Let me say from the beginning that I don’t hate anyone as a general rule. I look for and desire to see the good in every human being as I believe everyone else should do as well. If someone has been influenced by an evil mindset in ideology, then my first reaction is not to commence hating that person but rather to make an attempt to shake that person out of that destructive mindset by using logic and reason, along with a persuasive passion for what is spiritually right and true.However, because this is not always possible regardless of the amount of truth that is placed before certain individuals, and because there are those who will always love the evil inwardly more than righteousness, I believe that there can is righteous-based hatred regarding some humans. I don’t believe in living a life for the sole purpose of hating for any cause as do certain political, religious, and non-religious hate groups. But there are things in this life (including evil devoted people) of whom it's righteous to hate.
God judges hatred along with all motivations of the human heart by His law and not by man’s westernized liberal conceptions. There is a big difference between hating your personal enemy on a personal level for personal reasons, and hating an enemy of God on a spiritual level for spiritual reasons. Examine what the scripture states:
"Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting." - Psalms 139:21-24. (also see II Chronicles 19:2)
In this segment from the book of Psalms, the psalmist was searching his heart before God in which he was making sure that his godly resistance towards his enemies - in the form of righteous hatred - was in check. In this passage Israel’s enemies are the ones who hates God. For the psalmist, his thought was that if he did not have a "perfect" hatred towards God’s enemies, then his thoughts of not hating God's enemy would be of a wicked way within his heart. From my point of view, the politically-correct secular world could learn volumes from the simple declaration that this psalmist proclaimed and of which the first and second Jewish Temple singers sang the psalm:1
“Do not I hate them, O YHVH that hate thee?” and "I hate them (God's enemies) with a perfect hatred"
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I have heard people say that they may hate the things evil people do but not the person themselves. I agree with that concept in general but not as an overall concept. An individual can sink so much into evil that they become “as one” with their wickedness. There is a place in the realms of evil where a person has sold out "soul" lock, stock and barrel in effect crossing the point of no return where their whole lives can only be devoted as an enemy against God. Such was the case with Pharaoh during the time of the Exodus whose heart become more hardened after each manifestation of the ten plagues of Egypt.
To bring this reality into modern times, I do not and cannot love any part of Adolph Hitler including his very soul. I not only hate the things that he did on earth but I also hate him spiritually as God's enemy as well. How about you? Are you a hater of Hitler's very soul?
Fact: There is no separation between Hitler's soul and his Holocaust deeds that he did on earth both now and forever.
Hitler made a choice to become the image of evil rather than expressing the image of God he was made in. I don’t believe God loves him but rather hates him insomuch that Hitler’s soul (and not just the things he did) is in a place of the eternally damned where he will be forever separated from the God of mercy, justice, and righteousness. So in trying to be like minded with God’s thinking towards Hitler, I hate the expressed devil that Hitler was and forever shall be known. I not only believe that it's a righteous act to hate Hitler, but in fact it would be evil of me or anyone else not to do so as the above Psalm of David plainly points out. Furthermore, the so-called do-gooders who actually love Hitler are the ones most likely to support him and his deeds.
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Hitler is not the only ambassador of evil to walk around in human form. I feel the same way with the likes of other such devils as Yassier Arafat, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and now Jimmy Carter who has devoted the rest of his evil life to the cause of Israel's murderous enemy. These men are not simply misguided fools that are followers of evil (a place where true repentance and the turning away from evil are still available to such a person) but they are in fact actual leaders and forgoers of evil for the sole purpose of leading others in their evil!
Since false prophets don’t repent, (no false prophet in the Bible ever did) I have no desire to pray for these men and others like them for a change of their evil ways. Rather, I choose to pray according to God’s promise to them which is for their destruction as God sees fit according to their relentless evil and unrepentant deeds upon this earth.
"And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face." - Deuteronomy 7:10 (See also Isaiah 59:18).
Therefore, my Bible-guided prayer is, "May YHVH according to His holy and righteous Torah promise, repay the Arab-Palestinians to their face, along with and all who support them in their terrorist-expressed hatred acts against YHVH's chosen people."
The Palestinians:
There isn't a greater enemy towards the nation of Israel in all the world today than the Palestinians! The Palestinians have taken the title from the German Nazis as "the greatest threat" to the Jewish nation. Mein Kamph gave way to Jihadi - both meaning "my struggles" in both German and Arabic. When Hitler's struggles expired the Islamic struggles picked up the banner. What now is at stake in the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians that wasn't at stake during Hitler's Final Solution is the possibility of the most evil people in all the earth, worshiping the most evil god (their god Allah), in the most holiest place (Jerusalem and the Temple Mount) in all the world!
The rebirth of Israel as a nation has given rise to Allah (an Arabian deity) wanting to be worshiped by his subjects at the very place designed for the God of Israel to be worshiped (see Psalms 132:13,14). Just the possibility of this scenario alone should show the secularists that there is a God of Israel that holds an everlasting covenant with the Jewish people (see Psalms 105:8-10). For it is impossible to ask for better stage to be set from what we see in the Middle East today to begin an all out "end of the age" showdown between good and evil.
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
World actions of this nature adds a greater significance to the end-time war between good and evil (Ezekiel 38:16-23). Besides the 7.4 billion pledged the to Palestinians, billions of dollars more are added in the form of state of the art weaponry being sold to the enemies of Israel >http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/.
Along with the billions of dollars that the UN is pledging to the Palestinians, the world's plan for tiny Israel becomes very clear! If the nations hadn't taken upon themselves to support Israel's greatest enemies there would not have been a need for Zechariah 12:9 to have been written: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
- Among the two great political parties that rule the Palestinians (Al-Fatah in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip) both covenants from both parties call for for an arms struggle and the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel. http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html
- The greatest forms of child abuse in all the world occur among the Palestinians. Children who are barely old enough to speak are taught to Jew-hate with words they don't even understand. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZL0C2QvqIlo This gives heed to the saying, "they drink the hatred with their mother's milk"! Just the picture alone (at the top of the article) speaks volumes of the Palestinian society.
- Children TV shows are shown in the name of Shahid (martyrdom). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c6lbFGC4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4zgURMOZ6k
- Shahid (martyrdom) for children is glorified of official PA and Hamas television. http://www.pmw.org.il/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm
- An exhibition of glorifying and celebrating suicide / mass murder is displayed with Palestinian gleeful acceptance at Al Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus in September, 2001. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/sbarro.htm This exhibition included many displays of body parts one of which was a bloody set of blue-jean wearing legs with no torso connected, still sitting on a chair. The bombing of Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in which the exhibition re-enacts hits a little close to home. My wife and I personally eat there three years before this massacre occurred.
- School text books promote anti-Israel and pro shahid-martyrdom. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/patext1.html http://www.edume.org/research/testimonies/2007-05-15.html http://www.pmw.org.il/getresults/political/index.html#i214759
- Women who sends their sons to Jew-murder are given high status in Palestinian society, even to run for a government office. http://www.amitiesquebec-israel.org/texts/mother.htm
- Suicide murderers are glorified all through Palestinian controlled areas, in the form of billboards, street names, names of soccer fields, trading cards, names of hospitals, new babies named after suicide bombers, and children's events, songs, chants, and poems during parades, ect. http://programs.ssrc.org/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/allen/ http://www.zoa.org/2003/07/palestinian_aut_13.htm Even "Saddam Hussein" whose Scud missiles hitting Tel-Aviv civilian areas brought Palestinian cheers, is honored in the Palestinian city of Jenin> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53882
- Suicide for the murder of Jews is an accepted norm and is a high form of religious devotion. Outside of martyrdom, there is no guarantee of reaching paradise for oneself and family members. This is one of the reasons candy is passed out in celebration at suicide / murderer's funeral. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013234.php
- One Hundred Thousand citizens of the would-be future State of Palestine attended the funeral of Yahya Ayyash (a.k.a. "the Engineer") not to mention the many funerals of other Palestinian terrorist and terrorist spiritual teachers like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin! I wonder how many of these one hundred thousand funeral attendees of Yahya Ayyash would consider themselves Palestinian moderates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash Moreover, this Palestinian hero has traffic squares named after him in both Jenin and Jericho with no Palestinian complaints. Imagine that! This issue of glorifying and mass murderer among the Palestinians even became part of "peace" negotiation with such a people. See "article 6" section "h" > http://www.israelmfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Israeli+View+on+Palestinian+Security+Commitments.htm?DisplayMode=print
- Palestinians seek to destroy the God of Israel through a revised history of Holocaust and Temple denial, and stand as a barricade between God and His fulfillment of the covenant He has with His chosen people, the Jews. http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/facultyforum.cgi?ID=1735
Muslim religious fervor has many different facets of Jew-murdering expressions that are fully exposed in the Palestinian society. From passing out candy at shahid funerals to eating flesh and drinking blood of Jewish victims as they did on October 12, 2000 in Ramallah> http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014886.php Yet, the Muslim world has the audacity to vilify Israel as the blood-libel people and state. It is these Palestinians who are on the front lines (even occupying a huge portion of the ancient land of Israel) in the Islamic war against the God of Israel!
The 64,000 dollar question: Does the God of Israel "hate" the Palestinians?
The politically-correct answer would be, "God loves everybody". However, the Bible is never politically correct. The Bible states very clearly that God hated Esau, who like the Palestinians wished to destroy Jacob / Israel.
"I have loved you, saith YHVH. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith YHVH: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated (Hebrew: sanay-ti) Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi 1:2,3
The New Testament correctly applies this scripture of God's hatred of an individual as also to the nation that proceeded from that individual (see Romans 9:12,13). The land that should be considered for a Palestinian state is all contained in the ancient writings of which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about -the Bible. Aside from Mecca, the Palestinian spiritual base is that of Esau's - Mt. Seir in Jordan, which is why the prophecies of Ezekiel against Israel's most vicious enemy is not against the West Bank, for that is Israel's land and not the Palestinians! http://www.danielpipes.org/article/298
Take another look at the list above as to what the Palestinians are capable of and then see if you notice any similarities in the following scripture: "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end...Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; [sound familiar? > http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/02/palestine-from-the-river-to-th/ ] whereas YHVH was there: Therefore, as I live saith YHVH God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I have judged thee. - Ezekiel 35:5, 10-111
One of the hardest scriptures for most people to understand and one that I personally had an atheist use in trying to discredit the Bible, is Psalms 137:7-9 which reads:Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
As God commanded Israel to hate Amalek that his name be blotted out from under heaven for his deeds in using cowardly acts against Israel in possessing her land of inheritance (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) the modern Amaleks of today should be hated for their cowardly terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians who claim their land of inheritance as well. May Arafat's name and the names of those who support his goal be blotted out from under heaven! Amen? Amen!
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
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"Ted Nugent Just Pissed off Every Islamic Terrorist in the World by Pointing Out One HUGE Fact…"
the article says
"Ted Nugent just brought to light one important detail that I guarantee none of these Islamic terrorists have even considered. In the Islamic religion, pork and pork products are forbidden because the pig is considered an impure animal. In a Facebook post Ted writes…
Chimps & pigs, a match made in hell. ES&D voodooallahpukes.
Percy the pig makes for an extremely interesting read. I never knew pigs were in most products!!
Every Muslim who has ever handled TNT, Nitro, Bullets, High Explosive Bombs, Rocket Launchers or been treated for cuts injury requiring stitches, or taken antibiotics, or Vitamin Capsules, has been contaminated with Pig Products.
The ironical part is that when a Suicide Bomber blows himself up his body parts are impregnated with Gelatine and Glycerine from the explosive. Both Gelatine and Glycerine are manufactured from Pigs worldwide.. Ergo, they will never be accepted by Allah.
Some makers of cigarettes use haemoglobin from pig’s blood in their filters. Apparently this element works as a sort of ‘artificial lung’ in the cigarette so, they claim, ‘harmful reactions take place before the chemicals reach the user’, (enter the Pig.)
Pig bone gelatine is used to help transport gunpowder or cordite into the bullet. Insulin, the blood-thinning drug heparin and pig heart valves all vital. The complex workings of the global food and processing industry have ensured that it is impossible to avoid pig altogether.
There is no legal obligation for manufacturers to specify whether the gelatine they use is from a pig or another animal. When it is specified, it is often confusingly referred to as Suilline gelatine.
So to all prospective Suicide Bombers, ISIS and innocent, good Muslims, I say, “Have a Nice Day” from “Percy” the wonderful Pig.
Looks like these Muslim terrorists are in for a rude awakening when they reach the afterlife! Thanks for the good news Ted!!"
Well, Another one bites the dust , The Vile Anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood Dictator Thug
Mohamed Morsi has thankfully died on June 17, 2019 at the age of 67, Thank God he is gone,
an article on the website frontpagemag.com spoke about the evil criminal nature of Morsi, right after his death, some people typed the following comments in reply to the article
"The media is calling Morsi the "first democratically elected President of Egypt". They neglect to mention that he was elected with the aid of widespread voter fraud. Many Christians found they had been purged from the rolls, or were turned away when they showed up to vote. Large numbers of unveiled women, both Christian and liberal Muslim, were turned away.
Voter fraud? Is that why the Democrats liked him?
Morsi then ruled in an extra-constitutional fashion, abrogating final constitutional review of the law to himself (just imagine what our libs would say if Trump did that!). He allowed the Islamic State to take over the Sinai. He engaged in crony capitalism with his Muslim Brotherhood supporters that put the economy into a tailspin. When the big public protest came 20% of the country came out into the streets, which is an astoundingly high number. Many Christians supported them but stayed away, so that makes the protests even more powerful."
Another person typed
"Poor Morsi, burning in Hell and not one of the 72 virgins in sight."
Johann du Toit • 3 days ago • edited
"Good riddance. He is probably in Hell, with his idol Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Normally I would not say that about the death of a human being but he was a tyrant who made the lives of Egypt's Christian community a living Hell." Other People have praised the death of Morsi, saying good that he's dead, Egypt was and Is an evil Nation, a very evil nation, History shows that the Evil of Anti-Semitism & Jew Hatred began in Egypt , Anti-Semitism began in Egypt
Of course the late worthless loser Morsi when criticized for his anti-semitic comments, he gave the lame pathetic cop-out excuse saying his comments were "Out of Context" And he lied some more, we know he was an evil man,
The website jcpa.org has an article on October 10, 2007 titled
"The Egyptian Beginning of Anti-Semitism’s Long History"
Prof. Pieter van der Horst
October 10, 2007
Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Egyptian Anti-Semitism, Josephus
Publication: Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
the article states
"Most anti-Jewish material from Greek and Latin authors is pre-Christian. The main protagonists in the anti-Jewish propaganda came from Alexandria. There also the first anti-Jewish pogrom in history took place in 38 CE.
The initial indication of a negative attitude toward Jews is found at the beginning of the third century BCE in the writings of an Egyptian priest called Manetho. This Greek-speaking Egyptian devotes a large section of his main work, which deals with the history of Egypt, to the Exodus of the Israelites.
Alongside the history of anti-Jewish literature there is an outspoken pro-Jewish line. These voices are to be heard all the time side by side-one of admiration and one of scorn and detestation.
One aspect of the history of Jew-hatred, that is, the twenty-three known centuries of anti-Semitism, is the tenacity of many motifs such as that Jews are dangerous and enemies of humankind. These notions are easily demonstrable as nonsense, yet they have been kept alive among many millions of people all over the world until today. It is apparently impossible to break through these perceptions.
“As far as we know Alexandria in Egypt was the birthplace of anti-Semitism’s ideology. There also the first pogrom in history-as we now would call it-took place. In Asia Minor, which is now Turkey, there also were large Jewish communities from the fourth or third century BCE onward. One finds there no endemic hatred of the Jews as in Alexandria."
The jcpa.org article continues
"“The initial indication of a negative attitude toward Jews is found at the beginning of the third century BCE in the writings of an Egyptian priest called Manetho. This Greek-speaking Egyptian devotes a large section of his main work, which deals with the history of Egypt, to the Exodus of the Israelites.”
Prof. Pieter van der Horst studied classical philology and literature. In 1978 he received his PhD in theology from Utrecht University. After his studies he taught there, among other things as professor of Jewish studies. Van der Horst is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“Manetho turns the story of the Exodus upside down. In the Bible it is an act of liberation of the Jewish people by God from Egyptian bondage. In Manetho’s antibiblical history it is an expulsion of the Jews from Egypt at the command of the Egyptian gods, because their country has to be purified of unclean people.
“Manetho tells that when the Egyptians take measures to expel these unclean people, the Jews organize themselves around a priest whose name later turns out to be Moses. They start a regime of terror in which the Egyptian population becomes the victim of brutal violence. Indeed, these people display large-scale sacrilegious behavior by killing, roasting, and eating the Egyptian gods-that is, the sacred animals. Finally the Pharaoh succeeds in expelling them, whereupon they found their own rogue state in and around Jerusalem where they build their temple.”
An Anti-Jewish Exodus
“This ‘anti-Jewish version of Exodus’ sets the tone for a series of such retellings of the biblical story by subsequent writers in the second and first centuries BCE and later. One can only speculate why this motif begins to circulate at that time. It coincides more or less with the appearance of the Septuaginta, the first Greek translation of the Jewish Bible in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century BCE. We can guess that as the Exodus story became available in Greek, Manetho and other Egyptian intellectuals became familiar with it and were infuriated by Egypt’s negative image in the Book of Exodus.”
When asked whether the biblical story of the Book of Esther including Haman’s attempted genocide of the Jewish people does not precede the Egyptian anti-Semitic writings, Van der Horst replies: “The problem is that the dating of the Book of Esther is very uncertain. The events are supposed to have taken place in the court of the Persian king. Usually scholars, however, date this book only to the second century BCE. Moreover, Haman’s threat could not be carried out.”
The article continues
"Flavius Josephus
“Jew-hatred on a growing scale began after the conquest of the Middle East by Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE. Before that time there were only incidental and individual contacts between members of various nations. The exposure of one nation to another is typical of the Hellenistic era, the period from Alexander onward. Then also, for the first time, other nations come into contact with the Jewish people on a larger scale. From then we see this kind of hatred gradually spreading more and more in Greek and later also in Roman society.
“Manetho’s texts are lost. The major first-century Jewish apologist Flavius Josephus dedicates a book-commonly known as Contra Apionem, Against Apion-to anti-Jewish slander in Greek and Egyptian-Greek literature of the preceding centuries. Josephus’ text deals, among other things, with the climax of this literature by an Alexandrian Greek-speaking Egyptian named Apion who lived in the first half of the first century CE.
“Apion’s writings were so influential that even half a century after his death Josephus still finds it necessary to refute his anti-Jewish slander. In Josephus’ book many anti-Jewish quotations from Manetho’s history have been preserved. He gives the impression that they are literal quotes.
“The same is true of several other anti-Jewish writers from Greco-Roman antiquity including Apion. Most of their works have been lost apart from the quotations by Josephus or the later Christian Church Fathers, especially Eusebius of Caesarea.
“These quotes on Jews have been meticulously collected by the late Prof. Menachem Stern of Hebrew University in three volumes called Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism. It is a magnificent work about Greek and Roman attitudes toward Jews in antiquity, published by the Israel Academy of Sciences from 1974 to 1984. Sadly, after its completion, Stern was murdered by a Palestinian.”
and continues
"Positive Witnesses
“Besides Josephus, there are only a few references to Jews in the ancient Greek authors who have been preserved. For instance, the Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily quotes another ancient Greek historian, Hecataeus, who expresses great admiration for Moses as a person who excelled in wisdom and courage. He views the beginning of Judaism as hugely promising because of Moses’ wisdom. Hecataeus adds that only in a later stage of history did the Jews introduce laws that created a kind of xenophobic mentality among them. He is thus somewhat critical of later developments but clearly expresses his admiration for Judaism’s founder.
“Some of the earliest Greek observers of Judaism were positive. For instance, two pupils of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Clearchus, make short, extremely favorable remarks about Jews. One calls them a nation of philosophers. He implies that their ideas about God and religion are so lofty and pure that they are examples to be followed. Others hold the same view. Thus in philosophical circles people sometimes expressed admiration for the Jews’ rejection of a plurality of gods. That their single God was not even mentioned by name nor pictured in whatever form made them commendable to philosophical thinkers who tended to develop an abstract concept of a deity.
“Such thinkers found some of their own ideas expressed in the Jews they met. This positive assessment of Judaism as a religion also stemmed from the beginning of the contacts between nations. It never disappeared; in the Roman Empire, in the first four to five centuries CE, we see that in many cities of the ancient world where there are synagogues there also are circles of the so-called God-fearers, gentiles who sympathize with Judaism. For that we have many literary and epigraphic testimonies.
“These gentiles did not become members of the Jewish community but were impressed by the Jewish religion, especially its ethical aspects. They sympathized sometimes very strongly with Jewish ideas and values. This phenomenon in turn inspired a certain Judeophobia among others, which emerges from several ancient documents.
“Some God-fearers supported various Jewish institutions with money and in other ways. Sometimes they attended synagogue services or even observed the Sabbath out of reverence for the Jewish religion, even without becoming members of the Jewish community.
“One finds these sympathizers in many places. For instance, in Turkey a priestess of the emperor cult is mentioned-one couldn’t think of something more un-Jewish than that-who donates a large amount of money to have a synagogue built for her city’s Jewish community. There are many striking examples of sympathy for Judaism on the part of pagans.”
and continues
"Roman Attitudes
“There is no significant difference between Greek and Roman attitudes toward the Jews. When the Romans came into contact with Jews, they also were exposed to the anti-Jewish propaganda of several Greek authors. Often Roman authors just rehashed what they found in Greek writers about Jews, having already been influenced by these perspectives.
“The best-known example is a passage by Tacitus, the famous Roman historian of the second century CE, in Book 5 of his Histories. It is from beginning to end a recapitulation of everything one finds in earlier Greek authors on Jews and Judaism. He relates the anti-Jewish version of the Exodus and adds some very negative remarks about what he calls ‘the Jewish hatred of the human race.’ One also finds such statements in many other ancient Greek and Roman authors. It is often claimed that the Jews keep aloof from non-Jews because they hate them.
“The Jewish way of life that in some ways kept them separate from others was apparently quite often interpreted as xenophobia. It meant to the anti-Jewish authors that the Jews did not want to mix with other nations because they feared or hated, or even despised them. In these stereotypes among Greek and Latin authors, one regularly finds the word ‘unsocial’-in Greek apanthropos-which means ‘turned away from other people.’ Jewish separatism created irritation that in the long run became Jew-hatred among Greeks and Romans.”
The Double Approach
“Throughout antiquity, from the moment that Greek and Latin authors began to write about Jews and Judaism, one finds this double approach. Alongside the history of anti-Jewish literature there is an outspoken pro-Jewish line. These voices are to be heard all the time side by side-one of admiration and one of scorn and detestation.
“Most anti-Jewish material from Greek and Latin authors is pre-Christian. Although there also is some anti-Jewish literature from outside Alexandria, it is significant that the main protagonists in the anti-Jewish propaganda came from that town; besides Manetho and Apion there also are others. Also in Alexandria the first anti-Jewish ‘pogrom’-which we can define as an organized and officially tolerated attack on Jews-took place in the year 38 CE.”
Van der Horst says that from a modern perspective there are parallels between the Alexandria “pogrom”-an anachronistic use of a far more recent word-of the year 38 and what happened in the German Kristallnacht in 1938."
and continues
"The Alexandrian Pogrom
He explains: “There is only one work referring to this pogrom. It is commonly called In Flaccum and was written by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, who lived from about 25 BCE to 50 CE. He was a witness of the events. That would seem to inspire confidence, but closer analysis of his book raises doubts.
“No one else makes mention of these dramatic events apart from Philo’s somewhat later contemporary Flavius Josephus. He tells us that in the reign of the emperor Gaius (better known as Caligula), after there had been civil strife between the Jewish and Greek inhabitants of Alexandria, both factions sent delegates to the emperor in Rome.1
“Josephus’ casual way of mentioning the event tells us that he had little information about the uprising or did not find it worth devoting any more words to it. On the other hand, he makes clear that what had happened was important enough to justify the sending of contingents to Rome by both parties, a fact that is amply confirmed elsewhere. Philo himself wrote a complete book about it (Legatio ad Gaium) because he had acted as the leader of the Jewish delegation.
“Josephus does confirm the historicity of the event. But his relative neglect of it-eleven words in Josephus compared to over eleven thousand in Philo-makes us wonder whether the large scale of the pogrom as suggested by Philo was somewhat exaggerated.
“Another problem lies in the genre of Philo’s treatise. It is not just a piece of historiography. The best way to demonstrate this is to quote the final sentence of the work: ‘Thus Flaccus [the main culprit] became an indubitable proof that the Jewish people had not been deprived of the help of God.’2 So Philo has a theological message, which usually does not greatly contribute to the objectivity of history writing.”
Flaccus Persecutes the Jews
Van der Horst summarizes the contents of In Flaccum: “Flaccus was appointed Roman governor of Egypt and Alexandria by the emperor Tiberius in 32 CE. In the first five years he showed exemplary ability in fulfilling his responsibilities. That began to change, however, when Tiberius was succeeded on the throne by Caligula in 37. Flaccus became depressed because he had supported the rival candidate for this succession and also had played an active role in the prosecution of Caligula’s mother, Agrippina.
“The leaders of the anti-Jewish Greeks in Alexandria then advised him to win the emperor’s favor by supporting them in their planned actions against the Jews in the city as they knew Caligula hated the Jews. Philo speaks explicitly about an endemic Jew-hatred: ‘from the cradle onward, most people in Alexandria are taught that Jews are bad people. Children are instilled with hatred of Jews.’ He may exaggerate somewhat but he would not write such a thing baselessly.
“Bit by bit Flaccus began to persecute the Jews, first by partiality as a judge in lawsuits, later by other measures. The climax came when, in the early summer of 38 CE, Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great, visited Alexandria on his way from Rome to his new kingdom in Palestine that he had just received from his friend Caligula.
“Herod Agrippa was enthusiastically welcomed by the Jews but the Greeks reacted furiously and staged a mock ceremony, bringing a local lunatic into the gymnasium, greeting him with royal honors, and hailing him as ‘our Lord.’ Instead of punishing the instigators of this insult to a friend of the emperor, Flaccus turned a blind eye. This encouraged the Greeks to proceed to erect statues of the emperor in synagogues: an act of desecration.”
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"Flaccus Makes the Jews Foreigners
“This was followed by Flaccus issuing a decree to the effect that Jews were from now on to be regarded as foreigners and aliens in the city. This opened the floodgates to massive plundering of Jewish homes and shops and the rounding up of the Jews in one quarter of the city, where already a great number of Jews lived, so that an overcrowded ‘ghetto’ was created where the Jews had to endure terrible conditions.
“Synagogues and homes were sacked and set on fire. Then followed a long series of acts of unchecked savagery by the Greeks when they caught Jews who strayed outside the ghetto in search of help. Jews were set upon by mobs that patrolled the edge of the ghetto. They beat up their victims or burned them to death, or bound them together and dragged them through the market square, kicking them and trampling them until their bodies were mutilated beyond recognition.
“At the end of August, on Caligula’s birthday, a large group of Jews were arrested, marched through the streets to the theater where they were beaten and forced to eat pork. If they refused, they were killed as a form of birthday celebration for the emperor. Many also died of diseases that broke out because of the atrocious conditions in the ghetto. Some weeks later a detachment of troops suddenly arrived from Rome, sent by Caligula, to arrest Flaccus. He was condemned, his property confiscated, and he was sentenced to deportation to the miserable island of Andros in the Aegean Sea.
“Modern scholarship makes widely varying estimates of the number of Jews in ancient Alexandria. Some scholars think there were fewer than fifty thousand Jews in first-century Alexandria, and others speak of more than 150,000. Philo, our only source, says the enemies had destroyed four hundred Jewish houses. We also know for sure that there were more than forty victims because Philo says that forty members of the Jewish senate, the community’s council of elders, were killed in the local theater, and adds that ‘many others’ also were killed.
“Later in Rome, Caligula came to the conclusion that the fate of his many deportees was too mild a punishment and ordered them to be executed. Flaccus was at the top of that list. When soldiers landed on Andros, Flaccus fought back with the only result that, as Philo writes: ‘his body received the same number of wounds as that of the Jews who had been unlawfully murdered by him.’ This sentence also expresses Philo’s theological message.”
The article lastly says
"Being Different and Mistaken Beliefs
Van der Horst summarizes: “The ancient hatred of the Jews derived in part from their being different, as far as the interhuman side of the matter is concerned. A second, at least as important aspect is the negative views of Jewish monotheism. There was admiration for this monotheism in the more educated and philosophical circles, but elsewhere it evoked much anger because it was seen as a haughty exclusivism.
“The Jews said about the pagan gods that they were no gods at all and did not exist, while there was only one God, ours. With the Jews a nation appeared that said all others were wrong and their gods were at best demons. Greeks and Romans regarded this denial of their truths as sheer arrogance. They did not feel themselves taken seriously as believers and this created much resentment.
“Other nations that got acquainted with Greeks and Romans and saw that they had different gods from their own reacted otherwise. They said, for instance, ‘You have different names for the deities but of course your gods and ours must be the same.’ Everywhere in the ancient world people tried to find equations between their own gods and those of the Greeks or the Romans.
“For instance, the Egyptians said, ‘What we call Osiris is your god Dionysos.’ When there were differences in numbers they said something like: ‘You have one god, we have two. But it doesn’t matter.’ This approach avoided tensions.”
Parallels with Today
“The fact that the Jews are monotheistic is no longer a real issue these days. Contemporary anti-Semitism by and large comes from Christians and Muslims, who consider themselves monotheists. The Jew-hatred these days stems from different sources than in antiquity.
“There is, however, another parallel with antiquity. The otherness of the Jews played a large role in their image among Greek and Roman circles. That also is the case in our own times. Anti-Semites perceive the Jews as being different, and this leads them to see them as dangerous. This imagined danger leads to hatred of the Jews.
“One horrifying aspect of the history of Jew-hatred, namely, the twenty-three centuries of anti-Semitism that we know of, is the tenacity of so many motifs such as that Jews are dangerous and enemies of humankind. These ideas are and always have been demonstrably false. They are, however, much alive up to the present day. It is apparently impossible to break through these perceptions.
“The image of the Jew as an enemy is grotesque and easily exposed as pure nonsense. Still these images are kept alive among many millions of people all over the world. That this is possible is one of the most frightening aspects of the history of Jew-hatred.”
An online article on the archive of Masada2000.org states , the article is titled
"WHO are the PALESTINIANS?
WHAT & WHERE is PALESTINE?" the article says
""These and other questions will be addressed more fully as you go through this website. However, there is a preliminary historical fact that must be established now. There has never been a civilization or a nation referred to as "Palestine" and the very notion of a "Palestinian Arab nation" having ancient attachments to the Holy Land going back to time immemorial is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated upon the world! There is not, nor has there ever been, a distinct "Palestinian" culture or language. Further, there has never been a Palestinian state governed BY Arab Palestinians in history, nor was there ever a serious Arab-Palestinian national movement until 1964... three years BEFORE the Arabs of "Palestine" lost the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and Gaza as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War (which the Arabs started). In short, the so-called Arab "Palestinians" are a manufactured people...a people with no history and no authenticity... whose sole purpose for existence is to destroy the Jewish State!
Israel first became a nation in 1312B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam! Seven hundred and twenty-six years later in 586 B.C. these first ancient Jews in the Land of Israel [Judea] were overrun and its First Jewish Temple (on Jerusalem's Old City Temple Mount) was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of ancient Babylon. Many of the Jews were killed or expelled; however many were allowed to remain. These Jews along with their progeny and other Jews who would resettle over the next 500 years, rebuilt the Nation of Israel and also a Second Temple in Jerusalem upon the Temple Mount. Thus the claim that Jews suddenly appeared fifty years ago right after the Holocaust and drove out the Arabs is preposterous!
Ancient Jerusalem
Then in 70 A.D. (nearly 2000 years ago), it was the Roman Empire's turn to march through ancient Israel and destroy the SECOND Jewish Temple, slaughtering or driving out much of its Jewish population. Many Jews left on their own because conditions for life were made unbearable in many respects... yet thousands upon thousands stayed and rebelled on for centuries in order to once again rebuilt a Jewish Nation in this Holy Land.
Over 3250 years, various Peoples, Religions and Empires marched through Jerusalem, Israel's ancient capital. The region was successively ruled by the Hebrews [Jews], Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Maccabeans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Egyptians, the Crusaders, Mamelukes, the Turks (who indifferently governed the backward, neglected territory from the 16 century until the British drove them out during World War I)d and then once again by the Jews in 1948. None bothered, nor were they in the least bit inclined, to build a Nation of their own... EXCEPT the Jews!
It must be noted that in 636 A.D., when the Arabs marauders came to the land and uprooted even more of its Jews, they did not form any Arab nation there... and certainly not a "Palestinian" nation. They were simply "Arabs" who, as did others before them, moved into a geo-political area called "Palestine!" And remember this one fact... it was not the Jews who "usurped" (a favorite word from the Arab propagandists) the land from the Arabs. If anything, it was the Arabs in 636A.D. who overran and stole it from the Jews!"
the article continues
"No nation, other than the ancient nation of Israel and later again in 1948 with the rebirth of the 2nd Nation of Israel, has ever ruled as a sovereign national entity on this land. A mighty Jewish empire extended over this entire area before the Arabs and their Islam were even born! The Jewish People have one of the most legitimate Birth Certificates of any nations in the world. Every time there is an archaeological dig in Israel, it does nothing but support the fact that the Jewish People have had a presence there for well over 3,000 years. The coins, the pottery, the cities, the pottery, the ancient texts... all support this claim. Yes, other peoples have passed through, but there is no mistaking the fact that Jews have always had a continual presence in that land for over 3,000 years. This predates and certain dwarfs 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 Jews have. And if you want to talk religion, fine. G-d GAVE the Land of Israel to the Jewish People. And G-d does nothing by accident!
"PALESTINE?"
The term "Palestine" came from the name that the conquering Roman Empire gave the ancient Land of Israel in an attempt to obliterate and de-legitimize the Jewish presence in the Holy Land. The name "Palestine" was invented in the year 135 AD. Before it was known as Judea, which was the southern kingdom of ancient Israel. The Roman Procurator in charge of the Judean-Israel territories was so angry at the Jews for revolting that he called for his historians and asked them who were the worst enemies of the Jews in their past history. The scribes said, "the Philistines." Thus, the Procurator declared that Land of Israel would from then forward be called "Philistia" [further bastardized into "Palaistina"] to dishonor the Jews and obliterate their history. Hence the name "Palestine."
One more thing. Very often one hears the revisionists and propagandists finding ancient historical links between the "Philistines" and the Arab "Palestinians." There is no truth to this claim! The Philistines were one of a number of Sea Peoples who reached the eastern Mediterranean region approximately 1250-1100B.C. They were actually an amalgamation of various ethnic groups, primarily of Aegean and south-east European origin [Greece, Crete and Western Turkey] ... but surely not of Arabian origin! These Philistines were not Arab... and neither was Goliath! The Arabs of "Palestine" are just that... Arabs! And these Arabs of "Palestine" have about as much historical roots to the ancient Philistines as Yasser Arafat has to the Eskimos!
Even the word "Palestine" has no meaning in Arabic - every word in Arabic has some meaning deriving from the Koran, but the word "Palestine" does not. If anything, the name "Palestine" was associated with Jews. In the years leading up to the rebirth of Israel in 1948, those who spoke of "Palestinians" were nearly always referring to the region's Jewish residents. For example, the "Palestine Post" was a Jewish daily newspaper. The "Palestine Brigade [Regiment]" were composed exclusively of Jewish volunteers in the British Army. In fact, Arab leaders rejected the notion of a unique "Palestinian Arab" identity, insisting that Palestine was merely a part of "Greater Syria."
The article continues
"THE RETURN TO ZION
The Land of Israel was never devoid of Jews, although at times, only in the tens of thousands. This was because the land was virtually uninhabitable when the Jews once again began their God-given right AND duty to return en masse to the land of their forefathers (the Zionist Movement) in the 1880s. The silly rhetoric about a massive Arab presence being overrun by "invading Jews" is quickly dispelled by Mark Twain, who visited the area in 1867. From his book, "The Innocents Abroad"... "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."
The Jews did not displace anyone, because no one permanently resided there. It was a land inhabited by nomadic, Bedouin tribes. The whole region was nothing but deserts and swamps. Only about 120,000 Arabs resided in an area that now comprises the State of Israel, Jordan and the so-called "West Bank" [Judea and Samaria] in between. By 1890, the number of Jews who had settled in Palestine reached 50,000 and, by 1907, numbered 100,000. In Jerusalem alone the Jews numbered more than 25,000, out of a total population in the city of only 40,000 Jews, Christians and Arabs. The Arabs were, however, a majority of the sparsely populated countryside.
Jews Draining a Swamp in the Hula Valley
1880's
Palestine's early Jewish Zionists were idealistic pioneers who arrived in pre-state Israel with every intention of living in peace alongside their Arab neighbors and upgrading the quality of life for all of the land's inhabitants. These pre-Israel Zionists (and later, Israelis) had tried to develop peacefully for the dual benefit of Jews and Arabs in the land. But the Arab leadership always, starting in the earliest days, took the low road of insisting that the only solution was for the Jews to get out, even if that meant continued poverty and stagnation. When Arab demands were not met, they always resorted to violence.
The vast majority of Arabs came to the area after these early Zionist pioneers began draining the malaria-infested swamps (above photo) and rebuilding the land! In doing so, these Jews created the economic opportunities and medical availabilities which attracted still more Arabs from both surrounding territories and far-away lands! In fact, over 90% of the Arabs migrated there within the last one hundred years. Most of the so-called "Palestinians" are in fact interlopers and squatters from Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq - and others places - mostly in the 1920s and 1930s who simply took possession of pieces of land. So much for their unfounded claims that they have been there since "time immemorial!"
Yet while the returning Jews were highly motivated to restore the land, the Arabs seethed with envy and hatred because they lacked both the leadership to inspire or motivate them for they were, in fact, historical strangers to this land! Unlike the Jews, those Arabs who immigrated there had no ancient attachments to or historical memories of this homeland ... this ancient Land of the Jews!
The article continues
"There was no "Arab Palestinian" history before the Arabs created one somewhat after 1948 but especially after the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War! In an interview with the Dutch newspaper "Trau" (March 31, 1977), PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein said, "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.
Archeological sites to this very day continue to yield artifacts with Hebrew writing, not some fictitious "Palestinian" or Arabic text! The so-called "Palestinian" Arabs were simply then, as they are now, Arabs no different culturally, historically or ethnically from other Arabs living in any of the 24 Arab countries from which they emigrated. The suggestion that the "Palestinians" are some sub-group of Arabs with their own unique identity is pure fiction! Great propaganda... but still pure fiction! And had not the Arabs continued to brainwash generation upon generation into believing this HISTORICAL HOGWASH about some ancient "Arab Palestinian" ties to the Holy Land, most could have gotten themselves a real life by now with much less bloodshed and suffering for everyone concerned!
Click HERE and HERE for more on the myth of a "Palestinian People."
GREED, PRIDE, ENVY!
The Arabs of today controls 24 nations... 99½ percent of the ENTIRE Middle East land mass while Israel occupies only a 1/2 Arab Green with Envy of 1 percent speck on this same map. But that's still too much land for the Arabs to spare. They want it all. How often have we heard their familiar cry, "We will fight to our last drop of blood for for every last grain of sand!" And that is ultimately what all the fighting is about today. And no matter how many land concessions the Israelis might make for "peace," it will never be enough! Any peace treaty between Israel and the Arab world are ultimately meaningless. The most recent 1993 "Oslo Peace Accord" has brought nothing but homicidal bombers into Israel. Even the Israeli-Egyptian and Israeli-Jordanian peace treaties are holding on by a single thread and, if you were to read their government-controlled newspapers, you'd think they were still at war with Israel! "
The article continues
"From the moment the Jewish People re-established sovereignty in their ancient homeland, they sought genuine peace with all of their neighbors. Unfortunately, their neighbors did not wish to share a peaceful existence with them. They, like Bin Ladin today, felt that they had a religious obligation to destroy the non-Arab/Muslim Jewish State (and, for that matter, ALL non-Arab/Moslem governments in the world). The Arab campaign against Israel is rooted not in any negotiable grievances but in a basic opposition to the very existence of Jewish sovereignty in what they perceive as THEIR Middle East! The ultimate intent of the Arabs is to separate out a Jewish history from "Palestine"... and then to separate Israel from the face of the Earth.
