists realize that land is an integral and essential factor in Jewish identity.
2) Because we consider ourselves as being somehow adopted into that identity, we Christian Zionists are learning that land is critical also to our identity as Christians, though we are not Jews and do not need to become Jews.
These summary conclusions can be clarified:
1) The land of Israel is an essential part of Jewish identity. It has been proven over the centuries that Jewish identity can survive without Jews having to be present in the land of Israel. [9] But land has not been dropped from the ideal full expression of that identity as is obvious from this last century. Whether Jews actually live in the land depends on God's timing of His purposes and to a considerable extent on the condition of Jewish willingness to serve His purposes.
In other words, even though living in the land is not essential to the SURVIVAL of Jewish identity, the existence of a "Promised Land" is essential to the CONCEPT of Jewish identity. Necessarily, the ideal expression of that concept would include fulfillment of that promise by a Jewish population flourishing in the land.
Christian Zionists understand that it would be wrong to drop land from the concept of Jewish identity. The existence of a Promised Land remains as a powerful witness that the God of the Bible works in the world in specific ways to bring about His universal purposes; He works through concrete particular historical choices, including choice of land. Without a specific land as a witness to the specificity of God's choices, our own Christian identity is weakened. If the significance of earthly Jerusalem is lost, it not only becomes less likely that God will send His Son, Jesus, to Jerusalem in the future, it also becomes less likely that He did in fact send Him to Jerusalem in the past. [10]
2) The land of Israel is a part of Christian identity as well as a part of Jewish identity. The only difference is that since we were not obligated by the Jewish followers of Jesus to adopt the full Jewish religious-national identity in order to be followers of Jesus, we do not need even to consider Aliyah (immigration to Israel). But whether we live in Jerusalem or not, Jesus, as presented in the New Testament, is not conceivable without His activity in Jerusalem in the past and in the future.
This understanding of Scripture separates us from those actually anti-Christian spiritualizers who abandon any significance of Jesus' presence in Jerusalem in the past. This also separates us from the anti-Jewish spiritualizers within Christendom who abandon any notion of Jesus appearing in Jerusalem in the future. They teach that the Jews of today have no relationship to the Bible, and that Jerusalem no longer has any theological significance.
[9] In fact some Jews have been so assimilated into various cultures outside the land of Israel, i.e., so "diasporalized", as to be able to imagine a kind of Judaism that doesn't even want any present connection to the land.
[10] The "Jesus Seminar" that takes votes on whether the New Testament sayings of Jesus were really spoken by Jesus has not yet voted Him out of existence, but so little of Him is left that such a step would not be surprising. Others have in fact already taken that step of concentrating on the contents of the teachings without feeling any need of the Teacher."
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"CONSEQUENCES FOR SPIRITUALIZERS
Obviously Christian Zionists are separate from all spiritualizers. "Spiritualizing" is the counterfeit of spirituality. Spirituality is being in tune with the Holy Spirit of God. Since the actions of His Spirit have been recorded in the Scriptures, they serve to correct our various spiritual intuitions which may or may not be in tune with the Holy Spirit. Therefore reliance on the Holy Scriptures becomes the test of genuine spirituality.
A great loss occurs when genuine spirituality is abandoned in favor of its counterfeit. The genuine spiritual significance of God reaching out to us humans through real historical events in specific places is exchanged for counterfeit spiritualizations which depend on subjective experiences that are available anytime and anywhere. Objective external historical events are no longer made central to one's religious experience.
What the spiritualizers do is the opposite of caring about real historical events. They exalt the subjective experience of immediate contact with the divine and teach that the locus of the divine is supposedly within one's own soul. This focus on one's own inward spirit is what is meant by spiritualization, i.e., replacement of events subject to public scrutiny by hidden inner feelings not subject to external observation nor critique.
The Bible story, in contrast, stands or falls on its historicity. It deals with specific individuals and specific events in specific places. The Bible story is open for anyone to critique its reliability in reporting about the past and in making projections about the future. No book has ever been critiqued like the Bible, yet its historical message continues to impact people's lives also in that very personal subjective sphere to which spiritualizers try to reduce it. It is, however, precisely because of the historical character of its message about a particular people and a particular Savior in a particular land that it is able to impact each of us as particular individuals. We are not just meaningless numbers in the mass of universal humanity who are reaching inward to a nameless divinity formed in our image!
This can be expressed in philosophical abstractions: Only the particular can impact the particular. When all particulars have been impacted, then true universality will have been achieved.
Spiritualizers are wrong when they think we should start with universality; it is the end to be achieved, not the means. There will never be any universal harmony among human beings if the only universality to be allowed is the perfectly hollow and totally formal abstract universality of allowing anyone anywhere to decide or to create for himself whatever he wants to imagine as being divinity for him.
Spiritualizers, who want to get rid of a God of concrete choices, who have no use for the land of Israel, have got things backwards. They want the specific personal impact without the one kind of message, the biblical message, that is capable of giving a foundation to subjectivity that is reliable and secure, a basis that is open to scrutiny and that can stand the scrutiny."
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"No such testing is acceptable by the New Age disciples of inner realities. Such people feel themselves to be so spiritually or intellectually competent that they suppose themselves to be above the correction provided by the historical realities of the Bible. They trust their own spiritual experience and intellectual expertise more than they trust the Biblical account, even though that account is abundantly clear about the basic requirements of God's Holy Spirit as recorded throughout centuries of amazingly consistent prophetic perception of His will. [11]
It is no wonder that spiritualizers are so hateful toward Jews and toward Christians who sympathize with Jews. To their way of thinking we represent old-fashioned traditionalist tribalism. We obstruct any chances for world harmony by clinging to exclusivist particularist limited club memberships; according to them, we are "team players" looking out for our own interests rather than "fire-fighters" willing to help anyone in trouble. They claim that we care about Jews and don't care about Arabs. [12]
This is the lie of the spiritualizers: the claim that following particularistic historical choices is the enemy of universal harmony. The very opposite is the truth: the truth is that following God's particular suggestions is what makes for harmony. He makes specific choices as to the specific life style He requests us to follow, viz., the example of the Jewish Messiah and World Savior, Jesus. The only guarantee of growing harmony among us is growing agreement in following God's leadership.
Looking inward into the multitude of deceptive human hearts is exactly what leaves us in the mess of a multi-verse with no hope whatsoever of attaining a uni-verse. The natural result of spiritualizing is precisely to become pluralists who relativize the importance of any religion or any land. But pluralism is not the answer."
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"[11] "He has shown you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you, to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8). The consequence of exalting one's own spiritual intuitions above the revealed Word of God is a disastrous loss of moral moorings; this is all too obvious in many Christian societies and ministries throughout Church history - not least among recent tele-evangelists in the States.
[12] They seem not even to notice that by supporting yet one more Moslem Arab state they have not moved one single step further in the direction of achieving a society in this land that would be more concerned about justice and harmony. On the contrary, they are actually supporting severe regression from such ideals; one need only look at Israel's neighbors. When there was a rebellion in Jordan in September 1970, for example, 2000 people were killed in three weeks and the rebellion was finished.
Such stark anti-Israeli efforts are blind to Isaiah's vision, shared by many Israelis, of wanting to be a blessing to the Arabs. "In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance" (Is. 19:25-25).
CONSEQUENCES FOR PLURALISTS
There is a justifiable fear that causes people to become spiritualizers and thereby also pluralists. The fear is justified; but pluralism as the method for overcoming that fear is not justified. The justifiable fear is based on the historical fact that human particularisms always tend to become absolutisms. Absolutisms use coercion, including torture and murder, against their own citizens; they use military might against their neighbors in order to achieve their goals.
What is not justifiable is to suppose that all particularisms must necessarily lead to absolutism and that therefore pluralism is the only alternative to absolutism. Now it is true that all humanly based particularisms do ultimately lead to absolutism. But a particularism that is genuinely divine has no need to be absolutistic; its foundations in reality are so absolutely secure that it has no need to resort to absolutistic methods to prove or establish itself. This is why Jesus is willing to be killed rather than to kill, because no one can touch the reality for which Jesus stands, no matter how many people would be ridiculed or tortured or murdered in any attempt to deny that reality. What is of God simply cannot be overthrown no matter what any human does."
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"Therefore the test of true tolerance is not refuge in relativity and pluralism, but the willingness to suffer from others rather than to cause suffering, to allow them to live in error if they so choose, rather than turning to coercion to correct them. One can and should plead and warn, but that is all that one should do, because that is what God does according to the Bible. He then leaves us to ourselves to learn from the horrible consequences that it would have been better to have turned to Him earlier rather than later. God has simply chosen for His reasons (the creation of the possibility of love?) not to use coercion. He is so absolute that He has no reason to be absolutistic.
Genuine and very deep confidence in God is the only protection against the horrible evils of absolutism, not the ineffective hope for protection via pluralism as a philosophy. Pluralism as a philosophy of life is achieved by relativizing all absolute claims - this is unacceptable to traditional monotheists, whether Jews, Christians, or Moslems.
There is only one very specific kind of pluralism acceptable in a truth oriented religion. It is the pluralism of allowing others the right to be convinced, or not convinced, about absolute truth. We who are absolute about God are to use non-absolutistic means of persuasion. Only that religion which is so confident in God as to refuse to stoop to coercion is a viable alternative to the absolutisms that continue to plague us, that continue to reduce us to less than human in our behavior toward one another."
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"CONSEQUENCES FOR EVANGELICALS
That spiritualizers should turn their backs on Israel is not surprising, since they turn their backs in distrust against the Bible itself. But what about the circles of Evangelical Christian supporters of Israel? How is one to explain the recent defections? Why should someone who was once excited about the Jewish return to the land of Israel now turn their backs on Israel?
The problem seems to lie with the lack of perception of God's faithfulness to the DUAL ASPECT of Jewish identity. Professor Simon of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has said, "Though I am a social scientist and not a prophet, I dare to prophesy that if any Jew thinks that being Jewish is only a religious identity or if any Jew thinks that being Jewish is only a national identity, then his grandchildren will not be Jewish." [13]
Some Christians, indeed maybe most Christians, would look favorably upon such a consequence. The loss of Jewish identity may be seen as something desirable rather than something tragic. But even some Evangelical Christians, who may not wish Jews to disappear, are nevertheless weakened in their understanding of Israel, and some are not just abandoning their support for the State of Israel, but opposing Israel.
A major reason is that they emphasize only one aspect of Jewish identity. Those who emphasize Jewishness is being a NATIONALITY can point to all kinds of mistakes made by the various Israeli authorities; these become reasons for backing away from Israel the nation - rather than praying all the more for Israelis to bring God into their daily decisions. But Jews are not just one more nationalistic group to be treated sympathetically only as long as they appear to be underdogs, and then to be abandoned when they seem to be underdogs no longer. [14]
Those who emphasize Judaism as a RELIGION can easily tire when they experience the high level of suspicion and opposition that exists toward Christians - rather than repenting all the more for the kind of witness of hatred against Jews which has been the Jewish experience of Christians for centuries. But Jews are not members of some religious group to be treated nicely only until they rebuff us - at which point one could supposedly feel justified in turning angrily away.
We need to understand Jews biblically as a people whose dual identity was: 1) created by God, 2) defined in naming Israel, 3) confirmed by Jesus, and 4) faithfully affirmed by God even now as a continuing witness to Him as the Jewish refugees continue to escape persecution and return to Israel…"that the nations will know that I am the Lord!"
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"We will argue about how they ought best to give that witness. But the reason we argue is because we care about a biblically true witness to the God of Israel, because we see Him continuing to care for the well being of the people of Israel, because we see Him able to bring the people back to His land today. With this understanding we may on occasion be furiously angry at the behavior of some Jews, but we will never turn our backs on the Jewish people because of some offensive individuals.
Contrast this understanding with the anti-Semitic attempt at self defense which so often is expressed by stating that "Some of my best friends are Jews"; this only proves that the speaker doesn't like Jews in general for some reason or another, but allows a few exceptions. A Christian Zionist does just the reverse; he is quite willing to express disgust at a particular individual but that would be the exception to the rule of general good will to the people.
We Christian Zionists are willing to make the necessary theological corrections to our traditions in order to bring those traditions more into line with the Scriptures and with what God is doing in our time. Accordingly, we challenge all Bible-believing Christians to uphold the importance of the land of Israel as an essential element of our faith; the land serves as an essential part of the historical context of God's revelation.
We keep faith in the God of history precisely because we observe Him keeping faith with His choices and with His methods. He has not abandoned His choice Israel, nor will He abandon the method of outreach through Israel's Messiah to all nations. Accordingly we trust Him to send Jesus the Savior to Jerusalem again - to be all, if not more, than any rabbi ever hoped or dreamed that the Messiah would be.
[13] This statement was made in an unpublished lecture given at the Hebrew University in the context of a public lecture series on JEWISH IDENTITY.
[14] Underdog theology needs to be replaced by biblical theology. God cared for His people not only when they were suffering in Egypt, but also when they were unjust and were causing suffering to the Gibeonite minority. How God expresses care may change radically from sympathy to anger, but there is no question of abandoning the chosen people."
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"POSTSCRIPT: Variety within Christian Zionism
In general, Christian Zionism can be defined as Christian support for Jewish return to the land, but there is an immense amount of variety among these supporters. This article has dealt primarily with the lowest common denominator of Christian Zionism, i.e., the belief that being Christian links us inextricably with the Jewish people and should lead all Christians to be favorably disposed toward Jewish people and toward their return to the land of Israel.
This unflinchingly "favorable disposition" is a far cry from being a support club which is pro-Israel right or wrong. A few Christian Zionists may favor right wing Israeli politics, but others favor the left wing. A few Christian Zionists may be fascinated with the rebuilding of the temple, but others think that Jesus' sacrifice fulfilled all that the temple ever stood for - and are therefore opposed to any thought of ever rebuilding the temple. A handful of Christian Zionists even serve in the Israeli army, but others would be opposed to such military service.
Christian Zionism is most definitely not to be characterized by any one of its subgroups alone. Some of these subgroups represent no more than a minute extremist fringe. Rather this article has aimed to make clear the biblical relevance of the Jewish return to the land of Zion as important for all Bible-believing Christians.
Allow a Lutheran to conclude with a reference to Dr. Martin Luther's lectures on the book of Genesis. Luther was fascinated by the wonderful promises made to Abraham's descendants in Genesis chapter 12. Luther asked who those descendants might be. He looked at the Jews of his day and concluded from his observations that they could not possibly be the descendants to which the Scriptures referred. "If the Jews are Abraham's descendants, then we would expect to see them back in their own land. We would expect them to have a state of their own. But what do we see? We see them living among us scattered and despised." So Luther concluded that the Church was the spiritual heir of the promises to Abraham. Luther committed the sin of spiritualizing - just as he had been taught in the schools of his denomination.
What happened to Luther is that he thought the Turkish Moslem attack on neighboring Vienna Austria indicated that he was living in the Last Days. Luther could not imagine that God was quite capable of yet blessing the Jews in the future. Luther's false eschatology destroyed his excellent biblical methodology of looking at history to determine what God is doing! What if Luther had been alive today? He would have been a Christian Zionist!"
Also from Christianactionforisrael.org an article is titled
"Born In A Day"
By David Parsons - International Christian Embassy Jerusalem - May 2005
"As Israelis mark their 57th Independence Day, many Christians view this occasion as reason to celebrate the faithfulness of God. Yet much of the Christian world still struggles with the theological significance of Israel’s stunning re-emergence as a nation on May 14, 1948. Nearly six decades later, some churches are slowly coming to terms with the extensive biblical credentials behind the promised ‘restoration of Zion,’ while others still cling to antiquated doctrines about the Jews being cursed to endless wandering.
The reformer Martin Luther was once asked whether the Jews of his time were still children of Abraham. His answer: “If the Jews are Abraham’s descendants, then we would expect them to be back in their own land… But do we see that? We see them living scattered and despised.”
So what would Luther do with today’s reality of over 5.5 million Jews now living back in their national homeland? If it is not part of a promised restoration, is it a political accident or fluke of history?
First and foremost, the modern-day Jewish return to the land of their fathers is testimony to the faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God. In Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham was promised not only a “seed” to bless the whole earth, but also the physical land of Israel as an “everlasting possession” for his natural descendants. Thus both the land and people of Israel were chosen for the purpose of world redemption, and to strip away either one undercuts the whole redemptive plan. Though the Lord has exiled the Israelites from the land for appointed seasons as a corrective measure, their underlying title deed remains intact and He has sworn to deliver the entire land to them one day in abiding rest and peace. This is vouched for in both the Mosaic and Davidic covenants.
The Hebrew prophets then appear as servants of the covenants to keep the land and people of Israel together in the timings of God’s redemptive plan. When one reads their interspersed mix of poetry, fury, compassion and despair, the key to understanding their ministry is to realize that every prophetic utterance has to fit within the terms and conditions of the covenants already established with Israel. God is not a man that He should lie or change His mind about a sworn oath."
Also from Christianactionforisrael.org an article is titled
"Born In A Day"
By David Parsons - International Christian Embassy Jerusalem - May 2005
"As Israelis mark their 57th Independence Day, many Christians view this occasion as reason to celebrate the faithfulness of God. Yet much of the Christian world still struggles with the theological significance of Israel’s stunning re-emergence as a nation on May 14, 1948. Nearly six decades later, some churches are slowly coming to terms with the extensive biblical credentials behind the promised ‘restoration of Zion,’ while others still cling to antiquated doctrines about the Jews being cursed to endless wandering.
The reformer Martin Luther was once asked whether the Jews of his time were still children of Abraham. His answer: “If the Jews are Abraham’s descendants, then we would expect them to be back in their own land… But do we see that? We see them living scattered and despised.”
So what would Luther do with today’s reality of over 5.5 million Jews now living back in their national homeland? If it is not part of a promised restoration, is it a political accident or fluke of history?
First and foremost, the modern-day Jewish return to the land of their fathers is testimony to the faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God. In Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham was promised not only a “seed” to bless the whole earth, but also the physical land of Israel as an “everlasting possession” for his natural descendants. Thus both the land and people of Israel were chosen for the purpose of world redemption, and to strip away either one undercuts the whole redemptive plan. Though the Lord has exiled the Israelites from the land for appointed seasons as a corrective measure, their underlying title deed remains intact and He has sworn to deliver the entire land to them one day in abiding rest and peace. This is vouched for in both the Mosaic and Davidic covenants.
The Hebrew prophets then appear as servants of the covenants to keep the land and people of Israel together in the timings of God’s redemptive plan. When one reads their interspersed mix of poetry, fury, compassion and despair, the key to understanding their ministry is to realize that every prophetic utterance has to fit within the terms and conditions of the covenants already established with Israel. God is not a man that He should lie or change His mind about a sworn oath."
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"Thus the words of warning and doom flowed from the prophets’ anguish that Israel was in breach of the conditions God placed on their right to actually reside in the land given to them. Yet their accompanying poetic joy was in realization that God nevertheless was duty bound to return them to the land again one day because of His solemn oath to Abraham, and confirmed to David as a reward. For in order to eventually wind up back in the land permanently, the cycle must go ‘scatter and return,’ not ‘return and then scatter.’ Thus at nearly every point that the prophets speak of exilic judgment, they also sound the hope of return.
“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you,” says Isaiah. “‘In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment: But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,’ says the Lord your Redeemer.” (54:7-8)
Even so, some Christians contend that the two prophesied Jewish exiles and returns were completed in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah and that Old Testament promises of an end-day ingathering and exaltation of Israel in her land were fulfilled in the birth and ‘triumph’ of the Church. In challenging Christian Zionists, they argue that the New Testament is basically ‘silent’ regarding the ‘land,’ and thus Christians have scant biblical basis to support the secular State of Israel in the face of Palestinian suffering. To them, the events of May 1948 were undoubtedly a nakba (Arabic for “disaster”).
Yet there are numerous clear references to the land in the New Testament. Most importantly, every mention of the covenants or ‘promises made to the fathers’ – meaning the Patriarchs – necessarily includes the land. It is not implied or inferred, it is intrinsic, since the land is subsumed or embedded into the terms of the covenants due to its central role in furthering the redemptive plan.
In Romans 15:8, the Apostle Paul says that Jesus came “to confirm the promises made to the fathers.” Then in Hebrews 6, Paul urges New Testament believers to take “strong encouragement” that God will keep His promises to us by observing His faithfulness to the Abrahamic covenant. His “immutable” name and character are at stake, Paul insists, and thus if the Almighty is not able to bring the Jews to their promised destiny back in the land in the fullness of time, we cannot trust Him either.
In addition, New Testament writers and figures, including Jesus, repeatedly invoked the Jewish hope of a future ‘restoration’ in the land, a widely held concept drawn from numerous promises in Scripture about restoring the “fortunes” (or “captivity”) of Jacob/Israel [See for example, Psalm 14:7; 77:7; 85:1; 106; 126:1; Jeremiah 30:18; 33:25-26; Ezekiel 39:25; Hosea 6:11; Joel 3:1]. This Jewish hope in liberation from Roman rule and “restoration” of the Davidic kingdom was so prevalent in those days that the words “for the redemption of Zion” or “the freedom of Zion” were even imprinted on many Judean coins in the First Century."
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"It was these times of favor or ‘restoration’ for Israel that are alluded to in Acts 1:6-7, when Jesus tells his disciples not to be so concerned with the nation’s fate at that moment, but instead concentrate on preaching the Gospel to all men. And yet, the Apostle Peter is able to stand in that same Jerusalem not many days hence and boldly declare that the “times of restoration of all things” spoken of “by the mouth of His holy prophets” will indeed come before Messiah returns (Acts 3:21). In so doing, we see that Peter’s preaching included a marked hope in that future time of favor and final ingathering for Israel.
Paul as well is quite clear about this future time of ingathering and recovery for Israel in Romans 11.
Isaiah 66:8 ponders, “shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.” The modern-day restoration of Zion indeed has proven painful thus far for many – Jews and Arabs – and more has yet to be birthed. But the reappearance of a sovereign Jewish nation in their ancient homeland on that momentous day in 1948 is truly cause for Christians to rejoice in a faithful God."
The writer is public relations officer for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
Also from Christianactionforisrael.org another article is titled
"Can a Nation Be Born in a Day?"
"Isaiah asks this unusual question (Isaiah 66:8) knowing that the answer from natural history is "N0!" Throughout history, wars of independence precede the obtaining of national sovereignty; but in the supernatural history of Israel the answer is a clear "Yes". as proven on May 14, 1948 when the modem state of Israel appeared on the world stage, literally '"in a day."
This uniqueness of Israel, backed by the unseen hand of the Almighty One (Jeremiah 31:35-37), is the reason why unbelieving historians do not, and cannot, deal adequately with the subject of Israel in their so-called accounts of world history. Having rejected the light from God's Word, they are confounded and distressed about Israel, because she does not fit into their theories which falsely presume that man is in control of historical events.
Israel was made into a nation, in the sovereign wisdom of God, while captive as slaves in Egypt. God told Abraham it would be so (Genesis 15:13-14) before the 70 Israelites went down into Egypt to there be multiplied into "600,000 men"' (Exodus 12:37).
When their promised deliverance came, through the blood of the Passover lamb, the nations that stood physically in God's way were dealt with severely. Neither could those nations, alone or together, defeat Israel when she became established in the Promised Land; and she "was the head and not the tail" for 1000 years under the First Jewish Commonwealth.
Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, which lasted 70 years, Israel returned to Canaan; but not as a sovereign nation, but rather under the yoke of foreigners like the Romans in the time of Jesus.
In 70 A.D. Israel was again disbursed; this time not to Babylon, but to the "four corners of the earth"; and not for 70 years but for nearly 2000 years. No wonder that the unbelieving world wrote Israel off as a nation that had disappeared forever; as did the church, which ought to have known better because of the Bible."
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The majority of Christian theologians also wrote off God's covenants with Israel; thereby undermining their own faith in the same God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.. .the covenant-keeping God.
This final scattering of the Jews among the nations, and their rejection and persecution by the Gentiles and the majority of Christendom, culminated in the most horrible event of all human history, the Holocaust.
After the defeat of Hitler's Third Reich the United Nations in November 1947 passed the "Resolution For the Partition of Palestine," granting a portion to the Jews, a portion to the Arabs, and internationalizing Jerusalem. The Arabs rejected the plan. The Jews did not like the plan but accepted it, believing 'half a loaf to be better than none.
Although they may not know it, the nations jointly, by doing so, have set themselves on a collision course with the God of history (Joel 3:2).
Modern Israel was born, and twenty years later, in defending herself from attack, she surprisingly not only survived but ended up with more territory, including Judea and Samaria as well as east Jerusalem containing the Temple Mount.
The nations waited until Israel was winning before calling for an enforced "peace," and demanded that Israel abandon the territories she had won from Jordan and Egypt.
We do not have to guess at what God thinks of this raging of the nations, for Joel records the word of the Lord: that He "shall return again the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, and will also gather all nations and bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there FOR MY PEOPLE AND FOR MY HERITAGE ISRAEL, whom they have scattered among the nations AND PARTED (PARTITIONED) MY LAND' (Joel 3:2).
The fulfilment of the above prophecy is yet future.
From 1948 to 1967 Jordan had east Jerusalem as well as Judea and Samaria, but did little except dominate "the Palestinians" living there; and destroy Jewish synagogues, graves and even Torah Scrolls in the old city.
Most notably, there was no cry for the establishment of "a Palestinian state" while Jordan ruled the area. After Israel took possession of the territories Nasser formed the P.L.O. in Egypt as a propaganda tool against Israel. The P.L.O. operated out of Jordan until "Black September" 1972 when, in an unsuccessful coup against Hussein, they were crushed by Hussein's loyal Bedouin army.
Unfortunately for Lebanon, that young nation welcomed the P.L.O. to take refuge in Lebanon. In the ten years following, from 1972 to 1982, more than 100,000 people died in Lebanon's civil war, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. The P.L.O. used Lebanon as a terrorist base against Israel until Israel struck back in 1982 in southern Lebanon. Since then the P.L.O. has escalated terror by uprisings inside Israel, using women and children as the front line, for obvious propaganda reasons."
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""Why do the nations rage, and the kings of the earth set themselves together against the Lord.. the Lord shall have them in derision" (Psalm 2).
In spite of whatever man may try to do to prevent it, the restoration of the Jewish people in, and to, the Promised Land is guaranteed by Israel's God; so that "all the nations of the earth"' shall yet be blessed.
Listen to Amos: "And I will return the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; they also shall make gardens and eat the fruit of them. AND I WILL PLANT THEM UPON THEIR LAND AND THEY SHALL NO MORE BE PULLED UP OUT OF THEIR LAND which I have given them, says the Lord thy God".(Amos 9:14-15).
Listen also to Isaiah: "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... and he shall set up an ensign (announcement) for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth... and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off' (Isaiah 11:11-13).
Nations, beware! Israel is back in sovereign control of the Promised Land and Jerusalem!"
Also from Christianactionforisrael.org an article is titled
"The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians" " the article says
"There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews . . . . Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us?
"The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity."
---- Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995
Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today . . . No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
-- from "Myths of the Middle East", Joseph Farah, Arab-American editor and journalist, WorldNetDaily, 11 October 2000
From the end of the Jewish state in antiquity to the beginning of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries . . . .
-- Professor Bernard Lewis, Commentary Magazine, January 1975
Talk and writing about Israel and the Middle East feature the nouns "Palestine" and Palestinian", and the phrases "Palestinian territory" and even "Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory". All too often, these terms are used with regard to their historical or geographical meaning, so that the usage creates illusions rather than clarifies reality.
WHAT DOES "PALESTINE" MEAN?