Before the 1967 war, the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) primary goal was to destroy Israel. Post-1967, their goal became two-tracked: Either (1) destroy Israel outright (the same pre-1967 goal) or (2) the creation of an Arab-Palestinian state to be used as a launching pad from which to destroy Israel. Different strategies - same ultimate goal... a state not along side Israel, but IN PLACE OF Israel. It's really that simple!"
The article lastly says :
"The Question of Jerusalem
And the Temple Mount
"For over 3,300 years of history, Jerusalem (founded by King David) has been a capitol city for only the Jewish People. Jews have always lived in Jerusalem, except when they were massacred or driven out. There has, however, been a nearly unbroken Jewish presence in Jerusalem for the past 1,600 years. And since the early 1800's, the population of Jerusalem has been predominantly Jewish. Even when the Jordanians captured and occupied Jerusalem from 1948-67, they (the Jordanians) never sought to change it to their capital (replacing Amman) nor make it the capital of any "Arab Palestinian" people. In fact, Arab leaders from other Arab countries hardly ever bothered to visit Jerusalem! Only to the Jews has Jerusalem ever held special meaning!
Another myth deals with the issue of Jerusalem and its Temple Mount. The myth is that Jerusalem is really an Arab city and that it is a central focus of Islam. The truth is that the Arabs expressed very limited interest in the Temple Mount before 1967. Besides, Mecca and Medina (both in Saudi Arabia) are Islam's holiest cities!
One more thing about Jerusalem in general and its Temple Mount in particular. Jerusalem appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times in all. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Islam's Holy(?) Koran mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem and with good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammad ever visited Jerusalem! And if he did visit Jerusalem, it could not have been until 6 years after his death. Therefore, the notion that Mohammed ascended to Heaven from a rock in Jerusalem (today's Dome of the Rock) is even more ridiculous! Even more revealing is that the word "Israel" occurs more than 40 times in the Islamic Koran while the word "Palestine" occurs 0 times!
From 1948 to 1967, when East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount were under Jordanian rule, Jerusalem itself was ignored by the Arab world. No Arab leader ever paid a visit, not even to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock (both located on the JEWISH Temple Mount). Also noteworthy during this 19 year period was the fact that no Jews were allowed there... not that there was much for them to see since the Arabs destroyed 58 of Jerusalem's Jewish synagogues! Even the Arabs of "Palestine" placed so low a priority on Jerusalem that the PLO's founding charter, the Palestinian National Covenant of 1964, made no reference whatsoever to it. Only when the Jews recaptured it after the 1967 "Six Day War" (initiated by the Arabs) did the Arab world SUDDENLY grow very passionate about Jerusalem!
In truth, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosques are just but two of hundreds of thousands of Muslim mosques around the world. Except for these two minor mosques, Jerusalem itself has no major Islamic significance. In fact, far more Christian shrines are in Jerusalem than Muslim ones! "
Another book worth reading is titled "Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust" by Stephen Koch , Published in 2019, from the Amazon.com description it says
"A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust
After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan (pronounced "Greenspan"), an impoverished seventeen-year-old Jew living in Paris, bought a small handgun and on November 7, 1938, went to the German embassy and shot the first German diplomat he saw. When the man died two days later, Hitler and Goebbels made the shooting their pretext for the great state-sponsored wave of anti-Semitic terror known as Kristallnacht, still seen by many as an initiating event of the Holocaust.
Overnight, Grynszpan, a bright but naive teenager―and a perfect political nobody―was front-page news and a pawn in a global power struggle. When France fell, the Nazis captured Grynszpan after a wild chase and flew him to Berlin. The boy became a privileged prisoner of the Gestapo while Hitler and Goebbels plotted a massive show trial to blame "the Jews" for starting World War II. A prisoner and alone, Grynszpan grasped Hitler’s intentions and waged a battle of wits to sabotage the trial, knowing that even if he succeeded, he would certainly be murdered. The battle of wits was close, but Grynszpan finally won. Based on the newest research, Hitler’s Pawn is the richest telling of Grynszpan’s story to date."
The book talks about Herschel Grynszpan and the killing of German Diplomat
Ernst vom Rath
Did anyone see the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds" the Wikipedia entry for the Film says
"Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger and MĂ©lanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who is connected to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film The Inglorious Bastards (1978).
Tarantino wrote the script in 1998, but struggled with the ending and chose instead to direct the two-part film Kill Bill. After directing Death Proof in 2007, Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. A co-production of the United States and Germany, the film began principal photography in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany and France with a $70 million production budget. It premiered on May 20, 2009, at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and received a wide release in theaters in the United States and Europe in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures.
Inglourious Basterds grossed over $321 million in theaters worldwide, making it Tarantino's highest-grossing film until the release of Django Unchained (2012); it remains his second-highest-grossing film. It received multiple awards and nominations, among them eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. For his role as Landa, Waltz won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award, as well as the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Plot
In 1941, SS colonel Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier La Padite about the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the area, the Dreyfus family. Landa suspects that they are hiding under the floor, and in exchange for the Germans agreeing to leave his family alone for the rest of the war, La Padite somberly confirms it. Landa orders his SS soldiers to shoot through the floorboards, killing all but one of the Dreyfus family; Shosanna, the daughter, escapes.
Three years later, Lieutenant Aldo Raine of the First Special Service Force rounds up and recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the Basterds, a militia who spread fear among the German soldiers by killing and scalping them. The Basterds include Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz and Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, the latter a German soldier who murdered thirteen Gestapo officers. In Germany, Adolf Hitler interviews a young German soldier, Private Butz, the only survivor of a recent Basterd attack on his squad, who reveals the details of the attack and that Raine carved the Nazi swastika into Butz's forehead with a knife so he could never hide that he served in the German Heer.
Shosanna is now living in Paris and operating a cinema under the name Emmanuelle Mimieux. She meets Fredrick Zoller, a German war hero who killed 250 soldiers in a single battle, who is to star in a Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride). Infatuated with Shosanna, Zoller convinces Joseph Goebbels to hold the premiere of the film at her cinema. Shosanna plots with Marcel, the French West African projectionist and her lover, to kill the Nazi leaders attending the premiere by setting the cinema ablaze. Unknown to Shosanna, British Royal Marine Lieutenant Archie Hicox is planning an attack at the premiere with the Basterds.
Hicox goes to a tavern with Stiglitz and Basterd Wilhelm Wicki to meet an undercover agent, the German film star Bridget von Hammersmark. Hicox draws the attention of Wehrmacht sergeant Wilhelm and Gestapo major Dieter Hellstrom with his unusual accent. He gives himself away by ordering three drinks and gesturing "three" with his hand; Germans indicate numbers with different fingers. Discovered, Stiglitz and the Basterds open fire, killing everyone except Wilhelm and Hammersmark, who is wounded. Raine arrives and negotiates with Wilhelm for Hammersmark's release, but she shoots Wilhelm when he lowers his guard. Raine, believing Hammersmark set Hicox and his men up, tortures Hammersmark, who convinces him that she is not a spy and reveals that Hitler will attend the film premiere. He decides to continue the mission.
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Landa investigates the aftermath at the tavern and finds one of Hammersmark's shoes and a napkin with her signature. At the premiere, two of the Basterds, Omar Ulmer and Donny, join Raine in posing as Italians, hoping to fool the Germans unfamiliar with the language. However, Landa, who speaks fluent Italian, converses briefly with the Basterds before sending Donowitz and Ulmer to their seats. He takes Hammersmark to a private room, verifies that the shoe from the tavern fits her, then strangles her to death. Raine and another Basterd, Smithson "The Little Man" Utivich, are taken prisoner, but Landa has Raine contact his superior with the OSS and cuts a deal: he will allow the mission to proceed in exchange for immunity.
During the screening, Zoller slips away to the projection room to see Shosanna. After she rejects his advances, he becomes aggressive. She pretends to acquiesce, then pulls a pistol and shoots him. Zoller, wounded, raises his pistol and shoots her before they both die. As Stolz der Nation reaches its climax, spliced-in footage of Shosanna tells the audience that they are about to be killed by a Jew. Marcel, having locked the doors of the cinema, ignites a pile of flammable nitrate film behind the screen as Shosanna's image laughs and goes up in flames. Ulmer and Donowitz break into the box containing Hitler and Goebbels, killing them. They then fire their submachine guns into the crowd until the bombs go off, killing everyone in the theater.
Landa and his radio operator drive Raine and Utivich into Allied territory, where they surrender before Raine shoots the radio operator and carves a swastika into Landa's forehead."
From the website www.telegraph.co.uk an article titled
"Hitler 'had tiny deformed penis' as well as just one testicle, historians claim" the article says
"Hitler suffered from a condition called hypospadias which left him with an abnormally small manhood, according to historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie
Adolf Hitler
Hitler suffered from a condition called hypospadias which left him with an abnormally small manhood, according to historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie. Photo: AP
James Rothwell By James Rothwell 12:04PM GMT 22 Feb 2016
It has long been suspected that Hitler's conquest of Europe was an attempt to compensate for a lack of potency elsewhere.
But the notorious playground rhyme about his testicles appears to have only told half the story, as a book claims the leader of the Third Reich had a micropenis.
Hitler suffered from a condition called hypospadias which left him with an abnormally small manhood, according to historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, left, with his second-in-command Hermann Göring
In their book Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute, they say they have uncovered medical records which confirm the Fuhrer's embarrassing deformity.
The condition is so severe that sufferers have to urinate from a hole at the base of the shaft, instead of the tip.
It comes just two months after a German historian said he had found proof that Hitler really did have one testicle, as per the famous 1939 playground ditty.
"Hitler himself is believed to have had two forms of genital abnormality: an undescended testicle and a rare condition called penile hypospadias in which the urethra opens on the under side of the penis," Mr Mayo and Ms Craigie wrote."
The article also says
"The discovery could offer some explanation as to why Hitler was allegedly afraid of being seen naked and the cause of his famed fits of rage.
It also likely to add fuel to the debate on Hitler's sex life - or lack thereof - which is fiercely contested by historians.
In his biography of Hitler, the British historian Ian Kershaw said the Austrian-born Nazi leader was repelled by sexual activity of any kind as he feared catching an infection. " If Hitler did indeed have the Medical Condition known as micropenis, it explains a lot !!!!
From the website www.israellycool.com an article is titled
"New Levels Of Cruelty Reached By Arabs In Jerusalem"
By Judge Dan -
March 18, 2014
the article states
"Update: The source for this post is the “0404 News“, an internet based outlet that report predominantly about Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, IDF. More often than not, they are tipped directly by IDF and Police personnel about items, especially items that do not gain media attention, like rock throwing, firebombs, and other attacks on armed forces and civilians, often accompanied with private photos taken with their cellular phones. While I personally do not doubt the veracity of this report, it should be stated that as of now, no other news outlets or Facebook page in Arabic reported it. J.D.
Old and busted: Arabs throwing rocks at Israelis in Jerusalem.
New sick and revolting horror: Arabs throwing puppies at Israelis.
Horror: Arab residents of Abu Dis Arab threw four puppies at a border police patrol, causing them deaths A heartbreaking action near the separation barrier in Abu Dis, East of Jerusalem. Arabs threw four bags with live puppies from behind the high walls at a border police patrol while on activity. The stunned police were still able hear the puppies whimpering. They opened the bags and found three puppies had died on the spot, and another puppy dying. The cub was transferred immediately to a vet, but died a short time later. The policemen were horrified by the brutality against the pups, and the talk of the day amongst their company dealt with the incident. These are exclusive images of the puppies in the bags, and after they removed the dead puppies.
I’m waiting for Jodi Rudoren to write about this “initiation ceremony” or “hobby”"
People have been saying that this shocking Arab & "Palestinian" cruelty & abuse towards innocent animals is the lowest form of evil, truly terrible
From the website www.cbc.ca it says
"Germany is a "country of unspeakable evil," says war reporter - CBC ..."
www.cbc.ca/player/play/1786702938
The CBC's Matthew Halton wonders how Germans can doubt the existence of brutal death camps in their midst
From the website www.gatestoneinstitute.org an article by Fred Maroun titled
"The Lie of "Disproportionality"
by Fred Maroun
May 26, 2016 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8132/disproportionality
the article says
"By making an accusation of disproportionality without defining the meaning of the term, Bernie Sanders and Haaretz betrayed not only the Palestinians and the Israelis, but also their professions. They made false and unsubstantiated accusations while ignoring the thousands more deaths that the Palestinians are inflicting on their own people -- by training toddlers and children for war, using their own people as human shields and failing to provide shelters for them, as the Israelis do for their citizens.
In addition to helping Bernie Sanders attract the naĂŻve and anti-Israel vote, and helping Haaretz attract anti-Semitic readers, unsubstantiated claims of disproportionality divert attention from the fact that preventing more wars requires replacing Gaza's Iranian-backed terrorist regime with a regime that is interested in the well-being of the Palestinians.
As a fourth Gaza war looms on the horizon, we should be aware of the hypocrisy and demagoguery of past Gaza wars: because we are likely to see more of the same"
The article continues
"The Accusation
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a candidate in the Democratic primaries for president, claimed that Israel's response in the 2014 Gaza war was "disproportionate," and Haaretz columnist Asher Schechter agreed. Yet neither Sanders nor Haaretz provided evidence to back that claim.
Schechter made one point worth mentioning: the claim of "extremely permissive rules of engagement during the operation that aimed to protect the lives of IDF soldiers even if the cost was a greater loss of civilian lives." If true, it simply means that IDF soldiers, as all soldiers, have to make split-second decisions, and when they do so in a situation when confronted with Palestinians who appear to be terrorists, they err on the side of assuming they are terrorists in order to protect their own lives. That is not unexpected, and Israel has no obligation to do otherwise.
Israel has repeatedly demonstrated how much it values the civilian lives of the people it is fighting. No other military force drops leaflets, telephones its adversaries and "knocks on the roof" to warn them of an imminent attack, so that civilians will have time to evacuate. Israel values the lives of Palestinian civilians, but naturally, it values the lives of its own soldiers more. Israel has repeatedly demonstrated how much it values its soldiers, for example when it freed more than one thousand Palestinian criminals. Why would anyone expect Israel to suddenly to value its soldiers less when forced to fight terrorism in Gaza?
What is disgraceful is not that Israel cares about its soldiers, most of whom have families at home -- in many cases dependent on them for their livelihood. What would morale in any military be if soldiers felt they were merely regarded as cannon-fodder, not cared about?
What is disgraceful is that the Palestinian government in Gaza cares less about the lives of its own civilians, who themselves have families, than about killing Jews. This is why the terrorists exploit those civilians as part of their "dead baby strategy," described by American human rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz."
and continues
"As Dershowitz has also written, Hamas has a "calculated strategy designed to point the emotional finger of moral blame at the IDF for doing what every democracy would do: namely, defend its civilians from rocket attacks by targeting those who are firing the rockets, even if they are firing them from civilian areas."
No Credible Evidence
There has been no evidence from an unbiased and credible source that Israel's actions in Gaza were disproportionate -- in the laws of war, not meaning that the number of dead on both sides of a conflict have to be the same (which would be nonsense) -- but that the amount of military force to be applied to accomplish a particular military operation may not exceed the amount of force required to accomplish the goal of that military operation: "Loss of life and damage to property incidental to attacks must not be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage ..."
This is not a simple concept, especially for a public not versed in military matters."
and continues
"Among the biased sources that have weighed in is Amnesty International (AI), which made that accusation in July 2015. The Israeli government explained why AI's conclusion was not valid, but AI's thoroughly documented record of anti-Israel bias already tainted its report.
AI's bias against Israel has also been documented by several analysts, in addition to NGO Monitor: Dr. Yvette Alt Miller and Alan Dershowitz himself. AI's national office denied Alan Dershowitz the right to speak after AI's Columbia chapter had invited him. AI even co-sponsored the speaking tour of a Palestinian activist who promotes violence and who openly exploits his own children to provoke Israeli soldiers.
In addition to the lack of credibility of the accusations, non-Israeli and non-Jewish sources have also reached the conclusion that Israel committed no crimes of disproportionality. During the 2014 Gaza war, Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said, "No other army in the world has ever done more than Israel is doing now to save the lives of innocent civilians in a combat zone". In April 2016, he reiterated that assessment.
Haaretz's Schechter admits that "Hamas, of course, launched rocket attacks against schools, hospitals and houses. It did so deliberately, with the intent of inflicting death and suffering." Everyone who is not an outright terrorist supporter, including Sanders and Haaretz, agrees that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorist attacks from Gaza. It is, of course, the duty of Israel to use only the force required to stop the attackers and not much more, but how does one determine if Israel went "too far"?
To the naĂŻve observer, it seems that because far more Palestinians died than Israelis, Israel must be using disproportionate force. This conclusion, however, does not take into account that Israel goes to great lengths to protect its civilians while Hamas encourages civilian casualties in order to gain sympathy, as Dershowitz explains. It also does not take into account the actual meaning of proportionality."
and continues
"A Betrayal of both Israelis and Palestinians
By making an accusation of disproportionality without defining the meaning of the term, Sanders and Haaretz betrayed not only the Palestinians and the Israelis, but also their professions. They made false and unsubstantiated accusations while ignoring the thousands more Palestinian deaths that the Palestinians are inflicting on their own people -- by training toddlers and children for war, using their own people as human shields and failing to provide shelters for them, as the Israelis do for their citizens.
In addition to helping Sanders attract the naĂŻve and anti-Israel vote, and helping Haaretz attract anti-Semitic readers, unsubstantiated claims of disproportionality divert attention from the fact that preventing more wars requires replacing Gaza's Iranian-backed terrorist regime with a regime that is interested in the well-being of the Palestinians. Sanders and Schechter propose nothing to achieve this. They prefer falsely to accuse Israel of anything that might possibly sound damning, and hope that no one will dig for some truth or ask any questions.
To naĂŻve people, Sanders and Schechter appear thoughtful, compassionate individuals who care about the Palestinians; in fact, they merely are either ignorant themselves or duplicitous. If betraying Israelis and Palestinians equally is what Sanders means by "a more balanced position," all that is disproportionate is their unjustified hostility towards Israel that is also unhelpful to the Palestinians." Plus often the Arab Terrorists dress and act as "Civilians" in order to confuse, Deceive and surprise Israeli troops defending Israel,
An online article is titled
"How do you respond when people say that the Jews killed Jesus?"
the article states
"As a Jewish person, it’s not uncommon to hear the occasional comment about penny-pinching frugality. It’s not irregular to be asked abrupt questions about our religious practices or political stances. Occasionally, one could even be the recipient of a string of incoherent obscenities. None of the above are acceptable.
But unfortunately, one of the most common unacceptable phrases a Jewish person can hear is this: “The Jews killed Jesus.”
Such condemnations have plagued the Jewish people for the last two thousand years, acting as the fuel behind countless anti-Semitic atrocities throughout history. They have emerged from the mouths of self-proclaimed Christians, from atheists—from both those who consider themselves religious and those who do not. And it has to stop.
Here are five ways to respond to someone who accuses the Jews of killing Jesus:
1. Jesus was Jewish. All of his first followers were Jewish.
Behind a statement like, “The Jews killed Jesus” often lies anti-Semitic bias. This charge is especially ridiculous when you consider one simple fact: Jesus was a devout, Torah-following Jew. He was born and raised in Israel. All of his first followers were Jewish and it was those early Jewish believers in Jesus who spread the Good News to Jew and Gentile alike. There remain a substantial number of Jewish people who believe in him today – our organization, Jews for Jesus, is living proof.
At no point did Jesus ever reject his cultural background. He attended and taught in the synagogue, went up to Jerusalem and spoke with the people at the feasts, and in one lively exchange with a Samaritan woman, clearly identified himself with the Jewish people: “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22).
the article continues
" 2. How could you blame an entire people group for something that happened two thousand years ago?
Let me put it this way: it makes as much sense as walking up to Mindy Kaling, star of The Mindy Project, and accusing her of murdering Mahatma Gandhi. Or calling out Robert De Niro for his hand in the death of Julius Caesar. Ridiculous. Just like it’s preposterous to blame all Indians for Gandhi’s assassination, or all Italians for the demise of Caesar, it’s ludicrous to chastise the Jewish people for the death of Jesus—especially two millennia later.
3. Christianity wouldn’t have been offered to the world if Jesus hadn’t died.
In order for salvation – the inheritance of the Jewish people – to be available to Gentiles, it first had to be rejected by most of its beneficiaries. If a majority of the people of Israel had not rejected Jesus as being the Messiah foretold in the Tanakh, the story would have ended early. The Jewish people would have claimed their inheritance, and the rest of the world would have remained in ignorance. But because many of our people did not recognize Jesus as the fulfillment of their Scriptures, his message of reconciliation with the God of Israel was extended to the rest of the world.
And that was always the plan. Way back in the book of Isaiah, God said of the Messiah: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).
Does this mean that His chosen people, the Jews, are no longer offered their own inheritance of salvation? No. As Paul, the first-century Jewish follower of Jesus, puts it: “So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!” (Romans 11:11–12). The role, then, of the Gentile Christian is to make the Jewish people envious of their inheritance, drawing them to their own birthright – not to push them away in hostility."
and continues
" 4. Nobody “killed” Jesus.
The splendor and power of Jesus’ death on the cross lies in its sacrificial nature. Jesus voluntarily laid down his life. In that sense, nobody killed Jesus.
Jesus himself said: “No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.” (John 10:18)
Nineteenth-century preacher Octavius Winslow said: “Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; but the Father, for love!”
God allowed Jesus to die because of our sins.
So if you’re looking to place blame, consider this: every human individual is responsible for the death of Jesus. It was because of our sin that he willingly succumbed to the death penalty, experiencing the punishment for our fatal mistakes. Speaking of the Messiah, Isaiah said this:
Yet it was the will of the Lᴏʀᴅ to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lᴏʀᴅ shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10)
5. Jesus is alive.
Note the second half of the above verse from Isaiah 53: “He shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lᴏʀᴅ shall prosper in his hand.” The Messiah could not see his “offspring” (those who would believe in him) and “prolong his days” unless he rose from the dead.
All four accounts of Jesus’ life in the New Testament – the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – give a clear account of the resurrection of Jesus. Paul wrote that Jesus was seen by more than 500 of his followers after he rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:6). It is the resurrection that provides those who believe in Jesus the hope that they too will live forever with him after they die.
If there is no corpse, there is no crime. Yes, Jesus died, but he rose from the dead and is alive, ready to forgive and receive all those who will put their trust in him.
An article on the website www.jewishpress.com by Molly Resnick on June 26, 2019 has
spoken about How sadly a Holocaust is coming to America, the article tells that the seeds of a Holocaust in America are already sown with all the rising Anti-Semitism & Jew Hatred , it's only a matter of time, I fear the article might be right, I don't want there to be a Second Holocaust, in America or Anywhere, but many people fear it's only a matter of time,
a quote from the article says
"But secondly, Israel doesn’t have to be dangerous. We have a very weak government that does not do what has to be done against Arab murderers. Have you ever heard of a country that releases murderers? They release them to prisons like a hotel with all kinds of amenities and then they get a certificate to teach when they come out from prison. It’s insane!
It says in the Torah that when G-d wants to punish us, he inflicts us with madness and blindness. That’s what’s happened here. The land of Israel was only given to the Jews. Other people have the right to be here as a gerei toshav – as it says in the Torah – but not to chase us out of our own country and murder us." Countless Israel Supporters Agree, it's sickening & disgusting how Israel treat's it's enemies like Human Beings, those who murder innocent civilians should be thrown in a tiny dark prison cell for the rest of their natural lives, never to be released, throw away the key, never release them, never release a single Arab Murderer, No Amenities, Countless Christian, Jewish & Other Israel supporters have said Israel is too humane, Other sane normal nations would NEVER tolerate the crap that Israel puts up with on a daily basis
People online have pointed out how in the 1988 crime comedy film
"The Naked Gun" which starred Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, how at the end of the film there is this scene where
"Well, Frank talks her down on the DiamondVision, the brawl on the field ends, Jews and Arabs hug each other, a Saint Bernard licks a postman, Frank gets his job back, and Nordberg shows up and he's okay (That is, until Frank knocks him down the stadium stairs)" I hope Ultimately in real life Israel/Jews & Arabs will ultimately be Reconciled to God and to Each Other, that true Peace & Friendship will Prevail in the Middle East & Worldwide! No More Hatred,
From the Wikipedia entry for the 1988 film "The Naked Gun" it states
"The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (also known as simply The Naked Gun) is a 1988 American crime comedy film. The film stars Leslie Nielsen as the bumbling police lieutenant Frank Drebin. The film also stars Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalbán, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson.
The film features fast-paced slapstick comedy, including many visual and verbal puns and gags. The film is based on the character portrayed by Nielsen in the television series Police Squad![2] The core creative team behind Police Squad! and the film series includes the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker as well as Pat Proft in varying combinations.[3]
Released on December 2, 1988, the film was a critical and commercial success, which led to two sequels: The Naked Gun 2
1⁄2: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Naked Gun 33
1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994).
Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin, taking a vacation in Beirut, disrupts a conference of America's greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev[4]) who are trying to conceive a terrorist plan to humiliate the US. In Los Angeles, Officer Nordberg attempts to bust a heroin drug operation at the docks organized by dock's owner Vincent Ludwig, and is shot by Ludwig's henchmen. After returning to LA and being briefed on the case by his boss, Captain Ed Hocken, Drebin visits Nordberg in the hospital. Nordberg provides cryptic clues, including a picture of Ludwig's ship on which the deal had been organized. Frank meets with police scientist Ted Olsen, who has invented a cufflink that shoots tranquilizer darts. Frank learns through Ted that Nordberg's jacket tested positive for heroin. " The Wikipedia entry lists Yasser Arafat as one of America's greatest enemies, Arafat was the enemy of the whole civilized world
The Wikipedia entry for the plot of "The Naked Gun" continues
"Police Squad is put charge of security for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Los Angeles, and Ed tells Frank that he has 24 hours to clear Nordberg before word gets out about what happened and detracts from the queen's visit.
When Frank visits Ludwig in his office, Ludwig learns that Nordberg is still alive. Ludwig has his assistant, Jane Spencer, assist Frank in his investigation, and the two fall in love. However, Jane is unaware of her employer's illegal activities. After Frank leaves the office, Ludwig meets with Pahpshmir, a participant of the Beirut meeting, to discuss an assassination plot against the queen. Ludwig agrees to do it for $20 million, with Pahpshmir wondering how he plans to pull it off. Ludwig explains that using a beeper he will create the assassin using post-hypnotic suggestion. Ludwig unsuccessfully attempts to have Nordberg killed at the hospital; while the hypnotized doctor escapes Frank, he accidentally ends up riding a ballistic missile into a fireworks store, leaving the assassination motive unknown.
Frank breaks into Ludwig's office in his absence, searching for evidence. Although Frank finds a note from Pahpshmir addressed to Ludwig which confirms his suspicions, he inadvertently starts a fire that destroys the note and the office. Frank later has a run-in with one of Ludwig's men at his factory in a stockyard, and after that confronts Ludwig with his allegations at a reception for the Queen's arrival. Frank misinterprets Ludwig's presentation of a musket to the Queen as an attack and tries to protect her, but only causes more of a problem and is fired from Police Squad. Afterward, Jane finds out about the plot and tells Frank that the plan will be executed at a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the California Angels at Anaheim Stadium during the seventh inning stretch and that one of the players will perform the act.
The Police Squad all arrive at the stadium. In order to search the players, Frank knocks the home plate umpire out with a baseball bat and takes his place, frisking the players for weapons while they are at bat. The seventh-inning stretch begins and Ludwig activates his 'sleeper', Reggie Jackson. Jane alerts Frank, who chases after Jackson and tackles him, but Jackson manages to get away when Frank's action starts a general riot between the two teams. Ludwig holds Jane at gunpoint as he begins to leave the stadium while Jackson takes aim at the Queen. Frank tries to incapacitate Jackson with one of his cufflink darts, but misses and hits a large woman on the upper deck. The woman falls over the railing and lands on Jackson, incapacitating him and saving the Queen's life.
Frank follows Ludwig to the top of the stadium and shoots Ludwig with the other cufflink dart, causing him to fall over the side of the stadium where he is struck by a passing bus, run over by a steamroller, and trampled by the USC marching band. Some of the band members inadvertently step on Ludwig's beeper, triggering Jane to attempt to kill Frank with Ludwig's gun. Frank breaks Jane's hypnotized state by openly professing his feelings for her and giving her an engagement ring. Frank and Jane meet Mayor Barkley, who reinstates Frank back to Police Squad, and a recovered Nordberg congratulates him – until Frank inadvertently pushes Nordberg's wheelchair down the stadium stairs and launches him onto the field" Yasser Arafat was such an ugly worthless Satanic turd, that he would probably have been "offended" by the portrayal of him in "The Naked Gun" Yasser probably couldn't take a joke
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Palestinians ‘not completely honest’ when they say they want a state, historian observes"
June 26, 2019
the article states
"The Palestinians “have a leadership that is keeping them at a state of perpetual victimhood,” says Hebrew University’s Gaudi Taub.
By World Israel News Staff
With the Palestinian Authority boycotting the U.S.-led conference currently taking place in Bahrain, are the Palestinians again showing that they “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity,” in the now-famous phrase of legendary Israeli diplomat Abba Eban?
“In our world of moral kitsch, where victimhood is moral justification for everything, I think the one asset the Palestinians are not willing to give up is their misery,” said Gaudi Taub, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in an interview with FRANCE 24 TV."
The article continues
"They have a leadership that is keeping them at a state of perpetual victimhood,” he argued.
Stating that the Palestinians are “not completely honest” when they say that they want a state, Taub adds: “If it was Zionism we would have taken the money, built stuff with it, and then tried to move on to other goals, not give it up in advance,” Taub told the French television channel.
Pre-state Zionist leader and Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion “would have taken the money and then demanded a state,” said the historian.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) announced that it was cutting off diplomatic contacts with the Trump administration when the U.S. president recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017.
“We need the economic [support], the money and the assistance, but before everything there is a political solution,” said PA leader Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, criticizing the American approach of presenting its economic plan for the region before announcing its political vision for Israelis and Palestinians.
Therefore, Abbas predicted, the Bahrain conference, which is promoting only socio-economic aid, “will not be successful.”
However, there have been top-level meetings in the past at which political solutions have been discussed.
In the summer of 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and PA leader Yasser Arafat held a summit at the Camp David retreat, during which, according to U.S. and Israeli accounts, Barak was prepared to hand over nearly all of Judea and Samaria to a Palestinian state."
The article lastly says
"In addition, Israel was prepared to “compensate” the Palestinians by giving them land within the internationally-accepted boundaries of the State of Israel to make up for the territory in Judea and Samaria which would be recognized as part of the Jewish State.
Under the plan, which Arafat rejected, control over the Old City of Jerusalem would have been divided. A couple of months after the summit, Palestinians launched a second “intifada” violent uprising, in which some 1,000 Israelis were killed between 2000 and 2005.
In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went even further in discussions with Abbas, saying that in addition to offering the same kind of deal regarding Judea and Samaria, he was willing to give up Israeli sovereignty over the Old City altogether and place even Judaism’s holiest shrine under international control.
Abbas rejected that offer, although Olmert warned him, “Remember my words, it will be 50 years before there will be another Israeli prime minister that will offer you what I am offering you now. Don’t miss this opportunity." Many Other Articles document how the
Palestinian "Authority" & so-called "leadership" is extremely corrupt, rampant corruption in the so-called "Palestinian" Government
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article by Fred Maroun titled
"Moral imbalance: The real disproportionality in the Israel-Arab conflict"
Dec 20, 2018, 6:32 AM
the article says
"Israel is often accused of disproportionate responses to terrorist attacks, but as I demonstrated in an article for The Gatestone Institute, these are dishonest accusations meant to fool the naĂŻve and the ignorant. There is however a real form of disproportionality in the Israel-Arab conflict, and it is the huge moral divide between on one side, Israel and the Jews, and on the other side, the Arabs and other enemies of Israel.
When I engage in discussions with Jewish people on the Israel-Arab conflict, I find that even among the most ardent Zionists, there is always concern for the welfare of Arabs. There is always concern for using only the necessary force. There is always concern for ethics in war."
Fred continues
"Since I grew up in Lebanon and my whole family is Arab, I also know many Arabs. Except for a very small number of Israel-friendly Arabs that I met through social media, I have never seen Arabs showing concern for the welfare of Jews.
I have never seen Arabs express moral ambivalence about the fact that the Arab world decided to try to destroy the newly independent state of Israel in 1947/48 rather than accept a UN partition plan that was very favorable to Arabs.
I have never seen Arabs wonder if the tactics used against Israel are ethical, including rockets into populated areas, knifing of civilians in the streets, blowing up buses, incendiary balloons, and so on.
I have never seen Arabs ask whether it is fair and ethical that Palestinians inherit the status of refugee from generation to generation with no end in sight, when other refugees, including Syrian refugees from the Syrian civilian war, do not, and when the Jewish refugees from Arab lands have long ago stopped being refugees.
I have never seen Arabs question the ethical contradiction between the fact that Jews were expelled from the Arab world, from Gaza, and from Judea and Samaria, and the fact that Arabs remained in Israel and are still there today as equal citizens.
I have never seen Arabs wonder whether it is ethical for the Arab world to continue its hostility towards Israel, with most Arab states refusing to make peace, and with not a single Arab state accepting that Israel is a Jewish state.
I have never seen Arabs question whether it was ethical during WWII to pressure Britain to refuse entry to Jews into Mandatory Palestine, even after the horror of the Holocaust became known.
I have never even seen Arabs express a desire for peace and cooperation with the Jewish state."
The article continues
"This moral inequity is also reflected at the state level, and it is reflected in the way that the world relates to Israel and the Arab world.
While Israel goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties, Arab states are far more relaxed in their approach to human rights, and Arab terrorists even target civilians.
In the Syrian civil war that started in 2011, President Assad is known to have used chemical weapons against civilians, and the war has resulted so far in over 107,000 civilian deaths. Yet, from 2012 to 2017, there has been 124 United Nations General Assembly resolutions against Israel but only 2 about Syria.
In the ongoing hostilities between Israel and the terrorists in charge of Gaza, mainly Hamas, Gaza terrorists have fired 289 rockets into Israel in 2018 alone, while Israel sends daily hundreds of trucks carrying supplies to Gaza. Yet, the UN General Assembly could not even support a single resolution against the Hamas terrorist entity.
For Israel, the ethics of war has always been a foremost concern, and this is still the case today, even under the most right-wing government in Israeli history. Questions on how to defend itself while minimizing civilian casualties are always at the forefront of Israeli political debate, and the solutions are regularly studied and refined by Israel’s Defense Forces (the IDF). Clearly, the Jewish state takes ethics seriously, just as the Jewish people do.
The Arab world, on the other hand, is as barren in military ethics as its politics is barren in democracy. Human rights violations are common and widespread. The huge moral imbalance between Israel and its enemies is hard to accept, and it is impossible to justify.
When I sit among Jews and see how much empathy they have towards Arabs who have been waging war against them for 70 years, and when I know that Arabs show not an ounce of empathy towards Jews, as an Arab, I am embarrassed, ashamed, and mortified.
We Arabs have not only failed miserably in our moral duty towards our fellow Semites, the Jews, but practically none of us can even admit that we failed at all."
Fred Maroun lastly said in the article
"Rather than spend our time self-importantly and unjustly demonizing Israel and the Jewish people, if we wish to rescue ourselves from the bottom of the moral abyss that we are in, we must take a deep dive into our souls, and try to salvage any morality that we may have left." Israel follows the Rules of War, it's enemies don't
The website arcdigital.media has an article by Sarah Rumpf titled
"The Most Terrible Thing I Saw at Dachau"
It wasn’t something I witnessed within its gates, but rather just outside it
the article says
"Entrance gate at the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, showing the infamous slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei.”
Every January, we recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day as a day to honor the memories of the millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally and physically disabled people, political dissidents, and other innocent victims who were murdered by the Nazis in one of the worst genocides known to human history.
To fully understand the meaning of this day, and why it is so important to remember the horrors of the Holocaust, I want to share what I observed when I visited Dachau during a college summer abroad in Germany.
Dachau is the Southern Bavarian town where the first concentration camp in Germany was opened in 1933. Today, the camp remains open as a historical site and memorial to the victims.
Like other concentration camps, Dachau was a brutal work camp until the end of the war. Besides the inhumane living conditions, malnutrition, disease epidemics, suicides, and those killed directly by the guards, prisoners were also subjected to horrific medical experiments. Official Nazi records document the intake of over 200,000 prisoners and the deaths of nearly 32,000 until the camp was liberated in 1945, but the true death count is undoubtedly much higher.
The crematoria that burned countless human bodies into ash still stand. When I visited, it was chilling to walk inside these buildings to peer inside the ovens and wonder how many victims, many of their names lost forever to history, might have been eliminated within.
Still, the most disturbing sight at Dachau was nothing I witnessed within its gates, but rather just outside it.
Unlike camps like Auschwitz that were located in more rural areas, Dachau’s camp is directly within its city limits. Visitors to the memorial take a short train ride from Munich, walk down picturesque Bavarian streets that look like they were designed to be featured on postcards, past homes and schools and shops…"
The article continues
"…and then come face to face with the metal gate that says, “Arbeit Macht Frei.” The cruelly dishonest phrase — German for “work sets you free” — was also featured on the camp gates at Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Theresienstadt.
Its presence on the Dachau gate made it clear this was no ordinary prison.
I expected to see the crematoria and mass graves. I expected to see primitive barracks where people were crowded in conditions considered too inhumane for farm animals. I did not expect to see this horror in the middle of bakeries and bookstores, and the juxtaposition of the two scenes was jarring.
While the camp was operational, any passerby could have peered through the wide bars on that infamous gate and seen the starving, suffering, dying prisoners inside. Other than the two-story guard building around the gate, the complex is enclosed by walls or fencing only one story high in most sections.
An even more horrifying detail: Dachau’s crematoria lacked the air control technology present in modern systems, so the nauseatingly sweet odor of burning human flesh would have carried throughout the town. Contemporaneous reports from the Allied troops who liberated the camps describe the smell from the crematoria and the unsanitary conditions of so many prisoners kept in such close quarters as a stench that “covered the entire countryside…for miles around.”
Remember, the smells and sounds from Dachau’s camp did not need to travel for “miles” to reach the residents — only blocks.
As Captain Sol Nichtern, one of the American military officers who was present at the liberation of Dachau observed, the camp was “built right up against the side of the village; the houses go right up to the outer wall.”
There is simply no plausible deniability that the people of Dachau were unaware of what was happening within that camp.
Imagine for me your hometown and picture the street where you lived, where you worked, where you went to school. Think about where your neighborhood grocery store was located, and instead imagine a concentration camp in its place. That’s how centrally located the camp was in Dachau.
The Holocaust was not carried out by just the few names that history has condemned to infamy — the Adolf Hitlers and Hermann Görings and Josef Mengeles.
The genocidal murder of millions was an evil committed by everyday people who filled the countless bureaucratic jobs that kept the trains to the ovens running on time, and an evil condoned by many, many more who were literally neighbors to the atrocities, like in Dachau, people who averted their eyes and held their tongues while millions perished.
They woke up in the morning, walked their children to school, went shopping, attended church services, enjoyed the beautiful Bavarian countryside around them, all the while ignoring the sickly sweet odor permeating the air they breathed, denying the horrors beyond the gate that said Arbeit Macht Frei."
The article continues
"As the well-known quote (apocryphally attributed to Edmund Burke) says, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Evil requires co-conspirators and is nourished by all who condone its presence in silence. This is true for the neighbors ignoring the thousands of bodies burned in Dachau’s crematoria, for those at the U.S. Gymnastics Board and Michigan State University who ignored complaints about Larry Nassar’s abuse of hundreds of young gymnasts for decades, for the members of Congress who authorized hush money settlements to pay off victims of sexual harassment, and for the many in Hollywood who allowed sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein to indulge their sick proclivities as long as everyone was still making millions at the box office.
None of these evils happen — or at least, do not happen for very long — without the support of those who refuse to act to stop them.
That is why it is important to remember what happened at Dachau, and all the other sites where the Nazis’ depraved scheme to eliminate millions of people from the face of the Earth occurred: because it isn’t the Adolf Hitlers who have the power to cause these evils…
…it’s all of us.
The good news is that it is also within our power to prevent it. #NeverAgain." This article can also be found on the website, www.redstate.com Wikipedia notes that
Larry Nassar is a Syrian Arab, but in all fairness there are sadly perverts & Sexual predators in all races & religions
The website of the Baltimore Sun, www.baltimoresun.com has an article on
March 6, 2017 titled
"Austria wasn't 'ambivalent' about Nazis" and the article states
"The Sun's fascinating story of the fate of the B-24 bomber crew that crash landed in Austria during World War II grossly mischaracterizes the attitude of Austrians towards the Nazis as being "deeply mixed" and "ambivalent." ("Former Army pilot recalls little-known WWII tragedy, the mates who didn't make it," March 5.)
As noted by historian A.J.P. Taylor, the Nazis' 1938 annexation of Austria was accomplished not by invading, but by "marching in to the general enthusiasm of the population." Just a month earlier, Hitler had been cheered by some 250,000 Austrians in Vienna, and after the annexation, a half million Austrians lined Vienna's imperial Ringstrasse to raucously welcome him. In a plebiscite held on April 10, 1938, Austrians voted 99.7 percent in favor of their country's union with Nazi Germany. Historians agree that the result genuinely reflected the willingness of Austrians to join the Nazi movement.
No less ambivalent was Austria's conduct after the annexation. Prior to being deported and murdered, Vienna's Jews were viciously and sadistically attacked by an Austrian population which supplied nearly 75 percent of the staff of Nazi concentration camps and which boasted a higher percentage of Nazi party members than did Germany.
To this day, Austria has failed to come to terms with its past and instead views itself as the "first victims" of the Nazis. It is unfortunate that The Sun's otherwise commendable article contributes to this whitewashing of history.
Jay Bernstein, Baltimore" Adolf Hitler himself was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on
April 20, 1889 , in the Upper Austria region , Hitler himself was born in Austria , People have said that Hitler's mistress Eva Braun deserves no sympathy , that Eva Braun was a vile Anti-Semitic evil woman , and also that the Lithuanians during World War II were extremely Satanic in their killings of innocent Jews, some have even said that the Austrians during World War II were even more sadistic than the Germans
Another Example of German Evil, I'm NOT saying all Germans are Evil, but an example of some Evil Germans in History are
From The Wikipedia Entry for "Operation Entebbe"
"Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt was a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976.[7]
A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France Airbus A300 with 248 passengers had been hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) under orders of Wadie Haddad (who had earlier broken away from the PFLP of George Habash),[8] and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells. The hijackers had the stated objective to free 40 Palestinian and affiliated militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages.[9] The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris, was diverted after a stopover in Athens via Benghazi to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda. The Ugandan government supported the hijackers, and dictator Idi Amin, who had been informed of the hijacking from the beginning,[10] personally welcomed them.[11] After moving all hostages from the aircraft to a disused airport building, the hijackers separated all Israelis and several non-Israeli Jews from the larger group and forced them into a separate room.[12][13][14] Over the following two days, 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and flown out to Paris.[13][14][15] Ninety-four, mainly Israeli, passengers along with the 12-member Air France crew, remained as hostages and were threatened with death.[16][17]
The IDF acted on information provided by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The hijackers threatened to kill the hostages if their prisoner release demands were not met. This threat led to the planning of the rescue operation.[18] These plans included preparation for armed resistance from Ugandan troops.[19]
The operation took place at night. Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos over 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) to Uganda for the rescue operation. The operation, which took a week of planning, lasted 90 minutes. Of the 106 remaining hostages, 102 were rescued and three were killed. The other hostage was in a hospital and was later killed. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and one, unit commander Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed. Netanyahu was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, who would later become Prime Minister of Israel.[20] All the hijackers and forty-five Ugandan soldiers were killed, and eleven[5][6] Soviet-built MiG-17s and MiG-21s of Uganda's air force were destroyed.[4] Kenyan sources supported Israel, and in the aftermath of the operation, Idi Amin issued orders to retaliate and slaughter several hundred Kenyans then present in Uganda.[21] There were 245 Kenyans in Uganda killed and 3,000 fled.[22]
Operation Entebbe, which had the military codename Operation Thunderbolt, is sometimes referred to retroactively as Operation Jonathan in memory of the unit's leader, Yonatan Netanyahu." German Terrorists were Involved in this Airplane Hijacking
The Wikipedia entry continues
"On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300B4-203, registration F-BVGG (c/n 019), departed from Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying 246 mainly Jewish and Israeli passengers and a crew of 12.[23][24] The plane flew to Athens, Greece, where it picked up an additional 58 passengers, including four hijackers.[25][nb 1] It departed for Paris at 12:30 pm. Just after takeoff, the flight was hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO), and by two Germans, Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann, from the German Revolutionary Cells. The hijackers diverted the flight to Benghazi, Libya.[26] There it was held on the ground for seven hours for refuelling. During that time the hijackers released British-born Israeli citizen Patricia Martell, who pretended to have a miscarriage.[18][27] The plane left Benghazi and at 3:15 pm on the 28th, more than 24 hours after the flight's original departure, it arrived at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.[26]
Hostage situation at Entebbe airport
At Entebbe, the four hijackers were joined by at least four others, supported by the forces of Uganda's President, Idi Amin.[28] The hijackers transferred the passengers to the transit hall of the disused former airport terminal where they kept them under guard for the following days. Amin came to visit the hostages almost on a daily basis, updating them on developments and promising to use his efforts to have them freed through negotiations.[23]
On 28 June, a PFLP-EO hijacker issued a declaration and formulated their demands: In addition to a ransom of US$5 million for the release of the airplane, they demanded the release of 53 Palestinian and Pro-Palestinian militants, 40 of whom were prisoners in Israel.[29] They threatened that if these demands were not met, they would begin to kill hostages on 1 July 1976.[30]" see the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
It's also important to Note that Albert Speer, the Chief Nazi Architect was intimately involved in the Nazi "Final Solution" Albert Speer never repented for his Crimes against Humanity, Karl Donitz, who became leader of Germany after Hitler's Suicide was a Heartless Anti-Semite Also, Donitz was another Heartless Nazi, Karl Donitz died in 1980, People have said that Albert Speer should have been hanged , During the Holocaust the Ukrainians were also extremely bloodthirsty in their murder of Jews, I have read that the Ukrainians in their Killings of Jews were so Savage and Relentless that the Nazis actually had to halt the Ukrainian massacres of Jews so that the extermination could proceed in a more
"orderly fashion"
Albert Speer was sucked back into Hell in 1981
From the website www.newsweek.com an article is titled
"HITLER DID NOT ESCAPE TO THE MOON OR ARGENTINA, HE'S STILL DEAD, STUDY CONCLUDES"
BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 5/21/18 AT 6:54 AM EDT
Head shots of Adolf Hitler in numerous guises. The U.S. Office of Strategic Services distributed the images because it feared that the dictator would be able to flee from Germany in disguise.
The article says
"According to the official histories, Adolf Hitler took his own life in a bunker deep below Berlin as his precious empire crumbled above him. Hitler's body, or what was left of it, was never presented by the Allies. As such, many conspiracy theorists believe the dictator was able to slip through the tightening Soviet noose and disappear.
Some think the FĂĽhrer escaped by U-boat to Argentina, while other creative thinkers suggest he found his way to a Nazi base in Antarctica, or even on the dark side of the Moon.
A new study, however, has dashed all the conspiracy theories, whether mundane or bizarre. After studying teeth recovered from a shell hole outside the FĂĽhrerbunker, scientists have concluded that one of history's most reviled figures did in fact meet his end amid the ruins of the Third Reich, AFP reports."
The article continues
""We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine; he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the Moon," Professor Philippe Charlier told the agency.
Russian authorities granted Charlier and colleagues access to fragments of Hitler's teeth, which are stored in Moscow. "The teeth are authentic, there is no possible doubt. Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945," he said.
Hitler bit a cyanide ampule and shot himself simultaneously on April 30, 1945. His wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide alongside him. Nazi soldiers then took the bodies out of the bunker where Hitler had been hiding and burned them in a shallow shell hole, to prevent the Russians from parading Hitler's body after their victory.
With the Soviet bombardment pulverizing Berlin around them, the soldiers did not stay to make sure their job was complete. When Soviet SMERSH military intelligence troops arrived at the bunker, they discovered the charred remains of Hitler, Braun and the FĂĽhrer's two dogs.
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The discovery was kept secret and the remains hidden for many years by the Soviet authorities. Some fragments were sent to Moscow, with the rest traveling with SMRESH to a new base in Magdeburg, Germany. There, they were buried in an unmarked grave along with the remains of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and his wife and six children.
When the Magdeburg facility was handed over to East German authorities in 1970, the Soviets feared the location of the remains could be discovered, turning the base into a neo-Nazi shrine. As such, they were exhumed by Soviet authorities, crushed and thrown into the Biederitz river in eastern Germany.
In March 2017 and July 2017, the Russian state archives and FSB security service allowed analysis of what was left for the first time since 1946. Charlier told Newsweek that although the negotiations to secure complete access to the remains were lengthy, "Russian authorities were really open-minded, especially for the FSB."
The article lastly says
"The team was also allowed to view a skull fragment bearing a hole on its left side, possibly caused by a bullet. The team was not allowed to take samples from this specimen, but Charlier said it was "totally comparable" to radiographies of Hitler's skull taken in 1944. It may be possible to take a sample of the fragment during a future visit to Moscow, Charlier hopes, "where the scientific reports are always excellent and objective."
Charlier and colleagues found no gunpowder residue on the tooth fragments, suggesting the fatal shot was not fired through the mouth. They also found no traces of meat in the teeth of the dictator, who was famously vegetarian.
"We didn't know if he had used an ampule of cyanide to kill himself or whether it was a bullet in the head," Chalier said. "It's in all probability both." Blue deposits found on Hitler's false teeth could be evidence of a chemical reaction between the cyanide and the denture metal.
There were immediately false narratives surrounding Hitler's death. The day after his suicide, Nazi Grand-Admiral Karl Dönitz, who became the Reich's second and final chancellor, said in a radio address that Hitler had died fighting "at the head of his troops."
Soviet soldiers flying a red flag over the ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945. This photo was taken on May 2, 1945, by which time Hitler was already dead.
Indeed, the Soviets themselves helped spread the myth of Hitler's survival, accusing their new Western enemies of harboring the war criminal. That encouraged a variety of theories which grew more fantastical as time went on. The classic story is that Hitler was whisked away to Argentina, along with millions in stolen gold and artwork, aboard the last of the Nazi U-boats. According to this story, Hitler died in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay or Brazil.
Some even think he made it as far as Antarctica, where he hid at a secret Nazi base before continuing to South America. In that fantasy, the Allies ended up destroying the base with nuclear weapons in the 1950s.
Of course, everyone's favorite story is that Hitler lived out his days at a Nazi base on the dark side of the Moon, beating Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar landscape by 24 years.
Thankfully, this new research brings all those dreamers back down to earth, assuring the world that Hitler killed himself underground as the Allies approached"
Correction: The www.newsweek.com article had more to say
"This is not the first historically-significant project in which Charlier has been involved. In 2013, he was part of the team that analyzed the mummified heart of Richard the Lionheart, the medieval English king. But even with such high-profile figures, "I always keep a complete detachment, a scientific coldness, vis-Ă -vis my historical side," Charlier explained. "Hitler did not break the rule."
"I do not let myself be impressed by the historical importance of the remains that I can have in my hands, especially since nothing indicates to me—at the moment when I examine them—whether they are authentic or not," he added. "Being impressed would be a loophole, and diminish my objectivity. We are there, as a team, to tell if history says true, using the means of science."
Another article from www.newsweek.com is titled
"HITLER WAS INCOMPETENT AND LAZY—AND HIS NAZI GOVERNMENT WAS AN ABSOLUTE CLOWN SHOW"|
ON 4/30/19 AT 5:22 AM EDT by Tom Phillips
The article says
"The below is an excerpt from HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up by Tom Phillips.
Look, I know what you're thinking. Putting Hitler in a book about the terrible mistakes we've made as a species isn't exactly the boldest move ever. "Oh wow, never heard of him, what a fascinating historical nugget" is something you're probably not saying right now.
But beyond him being (obviously) a genocidal maniac, there's an aspect to Hitler's rule that kind of gets missed in our standard view of him. Even if popular culture has long enjoyed turning him into an object of mockery, we still tend to believe that the Nazi machine was ruthlessly efficient, and that the great dictator spent most of his time…well, dictating things.
So it's worth remembering that Hitler was actually an incompetent, lazy egomaniac and his government was an absolute clown show.
In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. Even after elections had made the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people.
Why did the elites of Germany so consistently underestimate Hitler? Possibly because they weren't actually wrong in their assessment of his competency—they just failed to realise that this wasn't enough to stand in the way of his ambition. As it would turn out, Hitler was really bad at running a government. As his own press chief Otto Dietrich later wrote in his memoir The Hitler I Knew, "In the twelve years of his rule in Germany Hitler produced the biggest confusion in government that has ever existed in a civilized state."
His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen WeiĂźem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.
There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country."
The article also states
"Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things."
The article lastly says
"We tend to assume that when something awful happens there must have been some great controlling intelligence behind it. It's understandable: how could things have gone so wrong, we think, if there wasn't an evil genius pulling the strings? The downside of this is that we tend to assume that if we can't immediately spot an evil genius, then we can all chill out a bit because everything will be fine.
But history suggests that's a mistake, and it's one that we make over and over again. Many of the worst man-made events that ever occurred were not the product of evil geniuses. Instead they were the product of a parade of idiots and lunatics, incoherently flailing their way through events, helped along the way by overconfident people who thought they could control them.
Adapted from HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up by Tom Phillips © by Tom Phillips 2019, used with permission from Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins."
Another article about German Evil from www.newsweek.com
an article is titled
"The Secret History of Israel's War Against Hitler's Scientists"
BY RONEN BERGMAN ON 04/12/18 AT 11:21 AM EDT
Years after the Holocaust, the Mossad learned that Egypt was working with German scientists on weapons of mass destruction.
the article says
"Years after the Holocaust, the Mossad learned that Egypt was working with German scientists on weapons of mass destruction.
Since World War II, Israel has used assassinations and targeted killings on more people than any other country in the Western world. In many cases, its leaders have determined that in killing a designated target—and protecting its national security—it is moral and legal to endanger the lives of innocent civilians. Harming such people, they believe, is a necessary evil. Israel's reliance on assassination as a military tool did not happen by chance. It stems from the roots of the Zionist movement, from the trauma of the Holocaust and from the sense among Israelis that the country is perpetually in danger of annihilation. And that no one would come to its aid.Because Israel is such a small country, because the Arab states have long talked of and attempted to destroy it, and because of the perpetual menace of terrorism, the nation has developed a highly effective military and, arguably, the best intelligence community in the world. It has also developed the most robust, streamlined assassination machine in history.The following reveals some of the early successes and failures of that machine."
the article continues
"On the morning of July 21, 1962, Israelis woke up to their worst nightmare: Egypt's newspapers reported the successful test launch of four surface-to-surface missiles. Two days later, the Egyptian military paraded the missiles through Cairo. Some 300 foreign diplomats watched the spectacle, as did President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He proudly declared that the military was now capable of hitting any point "south of Beirut." The implication was clear: Israel was in Nasser's crosshairs.The next day, a broadcast delivered in Hebrew from Egypt-based radio station "The Voice of Thunder From Cairo" was more explicit. "These missiles are intended to open the gates of freedom for the Arabs," the anchorman boasted, "to retake the homeland that was stolen as part of imperialist and Zionist plots."A few weeks later, Israelis learned that a team of German scientists had played an integral role in developing these missiles. World War II had ended 17 years earlier, and suddenly the traumas of the Holocaust, suffused as they were with images of German scientists in Wehrmacht uniforms, gave way to a new and different existential threat: weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Israel's new great enemy, Nasser, whom Israelis regarded as the Adolf Hitler of the Middle East. "Former German Nazis are now helping Nasser in his anti-Israeli genocide projects" was how the Jewish press described the news. And the Mossad, to say nothing of its political and military leaders, had been caught unaware, learning of Egypt's missile project mere days before the test launch. It was a devastating reminder of the little country's vulnerability.
The German scientists developing the Egyptian missiles weren't obscure technicians. They were some of the Nazi regime's most senior engineers, men who'd worked during the war at the research base at PeenemĂĽnde, a peninsula on the Baltic coast where the Third Reich's most advanced weaponry was developed."I felt helpless," said Asher Ben-Natan, the director general of the Defense Ministry, "as if the sky were falling on our heads. [David] Ben-Gurion [Israel's first prime minister] spoke again and again of the nightmare that kept him awake at night—that he had brought the surviving Jews of Europe to the state of Israel, only for them here, in their own country, to undergo a second Holocaust."
A Secret History of Israeli Assassinations
The Mossad, which was created shortly after the formation of Israel in 1948 to monitor and protect the country against external threats, conducted a top-secret inquiry into the affair in 1982. It described Egypt's 1962 announcement of the missile project as "one of the most important and traumatic events in the history of the Israeli intelligence community."Mossad chief Isser Harel placed the entire agency on high alert. An atmosphere of crisis swept through every corridor of the intelligence service. The agency's operatives immediately began breaking into Egyptian diplomatic embassies and consulates in several European capitals to photograph documents. They were also able to recruit a Swiss employee at the Zurich office of EgyptAir—a company that occasionally served as cover for Nasser's intelligence agencies. The Swiss employee allowed Mossad operatives to take the mailbags at night, twice a week, to a safe house. The operatives opened their contents and photocopied them, then experts resealed them, leaving no sign they'd been tampered with, before returning the mailbags to the airline office. Soon, the Mossad had a preliminary understanding of what Cairo was planning."
and continues
"The Egyptian project had been initiated by two internationally known scientists, Eugen Sänger and Wolfgang Pilz. During the war, they had played key roles at Peenemünde Army Research Center. In 1954, they joined the Research Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics, in Stuttgart. Sänger headed this prestigious body. Pilz and two other veteran Wehrmacht specialists, Paul Goercke and Heinz Krug, were heads of departments. But this group, feeling underemployed and underutilized in postwar West Germany, approached the Egyptian regime in 1959 and offered to recruit and lead a group of scientists to develop long-range surface-to-surface rockets. Nasser readily agreed and appointed one of his closest military advisers, General 'Isam al-Din Mahmoud Khalil, former director of air force intelligence and the chief of the Egyptian army's research and development, to coordinate the program. Khalil set up a compartmentalized system, separate from the rest of the Egyptian army, for the German scientists, who first arrived in Egypt for a visit in April 1960.In late 1961, Sänger, Pilz and Goercke relocated to Egypt and recruited about 35 highly experienced German scientists and technicians to join them. The facilities in Egypt contained test fields, laboratories and luxurious living quarters for the expats, who were well paid. Krug, however, remained in Germany, where he set up a company called Intra Commercial, which was the group's European front.Almost as soon as the Mossad gained a basic grasp of the situation, however, more bad news arrived. On August 16, 1962, a grave-faced Harel came to see Ben-Gurion, bringing with him a document from the Egyptian intelligence mailbags that had been photocopied two days before in Zurich.The Israelis were in shock. The document was an order written in 1962 by Pilz, to the project managers in Egypt, and it included a list of the materials that needed to be acquired in Europe for the manufacture of 900 missiles. The document also raised fears among Israeli experts that the Egyptians' true aim was to arm the missiles with radioactive and chemical warheads.Ben-Gurion convened urgent meetings with his top defense officials. Harel had a plan. Sort of. The intelligence collected so far revealed a weakness in the missile project: The guidance systems were lagging so far behind, they were borderline nonfunctional, which meant the missiles could not go into mass production. As long as this was the case, Egypt would need the German scientists. Without them, the project would collapse. Harel's plan, then, was to kidnap or to eliminate the Germans."
The website www.wnd.com has an article titled
"Al Jazeera's Holocaust-denial video no 'mistake'"
Celebrated terrorist, joined KKK member in blaming 9/11 on Jews
Published: 05/24/2019 at 8:21 PM
The article states
"Two recent incidents illustrate how Islamic supremacist organizations portray one image to the Arabic-speaking world and another to the West.
In each case, the organization posted a video in Arabic filled with expressions of hatred toward Jews that drew no outrage until it was translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
And in each case, the Islamic organization insisted the posting of the video was a “mistake” that certainly was not in keeping with its beliefs and views, vowing to punish the low-level employees responsible.
This week, the Al Jazeera TV network apologized for posting on its AJ+ Arabic site a seven-minute video with the caption “The gas chambers killed millions of Jews … So the story says. How true is the #Holocaust and how did the Zionists benefit from it?”
Al Jazeera, which pressed Twitter to block the English translation of its video, blamed two rogue journalists. But the Daily Caller recounted both the news network’s and the AJ+ subsidiary’s long history of anti-Semitism, including holding a party for a terrorist and joining with a KKK member to blame 9/11 on the Jews.
In the previous incident, this month, MEMRI translated from Arabic to English a video posted on Facebook showing Muslim children at a Philadelphia Islamic school lip-syncing a song and reading poems that called for beheading and torturing Jews.
The Muslim American Society insisted the event and the posting of the video was “an unintended mistake and an oversight in which the center and the students are remorseful.” MAS promised an “internal investigation” and “sensitivity training.”
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/al-jazeeras-holocaust-denial-video-no-mistake/#pJzOkQKDA4B3SSLz.99
The article continues
"But MAS lied when it claimed it was not affiliated with the school, as records show. And the organization was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.
See the Muslim American Society video:
Al Jazeera: Hitler carried out Allah’s punishment
The Daily Caller presented evidence that Al Jazeera “pushes Islamic rhetoric in Arabic but has wrapped itself in progressive liberalism in English, is controlled by the royal family of Qatar.”
One of Al Jazeera’s most popular weekly programs, for example, was called “Sharia and Life,” hosted by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi.
In January 2009, he said the Holocaust was “divine punishment.”
“Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption,” he said. “The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them."
The article continues
"Allah willing,” Qaradhawi continued, “the next time will be at the hand of the believers. … I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus, I will seal my life with martyrdom. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. Allah’s mercy and blessings upon you.”
In 2008, the network held an on-air party for Palestinian Liberation Front terrorist Samir Kuntar after he was released from prison for murdering a 4-year-old Jewish girl.
Al Jazeera’s Beirut bureau chief called him a “Pan-Arab hero.”
In 2002, the Daily Caller reported, Al Jazeera interviewed former Klu Klux Klan official David Duke. Both Duke and the Al Jazeera journalist blamed 9/11 on the Israelis, as the Middle East Forum noted.
In 2017, Al Jazeera English did an undercover investigation of Jewish advocacy organizations and produced a documentary series called “The Lobby.”
Middle East Forum found that while Al Jazeera, under pressure, did not air the program in the United States, the tapes mysteriously wound up in the hands of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.
Al Jazeera also promoted conspiracies claiming President George W. Bush and Jews were engaged in a “Crusader Zionist campaign” to turn Europe against Muslims."
The sad ugly truth is Many German Nazis after World War II were unrepentant to the bitter end, not only did they not repent, some have even stated they wish they had killed more Jews during the Holocaust, that's how Diabolical & Satanic the German Nazis were, but didn't those German Nazis realize that back then many Jews themselves didn't like being Jewish either, that many Jews back then hated being Jewish and were Self-hating Jews , don't the Anti-Semites & Jew Haters realize that Many Jews don't like being Jewish either, and would joyfully stop being Jewish if it were possible
From the website www.jpost.com an article titled
"Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Report
"David Frankfurter – the story of the other Herschel Grynszpan"
Grynszpan allegedly perpetrated the crime in revenge for the deportation of his parents and siblings from Germany to Poland.
By ROBERT HERSOWITZ November 22, 2018 21:28
The article states
"THIS YEAR marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, sometimes referred to as “The Night of Broken Glass” when throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland areas of Czechoslovakia, on November 9 and 10, 1938, Jewish communities were subjected to the most horrific pogroms. The incident that sparked the pogroms was the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary at the German Embassy in Paris by Herschel Grynszpan a Jewish refugee of Polish descent who was born in Hanover Germany. Hitler exploited the shooting to incite hatred among the Germans to “rise in bloody vengeance against the Jews.”
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What do we think does the "Star Trek" Franchise have a Jewish problem ?
the website scifi.stackexchange.com has an article titled
"Why are there no Jews in the Star Trek universe?"
The article states
"Star Trek is famous for its multiculturalism: Chekov is Russian, Sulu is Japanese, Uhura is Swahili, being Afro-American is an important factor in Sisko's identity, Chakotay is Native American, Scotty is Scottish, O'Brien is Irish, Picard is French. Yet one ethnic group is notably missing from all iterations of the series: the Jews.
This is made even stranger by the fact that so many Star Trek actors were Jews. (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, Brent Spiner, Armin Shimerman, to name a few.)
Is there any explanation for why there are no Jews in Star Trek, not even as minor characters? No family names like Rosenberg or Cohen among the crew, nothing. Where have all the Jews disappeared to?
To clarify, I'm curious about both an in-universe and a real-life answer, if there is one.
star-trek"
the article continues
"In part, active omission
Other answers have addressed the fact that atheism was a central feature of Star Trek, except when network meddling imposed religion (for instance, Kirk saying that "we find the one [God] sufficient"). But it seems to go beyond that.
Most of the information is covered here (credit to Valorum for the link).
Rodenberry seems to have had some degree of anti-Semitic sentiment. Here Sheldon Teitelbaum recounts an encounter with him.
The congenial Roddenberry concluded what I later realized was a slow burn. “You Jews,” he snarled, “have a lamentable habit of identifying those characteristics in a society that you deem positive and then taking credit for inventing them.”
He also quotes Leonard Nimoy on Roddenberry's attitudes:
“Gene was anti-Semitic, clearly,” Nimoy replied as my heart sank. “Roddenberry had Jewish associates; Bill (Shatner) and I were both Jewish, as were others. To be fair, Roddenberry was anti-religion. And apart from being a ethnic-cultural entity, Jews, to him, were a religious group. But I saw examples not only of him practicing anti-Semitism, but of him being callous about other peoples' differences as well.”
In light of these opinions it seems easy to see that he wouldn't want to portray Jews positively; in light of his desire to avoid portraying religion in general, the easiest solution would be not to portray them at all:
What, for instance, are we to make of Roddenberry's decision to
rewrite screenwriter Shimon Wincelberg's reference to Hillel's “Torah on one leg” parable in the classic first-season-episode, “Dagger of
the Mind,”, attributing it to “the ancient skeptic.”
This "policy" continued past Roddenberry's era, when at least some other producers took a similar stance: not necessarily because of personal anti-Semitism, but because of the perceptions of the audience:
“It was a subject of extraordinary discussion,” the late executive producer Michael Piller recounted. “The orders were handed down not to make Worf's adopted parents Jewish. I don't want to sound anti-Semitic; that's not what it meant. I am a Jew and so is Rick (Producer Rick Berman). We were simply afraid of making the Worf character laughable.”
In acknowledging that a Russian Jewish character would be perceived as "laughable," the producers essentially were bowing to the prejudices of the time: why would a Jewish character be laughable, but not a Christian one?
In light of these facts, it seems likely that both Roddenberry's personal attitudes (initially) and the attempts of producers to play to audiences (later) played a role in the relative1 lack of Jews in Star Trek.
1: As noted elsewhere, the number of Jews in Star Trek is not necessarily underrepresentative of the world population. Rather, the prejudices of Roddenberry and others caused them to be underrepresented relative to their proportion among the actors and their proportion of the US population, roughly 2%—two more common referents for Hollywood producers."
the article continues
"Since Jews have been subject to horrible discrimination and persecution, any portrayal of their perceived ethnic characteristics would need to be done particularly carefully and respectfully. As with any ethnic portrayal, there would be risk in taking it too far into caricature (as in Chekov's exaggerated Russian-ness), leaving the ethnic characterisics in the realm of stereotype (Scotty), or not developing the traits sufficiently (for which Picard, with not much French except his name, is sometimes criticized). The writers and showrunners might not have wanted to take this risk in the case of Jews, since the issue of Jewish ethnicity is more charged than others."
A person typed as a comment
"I'm downvoting, unfortunately. Not only is this not backed up by quotes or anything, but I am not sure it's likely. Jews have faced "horrible discrimination and persecution," but so have many other groups represented early on in Star Trek: Africans, Asian-Americans, and so forth. As far as being charged, in the United States issues surrounding African-Americans are certainly more charged than those surrounding Jews. While it's not impossible that writers could use this reasoning, it would have to be supported. –"
From the website www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Bahrain FM to Times of Israel: Israel is here to stay, and we want peace with it"
Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa says Manama conference could be ‘gamechanger’ like Israel-Egypt Camp David Accords; urges Israeli leaders to ‘talk to us’ about Arab Peace Initiative
By Raphael Ahren
26 June 2019, 4:53 pm 10
the article states
"Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa speaks with the Times of Israel on the sidelines of the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, on June 26, 2019. (Courtesy)
MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain sees the US-led economic workshop taking place in Manama this week as a possible “gamechanger” tantamount in its scope to the 1978 Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, the Gulf state’s foreign minister said Wednesday, also firmly backing Israel’s right to exist.
“We see it as very, very important,” Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told The Times of Israel on the sidelines of the “Peace to Prosperity” workshop."
The article continues
"Khalifa also stressed that his country recognizes Israel’s right to exist, knows that it is “there to stay,” and wants peace with it.
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He said the US-organized conference here, which is focused on the economic aspects of the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, could be like Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977, which helped pave the way to the Camp David Accords and the normalizing of relations between Egypt and Israel.
“As much as Camp David 1 was a major gamechanger, after the visit of President Sadat — if this succeeds, and we build on it, and it attracts attention and momentum, this would be the second gamechanger,” Khalifa said.
In an interview in his suite at Manama’s posh Four Seasons hotel, Khalifa did not commit to normalizing diplomatic ties with Israel in the near future, but unequivocally affirmed Israel’s right to exist as a state with secure borders."
the article continues
"“Israel is a country in the region… and it’s there to stay, of course,” he said.
“Who did we offer peace to [with] the [Arab] Peace Initiative? We offered it to a state named the State of Israel, in the region. We did not offer it to some faraway island or some faraway country,” Khalifa continued, referring to a Saudi-backed peace framework.
“We offered it to Israel. So we do believe that Israel is a country to stay, and we want better relations with it, and we want peace with it.”
While Bahrain might be only Arab state, besides Egypt and Jordan, to publicly acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, “we know our brothers in the region do believe in it” as well, he said.
Khalifa pointed to the Arab Peace Initiative as the blueprint for normalizing ties with Israel. Israel’s rejection of the plan is a “missed opportunity,” he lamented, but Jerusalem can always rethink its position."
The article continues
"He encouraged Israelis to approach Arab leaders about any issues they may have with the proposal.
“Come and talk to us. Talk to us about it. Say, guys, you have a good initiative, but we have one thing that worries us,” he said.
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, said this week that the White House’s proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace will not follow the contours of the Arab Peace Initiative, but be closer to Israel’s position.
Turning to Trump’s peace plan, Khalifa said he has not yet seen the political part of the US administration’s two-pronged proposal, but sounded cautiously optimistic about it.
“We have to wait. I cannot talk about something that I don’t know. But we hope that this political plan will also be attractive to everybody,” he said. “Look at the workshop. It’s very attractive. You don’t want to give an attractive offer and then come and bring something that could stall it. We want to see it continue on the same momentum. So we’ll see it.”
Asked about which elements of a possible deal Bahrain could get behind, he replied: “Whatever you can agree on with the Palestinians.”
Speaking Wednesday at the conference, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he would like the White House’s economic plan to be adopted by the international community.
“This is a regional economic plan. Although Gaza and the West Bank are a major focus of this plan, it also includes Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon… it is very important that we focus on these economies as a whole,” he said."
The article lastly says
"Most importantly, we want an international consensus… We want this to become not a United States plan, we want this to become an international plan. Now that the plan is out there, we’re looking for changes, we’re looking for additions, we’re looking for buy-in, and really as a next step that this becomes a collective” plan, said Mnuchin.
Mnuchin said: “This is a plan that can very much be accomplished.”
“I know there is a lot of money in this room,” he said to the smiling audience."
From the website www.capitalresearch.com an article is titled
"
"CAIR’s New “Islamophobia” Report: Padding the Numbers to Foment Panic "
by James Simpson
July 1, 2019
CAIR’s New “Islamophobia” Report (full series)
A Partnership with the SPLC | Redefining the Terms of Engagement | Padding the Numbers to Foment Panic
CAIR’s Left-leaning Coalition | The Larger Threat The article states
"Summary: The Council on American-Islamic Relations has a history fraught with questionable associations and dubious claims related to Islam and terrorism. In its latest report, CAIR targets numerous nonprofit groups and grantmakers for “funding hate.” But these so-called “Islamophobic” groups are not hate groups at all—unless you use the definition of “hate” promoted by the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center. This careful analysis of CAIR’s report will debunk many of the organization’s central arguments.
More Tactics of Misdirection
The CAIR Islamophobia report borrows from a method the SPLC and other leftists use all the time. They take a quote from a targeted opponent and present it without context. For example, of ACT for America, CAIR ominously states:
ACT for America stages nationwide marches against ‘sharia law.’
Why is that so unacceptable? CAIR and other Muslim organizations partner with communist groups like Black Lives Matter and join them in anti-American street protests all the time. Does anyone attempt to stop them? More to the point, is protest illegal? Like all public protests or marches, ACT for America’s demonstrations are similarly protected by the First Amendment. But CAIR would like to curb such demonstrations by those who oppose them."
Correction, the article about the lies of CAIR are on the website
www.capitalresearch.org
Some good books that can be ordered off Amazon.com
1. The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People,
by John Loftus & Mark Aarons, published in 1997
2. The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz , Published in 1986
3. The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis
by Gordon Thomas, published in 2012
4. Denying the Deniers: A Soldier's Intersection with the Holocaust
by John Regnier and Susan T. Hessel , published in 2014
5. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never happened and why do they say it ?
by Michael Shermer & Alex Grobman, Published in 2009
From the Internet
"Zionism is Beautiful!"
Sep 6, 2005 12:47 am By Robert Spencer
A cogent and much-needed op-ed by Rabbi Shaul Marshall Praver of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown, CT:
The Talmud says, “When good will exists amongst brethren, both can dwell together even on the razor thin edge of a sword, but when good will does not exist amongst them, even the full expanse of the earth lacks sufficient space to contain them.”
Israel”, “Jew” and “Zionism” are beautiful words. Yet repetitive racial slurs concerning these words make them sound ugly and pejorative.
Zionism means scorched desert wastelands transformed into magnificent gardens and green farm lands. Zionism means oppressed downtrodden Jews becoming uplifted and able to affirm their continuity from Biblical times. Zionism means Jews living proudly once again in their ancient homeland. Zionism means the collective creativity of Jews of every ethnicity coming together to build a free civilization.
Zionism means the opportunity to enact an ancient dream that will not die. Zionism means establishing a modern civilization that shares a messianic vision of making earth a little more like Heaven. Zionism means sharing Israeli’s blessings with the world.
Zionism is not Racism. Jews come in every race and ethnicity. Zionism is not an apartheid State: While Jews are the Majority in Israel, Arabs vote and are represented in the Israeli government. Zionism is not Colonialism: Jews won the war of Independence against the British colonists and lay claim to only Israel.
Furthermore, Israel is no more a racist state for creating a haven for Jews then Saudi Arabia is a racist state for creating a haven for Arabs. Whosoever points an accusing finger toward Israel in this regard will find four fingers pointing back at them, because Israel is a democratic state where freedom of religion is enjoyed by a multitude of ethnic groups. Charges of racism are empty and inflammatory.
Jews are willing to share their land with the Palestinians. But peace also depends upon the willingness of Palestinians to share their land with the Jews. Please ask yourself a basic question: If Israel laid down her weapons and retired her army, navy and air force, how long do you think it would take for Israel to be conquered by Muslims? Days? Weeks? Or Months?
Now, ask yourself the question in reverse. If all of Israel’s neighbors laid down their weapons in the same manner, is it likely Israel would attempt to conquer Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia? I believe honest answers to these questions clarify the essence of the conflict. Namely that only one party seeks the destruction of the other.
The Robert Spencer article "Zionism is Beautiful" continues
"Israel has suffered many horrible terrorist attacks in restaurants, hotels, city buses, trains, beaches, streets, universities, school buses, highways, banks, grocery stores, private homes, kibbutzim, parks, caves and fields. And if, God forbid, these same attacks occurred in the United States, our military would respond with decisive force and alacrity. Losing such a war on terrorism would be tantamount to losing one’s country and losing one’s very civilization; it is not an option.
For half a century, Palestinians have professed an interest in acquiring a state of their own. Several attempts to grant Palestinians their wish were made, starting with the 1948 U.N. Partition Plan and concluding with the offer made by former Israeli Prime Minister Barak in 2001 at Taba, 98% of the requested land – including east Jerusalem, as per Yassir Arafat’s request – was offered. But even that offer was answered with war. For many, it would seem that Barak called Arafat’s bluff; revealing the peace process to be a process of war.
Due to these harsh realities, the Sharon administration has pursued the building of a security fence and has just completed the disengagement of all the Jewish communities from Gaza. Yet a million
Arabs live in Israel and enjoy democratic rights and freedoms. Is
this fair? Why can’t Jews live under the Palestinian flag just as Arabs live under the Israeli flag? The Sharon administration say it’s a practical matter; Israel no longer wishes to deploy its Army to
defend a small number of Gaza Jews. But wait! Stop! Think! Is there a need for a Palestinian Army to protect Israeli Arabs? No! Israeli
Arabs need no protection; they are safe as citizens of Israel.
Israelis simply want peace and would much prefer spending their time, tending their gardens, doing art, finding a cure for cancer, composing and performing world class music, and inventing more incredible bio-pharmaceuticals and computer technology. Real time internet applications, cellular telephones, color printing are just a few examples of the technology developed in Israel. There is so much brainpower and creative energy emanating from Israel’s diverse ethnic population that benefits every person on the planet. Yet even at a time that Israel pursues territorial concessions for the sake of peace, many people lack the ability to say even a few kind words. I will say to them then, “Zionism is Beautiful!” Countless Christians & Jews in America & Worldwide Support Israel and always will !!"
Some more good news,
Omar Abdel-Rahman was finally sucked back into hell in February of 2017 , from Wikipedia it says about the late monster Omar Abdel-Rahman
"Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرŘمن, Umar 'Abdu r-Raḥman; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner in Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy.[1] His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as "The Islamic Group"), a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Egyptian governments. The group was responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed." Thank God he's gone
More books people can order from Also Available to order off Amazon.com are
"The Scriptures, The Church and Anti-Semitism: Christianity's Original Sin"
by Richard Dwyer, published in 2013
The Sin of Anti-Semitism: Statements by Christian Churches
by Joseph L. Lichten | Jan 1, 1965
Paperback
On YouTube anyone can watch for free, the Classic 1959 Black & White film
"The Diary of Anne Frank" type in on the YouTube search bar
"The Diary of Anne Frank(1959)" by Lex the Bookworm, on August 13, 2018
RIP Ross Perot, we miss you, he was a friend of Israel,
Henry Ross Perot was born June 27, 1930 & died on July 9, 2019 at the age of 89
from the website www.jewishpress.com an article is titled
"Ross Perot, American 2-Time Presidential Hopeful, Dead at 89"
By Hana Levi Julian - 7 Tammuz 5779 – July 9, 2019
the article says
"America’s eccentric two-time, third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot has died. Perot passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 89 after a five-month battle with leukemia, family spokesperson James Fuller said in a statement.