It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.
The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The name began to be used in the Thirteenth Century BCE, for a wave of migrant "Sea Peoples" who came from the area of the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands and settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it "Palastina".
The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from the Peleshet."
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HOW DID THE LAND OF ISRAEL BECOME "PALESTINE"?
In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.
The Romans killed many Jews and sold many more in slavery. Some of those who survived still alive and free left the devastated country, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land. There was never a time when there were not Jews and Jewish communities, though the size and conditions of those communities fluctuated greatly.
THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE
Thousands of years before the Romans invented "Palastina" the land had been known as "Canaan". The Canaanites had many tiny city-states, each one at times independent and at times a vassal of an Egyptian or Hittite king. The Canaanites never united into a state.
After the Exodus from Egypt probably in the Thirteenth Century BCE but perhaps earlier -- , the Children of Israel settled in the land of Canaan. There they formed first a tribal confederation, and then the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and the post-biblical kingdom of Judea. From the beginning of history to this day, Israel-Judah-Judea has the only united, independent, sovereign nation-state that ever existed in "Palestine" west of the Jordan River. (In biblical times, Ammon, Moab and Edom as well as Israel had land east of the Jordan, but they disappeared in antiquity and no other nation took their place until the British invented Trans-Jordan in the 1920s.)
After the Roman conquest of Judea, "Palastina" became a province of the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire, and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. In 638 CE, an Arab-Muslim Caliph took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced "Falastin".
In that period, much of the mixed population of Palastina converted to Islam and adopted the Arabic language. They were subjects of a distant Caliph who ruled them from his capital, that was first in Damascus and later in Baghdad. They did not become a nation or an independent state, or develop a distinct society or culture.
In 1099, Christian Crusaders from Europe conquered Palestina-Falastin. After 1099, it was never again under Arab rule. The Christian Crusader kingdom was politically independent, but never developed a national identity. It remained a military outpost of Christian Europe, and lasted less than 100 years. Thereafter, Palestine was joined to Syria as a subject province first of the Mameluks, ethnically mixed slave-warriors whose center was in Egypt, and then of the Ottoman Turks, whose capital was in Istanbul.
During the First World War, the British took Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. At the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and among its subject provinces "Palestine" was assigned to the British, to govern temporarily as a mandate from the League of Nations."
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THE JEWISH NATIONAL HOME
Travellers to Palestine from the Western world left records of what they saw there. The theme throughout their reports is dismal:
The land was empty, neglected, abandoned, desolate, fallen into ruins. Nothing there [Jerusalem] to be seen but a little of the old walls which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds.
-- English pilgrim in 1590
The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population"
-- British consul in 1857
There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [valley of Jezreel] -- not for 30 miles in either direction. . . . One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.
For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee... Nazareth is forlorn... Jericho lies a moldering 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
The restoration of the "desolate and unlovely" land began in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century with the first Jewish pioneers. Their labors created newer and better conditions and opportunities, which in turn attracted migrants from many parts of the Middle East, both Arabs and others. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, confirmed by the League of Nations Mandate, commited the British Government to the principle that "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish National Home, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object... " It was specified both that this area be open to "close Jewish settlement" and that the rights of all inhabitants already in the country be preserved and protected.
Mandate Palestine originally included all of what is now Jordan, as well as all of what is now Israel, and the territories between them. However, when Great Britain's protégé Emir Abdullah was forced to leave the ancestral Hashemite domain in Arabia, the British created a realm for him that included all of Manfate Palestine east of the Jordan River. There was no traditional or historic Arab name for this land, so it was called after the river: first Trans-Jordan and later Jordan.
By this political act, that violated the conditions of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate, the British cut more than 75 percent out of the Jewish National Home. No Jew has ever been permitted to reside in Trans-Jordan/Jordan.
Less than 25 percent then remained of Mandate Palestine, and even in this remnant, the British violated the Balfour and Mandate requirements for a "Jewish National Home" and for "close Jewish settlement". They progressively restricted where Jews could buy land, where they could live, build, farm or work.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was finally able to settle some small part of those lands from which the Jews had been debarred by the British. Successive British governments regularly condemn their settlement as "illegal". In truth, it was the British who had acted illegally in banning Jews from these parts of the Jewish National Home."
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WHO IS A PALESTINIAN?
During the period of the Mandate, it was the Jewish population that was known as "Palestinians" including those who served in the British Army in World War II.
British policy was to curtail their numbers and progressively limit Jewish immigration. By 1939, the White Paper virtually put an end to admission of Jews to Palestine. This policy was imposed the most stringently at the very time this Home was most desperately needed -- after the rise of Nazi power in Europe. Jews who might have developed the empty lands of Palestine and left progeny there, instead died in the gas chambers of Europe or in the seas they were trying to cross to the Promised Land.
At the same time that the British slammed the gates on Jews, they permitted or ignored massive illegal immigration into Western Palestine from Arab countries Jordan, Syria, Egypt, North Africa. In 1939, Winston Churchill noted that "So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied . . . ." Exact population statistics may be problematic, but it seems that by 1947 the number of Arabs west of the Jordan River was approximately triple of what it had been in 1900.
The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in Palestine, until the Jews came and "displaced" them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into Palestine "displaced" the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in Palestine for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a "Palestinian refugees".
Casual use of population statistics for Jews and Arabs in Palestine rarely consider how the proportions came to be. One factor was the British policy of keeping out Jews while bringing in Arabs. Another factor was the violence used to kill or drive out Jews even where they had been long established. For one example: The Jewish connection with Hebron goes back to Abraham, and there has been an Israelite/Jewish community there since Joshua long before it was King David's first capital. In 1929, Arab rioters with the passive consent of the British -- killed or drove out virtually the entire Jewish community.
For another example: In 1948, Trans-Jordan seized much of Judea and Samaria (which they called The West Bank) and East Jerusalem and the Old City. They killed or drove out every Jew.
It is now often proposed as a principle of international law and morality that all places that the British and the Arabs rendered Judenrein must forever remain so. In contrast, Israel eventually allotted 17 percent of Mandate Palestine has a large and growing population of Arab citizens."
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What was to become of "Palestine" after the Mandate? This question was taken up by various British and international commissions and other bodies, culminating with the United Nations in 1947. During the various deliberations, Arab officials, spokesmen and writers expressed their views on "Palestine".
"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it."
-- Local Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937
"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not"
-- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946
"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
-- Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956
By 1948, the Arabs had still not yet discovered their ancient nation of Falastin. When they were offered half of Palestine west of the Jordan River for a state, the offer was violently rejected. Six Arab states launched a war of annihilation against the nascent State of Israel. Their purpose was not to establish an independent Falastin. Their aim was to partition western Palestine amongst themselves.
They did not succeed in killing Israel, but Trans-Jordan succeeded in taking Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and East Jerusalem, killing or driving out all the Jews who had lived in those places, and banning Jews of all nations from Jewish holy places. Egypt succeeded in taking the Gaza Strip. These two Arab states held these lands until 1967. Then they launched another war of annihilation against Israel, and in consequence lost the lands they had taken by war in 1948.
During those 19 years, 1948-1967, Jordan and Egypt never offered to surrendar those lands to make up an independent state of Falastin. The "Palestinians" never sought it. Nobody in the world ever suggested it, much less demanded it. Finally, in 1964, the Palestine Liberation Movement was founded. Ahmed Shukairy, who less than 10 years earlier had denied the existence of Palestine, was its first chairman. Its charter proclaimed its sole purpose to be the destruction of Israel. To that end it helped to precipitate the Arab attack on Israel in 1967.
The outcome of that attack then inspired an alteration in public rhetoric. As propaganda, it sounds better to speak of the liberation of Falastin than of the destruction of Israel. Much of the world, governments and media and public opinion, accept virtually without question of serious analysis the new-sprung myth of an Arab nation of Falastin, whose territory is unlawfully occupied by the Jews.
Since the end of World War I, the Arabs of the Middle East and North Africa have been given independent states in 99.5 percent of the land they claimed. Lord Balfour once expressed his hope that when the Arabs had been given so much, they would "not begrudge" the Jews the "little notch" promised to them.
[Note: Some of the material cited above is drawn from the book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters.]. We at this blog again say, The so-called "Palestinians" are a Fake Invented People, We all Wish they were Never Invented, worst invention in human history
From the website Worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Analysis: Worrying signs Iran intentionally spreading coronavirus"
March 10, 2020
Analysis: Worrying signs Iran intentionally spreading coronavirusA Iranian cleric (r) assists a medic treating a patient infected with the coronavirus, March 7, 2020. (AP/Mohammad Ali Marizad/Rasa News Agency)
Is Iran waging jihad via coronavirus?
By Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently called the coronavirus a “blessing.” After China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, its ally, has emerged as the second focal point of coronavirus, and thanks to the ruling mullahs’ lies and cover-ups, Tehran is spreading it to the rest of the planet.
The Iranian authorities at first claimed that the country was not experiencing a crisis regarding the coronavirus: that no one in Iran had contracted the disease. Soon, however, leaked information disclosed that top Iranian officials were aware of the coronavirus in Iran but had decided to conceal the truth.
When a few Iranian authorities were pressured to provide information, they stated that they are not allowed to report the actual number of people who have been infected or died.
The head of the Medical Sciences University in Qom, Mohammad Reza Ghadir, for instance, said on Iran’s state television that the Ministry of Health had issued a ban on disclosing statistics on the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
The question is: Are the ruling mullahs attempting purposefully to spread the coronavirus to other countries as a form of global jihad? Otherwise, why would Iran’s top Ayatollah call coronavirus a “blessing”?
Now, not only is the Iranian regime refusing to give the public or the international community a full and accurate picture of the coronavirus outbreak; it is also not taking any necessary steps and precautions to prevent the crisis from spreading.
While the city of Qom has become the epicenter through which the coronavirus is being transmitted to other part of the world, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pointed out that the government has no plans to quarantine the city or, for that matter, any other town.
In addition, although Iran’s leaders were aware of the high number of its people infected with the coronavirus, they did not halt their flights to other countries.
The website Eghtesad Online wrote on February 19 that Iranian officials had falsely claimed to have suspended flights.
It is important to remind the public that Iran’s commercial airlines, specifically Iran Air and Mahan Air, have been utilized for the illicit transport of weapons and military staff, including members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its elite Quds Force and the Basij militia. These airlines usually fly to countries such as Syria unannounced. Several countries, including Germany and France, have banned flights by Mahan Air."
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Failure to provide services
The Islamic Republic is also failing to provide services across Iran to test people for the virus. Mohammad Reza Ghadir confirmed that “most of the tests have to be done in Tehran, and Tehran announces it.”
The regime is also failing to conduct full examinations on patients. After some people died in Kamkar Hospital in Qom, a hospital employee said:
“Precise statistics cannot be said because we had suspected fatalities from about 10 days ago and, until two days ago, all were buried without careful examination and there is a high probability that they were infected with the coronavirus.”
The situation has become so perilous that some members of the Iranian parliament have finally come forward and criticized the theocratic establishment for failing to address the issue adequately.
Ahmad Amirabadi, a member of Iran’s parliament, revealed important information when he spoke with the state-run Iranian Labour News Agency. It quoted him as saying:
“Qom is not doing well in terms of the spread of the coronavirus, and I think the government’s performance in controlling the virus has failed.
“Nurses currently lack proper quarantine clothing and are caring for patients with fear and anxiety. There are many problems for nurses and there are few facilities, and Qom also lacks laboratory kits.
“It is true that we must keep calm, but we should not observe the scale of the crisis as if nothing had happened… Unfortunately, the coronavirus outbreak has been in Qom for three weeks and this has been announced late.”
The Iranian leaders’ cover-up and lies are some of the underlying reasons behind the spread of coronavirus to other nations. By calling the coronavirus a “blessing”, Iran’s Supreme Leader seems to suggest that his objective is to spread the virus to other countries, particularly Israel and the West.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. "
From the website unitedwithisrael.org there is a recent article showing why
Arab Citizens of Israel are a Horrible Growing Cancer of a Demographic Threat, and why they should Not be allowed to Vote or Serve in the Knesset
the article is titled
"Stop Jews From Returning to Israel, Demands Arab Knesset Member"
Mar 10, 2020
Joint List lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman wants to abolish the Law of Return, which permits Jews to make aliyah to Israel.
By Israel Hayom via JNS the article says
"Joint Arab List Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman stated on Sunday that one of the conditions her party will present for supporting any coalition will be the repeal of Israel’s Law of Return.
The Joint List, an alliance comprising the Arab or mostly Arab parties Balad, Ra’am-Ta’al and Hadash, won 15 parliament seats in Israel’s March 2 elections. Although coalition talks have yet to begin, it is widely believed that the Arab lawmakers will most likely support Likud challenger Blue and White leader Benny Gantz for prime minister.
The Law of Return, passed in 1950, gives every Jew the right to live in Israel and to gain Israeli citizenship.
In an interview with Israel Radio, Touma-Suleiman reiterated the demand, originally presented by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, saying, “I don’t think the Law of Return is needed anymore. Anyone who wanted to return to Israel has already done so. Those who chose to live in the United States or France have already made their choice. The law is unnecessary. At the time, it greatly wronged my people, but now it’s time to rethink it—and many other things.”
She further stressed that the Joint List “will not support anyone who supports the [Trump administration’s] ‘deal of the century.’ ”
Asked whether she recognizes Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, Touma-Suleiman replied, “We have been excluded from the civil collective of the State of Israel. We were marginalized and ignored. If that’s what you call a Jewish state then yes, I want to change it. I suggest that you decide among yourselves what is a ‘Jewish state’ first.”
This article is even more proof of Arab Racism, Arab Criminality & Arab Evil,Wickedness, Arab Lies, an Ugly Arab "Woman" who hates Jews, why is she, or should I say it, why is it serving in the Knesset if it hates Jews ?
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to order is
"Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict"
by Mitchell G. Bard
4 Customer Reviews
Paperback(New Edition)
the description says
"In the last sixty years, Israel has faced seven different wars. During that time, the country has been under immense scrutiny and been the recipient of false accusations. This leaves the public with many questions: Does Israel want peace with the Arab nations? How do Islamic views affect Israel?
Using a number of sources, Mitchell G. Bard uncovers Israel's true history. His book includes the following:
· A discussion of various wars involving Israel (including the war of 1948)
· Multiple maps that help the reader visualize the wars
· An analysis of terrorism directed at Israel
· An alphabetical index
· A discussion of the media's role in how it portrays Israel
· A review of successful and unsuccessful peace efforts
· An overview of US-Israel relations
Bard also offers a synopsis of Israel's roots, beginning with the great myth: that the Jews have no claim to their own land. Bard focuses on Israel's relationships with neighboring countries, but he also includes suggested readings for those interested in further research. You'll learn about the Jewish Virtual Library, an online source that's constantly updated and offers reliable options for study.
Dive into this versatile read as Bard investigates common myths about Israel and reveals the truth." see the website jewishvirtuallibrary.org which refutes & debunks all the
Arab & "Palestinian" Lies,
Some reader comments about the Mitchell G. Bard book are
"This book is in a sense a predecessor to Alan Dershowitz's ' The Case for Israel'. Dershowitz takes common accusations against Israel and brings convincing evidence to disprove them. The writers of this work pioneered in showing how the superb Arab mythmaking and propaganda machine has spread a number of lies now commonly accepted by humanity. The lies include those which blame Israel for the Arab - Israel conflict instead of showing how Arab intransigence over eight decades has led to continued Mideast violence. The Arabs with their vast landspace cannot tolerate any independent stranger in their midst. The terror and violence which the Arabs have used against Israel repeatedly continues unfortunately to this day. This is a first - rate source and highly recommended to anyone who is not an Anti- Semite."
"This book is a veritable gold-mine of information on the Middle East. It is far, far more than a reference book. Granted, those who are looking for an extensive, in-depth study on the Middle East should look for a book that specifically deals with the particular subject in question. However, this book provides some 450 pages of incredibly valuable information and covers with remarkable and accurate detail a whole plethora of subjects. Stemming from the British Mandate period, to the re-birth of the Jewish state, the Arab-Israeli wars, the Palestinian issue, refugees, the Intifada, the UN, the Mid-East `Peace Process', Jews in Arab/Islamic countries, the media and most significant of all, Jerusalem. Each particular issue weighs the commonly held views on the matter together with the propaganda, against the factual and true data on every issue and the relevant references and sources pertaining to each. Maps and charts are plentifully provided. Sometimes I wonder how much the political and diplomatic `powers that be' actually know about this most relevant of issues. It certainly would not do most world leaders any harm to keep a copy of this book on their office desks. If the reader weighs up what they see on the television screens and what they read in their daily newspapers against what appears here, they cannot but be alarmed at how today's media is distorting the manner in which this conflict is being presented to the public."
A great book to learn about the real truth of the Middle East Conflict
"This was an incredibly good and consise book that put in the referances to actually documents and reports on what is really going on in the Middle East. It is good to see what the facts are are, not just the propaganda."
We at this blog have noticed something very important, that while many Jews are
Self-hating Jews and wish they were not born Jewish , it's noteworthy to point out, that some of these Self-hating Jews at the same time, are Very Proud, Very Proud that they are
Not Arab, they are Very Proud of the fact that they are Not Arab or a so-called
"Palestinian" that although they don't like being Jewish, still they are indeed very Proud they are Not a Ugly Monster Arab Person, these self-hating Jews see the many repulsive undesirable traits that Many Arab People have, the outer ugliness & immature Satanic Demonic Diabolical sore loser childish criminality & evil wicked hate filled nature that many Arab People have, this sadly includes many Arab "Christians" , Now, we at this blog are NOT saying all Arab People are Evil or Bad, Some Arabs & Muslims realize that Israel & Jews are the good guys in the Mideast Conflict , and are Not hate filled, We at this blog imagine Most People who are Non-Arab Thank God that they were Not Born Arab !!!
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Analysis: Qassem Soleimani’s daugher becomes Islam’s female avenger"
March 12, 2020
Soleimani’s daughter is a useful tool for the Islamic Republic to rally terrorists to avenge her father’s killing.
By Dr. Edy Cohen, BESA Center
"Zeinab Soleimani is the daughter of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander killed in January by the Americans. His death sent shockwaves through Iran’s leadership and proxies in the region, especially in Iraq and Lebanon. Zeinab is now rallying terrorists to avenge her father’s killing.
Immediately after the killing, Lebanon-based Hezbollah commander Hassan Nasrallah instructed his minions to retaliate by murdering American officers and soldiers. This tactic is intended to expedite the departure of US forces from the region.
Despite their public outrage and attempts to kill Americans, Soleimani’s avengers have accomplished nothing so far. We all saw how Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei wept when he learned that Soleimani was dead, saying he was like a son to him.
There is no doubt that the Iranian regime seeks to avenge his death, though they do not want to be dragged into an all-out war. Zeinab thus serves a useful purpose for the regime.
Zeinab Soleimani was named after the daughter of the first Shiite imam, Ali, and his wife Fatma (626-681 AD). As the only granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, the original Zeinab is regarded with great respect by both Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
She is remembered for her steadfast resistance to oppression and injustice as well as her courageous actions in battle, including protecting her nephew, the Imam Ali Ben Hussein, with her own body.
There is evidence that Zeinab even held Qur’an lessons for women, a concept that remains radical in Islam to this day. In Damascus and Cairo, mosques have been erected in her name, and her burial site in Damascus is visited by Muslims from around the world.
The Iranian regime is now using her modern day namesake, Zeinab Soleimani, to persuade terrorist organizations, both Sunni and Shiite, to carry out attacks against the US. Its method is to play on the emotions of terrorist leaders through association with Zeinab’s revered ancestor.
The Iranians are making propaganda videos with Zeinab to stir terrorist groups in the region to take action against the U.S. and Israel.
In a one-minute clip, Zeinab stands dressed in black with a weapon at her side declaring in a combative speech in fluent Arabic (not her mother tongue, which is Persian) for the entire Arab world:
In the name of Almighty Allah, I address you, my father’s faithful, not only in Iran, but in the Islamic world. I confess in my name and my family to all those on the front lines of the resistance who will not be silent until the death of my father is avenged—my father who defended you, and all those who have been wronged, with his own blood."
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She then turns to the U.S. and Israel and says:
As for the Great Satan of the United States and Israel, you will know that my father left behind a thousand Qassem Soleimanis because you have made him victorious and his blood will lead us to the road to pray in Jerusalem.
Zeinab finishes her speech with three words: “Time will tell.”
Zeinab is not resting for a moment in calling for revenge. She visited Akram Kaabi, leader of the Najaba militia, to take her father’s revenge to Iraq. Najaba is an Iraqi Shiite terrorist organization funded by Iran and carrying the banner of Iranian ideology.
In the video, Zeinab is seen crying and calling for revenge for her father. With tears in her eyes, she says, “I am waiting for the response of Iraq.” In response, Kaabi says to Allah, “You will soon hear of our revenge.”
Zeinab has also been sent to Lebanon, where she met Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and asked him, because of his long-time friendship with her father, to avenge Soleimani’s death.
In a short video chronicling this meeting, Nasrallah said a few words: “Allah will arise, and the Almighty will give jihad and shahid (martyrdom), which is the most beautiful thing.”
Blood vengeance is a fierce and popular concept in Islam, and there are those who believe the soul of a murdered man does not rest until his family has avenged his blood. Zeinab Soleimani is now leading this cause and is being funded and used by the Iranian regime to promote her father’s bloody agenda.
The Iranians would like to hurt the US without getting into a direct confrontation, and for this they have trained and armed their militias in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. It is not clear when they will strike or whom they will hurt.
It is likely, however, to be Americans at a U.S. embassy or an American personality, either in Lebanon or in Europe or North America. The Iranians may prefer to avoid attacking an Israeli target as the threat of IDF retaliation may be too close to home." Zeinab is Not very ladylike, Not exactly "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" She is probably Ugly as Hell, Fugly as hell, It's even More Disturbing ,Satanic & Demonic because Zeinab is a Female, Zeinab is a Woman who is Supporting Terrorism, which makes it infinitely more Evil Satanic Demonic & Diabolical
Also from www.worldisraelnews.com another article is titled
"Analysis: The assault on Israel as the ‘Jewish state’"
March 12, 2020
Analysis: The assault on Israel as the ‘Jewish state’Palestinian protesters throw stones and burn tires during clashes with Israeli security forces over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, September 30, 2015. (Flash90)
The philosophical assault on Zionism—on Israel as the authentic expression of Jewish political rights—has revved itself up, and we cannot but be vigilant as to its nefarious purposes.
By Yisrael Medad, JNS
Many (too many) years ago, Sari Nusseibeh and I debated in the studio of Israel’s television Channel 1, before there was a Channel 2. We even shared the same shaving razor in the make-up room just before going on air.
And many years later, despite his reputation as a “moderate,” Nusseibeh, a professor of philosophy at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem—scion to one of the elite or noble, even aristocratic families of the Arabs of Palestine—would not free himself from the corrosive and vindication-seeking ideology of Palestinianism.
For him, writing on Al Jazeera in 2011, Israel’s “demand to be recognised as a ‘Jewish state’ by the Palestinians is an inherently problematic concept.” With the election victory of the Joint Arab List, with its 14 Arab and one Jewish Knesset members, and their demand to rescind the Jewish Nation-State Law, this issue merits a review.
The review is necessary for MK Ahmad Tibi provided an even more strident tone to the argument over Israel as a Jewish state in an interview on March 9 on Radio 103FM by Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal.
Answering a question, Tibi declared that “the term Eretz-Yisrael [the Land of Israel] is a colonialist term and not only do I not accept it, I oppose it. Is that clear?”
He continued, “I reject with full contempt the term Judea and Samaria. That refers to the Palestinian West Bank, Palestinian territories that were conquered.” For extra measure, he added, “I detest settlers in the settlements.”
Benny Begin, currently a MEMRI researcher, published an article reviewing the inability of any of the Palestinian Authority’s leaders to accept the concept of a “Jewish state.” He ended thus: “We must not close our eyes to the simple fact that, for the PLO, the core issue is the hundred-year-old ‘injustice’ embedded in the very existence of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine.”
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Interestingly, that Haaretz English-language edition version dropped a section contained in the original Hebrew [I was informed that Begin was limited to 1,500-words in English, less than half the original Hebrew]. Begin was quoting Shlomo Ben-Ami’s observations that at Camp David II and afterward, the Palestinian Arab negotiators “couldn’t free themselves from their gibes, from the need for vindication, from their victimization.”
Moreover, Ben-Ami recalled the moments when he reached “the conclusion that the Palestinians always leave some loose ends, not because of some malicious master plan but to leave open the possibility that somebody in the future will gather these unraveled ends in order to unravel the Jewish state.”
But let’s return to Nusseibeh’s “Why Israel can’t be a ‘Jewish state.’ ”
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"Twisting History
No matter how academic or intellectual they are—or project themselves as being—those promoting a pro-Palestinian agenda always engage in not only historic revisionism and fallacies but in complete misrepresentation of facts. Right at the beginning, Nusseibeh asserts that the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry concluded in 1946 that the demand for a “Jewish state” was not part of the obligations of the Balfour Declaration or the British Mandate.
That declaration includes, however, the phrases “sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations” and “a national home for the Jewish people.” Yes, the word “state” is missing, but everything else is there.
For Nusseibeh, however, “even in the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, when Zionists sought to “establish a home for the Jewish people,” there was no reference of a “Jewish state.” As support, he notes that Judah Magnes and Martin Buber—two of the most political minimalists who carried no responsibility of elected office in the Yishuv—avoided the clear and explicit term “Jewish state,” as if that means anything.
No non-Jew is discriminated against by law, except, of course, for the Law of Return, which is what makes Israel the Jewish state."
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"Of course, he ignores the League of Nations 1922 Mandate decision, one approved by 50 nations, based on the Balfour Declaration, which reads quite forthrightly that “recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
The whole purpose of the Mandate was to “secure the establishment of the Jewish national home,” not an Arab one. The British Mandate sought “the co-operation of all Jews who are willing to assist in the establishment of the Jewish national home.” “Jewish immigration” was to be facilitated and “close settlement by Jews on the land” was to be encouraged. A “Jewish Agency,” representing the Zionist movement and world Jewry, was to be a full partner in the recreation of the Jewish national home.
And Nusseibeh is a “philosopher”?
He is also an expert on Jews, Jewish nationalism and Judaism."
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"He asserts that the term “Jewish” can apply “both to the ancient race [?] of Israelites and their descendants, as well as to those who believe in and practice the religion of Judaism.” But he has a problem as “some ethnic Jews are atheists and there are converts to Judaism … .” There we have it: non-Jews telling us Jews who we are. He is also upset because defining a modern nation-state, he posits, “by one ethnicity or one religion is problematic in itself.”
Why? For him, “no state in the world is—or can be in practice—ethnically or religiously homogenous.” But Israel is not such a state, and non-Jews—whether of a different religion, nationality or ethnicity—can be and are full citizens. We now have those 15 Arabs (including one Jew) as members of Israel’s parliament.
Nusseibeh then takes his stridency up to another level claiming “recognition of Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ implies that Israel is, or should be, either a theocracy (if we take the word ‘Jewish’ to apply to the religion of Judaism) or an apartheid state (if we take the word ‘Jewish’ ” to apply to the ethnicity of Jews), or both.” But for the past 73 years, Israel as the Jewish state has not been that and need not be, and most probably will not be. And no non-Jew is discriminated against by law, except, of course, for the Law of Return, which is what makes Israel the Jewish state.