Perot was a self-made Texas billionaire, having founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962 and then sold control of the company to General Motors for $2.5 billion in 1984. He later founded Perot Systems as well.
A quirky politician who was known for his straight-shooting style, Perot was a strong defender of Israel, calling the Jewish State a role model for democracy in one of his last public speeches on May 13, 1992.
“Israel is our friend,” he told an American Jewish Committee (AJC) Awards Dinner in Manhattan.
“Israel has been our friend during the recent war, and you stand by your friends. It’s just that simple.
“Israel is a beacon in its part of the world in terms of its democratic government,” Perot underscored. “It is a role model to the others there,” he added, calling on the U.S. to economically strengthen the Jewish State.
Later that year, Perot pulled nearly 19 percent of the vote in America’s presidential race — the highest percentage of votes taken by a third-party independent candidate in 80 years."
From the website www.jns.org an article is titled
"Remembering Ross Perot’s relationship with Israel and the American Jewish community"
The two-time U.S. presidential candidate was a friend and a donor to various social causes.
By Jackson Richman
Ross Perot, a 1992 independent presidential candidate, delivers his concession speech on election night.
(July 10, 2019 / JNS) Two-time U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot died in Dallas on Tuesday at the age of 89 after a battle with leukemia.
Beside for becoming a self-made Texas billionaire, he was known for calling for balancing the budget, opposing the outsourcing of U.S. jobs and advocating for reducing the national debt, in addition to supporting abortion rights and gun control.
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But Perot, who in 1992 won 18.9 percent of the popular vote, or 19,741,065 votes–the largest percentage for a third-party candidate in modern presidential elections, even though he did not receive an electoral vote—was not so widely known for his stance on the U.S.-Israel relationship.
“Support for Israel was not a big issue in 1992, when Ross Perot had his big moment. [It] was just a given, as it should be,” historian Gil Troy told JNS.
Regardless, the Zionist Organization of America mourned his passing. “Perot expressed strong support for Israel,” ZOA national president Mort Klein told JNS.
Klein noted that during the 1991 Gulf War, which the Electronic Data Systems (EDS) founder opposed, “Perot insisted that ‘Israel has been our friend during the recent war, and you stand by your friends. It’s just that simple.’ ” They were remarks that Perot, who sold EDS to General Motors for $2.5 billion several years prior, made at an American Jewish Committee dinner in New York, his first comments to a Jewish crowd after declaring his candidacy.
Perot added, “Israel is a beacon in its part of the world in terms of its democratic government. It is a role model to the others there,” urging the United States to strengthen Israel economically."
The jns.org article continues
"“History may have turned out better if Ross Perot had won the 1992 presidential election,” said Klein. “We might have avoided having Bill Clinton pressure Israel to agree to the disastrous 1993-94 Oslo Accords, which brought the [Palestine Liberation Organization] and PLO arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat into Judea and Samaria, and resulted in Palestinian-Arabs murdering and maiming 10,000 innocent Jews throughout the next years and decades.”
On June 15, 1992, New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb wrote about the then-U.S. President George H.W. Bush losing credibility in the Jewish state:
“Israel may be the only country in the world where leaders of all parties would like to see George Bush retired. Neither Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir nor the Labor Party leader, Yitzhak Rabin, nor other politicians I talked to this week will say that outright. But their feelings are unmistakable: They think that at best Mr. Bush does not place high value on Israel, and that at worst he would nail the old tail to the wall if re-elected.
“Ross Perot scares them too because they have no idea what or how he thinks, particularly about the Middle East. Word is just beginning to filter back here about Mr. Perot’s staff rebuffing contacts by American Jewish leaders. Israelis know little about Marilyn Berger, the former reporter who is now the Perot Mideast adviser. But they are uneasy about Don Hewitt, her husband, whose CBS news program, ‘60 Minutes,’ has done some hard-hitting features on Israel.
“Bill Clinton, with good ties to the Jewish community and with his positive rhetoric about Israel, is the beneficiary of all these considerations. But mainly, Israeli pols have been quite careful in talking about America.”
‘He admires the Jewish people’
Perot was also a financial donor to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek Medical Center and was fond of then-Israeli Housing Minister Ariel Sharon.
“I know that he admires Sharon,” Morris Talansky, executive vice chairman of the American Committee for Shaare Zedek, told Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in 1992, mentioning that Perot had visited Israel.
“He admires the Jewish people, and he certainly admires Israel and is a very warm friend of the hospital,” said Talansky.
Perot was close friends with Morton Myerson, who worked with him at EDS and later at the information-technology services firm Perot Systems.
During the 1992 campaign, however, it was publicized that two Orthodox Jews—Reggie Dallaire and Nancee Haft—were fired from EDS during the early 1980s and 1985, respectively, with the former being relieved for wearing a beard and the latter for being absent from work during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Perot and Meyerson said they didn’t know about the Dallaire case, and Meyerson told JTA that he himself did not know about Haft’s case, which happened the year after EDS was sold to GM.
“We had a policy of not discriminating against anyone based on religion, race, color or sexual orientation,” Meyerson told the outlet. “Since I am Jewish, I vigorously enforced that policy.”
In a 1992 interview with ABC News, Perot said, “In terms of your inference of discrimination, please don’t lose sight of the fact that the great builder of EDS happened to be a Jew, Mort Meyerson.”
Perot gave the biggest single donation to a new cultural hall in Dallas, contingent upon it being named for Myerson. The Meyerson Symphony Center opened in September 1989.
The jns.org article lastly says
"Two years earlier, Perot was honored with the Raoul Wallenberg Award “for his personal courage in the dramatic rescue of his [two] American employees being held captive in Iran” during the Iranian hostage crisis from November 1979 to January 1981, according to the website of the Raoul Wallenberg Award Committee of the United States. The award is known for the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
“The things he did were just incredible,” said Perot of Wallenberg upon accepting the award. “He had to go up against [Adolf] Eichmann … he had nothing but gall, bluff, brains, wits, creative ability.”
In 1996, Perot ran under the Reform Party banner, winning 8 percent of the popular vote—more than 10 points lower than four years before. Clinton won re-election.
Perot is survived by his wife, Margot; their five children; a sister; and 19 grandchildren." RIP Ross Perot, we miss you
From the website www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org from the "Myths and Facts" Section
"MYTH Israel denies Palestinians basic rights and freedoms.- FACT Palestinians are deprived of the freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza that Americans and Israelis take for granted, namely, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, gay rights, and women’s rights. Israel has nothing to do with the denial of these rights; however; they are all blocked by the Palestinian Authority. Non- Muslims regularly face discrimination, and Christians have been driven out of Gaza by Hamas. Journalists are not allowed to report freely, and critics of the leadership are harassed, jailed, or prevented from reporting. In a December 2010 poll, only 27 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and 19 percent in Gaza said they could criticize officials without fear.93 Gay Palestinians are not tolerated, and many have fled to Israel for sanctuary. Women are routinely discriminated against, and honor killings are still practiced. A UN organization reported in 2014 that violence against women was on the rise and that fourteen women were killed in just the first five months alone. In 2013, the total was twenty- eight. A 2012 survey by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics found that 37 percent of Palestinian women were victims of
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some form of violence by their husbands; the figure in Gaza was 58 percent.94 While human rights groups obsessively focus on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, they routinely ignore abuses by Palestinians against their own people. While Israel may be blamed for hardships faced by Palestinians, the denial of these basic civil and human rights in the territories has been the sole responsibility of the Palestinian leadership."
Also from the "Myths and Facts" section of www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org by
Mitchell G. Bard, Chapter 12 Human Rights, it says
"MYTH Human rights activists care deeply about the Palestinian people.-
FACT In the media, reports from human rights organizations, and on college campuses there is a steady drumbeat of criticism of Israel for both real and imagined abuses of Palestinians in the disputed territories. While Israel may be legitimately criticized when abuses are documented, what is shocking is the utter hypocrisy of the critics who proclaim concern for Palestinian welfare, but express it only if Israel can be blamed. This raises the question as to whether the concern for Palestinians is genuine or simply a propaganda tool by which to tarnish Israel’s image. It is a legitimate question given the near total silence regarding the treatment and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians living in the Arab world. Palestinians have lived as second- or third- class citizens in Arab countries for decades, but since the Arab Spring, thousands have been tortured, murdered, and expelled by their fellow Muslims for alleged involvement in terrorism, for being Sunnis in areas of Shiite control, or for being deemed disloyal. According to journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, the plight of the Palestinians in Arab countries became increasingly tenuous long before the Arab Spring.116 Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Palestinians cheered on Saddam Hussein. Fearing their disloyalty, Kuwait expelled more than two hundred thousand Palestinians living and working there. When Hussein was finally driven from power in the second Gulf War, Iraqi Shiites began to take revenge and drove most Palestinians from the country (approximately nineteen thousand out of a population of twenty- five thousand). Palestinian refugees are not welcome anywhere in the region. And the number has swelled due to the Syrian civil war where thousands of Palestinians have been killed. The lucky ones who escaped to Lebanon or Jordan are unwelcome and confined to refugee camps. Despite the hardships, Palestinians are far safer in the disputed territories than anywhere else in the region. Hence, while Israel’s critics accuse Israel of “ethnic cleansing,” the truth is the Palestinian population has grown exponentially in the disputed territories while it is being gradually wiped out in the Arab world. This is tragic. The fact that campaigners for Palestinian human rights and the media ignore what is happening before their eyes is appalling."
From the website, www.thehill.com an article is titled
"When a Nazi comparison makes sense: The BDS movement against Israel"
By Benjamin Weinthal and Asaf Romirowsky, opinion contributors — 08/22/18 08:00 AM EDT
The article says
"In a remarkable finding in their May report, intelligence officials of the German state of Baden WĂĽrttemberg wrote that propaganda from the neo-Nazi party Der Dritte Weg (The Third Way) calling to boycott Israeli products “roughly recalls similar measures against German Jews by the National Socialists, for example, on April 1, 1933 (the slogan: 'Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!')"
The historical significance of the parallel between contemporary calls to boycott Israeli products and the Hitler movement’s economic warfare against German Jewish businesses should not be ignored.
The Nazi efforts to strangle Jewish companies in order to isolate and dehumanize German Jews was a nascent phase of the Holocaust. Hence the boycott campaign against Israel is just another dangerous recurrence of history in a new form.
Fast forward to 2005: According to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement’s declaration targeting the Jewish state, a key demand is the return of all “Palestinian refugees” to Israel. The “return” of the alleged millions of Palestinians refugees—based on a bogus definition of refugee status—would spell dissolution of the Jewish state. Anti-Semitism at its core is about discrimination against Jews.
The proliferation of pro-BDS activities in Germany prompted Felix Klein, the German government commissioner for the fight against anti-Semitism, to write in the daily Die Welt in August that “the BDS movement is antisemitic in its methods and goals.” He added that BDS’s “Don’t buy!” stickers on products from the Jewish state are “methods from the Nazi period."
the article continues
"According to the German intelligence report from May, boycotts of products from the Jewish state are a “new variation of anti-Semitism.” This is the first instance of a domestic intelligence agency labeling boycotts targeting Israeli products as anti-Semitic and a security threat.
The following month, in June, an intelligence report from the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate arrived at the same conclusion. “The Third Way’s slogan ‘Boycott Products from Israel’ and … betray significant parallels to the anti-Jewish agitation of the National Socialists,” the agency wrote.
The intelligence agency copied a graphic from The Third Way’s website featuring the slogan, “Boycott products from Israel: 729=Made in Israel.” The number 729 is used in barcodes to identify Israel-based companies, although not necessarily where a product was manufactured.
It is worth noting that the party platform of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union declared in 2016, “Who today under the flag of the BDS movement calls to boycott Israeli goods and services speaks the same language in which people were called to not buy from Jews. That is nothing other than coarse anti-Semitism.”
Proponents of the BDS campaign are not limited to right-wing extremist organizations. Islamists, pro-Palestinian and far-left wing groups in Europe advocate BDS.
Twenty-five US states have passed anti-BDS legislation or promulgated executive orders against the anti-Israel campaign. Most outlaw state contracts with businesses that work with BDS entities.
Europe, however, remains Ground Zero for economic warfare targeting Israel.
Take the example of pro-BDS legislation passed by Ireland’s upper house of parliament in June. If the bill becomes law, as is expected, it will criminalize the import and distribution of Israeli products made in the disputed territories (east Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights).
The proposed Irish measure singles out Israel’s territorial dispute with the PLO among the more than 100 land conflicts in the world.
While Germany has made progress in combating BDS, there is still substantial support for BDS activity. The Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy enables BDS by providing multiple bank accounts to anti-Israel NGOs. German Jewish philanthropy organizations and the LGBT group Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation have cut ties with the bank or are winding down their business with it to protest the bank’s anti-Jewish activities."
the article lastly says
"According to a statement from the Bank for Social Economy in its defense of BDS business, the bank “rejects any form of anti-Semitism, but we nevertheless accept that there are widely diverging views on the Middle East conflict and the relationship between the Palestinians and the State of Israel. Underpinning this approach is the principle of freedom of expression, which in the light of German history we consider especially important.”
Put simply, the bank views BDS as protected speech and not a form of conduct that leads to discrimination against Israelis based on their national origin.
There has been no shortage of Democrats and Republicans falsely accusing each other of Nazism over the last two decades. While the reckless and unjustified use of “Nazi” as an adjective is on an inflationary upward trend, the comparison between BDS and the Nazi era warrants being drawn.
If the rapid spread of BDS in Europe is to be stopped, the BDS campaign should be recognized as a moral pariah that threatens both Jews and non-Jews. US-style anti-BDS legislation is urgently needed in Europe." BDS is Pure BS & Lies, Slander & Lies against Israel, the Only Democracy in the Mideast
From www.frontpagemag.com an article titled
"The Nazi Roots of the Boycott-Israel Movement"
Same campaign, new promoters.
February 18, 2013 Steven Plaut the article says
"The so-called "BDS" movement is nothing less than a poorly-disguised campaign of bigotry and aggression against Jews by anti-Semites and jihadists.
While its roots go back far earlier, ever since the 1930s the first manifestation of Nazi-like anti-Semitism has been to organize economic boycotts against Jews. On the day Hitler came to power in 1933 he ordered a nationwide campaign of BDS or "boycotts, divestment and sanctions" against Germany's Jews. It was of course only the opening round in economic warfare and aggression directed against Jews. The Germans claimed that they were actually the victims of the Jews, who were occupying German territory. Sound familiar?
The Arab countries quickly took note of the lessons from Germany. As soon as Israel's existence and independence were proclaimed, the Islamofascist world announced a total BDS campaign, including a trade embargo, against Israel. This boycott was generally also implemented against non-Israeli Jews, removing any doubt as to the real agenda of the boycotters. That boycott is still by and large in effect, although here and there one can see cracks in it. Syrian Arabs injured by the Assad junta feel no hesitation to flee to the Israeli border and ask for medical assistance, which they get for free, and Arabs from the Gulf states quietly fly to Israel to get medical treatments.
The latest manifestation of Boycott-the-Jews anti-Semitism is in the campus "BDS" movement. Like the previous boycotts, the newer "BDS" is nothing more than a here. The resemblance to Judith Butler and her recent appearance at the Brooklyn College Hatefest is, in the immortal words of Yoggi Berra, too coincidental to be a coincidence.
It is more than a bit ironic that the anti-Semites who are running the so-called BDS campaign choose to adopt for themselves a term that has an older meaning of pathological aggression in those suffering from dementia. In psychiatry, BDS stands for Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale. But the psychiatrists got only part of the picture right. Probably a better definition of BDS is Bigots, Dingbats and Scoundrels. An entire web site that mocks PACBI.org, the main BDS organization, is a must-see at Pacbi.com. The original anti-Semitic PACBI name stands for the "Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel." The mock site defines "Pacbi" as Pathetic Assholes Conspiring to Boycott Israel."
the article continues
"Its front page message is worth citing:
BDS-ers come from the goosestepping Neo-Nazi Right, from the bedwetting radical Left, from the "anarchist" anarcho-fascist movements, from the various front groups for the "International Solidarity Movement" or ISM (which stands for "I Support Murderers"). BDS is the official mantra of the anti-Semitic vermin and their genocidal fellow travelers, who are attempting to get the world to boycott Israel. The BDS scum consist of anti-Jewish racists seeking the annihilation of Israel and strive for a second Holocaust of the Jewish people. They work to achieve this while pretending that they think Israel mistreats Arabs. If they had been alive in the 1930s and 1940s, they would all have been participating in the German movement to boycott and divest from Jews.
Omar Barghouti is the Arab graduate student in Israel who set up the original BDS organization, PACBI.org. He was a bit foolishly admitted as a MA student (in philosophy) into Israel's Tel Aviv University and then decided to show his gratitude for that by organizing a one-jihadist pogrom against the existence of the country that was educating him. (The philosophy department at TAU is itself a den of anti-Israel radical leftist agitprop.) So the leading advocate of world boycotts of Israeli academic institutions is unwilling to boycott them himself and drop out of his own degree program. He stayed registered in the "Zionist" institution, collecting his cushy fellowship handouts.
But the irony does not end there. Barghouti is not a Palestinian at all. He was born in Qatar and was raised in Egypt, making him a sort of Edward Said "Palestinian," meaning a non-Palestinian."
the article continues
"Barghouti not only hates Jews. He also hates white people and proclaims them to be an inferior race! Really! He is quoted thus: "For some peculiar reason Omar Barghouti, BDS’s leading activist makes some biologically determinist remarks. He for instance declares that he won’t take a lecture from a 'white person'. But Barghouti doesn’t stop there, he clearly makes a connection between ‘skin colour’, political stand and violence. It seems as if Barghouti is also aware of himself making a racist statement when he suggests that 'the white race is the most violent in history of mankind.'” So says the Egyptian.
In his exposeĂ© of Barghouti in Frontpage Magazine, writer Daniel Greenfield reveals: "Omar Barghouti is a distant cousin of Marwan Barghouti and Mustafa Barghouti. Marwan Barghouti is a major terrorist leader serving five life sentences for numerous murders. Mustafa Barghouti was a Soviet-educated Communist leader and a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority." He adds: "Omar Barghouti tried to latch on to Occupy Wall Street by claiming to represent 'the global 99 percent.' Considering how much money and power the Barghoutis have, they are the 1 percent, both locally and globally. Anyone who has seen the mansions of the ruling elite in the West Bank can only laugh at Omar’s assertion that Israel is part of the 1 percent exploiting the rest of humanity, while the influential clans like the Barghoutis are the 99 percent."
Writing on the Huffington Post, the left-of-center French philosopher Bernard Henry Levi called the BDS "movement" a lot of "crap." He explains:"
The article continues
"Why? First of all, because one boycotts totalitarian regimes, not democracies. One can boycott Sudan, guilty of the extermination of part of the population of Darfur. One can boycott China, guilty of massive violations of human rights in Tibet and elsewhere. One can and should boycott the Iran of Sakineh and Jafar Panahi, whose leaders have become deaf to the language of common sense and compromise. One can even imagine, as we once did with regard to the fascist generals' Argentina or Brezhnev's USSR, boycotting those Arab regimes whose citizens' freedom of expression is forbidden and punished, if necessary, in blood. One does not boycott the only society in the Middle East where Arabs read a free press, demonstrate when they wish to do so, send freely elected representatives to parliament, and enjoy their rights as citizens. Regardless of what one thinks of the policies of its government, one does not boycott the only country in the region and, beyond the region, one of the unfortunately limited number of countries in the world where voters have the power to sanction, modify, and reverse the position of said government.
The racism of the boycotters is not even hidden from view. The BDS gang are not boycotting any Israeli Arabs and not even Israeli leftist Jews, at least not usually. In fact they do not even boycott Israeli Arabs who own property and assets in the "occupied" West Bank. After all, if you thought that no Israelis have the right to own property there because it is "occupied" territory, almost like Corsica, how come the Israeli Arabs who do so get a free pass from the BDSholes, the term a growing number of commentators are calling them?
The other irony of course is that BDS aggression and warfare harms Israeli Arabs and other non-Jews, as well as Jews. To the extent that Israeli exports are harmed, those working in export industries lose out, and there are plenty of Arab workers and entrepreneurs affected. Not just in Israel but also in the "West Bank." The BDSholes recently decided to target "Sodastream," an Israeli company that makes fashionable environmentally-friendly nifty devices for dispensing carbonated water for mixing drinks. The boycott of it by the BDS gang is harming Palestinian employees of the company.
But you've got to hand it to the boycotters. They hate Jews so much that they want Jews harmed even if the campaign also harms Arabs. After all, Arabs are nothing more than an instance in collateral damage in the holy war of aggression and jihad against the Jews. In the view of the BDSholes, Arabs never are entitled to any human rights protection in Arab countries. Arabs need protection only when this serves to undermine, endanger, and demonize the Jews. In all other cases, let them eat stale pita!" Those BDS losers can also Eat Shit !!! We all wish they would get a life, and get help
From the website, www.israelnationalnews.com an article titled
"Animal cruelty: Arabs kill cows in Jezreel Valley"
3 Arabs arrested for using 6-foot scythe to kill 7 cows which strayed off their breeder's land.
Arutz Sheva Staff, 10/05/17 16:37
The article says
"Border Police arrested three Arab residents of Yafia on Tuesday on suspicion of stabbing seven cows to death in the Jezreel Valley.
The suspects killed the cows on Israeli Memorial Day last week, in retaliation for the cows straying onto land which does not belong to their breeder.
The suspects allegedly used a scythe of approximately six feet in length to kill the cows.
The suspects, who are in their 60s, 40s, and 20s, were transferred for further investigation. The Tiberius Magistrate Court extended their remand until this coming Sunday"
From the website jcpa.org an article titled
"/ 16 January 2000
"THE FALSE PROPHET OF PALESTINE:
IN THE WAKE OF THE EDWARD SAID REVELATIONS"
Justus Weiner
A Mythical Childhood in Jerusalem / Unraveling the Mystery / An Avatar of Palestinian Suffering / Evicting Martin Buber / Said's Network of Friends / The Response of Independent Journalists / Generating a Smokescreen / Should Intellectuals Lie?
A Mythical Childhood in Jerusalem
Professor Edward Said of Columbia University is the Western world's foremost spokesman for the Palestinian cause. Said, a world-class writer, elevated his personal parable of a paradise destroyed and dispossessed to his trump card in articles, books, lectures, interviews, and television documentaries. He presented himself as the genuine article - a dispossessed Palestinian refugee deserving of "reparations" for what he claimed was his house and his father's business.
Said writes, "I was born, in November 1935, in Talbiya, then a mostly new and prosperous Arab quarter of Jerusalem. By the end of 1947, just a few months before Talbiya fell to Jewish forces, I'd left with my family for Cairo."1 He wrote elsewhere, "I was born in Jerusalem and spent most of my formative years there and, after 1948, when my entire family became refugees, in Egypt."2
For years, the eminent intellectual and activist has told his life story as an allegory of the Palestinian people, but it is not his life story. Jerusalem, about which he claimed "nearly everything in my early life could be traced," was in fact the home of relatives whom Said occasionally visited.
Recently, Commentary magazine published "'My Beautiful Old House' and Other Fabrications of Edward Said," an expose I had written of the myths Said had created while reinventing his life story to become a "Palestinian refugee."3 In addition, the Wall Street Journal published a condensed version entitled "The False Prophet of Palestine" (August 26, 1999).
Unraveling the Mystery
The unraveling of this mystery began as I was preparing an article on "Peace and its Discontents: Israeli and Palestinian Intellectuals Who Oppose the Current Peace Process," which appeared in the Cornell International Law Journal (Winter 1996). Part of my research included reading Said's book Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process.
Out of natural curiosity, I tried to find out more about this highly persuasive and influential intellectual-academic and his tragic childhood/adolescence in Jerusalem, especially since I had lived around the corner from what he nostalgically referred to as "my beautiful old house" on Brenner Street, and I had worked for years in an office behind St. George's school which Said claimed to have attended.
Yet when I sought out people who might recall Said or at least could remember the prevailing conditions prior to or during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, much of what I discovered was at odds with the "facts" as presented by Said. As I dug deeper, I found a pervasive pattern of falsity. When I began discovering discrepancies in Said's frequent autobiographic references, I telephoned his office at Columbia University to request an interview, but Said did not return the call.
The publication of my expose triggered a major controversy, "detonating one of the nastiest rows of its kind to rend New York's intelligentsia in years," according to the British Observer. Scores of articles appeared in far-flung publications from Finland to India and from Syria to Canada. The (London) Daily Telegraph deemed the article "a remarkable piece of investigative journalism," and it has been nominated for a prestigious award in the United States."
The article continues
"An Avatar of Palestinian Suffering
Where and under what circumstances an intellectual or academic grew up would ordinarily be of little consequence, but this case is different. His "entire" family, as Said tells it, was "ethnically cleansed."
In his narratives, Edward Said paints romantic images of pre-1948 Palestine as a paradise, where his life was simple, harmonious, and happy. This parable of perfection was rudely destroyed by the outbreak of inter-communal conflict which preceded the 1948 War, allegedly forcing young Edward out of his home and school in Jerusalem and into "the Palestine exile" for "50 years."4
According to Said, "the central metaphor for me is exile,"5 and "1947 was for me and my family the last year of our residence in Jerusalem."6 He claimed on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour that "I lost - and my family lost - its property and rights in 1948."7
Yet after more than three years of research in archives, libraries, and public record offices on four continents, together with more than 85 interviews, a very different picture of Said's life has emerged. Edward Said in fact created a parable out of the first twelve years of his life and used it to perpetrate a multi-level deception on Western intellectuals and his Palestinian admirers alike.
Edward Said actually grew up in Cairo, Egypt. His childhood friend Professor Hoda Gindi of Cairo University, who lived downstairs in the same apartment house, confirmed that Said was the scion of a wealthy Cairene family. As was discovered, his father was an American citizen who moved to Cairo from Jerusalem a decade before Edward was born. Living in Cairo until his departure to attend prep school in America in 1951, Edward Said resided with his family in luxurious apartment buildings in the exclusive Zamalek neighborhood, played with childhood friends in the manicured private gardens of the Aquarium Grotto, attended private English and American schools, was driven around in his father's large black American cars by his chauffeur, and enjoyed the facilities at the exclusive Gezira Sporting Club as the son of one of its only Arab members.
Said's father was the owner of a thriving office supply business, the Standard Stationary Company, based in Cairo. In 1952 a revolutionary mob burned his flagship store (and a branch) to the ground, and several years later the nationalization program instituted by Egyptian President Nasser ultimately forced Said's father out of the country. Thus, the truly devastating financial losses suffered by Said's father were in no way connected to Israel.
Evicting Martin Buber
In a speech at Birzeit University in 1998, Said publicly charged that the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, known as an apostle of coexistence between Arabs and Jews, had lived in the Brenner Street house and "did not mind living in an Arab house whose inhabitants had been displaced."8
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the article continues
"Once again, the truth involves a very different story. The house at 10 Brenner Street was built in the early 1930s and its registered owners were Said's grandfather and later his aunt and her five children. There is no record in the Land Registry of Edward Said's parents ever owning any interest in the house. The building was initially divided into two apartments which were rented out from 1936 onwards. After 1938, one apartment (and a downstairs storeroom) was leased to Martin Buber and his extended family, all of them recent refugees from Nazi Germany. The Bubers, relying on the long-term nature of their lease, made major improvements in the apartment and landscaped the garden.
In early 1942, Edward Said's aunt broke the lease and reclaimed the premises for her family's personal use, winning a judge's ruling in favor of eviction, and forcing Buber to vacate together with his library of some 15,000 books.9 Given the shortage of housing in Palestine during World War II, their eviction could not have come at a worse time. Curiously, this event occurred during the very period when Edward Said was himself allegedly growing up in the same house, and long before Israel's War of Independence in 1948, but Said never mentioned the presence of Martin Buber or his library in "my beautiful old house" during those years."
The article continues
"Said's Network of Friends
As responses to my article began to pour in, an obvious dichotomy emerged. First, there was the network of Said's friends whose names had come up frequently in my research into his writings. Their articles, editorials, and book reviews regularly lauded Said the man and often even Said the icon. Interestingly, the admiration was mutual as Said had written favorably about them (or their writings). For example, in 1986 Salman Rushdie reviewed Said's book After the Last Sky in the Guardian; then Said wrote favorably about Rushdie in the Washington Post and reviewed his book The Jaguar Smile in the London Review of Books. On at least three other occasions Rushdie and Said have engaged in mutually flattering conversations which were later published. Since the current controversy broke, Rushdie has jumped in on Said's side with an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail (Canada) which also appeared in The Age (Melbourne).
Next there is Christopher Hitchens, who in 1988 co-edited Blaming the Victims with Said and later wrote a laudatory foreword to Said's book Peace and Its Discontents. Recently, Hitchens has devoted two of his columns in The Nation and a review of Said's Out of Place for the (Canadian) National Post to vitriolic attacks on me and my critique of Said's intellectual dishonesty. In a recent radio interview, Said referred to Hitchens as "my defender."
Said's close connection with Alexander Cockburn goes back to at least the early 1980s, when a scandal broke concerning an undisclosed $10,000 "grant." In 1982, the now-defunct Institute of Arab Studies secretly gave Cockburn a $10,000 "grant" to write a book on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.10 When the payment was exposed, Cockburn, who had never disclosed it to his editor or readers, was sacked from the Village Voice. Meanwhile his friend Edward Said, Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Arab Studies, under questioning arising out of the scandal, defended its work in the New York Times.
Apparently undeterred by the uproar, Cockburn's book Corruptions of the Empire was reviewed by Edward Said in the London Review of Books under the title of "Alexander the Brilliant." Said wrote, "Why, in the desert of today's journalistic mediocrity and cowardly trimming, anyone with Cockburn's gifts and courage should be modest, or mock-modest, I shall leave to others to discuss." Cockburn later provided a blurb for the inside cover page of Said's Representations of the Intellectual. He has on at least two occasions touted Said in his column in The Nation, and recently devoted his column in that magazine to a no-holds-barred attack on my research. Cockburn also published similar attacks in his columns in the Los Angles Times and in the New York Press.
The Response of Independent Journalists
Fortunately, there exist many dedicated journalists who took the trouble to investigate and ascertain how the parties' claims stood up to analysis. This group, none of whom I have ever had dealings with, includes Daniel Johnson of the Daily Telegraph, Jeff Jacoby syndicated in the Boston Globe, Dan Kennedy in the Boston Phoenix, Premen Addy in The Hindu, Charles Krauthammer in Time, Mark Berley in the New York Post, Neil Seeman in the (Canadian) National Post, Hillel Halkin in The Forward, and David Horowitz at salon.com. Despite their efforts, judging from what appeared in print, not a single journalist succeeded in pinning down Said on even one of the direct quotes which I included in my article. I was repeatedly told that he became angry and simply dismissed any effort to address the key evidence of his duplicity. "
The article continues
"Generating a Smokescreen
In the months since the publication of the article, Said and his followers have never attempted, in any systematic way, to refute the evidence. Instead, Said's network of friends echoed and amplified his attacks, publishing suspiciously similar criticisms of my work. Not only are the specific points of attack frequently identical, but similar phraseology suggests common parentage.
One of the most curious allegations that occurred in the aftermath of the article was Said's accusation published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (August 26, 1999) that I had threatened his cousin Robert Said, a man whom I have never met or even spoken with. Actually, it was my Belgian research assistant, Paul Lambert, who is half my age, who conducted the interview with Robert Said in his office in Amman on January 23, 1997. According to Lambert, today a cadet in the Belgian diplomatic corps,
Robert Said met me in his impressive office, on the second floor of a large office supply company. Although initially gracious - I was offered a cup of coffee - once I began asking basic questions about Edward's childhood and the house [on Brenner St. in Jerusalem], Robert Said refused to answer. He then turned verbally abusive, shouting insults and gesticulating with his hands....At no time did I...threaten him saying anything like "it would be better if you answered questions." This claim is manifestly factually incorrect, I would even say grotesque: if one should have felt threatened it was me. Indeed, Robert Said called in one of his bouncer co-workers and went on shouting at me unpleasant things like "why did you really come here?," "you are a tool," "you have been brainwashed," and eventually he stated that "the Jews are the worst people in the world." [Lambert is a Flemish Catholic.] Frankly, I was rather concerned about my own safety than about the interview. Please note my position: 25y old, alone as a non-Arabic speaker in the middle of unknown Amman - not exactly a position to threaten anyone.11 "
The article lastly says
"Should Intellectuals Lie?
This controversy raises larger questions than simply the myth-making and selective memory of Edward Said. As a world-class intellectual, it would be revealing to pose to him the following questions: Should intellectuals lie? Should they deceive or misrepresent personal or historical facts? Should they remember and forget selectively? Is such conduct ever justified? While some radical intellectuals go so far as to claim that all knowledge is a form of duping and others deny the very existence of "truth," Professor Edward Said, despite his radical politics, has taken a traditionalist approach to this topic. Writing in Le Monde Diplomatique, Said has noted that "there is a great difference between political and intellectual behavior. The intellectual's role is to speak the truth, as plainly, directly and as honestly as possible....the intellectual's constituency is neither a government nor a corporate or a career interest: only the truth unadorned."12
Indeed, in his new memoir Out of Place (1999), published after he became aware of my investigation, Said presents a radically revised version of his life in which he describes his Cairo childhood in great detail, and we learn that his schooling from age 6 to 16 took place in three different Cairo institutions. The publication of Said's new memoir a month after my article appeared in Commentary placed his defenders in an untenable situation, because without admitting to the inconsistency with his previous autobiographical writings, Said completely confirmed the core discoveries of my research.
The cause of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, to which so many of Said's friends assert their devotion, is not well-served by historical lies. The fact is that the "best-known Palestinian intellectual in the world" (as he was recently described on the BBC) made wholesale political use of the supposed circumstances of his childhood, weaving an elaborate myth of paradise and expulsion from paradise out of one or two circumstances and a raft of inventions. Edward Said was never a refugee from Palestine, but he is certainly a refugee from the truth. " good that Edward Said is Dead
Another Tragic Terrifying Horrific Example of Arab/Islamic evil was the attacks in Paris,France that occurred on Friday November 13, 2015 , from Wikipedia it states
"For other uses, see Paris attacks.
November 2015 Paris attacks
Part of terrorism in France (Islamic terrorism in Europe), the spillover of the Syrian Civil War, and the France-ISIL conflict
13 November 2015 Paris attacks - montage.jpg
"Motive Islamic extremism,[9][10] retaliation against French airstrikes on ISIL[11][12]
The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks that took place on 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis.[13] Beginning at 21:16 CET, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football match. This was followed by several mass shootings and a suicide bombing, at cafés and restaurants. Gunmen carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan theatre, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were shot or blew themselves up when police raided the theatre.[14]
The attackers killed 130 people,[3] including 90 at the Bataclan theatre.[15][16][17] One traumatized survivor committed suicide in November 2017, two years after the event, and was recognized as 131st victim in June 2019.[18] Another 413[6] people were injured,[19] almost 100 seriously.[7][8] Seven of the attackers also died while the authorities continued to search for accomplices.[5] The attacks were the deadliest in France since the Second World War,[20][21] and the second deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.[22] France had been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris that killed 17 people and wounded 22, including civilians and police officers.[23]" terrible what ISIL aka ISIS did, a horrible crime against Humanity , after the tragic attacks certain Islamic leaders "Condemned" the attack, but many people ask, were all of these condemnations of the Paris attacks sincere, or were some of the "condemnations" merely Crocodile tears, some may have been sincere, but many people have the gut feeling that some of the "Condemnations" were indeed Crocodile tears
From the website www.nationalreview.com an article is titled
"Palestinian Families Destroy Their Homes to Avoid Seeing Israelis Move In"
By MAIREAD MCARDLE
July 19, 2018 1:22 PM
The article says
"Palestinian Jihad Shawamrah stands on the ruins of his house that he demolished to not face the prospect of Israelis move in after he lost a land ownership case in Israeli courts, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina, July 19, 2018. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
Two Palestinian families on Thursday destroyed their homes rather than see Israelis move in, they said, following a long legal battle over the land the houses were built on.
Jihad Shawamreh, 50, said he spent 30,000 shekels ($8,200) to destroy the home he, his ex-wife, and his six children and other relatives lived in for almost 20 years, according to Reuters.
“I built (my house) with my own hands. It is where I brought up my children. This is where they grew up,” Shawamreh said. “We took down the houses for fear of seeing settlers move in, and having to see them inside the house.”
Shawamreh, a taxi driver, lived with his family in Beit Hanina, which lies on the outskirts of Jerusalem in territory hotly contested by Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel’s Supreme Court decided in January that the land the houses were built on has been rightfully belonged to Israelis since 1974.
Shawamreh said Israeli settlers offered him money not to destroy his home, but he turned them down. The Israel Land Fund told Reuters that the land has been sold from Israelis to other Israelis.
Israel claims the entirety of Jerusalem as its capital while Palestinians hope to have East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state."
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article by Rochelle Kipnis
titled
"There’s NO “Israeli Occupation” In The West Bank"
History Reveals: Jordan had NO right Invading Israel During Six-Day War And There’s NO “Israeli Occupation” in the West Bank
NOV 29, 2018, 1:26 AM
the article states
"Hearing people in America refer to Israel’s “occupation of Palestine,” strikes more than just a nerve, it’s spreading incorrect information. As a Jewish American woman who has been involved in American national politics, while my husband ran for United States Congress in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, I came across many people including a disturbingly large population of liberal Jewish Americans who seem to be lacking tremendous knowledge of Israeli History and their beliefs are formulated based on what popular media tells them. United States and Israel have one of the strongest military to military alliances in the world. It’s important for American Jews to understand the West Bank dispute and to stop perpetrating false history that can lead to Israel’s destruction.
Let’s break it down. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict may be difficult to solve but if you know the history, it’s rather simple to understand. Israel wants to exist as a Jewish state and live in peace. Palestinians want them dead.
Let’s talk about the West Bank, that’s where the problem stems from but if you’re a liberal Jew, you often fall for the propaganda of saying “occupied territories” and “illegal settlements” because you don’t know Israeli history and you’re listening to false media controlled by groups who want you to believe something that isn’t true. We hear and read things all the time, even Wikipedia that says,” West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Six-Day War.” This is factually incorrect. How can you possibly “occupy” your own land?
In 1967, there was no Arab nation or state called Palestine, in fact, there was never any Palestine. During the Six-Day war, Israel took over their own land, the West Bank, from Jordan in self defense after Jordan joined a war launched by Egypt and Syria to destroy the state of Israel. In 1967, United Nations rejected Arab and Soviet attempts to recognize Israel as the aggressor. United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967, in the aftermath of the Six-Day war. This left Israel with secure and recognized boundaries/borders."
the article continues
"What right did Jordan have to invade Israel’s West Bank to begin with? Jordan was the one “occupying” Israel when they had no legal right to be there other than it’s attempt to destroy the state of Israel. Samaria is the territory generally referred to as the West Bank.
From 1517 to 1917 the West Bank was part of the Ottoman Empire. After losing World War 1, Ottoman Empire relinquished control to allied forces that divided land into countries. West Bank became an integral part of the British Mandate. Lord Balfour recognized the Jewish people’s right to their homeland, Israel. Jewish homeland originally included the West Bank and East Bank of The Jordan River but the Jewish people have accepted many painful compromises and given up a lot of land through the years. Britain received a mandate from the League of Nations recognizing Israel and to promote the establishment of the Jewish State. League of Nations recognized Israel including the West Bank as part of Israel. This was reaffirmed by the United Nations after World War 2. With the British Mandate ending, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 Partition Plan 1947 calling for land to be partisans between Arabs and Jews, allowing for the formation of the Jewish state of Israel. The Jewish people accepted this and went on to create Israel, the Arabs did not and they launched war on Israel because they do not want Israel to exist. Resolution 181 had no legal stance and was a non binding recommendation to begin with. At the end of the war, there was a cease fire. The armistice line, the “green line,” represents the position of both countries’ troops when the fighting stopped in 1949. At Arab insistence, the accords provide that the lines are not political boundaries and can be changed when the parties make peace.
According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “In 1949, with UN mediation, Israel concluded armistice agreements with Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, thus reaching an official cessation of hostilities of the first Arab-Israeli war that had started in May 1948. Iraq and Saudi Arabia, whose forces took part in the war, never signed any agreements with Israel. The parties agreed that the armistice agreements would serve only as interim arrangements until replaced by permanent peace treaties. Israel’s territory according to the agreed 1949 Armistice Demarcation Line encompassed about 78% of the Mandate area, while the other parts, namely the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, were occupied by Jordan and Egypt respectively. The 1949 Armistice Lines between Israel and its Arab neighbors came to be known as The Green Line.” This was never an actual border. Israel has not “occupied” any land."
the article lastly says
"Zubarah, Tombs Island, Western Saharah, Abu Musa Island, Kashmir, are all disputed territories just like the West Bank but they’re not “occupied.” They are all disputed territories so let’s refer to them as such.
Israel’s presence in the West Bank is a result of self defense during a war on Israel’s right to exist. The West Bank cannot be considered “occupied” because there was no previous sovereign in the area. While it is considered a “disputed territory,” it’s not “occupied.” 1947 Partition plan has no legal stance. Israel’s claim to the West Bank was originally recognized by the international community during the 20th century. Therefore, the Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not illegal.
The Arab world consists of 22 countries is you include “Palestine” which is actually Israel’s land. Those countries are Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the Comoros Islands, Iraq, Djibouti, and the United Arab Emirates.
Jewish people only have Israel.
Many well-meaning people in America imagine there could be peace and the that the United States could help convince Israel into giving up its claims to yet another slice of the land promised to the Jewish people in the British Mandate. These people are deluding themselves and this would surely cause another war that could cause Israel’s total destruction.
Jewish people want peace. Israel is under attack constantly by Arab terrorists that seek the destruction of Israel. Many Americans are blind to the terror attacks that Israel regularly endures. The only way there will ever be peace is by basing negotiations on legal and historical facts.
May Hashem continue to watch over Israel. We need Moshiach NOW!" God is Watching Over Israel, Israel will NEVER be Destroyed, A Joke that circulated on the Internet Several Years ago went like this,
What Song did they play at the Funeral of Anwar Sadat ?
Answer: I Love a Parade, Anwar Sadat was a brutal dictator of Egypt, horrible evil man, he was assassinated in 1981 ,
From the Wikipedia entry for the 1996 Blockbuster film "Independence Day" aka ID4 it says under "Censorship" that
"Censorship
In Lebanon, certain Jewish- and Israel-related content in the film was censored. One cut scene involved Judd Hirsch's character donning a kippah, and leading soldiers and White House officials in a Jewish prayer. Other removed footage showed Israeli and Arab troops working together in preparation for countering the alien invasion. The Lebanese Shi'a Islamist militant group Hezbollah called for Muslims to boycott the film, describing it as "propaganda for the so-called genius of the Jews and their concern for humanity." In response, Jewish actor Jeff Goldblum said: "I think Hezbollah has missed the point. The film is not about American Jews saving the world; it's about teamwork among people of different religions and nationalities to defeat a common enemy."[56][57]" Another tragic example of Arab & Islamic Hate, I want Peace in the Mideast & Worldwide , Independence Day was just a Movie, but why can't all Humans work together for the common good in Real Life
From the website www.nationalinterest.org an article is titled
"The World's Most Secretive Nuclear Weapons Program (No, Not North Korea)"
The establishment of a nuclear triad demonstrates how seriously Israel takes the idea of nuclear deterrence.
by Kyle Mizokami , the article says
"Israel didn’t have long to wait for its first nuclear crisis. The 1973 Yom Kippur War saw Arab armies achieve strategic surprise, sending Israeli ground forces reeling in both in the Sinai desert and the Golan Heights. Israeli nuclear weapons were placed on alert and loaded onto Jericho I surface-to-surface missiles and F-4 Phantoms. Determined Israeli counteroffensives were able to turn the situation on both fronts around, and the weapons were not ultimately used.
In a private email leaked to the public in September of 2016, former secretary of state and retired U.S. Army general Colin Powell alluded to Israel having an arsenal of “200 nuclear weapons.” While this number appears to be an exaggeration, there is no doubt that Israel does have a small but powerful nuclear stockpile, spread out among its armed forces. Israeli nuclear weapons guard against everything from defeat in conventional warfare to serving to deter hostile states from launching nuclear, chemical and biological warfare attacks against the tiny country. Regardless, the goal is the same: to prevent the destruction of the Jewish state.
Israel set off to join the nuclear club in the 1950s. David Ben-Gurion was reportedly obsessed with developing the bomb as insurance against Israel’s enemies. Although an ambitious goal for such a small, initially impoverished country, Israel did not have any security guarantees with larger, more powerful states—particularly the United States. The country was on its own, even buying conventional weapons off the black market to arm the new Israeli Defense Forces. Nuclear weapons would be the ultimate form of insurance for a people that had suffered persecution but now had the means to control their own destiny."
the article continues
"Ben-Gurion instructed his science adviser, Ernst David Bergmann, to direct Israel’s clandestine nuclear effort and set up and chair the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. Shimon Peres, who later went on to serve as president and prime minister of Israel, cultivated contacts with a sympathetic France that resulted in the latter agreeing to supply a large, heavy water nuclear reactor and an underground plutonium reprocessing plant, which would turn spent reactor fuel into the key ingredient for nuclear weapons. The reactor was built at Dimona in the Negev desert.
By the late 1960s the United States assessed Israeli nukes as “probable,” and U.S. efforts to slow the nuclear program and get Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty went nowhere. Finally in September 1969, Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir reportedly reached a secret agreement that the United States would cease its demand for inspections and Israeli compliance with antiproliferation efforts, and in return Israel would not declare or test its nuclear weapons.
Israel didn’t have long to wait for its first nuclear crisis. The 1973 Yom Kippur War saw Arab armies achieve strategic surprise, sending Israeli ground forces reeling in both in the Sinai desert and the Golan Heights. Israeli nuclear weapons were placed on alert and loaded onto Jericho I surface-to-surface missiles and F-4 Phantoms. Determined Israeli counteroffensives were able to turn the situation on both fronts around, and the weapons were not ultimately used.
Not much is known about early Israeli weapons, particularly their yield and the size of the stockpile. The strategic situation, in which Israel was outnumbered in conventional weapons but had no nuclear adversaries, meant Israel likely had smaller tactical nuclear weapons to destroy masses of attacking Arab tanks, military bases and military airfields. Still, the relatively short ranges between Israel and its neighbors meant that the Jericho missile, with only a three-hundred-mile range, could still hit Cairo and Damascus from the Negev desert."
the article continues
"Israel does not confirm nor deny having nuclear weapons. Experts generally assess the country as currently having approximately eighty nuclear weapons, fewer than countries such as France, China and the United Kingdom, but still a sizeable number considering its adversaries have none. These weapons are spread out among Israel’s version of a nuclear “triad” of land-, air- and sea-based forces scattered in a way that they deter surprise nuclear attack.
Israel’s first nuclear weapons were likely gravity bombs delivered by fighter aircraft. The F-4 Phantom is thought to be the first delivery system; as a large, twin-engine robust fighter, the Phantom was probably the first aircraft in the Israeli Air Force capable of carrying a first generation nuclear device. A new, smaller generation of nuclear gravity bombs likely equips F-15I and F-16I fighters. While some might argue a gravity bomb is obsolete in light of Israeli advances in missile technology, a manned aircraft allows a nuclear strike to be recalled right up to the last minute.
Israel’s first land-based nuclear weapons were based on Jericho I missiles developed in cooperation with France. Jericho I is believed to have been retired, replaced by Jericho II and -III ballistic missiles. Jericho II has a range of 932 miles, while Jericho III, designed to hold Iran and other distant states at risk, has a range of at least 3,106 miles. The total number of Israeli ballistic missiles is unknown, but estimated by experts to number at least two dozen.
Like other nuclear-armed nations, the Israeli Navy has reportedly deployed nukes to what is generally agreed to as the most survivable seagoing platform: submarines. Israel has five German-built Dolphin-class submarines, which experts believe are equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The cruise missiles are reportedly based off the Popeye air-to-ground missile or the Gabriel antiship missile. This ensures a so-called “second-strike capability”—as long as one submarine is on patrol, some portion of Israel’s nuclear deterrent remains invulnerable to a nuclear first strike, guaranteeing the ability to launch a nuclear counterattack."
the article lastly says
"The establishment of a nuclear triad demonstrates how seriously Israel takes the idea of nuclear deterrence. The country will likely not declare itself a nuclear power any time soon; ambiguity over ownership of nukes has served the country very well. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and general instability across the Middle East has ensured that Israel will likely remain the only nuclear-armed state in the region for the foreseeable future, but a collapse of the agreement or some new nuclear program could easily change that. In the meantime, Israel’s ultimate insurance policy isn’t going anywhere.
Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San Francisco who has appeared in the Diplomat, Foreign Policy, War is Boring and the Daily Beast. In 2009, he cofounded the defense and security blog Japan Security Watch. You can follow him on Twitter: @KyleMizokami." I hope there is NEVER a Nuclear War, or any other Wars in the Mideast or anywhere in the World, People are Terrified of Iran getting Nuclear Weapons
On the Front Cover of the July 2004 issue of Playboy Magazine , U.S. Edition,
Peta Wilson is on the Cover, and in the upper left hand corner it says
"Interview Michael Moore "Let's hire the Israelis to kill Bin Laden" Michael Moore knew Israel could get the job done, Osama Bin Laden was thankfully killed on May 2, 2011 , Many have suggested Pakistan protected & assisted Bin Laden,
From Wikipedia it says
"Allegations of Pakistani protection of bin Laden
Main article: Allegations of support system in Pakistan for Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden was killed within the fortified complex of buildings that was probably built for him,[246] and had reportedly been his home for at least five years.[247][248] The compound was located less than a mile from Pakistan Military Academy and less than 100 kilometers' drive from Pakistan's capital.[249][250][251] While the United States and Pakistan governments both claimed, and later maintained, that no Pakistani officials, including senior military leaders, knew bin Laden's whereabouts or had prior knowledge of the U.S. strike,[252][253] Carlotta Gall, writing in The New York Times Magazine in 2014, reported that ISI Director General Ahmad Shuja Pasha knew of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad.[254] In a 2015 London Review of Books article, investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh asserted—citing U.S. sources—that bin Laden had been a prisoner of the ISI at the Abbottabad compound since 2006; that Pasha knew of the U.S. mission in advance, and authorized the helicopters delivering the SEALs to enter Pakistani airspace; and that the CIA learned of bin Laden's whereabouts from a former senior Pakistani intelligence officer, who was paid an estimated $25 million for the information.[237] Both stories were denied by U.S. and Pakistani officials.
Mosharraf Zia, a leading Pakistani columnist, stated, "It seems deeply improbable that bin Laden could have been where he was killed without the knowledge of some parts of the Pakistani state."[255] Pakistan's United States envoy, ambassador Husain Haqqani, promised a "full inquiry" into how Pakistani intelligence services could have failed to find bin Laden in a fortified compound so close to Islamabad. "Obviously bin Laden did have a support system," he said. "The issue is, was that support system within the government and the state of Pakistan, or within the society of Pakistan?"[256]
Others argued that bin Laden lived in the compound with a local family, and never used the internet or a mobile phone, which would have made him much easier to locate.[257] Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari denied that his country's security forces sheltered bin Laden, and called any supposed support for bin Laden by the Pakistani government "baseless speculation".[258][259] Government officials said that the country's limited resources had been committed to its war against the Pakistan Taliban, and other insurgents who posed an active threat to it, rather than to finding or sheltering bin Laden.[260]"
From the website of the New York Post Newspaper, nypost.com an article is titled
"Osama bin Laden ‘died like a wimp’"
By Bruce Golding November 10, 2014 | 1:32am
the article says
"Osama bin Laden “died like a pussy,” according to the ex-Navy SEAL who claims credit for blowing away the world’s most notorious terrorist.
Robert O’Neill, who is now a motivational speaker, told CNN that he has shared details of bin Laden’s cowardly exit with the relatives of 9/11 victims.
“When I’m out speaking, I never mention the bin Laden mission,” O’Neill said.
“But any time anyone says, ‘You know, my brother died at Cantor Fitzgerald,’ . . . one thing I tell them is, ‘All right, Osama bin Laden died like a pussy. That’s all I’m telling you. Just so you know.’ ”
“He died afraid. And he knew that we were there to kill him,” O’Neill added during the interview televised Friday.
Other SEALs have challenged O’Neill’s version of events and blasted him for bragging about the mission in violation of the elite force’s code of secrecy.
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that O’Neill’s father — who last week challenged Islamic fundamentalists to “come and get us” — once did a two-year stretch in the slammer for securities and wire fraud.
FILED UNDER NAVY SEALS , OSAMA BIN LADEN , ROBERT O’NEILL" Other online Articles confirm that Osama Bin Laden did indeed die like a pussy , Online Google Searches will show more articles that confirm this
From the website www.ucg.org an article is titled
"UCG.org / Good News / "Is Israel the Obstacle to Middle East Peace?"
Is Israel the Obstacle to Middle East Peace?
Posted on Jan 12, 2015 by Tom Robinson Estimated reading time: 17 minutes
Many believe peace would be achievable in the Middle East if not for the nagging problem of Israel. They blame the ongoing regional conflict on the Jewish state's recalcitrance in negotiations and even its very existence. But would there really be peace if Israel were out of the way? How is peace to truly come?
Is Israel the Obstacle to Middle East Peace? Thinkstock
What is the real obstacle to peace?
The bells would ring out, songs of joy would break forth, the pipes of peace would be merrily played in the Middle East—if only the Jewish state of Israel did not exist as a source of contention and conflict with its Arab Muslim neighbors. Islamic State beheadings and other jihadist terrorist movements would soon die away. Or so many would have us believe.
We see widespread belief that if Israel would just make huge concessions, then all would be well. And then there are those who think it would be even better if Israel didn’t exist at all. This isn’t limited to those who decry Israel as a Zionist racist evil regime—of which there are plenty. Rather it’s also part of the utopian calculus that seeks the “greater good”—the simplistic notion that the higher aim of regional and world peace would be met by removing the supposed source of friction.
But is Israel even the actual source of the problem? Is it to blame for the conflict in the Middle East? Would there be peace if Israel made massive concessions—or if it ceased to exist altogether?
Blaming Israel for ISIS
In recent months U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made trips to the Middle East to, in part, discuss the rise and expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. While there, he called for a resumption of Israeli–Palestinian Authority peace negotiations. After his return, he spoke at a State Department ceremony to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, which celebrates the end of the Hajj pilgrimage (yes, really!).
He stated: “There wasn’t a leader I met with in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation … People need to understand the connection of that … It has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of that” (quoted by Barak Ravid, “Israeli Ministers Slam Kerry for Tying Rise of Islamic State to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Haaretz, Oct. 17)."
The article continues
"Translation? Israel’s supposed unwillingness to make concessions fuels jihad—as does Israel’s so-called oppression of Arabs and disproportionate military response to terrorism.
It’s not surprising that Arab Muslim leaders would make such a case, but it is deeply troubling that the American secretary would fall in line with such rhetoric—especially while promoting an Islamic holiday in the same breath! He was essentially claiming, as one Israeli news source put it, that “Israel’s failures to forge a peace deal with the intransigent Palestinian Authority (PA)—not the US’s failures in the Middle East—are to blame for the rise of Islamic State (ISIS)” (Tova Dvorin, “Bennet Blasts Kerry’s Comments Blaming Israel for Rise of ISIS,” Arutz Sheva Israel National News, Oct. 17, 2014).
Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett shot back at Kerry’s insinuation in these poignant terms regarding brutality carried out by an ISIS member from the United Kingdom: “Even when a British Muslim beheads a British Christian, there will always be those who blame the Jews” (ibid.).
Communications Minister Gilad Erdan added: “Kerry is breaking records for a lack of understanding of what is going on in our region and the essence of the conflicts therein … Does anybody really believe that Islamic State’s war criminals will stop their atrocities and abandon the vision of an Islamic state because negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians were renewed?” (quoted by Ravid). That’s a good question.
Land for peace?
There are increasing calls for Israel to cede control of territory for the creation of a Palestinian state. Nearly a decade ago, however, American Thinker co-founder and chief political correspondent Richard Behr noted that people “seem to forget that Israel offered to give up 97% of the land in the territories in the year 2000, and provide Palestinians land within Israel in exchange for the remaining 3%. It was an offer designed to end the conflict. Instead, the Palestinians chose war” (“Israel as a Stabilizing Force in the Middle East,” July 25, 2005)."
and continues
"He further commented that it would be telling to see what would happen following Israel’s 2005 pullout from Gaza. He predicted that terror would increase. Was he ever right!
As radio host and columnist Bob Siegel recently pointed out: “Rockets have been firing into Israel since 2005, as a gesture of thanks when Israel abandoned the Gaza strip turning it entirely over to the Palestinians. Those who feel that all hostilities will cease if Israel simply gives back ‘all occupied territory’ should keep the example of Gaza in mind. Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. Neither does the Palestinian charter. The return of land makes no difference whatsoever. Very few people today seem to understand this” (“The Historical Truths Behind the Israel-Palestinian Conflict,” Communities Digital News, Aug. 28, 2014).
Siegel went on to say: “When two nations make a peace treaty, there is supposed to be give and take on both sides. Israel’s deal (brokered by the U.S) always goes like this. ‘You give the Palestinians back some land and here is what they will do: They’ll promise to stop killing you.’ That’s the deal. Then, shortly after the deal, the promise is broken and missiles are fired into Israel from Gaza (where the Palestinians were finally offered their own autonomous rule) or a suicide bomber kills women and children on a bus.
“Nothing Israel does, no gesture, no concession, no discussion, will make a hill of beans of difference. They can sign a peace treaty. They can jump on board for a two state solution. It doesn’t matter. Hezbollah wants Israel dead. Al-Qaeda wants Israel dead. Hamas wants Israel dead. Muslim Brotherhood wants Israel dead. But it isn’t limited to the terrorist groups. Palestine itself wants Israel dead. The surrounding Arab nations want Israel dead. The Persian nation of Iran wants Israel dead.”
It’s often said of the Arab-Israeli conflict that if the Arabs and other Muslims laid down their arms there would be peace, whereas if the Israelis laid down their arms there would be no Israel.
Ultimately, this is where Israeli inaction or massive compromise would lead—and frankly, that is what those pushing for Israel to go this route seem to be aiming for (see “Two-State Plan Is a Means to Israel’s Destruction “)."
and continues
"A more obvious basis of conflict—Muslim fundamentalism
As for the contention of John Kerry and others that terrorism in the wider region and further abroad is fueled by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is some truth to the idea in that those who wish to see Israel eliminated constantly cite this as a grievance. But is that really the heart of the matter? Richard Baehr points out some cold, hard truths in his American Thinker piece:
“Certainly bin Laden never used the conflict as a primary justification for any of his actions leading up to and including the 9/11 attacks. His chief political objective has always been to rid Muslim soil of US and other Western forces, particularly in Saudi Arabia, where his ultimate objective has been to replace the royal family. Muslims in Chechnya, Kashmir, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Bali who have been relentlessly murdering non-Muslims for the last decade [as of 2005] have all had local or regional political issues on their agenda as well.”
Baehr countered other suggested sources like impoverished citizenry and repressive regimes by pointing out that other peoples in like conditions have not systematically resorted to international terror campaigns as those of Muslim lands have.
He then stated: “One issue that is rarely mentioned by the apologists and explainers is the most critical factor in explaining the growth of Muslim anger against the West: indoctrination. Muslims are indoctrinated into fundamentalist Islam, making it a growing force in many countries, through a steady stream of messages in the media, schools, prisons and mosques. This relentless propaganda campaign is funded primarily by Saudi Arabia … And where fundamentalism grows, anger and hatred of the West grows with it.”
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict does play into this, but it’s for the same reason. “Think about this a different way,” Baehr suggests. “Are the world’s Jews so unsettled by the lack of resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, that they too are resorting to a terror campaign against the West or Arab states to demand its resolution?"
and continues
"“Israelis who send their children off to school, who board a bus, who eat at a restaurant, are aware that life could suddenly end for them or their family members at any moment. Israelis might have a right to be angry about the dangers and the state of siege they have endured for more than half a century. But [the need for] assuaging Israeli anger does not enter into the picture … Israelis, after all, are civil, and Western. They don’t deliberately kill innocents.”
He explains that the idea that Muslim anger would be assuaged by a two-state solution is naĂŻve: “The resolution of the conflict that radical Islamists seek is not a two state solution in any case, but the elimination of Israel, which they see as a foreign Western outpost on what should be Islamic controlled land.
“There is no potential compromise between the views of Hizbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Iranian mullahs, bin Laden and al Qaeda and the continued existence of a majority Jewish state of Israel. No border arrangement, and no two state solution could satisfy these zealots. These groups or leaders repeatedly emphasize that withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank and Gaza is insufficient, merely a first step to elimination of Israel and the Zionist entity” (ibid.).
Islam’s history of conquest and reconquest
A key fact to be aware of in this conflict is that Islam was spread by the sword from its earliest decades. Indeed, the history of the religion is one of conquest and reconquest. The objective in authentic Islam, as spelled out in its holy book the Quran and the traditions of Muhammad, is to subjugate the world to Allah.
And once a land was conquered by Muslims, it was considered forever to be Islamic territory. Thus, to Islamic fundamentalists, the fact that the whole land of Israel was conquered in the 600s by Muslims means that it must forever remain under Muslim control. No political treaty can negotiate away this fundamental religious tenet.
As Baehr noted: “The darker side of this malignant stream that Israel has no right to exist, is really a broader argument, made by radical Muslims in this case, that non-Muslims can have no meaningful role in any Muslim-dominated land, and may live there only at the will of the Muslims who are there. The concept of a majority Jewish state, or even a Christian majority state within the Muslim world, is anathema in this mindset. And any country, once Muslim dominated, is part of the Caliphate to be restored. So Spain is in the target sights too.”
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"What this means is that even if there were no Israel or if Muslims now fully reacquired it, there still would be no peace in the Middle East. Even if Israelis made the ultimate sacrifice of giving complete control over to Muslims or, unthinkably, converting to Islam en masse, the march of militant Islam would continue still. As Baehr put it, “Sacrificing Israel will provide one good meal for them, only encouraging their appetite for more” (ibid.).
The march and accompanying conflict would continue even in completely Muslim lands that are not completely sharia-compliant, as is the case in Iraq and Syria, which have now seen the rise of the Islamic State as a new caliphate or Islamic empire.
So even with Israel gone, Muslim fundamentalists would still be fighting non-Muslims on their borders as well as non-Muslims and Muslims of different sects within their borders. They would still be fighting back against the West, whose people they view as the Christian Crusaders who invaded the Muslim-controlled Middle East in the Middle Ages. And not only must that still be avenged, but they see the Westerners as invading even now—not just through their proxy Israel but through their global influence.
War until all the world is under Islam
It’s vital to understand that Islamic fundamentalists feel compelled to wage jihad against not just the Jews, but Christians and those of other religions as well. Regarding non-Muslims, the Quran tells them, “Fight against them until idolatry is no more and [Allah’s] religion reigns supreme” (Surah 2:193). “Idolatry” in this context refers to any religion other than Islam.
Author Lela Gilbert has written about a Muslim catchphrase: “First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People. Such graffiti can sometimes be found in Muslim neighborhoods in the Middle East. The ‘Saturday People’ are, of course, Jews [who rest and worship on Saturday, the seventh-day Sabbath], today nearly gone from Muslim lands. Now the ‘Sunday People’—Christians [as most professing Christians observe that day]—are in the crosshairs, and they, too, are fleeing at an alarming rate. Both religions are unwelcome in many Muslim-majority lands for reasons of Islamist ideology—the declaration of jihad, or holy war, against infidels” (“Saturday People, Sunday People,” The Weekly Standard, Nov. 17, 2010)."
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"In response to ISIS killing and enslaving Christians in Iraq, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said July 22, 2014, on Fox News’ Special Report With Bret Baier: “This is the pure essence of the intolerance and the barbarism of this kind of Islamic radicalism … You see it with Hamas. It wants to wipe out the Jews. You see it in Egypt with the Copts. You see it in Boko Haram with the attack on the churches in Nigeria. It’s all over. This is not about what the West has done, this is not about imperialism. This is not a payback. This is the expression of jihadism, and we see it tonight in the most horrible form.”
And the aim goes beyond Muslim borders. In fact, the Islamic State has declared its intention to conquer Rome, the very heart of the mainstream Christian world.
Moreover, it ultimately doesn’t matter if the West ever acted against the Muslim world or not. The real issue is that Islamists, in obedience to the commands of the Quran, consider it their duty to spread Islam to other countries regardless—until the whole world is Muslim.
In this ideology, “peace” is found only within those areas controlled by pure Islam, called dar al-Islam, the domain of Islam (that is, of submission). And lands outside of Islam’s control are regarded as dar al-harb, the domain of war—that is, the lands on which Muslims are to make war until they submit. Only when the whole world is brought under Islam will it all be the domain of peace with no more cause for war.
Again, this isn’t something new. In 1786, American Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson met with diplomats from Tunisia about the Barbary Pirates there (and in nearby Morocco and Algiers) attacking American ships and wrote the following to then-Secretary of Foreign Affairs John Jay: “We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the Grounds of their pretentions to make war upon Nations who had done them no Injury, & observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation—
“The [Tunisian] Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their Authority were sinners, that it was their right & duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, & to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise” (American Peace Commissioners to John Jay, March 28, 1786, Library of Congress, hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib001849, Images 430-432)."
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"The real obstacle to peace to be removed
Thus it should be quite clear that Israel is not the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. And Israeli concessions or even getting rid of the Jewish state would not bring peace to the Middle East or the wider world.
Israel is not even the big enemy in the eyes of Muslim fundamentalists. It is but a “little Satan”—an outpost in the region for “the Great Satan,” the United States of America as the preeminent Western Christian power in the world. Israel effectively serves at present as a buffer of sorts—a nearby focus for Islamist hostility. But if Israel were gone, Islamic terrorists would be pushing against and attacking Europe and the United States all the more. And these terrorists would take control of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, if you can imagine such a nightmare scenario.
Moreover, dictatorial regimes in the Middle East that have used Israel as a means to shift the focus of their populations away from dissatisfaction with their own leadership would step up efforts to blame the regions’ problems on Western powers—as they do to some extent already.
Now with the rise of the caliphate, Islamists are further encouraged and emboldened to commit terrorism in the West. And the situation is sure to worsen. (See “ Warnings to the West “).
So what, then, is the real obstacle to peace? Islamic fundamentalism is certainly a critical factor. But its roots go deeper than being simply a made-up religious system. There is also a serious family divide between Jews and Arabs going all the way back to the time of Abraham (see “ Middle East Chaos: What’s Happening and Why “).
Yet even this is not the ultimate heart of the problem. As we consider all of the frenzied hatred stirred up against Israel, the Jewish people and other nations of Israelite descent—not just among Muslims but among people the world over—we should gain a sense that this is not merely a matter of socioeconomic and political factors. The utter irrationality and unrestrained barbarism of it all provides another clue. There is something deeper at work—something utterly dark and evil.
The Bible informs us that this world is under the deception and sway of the truly Great Satan (1 John 5:19; Revelation 12:9)—not a nation, but an immensely powerful spirit being. Satan the devil and his demons have confused the minds of people everywhere to corrupt them. They especially seek to undermine God’s purpose involving the descendants of Israel."
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"The constant spewing of hate originates with these hate-filled beings. Satan as “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2), broadcasts wrong moods and attitudes into human minds. Indeed, Satan and his demons are more directly the architects of false religion—including Islamic fundamentalism, which even its adherents believe and claim was revealed to Muhammad by a spirit being.
Yet God says that He will use the demonically stirred-up animosity and confusion to fulfill His purposes in the last days: “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it” (Zechariah 12:2-3).
Indeed, God further says of what He Himself will bring about, “I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem” (Zechariah 14:2, emphasis added).
We should further note that these prophecies mention the Jews being in the Holy Land up until these end-time events that will usher in Jesus Christ’s return—so the anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic dream of the Jewish state being completely eradicated will not come true. However, the prophecies do reveal that the Jewish nation will suffer greatly, as will the other Israelite nations (see our free study aid The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy to learn more).
So how will peace come at last? Not through the eradication of the Jews, but through the removal of Satan and his demons at the coming of the Jewish Messiah —the true Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ, who will establish His reign over all nations. It will be an imposed true peace for the benefit and blessing of the whole world. People’s minds will be healed to think soundly and rationally—and with love and kindness toward all.
Of that time we are told, “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you” ’” (Zechariah 8:23). What a vastly different world that will be!"
The website www.pray4zion.org has an article titled
Separating the SHEEP from the GOATS!
Shalom Partner and Friend of Israel,
“Separating the sheep from the goats” …Have you ever heard the saying? Do you know that this phrase is derived from God’s Holy Scripture, the Bible? Yeshua (Jesus) spoke of dividing the sheep from the goats in His parable… as he described the “end of this age!” He stated that a day would come when He would sit on His throne and… gather all the nations before Him. And on that day He would then… separate the nations just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. This account is found in Matthew 25. This segment of the Bible portrays the final portion of Christ’s reply to a few of His disciples when they approached Him with certain questions while He was sitting on the Mount of Olives. The “Mount of Olives” is a place on the four hills east of Jerusalem that form a ridge running in a north-south direction… but refers only to the central pair of these hills directly east of the Temple Mount and with an elevation of 2,723 feet, approximately 173 feet above Jerusalem proper.
It is important to take note of the “location” where the Lord was telling His disciples this parable… The Mount of Olives is named in connection with David’s flight from Absalom (2 Samuel 15:30) and in Zechariah 14:4… which speaks of the Lord’s coming when the Mount will split from East to West. It was also referred to as a stage in the departure of God’s presence from Jerusalem in Ezekiel’s day (Ezekiel 11:23). In the New Testament it is mentioned as the favourite place of our Lord as He withdrew from Jerusalem. It was the start of His triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1); scene of His weeping over Jerusalem (Luke 19:37-41); His “end-time” instruction (Matthew 24 - 25); His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:30); His ascension (Acts 1:9-12)… And this is also the Mount of His return (Acts 1:11; Zechariah 14:4).
Here on the Mount of Olives Yeshua (Jesus) was bringing His final sermon of the gospel of Matthew to a close. As He brings it to a close, He takes a moment to remind the apostles of what He had told them. He reminds them that “a time of tribulation” is coming. This would be a time when they would see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. The same abomination of desolation that Daniel the prophet warned about.
Yeshua (Jesus) reminds them that they are to flee to the mountains of Judea because this will be a persecution such as has never been nor shall ever be again. This persecution is mentioned in the books of Daniel, Joel, Mark, and Matthew. These words are in reference to the great persecution of the Jewish people... We must remember that Yeshua came to His own people, the Jews, and they collectively did not receive Him. As Yeshua concludes this sermon, He is once again pointing them to the “end of the age – when the Son of Man will come and sit on His throne.” He tells them what will happen in that day. This is a very important passage that must be understood in its proper context… Without the proper context, the true interpretation can be easily lost. So let’s look at… Matthew 25:31 – 32; “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats."
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With this passage, Yeshua is referring to the job of a shepherd… When a shepherd would take the sheep out to pasture, the goats would often go with them! The job of the shepherd was to make sure that they remain separate. With this comparison, Yeshua (Jesus) is speaking here of “a time of reward… a time of judgment.” When the Son of Man returns to earth and sits on His glorious throne, the nations must be judged according to how they have treated His people, the Jews. For years we have heard the following Scripture being preached. And, humbly admit that, we in fact ourselves have quoted the passage of: Matthew 25: 31 – 46 without complete understanding to whom Yeshua (Jesus) was actually referring to.
Now who are the “Sheep” and who are the “Goats” that Yeshua (Jesus) was going to separate?
One distinct difference between the goats and the sheep is that… goats wander off and like to do their own thing whereas the sheep even though they need more care follow their shepherd. The “Sheep” follow Yeshua (Jesus) and the “goats” do not! The “sheep” know that Israel has NOT been replaced and that God is watching over Israel!
And, the “sheep” believe that Israel is still the “apple of God's eye.” The Prophet tells us in Zechariah 2:8 that the Jews are the “Apple of His Eye,” …meaning; the most delicate and touchy spot on His body. And we don't dare to poke Him in the apple… the most delicate part of the eye that feels the most pain! The “sheep” are aware that God has promised to… “Bless those who bless Israel, and to curse those who curse Israel” and that God’s covenant with the Jewish nation is eternal and ever lasting.
Now as we go back to Matthew 25, Yeshua (Jesus) sits on His glorious throne with all the nations gathered before Him… And as they are gathered before Him, verse 33 says: “And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.” The right-hand side of a throne is the side of power. Verse 34 goes on to read; “Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’”
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The prophet Joel thunders a message for our time… “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land...Proclaim this among the nations: ‘Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up…Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations… Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness. The LORD also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake; but the LORD will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain…” Joel 3:1-2, 9, 12, 14 – 17
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"The valley of Jehoshaphat… runs between the Mount of Olives and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This is the same as the Kidron valley.
Yeshua (Jesus) is going to sit here someday and judge the nations when He returns to earth at the end of the Great Tribulation. This is known as the valley where God will judge!
The name “Jehoshaphat”… has a literal meaning in Hebrew. It means God will judge. The word translated “judge” in Hebrew is shofat. The word also means to administer justice, pass sentence, punish, rule, or consider. Judgment is from the same root word: shfetah. The first part of the word Jehoshaphat in Hebrew is Yod-He-Vav (YHV) which is part of God’s name, (YHVH) often pronounced Yahweh. There was also a king of Judah called Jehoshaphat.
This is a very helpful Scripture because it identifies the timing of the events as being the time “when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem.” We are living in the times when the captives of Judah and Jerusalem are returning to their ancient homeland (v. 1).
The Bible is clear that God is a God of mercy and a God of justice… In our opinion Exodus 34:6-7 is one of the most important passages of Scripture in the Bible. It is here that God defines Himself and His character to Moses. Jewish sages call this the 13 Attributes of God’s Mercy. One of the things we love most about God is that He is utterly consistent… what He says He will do, He does. We see this in the amazing manner in which biblical prophecies for the nation and people of Israel are being literally fulfilled, especially in the last 100 years. Living in Israel, we see evidence of His faithful promise-keeping nature everywhere as Jewish immigrants from the nations are our neighbours and friends. Hebrew is spoken with a multitude of accents as the people of “the Bible” have come home just like the Bible foretold centuries ago that they would. It is always so easy to look at the positive side of God’s promise keeping… but there are also the His judgment predictions, which God also faithfully fulfils!
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"God has judged nations throughout history… The Bible has many accounts of nations or cities that were judged by God. Here are a few incidents:
Sodom and Gomorrah… God was so incensed at the behaviour of the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah that He utterly destroyed the cities and all but four of their residents by raining down fire and brimstone upon them. They were judged for their perversion and depravity. They were also judged for how they treated visitors. (Leviticus 19:33 -34)
The nation of Egypt… was judged for their treatment of the children of Israel. Each year at Passover, the people of Israel remember the time of their slavery in Egypt and the deliverance of God.
The ten plagues that God brought against ancient Egypt resulted in unprecedented destruction to the country. They were judged for enslaving the Jewish people, killing Jewish baby boys, and for their cruelty to the people of Israel. They were judged and severely punished; however, they were not totally destroyed. (Exodus) There are many references in the Bible to Egypt in subsequent time periods… some of which are still to be fulfilled!
Assyria… the prophets, including Jonah and Nahum, prophesied against the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Assyrian Empire was known for its cruelty. We are all familiar with the story of Jonah and the big fish. This amazing story shows God’s character traits including both… judgment and mercy! We can understand why Jonah didn’t want to go to Nineveh! He was well aware of the heinous deeds of the Assyrians. Their interaction with Israel was studded with painful incidents… in fact the 10 northern tribes were eventually taken into captivity by Assyria. Jonah must have been glad that God was judging the Assyrians. At the same time he understood the character of God (Jonah 4:2). Notice the similarity to Exodus 34:6 – 7. And in fact, the people of Nineveh in that generation did repent and God delayed His judgment. The prophet Zephaniah says: “And He will stretch out His hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh desolation, as dry as the wilderness” (Zephaniah 2:13).
In 612 BC, Nineveh was completely destroyed… razed to the ground. All that remains of that once great city are a few mounds of dirt in what is now Iraq."
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"This curse may be observed by looking at those nations who came against the Jews. They were totally eradicated. Prophecies describe the fate of those today that are killing Jews and trying to destroy Israel. The fate of the Arab nations is vividly described in Amos 1 …and in other places. God loves the Muslim people very much. They need to choose Yeshua (Jesus) who teaches love, not death. There awaits a fate for those who hate Israel. Looking into the past, there is no more Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonia, Persian, Greek or Roman Empire. And in recent years, the British Empire has collapsed. During the British Mandate, the Brits armed the Arabs, prevented the Jews from arming, and prevented ships carrying Holocaust victims from landing in Israel. Today the British Empire is a shadow of what it once was.
God’s character is one of mercy and justice... He is long suffering and desires for all men and nations to come to repentance. Remember, God did not destroy wicked Nineveh when they donned sackcloth and ashes and truly repented. There is still time for nations to repent of their attitudes toward Israel… God, the One who does what He says He will, in His justice judged these and other nations and cities throughout the Bible.
There were many reasons why nations were judged. They were judged for their cruelty, immoral behaviour, and idolatry… And they were judged for how they treated Israel and the Jewish people.
We read in the book of Esther that God placed the judgment of death on a man called Haman because he tried to destroy the Jewish people. This is the judgment of God for leaders of wicked nations. He destroys them. God is a God of judgment as well as a God of love. Those who won’t accept His love will face His judgment. God loves Israel so much and upheld them to the extent that in one battle the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. (Joshua 10:13 – 14)
Are we nearing the time when God will judge the nations…?
Certainly that is a real possibility and from many of the signs we see, judgment may be in the near future. We confess that we don’t understand how God reckons time! It is, however, very clear from this passage (v. 2) that God is unhappy about two issues: (1) Scattering His people, the Jewish people… And (2) for dividing His Land!"
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"Neither Israel NOR any other nation has the right or power to decide the fate of God’s covenant land… and the world has already (although without knowing) seen the enormous price resulting when one touches the “apple of His eye!” The world is about to collide with God Himself! God is serious about the land and His covenant…the Lord is using Israel as the anvil and will literally destroy the nations that come against Jerusalem. And, yes, the Bible said it would come down to this, and that the nations will be drawn to Jerusalem as a moth to a light! The Lord’s fury is building against those who would defy His Word and His Commandments, where Israel is concerned and especially Jerusalem!
Stronger still the Lord says, “Let all those who hate Zion be put to shame and turned back. Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor he who binds the sheaves his arms.” (Psalm 129: 5 – 7)
God is using the rebirth of Israel to cut right through false and incorrect views of His Word… The promise of God in the Bible is crystal clear on page after page and many have tried through the centuries to change it to fit in or alter His Covenant with Israel but in the latter days God has made the truth clear for all to see. God is serious about His Word (Jeremiah 1:12). God is moving to fulfill His Word yet millions can’t see it because of wrong doctrines about Israel and Jerusalem. The very sad part is that believers in Jesus Christ can actually go against the work of God. This is very serious, to be on the wrong side of God defending His Word and becoming apathetic towards Israel. This can lead to failure to pray for and support Israel in this very time of crisis… and at the same time miss out on God’s blessing!
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Some will be sheep nations destined for blessing … and some will be goat nations destined for judgment…! The results will be seen… some will be for and some against! Today the nations are on dangerous ground. There are judgments, which are prophesied in the Bible, that have not yet occurred. Some concern individual nations or cities like the prophecy in Isaiah 17 that speaks of Damascus, an ancient city that endures to the present day in Syria. "Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap" (Isaiah 17:1). This has not occurred to date. There are also several passages, which speak about the nations being judged by God.