Another problem for him is the rights of “about 7 million Palestinians in the diaspora to repatriation or compensation … who were driven off their land through war, violent eviction or fear.” Besides that figure being questionable, he ignores that their current status is that which they intended should be that of the Jews who resided in Mandate Palestine in 1948, if not dead. Tens of thousands of Jews were ethnically cleansed between the years 1920-1948 by Arab terror from Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Some 60,000 became, temporarily, internal refugees as a result of the War of Independence in 1948-49. This Nusseibeh ignores."
& lastly says
"He then indulges us with the claim that in Jerusalem, especially, Judaism would be privileged “above the religions of Christianity and Islam.” Jerusalem, where Jews cannot pray on the Temple Mount, their most sacred site, where, on occasion, Jews are pelted by stones at the Western Wall, thrown from above from the Haram compound, where Jews residing in the Old City are regularly attacked, injured and killed for the crime of living there, where any archaeological excavation is being protested for harming “Palestinian heritage.”
Nusseibeh then proclaims that “no responsible person can morally recognize Israel as a ”Jewish state” as such” because of the “very Covenant of God in the Bible with Ancient Israelites of the promise of a homeland for Jews” And why? Because we Jews are commanded to kill all non-Jews as is recorded in the Bible, because “God commands the Jewish state in the land of Israel to come into being through warfare and violent dispossession of the original inhabitants.” This despite the founders of the state purposely excluding any direct mention of God in Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
He then, quite generously, offers this suggestion: that “Israeli leaders ask … that Palestinians recognize Israel (proper) as a civil, democratic and pluralistic state whose official religion is Judaism, and whose majority is Jewish.” But it is exactly that.
Nefarious goals?
We must ask ourselves if Nusseibeh is cynical or underhanded when he neglects to mention that while he maligns the idea of a Jewish state, he ignores the reality: that the Palestinian Authority has a draft constitution for its future State of Palestine. It states that Palestine is “the state of the “Arab Palestinian people,” a state that “is part of the larger Arab world, and the Palestinian people are part of the Arab nation.”
According to Article 4, “Islam is the official religion in Palestine. Respect for the sanctity of all other divine religions shall be maintained, the principles of Islamic Shari’a shall be a principal source of legislation,” and “Arabic shall be the official language.”
While Nusseibeh published this nine years ago, with the Blue and White Faction entering into negotiations with the Joint Arab List to establish a governing coalition, at this writing, MKs Benny Gantz and his fellow “cockpit” crew need be reminded into what ideological bog they are stepping, as we all need to be reminded.
The philosophical assault on Zionism—on Israel as the authentic expression of Jewish political rights—has revved itself up, and we cannot but be vigilant as to its nefarious purposes."
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"They don’t hate Israel. They hate Jews." by Fred Maroun
FEB 20, 2015, 6:29 PM the article says
"Imagine for a moment that Israel became majority Muslim, elected a government composed of Muslims, and changed its name to “Palestine”. Imagine also that Israel, while making these changes, maintained the exact same policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. How would the rest of the world react?
Would the UN keep writing anti-Israel resolutions by the dozens, while largely ignoring the rest of the world? Would arrogant university “students” continue to demonize Israel? Would the BDS movement continue its anti-Israel campaign unabated? Would the Western left, in a sudden bout of integrity, criticize the newly renamed Palestine as strongly as it criticizes Israel today?
To answer these questions, we need only look at Israel’s neighbours. Palestinians are treated far worse in Lebanon and in Syria than they are in the West Bank. Arab-versus-Arab violence is far less mindful of civilians than Israel is when it attacks Hamas in Gaza or Hezbullah in Lebanon. Discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities is vastly worse in Arab countries than in Israel. Yet there is no BDS movement against Arab countries. There are rarely, if ever, any resolutions at the UN against Arab regimes.
So the conclusion is pretty obvious to anyone who isn’t totally self-delusional. If Israel was not Jewish, it would not be hated. It would be ignored or even praised by the hordes of self-aggrandizing students, professors, politicians, and other thugs.
These people do not hate Israel at all, it turns out. They only hate the Jews. They do not care about the truth in the Middle East, as Yair Lapid explained.
Why do I harp on this? Why do I care? After all I am a non-Jewish Arab who lives in Canada. By all accounts, I should not care. Except for the tiny fact that I have a conscience.
When I see the antisemitism in the world today, I cannot be silent. As I have written previously, the widespread and growing antisemitism is there for all to see. Yet few admit to it.
Even in the United States antisemitism has become fashionable again. The United States of America! The country of opportunity and equality. The land of the free and home of the brave. The place outside of Israel that is often described, by both friends and foes, as the most friendly towards Jews!
Even in New York, antisemitic protesters recently disrupted a meeting of city council as members were voting on a resolution to honour the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. New York! The place believed to be the second home of Jews in the world!
Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Yes, of course it is. Antisemitism is a developing cancer that feasts on any nutrients on its path, and the hate of Israel is one of them. Israel is loathed by antisemites not only because it is Jewish, but because it is the last refuge of Jews who are being ostracized everywhere else. It is the only place on earth where Jews are welcomed with open arms and open hearts. It is the only place on earth where they can be themselves without fear of discrimination. Antisemites loathe Israel because it stands in the way of making Jews a thing of the past.
So, don’t believe the lies. Jews aren’t hated because of Israel. Israel and the Jews are hated because of antisemitism. If you care at all to stop the march of antisemitism, whether you are Jewish or not, start speaking up."
The article by Fred Maroun we just mentioned titled
"They don't hate Israel. They hate Jews" had a link to another article also by
Fred Maroun where he stated that
"Violent antisemites like Hamas and Hezbullah are beyond hope" sadly that is true, the violent antisemites like Hamas & Hezbullah are beyond hope, it is impossible to reason with them, they are Not on the Plane of Reason, they are Satanic Demonic Diabolical Fools, there is No Humanity within them , As usual the whole World hates Israel and the Jews,
The website standwithus.com has an article titled
"My Love for Israel"
Fresh Ink
Shirel Attias
March 13, 2020 the article says:
"The love of Israel has always been a central part of my life.
My connection to the beautiful land comes from my parents who are both of Moroccan descent. My grandmother and grandfather immigrated to Israel in 1962 from Morocco to escape anti-Semitism, making Aliyah to their ancestral homeland. My parents are Zionists sprinkled with a little Moroccan culture that continues to live inside them.
Indeed, the love of Israel was instilled in me at a young age. For this reason, I take it upon myself to educate my peers and community about this small country’s achievements, accomplishments and its global humanitarian aid, in an effort to combat the misinformation that has led to the alarming rise of anti-Semitism.
One day, I aspire to become a doctor and through the StandWithUs Canada High School internship this year, I’ve learned that Israel is among the first on the scene at international disasters through its organization IsraAID. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) medical and rescue teams have responded to earthquakes in all corners of the globe, including Haiti, Mexico, Armenia, Turkey. El Salvador, India, Peru and many more. Furthermore, technologies and medical programs developed in Israel save and improve lives around the world.
This summer, I volunteered at the Soroka Hospital in Israel. Soroka provides medical care to members of all populations in the region, including Negev Bedouins and Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with the faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev whose campus is adjacent to the hospital.
Volunteering at this hospital opened my eyes to the Israeli healthcare system. It made me realize that the mission of first responders, emergency services and doctors/nurses is to save people regardless of their ethnicity, religion, race and background. For instance, the IDF, through its Operation Good Neighbor and under media cover has treated thousands of Syrian civilians and White Helmets wounded in the civil war. They did this despite Syria’s ongoing hostilities against Israel in the Golan Heights.
I was in the children’s ward at Soroka. I played with Muslim toddlers, teaching them how to speak a couple of words in English and showing them how to write in calligraphy. The happiness in their eyes made me feel joyous because I was able to put a smile on their face. I realized then that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict didn’t matter to these kids; they saw me, a teenage girl, and not my religion. I was really appreciated by everyone who works there, and I was extremely grateful for the experience.
The humanitarian aid Israel exhibits inspires me every day to focus on my long-term goal. I hope that one day I can work alongside IsraAID and Magen David Adom to make a difference not only in my community but in the world."
From the New York Daily News website nydailynews.com an article is titled
'I am with Israel': One Arab-American's salute"
By EMILIO KARIM DABUL
SEP 19, 2007 | 4:00 AM
Be Our Guest the article says
"One of the greatest Arab poets of the 20th century was a Syrian named Nizar Qabbani. He was, in his own way, the Pablo Neruda of the Middle East. His love poems in particular are on a par with anything Don Pablo wrote.
So, it was with great disappointment that I came across one of Qabbani's poems written in the late 1990s, entitled, "I Am With Terrorism." I hoped the title would prove ironic. It didn't. Not even close. In fact, it is one of themost naked, awful pieces of anti-Israel, anti-U.S. drivel I've ever read.
Witness this rhetorical device in which he is able to insult two peoples with one poetic stone:
"I am with terrorism as long as this new world order is shared between America and Israel half-half"
And that is actually one of the more moderate sections of the poem. As an Arab-American, I came away from reading it with a real sense of despair. If one of the great voices of Middle East poetry can do nothing more than recycle the Arabs-as-victims stance, justified in horrendous acts of violence against their "oppressors," then what hope is there ever that Arabs and Israelis will ever know true peace?
Having just passed the sixth anniversary of 9/11 - and in the midst of a new conversation about the so-called "Israel Lobby" that allegedly dominates U.S. foreign policy - I want to offer an antidote to that toxic verse and the other vitriol that has poisoned too much Arab thought.
Israel, with all its imperfections, remains the beacon of light for the Middle East. For that reason, I wish to salute her, not only as one of America's greatest allies in the war on terror, but as one of the true miracle countries of this time or any other.
With no apologies to Qabbani, I give you my twist on his verse:
"I am with Israel
because a people so long denied bread and freedom,
crushed under the wheels of pharaohs, emperors, czars and Führers,
has done more than any other people to free the world from itself.
What single people in history have contributed more to faith, science, philosophy and the arts?
And done so against the greatest odds, with a sword at their throats...
I am with Israel
because my people, so long in the desert,
have not had the courage to acknowledge the great teachers among them,
but instead have turned on them,
blamed them for all evil and shed their blood...
What other people could crawl away from the wreckage of the Holocaust
and, instead of seeking revenge, build the miracle called Israel?
Why, as Wufa Sultan has asked, have there been no Jewish homicide bombers?
Perhaps it is because despite all the spit, kicks and insults they've faced,
along with the constant threat of extinction,
the Jews would rather build than destroy.
I am with Israel
because I am with life,
and because beyond its verdant desert,
Israel offers the knowledge that those most desirous of peace and freedom
are a people who have so long been denied it,
and who with all they know of the world,
look still toward Jerusalem and reach for their enemy's hand."
Dabul, an editor with the American Congress for Truth, is author of "Deadline," a novel about terrorism.
An article from the website blogs.timesofisrael.com is titled
"Arab, Muslim and pro-Israel"
An Algerian-born master's student explains why he's active in his campus Zionist organization
FEB 11, 2014, 1:26 PM the article says
"I know, I know, I know what you’re already thinking: ‘’oh God, not another piece on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the same old arguments regurgitated over and over again, for the last 60 years’’. You couldn’t be more wrong. Bear with me.
I’m Abdel. I was born in Algeria and lived there for a little over a decade. During that time, I had the distinct pleasure to go through a brutal civil war where Islamists (supported financially and morally by Hamas, Iran and Saudi Arabia) where trying to take over the country to impose their worldview on everyone else. Friends and family members of mine were killed and the country almost went down the drain. My parents, who were executives at the time, were also involved politically. Specifically, they were leading political parties who’re trying to get religion out of politics– in the midst of an Islamic insurgency. You can only imagine how more problematic their personal and familial situation became: regular death threats, bullet proof door in our home, different itineraries and time to get to work, et cetera. In sum, it was a living hell. Oh, did I mention that I’m the VP communication for McGill Students for Israel?
Now, why? Why does a guy who’s born in a country that does not even recognize Israel come to support it? Below is the case for Israel from the perspective of someone who grew up and lived in a self-proclaimed Arab and Muslim country.
As a libertarian, individual liberty and freedom are values that I cherish very dearly. So, in order for me to understand a situation, I use those two values as guiding principles to shed some light on what is really happening. By applying that freedom filter to the Israeli-Arab conflict, you get the following:"
the article continues
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All Arab countries are dictatorships. That is, you have ruling gangster families on top, who use their monopoly of violence (via the military) to kill/imprison anyone who questions their business plan. The business plan is the following:
1. Use force to maintain power and keep disarmed humans living in fear.
2. Send kids to government controlled schools so they can get indoctrinated with four things:
The ruling family is great (à la Kim Jung Il).
Their country is the greatest.
The Palestinian cause is something that is part of their identity.
Force feed them Islam so it can be used as a tool to control (I use the term force feed because I was force fed Islam in the Algerian government school since day 1).
3. While people are brainwashed and live in fear, negotiate a percentage on those resource/construction contracts (SNC-Lavalin anyone?).
4. Profit.
It comes as no surprise that the output of such a disastrous mix can only be chaos. On one hand you have the insane families in power who are trying to steal as much money as possible, while using violence against their own people. On the other hand, you have the by-product of this insanity- the Islamists. That is, confused people who had their vision of reality completely distorted by the system they were born in. This vicious cycle has been going on for decades, the result of which was the so-called Arab spring or Arab winter (i.e. the by-product of the system, the Islamists, is taking over). Clearly, this circus will go on for another decade if not more.
Now, what about Israel? If you’re a citizen there, your basic freedoms are respected. You can live peacefully, raise a family, and send your kids to competitive and globally recognized universities. This simple basic respect for human dignity put them light-years ahead of any Arab state. As a human being who seeks to improve himself, Israel is a logical choice. It is the only place in the Middle East where your potential can be fully expressed. Based on the values it stands for and the principles that it was founded on, Israel is a force of good for that region and for the world. And remember, this is not coming from a Jewish or an Israeli individual. It’s coming from someone with a Muslim name and an Arab face (which looks pretty good by the way), who actually lived and was raised in an Arab country. It’s not like I don’t know what I’m talking about and I’m just fantasizing from 5,000 miles away, like most people do.
From an individual and rational perspective, it is hard to argue against what I’ve said above. But even then, even if you drop any rational judgement and go tribal on this issue, the Jewish people are the Arabs’ cousins! If your cousins were being slaughtered and discriminated against all over the world (remember the MS St. Louis, the ship filled with Jewish refugees during WWII, that was turned away by Canada and the U.S. to go back to Europe?), wouldn’t you welcome them with your arms wide open?
Jewish people have suffered greatly and the only people in the world that should have welcomed and protected them were their cousins, the Arabs. And it’s not like they had an option to flee to a “Jewish” country like you have for so-called Muslim and Christian ones. They were not welcome anywhere on planet earth. Do you fully realize the magnitude of this?
The bottom line is this: this is a historical opportunity to start over but on the right foot this time. An opportunity to write history as it should have been from the beginning. Don’t let this opportunity go to waste; you might not have another one."
ABOUT THE AUTHORAbdel is a graduate student at McGill and the is the vice president of communication for the McGill Students for Israel association.
From the website aish.com an article is titled
"Why I Admire Israel"
Aug 4, 2007 | by Farid Ghadry
the article says
"As a Syrian and a Muslim, I have always had this affinity for the State of Israel. As a businessman and an advocate of the free economic system of governance, Israel to me represents an astounding economic success in the midst of so many Arab failures. I measure achievement not in terms of trade or dollars going in or out (Saudi Arabia is best at that) but in terms of scientific prowess that ultimately churns the economic engine of success.
While many Arabs view Israel as a sore implant, I view it as a blessing. I should provide an example of what I mean.
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy, we learned that friends of ours lost a daughter. Some ten days later, we visited them at their house with some other friends. Conversation surrounding the tragedy ensued and one of my dearest friends whom I have a lot of respect for objected to the story he heard about how the Israeli Ambassador to Washington, through connections, was able to have the body of Liviu Librescu delivered to his family, for religious reasons, before anyone else could have any access to their loved ones. He was fuming against the Ambassador more than against the authorities' unwillingness to deliver simultaneously the bodies of Muslims who also perished, in particular the Egyptian student Waleed Shaalan. I asked him "Did the Egyptian Ambassador call to have Shaalan's body delivered early to his family in accordance with our religious traditions?" He did not know the answer to the question but nonetheless kept fuming against the Israeli Ambassador. It was as if the Israeli Embassy did it to spite him or any other Arab. For me, it confirmed the admiration I have for a country that respects their own.
After some heated argument, almost all agreed that Arabs do not have any measure of respect for their own people (due mostly to lack of accountability) and that Arabs must embrace self-empowerment by learning how rather than why Israel begets results."
the article continues
"Israel's democracy and its economic prosperity are all needed in our midst in the hope that we can learn self-empowerment. It is not hard to imagine our young people learning about empowerment when they watch Israeli democracy on their television sets, but it is hard to imagine they will be able to apply it living under an authoritarian system of government. That is the reason why Arabs send their own young people as suicide bombers instead of nurturing them to grow and become citizens of the world so that one day they can use their connections to help their people like the Israeli Ambassador to Washington helped the Librescu family. How could they nurture them in an environment void of hope for their future?
Israel has, in less than 60 years, built an economy ten times that of Syria with one-fifth the population.
Israel has, in less than 60 years, built an economy ten times that of Syria with one-fifth the population. How does one explain this fact? It is very simple: Israel is a vibrant democracy. For no fault of our own, Syria has suffered from one occupation after occupation, the latest being organically grown represented by the Assad family. One would think that a Syrian family occupying Syria is less harmful than the French occupying Syria. The truth is, it is much worse. The not-so-civilized Assad family uses much worse despotic techniques. The result is that not only Syrians suffer from lack of opportunities and stifling liberties but they also suffer from lack of hope, dignity, and pride as well; a good formula to create suicide bombers.
When the renowned Berkshire Hathaway of Omaha fancied to invest in the Middle East, it bought shares in Israeli industrial companies on the basis of merit. I do not know of any western investment company who has bought shares in Arab public companies except for the lucrative cellular business, which are unmanageable without western know-how and equipment. That does not mean it won't happen one day, but it will certainly not happen to any of the countries surrounding Israel any time soon (with maybe the exception of Jordan) as long as self-empowerment is absent.
It is said that approximately one third of all scientific Nobel Prize winners are Jewish. The ratio is mind boggling. One third comes from a universe of 15 millions Jews and the remainder two-thirds from the much larger pool of 6 billion-plus people. Arabs (mostly Egyptians) have two or three Nobel Peace and Literature Prizes (From a pool of 350 million people) but no Arab has ever won a Nobel in sciences be it chemistry, physics, or medicine. Any argument here as to why Israel is so important to the region?
The assertion made today by the likes of the ignorant Ahmadinajead, who aspires to wipe Israel off the map, and the violent Hamas, some members of which covet throwing the Jews to the sea, reminds me of the story of two factories built side-by-side. One is very successful and its employees take a good paycheck and the other is not so successful and its employees are economically deprived. The manager of the not-so-successful factory spends all his time striving to destroy the successful factory when he in fact should be spending his time learning and imitating the successful factory for his people to luxuriate in similar prosperity. If some of the Palestinians are not willing to learn (Many do want to imitate the success of the factory next door but are not given the chance to express their views or to be elevated to positions of power), we Syrians want to learn and imitate.
James A. Baldwin said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." To me, any dispute over shared lands is secondary to bringing prosperity to my people."
Also from the aish.com website an article is titled
"Ten Reasons I Admire Israel"
Jun 2, 2012 | by David A. Harris
Israel’s story is one of the great chapters in the annals of history.
In the daily news coverage, as they say, if it doesn't bleed, it doesn't lead. The larger story of Israel, therefore, is rarely told.
And the steady barrage of anti-Israel assaults -- from the UN's Arab-led automatic majority to the boycott-sanctions-divestment crowd; from some PR-savvy NGOs to the red-green (extreme left-radical Muslim) alliance -- doesn't always leave much room for the bigger picture, either.
But the larger story of Israel is well worth telling. Indeed it is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, one of the great chapters in the annals of history.
Here's what I admire most:
First, the Jewish people's identity is built on three legs -- a faith, a people, and a land.
The land is inextricable to the equation. Even when Jews were forcibly removed from the land, as they were more than once, they never, not for a single moment, lost the connection. It was core to their prayers and their belief systems. Jerusalem, physically and metaphysically, is at the center of Jewish existence. The determination of Jews to reaffirm that link, over literally thousands of years, is awe-inspiring.
Second, those who lived in or returned to the land before the rebirth of the state in 1948 faced indescribable challenges.
Those challenges could easily have defeated less determined people. The terrain itself was harsh and unyielding. The swamps were disease-infested. Water was scarce. Marauding Arab bands put them at risk. But they persisted.
Third, these pioneers, against all the odds, gave birth to field after field, tree after tree, job after job (for Jews and Arabs alike), and neighborhood after neighborhood.
And, equally, they gave birth to Modern Hebrew. They took an ancient language and rendered it contemporary, which in turn became the lingua franca of the new state.
Fourth, the politics of statehood were not uncomplicated.
It took 50 years from Theodore Herzl's vision of a reborn Jewish nation to the UN Partition Plan of 1947, which called for Jewish and Arab states to emerge from British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. During those five decades -- and all the global ups and downs, governments' sleights-of-hand, and power politics -- Jewish leadership in the land persevered. They were undeterred."
the article continues
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Fifth, that same Jewish leadership understood that half a loaf was better than none. While the Jews would have wished for a bigger state, and believed the historical facts warranted it, pragmatism prevailed over maximalism. And therein lies the fundamental difference between Jewish and Arab leadership at the time, and since.
The 1947 Partition Plan could have solved the national aspirations of Jews and Arabs alike (i.e., Palestinians, though the term was not then used by the UN). There would have been two states for two peoples, living, ideally, side by side in peace and cooperation. But the Arab insistence on the whole loaf triggered war. The war in turn created a refugee problem, and that dream of the whole loaf continues to be nurtured by too many Palestinian leaders.
Sixth, the 1948 war to annihilate the new state might have been Israel's first and, yes, last war, but it wasn't.
Vastly outnumbered and outarmed, the 650,000 Jews could have been vanquished by the five attacking Arab armies, including the British-trained Jordanians. But they dug in, fought on with often hard-to-acquire weapons, and eventually won, while losing one percent of their entire population -- the first of several wars Israel was to win to defend its very right to exist.
Seventh, Israel's ability to defend itself is nothing short of extraordinary. A country the size of New Jersey, and without a favorable military topography, has withstood repeated assaults of every kind -- wars, missile barrages, suicide bombings, kidnappings, lawfare, and modern-day blood libels.
The morale and commitment of Israelis to fulfill their national obligations -- when, no doubt, they'd much rather be studying, socializing, and traveling -- is remarkable. Alone, having never asked for the help of other nations' troops, they defend the state. And Israel's technical ingenuity in meeting each new challenge head-on has served as an object lesson for other countries. From Entebbe to Iron Dome, from Osirak to the Syrian nuclear plant, Israel has come up with viable answers to seemingly insurmountable threats.
Eighth, Israel has forged a far more cohesive, vibrant society than many predicted.
How, the skeptics asked, could Israel absorb Jews from scores of countries with different languages, political traditions, cultural norms, and religious practices? How could Israel forge a democratic state when so many refugees came from non-democratic Arab lands and communist societies -- and in a region, the Middle East, where there was absolutely no tradition of free, open societies? How could religious and secular Jews coexist? How could Israel absorb over 100,000 Ethiopian Jews, who hailed from villages that had no electricity or other modern accoutrements? And how would non-Jews, especially a large Arab community, fare as citizens of the State of Israel?"
the article lastly says
"These are all works in progress, but, 64 years after the rebirth of Israel, it can be said that the centripetal forces binding the state together far outweigh the centrifugal forces at work -- and that's no mean feat, given the magnitude of each of the challenges.
Ninth, in the face of unrelenting threats and dangers, Israel could have turned inward, abandoned hope, and given up on peace, but it most assuredly has not.
Instead, Israel has embraced the world, sharing its vast know-how with developing countries and often being among the first on the scene when disaster strikes. It has affirmed life in a way that outsiders can hardly imagine. And, despite one spurned peace effort after another since the landmark treaties with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) -- not to mention the experiences of withdrawal from southern Lebanon only to have Iranian-backed Hezbollah step in, or from Gaza only to have Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, take control -- Israel still clings to the belief that peace, based on major territorial compromise and a two-state solution, is possible.
And tenth is what travelers see for themselves when they come to Israel.
As many first-time visitors have commented, they had no idea that Israel was so small or its security challenges so complex.
They had no clue that Arabic was an official language and Israeli Arabs, even those opposed to the state's very existence, have been elected to the Israeli parliament.
They were unaware that churches and mosques are found everywhere, with full freedom of worship protected.
They had no sense of how ancient and modern, at one and the same time, the country is.
They had no understanding of what a full-throttled democracy Israel is, including a feisty press, an independent judiciary, an array of active NGOs, political parties galore, and an argumentative, self-critical culture.
And they had no hint how proud of their country -- and optimistic about the future -- are the vast majority of Israelis.
For nearly 2,000 years, Jews could only dream of, and pray for, the rebirth of Israel. Today, it is a living, breathing, and pulsating reality. And I count myself among the lucky ones to see it unfold before my very eyes."
From christianactionforisrael.org an article is titled
"Seven Reasons Why Israel is Entitled to the Land"
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Senate Floor Statement by
U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla) - March 4, 2002
"I was interested the other day when I heard that the de facto ruler, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, made a statement which was received by many in this country as if it were a statement of fact, as if it were something new, a concept for peace in the Middle East that no one had ever heard of before. I was kind of shocked that it was so well received by many people who had been down this road before.
I suggest to you that what Crown Prince Abdullah talked about a few days ago was not new at all. He talked about the fact that under the Abdullah plan, Arabs would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for the Jewish state surrendering the territory it received after the 1976 Six-Day War as if that were something new. He went on to talk about other land that had been acquired and had been taken by Israel.
I remember so well on December 4 when we covered all of this and the fact that there isn't anything new about the prospect of giving up land that is rightfully Israel's land in order to have peace.
When it gets right down to it, the land doesn't make that much difference because Yasser Arafat and others don't recognize Israel's right to any of the land. They do not recognize Israel's right to exist.
I will discuss seven reasons, which I mentioned once before, why Israel is entitled to the land they have and that it should not be a part of the peace process.
If this is something that Israel wants to do, it is their business to do it. But anyone who has tried to put the pressure on Israel to do this is wrong.
We are going to be hit by skeptics who are going to say we will be attacked because of our support for Israel, and if we get out of the Middle East--that is us--all the problems will go away. That is just not true. If we withdraw, all of these problems will again come to our door."
the article continues
"I have some observations to make about that. But I would like to reemphasize once again the seven reasons that Israel has the right to their land. The first reason is that Israel has the right to the land because of all of the archeological evidence. That is reason, No. 1. All the archeological evidence supports it.
Every time there is a dig in Israel, it does nothing but support the fact that Israelis have had a presence there for 3,000 years. They have been there for a long time. The coins, the cities, the pottery, the culture--there are other people, groups that are there, but there is no mistaking the fact that Israelis have been present in that land for 3,000 years.
It predates any claims that other peoples in the regions may have. The ancient Philistines are extinct. Many other ancient peoples are extinct. They do not have the unbroken line to this date that the Israelis have.
Even the Egyptians of today are not racial Egyptians of 2,000, 3,000 years ago. They are primarily an Arab people. The land is called Egypt, but they are not the same racial and ethnic stock as the old Egyptians of the ancient world. The first Israelis are in fact descended from the original Israelites. The first proof, then, is the archeology.