Yeshua (Jesus) will judge the nations that have either treated the Jews with… care and kindness or mistreated them... Remember what God said to Abraham in Genesis 12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Much of the Christian Church does not recognize the fact that Jesus was of the tribe of Judah, He was of the house of David, and Yeshua (Jesus) was a Jew, an Israelite. He came to His own and His own did not receive Him… but yet He did not reject His own! During the final time of Tribulation, a time that the world has never seen there will be… the dividing of the sheep and the goats according to whether they have honoured God’s Word and blessed the Jews.
We have seen the persecution of the Jews throughout history. It happened during the Crusades, the Russian Pogroms, and Hitler’s Holocaust. During these times, there were Gentiles who risked their own lives and well-being to help the Jewish people. They fed them, hid them, protected them, clothed them, and went to see them in prison. Those righteous Gentiles serve as a picture for us of the sheep that will be placed on the right when Jesus Christ comes and sits on His glorious throne and divides the nations. The people who have treated the Jews right will receive the gift of eternal life and those that have not will go into eternal damnation by way of the lake of fire"
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"Tony Campolo tells a true story of a Jewish boy who suffered under the Nazis in World War II… He was living in a small Polish village when he and all the other Jews of the vicinity were rounded up by Nazi SS troops and sentenced to death. This Jewish boy joined his neighbours in digging a shallow ditch for their graves, and then faced the firing squad with his parents. Sprayed with machine-gun fire, bodies fell into the ditch and the Nazis covered the crumpled bodies with dirt. But, none of the bullets hit the little boy. He was splattered with the blood of his parents, and when they fell into the ditch, he pretended to be dead and fell on top of them. Several hours later, when darkness fell, he clawed his way out of the grave. With blood and dirt caked on his little body, he made his way to the nearest house and begged for help. Recognizing him as one of the Jewish boys marked for death, he was turned away from house after house as people feared getting into trouble with the SS troops.Then something inside this Jewish boy seemed to guide him to say something that was very strange for a Jew to say. When the next family responded to his timid knocking in the still of the night, they heard him cry… "Don’t you recognize me? I am the Jesus you say you love." After a poignant pause, the woman who stood in the doorway swept him into her arms and kissed him. From that day on, the members of that family loved and cared for that Jewish boy as though he were one of their own. "I am the Jesus you say you love!" That little Jewish boy was more correct than you might imagine… Matthew 25:40 tells us that one day the Great King and Judge of all the earth will say to people such as that kind hearted Christian lady, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me."
Today there is no more venomous spirit than the spirit of anti-Semitism, really the spirit of the Antichrist. Many news talking-heads deny Israel the right to self-defence. We have a United Nations that would rather drink a poisonous potion then condemn a terrorist… yet they condemn Israel again and again. The bottom line is that the Muslims want Israel’s covenant land and want to destroy the Jews in the process! God isn’t happy about that!
History records that no nation or race has ever persecuted Israel or the Jews and escaped the wrath of God...! That Israel has deserved its own punishment is prophetically declared by the prophets… but it is God Himself that brings punishment to His earthly people, not others. The more our nation, South Africa, blesses Israel the more God will bless us!
Some people wonder why we bless Israel so much… or why we should go there as they say that the Jews will NOT believe in Jesus Christ as Messiah… or why we are even concerned about Israel’s welfare? Our response is always the same… we are all called to bless the Lord’s "brethren"… and should the Jews suddenly all become Christians today then… the Bible would NOT be true! Why? Although there are many Messianic Jews (believing in Yeshua (Jesus) as Messiah) the Bible tells us that the salvation of Israel; nationally and spiritually will NOT come until "the time of Jacob’s trouble" or the "Tribulation" Jeremiah 30:7 and Zechariah 12:10"
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"Paul too described the "Tribulation" as "Birth Pains." First Thessalonians 5:3 says… "…For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape." This event follows the Rapture and the removal of the church, in 4:13–18. And in 5:9 Paul reemphasizes the absence of the Church by saying…"For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." The wrath spoken of here is God’s judgement on the unbelieving world and the discipline of Israel during the Tribulation.
Indeed, that day will come that Yeshua prophesied about in Luke 13: 34- 35 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!"’
This is very "prophetic" as the Lord said… He would not return until the time comes that they (the Jews) say; "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" That is why it is also so important for Christians to reach out to Jewish people with a love that will make them jealous… And when the Jewish people as a whole finally do bless their Messiah, they will enter into His promised blessings, along with the "sheep people" who had heeded Yeshua’s command to bless His Jewish brethren… even before that great day of their national awakening. The goat people, however, will experience His cursing for failing to do so, and even for failing to do nothing at all!
Who are the Lord’s "brethren?" We believe that when Yeshua refers to… "My brethren" in this context of judging the nations… He is speaking of the Jewish people. As far as our research has gone, we see no place that Yeshua referred to any other people as "brethren." While He certainly loves all peoples - His Word is flawless… and nations will be judged for how they treat the nation and people of Israel. We are not alone in this opinion. Most of the Bible commentaries we checked agree with this interpretation. This in no way means that we shouldn’t also care for the needs of others..!. But, certainly believe we would be foolish NOT to recognize that God cares deeply for Israel and will judge those who come against them, scatter the people, divide the land, and don’t show love and compassion to the Jewish people when they are in distress. Mistreating the brethren Jews is the same as mistreating Yeshua (Jesus). God has already judged nations and kingdoms for this. Under Pharaoh, the Israelites were in great bondage; and God mercifully raised up Moses to deliver them.
And as we look at Matthew 25:31 - 46 ...we see that all believers no matter what their calling, have a responsibility to love and support the Jewish people, Yeshua’ (Jesus)’ "brethren." And we also see how serious this matter is: That anyone who ignores this responsibility is taking a great risk. For God will judge severely those who do not love the people whom God loves with a special love… the apple of His eye and His treasured possession."
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"Many in the church have learned to tolerate the Jewish people, as they have learned to be "politically correct" and tolerate just about anything and anybody… but they will not lift a finger to help the Jewish people in their time of need. It may not be a sin of commission, but it is certainly a sin of omission… "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me." And the judgment for the sin of omission is just as severe: "He will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels."
Only through the Jews did wisdom come into the world…
"The law came by Moses but grace and truth by Messiah Jesus." (John 1.17) In effect, the Jews brought us God, up close and personal! All a Christian needs to do is to open the Bible and God can speak into his life something personal and up-to-date wrapped in a package of historical accuracy. Only through the Bible can one look backwards into time and forwards into the future, sometimes simultaneously. Christians need to know that they owe their very existence to the Jews including their salvation, their abundant life, and their eternal life. We must always remember to pray for the Jews and for Israel and to bless them spiritually and materially.
So how will we respond to the need of Yeshua’s brethren in these last days? Besides defending the Jewish people, we already have an opportunity, as believers, to help the "least of Yeshua’s brethren," the poor. Now many people think of Jewish people as being rich. But there are large pockets of poverty. A news item came out recently, saying that Jerusalem leads the State of Israel in the number of poor families. We trust that we will be found faithful and love His brothers…and one day we be among those one His right hand who hear the King say… "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me!"
& continues
"And, loving Israel in this way is important…? Yes! This practical love of Christians will provoke the ‘jealousy’ (Romans 10:19; 11:11; 11:14), and one day the Jewish people will receive Yeshua (Jesus) as a result of this practical testimony. And, these acts of generosity should be a natural outgrowth of our debt of gratitude for what Israel has given us and will give us in the future when we together with the Lord’s brethren share in the blessings of the kingdom. Speaking of the future, the good works we do on behalf of the Jewish people will be remembered by the Lord… not even that cup of cold water will be forgotten!
God has clearly set up a sort of a "wall," or a "line in the sand" as a test from the beginning… The Jewish Test! The Nazis didn't listen when they killed six million Jews and it’s estimated that twenty million Germans lost their lives in World War II. The Pharaoh of Egypt didn't listen… so he lost his life chasing the Hebrews in the Red Sea. Pharaoh tried to kill Jewish babies and so he watched as all Egypt's first born sons were killed. History is filled with these real tests of what happened to people who mistreated the Jews. Spain became a second rate power immediately after expelling the Jews and similar things happened to Britain… it was once said that, "the sun never sets on the British Empire!" Look what happened several times to Arab countries who connived to attack Israel in the last century. America won its War of Independence due to a great contribution from the 30 million dollars the Jews in Philadelphia raised by selling their own personal property, at the request of George Washington, in a crucial turning point, in 1777.
Joel 3:2 the prophet speaks of a time when the Lord will restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem and gather the nations together in the Valley of Jehoshaphat to hold them accountable for the way they've treated His people. Joel's prophecy is a reference to the Sheep and Goat judgment that Matthew also spoke of in Matthew 25:32"
and lastly says
"Yeshua (Jesus) was a Jew... and His entire ministry was to save the lost sheep of Israel. Only after Israel "nationally" rejected their time of visitation (Messiah) did God's blessings also go to those Gentiles who accepted the Messiah. Yet, Israel is not and cannot be forgotten by God! The Goats curse Israel and God's chosen people, the Jews and seek to hurt them… and do not act like sheep. Former President Richard Nixon once remarked that Israel could never give into the Arab demands to establish a Palestinian sovereign state within Israel… for that would be tantamount to living with the tip of a sharp sword just an inch from her heart! Today we see how the US, UN, European nations and other nations are joining forces together and continue their "rabid" concept of the Palestinians actually getting a state! The battle lines are drawn for Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, without which the security and sovereignty of Israel is at an extreme risk. Israel cannot defend Jerusalem if she surrenders Judea and Samaria as a territorial sacrifice for the sake of the world "peace." Judea and Samaria (co-called West bank) is the "heart" of Israel… and Jerusalem the "soul!" If the "heart" is removed… what will happen to the "soul?"
Jerusalem has been the physical and spiritual capital of the Jewish people for 3000 years. There's always been a strong Jewish presence and a continuous Jewish presence since 1267. Jews were the majority of the population in Jerusalem since 1850. At the same time, enemies of Israel are being shipped the most advanced American weaponry that even America’s NATO allies have not yet received. Again, Jews and pro-Israel Christians are being deceived… and Israel's survival is at risk.
Israel was and is despised today… and a despisable nation continually turning away from God but nothing ever altered the purpose of God for that nation. The despised element is always a noticeable element in the purpose of God. When the Saviour of the world came, He came of that despised nation; like Israel… He Himself was "despised and rejected by men," …and there is that despised element, "things that are despised God has chosen." It is interesting to note that even years after the rejection of Yeshua by the majority of the Jewish people that Yeshua’s disciples still refer to Jewish unbelievers as "their brethren." In Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost he refers to his audience in Jerusalem as; "men and brethren…" (Acts 2: 29) Stephen, who is about to be stoned, still regarded his unbelieving Jewish compatriots as "his brethren" in Acts 6: 15 – 7: 2). Even years later, Paul speaks to Jewish unbelievers as his brethren in Acts 13: 38, when he says, "" Therefore let it be known to you, brethren…" So we see that it was common for unbelieving Jews, even Jews hostile to the gospel, still to be referred to as "brethren." Now more than at any time we need to support Israel and the Jewish people… the Lord’s Brethren!
We hope that you enjoy and become more informed by our work. We serve an awesome God and we are humbled by this opportunity to bring you this information. With Shalom to you and your family always,
Alf & Julie Saunders
15th September, 2013
The website www.newsmax.com has an article titled
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"Attacked Rabbi: President Trump 'Exceedingly Kind, Spoke to Me Like a Buddy'"
(Denis Poroy/AP)
By Solange Reyner | Monday, 29 April 2019 06:54 AM
the article says
"The rabbi injured in the synagogue shooting near San Diego on Sunday raved about Donald Trump’s kind words following a telephone conversation the pair had and said the president assured him that tackling anti-Semitism was a priority of his.
Trump was “exceedingly comforting to me, my community,” Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein told reporters outside the Chabad of Poway synagogue a day after he was shot in both of his index fingers.
In a separate interview with MSNBC Goldstein said Trump "spoke to me like a friend, like a buddy."
Trump, said Goldstein, told him he loves Israel.
"He said, listen, I have a son-in-law who's Jewish, a daughter that's Jewish, I have grandchildren that are Jewish. I love Israel, we're going to do whatever we can to protect the Jewish people of United States of America and abroad."
“It was the highlight of the day after everything I've been through to hear from the president himself to be so comforting and consoling. It meant a lot to our community, meant a lot to me,” he added.
“He was exceedingly kind and sensitive. We spoke for close to 15 minutes. I thought to myself, for the President of the United States of America to take time out of his day to talk to me about the issues at hand was just absolutely incredible and admirable."
Trump called the rabbi "very special" in a tweet early Monday, saying:
"I spoke at length yesterday to Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Chabad of Poway, where I extended my warmest condolences to him and all affected by the shooting in California. What a great guy. He had a least one finger blown off, and all he wanted to do is help others. Very special!"
Goldstein founded the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California, which was targeted by a 19-year-old gunman armed with an assault-style weapon who wrote a manifesto of hate against Jewish people.
Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, died after shielding Goldstein from the bullets. Three others were injured in the shooting, which happened on the final day of Passover. A suspect was taken into custody." this article was about the tragic Poway Synagogue shooting that occurred on
April 27, 2019
From the website www.ynetnews.com an article titled
"68% of Arab-Israelis prefer to live in Israel"
Survey by Haifa University shows over two-thirds of Arab-Israelis are resigned to living in a Jewish state, but 63% don't think it's fair
Ahiya Raved |Published: 06.06.12 , 23:12
the article says
"Some 80% of Arabs living in Israel blame Jews for the Nakba, but 60% of them are resigned to Israel as a state with a Jewish majority, the Index of Arab-Jewish Relations for 2011, conducted by Prof. Sami Samuha of the University of Haifa shows.
The full results of the survey, which Samuha has run annually for the last 30 years, are due to be announced at a university conference on Thursday.
Despite the fact that most of the respondents accepted Israel as a majority Jewish state, 63% of Arabs polled believe that it was not fair. Seventy-three percent of Arab respondents said they believe that the government treated Arabs as second-class citizens undeserving of equality.
Moreover, 68.3% of Arabs polled said they preferred to live in Israel than in other countries. Slightly more than half (56.5%) accepted Israel as a Hebrew-speaking state, and 58% accepted Shabbat as the day of rest. "
the article continues
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Asked whether the respondents preferred Israel as a land or as a national entity, Samuha said that the results were mixed: "On one hand there is a connection with the land and on the other hand there is the acknowledgement of convenience, freedom and stability in the State of Israel.
"In Israel there are a lot of benefits and a modern way of life, as well as economic and political stability. You can't compare the lives of Arabs in the Galilee to that of Arabs in Palestine, Lebanon, or Egypt. There is also the element that in Israel there is no concern of an Islamist takeover."
Samuha pointed to responses that showed that 71% of Israel Arabs felt that Israel was a good place to live, while 60% said they felt it was a home and a homeland.
Samuha said that the results of the survey over time show that intelligence and common sense prevail over extremist positions, and added that the long-term results showed pragmatism and acceptance alongside political polarization.
However, extremism was not absent from the survey. Nineteen percent of Israeli Arabs denied Israel's right to exists, as opposed to 11% who expressed a similar view in 2003. Fifty-seven percent of Israeli Arabs said that they would support a referendum that defined Israel as a "Jewish, democratic state that promised full civil rights to Arabs," compared to the 70.9% who said they would support such a referendum in 2006.
"Despite the chasm, there is agreement between the Jewish majority and the Arab majority about living together in the state of Israel, so there is still a base for a common society."
The article lastly says
"The survey comprised 1,400 respondents, half Jewish and half Arab. The survey results that indicated the best relations between Jews and Arabs were recorded in 1995, the year former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was" People have pointed out that even if Arab citizens of Israel were "second Class Citizens" still the Facts show Arab Citizens of Israel still have it
Much Better, FAR BETTER than their fellow Arabs in other Arab countries, Far Better, More Freedoms, than they would have in any Arab Nation, People have said Israel is not what's wrong with the Middle East, but what's right about the Middle East, and Many Arab Citizens of Israel would prefer to keep living in Israel as opposed to living in a proposed future "Palestinian State" they know they would have better lives in Israel as opposed to living in a
"Palestinian State" which would probably end up being a Police State Terrorist Dictatorship
From the website www.israeltoday.co.il an article titled
"COMMENTARY: Anti-Semitism Doesn’t Pay"
God wasn’t lying when He said that those who bless Israel would be blessed, and those who curse would be cursed
November 25, 2018 | Israel Today Staff
the article says
"Proof, if it were needed, that it doesn’t pay to be anti-Semitic has come with the rejection of Roald Dahl’s image for British coins.
The Royal Mint, responsible for such decisions, has ruled him out for his virulent anti-Semitism, which should be taken as some consolation at a time when British society is rife with anti-Jewish sentiment – even a Kristallnacht 80th anniversary vigil at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner was broken up by men shouting “Kill the Jews” in Arabic.
Dahl’s views on the subject were apparently not widely known in spite of the fact that the immensely successful children’s author made no secret of it.
But as Tony Rennell put it in the Daily Mail, his dark side was brought to light with the Royal Mint’s decision against honouring his achievements by dedicating a British coin to him – the honour going instead to one William Shakespeare “whose caricature of a Jew (Shylock) in The Merchant of Venice fed anti-Semitism for centuries.”
I think that’s a little unfair as the Bard did not make a habit of such sentiment.
Dahl, on the other hand, was quoted in the Independent newspaper as saying: “I’m certainly anti-Israel and I’ve become anti-Semitic.” And he told the New Statesman: “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them (the Jews) for no reason.”
Rennell lists several other nauseous instances of Dahl’s anti-Semitism that might have had him arrested today (he died in 1990, aged 74). And while acknowledging that he remains one of the greatest children’s storytellers of the 20th century, he suggests that the dark side to many of his tales is a fair commentary on his life, with much evidence of cruelty and unpleasantness.
Yet not even Jewish Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, when he shot the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) film, had any idea of his rank anti-Semitism.
What really bothers me is that there is so much that is dark and gloomy in today’s literature, especially for children, as well as in TV drama. In fact, it’s an absolute obsession, reflected by the way in which Halloween is rapidly challenging Christmas for our kids’ attention as an increasing number of homes are decorated with various aspects of occult paraphernalia.
There is surely an urgency as never before to point our children to the “light of the world” (John 8.12).
Dahl’s rejection for our coins reminds me of how America’s famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh, fell spectacularly from hero and zero as soon as his Nazi sympathies were made public on a national radio broadcast.
He ended his life in relative obscurity and even a star-studded movie about his magnificent flying exploits was a flop at the box office.
The article continues
"In other words, he brought a curse on himself. For the Word of God says of Abraham’s seed: “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.” (Gen 12.3)
Whatever anyone may think of the Jewish people, the Bible tells us quite plainly that they are God’s chosen people, with several references to them being his “treasured possession”. (See, for example, Deut 7.6)
Anti-Semitism is thus the rotten fruit at the end of the dark road of rebellion against our Creator. Hitler went all the way down that path, and not only destroyed himself, but also brought his country down with him, along with much of Europe.
A massive battle for the soul of our nation continues today – between good and evil, light and darkness, God and the devil.
Jesus warned: _“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” _(Matthew 7.13f)
Choose life!" Roald Dahl was a loser and an anti-semitic pig, but he was correct in saying Hitler was a "stinker" literally Hitler was a stinker, it is a well documented historical fact that Hitler had Uncontrollable Flatulence for much of his life, he could not stop farting, anyone can do a Google Search about this , Hitler was full of Sh-t
From the website telegraph.co.uk an article from 2000 titled
"You go to hell, angry Arafat tells Barak"
By Alan Philps in Jerusalem
12:00AM BST 23 Oct 2000
"YASSER ARAFAT told Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, to "go to hell" last night."
the article says
"The Palestinian leader's outburst followed Mr Barak's announcement of a break in peace negotiations after three more Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in continuing violence in the occupied territories.
Mr Arafat returned to Gaza in defiant mood from the emergency Arab summit in Cairo, which promised him financial aid but could not agree on any punitive measures against Israel. Asked about Mr Barak's announcement of "a time-out" in the peace talks, he said: "Our people are continuing on the road to Jerusalem, capital of the independent Palestinian state, whether Barak accepts it or not. Let him go to hell."
Last night there were gun battles on the outskirts of Bethlehem between Palestinian militiamen and Israeli soldiers. At least 124 people have been killed in more than three weeks of violence, most of them Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
Mr Barak continued his efforts to form a government of national emergency with the hawkish Right-wing leader, Ariel Sharon. He blamed the Palestinians for ruining his hopes of a peace deal, saying that they had turned to violence in an attempt to bring in the United Nations to protect them.
The summit in Egypt bristled with rhetoric from Arab leaders but little else. At the end of the meeting they promised $1 billion to support Palestinian "steadfastness" and preserve the Arab character of occupied east Jerusalem." Ehud Barak should have cursed Arafat out right back to his ugly Arab Face , Ehud Barak should have said to Arafat "Kiss my Ass" or "Suck my D--K" to the two legged cockroach Arafat, who was NOT even "Palestinian" but an Egyptian
Another Article about how Psalm 102 Predicted the Holocaust of the Second World War
An Article titled "Shoah in the Bible?" from this website,
https://en.shalomfromg-d.net/2018/04/21/shoah-in-the-bible/,
The website www.algemeiner.com has an article on May 16, 2018 titled
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"Palestinian Authority Will Use Upcoming UNESCO Meeting to Claim Ownership of Dead Sea Scrolls Site, Jewish Group Reveals"
by Algemeiner Staff
the article says
"A part of the Temple Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
A leading Jewish human rights organization disclosed on Wednesday that it had received advance warning of a Palestinian attempt to claim ownership of the historic Jewish site of Qumran, in the West Bank, at a forthcoming meeting of the UN’s educational and cultural agency UNESCO.
Shimon Samuels — director for International Relations at the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) — said in a letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay that he had “learned from UNESCO Arab Group sources of an apparent plan by the Palestinian delegation to claim the Qumran Caves and the Dead Sea Scrolls at the May 30-31 May session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in case of Illicit Appropriation (ICPRCP), at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.”
Contemporary knowledge of Jewish society and life in Israel during the Hellenic and Roman periods was given an extraordinary boost by the discovery of eleven scrolls in the caves of Khirbet Qumran, near the Dead Sea, between 1947 and 1956. UNESCO’s own description of the site notes that the series of scrolls, written mainly in Hebrew and Aramaic, “provides us with valuable information about the history of Judaism and the early phase of Christianity.”
Samuels said that the Palestinian bid to claim Qumran “continues the antics of annual historical revisionism at UNESCO to validate a Palestinian mythology.” In that regard, he cited the Palestinian campaign over the last several years to claim as “Muslim” historic Jewish sites like Jerusalem’s Western Wall and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
Pointing to the recent discovery in the scrolls of references to Jewish rites in the Temple in Jerusalem, Samuels asked, “if the Palestinians reject the existence of a Jewish Temple Mount in Jerusalem, why would they seek to own the proofs positive of that Temple’s Jewish validity"
Some People typed in reply to the article about the Dead Sea Scrolls that
"Sootys mum • a year ago
Islam has no real history so they have been claiming Jewish history, and rewriting it, to give the hate filled ideology some kind of substance. One only has to look at their claim that Ishmael was the boy chosen to be sacrificed instead of Isaac to see."
Havardr Ivansson • a year ago
They "seek to own the proofs positive of that Temple’s Jewish validity" to deny it to Jews," they don't want anybody to have anything they haven't got. Time's running out for them.
OnlyWhatsDoneForChristWillLast • a year ago
"Next absurd claim: "WE invented Hebrew and the Jews stole it!"
Efram Paul • a year ago
Why to destroy them of course. Yet another UNESCO action to be ignored. Aren't the US and Israel leaving this agency of lies this year?"
Terrible how almost Everyone & Everything in the World is Anti-Semitic & Anti-Jewish & Anti-Israel, The whole world unjustly hates Israel, while Israel gives so much to the World, in Medicine, Technology, Computers, Inventions, Humanitarian Aid, etc Things that Benefit all Mankind, Israel benefits all Mankind, while the enemies of Israel are completely Satanic, Demonic evil Frauds, the enemies of Israel are Diabolical, Diabolical liars, Pure Evil, Insane and filled with Raw Hate, with not a shred of humanity or morality or decency within them, the enemies of Israel contribute nothing to the betterment of Humanity, they are worthless pathetic losers & Hypocrites who should just Get a Life, and Get Help, not only that the Enemies of Israel & The Jewish people, ever notice how they are rotten evil people overall, they often unjustly hate other Racial,Ethnic & Religious Groups as well, they NEVER limit their hate to Jews & Israel, Many Christians have pointed out how Satan the Devil Hates Israel & The Jewish People, While God loves Israel & The Jewish People
From the website www.jesus-is-lord.com an article is titled
"Crazy people put down the Jewish people."
Genesis 12:3, And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (God speaking to Abraham, father of the Jewish people)
People are crazy. A lot of the articles that I write are the direct result of a bunch of people writing me about the same subject. In this case, the subject is the Jewish people. A man kept writing me about some racist tract against the Jewish people. It said that all the world's problems are because of Jewish people. That's unbiblical right there because the Bible says that we don't war against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. The writer also told me that God no longer deals with physical Israel which is a lie.
Yes, many Israelites (Jewish people) have stumbled at the stumblingblock, Jesus Christ. He is not what they expected. Nevertheless the Jewish people are not utterly cast down! Their fall allowed us Gentiles to come into a relationship with the true God. For thousands of years we were willingly outside the promises [serving] trees and moons and suns and evil spirits. We need to be thankful for the Jewish people, custodians of God's word for centuries on end. Our Bible, both Old and New Testaments, was written down by Jewish men. The nation of Israel has not stumbled never to rise again.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
All racists against the Jews need to read Romans to get some learning. It is true that unconverted Jews need to get saved just like anybody else. They will not go to heaven without repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. It is not true however, that God has cast away physical Israel. Paul says so--
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew...
Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; HOW MUCH MORE THEIR FULNESS?
Gentiles need to stop boasting themselves against Israel. The Bible says that Israelites are the NATURAL branch and we Gentiles are the WILD branch.
Romans 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
One of our teenaged readers wrote here a couple of months ago saying he just found out that he is really Jewish and gave me a url. It was ridiculous. It claimed that straight up white Europeans are the real Jews, and that the descendants of Israel are not. Just today, 7-27-98 I got an e-mail from a ridiculous individual who said that Jesus was not Jewish. THAT was the icing that frosted my cake and so I wrote this short treatise. People need to wake up. They will twist and wrest with the scriptures to their own destruction. The scriptures say that they that worship the God must worship Him in spirit and in TRUTH. God [does not] accept [any] lies. [ANY] LIES. Racists better get a clue before it is [everlasting] too late!
The following internet excerpt...gives a good overview of the belief that Anglo-Saxons are the true Jews [please do not look up further information on this for this area contains great blasphemies]:
[This] false doctrine of British-Israelism...propagates a variety of fictitious narratives intended to prove that the promises given to Israel in Scripture will be fulfilled in Britain, America, and other Anglo-Saxon countries...
"Hebrew Roots" of Christianity doctrine - a form of British-Israelism which claims that the Anglo-Saxon nations are the lost 12 tribes of Israel. "
Anyone see the episode of "The Big Bang Theory" titled
"The Jerusalem Duality" from the website bigbangtheory.fandom.com it says
Season no.
1
Episode no.
12
Airdate
April 14, 2008
"The Jerusalem Duality" is the twelfth episode of the first season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. This episode first aired on Monday, April 14, 2008.
Contents[show]
Summary
Dennis Kim, a child prodigy, is looking around the university and seems to have outstripped Sheldon's achievements in every way. Sheldon decides to give up his own work and focus on other tasks. It annoys the guys so much that they try to distract Dennis in order to get Sheldon back to normal.
Extended Plot
Dennis Kim is being introduced.
At work, Sheldon and Leonard discuss problems of teleportation. Sheldon is adamantly against being disintegrated even if he is exactly recreated. He simply can't allow the original Sheldon to be destroyed. Dr. Eric Gablehauser introduces Dennis Kim, a new 15-year-old prodigy and wants the boys to make him feel welcome. Kim is dismissive of Sheldon's work in string theory calling it a dead end. Kim starts explaining to Sheldon about false vacuums, but gets distracted by chocolate milk in the vending machine. Sheldon muses "I sense a disturbance in the force." ala Star Wars. "
The article continues
"As Sheldon and Leonard show Dennis around, we see Sheldon's office for the first time. On seeing Sheldon's whiteboards, Dennis comments negatively on Sheldon's work in quantum loop corrections. He questions if Sheldon has considered a field theory approach. Sheldon takes exception, then orders Leonard to get Dennis out of his office. On their way out, Dennis sees Sheldon's Stevenson Award. Sheldon takes great pride in announcing that he is the youngest person to win the award at "fourteen and a half". "You WERE the youngest winner", Dennis corrects him, strutting out of the office.
Back at the apartment, Sheldon is fuming about Dennis Kim's presence, upset that at fifteen years old, Dennis is correcting Sheldon's work. Sheldon adds that he has gone from "being Stevenson Mozart, to being...that other guy". (Sheldon is referring to musician Stevenson Antonio Salieri, a contemporary of Mozart's painted as a desperate and jealous rival of Mozart's musical brilliance in the play, theatre musical, and film titled "Amadeus".) When Howard chimes in with Salieri's name, Sheldon is despondent, noting "Oh God, now even you're smarter than me". Leonard encourages Sheldon to eat something, then he'll feel better. Sheldon doubts this because "In Texas when a cow goes dry, they don't keep feeding it, they just take her out back and shoot her between the eyes". Sheldon always knew that some day someone smarter would come along; but he always assumed that he would have been dead for hundreds of years and that the new smarter someone would have an asterisk beside their name because they were a cyborg. Sheldon determines that the rational thing is to give up fruitless efforts in his own field and point his efforts in a new direction; dedicating himself to scientific research and waiting to die. Penny questions whether they have to WAIT for him to die, or if they get to shoot him between the eyes. "
and continues
"Later that night, Sheldon has decided that with his own line of research blown up by Dennis, he will instead collaborate with Leonard. He asks Leonard to clarify exactly what he does; he's listened to Leonard talk about his work, but he never really paid attention. Leonard is currently designing an experiment to study the soft component of cosmic radiation at sea level. Sheldon looks at Leonard's design and asks about a laser array in the schematic, questioning why he's using helium lasers instead of argon lasers. Leonard tells him that he's pretty sure it would blow up. Sheldon knocks Leonard's scientific method: "Pretty sure is not very scientific. It this how you usually work? With hunches and guesses and stuff"? Leonard finally has enough, telling Sheldon to "GO AWAY!".
The next day, Sheldon attempts to collaborate with Howard in engineering. Sheldon has made it clear over time that he regards Howard in particular and engineering in general to be far far beneath his own level of science. Sheldon has never visited Howard's work space in the 3 years he'd worked there, so when he shows up, Howard is immediately suspicious of Sheldon's presence. Howard shows Sheldon that he's working on a payload support structure that is going up on the next space shuttle. Sheldon looks it over and declares, "so it's a shelf". He further critiques the design, from the choice of metal to the structural details. Howard reminds Sheldon that he has a diploma in his office that says he has a Masters in Engineering. Sheldon rebuts, picking up a piece of paper on Howard's desk; "You also have a note from your mother that says 'I love you, bubbulah'. But neither of those is a cogent argument for titanium over nanotubes". Howard mimics Leonard's response to Sheldon's meddling: "GO AWAY!" Sheldon wants to know if Leonard told him to say that. Howard retorts that he came up with it on his own. Sheldon walks away, pondering how this cannot be coincidence, and wondering what causal link he's missing"
and continues
"We don't see the interaction between Sheldon and Raj, but predictably, it ends the same way, and we see Raj angrily throwing Sheldon out of his office with the predicted "GO AWAY!" Sheldon leaves, muttering to himself "Curiouser, and curiouser".
Back at the apartment Howard and Raj show up to discuss the situation with Leonard. Raj tells Leonard that Sheldon watched him work for 10 minutes then started designing a piece of software that could replace him. Leonard isn't sure what CAN be done, as Sheldon will never be able to cope with the fact that a 15 year old kid is smarter than him. Raj wonders what would happen if "something happened" to Dennis so he would no longer be a threat to Sheldon. Howard suggests they use "biology...you know....biology" to distract Kim from academics.
Sheldon gets home, excitedly babbling about how, if they all teamed up, they could lick cold fusion in a decade, twelve years tops. They all glare at Sheldon, who seems to be learning, as he asks.."go away?". They all nod and Sheldon is at the brink of an epiphany: "Could it be ME?"
Leonard, Howard, and Raj seek Penny's help. They want to try to "distract" Kim by hooking him up with a girl, so they ask her where to get a hot Asian 15 year old girl with a thing for smart guys. Leonard points out that Howard's comment was racist, and that ANY hot 15 year old girl will do. Penny slams the door on them.
Sheldon applies himself to winning the Nobel Peace Prize for solving the Middle East crisis by creating a second wailing wall (also called the "Western Wall") in the Mexican desert. Dr. Gablehauser and Dennis Kim stop by. Sheldon explains his concept to them; convinced that, like the baseball movie "build it and they will come", adding that he plans to lure the Jewish people by "making it nice...we'll put out a spread". His jealousy and hatred for Dennis is still apparent as he asks Kim "You can see "The Matrix, can't you?" Gablehauser takes Dennis down the hall...explaining that Sheldon "is nuts". As they leave, Sheldon can be heard singing the Jewish folksong, "Hava Nagila".
and lastly says
""Bring Your Daughter to Work Day", a device obviously invented by the boys as a means to populate the event with prospective young women to distract Dennis. As the boys plot how to get a girl interested in Dennis, Dr. Gablehauser gives his welcome speech and introduces Dennis. When asked if he'd like to give a few words about his upcoming research, Kim declines, instead leaving the party in his honor to go to the mall with Emma, one of the beautiful daughters in attendance, leaving the boys speechless that he was able to land such a girl on his own. Sheldon steps in to cover the awkward silence left by Dennis' departure. He takes advantage of the situation to announce to the crowd that his own work will continue and that social relationships will continue to baffle and repulse him.
Later at the park, the boys have been playing with model rockets. Howard is annoyed that even with his work orbiting Earth on a space shuttle, he received a ticket for launching his rocket in the park. Leonard points out that it was probably due to Howard's insistence to the police woman that she frisk him. The boys come across Dennis Kim, disheveled, making out with Emma and drinking what appears to be alcohol from a bottle in a paper bag. He gives the impression of being a ruined person. Raj feels bad for what they did to him. Sheldon has no such sympathies, noting: "Screw him, he was weak." The prequel series
"Young Sheldon" has also had references to Jews & Judaism in several episodes
From the website , www.speakersaction.com the website of the Speakers Action Group an article titled
"Historical and Investigative Research: "Was There a Massacre at Deir Yassin?"
The Pro-PLO Camp Says Yes; The Historical Documentation Says Otherwise"
Historical and Investigative Research, 20 Nov 2005
by Francisco Gil-White
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Preface
In any conflict, we can expect the interested parties to say that their opponents are bad, so finding the balance of justice requires that we go beyond the mutual accusations of the participants.
In the Arab-Israeli conflict, supporters of the PLO charge that the "Palestinian refugee problem" stems from supposed civilian massacres carried out by Jewish forces, which created a panic resulting in the flight of the Arab population. The argument rests almost exclusively on the repetition of the allegation that Jewish forces perpetrated a massacre of Arab civilians at Deir Yassin.
Since the entire argument rests heavily on Deir Yassin, what will be left of the accusation against the Jews if Arab civilians were not massacred at Deir Yassin?
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Allegations by Arabs
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What happened at Deir Yassin? One way to get a feel for why so many people around the world believe that Jewish forces massacred Arab civilians at Deir Yassin is to read a major newspaper. For example, according to The Guardian, Deir Yassin is
“. . .the Palestinian village where 254 [Arab] villagers were massacred in April 1948, in the most spectacular single attack in the conquest of Palestine.”[1]
Several things are noteworthy about the way in which the Guardian writes. The first is that the Guardian takes it for granted that there was a massacre at Deir Yassin, even though this allegation has always been hotly disputed. But not a hint of that controversy in the Guardian's article. I shall come back to this.
Second, notice that the phrase “the conquest of Palestine” is designed to suggest that a place existed called ‘Palestine,’ and that it was conquered in a war of aggression. In fact, however, a foreign colonial power, Britain, had baptized a piece of land in the Middle East as ‘Palestine’ after the Ottoman Empire lost its Middle Eastern possessions in 1918. In 1921-22, the British radically re-drew the boundaries of ‘Palestine,’ making it less than half its previous size. That’s how much reality ‘Palestine’ had.[1a]"
The article continues
"But even if one were to grant the reality of ‘Palestine’ the Guardian would still be wrong when it claims that this land was conquered in a Jewish war of aggression, because the Jews were defending themselves from an Arab attack. And by the way, the explicit and loudly stated Arab objective was to exterminate the Israeli Jews. Consider what Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, promised:
"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."[2]
That the attacking Arabs could speak this way only three years after Adolf Hitler had finished exterminating the European Jewish population is astonishing. One wishes to avert the eyes but one must not -- this reveals how fiercely the antisemitic passion burned in the hearts of Israel’s Arab enemies in 1948.
Notice also that the Guardian’s phrase “the most spectacular single attack” appears to suggest that there were many such attacks, as if the Jews had conducted themselves on the battlefield worse than the Arabs. But...it was the Arabs who meant to exterminate the Jews. And the Arabs were not alone. The Nation, in 1948, publishing the official documents it had obtained, exposed that the US State Department supported, and the British Foreign Office sponsored, the Arab side in this war. This included the British sending captured Nazi officers to 'advise' the Arab armies.[2a]
So given that the Guardian braves historical absurdity in order to write with an anti-Jewish slant, we are now entitled to wonder if the Guardian might not be dishonest when it takes it for granted that there was a massacre of Arab civilians by Jewish forces at Deir Yassin. But if we are capable of skepticism on this point, it is because we have performed the historical analysis, which most people do not. Most people simply read the Guardian, trusting what they read, and what they understand is that the Arab allegations are supposedly fact.
They are not."
and continues
"The allegations about Deir Yassin on the Arab side all seem to go back to a certain Hussein Khalidi. As Palestine Facts explains,
“Khalidi was one of the originators of the ‘massacre’ allegation in 1948. It was Khalidi’s claims about Jewish atrocities in Dir Yassin that were the basis for an article in the New York Times by its correspondent, Dana Schmidt (on April 12, 1948), claiming a massacre took place. The Times article has been widely reprinted and cited as ‘proof’ of the massacre throughout the past 50 years.”[4]
This is what Dana Schmidt from the New York Times wrote in 1948:
"Dr. Hussein Khalidi, secretary of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, denounced the 'massacre' of 250 Arab men, women, and children by Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, Zionist terrorist groups, at Deir Yassin on Friday."[4a]
[NOTE: Although the New York Times calls the Irgun a "terrorist" group, this is a slander, for which consult the footnote.[4b] ]
Now, to understand whether Hussein Khalidi's charges should have been believed in the first place, it pays to recall who was Hajj Amin al Husseini, because Hajj Amin was Khalidi's boss.
Hajj Amin mentored Yasser Arafat and Al Fatah, the core of the PLO, but before that he was the Mufti of Jerusalem, from which position he organized terrorist riots against innocent Jews in the British Mandate territory in 1921, 1929, and 1936-37 (the British rewarded him with the post of Mufti after he organized the first terrorist riot in 1920). During World War II, Hajj Amin became a top Nazi and organized SS divisions in Yugoslavia composed of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim volunteers who were responsible for many of the hundreds of thousands of Serbian, Jewish, and Roma civilian deaths at the Croatian death-camp system of Jasenovac (others they killed in their homes). Hajj Amin also played a leading role in getting some 400,000 Hungarian Jews sent to die in Auschwitz.[5] It was Hajj Amin al Husseini who created the "Palestine Arab Higher Committee," which, as the New York Times informs us (see above), had Hussein Khalidi for secretary. So, if the charge of a massacre at Deir Yassin came from the leader of Hajj Amin’s organization, doesn’t that suggest that the accusation might be a fabrication?