The second proof of Israel's right to the land is the historic right. History supports it totally and completely. We know there has been an Israel up until the time of the Roman Empire. The Romans conquered the land. Israel had no homeland, although Jews were allowed to live there. They were driven from the land in two dispersions: One was in 70 A,.D. and the other was in 135 A.D. But there was always a Jewish presence in the land.
The Turks, who took over about 700 years ago and ruled the land up until about World War I, had control. Then the land was conquered by the British. The Turks entered World War I on the side of Germany. The British knew they had to do something to punish Turkey, and also to break up that empire that was going to be a part of the whole effort of Germany in World War I. So the British sent troops against the Turks in the Holy Land."
& continues
"One of the generals who was leading the British armies was a man named Allenby. Allenby was a Bible-believing Christian. He carried a Bible with him everywhere he went and he knew the significance of Jerusalem.
The night before the attack against Jerusalem to drive out the Turks, Allenby prayed that God would allow him to capture the city without doing damage to the holy places.
That day, Allenby sent World War I biplanes over the city of Jerusalem to do a reconnaissance mission. You have to understand that the Turks had at that time never seen an airplane. So there they were, flying around. They looked in the sky and saw these fascinating inventions and did not know what they were, and they were terrified by them. Then they were told they were going to be opposed by a man named Allenby the next day, which means, in their language, ``man sent from God'' or ``prophet from God.'' They dared not fight against a prophet from God, so the next morning, when Allenby went to take Jerusalem, he went in and captured it without firing a single shot.
The British Government was grateful to Jewish people around the world, particularly to one Jewish chemist who helped them manufacture niter. Niter is an ingredient that was used in nitroglycerin which was sent over from the New World. But they did not have a way of getting it to England. The German U-boats were shooting on the boats, so most of the niter they were trying to import to make nitroglycerin was at the bottom of the ocean. But a man named Weitzman, a Jewish chemist, discovered a way to make it from materials that existed in England. As a result, they were able to continue that supply.
The British at that time said they were going to give the Jewish people a homeland. That is all a part of history. It is all written down in history. They were gratified that the Jewish people, the bankers, came through and helped finance the war.
The homeland that Britain said it would set aside consisted of all of what is now Israel and all of what was then the nation of Jordan--the whole thing. That was what Britain promised to give the Jews in 1917.
In the beginning, there was some Arab support for this action. There was not a huge Arab population in the land at that time, and there is a reason for that. The land was not able to sustain a large population of people. It just did not have the development it needed to handle those people, and the land was not really wanted by anybody. Nobody really wanted this land. It was considered to be worthless land.
I want the Presiding Officer to hear what Mark Twain said. And, of course, you may have read ``Huckleberry Finn'' and ``Tom Sawyer.'' Mark Twain--Samuel Clemens--took a tour of Palestine in 1867. This is how he described that land. We are talking about Israel now. He said:
A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw a human being on the whole route. There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."
& continues
"Where was this great Palestinian nation? It did not exist. It was not there. Palestinians were not there. Palestine was a region named by the Romans, but at that time it was under the control of Turkey, and there was no large mass of people there because the land would not support them.
This is the report that the Palestinian Royal Commission, created by the British, made. It quotes an account of the conditions on the coastal plain along the Mediterranean Sea in 1913. This is the Palestinian Royal Commission. They said:
The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track, suitable for transport by camels or carts. No orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one reached the Yavnev village. Houses were mud. Schools did not exist. The western part toward the sea was almost a desert. The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. Many villages were deserted by their inhabitants.
That was 1913.
The French author Voltaire described Palestine as ``a hopeless, dreary place.''
In short, under the Turks the land suffered from neglect and low population. That is a historic fact. The nation became populated by both Jews and Arabs because the land came to prosper when Jews came back and began to reclaim it. Historically, they began to reclaim it. If there had never been any archaeological evidence to support the rights of the Israelis to the territory, it is also important to recognize that other nations in the area have no longstanding claim to the country either."
& continues
"Did you know that Saudi Arabia was not created until 1913, Lebanon until 1920? Iraq did not exist as a nation until 1932, Syria until 1941; the borders of Jordan were established in 1946 and Kuwait in 1961. Any of these nations that would say Israel is only a recent arrival would have to deny their own rights as recent arrivals as well. They did not exist as countries. They were all under the control of the Turks.
Historically, Israel gained its independence in 1948.
The third reason that land belongs to Israel is the practical value of the Israelis being there. Israel today is a modern marvel of agriculture. Israel is able to bring more food out of a desert environment than any other country in the world. The Arab nations ought to make Israel their friend and import technology from Israel that would allow all the Middle East, not just Israel, to become an exporter of food. Israel has unarguable success in its agriculture.
The fourth reason I believe Israel has the right to the land is on the grounds of humanitarian concern. You see, there were 6 million Jews slaughtered in Europe in World War II. The persecution against the Jews had been very strong in Russia since the advent of communism. It was against them even before then under the Czars.
These people have a right to their homeland. If we are not going to allow them a homeland in the Middle East, then where? What other nation on Earth is going to cede territory, is going to give up land?
They are not asking for a great deal. The whole nation of Israel would fit into my home State of Oklahoma seven times. It would fit into the Presiding Officer's State of Georgia seven times. They are not asking for a great deal. The whole nation of Israel is very small. It is a nation that, up until the time that claims started coming in, was not desired by anybody.
The fifth reason Israel ought to have their land is that she is a strategic ally of the United States. Whether we realize it or not, Israel is a detriment, an impediment, to certain groups hostile to democracies and hostile to what we believe in, hostile to that which makes us the greatest nation in the history of the world. They have kept them from taking complete control of the Middle East. If it were not for Israel, they would overrun the region. They are our strategic ally.
It is good to know we have a friend in the Middle East on whom we can count. They vote with us in the United Nations more than England, more than Canada, more than France, more than Germany--more than any other country in the world."
& continues
"The sixth reason is that Israel is a roadblock to terrorism. The war we are now facing is not against a sovereign nation; it is against a group of terrorists who are very fluid, moving from one country to another. They are almost invisible. That is whom we are fighting against today.
We need every ally we can get. If we do not stop terrorism in the Middle East, it will be on our shores. We have said this again and again and again, and it is true.
One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.
Since its independence in 1948, Israel has fought four wars: The war in 1948 and 1949--that was the war for independence--the war in 1956, the Sinai campaign; the Six-Day War in 1967; and in 1973, the Yom Kippur War, the holiest day of the year, and that was with Egypt and Syria.
You have to understand that in all four cases, Israel was attacked. They were not the aggressor. Some people may argue that this was not true because they went in first in 1956, but they knew at that time that Egypt was building a huge military to become the aggressor. Israel, in fact, was not the aggressor and has not been the aggressor in any of the four wars.
Also, they won all four wars against impossible odds. They are great warriors. They consider a level playing field being outnumbered 2 to 1.
There were 39 Scud missiles that landed on Israeli soil during the gulf war. Our President asked Israel not to respond. In order to have the Arab nations on board, we asked Israel not to participate in the war. They showed tremendous restraint and did not. Now we have asked them to stand back and not do anything over these last several attacks.
We have criticized them. We have criticized them in our media. Local people in television and radio often criticize Israel, not knowing the true facts. We need to be informed.
I was so thrilled when I heard a reporter pose a question to our Secretary of State, Colin Powell. He said:
Mr. Powell, the United States has advocated a policy of restraint in the Middle East. We have discouraged Israel from retaliation again and again and again because we've said it leads to continued escalation--that it escalates the violence. Are we going to follow that preaching ourselves?
Mr. Powell indicated we would strike back. In other words, we can tell Israel not to do it, but when it hits us, we are going to do something.
But all that changed in December when the Israelis went into the Gaza with gunships and into the West Bank with F-16s. With the exception of last May, the Israelis had not used F-16s since the 1967 6-Day War. And I am so proud of them because we have to stop terrorism. It is not going to go away. If Israel were driven into the sea tomorrow, if every Jew in the Middle East were killed, terrorism would not end. You know that in your heart. Terrorism would continue.
It is not just a matter of Israel in the Middle East. It is the heart of the very people who are perpetrating this stuff. Should they be successful in overrunning Israel--which they won't be--but should they be, it would not be enough. They will never be satisfied.
No. 7, I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel; that it has a right to the land. This is the most important reason: Because God said so. As I said a minute ago, look it up in the book of Genesis. It is right up there on the desk.
In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says:
The Lord said to Abram, ``Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward and westward: for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed forever. ..... Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.''
& lastly says
"That is God talking.
The Bible says that Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar before the Lord. Hebron is in the West Bank. It is at this place where God appeared to Abram and said, ``I am giving you this land,''--the West Bank.
This is not a political battle at all. It is a contest over whether or not the word of God is true. The seven reasons, I am convinced, clearly establish that Israel has a right to the land.
Eight years ago on the lawn of the White House, Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. It was a historic occasion. It was a tragic occasion.
At that time, the official policy of the Government of Israel began to be, ``Let us appease the terrorists. Let us begin to trade the land for peace.'' This process continued unabated up until last year. Here in our own Nation, at Camp David, in the summer of 2000, then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak offered the most generous concessions to Yasser Arafat that had ever been laid on the table.
He offered him more than 90 percent of all the West Bank territory, sovereign control of it. There were some parts he did not want to offer, but in exchange for that he said he would give up land in Israel proper that the PLO had not even asked for.
And he also did the unthinkable. He even spoke of dividing Jerusalem and allowing the Palestinians to have their capital there in the East. Yasser Arafat stormed out of the meeting. Why did he storm out of the meeting? Everything he had said he wanted was offered there. It was put into his hands. Why did he storm out of the meeting?
A couple of months later, there began to be riots, terrorism. The riots began when now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount. And this was used as the thing that lit the fire and that caused the explosion.
Did you know that Sharon did not go unannounced and that he contacted the Islamic authorities before he went and secured their permission and had permission to be there? It was no surprise.
The response was very carefully calculated. They knew the world would not pay attention to the details.
They would portray this in the Arab world as an attack upon the holy mosque. They would portray it as an attack upon that mosque and use it as an excuse to riot. Over the last 8 years, during this time of the peace process, where the Israeli public has pressured its leaders to give up land for peace because they are tired of fighting, there has been increased terror.
In fact, it has been greater in the last 8 years than any other time in Israel's history. Showing restraint and giving in has not produced any kind of peace. It is so much so that today the leftist peace movement in Israel does not exist because the people feel they were deceived.
They did offer a hand of peace, and it was not taken. That is why the politics of Israel have changed drastically over the past 12 months. The Israelis have come to see that, ``No matter what we do, these people do not want to deal with us. ..... They want to destroy us.'' That is why even yet today the stationery of the PLO still has upon it the map of the entire state of Israel, not just the tiny little part they call the West Bank that they want. They want it all.
We have to get out of this mind set that somehow you can buy peace in the Middle East by giving little plots of land. It has not worked before when it has been offered.
These seven reasons show why Israel is entitled to that land."
From Unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"WATCH: ‘Jihadi’ Who Killed 13 Israelis Celebrated as Palestinian Hero"
Mar 19, 2020
Related:
Dizengoff
Palestinan terror
suicide bomber the article says
"While murdering innocent people could not be more reprehensible, a notorious Palestinian suicide bomber was recently lauded on Lebanese television.
On a recent broadcast by Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Lebanon-based Al-Quds Al-Youm TV, two commentators championed the heinous murder of 13 Israelis in the 1996 suicide bombing at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv.
Not only were the terrorists who carried out this attack praised, they claimed that this suicide bombing, which injured another 130 Israels, and similar attacks “bring a lot of joy to the Palestinian people.”
The two then fondly discussed how Palestinians hand out candies and sweets to celebrate murders like this, calling on the populace to continue these barbaric crimes."
Another Article about the Arab Cancer within Israel, the website
unitedwithisrael.org has an article titled
"Arab MK Vows to Eliminate Israel’s ‘Jewishness and Zionism’"
Mar 18, 2020
“We’ll divest Israel of its Jewishness and Zionism,” Arab-Israeli lawmaker Heba Yazbak recently vowed.
By United with Israel Staff the article says
"Heba Yazbak, a lawmaker in the Israeli parliament from the Arab Joint List faction, openly admitted that she seeks to eliminate Israel’s Jewish character and Zionist values.
Yazbak’s party garnered 15 seats in Israel’s March elections, the nation’s third electoral contest within a year. She posted videos of two interviews on March 13 on her Arabic Facebook page with the header, “The Joint List … will cleanse [Israel] for the benefit of our people.”
Yazbak said in one interview that her party seeks to “fight Zionism,” Arutz Sheva reported
In the second interview, she said, “[Our] plan opposes and fights the country’s Zionism and prides itself [in] divesting the country of its Jewish and Zionist existence and at the same time preserves our national identity.”
It’s unclear to which “identity” Yazbak was referring.
Before the March 2020 elections, several parties sought to ban Yazbak from running for elected office under a law that forbids candidates who have openly supported armed conflict against the country.
Yazbak showed support for terrorist Samir Kuntar, calling him a “martyr” on her Facebook page. Kuntar murdered in cold blood members of the Haran family, including the father and a four-year-old girl by crushing her head with the butt of his rifle in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya in 1979. He also murdered a policeman.
Yazbak, born in Nazareth, was raised in a Muslim family and received a degree from the University of Haifa and a master’s from Tel Aviv University." This Article is Even More Proof of Arab Evil, of Arab Criminality , why Arabs should Not be allowed to Serve in the Knesset and should Not be allowed to Vote in Israel , just Arabs being Arabs as usual
Also from Unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinian Leaders Compare Israel to Coronavirus, While Israel Protects Palestinians from Pandemic"
Mar 18, 2020
The Palestinian Authority is churning out the coronavirus-themed anti-Israel propaganda, while benefiting from extensive assistance from Israel to battle the deadly virus.
By Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch
"For weeks, Palestinian Authority (PA) media has been immersed in the coronavirus story, including the demonization of Israel, without mentioning Israel’s efforts to helping the PA.
Finally on Tuesday, the PA Government Spokesman informed Palestinians of the cooperation between Israel and the PA in fighting the virus.
Despite Israel’s cooperation with the Palestinian Authority in fighting the coronavirus
Just two days ago, the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published the a cartoon showing an Israeli tank with spikes protruding from its turret shaped like the peplomers on the coronavirus viral envelope. The tank’s main gun, which is also in the shape of a peplomer, is pointed at a Palestinian holding a baby and walking away from the tank.
An editorial in the paper compared Israel to “all of nature’s viruses,” but “more dangerous.”
“Just as we will overcome the coronavirus, we will certainly overcome the occupation’s viruses that are more dangerous than all of nature’s viruses,” read the editorial in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on March 11, 2020.
Two weeks ago, PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh announced on his Facebook pae that the PA was dealing with both “the coronavirus and the occupation virus”
Shtayyeh said, “On behalf of my brothers in the [PA] government, I call on all of the organizations to prioritize the good of the homeland and prioritize dialogue over a strike, because in practice we are at a critical and difficult stage that is not connected only to disease and the coronavirus or the occupation virus.”
No Cure for Blind Hatred?
Similarly, the governor of Ramallah compared life with Israel to life with corona, stating that as Palestinians managed to live through the intifadas – the PA’s terror campaigns – so it will “live through the coronavirus.”
In Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Fatah even accused Israel of “helping the coronavirus” and showing “indifference regarding the spread of the virus among the Palestinians” when Israel arrested some young Palestinians on suspicion of illegal activity, including graffiti.
Fatah claimed the Palestinians were “disinfecting public institutions.”
the article continues
"Until yesterday, the PA leadership and its controlled media had not said a word about Israel’s help to the PA fighting the corona crisis. Among other things, COGAT – the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories – has published information about corona and guidelines on prevention and protection from the virus in Arabic, which is available to the entire Palestinian population. Israel has also provided the PA with 20 tons of disinfectant material and coronavirus testing kits. Israel has also arranged joint training sessions for Israeli and Palestinian medical personnel.
Finally last night, PA Government Spokesman Ibrahim Melhem announced that Israel and the PA will establish a joint situation room.
Last month though, the same PA government spokesman compared defeating the coronoavirus to defeating what he called the “Trump virus.”
A host on official PA TV accused Israel of demonization of the PA, alleging that Israel has stated that it got the coronavirus from Bethlehem in the PA. Israel has said no such thing but took measures supported by the PA when it became apparent that there was a serious outbreak of Corona in Bethlehem. In addition to twisting the facts, the PA TV host in turn demonized Israel, accusing Israel of “exporting” corona to the PA.
Palestinian Media Watch also exposed a sermon broadcast by official PA TV in which the preacher taught that the Coronavirus is “one of Almighty Allah’s soldiers.”
Another PA reaction to the Corona crisis has been to demand that Israel release all terrorists from Israeli prisons, with Shtayyeh claiming he would get the International Red Cross involved.
Meanwhile the PA has also proclaimed itself a master of combating Corona. Both an editorial and an op-ed in the official PA daily claimed the PA is so good at dealing with the crisis that it has been suggested in Israel that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu learn from the PA in Ramallah how to fight the virus."
the article continues
"
“We will note what has been conveyed in the Israeli media outlets – praise for the functioning of the besieged Palestinian [PA] government, which is suffering from a financial crisis and despite this has succeeded in taking effective steps to deal with the [Corona]virus, while the Tel Aviv government with all its economic and medical capabilities has not succeeded in dealing with the epidemic, to the point that one of the Israelis has demanded that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his government go to Ramallah and learn from the Palestinian government how to manage crises,” an op-ed claimed in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.
PMW is not aware of any Israelis having made such a statement." As usual the so-called
"Palestinians" are ungrateful towards the Israelis who Help Them and give them so much Humanitarian Aid, Many People have been saying that the So-called "Palestinians" Deserve Nothing, and that they should Get Nothing, that they Deserve Nothing from Israel, and Israel should Give them Nothing, All the so-called "Palestinians" do is Reward the Kindness of Israeli Jews with Even More Terrorism & Hate, they view the Kindness & Compassion of Israeli Jews as Weakness, Many People Know in their Hearts that the so-called
"Palestinians" Deserve Nothing from Israel, and that they should Get Nothing, Absolutely Nothing, they should Not be Rewarded for Terrorism and Hate, Everything is THEIR FAULT, it's always their Fault, Again we all wish that the Fake Invented People that call themselves "Palestinians" had Never been Invented, we all wish they had Never been invented, Worst invention in human history
In this Era of Fake News, the biggest Fake News story is that there is a
"Palestinian" People, Truth is NOT "Racist" , The Fact is the so-called
"Palestinians" are a Fake Invented Fictional People, there was Never a Nation called
"Palestine"
From www.barnesandnoble.com a good book people suggest reading is titled
"Unfinished Work: Letters in Defense of Israel, the Jewish People and the Truth"
by Len Bennett Published in 2019
The Overview says
"Len Bennett is passionate about Israel and all societies striving to be liberal democracies. He hates bullies like the United Nations. He is also a news junkie and follows unfolding political and cultural stories all over the world, then shares his thoughts with editors at relevant media everywhere. And the editors have listened. Collected here are over 200 of Len’s reflections on the continuing struggle in the Middle East. What emerges is a deep understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1988 to present day."
It's a very disturbing situation in America & Worldwide, Everyone Unjustly Hates the Jews and the State of Israel, Anti-Semitism & Jew Hatred Increases every day,
as Anti-Semitism grows Jewish Self-Hatred will sadly also grow, More and More Jews will wish they weren't born Jewish
On College & University Campuses Anti-Israel Worthless Losers are in Full Retard Mode as always, they are Juvenile,Immature,Childish Troublemakers who Cowardly Hide Behind
"Free Speech" to
Spew Hate, their Hypocrisy is Sickening, they want their "Free Speech" yet they don't tolerate or respect any Free Speech from people who disagree with them ,
From reuters.com an article on January 23, 2020 titled
"Germany still dealing with 'same evil' that led to Holocaust, president says in Jerusalem"
Rami Ayyub
2 MIN READ the article says
"JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Germany has still not learned “once and for all” its lesson from the Holocaust, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday, as he expressed sorrow for his country’s role in the murder of six million Jews during World War Two.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the World Holocaust Forum marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem January 23, 2020. Abir Sultan/Pool via REUTERS
Steinmeier spoke at a Jerusalem memorial event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where more than one million people, most of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis.
The World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem memorial center in Jerusalem was attended by some 40 world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.
In sombre tones, dignitaries spoke of the resurgence of anti-Semitism and pledged to combat it.
“I bow in deepest sorrow,” Steinmeier said. “The mass murder of six million Jews, the worst crime in the history of humanity, it was committed by my countrymen.”
With anti-Semitic attacks increasing in frequency in Germany and across Europe, Steinmeier, 64, voiced regret that his country was still dealing with the bigotry and hatred that led to the Holocaust.
“I wish I could say that we Germans have learnt from history once and for all. But I cannot say that when hatred is spreading,” Steinmeier said.
In October, a gunman who denounced Jews opened fire outside a German synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, killing two people as he livestreamed his attack online.
“Of course, our age is a different age. The words are not the same. The perpetrators are not the same. But it is the same evil. And there remains only one answer: Never again! Nie wieder!” Steinmeier said.
The president’s office said he chose to address the World Holocaust Forum in English, not German, so as not to upset any of the Holocaust survivors in the audience.
“Germany’s responsibility does not expire,” Steinmeier said. “We want to live up to our responsibility. By this, you should measure us.”
Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Ari Rabinovitch. Editing by Stephen Farrell and Gareth Jones,
Sadly Germany & Austria are still Very Wicked Evil Nations, Sadly Many Germans & Austrians are still Evil & Wicked Overall
From the website dw.com an article is titled
"Germany not immune to evil 75 years after Auschwitz liberation, Steinmeier says" on January 23, 2020
Speaking at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, German President Steinmeier said his country should be judged by its commitment to fighting anti-Semitism. The evils of the Nazi era continue to exist today, he added.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers speech at the World Holocaust Forum
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier underscored Germany's responsibility to combat anti-Semitism in a historic speech on Thursday in Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center. the article says:
"I wish I could say that we Germans have learned from our history once and for all, but I cannot say that when hatred is spreading," Steinmeier said at the start of the World Holocaust Forum (WHF).
Steinmeier, who is the first German president ever to give a speech at Yad Vashem, was joined by other heads of state for the start of the WHF to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
"I stand before you and wish I could say that our remembrance has made us immune to evil," he noted.
"Yes, we Germans remember," he said. "But sometimes it seems as if we understand the past better than the present."
Watch video11:40
German president expresses sorrow for Holocaust
Evils of anti-Semitism 'appear today in a new guise'
The commemorations in Jerusalem come amid a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States, with Steinmeier warning that although the Nazi regime is gone, "the same evil" still remains in society.
"The evil spirits appear today in a new guise, presenting their anti-Semitic, their nationalistic, their authoritarian thinking as an answer for the future — as a new solution for the problems of our time," the German president said.
He described stories of Jewish children in Germany who are "spit on in the schoolyard." He also condemned the anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle last October where only a heavy wooden door prevented a right-wing extremist "from carrying out a bloodbath ... on Yom Kippur."
"Germany's historical responsibility will not expire," he emphasized. "We want to live up to it — and you should judge us on it."
Over 50 heads of state and government are in Jerusalem for the WHF, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Vice President Mike Pence.
Around 100 Holocaust survivors are also taking part in the event, which includes prayers for the dead and the lighting of a memorial torch.
It is the largest gathering in Israeli history of world leaders commemorating of the Holocaust. The forum on Thursday is the first of several events leading up to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Red Army soldiers liberated the camp on January 27, 1945.
An estimated 1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz before it was liberated. Over 6 million Jews — more than a third of the world's Jewish population at the time — were killed by the Nazis in gas chambers, ghettos and forced labor camps."
Did anyone see the 2001 Film "Invincible" from Wikipedia it says about this film
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Invincible
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DVD cover
Directed by Werner Herzog
Produced by Gary Bart
Werner Herzog
Christine Ruppert
Lucki Stipetić
Paul Webster
Written by Werner Herzog
Starring Tim Roth
Jouko Ahola
Anna Gourari
Silvia Vas
Music by Klaus Badelt
Hans Zimmer
Cinematography Peter Zeitlinger
Edited by Joe Bini
Distributed by Channel Four Films (UK)
Fine Line Features (US)
Release date
29 March 2001 (UK)
Running time
133 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Germany
Ireland
United States
Invincible (German: Unbesiegbar) is a 2001 drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna Gourari, and Max Raabe. The film tells the story of a Jewish strongman in Germany. While basing his story on the real-life figure Zishe Breitbart (a.k.a. Siegmund Breitbart), Herzog uses the bare facts of Breitbart's life to weave fact and fiction (e.g., the story is set in 1932 Berlin, a full seven years after Breitbart's death in 1925) to create an allegory of human strength, knowing oneself with honesty and pride in one's heritage.
The film features original score composed by German film composer Hans Zimmer, co-written with fellow composer Klaus Badelt. Along with films like The Pledge (also co-written with Zimmer) this marks one of the first projects of Badelt into the feature film industry, and one of several collaborations with Herzog as well.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Critical reception
4 Box office
5 References
6 External links
Plot
Zishe Breitbart (Jouko Ahola) is the son of an Orthodox Jewish blacksmith in rural Poland. He is fantastically strong, largely from working at hard labour all day. A talent agent sees how strong Breitbart is in his Jewish shtetl home and convinces him to move to Berlin, where he can find work as a strongman.
Hanussen (an allusion to the real-life figure Erik Jan Hanussen, played by Tim Roth), an epic con-man and supposed mystic, runs a cabaret variety show. Hanussen gives Breitbart a blonde wig and a Nordic helmet and calls him "Siegfried" so as to identify him with the Aryan notion of physical superiority. This appeals to the largely Nazi clientele, and he is a big hit.
This is a dark comedy but is as much so a deeply dramatic story, involving the mainly secular Jews of Berlin. Included is interaction between Breitbart, an attractive stage musician Marta, their boss Hanussen, who abuses her, and some very top level Nazis. Ultimately Breitbart becomes disgusted and dismayed."
The Wikipedia entry continues
"A visit from Breitbart's young brother, Benjamin (Jacob Benjamin Wein), convinces Breitbart to be proud of his Jewish heritage, and so, without warning, he takes off the blonde wig in the middle of his act to announce that he is not an "Aryan", and calls himself a new Jewish Samson. This has the effect of making him a hero to the local Jews, who flock to the cabaret to see their new Samson. The Nazis aren't as pleased, and Hanussen tries to discredit Breitbart. He tries to make it seem that it was his mystic powers that were the true strength behind the strongman, and makes it look as though even his frail female pianist Marta can break chains and lift weights if under his power.
Hanussen knows the Nazis dabble in the occult and hopes to become a part of Hitler's future government. He therefore hobnobs with the likes of Himmler and Goebbels. In the end, however, he is exposed as a Czech Jewish con artist named Herschel Steinschneider. As a result, Hanussen is kidnapped and murdered by the Brownshirts. Breitbart foresees what will be known as the Holocaust and returns to Poland to warn the Jewish people of its coming. Unfortunately, no one believes him and he accidentally dies from an infected wound, according to the final titles, two days before Hitler takes power in 1933. In the final scene he is in a delirium as a result of the infection. In a dreamscape surrounded by Christmas Island red crabs, he has a vision of his younger brother Benjamin flying safely away from the looming Holocaust.
Cast
Jouko Ahola – Zishe Breitbart. A Jewish strongman who works in a Berlin occult cabaret. The character is based loosely on Zishe Breitbart.
Tim Roth – Hanussen. The owner and star attraction of the cabaret. He is based on Erik Jan Hanussen.
Anna Gourari – Marta Farra . A pianist and Hanussen's mistress.
Silvia Vas – Mrs. Holle
Udo Kier – Count Helldorf
Critical reception
Invincible received mixed reviews during its North American theatrical run. On one end of the spectrum, Roger Ebert said it was one of the best movies of the year:
Watching Invincible was a singular experience for me, because it reminded me of the fundamental power that the cinema had for us when we were children. The film exercises the power that fable has for the believing. Herzog has gotten outside the constraints and conventions of ordinary narrative, and addresses us where our credulity keeps its secrets.[1]
On the syndicated television show Ebert & Roeper, Ebert's co-host Richard Roeper was also enthusiastic, calling the film, "A tremendous piece of work."[2]
David Stratton described it as an uninteresting and overly-long take on a fascinating period of 20th century history. However he did appreciate the production values, which were 'solid', and the film had a 'predictably rich' music soundtrack.[3]
As of 24 August 2010, the film has a score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]
Box office
Invincible opened in North America on 20 September 2002 on 4 theatres, grossing US$14,293 ($3,573 per screen) in its opening weekend, ranking 85th for the weekend. At its widest point, it played at only 9 theatres, and its total gross is US$81,954. It was only in theatrical release for 35 days."
The website israeltoday.co.il has an article titled
"Will Two-Thirds of Israelis Perish?" the article says :
Instead of forecasting doom upon Israel, Christians ought to see the handwriting on the wall regarding their own nations
February 1, 2016 |
"There is a popular belief, even among Christian lovers of Israel, that according to Zechariah’s prophecy, two-thirds of the Jewish people in Israel “will be cut off and perish” (Zech. 13:8). This interpretation is tied to the belief of how God will bring about Israel’s ultimate salvation. The theory being, that nothing short of near annihilation will ever be able to overcome their stubborn resistance to accepting Jesus as the Messiah.
Quite frankly, I believe it is dispassionate theological interpretations of Scripture like this that only reinforce Jewish resistance to the gospel. How can we loudly proclaim love for Israel one minute, and in the next breath, say, “oh well, it’s a shame, but up to four million more Jews must die before all Israel is saved.” I don’t buy it.
So – can Zechariah’s prophecy be understood another way? Let’s look at it. “It will come about in all the land, declares the Lord, that two parts in it will be cut off and perish; but the third will be left in it. And I will bring the third part through the fire, 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, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’” (Zech 13:8,9).
Like all prophecy, we never really know when or how it will be fulfilled until it happens. Who could have guessed the massacre of the children in Bethlehem would be a fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecy of “Rachael weeping for her children?” (Matt. 2:18) Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit can and does give us advanced insight on Bible prophecy, often based on what God is doing in our day. And one thing that should be abundantly clear today, especially to a Christian Zionist, is that God is now squarely on Israel’s side. That their long exile is over and God is restoring all that the “gnawing … swarming … creeping … stripping locust has eaten” (Joel 1:4).
So when we read Zechariah’s prophecy, I believe it must be understood in light of God’s favor being shown to Israel today. Not in terms of the divine displeasure the nation has already suffered. If we look at the prophecy in full context we see it follows these words, “Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones” (Zech 13:7). We know this is speaking of Yeshua, as John informed us (John 26:31). So we can safely assume the judgment that follows is connected to that first-century rejection of him."
the article continues
"Historians tell us that 1.1 million Jews died in the siege of Jerusalem, far less than two-thirds of the population needed to fulfill the prophecy. But who can say the counting didn’t continue over the centuries? When Zechariah said “in all the land,” it could mean the whole earth. In fact, I find it beyond coincidental that the number of European Jews murdered in the Holocaust is always said to be “two-thirds.” If we needed to have an obvious sign that God’s judgment spoken by Zechariah has been fulfilled, that did it for me.
More importantly, we know that just three years after the Holocaust the dark days of Jewish exile came to an end when the nation of Israel was resurrected from the rubble of history. Those who had ears to hear understood immediately God was once again restoring favor to His people. The winter was over.
So does that mean Israel will avoid severe tribulation in the days ahead? Of course not. They are even now being “refined as silver” in their efforts to reclaim the land. Jeremiah states concerning the last days, “Alas! for that day is great, there is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it” (Jer. 30:7).
It doesn’t take a military genius to see Israel is facing the battle of its life in the days ahead. And with the mass migration of Muslims to Western nations, it’s inevitable European and American Jewry will also soon face an explosion of anti-Semitism. Yes, God will no doubt use all the coming tribulation to bring His chosen ones to faith (and home), but it won’t be Israel that suffers the catastrophic judgment.
Instead of forecasting doom and gloom upon Israel, Christians ought to see the handwriting on the wall regarding their own nations. As Jeremiah also told Israel: “I am with you, declares the Lord, to save you; For I will completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you” (Jer. 30:11).
Is there any nation on earth where a descendant of Abraham has not lived?"
From foxnews.com an article is titled
"The 21st century case for Christian Zionism" on May 19, 2015
By Mark Tooley, Gerald McDermott, | Fox News the article says
"It's time for a new form of Christian Zionism based not on hypothetical End Times scenarios but firmly rooted in the best intellectual traditions of ecumenical Christianity.
Why now? As Iran's apocalyptic regime of mullahs strives for nuclear weapons, as the Middle East is engulfed in strife, and as Christians in the region are killed and expelled by ISIS among other enemies, democratic Israel remains an island of law and stability, where persons of all faiths are safe.
Yet an increasing number of elites among Evangelicals, traditionally Israel's strongest friends, are turning against Israel. These elites want a new non-controversial image for themselves disconnected from the old Religious Right.
Some in the new Evangelical Left claim the Gospel precludes taking sides, and that Christianity has no relation to modern Israel. They are wrong, we believe.
Recently the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. hosted a "People of the Land: A 21st-Century Case for Christian Zionism," featuring distinguished scholars making the case for ongoing, sacred ties between Christians and Jews, and between Jews and the land of Israel.
There have been lots of academic conferences bashing Christian Zionism. Ours was the first of which we know proposing that a thoughtful CZ is a good idea theologically.
This conference was also historic, at least for the 21stcentury, because it, and the book that will come out of it, make a theological case that is substantively differentfrom the various cases that have been made for CZ by traditional "dispensationalists" who focus on the End Times.
Instead, our scholars argued that CZ is at the heart of the New Testament. Even anti-Zionists agree, mostly, that Zionism is part of the Old Testament. But Zionism is also presumed by New Testament authors, which many modern readers miss because they've been trained not to see it.
For example, Luke’s Gospel says that Jesus forecast a time when Jerusalem would no longer “be trampled underfoot [controlled] by the Gentiles”(Luke 21.24),which never happened until the establishment of Israel in 1948."
the article continues
"Peter, the leader of the early Christian movement, spoke of “the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago” (Acts 3.21)—referring to prophecies of a restoration of Israel in which Jews would return to and control their own land.
What do we mean by CZ? Several things. First, that Jews need and deserve a homeland in Israel. Not to displace others, but to accept and develop what the family of nations—the U.N.—gave them in 1948. And to fulfill a special history of continual presence going back at least three thousand years.
Second, that the Bible as a whole proclaims that the God of Israel is saving the world through Israel—through its people (including its perfect Son, Jesus) and its land. Not just thousands of years ago but today and in the future. That the people and the land still have theological significance. That the return of Jews from all over the world to the land, and to set up a polity in the land, in the 20thcentury after nearly two millennia of being separated from controlling the land, is part of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
We do NOT mean that Israel is a perfect polity or immune from critique. Or that it is necessarily the last Jewish polity we will see before the eschaton. Or that we know the particular timetable or political schema that will come beforeor in the eschaton.
But we do believe that this is a historic time for Israel and for us. For all the people of God. Support for this polity of Israel—this return of God’s people to the land—is eroding globally. It is surrounded by regimes bent on its destruction. Mainline Protestants have withdrawn their support. The Evangelical Left is now withdrawing support, using the same faulty arguments. It is a time for Christians, not just Jews, to make a case for the people and the land.
Some of our speakers made prudential arguments—political and legal and moral for Israel. But chiefly they made a new theological argument for the 21stcentury that the people of Israel continue to be significant for the history of redemption, and that the land of Israel, which is at the heart of the covenantal promises, remains critical to God’s providential purposes.
We believe that this people of Israel, at this moment in history, in the land, in this politeia, is part of God’s loving purpose for the salvation of the world. Contrary to common critique, Christian Zionism is not a modern political movement, popularized by "Left Behind" fiction. It dates to the early Church Fathers and runs through sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritans and modern thinkers like Reinhold Niebuhr and Karl Barth.
Yet too few Christians and Americans today know the deeply biblical and ecumenical intellectual traditions affirming a modern Jewish Israel. We hope our new 21st-century Christian Zionism, rooted in the venerable past, will open an exciting new chapter in Christian friendship with Jews and with Israel."
From the website askdrbrown.org
an article is titled
"The Truth About White Jesus Statues"
Posted June 25, 2020 the article says
"What, exactly, did Jesus look like? Was he black? Brown? White? Red? Yellow? We know that he was a first-century, Galilean Jew. But, beyond that, no reliable description of his appearance has been left for us.
There is a statement recorded in the Mishnah, the earliest code of Jewish law (compiled roughly 220 A.D.) attributed to Rabbi Ishmael, who lived from 90-135 AD. He said, “The children of Israel . . . are like boxwood, neither black nor white but of an intermediate shade” (m. Negaim 2:1).
So, according to a rabbi who lived within one century of Jesus, the Israelites are “like boxwood,” neither black nor white but somewhere in between. This would be in keeping with other Middle Eastern peoples of the past and present.
As for the notion that Jesus was black, based on Revelation 1:14-15, that is a complete misreading of the text. Describing John’s vision of a glorious Jesus, the text states that, “The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.” (Revelation 1:14)
But the text does not say that Jesus had wooly hair. Rather, it pictures his hair as “white like wool, white as snow.”
This is not speaking of the texture of his hair (any more than the texture of hair is being compared to snow). Rather, it is speaking of the color of his hair. And even so, this is a glorious vision not meant to be taken literally – unless, of course, you believe that a sharp, double-edged sword came out of his mouth and that his face shone like the sun.
That being said, Jesus was certainly not white. (For the record, many translations of the Bible, including the King James Version, render Revelation 1:14 with, “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow.” From this you could argue that Jesus was lily white, since it says his head was white. That, too, is a gross misunderstanding.)
How, then, did we end up with a white Jesus in Europe and America?
There are two answers to this question, one quite innocent and the other not nearly as innocent. (You might be in for a surprise. Keep reading!)
The innocent answer is that it is common for other people groups to imagine Jesus to be just like them. Just do a search for “images of Chinese Jesus” or “images of Eskimo Jesus.” You will see a Jesus who looks Chinese or a Jesus who looks Eskimo.
This is no surprise. After all, according to the gospel, the Son of God took on human flesh and became one of us. It’s only natural that we envision him to look like us.
Back in the 1970s, I attended a black megachurch in Brooklyn with a friend I had met in college, himself an African American.
The first thing that struck me was the mural on the wall, depicting Jesus and his disciples as black."
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"When I asked my friend about it, he said to me, “When you look at a class picture, what’s the first thing you look for? It’s your own face in the crowd. It’s the same with people coming here. They’re looking for a Jesus they can identify with.”
That’s also why many pictures and statues of Jesus depict him as white. The white artists conceived of a Jesus who was just like them. That’s also why some of the medieval depictions of Jesus portrayed him and his followers as wearing medieval garb. That was the garb that they knew.
The problem is when that image is now exported to other cultures, and so the Jesus we preach in India or Africa is a white Jesus. That can lead to spiritual and cultural confusion, especially if the white race is also associated with conquest and colonization. Now the issue becomes thornier. (To help you relate to some of the challenges, if you’re a white Christian, ask yourself how you would relate to a black Jesus. Or an Indian Jesus.)
But here’s the big surprise when it comes to white images of Jesus. The historic contrast was not between a white Jesus and blacks. It was between a white, Gentile Jesus and Jews.
This was graphically illustrated by Prof. Bernard Starr in his book Jesus, Jews, and Anti-Semitism in Art: How Renaissance Art Erased Jesus' Jewish Identity & How Today's Artists Are Restoring It. (For relevant articles by Starr, see here and here.)
Starr pointed to famous medieval and renaissance paintings of Jesus, where he was depicted as a handsome, fair-skinned, Gentile European, surrounded by devilishly-ugly, hook-nosed Jewish teachers. Those evil Jews!
If you think I’m exaggerating, just look at this one painting, Christ Among the Doctors, by Albrecht Dürer. (By “doctors” Dürer meant “doctors of the law,” as in rabbis and Jewish teachers.)
Interestingly, Starr also pointed to artists in Africa and other dark-skinned cultures who depicted a dark-skinned but also non-Jewish Jesus. How interesting!
So, a major reason that white artists depicted Jesus as white was because they forgot about his Jewish (and Middle Eastern) roots. Not only so, but since the Jews were viewed as demonic and evil, Jesus had to be different than them, hence a white, non-Jewish Jesus. (Or, in other cultures, a black, non-Jewish Jesus.)
BLM activist Shaun King, who ridiculously called for the removal of statues depicting a white Jesus, tweeted, “Experts have long since said this is likely the most accurate depiction of Jesus.
“White Americans who bought, sold, traded, raped, and worked Africans to death, for hundreds of years in this country, simply could not have THIS man at the center of their faith.”
King included in his tweet an image created in 2001 by forensic anthropologist Richard Neave. As the BBC reported, Neave “created a model of a Galilean man for a BBC documentary, Son of God, working on the basis of an actual skull found in the region. He did not claim it was Jesus's face. It was simply meant to prompt people to consider Jesus as being a man of his time and place, since we are never told he looked distinctive.”
So, contrary to King’s claim, this is not what, “Experts have long since said . . . is likely the most accurate depiction of Jesus.”
This is simply a 2001 image created by one expert, and it was not of an African man but of a Galilean Jew.
As the BBC also noted, “And what about Jesus's facial features? They were Jewish. That Jesus was a Jew (or Judaean) is certain in that it is found repeated in diverse literature.”
So, the real question for the cultural iconoclasts of our day, including the likes of Shaun King, is this: Would you be at home with a Jewish Jesus? With Yeshua, the son of Miriam, called rabbi rather than reverend? Would you be at home with him?
This is also a great question for Christians worldwide. Do you follow the Jesus-Yeshua of the Scriptures or a Jesus whom you have created in your own image?"
On Amazon.com a good book for people to read is titled
"They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe" by Yuri Suhl
a Reviewer on Amazon.com typed the following Critique of the book
E. G. Eldridge
5.0 out of 5 stars Dispelling the Myth
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2014 E.G. Eldridge typed :
"It is often said of the Jews in the Holocaust that they went to their deaths "like sheep to the slaughter". This amazing book buries that criticism, incidentally never leveled at any other victims of genocide, where it belongs---in the coffin of the many myths and lies told about the Jewish race. In fact, this vicious untruth rose out of the words of Jewish partisan leader, Abba Kovner, who said, "We will NOT go like sheep to the slaughter."
Yuri Suhl recounts over thirty instances of Jewish heroism in the Holocaust, including suicidally brave revolts in the ghettos, the courage of Jewish partisan groups (like the Bielski brothers) who had to contend not only with the Nazis, but virulently antisemitic fellow countrymen who were only too willing to assist in their murders or dob them in to the German authorities. In short, they had to fight on two fronts, always. There are individual acts of courage too that stand out and a tragic account of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, where a handful of Jews, men and women, held off veteran German SS and Wehrmacht troops for longer than the whole Polish Army did in September 1939. The only way the Germans could beat them was to blow up the entire ghetto street by street! There were incredibly brave uprisings in the death camps too.
It is important to remember that these Jews were peaceful, urban dwellers; family people who had no military training and who, as no one did, could never have guessed that an ostensibly civilized country like Germany would descend into the barbarism of mass murder on the basis of race and on an industrial scale. It makes their courage in fighting back against an evil unprecedented in history all the more remarkable, and especially because they fought alone.
Many photos abound of veteran German SS troops who surrendered in the Normandy campaign being marched into captivity under the guard of one or two skinny Tommies armed only with rifles. Where are the condemnations of these men for not "fighting back?' Yet the Jewish warriors in Suhl's book had none of the military training that these troops did and they had to fight against insuperable odds, always poorly armed into the bargain, and with no help coming from any quarter. No airdrops for them such as the French Maquis enjoyed.
This book is not an easy read in the sense that it is heartbreaking and harrowing, but it is a very important book that everyone should read, not just scholars of the Holocaust. It also helps the reader to understand Israel's strength and determination in defending her Jewish state, as what happened under the Germans in WW2 proved decisively that the Jewish people need their own country where they are safe from persecution. History is the great caveat and nothing can be understood outside its context.
Read this book and be humbled."
Another book listed on www.barnesandnoble.com is titled
"Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars" Published in 2004
by Yaacov Lozowick
The Overview says:
"For more than a half-century, Israel has been forced to defend its existence against international political disapproval, racist calumny, and violence visited upon its citizens by terrorists of many stripes. While nations have always been made to defend their moral, political, economic, or social actions, Israel has the unique plight of having to defend its very right to exist.
Covering Israel's struggle for existence from the British occupation and the UN’s partition of Palestine, to the dashed hopes of the Oslo Accords and the second intifada, Yaacov Lozowick trains an enlightening, forthright eye on Israel’s strengths and failures. A lifelong liberal and peace activist, he explores Israel’s national and regional political, social, and moral obligations as well as its right to secure its borders and repel attacks both philosophical and military. Combining rich historical perspective and passionate conviction, Right to Exist sets forth the agenda of a people and a nation, and elegantly articulates Israel’s entitlement to a peaceful coexistence with its surrounding Arab neighbors and a future of security and pride."
From the Christians United For Israel, Cufi.org website, some superb quotes are
“Now as the Good Book says: If you owe debts, pay debts. If honor, then honor. If respect, then respect. And I’m really here on the President’s behalf and on our entire team’s behalf to pay a debt of gratitude to all of you who helped elect a President who is fighting every single day to defend faith, restore freedom, and strengthen America’s unbreakable bond with our most cherished ally, Israel.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
“In Jerusalem, our President said that the bond between America and Israel in his words “is woven together in the hearts of our people” — and Christians United for Israel proves this statement true every single day all across this country.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
“You know, it was only 11 years ago that my friend Pastor John Hagee had the courage and the vision to unite American Christians to rally around those ancient words “for Zion’s sake, I will not keep silent.” And, Pastor John Hagee, I thank you for your leadership on behalf of this nation and the Jewish state of Israel.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
Some additional quotes from Cufi.org
“And today, through Christians United for Israel, more than 3.3 million believers have raised their voices, have not been silent in support of Israel, and you can be heard in every city and town across America and in every office on Capitol Hill. And rest assured, the man down the street at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue hears you, too.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
“Now for my part, Karen and I have always treasured our relationship with Christians United for Israel. I had the honor to speak to this great group when I was a member of Congress. I worked hand-in-hand with CUFI when I was governor of the state of Indiana. And with the support and prayers of men and women gathered in this room, I’m proud to say in my last year as governor, it was my great privilege to sign one of the strongest anti-BDS laws in the America to ensure that our state never does business with those who seek to inflict financial damage on Israel. Because boycott, divestment, and sanctions have no place in my home state and no place in America.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
“So tonight, let me just take a moment to thank all of you men and women of CUFI, and all those you represent around America, thank you for your friendship, your support, and your prayers every step of the way on the journey my little family has taken throughout my career. It’s hard for me to express before you friends of so many years the humility and gratitude I feel today to stand before you today as the 48th Vice President of the United States of America. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
“And to the men and women of Christians United for Israel, this President hears you. This President stands with you. And I promise you that the day will come when President Donald Trump moves the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It is not a question of if, it is only when.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
More Quotes from Cufi.org
“‘For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope, and a future.’ (Jeremiah 29:11) These words are as true today for all people of faith as they were in millennia past. And so I encourage you to embrace them. I urge the men and women of Christians United for Israel to cling to that hope and that promise, and I urge you to do particularly what you’ve done exceedingly well these many years, to continue to bow the head, to bend the knee, and to pray. Pray for our most cherished ally. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and pray that God will continue to bless America.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
“And I close tonight saying simply from my heart as I look out on this shining crowd, and I see the support that you represent all across this country for our most cherished ally. And I have faith. I have faith that with God’s help and with the men and women gathered here, with all those who cherish Israel, and with President Donald Trump in the White House, the best days for Israel and for America together are yet to come.”
– Vice President Mike Pence
From the San Diego Jewish World website sdjewishworld.com an article is titled
"Trump salutes Israel’s 72nd birthday, declares May as Jewish-American Heritage Month"
April 30, 2020 / 1 Comment
President Donald Trump
President Reuven Rivlin
Proclamation references Chabad of Poway shooting
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — President Trump sent a congratulatory letter to Israeli President Rivlin on Israeli Independence Day. In that letter, President Trump expressed his “tremendous pride that the United States was the first country to recognize the newly re-established Jewish State in 1948.”
He also signed a proclamation declaring May to be Jewish-American Heritage Month in the U.S.
President Trump’s letter to Israel in full:
“Dear President Rivlin:
The United States of America proudly joins you in commemorating the 72nd anniversary of Israel’s independence.
It gives me tremendous pride that the United States was the first country to recognize the newly re-established Jewish State in 1948.
Exactly seven decades to the day after Prime Minister Ben Gurion declared Israel’s independence, Israel and the United States shared another historic moment when the United States opened its embassy in Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem. This achievement has been one of many significant actions by my Administration to rebuild the U.S.-Israel relationship. This special relationship is built on our deeply rooted shared values. Israel is one of America’s closest partners, and I look forward to continuing the productive U.S.-Israel relationship in the coming year.
This Independence Day will occur as the world struggles to confront the challenges presented by COVID-19, and I want to commend our continuing close collaboration to protect our people and defeat this pandemic together.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump
And on the same day, President Trump issued the following Proclamation:
Proclamation on Jewish American Heritage Month, May 2020
Issued on: April 29, 2020
the article on sdjewishworld.com continues
"In 1654, the first Jewish settlers arrived in New Amsterdam, present day New York City, seeking the freedom to practice their faith. In the centuries since, Jewish Americans have contributed in countless ways to our country’s culture and character. From the arts and sciences to business and public service, nearly every facet of our society has benefited from the talent, inspiration, vision, expertise, ingenuity, and sacrifice of Jewish Americans. We honor their spirit and resiliency during Jewish American Heritage Month and celebrate the myriad of ways they enrich our country and the world.
Throughout history, the Jewish people have demonstrated an unbreakable spirit, overcoming suffering, cruel oppression, violence, and bigotry. Tragically, Jewish men, women, and children continue to face anti-Semitic discrimination, persecution, and violence today, and Jewish institutions and places of worship remain targets of vandalism and destruction. Our country has wept too many times in the aftermaths of horrific attacks, including last April when a murderer opened fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, taking innocent life and shattering families in a cowardly display of evil. Such unconscionable acts are an abomination to all decent and compassionate people. Hatred is intolerable and has no place in our hearts or in our society. We must therefore vigorously confront anti-Semitic discrimination and violence against members of the Jewish community. That is why I signed an Executive Order last December, bolstering my Administration’s efforts to combat the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States and build a culture of respect, humanity, and equality.
This month, we reaffirm our commitment to never compromise our steadfast support for the Jewish community, our rejection of anti-Semitic bigotry, and our disdain for malicious attacks of hatred. Jewish Americans strengthen, sustain, and inspire our country through dedication to family, respect for cherished traditions, and commitment to the values of justice and equality that unite Americans of every faith and background. We give thanks for the profound contributions that Jewish Americans continue to make to our society, and way of life.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 2020 as Jewish American Heritage Month. I call upon Americans to celebrate the heritage and contributions of American Jews and to observe this month with appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies.
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Preceding provided by the “Jews Choose Trump” campaign organization"
From the website www.jewishjournal.com an article titled
"Los Angeles High School Takes to the Streets to Celebrate Israel’s 72nd Birthday"
By
Ryan Torok
April 29, 2020
Unable to hold its Yom HaAtzmaut carnival on the rooftop this year, instead Shalhevet High School took to the local streets of Beverlywood on April 29 to celebrate Israel’s 72nd anniversary.
A parade of cars decorated with Israeli flags and blue-and-white balloons drove through the residential streets and Head of School Ari Segal stood in the flatbed of a pickup truck as it inched down Beverly Drive. Shalhevet students, together with residents, stood on street corners cheering.
“Even though we’re not physically there, we’re there in spirit,” 17-year-old Shalhevet senior Nick Fields told the Journal.
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As the cars drove by, Einat Ronen stood on the corner with her daughter Mia, a first-grader at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy. Ronen, who is the director of human resources at pro-Israel education organization StandWithUs, said her daughter’s school usually has a big party in honor of Yom HaAtzmaut. With that not possible this year, she said she was happy to at least get outside for the occasion. “It’s nice to see other people every once in a while,” she said.
The mother and daughter came equipped with some Israel swag – a balloon hand with one finger up to indicate Israel was number one."
Another good organization is The Lawfare Project, their website is
thelawfareproject.org under the "Who We Are" section it says when you scroll down
"Our Impact
We defend the civil and human rights of the pro-Israel community across a range of cross-cutting areas.
We forced Kuwait Airways to terminate half of its U.S. operations and all inter-European flight routes due to its practice of discriminating against Israeli passport-holders.
We succeeded in canceling a Hamas event scheduled to be held at an InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) hotel in Doha, Qatar by advising IHG on the criminal and civil liabilities that can attach for hosting a designated terrorist organization.
We have stopped corporations from implementing BDS practices by counseling them on the legal implications (and penalties) of discriminatory commercial conduct.
We successfully demanded that U.S. Congress hold the United Nations accountable for promoting and inciting violent radicalization among Palestinian children in UNWRA refugee camps.
We secured a team of three attorneys to provide pro bono assistance to a college student who was physically assaulted by a supporter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Criminal proceedings resulted in a court order that the attacker participate in anger management counseling and community service, issue an apology, and pay court costs and supervision fees."
Also from thelawfareproject.org website it says
under "What We Do" that
THE LAWFARE PROJECT ACTS ON SEVERAL FRONTS:
We Promote Civil Rights
We fight discrimination by providing legal counsel and services to members of the pro-Israel and Jewish communities who have been targeted and harmed based on their ethnicity, religion, citizenship, or nationality.
We filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) for refusing to sell ad space to an Israeli company, based on a discriminatory NLG resolution barring it from accepting funds from Israeli organizations.
We safeguard free speech by guaranteeing that pro-Israel and Jewish voices are not silenced by illegal conduct on campuses and communities around the world.
We are currently litigating two lawsuits (in state and federal court) against San Francisco State University—one of the most anti-Semitic campuses in the country—and its administration, to hold them accountable for their systematic violations of Jewish students’ civil rights.
Press Coverage
We Advance Human Rights
We advance human rights by combating extremism. Our network takes legal action against individuals and organizations that provide material support to terrorist networks, while producing educational materials on the global threat posed by radicalization.
We shut down the unlawful broadcasting of Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) and Al-Manar (Hezbollah) in the United States. Both television stations are "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" entities.
Full Case List
We Fight Lawfare
The Lawfare Project produces research that educates policymakers about the threat of lawfare—the abuse of the law as a weapon of war against western democracies. Additionally, we produce videos to educate the public on critical issues, ranging from the prevailing threats to your freedom of speech to the recruitment of children towards terrorism.