What would be the smoking gun that the Arab accusations about Deir Yassin were, in fact, fabrications?"
and continues
"“The 1998 BBC TV series, Israel and the Arabs: the 50 year Conflict, documented that Arab Higher Committee officials Hazem Nusseibeh and Hussein Khalidi falsified facts [about Deir Yassin] and originated, for propaganda purposes, charges of rape.”[3]
How did the BBC document this? Nusseibeh confessed!
I point out two things. The first is that the BBC report came out three full years before the 2001 article in the Guardian that got us started, and which accuses the Israeli Jews -- with zero hint of a controversy, as if it were a standard historical fact -- of having supposedly committed a massacre at Deir Yassin.
The second is that there is no reason to doubt what the BBC reports, as it fits perfectly with everything else we know. For example, it fits nicely with the fact that, in 1948, the Mufti Hajj Amin al Husseini, through his Arab Higher Committee, of which Khalidi was the secretary, was trying to get the Palestinian Arabs to flee the area. Joseph Farah, a Christian Arab, has documented with Arab newspaper articles written close to the time of the events that there was no ambiguity on this point.[6] It turns out that
“The 15th May, 1948, arrived... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem [Hajj Amin al Husseini] appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead.”[7]
The Arab newspapers lamented this as a tactical mistake:
“By spreading rumors of Jewish atrocities, killings of women and children etc., [Arab leaders] instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs in Palestine, until they fled leaving their homes and properties to the enemy.”[8]
Both of the above quotes come from the Arab newspapers that Farah cites (and there are others).
Finally, there was never anything to substantiate the charges of rape."
and continues
""Contrary to claims from Arab propagandists at the time and some since, no evidence has ever been produced that any women were raped. On the contrary, every villager ever interviewed has denied these allegations. Like many of the claims, this was a deliberate propaganda ploy, but one that backfired. Hazam Nusseibi, who worked for the Palestine Broadcasting Service in 1948, admitted being told by Hussein Khalidi, a Palestinian Arab leader, to fabricate the atrocity claims. Abu Mahmud, a Deir Yassin resident in 1948 told Khalidi 'there was no rape,' but Khalidi replied, 'We have to say this, so the Arab armies will come to liberate Palestine from the Jews.' Nusseibeh told the BBC 50 years later, 'This was our biggest mistake. We did not realize how our people would react. As soon as they heard that women had been raped at Deir Yassin, Palestinians fled in terror.'"[14]
Let us review:
the genocidal antisemite Hajj Amin had a policy to make the Arabs flee;
the man responsible for making up "rumors of Jewish atrocities" to make the Arabs flee was Hussein Khalidi, Hajj Amin's deputy;
these "rumors of Jewish atrocities" were rumors, specifically, about Deir Yassin.
the guy Khalidi got to spread these rumors about Deir Yassin, Nusseibeh, confesses that they made it all up.
What, then, are those who would accuse the Jews of chasing out the Arabs left with?"
and continues
"Allegations by Jews
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Supporters of the PLO are fond of citing Jewish sources, because some Jewish sources indeed have claimed that there was a massacre at Deir Yassin.
For example, the same 1948 New York Times article by Dana Adams Schmidt says this:
"The executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine expressed tonight 'horror and disgust' at the 'barbarous manner in which this action had been carried out.'"
For many, this is will look like automatic proof that the massacre happened because, they ask themselves, why would Jews lie against self-interest?
Ah, but that assumes that all Jews have the same interest -- a touch of antisemitism (“they’re all the same. . .”). In fact, "the Jews" did not make an accusation about Deir Yassin -- the Jewish Agency did. So the question is: Did this organization, by name "Jewish Agency," have an interest in smearing the Jewish army led by Menachem Begin, the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (or Irgun, for short, or ETZEL, in acronym), with the label 'terrorist'?
The answer is yes.
Israeli Jews have been sharply divided politically from the time before the founding of the state of Israel. Before becoming a state, the Yishuv, the Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine, was a motley collection of unions, plus some other organizations. The left was dominant, so most political activity was conducted in the unions, which developed political parties, and eventually also militias. But the dominant feeling among leftists, who were the overwhelming majority, is that they didn't want to participate in any violence -- even in self-defense. This extreme pacifism of the Zionist Jews made their self-defense quite difficult, and historian Anita Shapira has written an entire volume trying to understand why it took so long for these Jews to begin to defend themselves from Arab terrorist attacks:
Shapira, A. 1992. Land and power: The Zionist resort to force 1881-1948. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Now, the leftists were sharply divided among themselves on many questions, and certainly on all the important questions. But the sharpest divide in the Yishuv -- which reflected an equally deep divide in the Diaspora -- was between the leftists, the socialist/mainstream Labor Zionists and the ‘Revisionists.’ The latter received this name because they wanted a Zionist movement that was more open to different kinds of ways of life, rather than the frankly bolshevist strand of socialism that the Labor Zionists favored. In addition, these so-called Revisionists believed that, in the face of wave after wave of Arab terrorist riots against innocent Jewish civilians in the 1920s and 30s, the pacifist attitude of the dominant leftists, which forbade reprisals, was politically unwise and morally absurd. So they created the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (ETZEL)"
and continues
""[Etzel was] founded in 1931 by a group of Haganah commanders, who left the Haganah [the main Jewish militia] in protest against its defense charter ... Etzel rejected the 'restraint' policy of the Haganah and carried out armed reprisals against Arabs, which were condemned by the Jewish Agency."[8a]
For their use of force in self-defense (from which all Jews in British Mandate Palestine benefited), the Irgun was called ‘fascist’ by the Labor Zionists and their allies. This shows how passionate the leftist Jews had been before 1936-37 in their pathological renunciation of all violence, even in self-defense, and also the depth of the feelings aroused by the political split among the Jews.[9] Once this political context is understood, it makes sense that some Jews joined the chorus of lies about Deir Yassin.
As we saw above, it was the Jewish Agency accusing the Irgun. The Jewish Agency was run by David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett, who were not stout defenders of the Jews, exactly (read about that here).
The Irgun and Lehi (these were the names of the two main Revisionist militias) had been persecuted by Ben-Gurion's Haganah. Despite this, when the war of 1948 exploded, the Revisionists swallowed their pride and joined the Haganah to defend Israel like good patriots, but the political conflict continued to seethe. Historian Uri Milstein, author of the most meticulously researched multi-volume history of the 1948 war, explains as follows:
"The Deir-Yassin events became an ‘affair’ due to the juxtaposition of several factors, foremost among them the struggle within the Yishuv [the Jewish community in Israel]. The Deir-Yassin affair was used for political ends by MAPAM and the Revisionist parties, which were not represented on the Jewish Agency Executive. MAPAM heavily influenced the Hagana combat forces; the Revisionists had influence on ETZEL and indirectly on LEHI."[9a]
Keep in mind that the core of the Haganah was the Palmach -- essentially the private militia of the leftist MAPAM party, which is why MAPAM had so much influence over the Haganah"
and continues
"Now, despite the wartime union between the leftists and the Revisionists, there was a desire among many in the left to discredit the Revisionists, even at the cost of Jewish security (for the war still raged), in such a way as to deny them any political role in the future state. Thus, the allegation by the leftists -- and especially by MAPAM -- became that soldiers of the Irgun and Lehi had supposedly committed a massacre at Deir Yassin.
Historian Uri Milstein writes:
“The Dir Yassin affair occurred on April 9 1948, following the capture, by Irgun, Lehi, and Palmach soldiers, of this Arab village, situated west of Jerusalem. The following day, Meir Pa’il, Internal Security Unit commander, responsible for organizing activities against the Irgun and Lehi in Jerusalem, reported to Chief of Haganah National HQ, Yisrael Galili (also a leader of the leftist Mapam Party), that 254 men women and children were massacred by Irgun and Lehi troops in Dir Yassin. This was a false report.”[10]
All of the crucial political information appears in the quote above. The Jewish source making the Deir Yassin allegation against the Irgun and Lehi, Meir Pa’il, was an official in the Haganah (the leftist militia), and his job was “organizing activities against [the Revisionist forces of] the Irgun and Lehi.” He made his report to a leader of the leftist MAPAM party; MAPAM was interested in derailing the Revisionists, as Milstein explains:
“For much of MAPAM’s leadership at the time, the great disaster facing the Yishuv [the Jewish community in Israel] was not its defeat in the battle for the roads or losing America’s support for the founding of a Jewish state, but a possible agreement between the Hagana and ETZEL [Irgun Tzvai Leumi]. Anything that would thwart this development was legitimate in their eyes. The decisive struggle would occur when the Zionist Executive met.
And then, for MAPAM, opportunity knocked; Deir-Yassin happened.”[11]
What Milstein is saying is that because there was a sharp political rivalry between leftist MAPAM and the Irgun, the accusation that the Irgun had committed a massacre at Deir Yassin was convenient for MAPAM."
and continues
"The first thing that must be pointed out is what this implies about the culture and ethics of the Jewish forces and people. If some Jews could remove other Jews as political rivals by accusing them of having committed a massacre against Arab civilians, this means that the Jewish side considered the targeting of Arab civilians a tremendous crime. It is worth pausing to fully absorb this. And, once absorbed, it is worth returning to this: Azzam Pasha told us above how the Arabs felt about their Nazi-led forces killing Jewish civilians: this was the goal.
Perhaps the above paragraph should be read once again. It's the sort of thing that produces Enlightenment.
Now, given that MAPAM had a political motive to slander the Irgun, it should not come as a big surprise that Meir Pa’il, MAPAM’s weapon against the Irgun, could not back up his allegations. Uri Milstein writes, “On a massacre following the battle there is only the account of Me’ir Pa’il, who claims that he was in the village during and after the battle.”[12] But, in fact, all the evidence gathered by historian Uri Milstein suggests that Me’ir Pa’il was never there, contrary to what Pa’il has claimed:
Moshe Idelstein, the friend who supposedly had invited Pa’il to Deir-Yassin, asserts, “I didn’t invite Me’ir Pa’il and he wasn’t at Deir-Yassin.” Other ETZEL and LEHI men state that Pa’il was not at Deir-Yassin and could not have been there without their knowing it. Zetler, Ra’anan, Barzilai, Lapidot and Zelivansky state that they did not see Pa’il at Deir-Yassin. Pa’il’s claims also go unsubstantiated by Hagana personnel. Statements by She’alti’el, Mart, Eldad and Schiff mention neither his name nor his code names (“Avraham” and “Ram”). Pa’il spoke about exchanges between him and Palmach soldiers in Deir-Yassin. Eren and Gihon, who were acquainted with Pa’il at the time, did not see him at Deir-Yassin. Shlomo Havilyo, the Hagana’s western Jerusalem commander, was at Givat-Sha’ul on April 9th. “I didn’t see Me’ir Pa’il,” he says. “I knew him well. I’d remember it if he was there.” Ari’eli, who supervised the burials, says that he did not see Me’ir Pa’il at Deir-Yassin, much less talk with him about the number of bodies buried or any other matter.”[13]
To read Uri Milstein’s section on the distortions and fabrications about Deir Yassin in full, with his references, visit here: http://www.hirhome.com/israel/milstein-deir-yassin.htm
The political divide in Israel has not abated, and some of those Jews who made the original fraudulent accusations about Deir Yassin -- for example, Meir Pa'il -- are still alive and repeating them. An entire edifice of historical fabrications has been built to glorify the leftist leaders during the War of Independence and simultaneously to besmirch the Revisionist camp and their political heirs.[13a]"
and continues
"What happened at Deir Yassin?
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So what happened at Deir Yassin? Certainly, quite a few Arab civilians died (the best estimate puts the toll at 110, not 254), but they died during the course of the battle, and they were not targeted for destruction. On the contrary, efforts were made to warn them before the battle started. Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, gives the following account:
. . .there is a moral aspect to the story of Dir Yassin. At that village, whose name was publicized throughout the world, both sides suffered heavy casualties. We had four killed and nearly forty wounded. The number of casualties was nearly forty per cent of the total number of the attackers. The Arab troops suffered casualties three times as heavy. The fighting was thus very severe. Yet the hostile propaganda, disseminated throughout the world, deliberately ignored the fact that the civilian population of Dir Yassin was actually given a warning by us before the battle began. One of our tenders carrying a loud speaker was stationed at the entrance to the village and it exhorted in Arabic all women, children and aged to leave their houses and to take shelter on the slope of the hill. By giving this humane warning our fighters threw away the element of complete surprise, and thus increased their own risk in the ensuing battle. A substantial number of the inhabitants obeyed the warning and they were unhurt. A few did not leave their stone houses -- perhaps because of the confusion. The fire of the enemy was murderous -- to which the number of our casualties bears eloquent testimony. Our men were compelled to fight for every house; to overcome the enemy they used large numbers of hand-grenades. And the civilians who had disregarded our warnings suffered inevitable casualties.
The education which we gave our soldiers throughout the years of revolt was based on the observance of the traditional laws of war. We never broke them unless the enemy first did so and thus forced us, in accordance with the accepted custom of war, to apply reprisals. I am convinced, too, that our officers and men wished to avoid a single unnecessary casualty in the Dir Yassin battle. But those who throw stones of denunciation at the conquerors of Dir Yassin would do well not to don the cloak of hypocrisy.[15]"
and continues
"The Moral Argument
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Coming back to the arguments made by supporters of the Arabs, let us ask this question. How could the accusation of a massacre at Deir Yassin -- even had it been true -- make the argument that it is recruited for, namely, that the moral position of the Israeli Jews is inferior and therefore that they owe the Arabs?
Even if the Jews had massacred Arabs at Deir Yassin (which they did not), given the historical context of the 1948 war, it would not alter the global moral position of the Jews versus the Arabs.
Consider:
First, the Jews did not start the 1948 war. After the UN voted to create the state of Israel alongside an Arab state in the Levant in 1947, the Arab states chose not to recognize Israel and immediately declared war, with the enthusiastic support of Arabs living in British Mandate Palestine, who participated.
It was a lopsided contest. Israel, at the time a sliver of land much smaller even than its current diminutive size, and without a real army, was attacked simultaneously by all the surrounding Arab states.
Moreover, Israel’s enemies stated very clearly that their objective was genocide. I quote again Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, who promised:
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.”[16]
The war was brutal, and the Arabs took no prisoners. Any Jews who fell alive into Arab hands were routinely tortured to death (I shall spare you the details of the methods). This happened to such an extent that most Jewish soldiers left wounded on the battlefield, beyond the reach of their comrades, would commit suicide by exploding a grenade.[17]
The Arabs also directed many attacks against civilians. For example, on April 12 Dana Schmidt, from the New York Times, insisted that
"Dr. Hussein Khalidi, secretary of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee...said...that the Arabs planned no reprisals [for Deir Yassin]"[4a]
And yet, the day after,
"on April 13, 78 Jews, mostly medical personnel riding to Hadassah Hospital, were slain. That was the Arab answer to Deir-Yassin”[18]"
and continues
"The two events are not even remotely equivalent. Deir Yassin was being used as a base to attack Jewish convoys going to Jerusalem. It was a legitimate military target. Many civilians did die there, but they died as a result of combat operations, and efforts were made to warn them before the attack began. Nobody targeted the Arab civilians at Deir Yassin. By contrast, “78 Jews, mostly medical personnel riding to Hadassah Hospital” are not a military target, but the very opposite of one.
So we have the following:
The creation of the state of Israel was legal: it was approved by a vote in the General Assembly at the UN.
The war of aggression by the surrounding Arab states was illegal -- as all wars of aggression naturally are.
The stated objective of Israel’s enemies was to exterminate the Jews.
In the conduct of war, the Arabs routinely targeted Jewish civilians and murdered captured Jewish soldiers.
None of this is to deny that some crimes were committed by Jewish soldiers, and the best documentation on Deir Yassin (for example, the work of Uri Milstein) does argue for the claim that some individual soldiers committed individual crimes in the heat of combat. What the best documentation denies is the accusations that were loudly made: namely, 1) that a mass of civilians was rounded up after the battle and massacred, and 2) that women were raped. The best research on Deir Yassin also denies the claim that 254 civilians died in the attack (the best documented figure is 110).
Individual crimes of war are committed by every side in every war. They shouldn't be, but an army whose soldiers commit zero crimes in wartime has not yet been assembled. What matters when morally evaluating an army in a particular war, then, is not whether crimes of war occurred at all (since some always will), but whether such crimes of war were policy, whether they were common, and whether they were internally prosecuted and punished by the army itself. In the case of the Arabs (who, lest we forget, were the aggressors) murdering civilians was policy: in fact their policy was the extermination of the Jewish people. In the case of the Jews, crimes of war were so exceptional that the accusation of a massacre could be used by one Jewish faction against another to provoke horror in Jewish society and gain a political advantage. Moreover, lest we forget, the Jews did not even start this war -- they were merely fighting for their survival."
and lastly says
"Thus, even if one could argue that Jewish forces massacred Arab civilians at Deir Yassin, this incident by itself would not affect the global moral balance. What is remarkable is that Deir Yassin is almost the only case that supporters of the PLO bring up in order to support the claim that the Israeli Jews supposedly chased the Arabs out in 1948. And the accusation is a fraud."
From Historical and Investigative Research" Several years ago there was this YouTube video online of a very ugly looking female giving an anti-Israel speech, and spewing lies, numerous people commented how it was no coincidence that her voice sounded exactly like a
serpent, just like a serpent, proof of her evil soul, her evil wicked soul
Plus a famous Christian website has an article that says
"Was Satan the serpent in Genesis chapter 3?"
Answer: Yes, the serpent in Genesis chapter 3 was Satan. Satan was either appearing as a serpent, possessing the serpent, or deceiving Adam and Eve into believing that it was the serpent who was talking to them. Serpents / snakes do not possess the ability to speak. Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 both describe Satan as a serpent. "He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years" (Revelation 20:2). "The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him" (Revelation 12:9).
While the Bible is not clear as to whether or not the serpent stood up or walked before the curse, it appears likely that, like other reptiles, it probably did walk on four legs. That would seem to be the best explanation of Genesis 3:14, "So the LORD God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.'" The fact that the serpent was cursed to crawl on his belly and eat the dust of the earth forever is also a way of indicating that the serpent would be forever despised and looked upon as a vile and despicable creature and an object of scorn and contempt.
Why did God curse the serpent when He knew that it was actually Satan who had led Adam and Eve into sin? The fate of the serpent is an illustration. The curse of the serpent will one day be the fate of Satan himself (Revelation 20:10; Ezekiel 28:18-19)." numerous people commented on the YouTube video several years ago that the ugly woman giving the anti-Israel speak was a Toxic Poisonous snake,
From the website, www.patrobertson.com an article titled
"Why Evangelical Christians Support Israel"
One day in the late 19th Century, Queen Victoria of England reportedly asked her Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, this question:
"Mr. Prime Minister, what evidence can you give me of the existence of God?"
Disraeli thought for a moment and then replied, "The Jew, your majesty."
Think of it, according to Disraeli, the primary evidence that God exists is the existence of the Jewish people… A people who in 586 BC were deported to Babylon, yet returned after 70 years to rebuild a nation. Who were again brutally massacred and dispersed by the Romans in 70 AD, yet after countless centuries of Diaspora, expulsions, pogroms, ghettos, and attempts at genocidal extermination, have clung to their faith, their customs -- and now after some 2500 years of wandering have returned to the land promised by God to their ancestors. A new nation began in that land in 1948 named after their ancestor Jacob, whose divinely appointed name Israel means "Prince with God." And to fulfill another ancient prophecy, God moved on the heart of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, whose son Ehud told me that, while his father was living in Eastern Europe, he heard a voice and saw a light directing him to bring forth for the Jewish people a pure language-Hebrew-the language of the Torah and of the ancient prophets.
Yes, the survival of the Jewish people is a miracle of God. The return of the Jewish people to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a miracle of God. The remarkable victories of Jewish armies against overwhelming odds in successive battles in 1948, and 1967, and 1973 are clearly miracles of God. The technological marvels of Israeli industry, the military prowess, the bounty of Israeli agriculture, the fruits and flowers and abundance of the land are a testimony to God's watchful care over this new nation and the genius of this people.
Yet what has happened was clearly foretold by the ancient prophet Ezekiel, who, writing at the time of the Babylonian captivity, declared this message for the Jewish people concerning latter days.
"For I will take you out of the nation; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back to your own land… I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you… to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people and I will be your God. I will save you from all your uncleanness.
"I will call for the grain and make it plentiful… I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine…
"This is what the Sovereign Jehovah says, 'On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it. They will say, "This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.'
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""Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, Jehovah, have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it." (Ezekiel 36:24 ff).
Ladies and Gentleman, evangelical Christians support Israel because we believe that the words of Moses and the ancient prophets of Israel were inspired by God. We believe that the emergence of a Jewish state in the land promised by God to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was ordained by God.
We believe that God has a plan for this nation which He intends to be a blessing to all the nations of the earth.
Of course, we, like all right-thinking people, support Israel because Israel is an island of democracy, an island of individual freedom, an island of the rule of law, and an island of modernity in the midst of a sea of dictatorial regimes, the suppression of individual liberty, and a fanatical religion intent on returning to the feudalism of 8th Century Arabia.
These facts about modern day Israel are all true. But mere political rhetoric does not account for the profound devotion to Israel that exists in the hearts of tens of millions of evangelical Christians.
You must realize that the God who spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai is our God. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are our spiritual Patriarchs. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel are our prophets. King David, a man after God's own heart, is our hero. The Holy City of Jerusalem is our spiritual capital. And the continuation of Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land is a further bulwark to us that the God of the Bible exists and that His Word is true.
And we should clearly take note that evangelical Christians serve a Jew that we believe was the divine Messiah of Israel, spoken of by the ancient prophets, to whom He entrusted the worldwide dissemination of His message to 12 Jewish apostles.
It should be noted that today Christianity, with well over two billion adherents, is by far the fastest growing religion in the world. Within 20 years, that number will swell to three billion. Of these, at least six hundred million are Bible-believing evangelicals and charismatics who are ardent supporters of the nation of Israel. In 20 years, that number will reach one billion. Israel has millions of Christian friends in China, in India, in Indonesia, throughout Africa and South America, as well as North America.
We are with you in your struggle. We are with you as a wave of anti-Semitism is engulfing the earth. We are with you despite the pressure of the "Quartette" and the incredibly hostile resolutions of the United Nations. We are with you despite the threats and ravings of Wahabbi Jihadists, Hezbollah thugs, and Hamas assassins."
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"We are with you despite oil embargos, loss of allies, and terrorist attacks on our cities.
We evangelical Christians merely say to our Israeli friends, "Let us serve our God together by opposing the virulent poison of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that is rapidly engulfing the world."
Having affirmed our support, I would humbly make two requests of our Israeli friends:
First, please don't commit national suicide. It is very hard for your friends to support you, if you make a conscious decision to destroy yourselves.
I hardly find it necessary to remind this audience of the stated objectives of Yasser Arafat, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Their goal is not peace, but the final destruction of the State of Israel. At no time do they, or their allies in the Muslim world, acknowledge the sovereignty of Israel over even one square inch of territory in the Middle East. If a Palestinian State is created in the heart of Israel with sovereign power to deploy troops, import modern weapons -- even weapons of mass destruction --and operate with full secrecy and diplomatic immunity, the ability of the State of Israel to defend itself will be fatally compromised.
The slogan "land for peace" is a cruel chimera. The Sinai was given up. Did that bring lasting peace? No. Southern Lebanon was given up. Did that bring lasting peace? No. Instead Hezbollah rode tanks to the border of Israel shouting, "On to Jerusalem!" Now, as many as 10,000 rockets aimed at Metulla, Qiryat Shemona, and all of Northern Israel have been put in place throughout Southern Lebanon.
Arafat was brought up at the knees of the man who yearned to finish the work of Adolf Hitler. How can any realist truly believe that this killer and his associates can become trusted partners for peace?
I am aware of the deep feelings of many Israelis who yearn for peace. Who long to be free from the terror of the suicide bombers of the intifada. I would draw their attention to the fact that during the Cold War, the American people yearned to be free from the constant threat of a nuclear holocaust. Then, at Reykjavik, Iceland on the occasion of a summit between President Ronald Reagan of the United Sates and Premier Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, what seemed like an incredible opportunity for peace was presented to President Reagan by Mr. Gorbachev. An offer was made for hitherto undreamed of reductions in nuclear weapons. Gorbachev's offer included everything the U.S. arms negotiations had wanted, except one thing. The condition for the Russian offer was to be the agreement by the United States to abandon the so-called "star wars" Strategic Defense Initiative.
Mr. Reagan carefully considered the offer then reluctantly said no. Without the Strategic Defense Initiative, there would be no deal. Gorbachev was stunned. Then both leaders, with sadness in their hearts, adjourned the meeting and departed Reykjavik.
Once again, the world was hovering on the brink of nuclear annihilation. The American liberal press was apoplectic at Reagan's decision. But he held firm."
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"Now we all know that he was right. The Russians could not compete with the United States in a nuclear arms race and Gorbachev knew it. The bluster was over. The threats were over. Reagan had won by standing firm. Soon freedom broke out in Poland, in Hungary, in East Germany. The Berlin Wall came down. The barbed wire fences came down. And Soviet Communism came down.
The world is safe from super power nuclear terror. This terror is no more because one strong leader stood against public opinion, against the advice of many of his own counselors and said no! May the leaders of Israel in 2004 have the courage to look the nations of the world in the eye, and when your national interests demand it, say no!
Second, the world's Christians ask that you do not give away the treasured symbols of your spiritual patrimony.
I read recently in The Wall Street Journal an article written by an American Jewish commentator who remarked that the Temple Mount and what is termed the "Wailing Wall" are "sacred stones and sites," but hardly worth bloodshed.
Just think -- the place where the Patriarch Abraham took Isaac to offer him to God. The place bought by King David from Araunah where the Angel of the Lord stood with drawn sword. The place of Solomon's temple. The place of the Holy of Holies. The place where Jesus Christ walked and taught. The very spiritual center of the Jewish worship of the one true God -- nothing but a pile of sacred stones -- unworthy of sacrifice? What an incredible assertion!
Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake -- the entire world is being convulsed by a religious struggle. The fight is not about money or territory; it is not about poverty versus wealth; it is not about ancient customs versus modernity. No. The struggle is whether Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, known as Allah, is supreme, or whether the Judeo-Christian Jehovah God of the Bible is Supreme.
If God's chosen people turn over to Allah control of their most sacred sites-if they surrender to Muslim vandals the tombs of Rachel, of Joseph, of the Patriarchs, of the ancient prophets-if they believe their claim to the Holy Land comes only from Lord Balfour of England and the ever fickle United Nations rather than the promises of Almighty God-then in that event, Islam will have won the battle. Throughout the Muslim world the message will go forth-"Allah is greater than Jehovah. The promises of Jehovah to the Jews are meaningless.
"We can now, in the name of Allah, move to crush the Jews and drive them out of the land that belongs to Allah."
In short, those political initiatives that some have asserted will guarantee peace, will in truth guarantee unending struggle and ultimate failure. Those political leaders who only understand the secular dimension of Israel's existence and who cavalierly dismiss the spiritual dimension will find that they receive the mess of pottage of Esau rather than the inheritance of Jacob"
the article lastly says
"On Christmas Day in 1974, I had the privilege of interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for my television program, The 700 Club. Rabin lamented the fact that after Israeli military victories, the nation had been stopped from achieving a peace treaty.
That was 30 years ago. Israel seemed as isolated and alone then as it does today. As I concluded my interview, I asked Prime Minister Rabin a final question. "What would you want the United States to do now for Israel?"
He replied without hesitation. "Be strong! Be strong!"
That evening I joined for dinner a group of several hundred people who had accompanied me from the United States. We were meeting in the large dining room of the InterContinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, whose floor-to-ceiling windows gave a stunning view of the illuminated Temple Mount. As I related to the group the substance of my meeting, I began to recall the feeling of sadness which had come from the Prime Minister-the sense of the isolation of his nation. That evening, I made a solemn vow to God that, despite whatever might happen in the future, I and the organizations I headed would stand in support of Israel and the Jewish people. Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to say that I have kept that vow each year since 1974.
In closing, I would deliver to Israel in 2004 the message Yitzhak Rabin delivered to the United States on Christmas Day in 1974. For you are the living witnesses that the promises of the Sovereign Lord are true. "Be strong! Be strong!"
He will be with you and so will your evangelical friends.
Thank you, and God bless you!"
From the New York Post Newspaper on July 25, 2019 it states
"The BDS movement calls for action to make the Jewish state feel pain because it’s supposedly the prime cause of Palestinian suffering.
That is, BDSers single out Israel for condemnation even though it does more to protect human rights than any other country in its region. Palestinians in Israel have far more rights than those governed by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza." and also says that Israel behaves better than Most Nations in the World, Far Better than Most Other Nations in the World,
Terrible how in 2019 , Jews in America, Israel & Worldwide are still suffering the effects of Rising Anti-Semitism & Jew-Hatred because of the so-called "Palestinians" and the Second "Intifada" they launched in 2000, almost 19 years ago, which was 100 percent their fault,
I want Peace in the Mideast & Worldwide, it's very very disturbing how Jewish Israeli citizens have reported how at night they can actually hear Hamas & Hezbollah terror tunnels being built beneath their beds & homes, & communities
The website archive.triblive.com has an article titled
"Michael Keaton, Tom Hanks join Pittsburgh rally for synagogue shooting victims"
Megan Guza And Jamie Martines | Friday, November 9, 2018 12:24 p.m.
Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
Tom Hanks and Joanne Rogers sing the theme song to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood at a peace and unity rally at Point State Park on Nov. 9, 2018.
Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
Michael Keaton speaks to the crowd gathered for a peace and unity rally at Point State Park on Nov. 9, 2018.
Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
People listen to speakers at a peace and unity rally at Point State Park on Nov. 9, 2018.
Email Newsletters , the article says
"Michael Keaton and Tom Hanks joined several hundred people Friday at rainy Point State Park to rally for peace, compassion and unity in the face of tragedy.
The rally, officially called Stronger than Hate: A Gathering of Compassion, Unity and Love, began with a minute-long moment of silence for the 11 killed in the Oct. 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation in Squirrel Hill.
Hanks, who has been in Pittsburgh researching and filming a movie on the life of Fred Rogers, spoke to the crowd huddled under umbrellas. Keaton, a Pittsburgh native, joined him in praising the city for its strength and unity.
“A visitor here will learn of the unbreakable bond shared by all who wear the black and the gold – a connection stronger than the iron and steel forged in the furnaces of this city, here in the American heart,” Hanks said. “A visitor will know that Pittsburgh is a great city because Pittsburgh has been greatly tested, and in those trials – in your days of struggle – Pittsburgh has set an example of what can come next, and what can come next can be good.”
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"
He appeared on stage with Joanne Rogers – wife of the late Fred Rogers. The Taylor Allderdice High School choir sang “Won’t You be my Neighbor,” the theme song of Mister Rogers. Hanks and Joanne Rogers joined in, sharing an umbrella on stage.
“Let us replace guns with hugs,” Joanne Rogers said.
The rally came nearly two weeks after a gunman armed with an AR-15 and three handguns walked into Shabbat services at the synagogue and opened fire. He killed 11 people among the three congregations that hold services there and wounded six others – including four police officers.
SWAT operator Tim Matson remains hospitalized, as does 70-year-old Daniel Leger. Both are in stable condition, according to the latest update from UPMC.
Robert Bowers, 46, has been charged in the massacre. He remains in federal custody, housed in the Butler County Prison and facing a 44-count federal indictment. The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office has also filed three dozen charges against Bowers, of Baldwin, including 11 counts of homicide.
Keaton described watching the carnage unfold across the country from his hometown.
“This was a tough one,” Keaton said. “When I was in California watching all this occur, the feeling of helplessness was extraordinary. This one really hurts. When this happens in places of worship, like at the Tree of Life or the church in South Carolina – any place of worship – that pain runs really, really deep"
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"Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said the country must move forward as one America, and he pledged to work toward common-sense reform that will end such acts of violence.
“We gather here today to say enough is enough and hate against one is hate against all,” Peduto said. “We gather here today to say let Pittsburgh and Thousand Oaks and Tallahasse and other cities around this country show what sacrifice means and show what strength is about. Strength is not about how many guns you have, strength is made by the compassion of your heart.”
On Nov. 9-10, 1938, Nazi soldiers terrorized Jewish communities throughout Germany in an event that has come to be known as Kristallnacht, or night of broken glass.
“The synagogues were burned to the ground, their fellow Jews were murdered, incarcerated,” said David Knoll, 40, of Squirrel Hill. After that night, persecuted by their government and police, his four-year-old father and his family fled the city of Cologne. They escaped to America, avoiding the violence and inhumanity that would follow in Europe.
Friday, 80 years to the day later, Knoll joined other Pittsburghers to mourn and remember the city’s own day of broken glass, just two weeks prior.
“It’s more important for my kids to be here,” Knoll, clad in a Steelers jersey, said.
He and his children, Azi, 10, and Caleb, 9 — both wearing the now iconic “Stronger than Hate” t-shirts over their rain jackets — braved the cold and rain to show their love for the city and to embrace the city police and elected officials who supported the Jewish community following the shooting. The family lives three blocks away from Tree of Life.
“While one lone gunman did a terrible thing, the city’s behind us,” Knoll said. “And as Jews, we feel it.”
Peduto noted the date, as well.
“We gather here today on the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht: a day in which Jews in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia saw the breaking of glass of businesses, saw the vandalism and the damage done through physical harm — words of anti-Semitism, reflected 80 years ago today, in the first violent acts that would lead to the Holocaust,” he said.
Duquesne University sophomore Lauren Belfiore, 19, attended with her mother, Michele, both of Canonsburg.
Belfiore, an education major, works at the Carriage House Caring Center, a daycare near Tree of Life. She remembers walking past the synagogue on her way to work days after the shooting.
“Just all the emotion that flooded into me, I just felt like I needed to come today and support,” she said.
“I love my city,” said Chaquita Barnett, a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh who walked down from the Hill District to be at the rally.
She hoped that the gathering could give her some peace and closure.
“I’m all about diversity and inclusion,” Barnett said. “I don’t have a lot of money to give, but I can pray for unity and peace.”
Patti Dziekan, also a lifelong Pittsburgh resident, works for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. About 50 staff members came out to the rally, she said.
“We believe in our cause, and we believe love is stronger than hate,” she said. "
From Yahoo News an article titled
"Pittsburgh unites in love after synagogue massacre"
Jennie MATTHEW
,AFP•October 28, 2018
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From an Islamic leader who announced that Muslims had raised tens of thousands of dollars to help their Jewish brethren, to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin's taped message of solidarity, to promises of support from Christian clerics, Pittsburgh stood shoulder to shoulder against anti-Semitism
From an Islamic leader who announced that Muslims had raised tens of thousands of dollars to help their Jewish brethren, to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin's taped message of solidarity, to promises of support from Christian clerics, Pittsburgh stood shoulder to shoulder against anti-Semitism (AFP Photo/JEFF SWENSEN)
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Pittsburgh (AFP) - Thousands of people from all faiths united behind calls that love defeat hate Sunday as Pittsburgh mourned the worst anti-Semitic attack in recent US history and the city's "darkest hour."
From an Islamic leader who announced that Muslims had raised tens of thousands of dollars to help their Jewish brethren, to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin's taped message of solidarity, to promises of support from Christian clerics, Pittsburgh stood shoulder to shoulder against anti-Semitism.
"I'm a victim. I'm a survivor. I'm a mourner," said Rabbi Jeffrey Myers from the Tree of Life synagogue who helped pull worshippers to safety when the shooter opened fire minutes into Shabbat services.
"Seven of my congregants were shot dead in my sanctuary. My holy place has been defiled," Myers declared.
"Words of hate are unwelcome in Pittsburgh," he said to cheers and a standing ovation. "Ladies and gentlemen it has to start with you as our leaders.
"My words are not intended as political fodder. I address all equally. Stop the words of hate."
He finished with a memorial prayer in Hebrew, his voice aching with emotion, and wiping tears from his eyes with a handkerchief.
Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania city that made its fortune in the steel industry, is made of stern stuff -- proud of its blue collar roots, sporting prowess and reputation as a sanctuary for all."
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"- 'City of compassion' -
The names of the 11 dead, many of them elderly, were written on a screen, hanging before inscribed words from Abraham Lincoln, and the entire ceremony was translated into sign language for the deaf.
"We will defeat hate with love. We will be a city of compassion welcoming to all people no matter what your religion or where your family came from," promised Mayor Bill Peduto.
"We will drive anti-Semitism and the hate of any people back to the basement on their computer and away from the open discussions and dialogue around the city, around this state and around this country."
There was standing room only in the neoclassical surrounds of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, with people lining the back walls, filling the lobby and others crouched on the floor.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, several congressmen, and billionaire Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, joined the service.
Mourners stood to sing the US national anthem, Israel's national anthem the Hatikvah and Irving Berlin's secular anthem "God Bless America." An African-American choir took to the stage.
The ceremony closed with a quartet from the Pittsburgh Symphony playing two pieces, one written by a Holocaust survivor whose family perished in Kristallnacht."
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"Wasi Mohamed, head of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, announced that Muslims had already raised more than $70,000 to help their Jewish neighbors, news greeted by a spontaneous standing ovation.
- 'Shattered' -
"We just want to know what you need. If it's more money, let us know. If it's people outside your next service protecting you, let us know we'll be there," he said.
Israeli cabinet minister Naftali Bennett, who flew through the night to mourn with Americans, called the slaughter the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States.
"Nearly 80 years since Kristallnacht when the Jews of Europe perished in the flames of their houses of worship, one thing is clear," he said.
"Anti-Semitism, Jew-hating is not a distant memory... nor a chapter in the history books, it is a very real threat.
"We will not stay silent. We will overcome. Unity will defeat division. Love will defeat hatred. Light will defeat darkness."
A speaker informed the room that outside "thousands" of people had braved the cold and rain to listen to the more than 90-minute service on loudspeakers.
"I thought that it was beautiful and mournful, and it was hopeful and it was a true reflection of what Pittsburgh has to offer," said Mark Dixon, a 42-year-old filmmaker huddling in the chilly weather outside.
"I love this city and it pains me to see it shattered, even for just a moment by hate, and so I just had to come and be present for the ceremony that ultimately rejects hate."
From the Website www.cufi.org the website of Christians United For Israel an article is titled
"BDS: In Their Own Words"
the article says
"BDS proponents often present their case to students in terms of peace and justice; however, this masks the real agenda of seeking to destroy Israel rather than simply improve the lives of Palestinians and help them achieve independence. The true aims of BDS become clearer when the views of the movement’s leaders are examined. As the examples below demonstrate, they oppose a two-state solution or any other resolution to the conflict that would recognize the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland.
“Ending the occupation doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t mean upending the Jewish state itself…BDS does mean the end of the Jewish state. But can’t I see the value in reaching across the aisle, so to speak? The movement may be burgeoning but remains too small. Why shouldn’t we indulge in ad hoc partnerships to get things done? Richard Silverstein, Richard Goldstone, and many other self-proclaimed Zionists have done an immeasurably positive amount of work in skinning the Zionist cat (That’s a deliberate analogy. I don’t kid myself about how difficult it must be for a Jewish person to criticize the Zionist state), shouldn’t they be asked to join the BDS movement?
To be sure, I’m not dogmatically against cooperating with people whose views I find objectionable. If it came down to it, I’d be happy to work with the racist up the street to get the city to fix a neighborhood pothole.”
-Ahmed Moor,
Pro-BDS Author
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“BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.”
–Ronnie Kasrils
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"“[Israel] was Palestine, and there is no reason why it should not be renamed Palestine.”
–Omar Barghouti, Founder, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
“[Palestinians have a right to] resistance by any means, including armed resistance. [Jews] aren’t indigenous just because you say you are….[Jews] are not a people…the UN’s principle of the right to self-determination applies only to colonized people who want to acquire their rights. ”
–Omar Barghouti
“Going back to the two-state solution, besides having passed its expiry date, it was never a moral solution to start with.We are witnessing the rapid demise of Zionism, and nothing can be done to save it, for Zionism is intent on killing itself.”
-Omar Bargouti
“Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead. But someone has to issue an official death certificate before the rotting corpse is given a proper burial and we can all move on and explore the more just, moral and therefore enduring alternative for peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine: the one-state solution.”