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From the website, blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"It’s not ‘annexation’; it’s reunification" by Gerard Filitti
JUN 28, 2020, 12:23 AM the article says
"As Israel prepares to extend its rightful sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), we bear a historic – and moral – responsibility to accurately call this event what it is: reunification. Israel is reuniting families, communities, and the Jewish people. It is reuniting with its history, which stretches back thousands of years. It is reunifying the traditions and culture that have survived and even thrived through adversity, animosity, and the horrors of countless wars.
Judea and Samaria have always been part of Eretz Israel. The legal reality is that the modern State of Israel has always had sovereign rights over all of Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) announced support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in an area then referred to as “Palestine,” which was ruled by the Ottoman Empire. The San Remo Resolution (April 25, 1920) resulted from a conference after World War I to formulate a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. Among other things, the San Remo Resolution created a Mandate for Palestine (formalized on July 24, 1922 by the League of Nations), administered by the British, with the Jewish people as beneficiaries of the sacred trust. The territory subject to the Mandate of Palestine was specifically and intentionally approved for the purpose of becoming the Jewish National Home. The Mandate, incorporated into Article 80 of the United Nations Charter (October 10, 1945), includes Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and eastern Jerusalem.
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the Establishment of Israel. In accordance with a principle of international law known as uti possidetis juris (“as you possess under the law”), the borders of the State of Israel conformed with the territorial limits of the Mandate for Palestine, as they existed at that time. As the International Court of Justice has explained, “by becoming independent, [the] new State acquires sovereignty with the territorial base and boundaries left to it by the [administrative boundaries of the] colonial power.” For the nascent State of Israel, this included Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza."
the article continues
"The day after Israel declared its independence, it was attacked by five Arab countries. As a result of that war, Judea and Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem were wrested away from Israel. The territorial integrity of Israel was violated, a situation that was not corrected until the defensive war of 1967, when Israel regained the territory it had been promised under the Mandate for Palestine. The territorial integrity of Israel was, for the most part, restored.
Political reality, however, mostly resulting from an oppressive international campaign to miscast these parts of Israel as “Occupied Territories,” led to a series of decisions that resulted in the full exercise of sovereignty being held in abeyance with regard to Judea and Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. However, Israel has maintained complete security control of Judea and Samaria (which may soon be reunified). Israeli civil law has governed its citizens living there, who also enjoy Israeli economic, educational, and welfare benefits. The history, nature, and character of the Israelis living in Judea and Samaria have always been Israeli, but they have spent far too many years living apart from the rest of the Jewish State. They need – and deserve – to be reunified with their community.
Much as West Germany and East Germany reunified at the end of the Cold War, it is well past the time to reunify Judea and Samaria with the rest of Israel. Its residents are part of one culture and one people – one family. And, like families, they have a basic, if not fundamental, right to stay together.
If, as expected, the Israeli government exerts full sovereignty over all (or parts) of Judea and Samaria, it isn’t an act of annexation. It’s an act of reunification, bringing together individuals and families who have been artificially separated for no good reason, but always subject to Israel’s sovereignty. Annexation is a proclamation of sovereignty outside a state’s domain, which is not the case here. Reunification is the recognition that the Jewish family has been separated for far too long. Reunification is an act of love, finally bringing that family back together."
More Proof of Arab Evil, Arab Criminality, The website worldisraelnews.com has an article titled
"Israeli-Arab political party celebrates perpetrators of Jewish massacre" the article says
June 21, 2020
Israeli-Arab political party celebrates perpetrators of Jewish massacreHiba Yazbak of the Balad party, seen in the Supreme Court of Israel appealing the Central Elections Committee's decision to bar her from running in the national elections, Feb. 5, 2019. (Flash 90/Yonatan Sindel)
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The Knesset’s Balad party commemorated the 90th anniversary of the execution of three terrorists who massacred Jews in Mandate-era Palestine.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The Israeli-Arab Balad political party recently commemorated the 90th anniversary of the execution of three terrorists who massacred Jews in Mandate-era Palestine, via a post on their official Facebook page, Makor Rishon reported.
The post referred to Muhammad Jamjum, Fuad Hijazi, and Atta A-Zir as “the martyrs of the Al-Buraq revolution,” using the Palestinian nationalist term for the 1929 massacres against Jews in Hebron, Tzfat and other places across Israel, in which at least one hundred Jewish civilians were killed.
The British Mandate courts originally sentenced 27 Arab perpetrators to death, but later commuted nearly all the sentences to life in prison. Jamjum, Hijazi, and A-Zir were executed due to the particularly grisly nature of the murders they committed.
A-Zir of Hebron, led a mob that broke into the home of Rabbi Meir Shmuel Castel, who was head of the Sephardic community in Hebron. The mob killed Rabbi Castel and burned down his home.
Later, A-Zir killed yeshiva student Avrahaham Shaprio and stabbed Eliyahu Kapiloto in the back. Kapiloto died of his wounds a year later.
Jamjum broke into the home of the Abushdid family in Hebron, killing Eliyahu Abushdid and his son Isaac, and their guests, Jacob Gozlan and his son Moshe.
Fuad Hijazi of Tzfat, a municipal health official, was convicted of murdering married couple Frida and Moshe Afriat.
A-Zir, Jamjum, and Hijazi were executed 90 years ago this week at Akko Prison by British authorities.
Balad’s Facebook post described the three perpetrators as “heroes and martyrs” who will remain “engraved in the hearts of the Palestinian people on the long road to national liberation.”
According to their platform, Balad’s goals include “the end of the occupation over all Palestinian areas,” removal of the security barrier in Judea and Samaria, and surrender of all Jewish settlements.
Balad is in favor of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, with eastern Jerusalem as its capital.
In February, the party’s Chairman, Jamal Zalakha, said at a faction meeting, “Balad is part of the Palestinian national movement. We are not the Israeli left.”
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Israel overturned a Central Elections Committee decision to ban Balad member Heba Yazback for praising Hezbollah and the perpetrator of the 1979 Nahariya terror attack on social media. The terrorist, among committing other horrors, smashed a young girl’s head against a rock until she died. Yazback called him a “martyr.”
In 2003, Balad was banned by the Central Elections Committee from participating in the elections after a complaint by Michael Kleiner, head of the Herut party. Kleiner argued that Balad “supports terror organizations, identifies with the enemy and acts against Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.”
The Supreme Court of Israel overturned that ban several weeks later.
Balad was banned from national elections again in January 2009, and the Supreme Court of Israel overturned that ban two weeks later as well.
Balad has won seats in every Knesset since 1999
Even More Proof of Satanic Demonic Diabolical Arab Evil & Criminality, along with
Satanic Demonic Diabolical German Evil & Criminality
the Jerusalem Post , www.jpost.com website has an article titled
"German court rules travel portal can ‘discriminate’ against Israelis"
the article says
An Israeli had his entrance denied because he had a layover in Kuwait, whose monarchy boycotts Israel.
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL JUNE 27, 2020
A Munich court has affirmed the right of a travel portal to deny service to an Israeli passenger because of a stopover in Kuwait, which boycotts the Jewish state.
The Israeli, Shmuel M, who lives in Germany, wanted to travel in 2018 from Munich to Sri Lanka, with a layover in Kuwait. His ticket was canceled, because Kuwait boycotts Israelis. Shmuel filed a lawsuit against the travel portal.
The court concluded that the travel portal can deny Israelis service based on Israeli nationality and “because of the actual impossibility” of the trip.
The Jerusalem Post learned that the online travel portal, which was not identified in the German media, is the German branch of the Seattle-based Expedia.
Nathan Gelbart, a Berlin-based attorney who represents Shmuel, told the Post that “the Bavaria Supreme Court unfortunately has adopted the plaintiffs view that boycotting Israelis is no discrimination against Jews. In other words, discriminating Jews on German soil is fine as long as they are Israelis.
“Regrettably, the Munich court hereby promotes well-known antisemitic BDS methodology. There is only one way to stop this shame, suspending Kuwait Airways landing rights in Germany until they cease their discriminating transportation policy. I will be discussing further steps with our US partners from The Lawfare Project.”
The German Bundestag declared BDS [the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel] as antisemitic in 2019.
Germany’s Bundestag and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration have made no serious efforts to amend German law to bar bias against Israelis in the federal republic. German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Andreas Scheuer has imposed no penalties against Kuwait Airways or the regime of Kuwait in Germany.
Benjamin Ryberg, an attorney and Chief Operating Officer & Director of Research for The Lawfare Project, told the Post that “in this day and age when the world is crying out against discrimination, we at The Lawfare Project are incredibly disappointed by the court’s ruling. The court in this case has abdicated its responsibility to block flagrant antisemitic discrimination and decided instead to sidestep this important issue.”
He added that “this is not the end of our fight to stop the indefensible discrimination against Israelis by Kuwait Airways. Regardless of this ruling, The Lawfare Project will pursue justice against Kuwait Airways in every available jurisdiction across the globe until it halts its vile and illegal practice. All persons of conscience should protest the German court’s rubber-stamping of such bigotry." Big Surprise, Germany is Still an
Evil Nazi Nation, The Whole World still Unjustly Hates the Jews and Unjustly Hates the State of Israel , despite all the Many Good Things that Israeli Jews do to Help Save the World , all the Many Good Things Israeli Jews create and Invent, that Benefit all of Humanity, Israeli Jews Create Superb Science,Technology, Computers, Medicine, Inventions & Innovations that Benefit ALL Mankind, All of Mankind, while the so-called "Palestinians" aka Fakestinians and other Arab & Islamic Nations Ruin and destroy everything that they touch
Pro-Israel people have pointed out that there is a Scene in the
1996 Blockbuster Movie "Independence Day" that are chilling and remind them of the
So-called "Palestinians" and the other Arab & Islamic Terrorist Regimes and their Plans to Not only destroy the state of Israel, but all Jews Worldwide,
The Scene takes place in Area 51 ,
President Whitmore is speaking to the huge ugly Alien with Tentacles behind this
Glass Barrier
President Whitmore says
"I Know there is much we can learn from each other if we can negotiate a truce, we can find a way to coexist, Can there be a peace between us ?"
The Evil Alien replies: "Peace ? No Peace "
President Whitmore: "What is it you want us to do ?"
The Alien Replies: DIE !! "
The Point is we can draw an analogy from the 1996 film "Independence Day"
The State of Israel and the Jewish people are just like Earth in the Film, Earth is just Trying to Survive and defend itself against the Alien Invaders, while the so-called "Palestinians" and other Arab/Islamic Terrorist Regimes want to destroy Israel and the Jews Worldwide, like the Alien Invaders in the Movie wanted to destroy Earth,
While we all know that "Independence Day" was just a movie, and not reality, we all know an Analogy can be made,
The website www.israelhayom.com has an article titled
"Refuting Rashida Tlaib's lies" by Rabbi Aryeh Spero the article says:
Rabbi Aryeh Spero is the spokesman for the Conference of Jewish Affairs; author of Push Back: Reclaiming Our American Judeo-Christian Spirit; president of Caucus for America; and a frequent commentator on Fox News.
The "Nakba" is a carefully crafted 72-year-old lie designed to usurp the documented facts in order to deny Israel its legitimacy. The ultimate goal, of course, is to destroy the world's only Jewish state.
By Rabbi Aryeh Spero Published on 05-24-2020 15:48 Last modified: 05-24-2020 15:48
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) does not hide her feelings of disdain for Jews and Israel. She lumps Jews as "not good" and normally is supported by quasi-Jews who share her hatred for Israel.
On May 15, 2020, Tlaib made a despicable remark, in a tweet, saying, "Today, Palestinians around the world commemorate the "Nakba" (النكبة), Arabic for "catastrophe" recognizing the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestine. 530 Palestinian neighborhoods were uprooted + destroyed +750,000 Palestinians became refugees."
Tlaib included an emotion-laden cartoon featuring two young girls comforting (presumably) an elder holding a key, while gazing at Jerusalem.
This is what I have to say to counter this.
Since the establishment of the State of Israel, 70 years ago, the Arab population in the Land of Israel has multiplied six-fold! Muslim Arabs, within the Israeli territory, have better access to modern amenities than in most places in the Arab world.
As the invasion by surrounding Arab states began in 1948, the Israeli government asked its Arab population not to leave. It promised them protection and citizenship; nonetheless, at the request of the Arab leaders, the attackers who said it would be easier for them to perform their attacks on the Jews if their Arab brothers were absent from the area, many packed and left. Those who left did so of their own free will and with the hope that the Jews would be ethnically cleansed and they will be able to return and resume life in the land from where they left it.
The fact is that the ethnic cleansing that happened after the establishment of the State of Israel was done to the Jews living in the Arab lands in North Africa and in the Middle East. Muslim countries threatened their Jewish population and expelled them. The 850,000 Jews who, for over 1,000 years, had lived in and contributed to these countries were expelled and ethnically cleansed almost to the very last Jew."
the article continues
"The ethnic cleansing going on today in the Middle East and northern Africa is being done mostly by Arab-Muslim leaders and jihadists who are systematically purging these areas of age-old Christian communities, indigenous tribes, and remnants of the few Jews remaining in these areas.
When speaking of ethnic cleansing, Rashida Tlaib should look in the mirror and see that it is her ideology that today is the greatest perpetrator today of ethnic cleansing in the world.
In Tlaib's words: "The existence of the State of Israel is an 'ethnic cleansing' of Muslim Arabs." This is a lie, often used by Israel's detractors. And these detractors will use all lies available to them and make new ones as they go along to shine a negative light on the Jewish state, Israel.
The "Nakba" is a carefully crafted 72-year-old lie designed to usurp the documented facts in order to deny Israel its legitimacy. The ultimate goal, of course, is to destroy the world's only Jewish state.
Tlaib is a sitting congressional representative regularly engaged in anti-Jews blood libel and historical revisionism similar to the ones coming from the Holocaust denier.
The Democratic Party will ignore Tlaib's "Nakba" tweet. After all they wouldn't/couldn't pass a House resolution against anti-Semitism. Most major Jewish organizations have failed to protect Jewish interests and to represent well Jewish issues. Therefore, they will not step up because they are afraid they will not be welcome to the interfaith-diversity big tent"
From the website jewishjournal.com an article is titled
"‘Minority of One’: How Hussein Aboubakr Risked His Life to Become a Warrior for Peace"
By
Gerri Miller
the article says:
"As a young boy in Cairo, Hussein Aboubakr grew up hating Jews and even fantasized about becoming a jihadist. Now a U.S citizen living in Los Angeles, he works with the nonprofit StandWithUs (SWU) to fight anti-Semitism and promote peace. But getting to that enlightened point cost him his country, his family and almost his life. Aboubakr’s story of ordeal and triumph is the subject of the documentary “Minority of One” and his book of the same name.
In the film, directed by Ori Guendelman, Aboubakr talks about growing up in a culture of blind hatred and studying Hebrew and Jewish history to better understand the enemy. Learning the truth opened his eyes, but his studies aroused suspicion that he was spying for Israel, and he was surveilled, harassed and ultimately jailed.
Considered an enemy of the state, he was tortured, beaten daily and contemplated suicide. His involvement in the Arab Spring uprising in 2011 put him on the Muslim Brotherhood’s radar, and the harassment continued until friends secured a visa for him, enabling him to escape to the United States.
After a few terrible months living on the streets in an unfamiliar country, Aboubakr was granted asylum and found work teaching Hebrew at Valley Torah in Valley Village and at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. “It took some time to learn how to be free,” he told the Journal. “With freedom comes a lot of responsibility — that’s the difference between a free society and a patriarchal society. I learned from the Zionists that if you want something, you have to get it for yourself.”
Although standing up for his convictions came at great personal cost, “I couldn’t deny the truth: Jews are not evil. Israelis don’t want to kill Arab children,” he said. “It wasn’t so much that I wanted to be an activist. I was a nerd and not inclined toward that kind of work. But I had to stay true to myself. It was a matter of self- respect. I’ve seen how much cruelty humans are capable of. Now I understand it in the wider context of political oppression in the Middle East. It’s not a problem that can be solved from the top down. It’s the cultural notions about power that need to change, need to be fixed in the society itself.”
the article continues
"“WE HAVE TO INVEST IN EDUCATION. IT’S THE ONLY DEFENSE WE HAVE AGAINST RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM AND PREJUDICE.” — HUSSEIN ABOUBAKR
Aboubakr joined SWU in 2019 as a public speaker and educator. “I’m very happy and proud to go from where I started to where I ended up,” he said, “and be trusted to teach the Jewish community and Jewish students about the issues about the efforts that we need but also bring it to the attention of Muslims who are unaware that the problem exists.”
He added, “I care about Egypt and Arab and Muslim societies and cultures. I have an interest in solving a lot of the issues we have, fundamentalism being one of the biggest. In telling my story I’m showing a dark picture of Arab society but I’m not doing it to show the inability of that society to progress toward a peaceful reality in the Middle East, especially with Israel. I’m telling it to say, ‘We have to do something. We have to invest in education.’ It’s the only defense we have against racism, anti-Semitism and prejudice.”
During these stay-at-home pandemic times, Aboubakr’s work has increasingly taken the form of webinars and he’s working with SWU to expand online content in Arabic. “I’d like to contribute to finding solutions and solving problems in Arab society to get us out of the gridlock we’re currently in. I’m very optimistic,” he said. “There are already massive changes in the Middle East since the Arab Spring. We’ve seen the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates make it clear that they are no longer interested in the old paradigm of Arab-Israeli conflict and they are openly advocating for peace and coexistence with Israel. That’s a huge change.”
He continued, “In the past four years Saudi Arabia has had a lot of significant social reforms, specifically for women. Women can now legally drive and go to sporting events. The internet is changing a lot of things. People are exposed to things they had not been exposed to before,” he said, crediting the Israeli show “Fauda” for opening minds. He included his mother among the newly enlightened.
Formerly estranged from his family, “We didn’t talk for years. I still don’t talk to all of my siblings,” he said, but he regularly speaks to his mother now. “She is a very traditional Muslim woman who didn’t finish her education, but now with the internet and her phone, she watches YouTube and is learning about the world. I am optimistic that in our lifetime we’ll see significant progress in this issue.”
With plans to go to graduate school to study international affairs, Aboubakr is working and reading, taking advantage of more days at home as an opportunity for growth. He looks forward to having a family one day and hopes to make a return trip to Israel. “I have a lot of friends there,” he said. “It’s a beautiful country with a culture that’s very close to my own, but with freedom. Taking interest in the Jewish culture and Hebrew and Israel changed my life,” he added. “Israel is there to stay. We’re one region and our destinies are inseparable. It’s important that we get to know one another.” Israel & The Jews are Morally Superior, Israeli Jews are Never taught to hate Arabs, as the article says Israelis don't want to kill Arab children, but sadly Many Arabs and Muslims do want to kill Jewish children
A good Pro-Israel website is www.hallelu.co.il the website for
The Hallelu Foundation, where they says
"For the Advancement of Israel's Global Image" where it says
"About The Hallelu Foundation" it says on the website
"The Hallelu Foundation was established in order to present the State of Israel in a way that would reflect its amazing accomplishments and its contribution to humanity. In this way, we will repair Israel’s problematic image in the world, which is based primarily on faulty or partial information.
In order to effect an authentic and universal change, we gathered people from a wide range of professions (professors, philosophers, politicians, designers, programmers, public relations agents) and of all religious faiths – and established the Hallelu Foundation.
Our Vision
Using effective public relations, we strive to prevent future conflict and thus return monies previously spent to finance wars to the citizens of the state.
We believe that exposing the amazing truth about the State of Israel will lead to global support for Israel and prevent the legitimization of terrorist groups.
In this way, additional wars, with all of their far-reaching economic consequences, can be prevented. Without such conflicts, funds will be returned to the citizens and go toward health, social welfare, infrastructure and education"
Also on the website www.hallelu.co.il it says
"The Solution
Public Relations – A Necessity, Not A Luxury!
Where the government has fallen short, it is the duty of admirers of Israel to gather and share vital positive information. Against the methodical slander continuously propagated against Israel, Jewish organizations must show the world the truth – loud, proud and clear.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL is not a sin, but a miracle! A pioneer in the fields of medicine, technology, manufacturing, agriculture and more, millions of people worldwide owe their lives to its numerous innovations.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL is an inspiration, connecting Jews wherever they are to their heritage. A symbol of rebirth, against all odds it transformed swamps and deserts into hundreds of rural and urban communities.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL is a homeland for survivors of two millennia of oppression; a safe haven for Jews from all over the world.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL is the Middle East’s only real democracy. Founded upon humanistic values, it is the only true friend of the West in the entire region.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL boasts a diverse population with shared fortitude and ingenuity, which is the true secret of its success.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL needs a strong Jewish and non-Jewish lobby that will consolidate the talents and capabilities of the many organizations in the field.
The state of Israel needs a Voice that will tell It's Story."
Anti-Israel & Pro-Palestine people are Pathetic
The website jns.org which is the website for the Jewish News Syndicate has an article titled
"Study shows most supporters of ‘Palestine’ at UC Berkeley can’t find it on a map"
the article says:
Most students also had no idea how many people actually lived in Israel. Only 17 percent of the students gave the correct answer, while others made guesses that ranged from 100,000 to 150 million.
BY NETA BAR
Jewish students face a climate of anti-Israel intimidation on several California campuses, including from UC Berkeley SJP. Credit: Students for Justice in Palestine at University of California, Berkeley.
Jewish students face a climate of anti-Israel intimidation on several California campuses, including from UC Berkeley SJP. Credit: Students for Justice in Palestine at University of California, Berkeley.
(December 2, 2019 / Israel Hayom) "Many students who claim to support the Palestinian cause actually know very little about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, according to a recent survey conducted at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ron E. Hassner, the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, conducted a survey of 230 students at the university. Despite most of the respondents purporting to care “deeply” about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, “75% of those students cannot locate those territories on a map and 84% cannot name the decade (let alone the year) in which that occupation began,” Hassner wrote in an essay detailing the results.
Shockingly, 25 percent “of these students placed the Palestinian Territories west of Lebanon, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea,” added Hassner.
Most students also had no idea how many people actually lived in Israel. Only 17 percent of the students gave the correct answer, while others made guesses that ranged from 100,000 to 150 million.
A more moderate stance on the conflict seemed to reflect greater knowledge of the issues, said Hassner. He revealed that the students with more moderate views were likely to know more, and also “more likely to admit gaps in their knowledge.”
The survey wasn’t limited to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rather, students were asked to weigh in on 18 key issues in the Middle East ranging from U.S.-Iran relations, to the civil war in Yemen, to drone warfare. The students were then given a five-point scale to indicate their level of interest in each topic.
The students seemed most interested in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, while expressing indifference towards other instances of alleged occupation, like the Kurdish struggle for independence in Iraq, the Moroccan occupation in Western Sahara and the Turkish occupation in northern Cyprus." Anyone can look up this Article
On YouTube.com a superb video is titled
"Is Israel an Evil Occupier?" Lecture by Dr Michael Brown"
17,299 views•May 23, 2013
ASKDrBrown
110K subscribers
Lecture at the University of South Florida, February, 2012. www.askdrbrown.org
One person typed as a comment in defense of Israel
"Thank you Dr. Brown for sharing and for being a voice of reason in an unreasonable world. May God bless you and bless Israel for being so kind hearted and loving toward her enemies, as hate filled and unreasonable as they are, and without reason."
Another person typed as a comment
"I'll pray for the hearts and minds of Muslims and liberal's to be open to hear the truth.
Thank you Dr for sharing this video. You make some powerful points on hear brother.
thanks for the information. God bless you"
Another comment someone typed in Defense of Israel
"One needs simply to step back and look at the facts, stubborn as facts are, to see which group is motivated by hatred and which group is motivated out of love. I am relieved by the presence of Israel in the world. Without their presence, the hatred that consumes the middle Eastern culture would metastatisize to further deteriorate the healthy existence of the entire human race. Hatred kills and destroys."
From the website stream.org an article is titled
"The Danish Translation That Removes Israel From the New Testament"
April 30, 2020 •
The article says
"By now you may have heard about the shocking, new Danish “translation” of the Bible that virtually wipes out “Israel” from the New Testament. Well, the truth is actually worse than the headlines, since the Danish Bible Society is downplaying the seriousness of its actions.
First, the simple facts: whereas in the Greek New Testament, the word “Israel” occurs more than 60 times, it is found only once in the new Danish version called Bibelen 2020. That’s right, just once. And that one occurrence is a direct quote from an Old Testament verse. Otherwise, “Israel” is gone.
In some cases, “Israel” is changed to “land of the Jews.” In other cases, it disappears entirely. In Matthew 2:21, “the land of Israel” (to which Joseph, Mary, and Jesus are returning) simply becomes “home.” Yes, Joseph, “Go back home” versus “Go back to the land of Israel.” What kind of “translation” is this?
Why Is “Israel” Gone From This New Testament Translation?
Not surprisingly, the new translation has sparked a firestorm of international criticism, especially in the Jewish world. And how did the Secretary-General of the Bible Society, Birgitte Stoklund, respond?
She wrote, according to a translation, “Basically, I think they find it hard to understand that the average Dane does not understand that reference is made to a people, and not geography when it says ‘Israel’ in the New Testament. Messianic Jews see the state of Israel as fulfilling God’s promises.
“However, in Denmark, few people want to formulate themselves like this, and that is also why the criticism of our practice comes from a very small minority in the church.”
The bottom line for these translators is simple. Christian readers must not connect “Israel” in the New Testament with the nation of Israel today.
Ah yes, that very small minority, probably quite fundamentalist and largely uneducated. At least that’s the impression you get from her disdainful comments. And, she is saying, few Danish Christians see any connection between modern Israel and the Israel of the Bible. How very sad.
The bottom line for these translators is simple. Christian readers must not connect “Israel” in the New Testament with the nation of Israel today.
Danish Bible Society Defends Itself
How, then, does the Danish Bible Society state that it is “false information” to claim that “Israel” has been removed from their new translation?’
Their website states, “False information about the new Danish Bible Translation. The Contemporary Danish Bible 2020 has been going around. Some news media states that the word Israel and the words Jew and Jewish have been omitted from the translation and also claim that the reason for this would be political and anti-Semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. The words Israel and Israelites occur in the translation more than 2000 times and the words Jew and Jewish occur more than 500 times.”
But this is outright deception, since the charge was not that “Israel” had been removed from the entire Bible. Rather, the charge was that it was removed from the New Testament. And there certainly is something political and antisemitic in this decision."
the article continues
"How, then, does the Bible Society justify doing this?
They explain, “In the New Testament the word ‘Israel’ has been translated into ‘the Jewish people’, ‘the Jews’ or ‘the people’ because when the Greek text uses the word ‘Israel’ it is referring to a people with whom God has a special relationship – Jacob’s descendants. However, for the secular reader, who does not know the Bible well, ‘Israel’ could be referring only to a country. Therefore the word ‘Israel’ in the Greek text has been translated in other ways, so that the reader understands it is referring to the Jewish people.”
Fake News About the True News About the New Danish Bible
Why, then, are other countries, like Egypt, still called Egypt in the New Testament? As pointed out by Jan Frost in his Danish video (which can be watched with English captions), Egypt today is hardly identical to Egypt in biblical times. Yet the translators had no problem with calling it Egypt. Why not the same with Israel, especially when it applied to the geographical territory?
And so, Egypt is mentioned repeatedly in Matthew 2:13-20, where Joseph and his family go down to Egypt, yet when Israel is mentioned, they just go home (see Matthew 2:21). This is beyond inconsistent. This is hypocritical. And this smacks of a political agenda. So much for “translating” the Bible.