-Omar Bargouti
“(The one state solution means) a unitary state, where, by definition, Jews will be a minority.”
-Omar Bargouti
“I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.”
-Omar Bargouti
“If the refugees were to return, you would not have a two-state solution, you’d have a Palestine next to a Palestine.”
–Omar Barghouti quoting Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al Quds University.
“The ‘two state solution,’…as dictated by Israel, omits basic Palestinian rights…[and] would be yet another act of British complicity in bestowing legitimacy on Israel’s unjust order.”
–Omar Barghouti
“A Jewish state in Palestine in any shape or form cannot but contravene the basic rights of the indigenous Palestinian population and perpetuate a system of racial discrimination that ought to be opposed categorically….Definitely, most definitely we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
–Omar Barghouti
“You cannot reconcile the right of return for refugees with a two state solution….a return for refugees would end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. A two-state solution was never moral and it’s no longer working.”
-Omar Barghouti
“[Jews] did not suffer in Arab countries. There were no pogroms. There was no persecution.”
–Omar Barghouti
“The BDS movement was launched because of the ongoing failure to protect the rights of the Palestinian people. Some of these rights were frittered away: The Right of Return is in danger, the right of our people to the 1948 lands is in danger, and even the right of our people to the 1967 lands. Some of these rights are ignored. The BDS movement was created in 2005, in order to focus on the elimination of the occupation, on the elimination of the system of racial segregation – the Israeli apartheid – and on the right of the refugees to return to the homes from which they were expelled.”
– Omar Barghouthi
“I clearly do not buy into the two-state solution.”
–Omar Barghouti
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“The real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel….That should be stated as an unambiguous goal. There should not be any equivocation on the subject. Justice and freedom for the Palestinians are incompatible with the existence of the state of Israel.”
–As’ad AbuKhalil "
More Quotes about BDS & Their BS Lies from jewishvirtuallibrary.org
"“Peace-or better yet, justice-cannot be achieved without a total decolonization (one can say de-Zionization) of the Israeli state.”
–Michael Warschawski, BDS activist
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“I think the BDS movement will gain strength from forthrightly explaining why Israel has no right to exist.”
–John Spritzler, Pro-BDS Author
“BDS’s stated goals (ending the Occupation, equality for non-Jews and Jews, and the right of return of the Palestinian refugees) logically imply the end of Israel as a Jewish state….The “state of the Jews” is actually an instrument by which a Jewish elite ruling class of billionaires and generals and politicians secures its oppressive grip on ordinary Jews in Israel…This is why there should not be a Jewish state.”
–John Spritzler
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“I mean we have to be honest, and I loathe the disingenuousness. They don’t want Israel. They think they are being very clever; they call it their three tier. We want the end of the occupation, the right of return, and we want equal rights for Arabs in Israel. And they think they are very clever because they know the result of implementing all three is what, what is the result? You know and I know what the result is. There’s no Israel!
“They say no they’re not really talking about rights. They’re talking about they want to destroy Israel. And in fact I think they’re right I think that’s true. I’m not going to lie. But this kind of duplicity and disingenuous, “oh we’re agnostic about Israel.” No you’re not agnostic! You don’t want it! Then just say it!
“The moment you go out there Israel will start to say ‘What about us?’ and ‘They won’t recognize our right’ and in fact that’s correct. You can’t answer the Israelis on that because they’re making a statement that’s factually correct. It’s not an accidental and unwitting omission that BDS does not mention Israel. You know that and I know that. It’s not like they’re ‘oh we forgot to mention it.’ They won’t mention it because they know it will split the movement. Cause there’s a large segment of the movement that wants to eliminate Israel.”
–Norman Finkelstein critiquing the BDS movement
“There’s no Israel. That’s what it’s really about.”
–Norman Finkelstein
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“Our corporation boycotts all Israeli products and services, and encourages other institutions, companies and individuals to cease and avoid all economic, academic and cultural activity that supports the racist state of Israel until that state dissolves itself.”
–Paul Larudee, Co-founder, Free Palestine Movement
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“Israel is the oppressor, not the settlements.”
-Hind Awwad
National Coordinator, BDS Committee
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"“The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism”
–Ali Abunimah, BDS activist
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“Zionists complain [BDS] demands spell the end of the “Jewish state.” They are correct. A “Jewish state” is by definition dedicated to the supremacy of Jews over non-Jews in Palestine, and is therefore irreconcilable with the justice advocated by BDS.”
–David Litwin, BDS activist
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“Any call for boycott, divestment, or sanctions, for whatever motive (even on behalf of the settlers!) is seen, rightly, as a blow against the legitimacy of Israel… it will be rightly perceived by the pro-Israel crowd as a threat, even an “existential one,” to use Prime Minister Netanyahu’s characterization of all BDS.”
–Jeremiah Haber, BDS supporter
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“[The two state solution] was a charade to begin with, and has played itself out.”
–Kumars Salehi, BDS supporter
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“Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, particularly workers,”
–Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, BDS activist
“I think the end-all of BDS is to weaken Israel, to isolate Israel, and give the global community a role in the liberation of Palestine and support the resistance on the ground in Palestine.”
–Lara Kiswani
“We’re resisting colonialism in Palestine, and colonialism entails all of occupied Palestine, from Haifa, to Jerusalem, to Ramallah…”
–Lara Kiswani, [0:45]
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“You can’t have coexistence with Zionists. Their purpose of Zionism is discrimination, elimination and ethnic cleansing of a group of people, so if you want to talk about coexistence, I’m not talking with you because you’re going to try to kill me. I’m Muslim.”
–Azka Fayyaz, BDS leader at UC Davis
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“Last week, the Palestinian BDS National Committee called for a wave of actions and protests in solidarity with the Palestinian popular resistance…”
–BDS Movement Official Statement
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“Are you angry? Well, we’ve been watching intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don’t have an intifada [armed struggle] in this country? …and it’s about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here…They’re going to say [that] some Palestinian are being too radical; well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”
–Professor Hatem Bazian, founder of Students for Justice in Palestine
“[W]e in this movement [should] support the resistance against American imperialism by any means necessary.”
–Professor Hatem Bazian
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“We can build a still-stronger BDS movement beginning in the name of Palestinian freedom and ending in a permanent blow against American empire.”
–Bill Mullen
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“Boycotting Israel IS anti-Israel, which is fine, as long as Israel continues to violate and deny Palestinian rights.”
On Facebook there is a Different type of BDS Movement, that is Pro-Israel
titled "Buy Defend Support"
Granted, Israel isn't perfect, no nation is perfect, and there is Legitimate Criticism of Israel, and then there are the Satanic Demonic Diabolical Enemies of the State of Israel who want to see Israel Destroyed, the Satanic Demonic Diabolical Enemies of Israel are Not on the Plane of Reason, It is impossible to reason with them, Since they are Pure Evil & Filled with Raw Hate, They are Brainwashed & Indoctrinated to Hate Jews & Israel, Israel is always Reasonable & Listens to Reason, while it's enemies don't , as Always Israel takes the
Moral High Ground
From the website, afmda.org an article titled
"If you lived in Israel" and it says
"Dear Friend,
Picture a map of where you live.
Imagine that all the people who live in the states around you are committed to your complete annihilation. Their governmental officials, clergy, and military leaders continually threaten to kill you, your family, and everyone else in your state. They vow to fight until you are dead.
Now imagine that all the other states in your country — along with neighboring countries — are also calling for your destruction. You would feel isolated and alone.
Imagine every few weeks you discover some of the states around you are digging secret attack tunnels under your border — tunnels with lights and ventilation systems and are wide enough to drive vehicles through.
Just Imagine:
Being surrounded by enemies who encourage their citizens to sneak into your cities to kill people with knives or guns.
Being bombarded periodically by missile attacks — a few mortar shells launched one night, then a dozen rockets or even hundreds of rockets the next.
You and your family regularly scrambling for shelter as you can hear explosions in the distance.
Fearing 40,000 battle-hardened soldiers perched along one of your borders who are supplied with 150,000 rockets and missiles.
Having neighbors who attach hand grenades to helium balloons and float them over your community.
Those neighbors also lighting hundreds of kites on fire and dropping them into your farmers’ fields and forests.
Every Friday, 10,000 protesters gather to throw rocks, grenades, and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers guarding your border.
If you lived like this — in danger of violence and death every day of your life — you would thank God for MAGEN DAVID ADOM.
For He will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no one to help.
Psalm 72:12
The 8.8 million residents of Israel count on MAGEN DAVID ADOM to be there for them in a medical emergency. There may be no more dedicated, more courageous emergency first responders anywhere in the world.
They are mandated by Israel’s government to do this work, but they receive no government funding for their day-to-day work. They are supported in part by the generosity of Christian friends like you. You make their crucial work in Israel possible." Years ago a Friend of Mine said the two Greatest nations in the World are Italy & Israel
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"‘Israel is a dreamland,’ says visiting Arab journalist"
July 23, 2019
MK Avi Dichter (left), chair of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, with Saudi blogger Mahmoud Saud. (Knesset website)
The article says
“This visit to Israel is like touring a dreamland,” said a visiting journalist from an Arab country. “If only we would be able to bring hundreds of people from our countries so that when they go back, they can tell what they saw and felt.”
By World Israel News Staff
A delegation of journalists and media personalities from Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt, visited the Knesset and met with MK Avi Dichter, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, who speaks fluent Arabic and has previously headed Israel’s Security Agency.
Among those countries, only Jordan and Egypt have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. The journalists are in Israel at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry.
“This visit to Israel is like touring a dreamland,” one member of the delegation told Dichter. “If only we would be able to bring hundreds of people from our countries so that when they go back, they can tell what they saw and felt.”
During the meeting, which was conducted in Arabic, Dichter said Jerusalem has decided to move forward with contacts in the Arab world, first and foremost with Saudi Arabia, “and not to wait until the Palestinian Authority decides to fight terrorism.”
Dichter stressed that the Palestinian Authority is continuing with its “pay-for-slay” policy, paying salaries to terrorists and their families that amount to more than a billion shekels a year.
Shai Cohen, the Knesset’s diplomatic adviser, told the delegation that the Knesset is interested in forging ties with parliaments of Arab states. “We separate between progress on the peace process with the Palestinians and deepening our ties with the moderate Arab world,” he said.
Palestinians in Jerusalem assault Saudi visitor
Later in the day, Saudi law student and blogger Mahmoud Saud, a member of the delegation, was attacked by Muslim Palestinian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem while visiting the Temple Mount.
Footage of the attack showed residents calling him a “traitor” and an “animal” and branding him a “Zionist,” as small boys approached him and spat in his face. Another video clip showed plastic chairs and sticks being thrown at him as he entered the market in the Old City.
Saud was rescued and left the area unharmed, the Foreign Ministry said.
“We strongly condemn the cruel and immoral behavior of some Palestinians near the Al-Aqsa Mosque toward a Saudi media personality who came to Jerusalem to be a bridge to peace and understanding between peoples,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nizar Amer wrote on Twitter.
“A disgusting welcome,” tweeted Ohad Nakash Kaynar, a deputy spokesperson."
From the website www.algemeiner.com an article is titled
"Elite IDF Trackers Rescue Deer Caught in Israel-Egypt Border Fence" on January 8, 2019
by Benjamin Kerstein
the article says
"A look into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula from the Israeli side of the border. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Soldiers from an elite IDF tracking unit recently found and rescued a deer caught in the Israel-Egypt border fence.
According to Hebrew news site Mako, the soldiers came upon the deer while on a routine patrol in the Negev Desert. The animal was trapped in barbed wire and bleeding from its injuries.
The soldiers had been given special training to deal with such situations, as animals are frequently caught in the border fence, and as a result succeeded in extricating the deer and saving its life.
A soldier involved in the rescue was quoted as saying, “In the context of our routine border operations, we identified a wounded animal. We approached and saw that it was a deer caught in the fence.”
“It was bleeding into the sand,” added the soldier. “It was an unpleasant sight, my heart was pained for the poor animal. We cut the fence and freed it and it immediately started to run. If we hadn’t been there it would not have been able to free itself and probably would have died."
The website www.nationalreview.com has an article titled
"The Real Reasons American Evangelicals Support Israel}
By David French
March 22, 2019 2:54 PM
the article says
"Faith in ancient promises, wonder at modern miracles, and a deep conviction that evil forces must not prevail against the Middle East’s most vibrant democracy
It never fails. Whenever a Republican president makes a controversial or contentious move to support Israel — such as moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, or yesterday’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights — you’ll see various “explainers” and other stories that purport to inform progressives why the American Evangelical community is so devoted to the nation of Israel.
The explanation goes something like this — Evangelicals believe that the rebirth of Israel is hastening not just the second coming of Christ, but a particular kind of second coming, one that includes fire, fury, and war that will consume the Jewish people. The pithy, tweet-length version of this analysis comes from progressive Young Turks host Cenk Uygur:
Thus, the political marriage between American Evangelicals and Israelis represents a cynical form of mutual exploitation. Evangelicals support Israel to hasten the apocalypse, while Israelis (who obviously don’t believe Christian eschatology) are happy to humor the Evangelical community and milk that support for tourist dollars and political power.
But the true narrative of American Christian support for Israel is substantially different. The intellectual and theological roots of Christian Zionism do not rest in end-times prophesies but rather in Old Testament promises. Last month Samuel Goldman at Tablet wrote an outstanding piece explaining the centuries-old history and legacy of Christian support for Jewish claims to the Holy Land. After tracing Christian support for a Jewish Israel to the Reformation, he writes this:
These arguments were products of the emphases on the plain meaning of Scripture and the theological significance of covenants that characterized Calvinism. Before the Reformation, most Christians read prophecies like Ezekiel’s as allegories for the transformation of the “carnal” Israel descended from the patriarchs into the “spiritual Israel” represented by the Church. Calvin and his followers, by contrast, insisted that allegorical interpretations were permitted only when literal ones made no sense. But why was it nonsensical to believe that the Jews might be reconstituted as a nation and return to their own land?"
the article continues
"In addition, I’d argue that Romans 11 has enduring significance in the American Christian mind. It begins, “I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means!” Paul declares that God “has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.” The chapter continues with the assertion that Gentiles have now been “grafted in” to the same spiritual tree, and it concludes with the promise not that all Israel will be burned up in the apocalypse, but rather with the statement that “all Israel will be saved.”
Now, the precise theological meaning of these verses has been and will be debated for some time, but the practical impact in contemporary American Christian culture has been to create a bond between American Christians and Jews that would be utterly mystifying to the vicious Christian persecutors of Jews in the not-so-distant European past.
The end result is a community — including a political community — that believes two things with firm conviction. First, God has reserved Israel as the Jewish homeland, and second, that the creation of modern Israel was an act of divine providence. While there are many Christians who believe this act of divine providence may be a prelude to the Second Coming (whenever that may be), that is miles and miles away from the belief that Jews will burn in a fiery apocalypse.
These beliefs are then reinforced by experience and basic morality. It’s difficult to overstate the profound impact that a visit to the Holy Land has on a believing Christian. I’ll never forget my time in Israel. Not only was it moving to stand where Jesus stood and to walk where Jesus walked, other aspects of the visit bring the miracle of Israel’s rebirth into sharp focus. How can you visit the ruins of the fortress of Masada and not grasp the improbability of the journey from total destruction to diaspora to renaissance?
Then there’s basic morality. As I’ve written before, from the very moment of its founding, Israel has been subject to repeated, genocidal threats to its existence. It has defended itself in the face of overwhelming odds, faced enduring terrorist threats that we in the United States can’t imagine, and built an imperfect but well-functioning democracy that grants all its citizens (Jewish and Arab) a greater degree of individual liberty than the citizens of any other Middle Eastern nation.
The pernicious persistence of anti-Semitism heightens the moral case for supporting Israel. There is zero justification for the U.N.’s obsessive focus on alleged Israeli crimes. Actual genocidal tyrants face less condemnation by the U.N. Human Rights Council than does the state of Israel. The Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement proudly holds Israel to higher standards than it holds the entire rest of the Middle East and most of the rest of the world. Some of its founders and leaders hope to eradicate Israel as a Jewish state."
the article lastly says
"Finally, the fact that Evangelical support for Israel is rooted in part in Christian biblical interpretation does not mean that it is somehow less legitimate than purely secular support. In a nation full of believers, religious arguments have always been a part of our national life, and they always will be. They should be weighed and measured just like any other belief. Nor are religious arguments a right-wing phenomenon. There are liberal religious arguments for gun control, for laxer immigration policies, and for welcoming refugees, to take just a few, easy examples. And who can forget the mighty power of the Christian argument in the American civil-rights movement?
Yes, you can find Christians who obsessively focus on the end times and try to match each and every significant news story in Israel with biblical prophecies. Those people are out there, no question. But the vast bulk of Evangelical support for Israel rests on faith in ancient promises, wonder at modern miracles, and a deep conviction that evil forces must not prevail against the Middle East’s most vibrant democracy." Terms like
"Spiritual Israel" are Unscriptural & not biblical, "Spiritual Israel" is a false term used to support False "Replacement Theology"
an article titled "Why Christians Support Israel" from the website, www.nationalreview.com
By Dennis Prager
March 6, 2018 8:51 AM
"They believe in supporting American allies and supporting countries that share their moral values.
In speeches to fellow Jews around America, I often point out that many American Jews are experiencing cognitive dissonance. The institution Jews most admire — the university — turns out to be the most significant source of Israel hatred in America and the rest of the West. At the same time, the people many Jews most distrust — Christians (especially Evangelical and other conservative Christians) — turn out to be the Jews’ and Israel’s best friends.
Given that these two facts are undeniable, how do many American Jews deal with this dissonance? They largely ignore the Israel hatred on campuses, and they dismiss the authenticity of the Christian support. They dismiss it by denying it is genuine. Christians who support Israel, they (and non-Jews on the left) argue, do so for two deceptive reasons.
One is they seek to convert Jews.
That Christians seek to convert non-Christians is, of course, true. The primary aim of Christianity, after all, is to spread belief in Christ. But why would anyone think supporting Israel will convert Jews? Does anyone think that Christians who support Israel’s enemies are making Muslims convert to Christianity? The fact is there isn’t a shred of evidence that Jews have converted to Christianity because of Christian support for Israel. Indeed, the Jews who most support Israel are either the most religious or the most strongly identifying secular Jews. Neither is a candidate for conversion.
Another way Christian support for Israel is belittled is by claiming that Christians support Israel in order to hasten the Second Coming of Jesus. But pastor John Hagee, head of Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in America, has said countless times nothing a Christian can do will hasten the return of Jesus; only God will decide when that happens — and in His own good time.
Moreover, even if this were the reason Christians support the Jews and Israel, why would it disturb Jews? It would mean that Christians would support them until Jesus returns. What’s wrong with that?
Having spoken at numerous churches’ “Night to Honor Israel” events, I know how genuine this support is. But last week in Nashville, I witnessed a particularly convincing example of the sincerity of this support. I spoke before thousands of Christians at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention when they gathered one evening solely to express their support for Israel. Maybe five Jews were present. Isn’t thousands of Christians devoting an entire evening to express support for Israel — with essentially no Jews in attendance to witness it — about as convincing a proof of the authenticity of this support as one could imagine?
So, why do Christians support Israel? They believe in supporting American allies and supporting countries that share their moral values. And, unlike the Left, they have moral problems with Islamism, not with Zionism."
the article continues
"But the primary reason virtually every Israel-supporting Christian gives is the biblical verse from Genesis in which God says to Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.” These Christians believe (as does this Jew) God blesses those who treat the Jews decently and curse those who seek to harm the Jews.
You don’t have to be a believer in the God of Abraham or the Bible to accept this proposition. All the Jews’ ancient enemies disappeared from history. And look at what happened to Spain after it expelled its Jews in 1492. One of the greatest powers of the world became largely irrelevant to history within a couple of generations. As for Germans, the perpetrators of the Holocaust, they endured a staggering amount of death and suffering as a result of their support for the greatest Jew hater in history; and their country was divided in half for the next half-century. Likewise, the countries today that most curse the Jews — Arab and other Muslim countries — are among the most benighted countries in the world. If they were to devote to building their countries the money and energy they devote to attempting to destroy Israel, they would be in far better condition morally, socially, economically and politically.
Meanwhile, the country that has most blessed Israel and the Jews is America. No country in the modern period has treated its Jews as well as America has, and no country has stood by Israel as much as America has. And America has been almost uniquely blessed.
These American Christians know something that the secular and left-wing elites do not: The day America abandons Israel will be the beginning of the end of America as we know it.
These people are not fools.
Their detractors are."
From the Wikipedia entry for the late American aviator Charles Lindbergh it says
"Attitudes toward race and racism[edit]
Lindbergh elucidated his beliefs regarding white race in a 1939 article in Reader's Digest:
We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.[161]
Lindbergh's speeches and writings reflected his adoption of views on race and religion similar to those of the Nazis.[162] Because of his trips to Nazi Germany, combined with a belief in eugenics,[163] Lindbergh was suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer.
Lindbergh's reaction to Kristallnacht was entrusted to his diary: "I do not understand these riots on the part of the Germans," he wrote. "It seems so contrary to their sense of order and intelligence. They have undoubtedly had a difficult 'Jewish problem', but why is it necessary to handle it so unreasonably?"[164] Lindbergh had planned to move to Berlin for the winter of 1938–39. He had provisionally found a house in Wannsee, but after Nazi friends discouraged him from leasing it because it had been formerly owned by Jews,[165] it was recommended that he contact Albert Speer, who said he would build the Lindberghs a house anywhere they wanted. On the advice of his close friend, Alexis Carrel, he cancelled the trip.[165]
In his diaries, he wrote, "We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence ... Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country."
The Wikipedia entry also says
"Nazi classification and racial definition
Lindbergh's anticommunism resonated deeply with many Americans, while his eugenics and Nordicism enjoyed social acceptance.[146]
Although Lindbergh considered Hitler a fanatic and avowed a belief in American democracy,[166][167] he clearly stated elsewhere that he believed the survival of the white race was more important than the survival of democracy in Europe: "Our bond with Europe is one of race and not of political ideology," he declared.[168] Critics have noticed an apparent influence of German philosopher Oswald Spengler on Lindbergh.[169] Spengler was a conservative authoritarian and during the interwar era, was widely read throughout the Western World, though by this point he had fallen out of favor with the Nazis because he had not wholly subscribed to their theories of racial purity.[169]
Lindbergh developed a long-term friendship with the automobile pioneer Henry Ford, who was well known for his anti-Semitic newspaper The Dearborn Independent. In a famous comment about Lindbergh to Detroit's former FBI field office special agent in charge in July 1940, Ford said: "When Charles comes out here, we only talk about the Jews."[170][171]
Lindbergh considered Russia a "semi-Asiatic" country compared to Germany, and he believed Communism was an ideology that would destroy the West's "racial strength" and replace everyone of European descent with "a pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown". He stated that if he had to choose, he would rather see America allied with Nazi Germany than Soviet Russia. He preferred Nordics, but he believed, after Soviet Communism was defeated, Russia would be a valuable ally against potential aggression from East Asia.[169][172]
Lindbergh said certain races have "demonstrated superior ability in the design, manufacture, and operation of machines".[173] He further said, "The growth of our western civilization has been closely related to this superiority."[174] Lindbergh admired "the German genius for science and organization, the English genius for government and commerce, the French genius for living and the understanding of life". He believed, "in America they can be blended to form the greatest genius of all."[175] His message was popular throughout many Northern communities and especially well received in the Midwest, while the American South was anglophilic and supported a pro-British foreign policy.[176] The South was the most pro-British and interventionist part of the country.[177]
In his book The American Axis, Holocaust researcher and investigative journalist Max Wallace agreed with Franklin Roosevelt's assessment that Lindbergh was "pro-Nazi". However, he found that the Roosevelt Administration's accusations of dual loyalty or treason were unsubstantiated. Wallace considered Lindbergh to be a well-intentioned but bigoted and misguided Nazi sympathizer whose career as the leader of the isolationist movement had a destructive impact on Jewish people.[178]" Charles Lindbergh went from Hero to Zero when his Nazi Sympathies became public
From the website, www.levitt.com an article is titled
"Attacks on Christian Zionism"
by Thomas S. McCall
Dr. Thomas McCall, the Senior Theologian of our ministry, has written many articles for the Levitt Letter. He holds a Th.M. in Old Testament studies and a Th.D. in Semitic languages and Old Testament. He has served as Zola’s co-author, mentor, pastor, and friend for nearly 30 years.
This article appeared originally in the July Vol. 2, 2004 Levitt Letter.
Tell a friend about Zola Levitt Ministries and invite them to our website.
The article says
"Christian Zionism, supported for years by the Levitt Letter, is having an impact on the Church and on the world. In spite of the lukewarm attitude of many leaders of the churches in America toward Israel, and the strong opposition to Israel in Europe and the United Nations, there is a sizable number of Evangelical Christians in America who strongly support Israel—for Biblical, historical and political reasons—enough to resonate in the national decisions. No small part of this support has been brought about through the small, but effective, outlets of Biblical truth about the Church, Israel, the Rapture, and the Second Coming of Christ, all blessed and energized by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The enemy does not like this at all. Satan has organized most nations and most of the world’s press against Israel and against Christianity. He has furthermore succeeded in turning many of the formerly strong Bible teaching schools in this country against taking a strong stand for Israel, as we have chronicled over the years in this newsletter, and in our book Battles with Seminaries. The one movement that has remained resolute in its support for Israel and sound Biblical teaching is the loose-knit conglomeration of individuals and groups that form the entity called “Christian Zionism.”
Christian Zionism believes that God has revealed in the Bible that He has a great destiny for Israel, restoring the Jewish people to the Land, bringing them to true faith in their own Messiah, Christ Jesus, and bringing about the Second Coming of Christ and the Kingdom of God on earth. This is distinct from, but parallel to, the destiny He has for the Church, including the Rapture and the return of the Church with the Lord when He comes back to the earth."
the article continues
"the article continues
"Satan cannot stand this teaching, and has tried to destroy it wherever possible, but, with all the academic and media opposition he could muster, he has not been able to stamp out Christian Zionism. Now it appears he has raised up a direct attack against us, with the development of a new ecumenical organization called Sabeel, which had its International Conference in Jerusalem last month, with the theme, “Challenging Christian Zionism.” In a press statement, Sabeel stated that over 500 delegates from over 30 countries participated in the conference. Representatives from a broad spectrum of international Christian organizations met in the Roman Catholic Notre Dame Centre in Jerusalem, led by Dr. Naim Ateek, who describes himself as a Palestinian Christian and is the Canon of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. Other speakers were representatives of the Vatican, the Greek Orthodox Church, an Anglican vicar, a spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a professor from Wheaton College. It appears that almost all branches of Christianity were involved.
What was taught during that conference would amaze many of our readers, but was reported by Paul Wilkinson, a Christian Zionist from England. The website of Sabeel contains no report on either the title of the conference or the messages of the speakers at the conference, so we are dependent on Wilkinson’s eyewitness account of the proceedings. However, what he reports is consistent with arguments against Christian Zionism we have heard before, and below is a synopsis of what Wilkinson reported, and my response.
The Anglican, Dr. Sizer, attempted to discredit Christian Zionism as being related to the Dispensational movement that began with J. N. Darby in 1809, claiming it has no lengthy historical basis.
Response: The truth is that Darby claimed only to have rediscovered (not invented) the truths of prophecy in the Bible, and there have been Christian Zionist writings supporting the restoration of Israel going back to the 16th century, long before Darby." Long Before
John Nelson Darby, going back to the 16th century"
and continues
"The Bethlehem Lutheran pastor, Dr. Raheb, stated that the Apostles of the Lord “did not get it,” when they asked the Lord in Acts 1:6 if He would “at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel.” They were, according to Raheb, the forerunners of contemporary Christian Zionists.
Response: I would agree that the Disciples were our forerunners, and count it an honor to be so associated with the Apostles. However, Dr. Raheb meant it as a criticism, describing the Apostles as “nationalistic,” “narrow-minded” and “blinded” to the future. It should be noted, though, that Jesus did not rebuke His Disciples for asking about the restoration, but merely told them that the timing of the restoration could not be revealed to them.
The Wheaton College New Testament professor, Dr. Gary Burge, gave a rather accurate history of the development of Christian Zionism in its association with Dispensationalism, but then claimed that we believe that the Church is merely an afterthought in redemptive history.
Response: This is certainly not representative of the vast majority of Dispensationalists. We believe that the Church was always in the plan of God, but He did not reveal anything about the Church until after the First Coming of Christ, and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The full revelation about the Church was then made manifest to the Apostles, especially Paul.
The St. Mary’s (Roman Catholic) College Bible professor, Dr. Prior, had the audacity to lecture that “the Bible is a very dangerous book,” and the God of the Books of Exodus and Joshua is an immoral God, who is guilty of ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Canaanite people in the land. These sentiments were met with the applause of the delegates to the conference.
Response: Dr. Prior thus questioned the sovereignty of God in the matter of His raising up kingdoms and putting down kingdoms, and allowing one nation to defeat another nation as a matter of His rule and discipline."
and lastly says
"Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, Azmi Bishara, complained that the recent Bush-Sharon letters were a second Balfour Declaration, that the most potent form of racism in the world today is “Islamophobia,” denied the existence of terrorism, and urged that Americans should rid the world of the Bush administration.
Response: The Bush-Sharon letters stated, in part, that the Arab refugees from the 1948 war and their descendants were not to be resettled in present-day Israel, and pledged U.S. support for Israel’s right to “defend itself against terror.” This is an important guarantee for the future stability of Israel. Furthermore, for Bishara to deny the existence of terrorism, with all the atrocities that terrorists have committed before and after September 11, 2001, demonstrates how biased the enemies of civilization are.
The conference would not have been complete without a visit to Ramallah and a private audience with none other than Yasser Arafat. According to Wilkinson, Arafat and Dr. Hanan Ashrawi expressed their delight in seeing “the Church,” as represented by the Sabeel delegates, express such solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
Response: If there was any doubt before, the delegates show their true political bias in their rally around the infamous Arafat. They apparently had no similar meeting with a leader of Israel during the conference.
All in all, the conference amounted to an organized attack against Biblical Christianity and against all Christians who believe that the restoration of the Jewish people to their ancient land is a harbinger of fulfilled Bible prophecy and the Second Coming of Christ. Are we ready for the battle? It is well to remember Zechariah’s admonition: “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts.”
From the website www.jta.org an article is titled
"The Israel Embassy responded to Iran with a ‘Mean Girls’ tweet. Seriously."
By JTA Staff June 4, 2018 4:29 pm
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a speech during a meeting in Tehran, Sept. 9, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/ AP Images)
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the article says
"(JTA) — In the days before social media, embassies used to speak in the carefully circumspect language of Diplomatese. A “frank and honest” discussion meant both sides almost came to blows. If you were kicked out for a country for “activities incompatible with diplomatic status,” it meant you were a spy.
That was then.
The Embassy of Israel in Washington earned kudos for its response to a pungent tweet from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. On Sunday, Khameini’s Twitter account declared, “Our stance against Israel is the same stance we have always taken. #Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.”
The Israeli Embassy didn’t issue an angry statement or demand action in the U.N. — it did something far more devastating: It tweeted a popular meme from the 2004 teen movie “Mean Girls,” in which Rachel McAdams’character demands of Lindsey Lohan’s character, “Why are you so obsessed with me?”
Israel’s supporters were delighted by the shade: Nearly 24,000 of them liked the tweet by Monday afternoon"
On the Wikipedia entry for the 2004 Film "Mean Girls" under
the section "Legacy and Cultural Impact" it says
"In June 2018, the official Twitter account of the Israeli Embassy in the U.S. made headlines when it responded to a tweet by Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, calling Israel "a malignant cancerous tumor", with an animated GIF of the "Why are you so obsessed with me?" quote from Mean Girls.[36]"
Another good book that can be ordered from Amazon.com & wnd.com is titled
"The Restitution of All Things
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"Did Jesus of Nazareth really intend to start a brand new religion called “Christianity”?
Or, did He come to fulfill that which all of the Hebrew prophets had foretold since the fall of man—something the Holy Scriptures mysteriously and wonderfully call “the restitution of all things.”
In his newest book, The Restitution of All Things: Israel, Christians, and the End of the Age, veteran journalist and bestselling author Joseph Farah seeks to shed light on what few sermons today teach about, few authors expound upon, and few Bible studies explore: the coming kingdom of God.
Backed up by Scriptures as the primary resource, Farah’s book will shock and amaze most Christians with its clear picture of what the coming kingdom of God will be like
While prophecy books abound, few others have focused on the redemption of the Earth in this coming kingdom and what life will be like for mankind.
In so doing, The Restitution of All Things exposes the spiritual traditions of men that often overshadow the commandments of God. It lays bare the pernicious lie that has become known today as “replacement theology.” It is a wake-up call to the world regarding the ever-present truth of the Bible, and of the reality of Jesus-Yeshua, the Messiah, the King, the High Priest, the Redeemer, and Son of God.
Founder of the world’s largest Christian content website, publisher of numerous bestselling Christian books and films, and devoted follower of Jesus-Yeshua and seeker of truth, Joseph Farah tackles the hard questions and explores the roots of the Christian faith based on Acts 3: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” (Act 3:19-21).
Farah’s book is an original, fresh and deeply thought-provoking look at that which every Christian believer looks forward to with hope—and with awe.
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Joseph Farah’s Restitution of All Things sizzles with biblical challenges and contextual truth. As he says in his book, this is “not a matter of salvation . . . but a matter of obedience.” A quotable, Bible lover’s feast. Clean out a spot on your keeper shelf!
—Carl Gallups, pastor and author of five books including Rabbi Who Found Messiah and When the Lion Roars
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Joseph Farah has penned a masterpiece in Restitution of All Things. He brings more clarity and understanding to the Gospels and their relevance today as an investigative journalist than most modern day theologians! Joseph lays out in detail how the Bible declares that Jesus/Yeshua must remain in heaven “till all things are restored” and not “till all His Word is altered, abrogated, changed or nullified.”
—Pastor Mark Biltz, discoverer of the blood moons phenomenon and author of God’s Day Timer
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"In a profound manner, Joseph Farah articulates a biblical concept that is near and dear to my heart – the restitution of all things. I have long believed that what is addressed in this book is THE move of God in the last days. Countless thousands are being awakened, supernaturally, to the Hebraic roots of their faith, and Mr. Farah presents an overwhelming case that this awakening has been birthed by the Holy Spirit.
Furthermore, his masterful use of the Bible challenges long-established positions stubbornly held to by many Christians, albeit unsupported by Scripture. These skewed positions, including how the Church views Israel, Jews, and eschatology, are, thankfully, beginning to weaken under the weight of the fulfilled Word as God restores all things.
If you value truth and possess the desire to hear what God is saying to His people in the last days then you need to read The Restitution of All Things.
—Bill Cloud, teacher and author of Esau Rising"
The website www.unitedwithisrael.org has an article titled
"Israeli Arab Who Fought for ISIS Praises Israeli Democracy"
on
Jul 25, 2019
the article says
"Sayyaf Sharif Daoud says Israel is a democracy in which he has not seen injustice and where Arabs and Jews are treated equally.
By United With Israel Staff
"Israeli Arab Sayyaf Sharif Daoud is a captured ISIS fighter, reports The Clarion Project, a Washington-based non-profit organization that focuses on researching radical Islam and Jihad.
In an interview, Daoud says that he joined Islamic State instead of Hamas or any other Palestinian terror group because living through war and the Second Intifada in Israel taught him that Israel “has not done one percent of what [Syrian President] Bashar Al-Assad has done.”
The Second Intifada was a Palestinian terror onslaught against Israel from 2000 to 2005, marked in particular by massive waves of suicide bombings on buses, restaurants and other locations.
The interview with Daoud was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Daoud explains that despite the conflict, Israel never raped women or brutally killed people, as the Assad regime does. Daoud says that Israel is a democracy in which he has not seen injustice and where Arabs and Jews live together. Arabs are treated equally, he adds.
Daoud also says that his father warned him against joining Hamas and Fatah, and he expresses regret over joining ISIS. He hopes that Israel will take him back so that his life can return to normal"
The website for the Jerusalem Post, www.jpost.com has an article titled
"Bon Jovi gives love for Israel a good name "
Iconic US rockers delight sold-out crowd of 45,000 in Tel Aviv.
By BRADLEY LEVIN July 26, 2019 12:21
1 minute read.
Bon Jovi gives love for Israel a good name. (photo credit: LIOR KETER)
Even at 57, Jon Bon Jovi can still rock an entire city.
On Thursday night at Tel Aviv’s Park HaYarkon, the music god and his iconic band performed the closeout, sold-out concert of their two-month world tour with abounding energy, stirring an originally tame crowd of over 45,000 people into a frenzy.
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Bon Jovi first spoke two songs into the concert - produced by Live Nation Israel, saying “Well, good evening, Tel Aviv. I told you we’d be back, we have a lot of catching up to do, I’m not going to do a lot of talking.”
Bon Jovi stayed true to his word, letting his songs talk for themselves. He “brought it all the way back” to his earliest hits, including many from top-selling 80s albums Slippery When Wet and New Jersey.
About halfway through the concert, Bon Jovi sang, “We Don’t Run”, which he reminded the crowd that he dedicated to Israel when it came out in 2015.
“This one is for the incredible people of Israel, for their strength, for their love, this one is for them,” he said.
Among those on stage with the lead singer were long time band members David Bryan (keyboardist) and Tico Torres (drums). Phil X, lead guitarist, who has been with the band since 2016 after guitarist Richie Samboro left the band, truly gave an electric performance.
Despite the heat, Bon Jovi did not stop rocking for almost three hours. They interspersed crowd-pleasers such as “It’s My Life” and “Wanted Dead Or Alive” with newer songs.
Although he may not be able to hit the high notes he used to in the 80s, Jon still had the classic charisma that allows his band to continue to be one of the best shows around."
From the website for the Jerusalem Post, www.jpost.com
"JLo hits the stage in Israel for the first time"
You’re all invited to my concert in Tel Aviv,” JLo (as she is known around the world) informed Israeli fans last week in a video backed by the strains of her 2011 hit song “On the Floor.”
By EMMA MCAVOY, REBECCA ARATEN July 24, 2019 19:30
3 minute read.
JENNIFER LOPEZ brings her Vegas-like extravaganza to Tel Aviv.. (photo credit: Courtesy)
In a summer with big-name artists from Bon Jovi to J Balvin descending on Israel, Jennifer Lopez might be the closest to pop-star royalty we’ll see this season.
“You’re all invited to my concert in Tel Aviv,” JLo (as she is known around the world) informed Israeli fans last week in a video backed by the strains of her 2011 hit song “On the Floor.”
The pop icon will be arriving with a 100-person crew, including dancers, instrumentalists and technical staff hauling 45 tons of equipment for the August 1 show at Hayarkon Park.
Lopez’s Israel show will come at the end of a 25-show “It’s My Party” tour that kicked off June 7 to celebrate her 50th birthday this year. She will then go on to perform once in Russia and four times in Europe. This is her first world tour in seven years, and it’s an extravaganza, featuring choreography and an elaborate set design as a backdrop for JLo’s wide range of material, including her new song “Medicine,” a collaboration with American rapper French Montana that was released last week.
At her show earlier this week in Philadelphia, Lopez didn’t seem like a 50-year-old as she dangled above the stage in a gleaming, giant tambourine suspended from a multi-tiered chandelier of champagne flutes “in ludicrous Las Vegas fashion,” reported The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Decked out in a nude-colored, bedazzled number that threw light like a disco ball – ‘It’s a birthday suit,’ the diva quipped demurely as she offered fans a slo-mo 360 at the foot of the stage – she opened with ‘Medicine,’ supported by an octet of shirtless male backup dancers who sashayed through their choreo gripping white sousaphones.”
Lopez has sold 80 million records in her two-decade career, and has had 16 top-10 songs and three number-one albums, in addition to being a top movie actress. There were reports in both 2012 and 2016 of Lopez shows in Israel but they failed to materialize.
Promoter Marcel Avram – who brought Leonard Cohen, Metallica, Bob Dylan and Justin Bieber to Israel – was finally able to nab the star, whose upcoming appearance in Israel has not gone unnoticed."
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