Not only so, but why do these translators have no problem translating Israel with Israel in the Old Testament? Won’t the Danish readers be just as confused? Won’t they equate Israel in the Old Testament with the land and people of Israel today? Why, then, is this okay for Old Testament texts but not New Testament texts? Can you see how terribly wrong this is?
Strikingly, the article on the Danish Bible Society website is titled, “Fake news about new Danish Bible.” It should have read, “Fake News About the True News About the New Danish Bible.”
Why Break the Continuity From the Old to the New Testaments?
Yet there’s something else that has not been sufficiently emphasized about this egregious new “translation” decision. It breaks the continuity between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The very term that occurs more than 2,000 times in the Old Testament (speaking of the land and/or the people of Israel) now disappears from the New.
Remember that the Bible Society told us that, “The words Israel and Israelites occur in the translation more than 2000 times” (meaning, in the Old Testament), which would then connect with the 60+ times the words Israel or Israelite are found in the New Testament.
Except now they are not there. The promises to Israel and about Israel now end in the Old Testament. And, when the New Testament speaks only of “the Jews,” the people are now disconnected from their land.
Treading on Sacred Ground
There are other significant problems with this translation, including the removal of words like “sin,” which becomes watered down to a mere “mistake.” As the Bible Society explained, “it does not use the usual Danish words for sin, grace, mercy, covenant and many other typically biblical words, which an average Danish reader would not be familiar with the meaning of.”
But was there no better way to communicate the aspects of rebellion, disobedience, and defilement involved in human sin? Is committing a sin simply making a mistake?
The positive news is that the uproar is causing significant embarrassment for the Bible Society. Consequently, in their “Fake news” article they state, “The New Testament in Contemporary Danish was first published in 2007. It has been slightly revised up to the publication of The Contemporary Danish Bible 2020. In this revision the question of Israel has not been discussed. In light of the critique raised The Danish Bible Society will carefully consider if specific verses in The New Testament need a revision.”
I would urge the translators to be very careful. They are treading on dangerous (and sacred) ground." Something is definitely rotten in Denmark
From the website israelhayom.com an article is titled
"Who owns the Land of Israel?"
The land was given to the Jewish people exclusively and eternally in Genesis.
By Pastor John Hagee Published on 05-31-2020 18:02 Last modified: 05-31-2020 18:02
the article says:
"All real estate transactions go to great lengths to determine the identity of the original owner of the land to prevent a legal cloud from being over the title deed. The debate of who owns the land of Israel can be resolved in the same manner.
Who was the original owner of the hotly contested strip of real estate on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea?
The answer is not Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. The correct answer is God almighty, the creator.
The title deed to Israel reads, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
In the beginning means the dateless past.
God almighty created (the word created is the Hebrew word "bara" which means to make from nothing) the heavens and the earth. The word "earth" is the Hebrew word "Eretz" meaning "dry ground." At the end of Genesis 1:1 there is a complete creation!
Therefore, God as creator of the earth is the original owner. King David, Israel's prophet, poet and warrior statesman, puts his pin to parchment and writes; "the earth is the lord's, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein." (Psalm 24:1)
For 3500 years the land of Israel has belonged to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their seed forever by an everlasting and eternal blood covenant recorded in the Bible.
Israel is the only nation on earth created by a sovereign act of God (Genesis 12:1-3; 13:16, 15:5, 17:7-8, 22:17-18).
The land was given to the Jewish people exclusively and eternally in Genesis 12:1, 13:14-17, and 15:18-21.
The land God promised includes the modern-day nation of Israel and parts of modern-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq (Genesis 15:18-21).
The concept that the Palestinians have owned the land of Israel in times past that God almighty promised Abraham and the Jewish people forever is one of history's greatest frauds.
The claim that the Arabs are related to Abraham through Ishmael is a fact. Their claim to the Land of Israel through Ishmael is absolutely false.
The Bible clearly records that Abraham pled with God to allow Ishmael to own the land. God sent back a one-word FedEx from heaven saying, "No!" (Genesis 17: 17-18).
I am inspired to send this message to the 8.2 million-plus members of Christians United for Israel by the fact that months ago president trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington to present the administration's peace proposal. I was there!
It was a masterful proposal that gave the Palestinians the opportunity of a better life through a 50 billion dollar investment package. It was an effort that required years of work by the brilliant and talented inner circle of the president.
It was made clear at the Washington meeting that this historic peace plan could go into effect within days. If the Palestinians immediately reject the plan, the US Will be prepared to accept the enactment of Israel's sovereignty over parts of the West Bank within 48 hours.
It was made clear that this historic plan could go into effect within days. However, days have become weeks, weeks have become months.
To be clear, the Palestinians have never owned Judea or Samaria. That Israel will meet with a Palestinian leadership that still supports terrorists and incites violence against the Jewish people is a commentary on Israel's willingness to make every effort to advance peace with their neighbors, not a commentary on the Palestinians being deserving of yet another chance at the negotiating table.
Our role is to heed the commandment that we "pray for the peace of Jerusalem!" And that time is now!"
From the website www.breakingisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Nikki Haley on Israel: You can’t Destroy what God Has Blessed"
By Video Manager July 1, 2020 , 12:28 pm
The CUFI Virtual Summit 2020 took place on Tuesday with U.S. former Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley addressing viewers. Regarding the UN’s antipathy towards Israel, Haley said “you can’t destroy what God has blessed.”
God Bless You Nikki Haley !!!
The website weekly.israelbiblecenter.com has an article titled
"Adam as Israel"
By Dr. Nicholas J. Schaser -January 20, 2019 the article says
"We often read the story of Adam as reflecting all of humanity – our relationality to God and others, as well as our capacity for declining the divine will. While no words for “fall” or “sin” appear in Genesis 3, we are right to view Adam’s experience on an archetypal level, since the Hebrew אדם (adam) means “human being.” In fact, in most instances, “Adam” does not appear as a proper name, but rather as “the human” (האדם; ha’adam); as fellow human beings, we are encouraged to read ourselves into the primordial story. Yet, along with being a representative of all humanity, Adam is a representative of Israel; both the human and the nation are brought into God’s land and then experience exile.
Biblical Hebrew reveals that Adam foreshadows the whole of Israel. At the start of the Genesis narrative, “the Lord God formed (יצר; yatsar) the human” (Gen 2:7). Similarly, speaking to the nation, Isaiah declares that God was the one who “formed (יצר; yatsar) you, O Israel” (Isa 43:1). At the end of Genesis 3, the text says that God “drove out (גרשׁ; garash) the human” from the Garden of Eden (3:24). Likewise, when the people of Israel go into exile from their Land, God states, “Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out (גרשׁ; garash)” (Hos 9:15). In Jeremiah, God speaks to the people through the prophet, saying, “I brought you into a plentiful land to eat (אכל; achal) its fruit (פּרי; peri) and its goodness (טוֹב; tov), but when you came in, you defiled my land” (Jer 2:7). This prophetic description of the nation mirrors the moment when Adam and Eve see that the forbidden “fruit” (פּרי; peri) is “good” (טוֹב; tov) for food and “eat” it (אכל; achal), thereby transgressing God’s command (Gen 3:6).
Yet, while Adam’s story ends in exile, Israel’s story ends in restoration. After the exile, Isaiah tells his people, “The Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will rest them (ינח; yanach) in their own land” (Isa 14:1). The prophet’s language to describe Israel’s return from exile echoes what God does after forming the human: “The Lord God took the human and rested him (ינח; yanach) in the Garden of Eden” (Gen 2:15). Despite Adam’s transgression in the garden, the people of Israel are brought back to their Land, which foreshadows God’s plan for the restoration of all humanity." What do we think ? Some have said Adam was a "Proto-Israel"
From the website www.washingtoninstitute.org an article is titled
"Friends with Benefits: Why the U.S.-Israeli Alliance Is Good for America"
Michael Eisenstadt and David Pollock
November 7, 2012 the article states
"The bilateral relationship is based on tangible, steadily increasing security and economic interests, not just shared values.
At the final presidential debate of the 2012 campaign season, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney mentioned Israel some 30 times, more than any other country except Iran. Both candidates called the Jewish state "a true friend," pledging to stand with it through thick and thin. Some political commentators criticized these effusive declarations of support as pandering, suggesting that the candidates were simply going after Jewish and pro-Israel votes.
But if support for Israel is indeed such a political winner, then it's at least in part because the voters know best. The U.S.-Israeli alliance now contributes more than ever to American security, as bilateral cooperation to deal with both military and nonmilitary challenges has grown in recent years. The relationship may not be symmetrical; the United States has provided Israel with indispensable diplomatic, economic, and military support totaling more than $115 billion since 1949. But it is a two-way partnership whose benefits to the United States have been substantial. The other, less tangible costs of the U.S.-Israeli alliance -- mainly, damage to Washington's reputation in Arab and Muslim countries, a problem also caused by American interventions and decades of U.S. support for autocratic leaders in the Middle East -- pale in comparison with the economic, military, and political gains it affords Washington.
U.S.-Israeli security cooperation dates back to heights of the Cold War, when the Jewish state came to be seen in Washington as a bulwark against Soviet influence in the Middle East and a counter to Arab nationalism. Although the world has changed since then, the strategic logic for the U.S.-Israeli alliance has not. Israel remains a counterweight against radical forces in the Middle East, including political Islam and violent extremism. It has also prevented the further proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the region by thwarting Iraq and Syria's nuclear programs."
the article continues
"Israel continues to help the United States deal with traditional security threats. The two countries share intelligence on terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and Middle Eastern politics. Israel's military experiences have shaped the United States' approach to counterterrorism and homeland security. The two governments work together to develop sophisticated military technology, such as the David's Sling counter-rocket and Arrow missile defense systems, which may soon be ready for export to other U.S. allies. Israel has also emerged as an important niche defense supplier to the U.S. military, with sales growing from $300 million per year before September 11 to $1.1 billion in 2006, due to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel's military research and development complex has pioneered many cutting-edge technologies that are transforming the face of modern war, including cyberweapons, unmanned vehicles (such as land robots and aerial drones), sensors and electronic warfare systems, and advanced defenses for military vehicles.
The U.S.-Israeli alliance has paved the way for the countries to cooperate on far more than just traditional security issues. In part because of the long-standing political and security relationship between the United States and Israel, most Israelis know the United States and harbor positive feelings toward it. Israeli companies looking for a global market for their products have often viewed their American counterparts as partners of choice. So today, Israeli civilian technological innovations are helping the United States maintain its economic competitiveness, promote sustainable development, and address a range of non-military security challenges.
Dozens of leading U.S. companies have set up technology incubators in Israel to take advantage of the country's penchant for new ideas, which is why Bill Gates observed in 2006 that the "innovation going on in Israel is critical to the future of the technology business." Likewise, Israeli high-tech firms often turn to U.S. companies as partners for joint production and marketing opportunities in the United States and elsewhere, creating tens of thousands of American jobs. And although Israelis make up just three percent of the population of the Middle East, in 2011 Israel was the destination of 25 percent of all U.S. exports to the region, having recently eclipsed Saudi Arabia as the top market there for American products."
& Continues
"U.S. companies' substantial cooperation with Israel on information technology has been crucial to Silicon Valley's success. At Intel's research and development centers in Israel, engineers have designed many of the company's most successful microprocessors, accounting for some 40 percent of the firm's revenues last year. If you've made a secure financial transaction on the Internet, sent an instant message, or bought something using PayPal, you can thank Israeli IT researchers.
Israeli innovators have also come up with novel solutions to the water and food security challenges posed by population growth, climate change, and economic development. By necessity, given the geography of the Middle East, Israel is a world leader in water conservation and management and high-tech agriculture. Israel recycles more than eighty percent of its wastewater -- the highest level in the world -- and has pioneered widely used techniques of conserving or purifying water, including drip irrigation and reverse osmosis desalination. And a number of Israeli companies are leaders in the development of renewable energy sources; BrightSource Industries, for example, is building a solar power plant in California using Israeli technology that will double the amount of solar thermal electricity produced in America. These innovations, bolstered by the substantial American investment in Israel, contribute to long-term U.S. domestic and foreign policy objectives relating to sustainable development.
To be sure, the alliance with Israel has not been without risks or costs for Washington. The 1973 War between Israel and its neighbors brought America to the brink of conflict with the Soviet Union and prompted an Arab embargo on oil exports to the United States. Following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Reagan administration dispatched U.S. marines to help stabilize the country, which ultimately resulted in costly attacks on American diplomats and military personnel there. And U.S. diplomatic and military support for Israel has reinforced negative attitudes toward the United States in many Arab and predominantly Muslim countries."
& lastly says
"But these costs should not be overstated. Beyond leading to largely symbolic UN votes against U.S. positions, Washington's support for Israel has hardly damaged the United States' ties with its Arab and Muslim allies. Standing with Israel certainly has not hobbled U.S. policy toward the region as much as the war in Iraq or Washington's backing of autocratic Arab regimes. Meanwhile, no Arab ally of the United States has ever, as a result of its pro-Israel posture, refused to cooperate with Washington on counterterrorism or denied its requests for access, basing, or overflight rights.
In fact, the U.S.-Israeli alliance has at times helped spur closer U.S.-Arab relations, on the theory that only the United States could convince Israel to make concessions in negotiations; this was part of the logic behind Egypt's shift away from the Soviet Union and toward the United States in the 1970s. And even during the past decade of close U.S.-Israeli cooperation, and despite an impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Arab ties with the United States have largely flourished: bilateral trade and investment are booming, as U.S. exports to the Middle East in 2011 reached an all-time high of $56 billion. Defense cooperation is as close as ever, indicated by the several multi-billion-dollar arms deals that Washington has struck with Gulf allies in recent years. Moreover, several states, including Egypt and Jordan, along with the Palestinian Authority, share intelligence with Israel and at various times have worked behind the scenes to enlist Israel as an intermediary with Washington. This has been the case even with Egypt's post-revolutionary government. All this underscores the fact that self-interest, not ideology, is the primary driver of the Arab states' relations with Washington.
Despite the ties that continue to bind the United States and some Arab countries, the last two years of upheaval have brought turmoil to many of Washington's traditional allies in the region. At a time of great uncertainty, particularly as tensions with Iran mount, the United States is even more likely to depend on its somewhat stable nondemocratic allies, such as Saudi Arabia, and its stable democratic allies, such as Israel and Turkey, to secure its interests in the region. If anything, recent events have reinforced the logic underpinning U.S.-Israeli strategic cooperation.
The benefits to the United States of its relationship with Israel belie the argument that the alliance is based solely on the two countries' shared democratic values, on the popularity of Israel in American politics, or on the elusive pursuit of progress in the peace process. It is a relationship based on tangible interests -- and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
It isn't always easy being Israel's ally (and Israeli actions don't always make it easier). The country faces many challenges, including the unresolved conflict with the Palestinians, internal socioeconomic gaps, voices around the world that deny its right to exist, and now Iran's nuclear program. Israel has made uneven progress toward addressing these issues and needs to do more to remain an attractive partner for the United States. But its past successes in incorporating huge numbers of immigrants, bridging deep social divides, and showing remarkable resilience in the face of war and terrorism provide reason to believe that Washington can continue to count on its closest partner in the Middle East, and will continue to benefit from its alliance with the Jewish state.
Michael Eisenstadt is director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute. David Pollock is the Institute's Kaufman fellow. This article was adapted from their recent report Asset Test: How the United States Benefits from Its Alliance with Israel."
From the website gellerreport.com an article is titled
"WATCH: Jordanian TV Host: We Want To Gouge Out The Jews’ Eyes"
By Pamela Geller - on November 18, 2019
the article says:
These are the moderates the West is counting on. Good luck with that, kuffar.
Jordanian TV Host Rana Hmouz: We Want to Gouge out the Eyes of the Zionists and Their Supporters; We Want to Trample Israel, the Peace Agreement Underfoot
November 12, 2019:
November 12, 2019
Clip No. 7597
"Jordanian TV Host Rana Hmouz: We Want to Gouge out the Eyes of the Zionists and Their Supporters; We Want to Trample Israel, the Peace Agreement Underfoot
Jordanian TV host Rana Hmouz said on a show on Jordan Today TV that aired on November 12, 2019, that the recent transfer of the Baqoura and Ghumar borderlands from Israeli to Jordanian control fills Jordanians’ hearts with joy. Using puns and plays on words, Hmouz said that the Jordanian people want similar decisions that will allow them to trample the Israel-Jordan peace agreement, the gas and water agreements, and all of Israel underfoot. She said: “We want to gouge out the eyes of the Zionists and their [Arab] supporters [and to] annul the peace agreement in support of the blood of our martyrs and the Arab identity of Palestine.” In May 2019, Hmouz and Jordan Today TV’s owner Mohammad Ajlouni were detained for one week, after Jordanian Gendarmerie Director General Husein Hawatmeh had filed a defamation complaint against them.
Rana Hmouz: “Baqoura and Ghumar are Jordanian territory [once again]. This decision was bound to fill our hearts with joy instead of blood.
“But our joy is not complete. We have more demands. We want to see a similar decision that will let us trample the peace accord [between Israel and Jordan] underfoot. We want to see a similar decision that will let us trample the gas and water agreements underfoot. We want to see a similar decision that will let us trample the entire Zionist entity underfoot. We don’t want their representatives defiling our land.
“After Baqoura, we want to gouge out the eyes of the Zionists and their [Arab] supporters. After Ghumar, we want [our hearts] to overflow with joy when we annul the peace agreement in support of the blood of our martyrs and the Arab identity of Palestine.”
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinian Police Arrest Arabs who Prefer Israeli Rule"
Palestinian police round up Palestinians who were interviewed on Israeli TV and said they would prefer Israeli annexation over the Palestinian Authority, take them to torture centers.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel the article says
"Palestinian police arrested several Palestinians who were interviewed on Israeli television and has taken them to torture centers, the Israeli journalist who interviewed them said Friday.
Channel 13 Arab affairs reporter Tzvi Yehezkeli said “a huge mess” resulted from his story that aired last week in which several Palestinians told him they preferred to be annexed and that Israel should run their lives, not the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas.
“All of those who were interviewed for the story – I’m getting so many phone calls from family members of those who were interviewed for the story – both those who spoke openly but said nothing against the PA and those whose faces were blurred. The PA arrested all of them,” Yehezkeli said in an interview on Tel Aviv’s FM radio 103.
“It was about five or six people who all they said was they prefer an Israeli identity card because the PA is crushing them and stealing their money,” Yehezkeli said in an interview with fellow journalist Avi Issacharoff, both of whom are fluent Arabic speakers.
“Right now they are in PA torture centers, and this is simply horrific,” Yehezkeli said.
Last week Yehezkeli drove to several Palestinian towns in Judea and Samaria where he interviewed residents, asking them what they thought of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to apply Israeli sovereignty to settlements in a move that would include some Arab towns and villages.
Several of the Palestinians said they preferred the idea of being under Israeli rule over staying under the thumb of a the Palestinian Authority.
Yehezkeli said the arrests were an unintended consequence of the interviews, which showed that despite the PA making lots of threats about the pending annexation, the Palestinian street often has a different opinion and many would rather be rid of its rule.
“It is a million times better for Israel to be responsible for the entire territory,” one Palestinian said. “We are prepared to be under Israeli military shoes and not under Abbas’s head.”
Yehezkeli noted when people ask what the Palestinians think, there has been a huge gap for the past 20 years between the will of the people and the statements made by its leaders. PA chairman Abbas says one thing and the people want something else and are not afraid to say it.
One of the Palestinians said: “I am from the village of Jeba. I want the villagers to be happy. They are subject to the [Palestinian] Authority today and they want Netanyahu and no one else, they want an Israeli identity card.”
From the website algemeiner.com an article is titled
"Peace With Israel Would Help Every Arab State" on January 23, 2020
by Frank Musmar
OPINION
The new high-speed rail line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad.
Israel is a parliamentary democracy with an advanced free market economy. Its growth is substantially due to its very high investment in technological research and development, which has made Israel the Silicon Valley of the Middle East.
Israel’s leading industries include high-tech products (encompassing aviation, communications, computer-aided design and manufacture, medical electronics, fiber optics, and more), pharmaceuticals, cut diamonds, and natural gas, among others. In order to sustain its high-tech competitive edge, Israel dedicates 4.5% of its GDP to research and development, the highest proportion in the world.
Israel is one of only a handful of nations to have succeeded in reaching the moon. The USSR and the US did so in 1966. China pulled it off in 2013. In January 2019, SpaceIL, an Israeli non-profit organization, tried to become the first Israeli entity to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface. It got very close, but failed to stick the landing.
The contrast between first-world Israel and the surrounding third-world Arab states is more stark today than ever before. Israel’s GDP per capita is almost 20 times that of impoverished Egypt, and five times larger than semi-developed Lebanon. The future belongs to those who innovate, not those who happen to sit on oil. Israel’s foreign currency reserves have grown to dwarf the reserves of many of its neighbors, and economists say the windfall from its natural gas deposits should help Israel fight above its weight and compete directly with the region’s oil-rich nations in the coming years.
According to Professor Joseph Pelzman of George Washington University, “The surrounding Arab countries lost their position among the world economies due to their zeal for self-preservation from any Christian influences. Muslim countries closed themselves off to the world’s ideas, and never thought about the consequences of such action over the economy.”
In areas of the Middle East where peace is in place, economies prosper. Where it is not, the countries’ potential is held back. If peace can be achieved between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the potential economic windfall for all concerned would be astronomical.
Israeli-Arab peace would help economic development by opening up new trade routes and expanding Israel’s potential contribution across the region. Israel can provide viable solutions to some of the overwhelming challenges that plague the Middle East, including in the areas of water, energy, and sustainable industrial development."
the article continues
"Israel’s capabilities and economic strengths should allow it to play a much more central role in regional economic cooperation. With the combination of Israeli technology and Gulf capital, there is no shortage of synergies to be developed as the Gulf States explore visionary new economic reforms that look beyond dependence on oil revenues.
The Middle East, and the Gulf in particular, will likely be profoundly affected by climate change this century. As temperatures rise, electricity demand growth from industrial development will be transformed by demand for air conditioning and desalination. Without more mature and resilient electrical grids in place, this trend could be catastrophic for the Gulf States. A partnership with Israel’s photovoltaic (PV) market can help a good deal here, as can cooperation to solve energy and desalination problems. With Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel all likely to be affected by climate change, this is a clear area for economic cooperation and co-investment.
A Middle East economic integration, including Israel, would bring peace, stability, and prosperity to the Middle East, a region with the potential to prosper over the long term through regional economic cooperation. Establishing bilateral and multilateral relationships would entail the formation of regional industries via international bodies and independent international consortia.
Ultimately, once peace is achieved, the Middle East can unite into a common market, the very existence of which would foster a collective interest in maintaining peace over the long term.
Dr. Frank Musmar is a financial and performance management specialist.
A version of this article was originally published by The BESA Center." Well everyone already Knows the Arab States Definitely need Help, as in Professional Help , with their Sick Diseased Minds deranged with Hate, We Hope Someday their will be True Peace Between Israel and the Arab Nations
A good Bible verse that shows the Satanic Demonic Diabolical nature of Anti-Israel Hatred &
Jew Hatred is
“See how numerous my enemies are, and how unjustly they hate me!” Psalms 25:19 (The Israel Bible™) Again that verse is Psalm 25:19
Psalm 25:19 in the famous Douay-Rheims Bible is translated
"Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred."
Anyone can do a Google Search for Psalm 25:19 from the Douay-Rheims Bible
From biblehub.com More translations of Psalm 25:19
◄ Psalm 25:19 ►
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New International Version
See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me!
New Living Translation
See how many enemies I have and how viciously they hate me!
English Standard Version
Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
Berean Study Bible
Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
New American Standard Bible
Look upon my enemies, for they are many, And they hate me with violent hatred.
New King James Version
Consider my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
King James Bible
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Christian Standard Bible
Consider my enemies; they are numerous, and they hate me violently.
Contemporary English Version
Look at all my enemies! See how much they hate me.
Good News Translation
See how many enemies I have; see how much they hate me.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Consider my enemies; they are numerous, and they hate me violently.
International Standard Version
Look how many enemies I have gained! They hate me with a vicious hatred.
NET Bible
Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.
New Heart English Bible
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
See that my enemies have increased and the hatred of the evil ones who hate me.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
See how my enemies have increased in number, how they have hated me with vicious hatred!
JPS Tanakh 1917
Consider how many are mine enemies, And the cruel hatred wherewith they hate me.
New American Standard 1977
Look upon my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with violent hatred.
King James 2000 Bible
Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
American King James Version
Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
American Standard Version
Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
Brenton Septuagint Translation
Look upon mine enemies; for they have been multiplied; and they have hated me with unjust hatred.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.
Darby Bible Translation
Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me [with] cruel hatred.
English Revised Version
Consider mine enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Webster's Bible Translation
Consider my enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
World English Bible
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Young's Literal Translation
See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"The World Continues to Try and Curse the Jews and Israel, but it Always Fails"
Jul 3, 2020 the article states:
Every nation in history has been affected by the way it treated the Jews. The evidence is endless and clear.
By Rabbi Ari Enkin, Rabbinic Director, United wtih Israel
"This week’s Torah portion is Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9), and in it we read how Balak, the evil King of Moav, hired the evil prophet/wizard Balaam to curse the Jews. Balaam was hesitant to take on the job as God appeared to him several times, telling him, “You must not curse that people, for they are blessed.”
After much persistence, God allowed Balaam to take the job, as long as he would only pronounce upon the Jews what God would put in his mouth, as it says, “Go with the men. But you must say nothing except what I tell you.”
Nevertheless, Balaam made good efforts to try and curse the Jews, but he failed each time. Indeed, he eventually admits, “How can I curse whom God has not cursed? . . . Who can count the dust of Jacob, number the “dust-cloud” of Israel? May my fate be like theirs!”
Balaam tried and tried, but ultimately failed. “When He blesses, I cannot reverse it. The Lord their God is with them.” Balak then fired Balaam…he was useless!
Many readers might realize that the story of Balaam is reminiscent of Genesis 12:3. “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” The world continues to try and curse the Jews. But it always backfires. We have it “in writing” from God that it always will!
Genesis 12:3 has been tried, tested, and retested year after year for thousands of years. The ending is always the same. The Torah announces to the world, “Bless Israel and the Jewish people and you will be blessed. Curse Israel and the Jewish people and you will be cursed.” There’s no running from it.
Harry Truman’s presidential win is widely attributed to Genesis 12:3. Apparently Truman was responsible –against the advice of Secretary of State General George C. Marshall and US Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin – for the US recognizing the independence of the State of Israel a mere 11 minutes after it was announced. Truman’s efforts on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people are remembered and appreciated to this day. Truman was a man of the Bible, a man of faith.
The Examples Are Endless
Let’s look at Genesis 12:3 throughout history. The examples are endless.
Back in the Bible, when Abimelech “took” Sarah for his pleasures, God turned against him. But once he returned Sarah to Abraham, he was blessed.
Pharaoh was warned with 10 plagues to let the Jews go. He didn’t make the right decisions. It didn’t end well for him.
The Amalekites were the first nation to attack the Jewish people after the Exodus from Egypt. It didn’t end well for them either. Do YOU know any Amalekites today? I sure don’t.
Rahab saved the lives of her two Jewish guests in Jericho. She was the only one to survive the conquest of Jericho."
the article continues
"Ruth’s “Your people will be my people and your God my God” served her quite well.
Stalin, a horrible anti-Semite, suffered a stroke on February 28, 1953. That day was the Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Iran from Haman’s plot to destroy the Jewish people. Stalin was the Haman of his time.
Let’s talk about Britain. Under the leadership of the Jewish Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881), England thrived. It was during the 19th and 20th centuries that Britain prospered and even dominated world trade. And then in 1917 the British Foreign Office famously announced: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” This became known as the Balfour declaration. The 1920 San Remo Peace Conference gave Britain a ‘Mandate for Palestine’ based upon the Balfour Declaration and this was formalized in 1922 by the League of Nations.” The primary purpose of the Mandate was to grant political rights in Palestine to the Jewish people.
But Britain reneged on the Jews. The Peel and Woodhead commissions of 1937/38 recommended partitioning Palestine into a small Jewish state and a large Arab state – against the promises and intentions of the Mandate. And then there was the British White Paper of 1939, which essentially blocked Jewish immigration to Palestine. These policies repudiated the Balfour Declaration and Britain’s commitments when the Jewish people needed it most.
But there’s more. The “Exodus” ship of July 1947 with over 4000 Jews, mostly Holocaust survivors, was attacked and seized by the British Navy as it prepared to dock in Palestine. The passengers were rounded upon and forcibly put on ship headed back to Europe."
& Continues
"Could it be that Britain was a recipient of “those who curse you will be cursed” for her treatment of the Jews? It sure looks that way! Let’s see.
Britain’s status began to decline quickly, especially after she handed over the mandate on Palestine to the League of Nations. For example, Britain used to have the most enviable navy in the world, with over 800 destroyers in 1945. But by 1950, just five years later, the navy was reduced to 250 destroyers and continued to decline.
Britain used to control 25 percent of the planet, but the number of people under British rule went from 700 million in 1945 to less than five million in 1965. Britain’s influence declined big time. The once famous saying “The sun never sets on the British empire” is little more than a joke nowadays.
Donald Trump and Israel
Let’s take a look at one of Israel’s best friends in the world today: Donald J. Trump.
In May 2017, President Trump, on the advice of his advisers, delayed the planned move of the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The months that followed were very turbulent times for Trump and his presidency. Indeed, after the Charlottesville fiasco, there was question whether he would even serve out his term.
But then he recognized Jerusalem on December 6, 2017. Two weeks later he signed his tax cuts into law with a razor-thin win of 51-48. These cuts led to one of the strongest economies America has ever experienced,with unemployment down to 3.6 percent. God was clearly blessing America.
Every nation in history has been affected by the way it treated the Jews. The evidence is endless and clear. No, Israel is not perfect. The Jews are not perfect. But the world must realize that they should align themselves with God and the Jews, and they too will be blessed!
So, do your part: stand with Israel, pray for Israel, and support Israel. You’ll be happy you did! God promises it!"
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Comprehensive Book on Palestinian History Published – Full of Blank Pages"
Jun 19, 2017 the article says:
A new and comprehensive scholarly work reveals the truth about Palestinian history.
A new and comprehensive history of the so-called Palestinian people was recently published. Titled A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era, the book is described as “the fruit of many years of research, during which thousands of sources have been meticulously reviewed in libraries and archives worldwide,” resulting in a 132-page history that draws one conclusion: There is no Palestinian people, history or culture.
“It is no doubt the most comprehensive and extensive review of some 3,000 years of Palestinian history, with emphasis on the Palestinian people’s unique contribution to the world and to humanity,” reads the description of the book, which consists of dozens of blank pages.
The book was published in Hebrew and English by Assaf Voll, an Israeli from Tel Aviv. Describing himself as a publicist, editor and creative specialist, he holds an M.A in Jewish studies from Haifa University, where he had taught as an adjunct lecturer.
Discussing his extensive research, Voll said he must admit that never before had he encountered “any issue in which the findings were so conclusive.”
There are plans to translate the book into Arabic and German.
The book is on sale on Amazon, and a digital addition is available for download.
The Real Palestinian History
Genuine historical documents show that the real Palestinians are in fact the Jews.
The Roman occupiers renamed the Land of Israel “Palestine” in the 2nd century in order to humiliate, demoralize and punish the Jews living there and minimize Jewish identification with the land.
The name “Palestine” is derived from an ancient aquatic nation, the Philistines, which likely originated near the Aegean Sea and invaded the Land of Israel during antiquity. They have since ceased to exist.
Until 1948, when the State of Israel was established, Arabs in the region rejected the term “Palestinian,” which at the time referred to both Jews and Arabs, preferring instead to call the Holy Land “Southern Syria,” a backwater province of the Ottoman Empire.
While the name Palestine does not appear in the Koran even once, its Hebrew equivalent appears in the Jewish Bible no fewer than 250 times.
Over recent decades, the so-called Palestinians and supporting historians have attempted to fabricate history by stealing or erasing Jewish and Israel history and falsifying their own.
Palestinian archaeological findings have yet to be found, while the Jews’ close bonds with the Land of Israel turn up on almost a weekly basis.
The findings revealed in this new scholarly work, however, are conclusive – “Palestinian” history consists of 120 blank pages."
By: Max Gelber, United with Israel
A man named Paul typed as a comment in reply to the above article about the book showing that there is No "Palestinian" People
Paul typed
"arabs are pathological liars."
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: Poor Palestinians? Super-Rich Palestinian Society Exposed"
Nov 27, 2018
This clip shatters perceptions about the “poor” Palestinians.
When driving through Judea and Samaria, one of the things that really stands out is the insane levels of wealth in the Palestinian towns.
You can see palaces everywhere, not only in cities like Ramallah, but in tiny villages as well.
If you try to find the apartheid roads you will instead find Israeli roads overflowing with Palestinian cars, many beautiful Palestinian cars.
This clip shares some of the wealth witnessed while driving around Palestinian areas. The perception that most people have of this area is categorically wrong." a link to a
YouTube video is shown called "Super Rich Palestinians"
From the website quora.com an article is titled
"How DID MUSLIMS SUDDENLY become ‘PALESTINANS’ after 2,000 YEARS?"
Joseph Shellim
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Updated January 23, 2020
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HOW DID MUSLIMS SUDDENLY BECOME ‘PALESTINANS’ AFTER 2,000 YEARS?
A Brief History of the name Palestine and its derivative Adjective Palestinian:
Palestine is Judea, the Roman name for ‘Land of the Jews’ when the Roman Emperor Hadrian re-named this land as Palestina in 135 CE. Since then, it was never an Islamic State. [‘In the 2nd century CE, the Romans crushed the Jewish revolt and Judea was renamed Palestina’ – Jewish Virtual Libr.]
2. The Pre-Islamic Arabs were in the Roman armies and witnessed both Jerusalem’s destruction and the name change of Judea. [Flavius Josephus Wars, Book V, Ch 13, 4]. As well, the Quran mentions Israel as the land of the Jews. Thereby, the Muslim people would be fully aware Palestine referred to the Jews for 2,000 years.
3. The historical archives of the Persians, Greeks, Romans, British, French and Americans refer to Palestine as the ‘historical homeland of the Jews’, not of the Muslim peoples. America’s early Presidents initiated Israel’s return prior to Britain and Herzl: “Restoring the Jews to their national home in Palestine is a noble dream. My emancipated hope is the restoring of the Jews to their nation home in Palestine” - President Abraham Lincoln to Canadian Zionist Wentworth Monk; 1863.
4. The term Palestine was introduced in the Hebrew Bible from the term Plishtim [‘Invaders’]. The Muslims disdained the name Palestine, as they do the term ‘Zionists’ today. In 1947, the Arabs virtually begged of Britain not to use this name for the land. Thereby, the usurping of this name in the 1960’s is not credible as a mark of land ownership, because it was not one of historical usage by the Arabs.
5. A host of Islamic scholars and historians decried and rejected Muslims as Palestinians.: “Allah Gave the Land of Israel to the Jews. The al-Aqsa Mosque was built on top of Solomon’s Temple.” - Eleventh century historian Muhammad Ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisi and fourteenth century Iranian religious scholar Hamdallah al-Mustawfi // “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history, absolutely not.” - Arab-American historian and Princeton University Professor, Philip Hitti, testifying before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946]
6. A host of Jewish organizations and Institutions were called by the prefix of Palestine or Palestinian in the 20th century, including ‘The Jewish Palestine Brigade’ in Britain’s WW2 Military Forces; The [Jewish] Palestine Symphony Orchestra; Today’s Jerusalem Post media was called “The Palestine Post”.
7. There are no Arab Muslim Palestinians on record prior to the 20th century; the land was referred only as the homeland of the Jews. It is validated by a host of archives by many nations, and some one million Archaeological relics. Thereby, the nativity claim can only apply to Jews. In fact, there was never a time of no Jews in Palestine the past 2,000 years, as evidenced by the Crusaders, Islamic invasions and the previous Ottomans.
8. Generally, real natives do not usurp the name of other natives, especially one they disdained. [“There is a propaganda war going on now with regard to the term ‘Palestine.’ It is specifically employed to avoid the use of the name Israel, and must be considered an anti-Israel term.” - Dr. Thomas McCall, the Senior Theologian of Levitt Ministry, quoting Zola Levitt.]"
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"9. The previous Islamic Ottoman rulers of Arabia declared Palestine as the homeland of the Jews. - “Who can challenge the rights of the Jews in Palestine? Good Lord, historically it is really your country” - Ottoman Mayor and scholar Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi; Jerusalem, 1899.
10. Judea’s original, previous name was Israel in 1002 BCE, established under King David; and again in 1947 when this country was re-established by the UN. ‘Israel’ is mentioned in the Quran as one belonging to the Jews. [Joshua J. Mark , Ancient History Encyl.)
11. All Religious Scriptures acknowledge Palestine as the ‘Land of Israel’; ‘Land of Judea’; and ‘Land of the Jews’ – including the Hebrew Bible [1 Samuel 13:19]; The New Testaments [ ‘And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.’ - Matt. 2:21]; The Quran - [Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:20-21.]; and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
12. The Original Philistines converted to the Hebrew Belief and became Israelites. The term Palestine is derived from the Philistines, a Greek Island people who invaded Canaan some 4,000 years ago. The Philistines converted to the Hebrew belief under a peace offer by King David, and held prominent positions in David’s army. [“They (the Philistines) met with a severe defeat, however, early in the reign of David (2 Samuel 5:20), he succeeded in reducing them to a state of vassalage (2 Samuel 8:1). In the year of the fall of Samaria (721 B.C.) they became vassals of Sargon. After the time of the Assyrians the Philistines cease to be mentioned by this name. In the ebb and flow of warring nations over this land it is more than probable that they were gradually absorbed and lost their identity. - [The Catholic Encyl.). / The Philistine cities lost their independence to Assyria, and revolts in following years were all crushed. [Myers 1997, p. 313.] / The theory of the “Lost Ten Tribes” calls for (1) all inhabitants of the Northern Kingdom of Hoshea to be deported by Shalmaneser and Sargon, 722-718 B.C [Hearyhim, Weebly, Armstrongism] / They (the Canaanites) were indeed assimilated into the Israelite nation. When the Assyrians overran the Kingdom of Israel, they did not leave any Canaanite aside, as they had all become Israelites by that time. Therefore, the only people that can trace back a lineage to the ancient Canaanites are the Jews. The Canaanites did not exist any longer after the 8th century b.c.e. and they were not annihilated but assimilated into the Jewish people. - [The True Identity of the So-called Palestinians, imninalu] / The Bible describes the Philistines as remaining “subdued” during David’s reign [Philistine; New World Enycl.]/ Josephus, Antiquities, Book 11, Ch.1] & [Esdras 13:39]
Q. How then did the Muslims become Palestinians, an adjective of Palestine, in the 1960’s, and have been using this name as the antithesis of Judea and Israel?
A. The Palestinian Name Deception: Those in the West who manoeuvred this name upon Muslims did so to mock, if not desecrate, the history, belief and culture of the Muslim people. Thereby it should be overturned by honourable Muslims. End this deception: Up-Vote for Truth.
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From Wikipedia the entry for the book
"A History of the Palestinian People"
A History of the Palestinian People
A History of the Palestinian People
Author Assaf Voll
Original title A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era
Translator Alan Slater (English)
Country United States / Israel
Language English, Hebrew
Subject empty book
Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
June 12, 2017
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 132 (English), 120 (Hebrew)
ISBN 978-1546831242
Website palhistory.com
A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era is an empty book by Assaf Voll purporting to cover the history of the Palestinian People from the dawn of humanity to present day. It was published in paperback and digital formats in 2017, and most of its contents are blank pages.[1]
The book rose in Amazon.com's best-selling titles in the category of "Israel and Palestine History", reaching second place[a] before it was pulled from sale by Amazon.
Contents
1 Contents summary
2 Composition and publication
3 Reception
3.1 Positive
3.2 Negative
3.3 Other
4 Removal from sale
5 Notes
6 References
Contents summary
Besides the front cover, back cover, and title page the book contains a quote attributed to the Seinfeld character George Costanza: "Just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it." The rest of its pages are blank.[2][3] The Hebrew version of 120 pages is shorter than the 132-page English version. Voll said that a planned German translation will be significantly longer.[4]
Composition and publication
Voll is a columnist for Israeli publications, and involved in public relations and advertising. Holding an M.A. in Jewish Studies from Haifa University, Voll has also lectured at the university as an external lecturer.[5][6]
The book was described by its author as "a fruit of many years of research" and "the most comprehensive and extensive review of some 3,000 years of Palestinian history, with emphasis on the Palestinian people's unique contribution to the world and to humanity".[7] Interviewed on the Kol Chai radio station, Voll stated that "The Palestinian people believe they are a people, and someone needs to tell them the truth even if it hurts. Look what happens when they were given the feeling that they are a real people."[2][7][5][8][9]
Reception
Positive
Promoted by American weekly The Jewish Press, the book also received positive user reviews and rankings. It sold well for books related to the Middle East on Amazon.com, quickly reaching the second place[a] in the category of "Israel and Palestine History", and 9th in "Middle East History".[10][6][11][12] Positive reviews appeared on pro-Jewish and right-leaning publications such as Jewish Press, Jewish Voice, Channel 20 (Israel), Arutz 7, Hamodia, "Kipa", "Srugim", The Jerusalem Post, and FrontPage Magazine.[6][3][10][12][13]
Writing in the Jewish Voice[14] and FrontPage Magazine, Ari Lieberman wrote that this is "The only book on Palestinian History you will ever need to read" and surveyed the alleged lack of historicity of the Palestinian people, saying that the name Palestine itself was concocted by Hadrian following the Bar Kokhba revolt. Lieberman cites alleged statements regarding the lack of Palestinian historicity from: Newt Gingrich, PLO executive committee member Zuheir Mohsen, and Gazan Hamas politician Fathi Hamad, that Lieberman summarizes as follows: "the notion of Palestinian nationalism began as a tactic following the Arab defeat of 1948. Prior to that time, most Arabs living in mandatory Palestine thought of themselves as either subjects of the Ottoman Empire or citizens of Greater Syria."[3]
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"A review in Jewish Press wrote "The book provides an extensive and comprehensive review of 3000 years of Palestinian history", despite being empty.[12]
Shimon Cohen from Artuz7 wrote "If you go through the pages of the book you will discover they are empty, a sign for the lack of Palestinian history from the pages of world history", questioning however the lack of coverage of "Acts of murder, killing, kidnapping of airplanes and people, and the like", that according to Voll occurred after the beginning of the modern era and are therefore omitted from the book.[15]
A review by Israeli Channel 20 wrote "in the 120 pages in his new book Voll surveys and analyzes step by step the annals of Palestinian history from the ancient era to the modern one. The reader will be surprised from the first moment and won't be able to leave the book until reaching the end".[13]
Addressing Arab members of Knesset in a speech, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely held up the Tanakh in one hand and A History of the Palestinian People in the other saying "I recommend to UNESCO and to the Arab Knesset members to read these two books, the Bible which tells the story of the Jewish people, and Assaf Voll's new bestseller, A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era. It will captivate you because it is empty. Because the Palestinians don't have kings and they don't have heritage sites".[16][17] In a later interview Hotovely has said that the book is a wonderful PR exercise and that while there is definitely an Arab, Ottoman and Muslim history, the Palestinians were never a nation and that the basis of the Palestinian narrative is denying the Jewish one, by disseminating lies and attempting to rewrite history.[18]"
From the website nutraingredients.com an article is titled
"World's most obese nation? Kuwait (and the next four are Middle Eastern)"
By Shane STARLING
03-Nov-2014 - Last updated on 07-Nov-2014 at 18:48 GMT
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Obesity sheikh up: More than 40% of Kuwaitis are obese
Obesity sheikh up: More than 40% of Kuwaitis are obese
"Kuwait has the world’s highest percentage of obese people – 42.8% of its population is obese – and the next four fattest countries are also from the Middle East region, according to an updated Food Security Index (FSI).
Saudi Arabia (35.2%), Egypt (34.6%), Jordan (34.3%) and United Arab Emirates (33.7%) filled out the top 5. The update to the 3-year FSI was presented last week by Lucy Hurst from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) at DuPont’s 50-year celebration of its Brabrand, Denmark, HQ. DuPont first commissioned EIU to produce an FSI in 2012 and the project is ongoing.
The FSI measures food security according to 28 criteria in 109 nations. Measures like food loss, nutrition and average food spend are grouped broadly under ‘affordability’, ‘availability’, ‘quality and safety’ as well as ‘external adjustments’.
The FSI’s carefully worded definition of food security states, “Food security exists when people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for a healthy and active life.”
Prevalence of obesity
Hurst presented findings that showed, unsurprisingly, that the poorest countries had the lowest obesity levels. Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal, Vietnam, Madagascar and India all had obesity levels below 2% of their populations.
Lucy Hurst Photo
The EIU's Lucy Hurst
The US – commonly thought to have the highest obesity levels – ranked only the 8th most obese at 102nd (31.8% obese).
FSI-obesityprevalence
“The correlation between food security and obesity is not always direct,” said Hurst.
“High rates of obesity are found in food secure populations in developing countries and less food secure populations in developed countries.”
FSI-indicators
When all 28 factors were considered the US had the world’s most secure food supply with a score of 89.3 out of 100. Next were Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Germany, France and Denmark.
The least secure food security nations were almost all African: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Madagascar, Togo, Burundi, Tanzania, Haiti, Niger, Mozambique and Burkina Faso.
FSI-overall
Key findings
Other findings presented in Brabrant included:
Food security improved for more than 70% of the 109 countries on the FSI.
While sub-Saharan Africa had some of the world’s least secure food systems, countries there were also improving the most, gaining on average 2 points on the Index.
Food consumption as a share of household expenditure averaged 43% in lower income countries versus 16% in high-income countries.
Central and South American countries have the lowest agricultural import tariffs. The rate in Europe is 15.4%.
70% of the 109 nations have national dietary guidelines, a national nutrition plan or strategy, or monitor national nutrition.
Europe and North America have the best access quality protein and some of the lowest for vegetal iron.
Food loss is best in Finland (0.4% lost) and worst in Ghana (18.9% lost).
Serbia was ‘most improved’ in Europe in food safety.
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The website Arabtimesonline.com has an article titled
"Kuwait is country with the fattest people in the world – Highest rate of stomach stapling"
20/06/2016 the article says:
KUWAIT CITY, June 19: Kuwait is a country of the ‘fattest people in the world’ according to an annual list published by the American gazettereview.com news site based on the official data derived from the governments of the countries and the World Health Organization rules, reports Al-Rai daily. Kuwait has become king of the fattest countries in the world in recent years.
It is commonly said that their love for fast food has led to the alarmingly high rates of obesity, according to the website. The website said 13 percent of the people in the entire world are said to be obese. Over three times this percentage are obese in Kuwait. The definition of overweight is a BMI (body mass index) of 25 or more, and the definition of obese is a BMI of 30 or more. The high consumption of fast food in Kuwait has led to introduction of another American idea: stomach stapling. Kuwait is said to have the highest rates of stomach stapling of any country.
Around five thousand stomach staple procedures are performed in a given year in a country with a pretty small population of around three and a half million people. Like other countries on the list, the increased prosperity from oil, the influx of American food, and different cultural ideas about weight and eating have lead to very high rates of overweight and obese people in Kuwait.
According to the report more than four out of every 10 of Kuwaitis are infected with certain degree of obesity that requires treatment one way or another. To highlight the extent of the spread of stomach stapling operations among Kuwaitis, the list indicates Kuwait alone witnesses about 5 thousand stomach stapling operation annually, a figure which they see as too large compared with the total population of Kuwait.
The authors also saw the rankings, the most important factors of the spread of obesity and overweight among Kuwaitis is the prosperity of the surplus resulting from the oil wealth. In the top ten obese countries Kuwait is ranked first with 42.8 percent, Saudi Arabia (35.2 percent), the Kingdom of Belize (34.9), Egypt (34.6), Jordan (34.3), the UAE (33.7) South Africa (33.5), Qatar (33.1), Mexico (32.8) and the United States (31.8)"
From the website algemeiner.com an article is titled
"The BDS Movement Is Racist and Violent" on February 7, 2020
avatarby Elliot Orenstein
OPINION the article says:
A BDS demonstration outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
On January 27, the King’s College London student community invited Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, to speak on an anti-racism panel.
BDS is currently the world’s largest pro-Palestinian activist movement, inspiring countless international marches and protests on university campuses. Although it is officially a non-violent movement, it aims to destroy Israel as a Jewish state. Furthermore, there have been numerous ties to terrorist groups, explicit support of terrorism from the movement’s leaders, and countless examples of marches turning violent. At King’s College in January 2016, for example, BDS protestors smashed windows and assaulted Israel Society talk attendees.
Thus, it is unsurprising that this movement has divided opinion, and provokes powerful voices of support as often as it does ones of condemnation. World leaders on both sides of the political spectrum have come out against BDS, with the UK soon looking to introduce an anti-BDS law, which will prohibit public bodies from promoting the cause.
Given the claims from world leaders that the BDS movement is toxic, and given the movement’s longstanding ties to terrorist organizations, does the BDS movement or any of its advocates belong on an anti-racism panel?
The BDS campaign calls on everyone to inflict non-violent measures against Israel, intending to pressure it into compliance with its flawed understanding of international law and human rights. It urges the public, governments, and corporations to end trade with Israel and Israeli companies, as well as to effectively excommunicate Israel and its universities from international communities, by urging UK institutions and others to deny Israelis (and their supporters) any public opportunity to speak — and by opposing any “normalization” between Israelis and people in Europe and around the world.
In the past, the BDS movement has focused on Israeli-owned companies with operations in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria. In reality, these efforts hurt businesses with factories or farms in the West Bank with a largely Palestinian workforce — and, as a result, end up hurting Palestinians and costing them their jobs. When a SodaStream factory in the West Bank closed, at least 100 Palestinians lost their positions."
the article continues
"Furthermore, the movement may present itself as peaceful, but there have been countless cases of its activists creating hostile and potentially dangerous environments for Jewish people on university campuses. BDS supporters will counter these claims by pointing to the movement’s 2018 Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Yet this nomination means very little. The BDS movement was nominated by Norwegian parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes — the chairman of the far-left Red Party, which holds a single seat of 169 in the Norwegian parliament. This nomination is a farce, and means nothing.
What’s more important is BDS’ constant link to known terrorist organizations. One such example of this is the global leadership of the BDS operation — the BDS National Committee’s — membership. which includes the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, which itself includes several groups designated as terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
In addition to this, tens of financial accounts linked to BDS have been shut down in the US and EU in the past few years, due to ties with terrorist groups. In an interview from late 2010, even Barghouti has spoken in support of violent attacks on “settlers” (i.e. civilians), calling them “legitimate targets.”
The BDS movement has consistently been linked with terrorist organizations, and its supporters have become aggressive and violent towards any and all who disagree with their view of Israel. The methods that the movement urges show little regard for hurting civilians, even Palestinian ones — all the while, creating a divide between Israeli people and Palestinians.
There is a good reason why so many world leaders, prominent politicians and government institutions view BDS as toxic, given the actions of its followers. BDS does not belong in any conversation about anti-racism."
Elliot Orenstein is a CAMERA on Campus UK Fellow for King’s College London University.
From the website israelunwired.com an article is titled
"You’re about to see one of God’s most evident miracles"
By Leah Rosenberg - July 16, 2020
That moment. Can you imagine if you witnessed it yourself? If you were in Israel when it happened? The Six Day War was miraculous. Especially this moment.
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The Six Day War
As seen and told in this video, it was impossible not to feel G-d’s presence during the Six Day War. It was impossible not to recognize the miracles. The whole world witnessed it. Perhaps the most poignant comment was the point made that the State of Israel was born just 3 years after Auschwitz, but the soul of the State of Israel was born 19 years later in 1967.
It is chilling seeing the footage of recapturing the Old City of Jerusalem. After all the other miracles, regaining control over Jerusalem was another gift from G-d.
People talk about miracles that occurred in Biblical times and in the times of the great sages before us, but we must recognize that miracles take place all the time now as well.
Never Stop Thanking G-d
We have to continue thanking G-d, year after year, day after day, for the unbelievable miracles of 1967. We have to thank Him that Jerusalem came back into Jewish hands. You can never thank G-d too much."
On YouTube.com a good video is titled
"3 Reasons Why BDS Has No Interest In Peace"
873 views•Jul 22, 2019
אם תרצו - Im Tirtzu
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The BDS movement claims to stand for peace and against racism and bigotry.
Here are three reasons why that's a lie.
Featuring Ben Freeman
From TheFederalist.com website an article titled
"Antisemites Exploit George Floyd To Spread Lies About Israel"
The perversions and lies of antisemites such as Vin Arfuso do nothing to advance the cause of racial justice in America.
Karys R. Rhea
By Karys R. Rhea
JUNE 22, 2020
"When COVID-19 upended America’s fragile sense of security, antisemites throughout the globe saw an opportunity to link the crisis to Jews and Israel and popularize their fallacious conspiracy theories. Now those same actors are exploiting the tragic death of George Floyd, again blaming either Jews or Israel for the plight of blacks.
Anti-Israel activists have launched a misinformation campaign, drawing insidious parallels between the policing issues in America with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and using doctored photos of Israeli soldiers to elicit misplaced outrage. This propaganda has filtered through to celebrities such as Chelsea Handler and Jessica Chastain, who posted videos on Instagram praising Louis Farrakhan, who notoriously labeled Jews “termites” and Adolf Hitler a “very great man.”
More proof of the Jew-demonizing contagion was a series of Instagram posts by American photographer and director Vin Arfuso, which went viral, with A-list celebrities reposting to their tens of millions of followers. Arfuso used Floyd’s death as a launching pad to falsely charge Israel with an assortment of crimes that even a basic Wikipedia search would disprove.
The post was eventually removed, but not before it shaped an anti-Israel narrative. This antisemitism normalization behooves us to revisit some of his allegations and set the record straight, once and for all.
IDF Goes Out of Its Way to Protect Civilians
“The big bad tough guys of the #IDF thoroughly enjoy beating and shooting children,” Arfuso wrote. “They even have shirts that depict a pregnant Palestinian woman with a sniper scope on her stomach that reads ‘1 shot two kills.’”
On the contrary, military experts across the globe have labeled the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) the “most ethical army in the world” due to the drastic measures Israel takes to avoid injuring and killing civilians, particularly women and children. These measures include warning residents in enemy areas of an impending attack by dropping millions of leaflets in targeted areas, sending tens of thousands of texts and voicemails, and broadcasting radio messages, encouraging Palestinian residents to evacuate.
“Never in the history of warfare has an army phoned its enemy and told them where they are going to drop their bombs,” said one former high-ranking British military officer.
The IDF will also use ground troops instead of air raids, abort missions, redirect attacks, reroute missiles mid-air, and employ expensive and timely techniques such as “roof knocking,” all to protect Palestinian civilian lives at the expense of and increased risk to Israel’s soldiers and civilians. According to British Col. Richard Kemp, Israel does “more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.”
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